March 8 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1126 – Urraca of León (b. 1082)
• 1144 – Pope Celestine II
• 1223 – Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
• 1550 – John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (b. 1495)
• 1641 – Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
• 1674 – Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
• 1702 – William III of England (b. 1650)
• 1731 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
• 1757 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
• 1771 – Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
• 1819 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (b. 1739)
• 1844 – Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
• 1855 – William Poole, American criminal, member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821)
• 1869 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
• 1872 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (b. 1815)
• 1874 – Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
• 1887 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
• 1887 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
• 1889 – John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (b. 1803)
• 1907 – Marinos Antypas, Greek lawyer and journalist, one of the country's first socialists (b. 1872)
• 1917 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (b. 1838)
• 1923 – Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)
• 1923 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel laureate (b. 1837)
• 1930 – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
• 1930 – Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
• 1935 – Hachiko, famous dog (b. 1923)
• 1937 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1941 – Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876)
• 1942 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
• 1943 – Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (b. 1878)
• 1945 – Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect, illustrator, archaeologist and psychical researcher (b.1864)
• 1951 – Martha Beck, American convicted murderer (b. 1920)
• 1951 – Raymond Fernandez, American convicted murderer (d. 1914)
• 1957 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
• 1971 – Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)
• 1972 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi official (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
• 1975 – George Stevens, American director (b. 1904)
• 1976 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
• 1981 – Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (b. 1894)
• 1983 – Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, British politician (b. 1904)
• 1983 – William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
• 1985 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1986 – Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author, poet (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961)
• 1988 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
• 1988 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
• 1989 – Charles Exbrayat, French novelist (b. 1906)
• 1991 – John Bellairs, American mystery author (b. 1938)
• 1993 – Billy Eckstine, American singer (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) (b. 1965)
• 1996 – Jack Churchill, eccentric British soldier (b.1906)
• 1998 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
• 1999 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
• 1999 – Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
• 1999 – William Wrigley III, President of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (b. 1933)
• 2001 – Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
• 2003 – Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
• 2003 – Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
• 2004 – Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
• 2005 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
• 2007 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
• 2007 – Viky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
• 2007 – John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (b. 1947)
• 2007 – Christopher Barrios Jr., American Murder Victim (b. 2001)
• 2008 – Carol Barnes, British news presenter (b. 1944)
• 2009 – Ali Bongo, British magician (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Hank Locklin, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (b. 1938)
• 2011 – St. Clair Lee, American vocalist (The Hues Corporation) (b. 1944)
• 2011 – Mike Starr, American Musician (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun and Days of the New) (b. 1966)
• 2012 – Leslie Cochran, American peace activist (b.1951)
• 2012 – Simin Daneshvar, Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator (b.1921)