Famous Deaths on April 1

Australian director, musician and writer

Writer, dramatists and playwright

Brazilian chess player (1930-2001)

Colombian artist (1920-2004)

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Physics (1962)

German artist (1891–1976)

Scottish physician and marine zoologist (1838-1931)

King of Greece (r. 1922-1924, 1935-1947)

Austrian writer, essayist, translator and cultural philosopher (1873–1959)

Swedish suffragist and writer (1847–1932)

Romanian academic

Musical artist

Russian poet (1910-1943)

Mexican artist (1891-1926)

Australian artist (1891-1941)

Mexican doctor, scientist and scholar who participated in founding the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, and in studying Mexico's pre-Columbian history and in documenting Native American languages

Romanian philosopher and conservative politician

Russian dancer (1910-1992)

Polish film director, screenwriter and writer

Austrian association football player (1891-1969)

Finnish military officer (1910-1962)

Thai musician, composer, bandleader

Swiss mathematician (1796-1863)

Colombian botanist, politician (1781-1863)

Canadian politician (1844–1897)

Pianist, conductor and composer (1848-1883)

Greek economist

Greek politician (1796-1865)

Japanese poet

Born 1692; died 1763

Italian late Baroque architect and painter (1675-1748)

French mathematician and librarian

Genevan physician

Hungarian politician (1538-1615)

Spanish artist

Swiss painter (1639-1668)

Painter from the Northern Netherlands (1618-1669)

Dutch Golden Age (1593-1654)

Swedish historian and Catholic archbishop

French traveler, naturalist, writer and diplomat (1517-1564)

Italian artist (1492-1554)

German theologian

13th king of Hanthawaddy Pegu

Burmese king

King of Sagaing Kingdom

Queen of Jerusalem (1192-1212) (r.1205-1212)