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April 1
1917: Scott Joplin, American jazz musician famous for his ragtime pieces
including "The Entertainer," died.
1976: Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor and founder of the Dada group,
died.
1984: Marvin Gaye, Soul singer, was shot to death in Los Angeles by his father, one day before his 45th birthday.
1999: Jesse Stone, American rock and roll pioneer songwriter and
composer of the
classic "Shake, Rattle & Roll", died at age 97.
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Politicians who died April 1
April 2
1872: Samuel F.B. Morse, American painter, inventor, and
developer of the electric telegraph, died in New
York. 1966: Cecil Scott Forester, author of the " Captain Hornblower"
and "The African Queen" novels, died. 1974: Georges Pompidou, French
president from
1969, died in office in Paris.
1986: 4 American passengers were killed when a bomb exploded aboard a
TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece.
2000: Tommaso Buscetta, the first Mafia boss to turn his back on Sicily's
notorious Cosa Nostra and tell its secrets to investigators, died. He was
71.
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Politicians who died April 2
April 3
1682: Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter, died.
1897: Johannes Brahms, German composer and pianist, died. 1950:
Kurt Weil, German composer of "Threepenny Opera", died. 1991:
Graham
Greene, British novelist, died in Switzerland at age 86.
US
Politicians who died April 3
April 4
1774: Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, poet and novelist, died. 1841:
William Harrison, 9th President of the United States, died of pneumonia only 32 days
after his inaugural. He was succeeded by vice-president John Tyler.
1905: 19,000 people were killed in an earthquake measuring 8.6 on the
Richter scale which struck the province
of Lahore, India, and demolished the towns of Kangra and Dharmsala.
1918: The second Battle of the Somme ended at a cost of 150,000 Germans killed or wounded and 160,000 Allied
casualties.
1941: Andre Michelin, one of the French tire manufacturing brothers, died. 1945:
American forces liberated the Nazi death camp
Ohrdruf in Germany. They found thousands of Jews burned to ashes. 1968:
Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, was shot to
death in Memphis, Tennesse, USA, at age 39. 1975: 155 children were killed when a U.S.
Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashed on take-off in Saigon.
1979: Pakistan ex-president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from 1970 until
1977 was hanged at Rawalpindi
for conspiring to murder a political opponent
1991: Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six other people, including two children,
were killed when a helicopter collided with Heinz's plane over a schoolyard in
Merion, PA, USA.
1996: An Italian military court judge ordered former German SS Captain Erich
Priebke to stand trial for his role in the 1944 massacre of 335 Italian men and
boys at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome.
2000: Marian Nowakowski, famed Polish bass singer, died at age 87.
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Politicians who died April 4
April 5
1964: Douglas MacArthur, US Army Gen., died in Washington at age 84.
1975: Chiang Kai-shek, nationalist Chinese leader, died at age 87.
1976: Billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston, Texas, at age
72.
1992: Medical student Suada Dilberovic became the first fatality of
war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1992: Sam Walton, Wal-Mart department store founder, died in Little Rock,
Arkansas, USA,
at age 74.
1997: Allen Ginsberg, the counterculture guru and
unconventional poet, died in New York
City at age 70.
2001: Dutch driver Perry Wacker was convicted of manslaughter and
sentenced to 14 years in prison in the deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants
who suffocated in his truck in Dover, England.
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Politicians who died April 5
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April 6
1971: Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer, died in New York City. 1994:
Rwanda and Burundi presidents were killed in a mysterious
plane crash near Rwanda's capital. 1998: Tammy Wynette, American country singer,
died at her Nashville home in Tennessee, USA, at
age 55.
1996: President Clinton was on hand at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to greet the arrival
of 33 flag-draped caskets carrying the remains of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown
and other victims of a plane crash in Croatia.
1996: 8 people were killed when a stolen truck carrying illegal
immigrants overturned in Temecula, California. 1996: Greer
Garson, Hollywood actress, died in Dallas at age 92.
