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Who died on 26 April?
Celebrities who died on 26 April
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Lucille Ball
American actress and businesswoman

Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer

Jonathan Demme
American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter

Klaus Schulze
German composer and musician

Augusto Roa Bastos
Paraguayan writer

Bessie Love
American actress

Cicely Courtneidge
English actress and comedienne

Ellen Schwiers
German actress

Elina Bystritskaya
Russian actress

Jim Davis
American actor

Broderick Crawford
actor

Mas Oyama
Korean-Japanese karate master

Vasos Lyssarides
Cypriot politician

Giulietto Chiesa
Italian politician

Gypsy Rose Lee
American burlesque performer, actress, author

Hans Holzer
American paranormal researcher

Yuri Semenov
Soviet sociologist

Irene Ryan
actress

Al Schmitt
American recording engineer and record producer

Ramu
Indian film producer in Kannada films

Jim Mandich
All-American college football player, professional football player, tight end, sports broadcaster

Forrest Twogood
college basketball coach, minor league baseball player

Maria Schell
Austrian actress

Philip H. Hoff
American politician

Bruce Hilkene
American football player

Jerry Apodaca
American politician

Edward Arnold
American actor

Leo Arnaud
French-American composer of Bugler's Dream

Albert Maltz
American writer

Madge Evans
actress

Paul J. Davis
American football, basketball, and baseball coach, college athletics administrator

Vaughn Taylor
actor

David Mitchell
New Zealand architect

Geno Hayes
American football player

Alberta Vaughn
actress

Ron Marlenee
American politician

May McAvoy
film actress

Dick Mann
American motorcycle racer

Jayne Meadows
American actress and author

Tamara Press
Soviet track-and-field athlete

Herb Voland
American actor

Charles Neville
American musician

Mason Adams
Character and voice-over actor

Hirotaka Izumi
Japanese keyboardist, composer, music producer

Frederick Niels Larsen
American religious leader

Hannes Schneider
Austrian alpine skier

Len Smith
Australian dual code rugby player

Henri Weber
French politician