Notable Deaths on April 25

Q: Who died on April 25?

Notable people who died on April 25 include: Rusticus, Smbat VII Bagratuni, Mushegh VI Mamikonian, Zhang Wenwei, Herman I.

Q: What is Crowfoot known for?

Crowfoot, Canadian tribal chief (born 1830)

1890 — Crowfoot

Canadian tribal chief (born 1830)

April 25 has seen 116 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 501 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · April 25 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 116 people 501 – 2026

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Crowfoot is well known for his involvement in Treaty Number 7 and did much negotiating for his people

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Crowfoot died of tuberculosis at Blackfoot Crossing on April 25, 1890

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In 2008, Chief Crowfoot was inducted into the North America Railway Hall of Fame where he was recognized for his contributions to the railway industry

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His father, Istowun-ehʼpata, and mother, Axkahp-say-pi, were Kainai

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While many believe Chief Crowfoot had no part in the North-West Rebellion, he did in fact participate to an extent due to his son's connection to the conflict

Rusticus

saint and archbishop of Lyon (born 455)

Saint Rusticus, the successor of Saint Lupicinus of Lyon (491-494), served as Archbishop of Lyon from 494 to April 501. Later canonized and venerated in the Catholic Church, his feast day is 25 April.

501

Smbat VII Bagratuni

Armenian prince

Smbat VII Bagratuni was an Armenian noble of the Bagratuni (Bagratid) family. He and his brother Vasak were the sons of Ashot III Bagratuni. He served as presiding prince of Armenia in 761–775, playing a leading role in…

775

Mushegh VI Mamikonian

Armenian prince

Mushegh VI Mamikonian was an Armenian noble of the Mamikonian family. He served as presiding prince of Arab-ruled Armenia in 748–753, and later participated in the Armenian rebellion of 774–775 against the Abbasid…

775

Zhang Wenwei

Chinese chancellor

Zhang Wenwei (張文蔚), courtesy name Youhua (右華), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and the Tang's succeeding Later Liang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns of Tang's final emperor Emperor Ai and…

908

Herman I

Margrave of Baden

Herman I of Baden was the titular Margrave of Verona and the agnatic ancestor of the Margraves of Baden.

1074

Géza I of Hungary (born 1040)

Géza I was King of Hungary from 1074 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Béla I. His baptismal name was Magnus. With German assistance, Géza's cousin Solomon acquired the crown when his father died in 1063,…

1077

Emperor Antoku of Japan (born 1178)

Emperor Antoku was the 81st emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1180 through 1185. His death marked the end of the Heian period and the beginning of the…

1185

Hermann I

Landgrave of Thuringia

Hermann I, Landgrave of Thuringia and Count Palatine of Saxony, called the Hard, was the second son of Louis II, Landgrave of Thuringia, and Judith of Hohenstaufen, the sister of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.

1217

Queen Isabella II of Jerusalem (born 1212)

Isabella II, sometimes called Isabella of Brienne and erroneously Yolanda, was the queen of Jerusalem who reigned from 1212 to 1228. She was the daughter and successor of Maria of Montferrat, who died shortly after…

1228

Boniface of Valperga

Bishop of Aosta

Boniface of Valperga, venerated as a blessed in the Catholic Church, was a thirteenth-century Bishop of Aosta.

1243

Roger de Quincy

2nd Earl of Winchester, medieval English nobleman; Earl of Winchester (born 1195)

Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, and the hereditary Constable of Scotland, was a nobleman of Anglo-Norman and Scottish descent who was prominent in both England and Scotland, at his death having one of the…

1264

Sancho IV of Castile (born 1258)

Sancho IV of Castile called the Brave, was the king of Castile, León and Galicia from 1284 to his death. Following his brother Ferdinand's death, he gained the support of nobles who declared him king instead of…

1295

Pope Benedict XII (born 1285)

Pope Benedict XII, born Jacques Fournier, was a cardinal and inquisitor, and later, head of the Catholic Church from 30 December 1334 to his death, in April 1342. He was the third Avignon pope and reformed monastic…

1342

Thomas Holland

2nd Earl of Kent, English nobleman

Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent was an English nobleman and a councillor of his half-brother, King Richard II of England.

