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April 1

1917:  Scott Joplin, American jazz musician famous for his ragtime pieces including "The Entertainer," died.

1976:  Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor and founder of the Dada group, died.

1984:  Marvin Gaye, Soul singer,  was shot to death in Los Angeles by his father, one day before his 45th birthday.

1999:  Jesse Stone, American rock and roll pioneer songwriter and composer of the classic "Shake, Rattle & Roll", died at age 97.

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April 2

1872:  Samuel F.B. Morse, American painter, inventor, and developer of the electric telegraph, died in New York.

1966:  Cecil Scott Forester, author of the " Captain Hornblower" and "The African Queen" novels, died.

1974:  Georges Pompidou, French president from 1969, died in office in Paris.

1986:  4 American passengers were killed when a bomb exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece.

2000:  Tommaso Buscetta, the first Mafia boss to turn his back on Sicily's notorious Cosa Nostra and tell its secrets to investigators, died. He was 71.

US Politicians who died April 2

April 3

1682:  Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter, died.

1897:  Johannes Brahms, German composer and pianist, died.

1950:  Kurt Weil, German composer of "Threepenny Opera", died.

1991:  Graham Greene, British novelist, died in Switzerland at age 86.

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April 4

1774:  Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, poet and novelist, died.

1841:  William Harrison, 9th President of the United States, died of pneumonia only 32 days after his inaugural. He was succeeded by vice-president John Tyler.

1905: 19,000 people were killed in an earthquake measuring 8.6 on the Richter scale which struck the province of Lahore, India, and demolished the towns of Kangra and Dharmsala.

1918:  The second Battle of the Somme ended at a cost of 150,000 Germans killed or wounded and 160,000 Allied casualties.

1941:  Andre Michelin, one of the French tire manufacturing brothers, died.

1945:  American forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany.  They found thousands of Jews burned to ashes.

1968:  Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights leader, was shot to death in Memphis, Tennesse, USA, at age 39.

1975:  155 children were killed when a U.S. Air Force transport plane evacuating Vietnamese orphans crashed on take-off in Saigon.

1979:  Pakistan ex-president Zulfikar Ali Bhutto from 1970 until 1977 was hanged at Rawalpindi for conspiring to murder a political opponent

1991:  Sen. John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six other people, including two children, were killed when a helicopter collided with Heinz's plane over a schoolyard in Merion, PA, USA.

1996:  An Italian military court judge ordered former German SS Captain Erich Priebke to stand trial for his role in the 1944 massacre of 335 Italian men and boys at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome.

2000:  Marian Nowakowski, famed Polish bass singer, died at age 87. 

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April 5

1964:  Douglas MacArthur, US Army Gen., died in Washington at age 84.

1975:  Chiang Kai-shek, nationalist Chinese leader, died at age 87.

1976:  Billionaire Howard Hughes died in Houston, Texas, at age 72.

1992:  Medical student Suada Dilberovic became the first fatality of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. 

1992:  Sam Walton, Wal-Mart department store founder, died in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA, at age 74.

1997:  Allen Ginsberg, the counterculture guru and unconventional  poet, died in New York City at age 70.

2001:  Dutch driver Perry Wacker was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 14 years in prison in the deaths of 58 Chinese immigrants who suffocated in his truck in Dover, England.

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April 6

1971:  Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer, died in New York City.

1994:  Rwanda and Burundi presidents were killed in a mysterious plane crash near Rwanda's capital.

1998:  Tammy Wynette, American country singer, died at her Nashville home in Tennessee, USA, at age 55.

1996:  President Clinton was on hand at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to greet the arrival of 33 flag-draped caskets carrying the remains of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown and other victims of a plane crash in Croatia. 

1996:  8 people were killed when a stolen truck carrying illegal immigrants overturned in Temecula, California. 

1996: Greer Garson, Hollywood actress, died in Dallas at age 92.

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April 7

1947:  Henry Ford, Founder of Ford Motor Company, died in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, at age 83.

1990: 158 people died in an arson fire aboard a ferry en route from Norway.

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April 8

1950:  Vaslav Nijinsky, ballet dancer, died in London.

1973:  Pablo Picasso, world famous painter and sculptor, died at his home near Mougins, France, at age 91.

1981:  US Gen. Omar N. Bradley died in New York at age 88.

1990:  Ryan White, the AIDS patient, died in Indianapolis at age 18.

1994:  Kurt Cobain, Nirvana singer and guitarist, shot himself in Seattle, USA. He was 27.

1997:  Laura Nyro, singer-songwriter, died in Danbury, Connecticut, USA, at age 49.

US Politicians who died April 8

April 9

1553:  Francois Rabelais, French writer of satirical masterpiece "Gargantua and Pantagruel", died.

1626:  Francis Bacon, English statesman and writer, died.

