Notable Deaths on April 30

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Notable people who died on April 30 include: Lucan, An, Amalasuntha, Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Eckard I.

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Naomi Judd, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1946)

107 people 65 – 2024

April 30 has seen 107 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 65 – 2024. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2022 — Naomi Judd

American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1946)

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In 1980, she and her daughter Wynonna formed the duo known as The Judds, who became a successful country music act, winning five Grammy Awards and nine Country Music Association awards

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The Judds ceased performing in 1991 after Naomi was diagnosed with hepatitis; while Wynonna continued to perform as a solo artist, she occasionally reunited with her mother for tours as The Judds

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Naomi died by suicide in 2022, the day before she and Wynonna were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

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Naomi Judd was an American country music singer and actress

Lucan

Roman poet (born 39)

AD 65 (LXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Nerva and Vestinus. The denomination AD 65 for this year has been used since the early…

Chinese emperor (born 94)

Year 125 (CXXV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Paullinus and Titius. The denomination 125 for this year has been used since the…

125

Amalasuntha

Ostrogothic queen and regent

Amalasuintha was a ruler of the Ostrogothic Kingdom from 526 to 535. Initially serving as regent for her son Athalaric, she became queen regnant after his premature death. Highly educated, Amalasuintha was praised by…

535

Hildegard of the Vinzgau

Frankish queen

Hildegard was a Frankish queen and the wife of Charlemagne from c. 771 until her death. Hildegard was a noblewoman of Frankish and Alemannian heritage. Through eleven years of marriage with Charlemagne, Hildegard helped…

783

Eckard I

German nobleman

Eckard I was Margrave of Meissen from 985 until his death. He was the first margrave of the Ekkehardinger family that ruled over Meissen until the extinction of the line in 1046.

1002

Mahmud of Ghazni

Ghaznavid emir (born 971)

Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Sabuktigin, usually known as Mahmud of Ghazni or Mahmud Ghaznavi, was Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, ruling from 998 to 1030. Widely reputed to be undefeated throughout his entire career,…

1030

Ren Zong

Chinese emperor (born 1010)

Emperor Renzong of Song, personal name Zhao Zhen, was the fourth emperor of the Northern Song dynasty of China. He reigned for about 41 years from 1022 to his death in 1063, making him the longest reigning Song dynasty…

1063

Adjutor

French knight and saint

Adjutor is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. He is credited to be the patron saint of swimmers, boaters, and drowning victims, and the patron saint of Vernon, France. Adjutor was born in Vernon, France, on…

1131

Roger de Flor

Italian military adventurer (born 1267)

Roger de Flor, also known as Ruggero/Ruggiero da Fiore or Rutger von Blum or Ruggero Flores, was an Italian military adventurer and condottiere active in Aragonese Sicily, Italy, and the Byzantine Empire. He was the…

1305

John III

duke of Brittany (born 1286)

John III the Good was Duke of Brittany, from 1312 to his death and 5th Earl of Richmond from 1334 to his death. He was the son of Arthur II, Duke of Brittany, and his first wife Marie, Viscountess of Limoges. John was…

1341

Richard de Beauchamp

13th Earl of Warwick, English commander (born 1382)

Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick was an English medieval nobleman and military commander.

1439

Pierre Terrail

seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (born 1473)

Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard was a French knight and military leader at the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, generally known as the Chevalier de Bayard. Throughout the centuries since his…

1524

Thomas Audley

1st Baron Audley of Walden, English lawyer and judge, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1488)

Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden KG, PC, KS, JP, was an English barrister and judge who served as Lord Chancellor of England from 1533 to 1544.

1544

Tabinshwehti

Burmese king (born 1516)

Tabin-shwë-hti, also called Black Tongue (လျှာနက်မင်း), was King of Burma from 1530 to 1550, and the founder of the First Toungoo Empire. His military campaigns (1534–1549) created the largest kingdom in Burma since the…

1550

Johann Tserclaes

Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (born 1559)

Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly was a field marshal who commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years' War. From 1620 to 1631, he won an unmatched and demoralizing string of important victories against the…

1632

Sigismund III Vasa

Swedish-Polish son of John III of Sweden (born 1566)

Sigismund III Vasa was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1587 to 1632 and, as Sigismund, King of Sweden from 1592 to 1599. He was the first Polish sovereign from the House of Vasa. Religiously zealous, he…

1632

Niwa Nagashige

Japanese daimyō (born 1571)

Niwa Nagashige was a Japanese daimyō who served the Oda clan. Nagashige was the eldest son of Niwa Nagahide and married the 5th daughter of Oda Nobunaga. He took part in his first campaign in 1583, assisting his father…

1637

Eustache Le Sueur

French painter (born 1617)

Eustache Le Sueur or Lesueur was a French artist and one of the founders of the French Academy of Painting. He is known primarily for his paintings of religious subjects. He was a leading exponent of the neoclassical…

1655

Petrus Scriverius

Dutch historian and scholar (born 1576)

Petrus Scriverius, the Latinised form of Peter Schrijver or Schryver, was a Dutch writer and scholar on the history of the Low Countries.

