What happened on March 19 ?

1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)

1263 - Hugh of St Cher, French cardinal

1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)

1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)

1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (executed) (b. 1301)

1406 - Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian (b. 1332)

1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)

1637 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)

1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)

1683 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)

1687 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)

1697 - Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)

1711 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)

1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist

1721 - Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)

1796 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)

1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)

1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)

1916 - [[Vasily Surikov], Russian painter (b. 1848)

1930 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)

1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist

1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)

1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)

1944 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)

1945 - Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (b. 1888)

1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)

1950 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)

1974 - Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)

1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1889)

1975 - Matthew Richardson, Australian Rules Footballer

1976 - Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)

1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)

1979 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947)

1982 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy) (b. 1956)

1987 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)

1990 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)

1993 - Bart Budzko Polish Basketball player

1995 - Yasuo Yamada, Japanese Voice Actor (b. 1932)

1997 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)

1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)

2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)

2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)

2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)