Died on This Day (03-Mar)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Roger Bannister | Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister CH CBE FRCP was an English neurologist and middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute mile. | British runner | 88 | 2 | |
Martin Crowe | Martin David Crowe MBE was a New Zealand cricketer, Test and ODI captain as well as a commentator. | New Zealand cricket player | 53 | 4 | |
José Sancho | José Asunción Martínez better known as José Sancho or Pepe Sancho, was a Spanish actor. | Spanish actor | 68 | 7 | |
Al Morgan | Al Morgan was an American producer of The Today Show during the 1960s, and a novelist best known for his trenchant look at media personalities, The Great Man , which reviewers compared to The Hucksters and Citizen Kane. | American writer | 91 | 9 | |
Rinus Michels | Marinus Jacobus Hendricus Michels was a Dutch football player and coach. | Dutch football manager | 77 | 15 | |
Sandra Schmirler | Sandra Marie Schmirler, SOM was a Canadian curler who captured three Canadian Curling Championships and three World Curling Championships. | World & Olympic champion curler | 36 | 20 | |
Charlotte Moore Sitterly | Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly was an American astronomer. | American astronomer | 91 | 30 | |
Forrest C. Donnell | Forrest Carl Donnell was an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator and the 40th governor of Missouri. | American politician | 95 | 40 | |
Bill McAllester | William Lusk McAllester was a catcher in Major League Baseball. | Major League Baseball catcher | 81 | 50 | |
Theodor Philipsen | Theodor Esbern Philipsen was a Danish painter of Jewish ancestry; known for landscapes and animal portraits. | Danish artist | 79 | 100 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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René Préval | René Garcia Préval was a Haitian politician and agronomist who served twice as President of Haiti; once from early 1996 to early 2001, and again from mid 2006 to mid 2011. | President of Haiti | 74 | 3 | |
William R. Pogue | William Reid Pogue was an American astronaut and pilot who served in the United States Air Force as a fighter pilot and test pilot, and reached the rank of colonel. | American astronaut | 84 | 6 | |
Ralph McQuarrie | Ralph Angus McQuarrie was an American conceptual designer and illustrator. | American conceptual designer and illustrator | 82 | 8 | |
Michael Foot | Michael Mackintosh Foot FRSL was a British Labour Party politician who served as Labour Leader from 1980 to 1983. | British Labour leader | 96 | 10 | |
Cecily Adams | Cecily April Adams was an American actress, casting director, and lyricist. | American actress | 46 | 16 | |
Howard Hunter | Howard William Hunter was an American lawyer and the 14th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1994 to 1995. | American priest | 87 | 25 | |
Iosif Shklovsky | Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky was a Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist. | Soviet astronomer | 68 | 35 | |
Otto Winzer | Otto Winzer was an East German diplomat who served as East Germany's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1965 to 1975. | German politician | 72 | 45 | |
Anne Frank | Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank 'f?a?k], Dutch: [??n?'lis ma?'ri 'fr??k, '?n? 'fr??k]; 12 June 1929 – c. | Nazi victim | 15 | 75 | |
Geoffrey Hornby | Admiral of the Fleet Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby GCB was a Royal Navy officer. | British admiral | 70 | 125 |