Deaths on 21 March
2000s
Michael Lyster
2026
Irish radio and television broadcaster (1954–2026)
Kitty Dukakis
2025
American author (1936–2025)
George Foreman
2025
American boxer (1949–2025)
Willis Reed
2023
American basketball player (1942–2023)
Nawal El Saadawi
2021
Egyptian feminist writer, activist, doctor and psychiatrist (1931–2021)
Victor Hochhauser
2019
British music promoter (1923–2019)
Gonzalo Portocarrero
2019
Peruvian sociologist (1949–2019)
Chuck Barris
2017
American game show host (1929–2017)
Colin Dexter
2017
English writer (1930–2017)
Martin McGuinness
2017
Irish republican politician and IRA leader (1950–2017)
Mike Hall (cyclist)
2017
British sport cyclist
Ishaya Bakut
2015
Nigerian politician and general
Chuck Bednarik
2015
Slovak-American football player (1925–2015)
James C. Binnicker
2015
Hans Erni
2015
Swiss painter and engraver
Jørgen Ingmann
2015
Danish jazz and pop guitarist (1925–2015)
Alberta Watson
2015
Canadian actress (1955–2015)
Qoriniasi Bale
2014
Barrister, a solicitor and a politician
Bill Boedeker
2014
American football player (1924–2014)
Jack Fleck
2014
American professional golfer (1921–2014)
Simeon Oduoye
2014
Nigerian politician (1945–2014)
James Rebhorn
2014
American actor (1948–2014)
Ignatius Zakka I
2014
122nd Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (1980–2014)
Chinua Achebe
2013
Nigerian author and literary critic (1930–2013)
Rick Hautala
2013
American novelist (1949–2013)
Harlon Hill
2013
American football player (1932–2013)
Pietro Mennea
2013
Italian sprinter and politician (1952–2013)
Giancarlo Zagni
2013
Italian director
Albrecht Dietz
2012
German businessman (1926–2012)
Ron Erhardt
2012
American football player and coach, college athletics administrator
Robert Fuest
2012
British film and television director (1927–2012)
Tonino Guerra
2012
Italian concentration camp survivor, poet, writer and screenwriter (1920–2012)
Irving Louis Horowitz
2012
American sociologist
Yuri Razuvaev
2012
Russian chess grandmaster (1945–2012)
Marina Salye
2012
Russian politician (1934–2012)
Loleatta Holloway
2011
American singer (1946–2011)
Gerd Klier
2011
German footballer
Ladislav Novák
2011
Czech footballer and manager (1931–2011)
Pinetop Perkins
2011
American blues pianist (1913–2011)
Wolfgang Wagner
2010
20th and 21st-century German director of the Bayreuth Theatre
Mohit Sharma (soldier)
2009
Indian Army Special Forces Officer
Walt Poddubny
2009
Canadian ice hockey player (1960–2009)
Denis Cosgrove
2008
British cultural geographer and professor
Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente
2008
Chilean architect (1931–2008)
John List (murderer)
2008
American mass murderer (1925–2008)
Drew Hayes
2007
American graphic artist (1969-2007)
Sven O. Høiby
2007
Father of Norwegian Crown Princess and convicted felon (1936–2007)
Barney Martin
2005
American actor (1923–2005)
Bobby Short
2005
American singer and pianist (1924–2005)
Ludmilla Tchérina
2004
French actress, ballerina and painter (1924–2004)
Shivani
2003
Indian writer
Umar Wirahadikusumah
2003
Vice President of Indonesia from 1983 to 1988
Herman Talmadge
2002
American politician (1913–2002)
Chung Ju-yung
2001
South Korean entrepreneur (1915–2001)
Anthony Steel (actor)
2001
British actor (1920–2001)
1900s
Jean Guitton
1999
French Catholic philosopher and theologian (1901–1999)
Ernie Wise
1999
English comedian (1925–1999)
Galina Ulanova
1998
Soviet and Russian ballerina (1910–1998)
Wilbert Awdry
1997
British author and vicar (1911–1997)
Macdonald Carey
1994
American actor (1913–1994)
Lili Damita
1994
French-American actress (1904–1994)
Aleksandrs Laime
1994
Latvian explorer (1911–1994)
John Ireland
1992
Canadian-American actor (1914–1992)
Natalie Sleeth
1992
