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Deaths on March 28

1134 : Stefanus Harding, 3rd abbott of CŒteaux/saint, dies
1285 : Martinus IV, [Simon de Brion], Pope (1281-85), dies
1566 : Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat, dies at 79
1673 : Adam Pijnacker, Dutch landscape painter/etcher, buried at 51
1677 : Wenzel Hollar, Bohemia cartoonist/etcher, dies at about 69
1687 : Constantine Huygens, diplomat/poet/composer (Bluebottles), dies at 90
1701 : Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75
1712 : Jan van der Heyden, Dutch inventor (street lantern), dies at 75
1758 : Jonathan Edwards, US theologist (Great Awakening), dies at 54
1799 : Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders, Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55
1801 : Ralph Abercromby, English army commander (North Holland), dies at 66
1818 : Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi, composer, dies at 62
1840 : Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
1847 : Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer, dies at 67
1849 : Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botany, dies at 44
1856 : Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer, dies at 76
1860 : Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer, dies at 73
1863 : James Cooper, US attorney/senator/Union-brig-general, dies at 52
1865 : Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26
1868 : James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70
1877 : Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer, dies at 77
1880 : Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
1880 : Eelco Refer, linguistic (Oera Linda Book?), dies at 49
1881 : Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, composer, dies at 42 [OS=Mar 16]
1885 : Fredrick Vilhelm Ludvig Norman, composer, dies at 53
1887 : Ditler G Monrad, Danish bishop/premier (1863-..), dies at 75
1889 : Matilde "Tillie" Ziegler, killed by husband William Kemmler
1891 : Dick Pilling, cricketer ("Prince of Wicketkeepers", Eng 1881-88), dies
1896 : E Rundle Charles, writer, dies
1907 : Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer, dies at 65
1908 : John Eliot, English meteorology, dies at 68
1910 : Edouard [Judas] Colonne, French violinist/conductor, dies
1914 : Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
1927 : Karl Prohaska, composer, dies at 57
1928 : Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63
1941 : Virginia [Adeline] Woolf-Stephen, author (To Lighthouse), suicide 59
1942 : Herman A van Karnebeek, Dutch foreign minister (1918-27), dies at 67
1942 : Miguel Hernadez Gilabert, Spanish poet (Viento del Pueblo), dies at 31
1943 : Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69
1944 : Chayyim Most, Rabbi/Maggid of Kovono, killed by nazis
1944 : Stephen Butler Leacock, writer/economist (Literary Lapses), dies at 75
1947 : Rudolph Hermann Simonsen, composer, dies at 57
1949 : Grigoras Dinicu, composer, dies at 59
1950 : Georgine M "May" Basting, actress (Occupier), dies at 67
1953 : James Francis Thorpe, decathelete (Olympic-gold-12), dies at 64
1954 : Francis B Young, Brit physician/writer (In South Africa), dies at 69
1956 : Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, vocalist, dies of a heart attack
1958 : Chuck Klein, Phila Phillie HR hitter, dies at 53
1958 : William C Handy, US conductor/composer (St Louis Blues), dies at 84
1959 : James Neblett, cricketer (one Test WI v England 1935), dies
1960 : Ian Keith, US actor (Ramses I-10 Commandments), dies at 61
1963 : Alec A Templeton, composer/pianist (Alec Templeton Time), dies at 52
1965 : VAA Mary, English princess, dies at 67
1969 : Dwight D Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78
1971 : Felix Wolfes, composer, dies at 78
1973 : Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies
1974 : Dorothy Fields, US singer (Way you Look Tonight), dies at 68
1974 : Fran‡oise Rosay, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison), dies at 82
1975 : Renzo Massarani, composer, dies at 77
1979 : Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80
1980 : Dick Haymes, actor (Real Life, Betrayal), dies
1980 : Jesse Owens, (Oly-gold-36), dies at the age of 66
1983 : Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71
1983 : Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at 77
1984 : Kenneth Whitty, 1st sec at British Embassy in Athens, shot dead
1985 : Marc Chagall, French painter, dies at 97
1985 : Nand Baert, Belgian radio/tv-host, dies at 53
1986 : Victor J Lopez, actor (Chuey-Man From Atlantis), dies at 39
1986 : Virginia Gilmore, actress (Jennie, Western Union), dies
1987 : Maria Augusta Trapp, singer (Trapp Family Singers), dies at 82
1987 : Patrick Troughton, actor (Dr Who-Dr Who), dies at 56
1990 : Helene Fortescu Reynolds, actress (Bermuda Mystery), dies at 65
1991 : Carlos Montalban, actor (Bananas), dies at 85
1992 : Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72
1994 : Albert Goldman, US biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66
1994 : Eugene Ionesco, playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
1994 : John Logan Gorlay, journalist, dies at 74
1995 : Hugh Edward R O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night), ODs at 32
1995 : Jack Regan, broadcaster, dies at 53
1995 : Vivienne Byerley, publicist, dies at 88
1996 : Barbara McLean, film Editor, dies at 86
1996 : Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier, dies at 95
1996 : David Band, banker, dies at 53
1996 : Edith Fowke, folklorist, dies at 82
1996 : Hans Blumenberg, philosopher, dies at 75
1996 : James Herbert Lloyd Morrell, bishop, dies at 89
1996 : Ken Dibbs, actor (Suddenly, Party Girl, High Society), dies at 78
1996 : Shin Kanemaru, VP of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81
1996 : Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87

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