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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[628]] – [[Empress Suiko|Suiko]], emperor of Japan (b. 554) * [[943]] – [[Liu Bin (Southern Han)|Liu Bin]], emperor of [[Southern Han]] (b. 920) * [[956]] – [[Lin Yanyu]], Chinese court official and [[eunuch]] *[[1053]] – [[Godwin, Earl of Wessex]] (b. 1001) *[[1136]] – [[Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare]] (b. 1094) *[[1220]] – [[Adolf of Altena]], German archbishop (b. 1157) *[[1237]] – [[Richard Poore]], English ecclesiastic *[[1415]] – [[Manuel Chrysoloras]], Greek philosopher and translator (b. 1355) *[[1446]] – [[Filippo Brunelleschi]], Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1377) *[[1502]] – [[John IV of Chalon-Arlay]], Prince of Orange (b. 1443) *[[1558]] – [[Roxelana]], wife of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] (b. c. 1500) *[[1578]] – [[Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg]], German nobleman (b. 1509)<ref>{{cite book |last=Haarmann |first=Torsten |title=Das Haus Waldeck und Pyrmont. Mehr als 900 Jahre Gesamtgeschichte mit Stammfolge |language=de |location=Werl |publisher=Börde-Verlag |date=2014 |series=Deutsche Fürstenhäuser |volume=Heft 35 |pages=48 |isbn=978-3-981-4458-2-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hoffmeister |first=Jacob Christoph Carl |title=Historisch-genealogisches Handbuch über alle Grafen und Fürsten von Waldeck und Pyrmont seit 1228 |language=de |location=Cassel |publisher=Verlag Gustav Klaunig |date=1883 |pages=46 |url=https://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-474762 }}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1610]] – [[Robert Persons]], English Jesuit priest, insurrectionist, and author (b. 1546) *[[1632]] – [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]], English politician, [[Secretary of State (England)|English Secretary of State]] (b. 1580) *[[1652]] – [[Patriarch Joseph of Moscow]], Russian patriarch *[[1659]] – [[Simon Dach]], German poet and hymnwriter (b. 1605) *[[1719]] – [[Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon]], French wife of [[Louis XIV of France]] (b. 1635) *[[1754]] – [[Jacopo Riccati]], Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1676) *[[1757]] – [[Rosalba Carriera]], Italian painter (b. 1673)<ref>{{cite book|first=Ursula|last=Mehler|title=Rosalba Carriera, 1673–1757: die Bildnismalerin des 18. Jahrhunderts|trans-title=Rosalba Carriera, 1673–1757: Portrait Painter of the 18th Century|location=Königstein im Taunus|publisher=Ortensia Koenigstein|year=2006|page=31|language=de|isbn=978-3-00016-194-0}}</ref> *[[1761]] – [[Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll]], Scottish lawyer and politician, [[Lord President of the Court of Session]] (b. 1682) * 1761 – [[William Oldys]], English historian and author (b. 1696) *[[1764]] – [[Peder Horrebow]], Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1679) * 1764 – [[Madame de Pompadour]], mistress of King Louis XV (b. 1721)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Alden R. |title=Searching for the Elusive Madame de Pompadour |journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies |date=2003 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=95 |doi=10.1353/ecs.2003.0062 |jstor=25098031 |s2cid=144477737 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098031 |issn=0013-2586}}</ref> *[[1765]] – [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], Russian chemist and physicist (b. 1711) *[[1788]] – [[Giuseppe Bonno]], Austrian composer (b. 1711) *[[1793]] – [[Ignacije Szentmartony]], Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1718) *[[1854]] – [[Arthur Aikin]], English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773) *[[1861]] – [[Sylvester Jordan]], Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792) *[[1865]] – [[Abraham Lincoln]], 16th [[President of the United States]] (b. 1809) *[[1888]] – [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet and critic (b. 1822) *[[1889]] – [[Father Damien]], Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840) *[[1898]] – [[Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui]], New Zealand commander and politician ===1901–present=== *[[1912]] – Victims of the [[Sinking of the RMS Titanic|''Titanic'' disaster]]: ** [[Thomas Andrews]], Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873)<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Andrews {{!