Died on Monday, 14th April – Famous Deaths

14/04/2025

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian civil servant and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malaysia (born 1939)

Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi, also known as Pak Lah, was a Malaysian politician and civil servant who served as the fifth prime minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009. A member of UMNO, he was the party's president from 2004 to 2009 and led the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition during his premiership.

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14/04/2024

Ken Holtzman, American baseball player (born 1945)

Kenneth Dale Holtzman was an American professional baseball player and coach. He was a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1965 through 1979 for the Chicago Cubs, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, and New York Yankees.

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14/04/2023

Mark Sheehan, Irish guitarist (The Script) (born 1976)

Mark Anthony Sheehan was an Irish musician. From 1996 to 2001, he was a member of the boy band Mytown. In 2001, he co-founded and played lead guitar for pop rock band the Script, which he stayed in until his death in 2023.

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14/04/2022

Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (born 1957)

Michael Dean Bossy was a Canadian professional ice hockey player with the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League. He spent his entire NHL career, which lasted from 1977 to 1987, with the Islanders, and was a crucial part of their four consecutive Stanley Cup championships in the early 1980s.

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Ilkka Kanerva, Finnish politician (born 1948)

Ilkka Armas Mikael Kanerva was a Finnish politician and a member of the Parliament of Finland. He was born in Lokalahti, now a part of Uusikaupunki in Southwest Finland. He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2007 to 2008. Kanerva was a member of the National Coalition Party.

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Orlando Julius, Nigerian saxophonist, singer (born 1943)

Orlando Julius Aremu Olusanya Ekemode, known professionally as Orlando Julius or Orlando Julius Ekemode was a Nigerian saxophonist, singer, bandleader, and songwriter closely associated with afrobeat music.

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14/04/2021

Bernie Madoff, American mastermind of the world's largest Ponzi scheme (born 1938)

Bernard Lawrence Madoff was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange. Madoff's firm had two basic units: a stock brokerage and an asset management business; the Ponzi scheme was centered in the asset management business.

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14/04/2020

Carol D'Onofrio, American public health researcher (born 1936)

Carol D'Onofrio was an American public health researcher who was Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health. Her career focused on improving the health of underserved communities, in particular through curtailing the use of tobacco and alcohol.

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14/04/2019

Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (born1935)

Berit Elisabet "Bibi" Andersson was a Swedish actress, best known for her frequent collaborations with filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. She received numerous accolades for her work, including four Guldbagge Awards, and Best Actress Awards from both the Cannes and Berlin film festivals.

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14/04/2015

Klaus Bednarz, German journalist and author (born 1942)

Klaus Bednarz was a German journalist and writer.

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Mark Reeds, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1960)

Mark Allen Reeds was a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and a former player who had played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1981 and 1989. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, but grew up in Burlington, Ontario.

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Percy Sledge, American singer (born 1940)

Percy Tyrone Sledge was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer. He is best known for the song "When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, gold-certified disc from the RIAA.

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Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal and theologian (born 1921)

Roberto Tucci, SJ was an Italian Catholic theologian, journalist, and Jesuit priest. He played an important role at the Second Vatican Council and organized foreign trips taken by Pope John Paul II. He was made a cardinal in 2001, and continued to prefer being addressed as "Padre Tucci".

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14/04/2014

Nina Cassian, Romanian poet and critic (born 1924)

Nina Cassian was a Romanian poet, children's book writer, translator, journalist, accomplished pianist and composer, and film critic. She spent the first sixty years of her life in Romania until she moved to the United States in 1985 for a teaching job. A few years later Cassian was granted permanent asylum and New York City became her home for the rest of her life. Much of her work was published both in Romanian and in English.

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Crad Kilodney, American-Canadian author (born 1948)

Crad Kilodney was the pen name of Lou Trifon, an American-born Canadian writer who lived in Toronto, Ontario. He was best known for selling his self-published books on the streets of the city between about 1978 and 1995.

