Deaths on 26 April
2000s
Jerry Apodaca
2023
American politician (1934–2023)
Execution of Tangaraju Suppiah
2023
Singaporean hanged for drug trafficking in 2023
Klaus Schulze
2022
German composer and musician (1947–2022)
Jonathan Demme
2017
American filmmaker (1944–2017)
Harry Wu
2016
Chinese-American human rights activist (1937–2016)
Jayne Meadows
2015
American actress and author (1919–2015)
Marcel Pronovost
2015
Canadian ice hockey player
Gerald Guralnik
2014
American physicist (1936–2014)
Paul Robeson Jr.
2014
American academic (1927–2014)
DJ Rashad
2014
American musician, producer and DJ
Jacqueline Brookes
2013
American actress, acting teacher
George Jones
2013
American country musician (1931–2013)
Earl Silverman
2013
Domestic abuse survivor and men's rights advocate
Terry Spinks
2012
English boxer
Phoebe Snow
2011
American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1950–2011)
Mariam A. Aleem
2010
Egyptian artist (1930–2010)
Urs Felber
2010
Hans Holzer
2009
American writer and parapsychologist
Árpád Orbán
2008
Hungarian footballer (1938–2008)
Jack Valenti
2007
American political advisor and lobbyist (1921–2007)
Mason Adams
2005
American actor (1919–2005)
Elisabeth Domitien
2005
Central African politician
Maria Schell
2005
Austrian-Swiss actress (1926–2005)
Augusto Roa Bastos
2005
Paraguayan writer (1917–2005)
Hubert Selby Jr.
2004
American writer
Rosemary Brown (Canadian politician)
2003
Canadian politician (1930–2003)
Yun Hyon-seok
2003
South Korean writer and activist (1984–2003)
Edward Max Nicholson
2003
British environmentalist and ornithologist
1900s
Adrian Borland
1999
English musician (1957–1999)
Jill Dando
1999
English journalist and television presenter (1961–1999)
Stirling Silliphant
1996
American screenwriter (1918–1996)
Mas Oyama
1994
Founder of Kyokushin Karate (1923–1994)
Leo Arnaud
1991
French-American arranger and composer (1904–1991)
Carmine Coppola
1991
American composer (1910–1991)
A. B. Guthrie Jr.
1991
American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literary historian
Richard Hatfield
1991
Canadian politician (1931–1991)
Lucille Ball
1989
American actress (1911–1989)
Shankar–Jaikishan
1987
Indian film music composer duo
John Silkin
1987
British left-wing Labour politician and solicitor (1923-1987)
Broderick Crawford
1986
American actor (1911–1986)
Bessie Love
1986
American actress (1898–1986)
Dechko Uzunov
1986
Bulgarian painter
Count Basie
1984
American jazz musician and composer (1904–1984)
Jim Davis (actor)
1981
American actor (1909–1981)
Cicely Courtneidge
1980
British actress (1893–1980)
Sidney Franklin (bullfighter)
1976
American bullfighter
Sid James
1976
South African-British actor (1913–1976)
Armstrong Sperry
1976
American writer and illustrator (1897–1976)
Irene Ryan
1973
American actress (1902–1973)
Erik Bergman (Lutheran minister)
1970
Swedish parish minister (1886–1970)
Gypsy Rose Lee
1970
American burlesque performer, actress and writer (1911–1970)
Morihei Ueshiba
1969
Founder of Aikido
John Heartfield
1968
German visual artist (1891–1968)
E. J. Pratt
1964
Canadian poet (1882–1964)
Gichin Funakoshi
1957
Japanese karateka (1868–1957)
Edward Arnold (actor)
1956
American actor (1890–1956)
Arnold Sommerfeld
1951
German theoretical physicist (1868–1951)
George Murray Hulbert
1950
American judge (1881–1950)
James Larkin White
1946
Discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns
Sigmund Rascher
1945
German Schutzstaffel (SS) doctor (1909–1945)
Pavlo Skoropadsky
1945
Ukrainian and Russian Cossack military and political official; Hetman of Ukraine (1918)
Violette Morris
1944
French athlete (1893–1944)
Carl Bosch
1940
German chemist and engineer (1874–1940)
Arturs Alberings
1934
Latvian politician
Konstantin Vaginov
1934
Russian poet
Bill Lockwood (cricketer)
1932
English cricketer
Srinivasa Ramanujan
1920
Indian mathematician (1887–1920)
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
1916
Portuguese poet and writer (1890–1916)
John Bunny
1915
American actor (1863–1915)
Ida Hunt Udall
1915
American Latter-day Saint diarist (1858–1915)
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
1910
Norwegian writer (1832–1910)
1800s
Eric Stenbock
1895
Baltic Swedish poet and novelist (1860–1895)
Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen
1881
19th-century Bavarian general
John Wilkes Booth
1865
American stage actor and assassin (1838–1865)
Bernhard Schott
1809
Before 1800
Petr Ivanovich Panin
1789
Russian general (1721–1789)
Nano Nagle
1784
Pioneer of Catholic education in Ireland
John Somers, 1st Baron Somers
1716
English jurist, statesman and peer (1651–1716)
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie
1686
Swedish statesman and military man
Jean Fernel
1558
16th-century French physician
Ashikaga Yoshihisa
1489
Military ruler of Japan from 1465 to 1489
Giuliano de' Medici
1478
Lord of Florence from 1469 to 1478
Robert Campin
1444
French painter (c. 1375 – 1444)
Chŏng Mongju
1392
Korean scholar-official (1337–1392)
Simon Islip
1366
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1349 to 1366
Emperor Go-Shirakawa
1192
Emperor of Japan from 1155 to 1158
Adalbero I of Metz
962
Bishop of Metz from 929 till 954 (died 962)
Chen Jingxuan
893
General of the Tang dynasty of China
AD 757
757
Calendar year
Mu'awiya I
680
Founder of the Umayyad Caliphate
Richarius
645
French hermit and monk (560–645)
Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei
499
Emperor of Northern Wei Dynasty from 471 to 499