Famous Deaths on 25th March

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1223 - Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36
1345 - Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
1458 - Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies
1510 - Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49
1558 - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
1561 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
1603 - Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
1609 - Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
1620 - Johannes Nucius, German composer
1625 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
1692 - Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1697 - Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies
1712 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1736 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
1738 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1751 - Frederick of Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74
1766 - Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26
1799 - Constantin Reindl, composer, dies at 60
1801 - Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69
1801 - Novalis, writer, dies at 28
1818 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
1823 - Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75
1825 - Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63
1835 - Friederike Blum, writer, dies
1852 - Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73
1860 - James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
1873 - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
1880 - Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61
1880 - Ludmilla Assing, writer, dies
1908 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
1909 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57
Provencal Poet Frederic MistralProvencal Poet Frederic Mistral (1914) 1914 - Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies at 83
1917 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
1918 - Claude Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55
1924 - John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
1937 - John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
1940 - Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51
1948 - Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42
1949 - Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54
1951 - Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies at 63
1951 - Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1956 - George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70
1956 - Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50
1957 - Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50
1957 - Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
1958 - Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
Composer Claude DebussyComposer Claude Debussy (1918) 1958 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
1959 - Billy Mayerl, composer, dies at 56
1962 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78
1963 - David Moore, US feather weight boxer, dies at 29
1965 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72
1965 - Viola Gregg Liuzzo, US civil rights activist, murdered
1966 - Colin Campbell, actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83
1967 - Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
1968 - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood
1969 - Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
1969 - Max Eastman, American critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86
1969 - Norman Gallichan, cricketer (one Test for NZ, 30 & 2, 3-113), dies
1969 - Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1973 - Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
1974 - Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72
1975 - Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew at 68
1975 - Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1978 - Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
1979 - Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
1980 - Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
1980 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
1980 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1980 - James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
1983 - Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
1983 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
1987 - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
1991 - Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78
1991 - Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
1991 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
1992 - Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69
1994 - David Miles Bensuan Economist-Butt, , dies at 79
1994 - Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena), dies at 32
1995 - James Gardner, designer, dies at 87
1995 - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest, dies at 73
1995 - Warren E Burger, chief justice of US (1969-86), dies
1995 - James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
1996 - John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91
1997 - Roberto Sanchez Vilella, governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies
1998 - Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
1998 - Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
1999 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
2000 - Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
2002 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
2005 - Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911)
2006 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2006 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
2006 - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
2007 - Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008 - Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2009 - Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2009 - Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian hockey player (b. 1975)
2009 - Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
2009 - Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929)
2010 - Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937)
2012 - Bert Sugar, American sports writer, dies from a cardiac arrest at 74
2012 - Larry Stevenson [Richard], American skateboard innovator, dies from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease at 81

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