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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[585 BC]] – [[Emperor Jimmu|Jimmu]], emperor of Japan (b. 711 BC) * [[436]] – [[Tan Daoji]], Chinese general and politician * [[491]] – [[Zeno (emperor)|Zeno]], emperor of the Byzantine Empire (b. 425) * [[682]] – [[Maslama ibn Mukhallad al-Ansari]], Egyptian politician, [[List of governors of Islamic Egypt|Governor of Egypt]] (b. 616) * [[715]] – [[Pope Constantine|Constantine]], pope of the Catholic Church (b. 664) *[[1024]] – [[Pope Benedict VIII|Benedict VIII]], pope of the Catholic Church (b. 980) *[[1137]] – [[William X, Duke of Aquitaine|William X]], duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099) *[[1241]] – [[Henry II the Pious|Henry II]], High Duke of Poland (b. 1196) *[[1283]] – [[Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway|Margaret of Scotland]], queen of Norway (b. 1261) *[[1327]] – [[Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland]], Scottish nobleman (ca. 1296) *[[1483]] – [[Edward IV of England|Edward IV]], king of England (b. 1442) *[[1484]] – [[Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales|Edward of Middleheim]], prince of Wales (b. 1473) *[[1550]] – [[Alqas Mirza]], Safavid prince (b. 1516)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = ALQĀS MĪRZA | last = Fleischer | first = C. | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/alqas-alqasb-alqas-mirza-safawi | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 9 | pages = 907–909 }}</ref> *[[1553]] – [[François Rabelais]], French monk and scholar (b. 1494) *[[1557]] – [[Mikael Agricola]], Finnish priest and scholar (b. 1510) *[[1561]] – [[Jean Quintin]], French priest, knight and writer (b. 1500)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vella |first1=Horatio C. R. |title=Jean Quintin's ''Insulae Melitae Descriptio'' (1536) : an anniversary and a discussion on its sources |journal=Humanitas: Journal of the Faculty of Arts |date=2003 |volume=2 |pages=155–171 |url=https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/51546/1/Humanitas2A8.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919235623/https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/bitstream/123456789/51546/1/Humanitas2A8.pdf |archive-date=19 September 2020 |publisher=[[University of Malta]]}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1626]] – [[Francis Bacon]], English jurist and politician, [[Attorney General for England and Wales]] (b. 1561)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gaukroger |first1=Stephen |chapter=Bacon, Francis |title=The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |date=2007 |pages=79 |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_94|isbn=978-0-387-31022-0 }}</ref> *[[1654]] – [[Matei Basarab]], Romanian prince (b. 1588) *[[1693]] – [[Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy]], French author (b. 1618) *[[1747]] – [[Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat]], Scottish soldier and politician (b. 1667) *[[1754]] – [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]], German philosopher and academic (b. 1679) *[[1761]] – [[William Law]], English priest and theologian (b. 1686) *[[1768]] – [[Sarah Fielding]], English author (b. 1710) *[[1804]] – [[Jacques Necker]], Swiss-French politician, [[List of Prime Ministers of France|Chief Minister to the French Monarch]] (b. 1732) *[[1806]] – [[William V, Prince of Orange|William V]], stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (b. 1748) *[[1872]] – [[Erastus Corning]], American businessman and politician (b. 1794) *[[1876]] – [[Charles Goodyear (politician)|Charles Goodyear]], American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1804) *[[1882]] – [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]], English poet and painter (b. 1828) *[[1889]] – [[Michel Eugène Chevreul]], French chemist and academic (b. 1786) ===1901–present=== *[[1904]] – [[Isabella II of Spain|Isabella II]], Spanish queen (b. 1830)<ref>{{cite web |title=Isabella II, queen of Spain |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isabella-II-queen-of-Spain |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=12 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1909]] – [[Helena Modjeska]], Polish-American actress (b. 1840) *[[1915]] – [[Raymond Whittindale]], English rugby player (b. 1883) *[[1917]] – [[James Hope Moulton]], English philologist and scholar (b. 1863) *[[1922]] – [[Hans Fruhstorfer]], German entomologist and explorer (b. 1866) *[[1926]] – [[Zip the Pinhead]], American [[freak show]] performer (b. 1857) *[[1936]] – [[Ferdinand Tönnies]], German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1855) *[[1940]] – [[Mrs Patrick Campbell]], English actress (b. 1865) *[[1944]] – [[Yevgeniya Rudneva]], Ukrainian lieutenant and pilot (b. 1920) *[[1945]] – [[Dietrich Bonhoeffer]], German pastor and theologian (b. 1906) * 1945 – [[Wilhelm Canaris]], German admiral (b. 1887) * 1945 – [[Johann Georg Elser]], German carpenter (b. 1903) * 1945 – [[Hans Oster]], German