1397

Leon Battista Alberti

Italian author, poet, and philosopher (born 1404)

Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths. He is…

1472

John Yonge

English diplomat (born 1467)

John Yonge was an English ecclesiastic and diplomatist, who also served as Master of the Rolls from 1507 until his death.

1516

Louise Labé

French poet and author (born 1520)

Louise Charlin Perrin Labé, also identified as La Belle Cordière after her father's job, was a French Renaissance poet from Lyon.

1566

Diane de Poitiers

mistress of King Henry II of France (born 1499)

Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and courtier who wielded much power and influence as King Henry II's royal mistress and adviser until his death. Her position increased her wealth and family's status. She was a…

1566

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet and songwriter (born 1544)

Torquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, known for his 1581 poem Gerusalemme liberata, in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the…

1595

Naresuan

Siamese King of Ayutthaya Kingdom (born c. 1555)

Naresuan, commonly known as Naresuan the Great, or Sanphet II was the 18th monarch of the Ayutthaya Kingdom and the 2nd of the Sukhothai dynasty. He was the king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom from 1590 and overlord of Lan Na…

1605

Chongzhen Emperor of China (born 1611)

The Chongzhen Emperor, temple name Ming Sizong, personal name Zhu Youjian, courtesy name Deyue, was the 17th and last emperor of the Ming dynasty. He reigned from 1627 to 1644. "Chongzhen", the era name of his reign,…

1644

Henry Hammond

English cleric and theologian (born 1605)

Henry Hammond was an English churchman, church historian and theologian, who supported the Royalist cause during the English Civil War.

1660

David Teniers the Younger

Flemish painter and educator (born 1610)

David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, and artist. He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. He was an innovator in a wide range of genres such…

1690

Anders Celsius

Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (born 1701)

Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician. He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany,…

1744

Jean-Antoine Nollet

French minister, physicist, and academic (born 1700)

Jean-Antoine Nollet was a French clergyman and physicist who conducted a number of experiments with electricity and discovered osmosis. As a deacon in the Catholic Church, he was also known as Abbé Nollet.

1770

William Cowper

English poet (born 1731)

William Cowper was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter.

1800

Siméon Denis Poisson

French mathematician and physicist (born 1781)

Baron Siméon Denis Poisson was a French mathematician and physicist who worked on statistics, complex analysis, partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, analytical mechanics, electricity and…

1840

Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy

Russian painter and sculptor (born 1783)

Count Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy was a Russian artist who served as Vice-President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for forty years (1828–1868). His works – wax-reliefs, watercolours, medallions, and silhouettes – are…

1873

12th Dalai Lama (born 1857)

Trinley Gyatso also spelled: Thinle Gyatso was the 12th Dalai Lama of Tibet.

1875

Anna Sewell

English author (born 1820)

Anna Sewell was an English novelist who is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse. She was born into a Quaker family in Norfolk and moved to London as a baby. Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was…

1878

Adolph Strauch

Prussian American landscape architect (born 1822)

Adolph Strauch was a Prussian American landscape architect who conceived the "landscape lawn" design. He applied his thinking to the layout of Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio, which won him international…

1883

Nathaniel Woodard

English priest and educator (born 1811)

Nathaniel Woodard was a priest in the Church of England. He founded 11 schools for the middle classes in England whose aim was to provide education based on "sound principle and sound knowledge, firmly grounded in the…

1891

Henri Duveyrier

French explorer (born 1840)

Henri Duveyrier was a French explorer and geographer, known for his exploration of the Sahara. Duveyrier was a son of the French playwright Charles Duveyrier, while his mother was English. During his late teens in 1857,…

1892

Karl von Ditmar

Estonian-German geologist and explorer (born 1822)

Karl Bernhard Woldemar Ferdinand von Ditmar was a Baltic German geologist and explorer, who travelled in and contributed to the scientific understanding of Kamchatka.

1892

John Knowles Paine

American composer and educator (born 1839)

John Knowles Paine was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. The senior member of a group of composers collectively known as the Boston Six, Paine was one of those…

1906

Emilio Salgari

Italian journalist and author (born 1862)

Emilio Salgari was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction.

