Died on Saturday, 5th April – Famous Deaths

05/04/2024

C. J. Snare, American musician and songwriter (born 1959)

Carl Jeffrey Snare was an American singer best known for being the frontman and founding member of the hard rock/glam metal band FireHouse.

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05/04/2022

Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (born 1919)

Nehemiah Persoff was an American actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and theatre productions, and also performed as a voice artist in a career spanning 55 years.

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Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwanese actor (born 1943)

Jimmy Wang Yu was a Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. Initially a contract player for Shaw Brothers, he rose to fame for his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) and its sequels, and was one of the first major stars of martial arts and wuxia cinema. At the height of his fame in the 1970s, he was the highest-paid martial arts actor in the world. According to The New York Times, Wang was "the biggest star of Asian martial arts cinema until the emergence of Bruce Lee."

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05/04/2021

Paul Ritter, English actor (born 1966)

Simon Paul Adams, known professionally as Paul Ritter, was an English actor. He had roles in films including Son of Rambow (2007), Quantum of Solace (2008), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), The Eagle (2011), and Operation Mincemeat (2021), as well as television programmes including Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020), Vera (2011–2013), The Hollow Crown (2012), The Last Kingdom (2015), Chernobyl (2019), Belgravia (2020) and Resistance.

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05/04/2019

Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

Sydney Brenner was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology, and founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, United States.

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05/04/2018

Isao Takahata, Japanese director (born 1935)

Isao Takahata was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films.

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05/04/2017

Attilio Benfatto, Italian cyclist (born 1943)

Attilio Benfatto was an Italian professional road cyclist. He most notably won two stages of the Giro d'Italia. Throughout his career, he competed in eight editions of the Giro d'Italia and two editions of the Tour de France. His best placing was 25th overall in the 1969 Giro d'Italia.

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Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (born 1929)

Arthur Bernard Bisguier was an American chess player, chess promoter, and writer who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

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Paul G. Comba, Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer (born 1926)

Paul G. Comba was an Italian-American computer scientist, an amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

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Makoto Ōoka, Japanese poet and literary critic (born 1931)

Makoto Ōoka was a Japanese poet and literary critic. He pioneered the collaborative poetic form renshi in the 1990s, in which he has collaborated with such well-known literary figures as Charles Tomlinson, James Lasdun, Joseph Stanton, Shuntarō Tanikawa and Mikirō Sasaki.

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Paul O'Neill, American rock composer and producer (born 1956)

Paul O'Neill was an American composer, lyricist, record producer, and guitarist. He was the producer of the progressive metal band Savatage, and the founder of Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

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Tim Parnell, British race car driver (born 1932)

Reginald Harold Haslam "Tim" Parnell Jr. was a British racing driver from England. He was the son of Reg Parnell, another racing driver.

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Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (born 1947)

Amelio "Memè" Perlini was an Italian actor and film director. His directorial debut, Italian Postcards, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

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Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (born 1942)

Atanase Sciotnic, also listed as Atanasie, was a Romanian sprint canoeist. He took part in the two-man and four man events at most major competitions between 1963 and 1974 and won two Olympic and nine world championships medals, including four gold medals.

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Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (born 1958)

Ilkka Antero Jouko Sinisalo was a Finnish professional ice hockey forward who played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota North Stars and Los Angeles Kings. Later he was a scout for the Flyers.

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05/04/2016

Koço Kasapoğlu, Turkish footballer (born 1936)

Koço Kasapoğlu, also known as Yorgo or Kostas Kasapoğlu, was a Greek-Turkish football player and manager. A forward, throughout his career he was also nicknamed penaltı kralı because he scored 500 of the 501 penalties he took in his career and is considered the best penalty taker in Turkish football history.

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05/04/2015

Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (born 1949)

Fredric Sheldon Brandt was an American physician, researcher, lecturer, author, and radio host specializing in cosmetic dermatology. Among the first to use botulinum toxin ("botox") and fillers, Brandt was noted for his role in the FDA approval of numerous fillers and botulinum toxins for cosmetic use in the United States.

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Juan Carlos Cáceres, Argentinian singer and pianist (born 1936)

Juan Carlos Cáceres was an Argentine musician.

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05/04/2014

Alan Davie, Scottish saxophonist and painter (born 1920)

James Alan Davie was a Scottish painter and musician.

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Mariano Díaz, Spanish cyclist (born 1939)

Mariano Díaz Díaz was a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. In 1967, he won a stage of the 1967 Vuelta a España, and also won the mountains classification. He also competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (born 1927)

Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction. He was also a prominent environmental activist.

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John Pinette, American comedian (born 1964)

John Paul Pinette was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and Broadway performer. He toured the comedy club circuit beginning in the 1980s and appeared in cinema and on television. Besides stand-up, Pinette did various impressions, among them Michael Jackson, The Chipmunks, Elvis Presley, Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, Hervé Villechaize, an Ewok, actor Marlon Brando, as well as a range of regional accents. He occasionally sang in his stand-up routines, working in songs such as "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz, "Will You Be There" from Free Willy, and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".

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José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director, and producer (born 1947)

José Wilker Almeida was a Brazilian film, stage, and television actor and director. He gained fame in telenovelas such as Roque Santeiro (1985), but became internationally known for his role as Vadinho, the husband who returns from the dead to tempt Sônia Braga's character in the film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976).

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05/04/2013

Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (born 1921)

Regina Bianchi was an Italian stage and film actress.

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Piero de Palma, Italian tenor and actor (born 1924)

Piero de Palma was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with comprimario roles.

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Nikolaos Pappas, Greek Navy admiral (born 1930)

Nikolaos Pappas was a Hellenic Navy admiral who, as commander of the destroyer Velos, played a major part in the abortive rebellion of the Navy in May 1973 against the ruling military junta. After the restoration of democracy he served as chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff in 1982–1986 and Minister for Mercantile Marine in 1989–1990.

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05/04/2012

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German designer (born 1935)

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, also known by the nickname "Butzi", was a German-Austrian designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911. He was the son of Ferry Porsche, and the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche.

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Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, Dominican Republican politician military officer (born 1921)

Pedro Bartolomé Benoit Vanderhorst was a politician and military officer from the Dominican Republic. He served as the 7th provisional president of the Dominican Republic from 1 May until 7 May 1965. He was also a member of the Revolutionary Committee, which ruled the country for about few hours on 25 April 1965.

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Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (born 1923)

James Charles Marshall known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud, was an English businessman and pioneer of guitar amplification. His company, Marshall Amplification, founded in 1962, has created equipment that is used by some of the biggest names in rock music, producing amplifiers with an iconic status.

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Barney McKenna, Irish musician (born 1939)

Bernard Noël McKenna, known as Barney McKenna or Banjo Barney, was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He is regarded as a major figure in the development of the tenor banjo in Irish traditional music, and is widely credited with establishing GDAE tuning as the instrument's standard tuning in the tradition.

