Did you know about Bernie Madoff
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier, con artist, and stock broker who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion.
Notable Deaths on April 14
April 14 has 114 recorded notable deaths across history, from 911 to 2025. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
2021 — Bernie Madoff
American mastermind of the world's largest Ponzi scheme (born 1938)
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Did you know about Peter Steele
Peter Thomas Ratajczyk, known professionally as Peter Steele, was an American musician who was the lead vocalist, bassist, and composer of the gothic metal band Type O Negative.
Did you know about Simone de Beauvoir
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
Did you know about Anthony Newley
Newley won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "What Kind of Fool Am I?", sung by Sammy Davis Jr., and wrote "Feeling Good", which became a signature hit for Nina Simone.
Did you know about John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent made roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.
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2010
Peter Steele
American singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1962)
Peter Thomas Ratajczyk, known professionally as Peter Steele, was an American musician who was the lead vocalist, bassist, and composer of the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Before forming Type O Negative, Steele had formed the heavy metal band Fallout and the thrash metal band Carnivore.
1986
Simone de Beauvoir
French novelist and philosopher (born 1908)
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.
1999
Anthony Newley
English singer-songwriter and actor (born 1931)
Anthony Newley was an English actor, director, comedian, singer, and composer. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 he scored a dozen entries on the UK Singles Chart, including two number one hits. Newley won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "What Kind of Fool Am I?", sung by Sammy Davis Jr., and wrote "Feeling Good", which became a signature hit for Nina Simone. His songs have been sung by a wide variety of singers including Fiona Apple, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé, and Mariah Carey.
1925
John Singer Sargent
American painter (born 1856)
John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Belle Époque and Edwardian-era luxury. He made roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Capri, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.
1975
Fredric March
American actor (born 1897)
Fredric March was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. As a performer he was known for his versatility. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, two Tony Awards, two Volpi Cups, the Silver Bear, as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and three Emmy Awards.
1943
Yakov Dzhugashvili
Georgian-Russian lieutenant (born 1907)
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was a Georgian-born Soviet engineer and Red Army officer. He was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth.
1471
Richard Neville
16th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman, known as "the Kingmaker" (born 1428)
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury, known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, landowner of the House of Neville fortune and military commander. The eldest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, he became Earl of Warwick through marriage, and was the wealthiest and most powerful English peer of his age, with political connections that went beyond the country's borders. One of the principal leaders in the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), originally on the Yorkist side but later switching to the Lancastrian side, he was instrumental in the rise of a king and the deposition of two, which led to his epithet of "Kingmaker".
1999
Ellen Corby
American actress and screenwriter (born 1911)
Ellen Hansen Corby was an American actress and screenwriter. She performed in over 200 films and television series from the 1930s to the 1990s. She played the role of Esther "Grandma" Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948).
1950
Ramana Maharshi
Indian guru and philosopher (born 1879)
Ramana Maharshi was an Indian Hindu sage widely regarded by his followers and by "most advocates of Advaita" as a jivanmukta. He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.
1964
Rachel Carson
American biologist and author (born 1907)
Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.
1935
Emmy Noether
German-American mathematician and academic (born 1882)
Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra and mathematical physics. As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she developed theories of rings, fields, and algebras. She also proved Noether's first and second theorems, which play a fundamental role in mathematical physics, by explaining the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.
2012
Jonathan Frid
Canadian actor (born 1924)
John Herbert Frid, known as Jonathan Frid, was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden vampire caused the floundering daytime drama to soar to 20 million daily viewers. His watershed portrayal has been cited as a key influence on contemporary genre film and television series such as Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries.
1963
Rahul Sankrityayan
Indian monk and historian (born 1893)
Rahul Sankrityayan was an Indian author, essayist, playwright, historian, and scholar of Buddhism who wrote in Hindi and Bhojpuri. Known as the "father of Hindi travel literature", Sankrityayan played a pivotal role in giving Hindi travelogue a literary form. He was one of the most widely travelled scholars of India, spending forty-five years away from his home, exploring regions such as Russia, Tibet, China, and Central Asia.
