Died on This Day (12-Mar)
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Nokie Edwards | Nole Floyd "Nokie" Edwards was an American musician and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. | American musician | 82 | 2 |
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Terry Pratchett | Sir Terence David John Pratchett was an English humorist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. | Comic sci-fri writer | 66 | 5 |
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Dick Harter | Richard Alvin Harter was an American basketball coach who served as both a head and assistant coach in both the NBA and NCAA. | American basketball coach | 81 | 8 |
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George Byrd | George Byrd was an American conductor. During the 1980s he performed mainly in Germany. | American conductor | 83 | 10 |
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Zoran Djindjic | Zoran Đinđić was a Serbian politician who was the Prime Minister of Serbia from 2001 until his assassination in 2003. | Prime Minister of Serbia | 50 | 17 |
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Harry Herrmann | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of the Third Reich during World War II. | German paratrooper and Knight's Cross recipient | 85 | 25 |
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Eugene Ormandy | Eugene OrmandyKBE was a Hungarian-American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director. | Conductor | 85 | 35 |
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Hermann Lang | The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its variants were the highest awards in the military of Nazi Germany during World War II. | SS officer | 52 | 45 |
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Friedrich Fromm | Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar Fromm was a German Army officer. | German general | 56 | 75 |
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Henry Eustace McCulloch | Henry Eustace McCulloch was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, a Texas Ranger, and a brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. | Confederate Army general | 78 | 125 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Lloyd Shapley | Lloyd Stowell Shapley was an American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist. | American mathematician and economist | 92 | 4 |
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David Sive | David Sive was an American attorney, environmentalist, and professor of environmental law, who has been recognized as a pioneer in the field of United States environmental law. | American environmentalist | 91 | 6 |
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Joe Morello | Joseph Albert Morello was an American jazz drummer best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. | American jazz drummer | 82 | 9 |
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Hans-Jürgen Schlieker | Hans-Jürgen Schlieker was a German abstract painter, grouped in importance with Hans Hartung, Bernard Schultze and Emil Schumacher. | German artist | 79 | 16 |
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Raymond Normand | Raymond Normand – 12 March 2000, Aix-en-Provence; buried in Ventabren) was a French painter. | French painter | 80 | 20 |
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Philippe Soupault | Philippe Soupault was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. | French writer | 92 | 30 |
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Ernő Gerő | Ernő Gerő [ˈɛrnøː ˈɡɛrøː] was a Hungarian Communist Party leader in the period after World War II and briefly in 1956 the most powerful man in Hungary as first secretary of its ruling communist party. | Hungarian politician | 81 | 40 |
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Harry Ainlay | Harry Dean Ainlay was a Canadian educator and politician, noted for his many years of service in Edmonton, Alberta, as a teacher and principal with Edmonton Public Schools and as a long time member of Edmonton City Council, including three consecutive terms as Mayor of Edmonton. | Canadian politician | 83 | 50 |
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Francis John Williamson | Francis John Williamson was a British portrait sculptor, reputed to have been Queen Victoria's favourite. | British artist | 86 | 100 |
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Infante Enrique | Infante Enrique, 1st Duke of Seville , was an Infante of Spain and a member of the Spanish branch of the House of Bourbon. | Duke of Seville | 46 | 150 |