Notable Deaths in April 2026

Neil Sedaka

Singer-songwriter — "Calendar Girl", "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do"

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease

Edmund Phelps

Nobel Prize in Economics (2006) — inflation and unemployment trade-offs

James Woolsey

Former CIA Director (1993–1995)

Stroke

Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Former Emir of Qatar (1995–2013)

Betye Saar

Celebrated assemblage artist, The Liberation of Aunt Jemima

Valentino Garavani

Legendary fashion designer — Valentino

Chuck Norris

Martial artist, actor — Walker Texas Ranger, Missing in Action

Neale Daniher

AFL coach and motor neurone disease advocate

Motor neurone disease

Franco Baresi

AC Milan and Italy football legend, one of the greatest defenders ever