Notable Deaths on April 2nd
April 2nd Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1118 |
Boudouin I, of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem, dies |
1272 |
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209) |
1335 |
Duke Henry of Carinthia (b. circa 1265) |
1412 |
Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer (b. ????) |
1416 |
Ferdinand I, the Justified, king of Aragon/Sicily, dies at 52 |
1502 |
Arthur, English crown prince/husband of Catharina of Aragon, dies |
1507 |
Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416) |
1640 |
Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet, dies at 45 |
1657 |
Ferdinand III, King of Hungarian/Bohemia/German Emperor, dies at 48 |
1657 |
Jean-Jacques Olier - French catholic priest, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (b. 1608) |
1705 |
Johann Lohner, composer, dies at 59 |
1720 |
Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647) |
1742 |
James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675) |
1747 |
Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63 |
1754 |
Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686) |
1758 |
Johann Balthasar Konig, composer, dies at 67 |
1784 |
Pierre Leclair, composer, dies at 74 |
1787 |
Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719) |
1791 |
Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749) |
1791 |
Comte de Mirabeau, Le libertin de qualité |
1801 |
Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer (b. circa 1761) |
1803 |
Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56 |
1817 |
Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740) |
1827 |
Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776) |
1831 |
Charles Felix, blind King of Sardina (1821-31), dies at 74 |
1845 |
Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763) |
1852 |
Theodor Althaus, writer, dies |
1865 |
Ambrose Powell Hill, Confederate general, killed in action at 39 |
1865 |
Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60 |
1872 |
Samuel Morse developer of electric telegraph, dies at 80 |
1876 |
Paul van Vlissingen, Dutch ship owner, dies at 78 |
1890 |
Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliographer, dies at 70 |
1892 |
Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dut baron/genealogist, dies at 79 |
1902 |
Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814) |
1910 |
Boyd Alexander, English explorer (Niger to the Nile), murdered at 37 |
1910 |
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh, German theologist, dies at 79 |
1914 |
Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1830) |
1914 |
Paul Heyse, The Fury |
1920 |
Victor Blüthgen, Gendarm Möbius |
1922 |
Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884) |
1924 |
Johannes E. B. Warming, Danish Botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism interactions), dies at 82 |
1924 |
Camillo De Riso, Avventura di collegio |
1928 |
Theodore Richards, US chemist (atomic weight, Nobel 1914), dies |
1928 |
Georgia O'Ramey, The $5,000,000 Counterfeiting Plot |
1929 |
Jack Drumier, Emblems of Love |
1929 |
Robert Finlay, The Winning Punch |
1930 |
Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876) |
1930 |
Osmán Pérez Freire, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler |
1932 |
Hugo Kaun, composer, dies at 69 |
1932 |
Rose Coghlan, The Sporting Duchess |
1932 |
Thomas Jefferson, Forbidden |
1932 |
Bill Pickett, The Bull-Dogger |
1933 |
K S Ranjitsinhji, cricketer (989 Test runs, 1st-class avg 56), dies |
1933 |
