History Deaths on April 05

Eastman Johnson, American painter (b. 1824)

#Eastman_Johnson

Herbert Johnston, British runner (b. 1902)

#Herbert_Johnston

Isao Takahata, Japanese director (b. 1935)

#Isao_Takahata

Erich Zeigner, Prime Minister of Saxony (b. 1886)

#Erich_Zeigner

Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)

#Kurt_Cobain

Charles XI, king of Sweden (b. 1655)

#Charles_XI_of_Sweden

Karel Purkyn?, Czech painter (b. 1834)

#Karel_Purkyn?

Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (b. 1884)

#Earl_Derr_Biggers

Egidio Forcellini, Italian philologist (b. 1688)

#Egidio_Forcellini

Johann Georg Wille, German engraver (b. 1715)

#Johann_Georg_Wille

A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)

#A._Y._Jackson

Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (b. 1895)

#Frank_Foss_(athlete)

Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967)

#Layne_Staley

Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (b. 1923)

#Jim_Marshall_(businessman)

Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1890)

#Roy_Kilner

William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (b. 1909)

#William_Sidney,_1st_Viscount_De_L'Isle

Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)

#Osman_Nuri_Pasha

Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (b. 1862)

#Alphons_Diepenbrock

Paul Vidal de La Blache, French geographer (b. 1845)

#Paul_Vidal_de_La_Blache

Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (b. 1905)

#Howard_Hughes

Bernard I, margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1364)

#Bernard_I,_Margrave_of_Baden-Baden

Christian Pineau, French Resistance fighter (b. 1904)

#Christian_Pineau

Hans Lunding, Danish military officer (b. 1899)

#Hans_Lunding

Eutychius, Byzantine patriarch

#Eutychius_of_Constantinople

Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawian economist and politician, 3rd President of Malawi (b. 1934)

#Bingu_wa_Mutharika

Charles Freer Andrews, English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (b. 1871)

#Charles_Freer_Andrews

James Chapin, American ornithologist (b. 1889)

#James_Chapin

Catherine of Palma, Spanish nun (b. 1533)

#Catherine_of_Palma

Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (b. 1798)

#Paolo_Savi

Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1760)

#Camille_Desmoulins

Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (b. 1848)

#Laurent_Marqueste

Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)

#Vsevolod_Garshin

Gustav Adolf Deissmann, (b. 1866)

#Gustav_Adolf_Deissmann

Princess Märtha of Sweden, (b. 1901)

#Princess_Märtha_of_Sweden

Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (b. 1923)

#Charlton_Heston

Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (b. 1920)

#Alf_Kjellin

George Frederick, prince of Nassau-Siegen (b. 1606)

#George_Frederick,_Prince_of_Nassau-Siegen

John Pinette, American comedian (b. 1964)

#John_Pinette

Brian Donlevy, American actor and producer (b. 1901)

#Brian_Donlevy

Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (b. 1806)

#Pierre_Guillaume_Frédéric_le_Play

Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (b. 1909)

#Heinrich_Müller_(footballer,_born_1909)

Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess (b. 1619)

#Anne_Geneviève_de_Bourbon

Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1910)

#Abe_Fortas

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist (b. 1925)

#Baruch_Samuel_Blumberg

Charlene Holt, American actress (b. 1928)

#Charlene_Holt

Song Zheyuan, Chinese general (b. 1885)

#Song_Zheyuan

Ferdinand Joachimsthal, German mathematician (b. 1818)

#Ferdinand_Joachimsthal

Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (b. 1927)

#Peter_Matthiessen

Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (b. 1914)

#Leabua_Jonathan

Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (b. 1891)

#Wilder_Penfield

Shah Shujah Durrani, 5th Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1785)

#Shah_Shujah_Durrani

Robert Maillart, Swiss civil engineer (b. 1872)

#Robert_Maillart

Achille Locatelli, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1856)

#Achille_Locatelli

Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)

#Joseph_Bertrand

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect, sculptor and historian (b. 1656)

#Johann_Bernhard_Fischer_von_Erlach

Sophie Elkan, Swedish-Jewish writer and translator (b. 1853)

#Sophie_Elkan

Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (b. 1830)

#Ernst_Leopold,_4th_Prince_of_Leiningen

Ramon Berenguer III, Spanish count of Cerdanya and Provence

#Ramon_Berenguer_III,_Count_of_Provence

François Joseph Westermann, French general (b. 1751)

#François_Joseph_Westermann

Franciszek Kleeberg, Polish general (b. 1888)

#Franciszek_Kleeberg

Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (b. 1806)

#Manfredo_Fanti

María Blanchard, Spanish painter (b. 1881)

#María_Blanchard

Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)

#Hermann_Joseph_Muller

William Derham, English minister and philosopher (b. 1657)

#William_Derham

Johann Christoph Gatterer, German historian (b. 1727)

#Johann_Christoph_Gatterer

Agnes Morton, British tennis player (b.

