Did you know about Joe Kinnear
With Tottenham he won the FA Cup, the League Cup twice, the Charity Shield, and the UEFA Cup.
Notable Deaths on April 7
April 7 has 140 recorded notable deaths across history, from 30 to 2026. This page lists every one of them, with the best-known people first.
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30 – 2026
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Did you know about John Gourlay
In 1904 he was captain of the Galt F.C. team, which won the gold medal in football at the 1904 Summer Olympics.
Did you know about Norman Taurog
At the age of 32, he received the Academy Award for Best Director for Skippy (1931), becoming the youngest person to win the award for eight and a half decades.
Did you know about Ace Bailey
Ace Bailey played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for eight seasons, from 1926 to 1933.
Did you know about Galeotto I Pico
The son of Gianfrancesco I Pico, Galeotto initially allied himself to the Duchy of Ferrara, first fighting for Duke Borso d'Este and then Ercole I d'Este, with whom he formed a strong bond.
Major events on April 7
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 2011 The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever. Source
- 1788 Settlers establish Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory. Source
Who died on April 7?
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1949
John Gourlay
Canadian soccer player (born 1872)
John Bell Gourlay was a Canadian amateur soccer player who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Essex, Ontario and died in West Vancouver. In 1904 he was captain of the Galt F.C. team, which won the gold medal in football at the 1904 Summer Olympics.
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He played all two matches as a full-back. These Olympic Games were the first in which gold medals were given for football, making Gourlay and the Galt football team one of the first Canadians to win gold medals at the Olympics. Gold medals were presented to the team members immediately after the game. The winning medals were inscribed “1904 Universal Exposition Olympic Games St. Louis Association Football Championship”. This was the only Canadian football team to win Olympic gold until the Canadian women’s team at the 2020 Olympic Summer Games.
1981
Norman Taurog
American director and screenwriter (born 1899)
Norman Rae Taurog was an American film director and screenwriter. From 1920 to 1968, Taurog directed 180 films. At the age of 32, he received the Academy Award for Best Director for Skippy (1931), becoming the youngest person to win the award for eight and a half decades.
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He was later nominated for Best Director for the film Boys Town (1938). He directed some of the best-known actors of the twentieth century, including his nephew Jackie Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin, Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Deborah Kerr, Peter Lawford, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Elvis Presley and Vincent Price. Taurog directed six Martin and Lewis films, and nine Elvis Presley films, more than any other director.
1992
Ace Bailey
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1903)
Irvine Wallace "Ace" Bailey was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played for the Toronto Maple Leafs for eight seasons, from 1926 to 1933. His playing career ended with a hit from Eddie Shore in a game against the Boston Bruins; he was severely injured with a fractured skull when Shore hit Bailey from behind in retaliation for a check by teammate King Clancy.
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Bailey fell, fracturing his skull upon hitting the ice, and was knocked unconscious. Bailey is the first professional sports player to have a jersey number retired in his honour. Bailey led the NHL in scoring in 1929, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975.
1499
Galeotto I Pico
Duke of Mirandola (born 1442)
Galeotto I Pico della Mirandola was an Italian condottiero and nobleman, Signore of Mirandola and Concordia. He was noted by contemporaries for his tyranny. The son of Gianfrancesco I Pico, Galeotto initially allied himself to the Duchy of Ferrara, first fighting for Duke Borso d'Este and then Ercole I d'Este, with whom he formed a strong bond.
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In 1486, he switched allegiance to Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. He fought his brother Antonio for the Signoria of Mirandola. He was ultimately successful in the last battle, taking his brother's place in 1491, which was reaffirmed two years later. He died in 1499 and was succeeded by his son Giovanni Francesco.
1804
Toussaint Louverture
Haitian general (born 1743)
François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture, also known as Toussaint L'Ouverture or Toussaint Bréda, was a Haitian general and the most prominent leader of the Haitian Revolution. During his life, Louverture first fought and allied with Spanish forces against Saint-Domingue Royalists, then joined with Republican France, becoming Governor-General-for-life of Saint-Domingue, and lastly fought against Bonaparte's republican troops. As a revolutionary leader, Louverture displayed military and political acumen that helped transform the fledgling slave rebellion into a revolutionary movement.
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Along with Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Louverture is now known as one of the "Fathers of Haiti" and a figure of Haitian mythology, where he was praised as a founder of the black nation.
1868
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Irish-Canadian journalist, activist, and politician (born 1825)
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish-Canadian politician, Catholic spokesman, journalist, poet, and a Father of Canadian Confederation. The young McGee was an Irish Catholic who opposed British rule in Ireland, and was part of the Young Ireland attempts to overthrow British rule and create an independent Irish Republic. He escaped arrest and fled to the United States in 1848, after which some of his political positions reversed.
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He remained ardently Catholic, but his Irish nationalism moderated. He became disgusted with American republicanism, Anti-Catholicism, and classical liberalism. McGee became intensely monarchistic in his political beliefs and in his religious support for the embattled Pope Pius IX.
1638
Shimazu Tadatsune
Japanese daimyō (born 1576)
Shimazu Tadatsune was a tozama daimyō of Satsuma, the first to hold it as a formal fief (han) under the Tokugawa shogunate, and the first Japanese to rule over the Ryūkyū Kingdom. As lord of Satsuma, he was among the most powerful lords in Japan at the time, and formally submitted to Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1602, to prove his loyalty, being rewarded as a result with the name Matsudaira Iehisa; Matsudaira being a branch family of the Tokugawa, and "Ie" of "Iehisa" being taken from "Ieyasu", this was a great honor. As of 1603, his holdings amounted to 605,000 koku.