}} Irish ship designer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Andrews-Irish-ship-designer |website=britannica.com |access-date=15 April 2022}}</ref> ** [[John Jacob Astor IV]], American colonel, businessman, and author (b. 1864) ** [[Archibald Butt]], American general and journalist (b. 1865) ** [[Jacques Futrelle]], American journalist and author (b. 1875) ** [[Benjamin Guggenheim]], American businessman (b. 1865) ** [[Henry B. Harris]], American producer and manager (b. 1866) ** [[Wallace Hartley]], English violinist and bandleader (b. 1878) ** [[Charles Melville Hays]], American businessman (b. 1856)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Widow and Daughters of Hays Speed Home|url=http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/widow-and-daughters-of-hays-speed-home.html|encyclopedia=encyclopedia-titanica.org|date=August 9, 2011 |publisher=Chicago Examiner (as re-printed on Encyclopedia Titanica)|access-date=March 20, 2012}}</ref> ** [[James Paul Moody]], English Sixth Officer (b. 1887) ** [[William McMaster Murdoch]], Scottish First Officer (b. 1873) ** [[Jack Phillips (wireless operator)|Jack Phillips]], English telegraphist (b. 1887) ** [[Edward Smith (sea captain)|Edward Smith]], English Captain (b. 1850) ** [[William Thomas Stead]], English journalist (b. 1849) ** [[Ida Straus]], German-American businesswoman (b. 1849) ** [[Isidor Straus]], German-American businessman and politician (b. 1845) ** [[John B. Thayer]], American business and sportsman (b. 1862) ** [[Henry Tingle Wilde]], English chief officer (b. 1872) *[[1917]] – [[János Murkovics]], Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839) *[[1925]] – [[Fritz Haarmann]], German serial killer (b. 1879)<ref>"Ogre, Killer of 26 Boys, Beheaded— Fritz Haarmann Walks Calmly to Guillotine, Repentant but Unafraid; Consults Pastor", ''The Washington Daily News'', April 15, 1925, p.1</ref> *[[1927]] – [[Gaston Leroux]], French journalist and author (b. 1868) *[[1938]] – [[César Vallejo]], Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892) *[[1942]] – [[Robert Musil]], Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880) *[[1943]] – [[Aristarkh Lentulov]], Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882) *[[1944]] – [[Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin]], Russian general (b. 1901) *[[1945]] – [[Hermann Florstedt]], German [[SS]] officer (b. 1895) *[[1948]] – [[Radola Gajda]], Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892) *[[1949]] – [[Wallace Beery]], American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885) *[[1962]] – [[Clara Blandick]], American actress (b. 1880) * 1962 – [[Arsenio Lacson]], Filipino journalist and politician, [[Mayor of Manila]] (b. 1912) *[[1963]] – [[Edward Greeves, Jr.]], Australian footballer (b. 1903) *[[1966]] – [[Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury]], Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of [[East Pakistan]] (b. 1906) *[[1967]] – [[Totò]], Italian comedian (b. 1898) *[[1971]] – [[Gurgen Boryan]], Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915) * 1971 – [[Friedebert Tuglas]], Estonian author and critic (b. 1886) *[[1979]] – [[David Brand]], Australian politician, 19th [[Premier of Western Australia]] (b. 1912) *[[1980]] – [[Raymond Bailey]], American actor and soldier (b. 1904) * 1980 – [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], French philosopher and author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1905) *[[1982]] – [[Arthur Lowe]], English actor (b. 1915) *[[1984]] – [[Tommy Cooper]], Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921) *[[1986]] – [[Jean Genet]], French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910) *[[1988]] – [[Kenneth Williams]], English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926) *[[1989]] – [[Hu Yaobang]], Chinese soldier and politician, former [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] (b. 1915) *[[1990]] – [[Greta Garbo]], Swedish-American actress (b. 1905) *[[1993]] – [[Leslie Charteris]], English author and screenwriter (b. 1907) * 1993 – [[John Tuzo Wilson]], Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908) *[[1998]] – [[William Congdon]], American-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912) * 1998 – [[Pol Pot]], Cambodian general and politician, 29th [[Prime Minister of Cambodia]] (b. 1925) *[[1999]] – [[Harvey Postlethwaite]], English engineer (b. 1944) *[[2000]] – [[Edward Gorey]], American poet and illustrator (b. 1925) *[[2001]] – [[Joey Ramone]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1951) *[[2002]] – [[Damon Knight]], American author and critic (b. 1922) * 2002 – [[Byron White]], American