April 28 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1192 – Conrad of Montferrat (b. 1140s)
• 1489 – Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1440s)
• 1533 – Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)
• 1643 – Francisco de Lucena, Portuguese Secretary of State (b. 1578?)
• 1695 – Henry Vaughan, Welsh poet (b. 1621)
• 1710 – Thomas Betterton, English actor (b. 1630s)
• 1716 – Louis de Montfort, French priest (b. 1673)
• 1726 – Thomas Pitt, English merchant (b. 1653)
• 1741 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and statesman (b. 1668)
• 1772 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, German physician of Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1737)
• 1781 – Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
• 1813 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (b. 1745)
• 1816 – Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
• 1841 – Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
• 1853 – Ludwig Tieck, German writer (b. 1773)
• 1858 – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
• 1865 – Samuel Cunard, Canadian-English shipping magnate (b. 1787)
• 1881 – Antoine Samuel Adam-Salomon, French sculptor and photographer (b. 1818)
• 1883 – John Russell, English parson, hunter and dog breeder (b. 1795)
• 1902 – Cyprien Tanguay, French-Canadian priest and historian (b. 1819)
• 1905 – Fitzhugh Lee, American Confederate general (b. 1835)
• 1929 – Hendrik van Heuckelum, Dutch footballer (b. 1879)
• 1936 – Fuad I of Egypt (b. 1868)
• 1944 – Mohammed Alim Khan, the last Emir of the Emirate of Bukhara (b. 1880)
• 1944 – Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (b. 1874)
• 1945 – Roberto Farinacci, Italian politician (b. 1892)
• 1945 – Hermann Fegelein, Waffen-SS General (b. 1906)
• 1945 – Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator (b. 1883)
• 1945 – Clara Petacci, Italian mistress of Benito Mussolini (b. 1912)
• 1946 – Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (b. 1870)
• 1949 – Aurora Quezon, Filipino first lady, 2nd First Lady of the Philippines (b. 1888)
• 1954 – Léon Jouhaux, French labor leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1879)
• 1957 – Heinrich Bär, German pilot (b. 1913)
• 1963 – Wilhelm Weber, German gymnast (b. 1880)
• 1964 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
• 1973 – Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (b. 1893)
• 1975 – Tom Donahue, American disk jockey (b. 1928)
• 1978 – Mohammed Daoud Khan, Afghan politician, 1st President of Afghanistan (b. 1909)
• 1980 – Tommy Caldwell, American musician (The Marshall Tucker Band) (b. 1949)
• 1981 – Steve Currie, English musician (T. Rex) (b. 1947)
• 1987 – Ben Linder, American engineer (b. 1959)
• 1988 – B. W. Stevenson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
• 1991 – Steve Broidy, American executive (b. 1905)
• 1991 – Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (The Sons of the Pioneers) (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Francis Bacon, Anglo-Irish painter (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Iceberg Slim, American writer (b. 1918)
• 1993 – Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (b. 1946)
• 1994 – Berton Roueché, American writer (b. 1910)
• 1996 – Lester Sumrall, American evangelist (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Ramakant Desai, Indian cricketer (b. 1939)
• 1998 – Jerome Bixby, American writer (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922)
• 1999 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Alf Ramsey, English football manager (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Jerzy Einhorn, Polish-Swedish doctor, researcher and politician (b. 1925)
• 2000 – Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (b. 1916)
• 2002 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general (b. 1950)
• 2002 – Lou Thesz, American wrestler (b. 1916)
• 2005 – Chris Candido, American wrestler (b. 1972)
• 2005 – Percy Heath, American jazz bassist (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1923)
• 2005 – Taraki Sivaram, Tamil journalist (b. 1959)
• 2007 – Dabbs Greer, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2007 – René Mailhot, Canadian journalist (b. 1942)
• 2007 – Tommy Newsom, American saxophone player and bandleader (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, German physicist and philosopher (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Bertha Wilson, Canadian jurist, first woman Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (b. 1939)
• 2009 – Richard Pratt, Australian businessman (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Valeria Peter Predescu, Romanian singer (b. 1947)
• 2011 – Erhard Loretan, Swiss mountaineer (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Fred Allen, New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach (b. 1920)