1660

Marie of the Incarnation

French-Canadian nun and saint, founded the Ursulines of Quebec (born 1599)

Marie of the Incarnation was a French Ursuline nun from Quebec City. As part of a group of nuns sent to New France to establish the Ursuline Order, Marie was crucial in the spread of Catholicism in New France. She was a…

1672

Robert Plot

English chemist and academic (born 1640)

Robert Plot was an English naturalist and antiquarian who was the first professor of chemistry at the University of Oxford and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum.

1696

Philipp van Limborch

Dutch theologian and author (born 1633)

Philipp van Limborch was a Dutch Remonstrant theologian and a fierce opponent of the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza's in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. He befriended John Locke, who lived in voluntary political exile…

1712

Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses

1st Marquis of Abrantes, Portuguese diplomat (born 1676)

D. Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses, 1st Marquis of Abrantes, before 1718 titled 3rd Marquis of Fontes and 7th Count of Penaguião, was a Portuguese nobleman and diplomat.

1733

Johann Albert Fabricius

German scholar and author (born 1668)

Johann Albert Fabricius was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.

1736

François d'Agincourt

French organist and composer (born 1684)

François d'Agincourt was a French harpsichordist, organist, and composer. He spent most of his life in Rouen, his native city, where he worked as organist of the Rouen Cathedral and of three smaller churches. Highly…

1758

John Montagu

4th Earl of Sandwich, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1718)

John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich, as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten. He held various military and…

1792

Jean-Jacques Barthélemy

French archaeologist and author (born 1716)

Jean-Jacques Barthélemy was a French Catholic clergyman, archaeologist, numismatologist and scholar who became the first person to decipher an extinct language. He deciphered the Palmyrene alphabet in 1754 and the…

1795

Onogawa Kisaburō

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 5th Yokozuna (born 1758)

Onogawa Kisaburō was a Japanese sumo wrestler from Ōtsu, Ōmi Province. He was the sport's 5th yokozuna. Along with Tanikaze, Onogawa was the first to be given a yokozuna licence during his lifetime. He is described as…

1806

Peter Andreas Heiberg

Danish philologist and author (born 1758)

Peter Andreas Heiberg was a Danish-Norwegian author and philologist. He was born in Vordingborg, Denmark-Norway. The Heiberg ancestry can be traced back to Norway, and has produced a long line of priests, headmasters…

1841

Charles

Austrian commander and duke of Teschen (born 1771)

Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Lawrence of Austria, Duke of Teschen was an Austrian field marshal, the third son of Emperor Leopold II and Maria Luisa of Spain. He was also the younger brother of Francis II, Holy…

1847

Jean Danjou

French Army officer, killed in action at the Battle of Camarón (born 1828)

Jean Danjou was a decorated captain of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. He commanded the two lieutenants and 62 legionnaires who fought the Battle of Camarón during the French intervention in Mexico, in which he…

1863

John B. Cocke

Confederate States Army officer, killed in action at the Battle of Jenkins' Ferry (born c. 1833)

John Benjamin Cocke was an American lawyer who served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding the 39th Arkansas Infantry Regiment in the Trans-Mississippi Theater of the American Civil War from…

1864

Robert FitzRoy

English admiral, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (born 1805)

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy was an English officer of the Royal Navy, politician and scientist who served as the second governor of New Zealand between 1843 and 1845.

1865

Thomas Cooke

Canadian bishop and missionary (born 1792)

Thomas Cooke was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest, missionary, and the first Bishop of Trois Rivières from 1852 to 1870.

1870

Jean-Frédéric Waldeck

French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (born 1766)

Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. He was a man of talent and accomplishment, but his love of self-promotion and refusal to let the truth get in the way of a…

1875

Emma Smith

American religious leader (born 1804)

Emma Hale Smith Bidamon was a leader in the early Latter Day Saint movement and a prominent member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as well as the first wife of Joseph Smith, the movement's…

1879

Édouard Manet

French painter (born 1832)

Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

1883

Joseph Leidy

American paleontologist and author (born 1823)

Joseph Mellick Leidy was an American paleontologist, parasitologist, and anatomist.

