{ "site": "Dead-People.com", "feed_type": "deaths_on_date", "date": "2026-03-12", "timezone": "+01:00", "generated_at": "2026-07-12T11:38:58+01:00", "canonical_html_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/12-march-2026", "permanent_archive_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tag/12-march-2026", "items": [ { "name": "Aleksandr Karin", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/aleksandr-karin", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 73, "death_date": "2026-03-13", "reported_date": "2026-03-13", "published_at": "2026-03-13T17:25:03+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Russia" ], "description": "Russian actor and stuntman (Peter the Great)", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Karin" }, { "name": "Hari Murali", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/hari-murali", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 27, "death_date": "2026-03-13", "reported_date": "2026-03-13", "published_at": "2026-03-13T08:10:02+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Indian actor (Rasikan", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hari_Murali" }, { "name": "2026 Lebanon war Iranian commander in Lebanon dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/2026-lebanon-war", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Iran", "Israel", "Lebanon" ], "description": "The 2026 Lebanon war, described as an Iranian commander in Lebanon, died on March 12, 2026, during the ongoing conflict in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah. Since March 2, 2026, the war has killed more than 1,000 militants and civilians combined in Lebanon and displaced nearly 1 million people, creating a humanitarian crisis. It marked a major escalation in the wider conflict across the Middle East and in the Israeli-Lebanese conflict.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Musallam_Tabaja", "cause_of_death": { "label": "war", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-war" } }, { "name": "Hussein Bazzi Academic dead at age 38", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/hussein-bazzi", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 38, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "academic", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Israel", "Lebanon" ], "description": "Hussein Bazzi, a Lebanese academic and professor at Lebanese University, died on March 12, 2026, when he was killed in an Israeli airstrike on campus. He had served as director of the Faculty of Sciences from 2023. Bazzi was born in Bourj el-Barajneh, a suburb of Beirut, in 1987 or 1988. He earned a PhD in Chemistry from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris and joined the Lebanese University faculty in 2013. He died alongside his colleague Mortada Srour, a Physics professor.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hussein_Bazzi", "cause_of_death": { "label": "airstrike", "status": "reported", "cause_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/Deaths-From-airstrike" } }, { "name": "Mark Bittner American writer dead at age 74", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/mark-bittner", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 74, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Mark Bittner, an American writer and author of The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, died on March 12, 2026. Born in Vancouver, Washington, on November 29, 1951, he wrote the book that accompanied the film The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. According to available information, Bittner spent 14 years on the streets of San Francisco after his dream of becoming a professional musician fell apart. He later lived an unusual, make-do life while working odd jobs and found a flock of naturalized parrots in the Telegraph Hill area.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bittner" }, { "name": "Brian Doherty Author, editor dead at age 57", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/brian-doherty-journalist", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 57, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "author", "editor", "journalists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Brian Doherty, an American journalist and author who was a senior editor at Reason magazine, died on March 12, 2026. Born Brian Michael Doherty in Queens, New York, on June 1, 1968, he grew up in Florida and studied journalism at the University of Florida. He wrote books including This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground, Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement, Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment, and Ron Paul’s Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Doherty_(journalist)" }, { "name": "Patricia Clarke Australian writer dead at age 99", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/patricia-clarke-historian", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 99, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "Patricia Clarke, an Australian writer and historian, died on March 12, 2026. Born Mary Patricia Clarke in Alphington, Melbourne, on July 30, 1926, she was educated in Melbourne, later in Sale and at the University of Melbourne. She worked as a journalist with the Australian News and Information Bureau in Melbourne and Canberra, with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the Press Gallery at Parliament House, Canberra, and as a journalist and editor for Maxwell Newton Publications. She also served as Editor of Publications for the National Capital Development Commission and wrote extensively on 19th-century women in Australia.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Clarke_(historian)" }, { "name": "Patrick Lemasle French politician dead at age 73", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/patrick-lemasle", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 73, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "France" ], "description": "Patrick Lemasle, a French politician, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 73. He served in the National Assembly of France from 2002 to 2017, representing the 7th constituency of the Haute-Garonne department as a member of the Socialiste, radical, citoyen et divers gauche. Lemasle was also a member of the Finance Committee.