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

Famous Deaths on 23 Apr

Famous Deaths on 23 Apr

1014 - Brian Boru, High King of Ireland (killed in battle)
1016 - Ethelred II of England
1124 - King Alexander I of Scotland (b. 1078)
1151 - Queen Adeliza of England (b. 1103)
1217 - King Inge II of Norway (b. 1185)
1407 - Olivier de Clisson, French soldier (b. 1326)
1605 - Tsar Boris Godunov of Russia (b. ca. 1550)
1616 - Miguel Cervantes, Spanish author (b. 1547)
1616 - William Shakespeare, English writer and actor (b. 1564) (Julian calendar)
1616 - El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Peruvian writer (b. 1539)
1625 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (b. 1567)
1702 - Margaret Fell, English Quaker leader (b. 1614)
1740 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (b. 1685)
1781 - James Abercrombie, British general (b. 1706)
1792 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
1794 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French statesman (executed) (b. 1721)
1827 - Georgios Karaiskakis, Greek hero of the Greek War of Independence
1839 - Jacques Félix Emmanuel Hamelin, French explorer (b. 1768)
1850 - William Wordsworth, English poet (b. 1770)
1889 - Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (b. 1808)
1895 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (b. 1815)
1905 - Gédéon Ouimet, Quebec politician (b. 1823)
1915 - Rupert Brooke, English poet (b. 1887).
1936 - Teresa de la Parra, Venezuelan writer (b. 1889)
1951 - Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
1952 - Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)
1975 - William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908)
1979 - Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-fascist (b. 1946)
1981 - Josep Pla, Catalan journalist and writer (b. 1897)
1983 - Buster Crabbe, American swimmer and actor (b. 1908)
1984 - Red Garland, American jazz pianist (b. 1923)
1985 - Sam Ervin, American politician (b. 1896)
1986 - Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (b. 1906)
1986 - Jim Laker, English cricketer (b. 1922)
1986 - Harold Arlen, American composer (b. 1905)
1990 - Paulette Goddard, American actress (b. 1911)
1991 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (b. 1952)
1992 - Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (b. 1921)
1993 - César Chávez, American labor activist (b. 1927)
1995 - John C. Stennis, U.S. Senator from Mississippi (b. 1904)
1995 - Howard Cosell, American sports journalist (b. 1918)
1996 - P. L. Travers, Australian author (b. 1899)
1996 - Jean-Victor Allard, Canadian military officer (b. 1913)
1997 - Denis Compton, English cricketer (b. 1918)
1998 - James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
1998 - Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
2003 - Fernand Fonssagrives, French photographer (b. 1910)
2003 - James H. Critchfield, American Central Intelligence agent (b. 1917)
2005 - Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (b. 1911)
2005 - Al Grassby, Australian immigration minister (b. 1928)
2005 - John Mills, English actor (b. 1908)
2005 - Romano Scarpa, Italian-born comic artist (b. 1927)
2005 - Earl Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1934)
2006 - Johnnie Checketts, New Zealand fighter pilot (b. 1912)
2007 - David Halberstam, American journalist, historian and author (b. 1934)
2007 - Paul Erdman, American economist and author (b. 1932)
2007 - Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
303 - Saint George, Roman soldier and Christian martyr
725 - Wihtred, King of Kent
871 - Ethelred of Wessex
997 - Saint Adalbert of Prague, bishop (b. ca. 956)

Famous Deaths on 22 Apr

Famous Deaths on 22 Apr

1592 - Bartolomeo Ammanati, Italian architect (b. 1511)
1672 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish poet (b. 1598)
1699 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman (b. 1646)
1758 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (b. 1686)
1778 - James Hargreaves, English inventor (b. 1720)
1806 - Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (stabbed) (b. 1763)
1833 - Richard Trevithick, English inventor (b. 1771)
1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
1854 - Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (b. 1786)
1877 - James P. Kirkwood, American civil engineer (b. 1807)
1892 - Edouard Lalo, French composer (b. 1823)
1893 - Chaim Aronson, inventor and academic (b. 1825)
1896 - Thomas Meik, British civil engineer (b. 1812)
1908 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1836)
1925 - André Caplet, French composer (b. 1878)
1929 - Henry Lerolle, French painter (b. 1848)
1930 - Jeppe Aakjaer, Danish poet (b. 1866)
1933 - Henry Royce, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1863)
1945 - Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (b. 1900)
1945 - Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
1946 - Lionel Atwill, English Actor (b. 1885)
1946 - Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1872)
1951 - Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (b. 1870)
1968 - Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (b. 1911)
1978 - Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902)
1980 - Jane Froman, American actress (b. 1907)
1980 - Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (b. 1902)
1983 - Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist (b. 1903)
1983 - John Louis Evans, convicted murderer (executed) (b. 1950)
1984 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
1985 - Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
1985 - Jacques Ferron, French Canadian physician, author and politician (b. 1921)
1986 - Mircea Eliade, Romanian writer (b. 1907)
1988 - Irene Rich, American actress (b. 1891)
1990 - Albert Salmi, American actor (b. 1928)
1994 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (b. 1913)
1995 - Maggie Kuhn, American activist (b. 1905)
1996 - Harold "Jug" McSpaden, American professional golfer (b. 1908)
1996 - Erma Bombeck, American humorist (b. 1927)
1998 - Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
1999 - Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (b. 1938)
2002 - Linda Lovelace, American adult actress (b. 1949)
2003 - Michael Larrabee, American athlete (b. 1933)
2003 - Martha Griffiths, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1912)
2003 - Felice Bryant, American songwriter (b. 1925)
2004 - Jason L. Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1981)
2004 - Pat Tillman, American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action) (b. 1976)
2005 - Robert Farnon, Canadian-born composer and conductor (b. 1917)
2005 - Norman Bird, UK character actor (b. 1920)
2005 - Erika Fuchs, German translator (b. 1906)
2005 - Philip Morrison, American physicist (b. 1915)
2006 - Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Juanita Millender-McDonald, congresswoman from southern California (b. 1938)
2008 - Ed Chynoweth, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1941)
296 - Pope Caius
455 - Petronius Maximus, Roman Emperor
536 - Pope Agapetus I

Famous Deaths on 21 Apr

Famous Deaths on 21 Apr

1073 - Pope Alexander II
1109 - Anselm of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
1142 - Pierre Abélard, French writer (b. 1079)
1329 - Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1282)
1509 - King Henry VII of England (b. 1457)
1551 - Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1557 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
1574 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1519)
1699 - Jean Racine, French dramatist (b. 1639)
1701 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian (b. 1640)
1720 - Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646)
1722 - Robert Beverley, Jr., historian of Colonial Virginia (b. 1673)
1792 - Tiradentes, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1746)
1793 - John Michell, English seismologist (b. 1724)
1815 - Joseph Winston, U.S. Congressman from North Carolina (b. 1746)
1825 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)
1852 - Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
1868 - Henry James O'Farrell, Australian would-be assassin of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
1910 - Mark Twain, American author and humorist (b. 1835)
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, German pilot (b. 1892)
1922 - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
1924 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)
1930 - Robert Bridges, English poet (b. 1844)
1938 - Allama Iqbal, Indian philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
1945 - Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
1946 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist (b. 1883)
1956 - Charles MacArthur, American writer (b. 1895)
1965 - Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1971 - François "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian dictator (b. 1907)
1973 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1977 - Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)
1978 - Sandy Denny, British vocalist (b. 1947)
1978 - Thomas Wyatt Turner, American civil rights advocate and agricultural engineer (b. 1877)
1980 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist (b. 1894)
1983 - Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)
1985 - Rudi Gernreich, Austrian fashion designer (b. 1922)
1985 - Foster Hewitt, Canadian radio pioneer (b. 1902)
1985 - Tancredo de Almeida Neves, Brazil banker and elected president (b. 1910)
1986 - Salah Jaheen, Egyptian poet and cartoonist (b.1930)
1989 - Princess Dukhye of Korea (b. 1912)
1990 - Erté, French artist (b. 1892)
1991 - Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909)
1996 - Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (b. 1944)
1996 - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, American bookie and sports broadcaster (b. 1919)
1998 - Jean Francois Lyotard, French philosopher and sociologist (b. 1924)
1999 - Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, American actor and musician (b. 1904)
2000 - Neal Matthews, Jr., American singer (b. 1929)
2003 - Nina Simone, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
2004 - Mary McGrory, American journalist (b. 1918)
2005 - Gerry Marshall, British racing driver (b. 1941)
2006 - T.K. Ramakrishnan, Indian politician (b. 1922)
2006 - Telê Santana, Brazilian football manager (b. 1931)
2007 - Lobby Loyde, Australian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1941)
2008 - Al Wilson, American singer (b. 1939)

Famous Deaths on 20 Apr

Famous Deaths on 20 Apr

1176 - Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
1314 - Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
1521 - Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)
1534 - Elizabeth Barton, English nun (executed)
1558 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
1643 - Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
1703 - Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
1765 - Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
1769 - Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa
1831 - John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
1873 - William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
1874 - Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
1887 - Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
1899 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
1918 - Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
1932 - Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
1945 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
1947 - King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
1951 - Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
1964 - Eddie Dyer, baseball player (b. 1899)
1977 - Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
1982 - Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
1984 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
1986 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916)
1989 - Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and fighter pilot (b. 1945)
1991 - Steve Marriott, British singer and songwriter (Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
1991 - Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
1993 - Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911)
1994 - Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)
1996 - Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne (b. 1920)
1999 - Victims and shooters of the Columbine High School massacre
1999 - Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1999 - Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
2001 - Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
2002 - Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
2003 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
2003 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2003 - Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
2005 - Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
2005 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
2006 - Anna Svidersky (b. 1988)
2007 - Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
2007 - Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
2008 - VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)

Famous Deaths on 19 Apr

Famous Deaths on 19 Apr

1012 - Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
1054 - Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
1390 - King Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
1560 - Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
1567 - Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)
1578 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
1588 - Paolo Veronese, Italian painter
1608 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
1618 - Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist (b. 1565 or 1566)
1627 - John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
1629 - Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
1684 - Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
1686 - Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
1689 - Queen Christina of Sweden (b. 1626)
1733 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England
1739 - Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682/3)
1751 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
1768 - Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
1791 - Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (b. 1723)
1813 - Benjamin Rush, physician, activist (b. 1745)
1824 - George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
1831 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
1840 - Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
1854 - Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
1881 - Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 - Charles Darwin, English biologist (b. 1809)
1892 - Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
1901 - Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1906 - Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1914 - Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
1916 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
1926 - Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1930 - Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
1937 - William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (b. 1856)
1949 - Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 - Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
1967 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman (b. 1876)
1988 - Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
1989 - Daphne du Maurier, British novelist (b. 1907)
1991 - Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
1992 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian (b. 1917)
1992 - Benny Hill, English comic actor (b. 1924)
1993 - David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidians (b. 1959)
1993 - George S. Mickelson, American politician (b. 1941)
1997 - El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
1999 - David Sanes, US Navy employee
2000 - Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
2004 - Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
2004 - John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
2005 - Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
2005 - George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
2005 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
2005 - Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2006 - Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
2006 - Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
2007 - Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2007 - Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
2008 - John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2008 - Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
2008 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)