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Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawian economist and politician, 3rd President of Malawi (born 1934)

Bingu wa Mutharika was a Malawian politician and economist who served as the third president of Malawi from 2004 until his death in 2012. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he served as the party's president from 2005 to 2012, and was also the eighth chairperson of the African Union from 2010 to 2011.

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05/04/2011

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.

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Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician (born 1937)

Ange-Félix Patassé was a Central African politician who was president of the Central African Republic from 1993 until 2003, when he was deposed by the rebel leader François Bozizé in the 2003 coup d'état. Patassé was the first president in the CAR's history to be chosen in what was generally regarded as a fairly democratic election (1993) in that it was brought about by donor pressure on President André Kolingba and assisted by the United Nations Electoral Assistance Unit.

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05/04/2010

Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (born 1935)

Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov was a Soviet cosmonaut and an engineer who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.

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05/04/2009

I. J. Good, British mathematician (born 1916)

Irving John Good was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Good moved to the United States where he was a professor at Virginia Tech.

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05/04/2008

Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (born 1923)

Charlton Heston was an American actor. He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, science-fiction films, and action films. He won an Academy Award in addition to earning nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and three Primetime Emmy Awards. He won numerous honorary accolades including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1978, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1967, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1971, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

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05/04/2007

Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (born 1923)

Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter, was a Swedish author of books for children and young adults, which were often written in magical and mystical tone. She has written almost forty books, with many of her characters presented in short series of three or four books. For her lasting contribution to children's literature, she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing in 1974.

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Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (born 1908)

Leela Majumdar was an Indian Bengali-language writer.

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Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (born 1922)

Werner Maser was a German historian, journalist and professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Maser was the first historian to claim that the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.

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Mark St. John, American guitarist (born 1956)

Mark Leslie Norton, better known as Mark St. John, was an American guitarist best known for his brief stint with the hard rock band Kiss from April to November 1984. His work can be heard on the band's 1984 album Animalize and their 2023 live album Off the Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, NY. After leaving Kiss, he co-founded the band White Tiger.

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Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (born 1912)

Thomas Stoltz Harvey was an American pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. Harvey afterwards preserved Einstein's brain on the condition that it would be studied for scientific purposes.

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05/04/2006

Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (born 1927)

Allan Kaprow was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings — some 200 of them — evolved over the years. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimately scaled pieces for one or several players, devoted to the study of normal human activity in a way congruent to ordinary life. Fluxus, performance art, and installation art were, in turn, influenced by his work.

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Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American pop and country singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (born 1958)

Yevgeny Alekseyevich Seredin was a Russian swimmer who competed in the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980, he won a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley relay and placed fifth in the individual 100 m butterfly event. He held eight Soviet titles: in the 100 m butterfly, medley relay (1977–79), and 4×100 m and 4×200 m freestyle relays (1979). After retiring in 1983, Seredin coached swimmers in Saint Petersburg. He died of a heart attack.

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Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (born 1923)

Pasquale Macchi was a Catholic archbishop and the private secretary to Pope Paul VI.

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05/04/2005

Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)

Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.

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Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (born 1913)

Robert John Borg was an American military officer and equestrian. He was born in Manila, Philippines. He placed fourth in individual dressage, and won a silver medal in team dressage at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He participated at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

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Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (born 1917)

Chung Nam-sik was a Korean football player and manager. He played as a striker for the South Korea national team during the 1940s and 1950s, including at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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05/04/2004

Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (born 1938)

Fernand Goyvaerts was a Belgian international footballer. He played as an attacker.

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Sławomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (born 1915)

Sławomir Rawicz was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the Soviet invasion of Poland. In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and begun a long journey south on foot, supposedly travelling through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before finally reaching British Raj in the winter of 1942.

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Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (born 1936)

Heiner Zieschang was a German mathematician. He was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum from 1968 till 2002. He was a topologist. In 1996 he was an honorary doctor of University of Toulouse and in 1997 he was an honorary professor of Moscow State University.

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05/04/2003

Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (born 1944)

Keizo Morishita was a Japanese painter who lived most of his life in Italy.

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05/04/2002

Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (born 1967)

Layne Thomas Staley was an American singer-songwriter. He was the original lead vocalist of Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of Seattle's grunge movement. He was known for his distinctive vocal style as well as his harmonizing with bandmate Jerry Cantrell. Before his success with Alice in Chains, Staley was also a member of the glam metal bands Sleze and Alice N' Chains. He was also a part of the supergroups Mad Season and Class of '99.

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Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (born 1917)

Kim Won-gyun was a North Korean composer and politician. He is considered one of the most prominent, if not the most celebrated, composer of North Korea. He composed "Aegukka" — the national anthem of the country — and "Song of General Kim Il Sung", in addition to revolutionary operas.

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05/04/2001

Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (born 1910)

Aldo Olivieri was an Italian football goalkeeper from 1931 to 1943, and manager after World War II.

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05/04/2000

Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (born 1909)

Heinrich "Wudi" Müller was an Austrian football player and coach. In the early 1930s he was an albeit minor part of Austria's all conquering Wunderteam. As coach he defined the post-World War II glory period of Austria Wien.

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Lee Petty, American race car driver (born 1914)

Lee Arnold Petty was an American stock car racing driver who competed during the 1950s and 1960s. He is the patriarch of the Petty racing family. He was one of the early pioneers of NASCAR and one of its first stars. He was NASCAR's first three-time Cup champion. He is the father of Richard Petty, who went on to become one of the most successful stock car racing drivers in history. He is also the grandfather of Kyle Petty and great grandfather of Adam Petty.

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05/04/1999

Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (born 1912)

Giulio Einaudi was an Italian book publisher. The eponymous company that he founded in 1933 became "a European wellspring of fine literature, intellectual thought and political theory" and was once considered the most prestigious publishing house in Italy. He was also the author of books on literature, history, philosophy, art and science.

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05/04/1998

Charles Frank, British theoretical physicist (born 1911)

Sir Frederick Charles Frank, FRS was a British theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on crystal dislocations, including the idea of the Frank–Read source of dislocations. He also proposed the cyclol reaction in the mid-1930s, and made many other contributions to solid-state physics, geophysics, and the theory of liquid crystals.

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Cozy Powell, English drummer (born 1947)

Cozy Powell was an English drummer who made his name with major rock bands and artists such as The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Gary Moore, Graham Bonnet, Brian May, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, and Black Sabbath.

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05/04/1997

Allen Ginsberg, American poet (born 1926)

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.

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05/04/1996

Charlene Holt, American actress (born 1928)

Verna Charlene Stavely, professionally known as Charlene Holt, was an American actress known for her supporting roles in television and film.