1911

Joseph-Alfred Archambeault

Canadian bishop (born 1859)

Joseph-Alfred Archambeault was a Roman Catholic priest and bishop in Canada. He was the first bishop of Joliette, Quebec.

1913

Frederick W. Seward

American journalist, lawyer, and politician, 6th United States Assistant Secretary of State (born 1830)

Frederick William Seward was an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served twice as the Assistant Secretary of State. He served as Assistant Secretary from 1861 to 1869 when his father, William H.…

1915

Augustus D. Juilliard

American businessman and philanthropist (born 1836)

Augustus D. Juilliard was an American businessman and philanthropist, born at sea as his parents were emigrating to the United States from France. Making a successful career in New York City, he bequeathed much of his…

1919

Emmeline B. Wells

American journalist and women's rights advocate (born 1828)

Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells was an American journalist, editor, poet, women's rights advocate, and diarist. She served as the fifth Relief Society General President of the Church of Jesus Christ of…

1921

Louis-Olivier Taillon

Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Premier of Quebec (born 1840)

Sir Louis-Olivier Taillon was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was the eighth premier of Quebec, serving two separate terms.

1923

Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel

Russian general (born 1878)

Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, nicknamed the "Black Baron", was a Russian military officer who served as a commanding general in the anti-Bolshevik Volunteer Army during the Russian Civil War. In 1920, he became the…

1928

Wajed Ali Khan Panni

Bengali aristocrat and philanthropist (born 1871)

Wajed Ali Khan Panni, also known by his daak naam Chand Mian, was a Bengali politician, educationist and the zamindar of Karatia.

1936

Salih Bozok

Turkish commander and politician (born 1881)

Salih Bozok was an officer of the Ottoman Army, later the Turkish Army and a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He was the chief aide-de-camp of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), the founder of modern Turkey.

1941

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Russian director, producer, and playwright (born 1858)

Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin…

1943

George Herriman

American cartoonist (born 1880)

George Joseph Herriman III was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–1944). More influential than popular, Krazy Kat had an appreciative audience among those in the arts. Gilbert Seldes'…

1944

Tony Mullane

Irish-American baseball player (born 1859)

Anthony John Mullane, nicknamed "Count" and "the Apollo of the Box", was an Irish professional baseball player who pitched for seven major-league teams during 1881–1894. He is best known as a switch pitcher who could…

1944

William Stephens

American engineer and politician, 24th Governor of California (born 1859)

William Dennison Stephens was an American federal and state politician. A three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1911 to 1916, Stephens was the 24th governor of California from 1917 to 1923. Prior…

1944

Huldreich Georg Früh

Swiss composer (born 1903)

Huldreich Georg Früh was a Swiss composer.

1945

John Ernest Adamson

English educationalist and Director of Education of the Colony of Transvaal (born 1867)

Sir John Ernest Adamson CMG was an English educationalist. He was director of education in Transvaal, modern day South Africa from 1905 to 1924 and played an important role in developing that territory's education…

1950

Robert Garrett

American discus thrower and shot putter (born 1875)

Robert S. Garrett was an American athlete, as well as investment banker and philanthropist in Baltimore, Maryland and financier of several important archeological excavations. Garrett was the first modern Olympic…

1961

Anita Louise

American actress (born 1915)

Anita Louise was an American film and television actress best known for her performances in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Story of Louis Pasteur (1935), Anthony Adverse (1936), Marie Antoinette (1938), and The…

1970

George Sanders

English actor (born 1906)

George Henry Sanders was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He…

1972

Olga Grey

Hungarian-American actress (born 1896)

Olga Grey was an American silent film actress, sometimes billed with the alternate spelling of her last name, Olga Gray.

1973

Gustavo R. Vincenti

Maltese architect and developer (born 1888)

Gustavo Romeo Vincenti was a Maltese architect and developer. Born into a wealthy and business-oriented family in Valletta and Floriana, he was able to purchase land and design and build buildings which he would then…

1974

Mike Brant

Israeli singer and songwriter (born 1947)

Mike Brant was an Israeli singer and songwriter who achieved fame after moving to France. His most successful hit was Laisse-moi t'aimer. He was known for his vocal range going from baritone to high tenor and also a…

1975

Carol Reed

English director and producer (born 1906)

Sir Carol Reed was an English film director and producer, best known for Odd Man Out (1947), The Fallen Idol (1948), The Third Man (1949), and Oliver! (1968), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Director.

