March 28 - Deaths

Deaths

193 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
1285 – Pope Martin IV
1552 – Guru Angad Dev Indian Sikh Guru (b.1504)
1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
1677 – Václav Hollar, Czech etcher (b. 1607)
1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
1794 – Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian composer (b. 1755)
1850 – Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
1866 – Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
1868 – James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
1881 – Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
1884 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (b. 1853)
1910 – David Josiah Brewer, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
1910 – Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
1923 – Charles Hubbard, American archer (b. 1849)
1927 – Joseph-Médard Émard, Canadian Catholic archbishop (b. 1853)
1928 – Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor (b. 1860)
1929 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian politician (b. 1861)
1934 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor (b. 1891)
1939 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
1941 – Marcus Hurley, American cyclist (b. 1883)
1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
1941 – Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882)
1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet (b. 1910)
1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
1944 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian teacher, political scientist, and writer (b. 1869)
1946 – Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
1949 – Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
1953 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
1958 – W. C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
1963 – Antonius Bouwens, Dutch sports shooter (b. 1876)
1965 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
1965 – Charles William Train, English Sergeant, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1890)
1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
1969 – Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (b. 1885)
1971 – Robert Hunter, American golfer (b. 1886)
1974 – Arthur Crudup, American singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
1974 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
1974 – Françoise Rosay, French opera singer (b. 1891)
1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
1977 – Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (b. 1907)
1978 – Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (b. 1941)
1979 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1983 – Suzanne Belperron, French jewelry designer (b. 1900)
1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian painter (b. 1887)
1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b. 1905)
1987 – Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
1989 – Robert J. Wilke, American actor (b. 1914)
1992 – Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (b. 1909)
1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (b. 1909)
1995 – Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
1996 – Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician (b. 1914)
2000 – Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian jazz musician (b. 1928)
2003 – Rusty Draper, American singer (b. 1923)
2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
2005 – Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
2005 – Robin Spry, Canadian filmmaker and producer (b. 1939)
2006 – Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
2006 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian philosopher (b. 1911)
2006 – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish fiddler (b. 1922)
2006 – Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
2006 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
2010 – Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921)
2010 – June Havoc, American actress (b. 1913)
2011 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)
2012 – John Arden, English playwright (b. 1930)
2012 – Harry Crews, American writer (b. 1935)
2012 – Earl Scruggs, American musician (Flatt and Scruggs) (b. 1924)

Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

“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)

“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.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

“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)