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Wally Olins, English businessman and academic (born 1930)

Wallace Olins CBE was a British practitioner of corporate identity and branding. He co-founded Wolff Olins and Saffron Brand Consultants and was the chairman of both. Olins advised many of the world's leading organisations on identity, branding, communication and related matters including 3i, Akzo Nobel, Repsol, Q8, The Portuguese Tourist Board, BT, Renault, Volkswagen, Tata and Lloyd's of London. He acted as advisor both to McKinsey and Bain. He pioneered the concept of the nation as a brand and has worked on branding projects for a number of cities and countries, including London, Mauritius, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, and Lithuania.

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Mick Staton, American soldier and politician (born 1940)

David Michael Staton, better known as Mick Staton was an American banker and politician. He was a Republican congressman from West Virginia, serving one term in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1981 to 1983.

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14/04/2013

Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (born 1937)

Efraim R. "Efi" Arazi was an Israeli technology pioneer and businessman.

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Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (born 1927)

Sir Colin Rex Davis was an English conductor, known for his association with the London Symphony Orchestra, having first conducted it in 1959. His repertoire was broad, but among the composers with whom he was particularly associated were Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Sibelius, Stravinsky and Tippett.

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R. P. Goenka, Indian businessman, founded RPG Group (born 1930)

Rama Prasad Goenka was the founder and chairman Emeritus of the RPG Group, a multi-sector Indian industrial conglomerate. Born in 1930, he was the eldest son of Keshav Prasad Goenka and grandson of Badridas Goenka, the first Indian to be appointed Chairman of the Imperial Bank of India. His two younger brothers were Jagdish Prasad and Gouri Prasad. On Keshav Prasad Goenka's death, his businesses were split between the three brothers. Rama Prasad Goenka, established RPG Enterprises in 1979.

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George Jackson, American singer-songwriter (born 1945)

George Henry Jackson was an American blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll/rock and soul singer-songwriter. His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter: he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musicians, including "Down Home Blues", "One Bad Apple", "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "The Only Way Is Up". As a southern soul singer he recorded fifteen singles between 1963 and 1985, with some success.

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Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (born 1915)

Armando Villanueva del Campo was a Peruvian politician who was the leader of the Peruvian American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. Born in Lima, his parents were Pedro Villanueva Urquijo, a gynecologist in the city, and Carmen Rosa Portal del Campo. His only legitimate sibling was his older brother Ing. Pedro Villanueva del Campo Portal.

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Charlie Wilson, American politician (born 1943)

Charles A. Wilson Jr. was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative for Ohio's 6th congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.

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14/04/2012

Émile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1919)

Joseph Émile Alcide "Butch" Bouchard was a Canadian ice hockey player who played defence with the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League from 1941 to 1956. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, won four Stanley Cups, was captain of the Canadiens for eight years, and was voted to the NHL All-Star team four times. Although having a reputation as a clean player, he was also one of the strongest players and best body-checkers of his era. He excelled as a defensive defenceman, had superior passing skills, and was known for his leadership and mentoring of younger players. In his early years in the NHL, Bouchard, among other players, made a major contribution to reinvigorating what was at the time an ailing Canadien franchise.

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Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (born 1924)

Jonathan Frid was a Canadian actor, best known for his role as vampire Barnabas Collins on the gothic television soap opera Dark Shadows. The introduction in 1967 of Frid's reluctant, guilt-ridden vampire caused the floundering daytime drama to soar to 20 million daily viewers. His watershed portrayal has been cited as a key influence on contemporary genre film and television series such as Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries.

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Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (born 1986)

Piermario Morosini was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder. On 14 April 2012, during a match between Pescara and Livorno, Morosini suffered a fatal cardiac arrest on the pitch.

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14/04/2011

Jean Gratton, Canadian Roman Catholic bishop (born 1924)

Jean Gratton was the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Mont-Laurier, Canada.