Ranjitsinhji, Ranjit Sinhji and C.B. Fry at the Wickets |
1933 |
Paul Biensfeldt, Harakiri |
1933 |
Sunny Jim McKeen, Stop That Noise |
1936 |
Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860) |
1936 |
Gunnar Klintberg, Elisabet |
1936 |
Vera Esbøll, Paradise Lost |
1936 |
John Gorman, Corruption |
1937 |
Nathan Birnbaum, Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72 |
1937 |
Edward Laemmle, The Drake Case |
1937 |
Katherine Grant, Oranges and Lemons |
1938 |
Alice Berend, writer, dies |
1938 |
Alice Berend, I Will Teach You to Love |
1938 |
Reine Davies, Sunday |
1939 |
Edward E. Rose, The Prisoner of Zenda |
1940 |
Otto Himm, Big Moments from Little Pictures |
1941 |
Paul Teleki, premier Hungary, dies |
1944 |
Mikulas Moyzes, composer, dies at 71 |
1944 |
Tadeusz Skarzynski, Nie damy ziemi, skad nasz ród |
1945 |
Florence Hale, Jones' Hypnotic Eye |
1946 |
Kate Bruce, The Fugitive |
1947 |
Joseph Hardstaff, cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for Eng 1907-08), dies |
1948 |
Sabahattin Ali, Azap yolu |
1949 |
Herman Lantz, Gustaf Wasa, Part One |
1949 |
Neal Hart, Butterfly Range |
1949 |
Francesco Pasinetti, Il canale degli angeli |
1950 |
Jean-Georges Auriol, The Cheat |
1950 |
Allan Murnane, The Black Stork |
1950 |
Florence Nash, The Women |
1951 |
Simon Barere, pianist, dies while perfoming at Carnegie Hall |
1951 |
Charles Willumsen, Paradise Lost |
1952 |
Bernard F Lyot, Fren astronomer (chronograph, Lyot-filter), dies at 55 |
1953 |
Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56 |
1953 |
Jean Epstein, The Fall of the House of Usher |
1953 |
Frederik Fuglsang, A Trip to Mars |
1954 |
Hoyt Vandenberg, Wings |
1954 |
Georges Grey, The Well-Digger's Daughter |
1956 |
Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82 |
1956 |
Chester Clute, actor (Niagara Falls), dies at 65 |
1956 |
Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter, dies at 59 |
1956 |
Chester Clute, Arsenic and Old Lace |
1956 |
Kotaro Takamura, Portrait of Chieko |
1956 |
István Bársony, Hyppolit, the Butler |
1957 |
Gustaf Hedström, Det är min musik |
1957 |
Charles Dorety, A Dark Horse |
1957 |
Ara Gerald, The White Angel |
1957 |
Thomas Rea, Thunder Island |
1958 |
Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900) |
1958 |
Tudor Davies, Mozart |
1959 |
Benjamin Christensen, Danish actor (Barnet, Mockery), dies at 79 |
1959 |
Benjamin Christensen, Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages |
1959 |
Raymond Longford, The Sentimental Bloke |
1959 |
Henri Hillinck, King Kong |
1960 |
John Charlesworth, A Christmas Carol |
1960 |
Edward Churchill, Forced Landing |
1961 |
August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67 |
1961 |
Wallingford Riegger, US composer (Bacchangle), dies at 75 |
1961 |
Wallingford Riegger, Arias and Arabesques |
1961 |
Amos Anderson, Episode dated 27 January 1959 |
1961 |
Robert L. Carson, The Adventures of Kathlyn |
1963 |
Lyubomir Bobchevski, Lyubimetz 13 |
1965 |
Renzo Bossi, composer, dies at 81 |
1965 |
Nils Kihlberg, Örlogsmän |
1966 |
Cecil Scott Forester, English author (Horatio Hornblower), dies at 66 |
1969 |
Fortunio Bonanova, actor (My Best Gal, Havana Rose), dies at 74 |
1972 |
Gil Hodges, manager (NY Mets), dies of heart attack at 57 |
1972 |
Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884) |
1972 |
Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese Martial Arts Grandmaster (b. 1887) |
1973 |
Jascha Horenstein, Russian-born American conductor |
1974 |
Douglass Dumbrille, actor (Mr Deed Goes to Town), dies at 84 |
