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April 15, 2000 Edward Gorey, author, Amphigorey, dies at 75 April 15, 1998 Pol Pot, dictator/mass murderer, dies at 73 April 15, 1997 Sam Moskowitz, San Francisco fandom historian, dies at 76 April 15, 1997 Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968), dies April 15, 1995 Cleo Brown, pianist, dies at 91 April 15, 1995 Denis Harding, soldier, dies at 79 April 15, 1994 John Curry, English figure skater (Oly-gold-76), dies of AIDS at 44 April 15, 1993 George Ives, dies at 111 April 15, 1993 Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85 April 15, 1993 William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84 April 15, 1991 Marjorie Warfield, dies at 88 April 15, 1991 Martin Ashe, dies April 15, 1990 Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84 April 15, 1989 Charles Vanel, dies at 96 April 15, 1989 Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party, dies April 15, 1988 Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper), dies at 81 April 15, 1988 Kenneth Williams, dies at 61 April 15, 1986 Jean Genet, French criminal/novelist/dramatist, dies at 75 April 15, 1986 Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut, dies at 76 April 15, 1986 Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James), dies at 42 April 15, 1984 Tommy Cooper, comedian, dies at 61 April 15, 1983 Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at 80 April 15, 1983 Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at 68 April 15, 1983 Corrie Ten Boom, Dutch Celebrity April 15, 1982 5 murderers, of Egyptian President Sadat, executed April 15, 1982 Arthur Lowe, Brits actor (Capt Mainwaring in Dad's army), dies at 66 April 15, 1982 Louis M de Guiringaud, Fren forgn min (1976-78), commits suicide at 70 April 15, 1981 French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67 April 15, 1980 Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist (Nobel 1964), dies in Paris at 74 April 15, 1980 Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup), dies at 62 April 15, 1980 Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place), dies at 76 April 15, 1980 Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75 April 15, 1976 Gerald Smith, antisemite/catholic (Natl Christian Crusade), dies at 78 April 15, 1975 Charles Marshall, dies April 15, 1975 John B McKay, U.S. test pilot (X-15), dies April 15, 1975 Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies at 65 April 15, 1972 Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64 April 15, 1972 Frank H Knight, American Economist April 15, 1969 Victoria von Battenberg, wife of Spanish king Alfonso, dies at 81 April 15, 1968 Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer, dies at 73 April 15, 1967 Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian, dies of heart attack at 69 April 15, 1966 Joseph Crehan, dies of stroke at 81 April 15, 1965 Syd Chaplin, dies at 80 April 15, 1962 Clara Blandick, committed suicide at 80 April 15, 1962 Esther Minciotti, dies at 74 April 15, 1958 Estelle Taylor, dies at 64 April 15, 1956 Emile Nolde [Hansen], German painter (Grablegung Christi), dies at 88 April 15, 1954 Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer, dies at 54 April 15, 1949 Wallace Beery, U.S. actor (The Champ), dies at 64 April 15, 1947 Wolstenholme, rocker, dies April 15, 1943 Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer, dies at 62 April 15, 1942 Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61 April 15, 1938 Cesar Vallejo, Peru/French poet (Trilce, Russia and 1931), dies at 46 April 15, 1937 Nikolai Artzibushev, composer, dies at 79 April 15, 1929 Antonio Smareglia, composer, dies at 74 April 15, 1927 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47 April 15, 1925 John Singer Sargent, U.S. portrait painter, dies at 69 April 15, 1924 Eduardo Caudella, composer, dies at 82 April 15, 1920 Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74 April 15, 1916 Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist, dies at 75 April 15, 1912 William Thomas Stead, English Journalist April 15, 1911 Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies April 15, 1898 Robert Purvis, American Activist April 15, 1891 Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49 April 15, 1888 Matthew Arnold, English poet, dies at 65 April 15, 1866 William Jackson, composer, dies at 51 April 15, 1865 Abraham Lincoln, at 7:22 am, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth April 15, 1863 Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer, dies at 90 April 15, 1853 Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer, dies at 67 April 15, 1824 Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers), dies at 61 April 15, 1811 Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70 April 15, 1788 Giuseppi Bonno, composer, dies at 77 April 15, 1772 Karel Jozef, ruler of Batthyanyi, dies at 73 April 15, 1765 Michail vs. Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet, dies at 53 April 15, 1764 Jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador, dies April 15, 1756 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer, dies at 29 April 15, 1719 Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer, dies at 76 April 15, 1659 Simon Dach, German poet, dies April 15, 1610 Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62 April 15, 1607 Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78 April 15, 1605 Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies April 15, 1502 Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies April 15, 1472 Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68 April 15, 1415 Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine leader/diplomat (Erotemata), dies April 15, 1220 Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies |