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2029 - 2020

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 2029 - 2020

2022

  • Jonathan Ames

    Jonathan Ames was an American novelist, essayist, and memoirist known for his confessional writings.

2020

  • Petunia Clark

    Petunia Clark was a famous British singer known for hits like 'Downtown'.

2019 - 2010

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 2019 - 2010

2019

  • Tomoko Naraoka

    Pioneering Japanese chemist who made significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry.

2018

  • Anneth Holm

    Anneth Holm was a Norwegian novelist and children's writer, best known for her novel 'I Am David'.

  • Reynaldo Bignone

    Reynaldo Bignone was an Argentine military officer who served as the last de facto President of Argentina from 1982 to 1983.

  • Birdie Carr

    Birdie Carr was an American politician known for her advocacy for civil rights and social justice.

2017

  • Ifeanyi Achebe

    Renowned Nigerian author known for his impactful storytelling.

  • Lynne Stewart

    American attorney and activist (b. 1939)

2016

  • Chike Maduekwe

    Nigerian diplomat who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of Culture and Tourism.

  • Leonard Berney

    Bergen-belsen concentration camp liberator (b. 1920)

  • Adrian Hardiman

    Irish lawyer and judge (b. 1951)

2015

  • Bettymae Fahrenholz

    Renowned chemist known for her contributions to the field of organic chemistry.

  • G. Karthikeyan

    Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)

  • F. Ray Keyser

    Jr., american lawyer and politician, 72nd governor of vermont (b. 1927)

  • Yoshihiro Tatsumi

    Japanese illustrator and author (d. 2015).

2014

  • Harland Stonecipher

    Founder of LegalShield.

  • Ned O'Gorman

    American poet and educator (b. 1929)

  • Victor Shem-Tov

    Israeli lawyer and politician, 8th israeli minister of health (b. 1915)

  • Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov

    Russian actor and director (b. 1930)

2013

  • Peter Banks

    English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)

  • Frederick B. Karl

    American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924)

  • Damiano Damiani

    Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)

  • Claude King

    American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)

2012

  • Guerino Lovato

    Italian-American professional wrestler known for his success in the ring.

  • Novella Calligaris

    Novella Calligaris was an Italian swimmer who excelled in freestyle events, winning multiple medals in international competitions.

  • Ravi

    Indian director and composer (b. 1926)

  • Włodzimierz Smolarek

    Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957)

2011

  • Tanaka Yukiko

    Renowned Japanese poet and translator.

2010

  • Reon Delacroix

    Reon Delacroix was a French playwright whose works explored themes of social justice and the human condition.

  • Marjorie Grebler

    Noted astronomer who specialized in the study of galaxies and dark matter.

  • Mary Josephine Ray

    Supercentenarian canadian-american (born 1895).

2009 - 2000

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000

2009

  • Jang Ja-yeon

    South korean actress (born 1982).

2007

  • Howell Evans

    Howell Evans was an actor known for his roles in various films and TV shows.

  • Ronnie Wells

    American singer and educator (b. 1943)

2006

  • Elijah Ewell

    Contributed to the development of nuclear physics.

  • Gordon Parks

    Renowned photographer known for his work documenting African American life.

  • Ali Farka Touré

    Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)

  • Ali Farka Toure

    Malian musician (born 1939)

2005

  • Willis Hall

    British playwright and screenwriter best known for his play 'The Long and the Short and the Tall.'

  • Debra Hill

    American film producer and screenwriter (born 1950).

  • John Box

    British film producer designer and art director (born 1920).

2004

  • Paul Winfield
    Paul Winfield

    American actor (d. 2004).

2003

  • Gloriajean Wallace

    Renowned author known for her captivating storytelling.

  • Kurt Kohner

    German physicist known for his contributions to the field of solid-state physics.

2002

  • Guida Diehl

    Renowned Brazilian writer known for her impactful novels.

  • Mati Klarwein

    German painter known for his psychedelic and surreal art.

2001

  • Frankie Carle

    American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)

  • Frankie Carle

    Providence, rhode island -- orchestra leader ("golden touch")

2000

  • Pee Wee King

    American country music musician and songwriter (born 1914).

  • Zeb Bradford

    Zeb Bradford was an American politician known for his contributions to public service.

  • Pee Wee King

    American singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2000)

  • Charles Gray

    Bournemouth (england) -- actor (clay rawhide).

1999 - 1990

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990

1999

  • Stanlee Kubrick

    Renowned film director known for his groundbreaking work in cinema.

  • Stanley Kubrick

    Renowned film director known for classics like '2001: A Space Odyssey' and 'A Clockwork Orange'.

  • Sidney Gottlieb

    American chemist and career member of cia who created the mind control program. gottlieb was responsible for overseeing a large network of medical and psychological experiments that were conducted in hospitals, universities and research labs. unsuspecting subjects included mental patients, prostitutes, their clients, addicts, and other people who were under cia surveillance. electroshock treatment, prolonged sensor deprivation, and d are …

  • Stan Kubrick

    Renowned for his groundbreaking films.

