1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)
1534 – Elizabeth Barton [St Magd of Kent], English nun, prophet and only woman whose head was on a spike on London Bridge, hanged for treason
1632 – Nicolas Antoine, French Protestant theologian who attempted to convert to Judaism, burned at the stake for heresy aged about 30 in Geneva, Switzerland
1820 – James Morris III, American army officer in the American Revolutionary War (Siege of Yorktown), dies at 68
1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player, dies at 64
1970 – Paul Celan [Antschell], German-Romanian poet (Collected Prose), drowns himself at 49
1977 – Wilmer Allison, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1935), dies at 72
1999 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist (his hand acts as a puppet) and comedian, dies at 103
2021 – Tempest Storm [Annie Blanche Banks], American burlesque and film performer, dies at 93
2021 – Leslie McKeown, Scottish pop vocalist (Bay City Rollers – “Saturday Night”), dies at 65
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 19th April 2025
1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet and statesman, Lord High Treasurer, dies at 71 or 72
1799 – Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch violinist, organist (Pembroke College and Chapel of Peterhouse, both in Cambridge, England), teacher, and composer (Glees), dies at 78
1932 – Władysław Rzepko, Polish composer, dies at 77
1967 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of West Germany (CDU: 1949-63), dies at 91
1972 – Billy Burke, American golfer (US Open 1931), dies at 69
1979 – Rogers Morton, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland), dies at 64
2007 – Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
2010 – Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (undefeated world champion WBA super featherweight 2006-08; WBC lightweight 2009-10), commits suicide at 28
2013 – Mike Denness, English cricket batsman and captain (28 Tests, top score 188), dies from cancer at 72
2019 – Bob Efford, British jazz and session baritone saxophonist and reed player, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 18th April 2025
1690 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Austrian field marshal, dies at 47
1824 – Edward Jones, Welsh harpist and composer, dies at 72
1861 – August Neithardt, German composer, dies at 67
1917 – Moritz von Bissing, Prussian general, dies at 73
1917 – Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist, professor, and writer (The Forensic Psychopathology), dies of renal failure at 59
1947 – Jozef Tiso, Slovak politician (President of the First Slovak Republic), executed for treason for collaborating with Nazi Germany at 59
1983 – Alan Melville, South African cricket batsman (11 Tests, 4 x 100, HS 189; Natal, Oxford University CC, Sussex CCC, Transvaal), dies at 72
2005 – Kenneth Schermerhorn, American conductor (American Ballet), dies at 75
2016 – Brian Asawa, Japanese-American countertenor, dies of liver failure at 49
2024 – Peter Hordern, British Conservative Party politician known for promoting monetarism, dies on his 95th birthday
Famous Deaths for 17th April 2025
1630 – Christian I, German Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg who led an army of 21,000 Bohemians at the Battle of White Mountain, dies at 61
1679 – John van Kessel, Flemish painter, dies at 53
1910 – Ignacio Mariscal, Mexican lawyer and diplomat (Secretary of Foreign Affairs), dies at 80
1937 – Yi Sang, Korean author and poet (Dying Words, Wings, Child’s Bone), dies of tuberculosis in a Japanese prison camp at 26
1983 – Dutch Leonard, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1940, 43, 44, 45, 51; Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs), dies of congestive heart failure at 74
1995 – Anton Murray, South African cricket all-rounder (10 Tests; 1 x 100; 18 wickets), dies at 72
2006 – Henderson Forsythe, American actor (As the World Turns, Crisis at Central High), dies at 88
2016 – Warren Davis, American doo-wop singer (The Monotones – “The Book of Love”), dies at 77
2019 – Alan García, President of Peru (Peruvian Aprista Party: 1985-90, 2006-11), commits suicide by shooting himself as police try to arrest him on corruption charges at 69
2022 – James Olsen, American stage and screen actor (Rachel, Rachel; Moon Zero Two; The Andromeda Strain), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 16th April 2025
1879 – Peter Kosler, German-Slovenian lawyer and cartographer who made the first map of Slovene land (Kosler’s Map), dies at 55
1904 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet, dies at 16
1916 – Tom Horan, Australian cricket all-rounder (15 Tests, 1 x 100, 11 wickets; Victoria CA), dies a 62
1928 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman and founder of Henri Birks and Sons, dies at 87
1938 – Bertram Mills, British circus proprietor (Bertram Mills Circus), dies at 70
1959 – Charles Halton, British stage actor (Dr Cyclops, Tugboat Annie Sails Again), dies at 83
2007 – Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
2011 – Gerry Alexander, West Indian cricket wicket-keeper (25 Tests, top score 108, 90 dismissals), dies at 82