2007
Johnny Hart
American author and illustrator (born 1931)
John Lewis Hart was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strips B.C. and The Wizard of Id. Brant Parker co-produced and illustrated The Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including the Swedish Adamson Award and five from the National Cartoonists Society.
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In his later years, he was known for incorporating Christian themes and messages into his strips and seeming to denigrate other religions. Hart was referred to by Chuck Colson in a Breakpoint column as "the most widely read Christian of our time", over C. S. Lewis, Frank E. Peretti, and Billy Graham.
2019
Seymour Cassel
American actor (born 1935)
Seymour Joseph Cassel was an American actor who appeared in over 200 films and television shows, with a career spanning over 50 years. He first came to prominence in the 1960s in the pioneering independent films of writer/director John Cassavetes. The first of these was Too Late Blues (1961), followed by Faces (1968), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a National Society of Film Critics Award.
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Cassel went on to appear in Cassavetes's Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening Night (1977), and Love Streams (1984).
1739
Dick Turpin
English criminal (born 1705)
Richard Turpin was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life but, by the early 1730s, he had joined a gang of deer thieves and, later, became a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer. He is also known for a fictional 200-mile (320 km) overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.
2014
V. K. Murthy
Indian cinematographer (born 1923)
Venkatarama Pandit Krishnamurthy known professionally as V. K. Murthy, was an Indian cinematographer.
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Murthy, a one-time violinist and jailed freedom fighter, was Guru Dutt's regular cameraman on his movies. He provided some of Indian cinema's most notable images in starkly contrasted black and white. He also shot India's first cinemascope film, Kaagaz Ke Phool. For his contribution to film industry, particularly Indian film industry he was awarded the IIFA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. In 2010, he was honoured with the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for his contributions to Indian cinema.
1651
Lennart Torstensson
Swedish field marshal and engineer (born 1603)
Lennart Torstensson was a Swedish field marshal and statesman who later served as Governor-General of Pomerania, Västergötland, Dalsland, Värmland and Halland. A prominent commander during the Thirty Years' War, he helped develop the use of more mobile artillery on the battlefield and won a series of major victories against Imperial forces. He also led the Swedish invasion of Denmark during the Torstenson War (1643–1645), which was named after him.
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The period of his supreme command marks one of the most successful chapters in the military history of the Swedish army.
1960
Henri Guisan
Swiss general (born 1874)
Henri Guisan was a Swiss military officer who held the office of General of the Swiss Armed Forces during the Second World War. He was the fourth and the most recent person to be appointed to the rarely used Swiss rank of general, and was possibly Switzerland's most famous soldier. He is best remembered for effectively mobilizing the Swiss military and population in order to prepare resistance against a possible invasion by Nazi Germany in 1940.
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Guisan was voted the fourth-greatest Swiss figure of all time in 2010.
1206
Frederick I
Duke of Lorraine
Frederick I was the duke of Lorraine from 1205 to his death. He was the second son of Matthias I and Bertha, daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Swabia. He succeeded his brother, Simon II, who had already given him the county of Bitche in 1176 and had recognised him over the northern, germanophone half of Lorraine by the Treaty of Ribemont of 1179.
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Judith had wanted him to succeed to all their father's inheritance, but a three-year civil war only secured him Bitche and a half-portion.
1789
Abdul Hamid I
Ottoman sultan (born 1725)
Abdülhamid I or Abdul Hamid I was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1774 to 1789. A devout and pacifist sultan, he inherited a bankrupt empire and sought military reforms, including overhauling the Janissaries and navy. Despite internal efforts and quelling revolts in Syria, Egypt, and Greece, his reign saw the critical loss of Crimea and defeat by Russia and Austria.
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The 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca granted Russia territorial and religious influence. He died soon after the fall of Ochakov in 1788.
1498
Charles VIII of France (born 1470)
Charles VIII, called the Affable, was King of France from 1483 to his death in 1498. He succeeded his father Louis XI at the age of 13. His elder sister Anne acted as regent jointly with her husband Peter II, Duke of Bourbon until 1491, when the young king turned 21 years of age.
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During Anne's regency, the great lords rebelled against royal centralisation efforts in a conflict known as the Mad War (1485–1488), which resulted in a victory for the royal government.
1891
P. T. Barnum
American businessman and politician, co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus (born 1810)
Phineas Taylor Barnum was an American showman, businessman, and politician remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and founding the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus with James Anthony Bailey. He was also an author, publisher, and philanthropist, although he said of himself: "I am a showman by profession ... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me." The adage "there's a sucker born every minute" has frequently been attributed to him, although no evidence exists that he had coined the phrase.
2009
Dave Arneson
American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (born 1947)
David Lance Arneson was an American game designer best known for co-developing the first published role-playing game (RPG), Dungeons & Dragons, with Gary Gygax, in the early 1970s. Arneson's fundamental early role-playing game (RPG) genre work pioneered now-archetypical devices, such as: cooperative play to develop a storyline instead of individual competitive play to "win"; and adventuring in dungeon, town, and wilderness settings as presented by a neutral judge who doubles as the voice and consciousness of all characters aside from the player characters.
