Famous Deaths on April 14

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Dutch nobleman and general who led the Dutch revolt against Spanish rule, dies in battle at the Battle of Mookerheyde at 35

1578 James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland
1599 Henry Wallop, English statesman who governed Ireland
1655 Johann Erasmus Kindermann, German composer, dies at 39
1662 William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English statesman, dies at 79
1682 Avvakum, Russian Orthodox archpriest and writer, dies at 60
1685 Thomas Otway, English playwright and poet (Venice Preserv'd), dies at 33
1692 Carlos de Gurrea, Spanish viceroy (Spanish Netherlands), dies
1716 Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral
1721 Michel Chamillart, French statesman (b. 1652)
1722 Pieter Erberveld, German-Thai merchant on Java, Indonesia. He was accused of plotting a rebellion with the Javanese, tortured and executed at around 62

German-British baroque composer and organist (Messiah; Water Music), dies at 74

1785 William Whitehead, English writer and poet, British Poet Laureate (1757-85), dies at about 70
1792 Maximilian Hell [Höll], Slovakian astronomer, Jesuit priest, and namesake of a lunar crater, dies at 71
1813 Joachim Nicolas Eggert, Swedish violinist and composer, dies of tuberculosis at 34
1843 Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austrian composer and violist, dies at 42
1865 Ignaz Bösendorfer, Austrian musician, and piano maker, dies at 65
1865 Rafael Carrera, Guatemalan military commander and Dictator of Guatemala (1844–48, 1851–65), dies at 50
1874 Hermanus J. Abbring, Dutch engineer and writer on Curacao, dies at 86
1888 William Fiske Sherwin, American composer, dies at 62
1894 Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet, dies at 78
1910 Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (b. 1856)
1911 Addie Joss, American Baseball HOF pitcher (perfect game 1908; 2 x no-hitters 1908, 10; 1.89 career ERA second-lowest in MLB history; career WHIP 0.968 MLB record; Cleveland Bronchos), dies of TB at 31
1911 Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
1912 Henri Brisson, French statesman and Prime Minister of France (Radical: 1885-86 and 1898), dies at 76
1913 Carl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen), dies at 68
1914 Hubert Bland, English author and socialist (co-founder of the Fabian Society), dies of a heart attack at 59
1914 Paul Ehrenreich, German ethnologist and mythologist, dies at 58
1915 James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies
1917 L. L. Zamenhof, Polish physician and linguist (Esperanto), dies at 57
1922 Cap Anson, American Baseball HOF first baseman (NL batting champion 1881, 88; 8 × NL RBI leader; Chicago White Stockings/Colts) and manager (Philadelphia A's, Chicago White Stockings/Colts, NY Giants), dies from a glandular ailment at 69

American architect (father of skyscrapers), dies at 67

1924 Roland Napoléon Bonaparte, French prince and president of the Société de Géographie, dies at 65
1925 Pieter D. van Essen, Dutch artillery officer, dies at 54

Russian poet and playwright (Ode to Revolution, The Bathhouse), commits suicide by shooting himself through the heart at 36

1934 Gerald du Maurier, British actor (Power, Escape!, Masks and Faces), at 61
1934 Karl Dane, Danish-American comedian and actor (The Big Parade), dies at 47
1935 Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (b. 1882)
1938 Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater (Olympic gold 1920, 24, 28), dies of blood poisoning at 44
1941 Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer and father of Frida Kahlo, dies at 69
1941 Jack Edmonson, Australian corporal in Tobruk (Victoria Cross), dies
1943 Asser B. Kleerekoper, Dutch journalist, translator, and politician (Second Chamber of Parliament- (SDAP), 1914-32), dies at 62
1943 Geoffrey Turton Shaw, English organist, composer, and educator, dies at 63
1949 Joseph Augustine Cushman, American paleontologist, dies at 68
1950 Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian Hindu philosopher and yogi (Maharshi Research Institute), dies at 80
1953 Emmanuel de Bom, Flemish writer (Scheldelucht), dies at 84
1954 Lillian "Lil" Green, American blues singer and songwriter ("Romance In The Dark"), dies at 39 [or 57, or 48 - year of birth disputed]
1963 Gwen Lally, English pageant master and actress (only played male roles), dies at 81 [1]
1964 Earle Hodgins, American fast-talking film and television character actor (Guestward Ho!), dies at 70
1964 Herb McGirr, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (played in NZ's 1st Test series; 2 Tests, 1 x 50; Wellington), dies at 72

