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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
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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

Gabriel García Márquez, 87, was a Colombian author and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982 and was famous for his magical realism novels like One Hundred Years of Solitude. He passed away due to an illness.
Peaches Geldof, 25, was a British journalist, TV presenter, and model. She was the daughter of musician Bob Geldof.
Tadeusz Różewicz, 92, was a Polish poet and playwright.
Peter Matthiessen, 86, was an American author. He passed away due to leukemia.
Anja Niedringhaus, 48, was a German photojournalist for the Associated Press and a Pulitzer Prize winner. She was tragically shot.
Régine Deforges, 78, was a French writer, editor, and director. She passed away due to a heart attack.
Sue Townsend, 68, was an English novelist and playwright, best known for her "Adrian Mole" series. She passed away due to a brain issue.
Mark Shand, 62, was a British travel writer and conservationist. He was the brother of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. He passed away from injuries after a fall.
Stefanie Zweig, 81, was a German writer known for her book Nowhere in Africa.
Al Feldstein, 88, was an American writer and editor.

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

Rubin Carter, 76, was an American middleweight boxer. He passed away due to cancer.
The Ultimate Warrior, 54, was an American professional wrestler and a Hall of Famer. He passed away due to a heart attack.
Tito Vilanova, 45, was a Spanish football player and coach for FC Barcelona. He passed away due to throat cancer.
José Aguilar, 55, was a Cuban Olympic bronze-medalist boxer. He passed away due to a brain issue.
Bill Mitchell, 85, was a Canadian hockey player for the Detroit Red Wings. He passed away due to kidney problems.
Rafał Sznajder, 41, was a Polish Olympic fencer. He passed away due to a heart attack.
Dylan Tombides, 20, was an Australian association footballer for West Ham United. He passed away due to cancer.
Connie Marrero, 102, was a Cuban baseball player and the oldest former Major League Baseball player.
Sandy Jardine, 65, was a Scottish association footballer for Rangers and the national team. He passed away due to liver cancer.
Stanko Lorger, 83, was a Slovenian Olympic hurdler.
Earl Morrall, 79, was an American football player for teams like the Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins. He passed away due to a long-term illness.
Sandro Lopopolo, 74, was an Italian Olympic silver-medalist boxer.
Vujadin Boškov, 82, was a Serbian footballer and coach.
Jack Ramsay, 89, was an American Hall of Fame basketball coach for the Portland Trail Blazers. He passed away due to cancer.
Edgar Laprade, 94, was a Canadian ice hockey player for the New York Rangers. He passed away due to natural causes.
Ryan Tandy, 32, was an Australian rugby league player.
Tahar Chaïbi, 68, was a Tunisian footballer. He passed away due to complications from a brain issue.

Politicians and Public Figures

Jim Flaherty, 64, was a Canadian politician who served as the Minister of Finance. He passed away due to a heart attack.
Kumba Ialá, 61, was a politician from Guinea-Bissau who served as President. He passed away due to heart problems.
Margo MacDonald, 70, was a Scottish politician. She passed away due to a long-term illness.
A. N. R. Robinson, 87, was a politician from Trinidad and Tobago who served as both Prime Minister and President.
Norman Girvan, 72, was a Jamaican economist, educator, and politician. He passed away after a fall.
Jos Chabert, 81, was a Belgian politician.
Dominique Baudis, 66, was a French journalist, writer, and politician who was the Mayor of Toulouse. He passed away due to cancer.
Justin Marie Bomboko, 86, was a Congolese politician who served as Head of Government.
Karpal Singh, 74, was a Malaysian politician. He passed away in a car accident.
Gyude Bryant, 65, was a Liberian politician who chaired the Transitional Government of Liberia.
Neville Wran, 87, was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales. He passed away due to a long-term illness.
Win Tin, 85, was a Burmese journalist and political prisoner. He passed away due to kidney problems.
Herb Gray, 82, was a Canadian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister.
Janet Gray Hayes, 87, was an American politician who was the Mayor of San Jose, California. She passed away due to a brain issue.
Alfonso Márquez de la Plata, 80, was a Chilean politician who served as Minister of Agriculture. He passed away due to pneumonia.
Shobha Nagi Reddy, 46, was an Indian politician. She passed away in a car accident.

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.