March 19 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1238 – Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
• 1263 – Hugh of St Cher, French cardinal
• 1279 – Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
• 1286 – King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
• 1330 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)
• 1406 – Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
• 1612 – Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (b. 1585)
• 1623 – Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
• 1637 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
• 1649 – Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
• 1683 – Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
• 1687 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
• 1697 – Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
• 1711 – Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
• 1717 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist (b. 1636)
• 1721 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
• 1783 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1713)
• 1796 – Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
• 1816 – Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
• 1871 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
• 1897 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (b. 1810)
• 1900 – John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
• 1900 – Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819)
• 1914 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1916 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
• 1930 – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1939 – Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist (b. 1911)
• 1942 – Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
• 1943 – Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
• 1944 – William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1945 – Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (b. 1888)
• 1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
• 1950 – Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
• 1974 – Anne Klein, American fashion designer (b. 1923)
• 1974 – Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)
• 1976 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (b. 1889)
• 1976 – Paul Kossoff, English guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)
• 1978 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Richard Beckinsale, English actor (b. 1947)
• 1982 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne) (b. 1956)
• 1984 – Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
• 1987 – Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1892)
• 1989 – Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
• 1990 – Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
• 1992 – Cesare Danova, American television and film actor (b. 1926)
• 1995 – Yasuo Yamada, Japanese voice actor (b. 1932)
• 1997 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch-born painter (b. 1904)
• 1998 – E.M.S. Namboodiripad, Indian Communist politician, former Chief Minister of Kerala (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
• 2001 – Charles K. Johnson, President of the Flat Earth Society (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Émile Genest, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
• 2005 – John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)
• 2007 – Calvert DeForest, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Luther Ingram, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)