1968
Jim Clark
Scottish race car driver (born 1936)
James Clark was a British racing driver from Scotland who competed in Formula One from 1960 to 1968. Clark won two Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1963 and 1965 with Lotus, and—at the time of his death—held the records for most wins (25), pole positions (33), and fastest laps (28), among others. In American open-wheel racing, Clark won the Indianapolis 500 in 1965 with Lotus, becoming the first non-American winner of the race in 49 years.
1943
Alexandre Millerand
French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (born 1859)
Alexandre Millerand was a French politician who served as President of France from 1920 to 1924, having previously served as Prime Minister of France earlier in 1920. His participation in Waldeck-Rousseau's cabinet at the start of the 20th century, alongside the Marquis de Galliffet, who had directed the repression of the 1871 Paris Commune, sparked a debate in the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO) and in the Second International about the participation of socialists in bourgeois governments.
1984
Frank Church
American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1924)
Frank Forrester Church III was an American politician and lawyer. From 1957 to 1981, he served as a U.S. senator from Idaho, and is currently the last Democrat to do so. He was the longest serving Democratic senator from the state and the only Democrat from the state who served more than two terms in the Senate.
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Church was a prominent figure in American foreign policy and established a reputation as a member of the party's liberal wing.
2023
Ben Ferencz
American lawyer (born 1920)
Benjamin Berell Ferencz was an American lawyer. He was an investigator of Nazi war crimes after World War II and the chief prosecutor for the United States Army at the Einsatzgruppen trial, one of the 12 subsequent Nuremberg trials held by US authorities at Nuremberg, Germany. When the Einsatzgruppen reports were discovered, Ferencz pushed for a trial based on their evidence.
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When confronted with a lack of staff and resources, he personally volunteered to serve as the prosecutor.
1833
Antoni Radziwiłł
Lithuanian composer and politician (born 1775)
Prince Antoni Henryk Radziwiłł was a Polish–Lithuanian and Prussian noble, aristocrat, musician, and politician. Initially a hereditary Duke of Nieśwież and Ołyka, as a scion of the Radziwiłł family he also held the honorific title of a Reichsfürst of the Holy Roman Empire. Between 1815 and 1831 he acted as Duke-Governor of the Grand Duchy of Posen, an autonomous province of the Kingdom of Prussia created out of Greater Polish lands annexed in the Partitions of Poland.
2002
John Agar
American actor (born 1921)
John George Agar Jr. was an American film and television actor. He is best known for starring alongside John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache, and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. In his later career he was the star of B movies, such as Tarantula!, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Revenge of the Creature, Flesh and the Spur and Hand of Death.
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He was the first husband of Shirley Temple.
2007
Barry Nelson
American actor (born 1917)
Robert Haakon Nielsen, known as Barry Nelson, was an American stage, film, and television actor. He is noted as the first actor to portray Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond, in the 1954 American television adaptation of Casino Royale. He is also known for playing Stuart Ullman in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 psychological horror film The Shining.
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He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for the Broadway musical The Act (1977).
1789
Petrus Camper
Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (born 1722)
Petrus Camper FRS, was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, palaeontologist and a naturalist in the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the first to take an interest in comparative anatomy, palaeontology, and the facial angle. He was among the first to mark out an "anthropology," which he distinguished from natural history.
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He studied the orangutan, the Javan rhinoceros, and the skull of a mosasaur, which he believed was a whale.
1994
Golo Mann
German historian and author (born 1909)
Golo Mann was a popular German historian and essayist. After completing a doctorate in philosophy under Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg, in 1933 he fled Hitler's Germany. He followed his father, the writer Thomas Mann, and other members of his family in emigrating first to France, then to Switzerland and, on the eve of war, to the United States.
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From the late 1950s he re-established himself in Switzerland and West Germany as a literary historian.
2012
Mike Wallace
American television news journalist (born 1918)
Myron Leon Wallace was an American broadcast journalist, and television personality. Known for his investigative journalism, he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers during his seven-decade career. He was one of the original correspondents featured on CBS news magazine program 60 Minutes, which debuted in 1968.
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Wallace retired as a regular full-time correspondent in 2006, but still appeared occasionally on the series until 2008. He was the father of broadcast journalist Chris Wallace.
2020
John Prine
American country folk singer-songwriter (born 1946)
John Edward Prine was an American singer-songwriter of country-folk music. Widely cited as one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, Prine was known for his signature blend of humorous lyrics about love, life, and current events, often with elements of social commentary and satire, as well as sweet songs and melancholy ballads. He was active as a composer, recording artist, live performer, and occasional actor from the early 1970s until his death.
1997
Luis Aloma
Cuban-American baseball player (born 1923)
Luis Alomá Barba, nicknamed "Witto", was a Cuban-born relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox from 1950 through 1953. Alomá batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Havana.
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He would also pitch in farm systems for the Washington Senators and the Detroit Tigers. His first game was on April 19 at the age of 26, and his last game August 30, 1953.
2008
Ludu Daw Amar
Burmese journalist and author (born 1915)
Ludu Daw Amar was a dissident writer and journalist based in Mandalay, Burma. She was married to fellow writer and journalist Ludu U Hla and was the mother of popular writer Nyi Pu Lay. She is best known for her outspoken anti-government views and left-wing journalism.
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She also produced work on traditional Burmese arts, including theatre, dance, and music, and translated several works from English, both fiction and non-fiction.
