1272 – Zita, Italian maid and saint from Lucca, dies at about 59
1790 – Benjamin Franklin, US Founding Father, inventor, ambassador and writer (Poor Richards Almanac), dies at 84
1799 – Richard Jupp, English architect (East India House) (b. 1728)
1882 – George Jennings, English sanitary engineer (invented first public flush toilets), dies at 71
1948 – Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer (South African captain in 13 Tests 1905-11), dies at 67
1967 – Giorgio Cesana, Italian coxswain (Olympic gold 1906), dies at 75
1988 – Louise Nevelson, American sculptor (featured at the 31st Venice Biennale), dies of brain tumor at 88
1995 – Nancy Mayhew Youngman, English painter and educationalist, dies at 88
2012 – Dimitris Mitropanos, Greek singer, dies from a heart attack at 64
2013 – Deanna Durbin [Edna Mae Durbin], Canadian actress and vocalist (Every Sunday, Three Smart Girls, 100 Men and a Girl), dies at 91
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 16th April 2021
1645 – Tobias Hume, Scottish composer (The First Part of Ayres), dies
1850 – Marie Tussaud, French founder of Madame Tussaud’s wax museum, dies at 88
1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French saint (saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies from tuberculosis at 35 in Nevers, France
1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, dies at 73
1924 – Jack Board, English cricket wicket-keeper (Eng in 6 Tests 1898-1906), dies at 57
1958 – Rosalind Franklin, English chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, dies of ovarian cancer at 37
1970 – Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
2007 – Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
2010 – Marion Ladewig, American ten-pin bowler (9 time woman bowler of year 1950-63), dies at 95
2020 – Luis Sepúlveda, Chilean writer and political activist (The Old Man Who Read Love Stories), dies of COVID-19 at 70
Famous Deaths for 15th April 2021
1472 – Leon B. Alberti, Italian humanist and architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68
1632 – George Calvert, English politician and coloniser, dies at 52
1912 – William T. Stead, British newspaper editor (The Pall Mall Gazette), dies in the sinking of the Titanic at 62
1919 – Jane Delano, American nurse and educator (Red Cross Nursing Service during WWI), dies at 57
1926 – Frank Iredale, Australian cricketer (14 Tests for Aust, 807 runs at 36 68), dies at 58
1966 – Joseph Crehan, American actor (The Roaring Twenties, Meeting at Midnight), dies of stroke at 82
1974 – Giovanni D’Anzi, Italian songwriter, dies at 68
1984 – Machito, Latin jazz musician and creator of Cubop and salsa music (Afro-Cubans), dies following a stroke at 76
2001 – John Verrall, American composer, dies at 92
2011 – Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist, dies at 36
Famous Deaths for 14th April 2021
711 – Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27
1433 – Lidwina, Dutch mystic (Christ’s Bride) and saint, dies at 53
1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland
1655 – Johann Erasmus Kindermann, German composer, dies at 39
1973 – Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in 7 Lessons), dies at 88
1988 – Johan Franco, Dutch composer, dies at 79
1998 – Maurice Stans, American politician, Secretary of Commerce and Watergate figure, dies at 90
1999 – Anthony Newley, British actor and singer-songwriter (Doctor Dolittle; Goldfinger theme; Willy Wonka score), dies at 67
2009 – Maurice Druon, French writer and journalist (Prix Goncourt), dies at 90
2019 – Birgitta “Bibi” Andersson, Swedish actress (Persona, Wild Strawberries), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 13th April 2021
814 – Krum, Khan of Bulgaria (803-814), dies during siege of Constantinople
1868 – Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia, commits suicide at 50
1910 – William Orchardson, British painter, dies at 78
1911 – George Washington Glick, American politician, dies at 83
1919 – Phoebe Hearst, American philanthropist and suffragist, dies at 76
1944 – Paul Hazard [Paul-Gustave-Marie-Camille Hazard], French critic and literature historian, dies at 65
1971 – Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player, dies from injuries sustained in a car crash at 21
1975 – N’garta Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (President, 1962–1975), dies at 56
1975 – Larry Parks [Samuel Lawrence Parks], American actor (The Jolson Story, Love Is Better Than Ever), dies of a heart attack at 60