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05/04/1995

Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch chess player (born 1915)

Nicolaas (Nico) Cortlever was a Dutch chess master.

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Emilio Greco, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1913)

Emilio Greco was an Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet. He is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the world in museums such as - Tate Modern (London), Hermitage, Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura (Lisbon), and Hawke's Bay Museum.

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Christian Pineau, French Resistance fighter (born 1904)

Christian Pineau was a noted French Resistance fighter, who later served an important term as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 through 1958.

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05/04/1994

Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1967)

Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, he widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock music. He was heralded as a spokesman of Generation X, and is widely recognized as one of the most influential rock musicians.

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05/04/1993

Divya Bharti, Indian actress (born 1974)

Divya Bharti was an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Hindi and Telugu cinema. Known for her acting, vivacity and beauty, she was among the highest-paid actresses of her time. She received a Filmfare Award and a Nandi Award for her performances.

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05/04/1992

Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (born 1928)

Takeshi Inoue was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

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Molly Picon, American actress (born 1898)

Molly Picon was an American actress of stage, screen, radio and television, as well as a lyricist and dramatic storyteller.

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Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (born 1918)

Samuel Moore Walton was an American business magnate best known for co-founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world. For a period of time, Walton was the richest person in the United States. His family has remained the richest family in the U.S. for several consecutive years, with a net worth of around $440.62 billion US as of January 2026. In 1992 at the age of 74, Walton died of blood cancer and was buried at the Bentonville Cemetery in his longtime home of Bentonville, Arkansas.

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05/04/1991

Sonny Carter, American soccer player, physician, and astronaut (born 1947)

Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr., M.D., , was an American physician, professional soccer player, naval officer, aviator, and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-33.

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Jay Miller, American basketball player (born 1943)

Jay Julian Miller was an American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA). Miller first played for the St. Louis Hawks before being selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1968 NBA expansion draft. After his time with the Bucks, he spent the rest of his career in the ABA, with the Los Angeles Stars and Indiana Pacers.

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Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist, writer and screenwriter (born 1915)

Jiří Mucha was a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter, author of autobiographical novels and studies of the works of his father, the painter Alphonse Mucha.

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William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (born 1909)

William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, known as Lord De L'Isle and Dudley between 1945 and 1956, was a British Army officer, politician and Victoria Cross recipient who served as the 15th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1961 to 1965. He was the last non-Australian to hold the position and the last British national to be appointed Governor-General of any Commonwealth realm.

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John Tower, American soldier, academic, and politician (born 1925)

John Goodwin Tower was an American politician and military veteran who represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since Reconstruction. Tower is known for leading the Tower Commission, which investigated the Iran-Contra Affair in the Reagan administration.

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05/04/1989

Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (born 1895)

Frank Kent Foss was an American pole vaulter. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, while breaking his own unofficial world record.

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Karel Zeman, Czech director, artist, production designer and animator (born 1910)

Karel Zeman was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator. He is best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation, including Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) and Invention for Destruction (1958). Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the "Czech Méliès".

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05/04/1988

Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (born 1920)

Alf Kjellin was a Swedish film actor and director, who also appeared on some television shows.

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05/04/1987

Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (born 1914)

Joseph Leabua Jonathan was the first prime minister of Lesotho. He succeeded Chief Sekhonyana Nehemia Maseribane following a by-election and held that post from 1965 to 1986.

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05/04/1986

Manly Wade Wellman, American writer (born 1903)

Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary Weird Tales and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. Karl Edward Wagner referred to him as "the dean of fantasy writers." Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction.

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05/04/1984

Hans Lunding, Danish military officer (born 1899)

Hans Mathiesen Lunding was a Danish military officer, eventing rider, resistance fighter and director of military intelligence in Denmark.

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Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (born 1894)

Giuseppe Tucci was an Italian orientalist, Indologist and scholar of East Asian studies, specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism. During its zenith, Tucci was a supporter of Italian fascism, and he used idealized portrayals of Asian traditions to support Italian ideological campaigns. Tucci was fluent in several European languages, Sanskrit, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit, Chinese and Tibetan and he taught at the University of Rome La Sapienza until his death. He is considered one of the founders of the field of Buddhist studies.

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05/04/1983

Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari, Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer. (born 1907)

Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari was a Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer, born and raised in Medina under Ottoman and Hashemite rule into a Khazraji family. Employed by local government just after graduation from a local madrasah in 1928, he held several official positions from 1928 to 1954. A self-taught historian and archaeologist, he was the author of works about the history of Medina and wrote about various topics of his region, the Hejaz. In 1937, he founded the monthly magazine “Al-Manhal”. He also wrote literary works like The Twins (1930), the first Hejazi-Saudi novel, but his many professional activities prevented him from writing more than one novel. He died at the age of 76 in Mecca due to an incurable disease and was buried in Al-Mu'alla Cemetery.

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05/04/1982

Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (born 1910)

Abraham Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Fortas graduated from Rhodes College and Yale Law School. He later became a law professor at Yale and then an advisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Fortas worked at the Department of the Interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to delegations that helped set up the United Nations in 1945.

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05/04/1981

Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (born 1892)

Émile Jean Ghislain Hanse was a Belgian football (soccer) player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Belgium team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament. Hanse played for R.U. Saint-Gilloise and appeared in 254 matches and scored 23 goals.

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Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (born 1945)

Robert Ernest Hite, also known as "The Bear", was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer who was the co-lead vocalist of the blues rock band Canned Heat from 1965 until his death in 1981.

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Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (born 1890)

Pinchus Krémègne, aka Pinchus Kremegne, was a Lithuanian Belarusian Jewish-French artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer.

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05/04/1977

Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (born 1903)

Carlos Manuel Prío Socarrás was a Cuban politician. He served as the President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held. He was the first president of Cuba to be born in an independent Cuba and the last to gain his post through universal, contested elections. He went into exile in the United States, where he lived for 25 years before dying by suicide at age 73.

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Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (born 1894)

Yuri Aleksandrovich Zavadsky was a Soviet and Russian theater director, actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1948) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1973).

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05/04/1976

Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (born 1905)

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.

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Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (born 1891)

Wilder Graves Penfield was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus. His scientific contributions on neural stimulation expand across a variety of topics including hallucinations, illusions, dissociation and déjà vu. Penfield devoted much of his thinking to mental processes, including contemplation of whether there was any scientific basis for the existence of the human soul.

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Harry Wyld, British cyclist (born 1900)

Frederick Henry "Harry" Wyld was a British track cyclist. He won bronze medals at the 1924 and the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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05/04/1975

Tell Berna, American middle and long-distance runner (born 1891)

Tell Schirnding Berna was an American middle-distance and long-distance runner.

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Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician (born 1917)

Victor Gerard Marie Marijnen was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 24 July 1963 until 14 April 1965.