2012
Steven Kanumba
Tanzanian actor and director (born 1984)
Steven Charles Kanumba was a Tanzanian actor and director of Sukuma heritage, born in Shinyanga Region. Kanumba died in 2012 at the age of 28, for which actress Elizabeth Michael was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to two years in prison in November 2017. Over 30,000 people were estimated to have attended his funeral.
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He was described as "Tanzania's most popular film star", and appeared in Nollywood films.
2012
Satsue Mito
Japanese zoologist and academic (born 1914)
Satsue Mito was a Japanese school teacher and primate researcher. She helped with the Kyoto University Primatology group studying wild monkeys on an island called Kōjima, in Miyazaki Prefecture. She identified every monkey in the island and recorded their relationships.
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She discovered the origin and spreading of sweet potato washing by monkeys. She was an instructor of Kyoto University working with other researchers between 1970 and 1984.
1950
Walter Huston
Canadian-American actor and singer (born 1883)
Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian and American actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of the four generations of the Huston acting family, including his son John, grandchildren Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston, as well as great-grandchild Jack Huston.
1939
Joseph Lyons
Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1879)
Joseph Aloysius Lyons was the tenth prime minister of Australia, serving from 1932 until his death in 1939. He held office as the inaugural leader of the United Australia Party (UAP), having previously led the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) before the Australian Labor Party split of 1931. He served as the 26th premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928.
1947
Henry Ford
American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (born 1863)
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automobiles affordable for middle-class Americans through the system that came to be known as Fordism. In 1911, he was awarded a patent for the transmission mechanism that would be used in the Ford Model T and other automobiles.
2025
Greg Millen
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (born 1957)
Gregory H. Millen was a Canadian hockey commentator-analyst and professional ice hockey goaltender who played 14 seasons for six teams in the National Hockey League (NHL). During his career as a colour commentator, he worked on regional telecasts for the Ottawa Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs and Calgary Flames, and on national telecasts on Hockey Night in Canada and the NHL on Sportsnet.
1614
El Greco
Greek-Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1541)
Doménikos Theotokópoulos, most widely known as El Greco, was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance, regarded as one of the greatest artists of all time. El Greco was a nickname, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters often adding the word Κρής, which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek.
2014
George Dureau
American painter and photographer (born 1930)
George Valentine Dureau was an American artist whose long career was most notable for charcoal sketches and black and white photography of poor white and black athletes, dwarfs, and amputees. Robert Mapplethorpe is said to have been inspired by Dureau's amputee and dwarf photographs, which showed the figures as "exposed and vulnerable, playful and needy, complex and entirely human individuals."
1747
Leopold I
Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (born 1676)
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the Principality of Anhalt-Dessau from 1693 to 1747. He was also a Generalfeldmarschall in the Prussian Army. Nicknamed "the Old Dessauer", he possessed good abilities as a field commander, but was mainly remembered as a talented drillmaster who modernized the Prussian infantry.
2020
Herb Stempel
American television personality (born 1926)
Herbert Milton Stempel was an American television game show contestant and subsequent whistleblower on the fraudulent nature of the industry, in what became known as the 1950s quiz show scandals. His rigged six-week appearance as a winning contestant on the 1950s show Twenty-One ended in an equally rigged defeat by Columbia University teacher and literary scion Charles Van Doren.
1606
The Jesuit Edward Oldcorne (born 1561) is executed at Worcester in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot.
Edward Oldcorne alias Hall was an English Jesuit priest. He was known to people who knew of the Gunpowder Plot to destroy the Parliament of England and kill King James I; and although his involvement is unclear, he was caught up in the subsequent investigation. He is a Roman Catholic martyr and was beatified in 1929.
2014
Josep Maria Subirachs
Spanish sculptor and painter (born 1927)
Josep Maria Subirachs i Sitjar was a Spanish sculptor and painter of the late 20th century. His best known work is probably the Passion Facade of the basilica of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona. He was controversial, as he did not make any concessions to the style of the architect who designed the building, Antoni Gaudí.
1917
Spyridon Samaras
Greek composer and playwright (born 1861)
Spyridon-Filiskos Samaras was a Greek composer particularly admired for his operas. His compositions were praised worldwide during his lifetime and he is arguably the most important composer of the Ionian School. Among his best-known works are the operas Flora mirabilis (1886) and Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle (1905).
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He also composed the music for the Olympic Hymn.
1994
Agathe Uwilingiyimana
Rwandan chemist, academic, and politician, Prime Minister of Rwanda (born 1953)
Agathe Uwilingiyimana, sometimes known as Madame Agathe, was a Rwandan political figure. She served as Prime Minister of Rwanda from 18 July 1993 until her assassination on 7 April 1994 during the opening stages of the Rwandan genocide. She was also Rwanda's acting head of state in the hours leading up to her death.
1955
Theda Bara
American actress (born 1885)
Theda Bara was an American silent film and stage actress. Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "the Vamp", later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles based in exoticism and sexual domination.
1668
William Davenant
English poet and playwright (born 1606)
Sir William Davenant, also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil War and during the Interregnum.
1879
Begum Hazrat Mahal
Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah (born 1820)
Begum Hazrat Mahal, also known as the Begum of Awadh, was the second wife of Nawab of Awadh Wajid Ali Shah, and the regent of Awadh in 1857–1858. She is known for the leading role she had in the rebellion against the British East India Company during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
1986
Leonid Kantorovich
Russian mathematician and economist (born 1912)
Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming. He was the winner of the Stalin Prize in 1949 and the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1975.