1578
James Hepburn
4th Earl of Bothwell, English husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1534)
James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell, better known simply as Lord Bothwell, was the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. He was accused of the murder of Mary's second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, a charge of which he was acquitted. His marriage to Mary was controversial and divided the country; when he fled the growing rebellion to Norway, he was arrested and lived the rest of his life imprisoned in Denmark.
1930
Vladimir Mayakovsky
Georgian-Russian actor, playwright, and poet (born 1893)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. He co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and wrote such poems as A Cloud in Trousers (1915) and Backbone Flute (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.
2019
Bibi Andersson
Swedish actress (born 1935)
Berit Elisabet "Bibi" Andersson was a Swedish actress, best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She received numerous accolades for her work, including four Guldbagge Awards, and Best Actress Awards from both the Cannes and Berlin film festivals. One of the greatest European Cinema actresses of all time, her performance in Avant-garde psychological thriller Persona is considered one of the best female acting performances in movie history as well as the finest role of her career.
1962
M. Visvesvaraya
Indian engineer and scholar (born 1860)
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, also referred to by his initials, MV, was an Indian civil engineer, administrator, and statesman, who served as the 19th Dewan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918.
2022
Mike Bossy
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (born 1957)
Michael Dean Bossy was a Canadian professional ice hockey player with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League (NHL). He spent his entire NHL career, which lasted from 1977 to 1987, with the Islanders, and was a crucial part of their four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.
2010
Israr Ahmed
Pakistani theologian and scholar (born 1932)
Dr. Israr Ahmad was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, theologian and orator. He developed a following in Pakistan and the rest of South Asia and also among some South Asian Muslims in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America. He founded Tanzeem-e-Islami and also served as a member of the National Assembly from 1981 to 1982.
2007
Don Ho
American singer and ukulele player (born 1930)
Donald Tai Loy Ho was an American traditional pop musician, singer, and entertainer. He is best known for the song "Tiny Bubbles" from the 1966 album of the same name.
2023
Mark Sheehan
Irish guitarist (The Script) (born 1976)
Mark Anthony Sheehan was an Irish musician. From 1996 to 2001, he was a member of the boy band Mytown. In 2001, he co-founded and played lead guitar for pop rock band The Script, which he stayed in until his death in 2023.
1983
Pete Farndon
English bassist (The Pretenders) (born 1952)
Peter Granville Farndon was an English bassist and founding member of the rock band the Pretenders. In addition to playing bass with the group, Farndon sang backup vocals and co-wrote two of the group's songs, before a drug problem resulted in his dismissal from the group in 1982 and his death less than a year later.
2025
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Malaysian civil servant and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1939)
Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi, also known as Pak Lah, was a Malaysian politician and civil servant who served as the fifth prime minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009. A member of UMNO, he was the party's president from 2004 to 2009 and led the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition during his premiership.
2015
Percy Sledge
American singer (born 1940)
Percy Tyrone Sledge was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song "When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, gold-certified disc from the RIAA.
2001
Jim Baxter
Scottish footballer (born 1939)
James Curran Baxter was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a left half. He is generally regarded as one of the country's greatest ever players. He was born, educated and started his career in Fife, but his peak playing years were in the early 1960s with the Glasgow club Rangers, whom he helped to win ten trophies between 1960 and 1965, and where he became known as "Slim Jim". However, he started drinking heavily during a four-month layoff caused by a leg fracture in December 1964, his fitness suffered, and he was transferred to Sunderland in summer 1965. In two and a half years at Sunderland he played 98 games and scored 12 goals, becoming known for drinking himself unconscious the night before a match and playing well the next day. At the end of 1967 Sunderland transferred him to Nottingham Forest, who gave him a free transfer back to Rangers in 1969 after 50 games. After a further year with Rangers Baxter retired from football in 1970, at the age of 31.
2013
R. P. Goenka
Indian businessman, founded RPG Group (born 1930)
Rama Prasad Goenka was the founder and chairman Emeritus of the RPG Group, a multi-sector Indian industrial conglomerate. Born in 1930, he was the eldest son of Keshav Prasad Goenka and grandson of Badridas Goenka, the first Indian to be appointed Chairman of the Imperial Bank of India. His two younger brothers were Jagdish Prasad and Gouri Prasad. On Keshav Prasad Goenka's death, his businesses were split between the three brothers. Rama Prasad Goenka, established RPG Enterprises in 1979.
