March 23 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 1103 – Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
  • 1361 – Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c. 1310)
  • 1369 – King Peter of Castile (b. 1334)
  • 1548 – Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen (b. 1489)
  • 1555 – Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
  • 1559 – Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia
  • 1596 – Henry Unton, English diplomat
  • 1606 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
  • 1618 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
  • 1653 – Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (b. 1604)
  • 1675 – Anthoni van Noordt, Dutch composer and organist (b. 1619)
  • 1680 – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
  • 1742 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
  • 1747 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
  • 1748 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
  • 1754 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
  • 1783 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
  • 1801 – Paul I of Russia, Russian tsar (b. 1754)
  • 1842 – Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
  • 1914 – Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
  • 1923 – Hovhannes Tumanyan Armenian poet and writer (b. 1869)
  • 1927 – Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
  • 1931 – Bhagat Singh (b. 1907), Rajguru (b. 1908), Sukhdev (b. 1907) Indian freedom fighters
  • 1935 – Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
  • 1945 – Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese diplomat and General of the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff (b. 1891)
  • 1947 – Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
  • 1953 – Oskar Luts, Estonian writer and playwright (b. 1887)
  • 1955 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, Brazilian President (b. 1875)
  • 1960 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (b. 1881)
  • 1960 – Said Nursî, Islamic theologian (b. 1878)
  • 1960 – Raoul Paoli, French athlete, boxer and rower (b. 1887)
  • 1964 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904)
  • 1965 – Mae Murray, American actress (b. 1889)
  • 1968 – Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (b. 1918)
  • 1970 – Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894)
  • 1972 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1895)
  • 1978 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1893)
  • 1979 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
  • 1980 – Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
  • 1985 – Richard Beeching, British physicist, engineer, and chairman of British Railways (b. 1913)
  • 1985 – Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (b. 1908)
  • 1985 – Ben Hardwick, Britain's youngest liver transplant patient (b. 1982)
  • 1990 – John Dexter, English director (b. 1925)
  • 1991 – Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
  • 1992 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
  • 1992 – Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1949)
  • 1994 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
  • 1994 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
  • 1994 – Donald Swann, British composer, musician and entertainer (Flanders and Swann) (b. 1923)
  • 1995 – Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace and Smokie) (b. 1953)
  • 1995 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
  • 1998 – Gerald Stano, American serial killer (b. 1951)
  • 1999 – Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (b. 1932)
  • 1999 – Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cameraman and cinematographer (b. 1898)
  • 2001 – Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
  • 2001 – David McTaggart, Canadian environmentalist (b. 1932)
  • 2002 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
  • 2002 – Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
  • 2003 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)
  • 2004 – Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
  • 2006 – David B. Bleak, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
  • 2006 – Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
  • 2006 – Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
  • 2007 – Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (b. 1934)
  • 2007 – Eric Medlen, American NHRA drag racer (b. 1973)
  • 2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
  • 2009 – Ghukas Chubaryan, Armenian sculptor (b. 1923)
  • 2009 – Raúl Macías, Mexican boxer (b. 1934)
  • 2011 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (b. 1932)
  • 2012 – Eric Lowen, singer-songwriter (Lowen & Navarro) (b. 1952)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “This is the 184th Demonstration.
    ...
    What we do is not beautiful
    hurts no one makes no one desperate
    we do not break the panes of safety glass
    stretching between people on the street
    and the deaths they hire.”
    —Marge Piercy (b. 1936)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)