1998

  • Ardian Jashari

    Key figure in the Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo War.

  • Lulamae Barnes

    Lulamae Barnes was an American actress who appeared in several films and television shows during the mid-20th century.

  • Alger Bissell

    Alger Bissell was a CIA officer known for his role in the Bay of Pigs invasion.

1997

  • Edward Mills Purcell

    American physicist and academic, nobel prize laureate (b. 1912)

  • Clove Hitchcock

    Pioneering chemist who made significant contributions to the field of organic chemistry.

  • E H Bronner

    German-american soap magnate (born in 1908)

1996

  • Aled Eames

    At age 74, a maritime historian dies.

1995

  • Tsuneo Saheki

    Renowned for his research in organic chemistry.

  • Paul-Emile Victor

    Swiss ethnologist who was the founder, organizer, and director of french arctic expeditions.

  • Crosby Bonsall

    Renowned for his children's books and illustrations.

  • Don Cook

    British foreign correspondent, dies at 74

  • Thijmen Kuijt

    At the age of 82, typhoon dies as a resistance fighter/cofound paper.

1994

  • Ilamae Bradley

    Renowned botanist known for her work on plant genetics.

1993

  • Monroe Billington

    American journalist and historian known for his expertise in American foreign policy.

  • Tony Harris

    Tony Harris is a news anchor and journalist known for his work on CNN and Al Jazeera English.

  • Martti Larni

    Finnish writer (b. 1909)

  • Angelo Piccaluga

    Italian footballer (b. 1906)

  • Josef Steindl

    Austrian economist (b. 1912)

1991

  • Cool Papa Bell

    American baseball player and manager (d. 1991)

  • Cool Papa Bell

    American baseball player (born in 1903)

1990

  • Eula Beal

    African-American mathematician who made significant contributions to the field of mathematics.

  • Max Neuhaus

    Composer dies at 50

1989 - 1980

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1989 - 1980

1988

  • Divine

    Divine was an American actor known for his work in John Waters films.

  • Devine

    Iconic drag queen known for her larger-than-life persona.

  • Ülo Õun

    Estonian sculptor (b. 1940)

  • Robert Livingston

    American politician and lawyer 1st secretary of state for foreign affairs (d.1813).

  • Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead]

    American transvestite actor (hairspray. polyester. pink flamingos), is killed in los angeles, california, at the age of 42 (born 1945).

1987

  • Karl Leichter

    Estonian academic and musicologist (d. 1987).

1986

  • Jacob K. Javits

    American colonel and politician, 58th new york state attorney general (b. 1904)

  • Jacob K Javits

    American politician (senator-republican-new york), dies in palm beach, florida at age 81.

  • Jacob Javits

    American colonel, politician, 58th new york attorney general (d. 1986).

1985

  • Victor W Farris

    Died the inventor of the paper milk carton.

  • George Schick

    Czechoslovakian conductor (chicago symphony), died at the age of 76.

  • Robert W Woodruff

    Ceo of coca-cola, dies at 95.

1984

  • Maxwell Davenport

    Maxwell Davenport was a British Labour Party politician who served as a Member of Parliament and government minister.

  • Paul Rotha

    English producer and director (d. 1984).

1983

  • Marigene Butler

    Renowned American painter known for her vibrant and expressive artworks.

  • Igor Markevitch

    Ukrainian composer and conductor (born 1912).

  • Robert Bray

    Actor (corey-lassie simon-stagecoach west, simon-stagecoach west), is killed at 65

1982

  • Ida Barney

    American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)

  • Charles Borromeo Mills

    Composer dies at 68

1981

  • Kirill Kondrashin

    Renowned Soviet conductor who led many prestigious orchestras.

  • Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir

    Egyptian journalist and writer (d. 1981)

  • John Gnagy

    Artist (learn to draw) dies at the age of 73.

  • Kiril Kondrashin

    Russian conductor (born 1914).

  • Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin

    Russian composer/conductor, who died at the age of 67 (born in 1914).

1979 - 1970

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970

1979

  • Klaus Egge

    Norwegian composer (fanitullen), dies at age 72.

  • Guiomar Novaes

    At age 84, pianist (brazilian order of merit), passes away.

1978

  • Tacie Williams

    Renowned chemist known for her work on organic compounds.

  • Clarabelle Parrish

    British author known for her mystery novels and detective stories.

  • Steve Bilko

    American baseball player (born 1928).

1976

  • Wright Patman

    American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)

  • Erwin Kroll

    Composer dies at the age of 90

  • Wright Patman

    American politician and lieutenant (d. 1976).

1975

  • Mikhail Bakhtin

    A Russian philosopher and literary critic, known for his influential theories on dialogism, carnival, and the novel.

  • Mikhail Bakhtin

    Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)

  • Ben Blue

    Montreal, quebec -- actor (accidental family, frank sinatra show)

1974

  • Alberto Rabagliati

    Italian singer, actor and director. he was the winner of "successor to valentino" contest and he went to hollywood.