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14/04/2010

Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian and scholar (born 1932)

Dr.Israr Ahmad was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, theologian and orator. He developed a following in Pakistan and the rest of South Asia and also among some South Asian Muslims in the Middle East, Western Europe, and North America. He founded Tanzeem-e-Islami and also served as a member of the National Assembly from 1981 to 1982.

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Alice Miller, Polish-French psychologist and author (born 1923)

Alice Miller was a Polish-Swiss psychologist, psychoanalyst, and philosopher noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages. She was also a noted public intellectual. Her 1979 book The Drama of the Gifted Child caused a sensation and became an international bestseller upon the English publication in 1981. Her views on the consequences of child abuse became highly influential in the fields of child development, psychotherapy, and trauma. In her books she departed from psychoanalysis, charging it with being similar to the poisonous pedagogies.

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Peter Steele, American singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1962)

Peter Thomas Ratajczyk, known professionally as Peter Steele, was an American musician who was the lead vocalist, bassist, and composer of the gothic metal band Type O Negative. Before forming Type O Negative, Steele had formed the heavy metal band Fallout and the thrash metal band Carnivore.

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14/04/2009

Maurice Druon, French author (born 1918)

Maurice Druon was a French novelist and a member of the Académie Française, of which he served as "Perpetual Secretary" (chairman) between 1985 and 1999.

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14/04/2008

Tommy Holmes, American baseball player and manager (born 1917)

Thomas Francis Holmes was an American right and center fielder and manager in Major League Baseball who played nearly his entire career for the Boston Braves. He hit over .300 lifetime (.302) and every year from 1944 through 1948, peaking with a .352 mark in 1945 when he finished second in the National League batting race and was runner-up for the NL's Most Valuable Player Award.

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Ollie Johnston, American animator and voice actor (born 1912)

Oliver Martin Johnston Jr. was an American motion picture animator. He was one of Disney's Nine Old Men, and the last surviving at the time of his death from natural causes. He was recognized by The Walt Disney Company with its Disney Legend Award in 1989. His work was recognized with the National Medal of Arts in 2005.

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14/04/2007

June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist (born 1924)

June Rose Callwood, was a Canadian journalist, author and social activist. She wrote articles and columns written for national newspapers and magazines, including Maclean's and Chatelaine. She also founded a number of charities.

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Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (born 1930)

Donald Tai Loy Ho was an American traditional pop musician, singer, and entertainer. He is best known for the song "Tiny Bubbles" from the 1966 album of the same name.

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René Rémond, French historian and economist (born 1918)

René Rémond was a French historian, political scientist and political economist.

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14/04/2006

Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (born 1936)

Mahmut Bakalli[a] was a Kosovo Albanian politician.

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14/04/2004

Micheline Charest, English-Canadian television producer, co-founded the Cookie Jar Group (born 1953)

Micheline Charest was a British-born Canadian television producer and founder and former co-chairman of CINAR. In 1997, Charest was ranked 19th in The Hollywood Reporter's list of the 50 most powerful women in the entertainment industry.

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14/04/2003

Jyrki Otila, Finnish politician (born 1941)

Jyrki Ilari Otila was a Finnish quiz show judge and a member of the European Parliament.

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14/04/2001

Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (born 1939)

James Curran Baxter was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a left half. He is generally regarded as one of the country's greatest ever players. He was born, educated and started his career in Fife, but his peak playing years were in the early 1960s with the Glasgow club Rangers, whom he helped to win ten trophies between 1960 and 1965, and where he became known as "Slim Jim". However, he started drinking heavily during a four-month layoff caused by a leg fracture in December 1964, his fitness suffered, and he was transferred to Sunderland in summer 1965. In two and a half years at Sunderland he played 98 games and scored 12 goals, becoming known for drinking himself unconscious the night before a match and playing well the next day. At the end of 1967 Sunderland transferred him to Nottingham Forest, who gave him a free transfer back to Rangers in 1969 after 50 games. After a further year with Rangers Baxter retired from football in 1970, at the age of 31.

