April 3 - Deaths

Deaths

• 963 – William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)
• 1287 – Pope Honorius IV, Pope for two years from 1285 to 1287 (b. c. 1210)
• 1350 – Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
• 1606 – Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
• 1680 – Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, India (b. 1630)
• 1682 – Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)
• 1691 – Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608)
• 1695 – Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. c. 1636)
• 1717 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
• 1728 – James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662)
• 1792 – George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
• 1804 – Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest
• 1827 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756)
• 1838 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (b. 1780)
• 1849 – Juliusz Słowacki, Polish poet (b. 1809)
• 1868 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and inventor (b. 1796)
• 1882 – Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
• 1897 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
• 1901 – Richard D'Oyly Carte, British impresario (b. 1844)
• 1930 – Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
• 1936 – Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh III (b. 1899)
• 1941 – Pál Teleki, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879)
• 1941 – Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22^nd Yokozuna (b. 1877)
• 1943 – Conrad Veidt, German actor (b. 1893)
• 1950 – Carter G. Woodson, African-American historian, author, journalist and founder of Black History Month (b. 1875)
• 1950 – Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900)
• 1952 – Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician, first female Finnish minister (b. 1866)
• 1962 – Manolis Kalomiris, Greek classical composer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (b. 1898)
• 1971 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
• 1972 – Ferde Grofé, American composer (b. 1882)
• 1975 – Mary Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
• 1978 – Ray Noble, English bandleader and composer (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (b. 1899)
• 1982 – Warren Oates, American character actor (b. 1928)
• 1986 – Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
• 1988 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924)
• 1991 – Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Pinky Lee, American comic and children's television host (b. 1907)
• 1994 – Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (b. 1932)
• 1995 – Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman (Canadian Tire) (b. 1902)
• 1996 – Ron Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)
• 1996 – Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1927)
• 1998 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1999 – Lionel Bart, English composer (Oliver!) (b. 1930)
• 2000 – Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946)
• 2002 – Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
• 2003 – Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer (b. 1942)
• 2005 – Tony Croatto, Italian singer (b. 1940)
• 2005 – Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Marion Eames, Welsh novelist (b. 1921)
• 2007 – Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
• 2007 – Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (b. 1937)
• 2008 – Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian football player (b. 1983)