2010
Alice Miller
Polish-French psychologist and author (born 1923)
Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual. Her 1979 book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential in the fields of child development, psychotherapy, and trauma. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.
2001
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1927)
Hiroshi Teshigahara was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era. He is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes. He is also known for directing other titles such as The Face of Another (1966), Natsu no Heitai, and Pitfall (1962), which was Teshigahara's directorial debut. He has been called "one of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time". Teshigahara is the first person of Asian descent to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, accomplishing this in 1964 for his work on Woman in the Dunes. Apart from being a filmmaker, Teshigahara also practiced other arts, such as calligraphy, pottery, painting, opera and ikebana.
1983
Gianni Rodari
Italian journalist and author (born 1920)
Giovanni Francesco "Gianni" Rodari was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his works of children's literature, notably Il romanzo di Cipollino. For his lasting contribution as a children's author, he received the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1970. He is considered Italy's most important 20th-century children's author, and his books have been translated into many languages, though few have been published in English.
1132
Mstislav I of Kiev (born 1076)
Mstislav I Vladimirovich Monomakh (Old East Slavic: Мьстиславъ Володимѣровичъ Мономахъ, romanized: Mĭstislavŭ Volodiměrovičŭ Monomakhŭ; Christian name: Theodore (Fedor); February 1076 – 14 April 1132), also known as Mstislav the Great, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1125 until his death in 1132. After his death, the state began to quickly disintegrate into rival principalities.
1978
F. R. Leavis
English educator and critic (born 1895)
Frank Raymond "F. R." Leavis was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge, and later at the University of York.
1682
Avvakum
Russian priest and saint (born 1620)
Avvakum Petrov was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. His autobiography and letters to the tsar and other Old Believers such as Feodosia Morozova are considered masterpieces of 17th-century Russian literature.
2008
Ollie Johnston
American animator and voice actor (born 1912)
Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving one. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.
1911
Addie Joss
American baseball player and journalist (born 1880)
Adrian "Addie" Joss, nicknamed "the Human Hairpin", was an American professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Cleveland Bronchos of Major League Baseball, later known as the Naps, between 1902 and 1910. Joss, who was 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg), pitched the fourth perfect game in baseball history. His 1.89 career earned run average (ERA) is the second-lowest in MLB history, behind Ed Walsh, while his career WHIP of 0.968 is the lowest of all-time.
1488
Girolamo Riario
Lord of Imola and Forli (born 1443)
Girolamo Riario was Lord of Imola and Count of Forlì. He served as Captain General of the Church under his uncle Pope Sixtus IV. He was one of the organizers of the failed 1478 Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici family, the rulers of Florence, and was assassinated 10 years later by members of the Forlivese Orsi family.
1910
Mikhail Vrubel
Russian painter and sculptor (born 1856)
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. A prolific and innovative master in various media such as painting, drawing, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art, Vrubel is generally characterized as one of the most important artists in Russian symbolist tradition and a pioneering figure of Modernist art.
2009
Maurice Druon
French author (born 1918)
Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.
2012
Émile Bouchard
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1919)
Joseph Émile Alcide "Butch" Bouchard was a Canadian ice hockey player who played defence with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1941 to 1956. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, won four Stanley Cups, was captain of the Canadiens for eight years, and was voted to the NHL All-Star team four times. Although having a reputation as a clean player, he was also one of the strongest players and best body-checkers of his era. He excelled as a defensive defenceman, had superior passing skills, and was known for his leadership and mentoring of younger players. In his early years in the NHL, Bouchard, among other players, made a major contribution to reinvigorating what was at the time an ailing Canadien franchise.
2000
Phil Katz
American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (born 1962)
Phillip Walter Katz was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS.
1433
Lidwina
Dutch saint (born 1380)
Lidwina was a Dutch mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. She is the patroness saint of the town of Schiedam, of chronic pain, and of ice skating.
2012
Piermario Morosini
Italian footballer (born 1986)
Piermario Morosini was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. On 14 April 2012, during a match between Pescara and Livorno, Morosini suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch.
