March 21 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1063 – Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland
  • 1076 – Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
  • 1181 – Taira Kiyomori, Japanese Feudal general (b. 1118)
  • 1306 – Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
  • 1487 – Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
  • 1556 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (burned at the stake) (b. 1489)
  • 1617 – Pocahontas, Algonquian princess (b. c.1595)
  • 1656 – James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (b. 1581)
  • 1676 – Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
  • 1729 – John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
  • 1734 – Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
  • 1751 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
  • 1762 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
  • 1772 – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
  • 1795 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
  • 1801 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
  • 1804 – Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé (executed) (b. 1772)
  • 1843 – Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
  • 1843 – Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
  • 1850 – Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
  • 1863 – Edwin Vose Sumner, American Civil War general (b. 1797)
  • 1881 – Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
  • 1884 – Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
  • 1910 – Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)
  • 1915 – Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
  • 1920 – Evelina Haverfield British suffragette (b. 1867)
  • 1932 – Frantz Reichel, French athlete and rugby player (b. 1871)
  • 1934 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
  • 1936 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)
  • 1945 – Arthur Nebe, German SS officer (b. 1894)
  • 1951 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
  • 1958 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
  • 1970 – Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1920)
  • 1973 – Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu, Turkish minstrel (b. 1894)
  • 1974 – Candy Darling, American transgender model and actress(b. 1944)
  • 1975 – Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
  • 1978 – Louis Cottrell, Jr., American jazz musician (b. 1911)
  • 1980 – Angelo Bruno, American mobster (b. 1910)
  • 1980 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
  • 1984 – Shauna Grant, American pornographic actress (suicide) (b. 1963)
  • 1985 – Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (b. 1908)
  • 1987 – Walter L. Gordon, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1906)
  • 1987 – Dean Paul Martin, American tennis player, singer, actor, and military pilot (b. 1951)
  • 1987 – Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)
  • 1991 – Leo Fender, American guitar manufacturer (b. 1909)
  • 1992 – John Ireland, Canadian actor and director (b. 1914)
  • 1992 – Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)
  • 1994 – Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 1994 – Lili Damita, French actress (b. 1904)
  • 1994 – Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)
  • 1997 – W. V. Awdry, English author (b. 1911)
  • 1998 – Galina Sergeyevna Ulánova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
  • 1999 – Jean Guitton, French philosopher, author and theologian (b. 1905)
  • 1999 – Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
  • 2001 – Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
  • 2001 – Anthony Steel, English actor (b. 1920)
  • 2002 – Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)
  • 2003 – Umar Wirahadikusumah, Indonesian politician, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
  • 2004 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (b. 1924)
  • 2005 – Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)
  • 2005 – Bobby Short, American singer and pianist (b. 1924)
  • 2007 – Drew Hayes, American writer and graphic artist (b. 1969)
  • 2007 – Sven O. Høiby, Norwegian journalist and father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (b. 1936)
  • 2007 – Kevin Whitrick, British electrical engineer (b. 1964)
  • 2008 – Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, Chilean architect (b. 1931)
  • 2009 – Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
  • 2010 – Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (b. 1919)
  • 2011 – Loleatta Holloway, American singer (The Caravans) (b. 1946)
  • 2011 – Gerd Klier, German footballer (b. 1944)
  • 2011 – Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
  • 2011 – Pinetop Perkins, American pianist (b. 1913)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
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    “I sang of death but had I known
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    Before he came to meet his own!”
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    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
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