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Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1927)

Hiroshi Teshigahara was a Japanese avant-garde filmmaker and artist from the Japanese New Wave era. He is best known for the 1964 film Woman in the Dunes. He is also known for directing other titles such as The Face of Another (1966), Natsu no Heitai, and Pitfall (1962), which was Teshigahara's directorial debut. He has been called "one of the most acclaimed Japanese directors of all time". Teshigahara is the first person of Asian descent to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, accomplishing this in 1964 for his work on Woman in the Dunes. Apart from being a filmmaker, Teshigahara also practiced other arts, such as calligraphy, pottery, painting, opera and ikebana.

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14/04/2000

Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (born 1962)

Phillip Walter Katz was a computer programmer best known as the co-creator of the ZIP file format for data compression, and the author of PKZIP, a program for creating zip files that ran under DOS.

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August R. Lindt, Swiss lawyer and politician (born 1905)

Dr. August Rudolf Lindt, also known as Auguste R. Lindt, was a Swiss lawyer and diplomat. He served as Chairman of UNICEF in 1953 and as United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1956 to 1960.

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Wilf Mannion, English footballer (born 1918)

Wilfrid James Mannion was an English professional footballer who played as an inside forward, making over 350 senior appearances for Middlesbrough. He also played international football for England. With his blonde hair, he was nicknamed "The Golden Boy".

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14/04/1999

Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (born 1911)

Ellen Hansen Corby was an American actress and screenwriter. She performed in over 200 films and television series from the 1930s to the 1990s. She played the role of Esther "Grandma" Walton on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards. She was also nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for her performance as Aunt Trina in I Remember Mama (1948).

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Anthony Newley, English singer-songwriter and actor (born 1931)

Anthony Newley was an English actor, director, comedian, singer, and composer. A "latter-day British Al Jolson", he achieved widespread success in song, and on stage and screen. "One of Broadway's greatest leading men", from 1959 to 1962 he scored a dozen entries on the UK Singles Chart, including two number one hits. Newley won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "What Kind of Fool Am I?", sung by Sammy Davis Jr., and wrote "Feeling Good", which became a signature hit for Nina Simone. His songs have been sung by a wide variety of singers including Fiona Apple, Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, Michael Bublé, and Mariah Carey.

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Bill Wendell, American television announcer (born 1924)

William Joseph Wenzel Jr., known as Bill Wendell, was an NBC television staff announcer for almost his entire professional career.

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14/04/1995

Burl Ives, American actor, folk singer, and writer (born 1909)

Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.

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14/04/1994

Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (born 1897)

Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, was a Pakistani organic chemist specialising in natural products, and a professor of chemistry at the University of Karachi.

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14/04/1992

Irene Greenwood, Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (born 1898)

Irene Greenwood was an Australian radio broadcaster and feminist and peace activist.

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14/04/1991

Randolfo Pacciardi, centre-left Italian politician (born 1899)

Randolfo Pacciardi was an Italian politician.

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14/04/1990

Thurston Harris, American singer (born 1931)

Thurston Harris was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his 1957 hit "Little Bitty Pretty One".

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Olabisi Onabanjo, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ogun State (born 1927)

Chief Victor Olabisi Onabanjo was a Nigerian journalist and politician who served as governor of Ogun State from October 1979 to December 1983, during the Nigerian Second Republic. He was of Ijebu extraction.

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14/04/1986

Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist and philosopher (born 1908)

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.

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14/04/1983

Pete Farndon, English bassist (The Pretenders) (born 1952)

Peter Granville Farndon was an English bassist and founding member of the rock band the Pretenders. In addition to playing bass with the group, Farndon sang backup vocals and co-wrote two of the group's songs, before a drug problem resulted in his dismissal from the group in 1982 and his death a year later.

