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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[234]] – [[Emperor Xian of Han]], Chinese emperor (b. 181) * [[586]] – [[Liuvigild]], king of the [[Visigoths]] * [[847]] – [[Odgar]], Frankish archbishop of [[Mainz]] * [[866]] – [[Bardas]], ''de facto'' regent of the [[Byzantine Empire]] * [[941]] – [[Bajkam]], ''de facto'' regent of the [[Abbasid Caliphate]] *[[1073]] – [[Pope Alexander II]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexander II {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-II-pope |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=30 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1109]] – [[Anselm of Canterbury]], Italian-English archbishop and saint (b. 1033) *[[1136]] – [[Stephen, Count of Tréguier]] Breton noblemen (b. {{Circa|1058/62}}) *[[1142]] – [[Peter Abelard]], French philosopher and theologian (b. 1079) *[[1213]] – [[Maria of Montpellier]], Lady of Montpellier, Queen of Aragon (b. 1182) *[[1329]] – [[Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine]] (b. 1282) *[[1400]] – [[John Wittlebury]], English politician (b. 1333)<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1386-1421/member/wittlebury-john-1333-1400| title= WITTLEBURY, John (1333-1400), of Whissendine, Rutland and Milton and Marholm, Northants.|publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 16 April 2013}}</ref> *[[1509]] – [[Henry VII of England]] (b. 1457) *[[1557]] – [[Petrus Apianus]], German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1495) *[[1574]] – [[Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany]] (b. 1519) *[[1591]] – [[Sen no Rikyū]], Japanese exponent of the tea ceremony (b. 1522) ===1601–1900=== *[[1650]] – [[Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi]], Japanese samurai (b. 1607) *[[1668]] – [[Jan Boeckhorst]], Flemish painter (b. {{Circa|1604}}) *[[1699]] – [[Jean Racine]], French playwright and poet (b. 1639) *[[1719]] – [[Philippe de La Hire]], French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1640) *[[1720]] – [[Antoine Hamilton]], Irish-French soldier and author (b. 1646) *[[1722]] – [[Robert Beverley, Jr.]], English historian and author (b. 1673) *[[1736]] – [[Prince Eugene of Savoy]] (b. 1663) *[[1740]] – [[Thomas Tickell]], English poet and author (b. 1685) *[[1758]] – [[Francesco Zerafa]], Maltese architect (b. 1679) *[[1815]] – [[Joseph Winston]], American soldier and politician (b. 1746) *[[1825]] – [[Johann Friedrich Pfaff]], German mathematician and academic (b. 1765) *[[1852]] – [[Ivan Nabokov]], Russian general (b. 1787) *[[1863]] – [[Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet]], Irish politician (b. 1782) *[[1900]] – [[Vikramatji Khimojiraj]], Indian ruler (b. 1819) ===1901–present=== *[[1910]] – [[Mark Twain]], American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mark-Twain |title=Mark Twain |publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica |location=Edinburgh |access-date=20 April 2021}}</ref> *[[1918]] – [[Manfred von Richthofen]], German captain and pilot (b. 1892) *[[1924]] – [[Eleonora Duse]], Italian actress (b. 1858)<ref>{{cite web |title=Duse, Eleonora (1858-1924), actress |url=https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-1801621 |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |access-date=22 January 2022 |language=en |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1801621|isbn=978-0-19-860669-7 |last1=Fisher |first1=James }}</ref> *[[1930]] – [[Robert Bridges]], English poet and author (b. 1844) *[[1932]] – [[Friedrich Gustav Piffl]], Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864) *[[1938]] – [[Allama Muhammad Iqbal]], Pakistani National philosopher and poet (b. 1877) *[[1941]] – [[Fritz Manteuffel]], German gymnast (b. 1875) *[[1945]] – [[Walter Model]], German field marshal (b. 1891) *[[1946]] – [[John Maynard Keynes]], English economist and philosopher (b. 1883) *[[1948]] – [[Aldo Leopold]], American ecologist and author (b. 1887) *[[1952]] – [[Leslie Banks]], American actor, director and producer (b. 1890) *[[1954]] – [[Emil Leon Post]], Polish-American mathematician and logician (b. 1897) *[[1956]] – [[Charles MacArthur]], American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895) *[[1965]] – [[Edward Victor Appleton]], English-Scottish physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1892) *[[1971]] – [[François Duvalier]], Haitian physician and politician, 40th [[President of Haiti]] (b. 1907) *[[1973]] – [[Arthur Fadden]], Australian accountant and politician, 13th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. 