Deaths on 14 April
2000s
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
2025
Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009 (1939–2025)
Ken Holtzman
2024
American baseball pitcher (1945–2024)
Mark Sheehan
2023
Irish musician (1975–2023)
Mike Bossy
2022
Canadian ice hockey player (1957–2022)
Ilkka Kanerva
2022
Finnish politician (1948–2022)
Orlando Julius
2022
Nigerian singer and saxophonist (1943–2022)
Bernie Madoff
2021
American fraudster and financier (1938–2021)
Carol D'Onofrio
2020
American public health researcher (1936–2020)
Bibi Andersson
2019
Swedish actress (1935–2019)
Klaus Bednarz
2015
German journalist and writer (1942–2015)
Mark Reeds
2015
Canadian ice hockey player
Percy Sledge
2015
American R&B, soul and gospel singer (1940–2015)
Roberto Tucci
2015
Catholic cardinal
Nina Cassian
2014
Romanian writer
Crad Kilodney
2014
Canadian writer (1948–2014)
Wally Olins
2014
British brand consultant
Mick Staton
2014
American politician
Efi Arazi
2013
Colin Davis
2013
English conductor
R. P. Goenka
2013
Indian industrialist (1930–2013)
George Jackson (songwriter)
2013
American Rhythm & Blues and soul singer and songwriter
Armando Villanueva
2013
Peruvian politician
Charlie Wilson (Ohio politician)
2013
American businessman and politician (1943–2013)
Émile Bouchard
2012
Canadian ice hockey player
Jonathan Frid
2012
Canadian actor (1924–2026)
Piermario Morosini
2012
Italian footballer (1986–2012)
Jean Gratton
2011
Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Mont-Laurier, Canada
Israr Ahmed
2010
Pakistani Islamic scholar (1932–2010)
Alice Miller (psychologist)
2010
Swiss psychologist (1923–2010)
Peter Steele
2010
American musician (1962–2010)
Maurice Druon
2009
French writer and politician (1918–2009)
Tommy Holmes
2008
American baseball player and manager
Ollie Johnston
2008
American animator (1912–2008)
June Callwood
2007
Canadian journalist, author and social activist (1924 – 2007)
Don Ho
2007
American singer and musician (1930–2007)
René Rémond
2007
French historian, political scientist and political economist (1918–2007)
Mahmut Bakalli
2006
Kosovar Albanian politician (1936–2006)
Micheline Charest
2004
Canadian television producer (1953–2004)
Jyrki Otila
2003
Finnish quiz show judge and Member of the European Parliament
Jim Baxter
2001
Scottish footballer
Hiroshi Teshigahara
2001
Japanese film director (1927–2001)
Phil Katz
2000
American software developer (1962–2000)
August R. Lindt
2000
Swiss lawyer and diplomat (1905–2000)
Wilf Mannion
2000
English footballer (1918–2000)
1900s
Ellen Corby
1999
American actress (1911–1999)
Anthony Newley
1999
English actor, singer, songwriter, and filmmaker (1931–1999)
Bill Wendell
1999
American television announcer (1924–1999)
Burl Ives
1995
American musician and actor (1909–1995)
Salimuzzaman Siddiqui
1994
Pakistani organic chemist (1897–1994)
Irene Greenwood
1992
Australian feminist, pacifist activist, broadcaster and writer
Randolfo Pacciardi
1991
Italian politician (1899–1991)
Thurston Harris
1990
American musician (1931–1990)
Olabisi Onabanjo
1990
Nigerian politician (1927 – 1990)
Simone de Beauvoir
1986
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
Pete Farndon
1983
English bassist (1952–1983)
Gianni Rodari
1983
Italian writer and journalist (1920–1980)
Ben Dunne (businessman, born 1908)
1983
Founder of Dunnes Stores
Joe Gordon
1978
American baseball player, coach, and manager (1915–1978)
F. R. Leavis
1978
English literary critic (1895–1978)
José Revueltas
1976
Mexican writer, essayist, and political activist (1914–1976)
Günter Dyhrenfurth
1975
Swiss mountain climber (1886–1975)
Fredric March
1975
American actor (1897–1975)
Matilde Muñoz Sampedro
1969
Spanish actress (1900–1969)
Al Benton
1968
American baseball player (1911–1968)
Tatyana Afanasyeva-Ehrenfest
1964
Russian-Dutch mathematician and physicist (1876–1964)
Rachel Carson
1964
American marine biologist and conservationist (1907–1964)
Rahul Sankrityayan
1963
Indian scholar and author (1893–1963)
M. Visvesvaraya
1962
Indian civil engineer, administrator, and former prime minister of Mysore Kingdom
Christie brothers
1951
Canadian film directors and producers
Ramana Maharshi
1950
Indian Hindu sage (1879–1950)
Yakov Dzhugashvili
1943
Red Army officer and Joseph Stalin's son (1907–1943)
Gillis Grafström
1938
Swedish figure skater (1893-1938)
Emmy Noether
1935
German mathematician (1882–1935)
Richard Armstedt
1931
German philologist, educator, and historian
Vladimir Mayakovsky
1930
Russian poet (1893–1930)
John Singer Sargent
1925
American painter (1856–1925)
Auguste-Réal Angers
1919
Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1837–1919)
L. L. Zamenhof
1917
Creator of Esperanto (1859–1917)
Gina Krog
1916
Norwegian politician and women's rights activist, editor (1847–1916)
Hubert Bland
1914
English author
Henri Brisson
1912
19th/20th-century French politician
Addie Joss
1911
American baseball player (1880–1911)
Henri-Elzéar Taschereau
1911
Chief Justice of Canada from 1902 to 1906
Mikhail Vrubel
1910
Russian artist (1856–1910)
1800s
Emil Czyrniański
1888
Polish chemist (1824–1888)
Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint
1886
Dutch novelist
Charles Lot Church
1864
Canadian politician
Joseph Lanner
1843
Austrian dance music composer
Before 1800
Maximilian Hell
1792
Slovak-Hungarian astronomer and Jesuit priest (1720–1792)
William Whitehead (poet)
1785
18th-century British Poet Laureate and playwright
George Frideric Handel
1759
German-British composer (1685–1759)
Lady Catherine Jones
1740
English philanthropist
Michel Chamillart
1721
French politician
Avvakum
1682
Russian protopope (1620/1621 – 1682)
William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele
1662
English nobleman and politician (1582–1662)
Tomás Treviño de Sobremonte
1649
Spanish-born crypto-Jewish martyr
Gasparo da Salò
1609
Italian violin maker and double bass player (1542 - 1609)
Henry Wallop
1599
English statesman
Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland
1587
James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell
1578
Consort of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1567
Louis of Nassau
1574
16th-century Dutch noble and leader in the Dutch Revolt against Spain
Girolamo Riario
1488
Italian Lord (1443–1488)
Thomas Spens
1480
15th-century Scottish bishop
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
1471
English peer in the Wars of the Roses
John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu
1471
English nobleman (c. 1431 – 1471)
Lidwina
1433
Dutch mystic (1380-1433)
Lucia Visconti
1424
14th-century Italian noblewoman
Richard de Bury
1345
14th-century Bishop of Durham, Chancellor of England, Treasurer of England
Bartholomew Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere
1322
Member of the Parliament of England
Bolesław the Pious
1279
Duke of Greater Poland from 1239 to 1247
Mstislav I of Kiev
1132
Grand Prince of Kiev from 1125 to 1132
Conrad (bishop of Utrecht)
1099
Gerard, Duke of Lorraine
1070
Duke of Lorraine (c. 1030–1070)
AD 911
911
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