Notable Deaths on April 28th
April 28th Deaths
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1089 |
Dirk de Grote, bishop of Verdun/Basel/archbishop of Trier, dies |
1109 |
Hugo van Cluny, 6th abbott of Cluny/saint, dies |
1192 |
Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem (b. mid 1140s) |
1498 |
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician |
1533 |
Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461) |
1710 |
Thomas Betterton, English actor |
1716 |
Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest (b. 1673) |
1726 |
Thomas Pitt, British Governor of Madras (b. 1653) |
1741 |
Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish General and statesman (b. 1668) |
1770 |
Marie AC de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60 |
1772 |
Johann Friedrich Struensee, physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737) |
1781 |
Cornelius Harnett, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723) |
1799 |
Francois Giroust, composer, dies at 62 |
1804 |
Hans Gram, composer, dies at 49 |
1813 |
Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745) |
1816 |
Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862) |
1841 |
Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803) |
1843 |
William Wallace, Scottish mathematician (rights of Wallace), dies |
1853 |
Ludwig Tieck, writer, dies at 79 |
1853 |
Ludwig Tieck, Leonor |
1858 |
Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801) |
1865 |
Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born British shipping magnate (b. 1787) |
1873 |
A Manzoni, writer, dies at 88 |
1881 |
Robert W Ollinger, US warden/last victim of Billy the Kid, dies |
1887 |
Carl Ferdinand Pohl, composer, dies at 67 |
1896 |
Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian, dies |
1902 |
Sol Smith Russell, A Poor Relation |
1905 |
Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835) |
1905 |
Fitzhugh Lee, Gen. Fitzhugh Lee and Staff |
1916 |
Alex Rautio, Salaviinanpolttajat |
1918 |
Gavrilo Princip, |
1925 |
Louis F J Bouwmeester, actor (Shakespeare), dies |
1926 |
Zip the Pinhead, American freak show performer (b. 1857) |
1926 |
Jeffreys Lewis, A Regular Girl |
1928 |
Gertrude Claire, The Coward |
1929 |
Mack Fluker, The Helpless Helper |
1931 |
Joseph Levigard, Grit Wins |
1931 |
William W. Cohill, Life Without Soul |
1932 |
Charles E. Banks, Sweet Adeline |
1933 |
Robin Irvine, actor (Easy Virtue), dies at 31 |
1933 |
Robin Irvine, Easy Virtue |
1934 |
Hawthorne Hurst, Goldie Gets Along |
1934 |
Charley Patton, Feel Like Going Home |
1935 |
Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scotish composer, dies at 87 |
1935 |
Aga Hashr Kashmiri, Yahudi Ki Ladki |
1935 |
John Cossar, The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1936 |
Foead I, king of Egypt (1922-36), dies |
1941 |
F. Blinn, Quicker'n Lightnin' |
1942 |
Burr McIntosh, Way Down East |
1943 |
Clark W. Thomas, Richard the Lion-Hearted |
1944 |
Frank Knox, U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate (b. 1874) |
1944 |
Ray Lissner, Laugh, Clown, Laugh |
1944 |
Kaizan Nakazato, The Sword of Doom |
1945 |
Benito Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy, shot by communist partisans at 61 |
1945 |
Claretta Petacci, mistress of Mussolini, executed |
1945 |
Hans Bloesch, writer, dies |
1945 |
Roberto Farinacci, Italian fascist (b. 1892) |
1945 |
Christa Tordy, The Countess of Sand |
1945 |
Benito Mussolini, Cavalcade of Faith |
1945 |
Clara Petacci, |
1945 |
Alessandro Pavolini, |
1945 |
