March 17 - Deaths

Deaths

• 45 BC – Titus Labienus, Roman leader (b. c. 100 BC)
• 180 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (b. 121)
• 460 – Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland (b. 387)
• 659 – Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgian abbess (b. 626)
• 1040 – Harold Harefoot, King of England (b. c. 1015)
• 1058 – Lulach, King of Scots (b. 1030)
• 1199 – Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow (b. 1130s)
• 1272 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
• 1425 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407)
• 1516 – Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1479)
• 1565 – Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (b. 1500)
• 1640 – Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)
• 1649 – Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610)
• 1680 – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)
• 1704 – Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (b. 1641)
• 1713 – Juraj Jánošík, Slovak outlaw (b. 1688)
• 1715 – Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
• 1741 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
• 1764 – George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
• 1782 – Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (b. 1700)
• 1830 – Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b. 1764)
• 1846 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1784)
• 1849 – William II of the Netherlands (b. 1792)
• 1853 – Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1803)
• 1871 – Robert Chambers, Scottish naturalist (b. 1802)
• 1875 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (b. 1832)
• 1893 – Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832)
• 1917 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
• 1926 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853)
• 1937 – Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
• 1941 – Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1946 – Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (b. 1897)
• 1946 – William Merz, American gymnast and athlete (b. 1878)
• 1949 – Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
• 1956 – Fred Allen, American actor and comedian (b. 1894)
• 1956 – Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
• 1957 – Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1958 – John Pius Boland, Irish politician and gold medalist tennis player (b. 1870)
• 1961 – Susanna M. Salter, American politician (b. 1860)
• 1962 – Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (b. 1896)
• 1965 – Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football coach (b. 1862)
• 1969 – Frederick Garfield Gilmore, American featherweight boxer (b. 1887)
• 1974 – Louis Kahn, American architect (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director (b. 1906)
• 1981 – Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1983 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1987 – Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Nikolas Asimos, Greek composer and singer (b. 1949)
• 1989 – Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959)
• 1990 – Capucine, French actress (b. 1931)
• 1990 – Ric Grech, British bass player (Family, Blind Faith, and Traffic) (b. 1946)
• 1992 – Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• 1994 – Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
• 1995 – Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)
• 1995 – Ronald "Ronnie" Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
• 1996 – René Clément, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Terry Stafford, American singer (b. 1941)
• 1997 – Jermaine Stewart, American singer (b. 1957)
• 1998 – Harold Copp, Canadian scientist (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Rod Hull, British comedian (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Jean Pierre-Bloch, French resistant and politician (b. 1905)
• 2002 – Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (b. 1911)
• 2002 – Van Tien Dung, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Pat Weaver, American broadcast executive (b. 1908)
• 2003 – Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (b. 1902)
• 2004 – Rachel Hudson, British murder victim (b. 1984)
• 2004 – J.J. Jackson, American radio and television personality (b. 1941)
• 2005 – Royce Frith, Canadian diplomat, public servant and politician (b. 1923)
• 2005 – George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (b. 1904)
• 2005 – Andre Norton, American writer (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Bob Blue, American songwriter and teacher (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (b. 1955)
• 2007 – John Backus, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Roger Bennett, American gospel singer and pianist (Legacy Five and The Cathedrals) (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Jim Cronin, British animal welfare activist (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Roland Arnall, United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian politician and television host (b. 1937)
• 2009 – Fernand Lindsay, Canadian churchman, educator, organist and musical festival director (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Alex Chilton, American musician (Box Tops and Big Star) (b. 1950)
• 2010 – Charlie Gillett, British musicologist and radio presenter (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916)
• 2011 – Ferlin Husky, American singer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Margaret Whitlam, Australian published author, social worker, former champion swimmer and wife of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (b. 1919)
• 2012 – Paul Boyer, American historian and educator (b. 1935)
• 2012 – John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian convicted Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, 117th Pope of the Coptic Christian Church (b. 1923)