March 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1111 – Bohemund I, Prince of Antioch
• 1239 – Vladimir III Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1187)
• 1459 – Ausiàs March, Catalan poet (b. 1397)
• 1554 – John Frederick, Elector of Saxony (b. 1503)
• 1703 – Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)
• 1706 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1653)
• 1707 – Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1618)
• 1717 – Pierre Allix, French Protestant pastor (b. 1641)
• 1744 – Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist (b. 1674)
• 1765 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist (b. 1687)
• 1768 – Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (b. 1686)
• 1792 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect (b. 1728)
• 1850 – Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (b. 1806)
• 1894 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1899 – William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio (b. 1827)
• 1920 – Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (b. 1840)
• 1927 – Mikhail Artsybashev, Russian writer (b. 1878)
• 1927 – J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
• 1929 – Katharine Wright, teacher, sister of the Wright Brothers (b. 1874)
• 1932 – Eugen d'Albert, German composer (b. 1864)
• 1943 – George Thompson, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1953 – James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (b. 1875)
• 1959 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
• 1961 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
• 1966 – William Frawley, American actor (b. 1887)
• 1966 – Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1966 – Joseph Fields, American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Percy Marmont, British/American actor (b. 1883)
• 1982 – Georges Perec, French writer (b. 1936)
• 1983 – Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
• 1987 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1913)
• 1988 – Sewall Wright, American biologist (b. 1889)
• 1990 – Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Arthur Murray, American dancer and dance instructor (b. 1895)
• 1993 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist (b. 1903)
• 1993 – Albert Sabin, Polish-born medical researcher (b. 1906)
• 1993 – Mel Bradford, American literary critic (b. 1934)
• 1995 – Howard W. Hunter, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1907)
• 1996 – Marguerite Duras, French writer (b. 1914)
• 1996 – John Krol, American cardinal (b. 1910)
• 1998 – Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive (b. 1915)
• 1999 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• 2000 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
• 2001 – Eugene Sledge, U.S. Marine and American author (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Harlan Howard, American musician (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Luis Marden, American photojournalist (b. 1913)
• 2003 – Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer (b. 1904)
• 2003 – Peter Smithson, English architect (b. 1923)
• 2004 – Cecily Adams, American actress and casting director (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Max M. Fisher, American philanthropist (b. 1928)
• 2006 – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
• 2006 – William Herskovic, Holocaust hero and philanthropist (b. 1914)
• 2007 – Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist, creator of La Linea (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian operatic tenor (b. 1921)
• 2010 – Keith Alexander, British football manager (b. 1956)
• 2010 – Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913)