1974 |
Georges Pompidou, French President (1969-1974) and Prime Minister (1962-1968), dies in Paris at 62 |
1975 |
Everett A. Hughes, Wait Until Dark |
1976 |
Ray Teal, actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza), dies at 74 |
1976 |
Ray Teal, Judgment at Nuremberg |
1976 |
Taos Amrouche, Ramparts of Clay |
1978 |
Gloria Dawn, The Mango Tree |
1979 |
Carroll D Rosenbloom, LA Rams president, dies at 72 |
1979 |
Ivan Barrow, cricketer (11 Tests for West Indies 1930-39), dies |
1980 |
Dick Howorth, cricketer (England slow lefty all-rounder late 40's), dies |
1980 |
Edmund Burns, The Princess from Hoboken |
1982 |
Howard Whalen, Ark |
1982 |
Sam Coslow, Shutter Island |
1983 |
Clara Nunes, Rush |
1984 |
Gösta Kjellertz, Queen for a Night |
1984 |
Dina Perbellini, Seconda B |
1984 |
Frank Crawshaw, Planet of Giants |
1985 |
Koba Kinsbergen, De levende ladder |
1985 |
Leonid Nedovich, Vid na zhitelstvo |
1985 |
John Fernald, Crime and Punishment |
1985 |
Charles Midgely, The Silent Enemy |
1985 |
John-Michael Tebelak, Godspell |
1985 |
Alexandre Rignault, Eyes Without a Face |
1985 |
Edward Rauch, Teddy Bear |
1985 |
Doris Fitton, The Night, the Prowler |
1986 |
Ramón Ropaín, Un ángel de la calle |
1986 |
Ica Jurik, A pénzcsináló |
1987 |
Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestra leader (Away We Go), dies at 69 |
1987 |
Buddy Rich, Whiplash |
1987 |
R.M. Lumiansky, Gap-Toothed Women |
1987 |
Harry Watt, Four Desperate Men |
1987 |
Tadeusz Byrski, Rzeczywistosc |
1988 |
Anthony Pelissier, The Rocking Horse Winner |
1988 |
Tani Marsh, Big Jim McLain |
1988 |
Tani Marsh, From Hell It Came |
1989 |
Marinko Sebez, Moment |
1989 |
Curt Barrett, The Female Artillery |
1989 |
Arnaldo Weiss, A Viagem |
1990 |
Aldo Fabrizi, actor (Postman Goes to War, Open City), dies at 85 |
1990 |
Asbjørn Toms, De vergeløse |
1990 |
Vanda Godsell, A Shot in the Dark |
1990 |
Juanita Fields, Citizen Kane |
1990 |
Aldo Fabrizi, Rome, Open City |
1991 |
Martha Merrill, And She Learned About Dames |
1991 |
Gisa Geert, Hercules |
1991 |
Gordon Scott, The Dam Busters |
1992 |
Paula Kelly, American big band singer, dies at 72 |
1992 |
Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929) |
1992 |
Aleksandra Dmochowska, Przypadki Piotra S. |
1992 |
Svatopluk Skládal, Who Wants to Kill Jessie? |
1992 |
Paula Kelly, Episode dated 30 November 1953 |
1992 |
Tomisaburô Wakayama, Shogun Assassin |
1992 |
F. Bud Mautino, Pilot |
1993 |
Eugenie Leontovitch, actress (4 Sons, Homicidal), dies at 93 |
1993 |
Klaas Schenk, Dutch speed skater/coach/father of Ard, dies at 86 |
1993 |
Dea St. Lamont, Coffy |
1993 |
Michael LaGuardia, All My Children |
1994 |
Richard Davies, actor (Pvt Buckaroo), dies of heart attack at 79 |
1994 |
Ivo Jurisa, Bravo maestro |
1994 |
Viktor Filippov, Office Romance |
1994 |
Betty Furness, The Rabbit |
1994 |
Richard Davies, Gang Busters |
1995 |
Hannes Alfven, physicist (Nobel prize), dies at 86 |
1995 |
Harvey Penick, premier golf instructor/author, dies at 90 |
1995 |
Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist, dies at 57 |
1995 |
Harley Wood, Marihuana |
1995 |
Julius Hemphill, The Big Bang |
1995 |
Lyn Guild, The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street |
1995 |
Jimmie Allen, Sky Parade |
1995 |
Breland Rice, Come Back, Shame |
1996 |
Günther Strupp, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
1997 |
Tomoyuki Tanaka, producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86 |
1997 |
Yuli Meitus, Ivan |
1997 |
Tomoyuki Tanaka, Yojimbo |
1997 |
Michael L. Mannes, The Visitors |
