 amous Historical Deaths for March 14:
0840 Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
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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