1978
Joe Gordon
American baseball player and manager (born 1915)
Joseph Lowell Gordon, nicknamed "Flash", in reference to the comic-book character Flash Gordon, was an American second baseman, coach and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians from 1938 to 1950. He was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009.
1938
Gillis Grafström
Swedish figure skater and architect (born 1893)
Gillis Emanuel Grafström was a Swedish figure skater. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won three successive Olympic gold medals in Men's Figure Skating as well as an Olympic silver medal in the same event in 1932, and three World Championships. Grafström is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games. He and Eddie Eagan are the only athletes to have won gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, although Eagan remains the only one to have managed the feat in different disciplines. He is one of the oldest figure skating Olympic champions.
1345
Richard de Bury
English bishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of The United Kingdom (born 1287)
Richard de Bury, also known as Richard Aungerville or Aungervyle, was an English priest, teacher, bishop, writer, and bibliophile. He was a patron of learning and one of the first English collectors of books. He is chiefly remembered for his Philobiblon, written to inculcate in the clergy the pursuit of learning and the love of books. The Philobiblon is considered one of the earliest books to discuss librarianship in-depth. Completed shortly before de Bury's death in 1345, the book wasn't published until 1473, and this "little treatise" as he described it, has been regularly reprinted in every century following.
2024
Ken Holtzman
American baseball player (born 1945)
Kenneth Dale Holtzman was an American professional baseball player and coach. He was a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1965 through 1979 for the Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and New York Yankees.
2014
Wally Olins
English businessman and academic (born 1930)
Wallace Olins CBE was a British branding consultant specializing in corporate identity and branding. He co-founded Wolff Olins and Saffron Brand Consultants and served as chairman of both. Olins advised organisations on identity, branding, communication and related matters, including 3i, Akzo Nobel, Repsol, Q8, the Portuguese Tourist Board, BT, Renault, Volkswagen, Tata and Lloyd's of London. He also advised McKinsey and Bain. He pioneered the concept of the nation as a brand and worked on branding projects for a number of cities and countries, including London, Mauritius, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal and Lithuania.
1843
Joseph Lanner
Austrian violinist and composer (born 1801)
Joseph Lanner was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake. He was just as famous as his friend and musical rival Johann Strauss I, who was better known outside of Austria in their day because of his concert tours abroad, in particular to France and England.
1322
Bartholomew de Badlesmere
1st Baron Badlesmere, English soldier and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1275)
Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere was an English soldier, diplomat, member of parliament, landowner and nobleman. He was the son and heir of Sir Gunselm de Badlesmere and Joan FitzBernard. He fought in the English army both in France and Scotland during the later years of the reign of Edward I of England and the earlier part of the reign of Edward II of England. He was executed after participating in an unsuccessful rebellion led by Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster.
2014
Nina Cassian
Romanian poet and critic (born 1924)
Nina Cassian was a Romanian poet, children's book writer, translator, journalist, accomplished pianist and composer, and film critic. She spent the first sixty years of her life in Romania until she moved to the United States in 1985 for a teaching job. A few years later Cassian was granted permanent asylum and New York City became her home for the rest of her life. Much of her work was published both in Romanian and in English.
1070
Gerard
Duke of Lorraine (born c. 1030)
Gerard, also known as Gerard the Wonderful, was a Lotharingian nobleman. He was the count of Metz and Châtenois from 1047 to 1048, when his brother Duke Adalbert resigned them to him upon his becoming the Duke of Upper Lorraine. On Adalbert's death the next year, Gerard became duke, a position that he held until his death. In contemporary documents, he is called Gerard of Alsace, Gerard of Chatenoy, or Gerard of Flanders.
1279
Bolesław the Pious
Duke of Greater Poland (born 1224)
Bolesław the Pious was a Duke of Greater Poland during 1239–1247, Duke of Kalisz during 1247–1249, Duke of Gniezno during 1249–1250, Duke of Gniezno-Kalisz during 1253–1257, Duke of the whole of Greater Poland and Poznań during 1257–1273, in 1261 ruler over Ląd, regent of the Duchies of Mazovia, Płock and Czersk during 1262–1264, ruler over Bydgoszcz during 1268–1273, Duke of Inowrocław during 1271–1273, and Duke of Gniezno-Kalisz from 1273 until his death.
