Famous people died in April - page 18

Mickey Rooney is an American film, TV and stage actor whose career spans over 80 years

Charles Messier was a noted French astronomer, who discovered the nebulae and star clusters

Kurt Vonnegut was a famous American novelist and essayist

Josephine Baker was an American-born French dancer and actress

John Wilkes Booth was an actor who assassinated the U

Joe Louis was a famous American boxing champion

Jane Jacobs was a well-known American-Canadian writer, journalist and activist

Howard Hughes was an American aviator, business tycoon, philanthropist and also a film maker

Isoroku Yamamoto was a Japanese naval commander during World War II

Martin Luther King Jr