Famous people died in March - page 12

Robert Falcon Scott was a British naval officer and explorer who died on his attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.

Thomas Cranmer was the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury and a leader of the English Reformation

Elizabeth I was the Queen of England whose reign of 45 years is popularly referred to as the Elizabethan Era

Olaudah Equiano was a prominent Black activist who worked hard to put an end to slave trade in Britain and its colonies

Eleanor of Aquitaine was the Duchess of Aquitaine who served as the Queen of France and Queen of England

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Jean-François Champollion is best remembered till date for deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs and Rosette Stone

John Constable was an English painter best known for his paintings of the English countryside

Hans Bethe was a Nobel Prize winning American physicist who determined how stars produce light

Charles Sherrington was a Nobel Prize winning English scientist who explained the function of neurons in the human body

Henry Bessemer was a renowned English inventor who discovered the Bessemer process of steel-making