1990
Ronald Evans
American captain, engineer, and astronaut (born 1933)
Ronald Ellwin Evans Jr. was an American electrical engineer, aeronautical engineer, officer and aviator in the United States Navy, and NASA astronaut. As Command Module Pilot on Apollo 17 he was one of the 24 Apollo astronauts to fly to the Moon, and one of the 12 to do so without landing.
924
Berengar I of Italy (born 845)
Berengar I was King of Italy from 887 and Holy Roman Emperor from 915 until his death in 924. He is usually known as Berengar of Friuli, since he ruled the March of Friuli from 874 until at least 890, but he had lost control of the region by 896.
2025
William Finn
American composer and lyricist (born 1952)
William Alan Finn was an American composer and lyricist. He was best known for his musicals, which include Falsettos, for which he won the 1992 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical, A New Brain (1998), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005).
1823
Jacques Charles
French physicist and mathematician (born 1746)
Jacques Alexandre César Charles was a French inventor, scientist, and balloonist. Charles wrote almost nothing about mathematics, and most of what has been credited to him was due to mistaking him with another Jacques Charles, also a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, entering on 12 May 1785.
1340
Bolesław Jerzy II of Mazovia (born 1308)
Yuri II Boleslav, was a prince and Dominus of Ruthenia in 1325–1340. He was the son of Trojden I, Duke of Masovia, a member of the Piast dynasty and the grandson of Yuri I of Galicia. His murder prompted a war of succession, known as the Galicia–Volhynia Wars.
1922
James McGowen
Australian politician, 18th Premier of New South Wales (born 1855)
James Sinclair Taylor McGowen was an Australian politician. He served as premier of New South Wales from 1910 to 1913, the first member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to hold the position, and was a key figure in the party's early history in New South Wales.
1920
Karl Binding
German lawyer and jurist (born 1841)
Karl Ludwig Lorenz Binding was a German jurist known as a promoter of the theory of retributive justice. His influential book, Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens, written together with the psychiatrist Alfred Hoche, was used by the Nazis to justify their Aktion T4 euthanasia program.
1661
Sir William Brereton
1st Baronet, English commander and politician (born 1604)
Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, was an English religious Independent, author, and landowner from Cheshire. He was Member of Parliament for Cheshire at various times between 1628 and 1653, and during the First English Civil War, commander of Parliamentarian forces in the North Midlands.
1956
Fred Appleby
English runner (born 1879)
Frederick Appleby was a British long-distance runner. In 1902, Appleby set a world record for 15 miles and twice defeated the leading distance runner of the time, Alfred Shrubb. Appleby competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics as a marathoner but failed to finish.
1779
Martha Ray
English singer (born 1746)
Martha Ray was a British singer of the Georgian era. Her father was a corsetmaker and her mother was a servant in a noble household. Good-looking, intelligent, and a talented singer, she came to the attention of many of her father's patrons.
2004
Victor Argo
American actor (born 1934)
Victor Argo was an American actor and musician. Known for his "jowly, lived-in face and a deep voice that suggested danger ahead," he was a regular in the films of directors Martin Scorsese and Abel Ferrara, often playing tough or intimidating characters.
2012
Bashir Ahmed Qureshi
Pakistani politician (born 1959)
Bashir Khan Qureshi was a Sindhi nationalist who served as the leader of Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), a Sindhi nationalist movement in Sindh, founded by G. M. Syed.
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He was assassinated at the age of 54 years on 7 April 2012.
2012
David E. Pergrin
American colonel and engineer (born 1917)
Colonel David E. Pergrin was commanding officer of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion of the United States Army during World War II. Before the war he earned an engineering degree at Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 1940.
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While at Penn State he participated in the ROTC program. In addition, Pergrin played on the university's football team, was elected to the Tau Beta Pi and Chi Epsilon engineering honor societies, and was senior class president. Before graduation he was voted Outstanding Non-Fraternity senior. In his role as senior class president, he presented the university with the Class of 1940 gift – the Nittany Lion Shrine, a 14-ton limestone monument symbolizing the Penn State tradition. However, the monument was not officially dedicated until 1942.
821
George the Standard-Bearer
archbishop of Mytilene (born c. 776)
Saint George the Standard-Bearer, also known as Saint George the Confessor, was the Archbishop of Mytilene from 804 until his deposition in 815. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and his feast day is 7 April.
1858
Anton Diabelli
Austrian composer and publisher (born 1781)
Anton Diabelli was an Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer. Best known in his time as a publisher, he is most familiar today as the composer of the waltz on which Ludwig van Beethoven wrote his set of thirty-three Diabelli Variations.
1918
George E. Ohr
American potter (born 1857)
George Edgar Ohr was an American ceramic artist and the self-proclaimed "Mad Potter of Biloxi" in Mississippi. In recognition of his innovative experimentation with modern clay forms from 1880 to 1910, some consider him a precursor to the American Abstract-Expressionism movement.
2015
José Capellán
Dominican-American baseball player (born 1981)
José Francisco Capellán was a Dominican professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball from 2004 to 2008 for the Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers and Colorado Rockies. He also played with the Hanhwa Eagles of the KBO League.
