Deceased on April 15
52 famous people found
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Greta GARBO
Swedish-American actress
1905 - 1990 -
Abraham LINCOLN
16th President of the United States
1809 - 1865 -
R. Lee ERMEY
American film, television and voice actor, and Marine drill instructor
1944 - 2018 -
Gaston LEROUX
French journalist and author of detective fiction
1868 - 1927 -
Edward SMITH
British naval officer, he was the captain of the RMS Titanic, and perished when the ship sank on its maiden voyage
1850 - 1912 -
Charles VANEL
French actor and director
1892 - 1989 -
Jean GENET
French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist
1910 - 1986 -
Jean Paul SARTRE
French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic
1905 - 1980 -
MADAME DE POMPADOUR
Member of the French court and the official chief mistress of Louis XV
1721 - 1764 -
Joseph CHALEY
French civil engineer and a pioneer designer of suspension bridges
1796 - 1861 -
Georges DESDEVISES DU DÉZERT
French historian
1854 - 1942 -
Louis DE GUIRINGAUD
French politician
1911 - 1982 -
John Jacob ASTOR IV
American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish-American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family
1864 - 1912 -
Charles BULLFINCH
Early American architect, he has been regarded by many as the first native-born American to practice architecture as a profession
1763 - 1844 -
James Garesche Ord
United States Army officer
1884 - 1960 -
John Thach
World War II Naval Aviator, air combat tactician, and United States Navy admiral
1905 - 1981 -
Émile CHATEAU
French botanist
1866 - 1952 -
Jacques CHEVALLIER
French politician
1911 - 1971 -
Marcel-Edmond NAEGELEN
French politician
1892 - 1978 -
Andries Welkenhuysen
Belgian historian
1929 - 2020