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The following is a list of notable world figures who died on April 2nd.

	1118 - Baldwin I of Jerusalem, King of Jerusalem
	1272 - Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)
	1335 - Duke Henry of Carinthia
	1412 - Ruy Gonzáles de Clavijo, Spanish traveler and writer
	1502 - Prince Arthur Tudor, son of Henry VII of England (b. 1486)
	1507 - Francis of Paola, Italian founder of the Order of the Minims (b. 1416)
	1657 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1608)
	1720 - Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647)
	1742 - James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
	1747 - Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)
	1754 - Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
	1787 - Thomas Gage, British general (b. 1719)
	1791 - Mirabeau, French statesman (b. 1749)
	1801 - Thomas Dadford Junior, British canal engineer
	1803 - Sir James Montgomery, 1st Baronet, Scottish politician and judge (b. 1721)
	1817 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)
	1827 - Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
	1845 - Philip Charles Durham, Royal Navy Admiral (b. 1763)
	1865 - General A. P. Hill, American Confederate general (b. 1825)
	1872 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (b. 1791)
	1902 - Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge (b. 1814)
	1914 - Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
	1922 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
	1928 - Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
	1930 - Empress Zauditu of Ethiopia (b. 1876)
	1936 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (b. 1860)
	1953 - Hugo Sperrle, German field marshal (b. 1885)
	1966 - C.S. Forester, British author (b. 1899)
	1972 - Gil Hodges, American baseball player (b. 1924)
	1972 - Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884)
	1974 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
	1987 - Buddy Rich, American drummer (b. 1917)
	1994 - Betty Furness, American actress (b. 1916)
	1995 - Harvey Penick, American golfer (b. 1904)
	1995 - Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist (b. 1908)
	2000 - Tommaso Buscetta, Italian gangster (b. 1928)
	2001 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
	2001 - Jennifer Syme, American actress (b. 1972 )
	2003 - Edwin Starr, American singer (b. 1942)
	2005 - Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)
	2006 - Nina Schenk von Stauffenberg, German wife of freedom fighter Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1913)

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