Events

Pre-1600

• 823 Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.

• 919 The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his army.

• 1242 During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

• 1536 Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph.

• 1566 Two hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces.

1601–1900

• 1614 In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.

• 1614 The second English Parliament of king James I, the so-called Addled Parliament, opens.

• 1621 The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.

• 1792 United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

• 1795 Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.

• 1818 In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.

• 1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.

• 1879 Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

1901–present

• 1902 A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England.

• 1910 The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.

• 1922 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.

• 1932 Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.

• 1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.

• 1933 Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage.

• 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.

• 1938 Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.

• 1942 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad.

• 1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers and are sunk southwest of the island.

• 1943 World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory from the residential area hit.

• 1945 Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".

• 1946 Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.

• 1946 A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all four crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.

• 1949 A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

• 1951 Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.

• 1956 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.

• 1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada, is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.

• 1965 My Fair Lady wins Best Picture at the 37th Academy Awards.

• 1966 During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.

• 1971 In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

• 1974 Carrie, the first novel by American author Stephen King, is published for the first time with a print run of 30,000 copies.

• 1976 In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.

• 1977 The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.

• 1983 – The People's Armed Police is officially founded.

• 1991 An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard, including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.

• 1991 The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-37 to deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.

• 1992 Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.

• 1992 Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.

• 1998 In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.

• 1999 Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

• 2007 The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.

• 2009 North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of six-party talks.

• 2010 Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two militant suicide bombings and attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar.

• 2010 Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.

• 2010 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-131 to resupply the International Space Station.

• 2018 Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1170 Isabella of Hainault (died 1190)

• 1219 Wonjong of Goryeo, 24th ruler of Goryeo (died 1274)

• 1279 Al-Nuwayri, Egyptian Muslim historian (died 1333)

• 1288 Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (died 1336)

• 1315 James III of Majorca (died 1349)

• 1365 William II, Duke of Bavaria (died 1417)

• 1472 Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1510)

• 1521 Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect (died 1570)

• 1523 Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer and diplomat (died 1596)

• 1533 Giulio della Rovere, Italian Catholic Cardinal (died 1578)

• 1539 George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1603)

• 1549 Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (died 1597)

• 1568 Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)

• 1588 Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679)

• 1591 Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died 1634)

• 1595 John Wilson, English composer and educator (died 1674)

1601–1900

• 1604 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (died 1675)

• 1616 Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died 1661)

• 1622 Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (died 1703)

• 1649 Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (died 1721)

• 1656 Nikita Demidov, Russian industrialist (died 1725)

• 1664 Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy (died 1748)

• 1674 Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (died 1748)

• 1691 Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1768)

• 1692 Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (died 1730)

• 1719 Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician, Lord Marshal of Sweden (died 1794)

• 1726 Benjamin Harrison V, American politician, planter and merchant (died 1791)

• 1727 Pasquale Anfossi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1797)

• 1729 Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1809)

• 1730 Jean Baptiste Seroux d'Agincourt, French archaeologist and historian (died 1814)

• 1732 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and etcher (died 1806)

• 1735 Franziskus Herzan von Harras, Czech Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1804)

• 1739 Philemon Dickinson, American lawyer and politician (died 1809)

• 1752 Sébastien Érard, French instrument maker (died 1831)

• 1761 Sybil Ludington, American figure of the American Revolutionary War (died 1839)

• 1769 Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (died 1839)

• 1773 José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (died 1844)

• 1773 Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1839)

• 1774 David Gillespie, American politician and surveyor (died 1829)

• 1777 Marie Jules César Savigny, French zoologist (died 1851)

• 1782 Wincenty Krasiński, Polish nobleman (died 1858)

• 1784 Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1859)

• 1788 Franz Pforr, German painter (died 1812)

• 1793 Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist (died 1843)

• 1793 Felix de Muelenaere, Belgian politician (died 1862)

• 1795 Henry Havelock, British general (died 1857)

• 1799 Jacques Denys Choisy, Swiss clergyman and botanist (died 1859)

• 1801 Félix Dujardin, French biologist (died 1860)

• 1801 Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher, publicist and politician (died 1852)

• 1804 Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (died 1881)

• 1809 Karl Felix Halm, German scholar and critic (died 1882)

• 1810 Sir Henry Rawlinson, British East India Company army officer and politician (died 1895)

• 1811 Jules Dupré, French painter (died 1889)

• 1814 Felix Lichnowsky, Czech soldier and politician (died 1848)

• 1820 Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist

• 1822 Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, Belgian economist (died 1892)

• 1827 Joseph Lister, English surgeon and academic (died 1912)

• 1832 Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (died 1893)

• 1834 Prentice Mulford, American humorist and author (died 1891)

• 1834 Wilhelm Olbers Focke, German medical doctor and botanist (died 1922)

• 1834 Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist (died 1902)

• 1835 Vítězslav Hálek, Czech poet, writer, journalist, dramatist and theatre critic. (died 1874)

• 1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (died 1909)

• 1839 Robert Smalls, African-American ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician (died 1915)

• 1840 Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian historian and linguist (died 1911)

• 1842 Hans Hildebrand, Swedish archaeologist (died 1913)

• 1845 Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, German anatomist and histopathologist (died 1919)

• 1845 Jules Cambon, French diplomat (died 1935)

• 1846 Sigmund Exner, Austrian physiologist (died 1926)

• 1846 Henry Wellesley, British peer and politician (died 1900)

• 1848 Thure de Thulstrup, American illustrator (died 1930)

• 1848 Ulrich Wille, Swiss army general (died 1925)

• 1850 Enrico Mazzanti, Italian engineer and cartoonist (died 1910)

• 1852 Émile Billard, French sailor (died 1930)

• 1852 Walter W. Winans, American marksman and sculptor (died 1920)

