Notable Deaths on April 26th
April 26th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
757 |
Stephen II, Pope (752-57), dies |
1192 |
Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127) |
1196 |
Alfonso II, King of Aragon (1162-96), dies |
1444 |
Robert Campin, South Neth painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65 |
1476 |
Simonetta Vespucci, inspiration of Botticelli (b.1453) |
1478 |
Giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24 |
1489 |
Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465) |
1558 |
Jean Francois Fernel, French physician, dies |
1648 |
Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer, dies at 79 |
1703 |
Georg Christoph Leuttner, composer, dies at 58 |
1716 |
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1651) |
1726 |
Jeremy Collier, Engl bishop/historian/opponent to theater, dies at 75 |
1784 |
Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (b. 1718) |
1785 |
Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer, dies at 40 |
1789 |
Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67 |
1805 |
Jean BG d'ansse the Villoison, classic (Anecdota Graeca), dies at 55 |
1827 |
Bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90 |
1865 |
Charles J Sax, Belgium musician and father of Adolphe Sax inventor of the saxophone, dies at 74 |
1865 |
John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green VA at 27 |
1881 |
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815) |
1892 |
Sir Provo Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero (b. 1791) |
1906 |
Henry J.W. Dam, Her Silent Sacrifice |
1907 |
Pietro Plantania, composer, dies at 79 |
1910 |
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, Norwegian writer (Mary, Nobel 1903), dies at 77 |
1910 |
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, The Greatest Thing |
1915 |
John Bunny, A Cure for Pokeritis |
1916 |
Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Retrato de Família |
1917 |
Dent Gilbert, Castles for Two |
1920 |
Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887) |
1920 |
Marjorie Benton Cooke, Married? |
1922 |
Hans Sommer, composer, dies at 84 |
1922 |
Frederic Van Rensselaer Dey, Three Keys |
1923 |
Pablo Podestá, Tierra baja |
1923 |
Inda Palmer, Crossed Wires |
1924 |
Josef Labor, composer, dies at 82 |
1928 |
François de Curel, Le bois des amants |
1930 |
Beth Slater Whitson, Out of Sight |
1932 |
Bill Lockwood, cricketer (43 wickets in 12 Tests for England), dies |
1932 |
Stefano Pittaluga, Nerone |
1933 |
Roy Stewart, Sparrows |
1934 |
R. Henry Grey, The Phantom Shotgun |
1936 |
Tammany Young, American actor (b.1886) |
1936 |
Tammany Young, It's a Gift |
1938 |
Edmund Husserl, German philosopher (study of phenomenon), dies at 79 |
1939 |
Nelson Keys, Knights for a Day |
1940 |
Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, IG Farben, Nobel 1931), dies at 65 |
1941 |
Jean Demoor, Belgian physician/physiologist/educationalist, dies at 74 |
1941 |
Gräfin Eufemia von Adlersfeld-Ballentein, Der Amönenhof |
1942 |
Walter Cameron, The Varsity Race |
1944 |
Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893) |
1944 |
George Herriman, Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing |
1944 |
Harold Wenstrom, The Lost Patrol |
1945 |
Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871) |
1945 |
Sigmund Rascher, Nazi doctor (b. 1909) |
1945 |
Hilde Gebuehr, Die Wasserteufel von Hieflau |
1945 |
Karl Haubenreißer, It Was a Gay Ballnight |
1946 |
Hermann Keyserling, count/philosopher (Unsterblichkeit), dies at 65 |
1946 |
Frank Cotner, The Demon Rider |
