# Deaths in April 1912

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 1912.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

## April 1912
### 1

* Paul Brousse, 68, French socialist politician.
* George Fleming, 49, Scottish football player.

### 2

* Hedda Anderson, 79, Swedish writer and teacher.
* William Sullivan Barnes, 70, Canadian-American minister.
* Sir Alfred Dryden, 5th and 8th Baronet, 90, English cricket player and barrister.
* James Morris, 79, Australian politician.
* Ishimoto Shinroku, 58, Imperial Japanese Army general and Minister of War, tuberculosis.
* Edward O'Connor Terry, 68, English actor.

### 3

* Philip Argall, 57, Australian Test cricket umpire.
* Charles H. Prince, 74, American politician.
* A. V. Ragsdale, 58, American politician.
* Calbraith Perry Rodgers, 33, American aviation pioneer, plane crash.

### 4

* Charles Brantley Aycock, 52, American politician and 50th Governor of North Carolina, heart attack.
* Isaac K. Funk, 72, American minister, lexicographer, and publisher.
* Meredith Howland, 79, American soldier and clubman.
* David Packham, 79, Australian politician.
* Robinson Souttar, 63, British Liberal Party politician.
* Carl G. von Iwonski, 81, American painter.

### 5

* Robert Dudley Adams, 82, Australian businessman, journalist, and author.
* Mikhail Mikhailovich Berezovsky, 64, Russian ornithologist and ethnologist.
* David Patrick Fisher, 62, New Zealand printer, trade unionist and public servant.
* James Jordan, 69, American judge.
* William Robertson, 48, New Zealand cricket player.
* André Fernand Thesmar, 69, French enameler.

### 6

* Chitto Harjo, 65/66, Native American leader.
* Richard Frommel, 57, German obstetrician and gynaecologist.
* Giovanni Pascoli, 56, Italian poet, writer, and classical scholar, liver cancer.
* Eleazar Roberts, 87, Welsh musician, writer and amateur astronomer.

### 7

* Abbott Lawrence Rotch, 51, American meteorologist, appendicitis.

### 8

* James A. Bushnell, 85, American businessman and banker.
* Emma Coradi-Stahl, 65, Swiss feminist.
* Edward Divers, 74, British chemist.
* Andrew Saks, 64, American businessman.
* Emily Soldene, 73, English singer, actress, theatre manager, novelist and columnist.

### 9

* Gottfried Strasser, 57, Swiss pastor, poet and writer.

### 10

* Christian Møinichen Havig, 87, Norwegian politician.
* Gabriel Monod, 68, French historian.

### 11

* John Rowland Dacey, 57, Irish-Australian politician, nephritis.
* James Montgomery Rice, 70, American soldier, lawyer, and public servant.
* Grand Duchess Vera Konstantinovna of Russia, 58, Russian noblewoman.
* Francis Charles Woods, 68, Scottish-American architect and organ-builder.

### 12

* Clara Barton, 90, American nurse and founder of the American Red Cross.
* Ernest Duchesne, 37, French physician, tuberculosis.
* Frederick Dent Grant, 61, American diplomat and son of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, heart failure.
* Albert Pieczonka, 84, German-American classical composer and pianist, pneumonia.

### 13

* Takuboku Ishikawa, 26, Japanese poet, tuberculosis.
* Robbins Little, 80, American lawyer and librarian.

### 14

* Henri Brisson, 76, Prime Minister of France.
* Horatio B. Knox, 55, American academic.
* Alonzo Clifton McClennan, 56, American physician.
* Alfred Pribram, 70, Bohemian internist.
* Rudolph Schwarz, 45, Austrian-American sculptor.

### 15

* Charles Gordon Ames, 83, American clergyman and lecturer.
* Harriet Fisher Mole, 70, British socialist, feminist, and trade union organiser.
* Jerome of Sandy Cove, Unidentified male amputee discovered on the beach of Sandy Cove, Canada.
* Felipe Salvador, 41, Filipino revolutionary, execution by hanging.
* Notable victims of the sinking of the RMS Titanic:
** Thomas Andrews, 39, British businessman and shipbuilder, drowned.
** John Jacob Astor IV, 47, American businessman, real estate developer, and writer.
** Joseph Bell, 51, British sailor and chief engineer in the engine room of RMS Titanic.
** David John Bowen, 20, Welsh boxer.
** Archibald Butt, 46, American journalist and American Army officer.
** Thomas Byles, 42, English catholic priest.
** Roderick Chisholm, 43, Scottish shipbuilder and co-designer the RMS Titanic.
** William Denton Cox, 29, British steward aboard RMS Titanic.
** Walter Donald Douglas, 50, American business executive.
** Annie Funk, 38, American missionary.
** Jacques Futrelle, 37, American journalist and writer.
** Luigi Gatti, 37, Italian businessman and restaurateur.
** Sidney Leslie Goodwin, 1, British toddler known until 2007 as "The Unknown Child".
** Benjamin Guggenheim, 46, American businessman.
** John Harper, 39, Scottish baptist pastor.
** Henry B. Harris, 45, American Broadway producer and theatre owner.
** Wallace Hartley, 33, English violinist and bandleader on the RMS Titanic.
** Charles Melville Hays, 55, American railroad executive.
** Ann Elizabeth Isham, 50, American socialite.
** Edward Austin Kent, 58, American architect.
** Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche, 25, Haitian engineer.
** René-Jacques Lévy, 37, French chemist.
** Francis Davis Millet, 63, American painter, sculptor and writer.
** William Mintram, 46, English fireman (stoker) on the RMS Titanic.
** Harry Markland Molson, 55, Canadian politician and entrepreneur.
** James Paul Moody, 24, British naval officer on the RMS Titanic.
** Clarence Moore, 47, American sportsman and businessman.
** William McMaster Murdoch, 39, Scottish sailor and First Officer on the RMS Titanic.
** Eino Viljami Panula, 1, Finnish toddler.
** Jack Phillips, 25, British sailor and senior wireless operator on the RMS Titanic.
** Manuel Uruchurtu Ramírez, 39, Mexican lawyer and politician.
** Edward Smith, 62, British naval officer on the RMS Titanic, drowned.
** W. T. Stead, 62, British newspaper editor and investigative journalism pioneer.
** Ida Straus, 63, American homemaker and wife of Isidor Straus.
** Isidor Straus, 67, German-American businessman and politician.
** John Thayer, 49, American businessman.
** Frank M. Warren, Sr., 63, American businessman.
** George Dennick Wick, 58, American industrialist.
** George Dunton Widener, 50, American businessman.
** Harry Elkins Widener, 27, American businessman, and a son of George Dunton Widener.
** Henry Tingle Wilde, 39, British sailor and Chief Officer on the RMS Titanic.
** Duane Williams, 51, American lawyer.
** John Wesley Woodward, 32, English musician on the RMS Titanic.
** George Henry Wright, 62, Canadian businessman and philanthropist.