US
Politicians who died April 6
April 7
1947: Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company, died in Dearborn,
Michigan, USA, at age 83. 1990:
158 people died in an arson fire aboard a ferry en route from Norway.
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Politicians who died April 7
April 8
1950: Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer, died in London.
1973: Pablo Picasso, world famous painter and sculptor, died at his home near Mougins, France,
at age 91.
1981: US Gen. Omar N. Bradley died in New York at age 88.
1990: Ryan White, the AIDS patient, died in Indianapolis at age 18.
1994: Kurt Cobain, Nirvana singer and guitarist, shot
himself in Seattle, USA. He was 27.
1997: Laura Nyro, singer-songwriter, died in Danbury,
Connecticut, USA, at age
49.
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Politicians who died April 8
April 9
1553: Francois Rabelais, French writer of satirical masterpiece
"Gargantua and Pantagruel", died.
1626: Francis Bacon, English
statesman and writer, died.
1882: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British poet, painter and co-founder of the
pre-Raphaelites, died.
1945: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian and anti-Nazi, was executed in
Flossenburg concentration camp. He was arrested in 1943 for his involvement in a
plot to assassinate Hitler.
1959: Frank Lloyd Wright, influential American architect, died.
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Politicians who died April 9
April 10
1919: Mexican government troops ambushed and killed revolutionary leader
Emiliano Zapata.
1954: Auguste Lumiere, French film director, died. 1962:
Michael Curtiz, film director who won Oscar for "Casablanca",
died. He was from Hungary and his real name was Mihali Kertesz.
1963: The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Thresher sank off Cape Cod,
Massachusetts, in the Atlantic with the
loss of 129 lives. 1966: Evelyn Waugh, English author of
"Scoop", "The Loved One", and "Brideshead
Revisited", died.
1972: An earthquake struck southern Iran, killing more than 5,000 people.
1992: Comedian Sam Kinison was killed in a car crash outside
Needles, California at age 38.
2000: Larry Linville, one of the stars of the TV comedy
"M
A S H", set during the Korean War, died in New York at age 60.
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April 11
1945: American soldiers liberated the notorious Nazi
concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.
1996: 7-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who'd hoped to become the youngest person
to fly cross-country, was killed along with her father and flight instructor
when her plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming.
2001: 43 people were killed in a stampede at a packed soccer stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa,
.
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Politicians who died April 11
April 12
1938: Fedor Chaliapin, foremost Russian operatic bass singer and one of
opera's greatest performers, died. 1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. president for a record four
terms, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in
Warm Springs, Georgia, USA, at age 63. He was succeeded by Vice President Harry S.
Truman. 1981: Joe Louis, heavywieght boxing champion, died aged 66. He held the
world title for a record 12 years and won 68 of his 71 professional fights. 1989:
Abbie Hoffman, radical activist , was found dead at his home in New
Hope, Pennsylvania, USA, at age 52. 1989: Sugar Ray Robinson, five-times winner of the world
middleweight championship and unbeaten welterweight champion, died in
Culver City, California, at age 67.
1999: BoxCar Willie, Country singing star, who blended a mellow voice with a
rough-hewn hobo persona, died at age 67.
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Politicians who died April 12
April 13
1943: President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial. 1919:
The Amritsar Massacre took place when British troops shot nearly 380
of Gandhi's followers.
1945: Massive firebombing raids by Allied bombers destroyed a large part of
Tokyo.
1990: The Soviet Union admitted for the first time that it was responsible
for the 1940 massacre of thousands of Polish officers at Katyn, Poland.
2000: Giorgio Bassani, Italian author of the best-selling
"Garden of the
Finzi Continis," died. He was 84.
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Politicians who died April 13
April 14
1759: Georg Frideric Handel, composer, organist and violinist, died.
1865: Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president, was fatally shot by actor John
Wilkes Booth at a Washington theatre. He died the next day and was succeeded by
Vice-President Andrew Johnson.
