Deaths on 31 March
2000s
Sian Barbara Allen
2025
American television actress (1946–2025)
Betty Webb (code breaker)
2025
English code breaker (1923–2025)
Barbara Rush
2024
American actress (1927–2024)
Shirley Burkovich
2022
American baseball player (1933–2022)
Patrick Demarchelier
2022
French photographer (1943–2022)
Moana Jackson
2022
New Zealand Māori lawyer (1945–2022)
Tullio Moneta
2022
Italian actor and mercenary (1937–2022)
Ken Reitz
2021
American baseball player (1951–2021)
Muhammad Wakkas
2021
Bangladeshi politician (1952–2021)
Gita Ramjee
2020
Ugandan-South African medical researcher (1956–2020)
Nipsey Hussle
2019
American rapper (1985–2019)
Nick Newton
2018
Gilbert Baker (artist)
2017
American artist and activist (1951–2017)
James Rosenquist
2017
American painter (1933–2017)
Ronnie Corbett
2016
Scottish comedian and actor (1930–2016)
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
2016
German politician (1927–2016)
Zaha Hadid
2016
Iraqi and British architect (1950–2016)
Imre Kertész
2016
Hungarian author (1929–2016)
Denise Robertson
2016
British writer and broadcaster (1932–2016)
Betty Churcher
2015
Australian arts administrator
Cocoa Fujiwara
2015
Japanese manga artist and illustrator
Carlos Gaviria Díaz
2015
Colombian lawyer, professor and politician (1937–2015)
Dalibor Vesely
2015
Czech architectural historian and theorist (1934–2015)
Gonzalo Anes
2014
Roger Somville
2014
Belgian painter
Charles Amarin Brand
2013
French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
Ernie Bridge
2013
Australian politician
Bob Clarke (illustrator)
2013
American illustrator (1926–2013)
Ahmad Sayyed Javadi
2013
Iranian politician (1917–2013)
Dmitri Uchaykin
2013
Ice hockey player
Judith Adams
2012
Australian politician (1943–2012)
Dale R. Corson
2012
American academic administrator (1914–2012)
Bernard Gruenke
2012
American stained glass artist
Jerry Lynch
2012
American baseball player (1930–2012)
Alberto Sughi
2012
Italian painter (1928–2012)
Halbert White
2012
American economist
Gil Clancy
2011
American boxer, boxing trainer
Alan Fitzgerald (satirist)
2011
Australian author and journalist (1935–2011)
Mary Greyeyes
2011
Canadian World War II servicewoman
Oddvar Hansen
2011
Norwegian footballer and coach (1921-2011)
Ishbel MacAskill
2011
Scottish singer and heritage activist
Henry Taub
2011
American businessman and philanthropist (1927–2011)
Jerald terHorst
2010
American journalist (1922–2010)
Roger Addison
2010
Welsh rugby union footballer
Raúl Alfonsín
2009
President of Argentina from 1983 to 1989
Choor Singh
2009
Singaporean judge and philanthropist
Jules Dassin
2008
American film director (1911–2008)
Bill Keightley
2008
American basketball equipment manager for the University of Kentucky
Paul Watzlawick
2007
Austrian-American psychologist and philosopher (1921–2007)
Jackie McLean
2006
American jazz saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator (1931–2006)
Stanley J. Korsmeyer
2005
American oncologist (1950–2005)
Justiniano Montano
2005
Filipino lawyer and politician (1905–2005)
Frank Perdue
2005
American businessman (1920-2005)
Scott Helvenston
2004
United States Navy SEAL (1965–2004)
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
2003
Canadian geometer (1907–2003)
Anne Gwynne
2003
American actress (1918–2003)
Tommy Seebach
2003
Danish singer, composer, and keyboardist (1949–2003)
Barry Took
2002
English comedian
Moturu Udayam
2002
Carlos J. Gradin
2002
Argentine archaeologist (1918–2002)
David Rocastle
2001
English pro footballer (1967–2001)
Clifford Shull
2001
American physicist (1915–2001)
Gisèle Freund
2000
French photographer (1908–2000)
Adrian Fisher (musician)
2000
British guitarist (1952–2000)
1900s
Yuri Knorozov
1999
Soviet and Russian linguist (1922–1999)
Bella Abzug
1998
American politician (1920–1998)
Tim Flock
1998
American racing driver (1924–1998)
Joel Ryce-Menuhin
1998
Musical artist
Stephen Kalong Ningkan
1997
1st Chief Minister of Sarawak (1963–1966)
