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Celebrity Deaths - April
April 4
Martin Luther King, Jr. - 1968
A Baptist minister who became a symbol of the civil rights movement against racial discrimination in the U.S. and won the Nobel Peace Prize was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. He was 39.
April 6
Thomas Kinkade - 2012
A California artist known as "Painter of Light" whose paintings of cottages, country gardens and churches are said to be in 10 million homes in the U.S. died at his home in Los Gatos, California, of natural causes. He was 54.
April 8
Jack Tramiel - 2012
A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who founded Commodore International which brought millions of people into the age of personal computer in the late 1970s and early 1980s died after suffering congestive heart failure for many years at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California. He was 83.
April 9
Sidney Lumet - 2011
An Academy Award nominated movie director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit died of lymphoma at his home in New York City, New York. He was 86.
April 13, 2012
Jonathan Frid - 2012
A classically trained actor who became a pop culture star after portraying a charismatic vampire, Barnabas Collins, in the supernatural daytime soap opera "Dark Shadows" in the 1960s died of natural causes in a hospital in Hamilton, Canada. He was 87.
April 16
Robert Urich - 2002
An actor who starred in numerous television series and movies died of synobial cell sarcoma, a rare cancer that attacks the body's joints, in Thousand Oaks, California. He was 55.
April 18
Dick Clark - 2012
Former host of "American Bandstand" and annual New Year's Eve countdowns from New York's Time Square who was nicknamed "America's oldest teenager" died of heart attack following an outpatient procedure at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. He was 82.
Albert Einstein - 1955
A Nobel Prize winner in physics whose theory of relativity revolutionized the field died of complications from the rupture of an abdomal aortic aneurysm in Priceton Hospital in Princeton, New Jersey. He was 76.
Levon Helm - 2012
The drummer and singer of the Band, widely credited to have establishing a genre known as Americana music and an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and a member of the band who toured with Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s, died of cancer in New York. He was 71.
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