page_title: 1981
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1981 / Deaths / March
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ich möchte an dieser Stelle Herrn Dr. Ernst Peter Fischer, einem früheren Freund von Max Delbrück, für das Foto danken. Er ließ mir das Originalbild per Post zukommen und stimmte der Veröffentlichung unter der GNU-Lizenz zu. Das Jahr der Aufnahme ist nicht genau bekannt, es stammt aber aus seinen letzten Lebensjahren... English: I would like to thank Dr. Ernst Peter Fischer, a former friend of Max Delbrück, for sending me the original photo by mail. He agreed to release it under the GNU license. The picture was taken during the last years of Delbrück; the exact year is not known.
context_page_description: 1981 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1981st year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 981st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade.
context_section_description: March 1 – Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón, 14th President of Panama (b. 1903)
  March 4 – Torin Thatcher, American actor (b. 1905)
  March 5 – Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
  March 6 – George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
  March 7
  Peter Birch, Irish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1911)
  Bosley Crowther, American film critic (b. 1905)
  Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
  Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, American tennis champion (b. 1908)
  March 8 – Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (b. 1894)
  March 9 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)
  March 10 – Flavio Calzavara, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
  March 14
  Paolo Grassi, Italian actor (b. 1919)
  Eleanor Perry, American screenwriter and author (b. 1914)
  March 15 – René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
  March 20 – Gerry Bertier, American college football player (b. 1953)
  March 21 – Mark Donskoy, Russian Soviet film director (b. 1901)
  March 22
  John S. McCain Jr., American admiral (b. 1911)
  Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, Senator of the Philippines and Senate President (b. 1907)
  March 23
  Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (b. 1884)
  Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer (b. 1940)
  Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (b. 1941)
  March 26 – Cyril Dean Darlington, English biologist, geneticist and eugenicist, (b. 1903)
  March 29 – Eric Williams, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)
  March 30
  Sherman Edwards, American songwriter (b. 1919)
  Douglas Lowe, British Olympic athlete (b. 1902)
  DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (b. 1889)
  March 31 – Frank Tieri, American gangster (b. 1904)
caption: Max Delbrück
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