The world lost one of it's great scientists, physicists, and thinkers with the death of Albert Einstein.
Einstein refused surgery after experiencing internal bleeding caused by a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm, which previously had been surgically reinforced in 1948.
Einstein said "I've done my part, it's time to go and I'll do it gracefully." He died in Princeton Hospital at the age of 76 on April 18th, 1955.