Deaths on March 25
1223 : Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36
1458 : Inigo Ląpez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies
1510 : Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49
1609 : Johan Willem, duke of Jlich/Cleef/Mark/Mountain/Ravensberg, dies
1692 : Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1697 : Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies
1751 : Frederik 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
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
1880 : Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61
1880 : Ludmilla Assing, writer, dies
1909 : Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57
1910 : K lm n Miksz th, Hungarian author (Szent Pter Esernyje), dies at 63
1914 : Frdric Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies
1918 : Claude A 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
1954 : Gertrud Bumer, writer, dies
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
1958 : Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
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
1968 : Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood
1969 : Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
1969 : Max F Eastman, US critic/essayist (Love & Revolution), dies at 86
1969 : Norman Gallichan, cricketer (one Test for NZ, 30 & 2, 3-113), dies
1973 : Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
1974 : Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72
1978 : Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
1979 : ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
1979 : Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
1983 : Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
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
1992 : Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69
1992 : Nomie Perugia, French mezzo soprano, dies
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
1996 : John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91
1997 : Roberto Sanchez Vilella, governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies