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Famous People Who Died in March 1939

Howard Carter (1874-1939)

Mar 2 British archaeologist and Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamun's tomb, dies at 64

  • Mar 6 Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (Proving π is a transcendental number), dies at 86
  • Mar 6 Miron Cristea, 1st Patriarch of All Romania, Prime Minister of Romania (1938-39), dies at 70
  • Mar 7 Amadeo Roldán, Cuban composer and violinist, dies at 38
  • Mar 7 John Jules Barrish, Irish writer and philosopher, dies at 53
  • Mar 13 Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, French scholar and philosopher, dies at 81
  • Mar 18 Henry Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader, dies at 79
  • Mar 19 Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
  • Mar 20 Percy Dean, British naval lieutenant and politician who received the Victoria Cross for saving men during the raid of Zeebrugge, dies at 61
  • Mar 21 Evald Aav, Estonian composer, dies at 39
  • Mar 27 Constance Lindsay Skinner, Quesnel British Columbia, Canadian author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
  • Mar 28 Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)