1976

Markus Reiner

Israeli engineer and educator (born 1886)

Markus Reiner was an Israeli scientist and a major figure in rheology.

1976

John Cody

American cardinal (born 1907)

John Patrick Cody was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Kansas City–Saint Joseph (1956–1961), Archbishop of New Orleans (1964–1965), and Archbishop of Chicago (1965–1982). He was named a cardinal in…

1982

William S. Bowdern

American priest and author (born 1897)

William S. Bowdern was a Catholic priest of the Society of Jesus in St. Louis, Missouri. He was the author of The Problems of Courtship and Marriage printed by Our Sunday Visitor in 1939. He was a graduate of and taught…

1983

Carolyn Franklin

American singer-songwriter (born 1944)

Carolyn Ann Franklin was an American singer-songwriter.

1988

Clifford D. Simak

American journalist and author (born 1904)

Clifford Donald Simak was an American science fiction writer and journalist. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror…

1988

Dexter Gordon

American saxophonist, composer, and actor (born 1923)

Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He was among the most influential early bebop musicians. Gordon's height was 6 feet 6 inches (198 cm), so he was also known as "Long Tall…

1990

Mamoru Nakamura

Palauan jurist (born 1939/1940)

Mamarou Nakamura was a Palauan jurist. Nakamura was a founder of Palau's court system—which he based on the judiciary of the United States—and served as the first chief justice of Palau from 1981 to his death in 1992.…

1992

Yutaka Ozaki

Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1965)

Yutaka Ozaki was a Japanese singer-songwriter. His hit debut single "Jūgo no Yoru" and debut album Jūnanasai no Chizu were released in 1983. He died in 1992 at the age of 26.

1992

Art Fleming

American game show host (born 1925)

Arthur Fleming Fazzin, known professionally as Art Fleming, was an American actor and television host. He was the original host of the television Jeopardy!, hosting its first three versions as a network show on NBC and…

1995

Ginger Rogers

American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1911)

Ginger Rogers was an American actress, dancer, and singer during the Golden Age of Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her starring role in Kitty Foyle (1940), and performed during the 1930s in…

1995

Lev Shankovsky

Ukrainian military historian (born 1903)

Lev Shankovsky, was a Ukrainian military historian and former Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) soldier, a leading member of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. He was a full member of the Shevchenko Scientific…

1995

Saul Bass

American graphic designer and director (born 1920)

Saul Bass was an American graphic designer and filmmaker, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, and corporate logos.

1996

Wright Morris

American author and photographer (born 1910)

Wright Marion Morris was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with…

1998

Michael Morris

3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author (born 1914)

Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin was an Irish journalist, author, sports official, and the sixth president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), serving from 1972 to 1980. He succeeded his uncle as Baron…

1999

Roger Troutman

American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1951)

Roger Troutman, also known simply as Roger, was an American singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer. He was the founder of the band Zapp who helped spearhead the funk movement and influenced West Coast hip-hop…

1999

Lucien Le Cam

French mathematician and statistician (born 1924)

Lucien Marie Le Cam was a mathematician and statistician.

2000

David Merrick

American director and producer (born 1911)

David Merrick was an American theatrical producer who won a number of Tony Awards.

2000

Michele Alboreto

Italian racing driver (born 1956)

Michele Alboreto was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1981 to 1994. Alboreto was runner-up in the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1985 with Ferrari, and won five Grands Prix across…

2001

Lisa Lopes

American rapper and dancer (born 1971)

Lisa Nicole Lopes, also known by her stage name Left Eye, was an American rapper and singer-songwriter. She was a member of the R&B girl group TLC, alongside Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins and Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas. Besides…

2002

Samson Kitur

Kenyan runner (born 1966)

Samson Kitur was a Kenyan athlete, and an Olympic medalist in 1992.

2003

Thom Gunn

English-American poet and academic (born 1929)

Thomson William "Thom" Gunn was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, where he adopted a looser, free-verse style.…

2004

Jim Barker

American politician (born 1935)

Jim L. Barker was an Oklahoma politician. During his tenure he was the only state representative to be elected four times as Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

2005

Swami Ranganathananda

Indian monk and educator (born 1908)

Swami Ranganathananda was a Hindu swami of the Ramakrishna Math order. He served as the 13th president of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission.

