Famous Deaths in March 1969

Mar 4 Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
Mar 6 Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
Mar 9 Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
Mar 9 Richard Crane, American character actor (Surfside 6, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger), dies of a heart attack at 50
Mar 11 John Wyndham, American sci-fi author (Chrysalids), dies at 65
Mar 13 Felix Locher, Swiss actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 86
Mar 14 Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter (1964 Arts & Letters), dies at 70
Mar 15 Miles Malleson, British writer and actor (Phantom of the Opera, Postman's Knock), dies at 80
Mar 18 Barbara Bates, American actress (All About Eve, It's a Great Life), commits suicide at 43
Mar 19 Theodor Schaefer, Czech composer, dies at 65
Mar 20 Henri Longchambon, French politician, dies at 72
Mar 21 Gerhard Fritsch, Austrian writer, dies at 44
Mar 22 Ernst Deutsch, [Dorian], Czech actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
Mar 23 Rudolf Pannwitz, German author/philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87
Mar 24 Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55
Mar 25 Alan Mowbray, British actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
Mar 25 Max Eastman, American critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86
Mar 25 Norman Gallichan, cricketer (one Test for NZ, 30 & 2, 3-113), dies
Mar 25 Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
Mar 26 Günther Weisenborn, German writer and German Resistance fighter, dies at 66
Mar 27 B[runo] Traven, writer (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre), writer whose identity is disputed, dies at possibly 87