general (b. 1887) * 1945 – [[Karl Sack]], German lawyer and jurist (b. 1896) * 1945 – [[Hans von Dohnányi]], Austrian-German lawyer and jurist (b. 1902) *[[1948]] – [[George Carpenter (Salvation Army)|George Carpenter]], Australian 5th [[General of The Salvation Army]] (b. 1872) * 1948 – [[Jorge Eliécer Gaitán]], Colombian lawyer and politician, 16th [[Ministry of National Education (Colombia)|Colombian Minister of National Education]] (b. 1903) *[[1951]] – [[Vilhelm Bjerknes]], Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (b. 1862) *[[1953]] – [[Eddie Cochems]], American football player and coach (b. 1877) * 1953 – [[C. E. M. Joad]], English philosopher and television host (b. 1891) * 1953 – [[Hans Reichenbach]], German philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1891) *[[1959]] – [[Frank Lloyd Wright]], American architect, designed the [[Price Tower]] and [[Fallingwater]] (b. 1867) *[[1961]] – [[Zog I of Albania]] (b. 1895) *[[1963]] – [[Eddie Edwards (musician)|Eddie Edwards]], American trombonist (b. 1891) * 1963 – [[Xul Solar]], Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1887) *[[1970]] – [[Gustaf Tenggren]], Swedish-American illustrator and animator (b. 1896) *[[1976]] – [[Dagmar Nordstrom]], American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1903) * 1976 – [[Phil Ochs]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940) * 1976 – [[Renato Petronio]], Italian rower (b. 1891) *[[1978]] – [[Clough Williams-Ellis]], English-Welsh architect, designed [[Portmeirion]] (b. 1883) *[[1980]] – [[Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr]], Iraqi cleric and philosopher (b. 1935) *[[1982]] – [[Wilfrid Pelletier]], Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1896) *[[1988]] – [[Brook Benton]], American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931) * 1988 – [[Hans Berndt]], German footballer (b. 1913) * 1988 – [[Dave Prater]], American singer (b. 1937) *[[1991]] – [[Forrest Towns]], American hurdler and coach (b. 1914) *[[1993]] – [[Joseph B. Soloveitchik]], American rabbi and philosopher (b. 1903) *[[1996]] – [[Richard Condon]], American author and publicist (b. 1915) *[[1997]] – [[Mae Boren Axton]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1914) * 1997 – [[Helene Hanff]], American author and screenwriter (b. 1916) *[[1998]] – [[Tom Cora]], American cellist and composer (b. 1953) *[[1999]] – [[Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara]], [[Niger]]ien general and politician, [[President of Niger]] (b. 1949) *[[2000]] – [[Tony Cliff]], Trotskyist activist and founder of the [[Socialist Workers Party (UK)|Socialist Workers Party]] (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite news | author=Paul Foot | author-link=Paul Foot (journalist) | title=Tony Cliff | newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=11 April 2000 | url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/apr/11/guardianobituaries.paulfoot | access-date=9 April 2021 }}</ref> *[[2001]] – [[Willie Stargell]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1940) *[[2002]] – [[Pat Flaherty (racing driver)|Pat Flaherty]], American race car driver (b. 1926) * 2002 – [[Leopold Vietoris]], Austrian soldier, mathematician, and academic (b. 1891) *[[2003]] – [[Jerry Bittle]], American cartoonist (b. 1949) *[[2006]] – [[Billy Hitchcock]], American baseball player, coach, manager (b. 1916) * 2006 – [[Vilgot Sjöman]], Swedish director and screenwriter (b. 1924) *[[2007]] – [[Egon Bondy]], Czech philosopher and poet (b. 1930) * 2007 – [[Dorrit Hoffleit]], American astronomer and academic (b. 1907) *[[2009]] – [[Nick Adenhart]], American baseball player (b. 1986) *[[2010]] – [[Zoltán Varga (footballer, born 1945)|Zoltán Varga]], Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1945) *[[2011]] – [[Zakariya Rashid Hassan al-Ashiri]], Bahraini journalist (b. 1971) * 2011 – [[Sidney Lumet]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924) *[[2012]] – [[Malcolm Thomas (rugby union)|Malcolm Thomas]], Welsh rugby player and cricketer (b. 1929) * 2012 – [[Boris Parygin]], Soviet philosopher, psychologist, and author (b. 1930)<ref>[https://psyjournals.ru/journals/sps/archive/2012_n2/51684 In Memory of Boris Dmitriyevich Parygin] // Social Psychology and Society. Issues 2012. Vol. 3, no. 2 ISSN: 2221-1527 / 2311-7052</ref> *[[2013]] – [[David Hayes (sculptor)|David Hayes]], American sculptor and painter (b. 1931) * 2013 – [[Greg McCrary]], American football player (b. 1952) * 2013 – [[Mordechai Mishani]], Israeli lawyer and politician (b. 1945) * 2013 – [[McCandlish Phillips]], American journalist and author (b. 1927) * 2013 – [[Paolo Soleri]], Italian-American architect, designed the [[Cosanti]] (b. 1919) *[[2014]] – [[Gil Askey]], American trumpet player, composer, and producer (b. 1925) * 2014 – [[Chris Banks (American football)|Chris Banks]], American football player (b. 1973) * 2014 – [[Rory Ellinger]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1941) * 2014 – [[Norman Girvan]], Jamaican economist, academic, and politician (b. 1941) * 2014 – [[Aelay