Julius Caesar (100-44 BC)
Roman military and political figure, stabbed to death at 55
- 220 Cao Cao, Emperor of Wei, Chinese Han Dynasty, dies at 65
- 493 Odoacer [Odiaker] German army leader, King of Italy (476-93), murdered by Theodoric the Great at about 60
- 752 Zachary, Greek-Italian Pope (741-52), dies [or Mar 22]
- 963 Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
- 1190 Isabella of Hainault, Queen of France (1180-90), dies following a complicated childbirth at 19
- 1311 Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens (1308-15), killed in action at the Battle of Halmyros aged 35 or 36
- 1575 Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
- 1670 John Davenport, Puritan clergyman and cofounder of the New Haven Colony, dies at 72
- 1673 Salvatore Rosa, Italian baroque painter, poet, musician and actor, dies at 57
- 1701 Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer and poet, dies at 76
- 1711 Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
- 1723 Johann C. Gunther, German poet, dies at 27
- 1731 Adolf H. van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat and politician, dies at 75
- 1820 Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
- 1842 Luigi Cherubini, Italian musical prodigy, composer (Médée; Requiem in D minor), and educator (Conservatoire de Paris, 1822-42), dies at 81
- 1849 Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal, linguist and hyperpolyglot (understood 70 languages), dies at 74
- 1880 Johan Karel Jakob De Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 51
- 1881 Emory Upton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), commits suicide at 41
- 1883 Henry C. Wayne, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 67
- 1883 Karol Studzinski, composer, dies at 55
- 1888 Squire Whipple, American engineer who invented the iron truss bridge, dies at 83 [1]
- 1889 Melville Reuben Bissell, American inventor of the carpet sweeper, dies of pneumonia at 45
- 1891 Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
- 1891 Théodore de Banville, French writer, dies at 67
- 1896 Isaac Shadd, American-Canadian newspaper publisher (The Provincial Freeman), and politician (Mississippi House of Representatives, 1871-76), dies at 66 or 67
- 1898 Henry Bessemer, English inventor (Bessemer converter - revolutionised steel making), dies at 85
- 1905 Amalie Skram, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58
- 1905 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal politician (founder Social Weekly newspaper), dies at 60
- 1905 Luigi Manzotti, Italian mime artist, dancer and ballet choreographer, dies at 70
- 1906 Alfred Gilpin Jones, 8th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1900-06), dies at 81
- 1912 Louis van Westerhoven, Dutch actor, singer and opera director (Youth), dies at 58
- 1918 George Alexander [Samson], British actor, theatre producer and manager, dies at 59
- 1918 Jose White Lafitte, Cuban-French violinist and composer, dies at 82
- 1918 Lili [Marie-Juliette Olga] Boulanger, French composer (first female winner of the Prix de Rome composition prize), dies at 24
- 1929 Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, American jazz pianist and singer (Boogie Woogie Piano), dies of a gunshot wound in a dance-hall fight at 24
- 1930 Antonio Beltramelli, Italian writer, dies at 51
Davidson Black (1884-1934)
Canadian paleoanthropologist and doctor of anatomy who identified "Peking Man", dies while working alone during the night, in Beijing, China at 49
- 1936 John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist, dies at 75
- 1937 H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (At the Mountains of Madness, Weird Tales), dies at 46
- 1938 Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86), dies
- 1940 Alfred Marr, Australian cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5), dies at 77
- 1941 Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter, dies at 77
- 1942 Alexander von Zemlinsky, Austrian composer, conductor, and arranger (The Mermaid; Lyric Symphony), dies from a stroke at 70 [1]
- 1944 Otto von Below, German commandant (WWI), dies at 86
- 1945 Herman Bernard Wiardi Beckman, Dutch resistance fighter and politician (SDAP), dies at Dachau concentration camp at 41
- 1950 Ralph Greenleaf, American pocket billiards player (20-time world champion), dies from acute internal haemorrhage at 50
- 1951 John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
- 1953 Arthur Berry, English football player (Olympic gold 1908, 12), dies at 65
- 1957 Ernst Nobs, Swiss politician (Mayor of Zurich, 1942-44; Federal Council, 1943-51), dies at 70
- 1959 Duncan Hines, American restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens), dies at 78
- 1959 Lester Young, American jazz musician, dies at 49
