March 25 - Deaths

Deaths

• 752 – Pope-elect Stephen, Italian priest and elected successor to Pope Zachary
• 1223 – King Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
• 1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
• 1458 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
• 1558 – Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
• 1561 – Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
• 1603 – Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
• 1609 – Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
• 1620 – Johannes Nucius, German composer
• 1625 – Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
• 1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
• 1732 – Saint Lucy Filippini, Italian saint (b. 1672)
• 1736 – Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
• 1738 – Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
• 1751 – Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
• 1801 – Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
• 1818 – Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
• 1860 – James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
• 1873 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
• 1908 – Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
• 1914 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 – Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
• 1917 – Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
• 1918 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
• 1918 – Peter Martin, Australian rules footballer (b. 1875)
• 1931 – Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, American civil rights activist (b. 1862)
• 1942 – William Carr, American rower (b. 1876)
• 1951 – Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
• 1956 – Robert Newton, English actor (b. 1905)
• 1956 – Lou Moore, American race car driver (b. 1904)
• 1957 – Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
• 1958 – Tom Brown, American jazz musician (b. 1888)
• 1964 – Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian business, industrialist and politician (b. 1885)
• 1967 – Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c. 1913)
• 1969 – Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
• 1969 – Billy Cotton, British bandleader (b. 1889)
• 1973 – Jakob Sildnik, Estonian photographer and filmmaker (b. 1883)
• 1975 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
• 1975 – Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian politician (b. 1894)
• 1978 – Hanna Ralph, German actress (b. 1888)
• 1979 – Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (b. 1914)
• 1979 – Sir Robert Madgwick, Australian educationist (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
• 1980 – Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
• 1980 – Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
• 1980 – James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
• 1983 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
• 1988 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
• 1991 – Marcel Lefebvre, French Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
• 1994 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician and jurist (b. 1899)
• 1995 – James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
• 1995 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (b. 1914)
• 1996 – John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904)
• 1998 – Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
• 1998 – Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
• 1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
• 2000 – Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Brian Trubshaw, British Concorde test pilot (b. 1924)
• 2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Paul Henning, American producer and writer (b. 1911)
• 2006 – Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Buck Owens, American singer and guitarist (The Buckaroos) (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
• 2008 – Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Thierry Gilardi, French football and rugby commentator (b. 1958)
• 2008 – Abby Mann, American film writer and producer (b. 1927)
• 2008 – Gene Puerling, American vocalist and arranger (The Hi-Lo's and The Singers Unlimited) (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 2009 – Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian hockey player (b. 1975)
• 2009 – Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
• 2010 – Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Priscilla Buckley, American author and editor (b. 1921)
• 2012 – Edd Gould, British flash animator (b. 1988)