Famous Deaths on 1 May

Famous Deaths on 1 May

1118 - Edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)
1240 - Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals
1308 - Albert I of Habsburg (murdered) (b. 1255)
1539 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503)
1555 - Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
1572 - Pope Pius V (b. 1504)
1731 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
1738 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c. 1669)
1772 - Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719)
1813 - Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal (killed in combat) (b. 1768)
1873 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (b. 1813)
1899 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (b. 1824)
1904 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
1913 - John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
1935 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (b. 1889)
1937 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (b. 1868)
1943 - Johan Oscar Smith, Norweigian Christian leader and founder of Smith's Friends (b.1871)
1945 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide with his wife Magda Goebbels) (b. 1897)
1963 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (b. 1879)
1965 - Spike Jones, American band leader, musician, and comedian (b. 1911)
1968 - Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and general manager (b.1895)
1968 - Harold Nicolson, British diplomat, author and politician (b. 1886)
1970 - Crown Prince Euimin, Crown Prince Korea (b. 1897)
1976 - Alexandros Panagoulis, Greek poet who fought the military junta in Greece (b. 1939)
1976 - T.R.M. Howard, civil rights leader, entrepreneur, surgeon (b. 1908)
1978 - Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer (b. 1903)
1982 - William Primrose, Scottish violist (b. 1903)
1986 - Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (b. 1905)
1986 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (b. 1916)
1989 - Douglass Watson, American actor (b. 1921)
1989 - Sally Kirkland, fashion editor at LIFE (b. 1912)
1990 - Sergio Franchi, Italian tenor (b. 1926)
1993 - Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1924)
1993 - Pierre Bérégovoy, French Prime Minister (b. 1925)
1994 - Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver and three-time F1 world champion (b. 1960)
1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist (b. 1935)
2000 - Steve Reeves, American actor (b. 1926)
2003 - Miss Elizabeth, American wrestler (b. 1960)
2006 - Big Hawk, American rapper (b.1969)
2006 - Johnny Paris, American saxophonist (Johnny and the Hurricanes) (b. 1940)
2006 - Rob Lacey, Christian Author. (b. 1962)
2008 - Anthony Mamo, Malta's first President (b. 1909)
2008 - Deborah Jeane Palfrey, Washington, D.C. prostitution service owner (b. 1956)
408 - Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338)

Famous Deaths on 30 Apr

Famous Deaths on 30 Apr

1063 - Emperor Renzong of China (b. 1010)
1131 - Adjutor, Roman Catholic Saint
1341 - John III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1285)
1439 - Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382)
1524 - Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
1544 - Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, Lord Chancellor of England
1555 - Pope Marcellus II (b. 1501)
1632 - King Sigismund I of Sweden (b. 1561)
1632 - Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (b. 1559)
1642 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (b. 1578)
1655 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)
1660 - Petrus Scriverius, Dutch writer (b. 1576)
1696 - Robert Plot, British naturalist (b. 1640)
1712 - Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (b. 1633)
1736 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)
1758 - François d'Agincourt, French composer (b. 1684)
1792 - John Montagu, supposed inventor of the sandwich (b. 1718)
1795 - Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French writer and numismatist (b. 1716)
1841 - Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758)
1847 - Archduke Charles of Austria, Austrian general (b. 1771)
1865 - Robert Fitzroy, English admiral and meteorologist (b. 1805)
1875 - Jean Frederic Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
1883 - Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
1900 - Casey Jones, American train engineer (b. 1863)
1903 - Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.1831)
1936 - Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (b. 1859)
1943 - Otto Jespersen, Danish philologist (b. 1860)
1943 - Beatrice Webb, British economist (b. 1858)
1945 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian dictator of Nazi Germany (b. 1889)
1945 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's new wife (b. 1912)
1956 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)
1970 - Inger Stevens, Swedish actress (b. 1934)
1973 - Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)
1974 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
1980 - Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
1982 - Lester Bangs, American music journalist, author, and musician (b. 1949)
1983 - Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915)
1983 - George Balanchine, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
1985 - George Pravda, Czechoslovakian actor (b. 1918)
1989 - Yi, Bang-ja, Crown Princess of Korea (b. 1901)
1989 - Sergio Leone, Italian filmmaker (b. 1929)
1993 - Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
1994 - Richard Scarry, American author (b. 1919)
1994 - Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960)
1995 - Maung Maung Kha, Prime minister of Burma (b. 1920)
1996 - David Opatoshu, American actor (b. 1918)
1998 - Nizar Qabbani, Syrian poet (b. 1926)
2002 - Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, founder of the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. (b. 1928)
2003 - Mark Berger, University of Kentucky professor (b. 1955)
2003 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (b. 1923)
2003 - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)
2005 - Ron Todd, TGWU General Secretary (1985 - 1992) (b. 1927)
2006 - Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject
2007 - Tom Poston, American actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
2007 - Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (b. 1983)
2007 - Zola Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
2007 - Gordon Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
2008 - John Cargher, Australian radio broadcaster (b. 1919)
65 - Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)

