March 21 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1063 – Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland
• 1076 – Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
• 1181 – Taira Kiyomori, Japanese Feudal general (b. 1118)
• 1306 – Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
• 1487 – Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
• 1556 – Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (burned at the stake) (b. 1489)
• 1617 – Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c.1595)
• 1656 – James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (b. 1581)
• 1676 – Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
• 1729 – John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
• 1734 – Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
• 1751 – Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
• 1762 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
• 1772 – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
• 1795 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
• 1801 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
• 1804 – Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé (executed) (b. 1772)
• 1843 – Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
• 1843 – Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
• 1850 – Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
• 1863 – Edwin Vose Sumner, American Civil War general (b. 1797)
• 1881 – Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
• 1884 – Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
• 1910 – Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)
• 1915 – Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
• 1920 – Evelina Haverfield British suffragette (b. 1867)
• 1934 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
• 1936 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)
• 1945 – Artur Nebe, German SS officer (b. 1894)
• 1951 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
• 1958 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1970 – Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1920)
• 1975 – Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Angelo Bruno, American mobster (b. 1910)
• 1984 – Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (b. 1963)
• 1985 – Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1987 – Dean Paul Martin, American musician (b. 1951)
• 1987 – Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1991 – Leo Fender, American guitar manufacturer (b. 1909)
• 1992 – John Ireland, Canadian film actor and director (b. 1914)
• 1992 – Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)
• 1994 – Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1994 – Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)
• 1994 – Lili Damita, French actress (b. 1904)
• 1997 – W. V. Awdry, English children's writer (b. 1911)
• 1998 – Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Anthony Steel, English actor (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Umar Wirahadikusumah, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Bobby Short, American singer (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Drew Hayes, American writer and graphic artist (b. 1969)
• 2007 – Sven O. Høiby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (b. 1936)
• 2007 – Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (b. 1964)
• 2008 – Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, Chilean architect (b. 1931)
• 2009 – Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
• 2010 – Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (b. 1919)