Deaths in April 2014 facts for kids

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2014.

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.

April 2014

Urs Widmer 1938-2014

Peter Matthiessen 1927-2014

Mickey Rooney 1920-2014

Mary Anderson 1918-2014

Peaches Geldof 1989-2014

Jim Flaherty 1949-2014

Jesse Winchester 1944-2014

Armando Peraza 1924-2014

Ernst Florian Winter 1923-2014

Gabriel García Márquez 1927-2014

Rubin Carter 1937-2014

Win Tin 1930-2014

Tadeusz Różewicz 1921-2014

Tito Vilanova 1968-2014

Iveta Bartošová 1966-2014

Walter Walsh 1907-2014

Bob Hoskins 1942-2014

April 1 - Anker Buch, 74, Danish violinist.
April 1 - Carlos Oneto, 84, Peruvian actor and comic.
April 1 - Jacques Le Goff, 90, French historian, natural causes.
April 1 - Bill Mitchell, 85, Canadian hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), kidney failure.
April 1 - King Fleming, 91, American jazz pianist, natural causes.
April 1 - Merimeri Penfold, 93, New Zealand Māori language academic (University of Auckland), cancer.
April 2 - Urs Widmer, 75, Swiss author.
April 2 - Carl Epting Mundy, Jr., 78, American military officer, merkel cell carcinoma.
April 2 - Richard Brick, 68, American movie producer and business executive, esophageal cancer.
April 2 - Miloš Mikeln, 83, Slovene writer, natural causes.
April 2 - Lucy Hood, 56, American television executive, president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (since 2013), cancer.
April 2 - Consuelo Moure, 67, Colombian actress, lung cancer.
April 2 - Joseph Willaert, 78, Belgian painter, complications from a stroke.
April 2 - Glyn Jones, 82, South African writer and actor.
April 3 - Paul Salamunovich, 86, American choral director and movie scorer (The Godfather), complications from West Nile virus.
April 3 - Jovan Pavlović, 78, Serbian Orthodox religion leader.
April 3 - Régine Deforges, 78, French writer, editor, director and playwright, heart attack.
April 3 - Arthur Smith, 93, American musician and songwriter ("Guitar Boogie", "Dueling Banjos"), natural causes.
April 3 - Máximo Cajal López, 79, Spanish diplomat.
April 3 - Michael Prinz von Preußen, 74, German writer.
April 3 - Paul Lüönd, 63, Swiss musician and politician.
April 3 - Virginie Korte-van Hemel, 84, Dutch politician, Deputy Minister of Justice (1982–1989).
April 3 - Edvard Grimstad, 81, Norwegian politician, MP for Østfold (1989–1997), natural causes.
April 3 - Fred Kida, 93, American cartoonist.
April 4 - Margo MacDonald, 70, Scottish politician, Parkinson's disease.
April 4 - Kumba Ialá, 61, Bissau-Guinean politician, President (2000–2003), cardiopulmonary arrest.
April 4 - José Aguilar, 55, Cuban Olympic bronze-medalist light-welterweight boxer (1980), stroke.
April 4 - Gyula Szabó, 83, Hungarian actor.
April 5 - José Wilker, 66, Brazilian movie, stage and television actor and director, heart attack.
April 5 - Peter Matthiessen, 86, American author, leukemia.
April 5 - Anja Niedringhaus, 48, German photojournalist (Associated Press), Pulitzer Prize winner (2005), shot.
April 5 - John Pinette, 50, American actor (Junior, Seinfeld, The Punisher) and comedian, pulmonary embolism.
April 5 - Wayne Henderson, 74, American jazz trombonist (The Jazz Crusaders) and record producer.
April 6 - Peter Liechti, 63, Swiss filmmaker.
April 6 - Mickey Rooney, 93, American actor (The Black Stallion, Babes in Arms, Night at the Museum), natural causes.
April 6 - Mary Anderson, 96, American actress (Gone With the Wind).
April 6 - Massimo Tamburini, 70, Italian motorcycle designer, lung cancer.
April 6 - Chuck Stone, 89, American navigator, journalist and academic, Tuskegee Airman during World War II, co-founder of the NABJ, congestive heart failure.
April 6 - Liv Dommersnes, 91, Norwegian actress, natural causes.
April 6 - Erzsi Kovács, 85, Hungarian pop singer and performer.
April 6 - Jacques Castérède, 87, French composer.
April 7 - V. K. Murthy, 91, Indian movie cinematographer (Kaagaz Ke Phool, Pyaasa, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam).
April 7 - Peaches Geldof, 25, British journalist, television presenter and model, daughter of Bob Geldof.
April 7 - Frans van der Lugt, 75, Dutch Jesuit priest, shot.
April 7 - George Shuffler, 88, American Hall of Fame bluegrass musician (The Stanley Brothers).
April 7 - George Dureau, 84, American painter and photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
April 7 - Zeituni Onyango, 61, Kenyan-born American computer programmer, half-aunt of United States President Barack Obama, breast cancer and respiratory ailment.
April 7 - John Shirley-Quirk, 82, English bass-baritone.
April 7 - Josep Maria Subirachs, 87, Spanish Catalan sculptor and painter, Parkinson's disease.