• 1852 Franz Eckert, German composer and musician (died 1916)

• 1856 Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, essayist and historian (died 1915)

• 1857 Alexander of Battenberg (died 1893)

• 1858 Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman, founded Burpee Seeds (died 1915)

• 1859 Reinhold Seeberg, German theologian (died 1935)

• 1860 Harry S. Barlow, British tennis player (died 1917)

• 1862 Louis Ganne, French conductor (died 1923)

• 1862 Leo Stern, English cellist (died 1904)

• 1863 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1950)

• 1867 Ernest Lewis, British tennis player (died 1930)

• 1869 Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (died 1942)

• 1869 Albert Roussel, French composer (died 1937)

• 1870 Motobu Chōki, Japanese karateka (died 1944)

• 1871 Stanisław Grabski, Polish economist and politician (died 1949)

• 1872 Samuel Cate Prescott, American microbiologist and chemist (died 1962)

• 1873 Joseph Rheden, Austrian astronomer (died 1946)

• 1874 Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal of the Catholic Church (died 1949)

• 1874 Manuel María Ponce Brousset, President of Peru (died 1966)

• 1878 Albert Champion, French cyclist (died 1927)

• 1878 Georg Misch, German philosopher (died 1965)

• 1878 Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (died 1964)

• 1879 Arthur Berriedale Keith, Scottish lawyer (died 1944)

• 1879 Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, German naval officer and author (died 1956)

• 1880 Eric Carlberg, Swedish Army officer, diplomat, shooter, fencer and modern pentathlete (died 1963)

• 1880 Vilhelm Carlberg, Swedish Army officer and shooter (died 1970)

• 1882 Song Jiaoren, Chinese revolutionary (died 1913)

• 1882 Natalia Sedova, 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky (died 1962)

• 1883 Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1950)

• 1884 Ion Inculeț, Bessarabian academic and politician, President of Moldova (died 1940)

• 1885 Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian composer (died 1978)

• 1886 Gotthelf Bergsträsser, German linguist (died 1933)

• 1886 Frederick Lindemann, British physicist (died 1957)

• 1886 Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (died 1933)

• 1887 William Cowhig, British gymnast (died 1964)

• 1889 Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, Brazilian martial artist (died 1981)

• 1890 Karl Kirk, Danish gymnast (died 1955)

• 1890 William Moore, British track and field athlete (died 1956)

• 1891 Arnold Jackson, English runner, soldier, and lawyer (died 1972)

• 1891 Laura Vicuña, Chilean nun (died 1904)

• 1892 Raymond Bonney, American ice hockey player (died 1964)

• 1893 Frithjof Andersen, Norwegian wrestler (died 1975)

• 1893 Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (died 1973)

• 1894 Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (died 1956)

• 1894 Hans Hüttig, German SS officer (died 1980)

• 1894 Carl Rudolf Florin, Swedish botanist (died 1965)

• 1895 Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (died 1957)

• 1896 Einar Lundborg, Swedish aviator (died 1931)

• 1897 Hans Schuberth, German politician (died 1976)

• 1898 Solange d'Ayen, French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (died 1976)

• 1899 Alfred Blalock, American surgeon and academic (died 1964)

• 1900 Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, and photographer (died 1985)

• 1900 Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (died 1939)

• 1900 Spencer Tracy, American actor (died 1967)

1901–present

• 1901 Curt Bois, German actor (died 1991)

• 1901 Chester Bowles, American diplomat and ambassador (died 1986)

• 1901 Melvyn Douglas, American actor (died 1981)

• 1901 Doggie Julian, American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach (died 1967)

• 1902 Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi (died 1994)

• 1903 Marion Aye, American actress (died 1951)

• 1904 Richard Eberhart, American poet and academic (died 2005)

• 1906 Albert Charles Smith, American botanist (died 1999)

• 1906 Fernando Germani, Italian organist (died 1998)

• 1906 Ted Morgan, New Zealand boxer (died 1952)

• 1907 Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai jurist (died 2002)

• 1908 Bette Davis, American actress (died 1989)

• 1908 Kurt Neumann, German director (died 1958)

• 1908 Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1986)

• 1908 Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (died 1989)

• 1909 Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer, co-founded Eon Productions (died 1996)

• 1909 Giacomo Gentilomo, Italian film director and painter (died 2001)

• 1909 Károly Sós, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 1991)

• 1909 Erwin Wegner, German hurdler (died 1945)

• 1910 Sven Andersson, Swedish politician (died 1987)

• 1910 Oronzo Pugliese, Italian football manager (died 1990)

• 1911 Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician (died 1993)

• 1911 Johnny Revolta, American golfer (died 1991)

• 1912 Jehan Buhan, French fencer (died 1999)

• 1912 Habib Elghanian, Iranian businessman (died 1979)

• 1912 Antonio Ferri, Italian scientist (died 1975)

• 1912 Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (died 2000)

• 1912 Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 1997)

• 1912 John Le Mesurier, English actor (died 1983)

• 1912 István Örkény, Hungarian author and playwright (died 1979)

• 1912 Bill Roberts, English sprinter and soldier (died 2001)

• 1913 Antoni Clavé, Catalan artist (died 2005)

• 1913 Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (died 1969)

• 1913 Ruth Smith, Faroese artist (died 1958)

• 1914 Felice Borel, Italian footballer (died 1993)

• 1916 Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer (died 2003)

• 1917 Robert Bloch, American author (died 1994)

• 1917 Frans Gommers, Belgian footballer (died 1996)

• 1919 Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan director, screenwriter, and producer (died 2018)

• 1920 Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)

• 1920 Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian soldier and author (died 2004)

• 1920 Alfonso Thiele, Turkish-Italian race car driver (died 1986)