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Lemasle" }, { "name": "Antón Louro Academic dead at age 73", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/anton-louro", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 73, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "academic", "politicians", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "Spain" ], "description": "Antón Louro, a Spanish politician, died on March 12, 2026, in Pontevedra, Spain, at the age of 73. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he served in the Parliament of Galicia from 1997 to 2004 and in the Congress of Deputies from 2004 to 2009. Born Antonio Louro Goyanes on March 15, 1952, in Carnota, Spain, he was also identified as an academic.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%C3%B3n_Louro" }, { "name": "Guillaume Houphouët-Boigny Banker dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/guillaume-houphouet-boigny", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "banker", "politicians" ], "description": "Guillaume Houphouët-Boigny, an Ivorian banker, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 88. He served as secretary-general of the Ivorian Bank Company during the administration of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Houphouët-Boigny died at the International Polyclinic of Sainte-Anne-Marie in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Guillaume_Houphou_t-Boigny.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Houphou%C3%ABt-Boigny" }, { "name": "Phil Summerill English footballer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/phil-summerill", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 78, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "England" ], "description": "Phil Summerill, the English footballer who played as a striker for Birmingham City, Huddersfield Town, Millwall and Wimbledon, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 78. Born Philip Ernest Summerill in Erdington, Birmingham, he spent much of his professional career at Birmingham City after joining from school. He was the club's leading scorer for three successive seasons from 1968–69 to 1970–71 and helped them win promotion to the Football League First Division in 1972.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Summerill" }, { "name": "Gordon Wallace Scottish football player and manager dead at age 82", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/gordon-wallace-footballer-born-1943", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 82, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Scotland" ], "description": "Gordon Wallace, the Scottish football player and manager, died on March 12, 2026. A forward, he began his career with Montrose in 1961 before playing for Raith Rovers, Dundee and Dundee United. A native of Dundee, he was named Scottish Football Writers’ Player of the Year for 1967–68 after scoring 30 goals that season, and he later held the Scottish league record for career goals with 264. He also played two seasons in the North American Soccer League with the Seattle Sounders and went into coaching and management, including a spell with Raith Rovers. Wallace also worked in an advisory role with Dundee F.C.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Wallace_(footballer,_born_1943)" }, { "name": "Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said 81-82 dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/fahd-bin-mahmoud-al-said", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Oman" ], "description": "Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said, Omani politician and Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers, died on March 12, 2026. He served in that post from May 22, 1979, until his death. Born in Muscat on October 5, 1940, he held a commerce degree from the University of Cairo. He was appointed director of the ministry of foreign affairs in 1971, became minister of state in November 1971 and minister of information and culture in December 1972. He also served as spokesperson of the Royal Family Council during the extraordinary session following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahd_bin_Mahmoud_al_Said" }, { "name": "William Norvel Administrator, pastor, liturgist, author dead at age 90", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/william-norvel", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 90, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "administrator", "pastor", "liturgist", "author", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "William Norvel, an American Catholic priest, died on March 12, 2026. Born William Leonard Norvel Jr. on October 1, 1935, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, he was ordained to the priesthood in 1965 and became the 13th and first Black superior general of the Society of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, or Josephites, in 2011. The society was founded in 1893 to serve African Americans. Norvel also worked during the Black Catholic Movement, helping spread Black Gospel music and other elements of Black spirituality in African-American Catholic parishes.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Norvel" }, { "name": "Daniel Amey Application engineer dead at age 84", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/daniel-amey", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "application engineer", "other" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Daniel Amey, an American application engineer, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 84. Born Daniel Irwin Amey Jr. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 25, 1941, he attended Pennsylvania State University, where he earned BSEE and ME degrees in engineering science, and Lehigh University, where he received an MBA. After his studies, he worked as a research fellow at DuPont. In 2008, he was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to electronic packaging and high-frequency characterization of ceramic system package materials.