Famous Deaths on April 10

Gregory XIII (1502-1585)

Italian pope (1572-85) who introduced the Gregorian (New Style) calendar in 1582, dies at 83

1599 Gabrielle d'Estrée, mistress of King Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
1601 Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (Sonnet of Venus and Cupid), dies at 39
1619 Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin (b. c1550)
1640 Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer, dies at 61
1640 Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, French abbess and daughter of William I of Orange, dies at 60
1646 Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (b. 1576)
1704 William Egon of Fürstenberg, Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
1706 Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)
1712 Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1731 Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, German organist, composer, and Kapellmeister (Marienkirche (Danzig), 1715-31), dies at 58
1742 Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire Empress, dies at 68
1756 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, and Maestro di Cappella (San Petronio, 1696-1756), dies at 94
1760 Gerard George Clifford, Dutch head of East-Indian Company and plant collector (grew 1st banana indoors), dies at 75
1760 Jean Lebeuf, French historian, dies at 73
1783 František Václav Habermann, Czech composer, dies at 76
1784 Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator, engraver and etcher, dies at 71
1786 John Byron, British Royal Navy officer, dies at 62

Horatio Gates (1727-1806)

British-American soldier (general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War), dies at 78

1807 Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, German princess and composer (patron of Classical Weimar court), dies at 67
1810 Konrad Back, German monastic composer, dies at 60
1813 Joseph-Louis Lagrange, Italian mathematician and astronomer (number theory, celestial mechanics), dies at 77
1823 Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (elementary philosophy), dies at 65
1825 Paul-Louis Courier, (de Mere), French classical scholar and pamphleteer, dies at 53
1834 John Macarthur, Australian pastoralist, helped found wool industry in Australia, dies at 66 [1]
1848 Godert van der Capellen, Dutch statesman (Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, 1819-26), dies at 69
1862 William Harvey Lamb Wallace, American lawyer and Brigadier General, dies at 40
1863 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77
1882 William Hulbert, American Baseball HOF executive (President Chicago White Stockings; National League 1877-82), dies from a heart attack at 49
1883 Emilie Mayer, German composer of Romantic music, dies at 70
1885 Jan Hendrik Scholten, Dutch radical theologist (Free Will), dies at 73
1906 Georgi Gapon, Russian-orthodox clergyman, and tsarist infromant agent, dies at 36
1909 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (Atalanta in Calydon), dies at 72
1911 Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis, Lithuanian composer (Miške (In the Forest); Jūra (The Sea)), art nouveau painter, and writer, dies died of pneumonia at 35
1919 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary and peasant leader (Plan de Ayala), murdered in an ambush at 39
1920 Moritz B. Cantor, German historian of mathematics, dies at 90
1920 Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53
1927 Ivo Bligh, British noble (8th Earl of Darnley) and cricket batsman (4 Tests; first England captain v Australia 1882-83), dies at 68
1927 Young Corbett II (William J. Rothwell), American boxer (world featherweight champion 1901-02), dies at 46
1929 Edmond Thieffry, Belgian air pioneer and WW I flying ace (first flight Belgium to the Congo), dies in an airplane crash at 36
1931 Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
1932 André Baillon, Belgian-French author (& sabots), dies at 56
1937 Algernon Ashton, British composer, dies at 77
1938 Joseph "King" Oliver, American jazz cornet player, composer, bandleader, and mentor to Louis Armstrong, dies of arteriosclerosis at 56 [1]
1938 Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
1939 Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75
1945 Charles Nordhoff, English-born writer (b. 1887)
1945 Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch artist (The Blue Barge) and resistance fighter, executed by the Nazis at 63
1947 Charles Bally, Swiss linguist (Le langage et la vie), dies at 82
1954 Auguste Lumière, French engineer and filmmaker who made the 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumière Factory), dies at 81
1954 Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst), dies at 79
1954 Oscar Mathisen, Norwegian speed skater (5-time World Champion all-round), dies at 65
1955 Oskar Lindberg, Swedish composer (Requiem), dies at 68
1955 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French philosopher and paleontologist (The Phenomenon of Man), dies at 73
1956 Bozidar Sirola, composer, dies at 66
1956 Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75
1956 Jozef Szulc, Polish composer, dies at 81
1958 Chuck Willis, rocker, dies at 30
1960 Arthur Benjamin, Australian composer (Devil Take Her), dies at 66
1961 Irene Warfield, American silent screen actress (Satan Sanderson), dies at about 65 [exact birthdate unconfirmed]
1962 Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-born director (b. 1886)
1962 Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish visual artist and rock bassist (The Beatles, 1960-61), dies of a brain hemorrhage at 21
1965 Linda Darnell, American actress (Unfaithfully Yours, A Letter to Three Wives), dies from burns received in a house fire at 41
1965 Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (Casner Motor Racing Division team), dies at 36
1966 Christian J Modeste, Dutch king of gypsies, dies at 71
1966 Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62
1968 Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (b. 1899)
1969 Harley Earl, American automobile designer (1st head of design at General Motors), dies at 75
1970 Charles Paton, British actor (Freedom of the Seas), dies of a heart attack at 96
1974 Patricia Collinge, dies at 81
1974 Roger Bastide, French sociologist study of Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean religions, dies at 76
1975 Marjorie Main [Mary Tomlinson], American vaudeville and screen actress (The Egg and I; Ma and Pa Kettle films; Another Thin Man), dies of lung cancer at 85
1975 Sophia JW "Sophie" Hermse, actress (But a Dream), dies at 86
1975 Walker Evans, American photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71
1979 Henriette P "Hetty" Beck, Dutch actress (Dodendans), dies at 91
1979 Nino Rota [Giovanni Rota Rinaldi], Italian classical and film score composer (Il cappello di paglia di Firenze; The Godfather (I & II; 16 Fellini films), dies from a coronary thrombosis at 67
1980 Kay Medford [Margaret Kathleen Regan], American actress (Dean Martin Show: To Rome With Love), dies of cancer at 60
1981 Howard Thurman, African-American theologian and author (Deep River, Deep is the Hunger), dies at 81
1983 Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered
1984 Ray Middleton, American actor (1776;, Hurricane Smith), dies at 75
1986 Joseph P Addabbo, US defense specialist/(Sen-D), dies at 61
1986 Linda Creed, American singer and songwriter ("The Greatest Love Of All"), dies of breast cancer at 37 [1]
1988 Cliff Gladwin, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49), dies
1989 Joan Barry, dies at 85
1991 Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35
1991 Natalie Schafer, American actress (Gilligan's Island, Anastasia), dies from cancer at 90
1992 Cecil "Cec" Linder, Polish-Canadian actor (Goldfinger, Quatermass and the Pit), dies at 71
1992 Ken Ward, dies at 37
1992 Peter D. Mitchell, English chemist, (1978 Nobel Prize for Chemistry), dies at 71