1917: Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof, creator of the language of Esperanto, died.
1975: Frederic March, American actor who won Oscars for his roles in
"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Best Years of
Our Lives," died.
1986: Simone de Beauvoir, French writer who wrote "The Second
Sex", died in Paris at age 78.
1995: Burl Ives, an Oscar-winning actor and singer, died. He won an
Oscar for a dramatic roles in "The Big Country."
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Politicians who died April 14
April 15
1865: US President Abraham Lincoln died at 7:21 a.m., several hours after he was shot at Ford's
Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Vice
President Andrew Johnson succeeded to become the nation's
17th president.
1888: Matthew Arnold, British poet and inspector of schools, died. 1912:
The British White Star luxury passenger liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off
Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,523 of the 2,200 passengers and crew aboard lost their
lives.
1949: Wallace Beery, American film actor and Oscar winner for his part in
"The Champ," died.
1980: Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and poet, died. He was
awarded, but declined to accept, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964. 1986:
37 people were killed when the United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to
the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5. 1989: students in Beijing launched a series of pro-democracy protests
following the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang; the protests
culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre. 1989: 95 people died in a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in
Sheffield, England. 1990: Greta Garbo, Swedish-born film star, died in New York City at age
84.
1997: 343 Muslim pilgrims were killed in a fire burning tents
outside Mecca, Saudi Arabia. 1998: Pol Pot, the notorious leader of the Khmer
Rouge who was responsible for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians, died at age
73.
2001: Joey Ramone, American punk rock singer, died in New York at age 49.
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April 16
1828: Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter, died. From 1824 until his death he
lived in voluntary exile in France.
1879: Bernadette Soubirous (Saint Bernadette of Lourdes) died.
1947: More than 500 people were killed when a French cargo
carrying nitrates exploded at Texas City, Texas.
1991: Sir David Lean, British film director of such films
"The
Bridge on the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia", and "A Passage to
India", died.
1998: Alberto Calderon, the most influential mathematicians in 20th
century, died.
2007: A South Korean born, Cho Seung-Hui — a 23-year-old senior
majoring in English and a US resident — killed 32 students and
teachers in Virginia Tech University, BLACKSBURG, VA on Tuesday April
16th. The gunman in this massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed
professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative
writing and left a rambling note in his dorm room raging against women
and rich kids. He killed himself as police closed in.
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Politicians who died April 16
April 17
1421: More than 100,000 people drowned when the sea broke through the dykes at
Dort, Netherlands.
1790: Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and statesman, died in Philadelphia at age
84.
1960: Eddie
Cochran, American rock star, died in a car crash in Britain.
1961: 100 right-wing Cuban exiles were killed at the Bay of Pigs
after a three-day battle with Cuban revolutionary government. 1990:
Ralph D. Abernathy, the civil rights activist and top aide
to Martin Luther King Jr., died in Atlanta at age 64. 1997: Chaim Herzog,
former Israeli president who defended Israel on the battlefield,
died at age 78.
1998: Linda McCartney, photographer and wife of former Beatle Paul
McCartney, died from cancer.
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Politicians who died April 17
April 18
1906: More than 1,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck San
Francisco, followed by raging fires. The quake and resulting fires
devastated the city, leaving over 200,000 people homeless. 1942:
USS Hornet aircraft squadron commanded by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle bombed
Tokyo for the first time as well as Yokohama and Nagoya. 1945: Ernie Pyle,
American war correspondent, was killed by
Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa. He was
44. 1955: Albert Einstein, German born physicist, scientist and
mathematician who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921, died in Princeton, N.J.,
USA.
1983: A suicide bomb shattered the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing at least
63 people.
1992: British comedian Benny Hill died.
1994: Former US President Nixon suffered a stroke at his home in Park Ridge,
N.J.. He died April 22, 1994 at a New York hospital. 1996:
Israeli shells killed 91 Lebanese refugees in a U.N. camp. 1996:
Gunmen opened fire at a hotel in
Egypt, killing 18 Greek tourists.