1891

Casey Jones

American railroad engineer (born 1864)

John Luther "Casey" Jones was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train in Vaughan, Mississippi.

1900

Emily Stowe

Canadian physician and activist (born 1831)

Emily Howard Stowe was a Canadian physician who was the first female physician to practise in Canada, the second licensed female physician in Canada and an activist for women's rights and suffrage. Stowe helped found…

1903

Jean Moréas

Greek poet and critic (born 1856)

Jean Moréas was a Greek poet, essayist, and art critic, who wrote mostly in the French language but also in Greek during his youth.

1910

Bessie Coleman

American pilot (born 1892)

Elizabeth Coleman was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first Native American to hold a pilot license, and is the earliest known Black person to earn an international pilot's…

1926

A. E. Housman

English poet and scholar (born 1859)

Alfred Edward Housman was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed the final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a…

1936

Frank Haller

American boxer (born 1883)

Frank Bee Haller was an American featherweight professional boxer who competed in the early twentieth century. He won a silver medal in Boxing at the 1904 Summer Olympics, beating fellow American Frederick Gilmore, but…

1939

Eddy Hamel

American footballer (born 1902)

Eddy Hamel was an American soccer player who played as a right winger for Dutch club AFC Ajax. Hamel was the first Jewish player for Ajax. He was murdered by the Nazis in 1943 in Auschwitz concentration camp.

1943

Otto Jespersen

Danish linguist and academic (born 1860)

Jens Otto Harry Jespersen was a Danish linguist who worked in foreign-language pedagogy, historical phonetics, and other areas, but is best known for his description of the grammar of the English language. Steven Mithen…

1943

Beatrice Webb

English sociologist and economist (born 1858)

Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, was an English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian…

1943

Eva Braun

German photographer and office and lab assistant, wife of Adolf Hitler (born 1912)

Eva Anna Paula Hitler was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich in 1929 when she was an assistant and model for his personal photographer,…

1945

Adolf Hitler

Austrian-German politician and author, dictator of Nazi Germany (born 1889)

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of…

1945

Jacob Linzbach

Estonian linguist and author (born 1874)

Jakob Linzbach was an Estonian linguist.

1953

Alben W. Barkley

American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (born 1877)

Alben William Barkley was an American lawyer and politician from Kentucky who served as the 35th vice president of the United States from 1949 to 1953 under President Harry S. Truman. In 1905, he was elected to local…

1956

Jacques Presser

Dutch historian, writer and poet (born 1899)

Jacob (Jacques) Presser was a Dutch historian, writer and poet who is known for his book Ashes in the Wind on the history of the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands during World War II. Presser made a…

1970

Inger Stevens

Swedish-American actress (born 1934)

Inger Stevens was a Swedish-born American film, stage, and Golden Globe–winning television actress.

1970

Gia Scala

English-American model and actress (born 1934)

Gia Scala was a British and American actress.

1972

Václav Renč

Czech poet and playwright (born 1911)

Václav Renč was a Czech poet, children's writer, dramatist and translator. Like other Catholic ruralistic writers, his themes included God, traditions and the countryside.

1973

Agnes Moorehead

American actress (born 1900)

Agnes Robertson Moorehead was an American actress. In a career spanning five decades, her credits included work in radio, stage, film, and television. Moorehead was the recipient of such accolades as a Primetime Emmy…

1974

Luis Muñoz Marín

Puerto Rican journalist and politician, 1st Governor of Puerto Rico (born 1898)

José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín, most commonly known as Luis Muñoz Marín, was a Puerto Rican journalist, politician, and statesman who served as the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico from 1949 to 1965.…

1980

Lester Bangs

American journalist and author (born 1949)

Leslie Conway "Lester" Bangs was an American music journalist and critic. He wrote for Creem and Rolling Stone magazines and was also a performing musician. The music critic Jim DeRogatis called him "America's greatest…

1982

George Balanchine

Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1904)

George Balanchine was a Georgian-American ballet choreographer, recognized as one of the most influential choreographers of the 20th century. Styled as the father of American ballet, he co-founded the New York City…

1983

Muddy Waters

American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader (born 1913)

McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern…

1983

Edouard Wyss-Dunant

Swiss physician and mountaineer (born 1897)

Edouard Wyss-Dunant was a Swiss physician and alpinist. He had a distinguished career in medicine, both in his own country and abroad. He published a number of treatises in his professional capacity and was the author…

1983

Robert Stevenson

English director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1905)

Robert Edward Stevenson was a British-American screenwriter and film director.

1986

Sergio Leone

Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1929)

Sergio Leone was an Italian filmmaker, credited as the pioneer of the spaghetti Western genre. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors in the history of cinema.

