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)