Dante Giacosa
1996
Italian automobile designer (1905–1996)
Jeffrey Lee Pierce
1996
American rock musician
Selena
1995
American singer-songwriter (1971–1995)
Brandon Lee
1993
American actor and martial artist (1965–1993)
Mitchell Parish
1993
American lyricist (1900–1993)
Theofylaktos Papakonstantinou
1991
William McMahon
1988
Prime Minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972
Jerry Paris
1986
American actor and director (1925–1986)
Christina Stead
1983
Australian writer
Enid Bagnold
1981
English dramatist, playwright, and memoirist (1889–1981)
Vladimír Holan
1980
Czech poet and translator
Jesse Owens
1980
American track and field athlete (1913–1980)
Astrid Allwyn
1978
American actress (1905–1978)
Charles Best (medical scientist)
1978
Canadian co-discoverer of insulin (1899–1978)
Paul Strand
1976
American photographer (1890–1976)
Percy Alliss
1975
English professional golfer (1897–1975)
Semyon Timoshenko
1970
Soviet military commander (1895–1970)
Grover Lowdermilk
1968
American baseball player (1885–1968)
Pyrros Spyromilios
1961
Greek Navy officer (1913–1961)
Ralph DePalma
1956
American racing driver (1882–1956)
Nellah Massey Bailey
1956
American politician (1893–1956)
Wallace H. White
1952
American politician (1877–1952)
Robert Natus
1950
Estonian architect
Frank Findlay
1945
New Zealand politician
Hans Fischer
1945
German chemist (1881–1945)
Mineichi Koga
1944
Japanese admiral (1885–1944)
Ioannis Tsangaridis
1939
Georges V. Matchabelli
1935
Georigan noble and American businessman
Knute Rockne
1931
Norwegian-American football player and coach (1888–1931)
Ludwig Schüler
1930
German politician
Kang Youwei
1927
Chinese political thinker and reformer (1858–1927)
George Charles Haité
1924
English painter
Abdul Hamid (scholar)
1920
Bengali Islamic scholar and educationist
Emil von Behring
1917
German physiologist (1854–1917)
Wyndham Halswelle
1915
British athlete and soldier (1882–1915)
J. P. Morgan
1913
American financier, banker, and art collector (1837–1913)
Jean Moréas
1910
Greek poet, essayist, and art critic (1856–1910)
Galusha A. Grow
1907
American politician, lawyer, writer and businessman (1823–1907)
1800s
Franz Abt
1885
German composer and conductor (1819–1885)
Henryk Wieniawski
1880
Polish composer, violinist, and pedagogue (1835–1880)
Antoine Augustin Cournot
1877
French economist and mathematician (1801–1877)
Charlotte Brontë
1855
English novelist and poet (1816–1855)
John C. Calhoun
1850
Vice President of the United States from 1825 to 1832
John Constable
1837
English painter (1776–1837)
Before 1800
Olaudah Equiano
1797
Black British abolitionist and writer (c. 1745 – 1797)
Pieter Burman the Elder
1741
Dutch classical scholar (1668–1741)
Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon
1723
English Army officer, politician and colonial administrator (1661–1723)
Anne Hyde
1671
Duchess of York, first wife of the future James II of England
John Donne
1631
English poet and cleric (1572–1631)
Gonzalo Méndez de Canço
1622
16/17th-century Spanish naval officer and colonial administrator of Florida
Philip III of Spain
1621
King of Spain and Portugal from 1598 to 1621
Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse
1567
Landgrave of Hesse
Francis I of France
1547
King of France from 1515 to 1547
Bonaventura Tornielli
1491
Italian Roman Catholic priest
Isidore II of Constantinople
1462
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 1456 to 1462
Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro
1342
Augustinian friar
Ivan I of Moscow
1340
Prince of Moscow from 1325 to 1340
William of Modena
1251
Italian clergyman (c. 1184–1251)
Pousa, son of Sólyom
1241
Hungarian nobleman
Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad
963
Amir of the Saffarid dynasty from 923 to 963
Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei
528
Emperor of the Northern Wei dynasty
Titus Pomponius Atticus
-32
Roman banker, writer and philosopher (c.110 BC – 32 BC)