1997 |
Paulo Freire, Traição Conjugal |
1997 |
Anthony Bushell, A Night to Remember |
1997 |
Carlo Böhm, Parte 41 |
1997 |
Annie Hayes, Secrets & Lies |
1997 |
Éliane de Creus, J'ai l'noir ou Le suicide de Dranem |
1997 |
Zsolt Durkó, Elégia |
1998 |
Rob Pilatus, American model and entertainer (Milli Vanilli) (b. 1965) |
1998 |
Betty Caldwell, Greased Lightning |
1998 |
Jock Gaynor, The Deathhead Virgin |
1998 |
Rob Pilatus, The 17th Annual American Music Awards |
1998 |
Jackie Sardou, Le clan des veuves |
1999 |
Tadeusz Gasienica-Giewont, Czarci zleb |
1999 |
Dave Oren Ward, Pariah |
1999 |
Morey Bernstein, The Search for Bridey Murphy |
1999 |
Robert Myhrum, Love of Life |
2000 |
Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (b. 1928) |
2000 |
Greta Gynt, The Human Monster |
2000 |
Bunney Brooke, Dawn! |
2001 |
Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (b. 1920) |
2001 |
Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972) |
2001 |
Eino Ruutsalo, Two Chickens |
2001 |
Jennifer Syme, Lost Highway |
2001 |
Margaret Mary Jones, Whistle |
2001 |
Charles Daudelin, Charles Daudelin |
2002 |
Levi Celerio, Talusaling |
2002 |
John R. Pierce, Gateways to the Mind |
2002 |
Jack Kruschen, The Apartment |
2002 |
Henry Slesar, One Life to Live |
2002 |
Richard Lee Porter, The Deadly Spawn |
2002 |
B.J. Baker, The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant |
2003 |
Edwin Starr, American singer (b. 1942) |
2003 |
Harold E. Wooley, Frankenstein's Daughter |
2003 |
Wolfgang Korruhn, Solotalent |
2003 |
Michael Wayne, McLintock! |
2003 |
Edwin Starr, Adventures in Babysitting |
2003 |
Seymour Friedman, I, Darrin, Take This Witch, Samantha |
2003 |
György Révész, Trip Around My Cranium |
2003 |
Kaveh Golestan, Stardust Stricken - Mohsen Makhmalbaf: A Portrait |
2003 |
Terenci Moix, Episode #1.11 |
2004 |
John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (b. 1913) |
2004 |
Natasha Kroll, The Hireling |
2004 |
John Taras, Felia Doubrovska Remembered |
2004 |
André Cauvin, Black Shadows |
2004 |
Arthur Halestrap, The Last Tommy |
2005 |
Pope John Paul II, Polish Roman Catholic Pope (b. 1920) |
2005 |
Marie Louise Fischer, Women in Hospital |
2005 |
Edna Osser, Hollywood's Magical Island: Catalina |
2005 |
Jacques Poitrenaud, Sweet Skin |
2005 |
Pope John Paul II, The Papal Chase |
2005 |
Betty Bolton, Balaclava |
2005 |
Shelly Howard, The Legend of Booger Red |
2006 |
Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913) |
2006 |
Vladimir Ilin, Hard to Be a God |
2006 |
Anthony Beaumont-Dark, A Force to Be Reckoned With |
2006 |
Tod Coakley, Disturbia |
2006 |
Beverly Beaton, The Bagman |
2006 |
Vera Sládková, The Train of Childhood and Expectation |
2007 |
George Sewell, Get Carter |
2007 |
Charles Boaz, The Land of Oz |
2007 |
Paul Reed, Who's for Swordfish? |
2007 |
Ronald Shedlo, Carrington |
2008 |
Guy McElwaine, The Good Shepherd |
2008 |
Péter Baczakó, Moscow 1980: Games of the XXII Olympiad |
2008 |
Johnny Byrne, Episode #1.2 |
2008 |
Miel Van Attenhoven, Vloeken doet 'm sterk... had ik het maar geweten |
2008 |
Mona Seilitz, Giliap |
2008 |
Momoko Ishii, Non-chan kumo ni noru |
2008 |
Mitchell Schaperkotter, Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch |
2009 |
Bud Shank, I Want to Live! |
2009 |
Jacqueline Baudrier, Campagne pour l'élection du président de la République |
2009 |
Rudy Ventura, Que bé que ve l'any que ve |
2009 |
Frank Springer, With Woman: A Documentary About Women, Midwives and Birth |
2009 |
Siwa, Os Apavorados |
2010 |
