Deaths on 7 April
2000s
William Finn
2025
American composer and lyricist (1952–2025)
Greg Millen
2025
Canadian ice hockey player (1957–2025)
Jerry Grote
2024
American baseball player (1942–2024)
Joe Kinnear
2024
Irish football manager and player (1946–2024)
Ben Ferencz
2023
American lawyer (1920–2023)
Philippe Bouvatier
2023
French cyclist (1964–2023)
Tommy Raudonikis
2021
Australian rugby league footballer and coach (1950–2021)
John Prine
2020
American singer-songwriter (1946–2020)
Herb Stempel
2020
American game show contestant (1926–2020)
Seymour Cassel
2019
American actor (1935–2019)
Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca
2017
Romanian historian and philologist
Blackjack Mulligan
2016
American professional wrestler and American football player (1942–2016)
Tim Babcock
2015
American politician (1919–2015)
José Capellán
2015
Dominican baseball player (1981–2015)
Stan Freberg
2015
American actor and entertainer (1926–2015)
Richard Henyekane
2015
South African soccer player (1983-2015)
Geoffrey Lewis (actor)
2015
American actor (1935–2015)
George Dureau
2014
American artist (1930–2014)
Sandy Green (mathematician)
2014
British mathematician (1926–2014)
V. K. Murthy
2014
Indian cinematographer
Zeituni Onyango
2014
Relative of Barack Obama (1952–2014)
John Shirley-Quirk
2014
English bass-baritone (1931–2014)
George Shuffler
2014
Musical artist
Josep Maria Subirachs
2014
Spanish sculptor and painter
Royce Waltman
2014
American basketball player and coach (1942–2014)
Marty Blake
2013
American basketball executive (1927–2013)
Les Blank
2013
American documentary filmmaker
Andy Johns
2013
British record producer and engineer (1950–2013)
Lilly Pulitzer
2013
American entrepreneur and fashion designer (1931–2013)
Irma Ravinale
2013
Italian composer (1937–2013)
Mickey Rose
2013
American writer and director
Carl Williams (boxer)
2013
American boxer
Steven Kanumba
2012
Tanzanian Actor from Shinyanga Region
Satsue Mito
2012
Japanese zoologist
Ignatius Moses I Daoud
2012
Head of the Syriac Catholic Church from 1998 to 2001
David E. Pergrin
2012
American army officer
Bashir Khan Qureshi
2012
Former Sindhi nationalist politician
Mike Wallace
2012
American journalist (1918–2012)
Pierre Gauvreau
2011
Canadian painter and writer
Dave Arneson
2009
American game designer (1947–2009)
Ludu Daw Amar
2008
Burmese writer and journalist
Johnny Hart
2007
American cartoonist
Barry Nelson
2007
American actor (1917–2007)
Cliff Allison
2005
British racing driver (1932–2005)
Grigoris Bithikotsis
2005
Greek folk singer and songwriter
Bob Kennedy
2005
American baseball player, manager, and executive (1920–2005)
Melih Kibar
2005
Turkish composer
Victor Argo
2004
American actor (1934–2004)
Konstantinos Kallias
2004
Greek politician (1901–2004)
Cécile de Brunhoff
2003
French storyteller
David Greene (director)
2003
British director, actor (1921–2003)
John Agar
2002
American actor (1921–2002)
David Graf
2001
American actor (1950–2001)
Beatrice Straight
2001
American actress (1914–2001)
1900s
Heinz Lehmann
1999
Canadian psychiatrist (1911–1999)
Alex Schomburg
1998
Puerto Rican commercial and comic-book artist (1905–1998)
Luis Alomá
1997
Cuban baseball player (1923–1997)
Georgy Shonin
1997
Soviet cosmonaut (1935–1997)
Philip Jebb
1995
Lee Brilleaux
1994
English singer (1952–1994)
Albert Guðmundsson (footballer, born 1923)
1994
Icelandic footballer (1923–1994)
Golo Mann
1994
20th-century German popular historian
Agathe Uwilingiyimana
1994
Prime Minister of Rwanda
Ace Bailey
1992
Canadian ice hockey player (1903–1992)
Antonis Tritsis
1992
Greek politician and urban planner
Memduh Ünlütürk
1991
Turkish general
Ronald Evans (astronaut)
1990
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1933–1990)
Leonid Kantorovich
1986
Russian mathematician (1912–1986)
Carl Schmitt
1985
German jurist and political theorist (1888–1985)
Frank Church
1984
American politician and lawyer (1924–1984)
Harald Ertl
1982
Austrian racing driver and journalist (1948–1982)
Kit Lambert
1981
English record producer, record label owner, raconteur and manager of The Who
Norman Taurog
1981
American film director (1899–1981)
Joe Gallo
1972
