Deaths in History on March 23

Agrippina the Younger (15-59 AD)

Roman Empress (sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero), dies at 43 (circumstances of her death vary, but suggest she was murdered by her son, the Emperor Nero)

1103 Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
1169 Shirkuh, Kurdish general, Vizier of Cairo, and Saladin's uncle, dies
1237 Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem and Emperor of Constantinople, dies
1361 Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, richest peer in England, dies at 50 or 51

Peter the Cruel (1334-1369)

Spanish King of Castile and Leon (1350-69), murdered by his half-brother at 34

1548 Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen

Julius III (1487-1555)

Counter-Reformation Pope (1550-55), dies at 67

1559 Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)
1596 Henry Unton, English diplomat
1606 Justus Lipsius [Joost Lips], Dutch classic philologist, dies at 58
1618 James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
1653 Johan van Galen, Dutch admiral (commanded Dutch fleet during Battle of Leghorn), dies of wounds from the Battle of Leghorn at about 48

Nicolas Fouquet (1615-1680)

French politician and Superintendent of Finances (1653-61) who became fabulously wealthy and later imprisoned for maladministration of state funds, dies in jail in Pinerolo at 65

1742 Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
1747 Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
1754 Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
1786 Patience Wright, 1st US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)
1801 Tsar Paul I of Russia (1796-1801) is struck with a sword, strangled, and trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle aged 46
1813 Princess Augusta Frederica of Great Britain, dies at 75
1819 August von Kotzebue, German dramatist, dies at 57
1840 William Maclure, Scottish-American Geologist (first geological map), dies at 76
1842 Stendhal [Marie-Henri Beyle], French author (Le Rouge et de Noir, a Chartreuse de Parme), dies at 59
1862 Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German-Russian chancellor, dies at 81
1907 Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer and senator, dies at 79
1914 Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general and minister of War, dies at 76
1927 Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)

Bhagat Singh (1907-1931)

Indian freedom fighter, hanged at 23

1937 Helge Rode, Danish poet/essayist, dies at 66
1942 Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, President of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
1943 Andre Lichtenberger, French Sudan writer (Le Petit Roi), dies at 72
1944 O.C. Wingate, British General-Major (Burma), dies in air crash in India at 41
1946 Gilbert N. Lewis, American Chemist (theory of covalent bonding), dies at 70
1947 Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
1952 Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar and theologist (Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (liberated)), dies at 61
1953 Raoul Dufy, painter, Forcalquier, France
1955 Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
1957 Patrick Abercrombie, English architect and town planner, dies at 77
1958 Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist/philosopher, dies at 76
1960 Franklin P. Adams, American columnist (Information Please), dies at 78
1961 James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61), dies
1961 Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies in an accident during training at 24
1962 Josef van Schaik, Dutch lawyer and politician (Vice-Premier of Netherands), dies at 80
1964 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
1968 Edwin O'Connor, American writer (The Edge of Sadness - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1962), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 49
1969 Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer and philosopher (Urblik), dies at 87
1970 Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894)
1971 Simon Vestdijk, Dutch author/poet (Brass Garden), dies at 72
1972 Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier 'The Master', dies at 77
1980 Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (Misery Index), dies of a heart attack at 51
1982 Mario Praz, Italian literary critic and scholar (Casa della vita), dies at 85
1983 Barney Clark, 1st artificial heart recipient, dies after 112 days at 62
1985 Anton Constandse, Dutch anarchist and writer, dies at 85
1985 Patricia Roberts Harris, (Rep-D), 1st African American woman cabinet member, dies of cancer at 60
1985 Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (b. 1908)
1985 Richard Beeching, chairman of British Railways (b. 1913)
1987 Adriaan Pitlo, Dutch lawyer, dies at 85
1991 Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
1991 Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet (The Eternal and the Holy), dies at 97
1991 Fons Jansen, Dutch news reader and cabaretier, dies at 65
1991 Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
1992 Friedrich A. von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
1993 Hans Werner Richter, German writer and founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84
1994 Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican presidential candidate, assassinated at 44
1995 Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72
1995 Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author, dies at 74
1996 Peter Baer, German-British artist and printmaker, dies at 72
1998 Gerald Stano, American serial killer (confessed to killing 41 people), dies at 46
1999 Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (b. ?)
2001 David McTaggart, Canadian co-founder of Greenpeace, dies in a car accident at 68
2004 Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
2006 David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2007 Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (b. 1934)
2007 Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician (Cohen forcing, Continuum hypothesis), dies at 72
2012 Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, President of Somalia, dies from liver failure at 77
2013 David Bond, British sailor, dies at 90
2014 Adolfo Suárez, Prime Minister of Spain (1976-81), dies from a respiratory infection at 81