March 22 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1322 – Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
• 1418 – Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
• 1421 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (b. 1388)
• 1471– George of Podebrady, King of Bohemia (b. 1420)
• 1544 – Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
• 1602 – Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)
• 1685 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
• 1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (b. 1632)
• 1758 – Jonathan Edwards, American minister (b. 1703)
• 1758 – Richard Leveridge, English bass singer and composer (b. 1670)
• 1772 – John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
• 1820 – Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b. 1779)
• 1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
• 1840 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
• 1896 – Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)
• 1913 – Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
• 1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b. 1848)
• 1934 – Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
• 1942 – Frederick Cuming, British cricket player (b. 1875)
• 1942 – William Donne, English cricket player (b. 1875)
• 1945 – John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1857)
• 1952 – Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
• 1955 – Ivan Šubašić, Croatian-Yugoslav politician, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 – José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
• 1966 – John Harlin, American mountaineer (b. 1935)
• 1971 – Hanuman Prasad Poddar Indian Author (b.1892)
• 1974 – Peter Revson, American racecar driver (b. 1939)
• 1977 – A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)
• 1981 – James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
• 1986 – Olive Deering, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1986 – Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
• 1986 – Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903)
• 1987 – Odysseas Angelis, Greek officer involved in the coup of April 1967 (b. 1912)
• 1990 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
• 1991 – Léon Balcer, Canadian politician (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
• 1991 – Gloria Holden, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Dan Hartman, American singer, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)
• 1994 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
• 1996 – Don Murray, American drummer (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
• 1996 – Robert F. Overmyer, American test pilot and astronaut (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Billy Williamson, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Max Beloff, British historian (b. 1913)
• 1999 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
• 2001 – Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish combat pilot (b. 1913)
• 2001 – William Hanna, American animator (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Robert Fletcher Shaw, Canadian civil servant, deputy commissioner general of the Expo 67 (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss conductor and violinist (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
• 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. c. 1937)
• 2005 – Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Lawrence Stephen, Nauruan politician (b. 1939)
• 2006 – Kurt von Trojan, Australian author (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician and composer (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Jade Goody, British reality show contestant on Big Brother (b. 1981)
• 2009 – Leon Walker, British rugby player (b. 1988)
• 2010 – James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Artur Agostinho, Portuguese awarded actor, journalist, writer and broadcaster (b. 1920)