1995 – Edward Henderson, British diplomat, dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 12th April 2021
434 – Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
1963 – Alfred Métraux, Swiss anthropologist, dies at 60
1975 – Josephine Baker, American French revue artist (Folies-Bergere), dies at 68
1981 – Hendrik Andriessen, Dutch organist and composer (Te Deum), dies at 88
1988 – Alan Paton, South African author (Cry, the Beloved Country, Too Late the Phalarope) and anti-apartheid activist, dies of cancer at 85
1994 – Q T Macon, blues vocal/guitar, dies at 60
1996 – Nancy Sheehan, writer, dies at 69
2009 – John Maddox, British science writer and editor (Nature), dies at 83
2012 – George Mesterhazy, Hungarian-American jazz pianist, and arranger, dies at 56
2013 – Robert Byrne, American grand chess master, dies from Parkinson’s disease at 84
Famous Deaths for 11th April 2021
1612 – Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (b. 1566)
1900 – Seth Barton, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 70
1958 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter, dies at 82
1974 – Charles Curtis “Curt” Conway, American actor (Raw Deal, The Twilight Zone), dies of a heart attack at 60
1976 – Liam Dunn, American actor, dies at 59
1981 – Marie Ney, dies at 85
1984 – Fred Robinson, American jazz trombonist (Louis Armstong’s Hot Five; Fats Waller; Cab Calloway), dies at 83
1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian post-war communist leader and dictator of Albania (1944-85), dies at 76
1990 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1904)
2012 – Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian politician, first president of Algeria (1963-65), dies at 93
Famous Deaths for 10th April 2021
879 – Louis II the Stammerer, King of the West Franks (877-79)
1712 – Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1813 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (number theory, celestial mechanics), dies at 77
1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (Atalanta in Calydon), dies at 72
1954 – Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (5-time World Champion all-round), dies at 65
1974 – Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76
1984 – Ray Middleton, American actor (1776, Hurricane Smith), dies at 75
2005 – Iakovos, Archbishop of America (b. 1911)
2010 – Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician, then President of Poland is killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 60
2020 – Tom Webster, Canadian ice hockey right wing (Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings) and coach (NY Rangers, LA Kings), dies of brain cancer at 71
Famous Deaths for 9th April 2021
1806 – William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic, dies at 58
1852 – John Howard Payne, American actor, playwright (Fair Warning), author and creator of the hit song “Home! Sweet Home!”, dies at 60
1882 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, dies at 53
1936 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist and philosopher, dies at 80
1966 – Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47), dies at 57
1988 – Brook Benton [Benjamin Franklin Peay], American soul vocalist (It’s Just a Matter of Time, Rainy Night in Georgia), dies of meningitis at 56
1996 – Maisie Fitter, editor and conservationist, dies at 83
2002 – Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2013 – Zao Wou-Ki, Chinese French painter (Juin-Octobre 1985), dies at 93
2020 – Jocelyn Barrow, British race relations campaigner (Card) and 1st black female governor of the BBC, dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 8th April 2021
217 – Caracalla, Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29
956 – Gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy
1697 – Niels Juel, Danish-Norwegian admiral, dies at 68
1778 – Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76
1937 – William Henry Hadow, British educational reformer and musicologist (Oxford History of Music, Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77
1958 – Ethel Turner, Australian author (Seven Little Australians), dies at 88
1986 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer, dies at 18
2009 – Herbie Lovelle, America drummer, studio musician (Hot Lips Page) and actor (Law and Order), dies at 85
2010 – Abel Muzorewa, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979-80), dies at 84
2013 – Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer (The Last Torch Song, The Violet Seller), dies at 85