Deaths on 12 March
2000s
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
2021
American mass murderer (1951–2021)
Rafiq Azad
2016
Bangladeshi poet, editor and writer
Felix Ibru
2016
Nigerian politician
Lloyd Shapley
2016
American mathematician (1923–2016)
Willie Barrow
2015
American civil rights activist and minister
Michael Graves
2015
American architect, designer, and educator (1934–2015)
Ada Jafri
2015
Pakistani poet (1924–2015)
Terry Pratchett
2015
English fantasy author (1948–2015)
Věra Chytilová
2014
Czech film director (1929–2014)
Paul C. Donnelly
2014
American aerospace pioneer (1923–2014)
José Policarpo
2014
Portuguese Catholic prelate (1936–2014)
Michael Grigsby
2013
British filmmaker
Ganesh Pyne
2013
Indian painter (1937–2013)
Dick Harter
2012
American basketball coach
Michael Hossack
2012
American drummer (1946–2012)
Friedhelm Konietzka
2012
German football player and manager
Nilla Pizzi
2011
Italian singer
Miguel Delibes
2010
Spanish writer, journalist and novelist
Jorge Guinzburg
2008
Argentine journalist and broadcaster
Lazare Ponticelli
2008
World War I veteran, piping and metal worker
Victor Sokolov
2006
Deceased journalist
Milton Resnick
2004
American abstract painter (1917–2004)
Zoran Đinđić
2003
Prime Minister of Serbia (2001–2003)
Howard Fast
2003
Prolific American writer
Lynne Thigpen
2003
American actress (1948–2003)
Spyros Kyprianou
2002
President of Cyprus from 1977 to 1988
Jean-Paul Riopelle
2002
Canadian painter and sculptor (1923–2002)
Morton Downey Jr.
2001
American television talk show host (1932–2001)
Robert Ludlum
2001
American novelist (1927–2001)
Victor Westhoff
2001
Aleksandar Nikolić
2000
Serbian basketball player and coach
1900s
Yehudi Menuhin
1999
American-British violinist (1916–1999)
Bidu Sayão
1999
Brazilian opera singer
Beatrice Wood
1998
American painter and studio potter
Lucy M. Lewis
1992
Native American potter
Ragnar Granit
1991
Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist (1900–1991)
William Heinesen
1991
Faroese author, composer and painter
Maurice Evans (actor)
1989
English actor (1901–1989)
Eugene Ormandy
1985
Hungarian-American conductor and violinist (1899–1985)
George D. Sax
1974
American businessman and hotelier
Frankie Frisch
1973
American baseball player and manager (1897–1973)
Eugene Lindsay Opie
1971
Josephine Hull
1957
American stage and film actress (1877–1957)
Charlie Parker
1955
American jazz saxophonist (1920–1955)
Theodor Plievier
1955
German writer (1892–1955)
Marianne Weber
1954
German women's rights activist and legal historian
Wilhelm Steinkopf
1949
German chemist (1879–1949)
Ferenc Szálasi
1946
Fascist leader of Hungary from 1944 to 1945, dictator
Gustav Vigeland
1943
Norwegian sculptor
William Henry Bragg
1942
British X-ray crystallographer (1862–1942)
Mihajlo Pupin
1935
Serbian-American electrical engineer and inventor (1858–1935)
Asa Griggs Candler
1929
American business magnate (1851–1929)
Sun Yat-sen
1925
Chinese revolutionary and statesman (1866–1925)
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
1916
Austrian writer
1800s
Zachris Topelius
1898
Finnish author, poet, journalist, historian, and rector (1818–1898)
Before 1800
Peder Griffenfeld
1699
Danish statesman
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
1539
English noble and diplomat (c. 1477–1539)
Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford
1322
13th and 14th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman (c. 1276–1322)
Stefan Dragutin
1316
King of Serbia from 1276 to 1282
Al-Muqtafi
1160
Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad (r. 1136–1160)
Symeon the New Theologian
1022
10th- and 11th-century Christian saint, monk, and theologian
Pope Gregory I
604
64th Bishop of Rome; head of the Roman Catholic Church from AD 590 to 604
Pope Innocent I
417
Head of the Catholic Church from 401 to 417