### 16

* James Peterkin Alexander, 76, Scottish-Canadian farmer and politician.
* Henry Bethune, 67, English cricket player.
* Knut Ekwall, 69, Swedish painter and illustrator.
* Edward Gabbett, 71, Ireland Anglican priest.
* Wilhelmine Heise, 74, Danish philanthropist.
* Orlando J. Hodge, 83, American lawyer and politician.
* Thomas G. Lawson, 76, American politician.
* Henry F. Thomas, 68, American physician and politician.

### 17

* William F. Harrity, 61, American lawyer and politician.
* August T. Koerner, 68, American businessman and politician.
* Don Giuseppe Rizzo, 48, Italian Catholic priest, politician and journalist.
* Ace Stewart, 43, American Major League Baseball player.

### 18

* Damer Leslie Allen, 34, Irish-British aviator, aviation accident.
* Hank Gehring, 31, American Major League Baseball player.
* William G. Hills, 70, American Army soldier during the American Civil War and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* George Franklin Huff, 69, American politician.
* Martha Ripley, 68, American physician, suffragist, and professor of medicine.
* James D. Robinson, 71, Canadian political figure.
* Frederick Seddon, 40, British murderer, execution by hanging.
* Walter Clopton Wingfield, 78, British Army officer and inventor.

### 19

* Patricio Escobar, 69, President of Paraguay.
* Josua Lindahl, 68, Swedish American geologist and paleontologist.
* William McAleer, 74, American politician.

### 20

* Sam Barkley, 53, American Major League Baseball player.
* John N. Eckes, 67, American Union Army soldier during the American Civil War and recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Marian Farquharson, 65, British naturalist and women's rights activist.
* Jacob Elias Friend, 54, American lawyer, businessman, and politician.
* Daniel Gault, 69, American newspaperman, educator and politician.
* Djóni í Geil, 62, Faroese craftsman, editor, and politician.
* Charles Harper, 69, Australia pastoralist, newspaper proprietor and politician.
* Harry Pears, 34, Australian rules football player.
* Pedro Lira Rencoret, 66, Chilean painter and art critic.
* Bram Stoker, 64, Irish author known for his 1897 horror novel Dracula, stroke.

### 21

* F. Benedict Herzog, 52, American electrical engineer, artist and photographer.
* Willoughby Wallace Hooper, 75, English military officer and photographer.
* Alexander McKay, 69, Canadian politician.
* Siri von Essen, 61, Finnish noblewoman and actress.
* Yung Wing, 83, Chinese-American diplomat and businessman, apoplectic shock.

### 22

* Heinrich Unverricht, 58, German internist.

### 23

* Alphonse Trémeau de Rochebrune, 75, French botanist, malacologist, and zoologist.

### 24

* Samuel Bourne, 77, British photographer, heart attack.
* Eiler Rasmussen Eilersen, 85, Danish landscape painter.
* Michael Flürscheim, 68, German economist and Georgist.
* Justin McCarthy, 81, Irish nationalist, historian, novelist and politician.
* Johan Frederik Thaulow, 71, Norwegian Army officer and physician.

### 25

* George William Knox, 59, American theologian and writer, pneumonia.
* Waclaw Rolicz-Lieder, 45, Polish poet and translator.
* Martin Schubert, 73, American Army officer during the American Civil War and recipient of the Medal of Honor.

### 26

* Toshio Aoki, 58, Japanese-American artist and painter.
* Eugene L. Demers, 69, American politician.
* Charles Perkins, 57, English cricket player.
* Hermann Zabel, 79, German botanist.

### 27

* Alfred John Church, 83, English classical scholar.
* Daniel Kimball Pearsons, 92, American physician and philanthropist.

### 28

* Jules Bonnot, 35, French bank robber, shot.
* Josh Bunce, 64, American Major League Baseball player and umpire in .
* Robert Dollard, 70, American attorney and politician.
* Robert A. Kerr, 71, American politician and friend of industrialist Andrew Carnegie
* Stefan Izbinsky, 27, Ukrainian chess master.
* Yuri Kimimasa, 82, Japanese businessman and politician.
* Michael Thomas Stenson, 73, Canadian politician.
* Otto Stichling, 46, German Art Nouveau sculptor.

### 29

* Henri Bouckaert, 41, French rower and Olympic champion.
* Subh-i-Azal, 81, Iranian religious leader.

### 30

* František Kmoch, 63, Czech composer and conductor.
* Francis Reed, 61, English cricket player
* Henry Sweet, 66, English philologist, phonetician and grammarian, pernicious anemia.
* John Taylor, 78, British architect.