1695 – Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican philosopher and poet, dies at 44
1872 – Ion Heliade-Radulescu, Romanian politician and author, dies at 70
1882 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (Concord Hymn), dies of pneumonia at 78
1915 – Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer (Prometheus) and pianist, dies at 43
1932 – Hart Crane, American poet (The Bridge), commits suicide at 32 by jumping overboard into the Gulf of Mexico
1975 – Nicholas Soussanin, Russian-American actor (Last Command, Captain Fury), dies at 86
1994 – John Preston, American writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48
1998 – Godfrey Kenton, English actor (The Tempest, Well’s Theater), dies at 96
2003 – Piet Roozenburg, Dutch World champion checker player (1948, 51, 52, 55), dies at 78
2012 – Bill Skowron, American MLB player, dies from lung cancer at 81
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 26th April 2021
1660 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, German princess and consort of Brandenburg as the wife of George William, dies at 62
1703 – Georg Christoph Leuttner, German composer, dies at 58
1892 – Provo Wallis, British Royal Navy officer, dies at 100
1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65
1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish pastor, dies at 83
1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (All the King’s Men, Highway Patrol), dies after a series of strokes at 74
1991 – Lars Hall, Swedish pentathlete (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 63
1995 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor and author (Gorky Park, 2 of a Kind), dies of bone cancer at 88
2003 – Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, dies at 98
2013 – George Jones, American country singer-songwriter (“Golden Rings”; “Oh Lonesome Me”), dies from hypoxic respiratory failure at 81
Famous Deaths for 25th April 2021
1892 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
1946 – Joseph Vine, cricketer (batted in two Tests Eng v Aust 1911-12), dies
1955 – Constance Collier, actress (Perils of Pauline), dies at 77
1974 – Pamela Courson, American woman and long-term companion of Jim Morrison, dies of a heroin overdose at 27
2000 – Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
2002 – Michael Bryant, British actor (Sakharov, Girly), dies at 74
2005 – John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver, dies at 80
2008 – Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician, actor and broadcaster (It’s Great to Be Young), dies at 86
2009 – Bea Arthur, American comedian, singer and actress (Maude; The Golden Girls), dies at 86
2013 – Rick Camp, American MLB pitcher, dies of natural causes at 59
Famous Deaths for 24th April 2021
1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables), dies at 67
1943 – Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63
1967 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (Voshkod I, Soyuz 1) and the 1st human to die in a space flight, dies in Soyuz 1 at 40
1974 – (William) “Bud” Abbott, American comedian (Abbott and Costello), dies of cancer at 78
1985 – Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80
1986 – Bill Edrich, cricketer (39 Tests for England), dies
1996 – Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62
2001 – Al Hibbler, American singer (Unchained Melody), dies at 85
2016 – Papa Wemba, Congolese singer, dies at 66
2017 – Robert M. Pirsig, American author (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 23rd April 2021
1014 – Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, dies in battle at Clontarf
1740 – Thomas Tickell, English writer and poet, dies at 54
1827 – Johanna Cornelia Wattier-Ziesenis, Dutch actress (Phaedra, Lady Macbeth), dies at 65
1907 – Alfred Packer, American prospector ‘The Colorado Cannibal’, dies at 65
1929 – Rudolf W. Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28
1993 – Daniel Jones, Welsh composer, dies at 80
1995 – Robert Selby Taylor, Anglican bishop, dies at 86
2003 – James H. Critchfield, American C.I.A. officer, dies at 86
2006 – Johnnie Checketts, New Zealand fighter pilot, dies at 94
2013 – Robert W. Edgar, American businessman and politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania’s 7th district), dies from a heart attack at 69
Famous Deaths for 22nd April 2021
1592 – Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor and architect, dies at 80
1782 – Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, Czech composer, dies at 66
1925 – André Caplet, French composer and conductor (Conte Fantastic, Le miroir de Jesus), dies from WWI gas attack issues at 45
1946 – Harlan F. Stone, American lawyer and jurist (SCOTUS, 1941-46), dies at 73
1953 – Top Naeff [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N], Dutch writer, dies at 75
1974 – Tjalie Robinson [Jan Boon], Dutch East Indies writer and journalist (Tong Tong), dies at 63
1996 – David Shipman, English film historian, dies at 63
2000 – Alexander H. Cohen, Broadway producer (Beyond the Fringe), dies at 79
2005 – Norman Bird, English character actor, dies at 80
2013 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian Carnatic violinist and composer, dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 21st April 2021
1946 – John Maynard Keynes, English economist whose ideas changed the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, dies of a heart attack at 62
1967 – Andre L Danjon, French astronomer, dies at 77
1974 – Charles “Chic” Harley, American football player (b. 1895)
1990 – Erté, French artist
1994 – Clement Merk, animal trainer, dies at 93
1995 – Stafford Heginbotham, British toymaker (Tebro Toys) and Football Club Chairman, dies at 61
1996 – Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86
2007 – Parry O’Brien, American shot putter (Olympic golds 1952, 1956, silver 1960), dies at 75
2013 – Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, dies at 107
2020 – Teruyuki Okazaki, Japanese karate master (10th degree black belt Shotokan Karate; founder International Shotokan Karate Federation), dies from COVID-19 at 88
Famous Deaths for 20th April 2021
1314 – Clement V [Bertrand Got], pope (1305-14) moved papacy to Avignon, dies
1765 – Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon, dies at 67
1873 – William Tite, English architect (The Royal Exchange), dies at 75
1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 56
1918 – Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA), dies
1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player, dies at 64
1971 – Cecil Parker, British actor (The Lady Vanishes, Indiscreet, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
1979 – Peter Donald, British-born American actor and radio host dubbed “one of radio’s great dialecticians” (Masquerade Party), dies at 60
2006 – Anna Svidersky (b. 1988)
Famous Deaths for 19th April 2021
1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91
1986 – Dag Wirén, Swedish composer, dies at 80
1992 – Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
1996 – Peg Ridge, peace campaigner, dies at 72
2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (Trout), dies at 74
2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (undefeated world champion WBA super featherweight 2006-08; WBC lightweight 2009-10), commits suicide at 28
2013 – Allan Arbus, American actor and photographer (M*A*S*H, Greaser’s Palace, Curb Your Enthusiasm), dies of congestive heart failure at 95
2015 – Roy Mason [Baron Mason of Barnsley], British defense secretary and Labour MP, dies at 91
2019 – Martin Böttcher, German composer and conductor, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 18th April 2021
1530 – Francois Lambert d’avignon, French church reformer, dies at ~43
1800 – Pieter Fouquet, Dutch art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies at 71
1888 – Roscoe Conkling, American politician (U.S. Senator from New York 1867-81), dies at 58
1925 – Charles Ebbets, American sports executive (co-owner of Brooklyn Dodgers 1897-1902), dies at 65
1928 – Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Polish pianist, composer, and conductor, dies of a heart attack at 58
1935 – Panait Istrati, Romanian writer, dies at 50
1940 – Florrie Forde [Flannagan], Australian singer and British music hall performer, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 64
1949 – Leonard Bloomfield, American linguist, dies at 62
1964 – Ben Hecht, American playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
1988 – Pierre Desproges, French humorist, dies at 48