Died on This Day (28-Mar)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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Zaida Catalán | Zaida Catalán was a Swedish politician who was a member of the Green Party and leader of the Young Greens of Sweden between 2001 and 2005. | Catalán Swedish lawyer and politician | 36 | 3 | |
Víctor Sánchez | Víctor David Sánchez Rodríguez was a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher in the Seattle Mariners organization. | Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher | 20 | 5 | |
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Earl Scruggs | Earl Eugene Scruggs was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. | American bluegrass musician | 88 | 8 |
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June Havoc | June Havoc was a Canadian American actress, dancer, writer, and stage director. | American actress | 97 | 10 |
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Art James | Art James was an American game-show host, best known for shows such as The Who, What, or Where Game, It's Academic. | American game-show host | 74 | 16 |
Moe Koffman | Morris "Moe" Koffman, OC was a Canadian jazz saxophonist and flautist, as well as composer and arranger. | Canadian musician | 72 | 19 | |
Hugh O'Connor | Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor was an Italian-born American actor known for his role as James Flynn in the 1984 film Brass and his portrayal of Lonnie Jamison on In the Heat of the Night until his death in 1995. | Actor | 32 | 25 | |
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Marc Chagall | Marc Chagall was a Belorussian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin. | Russian-French artist | 97 | 35 |
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Morita Kan'ya XIV | Morita Kan'ya XIV was a Japanese kabuki actor. He was a tachiyaku actor , specializing in playing the roles of young, handsome lovers in the wagoto style, a type of role known as nimaime. | Japanese actor | 68 | 45 |
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Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood | Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood , was a member of the British royal family. | British princess | 67 | 55 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniversary | |
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James Noble | James Wilkes Noble was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of sweet-natured, naive Governor Eugene X. | American actor | 94 | 4 | |
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George E. P. Box | George Edward Pelham Box was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. | American statistician | 93 | 7 |
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Guy M. Townsend | Guy Mannering Townsend III was a retired United States Air Force brigadier general, test pilot, and combat veteran. | United States general | 90 | 9 |
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Howell Heflin | Howell Thomas Heflin was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate representing Alabama from 1979 to 1997. | United States Senator | 83 | 15 |
Francis Newton Souza | Francis Newton Souza was a Goan artist. He was a founding member of the Progressive Artists' Group of Bombay, and was the first post-independence Indian artist to achieve high recognition in the West. | Indian artist | 77 | 18 | |
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Gaje Ghale | Gaje Ghale VC was a Nepalese Gurkha recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. | Recipient of the Victoria Cross | 77 | 20 |
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Johnny Neun | John Henry Neun was an American professional baseball player and manager. | American baseball player and coach | 89 | 30 |
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Dick Haymes | Richard Benjamin Haymes was an American actor and singer, born in Argentina. | Argentine actor and musician | 63 | 40 |
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Michael Bruxner | Lieutenant Colonel Sir Michael Frederick Bruxner was an Australian politician and soldier, serving for many years as leader of the Country Party in New South Wales. | Australian politician and soldier | 88 | 50 |
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George Henry Thomas | George Henry Thomas was a United States Army officer, slaveholder and a Union general during the American Civil War, one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater. | United States Army general | 53 | 150 |