- 1962 Sam Wren, American actor (Marked Woman, The Old Grey Mayor), dies at 65
- 1964 Paul Cavanagh, British actor (The Woman in Green, Tarzan & his Mate), dies at 75
- 1966 Abe Saperstein, British-American sports entrepreneur (founder of Harlem Globetrotters), dies of a heart attack at 63
- 1966 Heinrich Lemacher, German composer, dies at 74
- 1969 Miles Malleson, British stage and screen actor, and writer (Kind Hearts and Coronets; Postman's Knock), dies at 80
- 1970 Josef Martin Bauer, German writer (including Nazi propaganda), radio dramatist, and novelist (As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me), dies at 68
- 1970 Mary Ann Ganser, American pop singer (The Shangri-Las - "Leader of the Pack"), dies of a drug overdose at 22
- 1970 Tarjei Vesaas, Nowegian poet and author (Isslottet), dies at 72
- 1971 Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
- 1972 Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
- 1975 Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69
- 1976 Jo Mielziner, American set designer on Broadway (Carousel, Death of a Salesman), dies at 74
- 1977 Antonino Rocca, Italian-Argentine professional wrestler, dies at 49
- 1977 Hubert Aquin, French Canadian novelist, political activist and editor, dies at 47
- 1979 Leonide Massine, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, 1914-20), dies at 82
- 1980 Gerald Abrahams, English author (Teach Yourself Chess), dies at 72
- 1981 René Clair, French film director (I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82
- 1983 José Luis Sert, Spanish-American architect and urban developer, dies at 80
- 1983 Rebecca West [Cicely Isabel Fairfield], English author (Meaning of Treason), dies at 90
- 1984 Ken Carpenter, American athlete (Olympic gold discus 1936), dies at 70
- 1985 Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
- 1987 Red Dutton, Canadian ice hockey player (Calgary Tigers) and coach, dies at 89
- 1987 W. Sterling Cole, American politician (Rep-R-NY, Director International Atomic Energy Agency), dies at 82
Tom Harmon (1919-1990)
American College Football Hall of Fame halfback (Heisman Trophy 1940, Michigan; LA Rams) and broadcaster (CBS 1950-62), dies of a heart attack at 70
- 1991 Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93
- 1992 Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes
- 1992 Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid), dies after long illness at 64
- 1992 Vanessa Lee, actress (Split), dies at 71
- 1993 Anthony Bowles, British music director (Jesus Christ Superstar; Evita), dies of AIDS complications at 61
- 1993 Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40
- 1993 Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56), dies
- 1994 Gundaris Poné, Latvian-American violinist, composer, and educator (NYU-New Paltz, 1964-94), dies of cancer at 61
- 1994 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games), dies at 68
- 1995 Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine President, dies at 26
Florence Chadwick (1918-1995)
American swimmer who was the 1st woman to swim the English Channel in both directions, dies of leukemia at 76
- 1996 Bob Pearce, American wrestler (Olympic gold bantamweight freestyle 1932), dies at 88
- 1996 Helen Chadwick, British artist, dies at 42
- 1996 Olga Rudge, American concert violinist, dies at 100
- 1996 Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, American lawyer and diplomat, dies at 89
- 1997 Gail Davis, American actress (Annie Oakley), dies at 71
- 1997 Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French painter and author (Op Art), dies at 90
- 1998 (Robert) "Jheri" Redding, American hairdresser, businessman, and National Cosmetology Foundation's Hall of Fame member (created the Jheri curl and hair conditioner), dies at 91
- 1998 (Sebastião) "Tim" Maia, Brazilian rock, soul, sambalanço, and funk singer-songwriter, and musician, dies at 55
Benjamin Spock (1903-1998)
American pediatrician and writer (Common Sense Book of Baby Care), dies at 94
- 1999 Sid Green, British screenwriter, with Dick Hills (Two Of A Kind; The Strange World of Gurney Slade), and comedian (Those Two Fellers), dies at 71
- 2000 Robert Welch, English designer, silversmith (Robert Welch flatware), dies at 70
- 2001 Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2002 Marshall Leib [Leibovitz], American pop singer (Teddy Bears - "To Know Him Is To Love Him"), and record producer, dies of a heart attack at 62
- 2003 Dame Thora Hird, British actress, comedian, presenter and writer (Last of the Summer Wine, The Love Match), dies at 91
- 2003 Joseph Coors, American CEO of Coors Brewing Company, dies at 83
- 2003 Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956)