2008
Tommy Holmes
American baseball player and manager (born 1917)
Thomas Francis Holmes was an American right and center fielder and manager in Major League Baseball who played nearly his entire career for the Boston Braves. He hit over .300 lifetime (.302) and every year from 1944 through 1948, peaking with a .352 mark in 1945 when he finished second in the National League batting race and was runner-up for the NL's Most Valuable Player Award.
2000
Wilf Mannion
English footballer (born 1918)
Wilfrid James Mannion was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward, making over 350 senior appearances for Middlesbrough. He also played international football for England. With his blonde hair, he was nicknamed "The Golden Boy".
1609
Gasparo da Salò
Italian violin maker (born 1540)
Gasparo da Salò is the name given to Gasparo Bertolotti, one of the earliest violin makers and an expert double bass player. Around 80 of his instruments are known to have survived to the present day: violins, alto and tenor violas, viols, violones and double basses, violas designed with only a pair of corners, and ceteras.
2013
Armando Villanueva
Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (born 1915)
Armando Villanueva del Campo was a Peruvian politician who was the leader of the Peruvian American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. Born in Lima, his parents were Pedro Villanueva Urquijo, a gynecologist in the city, and Carmen Rosa Portal del Campo. His only legitimate sibling was his older brother Ing. Pedro Villanueva del Campo Portal.
2022
Ilkka Kanerva
Finnish politician (born 1948)
Ilkka Armas Mikael Kanerva was a Finnish politician and a member of the Parliament of Finland. He was born in Lokalahti, now a part of Uusikaupunki in Southwest Finland. He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008. Kanerva was a member of the National Coalition Party.
2015
Roberto Tucci
Italian cardinal and theologian (born 1921)
Roberto Tucci, SJ was an Italian Catholic theologian, journalist, and Jesuit priest. He played an important role at the Second Vatican Council and organized foreign trips taken by Pope John Paul II. He was made a cardinal in 2001, and continued to prefer being addressed as "Padre Tucci".
1888
Emil Czyrniański
Polish chemist (born 1824)
Emilian Czyrniański was a Polish chemist of Lemko descent, science writer, rector of the Jagiellonian University and co-founder of the Polish Academy of Learning. He is responsible for developing chemical nomenclature in Polish. One of his grandsons was the highly influential political activist and writer, Józef Retinger.
2013
Colin Davis
English conductor and educator (born 1927)
Sir Colin Rex Davis was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.
1662
William Fiennes
1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (born 1582)
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele was an English nobleman and politician. He was a leading critic of Charles I's rule during the 1620s and 1630s. He was known also for his involvement in several companies for setting up overseas colonies.
1919
Auguste-Réal Angers
Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1837)
Sir Auguste-Réal Angers was a Canadian judge and parliamentarian, holding seats both as a member of the House of Commons of Canada, and as a Senator. He was born in 1837 probably in Quebec City and died in Westmount, Quebec, in 1919.
2013
Charlie Wilson
American politician (born 1943)
Charles A. Wilson Jr. was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative for Ohio's 6th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.
1914
Hubert Bland
English activist, co-founded the Fabian Society (born 1855)
Hubert Bland was an English author. He was known for being an infamous libertine, a journalist, an early English socialist, and one of the founders of the Fabian Society. He was the husband of Edith Nesbit.
2000
August R. Lindt
Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1905)
August Rudolf Lindt colloquially Auguste R. Lindt was a Swiss lawyer and diplomat who most notably served as Chairman of UNICEF in 1956 and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1956 to 1960.
2014
Mick Staton
American soldier and politician (born 1940)
David Michael Staton, better known as Mick Staton was an American banker and politician. He was a Republican congressman from West Virginia, serving one term in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1983.