• 1920 John Willem Gran, Swedish bishop (died 2008)

• 1921 Christopher Hewett, English actor and theatre director (died 2001)

• 1922 Tom Finney, English footballer (died 2014)

• 1922 Harry Freedman, Polish-Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (died 2005)

• 1922 Andy Linden, American race car driver (died 1987)

• 1922 Gale Storm, American actress and singer (died 2009)

• 1923 Ernest Mandel, German-born Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist (died 1995)

• 1923 Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (died 1995)

• 1923 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (died 2001)

• 1924 Igor Borisov, Soviet rower (died 2003)

• 1925 Janet Rowley, American human geneticist (died 2013)

• 1925 Pierre Nihant, Belgian cyclist (died 1993)

• 1926 Roger Corman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)

• 1926 Liang Yusheng, Chinese writer (died 2009)

• 1927 Thanin Kraivichien, Thai lawyer and politician, 14th prime minister of Thailand (died 2025)

• 1927 Arne Hoel, Norwegian ski jumper (died 2006)

• 1928 Enzo Cannavale, Italian actor (died 2011)

• 1928 Tony Williams, American singer (died 1992)

• 1929 Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and painter (died 2008)

• 1929 Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)

• 1929 Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (died 2001)

• 1929 Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (died 1967)

• 1929 Mahmoud Mollaghasemi, Iranian wrestler

• 1930 Mary Costa, American singer and actress

• 1930 Pierre Lhomme, French director of photography (died 2019)

• 1931 Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)

• 1931 Héctor Olivera, Argentine director, producer and screenwriter

• 1933 Feridun Buğeker, Turkish footballer (died 2014)

• 1933 Frank Gorshin, American actor (died 2005)

• 1933 Barbara Holland, American author (died 2010)

• 1933 K. Kailasapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and academic (died 1982)

• 1934 John Carey, English author and critic

• 1934 Roman Herzog, German lawyer and politician, 7th President of Germany (died 2017)

• 1934 Moise Safra, Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Banco Safra (died 2014)

• 1934 Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist and composer (died 2000)

• 1935 Giovanni Cianfriglia, Italian actor (died 2024)

• 1935 Peter Grant, English talent manager (died 1995)

• 1935 Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2018)

• 1935 Frank Schepke, German rower (died 2017)

• 1936 Ronnie Bucknum, American race car driver (died 1992)

• 1936 Glenn Jordan, American director and producer

• 1936 Dragoljub Minić, Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster (died 2005)

• 1937 Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and author (died 2024)

• 1937 Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State (died 2021)

• 1937 Andrzej Schinzel, Polish mathematician (died 2021)

• 1937 Arie Selinger, Israeli volleyball player and manager

• 1937 Juan Vicente Lezcano, Paraguayan footballer (died 2012)

• 1938 Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (died 2018)

• 1938 Mal Colston, Australian educator and politician (died 2003)

• 1938 Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (died 2014)

• 1938 Natalya Kustinskaya, Soviet actress (died 2012)

• 1938 Giorgos Sideris, Greek footballer

• 1939 Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania (died 2011)

• 1939 Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (died 2010)

• 1939 Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Prime Minister of Yemen

• 1939 Ronald White, American singer-songwriter (died 1995)

• 1939 David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer and producer (died 2019)

• 1940 Tommy Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)

• 1940 Gilles Proulx, Canadian journalist, historian, and radio host

• 1941 Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor

• 1941 Dave Swarbrick, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2016)

• 1942 Allan Clarke, English singer-songwriter

• 1942 Pascal Couchepin, Swiss politician

• 1942 Juan Gisbert Sr., Spanish tennis player

• 1942 Peter Greenaway, Welsh director and screenwriter

• 1943 Dean Brown, Australian politician, 41st Premier of South Australia

• 1943 Max Gail, American actor and director

• 1943 Fighting Harada, Japanese boxer

• 1943 Miet Smet, Belgian politician

• 1943 Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (died 2018)

• 1944 Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dutch actress and director

• 1944 János Martonyi, Hungarian politician

• 1944 Evan Parker, British musician

• 1944 Douangchay Phichit, Laotian politician (died 2014)

• 1944 Willy Planckaert, Belgian cyclist

• 1944 Pedro Rosselló, Puerto Rican physician and politician, 7th Governor of Puerto Rico

• 1944 Peter T. King, American soldier, lawyer, and politician

• 1945 Ove Bengtson, Swedish tennis player

• 1945 Steve Carver, American director and producer (died 2021)

• 1945 Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (died 2004)

• 1945 Tommy Smith, English footballer (died 2019)

• 1946 Jane Asher, English actress

• 1946 Julio Ángel Fernández, Uruguayan astronomer

• 1946 Björn Granath, Swedish actor (died 2017)

• 1946 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler

• 1947 Đurđica Bjedov, Yugoslav swimmer

• 1947 Willy Chirino, Cuban-American musician

• 1947 Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Filipino academic and politician, 14th President of the Philippines

• 1947 Ramón Mifflin, Peruvian footballer

• 1947 Virendra Sharma, Indian-English lawyer and politician

• 1948 Pierre-Albert Chapuisat, Swiss footballer

• 1948 Dave Holland, English drummer (died 2018)

• 1948 Roy McFarland, English footballer and manager

• 1949 Stanley Dziedzic, American wrestler

• 1949 Larry Franco, American film producer

• 1949 Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (died 1986)

• 1950 Ann C. Crispin, American writer (died 2013)

• 1950 Franklin Chang Díaz, Costa Rican-Chinese American astronaut and physicist

• 1950 Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer

• 1950 Toshiko Fujita, Japanese actress, singer and narrator (died 2018)

• 1950 Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor

• 1951 Les Binks, Irish drummer and songwriter

• 1951 Yevgeniy Gavrilenko, Belarusian hurdler

• 1951 Nedim Gürsel, Turkish writer

• 1951 Dean Kamen, American inventor and businessman, founded Segway Inc.

