Who died on Your Birthday?
Starting with moi, 25th April.
68 Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity in Africa
1185 Emperor Antoku of Japan (b. 1178)
1265 Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader
1295 King Sancho IV of Castile
1472 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian artist, poet, and philosopher (b. 1404)
1516 John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
1566 Diane de Poitiers, mistress of King Henry II of France (b. 1499)
1566 Louise Labι, French poet
1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet (b. 1544)
1605 Naresuan, King of Siam (b. 1555)
1644 Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1611)
1660 Henry Hammond, English churchman (b. 1605)
1690 David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (b. 1610)
1740 Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699)
1744 Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
1770 Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (b. 1700)
1800 William Cowper, English poet (b. 1731)
1840 Simιon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (b. 1781)
1878 Anna Sewell, English author (b. 1820)
1891 Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (b. 1811)
1892 Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (b. 1840)
1906 John Knowles Paine, American composer (b. 1839)
1911 Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
1915 Frederick William Seward, United States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1830)
1919 Augustus D. Juilliard, music patron (b. 1836)
1923 Louis-Olivier Taillon, Quebec politician (b. 1840)
1928 Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1878)
1937 Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
1943 Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director (b. 1858)
1944 George Herriman, cartoonist (b. 1880)
1944 Tony Mullane, Irish-born American baseball player (b. 1859)
1968 John Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
1972 George Sanders, British actor (b. 1906)
1973 Olga Grey, Hungarian-born American silent actress (b. 1896)
1975 Mike Brant, Israeli singer (b. 1947)
1976 Carol Reed, British film producer and director (b. 1906)
1978 Lee Kim Lai, Singaporean police officer (b. 1960)
1980 Katia Mann, wife of German writer Thomas Mann (b. 1883)
1982 John Cardinal Cody, American cardinal (b. 1907)
1988 Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist (b. 1936)
1990 Dexter Gordon, American saxophonist (b. 1923)
1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1965)
1995 Art Fleming, American game show host (b. 1925)
1995 Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (b. 1911)
1996 Saul Bass, American graphics designer (b. 1920)
1998 Wright Morris, American writer (b. 1910)
1999 Roger Troutman, American musician (b. 1951)
1999 Larry Troutman, American musician (b. 1944)
1999 Lord Killanin, Irish International Olympic Committee president (b. 1914)
2000 David Merrick, American theatrical producer (b. 1911)
2000 Lucien le Cam, French mathematician (b. 1924)
2001 Michele Alboreto, Italian race car driver (b. 1956)
2002 Indra Devi, yoga teacher (b. 1899)
2002 Lisa Lopes, American rapper (TLC) (b. 1971)
2002 Athanasios Papoulis, Greek-American engineer and applied mathematician (b. 1921)
2003 Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete (b. 1966)
2004 Thom Gunn, British poet (b. 1929)
2005 Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (b. 1908)
2006 Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian urbanist (b. 1916)
2007 Alan Ball, English footballer (b. 1945)
2007 Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer and songwriter (b. 1938)
2007 Arthur Milton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1928)
2008 Humphrey Lyttelton, Jazz musician and broadcaster, (b. 1921)
2009 Beatrice Arthur, American comedian, actress, and singer, (b. 1922)
2009 John Marchi, American politician (b. 1921)