Harry Liedtke, The Merry Jail |
1946 |
Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870) |
1946 |
Bob Bartlett, The Viking |
1948 |
Albert Forster, |
1948 |
Tom Breneman, Breakfast in Hollywood |
1949 |
Aurora Quezon, First Lady of the Philippines (shot) (b. 1888) |
1949 |
Fernando Fresno, El crimen de Pepe Conde |
1949 |
Aurora A. Quezon, Principeng hindi tumatawa |
1950 |
Fanny Belle DeKnight, Hallelujah |
1951 |
Osmar Maderna, El ídolo del tango |
1953 |
Sarah Adler, Sins of the Parents |
1953 |
Osmo Saarnio, Serenaadiluutnantti |
1954 |
Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879) |
1954 |
Walter Brandt, Ray of Sunshine |
1955 |
Lode Cantens, Flemish playwrite (Gnomes of the City), dies at 43 |
1955 |
George Morrell, Child Bride |
1955 |
Stanislaw Sielanski, Dorozkarz nr 13 |
1956 |
Holly Hollinger, Home in Wyomin' |
1957 |
Heinz "Pritzl" Bär, German fighter pilot (b. 1913) |
1957 |
Michal Michalesko, God, Man and Devil |
1958 |
Karl Bachmann, Die Czardasfürstin |
1958 |
Tex Phelps, Randy Rides Alone |
1959 |
Aleksandr Shchagin, The Golden Key |
1959 |
Peter Paul Brauer, Ich bin gleich wieder da |
1959 |
Tom Heslewood, Victoria the Great |
1959 |
Franz Koch, Triumph of the Will |
1960 |
Anton Pancake, astronomer/marxist theorist, dies at 87 |
1960 |
Emil Gal, Cain and Artem |
1964 |
Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888) |
1964 |
Rolf de Maré, The Imaginary Voyage |
1965 |
Ferdinand Bordewijk, Dutch lawyer/writer (Character), dies at 80 |
1966 |
Ralph Bunker, actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77 |
1969 |
Johannes Rontgen, composer, dies at 70 |
1970 |
Ed Begley, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69 |
1973 |
Pat Henning, actor (Goodyear TV Playhouse), dies at 62 |
1973 |
Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893) |
1973 |
Pat Henning, On the Waterfront |
1974 |
Paul Page, actor (Girl from Havanna, Moth), dies at 70 |
1975 |
Jan A de Jonge, Dutch historian, dies at 48 |
1975 |
George Lowther, The Edge of Night |
1976 |
Eugen Roth, writer, dies at 81 |
1977 |
Ricardo Cortez, American actor and director (The Maltese Falcon), dies at 76 |
1977 |
Ricardo Cortez, The Maltese Falcon |
1978 |
Russell Metty, Spartacus |
1979 |
Feliks Roderyk Labunski, composer, dies at 86 |
1979 |
Hurley A. Graffius, B.S. I Love You |
1980 |
Dee Carroll, [Betty Jean Marsh], actress (Mad Bomber, Split), dies |
1980 |
Ellen Sinding, Til sæters |
1980 |
Felix Bernstein, Hitler's Madman |
1980 |
Bob Porterfield, 1954 MLB All-Star Game |
1980 |
Dee Carroll, The Stunt Man |
1980 |
Mary Jepp, The Evil Eye |
1981 |
Mickey "Toy Bulldog" Walker, welterweight champ (1922-26) dies at 79 |
1981 |
Le Vicomte de Noailles, L'Age d'Or |
1981 |
Steve Currie, Born to Boogie |
1981 |
Mickey Walker, Episode #5.18 |
1982 |
Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], Dutch singer/actor, dies at 66 |
1982 |
EW "Nobby" Clark, Engl cricketer (32 wickets in 8 Tests 1929-34), dies |
1982 |
Bert van Dongen, Het meisje met den blauwen hoed |
1983 |
Ron James, cricketer (NSW's Sheffield Shield capt 1949-50), dies |
1983 |
Charles LaVere, George Burns in the Big Time |
1984 |
Glen H Taylor, US senator/VP candidate (1948), dies at 80 |
1984 |
Silvia A Warner, writer, dies |
1984 |
Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Two Loves |
1984 |
Herman E. Webber, Carmen Jones |
1984 |
Treg Brown, The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour |
1985 |
Werner Lierck, Einer von uns |
1985 |
Nand Baert, The Eurovision Song Contest |