Famous Deaths on 18 Apr

Famous Deaths on 18 Apr

1161 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
1552 - John Leland, English antiquarian (b. 1502)
1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (b. 1495)
1558 - Roxelana, wife of Suleiman the Magnificent
1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503)
1636 - Julius Caesar, English judge
1650 - Simonds d'Ewes, English antiquarian (b. 1602)
1674 - John Graunt, English statistician (b. 1620)
1689 - George Jeffreys, British Chief Justice (b. 1648)
1732 - Louis Feuillée, French explorer (b. 1660)
1794 - Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)
1796 - Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist (b. 1732)
1802 - Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (b. 1731)
1873 - Justus von Liebig, German chemist (b. 1803)
1898 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (b. 1826)
1906 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)
1917 - Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist (b. 1858)
1935 - Panait Istrati, Romanian writer (b. 1884)
1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (b. 1879)
1942 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (b. 1875)
1943 - Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral. (b. 1884)
1945 - John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (b. 1849)
1945 - Ernie Pyle, American journalist (b. 1900)
1945 - Prince William of Wied, sovereign Prince of Albania (b.1876)
1947 - Josef Tiso, Slovakian leader (b. 1887), Nazi collaborator and puppet ruler.
1949 - Will Hay, English comedian and actor (b. 1888)
1951 - António Ã"scar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
1955 - Albert Einstein, Nobel laureate (b. 1879)
1958 - Maurice Gamelin, French general (b. 1872)
1963 - Meyer Jacobstein, American politician (b. 1880)
1964 - Ben Hecht, American writer (b. 1894)
1965 - Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917)
1967 - Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
1974 - Marcel Pagnol, French novelist, playwright and filmmaker (b. 1895)
1976 - Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal nationalization Engineer (b. 1911)
1988 - Pierre Desproges, French humorist (b. 1939)
1990 - Gory Guerrero, professional wrestler (b. 1921)
1992 - Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924)
1993 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (b. 1908)
1996 - Brook Berringer, American football player (b. 1973)
1996 - Bernard Edwards, American record producer (b. 1952)
1998 - Terry Sanford, American politician (b. 1917)
2002 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2002 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (b. 1914)
2003 - Edgar F. Codd, English computer scientist (b. 1923)
2004 - Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji and President of Fiji (b. 1920)
2005 - Sam Mills, American football player (b. 1959)
2007 - Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki (b. 1945)

Famous Deaths on 17 Apr

Famous Deaths on 17 Apr

1080 - King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041)
1427 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (b. 1403)
1539 - George, Duke of Saxony (b. 1471)
1574 - Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (b. 1500)
1680 - Kateri Tekakwitha, first American Indian to receive beatification (b. 1656)
1695 - Sor Juana, Mexican writer
1696 - Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, French writer (b. 1626)
1711 - Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1678)
1713 - David Hollatz, Pomeranian dogmatician (b. 1648)
1742 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (b. 1664)
1761 - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician
1764 - Johann Mattheson, German composer (b. 1681)
1790 - Benjamin Franklin, American inventor, diplomat, and printer (b. 1706)
1799 - Richard Jupp, English architect (b. 1728)
1843 - Samuel Morey, American inventor (b. 1762)
1873 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (b. 1783)
1882 - George Jennings Sanitary engineer (b. 1810)
1892 - Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1822)
1902 - Francis of Assisi of Bourbon, King Consort of Spain (b. 1822)
1921 - Manuel Dimech, Maltese philosopher and social reformer (b. 1860)
1930 - Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
1936 - Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck, Dutch prime minister (b. 1873)
1937 - Yi Sang, Korean Poet (b. 1910)
1941 - Al Bowlly, British dance band vocalist (b. 1899)
1942 - Jean Perrin, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
1944 - J.T. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1867)
1954 - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist (b. 1900)
1960 - Eddie Cochran, American musician (b. 1938)
1967 - Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
1975 - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher (b. 1888)
1976 - Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1977 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (b. 1913)
1983 - Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer (b. 1939) (Mountain)
1984 - Claude Provost, French Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1933)
1987 - Cecil Harmsworth King, owner of Mirror Group Newspapers (b. 1901)
1988 - Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (b. 1900)
1990 - Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights activist (b. 1936)
1993 - Turgut Ozal, 8th president of Turkey (b. 1927)
1994 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, American neurobiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
1995 - Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (b. 1928)
1997 - Piet Hein, Danish scientist and poet (b. 1905)
1997 - Allan Francovich, American documentarian
1998 - Linda McCartney, American-born wife of Paul McCartney (b. 1941)
2003 - Yiannis Latsis, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1910)
2003 - Earl King, American musician and songwriter (b. 1934)
2003 - Paul Getty, American-born philanthropist (b. 1932)
2003 - Robert Atkins, American dietician (b. 1930)
2004 - Edmond Pidoux, Swiss writer (b. 1908)
2004 - Soundarya, Indian actress (b. 1971)
2007 - Kitty Carlisle, American actress and television personality (b. 1910)
2008 - Aimé Césaire, French Martinican poet and politician (b. 1913)
2008 - Danny Federici, organ player for E-Street Band (b. 1950)
326 - Alexander of Alexandria, Patriarch of Alexandria
485 - Proclus, Greek philosopher (b. 412)
617 - Donnán of Eigg, Celtic Christian martyr, patron saint of Eigg