1928
Alexander Bogdanov
Russian physician, philosopher, and author (born 1873)
Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and Bolshevik revolutionary. He was a polymath who pioneered blood transfusion, as well as general systems theory, and made important contributions to cybernetics.
1663
Francis Cooke
English-American settler (born 1583)
Francis Cooke was a Leiden Separatist, who went to America in 1620 on the Pilgrim ship Mayflower, which arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts. He was a founding member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact.
1889
Youssef Bey Karam
Lebanese soldier and politician (born 1823)
Youssef Bey Karam was a Lebanese Maronite notable for fighting in the 1860 civil conflict and leading a rebellion in 1866–1867 against Ottoman rule in Mount Lebanon. His proclamations have been interpreted as an early expression of Lebanese nationalism.
2005
Cliff Allison
English race car driver (born 1932)
Henry Clifford Allison was a British racing driver from England, who participated in Formula One during seasons 1958 to 1961 for the Lotus, Scuderia Centro Sud, Ferrari and UDT Laystall teams. He was born and died in Brough, Westmorland.
1719
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
French priest and saint, founded the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (born 1651)
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle was a French priest, educational reformer, and founder of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. He is a saint of the Catholic Church and the patron saint for teachers of youth.
1938
Suzanne Valadon
French painter (born 1865)
Marie-Clémentine "Suzanne" Valadon was a French painter who was born at Bessines-sur-Gartempe, Haute-Vienne, France. In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo.
1965
Roger Leger
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)
Joseph Ernest Roger Léger was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. He played 187 games in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers from 1943 to 1950. He was born in L'Annonciation, Quebec.
2001
Beatrice Straight
American actress (born 1914)
Beatrice Whitney Straight was an American theatre, film, television and radio actress and a member of the prominent Whitney family. She was both an Academy Award and Tony Award winner, as well as a Primetime Emmy Award nominee.
2015
Geoffrey Lewis
American actor (born 1935)
Geoffrey Bond Lewis was an American actor. He appeared in more than 200 films and television shows, and was principally known for his film roles alongside Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. He often portrayed villains or eccentric characters.
1885
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
German physiologist and zoologist (born 1804)
Prof Karl (Carl) Theodor Ernst von Siebold FRS(For) HFRSE was a German physiologist and zoologist. He was responsible for the introduction of the taxa Arthropoda and Rhizopoda, and for defining the taxon Protozoa specifically for single-celled organisms.
2021
Tommy Raudonikis
Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1950)
Thomas Walter Raudonikis was an Australian rugby league footballer and coach. He played 40 International games and World Cup games as Australia representative halfback and captained his country in two matches of the 1973 Kangaroo tour.
1501
Minkhaung II
king of Ava (born 1446)
Minkhaung II was king of Ava from 1480 to 1501. His 20-year reign was the beginning of the decline of Ava's hold on Upper Burma. Yamethin, a region to the east of Ava, revolted upon Minkhaung's accession to the Ava throne and stayed independent throughout Minkhaung's reign.
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The southern regions of Prome and Tharrawaddy revolted in 1482, and also stayed independent. By the mid-1490s, the Shan states of Mohnyin, Mogaung, Momeik and Kale (Kalay) had also broken away, and begun raiding northern Ava territories. Minkhaung increasingly came to rely on Mingyi Nyo, the Viceroy of Toungoo, for military assistance. By the end of his reign, Toungoo was equally powerful as its nominal overlord Ava.
2024
Jerry Grote
American baseball player (born 1942)
Gerald Wayne Grote was an American professional baseball catcher. He played in Major League Baseball from 1963 through 1981 for the Houston Colt .45s, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Kansas City Royals.
1982
Harald Ertl
Austrian race car driver and journalist (born 1948)
Harald Ertl was an Austrian racing driver and motorsport journalist. He was born in Zell am See and attended the same school as Grand Prix drivers Jochen Rindt, Helmut Marko and Niki Lauda.
1972
Joe Gallo
American gangster (born 1929)
Joseph Gallo, also known as "Crazy Joe", was an American mobster and soldato (soldier) often characterized as a de facto caporegime (captain) in the Colombo crime family of New York City.
1849
Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros
Argentinian priest and politician (born 1777)
Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros was an Argentine statesman and priest. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina.
1999
Heinz Lehmann
German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (born 1911)
Heinz Edgar Lehmann was a German-born Canadian psychiatrist best known for his use of chlorpromazine for the treatment of schizophrenia in 1950s and "truly the father of modern psychopharmacology."
2012
Ignatius Moses I Daoud
Syrian cardinal (born 1930)
Ignatius Basile Moses I Daoud was Patriarch of Antioch for the Syrian Catholic Church, a cardinal-bishop, and Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Catholic Church.
1972
Abeid Karume
Tanzanian politician, 1st President of Zanzibar (born 1905)
Abeid Amani Karume was a Tanzanian politician and statesman who served as the first president of Zanzibar and vice-president of Tanzania from 1964 until his assassination in 1972.
1761
Thomas Bayes
English minister and mathematician (born 1701)
Thomas Bayes was an English statistician, philosopher and Presbyterian minister who is known for formulating a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem.
1782
Taksin
Thai king (born 1734)
Taksin the Great or the King of Thonburi was a Thai Chinese general who became the only King of Thonburi that ruled Siam from 1767 to 1782.
1836
William Godwin
English journalist and author (born 1756)
William Godwin was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism.
