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This article is about famous people who passed away in April 2014. It shares a little bit about who they were and what they were known for.

Notable People Who Passed Away in April 2014

In April 2014, the world said goodbye to many well-known individuals from different fields like acting, writing, sports, and politics. Here are some of them:

Actors and Entertainers

  • Mickey Rooney, 93, was a famous American actor. He started acting as a child and had a very long career in movies like The Black Stallion and Night at the Museum. He passed away due to natural causes.
  • Mary Anderson, 96, was an American actress known for her role in the classic movie Gone With the Wind.
  • Bob Hoskins, 71, was a British actor famous for his roles in movies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and The Long Good Friday. He passed away due to an illness.
  • John Pinette, 50, was an American actor and comedian who appeared in movies like Junior and TV shows like Seinfeld. He passed away due to health issues.
  • Consuelo Moure, 67, was a Colombian actress. She passed away due to lung illness.
  • Edna Doré, 92, was a British actress known for her role in the TV show EastEnders. She passed away due to lung problems.
  • Mimi Kok, 80, was a Dutch actress. She passed away due to lung disease.
  • Arlene McQuade, 77, was an American actress known for The Goldbergs. She passed away due to a long-term illness.
  • Ricardo Bauleo, 67, was an Argentine actor. He passed away due to heart problems.
  • Antonio Pica, 83, was a Spanish actor.
  • Andréa Parisy, 78, was a French actress.
  • Norma Pons, 70, was an Argentine actress. She passed away due to heart problems.
  • Chris Harris, 71, was a British actor. He passed away due to cancer.

Writers and Journalists

Musicians

  • Jesse Winchester, 69, was an American musician and songwriter. He passed away due to cancer.
  • Armando Peraza, 89, was a Cuban-born American Latin jazz percussionist. He passed away due to pneumonia.
  • Anker Buch, 74, was a Danish violinist.
  • King Fleming, 91, was an American jazz pianist. He passed away due to natural causes.
  • Arthur Smith, 93, was an American musician and songwriter, famous for "Guitar Boogie" and "Dueling Banjos". He passed away due to natural causes.
  • Wayne Henderson, 74, was an American jazz trombonist.
  • Erzsi Kovács, 85, was a Hungarian pop singer.
  • George Shuffler, 88, was an American bluegrass musician.
  • Cheo Feliciano, 78, was a Puerto Rican composer and singer. He passed away in a car accident.
  • Nandu Bhende, 58, was an Indian musician and actor. He passed away due to a heart attack.
  • Brita Koivunen, 82, was a Finnish singer.
  • Fred Ho, 56, was an American saxophonist, composer, and social activist. He passed away due to cancer.
  • Shane Gibson, 35, was an American guitarist for the band Korn. He passed away due to health issues.
  • Dennis Kamakahi, 61, was an American Grammy Award-winning musician. He passed away due to lung cancer.
  • DJ Rashad, 35, was an American footwork disc jockey.

Sports Figures

Politicians and Public Figures

Other Notable People

  • Jacques Le Goff, 90, was a French historian. He passed away due to natural causes.
  • Urs Widmer, 75, was a Swiss author.
  • Joseph Willaert, 78, was a Belgian painter. He passed away due to complications from a brain issue.
  • Paul Salamunovich, 86, was an American choral director and movie scorer, known for The Godfather. He passed away due to complications from an illness.
  • Anatoly Sukhorukov, 78, was a Russian physicist.
  • Rolf Brem, 88, was a Swiss graphic artist, sculptor, and illustrator.
  • Ernesto Laclau, 78, was an Argentine political theorist. He passed away due to a heart attack.
  • Sir Owen Woodhouse, 97, was a New Zealand judge. He passed away due to natural causes.
  • John Houbolt, 95, was an American aerospace engineer known for his work on the lunar orbit rendezvous. He passed away due to natural causes.
  • Ernst Florian Winter, 90, was an Austrian-American historian and political scientist.
  • Gabriel García Márquez, 87, was a Colombian author, journalist, and screenwriter. He passed away due to pneumonia.
  • Josep Maria Subirachs, 87, was a Spanish Catalan sculptor and painter. He passed away due to a long-term illness.
  • Ivan Mercep, 83, was a New Zealand architect who designed the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
  • Emmanuel III Delly, 86, was an Iraqi Chaldean Catholic religious leader.
  • Karlheinz Deschner, 89, was a German writer and activist.
  • Oswaldo Vigas, 87, was a Venezuelan painter.
  • Ricardo Mórtola, 63, was an Ecuadorian architect.
  • Hans Hollein, 80, was an Austrian architect and winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. He passed away due to pneumonia.
  • Arturo Licata, 111, was an Italian supercentenarian and the world's oldest verified man at the time. He passed away after a long illness.
  • Konstantin Orbelyan, 85, was an Armenian-American composer and conductor.
  • Walter Walsh, 106, was an American FBI agent and Olympic shooter, known as the oldest Olympic competitor ever.
  • Reuven Feuerstein, 92, was a Romanian-born Israeli psychologist.

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