Famous Deaths on March 7

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Greek philosopher and polymath known as the father of logic, biology and zoology, dies at around 61 or 62

Antoninus Pius (86-161 AD)

15th Emperor of Rome (138-161 AD), dies at 74

203 Perpetua and Felicitas, Christian martyrs (perhaps after 209) - feast day, exact date of death unknown
308 Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr. killed in Caesarea
851 Nominoe, first Duke of Brittany "father of the country" (Tad ar Vro)
1111 Bohemond I, Prince of Otranto, ruler of Antioch, one of the leaders of the First Crusade, dies
1226 William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader

Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225-1274)

Italian theologian, Philosopher and Doctor of the Church (Summa Theologica), dies at 48 or 49 [birth date uncertain]

1305 Gwijde van Dampierre, count of Flanders/count of Namur, dies at 78
1517 Maria of Aragon, queen of Portugal (1500-17), dies at 34
1578 Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, niece of Henry VIII and whose son married Mary Queen of Scots, dies at 62
1625 Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
1719 Steven Jacobsz Vennekool, Amsterdam architect, buried
1724 Innocent XIII [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italian 244th Pope (1721-24) tried to introduce frugal measures and end nepotism, dies at 68
1737 Guido Starhemberg, Austrian earl and fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars), dies at 79
1750 Cornelis Troost, Dutch portrait painter (Beslikte Zwaentje), dies at 52
1761 Antonio Palella, Italian composer and harpsichordist, dies at 68
1767 Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonial administrator (French Louisiana), dies at 87
1778 Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist, dies at 58
1786 František Benda, Bohemian violinist and composer, dies at 76
1802 Johann Georg Witthauer, German composer, dies at 50
1809 Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian composer and organist, dies at 73
1810 Albertus Henricus Wiese, governor-general of Netherlands Indies, dies at about 48
1810 Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral, dies at 61
1833 Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German literary hostess, dies at 61
1842 Christian Theodor Weinlig, German composer, dies at 61
1862 Ben McCulloch, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), killed in Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas 50
1862 James McIntosh, American general (Confederate Army), killed in Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas at 32
1862 William Slack, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle
1902 James "Pud" Galvin, American Baseball HOF pitcher (MLB's first 300-game winner; no-hitters 1880, 84; Buffalo Bisons), dies at 45
1903 Hely Hutchinson Almond, Scottish classics scholar and early rugby umpire and advocate (Loretto School), dies at 70
1904 Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
1907 Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, French pianist and composer, dies at 64
1911 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer and poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68
1913 Emily Pauline Johnson [Tekahionwake], Native Canadian poet, dies of cancer at 51
1924 Pat Moran, American baseball catcher (World Series 1907 Chicago Cubs) and manager (World Series 1919 Cincinnati Reds), dies of Bright's Disease at 48
1926 Heinrich Kàan-Albest, Bohemian pianist and composer, dies at 73
1928 Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist, dies at 76
1931 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish painter known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, dies at 65 [1]
1931 Theo van Doesburg [Christian Emil Marie Küpper], Dutch painter and architect, dies at 47

Aristide Briand (1862-1932)

11 time Prime Minister of France (1909-22) and 1926 Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 69