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Gianni Rodari, Italian journalist and author (born 1920)

Giovanni Francesco "Gianni" Rodari was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his works of children's literature, notably Il romanzo di Cipollino. For his lasting contribution as a children's author, he received the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1970. He is considered as Italy's most important 20th-century children's author and his books have been translated into many languages, though few have been published in English.

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Ben Dunne, founder of Dunnes Stores (born 1908)

Bernard Dunne was an Irish businessman who was the founder and chairman of Dunnes Stores.

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14/04/1978

Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (born 1915)

Joseph Lowell Gordon, nicknamed "Flash", in reference to the comic-book character Flash Gordon, was an American second baseman, coach and manager in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians from 1938 to 1950. He was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009.

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F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (born 1895)

Frank Raymond "F. R." Leavis was an English literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He taught for much of his career at Downing College, Cambridge, and later at the University of York.

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14/04/1976

José Revueltas, Mexican author and activist (born 1914)

José Revueltas Sánchez was a Mexican writer, essayist, and political activist. He was part of an important artistic family that included his siblings Silvestre (composer), Fermín (painter) and Rosaura (actress).

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14/04/1975

Günter Dyhrenfurth, German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (born 1886)

Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth was a German-born, German and Swiss mountaineer, geologist and Himalayan explorer. He won a gold medal in alpinism at the 1936 Summer Olympics, the third and final time the award was offered.

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Fredric March, American actor (born 1897)

Fredric March was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. As a performer he was known for his versatility. He received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, two Tony Awards, two Volpi Cups, the Silver Bear, as well as nominations for three BAFTA Awards and three Emmy Awards.

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14/04/1969

Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, Spanish actress (born 1900)

Matilde Muñoz Sampedro was a Spanish film actress whose career stretched from the 1940s through the 1960s.

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14/04/1968

Al Benton, American baseball player (born 1911)

John Alton Benton was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Cleveland Indians, and Boston Red Sox. The right-hander was listed as 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) tall and 215 pounds (98 kg).

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14/04/1964

Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (born 1876)

Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva-Ehrenfest was a Russian-Dutch mathematician and physicist who made contributions to the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics with her husband Paul Ehrenfest.

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Rachel Carson, American biologist and author (born 1907)

Rachel Louise Carson was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.

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14/04/1963

Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian monk and historian (born 1893)

Rahul Sankrityayan was an Indian author, essayist, playwright, historian, and scholar of Buddhism who wrote in Hindi and Bhojpuri. Known as the "father of Hindi travel literature", Sankrityayan played a pivotal role in giving Hindi travelogue a literary form. He was one of the most widely travelled scholars of India, spending forty-five years away from his home, exploring regions such as Russia, Tibet, China, and Central Asia.

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14/04/1962

M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and scholar (born 1860)

Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, also referred to by his initials, MV, was an Indian civil engineer, administrator, and statesman, who served as the 19th Dewan of Mysore from 1912 to 1918.

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14/04/1951

Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1881)

Charles Herbert Christie and Alfred Ernest Christie were Canadian motion picture entrepreneurs.

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14/04/1950

Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (born 1879)

Ramana Maharshi was an Indian Hindu sage and jivanmukta. He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

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14/04/1943

Yakov Dzhugashvili, Georgian-Russian lieutenant (born 1907)

Yakov Iosifovich Dzhugashvili was the eldest son of Joseph Stalin, and the only child of Stalin's first wife, Kato Svanidze, who died nine months after his birth.

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14/04/1938

Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (born 1893)

Gillis Emanuel Grafström was a Swedish figure skater. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He won three successive Olympic gold medals in Men's Figure Skating as well as an Olympic silver medal in the same event in 1932, and three World Championships. Grafström is one of the few athletes who have competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games. He and Eddie Eagan are the only athletes to have won gold medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, although Eagan remains the only one to have managed the feat in different disciplines. He is one of the oldest figure skating Olympic champions.

