Paul Gilligan who is in his 30's was found at the Pepper Alley pub in Bolton shortly before 1am with stab wounds and later died in hospital from his injuries.
He is the third victim of knife crime in the region in the past 48 hours.
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Elsewhere today, a 22-year-old man was in a serious condition after he was found by police with multiple stab wounds at a campsite at the T in the Park music festival in Kinross-shire, central Scotland. Police were interviewing campers and said that they were looking for 2 men likely to have bloodstained clothing.
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced today that young offenders caught with a knife are to be forced to meet stabbing victims in an attempt to underline the seriousness of carrying a weapon. This would include visits to A&E wards where people are being treated for knife wounds, meetings with the families of stabbing victims and prison visits to offenders jailed for knife offences.
Another victim named yesterday was Yusufu Miiro, a 20-year-old student from Stratford. He was fatally stabbed in the head and chest as he walked up a stairwell towards a friend's flat in St David's Court, Walthamstow, north-east London.
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