1989

Tommy Caton

English footballer (born 1962)

Thomas Stephen Caton was an English footballer who played as a centre half for Manchester City, Arsenal, Oxford United and Charlton Athletic. Caton captained both Manchester City and Oxford United and was named as…

1993

Roland Ratzenberger

Austrian race car driver (born 1960)

Roland Walter Ratzenberger was an Austrian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at three Grands Prix in 1994.

1994

Richard Scarry

American author and illustrator (born 1919)

Richard McClure Scarry was an American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million worldwide. He is best known for his Best Ever book series that take place…

1994

Maung Maung Kha

Burmese colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Burma (born 1920)

Maung Maung Kha was Prime Minister of Burma between 1977 and 1988.

1995

Nizar Qabbani

Syrian-English poet, publisher, and diplomat (born 1926)

Nizar Tawfiq Qabbani was a Syrian poet, diplomat, and publisher. Widely regarded as Syria’s national poet. Qabbani’s work is noted for its blend of simplicity and lyrical elegance, addressing themes of love, eroticism,…

1998

Poul Hartling

Danish politician, 36th Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1914)

Poul Hartling was a Danish politician and diplomat. He was leader of Venstre from 1965 to 1977, and served as Prime Minister of Denmark from 1973 to 1975. Prior to that, he served as foreign minister from 1968 to 1971…

2000

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf

German philanthropist, founded the Gründerzeit Museum (born 1928)

Charlotte von Mahlsdorf was a well-known transgender woman in East Germany and founded the Gründerzeit Museum in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. Later she became a LGBT-icon in Germany because of Rosa von Praunheim's biopic I Am My…

2002

Mark Berger

American economist and academic (born 1955)

Professor Mark C. Berger was the director of The Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Kentucky until his death at age 47. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at University College Dublin.…

2003

Possum Bourne

New Zealand race car driver (born 1956)

Peter Raymond George "Possum" Bourne was a champion New Zealand rally car driver. He died under non-competitive circumstances while driving on a public road that was to be the track for an upcoming race.

2003

Phil Rasmussen

American lieutenant and pilot (born 1918)

Philip M. Rasmussen was a United States Army Air Forces second lieutenant assigned to the 46th Pursuit Squadron at Wheeler Field on the island of Oahu during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He…

2005

Jean-François Revel

French philosopher (born 1924)

Jean-François Revel was a French philosopher, journalist, and author. A prominent public intellectual, Revel was a socialist in his youth but later became a prominent European proponent of classical liberalism and free…

2006

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Indonesian author and academic (born 1925)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, also nicknamed Pram, was an Indonesian novelist and writer. His works span the colonial period under Dutch rule, Indonesia's struggle for independence, its occupation by Japan during World War II,…

2006

Kevin Mitchell

American football player (born 1971)

Kevin Danyelle Mitchell was an American professional football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He played for the San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints, and Washington…

2007

Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk

Inuk writer (born 1931)

Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk was an Inuk author, educator, and sculptor from Kangiqsujuaq in Nunavik, in northern Quebec, Canada. She was noted for writing Sanaaq, one of the first Inuktitut-language novels. Nappaaluk…

2007

Tom Poston

American actor, comedian, and game show panelist (born 1921)

Thomas Gordon Poston was an American actor, appearing in television roles from the 1950s through the early to mid-2000s, reportedly appearing in more sitcoms than any other actor. In the 1980s, he played George Utley on…

2007

Gordon Scott

American film and television actor (born 1926)

Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960. Gordon Scott was the 11th Tarzan, starting with…

2007

Juancho Evertsz

Dutch Antillean politician (born 1923)

Juancho Evertsz, whose full name was Juan Miguel Gregorio Evertsz, was a Dutch Antillean politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles between 1973 and 1977.

2008

Henk Nijdam

Dutch cyclist (born 1935)

Henk Nijdam was a Dutch road and track cyclist. His sporting career began with Fortuna Zundert. On track, he finished in fifth place in the 4 km team pursuit at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also won a gold and a bronze…

2009

Dorjee Khandu

Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (born 1955)

Dorjee Khandu was an Indian politician who served as Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh from 2007 until his death in a helicopter crash in April 2011.

2011

Evald Okas

Estonian painter (born 1915)

Evald Okas was an Estonian painter, probably best known for his portraits of nudes.