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14/04/1935

Emmy Noether, German-American mathematician and academic (born 1882)

Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's first and second theorems, which are fundamental in mathematical physics. Noether was described by Pavel Alexandrov, Albert Einstein, Jean Dieudonné, Hermann Weyl, and Norbert Wiener as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. As one of the leading mathematicians of her time, she developed theories of rings, fields, and algebras. In physics, Noether's theorem explains the connection between symmetry and conservation laws.

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14/04/1931

Richard Armstedt, German philologist, historian, and educator (born 1851)

Richard Armstedt was a German philologist, educator, and historian.

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14/04/1930

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Georgian-Russian actor, playwright, and poet (born 1893)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. He co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and wrote such poems as A Cloud in Trousers (1915) and Backbone Flute (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.

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14/04/1925

John Singer Sargent, American painter (born 1856)

John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Belle Époque and Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, Capri, Spain, the Middle East, Montana, Maine, and Florida.

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14/04/1919

Auguste-Réal Angers, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1837)

Sir Auguste-Réal Angers was a Canadian judge and parliamentarian, holding seats both as a member of the House of Commons of Canada, and as a Senator. He was born in 1837 probably in Quebec City and died in Westmount, Quebec, in 1919.

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14/04/1917

L. L. Zamenhof, Polish physician and linguist, created Esperanto (born 1859)

L. L. Zamenhof was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language.

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14/04/1916

Gina Krog, Norwegian suffragist and women's rights activist (born 1847)

Jørgine Anna Sverdrup "Gina" Krog was a Norwegian suffragist, teacher, liberal politician, writer and editor, and a major figure in liberal feminism in Scandinavia.

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14/04/1914

Hubert Bland, English activist, co-founded the Fabian Society (born 1855)

Hubert Bland was an English author. He was known for being an infamous libertine, a journalist, an early English socialist, and one of the founders of the Fabian Society. He was the husband of Edith Nesbit.

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14/04/1912

Henri Brisson, French politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (born 1835)

Eugène Henri Brisson was a French statesman, who was twice Prime Minister of France, between 1885–1886 and in 1898.

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14/04/1911

Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist (born 1880)

Adrian "Addie" Joss, nicknamed "the Human Hairpin", was an American professional baseball pitcher. He pitched for the Cleveland Bronchos of Major League Baseball, later known as the Naps, between 1902 and 1910. Joss, who was 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg), pitched the fourth perfect game in baseball history. His 1.89 career earned run average (ERA) is the second-lowest in MLB history, behind Ed Walsh, while his career WHIP of 0.968 is the lowest of all-time.

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Henri Elzéar Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (born 1836)

Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau, was a Canadian jurist and the fourth Chief Justice of Canada.

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14/04/1910

Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter and sculptor (born 1856)

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel was a Russian painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. A prolific and innovative master in various media such as painting, drawing, decorative sculpture, and theatrical art, Vrubel is generally characterized as one of the most important artists in Russian symbolist tradition and a pioneering figure of Modernist art.

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14/04/1888

Emil Czyrniański, Polish chemist (born 1824)

Emilian Czyrniański was a Polish chemist of Lemko descent, science writer, rector of the Jagiellonian University and co-founder of the Polish Academy of Learning. He is responsible for developing chemical nomenclature in Polish. One of his grandsons was the highly influential political activist and writer, Józef Retinger.

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14/04/1886

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, Dutch novelist (born 1812)

Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint was a Dutch novelist.

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14/04/1864

Charles Lot Church, American-Canadian politician (born 1777)

Charles Lot Church was a political figure in Nova Scotia. He represented Lunenburg County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1820 to 1830.

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14/04/1843

Joseph Lanner, Austrian violinist and composer (born 1801)

Joseph Lanner was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake. He was just as famous as his friend and musical rival Johann Strauss I, who was better known outside of Austria in their day because of his concert tours abroad, in particular to France and England.

