March 10 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1291 – Arghun, Persian ruler
• 1315 – Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic (b. c. 1244)
• 1391 – Tvrtko I, first king of Bosnia (b. 1338)
• 1510 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
• 1513 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)
• 1549 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat
• 1584 – Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
• 1585 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)
• 1588 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
• 1669 – John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
• 1670 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
• 1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
• 1776 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)
• 1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
• 1823 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1746)
• 1832 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
• 1861 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
• 1864 – Jack Slade, American frontier figure (b. 1831)
• 1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)
• 1895 – Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)
• 1910 – Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)
• 1910 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1824)
• 1913 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
• 1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
• 1940 – Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
• 1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
• 1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
• 1948 – Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)
• 1949 – James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
• 1950 – Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1951 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
• 1966 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 – Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
• 1970 – Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (b. 1904)
• 1973 – Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
• 1977 – E. Power Biggs, English-born organist (b. 1906)
• 1982 – Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (b. 1899)
• 1984 – June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
• 1985 – Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
• 1985 – Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1986 – Ray Milland, British actor (b. 1905)
• 1988 – Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
• 1992 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
• 1994 – Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (b. 1929)
• 1996 – Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1920)
• 1997 – La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
• 1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamin, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
• 1999 – Valentino Mazzia, American forensic anesthesiologist (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter, stage and costume designer (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and activist (b. 1958)
• 2003 – Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (b. 1950)
• 2004 – Dave Blood (David Schulthise), American musician (b. 1956)
• 2005 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)
• 2005 – Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)
• 2006 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
• 2007 – Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Richard Fran Biegenwald, American serial killer (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)