Deaths on 3 April
2000s
Theodore McCarrick
2025
American Catholic prelate (1930–2025)
Mick O'Dwyer
2025
Irish Gaelic football manager and player (1936–2025)
Bob Lanigan
2024
Australian rugby league footballer and coach (1942–2024)
Gaetano Pesce
2024
Italian architect (1939–2024)
June Brown
2022
English actress (1927–2022)
Stan Stephens
2021
Canadian-American politician (1929–2021)
Kishori Amonkar
2017
Indian classical singer (1931–2017)
Cesare Maldini
2016
Italian footballer (1932–2016)
Joe Medicine Crow
2016
Native American writer and war chief (1913–2016)
Kōji Wada
2016
Japanese singer (1974–2016)
Sarah Brady
2015
American gun-control advocate (1942–2015)
Bob Burns (drummer)
2015
American drummer (1950–2015)
Shmuel Wosner
2015
Israeli Ashkenazi rabbi and posek
Régine Deforges
2014
French film director and writer
Fred Kida
2014
American cartoonist
Michael Prinz von Preussen
2014
German writer (1940–2014)
Jovan Pavlović
2014
Serbian metropolitan (1936–2014)
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
2014
American composer, musician, and record producer (1921–2014)
Mariví Bilbao
2013
Spanish actress (1930–2013)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
2013
British-American writer (1927–2013)
Mingote
2012
Richard Descoings
2012
French civil servant (1958–2012)
Govind Narain
2012
Indian civil servant (1916–2012)
Chief Jay Strongbow
2012
American professional wrestler (1928–2012)
José María Zárraga
2012
Spanish footballer (1930–2012)
Hrvoje Ćustić
2008
Croatian footballer
Nina Wang
2007
Hong Kong entrepreneur (1937-2007)
François Gérin
2005
Canadian politician
Terence McKenna
2000
American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and writer (1946–2000)
Dina Abramowicz
2000
American librarian (1909-2000)
1900s
Lionel Bart
1999
English composer and writer (1930–1999)
Geoffrey Walsh
1999
Canadian Army general (1909–1999)
Mary Cartwright
1998
British mathematician (1900–1998)
John Ugelstad
1997
Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor
Ron Brown
1996
American politician (1941–1996)
Alfred Jackson Billes
1995
Canadian businessman and co-founder of Canadian Tire
Frank Wells
1994
American film studio executive (1932–1994)
Pinky Lee
1993
American burlesque comic and host of a children's television program
Charles Goren
1991
American bridge player and writer
Graham Greene
1991
British writer and playwright (1904–1991)
Sarah Vaughan
1990
American jazz singer and pianist (1924–1990)
Milton Caniff
1988
American cartoonist (1907–1988)
Tom Sestak
1987
American football player (1936–1987)
Peter Pears
1986
English tenor (1910–1986)
Jimmy Bloomfield
1983
English footballer and manager (1934–1983
Warren Oates
1982
American actor (1928–1982)
Juan Trippe
1981
American aviation entrepreneur (1899–1981)
Ray Noble
1978
English jazz and big band musician (1903–1978)
Winston Sharples
1978
American composer (1909–1978)
David M. Dennison
1976
American physicist (1900–1976)
Claude-Henri Grignon
1976
French-Canadian novelist, journalist and politician
Mary Ure
1975
British actress (1933–1975)
Ferde Grofé
1972
American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist (1892–1972)
Joseph Valachi
1971
American mobster (1904–1971)
Avigdor Hameiri
1970
Hungarian-Israeli author (1890–1970)
Manolis Kalomiris
1962
Greek classical composer
Jaan Kärner
1958
Estonian poet and writer (1891–1958)
Ned Sparks
1957
Actor (1883-1957)
Miina Sillanpää
1952
Finnish politician (1866–1952)
Henrik Visnapuu
1951
Estonian poet and dramatist
Kurt Weill
1950
German composer (1900–1950)
Carter G. Woodson
1950
African-American historian, writer, and journalist (1875–1950)
Masaharu Homma
1946
Japanese officer and war criminal (1887–1946)
Conrad Veidt
1943
German and British actor (1893–1943)
Tachiyama Mineemon
1941
Japanese sumo wrestler
Pál Teleki
1941
Hungarian prime minister (1879–1941)
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
1936
German-American executed for kidnapping and murder (1899–1936)
Emma Albani
1930
Canadian-British opera soprano (1847–1930)
Esther Hobart Morris
1902
American judge (1814–1902)
Richard D'Oyly Carte
1901
English theatre manager and producer (1844–1901)
1800s
Johannes Brahms
1897
German composer and pianist (1833–1897)
Jesse James
1882
American outlaw (1847–1882)
Felicita Vestvali
1880
German opera singer (1831–1880)
Franz Berwald
1868
Swedish Romantic composer (1796 – 1868)
Juliusz Słowacki
1849
Polish Romantic poet (1809–1849)
William Braine
1846
British explorer
Edward Bigge
1844
François Carlo Antommarchi
1838
Italian physician
Ernst Chladni
1827
German physicist, mathematician and musician
Reginald Heber
1826
English clergyman and man of letters
Jędrzej Kitowicz
1804
Polish historian and diarist
Before 1800
George Pocock
1792
Royal Navy officer (1706–1792)
James Anderson (lawyer)
1728
Scottish antiquary and historian (1662–1728)
Jacques Ozanam
1717
French mathematician (1640–1718)
Melchior d'Hondecoeter
1695
Dutch painter (1636–1695)
Jean Petitot
1691
French painter (1607–1691)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
1682
Spanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)
Shivaji
1680
Chhatrapati of the Marathas from 1674 to 1680
Joseph Yuspa Nördlinger Hahn
1637
German rabbi (died 1637)
Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey
1630
English courtier (1593–1630)
Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy
1606
English statesman (1563–1606)
Antonio de Guevara
1545
16th-century Spanish bishop and author
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire
1538
English noblewoman (1480–1538)
Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy
1350
Duke of Burgundy from 1315-1349
Nizamuddin Auliya
1325
Indian Sufi saint (1237–1325)
Pope Honorius IV
1287
Head of the Catholic Church from 1285 to 1287
Richard of Chichester
1253
13th-century Bishop of Chichester and saint
Arthur I, Duke of Brittany
1203
Duke of Brittany from 1196 to 1203
Philip of Milly
1171
Seventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar (1120–1171)
Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar
1153
Fatimid commander and official (died 1154)
William III, Duke of Aquitaine
963
Duke of Aquitaine from 959 to 963
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