What happened on March 2 ?

855 - Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)

1316 - Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert I of Scotland (b. 1296)

1572 - Mem de Sá, Portuguese Governor-General of Brazil

1589 - Alessandro Cardinal Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1520)

1729 - Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)

1755 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (b. 1675)

1758 - Pierre Guérin de Tencin, French cardinal (b. 1679)

1791 - John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)

1793 - Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist

1797 - Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (b. 1717)

1830 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (b. 1755)

1835 - Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)

1840 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers, German astronomer (b. 1758)

1865 - Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand

1880 - Sir John MacNeill, Irish civil engineer (b. 1790)

1895 - Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)

1895 - Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (b. 1830)

1921 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)

1930 - D. H. Lawrence, English writer (b. 1885)

1938 - Ben Harney, American composer and pianist (b. 1871)

1939 - Howard Carter, British archaeologist (b. 1874)

1953 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882)

1960 - Stanis?aw Taczak, Polish general, commander-in-chief of the Greater Poland Uprising (b. 1874)

1962 - Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1866)

1973 - Cleo A. Noel, Jr., US Chief of Mission to Sudan (b. 1918). See Khartoum diplomatic assassinations.

1975 - Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician (b. 1929)

1982 - Philip K. Dick, American author (b. 1928)

1987 - Randolph Scott, American actor and director (b. 1898)

1991 - Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)

1992 - Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937)

1999 - Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)

2001 - John Diamond, British journalist (b. 1953)

2003 - Hank Ballard, American musician (b. 1927)

2003 - Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, (b. 1931)

2004 - Cormac McAnallen, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer (b. 1980)

2004 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1916)

2004 - Marge Schott, baseball team owner (b. 1928)

2005 - Rick Mahler, baseball player (b. 1953)

2006 - Milton Katims, American violist and conductor (b. 1909)