1424
Lucia Visconti
English countess (born 1372)
Lucia Visconti was a Milanese aristocrat who was the Countess of Kent by marriage from 1407 to 1424. She was one of fifteen legitimate children of Bernabò Visconti, who, along with his brother Galeazzo, was Lord of Milan. Her father negotiated for his infant daughter to marry Louis II of Anjou but Bernabò was deposed and the negotiations dropped. As a teenager, it was then intended that she marry the English noble Henry Bolingbroke, whom she had met as a girl, but after he was banished to France, the marriage negotiations were suspended. She was briefly wedded in 1399 to Frederick IV of Thuringia, the son of Landgrave Balthasar, before the marriage was annulled.
2007
June Callwood
Canadian journalist, author, and activist (born 1924)
June Rose Callwood, was a Canadian journalist, author and social activist. She wrote articles and columns written for national newspapers and magazines, including Maclean's and Chatelaine. She also founded a number of charities.
1574
Louis of Nassau (born 1538)
Louis of Nassau was a Dutch nobleman, the third son of William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen and Juliana of Stolberg, and the younger brother of Prince William of Orange Nassau.
1740
Lady Catherine Jones
English philanthropist (born 1672)
Lady Catherine Jones was an English philanthropist, interested in women's rights and education, who chose to be buried with her long-time friend, Mary Kendall, inside Westminster Abbey.
2022
Orlando Julius
Nigerian saxophonist, singer (born 1943)
Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode, known professionally as Orlando Julius or Orlando Julius Ekemode was a Nigerian saxophonist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter closely associated with afrobeat music.
1964
Tatyana Afanasyeva
Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (born 1876)
Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva-Ehrenfest was a Russian-Dutch mathematician and physicist who made contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics with her husband Paul Ehrenfest.
2013
George Jackson
American singer-songwriter (born 1945)
George Henry Jackson was an American blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll/rock and soul singer-songwriter. His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter: he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musicians, including "Down Home Blues", "One Bad Apple", "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "The Only Way Is Up". As a southern soul singer he recorded fifteen singles between 1963 and 1985, with some success.
1587
Edward Manners
3rd Earl of Rutland (born 1548)
Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland, 14th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG was the son of Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, whose titles he inherited in 1563.
1649
Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte
crypto-Jewish martyr
Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte was a Crypto-Jewish martyr. Born in Spain, Treviño fled to New Spain at around age 20. There he practiced Judaism secretly until his discovery and execution. His defiance and refusal to accept Catholicism has made him an important figure in studies of early Jews in Latin America, and he is regarded as one of the best-known victims of the Spanish Inquisition.
1471
John Neville
1st Marquess of Montagu (born 1431)
John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu was a major magnate of fifteenth-century England. He was a younger son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and the younger brother of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the "Kingmaker".
1968
Al Benton
American baseball player (born 1911)
John Alton Benton was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, and Boston Red Sox. The right-hander was listed as 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and 215 pounds (98 kg).
2020
Carol D'Onofrio
American public health researcher (born 1936)
Carol D'Onofrio was an American public health researcher who was Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. Her career focused on improving the health of underserved communities, in particular through curtailing the use of tobacco and alcohol.
2015
Mark Reeds
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1960)
Mark Allen Reeds was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and a former player who had played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1981 and 1989. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Burlington, Ontario.
2014
Crad Kilodney
American-Canadian author (born 1948)
Crad Kilodney was the pen name of Lou Trifon, an American-born Canadian writer who lived in Toronto, Ontario. He was best known for selling his self-published books on the streets of the city between about 1978 and 1995.
2004
Micheline Charest
English-Canadian television producer, co-founded the Cookie Jar Group (born 1953)
Micheline Charest was a British-born Canadian television producer and founder and former co-chairman of CINAR. In 1997, Charest was ranked 19th in The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 most powerful women in the entertainment industry.
1480
Thomas de Spens
Scottish statesman and prelate (born c. 1415)
Thomas Spens [de Spens] was Scottish statesman and prelate. The son of John Spens of Glendouglas, he received his education at Edinburgh before becoming a royal servant and councilor under James II and James III.
1975
Günter Dyhrenfurth
German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (born 1886)
Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth was a German-born, German and Swiss mountaineer, geologist and Himalayan explorer. He won a gold medal in alpinism at the 1936 Summer Olympics, the third and final time the award was offered.
1990
Olabisi Onabanjo
Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ogun State (born 1927)
Chief Victor Olabisi Onabanjo was a Nigerian journalist and politician who served as governor of Ogun State from October 1979 to December 1983, during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was of Ijebu extraction.
