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Deaths on March 08

1144 : Celestine II, [Guido], Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle
1403 : Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42
1466 : Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64
1550 : Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Mercy), dies at 55
1638 : Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73
1640 : Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50
1661 : Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58
1702 : John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69
1702 : William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 [NS-Mar 19]
1709 : William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62
1716 : Harald Vallerius, composer, dies at 69
1720 : Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53
1724 : Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81
1728 : Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64
1734 : Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer, dies at 33
1754 : Don Jos‚ de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Sp min of Foreign affairs, dies
1828 : Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75
1862 : Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
1862 : Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves
1869 : Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
1874 : Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74
1887 : Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73
1889 : Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85
1901 : Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64
1901 : Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1917 : Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78
1919 : Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88
1920 : Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69
1923 : Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
1930 : William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72
1931 : Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87
1932 : Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84
1936 : Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52
1937 : Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71
1941 : Jose Serrano Simeon, composer, dies at 67
1941 : Sherwood Anderson, US writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64
1942 : Jos‚ R Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927), dies at 53
1945 : H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald
1945 : Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1950 : Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at 67
1951 : Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair
1951 : John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at 83
1954 : Percy Twentyman-Jones, cricketer (pair in only Test for S Afr), dies
1955 : Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82
1957 : Othmar Schoeck, composer, dies at 70
1958 : Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85
1959 : Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered
1961 : Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81
1963 : John Hartley, cricketer (bowl avg 115 in 2 Tests for Eng 1906), dies
1965 : Esther Howard, actress (Detour), dies of heart attack at 72
1967 : John F Bothwell, actor (Freckles-Our Gang), dies at 46
1971 : Harold Lloyd, US comic/actor (Why Worry), dies of cancer at 77
1973 : Gordon Leggat, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 351 runs at 21 93), dies
1973 : Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27
1974 : Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56
1974 : Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch actor (Silk Stockings), dies at 56
1975 : George Stevens, US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70
1977 : Henry Hull, actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86
1979 : G‚rard Blitz, Dutch 400m swimmer (WR), dies at 78
1983 : William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80
1985 : Edward Andrews, actor (Broadside), dies at 70 of a heart attack
1985 : Thomas Creighton, US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hrs), dies at 33
1986 : Hubert Fichte, writer, dies at 50
1992 : Red Callender, US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76
1993 : Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
1993 : Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78
1993 : Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69
1993 : Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
1994 : John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55
1994 : Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69
1994 : Knut Haukelid, Norway/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82
1995 : Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
1995 : Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91
1996 : Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45
1996 : Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando, dies at 89
1996 : Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
1997 : Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman), dies at 75
1999 : Joe DiMaggio, athlete (baseball), dies at 84.

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