Deaths on 28 March
2000s
Larry Lloyd
2024
English footballer (1948–2024)
Mark Spiro
2024
American songwriter (1957–2024)
Paul O'Grady
2023
British comedian, actor and television presenter (1955–2023)
Ryuichi Sakamoto
2023
Japanese composer (1952–2023)
Didier Ratsiraka
2021
President of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and 1997 to 2002
Joseph Edward Duncan
2021
American serial killer (1963–2021)
James Noble (actor)
2016
American actor (1922–2016)
Chuck Brayton
2015
American baseball player and coach (1925–2015)
Joseph Cassidy (priest)
2015
Canadian-born priest, theologian and academic
Miroslav Ondříček
2015
Czech cinematographer
Gene Saks
2015
American film director
Jeremiah Denton
2014
US Navy admiral and politician (1924–2014)
Lorenzo Semple Jr.
2014
American writer (1923–2014)
George E. P. Box
2013
British statistician
Richard Griffiths
2013
English actor (1947–2013)
Hugh McCracken
2013
American guitarist (1942–2013)
Bob Teague
2013
American journalist
Gus Triandos
2013
American baseball player (1930–2013)
John Arden
2012
British playwright (1930–2012)
Ioannis Banias
2012
Greek politician (1939–2012)
Harry Crews
2012
American novelist
Addie L. Wyatt
2012
American labor leader (1924–2012)
June Havoc
2010
American actress, vaudeville performer and memoirist (1912–2010)
Maurice Jarre
2009
French composer (1924–2009)
Janet Jagan
2009
President of Guyana from 1997 to 1999
Pro Hart
2006
Australian artist (1928–2006)
Charles Schepens
2006
Belgian-American ophthalmologist (1912–2006)
Caspar Weinberger
2006
American politician and businessman (1917–2006)
Moura Lympany
2005
English concert pianist (1916–2005)
Robin Spry
2005
Canadian film director (1939–2005)
Peter Ustinov
2004
British actor and humanitarian (1921–2004)
Anthony Powell
2000
English novelist (1905–2000)
1900s
Shin Kanemaru
1996
Japanese politician
Eugène Ionesco
1994
Romanian-French playwright (1909–1994)
Nikolaos Platon
1992
Greek archaeologist (1909 – 1992)
Maria von Trapp
1987
Matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers (1905–1987)
Virginia Gilmore
1986
American actress
Marc Chagall
1985
Russian and French artist (1887–1985)
William Giauque
1982
Canadian-born American chemist
Dick Haymes
1980
Argentine singer, songwriter and actor (1918–1980)
Emmett Kelly
1979
American clown (1898–1979)
Eric Shipton
1977
British explorer (1907–1977)
Richard Arlen
1976
American actor (1899–1976)
Arthur Crudup
1974
American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist (1905–1974)
Dorothy Fields
1974
American librettist and lyricist (1904–1974)
Françoise Rosay
1974
French actress and singer (1891–1974)
Donie Bush
1972
American baseball player, manager, owner, and scout (1887–1972)
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 (1876–1963)
Hugo Wast
1962
Argentine novelist and script writer
W. C. Handy
1958
American blues composer and musician (1873–1958)
Stylianos Lenas
1957
Jim Thorpe
1953
American athlete (1887–1953)
Karol Świerczewski
1947
Polish and Soviet army general
Stephen Leacock
1944
Canadian writer and economist
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1943
Russian composer and pianist (1873–1943)
Miguel Hernández
1942
Spanish poet and playwright
Marcus Hurley
1941
American cyclist (1883–1941)
Virginia Woolf
1941
English modernist writer (1882–1941)
Mahmoud Mokhtar
1934
Egyptian sculptor (1891–1934)
Katharine Lee Bates
1929
American poet, author, and professor; writer of "America the Beautiful" (1859–1929)
Lomer Gouin
1929
Premier and lieutenant governor of Quebec (1861–1929)
Charles Hubbard (archer)
1923
American archer (1849–1923)
Albert Pinkham Ryder
1917
American painter
James Strachan-Davidson
1916
English classical scholar and Master of Baliol College
Édouard Colonne
1910
French conductor and violinist (1838–1910)
Magdalene Thoresen
1903
Danish-Norwegian poet and playwright (1819–1903)
Piet Joubert
1900
Boer politician and general (1834–1900)
1800s
Edmund Kirby Smith
1893
Confederate States Army general (1824–1893)
Georgios Zariphis
1884
Ottoman banker and financier
Modest Mussorgsky
1881
Russian composer (1839–1881)
Peter Andreas Hansen
1874
German astronomer (1795–1874)
George Henry Thomas
1870
American army general (1816–1870)
James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
1868
British Army officer (1797–1868)
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 (1678–1718)
Emmanuel Tzanes
1690
Greek Renaissance painter (1610–1690)
Constantijn Huygens
1687
Dutch poet and composer (1596–1687)
Ivan the Terrible
1584
Tsar of Russia from 1547 to 1584
Sigismund von Herberstein
1566
Carniolan writer and diplomat (1486–1566)
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. 1060–1134)
Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1072
Duke of Saxony
Flodoard
966
Frankish chronicler and priest (893/4 – 966)
Guntram
592
King of Orléans from 561 to 592 AD
Pertinax
193
Roman emperor in 193