Deaths on 28 March
2000s
Larry Lloyd
2024
English footballer (1948β2024)
Mark Spiro
2024
American songwriter (1957β2024)
Paul O'Grady
2023
British comedian, actor and television presenter (1955β2023)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
2023
Japanese composer (1952β2023)
Didier Ratsiraka
2021
President of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and 1997 to 2002
Joseph Edward Duncan
2021
American serial killer (1963β2021)
James Noble (actor)
2016
American actor (1922β2016)
Chuck Brayton
2015
American baseball player and coach (1925β2015)
Joseph Cassidy (priest)
2015
Canadian-born priest, theologian and academic
Miroslav OndΕΓΔek
2015
Czech cinematographer
Gene Saks
2015
American film director
Jeremiah Denton
2014
US Navy admiral and politician (1924β2014)
Lorenzo Semple Jr.
2014
American writer (1923β2014)
George E. P. Box
2013
British statistician
Richard Griffiths
2013
English actor (1947β2013)
Hugh McCracken
2013
American guitarist (1942β2013)
Bob Teague
2013
American journalist
Gus Triandos
2013
American baseball player (1930β2013)
John Arden
2012
British playwright (1930β2012)
Ioannis Banias
2012
Greek politician (1939β2012)
Harry Crews
2012
American novelist
Addie L. Wyatt
2012
American labor leader (1924β2012)
June Havoc
2010
American actress, vaudeville performer and memoirist (1912β2010)
Maurice Jarre
2009
French composer (1924β2009)
Janet Jagan
2009
President of Guyana from 1997 to 1999
Pro Hart
2006
Australian artist (1928β2006)
Charles Schepens
2006
Belgian-American ophthalmologist (1912β2006)
Caspar Weinberger
2006
American politician and businessman (1917β2006)
Moura Lympany
2005
English concert pianist (1916β2005)
Robin Spry
2005
Canadian film director (1939β2005)
Peter Ustinov
2004
British actor and humanitarian (1921β2004)
Anthony Powell
2000
English novelist (1905β2000)
1900s
Shin Kanemaru
1996
Japanese politician
Eugène Ionesco
1994
Romanian-French playwright (1909β1994)
Nikolaos Platon
1992
Greek archaeologist (1909 β 1992)
Maria von Trapp
1987
Matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers (1905β1987)
Virginia Gilmore
1986
American actress
Marc Chagall
1985
Russian and French artist (1887β1985)
William Giauque
1982
Canadian-born American chemist
Dick Haymes
1980
Argentine singer, songwriter and actor (1918β1980)
Emmett Kelly
1979
American clown (1898β1979)
Eric Shipton
1977
British explorer (1907β1977)
Richard Arlen
1976
American actor (1899β1976)
Arthur Crudup
1974
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (1905β1974)
Dorothy Fields
1974
American librettist and lyricist (1904β1974)
Françoise Rosay
1974
French actress and singer (1891β1974)
Donie Bush
1972
American baseball player, manager, owner, and scout (1887β1972)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1969
President of the United States from 1953 to 1961
Clemence Dane
1965
English novelist and playwright
Antonius Bouwens
1963
Dutch sport shooter (1876β1963)
Hugo Wast
1962
Argentine novelist and script writer
W. C. Handy
1958
American blues composer and musician (1873β1958)
Stylianos Lenas
1957
Jim Thorpe
1953
American athlete (1887β1953)
Karol Εwierczewski
1947
Polish and Soviet army general
Stephen Leacock
1944
Canadian writer and economist
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1943
Russian composer and pianist (1873β1943)
Miguel HernΓ‘ndez
1942
Spanish poet and playwright
Marcus Hurley
1941
American cyclist (1883β1941)
Virginia Woolf
1941
English modernist writer (1882β1941)
Mahmoud Mokhtar
1934
Egyptian sculptor (1891β1934)
Katharine Lee Bates
1929
American poet, author, and professor; writer of "America the Beautiful" (1859β1929)
Lomer Gouin
1929
Premier and lieutenant governor of Quebec (1861β1929)
Charles Hubbard (archer)
1923
American archer (1849β1923)
Albert Pinkham Ryder
1917
American painter
James Strachan-Davidson
1916
English classical scholar and Master of Baliol College
Γdouard Colonne
1910
French conductor and violinist (1838β1910)
Magdalene Thoresen
1903
Danish-Norwegian poet and playwright (1819β1903)
Piet Joubert
1900
Boer politician and general (1834β1900)
1800s
Edmund Kirby Smith
1893
Confederate States Army general (1824β1893)
Georgios Zariphis
1884
Ottoman banker and financier
Modest Mussorgsky
1881
Russian composer (1839β1881)
Peter Andreas Hansen
1874
German astronomer (1795β1874)
George Henry Thomas
1870
American army general (1816β1870)
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
1868
British Army officer (1797β1868)
Angelis Govios
1822
Leader of the Greek War of Independence
Antonio Capuzzi
1818
Italian violinist and composer
Before 1800
Thomas Micklethwaite
1718
British Member of Parliament (1678β1718)
Emmanuel Tzanes
1690
Greek Renaissance painter (1610β1690)
Constantijn Huygens
1687
Dutch poet and composer (1596β1687)
Ivan the Terrible
1584
Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584
Sigismund von Herberstein
1566
Carniolan writer and diplomat (1486β1566)
Heinrich Glarean
1563
Swiss music theorist, poet and humanist
Venturino of Bergamo
1346
Pope Martin IV
1285
Head of the Catholic Church from 1281 to 1285
Valdemar II of Denmark
1241
King of Denmark from 1202 to 1241
Emperor Go-Toba
1239
Emperor of Japan from 1183 to 1198
Stephen Harding
1134
English Catholic saint (c. 1060β1134)
Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1072
Duke of Saxony
Flodoard
966
Frankish chronicler and priest (893/4 β 966)
Guntram
592
King of OrlΓ©ans from 561 to 592 AD
Pertinax
193
Roman emperor in 193