Historical Events Apr 13 Raphaels' final influential masterpiece "The Transfiguration" is put on display a week after the artist's death Famous Deaths Raphael Apr 6 Raphael [Sanzio], Italian artist (Sistine Madonna, School of Athens), dies on his 37th birthday Painter and Architect Raphael 1519 History by Year 1521 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide