Death Anniversaries - w/e April 22, 2000
A D Evans
APRIL 16
1446 - Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect, in Florence, Italy aged
about 69.
1687 - 2nd Duke of Buckingham (George Villiers), English politician, in
Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire aged 59.
1689 - Aphra Behn, English writer (considered to be the first English
professional authoress), in London aged 48.
1828 - Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish artist, in Bordeaux,
France aged 82.
1850 - Marie Tussaud, Swiss wax modeller, in London aged 88.
1879 - St. Bernadette of Lourdes, French nun and visionary, in Nevers,
France aged 35.
1965 (11.00pm) - Sydney Chaplin, English actor and half-brother of
Charlie Chaplin, at the Hotel Ruhl, Paris, France aged 80.
1968 - Edna Ferber, US writer, in New York City aged 80.
1968 - Fay Bainter, US actress, in Beverly Hills, California aged 75.
1972 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (Nobel literature 1968), in
Zushi City, near Tokyo, Japan aged 72.
1991 - David Lean, English film director, in London aged 83.
1994 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US author, from cancer of the pancreas at
his apartment on Riverside Drive, New York City aged 80.
1995 - Cheyenne Brando, US daughter of actor Marlon Brando, committed
suicide by hanging herself in her brother's home in Tahiti.
1995 - Cy Endfield, US film director, following a stroke in Shipston-on-
Stour, Warwickshire aged 80.
APRIL 17
1790 - Benjamin Franklin, US statesman, publisher, scientist and
inventor, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania aged 84.
1892 - Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish-born Canadian prime minister
1873-78, in Toronto, Canada aged 70.
1942 - Jean Baptiste Perrin, French physicist (Nobel physics 1926), in
New York City aged 71.
1960 - Eddie Cochran, US popular singer, from brain lacerations in
hospital in Bath, Somerset after the Ford Consul, in which he was
travelling, blew a tyre and crashed into a lamppost on the A4 near
Chippenham, aged 21.
1984 - Mark Clark, US army commander, in Charleston, South Carolina aged
87.
1985 - Scott Brady, US actor, from respiratory failure aged 60.
1985 - Basil Bunting, English poet, in Hexham, Northumberland aged 85.
1988 - Louise Nevelson, US sculptor, in New York City aged 87.
1990 - Ralph Abernathy, US civil rights leader, in Atlanta, Georgia aged
74.
1994 - Roger Wolcott Sperry, US neuroscientist (Nobel phys/med 1981), in
Pasadena, California aged 80.
1997 - Chaim Herzog, Northern Irish-born Israeli president 1983-93, from
heart failure at Tel Hashomer Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel aged 78.
1998 - Linda McCartney, US photographer, musician, campaigner and wife
of Paul McCartney, from cancer in Santa Barbara, California aged 56.
APRIL 18
1689 - George Jeffreys (Baron Jeffreys of Wem), Welsh-born judge at the
heart of the Bloody Assizes, in the Tower of London, London possibly
aged 44.
1873 - Justus von Liebig, German chemist, in Munich, Germany aged 69.
1898 - Gustave Moreau, French painter, in Paris, France aged 72.
1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer, in Rome, Italy aged 56.
1945 - Sir John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist, in Sidmouth, Devon
aged 95.
1949 - Will Hay, Scottish comedy actor and astronomer, in London aged
60.
1955 (1.15am) - Albert Einstein, German-born Swiss/US mathematical
physicist (Nobel physics 1921), from rupture of the aorta in Princeton
Hospital, Princeton, New Jersey aged 76.
1964 - Ben Hecht, US writer, from a cerebral thrombosis in New York City
aged 70.
1986 - Marcel Dassault, French aviation pioneer, in Paris, France aged
94.
1992 (probable date) - Benny Hill, English comedian, from a heart
ailment in Teddington, Middlesex aged 67.
1993 - Dame Elisabeth Frink, English sculptor, in Woolland, Dorset aged
62.
APRIL 19
1390 - Robert II of Scotland, King 1371-90, in Dundonald, Ayrshire,
Scotland aged 74.
1588 - Veronese, Italian painter, in Venice, Italy aged about 60.
1813 - Benjamin Rush, US physician and signatory of the Declaration of
Independence, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania aged 67.
1824 - George Gordon Byron, English poet, from marsh fever in
Missolonghi, Greece aged 36.
1881 (4.30am) - Benjamin Disraeli, English Prime Minister (1868 &
1874-80) and novelist, from gout complicated by severe bronchitis at his
home in Curzon Street, London aged 76.
1882 (4.00pm) - Charles Darwin, English naturalist and originator of the
theory of evolution by natural selection, at his home Down House, near
Orpington, London aged 73.
1906 - Pierre Curie, French physicist (Nobel physics 1903) and husband
of Marie Curie, after being hit by a dray while crossing the Place
Dauphine, Paris, France aged 46.
1914 - Charles Sanders Peirce, US philosopher and mathematician, near
Milford, Pennsylvania aged 74.
