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===1901–present=== *[[1905]] – [[Gédéon Ouimet]], Canadian politician, 2nd [[Premier of Quebec]] (b. 1823) *[[1907]] – [[Alferd Packer]], American prospector and convicted cannibal (b. 1842) *[[1915]] – [[Rupert Brooke]], English poet (b. 1887) *[[1936]] – [[Teresa de la Parra]], French-Venezuelan author (b. 1889) *[[1951]] – [[Jules Berry]], French actor and director (b. 1883) * 1951 – [[Charles G. Dawes]], American banker and politician, 30th [[Vice President of the United States]], [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate (b. 1865) *[[1959]] – [[Bak Jungyang]], Korean politician (b. 1872) *[[1965]] – [[George Adamski]], Polish-American ufologist and author (b. 1891) *[[1966]] – [[George Ohsawa]], Japanese founder of the [[Macrobiotic diet]] (b. 1893) *[[1981]] – [[Josep Pla]], Catalan journalist and author (b. 1897) *[[1983]] – [[Buster Crabbe]], American swimmer and actor (b. 1908) *[[1984]] – [[Red Garland]], American pianist (b. 1923) *[[1985]] – [[Sam Ervin]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1896) * 1985 – [[Frank Farrell (rugby league)|Frank Farrell]], Australian rugby league player and policeman (b. 1916) *[[1986]] – [[Harold Arlen]], American composer (b. 1905) * 1986 – [[Jim Laker]], English international cricketer and sportscaster; holder of world record for most wickets taken in a match (b. 1922){{sfn|Hill|1998|p=1}} * 1986 – [[Otto Preminger]], Ukrainian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1906) *[[1990]] – [[Paulette Goddard]], American actress (b. 1910) *[[1991]] – [[Johnny Thunders]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1952) *[[1992]] – [[Satyajit Ray]], Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921) * 1992 – [[Tanka Prasad Acharya]], Nepalese politician, 27th [[Prime Minister of Nepal]] (b. 1912) *[[1993]] – [[Cesar Chavez]], American activist, co-founded the [[United Farm Workers]] (b. 1927) *[[1995]] – [[Douglas Lloyd Campbell]], Canadian farmer and politician, 13th [[Premier of Manitoba]] (b. 1895) * 1995 – [[Howard Cosell]], American lawyer and journalist (b. 1918) * 1995 – [[Riho Lahi]], Estonian journalist (b. 1904) * 1995 – [[John C. Stennis]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1904) *[[1996]] – [[Jean Victor Allard]], Canadian general (b. 1913) * 1996 – [[P. L. Travers]], Australian-English author and actress (b. 1899) *[[1997]] – [[Denis Compton]], English cricketer and footballer (b. 1918) *[[1998]] – [[Konstantinos Karamanlis]], Greek lawyer and politician, 172nd [[Prime Minister of Greece]] (b. 1907) * 1998 – [[James Earl Ray]], American [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|assassin of Martin Luther King Jr.]] (b. 1928) * 1998 – [[Thanassis Skordalos]], Greek singer-songwriter and [[Cretan lyra|lyra]] player (b. 1920) *[[2003]] – [[Fernand Fonssagrives]], French-American photographer (b. 1910) *[[2004]] – [[Herman Veenstra]], Dutch water polo player (b. 1911) *[[2005]] – [[Joh Bjelke-Petersen]], New Zealand-Australian politician, 31st [[Premier of Queensland]] (b. 1911) * 2005 – [[Robert Farnon]], Canadian-English trumpet player, composer and conductor (b. 1917) * 2005 – [[Al Grassby]], Australian journalist and politician (b. 1928) * 2005 – [[John Mills]], English actor (b. 1908)<ref>{{cite web |title=John Mills |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba03e6cbb |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160511175742/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba03e6cbb |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 11, 2016 |website=BFI |access-date=23 April 2022 |language=en}}</ref> * 2005 – [[Romano Scarpa]], Italian author and illustrator (b. 1927) * 2005 – [[Earl Wilson (baseball)|Earl Wilson]], American baseball player, coach and educator (b. 1934) * [[2006]] – [[Phil Walden]], American record producer and manager, co-founder of [[Capricorn Records]] (b. 1940) *[[2007]] – [[Paul Erdman]], Canadian-American economist and author (b. 1932) * 2007 – [[David Halberstam]], American journalist, historian and author (b. 1934) * 2007 – [[Peter Randall (GM)|Peter Randall]], English sergeant (b. 1930) * 2007 – [[Boris Yeltsin]], Russian politician, 1st [[President of Russia]] (b. 1931) *[[2010]] – [[Peter Porter (poet)|Peter Porter]], Australian-born British poet (b. 1929) *[[2011]] – [[James Casey (variety artist)|James Casey]], English comedian, radio scriptwriter and producer (b. 1922) * 2011 – [[Tom King (musician)|Tom King]], American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1943) * 2011 – [[Geoffrey Russell, 4th Baron Ampthill]], English businessman and politician (b. 1921) * 2011 – [[Max van der Stoel]], Dutch politician and Minister of State (b. 1924) * 2011 – [[John