Tuesday, Mar 3, 2026
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1985 - Sarah Blanding, first US female college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at age 86.
1987 - Danny Kaye, American singer/actor/comedian (Danny Kaye Show), part owner of the Seattle Mariners, dies of heart failure at age 74 (born 1918).
1988 - Sewall Wright, US geneticist (evolution model), dies at age 98.
1991 - Arthur Murray, American dance instructor, dies at age 95 of pneumonia (born 1895).
1993 - Death of Harper Goff at age 81 in Los Angeles, California, USA; designed interior of Nautilus of film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, designed many Disneyland and EPCOT buildings and attractions, named a Disney Legend in 1993.
1995 - Death of Howard W. Hunter, fourteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1907).
2009 - Death of Sydney Chaplin, age 82, of a stroke, in Rancho Mirage, California. Chaplin was a stage actor (Bells are Ringing, Funny Girl, Subways are for Sleeping).