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Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1887)

Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who led the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 until his death in 1975. His government was based in mainland China until it was defeated in the Chinese Civil War by Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949, after which he continued to lead the ROC government on the island of Taiwan.

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Harold Osborn, American track and fielder (born 1899)

Harold Marion Osborn D.O. was an American track athlete. He won a gold medal in Olympic decathlon and high jump in 1924 and was the first athlete to win a gold medal in both the decathlon and an individual event.

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05/04/1974

Bino Bini, Italian fencer (born 1900)

Bino Bini was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics and a silver and bronze at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

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A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (born 1882)

Alexander Young Jackson LL. D. was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in bringing together the artists of Montreal and Toronto. In addition to his work with the Group of Seven, his long career included serving as a war artist during World War I (1917–1919) and teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, from 1943 to 1949. In his later years he was artist-in-residence at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

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05/04/1973

David Murray, British race car driver (born 1909)

David Hugh Murray was a British racing driver from Scotland. He participated in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 13 May 1950, and also founded the Ecurie Ecosse Scottish motor racing team, based at Merchiston Mews in Edinburgh.

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Alla Tarasova, Russian ballerina (born 1898)

Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress and pedagogue. She was a leading actress of Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre from the late 1920s onward. People's Artist of the USSR (1937) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1973).

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05/04/1972

Isabel Jewell, American actress and singer (born 1907)

Isabel Jewell was an American actress, who rose to prominence in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her more famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, and Gone with the Wind.

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05/04/1971

José Cubiles, Spanish pianist and conductor (born 1894)

José Antonio Cubiles Ramos was a noted Spanish pianist, conductor and teacher.

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05/04/1970

Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (born 1877)

Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of authoring more land plant species than any other female scientist, in total naming 1,494 species.

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Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (born 1891)

Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. On February 13, 1968, Sturtevant received the 1967 National Medal of Science from President Lyndon B. Johnson.

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Karl von Spreti, German diplomat (born 1907)

Karl Borromäus Maria Heinrich Graf von Spreti was a German diplomat. He is best known as the West German Ambassador to Guatemala from 1968 until his assassination in 1970. The story of his assassination by Guatemalan guerillas was depicted in a 1970 book, Why Karl von Spreti Died, by Ryszard Kapuściński.

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05/04/1969

Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (born 1918)

Alberto Bonucci was an Italian film actor and director. He appeared in 53 films between 1950 and 1967.

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Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician (born 1917)

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. In 1948, he became the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. He was removed from power after only nine months by a military coup.

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Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian SS officer (born 1903)

Ain Mere was an Estonian military officer in World War II. During the German occupation of Estonia, he served in the German-controlled Estonian Security Police and SD.

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05/04/1968

Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (born 1900)

Félix Couchoro was a Togolese writer and educator.

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Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer (born 1932)

Lajos Csordás was a Hungarian footballer. He won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and was runner-up of the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

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Giuseppe Paris, Italian gymnast (born 1895)

Giuseppe Paris was an Italian gymnast who competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics, the 1924 Summer Olympics and the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was born in Milan. He was part of the Italian team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1920 as well as in the team competition 1924.

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05/04/1967

Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (born 1891)

Mischa Elman was a Russian-American violinist famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality.

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Johan Falkberget, Norwegian author (born 1879)

Johan Falkberget, born Johan Petter Lillebakken, was a Norwegian author. He was nominated for the --Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)

Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation". Muller warned of long-term dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear war and nuclear testing, which resulted in greater public scrutiny of these practices.

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Herbert Johnston, British runner (born 1902)

Herbert Arthur Johnston was a British runner who competed in events ranging from one to four miles.

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05/04/1965

Pedro Sernagiotto, Italian-Brazilian footballer (born 1908)

Pedro Sernagiotto, also known as Pietro Sernagiotto or Ministrinho was an Italian Brazilian professional football player. He also held Italian citizenship and on October 22, 1933, played for the Italian national B team against Hungary.

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Sándor Szalay, Hungarian figure skater (born 1893)

Sándor Szalay was a Hungarian pair skater. With partner Olga Orgonista, he was the 1930 and 1931 European Champion. They won two medals at the World Figure Skating Championships, a bronze in 1929 and a silver in 1931. They placed 4th at the 1932 Winter Olympics. After the 1932 World Figure Skating Championships, Sándor and Olga retired. Sándor worked as a construction inspector in a rubber factory, and served as the president of the Hungarian Skating Federation from 1945 to 1950.

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05/04/1964

James Chapin, American ornithologist (born 1889)

James Paul Chapin was an American ornithologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History.

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Aloïse Corbaz, Swiss artist (born 1886)

Aloïse Blanche Corbaz was a Swiss outsider artist included in Jean Dubuffet's initial collection of psychiatric art. She is one of very few acclaimed female outsider artists.

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Douglas MacArthur, American general (born 1880)

Douglas MacArthur was an American general who served as a top commander during World War II and the Korean War, achieving the rank of General of the Army. He served with distinction in World War I; as chief of staff of the United States Army from 1930 to 1935; as Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area, from 1942 to 1945; as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers overseeing the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951; and as head of the United Nations Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951. MacArthur was nominated for the Medal of Honor three times, and awarded it for his WWII service in the Philippines. He is one of only five people to hold the rank of General of the Army, and the only person to hold the rank of Field Marshal in the Philippine Army.

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05/04/1963

Jacobus Oud, Dutch architect (born 1890)

Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement.

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05/04/1962

Boo Kullberg, Swedish gymnast (born 1889)

Anders Boo Georg Kullberg was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Swedish team, which won the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event.

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05/04/1961

Nikolai Kryukov, Russian composer (born 1908)

Nikolai Nikolayevich Kryukov was a Russian composer active in the Soviet era.

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05/04/1958

Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (born 1884)

Prince Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria and Bourbon was a prince of the House of Wittelsbach and Infante of Spain, the eldest son and child of Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria and Infanta María de la Paz of Spain. He became an Infante of Spain on 20 October 1905 and renounced his rights to the throne of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1914.

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Ásgrímur Jónsson, Icelandic painter (born 1876)

Ásgrímur Jónsson was an Icelandic painter, and one of the first in the country to make art a professional living.

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Isidora Sekulić, Serbian writer (born 1877)

Isidora Sekulić was a Serbian writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic. She was the first woman academic in the history of Serbia, after she joined the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1950.

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05/04/1956

William Titt, British gymnast (born 1881)

William Titt was a British gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Cork. Originally named William Lebeau he took on the name of William Titt after his stepfather. When his stepfather died he reverted to the original Lebeau. As a member of the British team in 1908 he finished eighth in the team competition. He was part of the British team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912.

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05/04/1955

Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (born 1918)

Tibor Szele was a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra.