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14/04/1792

Maximilian Hell, Slovak-Hungarian astronomer and priest (born 1720)

Maximilian Hell was an astronomer and ordained Jesuit priest from the Kingdom of Hungary. The lunar crater Hell is named after him.

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14/04/1785

William Whitehead, English poet and playwright (born 1715)

William Whitehead was an English poet and playwright. He became Poet Laureate in December 1757 after Thomas Gray declined the position.

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14/04/1759

George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer (born 1685)

George Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti.

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14/04/1740

Lady Catherine Jones, English philanthropist (born 1672)

Lady Catherine Jones was an English philanthropist, interested in women's rights and education, who chose to be buried with her long-time friend, Mary Kendall, inside Westminster Abbey.

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14/04/1721

Michel Chamillart, French politician, Controller-General of Finances (born 1652)

Michel Chamillart or Chamillard was a French statesman, a minister of King Louis XIV of France.

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14/04/1682

Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (born 1620)

Avvakum Petrov was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. His autobiography and letters to the tsar and other Old Believers such as Feodosia Morozova are considered masterpieces of 17th-century Russian literature.

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14/04/1662

William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (born 1582)

William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele was an English nobleman and politician. He was a leading critic of Charles I's rule during the 1620s and 1630s. He was known also for his involvement in several companies for setting up overseas colonies.

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14/04/1649

Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte, crypto-Jewish martyr

Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte was a Crypto-Jewish martyr. Born in Spain, Treviño fled to New Spain at around age 20. There he practiced Judaism secretly until his discovery and execution. His defiance and refusal to accept Catholicism has made him an important figure in studies of early Jews in Latin America, and he is regarded as one of the best-known victims of the Spanish Inquisition.

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14/04/1609

Gasparo da Salò, Italian violin maker (born 1540)

Gasparo da Salò is the name given to Gasparo Bertolotti, one of the earliest violin makers and an expert double bass player. Around 80 of his instruments are known to have survived to the present day: violins, alto and tenor violas, viols, violones and double basses, violas designed with only a pair of corners, and ceteras.

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14/04/1599

Henry Wallop, English politician (born 1540)

Sir Henry Wallop was an English statesman.

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14/04/1587

Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland (born 1548)

Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland, 14th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG was the son of Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, whose titles he inherited in 1563.

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14/04/1578

James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, English husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1534)

James Hepburn, 1st Duke of Orkney and 4th Earl of Bothwell, better known simply as Lord Bothwell, was the third husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. He was accused of the murder of Mary's second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, a charge of which he was acquitted. His marriage to Mary was controversial and divided the country; when he fled the growing rebellion to Norway, he was arrested and lived the rest of his life imprisoned in Denmark.

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14/04/1574

Louis of Nassau (born 1538)

Louis of Nassau was a Dutch nobleman, the third son of William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen and Juliana of Stolberg, and the younger brother of Prince William of Orange Nassau.

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14/04/1488

Girolamo Riario, Lord of Imola and Forli (born 1443)

Girolamo Riario was Lord of Imola and Count of Forlì. He served as Captain General of the Church under his uncle Pope Sixtus IV. He was one of the organisers of the failed 1478 Pazzi conspiracy against the Medici family, the rulers of Florence, and was assassinated 10 years later by members of the Forlivese Orsi family.

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14/04/1480

Thomas de Spens, Scottish statesman and prelate (born c. 1415)

Thomas Spens [de Spens], Scottish statesman and prelate, received his education at Edinburgh, was the second son of John de Spens, custodian of Prince James of Scotland, and of Lady Isabel Wemyss.

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14/04/1471

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English nobleman, known as "the Kingmaker" (born 1428)

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury,, known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, landowner of the House of Neville fortune and military commander. The eldest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, he became Earl of Warwick through marriage, and was the wealthiest and most powerful English peer of his age, with political connections that went beyond the country's borders. One of the leaders in the Wars of the Roses, originally on the Yorkist side but later switching to the Lancastrian side, he was instrumental in the deposition of two kings, which led to his epithet of "Kingmaker".

