69 – Otho, Roman emperor (b. 32) 665 – Fructuosus of Braga, French archbishop and saint 1113 – Sviatopolk II of Kiev (b. 1050) 1118 – Adelaide del Vasto, Italian wife of Roger II of Sicily (b. 1075) 1198 – Frederick I, Duke of Austria (b. 1175) 1640 – Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau (b. 1579) 1645 – Tobias Hume, Scottish soldier, viol player, and composer (b. 1569) 1687 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English poet and politician (b. 1628) 1689 – Aphra Behn, English author and playwright (b. 1640) 1742 – Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet (b. 1672) 1756 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677) 1783 – Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer and educator (b. 1719) 1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (b. 1707) 1828 – Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746) 1846 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian bassist and composer (b. 1763) 1850 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (b. 1761) 1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805) 1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (b. 1844) 1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (b. 1845) 1899 – Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1875) 1904 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888) 1904 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish author (b. 1812) 1914 – George William Hill, American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1838) 1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841) 1925 – Stefan Nerezov, Bulgarian general (b. 1867) 1928 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (b. 1840) 1928 – Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrsetler (b. 1900) 1930 – José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, philosopher, and activist (b. 1894) 1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer and manager (b. 1874) 1942 – Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1878) 1942 – Denis St. George Daly, Irish polo player (b. 1862) 1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver (b. 1884) 1947 – Rudolf Höss, German SS officer (b. 1900) 1950 – Eduard Oja, Estonian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic (b. 1905) 1950 – Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter (b. 1867) 1955 – David Kirkwood, Scottish politician (b. 1872) 1957 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mobster (b. 1882) 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist (b. 1920) 1959 – Charles Halton, American actor (b. 1876) 1961 – Carl Hovland, American psychologist (b. 1912) 1968 – Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893) 1968 – Edna Ferber, American author and playwright (b. 1885) 1969 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (b. 1904) 1970 – Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (b. 1892) 1970 – Péter Veres, Hungarian politician, Minister of Defence for Hungary (b. 1897) 1972 – Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899) 1973 – István Kertész, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929) 1973 – Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944) 1978 – Lucius D. Clay, American general (b. 1897) 1980 – Morris Stoloff, American composer (b. 1898) 1985 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924) 1988 – Khalil al-Wazir, Palestinian military leader, founded Fatah (b. 1935) 1988 – Youri Egorov, Russian pianist (b. 1954) 1989 – Kaoru Ishikawa Japanese author and educator (b. 1915) 1989 – Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940) 1991 – David Lean, English director and producer (b. 1908) 1992 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920) 1992 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian activist, agent, and officer (b. 1915) 1992 – Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919) 1994 – Ralph Ellison, American author and critic (b. 1913) 1995 – Arthur English, English actor (b. 1919) 1995 – Iqbal Masih, Pakistani activist (b. 1982) 1996 – Stavros Niarchos, Greek businessman (b. 1909) 1997 – Doris Angleton, American murder victim (b. 1951) 1997 – Roland Topor, French actor, director, and painter (b. 1938) 1998 – Alberto Calderón, Argentinian-American mathematician (b. 1920) 1998 – Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913) 1998 – Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1880) 1999 – Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (b. 1946) 2000 – Putra of Perlis (b. 1920) 2001 – Michael Ritchie, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938) 2001 – Alec Stock, English footballer and manager (b. 1917) 2002 – Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952) 2002 – Ruth Fertel, American businesswoman, founder of Ruths Chris Steak House (b. 1927) 2002 – Robert Urich, American actor and producer (b. 1946) 2003 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian-American actor (b. 1930) 2003 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticulturalist and author (b. 1909) 2005 – Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943) 2005 – Marla Ruzicka, American activist, founded Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (b. 1976) 2005 – Kay Walsh, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1911) 2006 – Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor (b. 1983) 2007 – People of the Virginia Tech massacre: – Jamie Bishop, American instructor of the German language (b. 1971) – Seung-Hui Cho, American student and murderer (b. 1984) – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian-American instructor of the French language (b. 1958) – Kevin Granata, American engineer and academic (b. 1961) – Liviu Librescu, Romanian-American academic and holocaust survivor (b. 1930) – G. V. Loganathan, Indian-American academic (b. 1954) 2007 – Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909) 2007 – Gaétan Duchesne, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1962) 2007 – Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1915) 2007 – Chandrabose Suthaharan, Sri Lankan Tamil journalist 2008 – Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917) 2008 – Joseph Solman, American painter (b. 1909) 2010 – Rasim Delić, Bosnian general (b. 1949) 2010 – Daryl Gates, American police officer, created the D.A.R.E. Program (b. 1926) 2011 – Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician, 10th Premier of Saskatchewan (b. 1925) 2011 – Sol Saks, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1910) 2012 – Sári Barabás, Hungarian soprano (b. 1914) 2012 – Marian Biskup, Polish author and academic (b. 1922) 2012 – Ray Davey, Irish minister, founded the Corrymeela Community (b. 1915) 2012 – Alan Hacker, English clarinet player (b. 1938) 2012 – George Kunda, Zambian lawyer and politician, 11th Vice-President of Zambia (b. 1956) 2012 – Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish businessman (b. 1913) 2012 – Carlo Petrini, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1948) 2012 – Ageeth Scherphuis, Dutch journalist and broadcaster (b. 1933) 2013 – Charles Bruzon, Gibraltarian politician (b. 1938) 2013 – Jack Daniels, American baseball player (b. 1927) 2013 – George Horse-Capture, American anthropologist and author (b. 1937) 2013 – Gérard Jaquet, French politician (b. 1916) 2013 – Ali Kafi, Algerian politician (b. 1928) 2013 – Helmut Kasimier, German politician (b. 1926) 2013 – Francis Leo Lawrence, American academic and scholar (b. 1937) 2013 – Reinhard Lettmann, German bishop (b. 1933) 2013 – Siegfried Ludwig, Austrian politician, 18th Governor of Lower Austria (b. 1926) 2013 – Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925) 2013 – Rita MacNeil, Canadian singer and actress (b. 1944) 2013 – George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1909) 2013 – Edwin Shirley, English businessman (b. 1948) 2013 – Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1930) 2013 – Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and Museo Nacional de Antropología (b. 1919) 2013 – Murray Vernon, Australian cricketer (b. 1937)
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 06:27:31 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015