• 1951 Dave McArtney, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)

• 1951 Ubol Ratana, Thai Princess

• 1952 Alfie Conn, Scottish international footballer

• 1952 John C. Dvorak, American author and editor

• 1952 Sandy Mayer, American tennis player

• 1952 Dennis Mortimer, English footballer

• 1952 Mitch Pileggi, American actor

• 1953 Frank Gaffney, American journalist and radio host

• 1953 Keiko Han, Japanese actress

• 1953 Tae Jin-ah, South Korean singer

• 1953 Raleb Majadele, Israeli politician

• 1953 Ian Swales, English accountant and politician

• 1954 Guy Bertrand, Canadian linguist and radio host

• 1954 Peter Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1954 Mohamed Ben Mouza, Tunisian footballer

• 1954 Stan Ridgway, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1954 Yoshiichi Watanabe, Japanese footballer

• 1955 Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1955 Ricardo Ferrero, Argentine footballer (died 2015)

• 1955 Christian Gourcuff, French footballer and manager

• 1955 Anthony Horowitz, English author and screenwriter

• 1955 Bernard Longley, English prelate

• 1955 Akira Toriyama, Japanese illustrator (died 2024)

• 1955 Takayoshi Yamano, Japanese footballer

• 1956 Diamond Dallas Page, American wrestler and actor

• 1956 Leonid Fedun, Russian businessman

• 1956 Reid Ribble, American politician

• 1956 T. V. Smith, English singer-songwriter

• 1957 Sebastian Adayanthrath, Indian bishop

• 1957 Karin Roßley, German hurdler

• 1958 Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (died 2021)

• 1958 Henrik Dettmann, Finnish basketball coach

• 1958 Ryoichi Kawakatsu, Japanese footballer

• 1958 Johan Kriek, South African-American tennis player

• 1958 Daniel Schneidermann, French journalist

• 1958 Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan lawyer and journalist (died 2009)

• 1959 Paul Chung, Hong Kong actor and host (died 1989)

• 1960 Asteris Koutoulas, Romanian-German record producer, manager, and author

• 1960 Larry McCray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1960 Ian Redford, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2014)

• 1960 Hiromi Taniguchi, Japanese long-distance runner

• 1960 Adnan Terzić, Bosnian politician

• 1961 Andrea Arnold, English filmmaker and actress

• 1961 Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian soprano

• 1961 Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Bahraini-Danish human rights activist

• 1961 Lisa Zane, American actress and singer

• 1962 Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (died 2003)

• 1962 Sara Danius, Swedish scholar of literature and aesthetics (died 2019)

• 1962 Richard Gough, Swedish born Scottish international footballer

• 1962 Arild Monsen, Norwegian cross-country skier

• 1962 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Russian businessman and politician, 1st President of Kalmykia

• 1963 Arthur Adams, American comic book artist and writer

• 1964 Neil Eckersley, British judoka

• 1964 Vakhtang Iagorashvili, Soviet modern pentathlete

• 1964 Levon Julfalakyan, Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler

• 1964 Marius Lăcătuș, Romanian footballer and coach

• 1965 Aykut Kocaman, Turkish footballer and manager

• 1965 Lang Tzu-yun, Taiwanese actress

• 1965 Elizabeth McIntyre, American freestyle skier

• 1965 Svetlana Paramygina, Belarusian biathlete

• 1966 Yoon Hyun, South Korean judoka

• 1966 Mike McCready, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1966 Peter Overton, English-Australian journalist and television host

• 1967 Troy Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)

• 1967 Franck Silvestre, French footballer

• 1967 Erland Johnsen, Norwegian footballer

• 1967 Laima Zilporytė, Soviet cyclist

• 1968 Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter and pianist

• 1969 Dinos Angelidis, Greek basketball player

• 1969 Viatcheslav Djavanian, Russian cyclist

• 1969 Pontus Kåmark, Swedish footballer

• 1969 Pavlo Khnykin, Ukrainian swimmer

• 1969 Tomislav Piplica, Bosnian footballer and manager

• 1969 Ravindra Prabhat, Indian writer and journalist

• 1970 Soheil Ayari, French race car driver

• 1970 Valérie Bonneton, French actress

• 1970 Diamond D, American hip hop producer

• 1970 Petar Genov, Bulgarian chess grandmaster

• 1970 Thea Gill, Canadian actress

• 1970 Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter

• 1970 Irina Timofeyeva, Russian long-distance runner

• 1971 Dong Abay, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1971 Krista Allen, American actress

• 1971 Austin Berry, Costa Rican footballer

• 1971 Simona Cavallari, Italian actress

• 1971 Victoria Hamilton, English actress

• 1971 Nelson Parraguez, Chilean footballer

• 1971 Kim Soo-nyung, South Korean archer

• 1972 Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-Canadian theoretical physicist

• 1972 Tom Coronel, Dutch race car driver

• 1972 Paul Okon, Australian footballer and manager

• 1972 Duncan Spencer, English cricketer

• 1972 Yasuhiro Takemoto, Japanese animator and director (died 2019)