2011

Ernesto Sabato

Argentinian physicist, author, and painter (born 1911)

Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world…

2011

Tomás Borge

Nicaraguan poet and politician, co-founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front (born 1930)

Tomás Borge Martínez, often spelled as Thomas Borge in American newspapers, was a cofounder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front in Nicaragua and was Interior Minister of Nicaragua during one of the…

2012

Alexander Dale Oen

Norwegian swimmer (born 1985)

Alexander Dale Oen was a Norwegian competitive swimmer. He was an Olympic silver medallist, World Championships gold medallist, World Championships (25m) bronze medallist, two-time European Championships gold medallist…

2012

Giannis Gravanis

Greek footballer (born 1958)

Giannis Gravanis was a Greek footballer.

2012

Benzion Netanyahu

Russian-Israeli historian and academic (born 1910)

Benzion Netanyahu was a Polish-born Israeli encyclopedist, historian, and medievalist. Born in Warsaw, he served as a professor of history at Cornell University. A scholar of Judaic history, he was also an activist in…

2012

Roberto Chabet

Filipino painter and sculptor (born 1937)

Roberto "Bobby" Rodríguez Chabet was an artist from the Philippines and widely acknowledged as the father of Philippine conceptual art.

2013

Shirley Firth

Canadian skier (born 1953)

Shirley Firth was a Canadian cross-country skier who competed in four consecutive Winter Olympics in 1972, 1976, 1980 and 1984.

2013

Viviane Forrester

French author and critic (born 1925)

Viviane Forrester was an essayist, novelist, journalist and literary critic.

2013

Khaled Choudhury

Indian painter and set designer (born 1919)

Khaled Choudhury was a theatre personality and artist of Bengal. He worked for various directors of both Bengali and Hindi plays, including Sombhu Mitra, Tripti Mitra, and Shyamanand Jalan in various capacities —…

2014

Julian Lewis

English biologist and academic (born 1946)

Julian Hart Lewis FRS was an English developmental biologist and researcher whose work shed light on the nature of cellular timing mechanisms and their role in animal development. He showed that the Notch ligand…

2014

Carl E. Moses

American businessman and politician (born 1929)

Carl Eugene Moses was an American businessman from Unalaska, Alaska who served in the Alaska House of Representatives from 1965 to 1973 as both a Republican and Democrat, and was elected again to the House in 1992…

2014

Ian Ross

Australian journalist (born 1940)

Ian Charles "Roscoe" Ross was an Australian television news presenter for Seven News in Sydney and for Nine News.

2014

Ben E. King

American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1938)

Benjamin Earl King was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters, singing the lead vocals on three of their biggest…

2015

Daniel Berrigan

American priest and activist (born 1921)

Daniel Joseph Berrigan was an American Jesuit priest, anti-war activist, Christian pacifist, playwright, poet, and author.

2016

Harry Kroto

English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1939)

Sir Harold Walter Kroto was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. He was the recipient of many other honors and awards.

2016

Belchior

Brazilian singer and composer (born 1946)

Belchior was a Brazilian singer and composer. He was one of the first MPB singers from the Brazilian northeast to reach mainstream success, in the early 1970s.

2017

Peter Mayhew

English-American actor (born 1944)

Peter William Mayhew was a British-American actor. He was best known for portraying Chewbacca in the Star Wars film series. He played the character in all of his live-action appearances from the 1977 original to 2015's…

2019

Tony Allen

Nigerian drummer and composer (born 1940)

Tony Oladipo Allen was a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter. Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti's band Africa '70 from 1968 to 1979, and was one of the founders of the Afrobeat genre.

2020

Rishi Kapoor

Indian actor, film director and producer (born 1952)

Rishi Kapoor was an Indian actor, film director, and producer who worked in Hindi films. In a career spanning five decades, he established himself through a diverse range of roles in Hindi cinema. Kapoor was the…

2020

Anthony Payne

English composer (born 1936)

Anthony Edward Payne was an English composer, music critic and musicologist. He is best known for his acclaimed completion of Edward Elgar's third symphony, which gained wide acceptance into Elgar's oeuvre. Payne is…

2021

Mino Raiola

Italian football agent (born 1967)

Carmine "Mino" Raiola was an Italian-Dutch football agent known for having represented players such as Pavel Nedvěd, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Paul Pogba, and Erling Haaland.

2022

Jock Zonfrillo

Scottish television presenter and chef (born 1976)

Barry "Jock" Zonfrillo was a Scottish chef, television presenter and restaurateur. He was the founder of the Orana Foundation and a judge on MasterChef Australia.

2023

Paul Auster

American writer and film director (born 1947)

Paul Benjamin Auster was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002),…

2024

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Known forIn 1980, she and her daughter Wynonna formed the duo known as The Judds, who became a successful country music act, winning five Grammy Awards and nine Country Music Association awards

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