- 2004 John Pople, English chemist (Nobel Prize 1998), dies at 78
- 2004 William "Bill" Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist at NASA, dies at 93
- 2005 Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
- 2005 Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
- 2006 George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
- 2006 Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
Bowie Kuhn (1926-2007)
American Baseball HOF executive (MLB Commissioner 1969-1984), dies of pneumonia at 80
- 2007 Charles Harrelson, American organized crime figure, convicted hitman, and father of actor Woody Harrelson, dies in prison of a heart attack at 68
- 2007 Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
- 2008 Ken Reardon, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman and executive (Stanley Cup 1946; NHL All-Star 1946-50; Montreal Canadiens), dies at 86
- 2008 Mikey Dread [Michael Campbell], Jamaican reggae singer, producer ("Rocker's Delight"), and broadcaster (BBC), dies of a brain tumor at 53
- 2008 Sarla Thakral, first Indian woman to fly an aircraft (1936), dies at about 94
- 2008 Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian pop-rock-folk singer-songwriter, and poet, dies of stomach cancer at 56
- 2009 Ron Silver, American actor (Reversal of Fortune, Timecop), dies of cancer at 62
- 2011 Marty Marion, American baseball shortstop and manager (MLB All-Star 1943–50; NL MVP 1944; St. Louis Cardinals), dies from a heart attack at 93
- 2011 Melvin Sparks, American soul-jazz, hard bop, jazz-blues, and session guitarist (Lou Donaldson, Houston Person, Jimmy McGriff), dies from complications of diabetes at 64
- 2011 Nate Dogg [Nathaniel Dwayne Hale], American rapper ("Regulate"), dies from heart failure related to multiple strokes at 41
- 2011 Smiley Culture [David Victor Emmanuel], British reggae singer ("Police Officer"; "Cockney Translation"), dies from a self-inflicted stab wound at 48
- 2012 Dave Philley, American MLB baseball switch-hitting outfielder, 1941, 1946-62 (Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies (MLB record 9 straight pinch hits), and 8 other teams), dies at 91
- 2013 Booth Gardner, American politician, dies from Parkinson's disease at 76
- 2013 Terry Lightfoot, British clarinetist and bandleader (New Orleans Jazzmen), dies at 77
- 2014 Clarissa Dickson Wright, English celebrity chef (Two Fat Ladies), dies at 66
- 2014 David Brenner, American stand-up comedian and TV talk show host (Nightlife) known as a pioneer of observational comedy, dies from cancer at 78
- 2015 Mike Porcaro, American rock bassist (Toto, 1982-2007 "Stranger In Town"), dies from Lou Gehrig’s disease at 59
- 2015 Robert Clatworthy, English sculptor, dies at 87
- 2017 Jackie Pung, American golfer (5 LPGA titles), dies at 95
- 2018 Edwin "Ed" Charles, American MLB third baseman (Miracle Mets-1969), dies following long illness at 84
- 2018 Michael Getler, American journalist and 1st ombudsman appointed by a US broadcasting network (PBS), dies of bile duct cancer at 82
- 2018 Robert Grossman, American illustrator, dies of heart failure at 78
- 2019 Alec Coppen, British pioneering psychiatrist (serotonin theory of depression), dies at 96
- 2019 David White, American singer and songwriter (Danny And The Juniors - "At The Hop": Leslie Gore - "You Don't Own Me"), dies of cancer at 79 [1]
- 2019 Lam Jones, American athlete (Olympic gold 4 x 100m relay 1976) and NFL wide receiver (NY Jets 1980-86), dies of myeloma at 60
- 2019 W. S. Merwin, American poet (17th United States Poet Laureate), dies at 91
- 2020 Roy Hudd, British comedian, radio host (News Huddlines, 1975-2001), author (Underneath The Arches), and actor (Lipstick On Your Collar), dies at 83
- 2020 Suzy Delair, French actress and singer (The Murderer Lives at Number 21, Utopia, White Paws), dies at 102
- 2021 Doug Parkinson, Australian pop and rock singer (Focus - "Dear Prudence"), dies at 74
- 2021 Yaphet Kotto, African-American stage and screen actor (Live And Let Die; Alien; Homicide: Life on the Street), dies at 81 [1]
- 2022 David Stephenson, English rugby league outside back (10 caps Great Britain; Wigan RLFC, Salford RLFC), dies at 63
- 2022 Eugene Parker, American solar astrophysicist (Parker Space Probe named after him), dies at 94
- 2022 Lu Liang-Huan, Taiwanese golfer (British Open 1971 runner-up), dies at 85
- 2023 Dorothy Bohm, German-born British pioneering street photographer, dies at 98 [1]
- 2023 Mimis Papaioannou, Greek soccer forward (61 caps; AEK Athens 480 games), dies at 80
- 2023 Roman Lentner, Polish soccer winger (33 caps; Górnik Zabrze SA 241 games), dies at 85
- 2024 Rolf Haikkola, Finnish athletics coach who assisted four-time Olympic gold medal winner Lasse Virén, dies at 96
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