Famous Deaths on 2 Apr

Famous Deaths on 2 Apr

1118 - Baldwin I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem (b. circa 1058)
1272 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
1335 - Duke Henry of Carinthia (b. circa 1265)
1412 - Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer (b. ????)
1502 - Prince Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England (b. 1486)
1507 - Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
1657 - Jean-Jacques Olier - French catholic priest, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (b. 1608)
1657 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1608)
1720 - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
1742 - James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
1747 - Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)
1754 - Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
1787 - Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
1791 - Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)
1801 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer (b. circa 1761)
1803 - Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician and judge (b. 1721)
1817 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)
1827 - Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
1845 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763)
1865 - General A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
1872 - Samuel F. B. Morse, American painter and inventor of the telegraph (b. 1791)
1882 - Jesse James, American outlaw, shot in the back of the head by Robert Ford (b. 1847)
1902 - Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)
1914 - Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1830)
1922 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
1928 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1868)
1930 - Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
1936 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
1953 - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
1958 - Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900)
1966 - C. S. Forester, English author (b. 1899)
1972 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
1972 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese Martial Arts Grandmaster (b. 1887)
1972 - Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
1974 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
1987 - Buddy Rich, American drummer (b. 1917)
1992 - Juan Gómez González, Spanish footballplayer (b. 1954)
1992 - Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
1994 - Betty Furness, American actress (b. 1916)
1995 - Harvey Penick, American golf instructor (b. 1904)
1995 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (b. 1908)
1998 - Rob Pilatus, American model and entertainer (Milli Vanilli) (b. 1965)
2000 - Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (b. 1928)
2001 - Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972)
2001 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
2003 - Edwin Starr, American singer (b. 1942)
2004 - John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (b. 1913)
2005 - Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
2006 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)