Deaths in History on March 23

Agrippina the Younger

59 Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress, dies at 43 (circumstances of her death vary, but suggest she was murdered by her son, the Emperor Nero)

Peter the Cruel

1369 Peter the Cruel, King of Castile & Leon (1350-69), murdered by his half-brother at 34

1548 Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen
1555 Julius III, [Giovanni M del Monte], 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 (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48
1680 Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
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 Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary 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

1931 Bhagat Singh, 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
1946 Gilbert N. Lewis, American Chemist (atomic theory), dies at 70
1947 Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
1952 Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar/theologist/antifascist, 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, columnist (Information Please), dies at 78

1961 James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61), dies
1961 Valentin Vasilyevich Bondarenko, cosmonaut, dies in accident at 24
1962 Josephus RH van Schaik, lawyer/vice-premier of Neth, dies at 80
1964 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
1968 Edwin O'Connor, American writer, dies 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
1980 Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
1982 Mario Praz, Italian literary critic and scholar (Casa della vita), dies at 85
1983 Barney Clark, 1st artifical 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 Richard Beeching, chairman of British Railways (b. 1913)
1985 Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (b. 1908)
1987 Adriaan Pitlo, Dutch lawyer, dies at 85
1991 Dominic Bellissimo, created buffalo chicken wings, dies at 68
1991 Fons Jansen, Dutch news reader and cabaretier, dies at 65
1991 Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
1991 Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet (The Eternal and the Holy), dies at 97
1992 Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92
1993 Hans Werner Richter, German writer/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, 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. ?)
2003 Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)
2004 Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
2006 David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2006 Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
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