Famous Deaths on 16 Apr

Famous Deaths on 16 Apr

1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)
1118 - Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria
1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer
1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)
1689 - Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
1828 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
1850 - Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761)
1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
1879 - Bernadette Soubirous, French shepherd girl (b. 1844)
1888 - Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
1899 - Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b 1875)
1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
1904 - Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
1914 - George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
1928 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
1930 - José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
1947 - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
1968 - Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
1970 - Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
1972 - Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1978 - Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)
1985 - Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
1991 - David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)
1992 - Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919)
1992 - Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
1994 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1913)
1995 - Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
1995 - Arthur English, English actor and comedian (b. 1919)
1996 - Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1909)
1997 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
1997 - Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
1998 - Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
1999 - Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
2001 - Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
2002 - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
2002 - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
2003 - Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
2005 - Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
2005 - Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
2006 - Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
2007 - Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958)
2007 - Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
2007 - Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (b. 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre
2007 - Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
2007 - Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
2007 - Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
2007 - G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
2007 - Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics (b. 1930)
2008 - Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
2008 - Joseph Solman, American painter
69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
744 - al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
924 - Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy

Famous Deaths on 15 Apr

Famous Deaths on 15 Apr

1053 - Godwin, Earl of Wessex
1220 - Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne
1415 - Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian
1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)
1610 - Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
1621 - John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony
1632 - George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)
1641 - Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 - Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 - Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605)
1704 - Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628)
1719 - Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1754 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1761 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
1761 - Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
1764 - Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
1764 - Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (b. 1679)
1765 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711)
1788 - Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
1793 - Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
1804 - Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1854 - Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)
1888 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
1889 - Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
1898 - Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
1912 - William T. Stead American author and journalist. (b. 1849)
1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
1912 - Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
1927 - Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1938 - César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892)
1942 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880)
1943 - Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1882)
1945 - Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (b. 1895)
1948 - Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (d. 1892)
1949 - Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885)
1957 - Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1962 - Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1881)
1962 - Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)
1963 - Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
1969 - Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (b. 1887)
1970 - Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 - Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1974 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 - Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910)
1980 - Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
1980 - Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
1982 - Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
1983 - Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1984 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
1984 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1986 - Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910)

Famous Deaths on 14 Apr

Famous Deaths on 14 Apr

1132 - Mstislav of Kiev (b. 1076)
1279 - Boleslaus of Greater Poland
1322 - Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, English soldier (b. 1275)
1345 - Richard Aungerville, English bishop and writer (b. 1287)
1471 - Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English kingmaker (b. 1428)
1574 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (killed in battle) (b. 1538)
1578 - James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland
1599 - Henry Wallop, English statesman
1662 - William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman (b. 1582)
1682 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (b. 1621)
1716 - Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
1721 - Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
1759 - George Frideric Handel, German composer (b. 1685)
1785 - William Whitehead, English writer (b. 1715)
1792 - Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (b. 1720)
1910 - Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
1911 - Addie Joss, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1911 - Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
1912 - Henri Brisson, French statesman (b. 1835)
1914 - Hubert Bland, English co-founder of the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
1917 - Ludovich Lazarus Zamenhof, Polish creator of Esperanto (b. 1859)
1925 - John Singer Sargent, English artist (b. 1856)
1930 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian writer (b. 1893)
1935 - Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
1941 - Guillermo Kahlo, father of Frida Kahlo (b. 1871)
1950 - Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (b. 1879)
1964 - Rachel Carson, American environmentalist (b. 1907)
1964 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (b. 1876)
1968 - Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1975 - Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
1976 - José Revueltas, Mexican writer (b. 1914)
1983 - Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
1984 - Dionisis Papagiannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
1985 - Noele Gordon, English actress (b. 1919)
1986 - Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)
1988 - John Stonehouse, British politician (b. 1925)
1990 - Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
1994 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
1995 - Burl Ives, American singer and actor (b. 1909)
1999 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (b. 1931)
1999 - Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911)
2000 - Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player (b. 1910)
2000 - Phil Katz, American computer programmer (b. 1962)
2000 - Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
2001 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
2001 - Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
2004 - Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
2006 - Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
2007 - June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist (b. 1924)
2007 - Don Ho, American musician (b. 1930)
2008 - Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (b. 1918)
2008 - Ollie Johnston, the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men. (b. 1912)
2008 - Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)

Famous Deaths on 13 Apr

Famous Deaths on 13 Apr

1093 - Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
1279 - Boleslaw the Pious, Polish duke
1605 - Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (born c. 1551)
1612 - Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai
1635 - Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (b. 1572)
1638 - Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)
1641 - Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
1695 - Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)
1722 - Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (b. 1650)
1793 - Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
1794 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
1826 - Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763)
1853 - James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)
1853 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1855 - Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)
1868 - Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
1880 - Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
1882 - Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
1890 - Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)
1909 - Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
1910 - William Quiller Orchardson, British painter (b. 1835)
1911 - George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
1911 - John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
1912 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1918 - Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1936 - Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
1938 - Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
1941 - Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
1944 - Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857)
1945 - Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
1954 - Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
1959 - Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901)
1961 - John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)
1962 - Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876)
1966 - Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)
1966 - Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
1971 - Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
1971 - Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)
1975 - François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (b. 1918)
1975 - Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
1978 - Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (b. 1931)
1980 - Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
1981 - Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
1983 - Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)
1984 - Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
1984 - Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)
1984 - Richard Hurndall. British actor (b. 1910)
1986 - Stephen Stucker. American actor (b. 1947)
1993 - Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
1997 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
1997 - Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896)
1998 - Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (b. 1960)
1999 - Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
1999 - Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)
2000 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
2001 - Robert Moon, American postal inspector (b. 1917)
2002 - Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
2003 - Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver (b. 1956
2004 - Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2004 - Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
2005 - Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2005 - Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924)
2005 - Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2005 - Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
2006 - Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2007 - Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. circa 1936)
2008 - John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
799 - Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicler (born c. 720)
814 - Krum of Bulgaria