2005

Jane Jacobs

American-Canadian journalist, author, and activist (born 1916)

Jane Isabel Jacobs was an American-Canadian journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics. Her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) argued that…

2006

Peter Law

Welsh politician and independent member of parliament (born 1948)

Peter John Law was a Welsh politician. For most of his career Law sat as a Labour councillor and subsequently Labour Co-operative Assembly member (AM) for Blaenau Gwent. Latterly he sat as an independent member of…

2006

Alan Ball Jr.

English footballer and manager (born 1945)

Alan James Ball was an English professional football player and manager. He won the 1966 World Cup with England and scored more than 180 league goals in a career spanning 22 years. After retiring as a player, he had a…

2007

Arthur Milton

English footballer and cricketer (born 1928)

Clement Arthur Milton was an English cricketer and footballer; he was a double international. He played County cricket for Gloucestershire from 1948 to 1974, playing six Test matches for England in 1958 and 1959. He…

2007

Bobby Pickett

American singer-songwriter (born 1938)

Robert George Pickett, better known as Bobby "Boris" Pickett, was an American singer-songwriter and comedian. He is best known for co-writing and performing the 1962 smash hit novelty song "Monster Mash".

2007

Humphrey Lyttelton

English trumpet player, composer, and radio host (born 1921)

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton, also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the Lyttelton family.

2008

Bea Arthur

American actress and singer (born 1922)

Beatrice Arthur was an American actress, comedian, and singer. She began her career on stage in 1947, attracting critical acclaim before achieving worldwide recognition for her work on television beginning in the 1970s…

2009

Dorothy Provine

American actress and singer (born 1935)

Dorothy Michelle Provine was an American singer, dancer and actress. Born in 1935 in Deadwood, South Dakota, she grew up in Seattle, Washington, and was hired in 1958 by Warner Bros., after which she first starred in…

2010

Alan Sillitoe

English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (born 1928)

Alan Sillitoe FRSL was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel…

2010

Poly Styrene

British musician (born 1957)

Marianne Joan Elliott-Said, known by the stage name Poly Styrene, was an English musician, singer-songwriter, and frontwoman for the punk rock band X-Ray Spex. She is considered a pioneer for the feminist punk movement.

2011

Gerry Bahen

Australian footballer (born 1929)

Gerald Edmund "Gerry" Bahen was a businessman and Australian rules football player and administrator who played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and the South Fremantle…

2012

Denny Jones

American rancher and politician (born 1910)

Denzil Eugene Jones was an American rancher and Republican politician. Jones is remembered as a 13-term member of the Oregon Legislative Assembly in which he represented citizens from four counties in the sparsely…

2012

Moscelyne Larkin

American ballerina and educator (born 1925)

Edna Moscelyne Larkin Jasinski was an Native American ballerina and one of the Five Moons", Indigenous ballerinas from Oklahoma who gained international fame in the 20th century. After dancing with the Original Ballet…

2012

Louis le Brocquy

Irish painter and illustrator (born 1916)

Louis le Brocquy HRHA was an Irish painter born in Dublin to Albert and Sybil le Brocquy. Louis' sister is the sculptor Melanie Le Brocquy. His work received many accolades in a career that spanned some seventy years of…

2012

Brian Adam

Scottish biochemist and politician (born 1948)

Brian James Adam was a Scottish politician and biochemist who served as Minister for Parliamentary Business and Chief Whip from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Scottish National Party (SNP), he was a Member of the…

2013

Jacob Avshalomov

American composer and conductor (born 1919)

Jacob Avshalomov was a composer and conductor.

2013

György Berencsi

Hungarian virologist and academic (born 1941)

György Berencsi 3rd was a Hungarian virologist. He was the Head of the Department of Virology at the "Béla Johan" National Centre for Epidemiology and professor at the Semmelweis University in Budapest.

2013

Rick Camp

American baseball player (born 1953)

Rick Lamar Camp was an American professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for a total of nine seasons with the Atlanta Braves between 1976 and 1985.