#Agnes_Morton

Juan Carlos Cáceres, Argentinian singer and pianist (b. 1936)

#Juan_Carlos_Cáceres

Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)

#Douglas_MacArthur

William Brouncker, English mathematician (b. 1620)

#William_Brouncker,_2nd_Viscount_Brouncker

George Savile, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1633)

#George_Savile,_1st_Marquess_of_Halifax

Edward Young, English poet and author (b. 1683)

#Edward_Young

Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1891)

#Mischa_Elman

Sydney Brenner, South African biologist (b.1927)

#Sydney_Brenner

Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (b. 1903)

#Carlos_Prío_Socarrás

Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria, (b. 1884)

#Prince_Ferdinand_of_Bavaria

Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (b. 1860)

#Salvatore_Di_Giacomo

Johan Falkberget, Norwegian author (b. 1879)

#Johan_Falkberget

Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (b. 1798)

#Thomas_Hodgkin

Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)

#Jean_Jouvenet

Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)

#Vincent_Ferrer

Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron of Monthermer and Earl of Gloucester (b. c.1270)

#Ralph_de_Monthermer,_1st_Baron_Monthermer

Juliana of Liège, Belgian canoness and saint

#Juliana_of_Liège

Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)

#Viktor_Oliva

Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and functional theorist (b. 1854)

#Hjalmar_Mellin

Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (b. 1935)

#Vitaly_Sevastyanov

Jay Miller, American basketball player (b. 1943)

#Jay_Miller_(basketball)

François Chabot, French politician (b. 1756)

#François_Chabot

Mariano Díaz, Spanish cyclist (b. 1939)

#Mariano_Díaz

Makoto ?oka, Japanese poet and literary critic (b. 1931)

#Makoto_?oka

Isabel Jewell, American actress and singer (b. 1907)

#Isabel_Jewell

Emil M?ynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (b. 1870)

#Emil_M?ynarski

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (b. 1874)

#Abby_Aldrich_Rockefeller

Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (b. 1824)

#Milivoje_Blaznavac

Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, dramatist, poet and politician (b. 1750)

#Fabre_d'Églantine

Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (b. 1929)

#Arthur_Bisguier

Bernhard Pankok, German painter, artist and architect (b. 1872)

#Bernhard_Pankok

Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1923)

#Maria_Gripe

Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)

#Molly_Picon

Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (b. 1894)

#Giuseppe_Tucci

Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)

#Hans_Ernst_August_Buchner

Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)

#Gene_Pitney

Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)

#Bob_Hite

Isidora Sekuli?, Serbian writer (b. 1877)

#Isidora_Sekuli?

Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (b. 1912)

#Giulio_Einaudi

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (b. 1866)

#George_Herbert,_5th_Earl_of_Carnarvon

John Tower, American soldier, academic, and politician (b. 1925)

#John_Tower

Richard Chenevix, Irish chemist and playwright (b. 1774)

#Richard_Chenevix_(chemist)

Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, (b. 1800)

#Prince_Felix_of_Schwarzenberg

Jan Luyken, Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver (b. 1649)

#Jan_Luyken

Philip William August, German nobleman (b. 1668)

#Philip_William_August,_Count_Palatine_of_Neuburg

José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director, and producer (b. 1947)

#José_Wilker

Ivan K?szegi, Hungarian baron and oligarch

#Ivan_K?szegi

Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, French noblewoman (b. 1627)

#Anne_Marie_Louise_d'Orléans,_Duchess_of_Montpensier

Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (b. 1876)

#Nigel_Gresley

Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (b. 1884)

#Chandler_Egan

Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)

#Allen_Ginsberg

Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (b. 1851)

#Maksim_Kovalevsky

Al-Mu'tadid, Abbasid caliph

#Al-Mu'tadid

Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (b. 1846)

#Ludwig_von_Sybel

Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician (b. 1917)

#Rómulo_Gallegos

Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (b. 1635)

#Roger_de_Piles

Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French judge and politician (b. 1759)

#Marie-Jean_Hérault_de_Séchelles

Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (b. 1918)

#Alberto_Bonucci

Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)

#Divya_Bharti

Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player (b. 1908)

#Jiro_Sato

José Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (b. 1858)

#José_Benlliure_y_Gil

François Caron, Belgian-French explorer and politician, 8th Governor of Formosa (b. 1600)

#François_Caron

Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (b. 1942)

#Atanase_Sciotnic

Nikephoros I, Byzantine patriarch

#Nikephoros_I_of_Constantinople

Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (b. 1846)

#Francis_Aidan_Gasquet

Harold Osborn, American track and fielder (b. 1899)

#Harold_Osborn

Tell Berna, American middle and long-distance runner (b. 1891)

#Tell_Berna

Jan Matthys, Dutch anabaptist reformer

#Jan_Matthys

Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (b. 1759)

#Georges_Danton

Victor Hensen, German zoologist (b. 1835)

#Victor_Hensen

Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (b. 1836)

#Bernard_Borggreve

Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jesuit priest (b. 1713)