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05/04/1954

Princess Märtha of Sweden, (born 1901)

Princess Märtha of Sweden was Crown Princess of Norway as the spouse of the future King Olav V from 1929 until her death in 1954. As Olav only became king in 1957, Märtha never became Queen of Norway. Her son, Harald V, is the current king of Norway. Princess Märtha was also an elder sister of Queen Astrid of Belgium and a maternal aunt of Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg and Kings Baudouin and Albert II of Belgium.

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Claude Delvincourt, French pianist and composer (born 1888)

Claude Étienne Edmond Marie Pierre Delvincourt was a French pianist and composer of classical music.

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05/04/1952

Agnes Morton, British tennis player (born 1872)

Agnes Morton was a British female tennis player. She twice reached the Ladies Singles finals at the 1908 and 1909 Wimbledon Championships and claimed victory in 1914 in Ladies Doubles with partner Elizabeth Ryan, the same year she reached the singles final at the Northern Championships. She placed fourth at the 1908 Summer Olympics in Ladies Lawn Tennis.

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05/04/1950

Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter (born 1876)

Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. Along with Hasui Kawase, he is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his landscape prints. Yoshida made numerous trips around the world, with the aim of getting to know different artistic expressions and making works of different landscapes. He traveled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style, including the Taj Mahal, the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canyon, and other National Parks in the United States.

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05/04/1949

Erich Zeigner, Prime Minister of Saxony (born 1886)

Erich Zeigner was a German politician. He was Prime Minister of the German state of Saxony during the attempted communist uprising of 1923.

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05/04/1948

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (born 1874)

Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family through her marriage to financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., the son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller Sr. Her father was Nelson W. Aldrich, who served as a senator from Rhode Island. Rockefeller was known for being the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art. She was the mother of Nelson Rockefeller, who served from 1974 to 1977 as the 41st vice president of the United States.

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05/04/1947

Bernhard Pankok, German painter, artist and architect (born 1872)

Bernhard Wilhelm Maria Pankok was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, and designer. His works are characterized by the transition between Art Nouveau and the International Style. His furniture and book design, such as the catalog for the German section of the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, have garnered him the most recognition.

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Elis Strömgren, Swedish-Danish astronomer (born 1870)

Svante Elis Strömgren was a Swedish–Danish astronomer.

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05/04/1946

Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (born 1898)

Vincent Millie Youmans was an American Broadway composer and producer.

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05/04/1945

Heinrich Borgmann, German officer (born 1912)

Heinrich Borgmann was a German officer during World War II. He was seriously injured by the 20 July plot bomb planted by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg at the Wolf's Lair headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia.

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Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (born 1897)

Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer who was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany, and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews. His wife, Ilse Koch, also participated in the crimes at Buchenwald.

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05/04/1941

Parvin E'tesami, Persian poet (born 1907)

Rakhshandeh E'tesami, better known as Parvin E'tesami, was a 20th-century Iranian Persian-language poet.

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Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (born 1876)

Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). He was the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives in Britain, including the LNER Class A1 and LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific engines. An A1 Pacific, Flying Scotsman, was the first steam locomotive officially recorded over 100 mph in passenger service, and an A4, No. 4468 Mallard, still holds the record for being the fastest steam locomotive in the world (126 mph).

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Franciszek Kleeberg, Polish general (born 1888)

Franciszek Kleeberg was a Polish general. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army before joining the Polish Legions in World War I and following the Polish Independence later the Polish Army. During the German Invasion of Poland he commanded Independent Operational Group Polesie. He never lost a battle in the Invasion of Poland, although he was eventually forced to surrender after his forces ran out of ammunition. Imprisoned in Oflag IV-B Koenigstein, he died in a hospital in Dresden on 5 April 1941 and was buried there.

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05/04/1940

Charles Freer Andrews, English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (born 1871)

Charles Freer Andrews was an Anglican priest and Christian missionary, educator and social reformer, and an activist for Indian independence. He became a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi and identified with the Indian liberation struggle. He was instrumental in persuading Gandhi to return to India from South Africa, where Gandhi had been a leading light in the campaign for Indian civil rights.

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Robert Maillart, Swiss civil engineer (born 1872)

Robert Maillart was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. His Salginatobel (1929–1930) and Schwandbach (1933) bridges changed the aesthetics and engineering of bridge construction dramatically and influenced decades of architects and engineers after him. In 1991 the Salginatobel Bridge was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

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Jay O'Brien, American bobsledder (born 1883)

Jay James O'Brien was an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He won two medals at the Winter Olympics with a gold in the four-man event at Lake Placid, New York, in 1932 and a silver in the five-man event at St. Moritz in 1928. At 48 years old, he was the oldest Olympic champion.

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Song Zheyuan, Chinese general (born 1885)

Song Zheyuan was a Chinese general during the Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).

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05/04/1938

Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (born 1857)

Helena Charlotta Westermarck was a Swedish-speaking Finnish artist and writer. She is known for her pioneering biographies of women.

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Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (born 1890)

Verner Lehtimäki was a Finnish socialist, soldier, pilot, aerospace engineer and revolutionary who fought for the Reds during the Finnish Civil War.

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05/04/1937

Gustav Adolf Deissmann, (born 1866)

Gustav Adolf Deissmann was a German Protestant theologian, best known for his leading work on the Greek language used in the New Testament, which he showed was the koine, or commonly used tongue of the Hellenistic world of that time.

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José Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (born 1858)

José Benlliure y Gil was a Spanish painter.

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05/04/1936

Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (born 1884)

Henry Chandler Egan was an American amateur golfer and golf course architect of the early 20th century.

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05/04/1935

Achille Locatelli, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1856)

Achille Locatelli was a Roman Catholic cardinal. He worked in papal diplomacy, and among other positions, he was nuntius in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

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Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (born 1870)

Emil Szymon Młynarski was a Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue.

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Franz von Vecsey, Hungarian violinist and composer (born 1893)

Franz von Vecsey was a Hungarian violinist and composer, who became a well-known virtuoso in Europe through the early 20th century. He made his first public debut at the age of 10. An accomplished violinist, he went onto perform concerts in the early twentieth century in the United Kingdom, Europe and both North America and South America.

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05/04/1934

Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (born 1860)

Salvatore Di Giacomo was an Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist, one of the signatories to the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals.

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Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player (born 1908)

Jiro Sato was a Japanese tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in 1933 but committed suicide in the Strait of Malacca during his trip to the Davis Cup in 1934.

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05/04/1933

Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (born 1884)

Earl Derr Biggers was an American novelist and playwright. His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan were adapted into popular films made in the United States and China.

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Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and functional theorist (born 1854)

Robert Hjalmar Mellin was a Finnish mathematician and function theorist.

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05/04/1932

María Blanchard, Spanish painter (born 1881)

María Gutiérrez-Cueto y Blanchard was a Spanish painter. She was known for developing a unique style of Cubism.

