April 2 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1118 – Baldwin I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem (b. c. 1058)
• 1272 – Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
• 1335 – Duke Henry of Carinthia (b. c. 1265)
• 1412 – Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer
• 1502 – Prince Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England (b. 1486)
• 1507 – Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
• 1640 – Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish author and prominent Latin poet (b. 1595)
• 1657 – Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1608)
• 1657 – Jean-Jacques Olier – French catholic priest, founder of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (b. 1608)
• 1720 – Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
• 1742 – James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
• 1747 – Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)
• 1754 – Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
• 1787 – Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
• 1791 – Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)
• 1801 – Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer (b. c. 1761)
• 1803 – Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician and judge (b. 1721)
• 1817 – Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)
• 1827 – Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
• 1845 – Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763)
• 1865 – General A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
• 1872 – Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor of the telegraph (b. 1791)
• 1891 – Albert Pike, American Confederate Brigadier General, envoy, author, attorney, and Freemason (b. 1809)
• 1902 – Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)
• 1914 – Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1830)
• 1922 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
• 1928 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1868)
• 1930 – Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
• 1936 – Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
• 1953 – Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
• 1958 – Tudor Davies, Welsh operatic tenor (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900)
• 1966 – C. S. Forester, English author (b. 1899)
• 1972 – Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
• 1972 – Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese Martial Arts Grandmaster (b. 1887)
• 1972 – Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (b. 1924)
• 1974 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
• 1977 – Walter Wolf, German politician (b. 1907)
• 1987 – Buddy Rich, American drummer (b. 1917)
• 1992 – Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
• 1992 – Juan Gómez González, Spanish football player (b. 1954)
• 1994 – Betty Furness, American actress (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Harvey Penick, American golf instructor (b. 1904)
• 1995 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (b. 1908)
• 1998 – Rob Pilatus, American model and entertainer (Milli Vanilli) (b. 1965)
• 2000 – Tommaso Buscetta, Sicilian mafioso and pentito (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972)
• 2003 – Edwin Starr, American singer (b. 1942)
• 2004 – John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer (b. 1913)
• 2005 – Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
• 2006 – Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg, German widow of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)
• 2007 – Paul Reed, American actor (b. 1909)
• 2010 – Mike Cuellar, Cuban baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2010 – Chris Kanyon, American wrestler (b. 1970)