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Events in April 1995 7
1909 – 1995Burl Ives (1909-1995)Died 14 April 1995, aged 85Burl Ives was an American actor and folk singer known for his rendition of Frosty the Snowman and for his Academy Award-winning role in The Big Country. He also played Big Daddy in the film adaptation of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. His deep voice made him one of the most recognizable performers of mid-20th-century America.
1911 – 1995Ginger Rogers (1911-1995)Died 25 April 1995, aged 83Ginger Rogers was an American actress and dancer best remembered for her ten films with Fred Astaire, including Top Hat and Swing Time. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Kitty Foyle in 1941. Her partnership with Astaire remains one of the most celebrated in Hollywood history.
1918 – 1995Howard Cosell (1918-1995)Died 23 April 1995, aged 77Howard Cosell was an American sportscaster known for his brash, opinionated style and his long association with ABC's Monday Night Football. He was closely linked to Muhammad Ali, whom he interviewed frequently during Ali's career. Cosell's commentary changed the tone of American sports broadcasting.
1921 – 1995W.F. HermansNovelist, essayist, geographer, 1921-1995Willem Frederik Hermans (1921-1995) — one of the three great Dutch postwar writers, alongside Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve. Novelist, essayist, geographer and polemicist. Author of The Darkroom of Damocles (1958), Beyond Sleep (1966) and An Untouched House (1952). His work is defined by epistemological nihilism: the conviction that certainty is impossible and that human existence is fundamentally without meaning or redemption.
19951995 World Snooker ChampionshipHendry Title 5Winner: Stephen Hendry; Runner-up: Nigel Bond. Score: 18–9.
1995Oklahoma bombing168 killedOn April 19, 1995, a truck bomb destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 in the deadliest domestic terror attack in US history.
1995W.F. Hermans dies in Utrecht aged 73Willem Frederik Hermans dies on 27 April 1995 in Utrecht, aged 73. He leaves behind a body of work — novels, stories, essays, plays, scientific writing, literary criticism — of extraordinary range and consistency, unified by a philosophical pessimism that never became despair and a formal intelligence that never became mere cleverness.