Famous Deaths on 12 Apr

Famous Deaths on 12 Apr

1125 - Vladislaus I of Bohemia
1443 - Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury
1550 - Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (b. 1496)
1555 - Juana of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (b. 1479)
1675 - Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
1687 - Ambrose Dixon, Virginia Colony pioneer
1704 - Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (b. 1627)
1748 - William Kent, English architect
1782 - Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (b. 1698)
1788 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (b. 1719)
1795 - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
1814 - Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726)
1850 - Adoniram Judson, American Baptist missionary (b. 1788)
1872 - Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (b. 1795)
1878 - William Marcy Tweed, aka Boss Tweed, American politician (b. 1823)
1898 - Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1820)
1902 - Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (b. 1842)
1912 - Clara Barton, American nurse and Red Cross advocate (b. 1821)
1938 - Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (b. 1873)
1945 - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (b. 1882)
1962 - Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (b. 1923)
1962 - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer (b. 1861)
1968 - Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer and Volkswagen director (b. 1899)
1971 - Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (b. 1931)
1971 - Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (b. 1871)
1971 - Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
1975 - Josephine Baker, American dancer (b. 1906)
1977 - Phil Wrigley, American manufacturer and baseball executive (b. 1894)
1980 - William R. Tolbert, Jr., President of Liberia (b. 1913)
1980 - Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards and snooker player (b. 1895)
1981 - Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)
1983 - Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1986 - Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (b. 1897)
1987 - Mike Von Erich, American wrestler
1988 - Alan Paton, South African writer (b. 1903)
1989 - Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (b. 1921)
1989 - Abbie Hoffman, American political leader (b. 1936)
1989 - Gerald Flood, British actor (b. 1927)
1999 - Boxcar Willie, American singer (b. 1931)
2001 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecil H. Green, American manufacturer (b. 1900)
2006 - Puggy Pearson, American poker player (b. 1929)
2006 - Dr. Rajkumar, Kannada language film actor/singer (India)(b. 1929)
2007 - Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (b. 1936)
2008 - Cecilia Colledge, British ice skater and Olympian (b. 1920)
2008 - Paddy Hillery, 6th President of Ireland, EEC Commissioner and Irish Minister (b. 1923)
2008 - Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (b. 1949)
238 - Gordian I, Roman Emperor (suicide)
238 - Gordian II, heir to the Roman Empire (killed in battle)
352 - St. Julius I, 35th Pope
434 - Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
45 BC - Gnaeus Pompeius, the Younger, Roman general
65 - Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman and dramatist

Famous Deaths on 11 Apr

Famous Deaths on 11 Apr

1034 - Romanus III, Byzantine emperor (b. 968)
1240 - Llywelyn the Great, King of Gwynedd
1554 - Thomas Wyatt the younger, English rebel (b. 1521)
1612 - Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian (b. 1535)
1612 - Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
1626 - Marin Getaldić, Croatian mathematician (b. 1568)
1712 - Richard Simon, French Biblical critic (b. 1638)
1723 - John Robinson, English diplomat (b. 1650)
1798 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1856 - Juan Santamaría, national hero of Costa Rica (b. 1831)
1861 - Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (b. 1824)
1873 - Edward Canby, U.S. general (b. 1817)
1890 - Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man" (b. 1862)
1894 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (b. 1832)
1906 - James Anthony Bailey, American circus impresario (b. 1847)
1906 - Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (b. 1839)
1908 - Henry Bird, English Chess player and author (b. 1829)
1916 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
1926 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (b. 1849)
1947 - Louise Peete, American murderess (b. 1880)
1953 - Kid Nichols, American baseball player (b. 1869)
1958 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (b. 1875)
1967 - Donald Sangster, Jamaican prime-minister (b. 1911)
1970 - Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)
1970 - John O'Hara, American author (b. 1905)
1977 - Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
1983 - Dolores del Rio, Mexican actress (b. 1905)
1985 - Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist dictator (b. 1908)
1985 - Bunny Ahearne, British ice hockey promoter (b. 1900)
1987 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (b. 1903)
1987 - Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (b. 1919)
1990 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
1990 - Harold Ballard, Canadian ice hockey club owner and executive (b. 1903)
1991 - Walker Cooper, American baseball player (b. 1915)
1992 - Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter (b. 1920)
1992 - Eve Merriam, American playwright, director, and poet (b. 1916)
1996 - Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)
2000 - Diana Darvey, British actress, singer and dancer (b. 1945)
2001 - Harry Secombe, Welsh actor and comedian (b. 1921)
2001 - Sandy Bull, American musician (b. 1941)
2003 - Cecil Howard Green, British geophysicist and businessman (b. 1900)
2005 - André François, French cartoonist (b. 1915)
2005 - Lucien Laurent, French footballer (b. 1907)
2006 - Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
2006 - June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (b. 1953)
2007 - Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor (b. 1925)
2007 - Kurt Vonnegut, American author (b. 1922)
2007 - Ronald Speirs, American Army officer(CO of Easy Company) (b. 1920)
2007 - Janet McDonald, American novelist (b. 1954)
2008 - Merlin German, United States Marine