Famous Deaths on 29 Apr

Famous Deaths on 29 Apr

1380 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (b. 1347)
1594 - Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer
1630 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet (b. 1552)
1658 - John Cleveland, English poet (b. 1613)
1676 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (b. 1607)
1688 - Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1620)
1698 - Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1655)
1707 - George Farquhar, Irish dramatist (b. 1678)
1743 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
1768 - Georg Brandt, Swedish chemist and minerologist (b. 1694)
1776 - Edward Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer (b. 1713)
1782 - Richard Kempenfelt, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1718)
1793 - Yechezkel Landau, Polish rabbi (b. 1713)
1793 - John Michell, English scientist (b. 1724)
1798 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
1854 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, English general (b. 1768)
1903 - Paul du Chaillu, French explorer (b. 1835)
1916 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
1920 - William Henry Seward, Jr., Union Brigadier General in the American Civil War (b. 1839)
1933 - Constantine P. Cavafy, Greek poet (b. 1863)
1935 - Leroy Carr, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
1937 - William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
1944 - Bernardino Machado, President of Portugal (b. 1851)
1945 - Matthias Kleinheisterkamp, German SS officer (b. 1893)
1951 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (b. 1889)
1956 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, German field marshal (b. 1876)
1961 - Cisco Houston, American folk singer (b. 1918)
1966 - William Eccles, English physicist and radio pioneer (b. 1875)
1967 - J.B. Lenoir, American Blues Musician (b. 1929)
1967 - Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)
1979 - Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (b. 1907)
1980 - Alfred Hitchcock, English film director (b. 1899)
1988 - James McCracken, American tenor (b. 1926)
1993 - Mick Ronson, English musician (b. 1946)
1993 - Michael Gordon, American film director (b. 1909)
1997 - Mike Royko, American columnist (b. 1932)
1998 - Hal Laycoe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1922)
2002 - Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (b. 1914)
2002 - Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (b. 1936)
2004 - Sid Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
2005 - William J. Bell, American television writer and producer (b. 1927)
2005 - Mariana Levy, Mexican actress, singer, and television show host (b. 1966)
2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
2007 - Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor, known as the leader of Olsenbanden
2007 - Ivica Račan, former Prime Minister of Croatia (b. 1944)
2007 - Josh Hancock, American baseball player (b. 1978)
2007 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (b. 1912)
2007 - Zhang Taofang, Chinese sniper (b. 1931)
2007 - Dick Motz, New Zealand cricket player (b. 1940)
2008 - Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD (b. 1906)
926 - Burchard II, Duke of Swabia

Famous Deaths on 28 Apr

Famous Deaths on 28 Apr

1192 - Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem (b. mid 1140s)
1498 - Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician
1533 - Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
1695 - Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
1710 - Thomas Betterton, English actor
1716 - Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest (b. 1673)
1726 - Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653)
1741 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668)
1772 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)
1781 - Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
1813 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
1816 - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
1841 - Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
1853 - Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)
1858 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
1865 - Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787)
1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
1926 - Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857)
1936 - King Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
1944 - Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874)
1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator (b. 1882)
1945 - Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (shot) (b. 1912)
1945 - Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892)
1946 - Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
1949 - Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888)
1954 - Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
1957 - Heinz "Pritzl" Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
1964 - Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
1970 - Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
1973 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
1975 - Tom Donahue, American FM radio DJ (pioneer, freeform radio) (b. 1928)
1978 - Sardar Mohammed Daoud, President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
1988 - B. W. Stevenson, American country singer (b. 1949)
1991 - Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905)
1992 - Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b. 1909)
1992 - Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
1993 - Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946)
1998 - Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939)
1999 - Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
1999 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
1999 - Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
2000 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916)
2000 - Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925)
2002 - Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
2002 - Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
2005 - Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (b. 1959)
2005 - Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
2005 - Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)
2007 - Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
2007 - Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (b. 1929)
2007 - Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)