1947 |
Cecil Reynolds, Modern Times |
1947 |
Frank E. Hughes, Lifeboat |
1949 |
Alfred Drayton, Things Happen at Night |
1950 |
G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881) |
1950 |
Luigi Garrone, The Adulteress |
1951 |
John Alden Carpenter, US composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75 |
1951 |
Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868) |
1951 |
Gerda Müller, Das Fräulein von Scuderi |
1951 |
Juan Miguel Velich, The Motorcycle Diaries |
1952 |
Charles L Baars, Dutch actor (Women Tamers), dies at 59 |
1952 |
Friedrich Ulmer, The Monastery's Hunter |
1952 |
Olof Krook, Mans kvinna |
1953 |
Bob Moak, In the Navy |
1953 |
Rian James, 42nd Street |
1956 |
Edward Arnold, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington), dies at 66 |
1956 |
Vladimir Frolenko, The Fall of Berlin |
1956 |
Edward Arnold, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
1957 |
Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868) |
1957 |
Philip Stong, State Fair |
1957 |
Elinor Fair, The Volga Boatman |
1957 |
Eva Karelová, Portási |
1958 |
Joe Small, cricketer (WI all-rounder in 1928 series), dies |
1958 |
Johan N C "Joan" Collette, painter, dies at 68 |
1958 |
Philip Moeller, Break of Hearts |
1958 |
Mikayil Rafili, Sabuhi |
1958 |
Lew Short, There Is No Place Like Home |
1958 |
Daniel P. Kelleher, The Calling of Jim Barton |
1960 |
Wander J de Haas, Dut physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at 82 |
1961 |
Gail Russell, actress (Calcutta, Moonrise, El Paso), dies at 36 |
1962 |
Kôkichi Tsukiyama, Shibukawa Bangorô |
1962 |
Martin Cichy, O'Mally Rides Alone |
1964 |
Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81 |
1964 |
Pieter van der Lijn, Dutch geologist (Boulder Book), dies at 93 |
1965 |
Aaron Avshalomov, composer, dies at 70 |
1967 |
Jack Radcliffe, Wee Geordie |
1969 |
Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883) |
1970 |
Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper/actress (Pruitts of S Hampton), dies at 56 |
1970 |
John Knittel, writer, dies at 79 |
1970 |
Paul Celan, writer, dies at 49 [or May 5] |
1970 |
Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886) |
1972 |
Margaret A R Bonds, US pianist/composer/arranger, dies at 59 |
1972 |
Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892) |
1973 |
Irene Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69 |
1976 |
Allan Jackson, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand), dies at 60 |
1976 |
Neil McCallum, actor (Pete-Saber of London), dies at 45 |
1976 |
Sid James, South African-born British comedian, dies at 62 |
1977 |
Sandro Giovannini, Un mandarino per Teo |
1979 |
Jozef Cierny, Three Daughters |
1980 |
Cicely Courtneidge, actress (Double Exposure), dies at 87 |
1980 |
Franziska Kinz, Diary of a Lost Girl |
1980 |
Cicely Courtneidge, The L-Shaped Room |
1981 |
Jim Davis, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), dies at 65 |
1981 |
Madge Evans, TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 71 |
1981 |
Robert Davi, dies at 54 |
1981 |
Madge Evans, Army Girl |
1982 |
Celia Johnson, British actress (Jean Brodie), dies of stroke at 73 |
1982 |
Ville Ritola, Finnish 5/10km runner (Olympic-gold-1924, 28), dies |
1982 |
Celia Johnson, Brief Encounter |
1982 |
Ovidiu Gologan, Forest of the Hanged |
1982 |
Chaim Grade, The Quarrel |
1983 |
Bronislaw Kaper, composer, dies at 81 |
1983 |
Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72 |
1983 |
Rocky Gunn, The Return of Charlie Chan |
1983 |
J.G. Smyth, Banzai! Japan: 1931-1942 |
1983 |
