Deaths on 10 April
2000s
Leo Beenhakker
2025
Dutch football coach (1942–2025)
Ted Kotcheff
2025
Canadian film and television director (1931–2025)
Peter Lovesey
2025
British writer (1936–2025)
O. J. Simpson
2024
American football player and actor (1947–2024)
Al Jaffee
2023
American cartoonist (1921–2023)
Howard Marks
2016
Welsh author and drug smuggler (1945–2016)
Richie Benaud
2015
Australian cricketer and commentator (1930–2015)
Rose Francine Rogombé
2015
Gabonese politician (1942–2015)
Peter Walsh (Australian politician)
2015
Australian politician
Robert Edwards (physiologist)
2013
English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine (1925–2013)
Gordon Thomas (cyclist)
2013
British cyclist
Raymond Aubrac
2012
Member of the French Resistance in World War II (1914–2012)
Barbara Buchholz
2012
German composer and theremin player
Lili Chookasian
2012
Opera singer
Luis Aponte Martínez
2012
Puerto Rican Catholic cardinal
Akin Omoboriowo
2012
Nigerian politician
Ryszard Kaczorowski
2010
Polish politician (1919–2010)
Maria Kaczyńska
2010
First Lady of Poland (1942-2010)
Lech Kaczyński
2010
President of Poland from 2005 to 2010
Anna Walentynowicz
2010
Polish free trade union activist
Dixie Carter
2010
American actress (1939–2010)
Deborah Digges
2009
American poet
Ioannis Patakis
2009
Greek politician (1940–2009)
Charles Philippe Leblond
2007
Canadian cell biology researcher, professor
Dakota Staton
2007
American jazz vocalist (1930–2007)
Kleitos Kyrou
2006
Greek poet and Translator
Norbert Brainin
2005
Musical artist
Bleed the Dream
2005
American rock band
Archbishop Iakovos of America
2005
Greek Orthodox Archbishop (1911–2005)
Al Lucas (American football)
2005
American football player (1978–2005)
Wally Tax
2005
Musical artist
Jacek Kaczmarski
2004
Polish singer, songwriter, poet and author
Sakıp Sabancı
2004
Turkish businessman (1933–2004)
Little Eva
2003
American singer (1943–2003)
Peter Jones (actor)
2000
English actor (1920–2000)
Larry Linville
2000
American actor (1939–2000)
1900s
Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat
1999
Jean Vander Pyl
1999
American voice actress (1919–1999)
Seraphim of Athens
1998
Archbishop of Athens from 1974 to 1998
Michael Dorris
1997
American writer (1945–1997)
Morarji Desai
1995
Prime Minister of India from 1977 to 1979
Sam B. Hall Jr.
1994
American judge
Chris Hani
1993
South African revolutionary and anti-apartheid activist (1942–1993)
Sam Kinison
1992
American comedian (1953–1992)
Kevin Peter Hall
1991
American actor (1955–1991)
Martin Hannett
1991
Musical artist & record producer (1948–1991)
Natalie Schafer
1991
American actress (1900–1991)
Ezekias Papaioannou
1988
Greek Cypriot communist politician (1908–1988)
Linda Creed
1986
American songwriter (1948–1986)
Zisis Verros
1985
Greek soldier of the Macedonian Struggle
Issam Sartawi
1983
Palestinian cardiologist, guerrilla leader, and PLO diplomat (1935–1983)
Howard Thurman
1981
American theologian (1899–1981)
Kay Medford
1980
American actress (1916–1980)
Nino Rota
1979
Italian composer (1911–1979)
Hjalmar Mäe
1978
Estonian politician (1901–1978)
Walker Evans
1975
American photographer and photojournalist (1903–1975)
Marjorie Main
1975
American actress (1890–1975)
Harley Earl
1969
American designer (1893–1969)
Gustavs Celmiņš
1968
Latvian politician (1899–1968)
Evelyn Waugh
1966
British writer and journalist (1903–1966)
Lloyd Casner
1965
American race car driver (1928–1965)
Linda Darnell
1965
American actress (1923–1965)
Michael Curtiz
1962
Hungarian and American director (1886–1962)
Stuart Sutcliffe
1962
Scottish painter and musician (1940–1962)
André Berthomieu
1960
French screenwriter and film director
Chuck Willis
1958
American R&B singer-songwriter (1926–1958)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1955
French philosopher and Jesuit priest (1881–1955)
Auguste and Louis Lumière
1954
French brothers, filmmakers and inventors
Oscar Mathisen
1954
Norwegian speed skater
Fevzi Çakmak
1950
Turkish field marshal and politician (1876–1950)
Charles Nordhoff
1947
American novelist (1887–1947)
Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman
1945
Dutch artist, typographer and printer
Andreas Faehlmann
1943
Estonian sailor and aviation engineer
Carl Schenstrøm
1942
Danish actor (1881–1942)
King Oliver
1938
American jazz cornet player and bandleader (1881–1938)
Rosa Campbell Praed
1935
Australian author (1851–1935)
Kahlil Gibran
1931
Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer
Luisa Capetillo
1922
Puerto Rican labor organizer (1882–1922)
Moritz Cantor
1920
German historian of mathematics
Emiliano Zapata
1919
Mexican revolutionary (1879–1919)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1909
English poet, playwright and novelist (1837–1909)
1800s
William Crichton (engineer)
1889
Scottish engineer and shipbuilder (1827-1889)
Lucio Norberto Mansilla
1871
Argentine soldier and politician
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
1823
Austrian philosopher (1757–1823)
Gregory V of Constantinople
1821
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
1813
Italian-French scientist (1736–1813)
Horatio Gates
1806
British-born American army officer and politician (1727–1806)
Before 1800
John Byron
1786
Royal Navy officer, explorer and colonial administrator
Jean Lebeuf
1760
French historian (1687–1760)
Giacomo Antonio Perti
1756
Italian Baroque composer (1661–1756)
Wilhelm Egon von Fürstenberg
1704
German count, prince and clergyman
Jan Marek Marci
1667
Czech physician and scientist
Santino Solari
1646
Italian sculptor
William Brewster (Mayflower passenger)
1644
English colonist in North America (1560 – 1644)
Agostino Agazzari
1640
Italian composer and music theorist
Thomas Jones (bishop)
1619
16th and 17th-century bishop from Ireland
Mark Alexander Boyd
1601
Scottish poet and soldier of fortune (1562–1601)
Gabrielle d'Estrées
1599
Mistress and advisor to Henry IV of France
Jacopo Mazzoni
1598
Italian Philosopher (1548–1598)
Pope Gregory XIII
1585
Head of the Catholic Church from 1572 to 1585
Costanzo Festa
1545
Italian composer
Frederick I of Denmark
1533
King of Denmark (1523–1533) and Norway (1524–1533)
Michael Tarchaniota Marullus
1500
Greek Renaissance scholar, Neo-Latin poet, humanist and soldier (c. 1458 – 1500)
Maud, Countess of Leicester
1362
British noble
Elisabeth von Rapperswil
1309
Ahmad Fanakati
1282
Kublai Khan's finance minister
Erik Knutsson
1216
King of Sweden from 1208 to 1216
Notker of Liège
1008
Benedictine monk and first prince-bishop of Liège (d. 1008)
Hugh of Italy
948
King of Italy from 926 to 947
Louis the Stammerer
879
King of West Francia from 877 to 879