Famous Deaths for 1st April 2026

1904 – Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (Fables for the Frivolous, When the Great Gray Ships Come In), dies at 31
1936 – Mikhail Vladimirovich Ivanov-Boretsky, composer, dies at 61
1951 – Clement D’Hooghe, Belgian composer, dies at 51
1968 – Lev Landau, Russian physicist (1962 Nobel Prize for Physics for superfluidity theory), dies from injuries from an earlier car accident at 60
1974 – Alfred Ernest Whitehead, English-Canadian composer, dies at 86
1976 – Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63
2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (Diary of Mad Housewife), dies at 58
2011 – Lou Gorman, American baseball executive (general manager Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox), dies at 82
2013 – Nicolae Martinescu, Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler (Olympic gold 100kg 1972), dies at 73
2025 – Star VII, Alaskan reindeer and a mascot of Anchorage, Alaska, euthanized after probably being poisoned at 8

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