1882:  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, British poet, painter and co-founder of the pre-Raphaelites, died.

1945:  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian and anti-Nazi, was executed in Flossenburg concentration camp. He was arrested in 1943 for his involvement in a plot to assassinate Hitler.

1959:  Frank Lloyd Wright, influential American architect, died. 

US Politicians who died April 9

April 10

1919:  Mexican government troops ambushed and killed revolutionary leader Emiliano Zapata.

1954:  Auguste Lumiere, French film director, died.

1962:  Michael Curtiz, film director who won Oscar for "Casablanca", died. He was from Hungary and his real name was Mihali Kertesz.

1963:  The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Thresher sank off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the Atlantic with the loss of 129 lives.

1966:  Evelyn Waugh, English author of "Scoop", "The Loved One", and  "Brideshead Revisited", died.

1972:  An earthquake struck southern Iran, killing more than 5,000 people.

1992:  Comedian Sam Kinison was killed in a car crash outside Needles, California at age 38.

2000:  Larry Linville, one of the stars of the TV comedy "M A S H", set during the Korean War, died in New York at age 60.

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April 11

1945:  American soldiers liberated the notorious Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald in Germany.

1996:  7-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who'd hoped to become the youngest person to fly cross-country, was killed along with her father and flight instructor when her plane crashed after takeoff from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

2001:  43 people were killed in a stampede at a packed soccer stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, .

US Politicians who died April 11

April 12

1938:  Fedor Chaliapin, foremost Russian operatic bass singer and one of opera's greatest performers, died.

1945:  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. president for a record four terms, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia, USA, at age 63. He was succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman.

1981:  Joe Louis, heavywieght boxing champion, died aged 66. He held the world title for a record 12 years and won 68 of his 71 professional fights.

1989:  Abbie Hoffman, radical activist , was found dead at his home in New Hope, Pennsylvania, USA, at age 52.

1989:  Sugar Ray Robinson, five-times winner of the world middleweight championship and unbeaten welterweight champion, died in Culver City, California, at age 67.

1999: BoxCar Willie, Country singing star, who blended a mellow voice with a rough-hewn hobo persona, died at age 67.

US Politicians who died April 12

April 13

1943:  President Franklin Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial.

1919:  The Amritsar Massacre took place when British troops shot nearly 380 of Gandhi's followers.

1945:  Massive firebombing raids by Allied bombers destroyed a large part of Tokyo.

1990:  The Soviet Union admitted for the first time that it was responsible for the 1940 massacre of thousands of Polish officers at Katyn, Poland.

2000:  Giorgio Bassani, Italian author of the best-selling "Garden of the Finzi Continis," died. He was 84.

US Politicians who died April 13

April 14

1759:  Georg Frideric Handel, composer, organist and violinist, died.

1865:  Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president, was fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth at a Washington theatre. He died the next day and was succeeded by Vice-President Andrew Johnson.

1917:  Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof, creator of the language of Esperanto, died.

1975:  Frederic March, American actor who won Oscars  for his roles in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Best Years of Our Lives," died.

1986:  Simone de Beauvoir, French writer who wrote "The Second Sex", died in Paris at age 78.

1995:  Burl Ives, an Oscar-winning actor and singer, died. He won an Oscar for a dramatic roles in "The Big Country."

US Politicians who died April 14

April 15

1865:  US President Abraham Lincoln died at 7:21 a.m., several hours after he was shot at Ford's Theater in Washington by John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson succeeded to become the nation's 17th president.

1888:  Matthew Arnold, British poet and inspector of schools, died.

1912:  The British White Star luxury passenger liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, less than three hours after striking an iceberg. About 1,523 of the 2,200 passengers and crew aboard lost their lives.

1949:  Wallace Beery, American film actor and Oscar winner for his part in "The Champ," died.

1980:  Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and poet, died. He was awarded, but declined to accept, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964.

1986:  37 people were killed when the United States launched an air raid against Libya in response to the bombing of a discotheque in Berlin on April 5.

1989:  students in Beijing launched a series of pro-democracy protests following the death of former Communist Party leader Hu Yaobang; the protests culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre.

1989:  95 people died in a crush of soccer fans at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England.

1990: Greta Garbo, Swedish-born film star,  died in New York City at age 84.

1997:  343 Muslim pilgrims were killed in a fire burning tents outside Mecca, Saudi Arabia. 

1998:  Pol Pot, the notorious leader of the Khmer Rouge who was responsible for the deaths of 2 million Cambodians, died at age 73.

2001:  Joey Ramone, American punk rock singer, died in New York at age 49.

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April 16

1828:  Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter, died. From 1824 until his death he lived in voluntary exile in France.

1879:  Bernadette Soubirous (Saint Bernadette of Lourdes) died.

