Deaths on March 01
1131 : Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
1383 : Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49
1510 : Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59
1535 : Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), die
1619 : Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies a
1633 : George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
1643 : Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59
1693 : Benedict Schultheiss, composer, dies at 39
1771 : Isfrid Kayser, composer, dies at 58
1773 : Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
1773 : Luigi Vanvitelli, [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at
1777 : Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist, dies
1788 : Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
1797 : Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
1804 : Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63
1817 : Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77
1826 : J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies a
1859 : Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61
1865 : Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
1869 : Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies a
1870 : Francisco S L¢pez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
1892 : Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
1896 : ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 : ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896 : ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1899 : Gy”rgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90
1901 : Bernhard Erdmannsd”rffer, German historian (Mirabeau), dies at 68
1906 : Jos‚ M de Pereda y S nchez the Porr£a, Spanish writer, dies at 73
1906 : Moriz Heyne, German germanist (German W”rterbuch), dies at 68
1911 : Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies
1914 : Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
1918 : Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64
1920 : Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
1921 : Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 7
1924 : Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
1926 : Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
1928 : Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62
1928 : Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77
1930 : Alo‹s Walgrave, Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies at 5
1932 : Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
1938 : G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74
1938 : Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74
1940 : Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1944 : ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
1947 : J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
1953 : Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
1958 : Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86
1962 : Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at
1964 : Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54
1965 : Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77
1968 : G v d Vring, writer, dies
1968 : Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
1970 : Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
1972 : Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63
1974 : Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
1976 : Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies at 66
1979 : Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at
1979 : Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
1980 : John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87
1984 : Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
1985 : Eugene List, US concert pianist, dies at 66
1988 : Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63
1988 : Joe Besser, comedian (3's Stooges, Abbott & Costello), dies at 80
1989 : Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64
1989 : Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at
1990 : Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
1991 : Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
1991 : Katharine Blake, actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
1991 : Scott Huston, composer, dies at 74
1992 : Maria D‚a, French actress (Pi‚ges), dies at 73
1993 : Luis Kutner, US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
1993 : Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86
1994 : Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
1994 : Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/writer, dies at 75
1994 : Manmohan Desai, filmmaker, dies at 57
1994 : Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer Musician, dies at 51
1994 : Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
1995 : Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56
1995 : Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
1996 : Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85