Deaths on 20 March
2000s
Nicholas Brendon
2026
American actor, artist and writer (1971–2026)
Robert Mueller
2026
American civil servant and attorney (1944–2026)
Eddie Jordan
2025
Irish motorsport executive and broadcaster (1948–2025)
John Sattler
2023
Australian rugby league footballer (1942–2023)
Kyle White (rugby league)
2023
Australian rugby league footballer (1970–2023)
Amadeo Carrizo
2020
Argentine footballer (1926–2020)
Kenny Rogers
2020
American country singer (1938–2020)
Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock
2019
English philosopher of morality, education, and mind, and a writer (1924–2019)
C. K. Mann
2018
Ghanaian highlife musician
David Rockefeller
2017
American banker and philanthropist (1915–2017)
Anker Jørgensen
2016
Danish politician (1922–2016)
Eva Burrows
2015
Australian Salvation Army Officer
Malcolm Fraser
2015
Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983
Hennie Aucamp
2014
Hilderaldo Bellini
2014
Brazilian footballer of Italian origin
Tonie Nathan
2014
American media producer and political activist (1923–2014)
Khushwant Singh
2014
Indian writer (1915–2014)
James Herbert
2013
English horror writer (1943–2013)
George Lowe (mountaineer)
2013
New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and film director (1924–2013)
Zillur Rahman
2013
President of Bangladesh from 2009 to 2013
Lincoln Hall (climber)
2012
Australian mountaineer (1955–2012)
Noboru Ishiguro
2012
Japanese anime director (1938–2012)
Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg
2012
Rabbi
Jim Stynes
2012
Australian rules footballer (1966–2012)
Johnny Pearson
2011
Musical artist
Ai (poet)
2010
American poet (1947–2010)
Girija Prasad Koirala
2010
Nepalese politician (1924–2010)
Stewart Udall
2010
American politician (1920–2010)
Raynald Fréchette
2007
Canadian politician
Taha Yassin Ramadan
2007
7th vice president of Iraq
Hawa Yakubu
2007
Ghanaian politician
Armand Lohikoski
2005
Finnish American film director and screenwriter (1912–2005)
Juliana of the Netherlands
2004
Queen of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1980
Pierre Sévigny (politician)
2004
Canadian politician
Luis Alvarado
2001
Puerto Rican baseball player (1949–2001)
Gene Eugene
2000
Canadian actor, musician, songwriter, record producer and audio engineer
1900s
Patrick Heron
1999
English artist (1920-1999)
V. S. Pritchett
1997
British writer and critic (1900–1997)
Lewis Grizzard
1994
American journalist (1946–1994)
Polykarp Kusch
1993
German-American physicist (1911–1993)
Georges Delerue
1992
French composer (1925–1992)
Maurice Cloche
1990
French filmmaker (1907–1990)
Lev Yashin
1990
Soviet footballer (1929–1990)
Ivan Vinogradov
1983
Soviet mathematician (1891–1983)
Gerry Bertier
1981
American high school football player and Paralympian (1953–1981)
Jacques Brugnon
1978
French tennis player
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham
1977
English aristocrat; 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (1909–1977)
Terukuni Manzō
1977
Japanese sumo wrestler
Chet Huntley
1974
American television newscaster (1911–1974)
Marilyn Maxwell
1972
American actress, singer (1921–1972)
Falih Rıfkı Atay
1971
Turkish journalist, writer and politician
Henri Longchambon
1969
French politician
Carl Theodor Dreyer
1968
Danish film director (1889–1968)
Demetrios Galanis
1966
Greek artist (1879–1966)
Johnny Morrison (baseball)
1966
American baseball player (1895–1966)
Daniel Frank (athlete)
1965
Athletics competitor
Brendan Behan
1964
Irish poet and writer (1923–1964)
Adegoke Adelabu
1958
Nigerian politician (1915–1958)
Hjalmar Väre
1952
Finnish cyclist
Sigurd Wallén
1947
Swedish actor
Amadeus William Grabau
1946
American scientist
Dorothy Campbell
1945
Scottish golfer (1883–1945)
Maria Lacerda de Moura
1945
Brazilian anarcho-feminist journalist (1887–1945)
Oskar Baum
1941
Czech music educator and writer
Alfred Ploetz
1940
German eugenicist and biologist
Giuseppe Zangara
1933
Attempted assassin of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1900–1933)
Hermann Müller (politician, born 1876)
1931
Chancellor of Germany (1920, 1928–1930)
Arthur F. Andrews
1930
American cyclist
Ferdinand Foch
1929
French general and military theorist (1851–1929)
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
1925
Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905
Lewis A. Grant
1918
American soldier (1828–1918)
Friedrich Amelung
1909
Baltic German chess player and historian
1800s
Franz Ritter von Hauer
1899
Austrian geologist (1822–1899)
Apollon Maykov
1897
Russian poet and translator (1821–1897)
Lajos Kossuth
1894
Hungarian statesman (1802–1894)
Julius von Mayer
1878
German physician, chemist, knight, and physicist (1814–1878)
Hans Christian Lumbye
1874
Danish composer (1810–1874)
Yamanami Keisuke
1865
Japanese samurai (1833–1865)
Joseph Aspdin
1855
English inventor of Portland cement (1778–1855)
James Justinian Morier
1849
British diplomat and author (1782–1849)
Louis Léopold Robert
1835
French painter
Before 1800
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
1793
British barrister, politician and judge (1705–1793)
Benjamin Truman
1780
English entrepreneur and brewer
Nicolas de Largillière
1746
French painter (1656–1746)
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1730
French actress (1692–1730)
Maria of Orange-Nassau
1688
Augustyn Kordecki
1673
Polish prior
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor
1619
Holy Roman Emperor form 1612 to 1619
Albert, Duke of Prussia
1568
Duke of Prussia from 1525 to 1568
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley
1549
English nobleman (1508–1548)
Georges Chastellain
1475
15th-century French poet
Sigismund Kęstutaitis
1440
Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1432 to 1440
Henry IV of England
1413
King of England from 1399 to 1413
Alexios III of Trebizond
1390
Emperor of Trebizond from 1349 to 1390
Muhammad bin Tughluq
1351
Sultan of Delhi from 1325 to 1351
Maurice Csák
1336
Hungarian Dominican friar
Ralph Walpole
1302
13th and 14th-century Bishop of Ely and Bishop of Norwich
Hermann von Salza
1239
Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights from 1210 to 1239
Pope Clement III
1191
Head of the Catholic Church from 1187 to 1191
Taira no Kiyomori
1181
12th-century Japanese military leader
Ebbo
851
9th-century Archbishop of Rheims
Alfonso II of Asturias
842
King of Asturias (c. 760 – 842)
Wulfram of Sens
703
7th century Archbishop of Sens
Cuthbert
687
Anglo-Saxon bishop and saint (c. 634–687)