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Politicians who died April 18
April 19
1824: Lord Byron, English poet, died of a fever while aiding Greek rebels
fighting the Turks.
1882: Charles Darwin, English naturalist who developed the theory of
evolution, died.
1906: Pierre , French chemist, physicist, and husband of Marie
Curie, was run over and killed in
Paris. 1989: 47 sailors were killed when a gun turret exploded aboard the USS
Iowa. 1993: Dozens of people, including David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidian, were
killed at the compound near Waco, Texas. 1995: Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in
Oklahoma City was destroyed by a truck bomb, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds. Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and
faced execution on May 2001. 1996: On the first anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, hundreds of
mourners paused for 168 seconds of silence at the site where the federal
building once stood. 1996: Former US President Clinton paid tribute to the hundreds of thousands of
Russians who died in the Nazi siege of Leningrad.
2000: During a fifth-anniversary dedication ceremony, Former US President Clinton knelt among 168 empty chairs memorializing each
victim of the Oklahoma City bombing and declared the site "sacred
ground" in
the soul of America.
2000: 131 people were killed aboard an Air Philippines
Boeing 737.
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Politicians who died April 19
April 20
1768: Canaletto, Italian Venetian painter, died.
1912: Bram Stoker, Dublin-born author of "Dracula", died.
1943: The massacre of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began in WWII.
1978: Two
passengers were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 707 crash-landed in northwestern Russia
after being fired on by a Soviet interceptor when mistakably entered Soviet airspace.
1999: Two teenagers, students of the Columbine High School in a suburb
of Denver, Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12 classmates and one
teacher before taking their own lives.
2000: Littleton, Colo., paused to remember the victims on the first
anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre.
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April 21
1918: Baron Manfred von Richthofen, was killed in action during World War I. 1910: Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
better known as Mark Twain, died in
Redding, Connecticut. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York.
Elmira was the home of his wife's family, the Langdons, and he was
buried in their plot.
1992: Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of
California in 25 years as he was put to death in the gas chamber for the 1978
murder of two teen-age boys.
1996: Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, American Oddsmaker, died at age 76.
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Politicians who died April 21
April 22
1933: Sir Frederick Henry Royce, founder of the British car company
Rolls-Royce, died. 1994: Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United
States from 1969 until his resignation in 1974 amid the
Watergate scandal, died at a
New York hospital four days after suffering a stroke; he was 81.
1997: 1 hostage, 3 soldiers and all 14 guerrillas were killed
when Peruvian troops broke into the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima to
free 71 hostages.
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Politicians who died April 22
April 23
1616: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish novelist famous for
writing "Don Quixote," died in Madrid.
1850: William Wordsworth, British poet, died at age 80.
1915: Rupert Brooke, British poet, died of blood poisoning in
Skiros, Greece.
1940: 200 people died in a dance hall fire in Natchez,
Mississippi.
1983: Buster Crabbe, Hollywood film star famous for his portrayals of Flash
Gordon and Buck Rogers, died.
1986: Otto Preminger, Austrian documentry film director, died.
His credits included "Laura", "Carmen Jones" ,and
"Exodus." 1990: Paulette Goddard, Ameircan actress and former wife of Charlie
Chaplin, died. She played with him in "Modern Times" and "The Great
Dictator." 1992: Satyajit
Ray, Indian film director, died. He was awarded a lifetime achievement
Oscar just three weeks before his death.
1995: Howard Cosell, American Radio & TV sportscaster, died in New York at age 77.
1998: James Earl Ray who assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King
Jr. in 1968, died at age 70.
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Politicians who died April 23
April 24
1731: Daniel Defoe, author of "Robinson Crusoe", died.
1915: Ottoman Turkish Empire began the brutal mass deportation of
Armenians during WWI.
1967: Vladimir Komarov, the first Russian to fly in the Soyuz craft, was
killed when he landed and crashed in Russia after his 17th orbit of Earth.