2014
James Alexander Green
American-English mathematician and academic (born 1926)
James Alexander "Sandy" Green FRS was a mathematician and professor at the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, who worked in the field of representation theory.
1889
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
Mexican politician and president, 1872-1876 (born 1823)
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada y Corral was a Mexican liberal politician and jurist who served as the 31st president of Mexico from 1872 to 1876.
1998
Alex Schomburg
Puerto Rican painter and illustrator (born 1905)
Alexander A. Schomburg, born Alejandro Schomburg y Rosa, was a Puerto Rican commercial artist and comic-book artist and painter whose career lasted over 70 years.
2014
Zeituni Onyango
Kenyan-American computer programmer (born 1952)
Zeituni Onyango was the half-aunt of United States President Barack Obama; she was born into the Luo tribe in Kenya. Born during the British rule of the Protectorate of Kenya, Onyango was the half-sister of Barack Obama Sr., father to the president. The younger Obama refers to her as "Aunti Zeituni" in his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.
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In 2002 she applied for political asylum in the United States but was denied. She became notable when her case was leaked in the final days of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign in which Barack Obama was the Democratic candidate, attracting international media attention.
1201
Baha al-Din Qaraqush
regent of Egypt and builder of the Cairo Citadel
Baha al-Din Qaraqush al-Asadi al-Rumi al-Maliki al-Nasiri was a eunuch military commander in the service of Saladin. He served as palace chamberlain and gaoler of the deposed Fatimid dynasty, and undertook for his master the construction of the Citadel of Cairo and the fortification of Acre. After Saladin's death, he served as regent of Egypt for the Ayyubid sultans al-Aziz Uthman and al-Mansur, until he was forced to retire.
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He died in 1201. Although highly esteemed by contemporaries and historians, his posthumous reputation derives chiefly from a satirical pamphlet by a political opponent that lampoons him as a stupid and tyrannical monarch.
2013
Irma Ravinale
Italian composer and educator (born 1937)
Irma Ravinale was an Italian composer and music educator. She taught at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome. Ravinale has received many awards for her compositions, and was awarded the Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, the silver medal for merit from the School of Art and Culture in Rome, and a Gold Medal for culture and the arts.
1991
Memduh Ünlütürk
Turkish general (born 1913)
Memduh Ünlütürk was a Turkish general associated with the Counter-Guerrilla and the anti-communist Ziverbey interrogations following the 1971 coup. He was assassinated at his Istanbul home by members of the left-wing revolutionary group Dev Sol. It has been suggested that he was assassinated to protect the secrets of the Turkish deep state; Dev-Sol (DHKP/C) has been accused of links to the Ergenekon organization.
1871
Prince Alexander John of Wales
British Prince.
Prince Alexander John of Wales was the youngest child of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Alexandra of Denmark. He was born prematurely at Sandringham House in Norfolk and died less than 24 hours after birth; he was buried at St Mary Magdalene Church, Sandringham. News of the royal birth and the prince's short life attracted media coverage around the world.
2014
John Shirley-Quirk
English opera singer (born 1931)
John Stanton Shirley-Quirk CBE was an English bass-baritone. A member of the English Opera Group from 1964 to 1976, he gave premiere performances of several operatic and vocal works by Benjamin Britten, recording these and other works under the composer's direction. He also sang and recorded a wide range of works by other composers, ranging from Handel through Tchaikovsky to Henze.
2014
George Shuffler
American guitarist (born 1925)
George Shuffler was an American bluegrass guitar player and an early practitioner of the crosspicking style. During his career Shuffler played with The Bailey Brothers, The Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys. He was a 2007 recipient of the North Carolina Heritage Award and in 2011 was elected to the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.
2013
Carl Williams
American boxer (born 1959)
Carl Williams, nicknamed "the Truth", was an American boxer who competed as a professional from 1982 to 1997. He challenged twice for heavyweight world titles; the IBF title against Larry Holmes in 1985; and the undisputed title against Mike Tyson in 1989. At regional level he held the USBA heavyweight title from 1987 to 1991.
2014
Royce Waltman
American basketball player and coach (born 1942)
Royce Waltman was an American college basketball coach, best known for his time as head coach at Indiana State University from 1997 to 2007. Previously, he coached the University of Indianapolis from 1992 to 1997 and DePauw University from 1987 to 1992. He returned to coach Indianapolis for the 2007–8 season, before retiring.
1994
Albert Guðmundsson
Icelandic footballer, manager, and politician (born 1923)
Albert Sigurður Guðmundsson was an Icelandic professional footballer who played for, amongst others, Rangers, Arsenal, Nancy and A.C. Milan. After retiring from his sporting career, he became a politician and was a member of Alþingi for 15 years, serving as Minister of Finance of Iceland and Minister of Industry.
1966
Walt Hansgen
American race car driver (born 1919)
Walter Edwin Hansgen was an American racecar driver. His motorsport career began as a road racing driver, he made his Grand Prix debut at 41, and he died aged 46, several days after crashing during testing for the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans.
2013
Andy Johns
English-American record producer (born 1950)
Jeremy Andrew Johns was a British sound engineer and record producer who worked on several well-known rock albums, including the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. (1972), Television's Marquee Moon (1977), and a series of albums by Led Zeppelin during the 1970s.
2017
Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca
Romanian historian and philologist (born 1941)
Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca was a Romanian historian and philologist. An ethnic Aromanian, he specialized in the study of classical philology, Byzantine and Ottoman studies and cultures of the Balkans, including the Aromanians.
