March 10 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 483 – Simplicius, pope of Rome
  • 1291 – Arghun, Persian ruler
  • 1315 – Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic (b. c. 1244)
  • 1391 – Tvrtko I, First king of Bosnia (b. 1338)
  • 1510 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
  • 1513 – John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)
  • 1549 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat
  • 1584 – Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
  • 1585 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)
  • 1588 – Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
  • 1669 – John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
  • 1670 – Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
  • 1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
  • 1776 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)
  • 1792 – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
  • 1823 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1746)
  • 1832 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
  • 1861 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
  • 1864 – Jack Slade, American frontier figure (b. 1831)
  • 1872 – Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)
  • 1898 – Marie-Eugénie de Jésus, Founder of the Religious of the Assumption (b. 1817)
  • 1895 – Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)
  • 1910 – Karl Lueger, Mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)
  • 1910 – Carl Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1824)
  • 1913 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
  • 1925 – Myer Prinstein, Polish born-American athlete (b. 1878)
  • 1937 – Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
  • 1940 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
  • 1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1862)
  • 1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald, American novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
  • 1948 – Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)
  • 1949 – James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
  • 1950 – Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
  • 1951 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
  • 1966 – Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
  • 1967 – Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
  • 1969 – Louis Menges, American soccer player (b. 1888)
  • 1970 – Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (b. 1904)
  • 1973 – Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
  • 1977 – E. Power Biggs, English-born organist (b. 1906)
  • 1982 – Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (b. 1899)
  • 1984 – June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
  • 1985 – Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
  • 1985 – Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
  • 1986 – Ray Milland, British actor (b. 1905)
  • 1988 – Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
  • 1990 – Otto Schuhart, German korvettenkapitan (b. 1901)
  • 1992 – Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
  • 1994 – Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (b. 1929)
  • 1996 – Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1920)
  • 1997 – LaVern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
  • 1998 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
  • 1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamin, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
  • 1999 – Valentino Mazzia, American forensic anesthesiologist (b. 1922)
  • 2001 – Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter, stage and costume designer (b. 1923)
  • 2001 – Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and activist (b. 1958)
  • 2003 – Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (b. 1950)
  • 2004 – Dave Blood, American musician (The Dead Milkmen) (b. 1956)
  • 2005 – Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)
  • 2005 – Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)
  • 2005 – Danny Taylor, American musician (Silver Apples)
  • 2006 – Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
  • 2007 – Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
  • 2007 – Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
  • 2008 – Richard Fran Biegenwald, American serial killer (b. 1940)
  • 2008 – Vangelis Kazan, Greek actor (b. 1936)
  • 2010 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
  • 2010 – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Tan Boon Teik, former Attorney-General of Singapore (b. 1929)
  • 2012 – Nik Zoricic Canadian ski cross skier (b. 1983)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)