1964 Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and physicist (fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics), dies at 87
1965 Leonard Mudie, British actor (Magnetic Monster, British Intelligence), dies of heart ailment at 82
1965 Perry Edward Smith, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged at 36
1965 Robert Hickok, US murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged at 33
1971 Armand Spitz, developer of small educational planetarium, dies
1973 Magda Janssens, Flemish actress (Nederlands in 7 Lessons), dies at 88
1973 Minna Gombell, American actress dies at 80
1974 Al Morgan, American jazz double-bassist (Cab Calloway; Fats Waller; Louis Jordan), dies at 65

1976 José Revueltas, Mexican write and political activist, dies after a heart attack at 61
1976 Maudie Prickett [Doyle], American character actress (Harvey; Hazel - "Rosie"), dies of renal failure at 61
1977 Riekus Waskowsky, Dutch poet, dies at 44
1978 Frank Raymond [F.R.] Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment), dies at 82
1978 Joe Gordon, American Baseball HOF 2nd baseman (World Series 1938, 39, 41, 43 NY Yankees; 1948 Cleveland Indians; AL MVP 1942; 9 x MLB All Star), dies of a heart attack at 63
1980 Tom Fadden, American stage and screen character actor (It's a Wonderful Life; Broken Arrow; Cimarron City), dies at 85
1981 Ivan Galamian, American violinist and violin teacher, dies at 78
1983 Elisabeth Lutyens, English composer, dies at 76
1983 Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Olympic bronze 1952), dies at 64

1983 Willem Frederik Bon, Dutch composer (Les Prédictions) and pedagogue, dies at 42
1984 Dioniysis Papagiannopoulos, Greek stage and screen actor, dies of a stroke at 71
1985 Noele Gordon, British actress (Crossroads), dies at 65
1985 Reginald Beane, American pianist (Starlit Time: Once Upon a Tune), dies at 63
1986 Horst Bastian, German writer and screenwriter, dies at 46

French author and feminist (The Mandarins, The Second Sex, She Came to Stay), dies of pneumonia at 78

1987 Karl Höller, German composer, dies at 79
1988 Herbert Reynolds Inch, American composer and teacher, dies at 83
1988 Johan Franco, Dutch composer, dies at 79
1988 John Stonehouse, British politician (b. 1925)
1989 Lance Pierre, West Indian cricketer (Test WI v Engl 1948, DNB, 7 overs 0-28), dies at 67
1990 Martin Kessel, German writer (Mr. Brecher's Fiasco), dies on 89th birthday
1990 Thurston Harris, American pop vocalist (The Sharps, Little Bitty Pretty One), dies of a heart attack at 58
1992 David Miller, American film director (Billy the Kid), dies of cancer at 82
1992 Sammy Price, American boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader, dies at 83
1993 Jo Boer, Dutch painter and author (Catharina & the Magnolias), dies at 85
1993 Sam Ntombani, South African ANC-secretary in Soweto South-Africa, shot to death
1994 Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (b. 1897)
1994 Selometsi Baholo, vice-premier of Lesotho, murdered
1995 Brian Coffey, Irish poet (Advent), dies at 89
1995 Burl Ives, American folk singer ("A Little Bitty Tear"; "Silver And Gold"), actor (Cat On A Hot Tin Roof), and snowman (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer), dies from complications of mouth cancer at 85
1995 James Daniel "Danny" Turner, American jazz saxophonist, dies at 75
1995 Michael Scott Montague Fordham, English child psychiatrist and Jungian analyst, dies at 89
1996 Gaylord Birch, American drummer (The Pointer Sisters; Herbie Hancock), dies of cancer at 50
1996 James Sargent Russell, US pilot and admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean), dies at 93
1996 Manuel "Manny" Greenhill, American folk music record producer (Folklore Productions). promoter, and artist manager (Joan Baez; Rev. Gary Davis), dies of leukemia at 80
1996 Mervyn Levy, Welsh artist and critic, dies at 81
1996 William K. Everson, English American film historian, dies at 67
1998 Maurice Stans, American politician, Secretary of Commerce and Watergate figure, dies at 90
1999 Anthony Newley, British actor and singer-songwriter (Doctor Dolittle; Goldfinger theme; Willy Wonka score), dies at 67
1999 Bill Wendell, American TV announcer (To Tell The Truth, 1972-77; Late Night With David Letterman; Late Show With David Letterman, 1993-95), dies at 75
1999 Ellen Corby [Hansen], American actress (The Waltons, Vertigo, Caged), dies of natural causes at 87
2000 Phil Katz, American computer programmer (Zip file format), dies from the effects of alcoholism at 37
2000 Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
2001 Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
2001 Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
2002 Buck Baker, American auto racer (Grand National Series Champion 1956. 57; NASCAR Speedway Div Champion 1952), dies at 83
2004 Micheline Charest, French Canadian television producer (b. 1953)
2005 Benny Bailey, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 79
2006 Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
2007 Don Ho, Hawaiian-American pop and Hawaiian music singer ("Tiny Bubbles"; "Ain't No Big Thing!"), dies of heart failure at 76
2007 June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author and social activist, dies at 82
2008 Esbjörn Svensson, Swedish jazz pianist (Seven Days Of Falling), dies in scuba diving accident at 44
2008 Miguel Galvan, Mexican actor/comedian. (b. 1957)
2008 Ollie Johnston, American animator and the last living member of Disney's Nine Old Men, dies at 95
2008 Tommy Holmes, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1945, 48; NL HR leader 1945; Boston Braves) and manager (Boston Braves), dies at 91
2008 Werner Groebli, Swiss ice skating clown, (Frick in ice skating act Frick & Frack), dies at 92 [1]
2009 Gayle Caldwell, American songwriter ("Cycles"), and folk singer (New Christy Minstrels; Jackie & Gayle), dies at 68
2009 Maurice Druon, French writer and journalist (Prix Goncourt), dies at 90
2010 Peter Steele [Petrus Ratajczyk], American heavy metal singer-songwriter, and bassist (Type O Negative), dies of sepsis at 48
2011 Trevor Bannister, British actor (Are You Being Served?), dies at 76
2011 Walter Breuning, American supercentenarian (b. 1896)

American chemist working in nuclear magnetic resonance, theoretical chemistry, boron chemistry, and biochemistry (Nobel 1976), dies at 91

2012 Émile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player, dies at 92
2012 John Herbert "Jonathan" Frid, Canadian actor (Barnabas Collins-Dark Shadows), dies of pneumonia at 87
2013 Dennis Moran, American computer hacker, dies from an overdose at 30
2013 George Jackson, American rhythm & blues, rock, and southern soul songwriter (One Bad Apple; Old Time Rock and Roll), and singer, dies of cancer at 68
2013 John S Ragin, American actor (Dr Astin-Quincy ME), dies at 83
2013 Sir Colin Davis, British conductor (Covent Garden, 1970-85; Bavarian Radio Symphony, 1983-93; London Symphony, 1995-2006), dies at 85
2014 Armando Peraza, Cuban jazz, Latin jazz, and rock percussionist (George Shearing; Cal Tjader; Santana, 1972-90), dies at about 89 [birth year disputed]
2015 Percy Sledge, American soul singer ("When A Man Loves A Woman"), dies at 73
2017 Bruce Langhorne, American session and touring folk guitarist and tambourine man, dies of kidney failure at 78
2017 Manfred Jung, German operatic tenor (Wagner's heldentenor roles), dies at 76
2018 Colin Bland, South African cricket batsman (21 Tests, 3 x 100, HS 144no; Eastern Province, Orange Free State), dies from colon cancer at 80
2019 Birgitta "Bibi" Andersson, Swedish actress (Persona, Wild Strawberries), dies at 83
2019 Gene Wolfe, American sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete), dies at 87
2019 John MacLeod, American basketball coach (NBA Phoenix Suns 1973-87), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 81
2020 Hank Steinbrenner, American businessman and MLB team owner (New York Yankees 2010-20), dies of liver condition at 63
2020 Nate Brooks, American boxer (Olympic gold- flyweight, 1952), dies at 86
2020 Paul Bayvel, South African rugby union scrum-half (10 caps; Transvaal), dies from cancer at 71
2020 Ron Wylie, Scottish soccer forward (Notts County, Aston Villa, Birmingham City) and manager (WBA), dies at 86

American fraudster and financier who committed the largest fraud in US history, dies in prison of natural causes at 82

2021 Michel Louvain, French Canadian singer ("Buenas Noches Mi Amor"), dies at 83
2021 Norman "Rusty" Young, American pedal-steel guitarist, singer and songwriter (Poco - "Rose of Cimarron"; "Crazy Love"), dies of a heart attack at 75
2022 Leo Barnes, Irish saxophonist (Hothouse Flowers, 1985-98 - "I'm Sorry", "Don't Go"), dies at 66

Canadian Hockey HOF right wing (Stanley Cup 1980-83; Conn Smythe Trophy 1982; 7 x NHL All Star; NY Islanders), dies of lung cancer at 65 [1]

2023 Ken Archer, Australian cricket batsman (5 Tests; Queensland CA), dies at 95
2023 Mark Sheehan, Irish rock guitarist and songwriter (The Script - "For The First Time"), dies at 46
2024 Calvin Keys, American jazz guitarist, dies at 82

American baseball pitcher (2 x no hitters 1969, 71 Chicago Cubs; MLB All Star 1972-73, World Series 1972-74 Oakland A's), dies of heart disease at 78 [1]

2024 Steve Sloan, American college football coach (Vanderbilt, Texas Tech, Ole Miss, Duke), dies at 79

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Famous Deaths on April 14