1938 - Sir Henry Newbolt, English poet, in London aged 75.
1967 (1.21pm) - Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor 1949-63, from
bronchitis and influenza at his home in Rhondorf, near Bonn, West
Germany aged 91.
1987 - Antony Tudor, English dancer and choreographer, in New York City
aged 79.
1989 - Daphne Du Maurier, English novelist, at her home in Par, Cornwall
aged 81.
1992 - Frankie Howerd, English comedian, from a heart attack in London
aged 70.
1995 (9.02am) - Oklahoma. A car bomb exploded outside the Alfred P
Murrah building in Oklahoma City. 168 people died.
1998 - Octavio Paz, Mexican poet (Nobel literature 1990), from cancer in
Mexico City, Mexico aged 84.
APRIL 20
1768 - Canaletto, Italian painter, in Venice, Italy aged 70.
1912 - Bram Stoker, Irish writer, aged 64.
1918 - Ferdinand Braun, German physicist (Nobel physics 1909), in New
York City aged 67.
1947 - Christian (or Kristian) X of Denmark, King 1912-47, in
Copenhagen, Denmark aged 76.
1971 - Cecil Parker, English actor, in Brighton, Sussex aged 73.
1974 - Mohammed Ayub Khan, Pakistani President 1958-69, in Islamabad,
Pakistan aged 66.
1982 - Archibald MacLeish, US poet, in Boston, Massachusetts aged 89.
1991 - Don Siegel, US film director, from cancer in Nipoma, California
aged 78.
1995 - Milovan Djilas, Yugoslav politician and writer, from a heart
complaint in Belgrade, Serbia aged 83.
1998 - Trevor Huddleston, English missionary and co-founder of the Anti-
Apartheid Movement, in Mirfield, West Yorkshire aged 84.
APRIL 21
1109 - St. Anselm, Italian-born Archbishop of Canterbury, probably in
Canterbury, Kent aged about 76.
1142 - Peter Abelard, French philosopher and scholar, at the priory of
St Marcel, near Chalon-sur-Saone, Burgundy, France aged about 63.
1509 - Henry VII of England, King 1485-1509, from rheumatoid arthritis
and gout in Richmond, Surrey aged 52.
1699 - Jean Racine, French dramatist and poet, in Paris, France aged 59.
1910 - Mark Twain, US writer and journalist, in Redding, Connecticut
aged 74.
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, German airman, shot and killed in the
Second Battle of the Somme at Vaux-sur-Somme, France aged 25.
1930 - Robert Bridges, English poet (Poet Laureate 1913-30), at his home
Chilswell House, Boar's Hill, near Oxford, Oxfordshire aged 85.
1946 - John Maynard Keynes, English economist, in Tilton, near Firle,
Sussex aged 62.
1952 - Sir Stafford Cripps, English Labour politician, in Zurich,
Switzerland aged 62.
1965 - Sir Edward Appleton, English physicist (Nobel physics 1947), at
his home Abden House, Marchhall Crescent, Edinburgh, Scotland aged 72.
1970 - Paul Schmidt, German interpreter to Adolf Hitler, in Munich,
Germany aged 70.
1971 - Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian President 1957-71, in Port-
au-Prince, Haiti aged 64.
1977 - Gummo Marx, US comedian, from lung cancer in Palm Springs,
California aged 84.
1990 - Erte, Russian-born artist and designer, in Paris, France aged 97.
1995 - Tessie O'Shea (Two Ton Tessie), Welsh-born singer and variety
performer, from congestive heart failure in Leesburg, Florida aged 81.
1999 - Buddy Rogers, US actor, in Rancho Mirage, California aged 94.
APRIL 22
1778 - James Hargreaves, English inventor of the spinning jenny, in
Nottinghamshire aged about 67.
1794 - Chretien de Malesherbes, French statesman, guillotined in Paris,
France aged 72.
1806 - Pierre de Villeneuve, French naval commander defeated by Nelson
at Trafalgar, committed suicide at an inn in Rennes, France aged 42.
1833 - Richard Trevithick, English pioneer of the steam engine, in
Dartford, Kent aged 62.
1908 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Scottish-born British Prime
Minister 1905-08, at 10 Downing Street, London aged 71 (a week after
resigning as Prime Minister).
1933 - Sir Henry Royce, English motor engineer and co-founder of Rolls
Royce, in West Wittering, Sussex aged 70.
1957 - Roy Campbell, South African poet, following a car accident near
Setubal, Portugal aged 55.
1982 - Fred Williams, Australian painter, in Melbourne, Australia aged
55.
1983 - Earl Hines, US jazz pianist and bandleader, from a heart attack
in Oakland, California aged 77.
1984 - Ansel Adams, US photographer, from heart disease at Community
Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, near Carmel, California aged 82.
1989 - Emilio Segre, Italian-born US physicist (Nobel physics 1959), in
Lafayette, California aged 84.
1994 - Richard Nixon, US president 1969-74, in New York City aged 81.
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Andrew Evans