April 26th famous deaths

List of celebrities and famous people who died on April 26th

2019 - 2010

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 2019 - 2010

• Urs Felber

  Swiss industrialist (Born 1942).

2009 - 2000

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 2009 - 2000

• Hans Holzer

  Austrian paranormal researcher and writer. He is a member and author of several magazines and news articles on parapsychological topics. His books include "Beyond Medicine", 1973, "Haunted Los Angeles," 1974, and "The Great Ghost Hunt," 1976.

• Augusto Roa Bastos

  Paraguayan author (Born 1917)

• Maria Schell

  Austrian actress, well-known for her theatrical family. She is a strong, passionate leading lady in international films. Gritli Schell was her screen debut when she was 16 years old, playing alongside her mother in "Steinbruch" 1942. In 1954, she won the Cannes Festival award for Best Actress. This was her best performance in "The Last Bridge." She won the Venice …

• Hubert Selby Jr

  American author (Born 1928)

• Max Nicholson

  Irish environmentalist (Born in 1904)

• Rosemary Brown

  Canadian politician (Born 1930)

1999 - 1990

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1999 - 1990

• Adrian Borland

  English guitarist/singer-songwriter and producer (The Sound & The Outsiders), (d. 1999).

• Jill Dando

  British television presenter (Born 1961).

• Joey Faye

  Comic (Fruit-of-the Loom grapes) dies at 86

• Peng Zhen

  Mayor of Beijing China (1951-66)

• Yegorov

  Russian leader (1994-95)

• John Norrie McArthur

  malariologist/microscopist, dies at age 94.

• Burton Stein

  At 69, historian dies

• Alexander Knox

  Canadian-English screenwriter and actor (d. 1995).

• Masutatsu Oyama

  Japanese Kyokushin Karate's founder (Born 1927).

• Alberta Vaughn

  Actress (Wild Horse Silver Devil), dies in 87

• Clyde Hartley

  Entertainer dies at 68

• Leo Arnaud

  French-American composer, arranger, and conductor. He is best known for his film score "Bugler's Dream", which is the theme of the American television network that presents the Olympic Games.

• Emily McLaughlin

  American actress, best known for her role as Nurse Jessie Brewer in ABC's "General Hospital".

• Richard Hatfield

  Canadian politician and lawyer 26th Premier of New Brunswick

• Carlos Pizarro Leongomez

  Assassination of the Colombian presidential candidate

1989 - 1980

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1989 - 1980

• Lucille Ball

  American actress and well-known comedian, with over 50 films since her 1933 debut. She was born a brunette and was later nicknamed Tessie Technicolor because of her fiery red hair.

• Shankar

  Of Noted Bollywood Music Director Duo -Jaikishan (Born 1922)

• [William] Broderick Crawford

  American actor, Highway Patrol, dies at the age of 74. (Born in 1911).

• Bessie Love

  Actress (Broadway Melody and Isadora), is killed at 87

• Count Basie

  American composer and bandleader of the Count Basie Orchestra (d. 1984).

• William "Count" Basie

  American jazz pianist great, died on his 80th birthday (born in 1904).

• May McAvoy

  Actress Ben Hur dies at 82 following a heart attack

• Bronislaw Kaper

  Composer dies at 81

• Vaughn Taylor

  Actor Johnny Jupiter dies at 72

• Celia Johnson

  England, United Kingdom -- Actress, Happy Breed, Brief encounter

• Ville Ritola

  Finnish 5 / 10km runner (1924, 28 Olympics - Gold Medalist)

• Robert Davi

  American actor, singer, and director

• Madge Evans

  Manhattan NYC, New York -- Television panelist (Masquerade Party).

• Jim Davis

  Actor Jack Ewing-Dallas dies at 65

• Cicely Courtneidge

  Australian-English singer and actress (d. 1980).

1979 - 1970

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1979 - 1970

• Allan Jackson

  Newscaster, Youth Takes a Stand, dies at the age of 60.

• Neil McCallum

  Actor (Pete Saber of London), dies at the age of 45

• Sidney James

  Actor (Lavander Hills Mob, Carry on), dies at 65

• Sid James South African

  Born 1913, British comedian

• Irene Ryan

  Six weeks after suffering a stroke while performing the Broadway musical Pippin, actress Granny - Beverly Hillbillies, she dies at the age of 71.

• Margaret A R Bonds

  US pianist/composer/arranger, dies at age 59.

• Fernando Amorsolo

  Filipino painter (Born 1892)

• Erik Bergman

  Lutheran pastor (Born in 1886).

• Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Louise Hovick]

  Actress/stripper (Pruitts in Southampton) dies at 56 from cancer.

• John Knittel

  Writer dies at 79

1969 - 1960

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1969 - 1960

• Morihei Ueshiba

  Japanese martial artist and founder (Born in 1883)

• John Heartfield

  German activist and photographer (d. 1968).

• Aaron Avshalomov

  Composer dies at age 70

• Edwin John Pratt

  Canadian Poet (Towards The Last Spike), Dies at 81

• E J Pratt

  Canadian poet, Newfoundland born (Born in 1882)

• Pieter van der Lijn

  Dutch geologist (Boulder Book), is killed at the age of 93.

• Gail Russell

  Chicago, Illinois -- Actress

• Wander J de Haas

  Dutch physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies at age 82.

1959 - 1950

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1959 - 1950

• Johan N C "Joan" Collette

  Painter dies at 68

• Gichin Funakoshi

  Shotokan, a Japanese martial artist and educator, was founded in 1957.

• Edward Arnold

  Actor (Mr Smith goes to Washington), is killed at 66

• Charles L Baars

  Dutch actor (Women Tamers) dies at 59

• John Alden Carpenter

  American composer Sea Drift, dies at 75.

• Arnold Sommerfeld

  German physicist, whose atomic model allowed the explanation of fine structure spectral lines.

• G Murray Hulbert

  American politician (Born 1881)

1949 - 1940

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1949 - 1940

• Hermann Keyserling

  European philosopher, aristocrat, and author. He was born into nobility and traveled extensively in East Asia. He lived mainly on the estates he owned in Estonia until he was forced to flee by the Russian Revolution of 1917. His property was then confiscated. He moved to Berlin and married Bismarck's granddaughter, in 1919.

• Jim White

  Discoverer of Carlsbad Caverns. (Born 1882).

• Pavlo Skoropadsky

  Ukrainian politician and general (Born in 1871)

• Sigmund Rascher

  German physician (d. 1945)

• Violette Morris

  French athlete and Nazi collaborator.

• Jean Demoor

  Belgian physician/physiologist/educationalist, dies at age 74.

• Carl Bosch

  German chemist, engineer, industrialist. Bosch's scientific research created the capacity to feed the world's food needs. He was elected chairman of I.G. in 1935. Farben. Hitler was the most vocal anti-Nazi in the industrial community when he came to power.

1939 - 1930

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1939 - 1930

• Edmund Husserl

  German philosopher (study on phenomena), dies at the age of 79.

• Tammany Young

  American actor (Born 1886).

• William Lockwood

  British cricketer (Born 1868).

1929 - 1920

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1929 - 1920

• Josef Labor

  Composer dies at 82

• Hans Sommer composer

  At the age of 84, he dies.

1919 - 1910

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1919 - 1910

• John Bunny

  silent film comedian (Born 1863)

• Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson

  Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (Born 1832)

1909 - 1900

Famous deaths on April 26th for the celebrities who died in the years 1909 - 1900

• Pietro Plantania composer

  At the age of 79, he dies.