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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[296]] – [[Pope Caius]] * [[536]] – [[Pope Agapetus I]] * [[591]] – [[Peter III of Raqqa]] * [[613]] – [[Saint Theodore of Sykeon]] * [[835]] – [[Kūkai]], Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of [[Shingon|Esoteric (Shingon) Buddhism]] (b. 774)<ref>{{cite book|author=Hakeda Yoshito S.|title=Kūkai : Major Works|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FGtbmTMf3r4C|year=1972|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=978-0-23103-627-6|pages=59}}</ref> * [[846]] – [[Emperor Wuzong of Tang|Wuzong]], Chinese emperor (b. 814) *[[1208]] – [[Philip of Poitou]], Prince-Bishop of Durham *[[1322]] – [[Francis of Fabriano]], Italian writer (b. 1251) *[[1355]] – [[Eleanor of Woodstock]], countess regent of Guelders, eldest daughter of King [[Edward II of England]] (b. 1318)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Panton |first1=James |title=Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy |date=2011 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-7497-8 |page=173 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiyyueBTpaMC&pg=PA173 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1585]] – [[Henry of Saxe-Lauenburg]], Prince-Archbishop of Bremen, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and Paderborn (b. 1550) ===1601–1900=== *[[1616]] – [[Miguel de Cervantes]], Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1547) *[[1672]] – [[Georg Stiernhielm]], Swedish linguist and poet (b. 1598) *[[1699]] – [[Hans Erasmus Aßmann]], German poet (b. 1646) *[[1758]] – [[Antoine de Jussieu]], French botanist and physician (b. 1686) *[[1778]] – [[James Hargreaves]], British inventor (b. 1720) *[[1806]] – [[Pierre-Charles Villeneuve]], French admiral (b. 1763) *[[1821]] – [[Gregory V of Constantinople]], Greek patriarch and saint (b. 1746) *[[1833]] – [[Richard Trevithick]], English engineer and explorer (b. 1771) *[[1850]] – [[Friedrich Robert Faehlmann]], Estonian philologist and physician (b. 1798) *[[1854]] – [[Nicolás Bravo]], Mexican general and politician, 11th [[President of Mexico]] (b. 1786) *[[1871]] – [[Martín Carrera]], Mexican general and president (1855) (b. 1806)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/martin-carrera/|publisher=Presidencia de la Republica de Mexico|title=MARTÍN CARRERA|language=es|access-date=May 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528043200/http://calderon.presidencia.gob.mx/mexico/gobernantes/mexico-1821-actualidad/martin-carrera/|archive-date=May 28, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> *[[1877]] – [[James P. Kirkwood]], Scottish-American engineer (b. 1807) *[[1892]] – [[Édouard Lalo]], French violinist and composer (b. 1823) *[[1893]] – [[Chaim Aronson]], Lithuanian businessman and author (b. 1825) *[[1894]] – [[Kostas Krystallis]], Greek author and poet (b. 1868) *[[1896]] – [[Thomas Meik]], English engineer, founded [[Halcrow Group]] (b. 1812) ===1901–present=== *[[1908]] – [[Henry Campbell-Bannerman]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1836) *[[1925]] – [[André Caplet]], French composer and conductor (b. 1878) *[[1929]] – [[Henry Lerolle]], French painter and art collector (b. 1848) *[[1932]] – [[Ferenc Oslay]], Hungarian-Slovene historian and author (b. 1883) *[[1933]] – [[Henry Royce]], English engineer and businessman, co-founded [[Rolls-Royce Limited]] (b. 1863) *[[1945]] – [[Wilhelm Cauer]], German mathematician and academic (b. 1900) * 1945 – [[Käthe Kollwitz]], German painter and sculptor (b. 1867) *[[1950]] – [[Charles Hamilton Houston]], American lawyer and academic (b. 1895) *[[1951]] – [[Horace Donisthorpe]], English myrmecologist and coleopterist (b. 1870) *[[1978]] – [[Will Geer]], American actor (b. 1902) *[[1980]] – [[Jane Froman]], American actress and singer (b. 1907) * 1980 – [[Fritz Strassmann]], German chemist and physicist (b. 1902) *[[1983]] – [[Earl Hines]], American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903) *[[1984]] – [[Ansel Adams]], American photographer and environmentalist (b. 1902) *[[1985]] – [[Paul Hugh Emmett]], American chemist and academic (b. 1900) * 1985 – [[Jacques Ferron]], Canadian physician and author (b. 