Famous People Who Died In April

April 1

• Marvin Gaye

  Musician

  United States of America

• Jolie Gabor

  Entrepreneur

  Central Hungary, Hungary

• Martha Graham

  Dancer

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Lev Landau

  Physicist

  Caucasus, Azerbaijan

April 2

• Samuel Morse

  Painter

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Buddy Rich

  Drummer

  New York, United States of America

• Pope John Paul II

  Religious Leader

  Wadowice County, Poland

• Elizabeth Catlett

  Artist

  United States of America

April 3

• Johannes Brahms

  Composer

  Germany

• Benny Paret

  Sportsman

  Villa Clara, Cuba

• Shivaji

  Royalty

  Maharashtra, India

• Catherine Helen Spence

  Author

  Scottish Borders, United Kingdom

April 4

• John Venn

  Mathematician

  East Yorkshire, United Kingdom

• Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Baptist

  Connecticut, United States of America

• Wilhelm Ostwald

  Chemist

  Latvia

• Martin Luther King Jr.

  Baptist

  Georgia, United States of America

April 5

• Howard Hughes

  Aviator

  Texas, United States of America

• Edward Young

  Poet

  New Mexico, United States of America

• Kurt Donald Cobain

  Singer

  Washington, United States of America

• Allen Ginsberg

  Poet

  New Jersey, United States of America

April 6

• Merle Haggard

  Singer

  California, United States of America

• Tammy Wynette

  Singer

  Mississippi, United States of America

• Niels Henrik Abel

  Mathematician

  Rogaland, Norway

• Isaac Asimov

  Novelist

  Smolensk Oblast, Russia

April 7

• Toussaint Louverture

  Royalty

  Nord, Saint-Domingue (Haiti)

