March 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 193 – Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
• 1072 – Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
• 1239 – Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
• 1285 – Pope Martin IV
• 1563 – Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
• 1566 – Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
• 1677 – Václav Hollar, Czech-born etcher (b. 1607)
• 1687 – Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
• 1794 – Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
• 1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian composer (b. 1755)
• 1850 – Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
• 1866 – Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
• 1868 – James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
• 1870 – George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
• 1874 – Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
• 1881 – Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
• 1884 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria (b. 1853)
• 1910 – David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
• 1910 – Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
• 1928 – Nathan Stubblefield, American inventor (b. 1860)
• 1929 – Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
• 1939 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
• 1941 – Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
• 1941 – Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian Police Commissioner (b. 1877)
• 1942 – Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)
• 1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
• 1944 – Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (b. 1869)
• 1946 – Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
• 1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
• 1949 – Grigoraş Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
• 1953 – Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
• 1958 – William Christopher Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
• 1962 – Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
• 1965 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
• 1965 – Charles William Train, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
• 1969 – Aryeh Levin, Orthodox Jewish rabbi (b. 1885)
• 1974 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
• 1976 – Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
• 1976 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
• 1977 – Eric Shipton, British explorer and mountaineer (b. 1907)
• 1978 – Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (b. 1941)
• 1979 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
• 1980 – Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
• 1982 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
• 1984 – Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
• 1985 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
• 1986 – Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
• 1989 – Robert J. Wilke, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
• 1994 – Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
• 2000 – Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
• 2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
• 2003 – Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
• 2005 – Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
• 2006 – Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
• 2006 – Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Vethathiri Maharishi, Indian philosopher (b. 1911)
• 2010 – June Havoc, American actress (b. 1913)