#Marc-Antoine_Laugier

Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (b. 1918)

#Sam_Walton

Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch chess player (b. 1915)

#Nicolaas_Cortlever

Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (b. 1890)

#Verner_Lehtimäki

Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (b. 1927)

#Allan_Kaprow

Claude Delvincourt, French pianist and composer (b. 1888)

#Claude_Delvincourt

Sonny Carter, American soccer player, physician, and astronaut (b. 1947)

#Sonny_Carter

Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1685)

#Princess_Charlotte_Wilhelmine_of_Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld

Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (b. 1822)

#Frances_Power_Cobbe

Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (b. 1761)

#Jean-Charles_Pichegru

Isabella I of Jerusalem, queen regent of Jerusalem (b. 1172)

#Isabella_I_of_Jerusalem

George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)

#George_Tupou_II

Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter (b. 1429)

#Lazzaro_Bastiani

Jacobus Oud, Dutch architect (b. 1890)

#Jacobus_Oud

Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (b. 1676)

#Frederick_I_of_Sweden

Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (b. 1857)

#Helena_Westermarck

Ásgrímur Jónsson, Icelandic painter (b. 1876)

#Ásgrímur_Jónsson

Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician (b. 1917)

#Victor_Marijnen

Karl Eusebius, prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1611)

#Karl_Eusebius,_Prince_of_Liechtenstein

Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)

#Chiang_Kai-shek

Manly Wade Wellman, American writer (b. 1903)

#Manly_Wade_Wellman

Parvin E'tesami, Persian poet (b. 1907)

#Parvin_E'tesami

Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)

#Saul_Bellow

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch artist (b. 1803)

#Barend_Cornelis_Koekkoek

Christian Ulrich I, German nobleman and Duke of Württemberg-Oels (b. 1652)

#Christian_Ulrich_I,_Duke_of_Württemberg-Oels

Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)

#Alonso_Lobo

Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1958)

Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (b. 1947)

Tim Parnell, British race car driver (b. 1932)

Paul O'Neill, American rock composer and producer (b. 1956)

Paul G. Comba, Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer (b. 1926)

Attilio Benfatto, Italian cyclist (b. 1943)

Koço Kasapo?lu, Turkish footballer (b. 1936)

Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (b. 1949)

Alan Davie, Scottish saxophonist and painter (b. 1920)

Piero de Palma, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1924)

Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (b. 1921)

Barney McKenna, Irish musician (b. 1939)

Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, Dominican Republican politician military officer

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German designer (b. 1935)

Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician (b. 1937)

I. J. Good, British mathematician (b. 1916)

Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (b. 1912)

Mark St. John, American guitarist (b. 1956)

Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (b. 1922)

Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (b. 1908)

Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1923)

Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (b. 1958)

Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (b. 1917)

Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (b. 1913)

Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936)

S?awomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (b. 1915)

Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (b. 1938)

Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (b. 1944)

Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (b. 1917)

Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (b. 1910)

Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)

Cozy Powell, English drummer (b. 1947)

Frederick Charles Frank, British theoretical physicist (b. 1911)

Emilio Greco, Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1913)

Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)

Ji?í Mucha, Czech journalist, writer and screenwriter (b. 1915)

Karel Zeman, Czech director, artist, production designer and animator (b. 1910)

Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (b. 1890)

Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (b. 1892)

Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (b. 1894)

Harry Wyld, British cyclist (b. 1900)

Bino Bini, Italian fencer (b. 1900)

Alla Tarasova, Russian ballerina (b. l898)

David Murray, British race car driver (b. 1909)

José Cubiles, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1894)

Karl von Spreti, German diplomat (b. 1907)

Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (b. 1891)

Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (b. 1877)

Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian SS officer (b. 1903)

Giuseppe Paris, Italian gymnast (b. 1895)

Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer

Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (b. 1900)

Sándor Szalay, Hungarian figure skater (b. 1893)

Pedro Sernagiotto, Italian-Brazilian footballer (b. 1908)

Aloïse Corbaz, Swiss artist (b. 1886)

Boo Kullberg, Swedish gymnast (b. 1889)

Nikolai Kryukov, Russian composer (b. 1908)

William Titt, British gymnast (b. 1881)

Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter (b. 1876)

Elis Strömgren, Swedish-Danish astronomer (b. 1870)

Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (b. 1898)

Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (b. 1897)

Heinrich Borgmann, German officer (b. 1912)

Jay O'Brien, American bobsledder (b. 1883)

Franz von Vecsey, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1893)

Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (b. 1820)

Johann Hermann Bauer, (b. 1861)

Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (b. 1812)

Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, Belgian entomologist (b. 1797)

Pierre Philippeaux, French lawyer (b. 1754)

Christian Heinrich, German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern (b. 1661)

Anna Koltovskaya, Russian tsarina

Ibn al-Kharrat al-Dawalibi, Iraqi Islamic scholar, Arabic grammarian and poet. (b. 1240)

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1104)

Ruadán of Lorrha, Irish abbot

Timothy I, Byzantine patriarch