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05/04/1929

Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (born 1846)

Francis Aidan Gasquet was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar. He controversially challenged what he regarded as the anti-Catholic narrative of the English history of his age, and uncovered the extent of the Black Death in England. He was created a cardinal in 1914.

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Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (born 1846)

Ludwig von Sybel was a German archaeologist.

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05/04/1928

Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (born 1890)

Roy Kilner was an English professional cricketer who played nine Test matches for England between 1924 and 1926. An all-rounder, he played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1927. In all first-class matches, he scored 14,707 runs at an average of 30.01 and took 1,003 wickets at an average of 18.45. Kilner scored 1,000 runs in a season ten times and took 100 wickets in a season five times. On four occasions, he completed the double: scoring 1,000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the same season, recognised as a sign of a quality all-rounder.

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Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (born 1861)

Viktor Oliva was a Czech painter and illustrator.

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05/04/1924

Victor Hensen, German zoologist (born 1835)

Christian Andreas Victor Hensen was a German zoologist and marine biologist (planktology). He coined the term plankton and laid the foundation for biological oceanography and quantitative studies.

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05/04/1923

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (born 1866)

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon,, styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

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05/04/1921

Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (born 1862)

Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.

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Sophie Elkan, Swedish writer and translator (born 1853)

Sophie Elkan was a Swedish writer and translator.

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05/04/1920

Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (born 1848)

Laurent-Honoré Marqueste was a French sculptor in the neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts tradition. He was a pupil of François Jouffroy and of Alexandre Falguière. Marqueste won the Prix de Rome in 1871.

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05/04/1918

George Tupou II, King of Tonga (born 1874)

George Tupou II was the King of Tonga from 18 February 1893 until his death. He was officially crowned at Nukuʻalofa, on 17 March 1893. He was also the 20th Tuʻi Kanokupolu.

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Paul Vidal de La Blache, French geographer (born 1845)

Paul Vidal de La Blache was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics. He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is the belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social, ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape.

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05/04/1916

Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (born 1851)

Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky was a jurist and the main authority on sociology in the Russian Empire. He was vice-president (1895) and president (1905) of the International Institute of Sociology. He also held a chair in sociology at the Psycho-Neurological Institute. Kovalevsky was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1914. The Russian Sociological Society adopted his name in 1916.

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05/04/1914

Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (born 1836)

Bernard Robert August Borggreve was a German forestry scientist. He is known for introducing the "Borggreve method", a silvicultural process for selection cutting of trees.

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05/04/1906

Eastman Johnson, American painter (born 1824)

Jonathan Eastman Johnson was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His later works often show the influence of the 17th-century Dutch masters, whom he studied in The Hague in the 1850s; he was known as The American Rembrandt in his day.

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05/04/1904

Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (born 1830)

Ernst, Prince of Leiningen was a German nobleman who served with distinction in the British Royal Navy.

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Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (born 1822)

Frances Power Cobbe was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in 1875 and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage.

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05/04/1902

Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (born 1850)

Hans Ernst August Buchner was a German bacteriologist who was born and raised in Munich. He was the older brother of Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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05/04/1901

Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (born 1820)

Angelo Messedaglia was an Italian social scientist, statistician and politician.

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05/04/1900

Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (born 1822)

Joseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician and historian of science whose work emphasized number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

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Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (born 1832)

Osman Nuri Pasha, also known as Gazi Osman Pasha, was an Ottoman Turkish field marshal. Being one of the most respected and decorated Ottoman pashas of all time, many songs have been written for him, and many places named after him. This is mainly because he held the Bulgarian town of Plevna for five months against superior Russo-Romanian forces in 1877 during the Russo-Turkish War, though the city eventually fell.

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05/04/1891

Johann Hermann Bauer, Austrian chess master (born 1861)

Johann Hermann Bauer was an Austrian chess master.

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05/04/1888

Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (born 1855)

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian author of short stories.

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05/04/1882

Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (born 1806)

Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play was a French engineer, sociologist and economist.

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05/04/1873

Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (born 1824)

Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac was a Serbian general and politician who served as regent from 1868 to 1872, as well as head of government from 1872 to 1873.

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05/04/1872

Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (born 1812)

Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier was a French astronomer, one of two French astronomers referred to as M. Laugier.

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05/04/1871

Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (born 1798)

Paolo Savi was an Italian geologist and ornithologist.

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05/04/1868

Karel Purkyně, Czech painter (born 1834)

Karel Purkyně was a Czech painter and art critic. He was one of the most prominent proponents of realism in Czech art in the second half of the 19th century.

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05/04/1866

Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (born 1798)

Thomas Hodgkin RMS was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832. Hodgkin's work marked the beginning of times when a pathologist was actively involved in the clinical process. He was a contemporary of Thomas Addison and Richard Bright at Guy's Hospital in London.

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05/04/1865

Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (born 1806)

Manfredo Fanti was an Italian general; he is known as the founder of the Royal Italian Army.

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05/04/1862

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch artist (born 1803)

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer, and the most famous member of the Koekkoek family of painters.

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05/04/1861

Ferdinand Joachimsthal, German mathematician (born 1818)

Ferdinand Joachimsthal was a German mathematician.

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05/04/1852

Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, (born 1800)

Felix Ludwig Johann Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg was a Bohemian nobleman and an Austrian statesman who restored the Austrian Empire as a European great power following the Revolutions of 1848. He served as Minister-President of the Austrian Empire and Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire from 1848 to 1852.

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05/04/1842

Shah Shuja Durrani, 5th Emir of Afghanistan (born 1785)

Shuja Shah Durrani was Shah of the Durrani Empire from 1803 until his deposition in 1809, and again from 1839 until his assassination in 1842. A son of Timur Shah Durrani, Shuja was of the Sadozai lineage of the Durrani clan of Pashtuns. He became the fifth King of the Durrani Empire.

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05/04/1831

Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, Belgian entomologist (born 1797)

Pierre Léonard Vander Linden was a Belgian entomologist born in Brussels. In Italy, he studied under the botanist Antonio Bertoloni (1775–1869), the zoologist Camillo Ranzani (1775–1841) and the physician Giacomo Tommasini (1768–1846). During his studies, he worked on Odonata. In 1826 he was appointed as the first professor of zoology, at the Musée des Sciences et Lettres in Brussels.

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05/04/1830

Richard Chenevix, Irish chemist and playwright (born 1774)

Richard Chenevix was an Irish chemist, mineralogist and playwright who also wrote on a range of other topics. He was known for his sharp cynicism and for engaging in combative criticism. Chenevix received the Copley Medal in 1803, "for his various Chemical Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions."

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05/04/1808

Johann Georg Wille, German engraver (born 1715)

Johann Georg Wille, or Jean Georges Wille was a German-born copper engraver, who spent most of his life in France. He also worked as an art dealer.

