April 26 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 499 – Xiao Wen Di, Chinese emperor (b. 467)
  • 1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
  • 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
  • 1476 – Simonetta Vespucci, Italian Renaissance noblewoman (b. 1453)
  • 1478 – Giuliano de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1453)
  • 1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese 9th shogun (b. 1465)
  • 1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and statesman (b. 1651)
  • 1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish nun, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)
  • 1789 – Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian soldier (b. 1721)
  • 1852 – Charles Athanase Walckenaer, French naturalist (b. 1771)
  • 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
  • 1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
  • 1892 – Provo Wallis, English Admiral (b. 1791)
  • 1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1832)
  • 1915 – John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
  • 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
  • 1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
  • 1936 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
  • 1938 – Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (b. 1859)
  • 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1874)
  • 1944 – Violette Morris, French athlete (b. 1893)
  • 1945 – Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general (b. 1871)
  • 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, German SS doctor (b. 1909)
  • 1946 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger, discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns (b. 1882)
  • 1950 – G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
  • 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
  • 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
  • 1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese creator of karate (b. 1868)
  • 1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (b. 1882)
  • 1968 – John Heartfield, German artist (b. 1891)
  • 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
  • 1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (b. 1886)
  • 1970 – Charles January, American soccer player (b. 1888)
  • 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
  • 1972 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
  • 1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
  • 1976 – Sid James, South African comedian (b. 1913)
  • 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (b. 1893)
  • 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
  • 1984 – Count Basie, American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1904)
  • 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
  • 1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
  • 1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
  • 1987 – John Silkin, British politician (b. 1923)
  • 1987 – Shankar, Indian composer (b. 1922)
  • 1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and comedian (b. 1911)
  • 1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer (b. 1904)
  • 1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
  • 1991 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
  • 1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (b. 1931)
  • 1994 – Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese karate master (b. 1927)
  • 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (b. 1918)
  • 1999 – Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Sound and The Outsiders) (b. 1957)
  • 1999 – Jill Dando, English journalist (b. 1961)
  • 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser German murderer, committed the Erfurt massacre (b. 1983)
  • 2003 – Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
  • 2003 – Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, founder of the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904)
  • 2003 – Peter Stone, American writer (b. 1930)
  • 2004 – Hubert Selby Jr., American author (b. 1928)
  • 2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
  • 2005 – Maria Schell, Swiss-Austrian actress (b. 1926)
  • 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
  • 2007 – Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive (b. 1921)
  • 2009 – Hans Holzer, American paranormal researcher (b. 1920)
  • 2010 – Urs Felber, Swiss industrialist (b. 1942)
  • 2011 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sisters of Glory) (b. 1950)


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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
    they waste their deaths on us.”
    —C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)

    “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)