2013

Dan Heap

Canadian priest and politician (born 1925)

Daniel James Macdonnell Heap was a Canadian activist and politician. Heap served as a Member of Parliament with the New Democratic Party, a Toronto City Councillor, a political activist and an Anglican worker-priest. He…

2014

William Judson Holloway Jr.

American soldier, lawyer, and judge (born 1923)

William Judson Holloway Jr. was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.

2014

Earl Morrall

American football player and coach (born 1934)

Earl Edwin Morrall was an American professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL) for 21 seasons. He was the last remaining player from the 1950s still active in the NFL. He…

2014

Tito Vilanova

Spanish footballer and manager (born 1968)

Francesc "Tito" Vilanova Bayó was a Spanish professional football central midfielder and manager.

2014

Stefanie Zweig

German journalist and author (born 1932)

Stefanie Zweig was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany. The novel is based on her early life in Kenya,…

2014

Jim Fanning

American-Canadian baseball player and manager (born 1927)

William James Fanning was an American-Canadian catcher, manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball. Often called "Gentleman Jim", Fanning was the first general manager of the Montreal Expos of the…

2015

Matthias Kuhle

German geographer and academic (born 1948)

Matthias Kuhle was a German geographer and professor at the University of Göttingen. He edited the book series Geography International published by Shaker Verlag.

2015

Don Mankiewicz

American screenwriter and novelist (born 1922)

Don Martin Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter and novelist best known for his novel Trial.

2015

Mike Phillips

American basketball player (born 1956)

Michael Charles Phillips was an American professional basketball player. At a height of 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m), he played at the center position. He played professionally for eleven years in Spain, including six…

2015

Tom Lewis

Australian politician, 33rd Premier of New South Wales (born 1922)

Thomas Lancelot Lewis was a New South Wales politician who served as the 33rd Premier of New South Wales from 1975 to 1976, and served as a minister in the cabinets of Sir Robert Askin and Sir Eric Willis. He became…

2016

Madeeha Gauhar

Pakistani actress, playwright and director of social theater, and women's rights activist (born 1956)

Madeeha Gauhar was a Pakistani TV and stage actress, playwright, director of social theater, and women's rights activist. In 1984, she founded Ajoka Theatre where social themes were staged in theaters, on the street and…

2018

John Havlicek

American basketball player (born 1940)

John Joseph Havlicek, often nicknamed Hondo, was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire 16-year career with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Havlicek won eight…

2019

Harry Belafonte

American singer, activist, and actor (born 1927)

Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the…

2023

Marla Adams

American television actress (born 1938)

Marla Vene Adams was an American actress. She was best known for playing the roles of Belle Clemens on the CBS soap opera The Secret Storm and Dina Abbott Mergeron on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. She…

2024

Laurent Cantet

French director, cinematographer and screenwriter (born 1961)

Laurent Cantet was a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter. His film Entre les murs won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008.

2024

Virginia Giuffre

American and Australian advocate (born 1983)

Virginia Lee Roberts Giuffre was an American and Australian advocate for survivors of sex trafficking and one of the most prominent accusers of Jeffrey Epstein. Giuffre provided detailed allegations to media outlets…

2025

Andrzej Olechowski

Polish politician (born 1947)

Andrzej Marian Olechowski was a Polish politician. He was one of the co-founders of liberal conservative party Civic Platform in 2001 with Maciej Płażyński and Donald Tusk. Olechowski served as Minister of Finance…

2026

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MS Estonia Sinking — April 25, 1994

852 lives lost as MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea near Utö Island, Finland in 1994, a disaster that still raises questions today

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Crowfoot — First Nations chief in Canada (1830–1890)

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Death year1890

Known forHis father, Istowun-ehʼpata, and mother, Axkahp-say-pi, were Kainai

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Shots are fired outside of the White House Correspondents' Dinner in the Washington Hilton where U.S. President Donald Trump and members of his cabinet are attending. One injury is reported and a suspect is taken into custody. Wikipedia →

2015

At least 8,962 are killed in Nepal after a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal. Wikipedia →

2014

The Flint water crisis begins when officials at Flint, Michigan switch the city's water supply to the Flint River, leading to lead and bacteria contamination. Wikipedia →

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