page_title: 2016 in the United States
section_title: April
hierarchical_section_title: 2016 in the United States / Deaths / April
caption_attribution_description: English: Doris Roberts at a performance of The Hot Chocolate Nutcracker in December 2010.
context_page_description: Events in the year 2016 in the United States.
context_section_description: April 1
  Patricia Thompson, philosopher and author (born 1926)
  Marjorie Peters, baseball player (born 1918)
  Herbert Theodore Milburn, judge (born 1931)
  Richard S. Kem, army general (born 1934)
  Tom Coughlin, business executive and fraudster (born 1949)
  April 2
  Amber Rayne, pornographic actress (born 1984)
  Moreese Bickham, wrongfully convicted murderer and anti-death penalty activist (born 1917)
  Rick Bartow, artist and sculptor (born 1946)
  April 3
  Clarence Clifton Young, politician (born 1922)
  Bill Henderson, jazz vocalist and actor (born 1926)
  Henry Harpending, anthropologist (born 1944)
  Robert Guinan, painter (born 1934)
  Joe Medicine Crow, Crow historian and author (born 1913)
  Ward Crutchfield, politician (born 1928)
  Alex de Jesús, boxer (born 1983)
  Erik Bauersfeld, radio dramatist and voice actor (born 1922)
  April 4
  Mike Sandlock, baseball player (born 1915)
  George Radosevich, football player (born 1928)
  John Miller, politician (born 1947)
  Carlo Mastrangelo, doo-wop singer (born 1937)
  Archie Dees, basketball player (born 1936)
  April 5
  Barbara Turner, screenwriter and actress (born 1936)
  E. M. Nathanson, author (born 1928)
  Leon Haywood, funk singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1942)
  Roman Gribbs, 65th Mayor of Detroit, Michigan (born 1925)
  April 6
  Murray Wier, basketball player (born 1926)
  Pablo Lucio Vasquez, convicted murderer (born 1977)
  Ogden Mills Phipps, financier, racehorse owner and breeder (born 1940)
  Robert MacCrate, lawyer (born 1921)
  Joel Kurtzman, economist (born 1947)
  Merle Haggard, singer-songwriter and musician (born 1937)
  Dennis Davis, drummer (born 1951)
  April 7
  Blackjack Mulligan, professional wrestler (born 1942)
  Vladimir Kagan, furniture designer (born 1927)
  Frank E. Denholm, politician (born 1923)
  Joe Freeman Britt, attorney and judge (born 1935)
  April 8
  Edward J. Steimel, lobbyist and fundraiser (born 1922)
  Daisy Lewellyn, reality television personality (born 1980)
  Charles Hirsch, forensic pathologist (born 1937)
  William Hamilton, cartoonist, playwright and novelist (born 1939)
  Dick Alban, football player (born 1929)
  April 9
  Will Smith, football player (born 1981)
  Tony Conrad, experimental filmmaker and musician (born 1940)
  Duane Clarridge, spy (born 1932)
  Arthur Anderson, actor (born 1922)
  April 10
  Wayne Southwick, surgeon and academic (born 1923)
  Nicholas Hood, minister, politician and civil rights activist (born 1923)
  Louis Gladstone, politician (born 1927)
  April 11
  Ed Snider, sports executive (born 1933)
  Anne Gould Hauberg, arts patron (born 1917)
  Hokie Gajan, football player and broadcaster (born 1959)
  Doug Banks, radio personality (born 1958)
  April 12
  Spec Richardson, baseball executive (born 1923)
  Balls Mahoney, professional wrestler (born 1972)
  Bryce Jordan, 14th President of the Pennsylvania State University (born 1924)
  Anne Jackson, actress, wife of Eli Wallach (born 1925)
  David Gest, entertainer, producer and television personality (born 1953)
  Paul Carey, broadcaster and sportscaster (born 1928)
  Hector A. Cafferata Jr., soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1929)
  April 13
  Nera White, basketball player (born 1935)
  Ray Thornton, politician and attorney (born 1928)
  April 14
  Carl M. Vogel, politician (born 1955)
  Dan Ireland, Canadian-born film director and producer (born 1958)
  Fred Hayman, Swiss-born fashion retailer and entrepreneur (born 1925)
  Francesco Guarraci, Italian-born mobster (born 1955)
  April 15
  Frederick Mayer, German-born spy (born 1921)
  Laura Liu, judge (born 1966)
  April 16
  Maurice Kenny, Mohawk poet (born 1929)
  William M. Gray, meteorologist (born 1929)
  Rod Daniel, film and television director (born 1942)
  Ron Bonham, basketball player (born 1942)
  April 17
  Doris Roberts, actress (born 1925)
  Clifton C. Garvin, businessman (born 1921)
  April 18
  Scott Nimerfro, television writer and producer (born 1961)
  Ben-Zion Gold, Polish-born rabbi (born 1923)
  Bill Campbell, businessman and executive (born 1940)
  Paul Busiek, physician and legislator (born 1923)
  Brian Asawa, opera singer (born 1966)
  April 19
  Pete Zorn, musician (born 1950)
  Milt Pappas, baseball player (born 1939)
  John M
caption: Doris Roberts
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