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John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (born 1431)

John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu was a major magnate of fifteenth-century England. He was a younger son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and the younger brother of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the "Kingmaker".

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14/04/1433

Lidwina, Dutch saint (born 1380)

Lidwina was a Dutch mystic who is honored as a saint by the Catholic Church. She is the patroness saint of the town of Schiedam, of chronic pain, and of ice skating.

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14/04/1424

Lucia Visconti, English countess (born 1372)

Lucia Visconti was a Milanese aristocrat who was the Countess of Kent by marriage from 1407 to 1424. She was one of fifteen legitimate children of Bernabò Visconti, who, along with his brother Galeazzo, was Lord of Milan. Her father negotiated for his infant daughter to marry Louis II of Anjou but Bernabò was deposed and the negotiations dropped. As a teenager, it was then intended that she marry the English noble Henry Bolingbroke, whom she had met as a girl, but after he was banished to France, the marriage negotiations were suspended. She was briefly wedded in 1399 to Frederick IV of Thuringia, the son of Landgrave Balthasar, before the marriage was annulled.

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14/04/1345

Richard de Bury, English bishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of The United Kingdom (born 1287)

Richard de Bury, also known as Richard Aungerville or Aungervyle, was an English priest, teacher, bishop, writer, and bibliophile. He was a patron of learning and one of the first English collectors of books. He is chiefly remembered for his Philobiblon, written to inculcate in the clergy the pursuit of learning and the love of books. The Philobiblon is considered one of the earliest books to discuss librarianship in-depth. Completed shortly before de Bury's death in 1345, the book wasn't published until 1473, and this "little treatise" as he described it, has been regularly reprinted in every century following.

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14/04/1322

Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, English soldier and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1275)

Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere was an English soldier, diplomat, member of parliament, landowner and nobleman. He was the son and heir of Sir Gunselm de Badlesmere and Joan FitzBernard. He fought in the English army both in France and Scotland during the later years of the reign of Edward I of England and the earlier part of the reign of Edward II of England. He was executed after participating in an unsuccessful rebellion led by Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster.

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14/04/1279

Bolesław the Pious, Duke of Greater Poland (born 1224)

Bolesław the Pious was a Duke of Greater Poland during 1239–1247, Duke of Kalisz during 1247–1249, Duke of Gniezno during 1249–1250, Duke of Gniezno-Kalisz during 1253–1257, Duke of the whole of Greater Poland and Poznań during 1257–1273, in 1261 ruler over Ląd, regent of the Duchies of Mazovia, Płock and Czersk during 1262–1264, ruler over Bydgoszcz during 1268–1273, Duke of Inowrocław during 1271–1273, and Duke of Gniezno-Kalisz from 1273 until his death.

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14/04/1132

Mstislav I of Kiev (born 1076)

Mstislav I Vladimirovich Monomakh, also known as Mstislav the Great, was Grand Prince of Kiev from 1125 until his death in 1132. After his death, the state began to quickly disintegrate into rival principalities.

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14/04/1099

Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht (born before 1040)

Conrad was bishop of Utrecht between 1076 and 1099.

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14/04/1070

Gerard, Duke of Lorraine (born c. 1030)

Gerard, also known as Gerard the Wonderful, was a Lotharingian nobleman. He was the count of Metz and Châtenois from 1047 to 1048, when his brother Duke Adalbert resigned them to him upon his becoming the Duke of Upper Lorraine. On Adalbert's death the next year, Gerard became duke, a position that he held until his death. In contemporary documents, he is called Gerard of Alsace, Gerard of Chatenoy, or Gerard of Flanders.

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14/04/0911

Pope Sergius III, pope of the Roman Catholic Church

911 (CMXI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.

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