Famous People Who Died on This Day in History, Who Died Today in History?

Here is a list who died on date 19 March today. Important and famous people from throughout history died on this day. Today's famous deaths list for March 19

Who Died Today, Famous Deaths on March 19

Name Date
235 Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (b. 208)
953 al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah, caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate (b. 913)
968 Emma of Paris, duchess of Normandy (b. 943)
1238 Henry the Bearded, Polish duke and son of Bolesław I the Tall (b. 1163)
1263 Hugh of Saint-Cher, French cardinal (b. 1200)
1279 Zhao Bing, Chinese emperor (b. 1271)
1286 Alexander III, king of Scotland (b. 1241)
1330 Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1301)
1372 John II, marquess of Montferrat (b. 1321)
1533 John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English baron and statesman (b. 1467)
1534 Michael Weiße, German theologian (b. c. 1488)
1539 Lord Edmund Howard, English nobleman (b. c. 1478)
1563 Arthur Brooke, English poet
1568 Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell, English noblewoman (b.c. 1518)
1581 Francis I, duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1510)
1612 Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (b. 1585)
1637 Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1570)
1649 Gerhard Johann Vossius, German scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
1683 Thomas Killigrew, English playwright and manager (b. 1612)
1687 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer (b. 1643)
1697 Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
1711 Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
1717 John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish soldier (b. 1636)
1721 Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
1783 Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (b. 1713)
1790 Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 182nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1713)
1797 Philip Hayes, English organist and composer (b. 1738)
1816 Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician and philosopher (b. 1730)
1871 Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
1884 Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and philologist (b. 1802)
1900 John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815)
1914 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
1919 Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
1930 Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
1942 Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
1944 William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
1947 James A. Gilmore, American businessman and baseball executive (b. 1887)
1949 James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
1951 Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1882)
1976 Albert Dieudonné, French actor and author (b. 1889)
1977 William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-born American journalist and author (b. 1888)
1978 M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1891)
1982 J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
1984 Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
1986 Sabino Barinaga, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
1987 Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1988 Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)
1990 Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (b. 1966)
1993 Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer (b. 1915)
1996 Lise Østergaard, Danish psychologist and politician (b. 1924)
1997 Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (b. 1904)
1998 E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (b. 1909)
1999 Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
2000 Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2003 Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (b. 1926)
2004 Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1911)
2005 John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (b. 1925)
2008 Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction writer (b. 1917)
2009 Maria Bergson, Austrian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1914)
2011 Kym Bonython, Australian drummer and radio host (b. 1920)
2012 Jim Case, American director and producer (b. 1927)
2014 Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded IDG (b. 1937)
2015 Gus Douglass, American farmer and politician (b. 1927)
2016 Roger Agnelli, Brazilian banker and businessman (b. 1959)
2019 William Whitfield, British architect (b. 1920)
2021 Glynn Lunney, American engineer (b. 1936)