March 16 - Deaths

Deaths

• 37 – Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
• 455 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor (b. 419)
• 455 – Heraclius, Western Roman courtier
• 1021 – Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
• 1037 – Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen
• 1072 – Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
• 1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
• 1410 – John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)
• 1457 – László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433)
• 1485 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
• 1559 – Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
• 1649 – St. Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
• 1620 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing (b. 1576)
• 1679 – John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
• 1721 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
• 1736 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (b. 1710)
• 1737 – Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (b. 1670)
• 1738 – George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)
• 1747 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
• 1888 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
• 1890 – Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
• 1892 – Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
• 1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
• 1899 – Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
• 1903 – Roy Bean, American jurist
• 1914 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
• 1926 – Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
• 1930 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (b. 1870)
• 1935 – John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
• 1936 – Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
• 1940 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1945 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
• 1955 – Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
• 1957 – Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
• 1968 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (b. 1907)
• 1970 – Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1946)
• 1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, American presidential candidate (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
• 1975 – T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
• 1977 – Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)
• 1979 – Jean Monnet, French politician (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
• 1983 – Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 1984 – John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
• 1985 – Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1992 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (b. 1919)
• 1993 – Johnny Cymbal, American singer and producer (b. 1945)
• 1996 – Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)
• 1998 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright and director (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (b. 1918)
• 2001 – Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
• 2003 – Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
• 2003 – Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Anthony George, American TV actor (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2006 – David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
• 2007 – Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
• 2008 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
• 2008 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (b. 1946)
• 2008 – Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (b. 1942)
• 2008 – G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)
• 2008 – John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (b. 1922)
• 2008 – Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham). (b. 1968)