1921) *[[1986]] – [[Mircea Eliade]], Romanian historian and author (b. 1907) *[[1987]] – [[Erika Nõva]], Estonian architect (b. 1905) *[[1988]] – [[Grigori Kuzmin]], Russian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1917) * 1988 – [[Irene Rich]], American actress (b. 1891) *[[1989]] – [[Emilio G. Segrè]], Italian-American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1905) *[[1990]] – [[Albert Salmi]], American actor (b. 1928) *[[1994]] – [[Richard Nixon]], 37th [[President of the United States]] (b. 1913) *[[1995]] – [[Jane Kenyon]], American poet and author (b. 1947) *[[1996]] – [[Erma Bombeck]], American journalist and author (b. 1927) * 1996 – [[Jug McSpaden]], American golfer and architect (b. 1908) *[[1999]] – [[Munir Ahmad Khan]], Pakistani nuclear engineer (b. 1926) *[[2003]] – [[Felice Bryant]], American songwriter (b. 1925) *[[2005]] – [[Erika Fuchs]], German translator (b. 1906)<ref>{{Cite news |date=20 April 2010 |title=22. April 2010 - Vor 5 Jahren: Comic-Übersetzerin Erika Fuchs stirbt in München |language=de |work=[[Westdeutscher Rundfunk]] |url=https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag5152.html |url-status=live |access-date=29 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229185318/https://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag5152.html |archive-date=29 December 2022}}</ref> * 2005 – [[Philip Morrison]], American physicist and academic (b. 1915) * 2005 – [[Eduardo Paolozzi]], Scottish sculptor and artist (b. 1924) *[[2006]] – [[Henriette Avram]], American computer scientist and academic (b. 1919) * 2006 – [[Alida Valli]], Italian actress (b. 1921) *[[2007]] – [[Juanita Millender-McDonald]], American educator and politician (b. 1938) *[[2009]] – [[Jack Cardiff]], British cinematographer, director and photographer (b. 1914) *[[2010]] – [[Richard Barrett (lawyer)|Richard Barrett]], American lawyer and activist (b. 1943) *[[2012]] – [[George Rathmann]], American chemist, biologist, and businessman (b. 1927) *[[2013]] – [[Richie Havens]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) * 2013 – [[Lalgudi Jayaraman]], Indian violinist and composer (b. 1930) * 2013 – [[Robert Suderburg]], American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936) *[[2014]] – [[Oswaldo Vigas]], Venezuelan painter (b. 1926) *[[2015]] – [[Dick Balharry]], Scottish environmentalist and photographer (b. 1937) *[[2017]] – [[Donna Williams|Donna Leanne Williams]], Australian writer, artist, and activist (b. 1963) *[[2020]] – [[Shirley Knight]], American actress (b. 1936)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Dagan|first=Carmel|date=2020-04-22|title=Shirley Knight, Oscar Nominee and 'Sweet Bird of Youth' Actress, Dies at 83|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/shirley-knight-dead-dies-sweet-bird-of-youth-1234587413/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619151612/https://variety.com/2020/film/news/shirley-knight-dead-dies-sweet-bird-of-youth-1234587413/|archive-date=2020-06-19|access-date=2021-07-06|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|language=en-US}}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Adrian Garrett]], American professional baseball player (b. 1943)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-23|title=Former major leaguer Adrian Garrett dies at 78|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31318405/former-major-leaguer-adrian-garrett-dies-age-78|access-date=2021-04-26|website=ESPN.com|language=en}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Guy Lafleur]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1951)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-04-22|title=Lafleur dies at 70, five-time Cup champion with Canadiens|url=https://www.nhl.com/news/guy-lafleur-dead/c-333289584|access-date=2022-04-22|website=NHL.com|language=en}}</ref> *[[2023]] – [[Len Goodman]], English ballroom dancer and television personality (b. 1944)<ref>{{cite web |title=Len Goodman obituary: From the East End to Strictly Come Dancing studio |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58929590 |website=BBC News |access-date=24 April 2023 |date=24 April 2023}}</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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