Famous people died in April - page 15

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan was a famous Portuguese navigator and explorer

Portuguese1480251 views

Jolie Gabor

Jolie Gabor was a Hungarian- born American entrepreneur and socialite

AmericanSeptember 29, 1896288 views

Khalil al-Wazir

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

Toussaint Louverture

Toussaint Louverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave revolt in modern history

FrenchMay 20, 1743121 views

Anders Celsius

Anders Celsius was a Swedish astronomer and physicist who proposed the Celsius temperature scale and founded the Uppsala Observatory

SwedishNovember 27, 1701133 views

A. Alfred Taubman

Adolf Alfred Taubman was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist known for conceptualizing the modern shopping malls

AmericanJanuary 31, 1924135 views

Begum Hazrat Mahal

Begum Hazrat Mahal was the first wife of Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and one of the earliest female freedom fighters during the Indian Rebellion of 1857

Indian1820703 views

Louis Sullivan

Louis Sullivan was a pioneering architect who is known as the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism"

John Napier

John Napier was a Scottish mathematician and physicist best known as the inventor of logarithms

J. Allen Hynek

Josef Allen Hynek was an American astronomer and ufologist

AmericanMay 1, 1910252 views