7 March Deaths
Publish | 07 Mar 2018, 11:34
March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
Deaths
161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman emperor (b. 86)
413 – Heraclianus, Roman politician and failed usurper
851 – Nominoe, King (or duke) of Brittany
974 – John of Gorze, Frankish abbot and diplomat
1226 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English commander (b. 1176)
1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest and philosopher (b. 1225)
1393 – Bogislaw VI, Duke of Pomerania (b.c. 1350)
1407 – Francesco I Gonzaga, ruler of Mantua
1517 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (b. 1482)
1550 – William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
1578 – Margaret Douglas, English daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (b. 1515)
1625 – Johann Bayer, German lawyer and cartographer (b. 1572)
1724 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
1767 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, 2nd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)
1778 – Charles De Geer, Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (b. 1720)
1809 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (b. 1753)
1810 – Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (b. 1750)
1838 – Robert Townsend, American spy (b. 1753)
1904 – Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist and petrologist (b. 1828)
1913 – Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (b. 1861)
1920 – Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1866)
1928 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (b. 1851)
1932 – Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1934 – Ernst Enno, Estonian poet and author (b. 1875)
1938 – Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, 116th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1949 – Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (b. 1884)
1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1893)
1954 – Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1957 – Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (b. 1882)
1961 – Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
1967 – Alice B. Toklas, American writer (b. 1877)
1969 – Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 2nd Governor of Rajasthan (b. 1891)
1971 – Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)
1975 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (b. 1895)
1976 – Wright Patman, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1893)
1981 – Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
1982 – Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)
1983 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
1986 – Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, 58th New York State Attorney General (b. 1904)
1988 – Divine, American drag queen and film actor (b. 1945)
1991 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)
1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2000 – Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
2001 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
2004 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
2005 – John Box, English production designer and art director (b. 1920)
2005 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1950)
2006 – Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (b. 1912)
2006 – Ali Farka Touré, Malian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1939)
2007 – Ronnie Wells, American singer and educator (b. 1943)
2012 – Ravi, Indian director and composer (b. 1926)
2012 – Włodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1957)
2013 – Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
2013 – Sybil Christopher, Welsh actress (b. 1929)
2013 – Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2013 – Frederick B. Karl, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1924)
2013 – Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
2014 – Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, Russian actor and director (b. 1930)
2014 – Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator (b. 1929)
2014 – Victor Shem-Tov, Israeli lawyer and politician, 8th Israeli Minister of Health (b. 1915)
2015 – G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1949)
2015 – F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
2015 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1935)
2016 – Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (b. 1951)
2017 – Lynne Stewart, American attorney and activist (b. 1939)
Source: wikipedia