Events

Pre-1600

• 686 Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.

• 956 Polyeuctus of Constantinople is elected as patriarch of Constantinople.

• 1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

• 1077 The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.

• 1559 The second of two treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars.

• 1589 The janissaries revolt in response to the debasement of coins.

1601–1900

• 1721 Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title.

• 1851 Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.

• 1860 The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.

• 1865 American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.

• 1882 American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.

• 1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.

• 1888 Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.

• 1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

1901–present

• 1905 Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina

• 1920 Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland.

• 1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

• 1933 First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.

• 1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

• 1942 World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.

• 1946 Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

• 1948 Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5billion in aid for 16 countries.

• 1948 In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins.

• 1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

• 1956 Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.

• 1961 LAN-Chile Flight 621 crashes in the Andes mountains, killing 21 people, including Argentinian football player Eliseo Mouriño.

• 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day.

• 1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.

• 1973 Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

• 1974 The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.

• 1975 Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.

• 1975 Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

• 1980 US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.

• 1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

• 1989 The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.

• 1993 The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time.

• 1996 Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.

• 1996 A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.

• 1997 The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

• 2000 United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

• 2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

• 2007 Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record of 574.8km/h (159.6m/s, 357.2mph).

• 2008 ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.

• 2008 Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.

• 2009 Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.

• 2010 Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.

• 2013 More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• 2016 The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.

• 2017 A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.

• 2018 YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1016 Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (died 1055)

• 1151 Igor Svyatoslavich, Kievan Rus' prince (died 1202)

• 1395 George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher, scholar and humanist (died 1486)

• 1438 John III of Egmont, Dutch nobleman (died 1516)

• 1529 Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1581)

• 1540 Maria de' Medici, Italian noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo. (died 1557)

• 1593 George Herbert, English poet (died 1633)

1601–1900

• 1643 Charles V, duke of Lorraine (died 1690)

• 1682 Valentin Rathgeber, German organist and composer (died 1750)

• 1693 George Edwards, English ornithologist and entomologist (died 1773)

• 1715 William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (died 1787)

• 1764 John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (died 1831)

• 1769 Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (died 1835)

• 1770 Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (died 1843)

• 1778 Pierre Bretonneau, French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy (died 1862)

• 1781 Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (died 1830)

• 1782 Alexander Macomb, American general (died 1841)

• 1783 Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian (died 1859)

• 1791 Anne Lister, English diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (died 1840)

• 1798 Charles Wilkes, American admiral, geographer, and explorer (died 1877)

• 1807 Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (died 1877)

• 1814 Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1901)

• 1822 Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (died 1909)

• 1823 George Derby, American lieutenant and journalist (died 1861)

• 1823 William M. Tweed, American politician (died 1878)

• 1826 Cyrus K. Holliday, American businessman (died 1900)

• 1837 John Burroughs, American botanist and author (died 1921)

• 1842 Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (died 1864)

• 1848 Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and captain (died 1879)

• 1852 Talbot Baines Reed, English author (died 1893)

• 1858 Jacob Gaudaur, Canadian rower (died 1937)

• 1860 Frederik van Eeden, Dutch psychiatrist and author (died 1932)

• 1864 Emil Kellenberger, Swiss target shooter (died 1943)

• 1875 Mistinguett, French actress and singer (died 1956)

• 1876 Margaret Anglin, Canadian actress, director, and producer (died 1958)

• 1876 Tomáš Baťa, Czech businessman, founded Bata Shoes (died 1932)

• 1880 Otto Weininger, Jewish-Austrian philosopher and author (died 1903)

• 1881 Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1954)

• 1882 Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (died 1952)

• 1883 Ikki Kita, Japanese philosopher and author (died 1937)

• 1885 Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1981)

• 1885 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (died 1954)

• 1885 Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (died 1944)

• 1885 St John Philby, English colonial and explorer (died 1960)

• 1886 Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (died 1953)

• 1887 Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (died 1956)

• 1887 Nishizō Tsukahara, Japanese admiral (died 1966)

• 1888 Thomas C. Kinkaid, American admiral (died 1972)

• 1889 Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (died 1949)

