Deaths in April 1912

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

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 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.