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Daniel_Amey.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Amey" }, { "name": "Enrica Bonaccorti Italian television presenter and actress", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/enrica-bonaccorti", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors", "journalists", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Enrica Bonaccorti, the Italian television presenter, actress and song lyricist known for Non è la Rai and Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 76. Born on November 18, 1949, in Savona, Italy, she began her career on stage with Alla ringhiera before joining the stage company of Domenico Modugno and Paola Quattrini. Bonaccorti also collaborated with Modugno on lyrics for songs including \"La lontananza\" and \"Amara terra mia.\" During the 1970s, she appeared in films and television series.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrica_Bonaccorti" }, { "name": "Ernie Anastos American news anchor and talk show host dead at age 82", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ernie-anastos", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 82, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists", "politicians", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Ernie Anastos, an American news anchor and talk show host, died on March 12, 2026, at age 82. An Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, he hosted WABC’s Positively Ernie, a program focused on uplifting stories and interviews, and later presented the nationally syndicated television show Positively America. He anchored evening newscasts at UPN 9, ABC 7, CBS 2 and FOX 5 in New York, covered events including the September 11 attacks and the COVID-19 pandemic, and interviewed figures including Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Desmond Tutu. In 2017, New York City designated March 21 as Ernie Anastos Day.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Anastos" }, { "name": "Tom Brown American Hall of Fame football player dead at age 89", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/tom-brown-guard", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 89, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Canada" ], "description": "Tom Brown, an American professional football player and guard for the BC Lions, died on March 12, 2026, at age 89. Brown played college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and won the Outland Trophy in 1960 as the nation’s best lineman. He played professionally with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and was inducted into the Canadian Football Hall of Fame in 1984. He was later inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2003.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Tom_Brown_guard.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown_(guard)" }, { "name": "Andrei Socaci Romanian weightlifter dead at age 59", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/andrei-socaci", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 59, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Romania" ], "description": "Andrei Socaci, a Romanian weightlifter, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 59. He won a silver medal at the 1984 Olympics as a lightweight before moving up to the middleweight division, where he earned nine medals at the world and European championships between 1985 and 1992. His results included the European title in 1991. After retiring from competition, he remained in the sport as a coach with his last club, CS Dinamo București.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Socaci" }, { "name": "Blood Duster Australian drummer dead at age 53", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/blood-duster", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 53, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Australia" ], "description": "Blood Duster, an Australian drummer with the Melbourne grindcore and stoner rock band Blood Duster, died on March 12, 2026. The band was formed in 1991 by Jason Fuller, Anthony Barry and Andrew Brown, and later underwent several lineup changes. Blood Duster’s name came from the John Zorn song \"Blood Duster,\" from the 1990 album Naked City. The group’s work spanned grindcore, ’n’ roll and stoner rock, and it was active from 1991 to 2017, and again from 2024 to the present.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Rout" }, { "name": "Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie British life peer, member of the House of Lords dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/rennie-fritchie-baroness-fritchie", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Britain", "Germany" ], "description": "Rennie Fritchie, Baroness Fritchie, a British life peer and member of the House of Lords from 2005 to 2024, died on March 12, 2026. Born Irene Tordoff Fennell on April 29, 1942, in Fife, Scotland, she was educated at Ribston Hall Grammar School for Girls in Gloucester and had a long career specialising in training and development. She was Commissioner for Public Appointments from 1999 to 2005, and in the 1970s was one of the first full-time women's training advisers, later working on training at the Equal Opportunities Commission. She also used a German Marshall Fellowship in 1985 to study ways to improve the status of women and published and contributed regularly on related topics.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennie_Fritchie,_Baroness_Fritchie" }, { "name": "Joachim Wanke German Roman Catholic prelate dead at age 84", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/joachim-wanke", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 84, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Germany" ], "description": "Joachim Wanke, a German Roman Catholic prelate, died on March 12, 2026. He was 84. Wanke served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Erfurt after its re-establishment following German reunification, leading the diocese from 1994 until his retirement in 2012. Born in Breslau on May 4, 1941, he later studied theology at the seminary in Erfurt, was ordained a priest in 1966, and served as a chaplain in Dingelstädt before returning to Erfurt for doctoral and habilitation studies. He later became a professor of New Testament exegesis at the Philosophisch-Theologisches Studium in Erfurt.