• 1893 Leslie Howard, English actor (died 1943)

• 1895 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American composer and educator (died 1968)

• 1895 Zez Confrey, American pianist and composer (died 1971)

• 1897 Joe Kirkwood Sr., Australian golfer (died 1970)

• 1897 Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general (died 1989)

• 1898 David Jack, English footballer and manager (died 1958)

• 1898 George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (died 1981)

• 1898 Henry Luce, American publisher, co-founded Time magazine (died 1967)

• 1900 Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (died 1987)

• 1900 Albert Walsh, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (died 1958)

1901–present

• 1903 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian social reformer and freedom fighter (died 1988)

• 1904 Iron Eyes Cody, American actor and stuntman (died 1999)

• 1904 Sally Rand, American dancer (died 1979)

• 1904 Russel Wright, American furniture designer (died 1976)

• 1905 Robert Sink, American general (died 1965)

• 1910 Ted Hook, Australian public servant (died 1990)

• 1911 Nanette Bordeaux, Canadian-American actress (died 1956)

• 1911 Michael Woodruff, English-Scottish surgeon and academic (died 2001)

• 1911 Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (died 1980)

• 1912 Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author (died 1982)

• 1912 Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (died 1963)

• 1913 Per Borten, Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (died 2005)

• 1914 Ray Getliffe, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2008)

• 1914 Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (died 2008)

• 1915 Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2016)

• 1915 İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish physician and academic (died 2010)

• 1916 Herb Caen, American journalist and author (died 1997)

• 1916 Cliff Gladwin, English cricketer (died 1988)

• 1916 Louis Guglielmi, Catalan composer (died 1991)

• 1918 Mary Anderson, American actress (died 2014)

• 1918 Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (died 2000)

• 1919 Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (died 2015)

• 1919 Clairette Oddera, French-Canadian actress and singer (died 2008)

• 1920 Stan Freeman, American composer and conductor (died 2001)

• 1920 Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (died 1977)

• 1921 Robert Karvelas, American actor (died 1991)

• 1921 Jan Sterling, American actress (died 2004)

• 1922 Yevhen Bulanchyk, Ukrainian hurdler (died 1996)

• 1922 Doris Day, American singer and actress (died 2019)

• 1923 Daniel Hoffman, American poet and academic (died 2013)

• 1924 Marlon Brando, American actor and director (died 2004)

• 1924 Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant and sniper (died 1945)

• 1925 Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Secretary of State for Industry (died 2014)

• 1926 Alex Grammas, American baseball player, manager, and coach (died 2019)

• 1926 Gus Grissom, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1967)

• 1927 Wesley A. Brown, American general and engineer (died 2012)

• 1928 Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)

• 1928 Emmett Johns, Canadian priest, founded Dans la Rue (died 2018)

• 1928 Earl Lloyd, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)

• 1928 Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television personality (died 1999)

• 1929 Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center (died 1982)

• 1929 Poul Schlüter, Danish lawyer and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Denmark (died 2021)

• 1930 Lawton Chiles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Governor of Florida (died 1998)

• 1930 Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 2017)

• 1930 Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and politician (died 2015)

• 1930 Wally Moon, American baseball player and coach (died 2018)

• 1931 William Bast, American screenwriter and author (died 2015)

• 1933 Bob Dornan, American politician

• 1933 Rod Funseth, American golfer (died 1985)

• 1934 Pamela Allen, New Zealand children's writer and illustrator

• 1934 Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist (died 2025)

• 1934 Jim Parker, American football player (died 2005)

• 1935 Harold Kushner, American rabbi and author (died 2023)

• 1936 Jimmy McGriff, American organist and bandleader (died 2008)

• 1936 Harold Vick, American saxophonist and flute player (died 1987)

• 1938 Jeff Barry, American singer-songwriter, and producer

• 1938 Phil Rodgers, American golfer (died 2018)

• 1939 François de Roubaix, French composer (died 1975)

• 1939 Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (died 2012)

• 1939 Paul Craig Roberts, American economist and politician

• 1941 Jan Berry, American singer-songwriter (died 2004)

• 1941 Philippé Wynne, American soul singer (died 1984)

