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Famous People Who Died in April 1883

  • Apr 4 Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (Cooper Union, steam locomotive), dies at 92
  • Apr 6 Benjamin Wright Raymond, American Whig party politician (Mayor of Chicago, 1839-40 and 1842-43), dies at 81
  • Apr 10 Emilie Mayer, German composer of Romantic music, dies at 70
  • Apr 18 Agnes Tyrrell, Czech pianist and composer, dies at 36
  • Apr 22 Octave Fouque, French pianist and composer, dies at 38
  • Apr 28 William M. Browne, American Confederate politician and Brigadier General, dies at 59

Edouard Manet (1832-1883)

Apr 30 French impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass), dies of complications from syphilis at 51