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05/04/1804

Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (born 1761)

Divisional-General Jean-Charles Pichegru was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Under his command, French troops overran the Austrian Netherlands and Dutch Republic in the Flanders campaign before fighting on the Rhine front. Pichegru's Royalist views subsequently led to his fall from grace and imprisonment in Cayenne following the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After escaping into exile in London and joining the staff of Alexander Korsakov, he returned to France and planned the Pichegru Conspiracy to remove Napoleon from power, which led to his arrest and suicide. Despite Pichegru's defection, his surname is one of the names inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe.

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05/04/1799

Johann Christoph Gatterer, German historian (born 1727)

Johann Christoph Gatterer was a German historian who was a native of Lichtenau. He was the father of cameralist Christoph Wilhelm Jacob Gatterer (1759–1838) and poet Magdalena Philippine Engelhard (1756–1831). He was a member of the Göttingen school of history.

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05/04/1794

Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (born 1759)

Georges Jacques Danton was a French politician and leading figure of the French Revolution. A modest and unknown lawyer on the eve of the Revolution, Danton became a famous orator of the Cordeliers Club and was raised to governmental responsibilities as the French Minister of Justice following the fall of the monarchy on the tenth of August 1792, and was allegedly responsible for inciting the September Massacres. He was tasked by the National Convention to intervene in the military conquest of Belgium led by General Dumouriez, and in the spring of 1793 supported the foundation of a Revolutionary Tribunal, becoming the first president of the Committee of Public Safety.

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François Chabot, French politician (born 1756)

François Chabot was a French politician.

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Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1760)

Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins was a French journalist, politician and a prominent figure of the French Revolution. He is best known for playing an instrumental role in the events that led to the Storming of the Bastille. Desmoulins was also noted for his radical criticism of the Reign of Terror as the editor of the journal Le Vieux Cordelier. He was a schoolmate and close friend of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who were leading figures in the French Revolution.

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Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, dramatist, poet and politician (born 1750)

Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine, commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine, was a French actor, dramatist, poet, and politician of the French Revolution.

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Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French judge and politician (born 1759)

Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles was a French judge, freemason and politician who took part in the French Revolution.

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Pierre Philippeaux, French lawyer (born 1754)

Pierre Philippeaux(French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ filipo]; 9 November 1754 – 5 April 1794, Paris), was a French lawyer who was a deputy to the National Convention for Sarthe.

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François Joseph Westermann, French general (born 1751)

Brigadier-General François Joseph Westermann was a French Army officer. He is best known as one of the main French Republican commanders in the initial stage of the War in the Vendée.

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05/04/1769

Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jesuit priest (born 1713)

Marc-Antoine Laugier was a Jesuit priest until 1755, then a Benedictine monk. Overlooking Claude Perrault and numerous other figures, Summerson notes,Marc Antoine Laugier can perhaps be called the first modern architectural philosopher.

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05/04/1768

Egidio Forcellini, Italian philologist (born 1688)

Egidio Forcellini was an Italian philologist.

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05/04/1767

Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (born 1685)

Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was a German princess by birth and Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg by marriage.

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05/04/1765

Edward Young, English poet and author (born 1683)

Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, and at the end of the century was illustrated by William Blake.

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05/04/1751

Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (born 1676)

Frederick I was King of Sweden from 1720 until his death, having been prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and was also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730. He ascended the throne following the death of his brother-in-law absolutist Charles XII in the Great Northern War, and the abdication of his wife, Charles's sister and successor Ulrika Eleonora, after she had to relinquish most powers to the Riksdag of the Estates and thus chose to abdicate. His powerless reign and lack of legitimate heirs of his own saw his family's elimination from the line of succession after the parliamentary government dominated by pro-revanchist Hat Party politicians ventured into a war with Russia, which ended in defeat and the Russian tsarina Elizabeth getting Adolf Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp instated following the death of the king. Whilst being the only Swedish monarch called Frederick, he was Frederick I of Hesse-Kassel and thus Frederick I also of Sweden, though other Swedish monarchs with non-repeating names had not been enumerated.

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05/04/1735

William Derham, English minister and philosopher (born 1657)

William Derham FRS was an English clergyman, natural theologian, natural philosopher and scientist. He produced the earliest reasonably accurate measurement of the speed of sound.

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05/04/1723

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect, sculptor and historian (born 1656)

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach was an Austrian architect, sculptor, engraver, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundly influenced and shaped the tastes of the Habsburg Empire. His influential book A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture (1721) was one of the first and most popular comparative studies of world architecture. His major works include Schönbrunn Palace, Karlskirche, and the Austrian National Library in Vienna, and Schloss Klessheim, Holy Trinity Church, and the Kollegienkirche in Salzburg.

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05/04/1717

Jean Jouvenet, French painter (born 1647)

Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet was a French painter, especially of religious subjects.

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05/04/1712

Jan Luyken, Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver (born 1649)

Johannes or Jan Luyken was a Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraver.

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05/04/1709

Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635)

Roger de Piles was a French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat.

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05/04/1708

Christian Heinrich, German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern (born 1661)

Christian Heinrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, was a German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern and nominal Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach.

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05/04/1704

Christian Ulrich I, German nobleman and Duke of Württemberg-Oels (born 1652)

Duke Christian Ulrich I of Württemberg-Oels was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Duke of Württemberg-Bernstadt from 1669 to 1697 and then the ruling Duke of Oels-Württemberg from 1697 until his death.

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05/04/1697

Charles XI, king of Sweden (born 1655)

Charles XI or Carl was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death in 1697.

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05/04/1695

George Savile, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1633)

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, was an English statesman and writer. He sat in the House of Commons of England in 1660 before being elevated to the House of Lords in 1668.

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05/04/1693

Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, French noblewoman (born 1627)

Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, known as La Grande Mademoiselle, was the only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Montpensier. One of the greatest heiresses in history, she died unmarried and childless, leaving her vast fortune to her cousin Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. After a string of proposals from various members of European ruling families, including Charles II of England, Afonso VI of Portugal, and Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy, she eventually fell in love with the courtier Antoine Nompar de Caumont and scandalised the court of France when she asked Louis XIV for permission to marry him, as such a union was viewed as a mésalliance. She is best remembered for her role in the Fronde, for bringing the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully to the king's court, and for her Mémoires.

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Philip William August, German nobleman (born 1668)

Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg was a Prince and Count Palatine of Neuburg.

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05/04/1684

William Brouncker, English mathematician (born 1620)

William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, FRS was an Anglo-Irish peer and mathematician who served as the president of the Royal Society from 1662 to 1677. Best known for introducing Brouncker's formula, he also worked as a civil servant, serving as a commissioner in the Royal Navy. Brouncker was a friend and colleague of Samuel Pepys, and features prominently in the Pepys' diary.