1975: 3 people died when Baader-Meinhof terrorists attacked the German
embassy in Stockholm. 1980: 8 US servicemen died when a helicopter collided with a
tanker aircraft in a commando mission near Tabas desert, Iran. The United States
had launched an abortive attempt to free the American
hostages in Iran. 1986: Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, died in Paris at age 89.
King Edward VIII had given
up the British throne to marry her in 1936.
2000: One killed, 6 chidren wounded when a youth opened fire on a crowd of people in the National Zoo in
Washington.
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Politicians who died April 24
April 25
1980: All 146
passengers and crew were killed when a Dan Air Boeing 727 flying from Manchester
crashed into a mountain south of Tenerife's Los Rodeos Airport in the Canary
Island.
1995: Ginger
Rogers, American star, died in Rancho Mirage, California, at age 83.
1998: Christian Mortensen, the oldest man in the world who emigrated to the United States from his
native Denmark in 1903, died at the age of 115.
2000: Zika Petrovic, Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic's ally, was shot to death.
2000: David Merrick, Broadway producer, died in London at age 88.
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April 26
1726: Jeremy Collier, English historian and opponent of the theater, died. 1865:
John Wilkes Booth died in a shootout with federal troops 12 days after the
assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April
14, 1865.
1984: Count Basie (William Basie), American jazz pianist, died. 1986:
The world's worst
nuclear disaster happened when a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear complex in the Ukraine,
USSR, exploded, spreading a radioactive cloud across Europe. 1986:
Broderick Crawford, American film and television actor, died. He won an
Oscar for "All the King's Men."
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Politicians who died April 26
April 27
1521: Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorern and navigator, was killed by natives on the
island of Mactan in the Philippines on a round-the-world voyage. 1865:
More than 1,400 Union prisoners of war died when the Sultana steamer exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis,
Tennessee, USA. 1932: Hart Crane, American poet,
committed suicide after jumping from a steamer while
en route to New York. He was 32.
1999: Al Hirt, American trumpet player, died.
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Politicians who died April 27
April 28
1940 - Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian soprano, died.
1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator, and his mistress, Clara
Petacci, was executed by Italian partisans near
Lake Como one day after his capture.
1988: One flight attendant was killed and 61 persons injured when part of
the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 ripped off during a flight from Hilo
to Honolulu. 1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer, died at age 83 in Paris. 1995:
101 people were killed , when a gas line exploded in the middle of a
crowded intersection in Taegu, South Korea. 1996: 35 tourists
were killed when a man armed with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire on the Australian island of
Tasmania. He was captured by
police 12-hour later.
2000: Five people
were killed by Richard Scott Baumhammers in a shooting rampage in suburban
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, because of their race.
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Politicians who died April 28
April 29
1980: Sir Alfred Hitchcock, British-born suspense-thrillers
film director, died.
1991: More than 100 people were killed
when a strong earthquake struck Georgia, Soviet Union.
1992: Deadly Los Angeles rioting erupted after a jury in Simi Valley,
California, acquitted four L.A. police officers all charges in the
videotaped beating of Rodney King.
2000: Pham Van Dong, Ho Chi Minh predecessor who served as prime minister in Hanoi for more than
three decades until 1987, died.
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April 30
1945: Adolf Hitler
committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun while Russian troops
approaching his underground Berlin bunker. 1991: 125,000 people died
in Bangladesh, when a cyclone struck the South Asia.
1883: Edouard Manet, French impressionist painter, died.
1900: Casey Jones, American railroad engineer, died saving
Cannonball train passengers.
1936: Alfred Edward Housman, British poet, died.
1989: Sergio Leone, Italian film director of famous movies like
"Once upon a time in the west" and "For a Few Dollars More", died of a heart attack.
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April 2002: A Sudanese military airplane crashed & killed
14 senior officers, including the deputy defense minister who directed the
war against rebels in southern Sudan.
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