Died on this Day

Anniversary Date: 12-Mar

Died on This Day (12-Mar)

Person	Person		Description	Age	Anniversary
	Nokie Edwards	Nole Floyd "Nokie" Edwards was an American musician and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.	American musician	82	2
	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
	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
	George Byrd	George Byrd was an American conductor. During the 1980s he performed mainly in Germany.	American conductor	83	10
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Friedrich Fromm	Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar Fromm was a German Army officer.	German general	56	75
	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
	Lloyd Shapley	Lloyd Stowell Shapley was an American mathematician and Nobel Prize-winning economist.	American mathematician and economist	92	4
	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
	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
	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
	Raymond Normand	Raymond Normand – 12 March 2000, Aix-en-Provence; buried in Ventabren) was a French painter.	French painter	80	20
	Philippe Soupault	Philippe Soupault was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist.	French writer	92	30
	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
	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
	Francis John Williamson	Francis John Williamson was a British portrait sculptor, reputed to have been Queen Victoria's favourite.	British artist	86	100
	Charles Xavier Thomas	Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French inventor and entrepreneur best known for designing, patenting and manufacturing the first commercially successful mechanical calculator, the Arithmometer, and for founding the insurance companies Le Soleil and L'aigle which, under his leadership, became the number one insurance group in France at the beginning of the Second Empire.	French computer pioneer	84	150