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Karl Eusebius, prince of Liechtenstein (born 1611)

Karl Eusebius was the Prince of Liechtenstein. He inherited this title in 1627 from his father Karl I. He was 16 and thus considered underage, and his uncles Prince Gundakar and Maximillian acted as regents until 1632. From 1639 to 1641 Karl was Chief Captain of High and Low Silesia.

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05/04/1679

Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess (born 1619)

Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon was a French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours, her influence during the civil wars of the Fronde, and her final conversion to Jansenism.

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05/04/1673

François Caron, Belgian-French explorer and politician, 8th Governor of Formosa (born 1600)

François Caron was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who served the Dutch East India Company for 30 years, rising from cook's mate to the director-general at Batavia (Jakarta), only one grade below governor-general. He retired from the VOC in 1651, and was later recruited to become director-general of the newly formed French East Indies Company in 1665 until his death in 1673.

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05/04/1626

Anna Koltovskaya, Russian tsarina

Anna Alexeievna Koltovskaya, also known by her monastic name Daria (Дария), was tsaritsa of all Russia as the fourth wife of Ivan the Terrible, the tsar of all Russia.

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05/04/1617

Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (born 1555)

Alonso Lobo was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Tomás Luis de Victoria, he was highly regarded at the time, and Victoria himself considered him to be his equal.

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05/04/1612

Diana Scultori, Italian engraver (born 1547)

Diana Scultori was an Italian engraver from Mantua, Italy. She is one of the earliest known women printmakers, making mostly reproductive engravings of well-known paintings or drawings, especially those of Raphael and Giulio Romano, or ancient Roman sculptures.

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05/04/1605

John Stow, English historian and antiquary (born 1524/25)

John Stow was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of English history, published from 1565 onwards under such titles as The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles, The Chronicles of England, and The Annales of England; and also A Survey of London. A. L. Rowse has described him as "one of the best historians of that age; indefatigable in the trouble he took, thorough and conscientious, accurate – above all things devoted to truth".

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05/04/1594

Catherine of Palma, Spanish nun (born 1533)

Catherine of Palma was a Spanish canon and mystic from Mallorca. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and her feast day is commonly celebrated on 5 April although in her home town of Valldemossa she is remembered on the 27 and 28 of July.

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05/04/1534

Jan Matthys, Dutch anabaptist reformer

Jan Matthys was a charismatic Anabaptist leader of the Münster Rebellion, regarded by his followers as a prophet.

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05/04/1512

Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter (born 1429)

Lazzaro Bastiani was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice. His students included Vittore Carpaccio and Benedetto Rusconi.

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05/04/1431

Bernard I, margrave of Baden-Baden (born 1364)

Bernard I of Baden was Margrave of the Margraviate of Baden from 1391 to 1431.

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05/04/1419

Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (born 1350)

Vincent Ferrer, OP was a Valencian Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician. After supporting Antipope Benedict XIII during the Western Schism, Ferrer travelled to preach across Western Europe and the British Isles. His preaching has been credited in some sources as converting 25,000 Jews to Catholicism, other sources indicate that they involved supporting coercive means, such as the forcible conversion of synagogues into churches. He was canonized in 1455.

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05/04/1325

Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron of Monthermer and Earl of Gloucester (born c. 1270)

Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, between 1297 and 1307 jure uxoris Earl of Gloucester and Earl of Hertford, and between 1306 and 1307 also 1st Earl of Atholl, was an English nobleman, who was the son-in-law of King Edward I. His clandestine marriage to the King's widowed daughter Joan greatly offended her father, but he was quickly persuaded to pardon Ralph.

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05/04/1308

Ivan Kőszegi, Hungarian baron and oligarch

Ivan Kőszegi was an influential lord in the Kingdom of Hungary at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Earlier historiographical works also refer to him Ivan Németújvári. He was Palatine in 1281, between 1287 and 1288, and from 1302 until 1307, Ban of Slavonia in 1275, from 1284 until 1285 and in 1290, and Master of the treasury in 1276 and 1291.

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05/04/1258

Juliana of Liège, Belgian canoness and saint

Juliana of Liège, was a medieval Norbertine canoness regular and mystic in what is now Belgium. Traditional scholarly sources have long recognized her as the promoter of the Feast of Corpus Christi, first celebrated in Liège in 1246, and later adopted for the Catholic Church in 1264. More recent scholarship includes manuscript analysis of the initial version of the Office, as found in The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands and a close reading of her Latin vita, a critical edition of which was published in French by the Belgian scholar and current (2023) bishop of Liège, Jean-Pierre Delville.

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05/04/1205

Isabella I of Jerusalem, queen regnant of Jerusalem (born 1172)

Isabella I was the queen of Jerusalem who reigned from the early 1190s to her death. She received the homage of her vassals as the rightful heir to the throne after the death of her half-sister Queen Sibylla in 1190, but Sibylla's widower, Guy of Lusignan, held onto the kingdom until 1192. Isabella became queen upon her coronation in 1198. Having little political ambition, she passed the government on to three successive husbands, Conrad of Montferrat, Henry II of Champagne, and Aimery of Lusignan, all of whom included her in the issuing of their charters. Isabella's co-reign with Aimery saw the compilation of the Livre au Roi, a law treatise establishing the rights and obligations of queens regnant of Jerusalem.

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05/04/1183

Ramon Berenguer III, Spanish count of Cerdanya and Provence

Ramon Berenguer III or IV, born Peter, was the count of Cerdanya (1162–1168) and count of Provence (1173–1181).

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05/04/1168

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (born 1104)

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester was Justiciar of England 1155–1168.

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05/04/0902

Al-Mu'tadid, Abbasid caliph

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn, better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh, was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 892 until his death in 902.

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05/04/0584

Ruadán of Lorrha, Irish abbot

Ruadán mac Fergusa Birn, also known Rowan, Ruadon, Roadan, Ruadhán, Rodon and Rodan, was an Irish Christian abbot who founded the monastery of Lorrha, near Terryglass. He was known for his prophecies. After his death, he was venerated as a saint and as one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland". His feast day is 15 April.

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05/04/0582

Eutychius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch

Eutychius of Constantinople, considered a saint in the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions, was the patriarch of Constantinople from 552 to 565 and from 577 to 582. His feast is kept by the Orthodox Church on 6 April, and he is mentioned in the Catholic Church's "Corpus Juris". His terms of office, occurring during the reign of Emperor Justinian I, were marked by controversies with both imperial and papal authority.

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05/04/0517

Timothy I of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch

Timothy I of Constantinople or Timotheus I was a Christian priest who was appointed patriarch of Constantinople by the Byzantine emperor Anastasius I Dicorus in 511.

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