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Wanke" }, { "name": "Antonio Puddu Italian boxer dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/antonio-puddu", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Italy" ], "description": "Antonio Puddu, the Italian boxer also known as Tonino Puddu, died on March 12, 2026. Born in Cagliari, Sardinia, on 8 May 1944, he won bronze at the 1963 Italian Championships in Pesaro in the super-lightweight division after yielding by abandonment in the second round to Bruno Arcari. He later moved down to featherweight and won the gold medal at the 1965 Military World Championships in Munich. Puddu turned professional in 1966.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Puddu" }, { "name": "Anastasios Gonis Jurist dead at age 99", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/anastasios-gonis", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 99, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "jurist", "lawyers", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Greece" ], "description": "Anastasios Gonis, a Greek politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1993 to 1996, died on March 12, 2026. He was a member of New Democracy. Gonis, who was born in 1926 in Pylos-Nestoras, Greece, died in Athens.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasios_Gonis" }, { "name": "Marcelino Miyares Sotolongo 88-89 dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/marcelino-miyares-sotolongo", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Cuba" ], "description": "Marcelino Miyares Sotolongo, a Cuban-American marketing executive and president of the Christian Democratic Party of Cuba, died on March 12, 2026. Born in 1937, he became president of the party in the United States in 1990 and wrote its manifesto, \"Models for a Peaceful Transition in Cuba.\" He earned a PhD in political science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and later served as a professor of political science at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelino_Miyares_Sotolongo" }, { "name": "Chaos UK British guitarist dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/chaos-uk", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Britain", "England", "Japan" ], "description": "Chaos UK, the British guitarist associated with the punk band Chaos UK, died on March 12, 2026. Chaos UK was an English punk rock band formed in 1979 in Portishead, near Bristol, and emerged from the anarcho-punk scene with a fast, aggressive hardcore punk style. The band recorded two EPs and a full LP for Riot City Records and was credited with helping revolutionize the hardcore punk scene alongside fellow Bristolians Disorder and Stoke's Discharge. Its debut LP was promoted by the label as the \"fastest, noisiest LP in the cosmos,\" and vocal duties on that recording were handled by bassist Chaos.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabba_(musician)" }, { "name": "Petro Hasiuk School administrator dead at age 75", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/petro-hasiuk", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "school administrator", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Russia", "Ukraine" ], "description": "Petro Hasiuk, a Ukrainian politician and former member of parliament, died on March 12, 2026. He was 75. Hasiuk, a member of Batkivshchyna, served in the Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to 2012. He was born on January 30, 1951, in Dormidontovka, in the Russian SFSR, and died in Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Petro_Hasiuk.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro_Hasiuk" }, { "name": "Peeter Simm Estonian film director", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/peeter-simm", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 73, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Estonia" ], "description": "Peeter Simm died on March 12, 2026. He was an Estonian film director.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeter_Simm" }, { "name": "Trevor McMahon New Zealand test cricketer dead at age 96", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/trevor-mcmahon", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 96, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "New Zealand" ], "description": "Trevor McMahon, a New Zealand Test cricketer and wicket-keeper, died on March 12, 2026, aged 96. Born in Wellington on November 8, 1929, he played five Test matches for New Zealand between October 1955 and February 1956. McMahon studied engineering at Wellington Technical College from 1943 to 1948, where he played cricket and rugby, and later served an apprenticeship with the railways as a fitter and turner. He made his first-class debut for Wellington in 1953-54 and was selected for the tour of Pakistan and India in 1955-56.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Trevor_McMahon.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_McMahon" }, { "name": "Margareta Magnusson Swedish artist and essayist, advocator of Swedish death cleaning dead at age 91", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/margareta-magnusson", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 91, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Sweden" ], "description": "Margareta Magnusson, a Swedish painter and essayist, died on March 12, 2026, in Gothenburg, Sweden, at the age of 91. Born Margareta Elisabeth Bothén in Gothenburg on December 31, 1934, she studied at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm and graduated in 1956. She was best known for popularizing the term Swedish death cleaning, the practice of decluttering and giving away possessions to spare loved ones the task later in life.