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)