Died on This Day (13-Apr)
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Paul Greengard | Paul Greengard was an American neuroscientist best known for his work on the molecular and cellular function of neurons. | American neuroscientist | 93 | 1 | |
Dan Rooney | Daniel Milton Rooney was an American executive and diplomat best known for his association with the Pittsburgh Steelers, an American football team in the National Football League , and son of the Steelers' founder, Art Rooney. | American football team chairman | 84 | 3 | |
Günter Grass | Günter Wilhelm Grass was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. | German novelist and poet | 87 | 5 | |
Frank Stout | Frank Stout was an American figurative artist associated with post-abstract expressionist realism. | American figurative artist | 86 | 8 | |
Johnnie Johnson | Johnnie Clyde Johnson was an American pianist who played jazz, blues and rock and roll. | American musician | 80 | 15 | |
Allen Eager | Allen Eager was an American jazz tenor and alto saxophonist who also competed in auto racing and took part in LSD experiments. | American musician | 76 | 17 | |
Frenchy Bordagaray | Stanley George "Frenchy" Bordagaray was an American professional baseball player. | American baseball player | 90 | 20 | |
Sundaram Balachander | Sundaram Balachander was an Indian veena player and filmmaker. | Indian musician | 63 | 30 | |
Colin McKellar | Gerald Colin McKellar was an Australian politician. | Australian politician | 66 | 50 | |
Heinrich von Heß | Heinrich Hermann Josef Freiherr von Heß , was an Austrian soldier and field marshal, who entered the army in 1805 and was soon employed as a staff officer on survey work. | Austrian Field Marshal | 82 | 150 |
Person | Person | Description | Age | Anniv | |
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Miloš Forman | Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968. | Czech American film director | 86 | 2 | |
Gareth Thomas | Gareth Daniel Thomas was a Welsh actor, born in England. | Welsh actor | 71 | 4 | |
Lin Yang-kang | Lin Yang-kang was a Taiwanese politician. He was born at Sun Moon Lake during the Japanese rule of Taiwan. | Taiwanese politician | 85 | 7 | |
André Bedoglouyan | André Bedoglouyan was a Lebanese-Armenian hierarch of the Armenian Catholic Church. | Catholic bishop | 90 | 10 | |
Clarence C. Walton | Clarence Cyril Walton was the 10th president of The Catholic University of America and the first layman to hold the position. | President of the Catholic University of America | 88 | 16 | |
Josef Diefenthal | Josef Diefenthal was a mid-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany and a war criminal during World War II. | SS officer | 85 | 19 | |
Hal Peck | Harold Arthur "Hal" Peck was an American professional baseball right fielder. | American baseball player | 77 | 25 | |
Larry Parks | Samuel Lawrence Klausman Parks was an American stage and film actor. | American stage and movie actor | 60 | 45 | |
Ernst Cassirer | Ernst Alfred Cassirer was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. | Prussian philosopher | 70 | 75 | |
Daniele Barbaro | Daniele Matteo Alvise Barbaro was an Italian cleric and diplomat. | Catholic cardinal | 56 | 450 |