Sam Kinison (1953-1992)

American screaming comedian and actor (Back to School, Charlie Hoover), dies in a car crash at 38

1993 (Martin) "Chris" Hani, South African politician (Secretary-General of South African Communist Party, 1991-93), assassinated at 50
1994 James L. Lyons, American jazz promoter (founder of the Monterey Jazz Festival), dies at 77
1994 Sam B. Hall, American politician (b. 1924)
1994 Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71
1995 Betty Askwith, British writer and biographer, dies at 85
1995 Chen Yun, Chinese political leader during and after the Chinese Civil War, considered one of the Eight Elders of the Communist Party of China, dies at 89
1995 Glyn Jones, Welsh writer, dies at 90
1995 Gunter Guillaume, German politician, dies
1995 Morarji Desai, Indian politician and activist, 4th Prime Minister of India (1977-79), dies at 99
1997 Francis Walder [Francois Waldburger], Belgian author, dies at 90
1997 Martin Schwarzschild, German-American astronomer (book Structure and Evolution of the Stars), dies at 84
1997 Toshiro Mayuzumi, Japanese composer (Sphenogramme), dies at 68
1999 Heinz Fraenkel-Conrat, German-born biochemist (b. 1910)
1999 Jean Vander Pyl, American voice, radio and film actress (The Flintstones, The Jetsons), dies of lung cancer at 79
2000 Kirsten Rolffes, Danish actress (The Kingdom, Matador, Een stor familie), dies at 71
2000 Larry Linville, American actor (M*A*S*H, 1972-77 - "Major Frank Burns"), dies of pneumonia, following cancer surgery in at 60
2000 Peter Jones, British actor (Chariots of Fire, From a Bird's Eye View), dies of natural causes at 79