1947:  More than 500 people were killed when a French cargo carrying nitrates exploded at Texas City, Texas.

1991:  Sir David Lean, British film director of such films "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "Lawrence of Arabia", and "A Passage to India", died.

1998: Alberto Calderon, the most influential mathematicians in 20th century, died.

2007: A South Korean born, Cho Seung-Hui — a 23-year-old senior majoring in English and a US resident — killed 32 students and teachers in Virginia Tech University, BLACKSBURG, VA on Tuesday April 16th.  The gunman in this massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note in his dorm room raging against women and rich kids. He killed himself as police closed in.

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April 17

1421:  More than 100,000 people drowned when the sea broke through the dykes at Dort, Netherlands.

1790:  Benjamin Franklin, American scientist and statesman, died in Philadelphia at age 84.

1960:  Eddie Cochran, American rock star, died in a car crash in Britain.

1961:  100 right-wing Cuban exiles were killed at the Bay of Pigs after a three-day battle with Cuban revolutionary government.

1990:  Ralph D. Abernathy, the civil rights activist and top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., died in Atlanta at age 64.

1997:  Chaim Herzog, former Israeli president  who defended Israel on the battlefield, died at age 78.

1998:  Linda McCartney, photographer and wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, died from cancer.

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April 18

1906:  More than 1,000 people were killed when an earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires. The quake and resulting fires devastated the city, leaving over 200,000 people homeless.

1942:  USS Hornet aircraft squadron commanded by Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle bombed Tokyo for the first time as well as Yokohama and Nagoya.

1945:  Ernie Pyle, American war correspondent, was killed by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa.  He was 44.

1955:  Albert Einstein, German born physicist, scientist and mathematician who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921, died  in Princeton, N.J., USA.

1983:  A suicide bomb shattered the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, killing at least 63 people.

1992:  British comedian Benny Hill died.

1994:  Former US President Nixon suffered a stroke at his home in Park Ridge, N.J.. He died April 22, 1994 at a New York hospital.

1996:  Israeli shells killed 91 Lebanese refugees in a U.N. camp. 

1996:  Gunmen opened fire at a hotel in Egypt, killing 18 Greek tourists.

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April 19

1824:  Lord Byron, English poet, died of a fever while aiding Greek rebels fighting the Turks.

1882:  Charles Darwin, English naturalist who developed the theory of evolution, died.

1906:  Pierre , French chemist, physicist, and husband of Marie Curie, was run over and killed in Paris.

1989:  47 sailors were killed when a gun turret exploded aboard the USS Iowa.

1993:  Dozens of people, including David Koresh, leader of Branch Davidian, were killed at the compound near Waco, Texas.

1995:  Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was destroyed by a truck bomb, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds. Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and faced execution on May 2001.

1996:  On the first anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, hundreds of mourners paused for 168 seconds of silence at the site where the federal building once stood.

1996:  Former US President Clinton paid tribute to the hundreds of thousands of Russians who died in the Nazi siege of Leningrad.

2000:  During a fifth-anniversary dedication ceremony, Former US President Clinton knelt among 168 empty chairs memorializing each victim of the Oklahoma City bombing and declared the site "sacred ground" in the soul of America.

2000:  131 people were killed aboard an Air Philippines Boeing 737.

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April 20

1768:  Canaletto, Italian Venetian painter, died.

1912:  Bram Stoker, Dublin-born author of "Dracula", died.

1943:  The massacre of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto began in WWII.

1978: Two passengers were killed when a Korean Air Lines Boeing 707 crash-landed in northwestern Russia after being fired on by a Soviet interceptor when mistakably entered Soviet airspace.

1999:  Two teenagers, students of the Columbine High School in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, shot and killed 12 classmates and one teacher before taking their own lives.

2000:  Littleton, Colo., paused to remember the victims on the first anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre.

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April 21

1918:  Baron Manfred von Richthofen, was killed in action during World War I.

1910: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, died in Redding, Connecticut. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, New York. Elmira was the home of his wife's family, the Langdons, and he was buried in their plot.

1992:  Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years as he was put to death in the gas chamber for the 1978 murder of two teen-age boys.

1996: Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, American Oddsmaker,  died at age 76.

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April 22

1933:  Sir Frederick Henry Royce, founder of the British car company Rolls-Royce, died.

1994:  Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States from 1969 until his resignation in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal, died at a New York hospital four days after suffering a stroke; he was 81.

1997:  1 hostage, 3 soldiers and all 14 guerrillas were killed when Peruvian troops broke into the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima to free 71 hostages. 

US Politicians who died April 22

April 23

1616:  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish novelist famous for writing "Don Quixote," died in Madrid.

1850:  William Wordsworth, British poet, died at age 80.

1915:  Rupert Brooke, British poet, died of blood poisoning in Skiros, Greece.

