Famous people died in 16 April

Sir David Lean was an Academy award-winning British film director, producer and cinematographer

Aphra Behn was of the most prolific English writers, authors and poets of English Restoration era

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French political thinker famous for his works on sociology and political science

Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon was a famous naturalist from France who authored the encyclopaedic collection ‘Histoire Naturelle’

Rosalind Franklin was a famous English chemist and pioneer x-ray crystallographer who unravelled the structure of DNA and RNA

Francisco Goya was a renowned Spanish painter, noted for his royal portraits and experimental works

Saint Bernadette was a Christian Saint who had Marian apparitions of a small young lady who identified herself as the Immaculate Conception

Otto Wilhelm von Struve was a 19th century Russian astronomer who pioneered the study of double stars

Khalil Al-Wazir was a Palestinian leader and a prominent aide of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat

Cheyenne Brando was a Tahitian model best known as the daughter of legendary American actor Marlon Brando