Vaughn Taylor, Psycho |
1983 |
Felix De Cola, Kipling's Women |
1983 |
Shirley Deane, Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe |
1983 |
Walter Pritchard, The Hungry Dragon |
1983 |
Bronislau Kaper, A Day at the Races |
1984 |
Henry Rowland, actor (Rogue's Regiment), dies at 70 |
1984 |
May McAvoy, actress (Ben Hur), dies at 82 after a heart attack |
1984 |
William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, dies on 80th birthday |
1984 |
Henry Rowland, Supervixens |
1984 |
Ruth Lockwood, Oh, Say Can You Hear? |
1984 |
Count Basie, Pearl Harbor |
1984 |
Barry Gray, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun |
1984 |
Shen Chan, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires |
1984 |
May McAvoy, The Jazz Singer |
1984 |
Dolores Cassinelli, Unknown Love |
1985 |
Bob Fender, Arsenic and Old Lace |
1985 |
Oswin, Kennen Sie Georg Linke? |
1986 |
Bessie Love, actress (Broadway Melody, Isadora), dies at 87 |
1986 |
[William] Broderick Crawford, American actor (Highway Patrol), dies after a series of strokes at 74 |
1986 |
Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899) |
1986 |
Sibyl Bowman, An Indian Nemesis |
1986 |
Lou Van Burg, Spiel mit Onkel Lou |
1986 |
Kåre Wicklund, Det drønner gjennom dalen |
1986 |
Günter Karau, Der lange Ritt zur Schule |
1986 |
Edmund Ogrodzinski, Wszystko dla syna. Rok 1905 |
1986 |
Bessie Love, The Lost World |
1986 |
Broderick Crawford, All the King's Men |
1987 |
John Ernest Silkin, British politician (b. 1923) |
1987 |
Shankar, Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo Shankar-Jaikishan (b. 1922) |
1987 |
Shankarsingh Raghuwanshi, Gravity |
1988 |
King Evers, Our Alley |
1989 |
Lucille Ball, comedienne (I Love Lucy), dies of heart attack at 78 |
1989 |
Inez Hatchett, Gone with the Wind |
1989 |
Eric Nord, The Hypnotic Eye |
1989 |
Lucille Ball, The Ballet |
1990 |
Carlos Pizarro Leongomez, Colombian pres candidate, assassinated |
1990 |
Marie Muchmore, Muchmore Film of Kennedy Assassination |
1991 |
Carmine Coppola, composer/father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies |
1991 |
Emily McLaughlin, US actress (Jessie-General Hospital), dies at 61 |
1991 |
Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904) |
1991 |
Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931) |
1991 |
Leo Arnaud, A Day at the Races |
1991 |
Howard Lanin, Rambling 'Round Radio Row #3 |
1991 |
A.B. Guthrie Jr., Shane |
1991 |
Carmine Coppola, The Godfather: Part III |
1991 |
Richard Hatfield, The Canadian Federation |
1991 |
Emily McLaughlin, The Jungle |
1992 |
Alberta Vaughn, actress (Wild Horse, Silver Devil), dies at 87 |
1992 |
Clyde Hartley, entertainer, dies at 68 |
1992 |
Mário Donato, Presença de Anita |
1992 |
Alberta Vaughn, Randy Rides Alone |
1992 |
Julian Amyes, Jane Eyre |
1992 |
Gerda Flagstad, Husmoderafløsning |
1993 |
Sandy Bull, Tucker: The Man and His Dream |
1994 |
Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927) |
1994 |
Mas Oyama, Fighting Black Kings |
1994 |
Bill Pellington, 1964 NFL Championship Game |
1994 |
Gay Parkes, Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars |
1994 |
Izzy Ellis, Porky in Wackyland |
1994 |
Ferenc Lohr, People on the Alps |
1995 |
Alexander Knox, actor/writer (Gorky Park, Accident), dies at 88 |
1995 |
Mimi Obler, Dragonfly |
1995 |
Ethel Newman, Rodney Stone |
1995 |
Hanna Ozogowska, Dziewczyna i chlopak |
1995 |
Sammy Jackson, General Hospital |
1995 |
Frieda Belinfante, |
1995 |
Grigoriy Lyampe, Bezymyannaya zvezda |
1995 |
Arthur W. Silver, Big Ghost Basin |
1996 |
Burton Stein, historian, dies at 69 |