Narendra]], Indian politician (b. 1946) * 2014 – [[A. N. R. Robinson]], Trinbagonian politician, 3rd [[President of Trinidad and Tobago]] (b. 1926) * 2014 – [[Svetlana Velmar-Janković]], Serbian author (b. 1933) *[[2015]] – [[Paul Almond]], Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931) * 2015 – [[Margaret Rule]], British marine archaeologist (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret Rule obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/apr/16/margaret-rule |website=The Guardian |access-date=10 April 2021 |language=en |date=16 April 2015}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Nina Companeez]], French director and screenwriter (b. 1937)<ref>{{cite web |title=Nina Companeez |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f22e70c |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190829221034/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b9f22e70c |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 29, 2019 |website=BFI |access-date=10 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Alexander Dalgarno]], English physicist and academic (b. 1928) * 2015 – [[Ivan Doig]], American journalist and author (b. 1939) * 2015 – [[Tsien Tsuen-hsuin]], Chinese-American academic (b. 1909) *[[2016]] – [[Duane Clarridge]], American spy (b. 1932) * 2016 – [[Will Smith (defensive end)|Will Smith]], American football player (b. 1981) *[[2017]] – [[John Clarke (satirist)|John Clarke]], New Zealand-Australian comedian, writer, and satirist (b. 1948) *[[2019]] – [[Charles Van Doren]], American writer and editor (b. 1926)<ref>{{Cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|date=2019-04-10|title=Charles Van Doren, a Quiz Show Whiz Who Wasn't, Dies at 93|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/obituaries/charles-van-doren-dead.html|access-date=2021-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707194338/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/obituaries/charles-van-doren-dead.html|archive-date=2020-07-07|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]] (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite news |title=Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11437314 |access-date=9 April 2021 |agency=[[BBC News]] |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409111256/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-11437314|archivedate=9 April 2021|date=9 April 2021|url-status=live}}</ref> * 2021 – [[DMX]], American rapper and actor (b. 1970)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/09/arts/music/dmx-dead-earl-simmons.html|title=DMX, Top-Selling but Troubled Rapper, Dies at 50|newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 April 2021|last1=Slotnik|first1=Daniel E.}}</ref> * 2021 – [[Nikki Grahame]], British reality-TV icon (b. 1982)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/04/10/big-brother-star-nikki-grahame-has-died-age-38/amp/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2021/04/10/big-brother-star-nikki-grahame-has-died-age-38/amp/ |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Big Brother star Nikki Grahame dies, aged 38}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2021 – [[Ian Gibson (politician)|Ian Gibson]], British scientist and Labour Party politician (b. 1938)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-25|title=Ian Gibson obituary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/apr/25/ian-gibson-obituary|access-date=2021-04-26|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> * 2021 – [[Ramsey Clark]], American lawyer (b. 1927)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=2021-04-10|title=Ramsey Clark, Attorney General and Rebel With a Cause, Dies at 93|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/10/us/politics/ramsey-clark-dead.html|access-date=2021-04-26|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Dwayne Haskins]], American football player (b. 1997)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-09 |title=Steelers QB Haskins dies after being hit by car |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33706232/pittsburgh-steelers-qb-dwayne-haskins-dies-being-hit-car |access-date=2022-04-09 |website=ESPN.com |language=en}}</ref> *[[2023]] – [[Karl Berger]], German-American jazz pianist (b. 1935)<ref name="West">{{cite news |last=West |first=Michael J. |title=Jazz musician and local treasure, Karl Berger dies at 88 |url=https://www.wrti.org/arts-desk/2023-04-11/karl-berger-pianist-vibraphonist-and-avant-garde-mentor-dies-at-88 |access-date=April 15, 2023 |work=[[WRTI]] |date=April 11, 2023}}</ref> *2025 – [[Ray Shero]], American ice hockey player and executive (b. 1962)<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 9, 2025 |title=Ray Shero, longtime NHL executive, dies at 62 {{!}} NHL.com |url=https://www.nhl.com/news/ray-shero-longtime-nhl-executive-dies-at-62 |access-date=April 17, 2025 |website=[[National Hockey League]] |language=en}}</ref> <!---Please do not add non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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