football player, lawyer, and jurist, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Associate Justice of the Supreme Court]] (b. 1917) *[[2004]] – [[Mitsuteru Yokoyama]], Japanese illustrator (b. 1934) *[[2007]] – [[Brant Parker]], American illustrator (b. 1920) *[[2008]] – [[Krister Stendahl]], Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (b. 1921) *[[2009]] – [[Clement Freud]], German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924) * 2009 – [[László Tisza]], Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907) * 2009 – [[Salih Neftçi]], Turkish economist and author (b. 1947) *[[2010]] – [[Jack Herer]], American author and activist (b. 1939) * 2010 – [[Michael Pataki]], American actor and director (b. 1938) *[[2011]] – [[Vittorio Arrigoni]], Italian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1975) *[[2012]] – [[Paul Bogart]], American director and producer (b. 1919) * 2012 – [[Dwayne Schintzius]], American basketball player (b. 1968) *[[2013]] – [[Benjamin Fain]], Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930) * 2013 – [[Richard LeParmentier]], American-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1946) * 2013 – [[Jean-François Paillard]], French conductor (b. 1928) *[[2014]] – [[John Houbolt]], American engineer and academic (b. 1919) * 2014 – [[Eliseo Verón]], Argentinian sociologist and academic (b. 1935) *[[2015]] – [[Jonathan Crombie]], Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1966) * 2015 – [[Surya Bahadur Thapa]], Nepalese politician, 24th [[Prime Minister of Nepal]] (b. 1928) *[[2017]] – [[Clifton James]], American actor (b. 1920) * 2017 – [[Emma Morano]], Italian [[supercentenarian]], last person verified born in the 1800s (b. 1899) *[[2018]] – [[R. Lee Ermey]], American actor (b. 1944) * 2018 – [[Vittorio Taviani]], Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929) *[[2022]] – [[Bilquis Edhi]], Pakistani philanthropist and wife of [[Abdul Sattar Edhi]] (b. 1947)<ref>{{cite news |title=Bilquis Edhi passes away at 74 in Karachi |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2352734/bilquis-edhi-passes-away-at-74-in-karachi |access-date=17 April 2022 |work=[[The Express Tribune]] |date=15 April 2022}}</ref> * 2022 – [[Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb|Henry Plumb]], British politician and farmer (b. 1925)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harley |first=David |date=2022-04-26 |title=Lord Plumb obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/lord-plumb-obituary |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=The Guardian}}</ref> * 2022 – [[Liz Sheridan]], American actress (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jerry Seinfeld pays tribute to 'TV mom' Liz Sheridan following her death aged 93 |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2022-04-15/jerry-seinfeld-pays-tribute-to-tv-mom-liz-sheridan-following-her-death-aged-93 |website=ITV News |access-date=15 April 2022|date=15 April 2022}}</ref> * [[2024]] – [[Whitey Herzog]], American professional baseball outfielder and manager (b. 1931)<ref>{{Cite web |last=report |first=Post-Dispatch staff |date=2024-04-16 |title=Whitey Herzog, Cardinals champion manager and creator of 'Whiteyball,' dies at 92 |url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/professional/mlb/cardinals/whitey-herzog-cardinals-champion-manager-and-creator-of-whiteyball-dies-at-92/article_d58ec338-e9f8-11ed-bc34-67a54ce626f6.html |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=STLtoday.com}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Josip Manolić]], Croatian politician, [[Prime Minister of Croatia|prime minister]], and [[Speaker of the Chamber of Counties of Croatia|speaker of the Chamber of Counties]] (b. 1920)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Potvrdila njegova kći: Preminuo Josip Manolić |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/preminuo-josip-manolic-1534499 |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=vecernji.hr |language=hr}}</ref> * [[2025]] – [[Wink Martindale]], American DJ, radio personality, and TV personality (b. 1933)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Segarra |first=Edward |date=April 15, 2025 |title=TV host Wink Martindale, known for 'Gambit' and 'Tic-Tac-Dough,' dies at 91: Reports |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2025/04/15/wink-martindale-dead-game-show-host-gambit/83107840007/ |access-date=April 17, 2025 |website=[[USA Today]] |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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