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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
Notable Deaths on April 14
114 people
911 – 2025
April 14 has seen 114 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 911 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2001 — Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1927)
Did you know
He is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes
Did you know
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
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Hiroshi Teshigahara was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era
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Apart from being a filmmaker, Teshigahara also practiced other arts, such as calligraphy, pottery, painting, opera and ikebana.
pope of the Roman Catholic Church
911 (CMXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
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1099
Mstislav I Vladimirovich Monomakh, 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.
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1132
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…
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1279
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…
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1322
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…
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1345
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…
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1424
1433
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…
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1471
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…
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1471
Scottish statesman and prelate (born c. 1415)
Thomas Spens [de Spens], Scottish statesman and prelate, received his education at Edinburgh, was the second son of John de Spens, custodian of Prince James of Scotland, and of Lady Isabel Wemyss.
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1480
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 organisers of the failed 1478 Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici…
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1488
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.
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1574
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…
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1578
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.
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1587
1599
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…
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1609
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…
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1649
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…
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1662
1682
French politician, Controller-General of Finances (born 1652)
Michel Chamillart or Chamillard was a French statesman, a minister of King Louis XIV.
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1721
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.
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1740
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.
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1759
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.
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1785
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.
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1792
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…
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1843
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.
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1864
1886
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…
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1888
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…
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1910
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,…
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1911
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.
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1911
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.
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1912
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.
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1914
1916
Polish physician and linguist, created Esperanto (born 1859)
L. L. Zamenhof was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.
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1917
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,…
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1919
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 created roughly 900 oil paintings and…
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1925
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…
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1930
German philologist, historian, and educator (born 1851)
Richard Armstedt was a German philologist, educator, and historian.
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1931
German-American mathematician and academic (born 1882)
Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. Noether was…
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1935
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,…
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1938
Georgian-Russian lieutenant (born 1907)
Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili 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.
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1943
Indian guru and philosopher (born 1879)
Ramana Maharshi was an Indian Hindu sage and jivanmukta. He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.
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1950
Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1881)
Charles Herbert Christie and Alfred Ernest Christie were Canadian motion picture entrepreneurs.
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1951
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.
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1962
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…
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1963
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.
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1964
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…
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1964
1968
Spanish actress (born 1900)
Matilde Muñoz Sampedro was a Spanish film actress whose career stretched from the 1940s through the 1960s.
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1969
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.
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1975
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…
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1975
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).
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1976
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…
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1978
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.
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1978
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…
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1983
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…
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1983
1983
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…
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1986
American singer (born 1931)
Thurston Harris was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 hit "Little Bitty Pretty One".
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1990
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.
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1990
1991
Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (born 1898)
Irene Greenwood was an Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist.
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1992
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.
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1994
1995
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…
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1999
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",…
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1999
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.
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1999
2000
Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1905)
Dr. August Rudolf Lindt, also known as Auguste R. Lindt, was a Swiss lawyer and diplomat. He served as Chairman of UNICEF in 1953 and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1956 to 1960.
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2000
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…
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2000
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…
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2001
Finnish politician (born 1941)
Jyrki Ilari Otila was a Finnish quiz show judge and a member of the European Parliament.
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2003
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…
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2004
2006
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…
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2007
2007
French historian and economist (born 1918)
René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.
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2007
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…
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2008
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 at the time of his death from natural causes. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company…
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2008
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.
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2009
Pakistani theologian and scholar (born 1932)
Israr Ahmed 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…
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2010
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…
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2010
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…
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2010
Canadian Roman Catholic bishop (born 1924)
Jean Gratton was the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Mont-Laurier, Canada.
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2011
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 from 1941 to 1956. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, won four…
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2012
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,…
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2012
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.
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2012
2013
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…
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2013
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…
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2013
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…
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2013
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…
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2013
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…
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2013
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…
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2014
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.
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2014
English businessman and academic (born 1930)
Wallace Olins CBE was a British practitioner of corporate identity and branding. He co-founded Wolff Olins and Saffron Brand Consultants and was the chairman of both. Olins advised many of the world's leading…
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2014
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.
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2014
German journalist and author (born 1942)
Klaus Bednarz was a German journalist and writer.
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2015
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,…
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2015
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…
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2015
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…
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2015
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…
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2019
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…
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2020
American mastermind of the world's largest Ponzi scheme (born 1938)
Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financier and con artist who was the admitted mastermind of the largest-known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq…
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2021
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. He spent his entire NHL career, which lasted from 1977 to 1987, with the Islanders, and was a…
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2022
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…
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2022
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.
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2022
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…
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2023
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…
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2024
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…
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2025
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Hiroshi Teshigahara — Japanese film director (1927–2001)
FeaturedHiroshi Teshigahara
Death year2001
Known forHe is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes
Deaths on this date114 (911 – 2025)
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