• 1942 Marsha Mason, American actress

• 1942 Wayne Newton, American singer

• 1942 Billy Joe Royal, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)

• 1943 Mario Lavista, Mexican composer (died 2021)

• 1943 Jonathan Lynn, English actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1943 Richard Manuel, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1986)

• 1943 Hikaru Saeki, Japanese admiral, the first female star officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces

• 1944 Peter Colman, Australian biologist and academic

• 1944 Tony Orlando, American singer

• 1945 Doon Arbus, American author and journalist

• 1945 Bernie Parent, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2025)

• 1945 Catherine Spaak, French actress (died 2022)

• 1946 Nicholas Jones, English actor

• 1946 Dee Murray, English bass player (died 1992)

• 1946 Marisa Paredes, Spanish film actress (died 2024)

• 1946 Hanna Suchocka, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland

• 1947 Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (died 2013)

• 1948 Arlette Cousture, Canadian author and screenwriter

• 1948 Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch academic, politician, and diplomat, 11th Secretary General of NATO

• 1948 Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, German footballer

• 1948 Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico

• 1949 Lyle Alzado, American football player and actor (died 1992)

• 1949 A. C. Grayling, English philosopher and academic

• 1949 Richard Thompson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1950 Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Sri Lankan cricketer and economist

• 1951 Brendan Barber, English trade union leader

• 1951 Annette Dolphin, British academician and educator

• 1951 Mitch Woods, American singer-songwriter and pianist

• 1952 Mike Moore, American lawyer and politician

• 1953 Sandra Boynton, American author and illustrator

• 1953 Wakanohana Kanji II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 56th Yokozuna (died 2022)

• 1953 James Smith, American boxer

• 1954 Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer

• 1954 K. Krishnasamy, Indian physician and politician

• 1956 Kalle Kulbok, Estonian politician

• 1956 Boris Miljković, Serbian director and producer

• 1956 Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor

• 1956 Ray Combs, American game show host (died 1996)

• 1958 Alec Baldwin, American actor, comedian, producer and television host

• 1958 Adam Gussow, American scholar, musician, and memoirist

• 1958 Francesca Woodman, American photographer (died 1981)

• 1959 David Hyde Pierce, American actor and activist

• 1960 Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1961 Tim Crews, American baseball player (died 1993)

• 1961 Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian

• 1962 Dave Miley, American baseball player and manager

• 1962 Mike Ness, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1962 Jaya Prada, Indian actress and politician

• 1963 Les Davidson, Australian rugby league player

• 1963 Ricky Nixon, Australian footballer and manager

• 1963 Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1993)

• 1964 Marco Ballotta, Italian footballer and manager

• 1964 Nigel Farage, English politician

• 1964 Claire Perry, English banker and politician

• 1964 Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist and manager

• 1964 Andy Robinson, English rugby player and coach

• 1964 Jay Weatherill, Australian politician, 45th Premier of South Australia

• 1965 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist (died 2000)

• 1966 John de Vries, Australian race car driver

• 1967 Cat Cora, American chef and author

• 1967 Pervis Ellison, American basketball player

• 1967 Brent Gilchrist, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1967 Cristi Puiu, Romanian director and screenwriter

• 1967 Mark Skaife, Australian race car driver and sportscaster

• 1968 Sebastian Bach, Bahamian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

• 1968 Charlotte Coleman, English actress (died 2001)

• 1968 Jamie Hewlett, English director and performer

• 1968 Tomoaki Kanemoto, Japanese baseball player

• 1969 Rodney Hampton, American football player

• 1969 Peter Matera, Australian footballer and coach

• 1969 Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor

• 1969 Lance Storm, Canadian wrestler and trainer

• 1971 Vitālijs Astafjevs, Latvian footballer and manager

• 1971 Emmanuel Collard, French race car driver

• 1971 Picabo Street, American skier

• 1972 Jennie Garth, American actress and director

• 1972 Catherine McCormack, English actress

• 1972 Sandrine Testud, French tennis player

• 1973 Nilesh Kulkarni, Indian cricketer

• 1973 Adam Scott, American actor

• 1974 Marcus Brown, American basketball player

• 1974 Lee Williams, Welsh model and actor

• 1975 Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player

• 1975 Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-American basketball player

