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Deaths on March 14

1272 : Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies
1298 : Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist, dies
1490 : Charles I, Duke of Savoy, dies at 21
1559 : Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed
1573 : Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny, dies
1590 : Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle at 30
1612 : Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74
1647 : Frederik Hendrik, count of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 63
1682 : Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53
1757 : John Byng, English admiral (Minorca), executed at 52
1760 : Anton Filtz, composer, dies at 26
1768 : Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer, dies at 58
1801 : Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, dies at 63
1803 : Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78
1811 : August Henry Fitzroy, English premier (1768-70), dies at 75
1861 : Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer, dies at 58
1883 : Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies at 64
1899 : Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo), dies at 76
1903 : Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 88
1925 : Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65
1932 : George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77
1944 : Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer, dies at 66
1953 : Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia, dies at 56
1954 : Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer, dies at 72
1958 : Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer, dies at 64
1961 : Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78
1968 : Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist, dies
1969 : Ben Shahn, US painter, dies at 70
1973 : Murat B "Chic" Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), dies at 72
1975 : Susan Hayward, actress (Young & Willing), dies at 56
1976 : Alberta Franklin, silent screen actress, dies at 79
1976 : Busby Berkeley, US choreographer/dir (Strike Up the Band), dies at 80
1976 : Martha Saalfeldt, writer, dies
1981 : Ken Barrington, cricketer (82 Tests for England, 6806 runs), dies
1981 : Ren‚ Clair, French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82?
1982 : Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer, dies at 59
1983 : Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at 55
1984 : Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75
1986 : Benno Ammann, composer, dies at 81
1986 : Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
1986 : Jozef Kresanek, composer, dies at 73
1986 : Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom) at 80
1989 : Edward Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery at 62
1989 : Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, dies at 96
1991 : Howard Ashman, song writer (Under the Sea), dies of AIDs at 40
1991 : Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68
1991 : Jerome "Doc" Pomus, lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me), dies at 65
1991 : Robert Maroff, dies at 57
1992 : C V Wood Jr, theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71
1992 : Jean Poiret, French actor/writer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 65
1992 : Ralph James, actor (Orson-Mork & Mindy), dies at 67
1992 : Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years at 34
1994 : Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered
1994 : Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer, dies at 57
1995 : Gerard Thomas Victory, composer, dies at 73
1995 : Johan W "Jo" van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70
1995 : William A Fowler, US nuclear/astro physicist (Nobel 1983), dies at 83
1996 : Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist, dies at 57
1996 : Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69
1996 : Vic Marshall, chemist, dies at 74
1997 : Fred Zinnemann (director), dies of heart attack at 89
1997 : John Curtis Jr, pres/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58

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