2016 – Charlie Hodge, French Canadian goalkeeper (Montreal Canadians), dies at 82
2021 – Mike Mitchell, American rock guitarist (The Kingsmen -“Louie, Louie”), dies on his 77th birthday
Famous Deaths for 15th April 2025
1502 – Jan IV of Chalon-Arnay, prince of Orange and lord of Arlay, dies at 59
1865 – Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President (Republican: 1861-65), dies from gunshot wounds at 56
1888 – Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (Dover Beach), dies at 65
1949 – Wallace Beery, American circus performer (Ringling Brothers Circus) and actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8), dies from a heart attack at 64
1984 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer, dies at 58
1988 – Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist, dies at 33
1990 – Ulrich Becher, German writer and playwright, dies at 80
1993 – Harry Alexander, Australian cricket fast bowler (1 Test, Bodyline series 1933, 1 wicket; Victoria), dies at 87
1995 – Harry Shoulberg, American expressionist painter, dies at 91
1995 – Cleo Brown, American jazz pianist, dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 14th April 2025
911 – Sergius III, Italian Pope (904-11), dies
1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland
1692 – Carlos de Gurrea, Spanish viceroy (Spanish Netherlands), dies
1865 – Rafael Carrera, Guatemalan military commander and Dictator of Guatemala (1844–48, 1851–65), dies at 50
1914 – Hubert Bland, English author and socialist (co-founder of the Fabian Society), dies of a heart attack at 59
1974 – Al Morgan, American jazz double-bassist (Cab Calloway; Fats Waller; Louis Jordan), dies at 65
1990 – Thurston Harris, American pop vocalist (The Sharps, Little Bitty Pretty One), dies of a heart attack at 58
2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer (Zip file format), dies from the effects of alcoholism at 37
2004 – Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
2023 – Ken Archer, Australian cricket batsman (5 Tests; Queensland CA), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 13th April 2025
1822 – Gaetano Valeri, Italian composer, dies at 61
1919 – Phoebe Hearst, American philanthropist and suffragist, dies at 76
1925 – Elwood Haynes, American automotive pioneer (built one of 1st US autos), dies at 67
1944 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and 1st female composer awarded with Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (1913), dies at 86
1952 – [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong), dies at 79
1960 – Beverly Kenney American jazz singer (“I Hate Rock n’ Roll”; “Born To Be Blue”), takes her on life at 28
1986 – Stephen Stucker, American actor (Trading Places, Airplane), dies at 38
1996 – George Mackay Brown, Scottish poet and playwright, dies at 74
2005 – Johnnie Johnson, American blues and jazz piano player (Chuck Berry’s band), dies of kidney problems and pneumonia at 80
2022 – Gloria Parker [Rosenthal], American marimbist, glasspiel player, songwriter (Clap Your Hands and Shake Your Blues Away), and bandleader, dies at 100
Famous Deaths for 12th April 2025
238 – Gordian II, Roman co-Emperor with his father Gordian I, killed in battle at Carthage
1777 – Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon, French satirical novelist (The Skimmer), dies at 70
1878 – William Magear Tweed “Boss Tweed”, American politician and corrupt New York fraudster, dies in prison of pneumonia at 55
1921 – William Strang, Scottish painter and engraver (illustrated Bunyan, Coleridge and Kipling), dies at 62
1946 – August Borms, Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at 67
2000 – Niaz Ahmed, Pakistani cricket fast bowler (2 Tests, 3 wickets; Dacca, Public Works Dep’t, East Pakistan, Railways; only East Pakistani to play Test cricket), dies at 54
2006 – Puggy Pearson, American poker player (World Series of Poker Main Event 1973; 4 x World Series of Poker bracelets), dies from heart failure at 77
2013 – Robert Byrne, American chess player (FIDE Grandmaster), dies from Parkinson’s disease at 84
2016 – Anne Jackson, American stage actress (Twice Around the Park), dies at 90
2019 – Georgia Engel, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, 1972-77 – “Georgette”; Hot In Cleveland, 2011-15 -“Mamie-Sue”), dies at 70
Famous Deaths for 11th April 2025
1240 – Llywelyn ab Iorwerth the Great, monarch of Wales (1194-1240), dies
1512 – Gaston de Foix, French pretender to Navarra throne, dies in battle
1648 – Matthäus Appelt, German composer, dies at 53
1729 – Manuel de Egues, composer, dies at 71
1861 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet (Mexican national anthem), dies at 37
1918 – Arthur E Ochse, South African cricket batsman (2 Tests; Transvaal), dies in action WWI at 48
1973 – (Edward) “Ted” de Corsia, American actor (The Naked City; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), dies at 69
2008 – Merlin German, United States Marine
2011 – Billy Bang [William Walker], American free jazz violinist and composer, dies of lung cancer at 63
2011 – Lacy Gibson, American Chicago-style blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (“Switchy Titchy”), dies of a heart attack at 74