March 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
• 308 – Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
• 413 – Heraclianus, Roman usurper
• 851 – Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
• 1226 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
• 1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian Philosopher (b. 1225)
• 1578 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
• 1625 – Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
• 1724 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
• 1767 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer (b. 1680)
• 1778 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
• 1810 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
• 1904 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
• 1913 – Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet (b. 1861)
• 1928 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
• 1932 – Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
• 1938 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player (b. 1883)
• 1938 – Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
• 1942 – Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)
• 1943 – Alma Moodie, Australian classical violinist (b. 1898)
• 1949 – Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
• 1949 – Bradbury Robinson, American football player (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
• 1954 – Otto Diels, German Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1957 – Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
• 1965 – Louise Mountbatten, Swedish queen (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
• 1974 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (Lecuona Cuban Boys) (b. 1906)
• 1975 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)
• 1976 – Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
• 1978 – Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 1981 – Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
• 1983 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
• 1986 – Jacob K. Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
• 1988 – Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
• 1988 – Robert Livingston, American film actor (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
• 1995 – Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)
• 1997 – E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
• 2000 – Pee Wee King, American country music songwriter and musician (b. 1914)
• 2001 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
• 2004 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
• 2005 – John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)
• 2006 – Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
• 2006 – John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Gordon Parks, American photographer (b. 1912)
• 2009 – Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982)
• 2010 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian (b. 1895)
• 2012 – Big Walter Price, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)