2013
Marty Blake
American businessman (born 1927)
Marty Blake was a general manager of the Atlanta Hawks franchise, and the NBA's longtime Director of Scouting. He was a recipient of the Basketball Hall of Fame's John Bunn Award.
2013
Lilly Pulitzer
American fashion designer (born 1931)
Lillian Pulitzer Rousseau was an American entrepreneur, fashion designer, and socialite. She founded Lilly Pulitzer, Inc., a clothing brand known for resort-inspired apparel, accessories, and other wares featuring vibrant prints.
2003
David Greene
English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)
Lucius David Syms-Greene was an English film and television director, and actor. He was a four-time Primetime Emmy Award winner and a three-time Directors Guild of America Award nominee.
2005
Grigoris Bithikotsis
Greek singer-songwriter (born 1922)
Grigoris Bithikotsis was a Greek laiko singer/songwriter with a career spanning five decades. He is considered one of the most important figures in Greek popular music.
30
Jesus Christ (possible date of the crucifixion) (born circa 4 BC)
The 30s decade ran from January 1, AD 30, to December 31, AD 39.
1658
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
Spanish mystic and philosopher (born 1595)
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Ottín was a Spanish Jesuit, polymath and mystic.
1766
Tiberius Hemsterhuis
Dutch philologist and critic (born 1685)
Tiberius Hemsterhuis was a Dutch philologist and critic.
1767
Franz Sparry
Austrian composer and director (born 1715)
Franz Sparry was a composer of the Baroque period.
1801
Noël François de Wailly
French lexicographer and author (born 1724)
Noël François de Wailly was a French grammarian and lexicographer.
1811
Garsevan Chavchavadze
Georgian diplomat and politician (born 1757)
Prince Garsevan Chavchavadze was a Georgian nobleman (tavadi), politician and diplomat primarily known as the Georgian ambassador to Imperial Russia.
1850
William Lisle Bowles
English poet and critic (born 1762)
William Lisle Bowles was an English priest, poet and critic.
1884
1918
David Kolehmainen
Finnish wrestler (born 1885)
David "Tatu" Kolehmainen was a Finnish wrestler. He competed in the lightweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.
1932
Grigore Constantinescu
Romanian priest and journalist (born 1875)
Grigore D. Constantinescu was a priest and journalist from Romania. He was the director of Glasul Basarabiei.
1943
Jovan Dučić
Serbian-American poet and diplomat (born 1871)
Jovan Dučić was a Bosnian Serb poet-diplomat and academic.
1968
Edwin Baker
Canadian co-founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) (born 1893)
Edwin Albert Baker, was a Canadian co-founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB).
1981
Kit Lambert
English record producer and manager (born 1935)
Christopher Sebastian "Kit" Lambert was an English record producer, record label owner and the manager of the Who.
1985
Carl Schmitt
German philosopher and jurist (born 1888)
Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political philosopher. An authoritarian conservative, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism.
1992
Antonis Tritsis
Greek high jumper and politician, 71st Mayor of Athens (born 1937)
Antonis Tritsis was a Greek politician and urban planner, born and raised in the town of Argostoli on the island of Cephalonia.
1994
Lee Brilleaux
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)
Lee Brilleaux was an English rhythm-and-blues singer and musician with the band Dr. Feelgood.
1995
Philip Jebb
English architect and politician (born 1927)
Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb was a British architect and Liberal Party politician.
1997
Georgy Shonin
Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1935)
Georgy Stepanovich Shonin was a Soviet cosmonaut, who flew on the Soyuz 6 space mission.
2001
David Graf
American actor (born 1950)
Paul David Graf was an American actor, best known for his role as Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry in the Police Academy series of films.
2003
Cecile de Brunhoff
French pianist and author (born 1903)
Cécile de Brunhoff was a French storyteller and the creator of the original Babar story. She was also a classically trained pianist.
2004
Konstantinos Kallias
Greek politician (born 1901)
Konstantinos Kallias was a Greek politician.
2005
Bob Kennedy
American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1920)
Robert Daniel Kennedy was an American professional baseball right fielder, third baseman, manager and executive in Major League Baseball.
2005
Melih Kibar
Turkish composer and educator (born 1951)
Melih Kibar was a Turkish composer.
2011
Pierre Gauvreau
Canadian painter (born 1922)
Pierre Saint-Mars Gauvreau was a Canadian painter and writer who also worked in film and television production.
2013
Les Blank
American director and producer (born 1935)
Les Blank was an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians.
2013
Mickey Rose
American screenwriter (born 1935)
Michael "Mickey" Rose was an American comedy writer, screenwriter and film director.
2015
Richard Henyekane
South African footballer (born 1983)
Richard Henyekane was a South African professional footballer who also represented the national team.
2015
Stan Freberg
American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (born 1926)
Stan Freberg was an American actor and entertainer.
2015
Tim Babcock
American soldier and politician, 16th Governor of Montana (born 1919)
Timothy Milford Babcock was an American politician who served as the 16th Governor of Montana from 1962 to 1969.
2023
Philippe Bouvatier
French cyclist (born 1964)
Philippe Bouvatier was a French professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
2026
Mircea Lucescu
Romanian football player and manager (born 1945)
Mircea Lucescu was a Romanian professional football player and manager.