1996 |
John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist, dies at 94 |
1996 |
Stirling Silliphant, screenwriter, dies at 78 |
1996 |
Milt Gaston, A National Heirloom |
1996 |
Thaís de Andrade, Episode dated 25 October 1977 |
1996 |
Stirling Silliphant, In the Heat of the Night |
1996 |
Miles Shepard, Journey to Freedom |
1997 |
Joey Faye, comic (Fruit of the Loom grapes), dies at 86 |
1997 |
Peng Zhen, mayor of Beijing China (1951-66), dies |
1997 |
Yegorov, Russian leader (1994-95), dies |
1997 |
Carl Forcht, Irrtum des Herzens |
1997 |
Philip Harkins, Surrender - Hell! |
1997 |
Neil Robinson, 8½ |
1997 |
Glen Walters, She Goes to War |
1997 |
Harry Tatelman, Major Payne |
1997 |
Gene Ames, The Ames Brothers Show |
1997 |
John Beal, The Firm |
1997 |
Joey Faye, Once Upon a Time in America |
1997 |
Hans Sundberg, Beware of the Jönsson Gang |
1997 |
Johnny DiCarsano, Beyond All Means |
1998 |
Karl-Erik Berlin, Örlogsmän |
1998 |
Ed Lahti, Mr. Boogedy |
1998 |
Dominique Aury, Fruits of Passion |
1998 |
Marguerite James, The Hustler |
1998 |
Gabe Paul, Powel Crosley and the 20th Century |
1999 |
Adrian Borland, English musician (The Sound) (b. 1957) |
1999 |
Jill Dando, British television presenter (b.1961) |
1999 |
Louis Peraino, Night of Evil |
1999 |
Edward L. Jeffers, Simon & Simon |
1999 |
Jill Dando, Episode dated 13 April 1993 |
1999 |
Adrian Borland, Episode dated 2 October 1984 |
2000 |
Egon Weidekamp, |
2000 |
Jerzy Szawlowski, Knife in the Water |
2000 |
Helen Eileen Beardsley, Yours, Mine and Ours |
2001 |
Betty Bjurström, The Poor Millionaire |
2001 |
Manuel Sellner, Mirror of the Planet |
2001 |
Lisa Lee, The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's |
2001 |
Gerd Preusche, Todesspiel |
2001 |
Ruth Hellberg, Magda |
2002 |
Robert Steinhäuser German spree killer (b.1983) |
2002 |
Joe Cerce, Weird N.J. |
2002 |
Mikhail Ptashuk, V avguste 44-go |
2002 |
Orhan Elmas, Öleceksek ölelim |
2002 |
Willie Mae Taylor, Honky Donkey |
2002 |
Karl Schwetter, Marry Me, Cherie |
2002 |
Gustáv Valach, Lost People |
2002 |
Del Sharbutt, Episode #1.14 |
2002 |
Hans Heinrich Von Thyssen, |
2002 |
James Elsegood, The Pied Piper of Hamelin |
2003 |
Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930) |
2003 |
Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist (b. 1904) |
2003 |
Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930) |
2003 |
Olle Leth, Guttersnipes |
2003 |
Peter Stone, Charade |
2003 |
Barney Oldfield, Into the Breach: 'Saving Private Ryan' |
2003 |
Per-Olof Pettersson, Persona |
2004 |
Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928) |
2004 |
Tony Scott, The Surrogate |
2004 |
Hubert Selby Jr., Requiem for a Dream |
2004 |
La Paquera de Jerez, Flamenco |
2004 |
Lia Laats, Siin me oleme! |
2004 |
Denis Hills, Amin: The Rise and Fall |
2004 |
Estée Lauder, Estee Lauder: The Sweet Smell of Success |
2005 |
Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919) |
2005 |
Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926) |
2005 |
Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917) |
2005 |
Hasil Adkins, Grand Theft Auto V |
2005 |
Mason Adams, Another World |
2005 |
Josef Nesvadba, Zabil jsem Einsteina, panove |
2005 |
Maria Schell, Superman |
2005 |
Duane Gay, Milwaukee: The Legend of Bambi Bembenek |
2005 |
Augusto Roa Bastos, La sed |
2005 |
Michael Coles, The Satanic Rites of Dracula |
2005 |
Inday Ba, The Reunion |
2005 |
Borys Marynowski, Zatarte slady |
2005 |
Hemílcio Fróes, Dentro da Vida |
2005 |
Robert J. Schiffer, TRON |
2006 |
Christine Firth, Feasting with Panthers |