1976
José Revueltas
Mexican author and activist (born 1914)
José Revueltas Sánchez was a Mexican writer, essayist, and political activist. He was part of an important artistic family that included his siblings Silvestre (composer), Fermín (painter) and Rosaura (actress).
1864
Charles Lot Church
American-Canadian politician (born 1777)
Charles Lot Church was a political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Lunenburg County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1820 to 1830.
911
Pope Sergius III
pope of the Roman Catholic Church
911 (CMXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
1099
Conrad
Bishop of Utrecht (born before 1040)
Conrad was bishop of Utrecht between 1076 and 1099.
1599
Henry Wallop
English politician (born 1540)
Sir Henry Wallop was an English statesman.
1721
Michel Chamillart
French politician, Controller-General of Finances (born 1652)
Michel Chamillart or Chamillard was a French statesman, a minister of King Louis XIV.
1759
George Frideric Handel
German-English organist and composer (born 1685)
George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti.
1785
William Whitehead
English poet and playwright (born 1715)
William Whitehead was an English poet and playwright who served as Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1757 to 1785.
1792
Maximilian Hell
Slovak-Hungarian astronomer and priest (born 1720)
Maximilian Hell was an astronomer and ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. The lunar crater Hell is named after him.
1886
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint
Dutch novelist (born 1812)
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint was a Dutch novelist.
1911
Henri Elzéar Taschereau
Canadian lawyer and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1836)
Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, was a Canadian jurist and the fourth Chief Justice of Canada.
1912
Henri Brisson
French politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (born 1835)
Eugène Henri Brisson was a French statesman, who was twice Prime Minister of France, between 1885–1886 and in 1898.
1916
Gina Krog
Norwegian suffragist and women's rights activist (born 1847)
Jørgine Anna Sverdrup "Gina" Krog was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician, writer and editor, and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia.
1917
L. L. Zamenhof
Polish physician and linguist, created Esperanto (born 1859)
L. L. Zamenhof was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.
1931
Richard Armstedt
German philologist, historian, and educator (born 1851)
Richard Armstedt was a German philologist, educator, and historian.
1951
Al Christie
Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1881)
Charles Herbert Christie and Alfred Ernest Christie were Canadian motion picture entrepreneurs.
1969
Matilde Muñoz Sampedro
Spanish actress (born 1900)
Matilde Muñoz Sampedro was a Spanish film actress whose career stretched from the 1940s through the 1960s.
1983
Ben Dunne
founder of Dunnes Stores (born 1908)
Bernard Dunne was an Irish businessman who was the founder and chairman of Dunnes Stores.
1990
Thurston Harris
American singer (born 1931)
Thurston Harris was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 hit "Little Bitty Pretty One".
1991
Randolfo Pacciardi
centre-left Italian politician (born 1899)
Randolfo Pacciardi was an Italian politician.
1992
Irene Greenwood
Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (born 1898)
Irene Greenwood was an Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist.
1994
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
Pakistani chemist and scholar (born 1897)
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, was a Pakistani organic chemist specialising in natural products, and a professor of chemistry at the University of Karachi.
1995
Burl Ives
American actor, folk singer, and writer (born 1909)
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.
1999
Bill Wendell
American television announcer (born 1924)
William Joseph Wenzel Jr., known as Bill Wendell, was an NBC television staff announcer for almost his entire professional career.
2003
Jyrki Otila
Finnish politician (born 1941)
Jyrki Ilari Otila was a Finnish quiz show judge and a member of the European Parliament.
2006
Mahmut Bakalli
Kosovo politician (born 1936)
Mahmut Bakalli[a] was a Kosovo Albanian politician.
2007
René Rémond
French historian and economist (born 1918)
René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.
2011
Jean Gratton
Canadian Roman Catholic bishop (born 1924)
Jean Gratton was the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Mont-Laurier, Canada.
2013
Efi Arazi
Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (born 1937)
Efraim R. "Efi" Arazi was an Israeli technology pioneer and businessman.
2015
Klaus Bednarz
German journalist and author (born 1942)
Klaus Bednarz was a German journalist and writer.