April 7 - Čedo Vuković, 93, Montenegrin writer.
April 8 - Ivan Mercep, 83, New Zealand architect (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa).
April 8 - The Ultimate Warrior, 54, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (WWE), heart attack.
April 8 - Emmanuel III Delly, 86, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic prelate, Patriarch of Babylon (2003–2012).
April 8 - Karlheinz Deschner, 89, German writer and activist.
April 8 - Fé Sciarone, 91, Dutch radio actress and comedienne.
April 9 - A. N. R. Robinson, 87, Trinidadian and Tobagonian politician, Prime Minister (1986–1991), President (1997–2003).
April 9 - Norman Girvan, 72, Jamaican economist, educator, and politician, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States (2000–2004), fall.
April 9 - Jos Chabert, 81, Belgian politician, Minister of State (since 2009).
April 10 - Dominique Baudis, 66, French journalist, writer and politician, Mayor of Toulouse (1983–2001), cancer.
April 10 - Jim Flaherty, 64, Canadian politician, Minister of Finance (2006–2014), heart attack.
April 10 - Joe Dini, 85, American politician and business man, member of the Nevada House of Representatives (1967–2001).
April 10 - Sue Townsend, 68, English novelist and playwright (Adrian Mole series), stroke.
April 10 - Justin Marie Bomboko, 86, Congolese politician, Head of Government (1960–1961).
April 10 - Anatoly Sukhorukov, 78, Russian physicist.
April 11 - Alfredo Alcón, 84, Argentine actor, respiratory disease.
April 11 - Jesse Winchester, 69, American musician and songwriter, cancer.
April 11 - Nandu Bhende, 58, Indian musician and actor, heart attack.
April 11 - Rolf Brem, 88, Swiss graphic artist, sculptor and illustrator.
April 11 - Edna Doré, 92, British actress (EastEnders), emphysema.
April 11 - Bill Henry, 86, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds), heart attack.
April 11 - Myer S. Kripke, 100, American rabbi and philanthropist, natural causes.
April 12 - Brita Koivunen, 82, Finnish singer.
April 12 - Fred Ho, 56, American saxophonist, composer and social activist, colorectal cancer.
April 12 - Hal Smith, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates).
April 13 - Ernesto Laclau, 78, Argentine political theorist, heart attack.
April 13 - Rafał Sznajder, 41, Polish Olympic fencer (1996, 2000, 2004), heart attack.
April 13 - Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick, 84, Scottish herald and banker, illness.
April 14 - Brian Harradine, 79, Australian politician, stroke.
April 14 - Armando Peraza, 89, Cuban-born American Latin jazz percussionist, pneumonia.
April 14 - Mick Staton, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives serving West Virginia's 3rd District (1981–1983).
April 14 - Albert Manent, 83, Spanish writer.
April 14 - Manuel Ortega, 92, Spanish painter.
April 15 - Sir Owen Woodhouse, 97, New Zealand judge, member of the Supreme Court, President of the Court of Appeal (1981–1986), natural causes.
April 15 - Shane Gibson, 35, American guitarist (Korn, stOrk), complications from a blood clotting disorder.
April 15 - Hugo Villar, 88, Uruguayan physician and politician.
April 15 - John Houbolt, 95, American aerospace engineer (lunar orbit rendezvous), natural causes.
April 16 - Gyude Bryant, 65, Liberian politician, Chairman of the Transitional Government of Liberia (2003–2006).
April 16 - Aulis Rytkönen, 85, Finnish football player and manager.
April 16 - Jiří Načeradský, 74, Czech artist.
April 16 - Ernst Florian Winter, 90, Austrian-American historian and political scientist.
April 16 - Albert André, 84, German Roman Catholic priest.
April 17 - Karpal Singh, 74, Malaysian politician, PM of Bukit Gelugor (2004–2014), traffic collision.
April 17 - Cheo Feliciano, 78, Puerto Rican composer and singer, traffic collision.
April 17 - Gabriel García Márquez, 87, Colombian author, journalist, and screenwriter, awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1982), pneumonia.
April 17 - Henry Maksoud, 85, Brazilian businessman, cardiac arrest.
April 18 - Dylan Tombides, 20, Australian association footballer (West Ham United), testicular cancer.
April 18 - Brian Priestman, 87, British maestro and conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).
April 18 - Derek Cooper, 88, British broadcaster and food journalist, Parkinson's disease.
April 18 - Andrew Sessler, 85, American physicist and academic (University of California, Berkeley), winner of the Enrico Fermi Award (2013), cancer.
April 19 - Sonia Silvestre, 61, Dominican singer and announcer, heart failure from stroke.
April 19 - Frits Thors, 104, Dutch journalist and news anchor, natural causes.
