Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: Mar-12

Died on This Day (Mar-12)

Person Person Description Age Anniv
Felice Picano Felice Picano American writer American writer 81 1
Dick Fosbury Dick Fosbury American athletics competitor, high jumper American high jumper 76 3
Traci Braxton Traci Braxton American singer and media personality American singer 50 4
Goodwill Zwelithini Goodwill Zwelithini King of the Zulu nation from 1968 to 2021 King of the Zulu nation 72 5
Danny Ray Thompson Danny Ray Thompson American jazz musician American jazz musician 72 6
Nokie Edwards Nokie Edwards American musician American musician 82 8
Lloyd Shapley Lloyd Shapley American economist and mathematician American mathematician and economist 92 10
Joe Morello Joe Morello Joseph Albert Morello was an American jazz drummer best known for serving as the drummer for pianist Dave Brubeck, as part of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, from 1957 to 1972, including during the quartet's "classic lineup" from 1958 to 1968, which also included alto saxophonist Paul Desmond and bassist Eugene Wright. American jazz drummer 82 15
George Byrd George Byrd George Byrd was an American conductor. During the 1980s he performed mainly in Germany. American conductor 83 16
Leonore Annenberg Leonore Annenberg Leonore Cohn Annenberg , also known as Lee Annenberg, was an American businesswoman, diplomat, and philanthropist. US presidential advisor 91 17
Howard Metzenbaum Howard Metzenbaum Howard Morton Metzenbaum was an American politician and businessman who served for almost 20 years as a Democratic member of the U. United States Senator 90 18
Norm Larker Norm Larker American baseball player American baseball player 76 19
Bunny Currant Bunny Currant Christopher Frederick Currant, DSO, DFC & Bar , nicknamed "Bunny", was a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and flying ace of the Second World War. British flying ace 94 20
  Robert Ludlum Robert Ludlum was an American author of 27 thriller novels, best known as the creator of Jason Bourne from the original The Bourne Trilogy series. American author 73 25
Ragnar Granit Ragnar Granit Ragnar Arthur Granit ForMemRS was a Finnish-Swedish scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye". Finnish scientist 90 35
Ed Wachter Ed Wachter Edward A. Wachter was a professional basketball player. American basketball player-coach 82 60
Belinda Lee Belinda Lee Belinda Lee was an English actress. A profile for the British Film Institute's Screenonline website asserts: "of all the Rank Organisation's starlets, Belinda Lee stands out as the most notorious, yet paradoxically anonymous, British actress of the 1950s. English actress 25 65
  Bolesław Bierut Boleslaw Bierut was a Polish communist activist and politician, leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1947 until 1956. President of Poland 63 70
Alfred Hugenberg Alfred Hugenberg Alfred Ernst Christian Alexander Hugenberg was an influential German businessman and politician. German politician 85 75
E. W. Scripps E. W. Scripps Edward Willis Scripps , was an American newspaper publisher and, together with his sister Ellen Browning Scripps, founder of The E. Newspaper publisher 71 100