1973

  • Lalo Ríos

    Mexican actor (d. 1973)

1971

  • Stevie Smith

    Stevie Smith was an English poet known for her unique and witty poetry.

  • Richard Montague

    American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)

1969 - 1960

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960

1969

  • Flint Kellogg

    Renowned geologist known for his work on sedimentary rocks.

1968

  • Yuri Aleksayevich Gagarin

    Ussr cosmonaut (vostok i) dies at 31

1967

  • Alice B. Toklas

    American writer (b. 1877)

  • Alice B Toklas

    American companion to gertrude stein (born in 1877).

1965

  • Louise Mountbatten

    Gustaf vi adolf, a german-swedish woman (d. 1965).

1964

  • Franz Alexander

    Hungarian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (d. 1964).

1961

  • Govind Ballabh Pant

    Indian independence activist and one of the key figures in the Indian National Congress.

  • Max Hymans

    Wwii resistance fighter/head of air france, dies at 60

  • Govind Ballabh Pant

    Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd chief minister of uttar pradesh (b. 1887)

  • Englebert van Anderlecht

    Belgian painter dies at 42

1960

  • Tal Mann

    Israeli author and poet known for his contributions to Hebrew literature.

1959 - 1950

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950

1959

  • Hinsdale Smith

    Roll-down auto window developer, dies at age of 88.

  • Arthur C Pigou

    English economist (economics of welfare).

1957

  • Wyndham Lewis

    English painter and critic (b. 1882)

1955

  • Elman Rasulzade

    Elman Rasulzade was an Azerbaijani politician and one of the founders of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

  • Tom Dugan

    Actor (pick a star), dies aged 66

1954

  • Otto Diels

    German chemist and academic, nobel prize laureate (b. 1876)

1952

  • Paramahansa Yogananda

    Author, mystic, and founder of self-realization fellowship in east india. he was a world traveler and teacher who brought eastern philosophy to the west.

1951

  • Shah Ali Razmara

    Of iran, assassinated

  • Ali Razmara

    Shah of iran (1950-1951) is assassinated.

1949 - 1940

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940

1949

  • Bradbury Robinson

    American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)

  • Bradbury Robinson

    American football player and physician (d. 49)

  • Francis Dodd

    Welsh-english academic and painter (d. 1949).

1948

  • Melville F. Weston

    Melville F. Weston was a respected journalist and editor known for his insightful commentary.

1947

  • Lucy Parsons

    American communist anarchist labor organizer (b. c 1853)

1945

  • Adolf Bartels

    German writer/racist dies at the age of 82.

1944

  • Wyman Gordon

    Wyman Gordon was a successful entrepreneur known for his business ventures.

1942

  • Lucy Parsons

    American anarchist, communist, and labor organizer (born in 1853)

1941

  • Arnold Schering

    German musicologist, who died at the age of 63.

1939 - 1930

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1939 - 1930

1939

  • Amadeo Roldan

    38 years old death of composer

1938

  • Weston Adams

    American politician who served as the Governor of New Jersey.

  • Andreas Michalakopoulos

    Greek politician, 116th prime minister of greece (b. 1876)

  • Andreas Michalakopoulos

    Prime minister of greece (born in 1876).

1934

  • Fount Shaw

    American politician who served as Governor of Iowa.

  • Ernst Enno

    Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)

1932

  • Aristide Briand

    French journalist and politician, prime minister of france, nobel prize laureate (b. 1862)

1931

  • Axel Gallén-Kallela

    Axel Gallén-Kallela was a Finnish painter and illustrator known for his works inspired by Finnish mythology and folklore.

  • Akseli Gallen-Kallela

    Finnish artist (b. 1865)

  • Akseli V Gallen-Kallela

    Finnish painter/illustrator, dies at age 65

  • Theo van Doesburg [Christian Kupper]

    At 47, painter/architect dies

1930

  • Spring Hurlbut

    Spring Hurlbut was a talented sculptor recognized for her innovative works.

1929 - 1920

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920

1928

  • Robert Abbe

    American surgeon and radiologist (d. 1928).

1926

  • Jindrich Z Albestu Kaan

    Composer dies at 73

1920

  • Jaan Poska

    Estonian lawyer and politician who played a key role in the Estonian War of Independence.

1919 - 1910

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1919 - 1910

1913

  • Pauline Johnson

    Canadian poet and writer known for her poems and performances celebrating Indigenous culture.

  • Emily Pauline Johnson

    Native canadian poet (born 1861)

1911

  • Stockton Cram

    Stockton Cram was a respected politician who served his country with dedication.

  • Antonio Fogazzarro Italian writer/poet (Il Santo

    Leila) dies at the age of 68.

1909 - 1900

Famous deaths on March 7th for the celebrities who died in the years 1909 - 1900

1907

  • Cataldo Palmieri

    Italian composer known for his operas and symphonies.

  • Victor Alphonse Duvernoy composer

    At the age of 64, he dies.

1904

  • Ferdinand André Fouqué

    French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)

  • Ferdinand Andre Fouque

    French geologist (born 1828)

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