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)