American composer (1930–1992)
Vedat Dalokay
1991
Turkish architect and mayor (1927–1991)
Leo Fender
1991
American inventor and founder of the Fender company (1909–1991)
Walter L. Gordon
1987
Canadian politician
Robert Preston (actor)
1987
American actor and singer (1918–1987)
Michael Redgrave
1985
English actor amd filmmaker (1908–1985)
Peter Stoner
1980
American mathematician (1888–1980)
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
1978
President of Ireland from 1974 to 1976
Joe Medwick
1975
American baseball player (1911–1975)
Manolis Chiotis
1970
Musical artist
Cyril M. Kornbluth
1958
American science fiction author (1923–1958)
Hatı Çırpan
1956
Turkish politician
Ed Voss
1953
American basketball player (1922–1953)
Willem Mengelberg
1951
Dutch conductor (1871–1951)
Henry Hanna
1946
Irish barrister and High Court judge
Arthur Nebe
1945
German SS functionary and Holocaust perpetrator (1894–1945)
Cornelia Fort
1943
American aviator (1919–1943)
Evald Aav
1939
Estonian composer and choirmaster (1900–1939)
Ali Hikmet Ayerdem
1939
Turkish politician
Alexander Glazunov
1936
Russian composer (1865–1936)
Franz Schreker
1934
Austrian composer
Lilyan Tashman
1934
American actress (1896–1934)
Enrico D'Ovidio
1933
Italian mathematician (1842–1933)
Thomas Oikonomou
1927
Greek actor and director
Evelina Haverfield
1920
British suffragette and aid worker (1867–1920)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
1915
American mechanical engineer (1856–1915)
1800s
Annibale de Gasparis
1892
Italian astronomer (1819–1892)
Joseph E. Johnston
1891
Confederate Army general (1807–1891)
Ezra Abbot
1884
American biblical scholar (1819–1884)
Juan Almonte
1869
Mexican general, diplomat and regent
Edwin Vose Sumner
1863
U.S. Union Army general
Pedro María de Anaya
1854
President of Mexico from 1847 to 1848
Robert Southey
1843
English romantic poet (1774–1843)
Guadalupe Victoria
1843
President of Mexico from 1824 to 1829
Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien
1804
French royal (1772–1804)
Andrea Luchesi
1801
Italian composer
Before 1800
Giovanni Arduino
1795
Italian geologist (1714–1795)
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
1772
French hydrographer, geographer and philosophe (1703–1772)
Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille
1762
French astronomer and geodesist (1713–1762)
Gio Nicola Buhagiar
1752
Johann Heinrich Zedler
1751
Bookseller and publisher
Robert Wodrow
1734
Scottish minister and Covenanter historian
John Law (economist)
1729
Scottish-French economist and financier (1671–1729)
Elżbieta Helena Sieniawska
1729
Polish noblewoman (1669–1729)
Henri Sauval
1676
French historian (1623–1676)
James Ussher
1656
17th-century Anglican Archbishop of Armagh
Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha
1653
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1652 to 1653
Pocahontas
1617
Native American woman (c. 1596 – 1617)
Odet de Coligny
1571
French aristocrat (1517–1571)
Thomas Cranmer
1556
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1533 to 1555
John de Vere, 15th Earl of Oxford
1540
English peer and courtier (c. 1482 – 1540)
Nicholas of Flüe
1487
Swiss hermit and ascetic who is the patron saint of Switzerland
Rudolf VI, Margrave of Baden
1372
14th Century Margrave of Baden-Baden and Count of Eberstein
Robert II, Duke of Burgundy
1306
Duke of Burgundy
Absalon
1201
Danish bishop and statesman (c. 1128 – 1201)
Robert I, Duke of Burgundy
1076
Duke of Burgundy from 1032 to 1076
Richeza of Lotharingia
1063
Queen consort of Poland
Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia
1034
German count (c. 955–1034)
Ælla of Northumbria
867
King of Northumbria
Osberht of Northumbria
867
King of Northumbria