1938 Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (1924-25) (b. 1876)
1939 Amadeo Roldán, Cuban composer and violinist, dies at 38
1939 John Jules Barrish, Irish writer and philosopher, dies at 53
1940 Edwin Markham, American poet (1st winner of American Academy of Poets Award 1937), dies at 87
1940 John Huston Finley, American academic and editor (NY Times 1937-38, President of the American Geographical Society), dies at 76
1941 Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik), dies at 63
1941 Gunther Prien, German commandant (U-47), dies in battle
1941 Julian Eltinge [Dalton], American vaudeville, Broadway, and silent film female impersonator star (The Crinoline Girl), dies of a suspected cerebral hemorrhage at 59
1945 Adolf Bartels, German journalist and poet, dies at 82
1949 Bradbury Robinson Jr., American football pioneer (threw first legal forward pass at a game at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin 1906), dies from complications following routine surgery at 65
1949 Francis Dodd, English artist (official war artist WWI), commits suicide at 74
1951 Haj Ali Razmara, 33rd Prime Minister of Iran (1950-51), assassinated at 49
1952 Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (Autobiography of a Yogi), dies at 59
1953 Edward Sedgwick, American film director (The Flaming Frontier, Let 'er Buck), dies of a heart attack at 63
1954 Otto Diels, German organic chemist (1950 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for cyclic organic compounds), dies at 78
1955 Tom Dugan, Irish actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway), dies at 66
1957 Wyndham Lewis, English author (Tarr, Apes of God) and co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, dies at 74
1959 Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), dies at 81
1959 Hinsdale Smith, developer of roll-down auto windows, dies at 88
1959 Ichirō Hatoyama, Japanese politician, Prime Minister (1954-56), dies at 76
1961 Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian abstract painter, dies at 42
1961 Max Hymans, French WW II resistance fighter and Head of Air France, dies at 60
1964 Franz Alexander, Hungarian-American pioneering psychoanalyst (pioneered psychosomatic medicine), dies at 73
1966 Mike Millward, English musician (The Fourmost), dies of leukemia at 23
1967 Alice B. Toklas, American-Parisian avant-garde and companion to Gertrude Stein, dies at 89
1971 Harold McNair, British-Jamaican calypso and jazz saxophonist and flautist, dies of lung cancer at 39
1971 Stevie Smith [Florence Margaret Smith], English poet and novelist ("A Good Time Was Had By All"; "Not Waving but Drowning") whose life was turned into the play and film "Stevie", dies of a brain tumour at 68
1973 Andre de Meulemeester, Belgian World War I fighter ace known as the "Eagle of Flanders" with 11 known kills and 19 unconfirmed, dies at 78
1974 Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
1975 Ben Blue, Canadian actor and comedian (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73
1975 Francine Larrimore, French actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76
1975 Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher, dies at 79
1976 Erwin Kroll, German composer, dies at 90
1976 Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
1979 Guiomar Novaes, Barzilain concert pianist (Brazilian Order of Merit), dies at 84
1979 Klaus Egge, Norwegian composer (Fanitullen), dies at 72
1981 Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (Wimbledon 1931, 1936 runner-up), dies at 72
1981 John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73
1981 Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre, 1943-56; Moscow Philharmonic, 1960-75; Concertgebouw, 1978-81), dies at 67
1982 Charles Borromeo Mills, American composer, dies at 68
1983 Igor Markevitch, Russian composer and conductor (Le Paradis Perdu), dies at 70
1983 Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
1984 Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
1985 George Schick, Czech conductor (Chicago Symphony, 1950-56; Metropolitan Opera, 1958-69), and educator, dies at 76
1985 Robert W. Woodruff, American CEO (Coca-Cola) and philanthropist, dies at 95
1985 Victor W. Farris, American inventor (paper milk carton), dies at 75
1986 Jacob K Javits, American politician (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Florida at 81
1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], American actress, drag queen and international icon of bad taste cinema (Pink Flamingos), dies of natural causes at 42
1988 Robert Livingston, American actor (Three Mesquiteers, The Lone Ranger and Zorro), dies at 83 of emphysema
1991 Greta Schoon, German poet, dies at 81

Cool Papa Bell (1903-1991)

American Baseball HOF center fielder (NgL WorLd Series 1943, 44 Homestead Grays; 8 x NgL All Star; career BA .337), dies at 87

1993 Arnold Franchetti, Italian American composer, dies at about 84
1993 Earl Wrightson, American actor and singer (Pinafore, Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue), dies of heart failure at 77
1993 Tony Harris, South African cricket batsman (3 Tests, 1 x 50; Transvaal) and rugby union five-eighth (5 Tests), dies at 76
1995 Don Cook, British foreign correspondent, dies at 74
1995 Jaap van den Hurk, TV-director (NCRV), dies
1995 Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force general, commits suicide at 64
1995 John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69
1995 Paul-Emile Victor, French polar explorer, dies at 87
1996 Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, dies at 74
1997 E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
1997 Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (Nobel 1952), dies at 84
1997 Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish poet (A Little Bouquet), dies at 73
1998 Leopoldine "Leonie" Rysanek, Austrian dramatic soprano (Vienna State Opera 1954-96; Metropolitan Opera, 1959-96), dies of bone cancer at 71
1999 Lowell Fulson, Choctaw-Cherokee-American blues guitarist and songwriter (“3 O’Clock Blues”; “Reconsider Baby”), dies at 77
1999 Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official, dies at 80