1985 |
Jean L'Hôte, Mon Oncle |
1985 |
Jaroslav Drbohlav, Three Wishes for Cinderella |
1985 |
Hoyt Ming, O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
1985 |
Karen Fredersdorf, Nordlicht |
1986 |
Herbert Bress, The Hollywood Knights |
1987 |
Ben Linder, development worker, murdered by Contras in Nicaragua |
1987 |
Russell Saunders, Them! |
1987 |
Lester Linsk, The Games |
1987 |
Karl Detzer, Car 99 |
1988 |
B. W. Stevenson, American country singer (b. 1949) |
1988 |
Eugeniusz Nowowiejski, Hallo Szpicbródka, czyli ostatni wystep Króla Kasiarzy |
1988 |
Andrew Cruickshank, El Cid |
1989 |
Olaff J de Landell [JB van Sparwoude], Dutch writer, dies at 77 |
1989 |
Leonidas Ossetynski, The Man in the Glass Booth |
1989 |
Géza von Cziffra, It Was a Gay Ballnight |
1989 |
Jack Cummings, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers |
1989 |
Michael Forella, Bad |
1989 |
Esa Pakarinen, Rovaniemen markkinoilla |
1989 |
Ann Thomas, Midnight Cowboy |
1989 |
Franco Parenti, Tre nel mille |
1989 |
László Tabi, Minden kezdet nehéz |
1990 |
Jean Blazer Baney, entertainer, dies |
1990 |
E. Hampton Beagle, Cocktail |
1990 |
Tom Matts, The Lathe of Heaven |
1991 |
Floyd B McKissick, US founder (CORE), dies |
1991 |
Ken Curtis, actor (Festus-Gunsmoke), dies at 74 |
1991 |
Steve Broidy, American motion picture executive (b. 1905) |
1991 |
Albrecht Joseph, The Incredible Shrinking Man |
1991 |
Steve Broidy, The Fox |
1991 |
Nicola Manzari, Frine, cortigiana d'Oriente |
1991 |
Ken Curtis, The Searchers |
1992 |
Francis Bacon, Irish/British abstract painter, dies at 82 |
1992 |
Olivier Messiaen, French composer (St Francois d'Assise), dies at 83 |
1992 |
Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918) |
1992 |
Francis Bacon, Francis Bacon |
1992 |
Brian Pockar, Romeo and Juliet on Ice |
1992 |
Paul-André Gaillard, Le voyage dans la lune |
1992 |
Ethel La Blanche, Pirates on Horseback |
1992 |
Parashkev Hadzhiev, Sledite ostavat |
1992 |
Robert Beck, Trick Baby |
1992 |
Andrei Balanchivadze, The Vow |
1993 |
Jim Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), dies of cancer at 47 |
1993 |
Jack Big Head, Jim Thorpe -- All-American |
1993 |
Johan Nykopp, Suomen valinta |
1993 |
Irving Paley, Change of Habit |
1993 |
Jean-Paul Alphen, The Rules of the Game |
1993 |
Gene Howard, Artistry in Rhythm |
1993 |
Jim Valvano, ESPN: NCAA Basketball |
1994 |
Oleg Borisov, Sluga |
1995 |
Andrew Salkey, author editor/broadcaster, dies at 67 |
1995 |
Henry C Rogers, press Agent, dies at 81 |
1995 |
Peaches Roy Davis, baseball pitcher, dies at 89 |
1995 |
Andrew Salkey, The Mangrove Nine |
1995 |
Veli Tamminen, Oslon talviolympialaiset |
1995 |
Nick Nastos, Episode #6.12 |
1995 |
Henry C. Rogers, Follow the Boys |
1996 |
Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84 |
1996 |
Henry Clarke, fashion photographer, dies at 75 |
1996 |
Julio Cesar Mendez Montenegro, politician, dies at 80 |
1996 |
William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies |
1996 |
Svea Holst, Fanny and Alexander |
1996 |
Leonid Yanovsky, Vernyy Ruslan (Istoriya karaulnoy sobaki) |
1997 |
Susan Seddon Boulet, artist, dies of cancer at 45 |
1997 |
Steve Conte, The Wild World of Batwoman |
1997 |
Peter Taylor, The Judiciary in the Nineties |
1998 |
Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939) |
1998 |
Roger Eason, Easy Living |
1998 |
Dorothy Lovett, They Meet Again |
1998 |
Jerome Bixby, The Man from Earth |
1999 |
Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922) |
1999 |
Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920) |
1999 |
Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921) |
1999 |
Donald Stewart, The Hunt for Red October |
1999 |
Rory Calhoun, Motel Hell |
1999 |
Roderick Thorp, Die Hard |
2000 |
Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916) |
2000 |
Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925) |
2000 |
Ella Lucille Dinning, Takin' the Breaks |
2000 |
Antonio Buero Vallejo, Esquilache |
2000 |
Lou Dinning, That Texas Jamboree |
2000 |
Jimmy Rogers, Calaboose |
2000 |
Robert Spafford, The Last Temptation of Christ |
2000 |
Karine Nordman, Never Again |
2000 |
Ernest J. Nims, The Stranger |
2000 |
Kim Borg, Episode dated 9 December 1966 |
2001 |
Paul Daneman, Zulu |
2001 |
Carlos Scliar, A Cartomante |
2001 |
Ken Hughes, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
2001 |
Evelyn Künneke, Killer Condom |
2002 |
Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950) |
2002 |
Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916) |
2002 |
Lou Thesz, The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling |
2002 |
Joe Walls, The Poker Fiend |
2002 |
Gregg Fedderson, Travels with Cissy |
2002 |
John Wilkinson, Platoon |
2003 |
Andrei Feher, Kiss of Death |
2003 |
Ciccio Ingrassia, Amarcord |
2004 |
Hartney J. Arthur, Red Sky at Morning |
2004 |
Patrick Berhault, Fortune Express |
2004 |
Jean-Devaivre, The Farm of Seven Sins |
2004 |
Todd Jamieson, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle |
2004 |
Zsolt Haraszti, Szél |
2005 |
Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972) |
2005 |
Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist of Sri Lanka (b. 1959) |
2005 |
Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923) |
2005 |
Percy Heath, The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music |
2005 |
Charles Schulthies, Westworld |
2005 |
Lance Heywood, Dixie Dynamite and the All-Star Tit Queens |
2005 |
Aileen Raymond, Crossroads |
2005 |
Lloyd Dawson, The Window |
2005 |
Chris Candido, ECW Living Dangerously '98 |
2005 |
Lane Nakano, Go for Broke! |
2005 |
Abraham Ronai, The Big Red One |
2005 |
Ann Bupp, Gone with the Wind |
2006 |
Jeannine Worms, Le bon exemple |
2006 |
Geoffrey Colville, The Evil of the Daleks: Episode 2 |
2006 |
Steve Howe, 1982 MLB All-Star Game |
2006 |
Werner Feißt, Kassensturz |
2006 |
Louis Rosenblate, Cannes Man |
2007 |
Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917) |
2007 |
Tommy Newsom, American bandleader (b. 1929) |
2007 |
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912) |
2007 |
Tommy Newsom, Night of 100 Stars |
2007 |
Paul Kimatian, Deuces Wild |
2007 |
Richard Tretter, Baron of Purgatory |
2007 |
Milt Grant, Pulp Fiction |
2007 |
Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Noi siamo le colonne |
2007 |
Anthony Lambert, Expedition to Bulgaria |
2007 |
Ursula Nest, Die Minderjährige - Zu jung fürs Leben |
2007 |
Edo Perocevic, Train in the Snow |
2007 |
Dabbs Greer, The Green Mile |
2008 |
Virginia Wood, Lady in Cement |
2008 |
Demeter Marczis, A király pantallója |
2008 |
Miroslav Duchac, Black Peter |
2008 |
Donald James, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun |
2008 |
Alan Jaggs, Battle for the Planet of the Apes |
2008 |
Jack Hanrahan, CHiPs |
2008 |
Oni Faida Lampley, One Life to Live |
2008 |
Joseph Miko, The Sadist |
2009 |
Valeria Peter Predescu, Romanian singer (b. 1947) |
2009 |
Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (b. 1939) |
2009 |
Paul Perschmann, Episode #5.6 |
2009 |
