Famous Deaths for 17th April 2019

818 – Bernhard I, King of Italy, dies
1080 – King Harald III of Denmark (b. 1041)
1427 – Jan IV, duke of Brabant/Limburg/wife of Jacoba van Bayern, dies
1574 – Joachim Camerarius [Liebhard Kammerer], German classical scholar, dies at 74
1882 – George Jennings, English sanitary engineer, dies at 71
1930 – Alexander Golovin, Russian painter (b. 1863)
1948 – Percy Sherwell, cricketer (South African captain in 13 Tests 1905-11), dies
1976 – Jean-Jacques Gailliard, Belgian painter, dies at 85
1987 – Willie Donnell Smith, American fashion designer (WilliWear), dies of pneumonia at 39
2008 – Daniel “Danny” Federici, American rocker and musician (E Street Band), dies of melanoma at 58

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