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999)

American film director (2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange), dies at 70

2000 Charles Gray, British actor (Clay-Rawhide, Diamonds Are Forever, The Rocky Horror Picture Show), dies at 71
2000 Edward H. Levi, American law professor (Intro to Legal Reasoning), dies at 88
2000 Pee Wee King [Julius Frank Kuczynski], American country singer, accordionist, and songwriter ("Tennesee Waltz"; "Slow Poke"), dies of a heart attack at 84
2001 Frankie Carle [Francesco Carlone], American pianist, known as "the Wizard of the Keyboard", big band and dance orchestra leader, and songwriter ("Sunrise Serenade"; "The Golden Touch"), dies at 97
2002 Abdul Mati [Matias Klarwein], French artist known for his works used on music album covers (Santana's Abraxus; Miles Davis' Bitches Brew; Osibisa's Heads; Jon Hassel's Dream Theory), dies at 69
2003 Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea), dies at 86
2004 Jack Holden, English athlete (International Cross Country C'ship gold, individual 1933, 34, 35, 39; Empire Games marathon gold 1950), dies at 96
2004 Paul Winfield, American actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack), dies at 64
2005 Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (Escape from New York), dies at 54
2005 John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
2006 Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician, dies at 66
2006 Ansen [Nancy Ann] Dibble, Dutch sci-fi author (Summerfair), dies at 63
2006 Gordon Parks, American pioneering black film director (The Learning Tree), photographer and author, dies at 93
2006 John Junkin, British actor and scriptwriter (A Hard Day's Night), dies at 76
2007 Frigyes Hidas, Hungarian composer, and musical director (Hungarian National Theater, 1951-66; Budapest Operetta, 1974-79). dies at 78
2009 Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress, commits suicide at 29
2010 Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian, dies at 114
2012 Jimmy Ellis, American soul singer, dies from complications from Alzheimer's disease at 74
2012 Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish soccer wing/midfield (60 caps; RTS Widzew Łódź, FC Utrecht, Eintracht Frankfurt, Feyenoord), dies at 54
2013 Claude King, American country music singer (Wolverton Mountain), dies at 90
2013 Elmar Tampõld, Estonian-Canadian architect, dies at 92
2013 Kenny Ball, English jazz musician, dies of pneumonia at 82
2013 Peter Banks [Brockbanks], British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter described as "the architect of progressive music" (Yes, the Syn, Flash), dies of heart failure at 65
2014 Pentti Raitio, Finnish composer (‘Lemminkainen Gatecrashes at Pohjola’), dies at 83
2016 Michael White, British theater/film producer (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), dies at 80
2017 Francis Thorne, American composer (Fortuna; Elegy), dies at 94
2017 Hans Dehmelt, German-born American physicist (Nobel Prize 1989), dies at 94
2017 Lynne Stewart, American defense attorney (known for representing controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants), dies at 77
2018 Gary Burden, American artist and one of the pioneers for the concept of album cover art (designed covers for Neil Young, Nash, The Doors), dies at 84
2018 Jacques Clemens, Dutch Catholic priest, dies at 108
2018 Reynaldo Bignone, Argentine politician and human rights violator, 41st President (1982–1983), dies of a hip fracture and heart failure at 90
2019 Dan Jenkins, American author, sportswriter (Sports Illustrated), dies at 90
2019 Kelly Catlin, American road cyclist (Olympic silver 2016, World C'ship gold 2016-18), dies from suicide at 23
2020 Matthew Watkins, Welsh rugby union centre (18 caps; Newport, Llanelli Scarlets), dies from pelvic cancer at 41
2022 Berkrerk Chartvanchai, Thai boxer (WBA flyweight title 1970), dies at 77
2022 Raja, Sri Lanka's most revered elephant (carried golden casket of Buddhist relics at Esala Perahera pageant), dies at 68 [1]
2023 Ian Falconer, American author, illustrator of children's books and magazines (Olivia (the pig) series; The New Yorker), and theatrical set and costume designer, dies of kidney failure at 63
2023 Lynn Seymour [Berta Lynn Springbett], Canadian-English ballerina (Royal Ballet, 1959-78), choreographer, and director, dies at 79
2023 Pat McCormick, American diver (4 x Olympic gold women's springboard & platform 1952, 56), dies at 92