Famous Deaths on 27 Apr

Famous Deaths on 27 Apr

1404 - Philip II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1342)
1521 - Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer (b. 1480)
1530 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (b. 1458)
1599 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
1605 - Pope Leo XI (b. 1535)
1613 - Robert Abercromby, Scottish Jesuit (b. 1532)
1625 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
1656 - Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
1694 - John George IV, Elector of Saxony (b. 1668)
1695 - John Trenchard, English statesman (b. 1640)
1702 - Jean Bart, French admiral (b. 1651)
1782 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)
1813 - Zebulon Pike, American frontiersman and explorer (b. 1779)
1873 - William Charles Macready, English actor (b. 1793)
1882 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist (b. 1803)
1896 - Henry Parkes, known as the Father of Federation (b. 1815)
1915 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (b. 1872)
1921 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer (b. 1863)
1932 - Hart Crane, American writer (b. 1899)
1936 - Karl Pearson, English statistician (b. 1857)
1937 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (b. 1891)
1941 - Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)
1952 - Guido Castelnuovo, Italian mathematician (b. 1865)
1962 - A. K. Fazlul Huq, Bengali statesman (b. 1873)
1965 - Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (b. 1908)
1969 - René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (b. 1919)
1970 - Arthur Shields, Irish actor (b. 1896)
1972 - Kwame Nkrumah, leader of Ghana (b. 1909)
1973 - Carlos Menditeguy, Argentine racing driver (b. 1914)
1977 - Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
1988 - David Scarboro, British actor (b. 1968)
1989 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer (b. 1908)
1995 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
1996 - William Colby, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1920)
1998 - Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer (b. 1925)
1998 - John Bassett, Canadian publisher and media baron (b. 1915)
1998 - Dominique Aury, French novelist (b. 1907)
1999 - Al Hirt, American trumpeter (b. 1922)
2000 - Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (b. 1954)
2002 - Ruth Handler, American toy manufacturer (b. 1916)
2002 - George Alec Effinger, American author (b. 1947)
2002 - Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Swiss industrialist and art collector (b. 1921)
2006 - Julia Thorne, ex-wife of John Kerry (b. 1944)
2007 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
630 - King Ardashir III of Persia

Famous Deaths on 26 Apr

Famous Deaths on 26 Apr

1192 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
1444 - Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
1476 - Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453)
1478 - Giuliano di Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence (assassinated) (b. 1453)
1489 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
1716 - John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651)
1784 - Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718)
1789 - Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
1865 - John Wilkes Booth, American actor and assassin (shot) (b. 1838)
1881 - Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
1892 - Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791)
1910 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1832)
1920 - Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
1932 - William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
1936 - Tammany Young, American actor (b.1886)
1938 - Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
1940 - Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
1944 - Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
1945 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
1945 - Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909)
1950 - G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
1951 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
1956 - Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
1957 - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
1964 - E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet born Newfoundland (b. 1882)
1969 - Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
1970 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
1970 - Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
1972 - Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
1973 - Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
1976 - Sid James, South African-born British comedian (b. 1913)
1980 - Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (b. 1893)
1981 - Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
1984 - Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
1986 - Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
1986 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
1986 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (stroke) (b. 1911)
1987 - John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
1987 - Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922)
1989 - Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
1991 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
1991 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
1991 - Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1991 - Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
1994 - Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
1996 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
1999 - Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957)
1999 - Jill Dando, British television presenter (b.1961)
2002 - Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b.1983)
2003 - Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
2003 - Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904)
2003 - Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2004 - Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
2005 - Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
2005 - Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
2007 - Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)

Famous Deaths on 25 Apr

Famous Deaths on 25 Apr

1185 - Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
1265 - Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
1295 - King Sancho IV of Castile
1472 - Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
1516 - John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
1566 - Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)
1566 - Louise Labé, French poet
1595 - Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
1605 - Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
1644 - Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1611)
1660 - Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
1690 - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)
1740 - Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699)
1744 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
1770 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
1800 - William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
1840 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
1878 - Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
1891 - Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
1892 - Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
1911 - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
1915 - Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
1923 - Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (b. 1840)
1928 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
1937 - Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
1943 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (b. 1858)
1944 - Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
1968 - John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1972 - George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
1975 - Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
1976 - Carol Reed, British film producer and director (b. 1906)
1978 - Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
1980 - Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
1982 - John Cardinal Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
1990 - Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
1992 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
1995 - Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
1995 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
68 - Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa

Famous Deaths on 24 Apr

Famous Deaths on 24 Apr

1338 - Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)
1342 - Pope Benedict XII (b. 1285)
1622 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577)
1656 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
1731 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
1736 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
1779 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
1852 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
1891 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)*
1924 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
1938 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
1939 - Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
1942 - Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900)
1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
1944 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (b. 1859)
1945 - Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
1947 - Hans Biebow, German war criminal (by execution; b. 1902)
1947 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
1960 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
1964 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
1965 - Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
1967 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b. 1927)
1974 - Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1975 - Pete Ham, Welsh musician and frontman of Badfinger (b. 1947)
1980 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
1982 - Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896)
1983 - Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
1986 - Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1896)
1993 - Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1917)
1997 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927)
1997 - Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer (b. 1922)
2001 - Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915)
2001 - Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922)
2004 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
2005 - Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
2005 - Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
2006 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
2006 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
2006 - Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
624 - Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
709 - Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint