April 3 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 963 – William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)
  • 1287 – Pope Honorius IV (b. c. 1210)
  • 1350 – Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
  • 1606 – Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon (b. 1563)
  • 1680 – Shivaji, Indian sovereign, founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)
  • 1682 – Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)
  • 1691 – Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (b. 1608)
  • 1695 – Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. c. 1636)
  • 1717 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
  • 1728 – James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662)
  • 1792 – George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
  • 1804 – Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest
  • 1827 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756)
  • 1838 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (b. 1780)
  • 1849 – Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet (b. 1809)
  • 1868 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and surgeon (b. 1796)
  • 1882 – Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
  • 1897 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
  • 1901 – Richard D'Oyly Carte, British talent agent, impresario, composer and hotelier (b. 1844)
  • 1930 – Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
  • 1936 – Bruno Hauptmann, German murderer of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. (b. 1899)
  • 1941 – Pál Teleki, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879)
  • 1941 – Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (b. 1877)
  • 1943 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893)
  • 1950 – Carter G. Woodson, American historian, author, and journalist, founder of Black History Month (b. 1875)
  • 1950 – Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900)
  • 1952 – Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician, first female minister (b. 1866)
  • 1962 – Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer (b. 1883)
  • 1965 – Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (b. 1898)
  • 1971 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
  • 1972 – Ferde Grofé, American composer (b. 1882)
  • 1975 – Mary Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
  • 1976 – Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian novelist, journalist and politician (b. 1894)
  • 1978 – Ray Noble, English bandleader and composer (b. 1903)
  • 1981 – Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, founder of Pan Am (b. 1899)
  • 1982 – Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
  • 1986 – Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)
  • 1987 – Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
  • 1988 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)
  • 1990 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924)
  • 1991 – Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)
  • 1991 – Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
  • 1993 – Pinky Lee, American television host (b. 1907)
  • 1994 – Frank Wells, American businessman (b. 1932)
  • 1995 – Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman, co-founder of Canadian Tire (b. 1902)
  • 1996 – Ron Brown, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
  • 1996 – Carl Stokes, American politician, 51st mayor of Cleveland, Ohio(b. 1927)
  • 1998 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900)
  • 1999 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
  • 1999 – Geoffrey Walsh, Canadian military officer, Chief of the General Staff (b. 1909)
  • 2000 – Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946)
  • 2002 – Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
  • 2003 – Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)
  • 2004 – Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer (b. 1942)
  • 2005 – Saud Hamoud 'Abid al-Qatini al-'Otaibi, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1971)
  • 2005 – Tony Croatto, Italian singer, guitarist, and composer (Los TNT and Haciendo Punto en Otro Son) (b. 1940)
  • 2005 – Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (b. 1933)
  • 2005 – François Gérin, Canadian politician (b. 1944)
  • 2006 – Royce Lint, American baseball player (b.1921)
  • 2007 – Marion Eames, Welsh novelist (b. 1921)
  • 2007 – Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
  • 2007 – Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (b. 1937)
  • 2008 – Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian football player (b. 1983)
  • 2012 – Mingote, Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist (b. 1919)
  • 2012 – Arduino Bertoldo, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1932)
  • 2012 – Richard Descoings, French civil servant (b. 1958)
  • 2012 – Efraím Basílio Krevey, Ukrainian bishop (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – Govind Narain, Indian civil servant (b. 1917)
  • 2012 – Xenia Stad-de Jong, Dutch athlete (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Chief Jay Strongbow, American wrestler (b. 1928)
  • 2012 – José María Zárraga, Spanish footballer (b. 1930)


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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
    —Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)