Famous Deaths on 10 Apr

Famous Deaths on 10 Apr

1533 - King Frederick I of Denmark (b. 1471)
1545 - Costanzo Festa, Italian composer
1585 - Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
1599 - Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
1601 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (b. 1562)
1619 - Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin (b. c1550)
1640 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer (b. 1578)
1646 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
1704 - William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
1706 - Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)
1756 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (d. 1661)
1760 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (b. 1687)
1786 - John Byron, British naval officer (b. 1723)
1813 - Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian-born mathematician (b. 1736)
1823 - Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (b. 1757)
1862 - W.H.L. Wallace, American Union general (b. 1821)
1882 - Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English poet and painter (b. 1828)
1904 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (b. 1830)
1909 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet and critic (b. 1837)
1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary (b. 1879)
1920 - Moritz Cantor, German mathematician (b. 1829)
1931 - Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
1938 - Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b. 1885)
1945 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (b. 1887)
1945 - H.N. Werkman, Dutch artist and printer (b. 1882)
1954 - Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1888)
1954 - Auguste Lumière, French film pioneer (b. 1862)
1955 - Teilhard de Chardin, French paleontologist and theologian (b. 1881)
1958 - Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1962 - Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (b. 1886)
1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, English musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
1965 - Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (b. 1928)
1965 - Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
1966 - Evelyn Waugh, English writer (b. 1903)
1968 - Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
1969 - Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (b. 1893)
1975 - Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)
1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
1980 - Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
1986 - Linda Creed, American songwriter (b. 1948)
1991 - Kevin Peter Hall, American actor (b. 1955)
1991 - Natalie Schafer, American actress (b. 1900)
1992 - Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
1993 - Chris Hani, South African activist (b. 1942)
1994 - Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
1995 - Morarji Desai, Indian activist (b. 1896)
1997 - Michael Dorris, American author (b. 1945)
1999 - Jean Vander Pyl, American voice actress (b. 1919)
1999 - Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist (b. 1910)
2000 - Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (b. 1928)
2000 - Peter Jones, English actor (b. 1920)
2000 - Larry Linville, American actor (b. 1939)
2003 - Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
2005 - Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
2005 - Iakovos, Archbishop of America (b. 1911)
2005 - Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (b. 1923)
2007 - Dakota Staton, American singer (b. 1930)
879 - Louis the Stammerer, King of the West Franks (b. 846)
948 - King Hugh of Italy

Famous Deaths on 9 Apr

Famous Deaths on 9 Apr

1024 - Pope Benedict VIII
1137 - William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
1483 - King Edward IV of England (b. 1442)
1484 - Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473)
1492 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesmen (b. 1449)
1553 - François Rabelais, French writer
1557 - Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar (b. ca. 1510)
1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)
1654 - Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)
1693 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
1747 - Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
1754 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (b. 1679)
1761 - William Law, British minister (b. 1686)
1804 - Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)
1806 - William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (b. 1748)
1872 - Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
1876 - Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
1889 - Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
1909 - Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
1917 - James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
1936 - Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
1940 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, British actress (b. 1865)
1944 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (b. 1920)
1945 - Georg Elser, failed assassin of Hitler (b. 1903)
1945 - Wilhelm Canaris, German Admiral (b. 1887)
1945 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian (b. 1906)
1948 - George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872)
1948 - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
1951 - Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (b. 1862)
1959 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
1961 - King Zog of Albania (b. 1895)
1963 - Eddie Edwards, American jazz trombonist (b. 1891)
1970 - Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)
1976 - Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (b. 1903)
1976 - Phil Ochs, American singer (b. 1940)
1978 - Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (b.1883)
1982 - Wilfrid Pelletier, French Canadian conductor (b. 1896)
1988 - David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave) (b. 1937)
1988 - Brook Benton, American singer (b. 1931)
1991 - Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
1996 - Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)
1996 - James W. Rouse, American real estate developer, activist, and philanthropist (b. 1914)
1997 - Helene Hanff, American writer (b. 1916)
1997 - Mae Boren Axton, American singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
1998 - Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
1999 - Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
2001 - Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
2002 - Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2002 - Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
2006 - Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (b. 1924)
2006 - Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)
2007 - Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
491 - Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
715 - Pope Constantine
93 - Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty

Famous Deaths on 8 Apr

Famous Deaths on 8 Apr

1143 - John II Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1087)
1364 - King John II of France (b. 1319)
1461 - Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
1586 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)
1587 - John Foxe, English writer (b. 1516)
1691 - Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1611)
1697 - Niels Juel, Danish admiral (b. 1629)
1704 - Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)
1704 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (b. 1624)
1725 - John Wise, English clergyman (b. 1652)
1735 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (b. March 27, 1676)
1848 - Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
1857 - Mangal Pandey, Indian soldier (b. 1827)
1861 - Elisha Otis, American elevator builder (b. 1811)
1870 - Charles de Bériot, Belgian composer (b. 1802)
1919 - Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist (b. 1848)
1920 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (b. 1884)
1931 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1864)
1936 - Robert Bárány, Austrian physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1942 - Kostas Skarvelis, Greek songwriter (b. 1880)
1950 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish-born ballet dancer (b. 1890)
1958 - Ethel Turner, Australian author (b. 1872)
1965 - Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
1973 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist and sculptor (b. 1881)
1974 - James Charles McGuigan, Catholic archbishop of Toronto (b. 1894)
1978 - Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (b. 1894)
1981 - Omar Bradley, U.S. general (b. 1893)
1984 - Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1894)
1985 - J. Fred Coots, American songwriter (b. 1897)
1986 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)
1990 - Ryan White, American AIDS activist (b. 1971)
1991 - Dead (musician), Swedish metal singer (b. 1969)
1992 - Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1907)
1993 - Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
1994 - François Rozet, French Canadian actor (b. 1899)
1996 - León Klimovsky, Argentine film director (b. 1906)
1996 - Ben Johnson, American actor (b. 1918)
1996 - George W. Jenkins, American businessman (b. 1907)
1997 - Laura Nyro, American singer and composer (b. 1947)
2000 - Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
2002 - María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
2004 - Enda Colleran, Gaelic footballer (b. 1941)
2005 - Eddie Miksis, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2005 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (b. 1924)
2006 - Gerard Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Carey W. Barber, a member of Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1905)
2007 - Sol LeWitt, American artist (b. 1928)
2008 - John Button, Australian politician (b. 1933)
2008 - Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (b. 1928)
2008 - Stanley Kamel, American actor (b. 1943)
217 - Caracalla, Roman Emperor (b. 186)
956 - Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy

Famous Deaths on 7 Apr

Famous Deaths on 7 Apr

1307 - Joan of Acre, daughter of Edward I of England (b. 1271)
1498 - King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
1614 - El Greco, Greek-born artist (b. 1541)
1638 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
1651 - Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (b. 1603)
1658 - Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (b. 1595)
1661 - Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (b. 1604)
1663 - Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (b. c. 1583)
1668 - William Davenant, English poet (b. 1606)
1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French saint (b. 1651)
1739 - Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1706)
1747 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)
1761 - Thomas Bayes, English mathematician (b. 1702)
1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)
1767 - Franz Sparry, composer (b. 1715)
1782 - Taksin, King of Thailand (b. 1734)
1789 - Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (b. 1722)
1789 - Abd-ul-Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1725)
1801 - Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer (b. 1724)
1804 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary (b. 1743)
1811 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
1823 - Jacques Charles, French chemist (b. 1746)
1833 - Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish politician (b. 1775)
1836 - William Godwin, English political writer (b. 1756)
1850 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)
1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (b. 1781)
1868 - D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (b. 1825)
1871 - Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
1885 - Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
1891 - P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (b. 1810)
1920 - Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841)
1928 - Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (b. 1873)
1939 - Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
1943 - Jovan Dučić, Serbian poet
1943 - Alexandre Millerand, President of France (b. 1859)
1947 - Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (b. 1863)
1950 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (b. 1884)
1955 - Theda Bara, American film actress (b. 1885)
1968 - Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (b. 1936)
1981 - Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (b. 1935)
1981 - Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899)
1982 - Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (b. 1948)
1982 - Brenda Benet, American actress (b. 1945)
1984 - Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho (b. 1924)
1990 - Ronald Evans, American astronaut (b. 1933)
1992 - Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1903)
1994 - Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (b. 1923)
1994 - Golo Mann, German historian (b. 1909)
1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910)
1997 - Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
1997 - Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (b. 1923)
1998 - Broery Marantika, Indonesian singer
2001 - David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
2001 - Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
2002 - John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (b. 1903)
2003 - David Greene, British television director (b. 1921)
2004 - Victor Argo, American actor (b. 1934)
2005 - Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (b. 1922)
2005 - Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2005 - Cliff Allison, British racing driver (b. 1932)
2007 - Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
2007 - Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
2007 - Diego Corrales, American boxer (b. 1977)

Famous Deaths on 6 Apr

Famous Deaths on 6 Apr

1147 - Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
1199 - King Richard I of England (b. 1157)
1199 - Pierre Basile, French soldier
1362 - James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)
1490 - King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
1520 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (b. 1483)
1528 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist (b. 1471)
1551 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
1571 - John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician
1590 - Francis Walsingham, English spymaster
1605 - John Stow, English historian
1655 - David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
1686 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
1707 - Willem van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
1755 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
1825 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
1829 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
1833 - Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (b. 1748)
1838 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist (b. 1763)
1862 - Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803)
1883 - Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
1906 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
1933 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
1935 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)
1947 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
1953 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
1961 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
1970 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
1970 - Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
1971 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
1974 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b.1895)
1974 - Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
1976 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
1992 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
1994 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
1994 - Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician (b. 1937)
1996 - Greer Garson, Irish actress (b. 1904)
1998 - Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
1998 - Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
1999 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
2000 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
2001 - Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)
2003 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure (b. 1912)
2003 - David Bloom, American reporter (b. 1963)
2004 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
2004 - Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)
2005 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
2006 - Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
2006 - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)
2007 - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
885 - Saint Methodius (b. ca.815)

Famous Deaths on 5 Apr

Famous Deaths on 5 Apr

1168 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)
1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
1605 - Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513)
1617 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
1673 - François Caron, French explorer (b. 1600)
1676 - John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
1693 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
1695 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer (b. 1633)
1697 - King Charles XI of Sweden (b. 1655)
1717 - Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
1735 - William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
1735 - Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662)
1765 - Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
1794 - Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (b. 1760)
1794 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
1900 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)
1928 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
1941 - Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
1943 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
1945 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (b. 1897)
1945 - Huldreich Georg Früh (b. 1903)
1946 - Vincent Youmans, American songwriter (b. 1898)
1952 - Charles Collett, GWR chief mechanical engineer (b. 1871)
1964 - General Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
1967 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1891)
1969 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (b. 1903)
1969 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917)
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
1972 - Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
1973 - John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
1974 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
1976 - Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
1976 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
1979 - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
1981 - Bob Hite, American singer (Canned Heat) (b. 1945)
1982 - Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
1983 - Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (b. 1941)
1989 - María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
1991 - John Tower, American politician (b. 1925)
1991 - Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
1992 - Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)
1992 - Sam Walton, American retailer (b. 1918)
1994 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
1998 - Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947)
1999 - Paul David, French-Canadian cardiologist (b. 1919)
2000 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
2001 - Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906)
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)
2004 - Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2004 - SÅ‚awomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (b. 1915)
2005 - Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (b. 1906)
2005 - John Sichel, British film and television director (b. 1937)
2005 - Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953)
2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2006 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
2007 - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss)(b. 1956)
2007 - Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
2007 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
2008 - Charlton Heston, American Actor (b. 1923)
582 - Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 512)