• 1972 Junko Takeuchi, Japanese actress

• 1973 Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress

• 1973 Brendan Cannon, Australian rugby player

• 1973 Lidia Trettel, Italian snowboarder

• 1973 Pharrell Williams, American singer, songwriter and rapper

• 1974 Sandra Bagarić, Croatian opera singer and actress

• 1974 Julien Boutter, French tennis player

• 1974 Katja Holanti, Finnish biathlete

• 1974 Oleg Khodkov, Russian handball player

• 1974 Ariel López, Argentine footballer

• 1974 Lukas Ridgeston, Slovak actor and director

• 1974 Vyacheslav Voronin, Russian high jumper

• 1975 Sarah Baldock, English organist and conductor

• 1975 John Hartson, Welsh footballer and coach

• 1975 Juicy J, American rapper and producer

• 1975 Serhiy Klymentiev, Ukrainian ice hockey player

• 1975 Caitlin Moran, English journalist, author, and critic

• 1975 Marcos Vales, Spanish footballer

• 1975 Shammond Williams, American basketball player and coach

• 1976 Luis de Agustini, Uruguayan footballer

• 1976 Péter Biros, Hungarian water polo player

• 1976 Sterling K. Brown, American actor

• 1976 Aleksei Budõlin, Estonian judoka

• 1976 Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer

• 1976 Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer and coach

• 1976 Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer

• 1976 Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer

• 1976 Valeria Straneo, Italian long-distance runner

• 1976 Indrek Tobreluts, Estonian biathlete

• 1976 Anouska van der Zee, Dutch cyclist

• 1977 Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player

• 1977 Trevor Letowski, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1977 Daniel Majstorović, Swedish footballer

• 1978 Dwain Chambers, British track sprinter

• 1978 Marcone Amaral Costa, Qatari footballer

• 1978 Tarek El-Said, Egyptian footballer

• 1978 Jairo Patiño, Colombian footballer

• 1978 Sohyang, South Korean singer

• 1978 Stephen Jackson, American basketball player

• 1978 Arnaud Tournant, French cyclist

• 1978 Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer

• 1978 Günther Weidlinger, Austrian long-distance runner

• 1979 Vlada Avramov, Serbian footballer

• 1979 Josh Boone, American screenwriter and director

• 1979 Song Dae-nam, South Korean judoka

• 1979 Timo Hildebrand, German footballer

• 1979 Imany, French singer

• 1979 Barel Mouko, Congolese footballer

• 1979 Cesare Natali, Italian footballer

• 1979 Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer

• 1979 Alexander Resch, German luger

• 1979 Andrius Velička, Lithuanian footballer

• 1979 Dante Wesley, American football player

• 1979 Chen Yanqing, Chinese weightlifter

• 1980 Matt Bonner, American basketball player

• 1980 Alberta Brianti, Italian tennis player

• 1980 Rafael Cavalcante, Brazilian mixed martial artist

• 1980 David Chocarro, Argentinian baseball player and actor

• 1980 Mike Glumac, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1980 Mario Kasun, Croatian basketball player

• 1980 Lee Jae-won, South Korean DJ and singer

• 1980 Joris Mathijsen, Dutch footballer

• 1980 Rasmus Quist Hansen, Danish rower

• 1980 Odlanier Solís, Cuban boxer

• 1981 Matthew Emmons, American rifle shooter

• 1981 Michael A. Monsoor, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2006)

