game show panelist (b. 1924) Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914) March 10 Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919) Kusumagraj, Indian poet, playwright and novelist (b. 1912) March 12 – Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist (b. 1916) March 13 – Garson Kanin, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1912) March 14 – Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910) March 17 Ernest Gold, Austrian-born composer (b. 1921) Humberto Fernández-Morán, Venezuelan research scientist (b. 1924) Hildegard Peplau, American nurse and theorist (b. 1909) March 19 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 6th Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924) March 21 Jean Guitton, French philosopher (b. 1901) Ernie Wise, English comedian (b. 1925) March 22 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969) March 24 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902) March 29 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918) March 30 – Igor Netto, Soviet–Russian footballer (b. 1930) March 31 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist and epigrapher (b. 1922) April April 4 Faith Domergue, American actress (b. 1924) Jumabek Ibraimov, 5th Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (b. 1944) Bob Peck, English actor (b. 1945) April 9 – Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Nigerese military officer, 5th President of Niger (b. 1949) April 10 – Jean Vander Pyl, American actress (b. 1919) April 13 – Willi Stoph, German politician, 2-time Prime Minister of the German Democratic Republic (b. 1914) April 14 Ellen Corby, American actress (b. 1911) Anthony Newley, English actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1931) April 15 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer and race car designer (b. 1944) April 16 – Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer and songwriter (b. 1946) April 19 – Hermine Braunsteiner, German Nazi prison guard (b. 1919) April 20 Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958) 15 people (13 victims and 2 perpetrators) who died in the Columbine High School massacre April 21 – Charles "Buddy" Rogers, American actor (b. 1904) April 22 – Bert Remsen, American actor (b. 1925) April 25 Michael Morris, Irish journalist and 6th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1914) Roger Troutman, American funk musician (b. 1951) April 26 – Jill Dando, British television journalist (b. 1961) April 27 – Al Hirt, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1922) April 28 Rory Calhoun, American actor (b. 1922) Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist (b. 1921) Alf Ramsey, English footballer and manager (b. 1920) May May 2 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938) May 3 – Godfrey