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Margareta_Magnusson.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margareta_Magnusson" }, { "name": "Rolf Birkhölzer German footballer", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/rolf-birkholzer", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "Germany" ], "description": "Rolf Birkhölzer, a German professional footballer and goalkeeper, died on March 12, 2026. Born on 29 September 1949, he began playing football at the age of nineteen with 1. FC Köln. He also played for KSV Hessen Kassel, VfB Gießen and TuSpo Ziegenhain in a career that lasted 13 years and ended in 1981. Birkhölzer later coached FSV Frankfurt, Schrecksbach, Bad Homburg and TuSpo Ziegenhain. He made seven appearances for Germany's youth side.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Birkh%C3%B6lzer" }, { "name": "Boubacar Ould Messaoud Mauritanian human rights activist dead at age 80", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/boubacar-ould-messaoud", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 80, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "Mauritania" ], "description": "Boubacar Ould Messaoud, a Mauritanian human rights activist, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 80. Born on May 15, 1945, in Rosso, Mauritania, he fought against slavery in Mauritania and in 1995 founded SOS Esclaves to oppose and seek to eliminate the practice in his country. Slavery was officially abolished in Mauritania in 1981 but continued in various forms for many years. Messaoud died at his home in Nouakchott, Mauritania.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boubacar_Ould_Messaoud" }, { "name": "Jenni Murray English journalist and broadcaster dead at age 75", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/jenni-murray", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 75, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "England", "France" ], "description": "Jenni Murray, the English journalist and broadcaster best known for presenting BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, died on March 12, 2026, aged 75. Born Jennifer Susan Bailey in Barnsley on 12 May 1950, she studied French and Drama at the University of Hull. Murray joined BBC Radio Bristol in 1973 before working on South Today, Newsnight and Today. She took over Woman's Hour in 1987 and presented the programme until 2020.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Jenni_Murray.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenni_Murray" }, { "name": "Holograf Romanian singer dead at age 70", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/holograf", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 70, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "artists", "musicians" ], "nationality": [ "Romania" ], "description": "Holograf, the Romanian pop rock band from Bucharest, died on March 12, 2026. Formed in 1978, the band released 18 albums and became known for songs including \"Banii vorbesc,\" \"Dincolo de nori,\" \"Ți-am dat un inel,\" \"Undeva departe,\" \"Să nu-mi iei niciodată dragostea,\" \"Viața are gust\" and \"Cât de departe.\" Holograf won the Excellence Prize at the Romanian Media Music Awards in 2013 and awards for best pop-rock artist and best pop-rock song at the Radio Romania Music Awards Gala in 2014, and received multiple nominations at the Romanian Music Awards.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iulian_Vrabete" }, { "name": "Donald Liao Hong Kong civil servant and architect dead at age 96", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/donald-liao", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 96, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "nationality": [ "China", "Taiwan" ], "description": "Donald Liao, a Hong Kong civil servant and architect, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 96. Taiwanese-born and known also as a landscape architect, he played an instrumental role in the expansion of public housing in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 70s, designing new types of public estates. He served as Secretary for Housing and chairman of the Hong Kong Housing Authority from 1980 to 1985, and later was Secretary for District Administration from 1985 to 1989.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Liao" }, { "name": "Kendall Myers FSI official dead at age 88", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/kendall-myers", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 88, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "fsi official", "criminals" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Kendall Myers, an American convicted spy and former U.S. State Department employee, died on March 12, 2026. He was arrested with his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, on June 4, 2009, and indicted on charges of spying for Cuba for nearly 30 years. Myers was convicted of espionage in July 2010 and sentenced to life imprisonment by a U.S. federal court. Born Walter Kendall Myers in Washington, D.C., in 1937, he was 88.", "image_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/static/people/images/thumbnails/2026/03/Kendall_Myers.jpg", "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_Myers" }, { "name": "Hans-Georg Backhaus 96–97 dead at age 96", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/hans-georg-backhaus", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 96, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "scientists", "writers" ], "nationality": [ "Germany" ], "description": "Hans-Georg Backhaus, a German Marxian economist and philosopher, died on March 12, 2026, in Frankfurt. He was 96 or 97. Backhaus was one of the main authors of the Neue Marx-Lektüre and is considered one of the most important German theorists in the field of Marxian theory of value. He began a long-term cooperation with Helmut Reichelt during his university studies. In 2026, he ran as a candidate for the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance in the Frankfurt city council election, but died one week before election day.