• 1981 Mariqueen Maandig, Filipino-American musician and singer-songwriter

• 1981 Daba Modibo Keïta, Malian taekwondo athlete

• 1981 Marissa Nadler, American musician

• 1981 Tom Riley, English actor and producer

• 1981 Mompati Thuma, Botswana footballer

• 1981 Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist

• 1982 Hayley Atwell, English-American actress

• 1982 Matheus Coradini Vivian, Brazilian footballer

• 1982 Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer

• 1982 Kelly Pavlik, American boxer

• 1982 Matt Pickens, American soccer player

• 1982 Alexandre Prémat, French race car driver

• 1982 Danylo Sapunov, Ukrainian-Kazakhstani triathlete

• 1982 Hubert Schwab, Swiss cyclist

• 1982 Marcel Seip, Dutch former footballer

• 1983 Jaime Castrillón, Colombian footballer

• 1983 Jorge Andrés Martínez, Uruguayan footballer

• 1983 Brock Radunske, Canadian-South Korean ice hockey player

• 1983 Yohann Sangaré, French basketball player

• 1983 Cécile Storti, French cross-country skier

• 1983 Shikha Uberoi, Indian-American tennis player

• 1984 Marshall Allman, American actor

• 1984 Aram Mp3, Armenian singer and comedian

• 1984 Rune Brattsveen, Norwegian biathlete

• 1984 Alexei Glukhov, Russian ice hockey player

• 1984 Maartje Goderie, Dutch field hockey player

• 1984 Darija Jurak, Croatian tennis player

• 1984 Dejan Kelhar, Slovenian footballer

• 1984 Dmitry Kozonchuk, Russian cyclist

• 1984 Shin Min-a, South Korean actress

• 1984 Jess Sum, Hong Kong actress

• 1984 Peter Penz, Austrian luger

• 1984 Samuele Preisig, Swiss footballer

• 1984 Cristian Săpunaru, Romanian footballer

• 1984 Fabio Vitaioli, San Marinese footballer

• 1984 Kisho Yano, Japanese footballer

• 1984 Saba Qamar, Pakistani actress-model

• 1985 Daniel Congré, French footballer

• 1985 Erwin l'Ami, Dutch chess player

• 1985 Jolanda Keizer, Dutch heptathlete

• 1985 Sergey Khachatryan, Armenian violinist

• 1985 Linas Pilibaitis, Lithuanian footballer

• 1985 Jan Smeets, Dutch chess grandmaster

• 1985 Kristof Vandewalle, Belgian cyclist

• 1986 Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress

• 1986 Anzor Boltukayev, Chechen wrestler

• 1986 Diego Chará, Colombian footballer

• 1986 Charlotte Flair, American wrestler, author and actress

• 1986 Róbert Kasza, Hungarian Modern pentathlete

• 1986 Eetu Muinonen, Finnish footballer

• 1986 Manuel Ruz, Spanish footballer

• 1986 Albert Selimov, Azerbaijani boxer

• 1987 Max Grün, German footballer

• 1987 Balázs Hárai, Hungarian water polo player

• 1987 Anton Kokorin, Russian sprint athlete

• 1987 Fyodor Kudryashov, Russian footballer

• 1987 Etiënne Reijnen, Dutch footballer

• 1988 Gerson Acevedo, Chilean footballer

• 1988 Teresa Almeida, Angolan handball player

• 1988 Quade Cooper, New Zealand-Australian rugby player and boxer

• 1988 Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby union player

• 1988 Gevorg Ghazaryan, Armenian footballer

• 1988 Alisha Glass, American ex-indoor volleyball player

• 1988 Vurğun Hüseynov, Azerbaijani footballer

• 1988 Matthias Jaissle, German footballer and manager

• 1988 Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier

• 1988 Zack Smith, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1988 Pape Sy, French basketball player

• 1988 Alexey Volkov, Russian biathlete

• 1989 Kader Amadou, Nigerien footballer

• 1989 Yémi Apithy, Beninese fencer

• 1989 Liemarvin Bonevacia, Dutch sprinter

• 1989 Freddie Fox, English actor

• 1989 Emre Güral, Turkish footballer

• 1989 Justin Holiday, American basketball player

• 1989 Rachel Homan, Canadian curler

• 1989 Lily James, English actress

• 1989 Trevor Marsicano, American speed skater

• 1989 Jonathan Rossini, Swiss footballer

• 1989 Kiki Sukezane, Japanese actress

• 1989 Sohsuke Takatani, Japanese wrestler

• 1990 Amer Said Al-Shatri, Omani footballer

• 1990 Alex Cuthbert, Welsh rugby player

• 1990 Patrick Dangerfield, Australian footballer

• 1990 Fredy Hinestroza, Colombian footballer

• 1990 Chen Huijia, Chinese swimmer

• 1990 Haruma Miura, Japanese actor and singer (died 2020)

• 1990 Ismaeel Mohammad, Qatari footballer

• 1990 Iryna Pamialova, Belarusian canoeist

• 1990 Jakub Sedláček, Czech ice hockey player

• 1990 Sercan Yıldırım, Turkish footballer

• 1990 Género Zeefuik, Dutch footballer

• 1991 Yassine Bounou, Moroccan footballer

• 1991 Nathaniel Clyne, English footballer

• 1991 Adriano Grimaldi, Italian-German footballer

• 1991 Joël Mall, Swiss footballer

• 1991 Guilherme dos Santos Torres, Brazilian footballer

• 1992 Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

• 1992 Shintaro Kurumaya, Japanese footballer

• 1992 Kaveh Rezaei, Iranian footballer

• 1992 Dmytro Ryzhuk, Ukrainian footballer

• 1993 Andreas Bouchalakis, Greek footballer

• 1993 Maya DiRado, American swimmer

• 1993 Laura Feiersinger, Austrian footballer

• 1993 Benjamin Garcia, French rugby league player

• 1993 Scottie Wilbekin, American-Turkish basketball player

• 1994 Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player

• 1994 Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer

• 1994 Richard Sánchez, Mexican footballer

• 1995 Daniel Caesar, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1995 Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player

• 1995 Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer

• 1995 Gleb Rassadkin, Belarusian footballer

• 1995 Sebastian Starke Hedlund, Swedish footballer

• 1996 Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver

• 1996 Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer

• 1997 Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer

• 1997 Dominik Mysterio, American wrestler

• 1998 Nathan Broadhead, Welsh football player

• 1999 Bobby Miller, American baseball player

• 2001 Johnny Beecher, American ice hockey player

• 2001 Felipe Peña, Argentine footballer

• 2003 Tetairoa McMillan, American football player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 517 Timothy I of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch

• 582 Eutychius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch

• 584 Ruadán of Lorrha, Irish abbot

• 902 Al-Mu'tadid, Abbasid caliph

• 1168 Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (born 1104)

• 1183 Ramon Berenguer III, Spanish count of Cerdanya and Provence

• 1205 Isabella I of Jerusalem, queen regnant of Jerusalem (born 1172)

• 1258 Juliana of Liège, Belgian canoness and saint

• 1308 Ivan Kőszegi, Hungarian baron and oligarch

• 1325 Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron of Monthermer and Earl of Gloucester (born c. 1270)

• 1419 Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (born 1350)

• 1431 Bernard I, margrave of Baden-Baden (born 1364)

• 1512 Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter (born 1429)

• 1534 Jan Matthys, Dutch anabaptist reformer

• 1594 Catherine of Palma, Spanish nun (born 1533)

1601–1900

• 1605 John Stow, English historian and antiquary (born 1524/25)

• 1612 Diana Scultori, Italian engraver (born 1547)

• 1617 Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (born 1555)

• 1626 Anna Koltovskaya, Russian tsarina

• 1673 François Caron, Belgian-French explorer and politician, 8th Governor of Formosa (born 1600)

• 1679 Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess (born 1619)

• 1684 William Brouncker, English mathematician (born 1620)

• 1684 Karl Eusebius, prince of Liechtenstein (born 1611)

• 1693 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, French noblewoman (born 1627)

• 1693 Philip William August, German nobleman (born 1668)

• 1695 George Savile, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1633)

• 1697 Charles XI, king of Sweden (born 1655)

• 1704 Christian Ulrich I, German nobleman and Duke of Württemberg-Oels (born 1652)

• 1708 Christian Heinrich, German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern (born 1661)

• 1709 Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635)

• 1712 Jan Luyken, Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver (born 1649)

• 1717 Jean Jouvenet, French painter (born 1647)