Sullivan (writer)|John Sullivan]], English screenwriter and producer (b. 1946) *[[2012]] – [[Lillemor Arvidsson]], Swedish trade union leader and politician, 34th [[List of governors of Gotland County|Governor of Gotland]] (b. 1943) * 2012 – [[Billy Bryans]], Canadian drummer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947) * 2012 – [[Chris Ethridge]], American bass player and songwriter (b. 1947) * 2012 – [[Raymond Thorsteinsson]], Canadian geologist and paleontologist (b. 1921) * 2012 – [[LeRoy T. Walker]], American football player and coach (b. 1918) *[[2013]] – [[Bob Brozman]], American guitarist (b. 1954) * 2013 – [[Robert W. Edgar]], American educator and politician (b. 1943) * 2013 – [[Tony Grealish]], English footballer (b. 1956) * 2013 – [[Antonio Maccanico]], Italian banker and politician (b. 1924) * 2013 – [[Frank W. J. Olver]], English-American mathematician and academic (b. 1924) * 2013 – [[Kathryn Wasserman Davis]], American philanthropist and scholar (b. 1907) *[[2014]] – [[Benjamín Brea]], Spanish-Venezuelan saxophonist, clarinet player, and conductor (b. 1946) * 2014 – [[Michael Glawogger]], Austrian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (b. 1959) * 2014 – [[Jaap Havekotte]], Dutch speed skater and producer of ice skates (b. 1912) * 2014 – [[Connie Marrero]], Cuban baseball player and coach (b. 1911) * 2014 – [[F. Michael Rogers]], American general (b. 1921) * 2014 – [[Mark Shand]], English conservationist and author (b. 1951) * 2014 – [[Patric Standford]], English composer and educator (b. 1939) *[[2015]] – [[Richard Corliss]], American journalist and critic (b. 1944) * 2015 – [[Ray Jackson (Aboriginal activist)|Ray Jackson]], Australian activist (b. 1941) * 2015 – [[Pierre Claude Nolin]], Canadian lawyer and politician, [[Speaker of the Senate (Canada)|Speaker of the Canadian Senate]] (b. 1950) * 2015 – [[Jim Steffen]], American football player (b. 1936) * 2015 – [[Francis Tsai]], American author and illustrator (b. 1967) *[[2016]] – [[Inge King]], German-born Australian sculptor (b. 1915) * 2016 – [[Banharn Silpa-archa]], Thai politician, [[Prime Minister of Thailand|Prime Minister]] from 1995 to 1996 (b. 1932) *[[2019]] – [[Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick]], American soprano singer and presenter (b. 1983)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opera-singer-who-received-two-double-lung-transplants-dies-at-35-charity-tillemann-dick/|title=Opera singer who received two double lung transplants has died at 35|date=2019-04-24|website=CBS News}}</ref> * 2019 – [[Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg|Jean]], Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1921)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Grand Duke Jean passes away|url=https://delano.lu/article/delano_grand-duke-jean-passes-away|access-date=2021-11-24|website=delano.lu|language=en}}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Dan Kaminsky]], American internet security researcher (b. 1979)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://heavy.com/news/dan-kaminsky-cause-of-death/|title=Dan Kaminsky's Sudden Death Wasn't Related to COVID-19 Vaccine: Family|date=2021-04-25|website=Heavy.com}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Orrin Hatch]], American politician, [[President pro tempore of the United States Senate]] (b. 1934)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Michael |date=April 23, 2022 |title=Orrin G. Hatch, longest-serving Republican in Senate history, dies at 88 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/orrin-g-hatch-longest-serving-republican-in-senate-history-dies-at-88/2022/04/23/df938ada-0483-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Frank Field, Baron Field of Birkenhead|Frank Field]], British politician (b. 1942)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dugan |first=Emily |date=2024-04-24 |title=Tributes paid to Frank Field, former Labour minister, who has died aged 81 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/24/frank-field-former-labour-minister-and-anti-poverty-campaigner-dies-aged-81 |access-date=2024-04-26 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> *2024 – [[Helen Vendler]], American Literary Critic (b. 1933)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Marquard |first=Bryan |date=April 23, 2024 |title=Helen Vendler, a towering presence in poetry criticism, has died - The Boston Globe |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/04/23/metro/helen-vendler-towering-presence-poetry-criticism-dies-90/ |access-date=April 26, 2024 |website=BostonGlobe.com |language=en-US}}</ref> <!--Please do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information.-->
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