April 19 - Mimi Kok, 80, Dutch actress, lung disease.
April 19 - Deon Jackson, 68, American soul singer and songwriter.
April 19 - Luciano do Valle, 66, Brazilian sports commentator.
April 20 - Neville Wran, 87, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (1976–1986), dementia.
April 20 - Peter Scoones, 76, British underwater photographer.
April 20 - Rubin Carter, 76, American middleweight boxer, was wrongfully convicted of murder, prostate cancer.
April 20 - Benedikt Sarnov, 87, Russian writer and literary critic.
April 20 - Alistair MacLeod, 77, Canadian novelist, short story writer and academic, stroke.
April 21 - Win Tin, 85, Burmese journalist and political prisoner, renal failure.
April 21 - Alexander Lenkov, 70, Russian actor, People's Artist of Russia (1997).
April 21 - Herb Gray, 82, Canadian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1997–2002).
April 21 - Janet Gray Hayes, 87, American politician, Mayor of San Jose, California (1975–1983), stroke.
April 21 - Arlene McQuade, 77, American actress (The Goldbergs, Touch of Evil), Parkinson's disease.
April 21 - Mundo Earwood, 61, American country music singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
April 22 - Alfonso Márquez de la Plata, 80, Chilean politician, Minister of: Agriculture (1977–1980) and General Government (1983–1984), pneumonia.
April 22 - Oswaldo Vigas, 87, Venezuelan painter.
April 22 - Ricardo Mórtola, 63, Ecuadorian architect.
April 22 - George H. Heilmeier, 77, American engineer businessman.
April 23 - Mark Shand, 62, British travel writer and conservationist, brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, injuries from a fall.
April 23 - Michael Glawogger, 54, Austrian movie director, malaria.
April 23 - Connie Marrero, 102, Cuban baseball player, oldest former Major League Baseball player.
April 24 - Tadeusz Różewicz, 92, Polish poet and playwright.
April 24 - Hans Hollein, 80, Austrian architect (Museum für Moderne Kunst, Haas House), winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1985), pneumonia.
April 24 - Shobha Nagi Reddy, 46, Indian politician, Andhra Pradesh MLA for Allagadda (since 1996), car accident.
April 24 - Arturo Licata, 111, Italian supercentenarian, world's oldest verified man, long-illness.
April 24 - Ricardo Bauleo, 67, Argentine actor, heart failure.
April 24 - Konstantin Orbelyan, 85, Armenian-American composer and conductor.
April 24 - Sandy Jardine, 65, Scottish association footballer (Rangers, Hearts, national team), liver cancer.
April 25 - Tito Vilanova, 45, Spanish football player and coach (FC Barcelona), throat cancer.
April 25 - Stanko Lorger, 83, Slovenian Yugoslav Olympic hurdler (1952, 1956, 1960).
April 25 - Earl Morrall, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins), Parkinson's disease.
April 25 - Stefanie Zweig, 81, German writer (Nowhere in Africa).
April 26 - Antonio Pica, 83, Spanish actor, illness.
April 26 - DJ Rashad, 35, American footwork disc jockey, drug overdose.
April 26 - Sandro Lopopolo, 74, Italian Olympic silver-medalist light welterweight boxer (1960).
April 27 - Vujadin Boškov, 82, Serbian footballer and football coach.
April 27 - Andréa Parisy, 78, French actress.
April 27 - Yigal Arnon, 84, Israeli lawyer.
April 27 - Harry Firth, 96, Australian racing driver and team manager, natural causes.
April 28 - Jack Ramsay, 89, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Portland Trail Blazers), cancer.
April 28 - Idris Sardi, 75, Indonesian violinist and composer.
April 28 - Edgar Laprade, 94, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers), natural causes.
April 28 - Dennis Kamakahi, 61, American Grammy Award-winning musician, lung cancer.
April 28 - Ryan Tandy, 32, Australian rugby league player, involved in match-fixing scandal, drug overdose.
April 29 - Tahar Chaïbi, 68, Tunisian footballer (Club Africain), complications from a stroke.
April 29 - Al Feldstein, 88, American writer and editor.
April 29 - Michael Kadosh, 74, Israeli football player and manager, cancer.
April 29 - Norma Pons, 70, Argentine actress and showgirl, heart attack.
April 29 - Walter Walsh, 106, American FBI agent and Olympic shooter, oldest Olympic competitor ever.
April 29 - M. V. Devan, 86, Indian artist and academic.
April 29 - Bob Hoskins, 71, British actor (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Long Good Friday, A Christmas Carol), pneumonia.
April 29 - Reuven Feuerstein, 92, Romanian–born Israeli psychologist.
April 29 - Edgars Vinters, 94, Latvian painter.
April 30 - Ian Ross, 73, Australian television news presenter, pancreatic cancer.
April 30 - Chris Harris, 71, British actor (Into the Labyrinth), cancer.

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