Mike Cuellar, Cuban baseball player (b. 1937) |
2010 |
Chris Kanyon, American wrestler (b. 1970) |
2010 |
Din Beramboi, Duhai si pari-pari |
2010 |
Mike Zwerin, Life and Nothing But |
2010 |
James Stellar Jr., Nixon |
2010 |
Mike Cuellar, Game 4 |
2010 |
Ivadell Carter, Jubilo, Jr. |
2010 |
Chris Kanyon, WCW Road Wild |
2010 |
Poul F. Hansen, TV-aktuelt |
2011 |
George E. Mahlberg, Naked Vengeance |
2011 |
Jess Osuna, Kramer vs. Kramer |
2011 |
Bill Varney, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back |
2011 |
Jef Burm, John the Fearless |
2011 |
Claude Stanush, The Newton Boys |
2011 |
George Campeau, The Nurse's Secret |
2011 |
Maria Lomzanka, Seksolatki |
2012 |
Elizabeth Catlett, American-born Mexican artist, dies at 96 |
2012 |
Dieter Matzka, Deckname Dennis |
2012 |
Gerald Bestrom, The Conspirator |
2012 |
Katharina Tüschen, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg |
2012 |
Allie Clark, Game 2 |
2012 |
Elizabeth Catlett, Eréndira la indomable |
2012 |
Boleslaw Ciesielski, Przed Minieciem |
2012 |
Jimmy Little, Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy |
2013 |
Jesús Franco, Spanish film director and writer, dies from complications from a stroke at 82 |
2013 |
Deanne Barkley, The Ordeal of Bill Carney |
2013 |
Cezary Lagiewski, Koniec naszego swiata |
2013 |
Stan Isaacs, :03 from Gold |
2013 |
Bohdan Drozdowski, Koniec nocy |
2013 |
Ed Levitt, Bambi |
2013 |
Berta Moncayo, Carmen, la que contaba 16 años |
2013 |
Umberto Scapagnini, Episode #15.7 |
2013 |
Jane Henson, Sam and Friends |
2013 |
Mustapha Toumi, Echebka |
2013 |
Ivo Paukert, Hastrman |
2013 |
Jesús Franco, Killer Barbys |
2013 |
Chuck Fairbanks, New England Patriots vs. Cleveland Browns |
2013 |
Milo O'Shea, Romeo and Juliet |
2013 |
Henryk Wasilewski, Kobieta samotna |
2014 |
Pierre J. Capretz, Leçon 2 |
2014 |
Glyn Jones, The Space Museum |
2014 |
Milos Mikeln, Bratovscina Sinjega galeba |
2014 |
Urs Widmer, Jeanmaire - Ein Stück Schweiz |
2014 |
Richard Brick, Sweet and Lowdown |
2014 |
Alfonso Bayard, Rumbo a peor |
2014 |
Gustavo Rodríguez, Death at Dawn |
2014 |
Everett De Roche, Road Games |
2014 |
Sandy Grossman, Super Bowl XVIII |
2015 |
Fillie Lyckow, Episode #1.14 |
2015 |
Doug Sax, The Black Crowes: Freak 'N' Roll... Into the Fog |
2015 |
Tom Towles, Night of the Living Dead |
2015 |
Leandro Vale, Tricheurs |
2015 |
Robert H. Schuller, One in Ten/Name of the Game/The Chieftains/Crystal Cathedral Split/Eric McCormack/On the Road |
2015 |
Evelyn Starks, Ghost |
2015 |
Abdelhadi Tazi, Atlantean |
2015 |
Barbara Sass, Temptation |
2015 |
Ricardo Della Rosa, Alex Cross |
2015 |
Steve Stevaert, Episode #1.8 |
2015 |
Manoel de Oliveira, To Each His Own Cinema |
2015 |
Olga Sawicka, Uczta Baltazara |
2015 |
Ben Meisner, |
2015 |
Wally Cassell, White Heat |
2015 |
Robert Blair Kaiser, RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy |
2015 |
Hayley Okines, 7 Going on 70 |
2015 |
Dennis Marks, Porgy and Bess |
2016 |
Denise Robertson, This Morning's Agony Aunt, dies aged 83 |
2016 |
Ian Britton: Former Chelsea and Burnley midfielder dies aged 61 |
2016 |
Hardline Hungarian communist Bela Biszku dies aged 94 |
2016 |
Hans-Dietrich Genscher: former German foreign minister dies aged 89 |
2016 |
Sherlock Holmes actor Douglas Wilmer dies aged 96 from pneumonia |
2017 |
Legendary Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dies aged 84 |
2017 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada dies aged 87 |
2018 |
Steven Bochco, creator of Hill Street Blues, dies at 74 |
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