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April 1, 2004 Carrie Snodgress, actress, Diary of a Mad Housewife, dies at 57 April 1, 1997 Jolie Gabor, mother of Zsa Zsa and Eva, dies at 97 April 1, 1997 Nancy Woodhull, news editor for USA Today, dies of cancer at 52 April 1, 1996 Alfredo Nobre Coast, PM of Portugal (1978), dies April 1, 1996 Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89 April 1, 1996 John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist, dies at 87 April 1, 1996 John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51 April 1, 1996 Mario Viegas, actor (The Jew, Divine Comedy), dies at 47 April 1, 1995 Cheryl Waltz, author/film producer, dies at 50 April 1, 1995 Francisco Moncion, dancer, dies at 73 April 1, 1995 Johnny Nicholss, footballer, dies at 63 April 1, 1995 Lucie Rie, potter, dies at 93 April 1, 1995 Richard Pool, naval Officer, dies at 75 April 1, 1995 Sampson DeBrier, actor (Inauguration of Pleasure Dome), dies at 86 April 1, 1994 Leon Degrelle, Belgium general, dies April 1, 1994 Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81 April 1, 1994 Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix, dies at 86 April 1, 1994 Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot, dies at 72 April 1, 1993 Alan Kulwicki, stock car racer, dies in plane crash at 38 April 1, 1993 Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed April 1, 1993 Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I, dies April 1, 1993 Wayne Mack, sportscaster/actor (Storyville), dies of cancer at 68 April 1, 1992 Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash April 1, 1991 Martha Graham, U.S., choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96 April 1, 1991 Paulo Muwanga, chief of Uganda (1980), dies April 1, 1991 Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95 April 1, 1989 Henk Gortzak, Dutch MP (CPN/PSP), dies at 57 April 1, 1988 Jim Jordan, actor (Fibber McGee), dies from a blod clot at 91 April 1, 1988 Marius W. Holtrop, economist/president (Netherlands Bank), dies at 85 April 1, 1984 Marvin Gaye, shot to death by his father Marvin Gaye Sr in LA at 44 April 1, 1984 Elizabeth Goudge, English Writer April 1, 1981 D[ennis] F[eltham] Jones, sci-fi author (Colossus), dies at 65 April 1, 1979 Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician, dies at 51 April 1, 1976 Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63 April 1, 1976 Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85 April 1, 1976 Miroslav Ponc, composer, dies at 73 April 1, 1976 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75 April 1, 1975 Eugeen Yoors, Flemish draftsman/glass painter, dies at 95 April 1, 1974 Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86 April 1, 1973 Arthur Wood, cricket wicket-keeper (England 1938-39), dies April 1, 1969 Helena Rubinstein, U.S. cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about 89 April 1, 1968 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59 April 1, 1966 Karl B Adam, German theologist (Jesus Christ), dies at 89 April 1, 1965 Henry D G Crerar, Canadian general (WW I, Normandy), dies at 76 April 1, 1964 Bozidar Kunc, composer, dies at 60 April 1, 1960 Piet[er O] Bakker, Dutch journalist and writer (Ciske), dies at 62 April 1, 1957 Gheorge Tatarescu, premier Romania (1933-37, 39-40), dies April 1, 1955 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68 April 1, 1952 Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian playwright (Farkas, Tester), dies at 76 April 1, 1951 Clement D'Hooghe, composer, dies at 51 April 1, 1950 Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45 April 1, 1947 George II, king of Greece, dies at 56 April 1, 1946 Noah Beery, actor (Beau Geste, Cimarron Kid, Mammy), dies at 62 April 1, 1941 Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian, dies at 81 April 1, 1936 Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61 April 1, 1933 Frederick Lord Chelmsford, viceroy of Brit-Ind (1916-21), dies at 64 April 1, 1930 Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner, dies at 92 April 1, 1930 Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies April 1, 1925 Francis William Davenport, composer, dies at 77 April 1, 1922 Charles I, emperor (Austria)/King of Hungary (Charles IV), dies April 1, 1918 Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer, dies at 64 April 1, 1918 Isaac Rosenberg, English Poet April 1, 1917 Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (Sting), dies at 48 April 1, 1916 Gabrielle Petit, Belgian resistance fighter, executed April 1, 1916 Sjoerd van der Schaaf, Frisian journalist and writer (Abbingawald), dies April 1, 1915 Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82 April 1, 1914 Rube Waddell, baseballer, dies at 37 of TB April 1, 1910 Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver, dies at 94 April 1, 1901 Francois M Raoult, Fren physicist/chemist (Law of Raoult), dies at 70 April 1, 1878 Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56 April 1, 1870 Patrick Gass, sgt of Lewis and Clark Expedition, dies at 98 April 1, 1869 Anthony G O Ridder van Rappard, Min of Reformed Worship, dies at 69 April 1, 1866 Aime Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer, dies at 98 April 1, 1866 Johannes C H de Meijere, Dutch zoologist, dies April 1, 1832 Robert the Hermit, U.S. ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies April 1, 1830 Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer, dies at 51 April 1, 1814 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian general/cartographer, dies at 87 April 1, 1807 Louis Francois Chambray, composer, dies at 69 April 1, 1807 Miklos Revai, Hungarian linguistic/poet, dies at 57 April 1, 1807 Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer, dies at 61 April 1, 1799 Narciso Casanovas, composer, dies at 52 April 1, 1734 Louis Lully, composer, dies at 69 April 1, 1611 Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72 April 1, 1548 Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81 April 1, 1205 Amalrik II, King of Cyprus/Jerusalem, dies April 1, 1204 Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Louis VII and Henry II, dies at 81 |