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Terence McKenna was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture".
Notable Deaths on April 3
2000 — Terence McKenna
American botanist and philosopher (born 1946)
April 3 has 103 recorded notable deaths across history, from 33 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
103 source records
33 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on April 3
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- 1948 In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins. Source
- 1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. Source
- 2008 ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations. Source
- 1933 First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. Source
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In 2005, she won Best Actress at the Inside Soap Awards and received the Lifetime Achievement award at the 2005 British Soap Awards.
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The couple settled in Britain, where he became a British subject in 1939.
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Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.
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, the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
More major people who died on April 3
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2022
June Brown
English actress (born 1927)
June Muriel Brown was an English actress and author. She was best known for her role as Dot Cotton on the BBC soap opera EastEnders.
1943
Conrad Veidt
German actor, director, and producer (born 1893)
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was a German and British character actor. He attracted early attention for his roles in the films Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr.
1950
Kurt Weill
German-American composer and pianist (born 1900)
Kurt Julian Weill was a German-born American composer active from the 1920s in his native country, and in his later years in the United States.
1936
Richard Hauptmann
German-American murderer (born 1899)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was a German-American carpenter and criminal who was convicted of the abduction and murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne…
1950
Carter G. Woodson
American historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month (born 1875)
Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH).
1682
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish painter and educator (born 1618)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter. Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children.
1826
Reginald Heber
English priest (born 1783)
Reginald Heber was an English Anglican bishop, a man of letters, and hymn-writer. After 16 years as a country parson, he served as Bishop of Calcutta until his death at the age of 42.
1287
Pope Honorius IV (born 1210)
Pope Honorius IV was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 2 April 1285 to his death on 3 April 1287.
2014
Fred Kida
American illustrator (born 1920)
Fred Kida was a Japanese-American comic book and comic strip artist best known for the 1940s aviator hero Airboy and his antagonist and sometime ally Valkyrie during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of…
1849
Juliusz Słowacki
Polish-French poet and playwright (born 1809)
Juliusz Słowacki was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the "Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama.
2024
Gaetano Pesce
Italian architect and designer (born 1939)
Gaetano Pesce was an Italian architect and a design pioneer of the 20th century. Pesce was born in La Spezia in 1939, and he grew up in Padua and Florence.
2012
Chief Jay Strongbow
American wrestler (born 1928)
Luke Joseph Scarpa was an American professional wrestler and WWE Hall of Famer who was best known by the ring name Chief Jay Strongbow.
2025
Mick O'Dwyer
Irish Gaelic footballer and manager (born 1936)
Michael O'Dwyer was an Irish Gaelic football manager and player.
1982
Warren Oates
American actor (born 1928)
Warren Mercer Oates was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in Western and crime films, most notably in collaboration with directors Sam Peckinpah and Monte Hellman.
1902
Esther Hobart Morris
American lawyer and judge (born 1814)
Esther Hobart Morris was an American judge who was the first woman justice of the peace in the United States.
1981
Juan Trippe
American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (born 1899)
Juan Terry Trippe was an American commercial aviation pioneer, entrepreneur and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the iconic airlines of the 20th century.
2014
Prince Michael of Prussia (born 1940)
Wilhelm Heinrich Michael Louis Ferdinand Friedrich Franz Wladimir Prinz von Preussen was a descendant of the Hohenzollern dynasty which ruled Germany until the end of World War I.
2017
Kishori Amonkar
Indian classical vocalist (born 1931)
Kishori Amonkar was an Indian classical vocalist, belonging to the Jaipur Gharana, or a community of musicians sharing a distinctive musical style. She is considered to be one of the foremost classical singers in India.
1882
Jesse James
American criminal and outlaw (born 1847)
Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla and leader of the James–Younger Gang.