March 31 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1074 – Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
• 1204 – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (b. 1121)
• 1340 – Ivan I of Russia, Prince of Moscow (b. 1288)
• 1547 – Francis I of France (b. 1494)
• 1567 – Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504)
• 1621 – Philip III of Spain (b. 1578)
• 1631 – John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
• 1671 – Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
• 1703 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
• 1723 – Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born U.S. state governor (b. 1661)
• 1727 – Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
• 1741 – Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
• 1783 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
• 1797 – Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian slave (b.1745)
• 1837 – John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
• 1850 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
• 1855 – Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
• 1877 – Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801)
• 1880 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
• 1885 – Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (b. 1819)
• 1913 – John Pierpont Morgan, American financier (b. 1837)
• 1917 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
• 1915 – Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
• 1924 – George Charles Haité, English designer, painter and illustrator (b.1855)
• 1930 – Ludwig Schüler, German politician (b. 1836)
• 1931 – Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
• 1935 – Georges V. Matchabelli, Russian-born perfumer (b. 1885)
• 1944 – Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
• 1945 – Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
• 1945 – Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
• 1945 – Frank Findlay, New Zealand politician (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
• 1956 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-born race car driver (b. 1884)
• 1968 – Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• 1972 – Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
• 1975 – Percy Alliss, English Golfer (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Paul Strand, American photographer and filmmaker (b. 1890)
• 1978 – Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
• 1980 – Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)
• 1981 – Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
• 1983 – Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
• 1984 – Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
• 1986 – O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937)
• 1986 – Jerry Paris, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1988 – William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
• 1993 – Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
• 1993 – Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
• 1995 – Selena Quintanilla Perez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1971)
• 1996 – Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American musician (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
• 1998 – Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
• 2001 – Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
• 2002 – Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
• 2002 – Moturu Udayam, Indian women's activist (b. 1924)
• 2003 – H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Anne Gwynne, American film actress (b. 1918)
• 2003 – Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Scott Helvenston, American Navy SEAL and Blackwater Contractor (b. 1965)
• 2005 – Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
• 2005 – Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
• 2006 – Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
• 2006 – Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Paul Watzlawick, Austrian-born theoreticist (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Jules Dassin, American film director (b. 1911)
• 2008 – Bill Keightley (Mr. Wildcat), American basketball equipment manager (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Jarl Alfredius, Swedish news anchor (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Raúl Alfonsín, former President of Argentina (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Choor Singh, Singaporean judge (b. 1911)
• 2010 – Shirley Mills, American actress (b. 1926)