Italian-American mobster (1929–1972)
Abeid Karume
1972
President of Zanzibar from 1964 to 1972
Edwin Baker (CNIB)
1968
Canadian blindness activist
Jim Clark
1968
British racing driver (1936–1968)
Walt Hansgen
1966
American racing driver (1919–1966)
Roger Leger
1965
Canadian ice hockey player
Henri Guisan
1960
Swiss general
Fred Appleby
1956
English distance runner
Theda Bara
1955
American actress (1885–1955)
Walter Huston
1950
Canadian actor and singer (1884–1950)
John Gourlay (soccer)
1949
Canadian soccer player (1872–1949)
Henry Ford
1947
American business magnate (1863–1947)
Jovan Dučić
1943
Herzegovinian Serb poet-diplomat (1872–1943)
Alexandre Millerand
1943
French lawyer and statesman (1859–1943)
Joseph Lyons
1939
Prime Minister of Australia from 1932 to 1939
Suzanne Valadon
1938
French painter and artists' model (1865–1938)
Grigore Constantinescu
1932
Alexander Bogdanov
1928
Russian physician, philosopher, and revolutionary (1873–1928)
James McGowen
1922
Australian politician (1855–1922)
Karl Binding
1920
German jurist
David Kolehmainen
1918
Finnish wrestler (1885–1918)
George E. Ohr
1918
American artist
Spyridon Samaras
1917
Greek composer (1861–1917)
1800s
P. T. Barnum
1891
American showman and politician (1810–1891)
Youssef Bey Karam
1889
Lebanese Maronite (1823–1889)
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada
1889
President of Mexico from 1872 to 1876
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
1885
German physiologist and zoologist (1804–1885)
Maria Doolaeghe
1884
Flemish writer
Begum Hazrat Mahal
1879
Regent of Awadh, 1857–1858
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
1868
Canadian Father of Confederation (1825–1868)
Anton Diabelli
1858
Austrian music publisher, editor and composer
William Lisle Bowles
1850
English priest, poet and critic (1762–1850)
Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros
1849
Argentine statesman and priest (1777–1849)
William Godwin
1836
English philosopher and novelist (1756–1836)
Antoni Radziwiłł
1833
Polish and Prussian noble (1775–1833)
Jacques Charles
1823
French inventor, scientist and mathematician (1746–1823)
Garsevan Chavchavadze
1811
Georgian nobleman, politician and diplomat
Toussaint Louverture
1804
Haitian general and revolutionary (1744–1803)
Noël François de Wailly
1801
French grammarian and lexicographer (1724–1801)
Before 1800
Abdul Hamid I
1789
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1774 to 1789
Petrus Camper
1789
Dutch scientist
Taksin
1782
King of Siam from 1767 to 1782
Martha Ray
1779
British singer
Franz Sparry
1767
Tiberius Hemsterhuis
1766
18th-century Dutch philologist
Thomas Bayes
1761
British statistician (c. 1701 – 1771)
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau
1747
Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1676–1747)
Dick Turpin
1739
English highwayman (1705–1739)
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
1719
French priest and Catholic saint (1651–1719)
William Davenant
1668
English poet and playwright (1606–1668)
Francis Cooke
1663
Original settler of Plymouth Colony (1583–1663)
Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet
1661
English religious Independent, author, MP and landowner (1604–1661)
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
1658
Spanish Jesuit, polymath and mystic (1595–1658)
Lennart Torstensson
1651
Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillor and Governor-General (1603–1651)
Shimazu Tadatsune
1638
16/17th-century Japanese warlord; leader of Satsuma Domain
El Greco
1614
Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance (1541–1614)
Edward Oldcorne
1606
English Jesuit priest
Minkhaung II
1501
King of Ava
Galeotto I Pico
1499
15th-century Italian soldier and nobleman
Charles VIII of France
1498
King of France from 1483 to 1498
Yuri II Boleslav
1340
5th King of Ruthenia
Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine
1206
Duke of Lorraine from 1205 to 1206
Baha al-Din Qaraqush
1201
Military Commander of Saladin
Berengar I of Italy
924
Holy Roman Emperor from 915 to 924
George the Standard-Bearer
821
Archbishop of Mytilene from 804–815
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