Notable people who died on April 7 include: Jesus Christ (possible date of the crucifixion) (born circa 4 BC), George the Standard-Bearer, Berengar I of Italy (born 845), Baha al-Din Qaraqush, Frederick I.

Notable Deaths on April 7

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Joe Kinnear, Irish football player and manager (born 1946)

139 people 30 – 2026

April 7 has seen 139 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 30 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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2024 — Joe Kinnear

Irish football player and manager (born 1946)

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With Tottenham he won the FA Cup, the League Cup twice, the Charity Shield, and the UEFA Cup

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After Spurs, Kinnear played for Brighton for the 1975–76 season

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Having been born in Dublin, Kinnear played and was capped 26 times for the Republic of Ireland national team

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Joseph Patrick Kinnear was an Irish professional football manager and player

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As a defender, Kinnear spent the majority of his career spanning ten seasons with Tottenham Hotspur and one with Brighton & Hove Albion

Jesus Christ (possible date of the crucifixion) (born circa 4 BC)

AD 30 (XXX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vinicius and Longinus. The denomination AD 30 for this year has been used since the…

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…

821

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…

924

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…

1201

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…

1206

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…

1340

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…

1498

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…

1499

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…

1501

Edward Oldcorne

English martyr (born 1561)

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…

1606

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…

1614

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…

1638

Lennart Torstensson

Swedish field marshal and engineer (born 1603)

Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Field Marshal and later Governor-General of Pomerania, Västergötland, Dalsland, Värmland and Halland. He adapted the use of artillery on the battlefield, making it a more mobile weapon than…

1651

Juan Eusebio Nieremberg

Spanish mystic and philosopher (born 1595)

Juan Eusebio Nieremberg y Ottín was a Spanish Jesuit, polymath and mystic.

1658

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…

1661

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…

1663

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…

1668

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.

1719

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…

1739

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…

1747

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.

1761

Tiberius Hemsterhuis

Dutch philologist and critic (born 1685)

Tiberius Hemsterhuis was a Dutch philologist and critic.

1766

Franz Sparry

Austrian composer and director (born 1715)

Franz Sparry was a composer of the Baroque period.

1767

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…

1779

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.

1782

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…

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…

1789

Noël François de Wailly

French lexicographer and author (born 1724)

Noël François de Wailly was a French grammarian and lexicographer.

1801

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…

1804

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.

1811

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…

1823

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…

1833

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. Godwin is most famous for two…

1836

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.

1849

William Lisle Bowles

English poet and critic (born 1762)

William Lisle Bowles was an English priest, poet and critic.

1850

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…

1858

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…

1868

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…

1879

Maria Doolaeghe

Flemish novelist (born 1803)

Maria Doolaeghe was a Flemish writer.

1884

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…

1885

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…

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.

1889

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 with James Anthony Bailey the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was also an…

1891

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…

1917

David Kolehmainen

Finnish wrestler (born 1885)

David "Tatu" Kolehmainen was a Finnish wrestler. He competed in the lightweight event at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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…

1918

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…

1920

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…

1922

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…

1928

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.

1932

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…

1938

Joseph Lyons

Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1879)

Joseph Aloysius Lyons was an Australian politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Australia, from 1932 until his death in 1939. He held office as the inaugural leader of the United Australia Party (UAP),…

1939

Jovan Dučić

Serbian-American poet and diplomat (born 1871)

Jovan Dučić was a Bosnian Serb poet-diplomat and academic.

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…

1943

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…

1947

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 Ontario and died in North Vancouver. In 1904 he was a captain of the Galt F.C. team, which won the gold…

1949

Walter Huston

Canadian-American actor and singer (born 1883)

Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian 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…

1950

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",…

1955

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…

1956

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…

1960

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…

1965

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…

1966

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).

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…

1968

Joe Gallo

American gangster (born 1929)

Joseph Gallo, also known as "Crazy Joe", was an American mobster and captain in the Colombo crime family of New York City.

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.

1972

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.

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…

1981

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.

1982

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…

1984

Carl Schmitt

German philosopher and jurist (born 1888)

Carl Schmitt was a German jurist and political theorist. An authoritarian conservative theorist, he was noted as a critic of parliamentary democracy, liberalism, and cosmopolitanism.

1985

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.…

1986

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…

1990

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…

1991

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…

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.

1992

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.

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…

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…

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…

1994

Philip Jebb

English architect and politician (born 1927)

Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb was a British architect and Liberal Party politician.

1995

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. He…

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.

1997

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.

1998

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."

1999

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.

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…

2001

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…

2002

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.

2003

David Greene

English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Lucius David Syms-Greene, known as David Greene, was a British television and film director, and actor.

2003

Victor Argo

American actor (born 1934)

Victor Argo was an American actor of Puerto Rican descent who usually played the part of a tough bad guy in his movies. He is best known for Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Hot Tomorrows (1977), Raw Deal…

2004

Konstantinos Kallias

Greek politician (born 1901)

Konstantinos Kallias was a Greek politician.

2004

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…

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.

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.

2005

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,…

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…

2007

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…

2008

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…

2009

Pierre Gauvreau

Canadian painter (born 1922)

Pierre Saint-Mars Gauvreau was a Canadian painter and writer who also worked in film and television production.

2011

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…

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…

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.

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,…

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. He was assassinated at the age of 54 years on 7…

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…

2012

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

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

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…

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…

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…

2013

Mickey Rose

American screenwriter (born 1935)

Michael "Mickey" Rose was an American comedy writer, screenwriter and film director.

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…

2013

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…

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.

2014

V. K. Murthy

Indian cinematographer (born 1923)

Venkatarama Pandit Krishnamurthy known professionally as V. K. Murthy, was an Indian cinematographer. Murthy, a one-time violinist and jailed freedom fighter, was Guru Dutt's regular cameraman on his movies. He provided…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

2014

Tim Babcock

American soldier and politician, 16th Governor of Montana (born 1919)

Timothy Milford Babcock was an American politician, the 16th governor of the state of Montana, from 1962 to 1969.

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…

2015

Stan Freberg

American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (born 1926)

Stan Freberg was an American voice actor, satirist, singer, radio personality, and advertising creative director.

2015

Richard Henyekane

South African footballer (born 1983)

Richard Henyekane was a South African professional footballer who also represented the national team.

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…

2015

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…

2017

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…

2019

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…

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…

2020

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…

2021

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…

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.

2023

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.

2024

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…

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…

2025

Mircea Lucescu

Romanian football player and manager (born 1945)

Mircea Lucescu was a Romanian professional football player and manager.

2026

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Northern Expedition — April 7, 1926

Discover the story of Northern Expedition on July 1, 1926 in Guangzhou and other parts of southern China.

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Joe Kinnear — Irish football manager and player (1946–2024)

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Known forAs a defender, Kinnear spent the majority of his career spanning ten seasons with Tottenham Hotspur and one with Brighton & Hove Albion

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Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice. Wikipedia →

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COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States. Wikipedia →

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COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan. Wikipedia →

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