Kiyoshi Awazu, Woman in the Dunes |
2009 |
Albert Alexander, Table for Five |
2009 |
Idea Vilariño, Palabras verdaderas |
2009 |
Lída Matousková, A Dead Man Among the Living |
2009 |
David Poole, Dale Earnhardt Jr. |
2009 |
Vern Gosdin, Episode #4.20 |
2009 |
Yekaterina Maksimova, The Nutcracker |
2009 |
Yevgeni Zhukov, Vremya zhelaniy |
2010 |
Ian Valz, The Panman: Rhythm of the Palms |
2010 |
Evelyn Cunningham, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords |
2010 |
Pierre-Jean Rémy, Stormy Summer |
2010 |
Furio Scarpelli, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly |
2010 |
Fritz Widmer, Mani Matter - Warum syt dir so truurig? |
2010 |
Stefania Grodzienska, Sprawa do zalatwienia |
2011 |
William Campbell, Dementia 13 |
2011 |
Tom Zoll, Cadillac Man |
2011 |
Raymond Bastonero, Dead Heat |
2011 |
Zsuzsa Zolnay, Szeleburdi vakáció |
2011 |
Dana Turner, Cruel and Unusual |
2011 |
Franco Bruni, Rambo: First Blood Part II |
2011 |
Rosaline Haddon, Expresso Bongo |
2012 |
Patricia Medina, English actress, dies from natural causes at 92 |
2012 |
Captain Bob, Clue-less |
2012 |
Jacky Kelso, The Concert for Bangladesh |
2012 |
Giorgio Consolini, La leggenda del piave |
2012 |
Patricia Medina, Mr. Arkadin |
2012 |
Pierre Magnan, La maison assassinée |
2012 |
Rosemary Palin, Night of the Plague |
2012 |
Karl Heinz Tafel, The Ugly Duckling and Me! |
2012 |
Jacqueline Porel, Love and the Frenchwoman |
2012 |
Walter Mathews, General Hospital |
2012 |
Dick Bruynesteyn, Farce majeure |
2012 |
Ervin Zádor, Freedom's Fury |
2013 |
János Starker, Hungarian cellist, dies at 88 |
2013 |
Paulo Vanzolini, Esperança |
2013 |
Everett Lee, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home |
2013 |
Radomir Popovic, Kostana |
2013 |
Barry Fey, U2: Rattle and Hum |
2013 |
Danuta Klopocka, Zawsze w niedziele |
2013 |
Jack Shea, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour |
2014 |
Lance Anderson, Tragedy |
2014 |
Roberto Bakker, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 |
2014 |
Jack Ramsay, The Palestra: Cathedral of Basketball |
2014 |
Richard Kershaw, Episode dated 17 March 1983 |
2014 |
Pedro Cunha, The Consul of Bordeaux |
2014 |
Joe Goodman, The Exception to the Rule |
2014 |
Idris Sardi, Tjoet Nja' Dhien |
2014 |
Amaka Igwe, Rattle Snake |
2015 |
Lynn Grefe, Speaking Out about Ed |
2015 |
René Féret, Mozart's Sister |
2015 |
Mario Labardén, El cine de Maite |
2015 |
Keith Harris, When Louis Met... Keith Harris & Orville in Panto |
2015 |
Serge Koolen, Potiche |
2015 |
Antonio Abujamra, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes |
2015 |
Marcia Brown, |
2015 |
Hanne Gemzøe, Max Embarrassing |
2015 |
Anatoli Berdyshev, Fantaziya |
2016 |
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof star Madeleine Sherwood dies at her childhood home, aged 93 |
2016 |
Veteran Hong Kong newsman Shum Choi-sang dies aged 94 |
2016 |
Keen cricketer Michael S Killey dies, aged 81 |
2016 |
Mark Farmer: Grange Hill, Minder and Johnny Jarvis star dies aged 53 |
2016 |
Blackpool war hero Jim dies, aged 93 |
2016 |
Radio pioneer and Hauraki founder Chris Parkinson dies aged 74 |
2016 |
Legend of Soviet Cold War era political journalism Valentin Zorin dies aged 91 |
2017 |
Beano comic strip legend Leo Baxendale dies aged 86 |
2017 |
Veteran Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna dies aged 70 |
2017 |
Former Disney star Michael Mantenuto has died aged 35 in suicide |
2018 |
'Golden Girls' Producer Paul Junger Witt Dies at 77 |
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