2006 |
Anne-Marie Schmitt, Blankety Blanks |
2006 |
Guilherme de Brito, Woman on Top |
2007 |
Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921) |
2007 |
Frank Jürgen Krüger, Die Emil Bulls |
2007 |
Mariusz Sabiniewicz, Episode #1.495 |
2007 |
Henry LeTang, The Cotton Club |
2007 |
Jack Valenti, The Chip: Part 1 |
2008 |
Djerdj Fejes, Panonski vrh |
2008 |
Carmen Scarpitta, La Cage aux Folles |
2008 |
Nino Candido, Bull Durham |
2008 |
Henry Brant, Good Morning, Vietnam |
2008 |
Árpád Orbán, Tokyo 1964: Games of the XVIII Olympiad |
2008 |
Stanley Dudelson, A Nightmare on Elm Street |
2008 |
Esko Nurminen, Vaarallista vapautta |
2008 |
Douglas Hayward, Modesty Blaise |
2009 |
Hans Holzer, Amityville II: The Possession |
2009 |
Mitko Moskov, Wilna Zona |
2009 |
Macha Béranger, La méthode Bourchnikov |
2009 |
Donald Specht, Sonar One-Step |
2009 |
Daryl Hury, Buttleman |
2010 |
Owen Thomas, |
2010 |
Ted Noose, Major League |
2010 |
Pentti Helanne, Girl of Finland |
2010 |
Willy Caron, Le nozze di Figaro |
2010 |
Joseph W. Sarno, Confessions of a Young American Housewife |
2010 |
Ljiljana Petrovic, Lutalica |
2010 |
Trevor Szold, Snowmobile Slam |
2010 |
Karl Wesseler, Pension Schöller |
2010 |
Ernest Chiracka, Pulp Fiction Art: Cheap Thrills & Painted Nightmares |
2010 |
Dolores Beristáin, Adiós mamá |
2010 |
Roy Baird, Casino Royale |
2011 |
Jim Mandich, Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry |
2011 |
Seiichiro Uno, Chîsana baikingu Bikke |
2011 |
Albert Stratton, Wedlock |
2011 |
John Cossette, The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards |
2011 |
Phoebe Snow, Running with Scissors |
2011 |
Roger Gimbel, The Glass House |
2012 |
Helmut Jedele, Deep End |
2012 |
Terry Spinks, Shiner |
2012 |
Klaus Knuth, Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress |
2012 |
Pete Fornatale, Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation |
2012 |
Steve Roland, Quiz Show |
2012 |
Margie Stewart, Gildersleeve's Ghost |
2012 |
Jim Hiltz, The Bullwinkle Show |
2012 |
Fernand Tack, Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday |
2013 |
George Jones, American country musician, dies from hypoxic respiratory failure at 81 |
2013 |
Tom Knapp, Extreme Marksmen |
2013 |
Antoni Staskiewicz, Before the Tournament |
2013 |
Jacqueline Brookes, Another World |
2013 |
Braxton Schuffert, Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues |
2013 |
George Jones, Crazy Heart |
2014 |
Ole Enger, Stompa til Sjøs! |
2014 |
Vera Singaevskaya, Aizaugusa gravi viegli krist |
2014 |
Lee Marshall, Russell Peters: Show Me the Funny |
2014 |
Antonio Pica, Delusions of Grandeur |
2014 |
Klaus Schultz, Ödipussi |
2014 |
Angelo Bernabucci, Compagni di scuola |
2014 |
Paul Robeson Jr., 500 Years Later |
2015 |
Actress and TV personality Jayne Meadows, who often teamed with her husband Steve Allen, dies at 95 |
2015 |
Jozef Paczynski, Surprising Beginnings |
2015 |
Mikhail Zayats, Vertikal |
2015 |
Jayne Meadows, Casino |
2015 |
Maurice Fellous, Monsieur Gangster |
2015 |
Pete Cronkite, Dennis the Menace in Cruise Control |
2015 |
Árpád Kóti, Ponyvapotting |
2015 |
Wolfgang Sauer, Episode #2.1 |
2016 |
Double Fine, LucasArts audio legend Jory Prum dies, aged just 41 |
2016 |
China's Peking Opera master Mei Baojiu dies aged 82 |
2016 |
Former New England Patriots defensive end Ron Brace dies aged 29 |
2016 |
Warsaw Ghetto author Martin Gray dies aged 93 in Belgium |
2016 |
'Me and Mrs Jones' singer Billy Paul dies, aged 80 |
2017 |
Philosophical novelist Robert Pirsig dies aged 88 |
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