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