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Georg_Backhaus" }, { "name": "Robert Trivers Evolutionary biology, Animal behavior, Sociobiology dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/robert-trivers", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "evolutionary biology", "animal behavior", "sociobiology", "scientists" ], "nationality": [ "America" ], "description": "Robert Trivers, an American evolutionary biologist and sociobiologist, died on March 12, 2026, at age 83. He was known for proposing the theories of reciprocal altruism, parental investment, facultative sex ratio determination, and parent–offspring conflict. Trivers also contributed to evolutionary explanations of self-deception as an adaptive strategy and wrote on intragenomic conflict. Born in Washington, D.C., on February 19, 1943, he profoundly influenced evolutionary biology, animal behavior, and sociobiology.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Trivers" }, { "name": "Harimurali Indian actor", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/harimurali", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 27, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "India" ], "description": "Harimurali, an Indian Malayalam actor, died on March 12, 2026. Born in 1998 in Annoor, Payyannur, in Kerala’s Kannur district, he began acting as a child and appeared in Rasikan (2004), Annan Thampi and Madambi in 2008. He also acted in Ulakam Chuttum Valiban, Don and Pattanathil Bhootham, and had a small role in the 2015 film Amar Akbar Anthony. He was known as Appus and was the son of film actor KU Murali, known as Payyannur Murali. His mother was Prasanna, and he had a brother, Sreemurali.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harimurali" }, { "name": "Kevin Kiely Irish politician dead at age -1", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/kevin-kiely", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": -1, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "lawyers", "politicians" ], "nationality": [ "Ireland" ], "description": "Kevin Kiely, Irish politician and Mayor of Limerick from 2009 to 2010, died on March 12, 2026, aged 64. He was a member of Fine Gael and was first elected to Limerick City Council in 1985. Made a Peace Commissioner in 1983 by then Fine Gael Minister for Justice Michael Noonan, he was re-elected to the council in June 2009. Kiely also served on the Governing Authority of the University of Limerick and was chairman of Limerick City Council Joint Policing and a former chairman of Limerick City Council Future Planning.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Kiely" }, { "name": "Ron Roberts English footballer, cancer dead at age 83", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/ron-roberts-footballer", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 83, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "athletes" ], "nationality": [ "England", "Wales" ], "description": "Ron Roberts, a Welsh footballer who played as a winger for Wrexham and Tranmere Rovers in the Football League, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 83. He died in Wrexham.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Roberts_(footballer)" }, { "name": "Asim Bukhari Pakistani actor dead at age 76", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/asim-bukhari", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 76, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actors" ], "nationality": [ "Pakistan" ], "description": "Asim Bukhari, a Pakistani television and film actor, died on March 12, 2026, at the age of 76. Bukhari began his acting career with Pakistan Television in 1965 and appeared in more than 200 films. Among his best-known work were the drama Janjaal Pura and the popular series Sona Chandi. He died in Lahore, and his son, Ajlal Bukhari, confirmed the news on social media.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asim_Bukhari" }, { "name": "John Fisher Burns Journalist dead at age 81", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/john-fisher-burns", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 81, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "journalist", "journalists" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Britain" ], "description": "John Fisher Burns, a British journalist and longtime London bureau chief for The New York Times, died on March 12, 2026. He was 81. Burns won two Pulitzer Prizes during a career that began in the 1970s and continued until 2015, when he covered international issues for The New York Times. Born in Nottingham, England, he studied at Stowe School and later earned a degree in political science and economics from McGill University. He also wrote for The Globe and Mail in Canada and frequently appeared on PBS. He was sometimes called the dean of American foreign correspondents.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fisher_Burns" }, { "name": "David Sage Actor dead at age 85", "person_url": "https://www.dead-people.com/david-sage", "verification_status": "reported", "sources": [], "age": 85, "death_date": "2026-03-12", "reported_date": "2026-03-12", "published_at": "2026-03-12T12:00:00+01:00", "occupation": [ "actor", "actors" ], "nationality": [ "America", "Italy" ], "description": "David Sage, an American actor known for The Birdcage, Campus Cops and Highway to Heaven, died on March 12, 2026, at age 85. Born David Rohan Sage in Syracuse, New York, he worked as a character actor from 1980 to 2002, with roles primarily in television during the 1980s and 1990s. He began his career in the Italian film Cannibal Holocaust in 1980 and later appeared in Galaxies Are Colliding and in numerous television series, including The Quest, The Greatest American Hero, Cagney & Lacey, Falcon Crest, Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, Murder, She Wrote, Seinfeld, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Monsters, Picket Fences and The Young and the Restless.", "image_url": null, "wikidata_id": null, "wikipedia_url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sage" } ], "fallback_items": [], "page": 1, "per_page": 100, "total": 44, "total_pages": 1, "count": 44 }