• Walter Thomas Huston

  Actor

  Ontario, Canada

• Norman Taurog

  Film Director

  Illinois, United States of America

• Mike Wallace

  Journalist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

April 8

• Marian Anderson

  Singer

  Pennsylvania, united states of America

• Lorenzo de' Medici

  Statesman

  Tuscany, Italy

• Pablo Picasso

  Painter

  Málaga, Spain

• Pyotr Kapitsa

  Physicist

  Saint Petersburg, Russia

April 9

• Frank Lloyd Wright

  Architect

  Wisconsin, United States of America

• Joseph B. Soloveitchik

  Philosopher

  Belarusian Brest, Belarus

• Francis Bacon

  Academic

  London, United Kingdom

• Andrea Dworkin

  Writer

  New Jersey, United States of America

April 10

• Little Eva

  Pop Singer

  North Carolina, United States of America

• Auguste Lumière

  Chemist

  Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

• Khalil Gibran

  Author

  Bsharri, Lebanon

• Joseph Louis Lagrange

  Astronomer

  Turin, Italy

April 11

• Anna Katherine Green

  Writer

  New York, United States of America

• Ahmed Ben Bella

  President

  Tlemcen, Algeria

• William Randolph

  Politician

  England, United Kingdom

• Enver Hoxha

  Politician

  Albania

April 12

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

  President

  New York, United States of America

• Joe Louis

  Sportsman

  Alabama, United States of America

• Abbie Hoffman

  Activist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Adoniram Judson

  Missionary

  Massachusetts, United States of America

April 13

• Günter Grass

  Novelist

  Pomeranian, Poland

• Wallace Stegner

  Author

  Iowa, United States of America

• Eduardo Galeano

  Journalist

  Montevideo Department, Uruguay

• William H. Johnson

  Painter

  South Carolina, United States of America

April 14

• Emmy Noether

  Mathematician

  Germany

• Rachel Carson

  Conservationist

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• George Frideric Handel

  Composer

  Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

• Fredric March

  Actor

  Wisconsin, United States of America

April 15

• John Jacob Astor IV

  Businessman

  New York, United States of America

• Jean-Paul Sartre

  Author

  Île-de-France, France

• Abraham Lincoln

  Politician

  Kentucky, United States of America

• Thomas Andrews

  Architect

  Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

April 16

• Rosalind Franklin

  Chemist

  England, United Kingdom

• Sir David Lean

  Director

  London, United Kingdom

• Khalil Al-Wazir

  Politician

  Israel

• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Naturalist

  Bourgogne, France

April 17

• Jean Baptiste Perrin

  Physicist

  Hauts-de-France, France

• Benjamin Franklin

  Scientist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Author

  Caribbean, Colombia

• Roger Wolcott Sperry

  Psychologist

  Connecticut, United States of America

April 18

• Albert Einstein

  Physicist

  Württemberg, Germany

• Dick Clark

  Host

  New York, united states of America

• Thor Heyerdahl

  Adventurer

  Vestfold, Norway

• Bernard Edwards

  Musician

  North Carolina, United States of America

April 19

• Konrad Adenauer

  Politician

  Rhine-Ruhr, Germany

• Giovanni Antonio Canal

  Painter

  Veneto, Italy

• Pierre Curie

  Physicist

  Île-de-France, France

• Percy Lavon Julian

  Chemist

  Alabama, United States of America

April 20

• George Clinton

  Politician

  New York, United States of America

• Cantinflas

  Actor

  Mexico

• Benny Hill

  Comedian

  England, United Kingdom

• Rubin Carter

  Sportsman

  New Jersey, United States of America

April 21

• Aldo Leopold

  Ecologist

  Iowa, United States of America

• Prince

  Musician

  Minnesota, United States of America

• Edward Victor Appleton

  Physicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Nina Simone

  Singer

  North Carolina, United States of America

April 22

• Ansel Adams

  Photographer

  California, United States of America

• Richard Nixon

  U.S. President

  California, United States of America

• Linda Lovelace

  Actress

  New York, United States of America

• Emilio Gino Segrè

  Physicist

  Lazio, Italy

April 23

• Cesar Chavez

  Activist

  Arizona, United States of America

• Sir John Mills

  Actor

  Norfolk, United Kingdom

• Charles G. Dawes

  Politician

  Ohio, United States of America

• P L Travers

  Writer

  Queensland, Australia

April 24

• Sathya Sai Baba

  Religious Leader

  India

• Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Author

  Queens, Canada

• Willa Cather

  Author

  Virginia, United States of America

• Max von Laue

  Physicist

  Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

April 25

• Anders Celsius

  Astronomer

  Sweden

• William Cowper

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Jane Jacobs

  Journalist

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Carol Reed

  Director

  England, United Kingdom

April 26

• George Jones

  Singer

  Texas, United States of America

• Morihei Ueshiba

  Artist

  Wakayama, Japan

• Bessie Love

  Actress

  Texas, United States of America

• Arnold Sommerfeld

  Physicist

  Germany

April 27

• Kwame Nkrumah

  Politician

  Western Region, Ghana

• Henry Hobson Richardson

  Architect

  Louisiana, United States of America

• Charles Alston

  Artist

  North Carolina, United States of America

• Ralph Waldo Emersion

  Lecturer

  Massachusetts, United States of America

April 28

• Johannes Peter Müller

  Physiologist

  Germany

• Chairil Anwar

  Poet

  Sumatra, Indonesia

• Baji Rao I

  Royalty

  Maharashtra, India

• Benito Mussolini

  Politician

  Forlì-Cesena Province, Italy

April 29

• Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosopher

  Vienna, Austria

• Alfred Hitchcock

  Director

  London, United Kingdom

• Albert Hofmann

  Scientist

  Switzerland

• Babu Chiri Sherpa

  Mountaineer

  Nepal

April 30

• Alben W. Barkley

  Politician

  Kentucky, United States of America

• Muddy Waters

  Guitarist

  Mississippi, United States of America

• Edouard Manet

  Artist

  France

• Nizar Qabbani

  Diplomat

  Syria