1894) * 1973 – [[Kemal Tahir]], Turkish journalist and author (b. 1910) *[[1977]] – [[Gummo Marx]], American vaudevillian and talent agent (b. 1892) *[[1978]] – [[Sandy Denny]], English singer-songwriter (b. 1947)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/sandy-denny-fair-play-to-her-399500.html|title=Sandy Denny: Fair Play to Her|publisher=Independent.co.uk|date=8 November 2007|access-date=22 April 2022|location=London, UK}}</ref> * 1978 – [[Thomas Wyatt Turner]], American biologist and academic (b. 1877) *[[1980]] – [[Alexander Oparin]], Russian biochemist and academic (b. 1894) * 1980 – [[Sohrab Sepehri]], Iranian poet and painter (b. 1928) *[[1983]] – [[Walter Slezak]], Austrian-American actor and singer (b. 1902) *[[1984]] – [[Marcel Janco]], Romanian-Israeli artist (b. 1895) * 1984 – [[Hristo Prodanov]], Bulgarian engineer and mountaineer (b. 1943) *[[1985]] – [[Rudi Gernreich]], Austrian-American fashion designer, created the [[monokini]] (b. 1922) * 1985 – [[Tancredo Neves]], Brazilian banker and politician, [[Prime Minister of Brazil]] (b. 1910) *[[1986]] – [[Marjorie Eaton]], American painter and actress (b. 1901) * 1986 – [[Salah Jahin]], Egyptian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1930) *[[1987]] – [[Gustav Bergmann]], Austrian-American philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1906) *[[1990]] – [[Erté]], Russian-French illustrator (b. 1892) *[[1991]] – [[Willi Boskovsky]], Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909) *[[1992]] – [[Väinö Linna]], Finnish author (b. 1920)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hs.fi/mielipide/art-2000004151933.html|title=Mielipide: Suomen suurin kirjailija ansaitsee liputuspäivän|work=[[Helsingin Sanomat]]|date=July 7, 2003|access-date=December 20, 2021|language=fi}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Abdul Hafeez Kardar]], Pakistani cricketer (b. 1925) * 1996 – [[Jimmy Snyder (sports commentator)|Jimmy Snyder]], American sportscaster (b. 1919) *[[1998]] – [[Jean-François Lyotard]], French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1924) *[[1999]] – [[Charles "Buddy" Rogers|Buddy Rogers]], American actor (b. 1904) *[[2003]] – [[Nina Simone]], American singer-songwriter, pianist, and activist (b. 1933) *[[2005]] – [[Zhang Chunqiao]], Chinese writer and politician, member of the [[Gang of Four]] (b. 1917)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4533401.stm|title=China's Gang of Four member dies|date=10 May 2005|access-date=16 October 2023}}</ref> *[[2010]] – [[Gustav Lorentzen]], Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947) * 2010 – [[Juan Antonio Samaranch]], Spanish businessman, seventh [[President of the International Olympic Committee]] (b. 1920) * 2010 – [[Kanagaratnam Sriskandan]], Sri Lankan-English engineer and civil servant (b. 1930) *[[2011]] – [[Catharina Halkes]], Dutch theologian and academic (b. 1920) *[[2012]] – [[Doris Betts]], American author and academic (b. 1932) *[[2013]] – [[Shakuntala Devi]], Indian mathematician and astrologer (b. 1929) * 2013 – [[Leopold Engleitner]], Austrian [[Holocaust]] survivor, author, and educator (b. 1905) *[[2014]] – [[George H. Heilmeier]], American engineer (b. 1936)<ref>{{cite news |title=George Heilmeier dies; a principal developer of liquid-crystal display technology |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/george-heilmeier-a-principal-developer-of-liquid-crystal-display-technology-dies-at-77/2014/05/03/987e9fec-d2d6-11e3-aae8-c2d44bd79778_story.html |newspaper=Washington Post |access-date=16 October 2024}}</ref> * 2014 – [[Win Tin]], Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the [[National League for Democracy]] (b. 1930) *[[2016]] – [[Prince (musician)|Prince]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1958) *[[2017]] – [[Ugo Ehiogu]], English footballer (b. 1972) *[[2018]] – [[Nabi Tajima]], Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1900)<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20180421/k10011413001000.html | title=Worlds oldest age 117-year-old Tashima Navi died | access-date=1 April 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180421225231/https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20180421/k10011413001000.html | archive-date=21 April 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> *[[2019]] – [[Polly Higgins]], Scottish barrister, author and environmental lobbyist (b. 1968)<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/25/polly-higgins-obituary |last=Mehta |first=Jojo |title=Polly Higgins Obituary |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |date=25 April 2019 |access-date=27 April 2019}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Terry A. Anderson]], American journalist (b. 1947)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bell |first=Alistair |date=April 21, 2024 |title=Terry Anderson, US journalist held hostage nearly seven years in Lebanon, dead at 76 |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/terry-anderson-us-journalist-held-hostage-lebanon-dead-76-2024-04-21/ |access-date=April 22, 2024 |work=[[Reuters]]}}</ref> *[[2025]] – [[Pope Francis]] (b. 1936)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Winfield |first=Nicole |date=April 21, 2025 |title=Pope Francis, first Latin American pontiff who ministered with a charming, humble style, dies at 88 |url=https://apnews.com/article/vatican-pope-francis-dead-01ca7d73c3c48d25fd1504ba076e2e2a |access-date=April 21, 2025 |website=[[Associated Press]] |language=en}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.-->
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