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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[217]] – [[Caracalla]], Roman emperor (born 188)<ref>{{cite web |title=Caracalla {{!}} Roman emperor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caracalla |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=10 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref> * [[622]] – [[Prince Shōtoku|Shōtoku]], Japanese prince (born 572) * [[632]] – [[Charibert II]], Frankish king (born 607) * [[894]] – [[Adalelm, Count of Troyes|Adalelm]], Frankish nobleman * [[944]] – [[Wang Yanxi]], Chinese emperor * [[956]] – [[Gilbert, Duke of Burgundy|Gilbert]], Frankish nobleman * [[967]] – [[Mu'izz al-Dawla]], Buyid emir (born 915) *[[1143]] – [[John II Komnenos]], Byzantine emperor (born 1087) *[[1150]] – [[Gertrude of Babenberg, Duchess of Bohemia|Gertrude of Babenberg]], duchess of Bohemia (born 1118) *[[1321]] – [[Thomas of Tolentino]], Italian-Franciscan missionary (born c. 1255) *[[1338]] – [[Stephen Gravesend]], bishop of London *[[1364]] – [[John II of France|John II]], French king (born 1319) *[[1450]] – [[Sejong the Great]], Korean king (born 1397) *[[1461]] – [[Georg von Peuerbach]], German mathematician and astronomer (born 1423) *[[1492]] – [[Lorenzo de' Medici]], Italian ruler (born 1449) *[[1551]] – [[Oda Nobuhide]], Japanese warlord (born 1510) *[[1586]] – [[Martin Chemnitz]], Lutheran theologian and reformer (born 1522) ===1601–1900=== *[[1608]] – [[Magdalen Dacre]], English noble (born 1538) *[[1612]] – [[Anne Catherine of Brandenburg]] (born 1575) *[[1691]] – [[Carlo Rainaldi]], Italian architect, designed the [[Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto]] (born 1611) *[[1697]] – [[Niels Juel]], Norwegian-Danish admiral (born 1629) *[[1704]] – [[Hiob Ludolf]], German orientalist and philologist (born 1624) * 1704 – [[Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney]], English colonel and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (born 1641) *[[1709]] – [[Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen]], German nobleman (born 1641) *[[1725]] – [[John Wise (clergyman)|John Wise]], American minister (born 1652) *[[1735]] – [[Francis II Rákóczi]], Hungarian prince (born 1676) *[[1848]] – [[Gaetano Donizetti]], Italian composer (born 1797) *[[1860]] – [[István Széchenyi]], Hungarian statesman and reformer (born 1791)<ref>''Gróf Széchenyi István írói és hírlapi vitája Kossuth Lajossal'' [Count Stephen Széchenyi's Literary and Publicistic Debate with Louis Kossuth], ed. Gyula Viszota, 2 vols. (Budapest: Magyar Történelmi Társulat, 1927–1930).</ref> *[[1861]] – [[Elisha Otis]], American businessman, founded the [[Otis Elevator Company]] (born 1811) *[[1870]] – [[Charles Auguste de Bériot]], Belgian violinist and composer (born 1802) *[[1877]] – [[Bernardino António Gomes Jr.|Bernardino António Gomes]], Portuguese physician and naturalist (born 1806)<ref>{{cite book |last=Almeida |first=Maria Antónia Pires de |date=2014 |title=Espaços e Actores da Ciência em Portugal (XVIII-XX) |chapter=Combatendo epidemias: Bernardino António Gomes, Sousa Martins, Ricardo Jorge, Câmara Pestana, Almeida Garrett, Fernando da Silva Correia |editor1-last=Rollo |editor1-first=Maria Fernanda |editor2-last=Nunes |editor2-first=Maria de Fátima |editor3-last=Esperança Pina |editor3-first=Madalena |editor4-last=Queiroz |editor4-first=Maria Inês |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10071/12242 |language=pt |pages=309–326 |location=Lisboa |publisher=Caleidoscópio |hdl=10071/12242 |isbn=9789896582746}}</ref> *[[1894]] – [[Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay]], Indian journalist, author, and poet (born 1838) ===1901–present=== *[[1906]] – [[Auguste Deter]], German woman, first person diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]] (born 1850) *[[1919]] – [[Loránd Eötvös]], Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, [[Minister of Education (Hungary)|Hungarian Minister of Education]] (born 1848) *[[1920]] – [[Charles Griffes]], American pianist and composer (born 1884) *[[1931]] – [[Erik Axel Karlfeldt]], Swedish poet [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1864) *[[1936]] – [[Róbert Bárány]], Austrian physician and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1876) * 1936 – [[Božena Benešová]], Czech poet and novelist (born 1873) *[[1941]] – [[Marcel Prévost]], French novelist and playwright (born 1862) *[[1942]] – [[Kostas Skarvelis]], Greek guitarist and composer (born 1880) *[[1947]] – [[Olaf Frydenlund]], Norwegian target shooter (born 1862) *[[1950]] – [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], Polish dancer and choreographer (born 1890) *[[1959]] – [[Marios Makrionitis]], Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (born 1913) *[[1961]] – [[Joseph Carrodus]], Australian public servant (born 1885) *[[1962]] – [[Juan Belmonte]], Spanish bullfighter (born 1892) *[[1965]] – [[Lars Hanson]], Swedish actor (born 1886) *[[1969]] – [[Zinaida Aksentyeva]], Ukrainian astronomer (born 1900) *[[1973]] – [[Pablo Picasso]], Spanish painter and sculptor (born 1881) *[[1974]] – [[James Charles McGuigan]], Canadian cardinal (born 1894) *[[1979]] – [[Breece D'J Pancake]], American short story writer (born 1952) *[[1981]] – [[Omar Bradley]], American general (born 1893) *[[1983]] – [[Isamu Kosugi]], Japanese actor and director (born 1904) *[[1984]] – [[Pyotr Kapitsa]], Russian physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1894) *[[1985]] – [[John Frederick Coots]], American pianist and composer (born 1897) *[[1990]] – [[Ryan White]], American activist, inspired the [[Ryan White Care Act]] (born 1971) *[[1991]] – [[Dead (musician)|Per Ohlin]], Swedish musician (born 1969) *[[1992]] – [[Daniel Bovet]], Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1907) *[[1993]] – [[Marian Anderson]], American operatic singer (born 1897) *[[1994]] – [[François Rozet]], French-Canadian actor (born 1899) *[[1996]] – [[Ben Johnson (actor)|Ben Johnson]], American actor and stuntman (born 1918) * 1996 – [[León Klimovsky]], Argentinian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1906) * 1996 – [[Mick Young]], Australian politician (born 1936) *[[1997]] – [[Laura Nyro]], American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1947) *[[2000]] – [[František Šťastný]], Czech motorcycle racer (born 1927) * 2000 – [[Claire Trevor]], American actress (born 1910) *[[2002]] – [[María Félix]], Mexican actress (born 1914) * 2002 – [[Harvey Quaytman]], American painter (born 1937) *[[2004]] – [[Werner Schumacher]], German actor (born 1921) *[[2005]] – [[Onna White]], Canadian choreographer and dancer (born 1922) *[[2006]] – [[Gerard Reve]], Dutch author and poet (born 1923) *[[2007]] – [[Sol LeWitt]], American painter and sculptor (born 1928) *[[2008]] – [[Kazuo Shiraga]], Japanese painter (born 1924) *[[2009]] – [[Richard de Mille]], American Scientologist, author, investigative journalist, and psychologist (born 1922) * 2009 – [[Piotr Morawski]], Polish mountaineer (born 1976) *[[2010]] – [[Antony Flew]], English philosopher and academic (born 1923)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/7586929/Professor-Antony-Flew.html |type=Obituary |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |title=Professor Antony Flew |date=13 April 2010 |access-date=6 November 2024}}</ref> * 2010 – [[Malcolm McLaren]], English singer-songwriter (born 1946) * 2010 – [[Teddy Scholten]], Dutch singer (born 1926) *[[2011]] – [[Hedda Sterne]], Romanian-American painter and photographer (born 1910) *[[2012]] – [[Blair Kiel]], American football player and coach (born 1961) * 2012 – [[Jack Tramiel]], Polish-American businessman, founded [[Commodore International]] (born 1928) * 2012 – [[Janusz K. Zawodny]], Polish-American soldier, historian, and political scientist (born 1921) *[[2013]] – [[Mikhail Beketov]], Russian journalist (born 1958) * 2013 – [[Annette Funicello]], American actress and singer (born 1942) * 2013 – [[Sara Montiel]], Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (born 1928) * 2013 – [[José Luis Sampedro]], Spanish economist and author (born 1917) * 2013 – [[Margaret Thatcher]], English politician, first female [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (born 1925)<ref>{{cite web |title=Margaret Thatcher {{!}} Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Thatcher |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2014]] – [[Emmanuel III Delly]], Iraqi patriarch (born 1927) * 2014 – [[Karlheinz Deschner]], German author and activist (born 1924) * 2014 – [[Ivan Mercep]], New Zealand architect, designed the [[Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa|Te Papa Tongarewa Museum]] (born 1930) *[[2015]] – [[Jayakanthan]], Indian journalist and author (born 1934) * 2015 – [[Rayson Huang]], Hong Kong chemist and academic (born 1920) * 2015 – [[Sergei Lashchenko]], Ukrainian kick-boxer (born 1987) * 2015 – [[David Laventhol]], American journalist and publisher (born 1933) * 2015 – [[Jean-Claude Turcotte]], Canadian cardinal (born 1936) *[[2019]] – [[Josine Ianco-Starrels]], Romanian-born American art curator (born 1926)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-josine-iranco-starrels-los-angeles-curator-20190419-story.html|title=Josine Ianco-Starrels, curator who helped shape L.A. art scene, dies at 92|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=April 19, 2019|accessdate=April 20, 2019|author=[[Suzanne Muchnic|Muchnic, Suzanne]]}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Rick May]], American-Canadian voice actor (born 1940)<ref name="Rekindle">{{cite news|url=https://www.classesandworkshops.com/in-memory-of-rick-may/|title=Rick May – In Memoriam|date=April 8, 2020|access-date=April 13, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414112558/https://www.classesandworkshops.com/in-memory-of-rick-may/|archive-date=April 14, 2020|publisher=Rekindle School}}</ref> * 2020 – [[Abdul Momin Imambari]], Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (born 1930)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bhorerkagoj.com/2020/04/08/%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AE%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%B0-%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BE%E0%A7%9F%E0%A6%96-%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2/|title=জমিয়তের আমীর শায়খ আব্দুল মুমিন মারা গেছেন|date=8 April 2020|language=bn|work=[[Bhorer Kagoj]]}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Mimi Reinhardt]], Jewish Austrian secretary (born 1915)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-27 |title=Mimi Reinhard obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/27/mimi-reinhard-obituary |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Keith Barnes]], Welsh-Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1934)<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 April 2024 |title=Vale--Keith Barnes |url=https://www.nswrl.com.au/news/2024/04/08/vale--keith-barnes/ |access-date=8 April 2024 |website=NSW Rugby League |language=en}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Peter Higgs]], British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)<ref>{{cite news |work=The Guardian |title=Peter Higgs, physicist who proposed Higgs boson, dies aged 94 |first1=Severin |last1=Carrell |first2=Ian |last2=Sample |date=9 April 2024|access-date=10 April 2024 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Ralph Puckett]], American Army officer, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (born 1926)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=April 8, 2024 |title=Col. Ralph Puckett Jr., Belated Medal of Honor Winner, Dies at 97 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/us/col-ralph-puckett-jr-dead.html |access-date=April 10, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> * [[2025]] – [[Nelsy Cruz]], Dominican politician, governor of [[Monte Cristi Province|Monte Cristi]] (born 1982)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-09 |title=Nelsy Cruz, sister of former Mariners slugger Nelson Cruz, among dead in collapsed Dominican club |url=https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/nelsy-cruz-sister-former-mariners-slugger-nelson-cruz-dies-collapsed-dominican-nightclub/OIPYV7E4VNGGFMQMXRAEIUURSY/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=KIRO 7 News Seattle |language=en}}</ref>
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