• 1723 Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect, sculptor and historian (born 1656)

• 1735 William Derham, English minister and philosopher (born 1657)

• 1751 Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (born 1676)

• 1765 Edward Young, English poet and author (born 1683)

• 1767 Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (born 1685)

• 1768 Egidio Forcellini, Italian philologist (born 1688)

• 1769 Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jesuit priest (born 1713)

• 1794 Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (born 1759)

• 1794 François Chabot, French politician (born 1756)

• 1794 Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1760)

• 1794 Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, dramatist, poet and politician (born 1750)

• 1794 Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French judge and politician (born 1759)

• 1794 Pierre Philippeaux, French lawyer (born 1754)

• 1794 François Joseph Westermann, French general (born 1751)

• 1799 Johann Christoph Gatterer, German historian (born 1727)

• 1804 Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (born 1761)

• 1808 Johann Georg Wille, German engraver (born 1715)

• 1830 Richard Chenevix, Irish chemist and playwright (born 1774)

• 1831 Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, Belgian entomologist (born 1797)

• 1842 Shah Shuja Durrani, 5th Emir of Afghanistan (born 1785)

• 1852 Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, (born 1800)

• 1861 Ferdinand Joachimsthal, German mathematician (born 1818)

• 1862 Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch artist (born 1803)

• 1865 Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (born 1806)

• 1866 Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (born 1798)

• 1868 Karel Purkyně, Czech painter (born 1834)

• 1871 Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (born 1798)

• 1872 Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (born 1812)

• 1873 Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (born 1824)

• 1882 Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (born 1806)

• 1888 Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (born 1855)

• 1891 Johann Hermann Bauer, Austrian chess master (born 1861)

• 1900 Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (born 1822)

• 1900 Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (born 1832)

1901–present

• 1901 Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (born 1820)

• 1902 Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (born 1850)

• 1904 Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (born 1830)

• 1904 Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (born 1822)

• 1906 Eastman Johnson, American painter (born 1824)

• 1914 Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (born 1836)

• 1916 Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (born 1851)

• 1918 George Tupou II, King of Tonga (born 1874)

• 1918 Paul Vidal de La Blache, French geographer (born 1845)

• 1920 Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (born 1848)

• 1921 Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (born 1862)

• 1921 Sophie Elkan, Swedish writer and translator (born 1853)

• 1923 George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (born 1866)

• 1924 Victor Hensen, German zoologist (born 1835)

• 1928 Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (born 1890)

• 1928 Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (born 1861)

• 1929 Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (born 1846)

• 1929 Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (born 1846)

• 1932 María Blanchard, Spanish painter (born 1881)

• 1933 Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (born 1884)

• 1933 Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and functional theorist (born 1854)

• 1934 Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (born 1860)

• 1934 Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player (born 1908)

• 1935 Achille Locatelli, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1856)

• 1935 Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (born 1870)

• 1935 Franz von Vecsey, Hungarian violinist and composer (born 1893)

• 1936 Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (born 1884)

• 1937 Gustav Adolf Deissmann, (born 1866)

• 1937 José Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (born 1858)

• 1938 Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (born 1857)

• 1938 Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (born 1890)

• 1940 Charles Freer Andrews, English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (born 1871)

• 1940 Robert Maillart, Swiss civil engineer (born 1872)

• 1940 Jay O'Brien, American bobsledder (born 1883)

• 1940 Song Zheyuan, Chinese general (born 1885)

• 1941 Parvin E'tesami, Persian poet (born 1907)

• 1941 Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (born 1876)

• 1941 Franciszek Kleeberg, Polish general (born 1888)

• 1945 Heinrich Borgmann, German officer (born 1912)

• 1945 Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (born 1897)

• 1946 Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (born 1898)

• 1947 Bernhard Pankok, German painter, artist and architect (born 1872)

• 1947 Elis Strömgren, Swedish-Danish astronomer (born 1870)

• 1948 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (born 1874)

• 1949 Erich Zeigner, Prime Minister of Saxony (born 1886)

• 1950 Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter (born 1876)

• 1952 Agnes Morton, British tennis player (born 1872)

• 1954 Princess Märtha of Sweden, (born 1901)

• 1954 Claude Delvincourt, French pianist and composer (born 1888)

• 1955 Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (born 1918)

• 1956 William Titt, British gymnast (born 1881)

• 1958 Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (born 1884)

• 1958 Ásgrímur Jónsson, Icelandic painter (born 1876)

• 1958 Isidora Sekulić, Serbian writer (born 1877)

• 1961 Nikolai Kryukov, Russian composer (born 1908)

• 1962 Boo Kullberg, Swedish gymnast (born 1889)

• 1963 Jacobus Oud, Dutch architect (born 1890)

• 1964 James Chapin, American ornithologist (born 1889)

• 1964 Aloïse Corbaz, Swiss artist (born 1886)

• 1964 Douglas MacArthur, American general (born 1880)

• 1965 Pedro Sernagiotto, Italian-Brazilian footballer (born 1908)

• 1965 Sándor Szalay, Hungarian figure skater (born 1893)

• 1967 Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (born 1891)

• 1967 Johan Falkberget, Norwegian author (born 1879)

• 1967 Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)

• 1967 Herbert Johnston, British runner (born 1902)

• 1968 Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (born 1900)

• 1968 Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer (born 1932)

• 1968 Giuseppe Paris, Italian gymnast (born 1895)

• 1969 Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (born 1918)

• 1969 Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician (born 1917)

• 1969 Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian SS officer (born 1903)

• 1970 Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (born 1877)

• 1970 Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (born 1891)

• 1970 Karl von Spreti, German diplomat (born 1907)

• 1971 José Cubiles, Spanish pianist and conductor (born 1894)

• 1972 Isabel Jewell, American actress and singer (born 1907)

• 1973 David Murray, British race car driver (born 1909)

