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Deaths on March 03

1191 : Saladin [Salah ad-Din]) Yusuf, sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies at 52
1459 : Ausias March, Catalan poet, dies
1554 : Johan F de Greatmoedige, ruler of Saxon, dies
1554 : Johan Frederik, the Generous, elector of Saxon (1532-47), dies at 50
1580 : Jacob Hillebrand, Dutch mayor of Groningen, dies
1635 : Philips de l'Espinoy, historian/mayor of Ghent, dies
1703 : Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London
1706 : Johann Pachelbel, organist/composer (Sterbens-Gedancken), dies at 52
1707 : Aurangzeb, Emperor of India (1658-1707), dies at 88
1717 : Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75
1766 : Gregor Joseph Werner, composer, dies at 73
1768 : Nicola Antonio Porpora, composer, dies at 81
1792 : Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63
1800 : Johann Baptist Christoph Toeschi, composer, dies at 64
1822 : Franz Adam Veichtner, composer, dies at 81
1824 : Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violist/composer, dies at 70
1848 : Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies
1858 : J¢zsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic, dies at 54
1864 : Ulric Dahlgren, Union colonel, dies in battle at 21
1889 : Edward Sydney Smith, composer, dies at 49
1896 : ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies of injuries
1902 : Isaac D France van de Putte, Dutch premier (1866), dies at 79
1921 : Petrus Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam museum), dies at 93
1926 : Cyril Metodej Hrazdira, composer, dies at 58
1928 : Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69
1932 : Eugene Francis Charles D'albert, composer, dies at 67
1934 : Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer, dies at 58
1935 : Neville Knox, cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), dies
1938 : Arthur Koestler, writer, dies at 32
1941 : Constant W L Scheurleer, archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at 59
1941 : Ernst Cahn, owner of Amsterdam Koco ice cream parlor, executed
1942 : Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, viceroy (Ethiopia), dies at 43
1943 : George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1945 : Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61
1945 : Koos Speenhoff, Dutch singer, killed in bombing raid at 75
1948 : Antonin Artaud, writer, dies at 51
1956 : Willem H Keesom, Dutch physicist (Helium I/II), dies at 79
1959 : Lou Costello, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1960 : Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65
1965 : Carlo Gatti, composer, dies at 88
1966 : Alice Pearce, comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52
1966 : William Frawley, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89
1967 : Georges Lonque, composer, dies at 66
1974 : Barbara Ruick, actress (Carousel, Fearless Fagan), dies at 43
1974 : Frank Wilcox, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 66
1975 : L szl¢ N‚meth, Hungarian physician/author (Galilei/Iszony), dies at 73
1976 : Alfred Sendrey, composer, dies at 92
1977 : Percy Marmont, actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon), dies at 93
1982 : Georges Perec, French writer, dies at 45
1983 : Arthur Koestler, Hung/Brit writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at 77
1985 : Sarah Blanding, 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86
1987 : Danny Kaye, comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74
1988 : Lois Wilson, actress (Crash, Deluge, Bright Eyes), dies
1988 : Sewall Wright, US geneticist (evolution model), dies at 98
1990 : Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
1990 : Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club M‚d), dies at 88
1991 : Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies at 95 of pneumonia
1991 : Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poet (Life with J C Bloem), dies at 84
1992 : Robert Beatty, actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82
1992 : Sandy Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54
1992 : Ted Liss, actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72
1993 : Albert Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86
1993 : Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, dies at 89
1993 : Cyril Collard, French composer/dir/actor (A Nos Amours), dies at 35
1994 : Anita Morris, actress (Nine), dies of cancer at 50
1994 : Bob Crisp, cricketer (9 Tests for S Afr, 20 wickets at 37 35), dies
1994 : Karel Kryl, folk singer, dies at 49
1995 : Gilbert Gadoffre, French scholar, dies at 84
1995 : Howard Hunter, US leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87
1995 : Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65
1995 : Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85
1995 : Shiv Verma, soldier, dies at 85
1996 : David Bowman, trade unionist, dies at 82
1996 : John Joseph Krol, cardinal, dies at 95
1996 : Leo Malet, writer, dies at 86
1996 : Ludwig Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord, journalist, dies at 76
1996 : Lyle Talbot, [Henderson], actor (Plan 9 From Outer Space), dies at 76
1996 : Marguerite Duras, writer, dies at 81
1996 : Meyer Schapiro, art historian, dies at 91
1997 : Stanislav Shatalin, Russian economist (500 Days), dies

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