Deaths on 2 April
2000s
Khamtai Siphandone
2025
President of Laos (1924–2025; served 1998–2006)
Jerry Abbott
2024
American songwriter and record producer (1942–2024)
John Barth
2024
American writer (1930–2024)
Maryse Condé
2024
French Guadeloupean author (1934–2024)
Christopher Durang
2024
American playwright (1949–2024)
Larry Lucchino
2024
American lawyer and baseball executive (1945–2024)
John Sinclair (poet)
2024
American poet and activist (1941–2024)
Juan Vicente Pérez
2024
Venezuelan supercentenarian (1909–2024)
Estelle Harris
2022
American actress (1928–2022)
Simon Bainbridge
2021
British composer (1952–2021)
Alma Delia Fuentes
2017
Mexican actress (1937–2017)
Gallieno Ferri
2016
Italian comic book artist (1929–2016)
Robert Abajyan
2016
Armenian soldier (1996–2016)
Manoel de Oliveira
2015
Portuguese film director, screenwriter and racing driver (1908–2015)
Robert Schuller
2015
American television evangelist (1926–2015)
Steve Stevaert
2015
Belgian politician (1954–2015)
Urs Widmer
2014
Swiss novelist, playwright (1938–2014)
Fred (cartoonist)
2013
French comics artist
Jesús Franco
2013
Spanish filmmaker, composer, and actor (1930–2013)
Milo O'Shea
2013
Irish actor (1926–2013)
Jesús Aguilarte
2012
Venezuela politician (c.1959–2012)
Elizabeth Catlett
2012
American artist and sculptor (1915–2012)
Mauricio Lasansky
2012
Argentine artist and educator
John C. Haas
2011
American businessman
Chris Kanyon
2010
American professional wrestler (1970–2010)
Albert Sanschagrin
2009
Bud Shank
2009
American saxophonist and flautist (1926–2009)
Yakup Satar
2008
Ottoman veteran of the First World War
Henry L. Giclas
2007
American astronomer (1910–2007)
Lloyd Searwar
2006
Lillian O'Donnell
2005
American writer (1926–2005)
Pope John Paul II
2005
Head of the Catholic Church from 1978 to 2005
John Argyris
2004
Greek pioneer of computer applications
Edwin Starr
2003
American musician (1942–2003)
Levi Celerio
2002
Filipino composer and lyricist
John R. Pierce
2002
American electrical engineer, scientist, and author
Charles Daudelin
2001
Canadian sculptor and painter (1920–2001)
1900s
Rob Pilatus
1998
German singer (1964/1965–1998)
Tomoyuki Tanaka
1997
Japanese film producer (1910–1997)
Hannes Alfvén
1995
Swedish physicist and Nobel laureate (1908–1995)
Betty Furness
1994
American actress, consumer advocate, and special assistant to the president (1916-1994)
Marc Fitch
1994
Juanito (footballer, born 1954)
1992
Spanish footballer (1954–1992)
Jan van Aartsen
1992
Dutch politician (1909–1992)
Manolis Angelopoulos
1989
Greek singer (1939–1989)
Buddy Rich
1987
American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917–1987)
Walter Wolf (politician)
1977
German politician
Georges Pompidou
1974
President of France from 1969 to 1974
Franz Halder
1972
General and chief of staff in Nazi Germany
Toshitsugu Takamatsu
1972
Japanese martial artist (1889–1972)
C. S. Forester
1966
British novelist (1899–1966)
Hoyt Vandenberg
1954
U.S. Air Force general (1899–1954)
Hugo Sperrle
1953
German military aviator and general (1885–1953)
Sabahattin Ali
1948
Turkish novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist (1907-1948)
Édouard Estaunié
1942
French novelist
Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne
1936
French general and military engineer (1860-1936)
Ranjitsinhji
1933
Indian cricketer and Maharaja of Nawanagar, (present day [[Jamnagar]]), (1872–1933)
Zewditu
1930
Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930
Theodore William Richards
1928
American chemist and Nobel laureate (1868–1928)
Topal Osman
1923
Turkish officer and militia leader
Bryn Lewis
1917
Wales international rugby union footballer
Paul Heyse
1914
German writer and translator (1830–1914)
1800s
Theodore Robinson
1896
American painter (1852–1896)
Achille Vianelli
1894
Italian painter (1803–1894)
Albert Pike
1891
American author, Freemason, and soldier (1809–1891)
Ahmed Vefik Pasha
1891
Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire in 1878 and 1882
Samuel Morse
1872
American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
A. P. Hill
1865
Confederate Army general (1825–1865)
Philip Charles Durham
1845
Royal Navy Admiral (1763–1845)
Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus
1827
German physician and naturalist
Johann Heinrich Jung
1817
German author (1740–1817)
Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet
1803
Scottish advocate, judge, and politician (1721–1803)
Thomas Dadford Jr.
1801
English canal engineer
Before 1800
Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
1791
French writer, orator and statesman (1749–1791)
Thomas Gage
1787
British Army officer and colonial administrator (1718/19–1787)
Thomas Carte
1754
English historian
Johann Jacob Dillenius
1747
German botanist (1684-1747)
James Douglas (physician)
1742
Scottish physician and anatomist
Joseph Dudley
1720
Royal governor of Massachusetts (1647–1720)
Pedro Calungsod
1672
Second Filipino saint and Martyr
Diego Luis de San Vitores
1672
Spanish missionary (1627–1672)
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor
1657
Holy Roman Emperor from 1637 to 1657
Jean-Jacques Olier
1657
17th-century French Catholic priest and founder of the Sulpicians
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski
1640
Polish Latin poet
Bernard VII, Lord of Lippe
1511
Lord of Lippe
Francis of Paola
1507
Italian mendicant friar (1416–1507)
Arthur, Prince of Wales
1502
Heir apparent of Henry VII of England (1486–1502)
Ferdinand I of Aragon
1416
King of Aragon, Valencia, and Sicily from 1412 to 1416
Ruy González de Clavijo
1412
Castilian traveler, writer, and diplomat (died 1412)
Henry of Bohemia
1335
King of Bohemia from 1307 to 1310
Richard of Cornwall
1272
King of Germany from 1257 to 1272
Henrik Harpestræng
1244
Danish botanist (1164–1244)
Baldwin I of Jerusalem
1118
King of Jerusalem from 1100 to 1118
Bardas Skleros
991
10th-century Byzantine general
Yuan Dezhao
968
Muflih al-Turki
872
Æbbe the Younger
870
Abbess of Coldingham Priory in Scotland
Hasan ibn Ali
670
Grandson of Muhammad and the second Shia Imam (625–670)