• 1973 Alla Tarasova, Russian ballerina (born 1898)

• 1974 Bino Bini, Italian fencer (born 1900)

• 1974 A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (born 1882)

• 1975 Tell Berna, American middle and long-distance runner (born 1891)

• 1975 Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician (born 1917)

• 1975 Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1887)

• 1975 Harold Osborn, American track and fielder (born 1899)

• 1976 Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (born 1905)

• 1976 Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (born 1891)

• 1976 Harry Wyld, British cyclist (born 1900)

• 1977 Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (born 1903)

• 1977 Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (born 1894)

• 1981 Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (born 1892)

• 1981 Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (born 1945)

• 1981 Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (born 1890)

• 1982 Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (born 1910)

• 1983 Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari, Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer. (born 1907)

• 1984 Hans Lunding, Danish military officer (born 1899)

• 1984 Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (born 1894)

• 1986 Manly Wade Wellman, American writer (born 1903)

• 1987 Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (born 1914)

• 1988 Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (born 1920)

• 1989 Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (born 1895)

• 1989 Karel Zeman, Czech director, artist, production designer and animator (born 1910)

• 1991 Sonny Carter, American soccer player, physician, and astronaut (born 1947)

• 1991 Jay Miller, American basketball player (born 1943)

• 1991 Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist, writer and screenwriter (born 1915)

• 1991 William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (born 1909)

• 1991 John Tower, American soldier, academic, and politician (born 1925)

• 1992 Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (born 1928)

• 1992 Molly Picon, American actress (born 1898)

• 1992 Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (born 1918)

• 1993 Divya Bharti, Indian actress (born 1974)

• 1994 Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1967)

• 1995 Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch chess player (born 1915)

• 1995 Emilio Greco, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1913)

• 1995 Christian Pineau, French Resistance fighter (born 1904)

• 1996 Charlene Holt, American actress (born 1928)

• 1997 Allen Ginsberg, American poet (born 1926)

• 1998 Charles Frank, British theoretical physicist (born 1911)

• 1998 Cozy Powell, English drummer (born 1947)

• 1999 Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (born 1912)

• 2000 Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (born 1909)

• 2000 Lee Petty, American race car driver (born 1914)

• 2001 Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (born 1910)

• 2002 Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (born 1967)

• 2002 Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (born 1917)

• 2003 Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (born 1944)

• 2004 Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (born 1938)

• 2004 Sławomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (born 1915)

• 2004 Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (born 1936)

• 2005 Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)

• 2005 Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (born 1913)

• 2005 Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (born 1917)

• 2006 Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (born 1927)

• 2006 Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

• 2006 Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (born 1958)

• 2006 Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (born 1923)

• 2007 Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (born 1923)

• 2007 Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (born 1908)

• 2007 Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (born 1922)

• 2007 Mark St. John, American guitarist (born 1956)

• 2007 Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (born 1912)

• 2008 Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (born 1923)

• 2009 I. J. Good, British mathematician (born 1916)

• 2010 Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (born 1935)

• 2011 Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)

• 2011 Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician (born 1937)

• 2012 Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German designer (born 1935)

• 2012 Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, Dominican Republican politician military officer (born 1921)

• 2012 Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (born 1923)

• 2012 Barney McKenna, Irish musician (born 1939)

• 2012 Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawian economist and politician, 3rd President of Malawi (born 1934)

• 2013 Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (born 1921)

• 2013 Piero de Palma, Italian tenor and actor (born 1924)

• 2013 Nikolaos Pappas, Greek Navy admiral (born 1930)

• 2014 Alan Davie, Scottish saxophonist and painter (born 1920)

• 2014 Mariano Díaz, Spanish cyclist (born 1939)

• 2014 Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (born 1927)

• 2014 John Pinette, American comedian (born 1964)

• 2014 José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director, and producer (born 1947)

• 2015 Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (born 1949)

• 2015 Juan Carlos Cáceres, Argentinian singer and pianist (born 1936)

• 2016 Koço Kasapoğlu, Turkish footballer (born 1936)

• 2017 Attilio Benfatto, Italian cyclist (born 1943)

• 2017 Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (born 1929)

• 2017 Paul G. Comba, Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer (born 1926)

• 2017 Makoto Ōoka, Japanese poet and literary critic (born 1931)

• 2017 Paul O'Neill, American rock composer and producer (born 1956)

• 2017 Tim Parnell, British race car driver (born 1932)

• 2017 Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (born 1947)

• 2017 Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (born 1942)

• 2017 Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (born 1958)

• 2018 Isao Takahata, Japanese director (born 1935)

• 2019 Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

• 2019 Wowaka, Japanese musician (born 1987)

• 2021 Paul Ritter, English actor (born 1966)

• 2022 Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (born 1919)

• 2022 Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwanese actor (born 1943)

• 2024 C. J. Snare, American musician and songwriter (born 1959)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Agape, Chionia, and Irene

• Albert of Montecorvino

• Catherine of Palma

• Derfel Gadarn

• Æthelburh of Kent

• Gerald of Sauve-Majeure

• Juliana of Liège

• Maria Crescentia Höss

• Blessed Mariano de la Mata

• Pandita Mary Ramabai (Episcopal Church (USA))

• Ruadhán of Lorrha

• Vincent Ferrer

• April 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Cold Food Festival, held on April 4 if it is a leap year (China); and its related observances:

• Earliest day on which Sham el-Nessim can fall, while May 9 is the latest; celebrated on Monday after the Orthodox Easter (Egypt)

• Children's Day (Palestinian territories)

• First Contact Day (International observance)

• Sikmogil (South Korea)

• National Maritime Day is observed in India, in commemoration of the first voyage of SS Loyalty of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. in 1919.

• International Day of Conscience

Other

• April the Fifth (1929–1954), British Thoroughbred racehorse

• (ends 5 April)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on April 5