1940:  200 people died in a dance hall fire in Natchez, Mississippi.

1983:  Buster Crabbe, Hollywood film star famous for his portrayals of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers, died.

1986:  Otto Preminger, Austrian documentry film director, died. His credits included "Laura", "Carmen Jones" ,and "Exodus."

1990:  Paulette Goddard, Ameircan actress and former wife of Charlie Chaplin, died. She played with him in "Modern Times" and "The Great Dictator."

1992:  Satyajit Ray, Indian film director, died.  He was awarded a lifetime achievement Oscar just three weeks before his death.

1995:  Howard Cosell, American Radio & TV sportscaster, died in New York at age 77.

1998:  James Earl Ray who assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, died at age 70.

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April 24

1731:  Daniel Defoe, author of "Robinson Crusoe", died.

1915:  Ottoman Turkish Empire began the brutal mass deportation of Armenians during WWI.

1967:  Vladimir Komarov, the first Russian to fly in the Soyuz craft, was killed when he landed and crashed in Russia after his 17th orbit of Earth.

1975:  3 people died when Baader-Meinhof terrorists attacked the German embassy in Stockholm.

1980:  8 US servicemen died when a helicopter collided with a tanker aircraft in a commando mission near Tabas desert, Iran. The United States had launched an abortive attempt to free the American hostages in Iran.

1986:  Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, died in Paris at age 89.  King Edward VIII had given up the British throne to marry her in 1936.

2000:  One killed, 6 chidren wounded when a youth opened fire on a crowd of people in the National Zoo in Washington.

US Politicians who died April 24

April 25

1980:  All 146 passengers and crew were killed when a Dan Air Boeing 727 flying from Manchester crashed into a mountain south of Tenerife's Los Rodeos Airport in the Canary Island. 

1995:  Ginger Rogers, American star, died in Rancho Mirage, California, at age 83.

1998:  Christian Mortensen, the oldest man in the world who emigrated to the United States from his native Denmark in 1903, died at the age of 115.

2000:  Zika Petrovic, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's ally, was shot to death. 

2000:  David Merrick, Broadway producer, died in London at age 88.

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April 26

1726:  Jeremy Collier, English historian and opponent of the theater, died.

1865:  John Wilkes Booth died in a shootout with federal troops 12 days after the assassination of  U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.

1984:  Count Basie (William Basie), American jazz pianist, died.

1986:  The world's worst nuclear disaster happened when a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear complex in the Ukraine, USSR, exploded, spreading a radioactive cloud across Europe.

1986:  Broderick Crawford, American film and television actor, died. He won an Oscar for "All the King's Men."

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April 27

1521:  Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorern and navigator, was killed by natives on the island of Mactan in the Philippines on a round-the-world voyage.

1865:  More than 1,400 Union prisoners of war died when the Sultana steamer exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee, USA. 

1932:  Hart Crane, American poet, committed suicide after jumping from a steamer while en route to New York. He was 32.

1999:  Al Hirt, American trumpet player, died.

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April 28

1940 - Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian soprano, died.

1945 - Benito Mussolini, Italian fascist dictator, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, was executed by Italian partisans near Lake Como one day after his capture.

1988:  One flight attendant was killed and 61 persons injured when part of the roof of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 ripped off during a flight from Hilo to Honolulu.

1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer, died at age 83 in Paris.

1995:  101 people were killed , when a gas line exploded in the middle of a crowded  intersection in Taegu, South Korea.

1996:  35 tourists were killed when a man armed with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire on the Australian island of Tasmania. He was captured by police 12-hour later.

2000: Five people were killed by Richard Scott Baumhammers in a shooting rampage in suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, because of their race.

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April 29

1980:  Sir Alfred Hitchcock, British-born  suspense-thrillers film director, died.

1991:  More than 100 people were killed  when a strong earthquake struck Georgia, Soviet Union.

1992:  Deadly Los Angeles rioting erupted after a jury in Simi Valley, California, acquitted four L.A. police officers all charges in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.

2000:  Pham Van Dong, Ho Chi Minh predecessor who served as prime minister in Hanoi for more than three decades until 1987, died.

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April 30

1945:  Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun while Russian troops approaching his underground Berlin bunker. 

1991:  125,000 people died in Bangladesh, when a cyclone struck the South Asia.

1883:  Edouard Manet, French impressionist painter, died.

1900:  Casey Jones, American railroad engineer, died saving Cannonball train passengers.

1936:  Alfred Edward Housman, British poet, died.

1989:  Sergio Leone, Italian film director of famous movies like "Once upon a time in the west" and "For a Few Dollars More", died of a heart attack.

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April 2002:  A Sudanese military airplane crashed & killed 14 senior officers, including the deputy defense minister who directed the war against rebels in southern Sudan.

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