Famous Deaths on 4 Apr

Famous Deaths on 4 Apr

1284 - King Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
1292 - Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
1305 - Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. circa 1217)
1536 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
1588 - King Frederick II of Denmark (b. 1534)
1609 - Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
1617 - John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
1643 - Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (b. 1583)
1661 - Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. circa 1580)
1701 - Joseph Haines, entertainer and author
1743 - Daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678)
1761 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
1766 - John Taylor, English classical scholar (b. 1704)
1774 - Oliver Goldsmith, English writer (b. 1728)
1792 - James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
1807 - Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, French astronomer (b. 1732)
1817 - André Masséna, Duke of Rivoli, Prince of Essling and Marshal of France (b. 1758)
1841 - William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
1846 - Solomon Sibley, American senator from Michigan Territory (b. 1769)
1861 - John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1785)
1863 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
1864 - Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
1870 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
1874 - Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
1878 - Richard Brewer, American gunslinger/cowboy (b. 1850)
1879 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
1883 - Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791)
1884 - Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist and diarist (b. 1860)
1890 - Edmond Hébert, French geologist (b. 1812)
1890 - Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Quebec politician (b. 1820)
1919 - William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
1923 - John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
1929 - Karl Benz, German engine designer, inventor, and automobile engineer (b. 1844)
1931 - André Michelin, French industrialist (b. 1853)
1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1947 - William O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. ?)
1951 - George Albert Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (b. 1870)
1951 - Al Christie, Canadian film director and producer (b. 1881)
1953 - King Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
1957 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
1958 - Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (b. 1925)
1961 - Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
1962 - James Hanratty, executed at Bedford Prison, England, for the murder of Michael Gregsten (b. 1936)
1967 - Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
1967 - Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
1972 - Stefan Wolpe, German composer (b. 1902)
1972 - Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American politician (b. 1908)
1976 - Harry Nyquist, Swedish contributor to information theory (b. 1889)
1979 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1928)
1979 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
1980 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (b. 1917)
1983 - Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1897)
1984 - Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer (b. 1906)
1985 - Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (b. 1891)
1987 - C.L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
1987 - Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist master (b. 1939)
1991 - H. John Heinz III, U.S. Senator (b. 1938)
1991 - Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
1991 - Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
1991 - Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
1992 - Yvette Brind'Amour, French Canadian stage actress and artistic director (b. 1918)
1992 - Arthur Russell, American cellist (b. 1951)
1993 - Alfred Butts, American architect and inventor (Scrabble) (b. 1899)
1995 - Kenny Everett, British radio DJ and television entertainer (b. 1944)
1995 - Priscilla Lane, American singer and actress (b. 1915)
1996 - Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1996 - Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
1999 - Faith Domergue, American actor (b. 1924)
1999 - Early Wynn, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2001 - Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American custom car designer (b. 1932)
2002 - Harry L. O'Connor, Czech film stuntman
2003 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (b. 1916)
2003 - Resortes, Mexican comedian (b. 1916)
2004 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier, son of Cindy Sheehan (b. 1979)
2004 - Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (b. 1919)
2005 - Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1924)
2005 - Pope John Paul II, Polish Roman Catholic Pope (b. 1920)
2007 - Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (b. 1927)
2007 - Bob Clark, American film director (b. 1941)
2008 - Francis Tucker, South African Rally Driver (b. 1923)
397 - St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (b. circa 338)
636 - Saint Isidore of Seville, Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet (b. cira 560)
896 - Pope Formosus (b. 816)

Famous Deaths on 3 Apr

Famous Deaths on 3 Apr

1287 - Pope Honorius IV, Pope for two years from 1285 to 1287 (b. circa 1210)
1350 - Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
1606 - Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
1680 - Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, India (b. 1630)
1682 - Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)
1691 - Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608)
1695 - Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. circa 1636)
1717 - Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
1728 - James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662)
1792 - George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
1804 - Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest (b. 1727/1728)
1827 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756)
1849 - Juliusz SÅ‚owacki, Polish poet (b. 1809)
1868 - Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and inventor (b. 1796)
1882 - Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
1897 - Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
1901 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, British impresario (b. 1844)
1930 - Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
1932 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1936 - Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh III (b. 1899)
1943 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893)
1950 - Carter G. Woodson, African-American historian, author, journalist and founder of Black History Month (b. 1875)
1950 - Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900)
1952 - Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician, first female Finnish minister (b. 1866)
1965 - Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (born 1897 or 1898)
1971 - Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
1972 - Ferde Grofé, American composer (b. 1882)
1975 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
1978 - Ray Noble, English bandleader and composer (b. 1903)
1981 - Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (b. 1899)
1982 - Warren Oates, American character actor (b. 1928)
1986 - Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)
1987 - Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
1988 - Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (b. 1907)
1990 - Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924)
1991 - Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)
1991 - Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
1993 - Pinky Lee, American comic and children's television host (b. 1907)
1994 - Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (b. 1932)
1995 - Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman (Canadian Tire) (b. 1902)
1996 - Ron Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
1996 - Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1927)
1998 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900)
1999 - Lionel Bart, English composer (Oliver!) (b. 1930)
2000 - Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946)
2002 - Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
2003 - Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)
2005 - Tony Croatto, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2007 - Marion Eames, Welsh novelist (b. 1921)
2007 - Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (b. 1937)
2007 - Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
2008 - Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian football player (b. 1983)
963 - William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)