Little Eva (1943-2003)

American pop singer (Locomotion), dies of cervical cancer at 59

2004 Donna Michele, American actress (Beach Blanket Bingo) and Playboy playmate (Dec, 1963), dies at 58
2005 (Wladimir) "Wally" Tax, Dutch rock singer-songwriter, and guitarist (The Outsiders; Tax Free), dies at 57
2005 Al Lucas, American football player (b. 1978)
2005 Iakovos, Archbishop of North and South America (Greek Orthodox), dies at 93
2005 Norbert Brainin, Austrian-British violinist (Amadeus Quartet, 1947-87), dies at 82
2007 Dakota Staton, American jazz singer ("Where Flamingos Fly"; "Sex Is A Misdemeanor"), dies at 76
2009 Deborah Digges, American poet (b. 1950)
2009 Henk Hoekstra, Dutch politician (Dutch Communist Party), dies at 84
2009 Richard Arnell, English classical composer, dies at 91
2010 Dixie Carter, American actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night), dies at 70
2010 Lech Kaczyński, Polish lawyer and politician (President of Poland, 2005-10), killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 60
2010 Maria Kaczyńska, Polish economist and First Lady of Poland, is killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 67
2010 Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman is killed in the crash of a Polish Air Force Tu-154 at 90
2011 Homer Smith, American football coach (b. 1931)
2011 Mikhail Rusyayev, Russian footballer (b. 1964)
2012 Raymond Aubrac, French Resistance Leader, dies at 97
2013 Jimmy Dawkins, American electric blues musician, dies at 76
2013 Raymond Boudon, French sociologist, dies at 79
2013 Robert Edwards, British physiologist, IVF pioneer, and Nobel laureate, dies at 87
2014 Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician, Minister of Finance (2006-2014), dies at 64
2014 Richard Hoggart, British author (The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life) and warden (Goldsmith's College London), dies at 95

Richie Benaud (1930-2015)

Australian cricket all-rounder and captain (62 Tests, 3 x 100s, 248 wickets; NSW CA) and broadcaster (9 Network, BBC), dies from skin cancer at 84

2016 Howard Marks, British drug dealer and author (Mr Nice), dies at 70
2017 Banner Thomas, American rock bassist (Molly Hatchet), dies of a heart attack at 63
2018 Yvonne Staples, American R&B singer (The Staple Sisters), dies at 80
2019 Earl Thomas Conley, American singer-songwriter with 18 No. 1 country hits ("Once In A Blue Moon"; "Angel In Disguise"), dies from cerebral atrophy at 77
2020 Frits Flinkevleugel, Dutch soccer defender (11 caps; DWS, FC Amsterdam), dies at 80
2020 Pete Retzlaff, American football halfback, tight-end (5 x Pro Bowl; First-team All-Pro 1958, 65 Philadelphia Eagles) and executive (GM Philadelphia Eagles 1969-72), dies at 88
2020 Tom Webster, Canadian ice hockey right wing (Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings) and coach (NY Rangers, LA Kings), dies of brain cancer at 71
2022 John Drew, American basketball small forward (NBA All-Star 1976, 80; Atlanta Hawks, Utah Jazz), dies from bone cancer at 67
2023 Al Jaffe, American cartoonist (Mad Magazine, 1955-2020), dies at 102
2023 Al Jaffee, American comic strip cartoonist and illustrator (MAD Magazine), dies at 102 [1]
2023 Anne Perry [Juliet Marion Hulme], English-born crime writer (convicted of murder as a child as filmed in "Heavenly Creatures"), dies at 84 [1]
2023 Pierre Lacotte, French choreographer and ballet historian, dies of sepsis at 91 [1]