• 1975 Aries Spears, American comedian and actor

• 1975 Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese baseball player

• 1975 Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball player

• 1976 Nicolas Escudé, French tennis player

• 1978 Matthew Goode, English actor

• 1978 Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player

• 1978 John Smit, South African rugby player

• 1979 Simon Black, Australian footballer and coach

• 1980 Andrei Lodis, Belarusian footballer

• 1980 Megan Rohrer, American pastor and transgender activist

• 1981 Aaron Bertram, American trumpet player

• 1981 DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player

• 1982 Jared Allen, American football player

• 1982 Iain Fyfe, Australian footballer

• 1982 Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress

• 1983 Ben Foster, English footballer

• 1983 Stephen Weiss, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1984 Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer

• 1984 Maxi López, Argentinian footballer

• 1985 Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver

• 1985 Leona Lewis, English singer-songwriter and producer

• 1986 Amanda Bynes, American actress

• 1986 Stephanie Cox, American soccer player

• 1986 Annalisa Cucinotta, Italian cyclist

• 1986 Sergio Sánchez Ortega, Spanish footballer

• 1987 Rachel Bloom, American actress, writer, and producer

• 1987 Jay Bruce, American baseball player

• 1987 Yileen Gordon, Australian rugby league player

• 1987 Jason Kipnis, American baseball player

• 1987 Martyn Rooney, English sprinter

• 1987 Julie Sokolow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1987 Yuval Spungin, Israeli footballer

• 1988 Kam Chancellor, American football player

• 1988 Brandon Graham, American football player

• 1988 Peter Hartley, English footballer

• 1988 Tim Krul, Dutch footballer

• 1989 Romain Alessandrini, French footballer

• 1989 Israel Folau, Australian rugby player and footballer

• 1989 Joel Romelo, Australian rugby league player

• 1989 Thisara Perera, Sri Lankan cricketer

• 1990 Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer

• 1990 Madison Brengle, American tennis player

• 1990 Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer

• 1990 Natasha Negovanlis, Canadian actress and singer

• 1991 Hayley Kiyoko, American actress and singer

• 1992 Simone Benedetti, Italian footballer

• 1992 Yuliya Yefimova, Russian swimmer

• 1993 Pape Moussa Konaté, Senegalese footballer

• 1994 Kodi Nikorima, New Zealand rugby league player

• 1994 Dylann Roof, American mass murderer

• 1996 Mayo Hibi, Japanese tennis player

• 1997 Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer

• 1997 Zhao Xintong, Chinese snooker player

• 1998 Paris Jackson, American actress, model and singer

• 1999 Chanel Harris-Tavita, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 33 Jesus of Nazareth , (Julian Calendar Date)

• 963 William III, Duke of Aquitaine (born 915)

• 1153 al-Adil ibn al-Sallar, vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate

• 1171 Philip of Milly, seventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born )

• 1203 Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (born 1187)

• 1253 Saint Richard of Chichester

• 1287 Pope Honorius IV (born 1210)

• 1325 Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint (born 1238)

• 1350 Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy (born 1295)

• 1538 Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (born 1480)

• 1545 Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born 1481)

1601–1900

• 1606 Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1563)

• 1630 Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English noble (born c.  1593)

• 1637 Joseph Yuspa Nördlinger Hahn, German rabbi

• 1680 Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Indian emperor, founded the Maratha Empire (born 1630)

• 1682 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter and educator (born 1618)

• 1691 Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (born 1608)

• 1695 Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (born 1636)

• 1717 Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (born 1640)

• 1728 James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (born 1662)

• 1792 George Pocock, English admiral (born 1706)

• 1804 Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest, historian, and author (born 1727)

• 1826 Reginald Heber, English priest (born 1783)

• 1827 Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (born 1756)

• 1838 François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician and author (born 1780)

• 1844 Edward Bigge, English cleric, 1st Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (born 1807)

• 1846 William Braine, English soldier and explorer (born 1814)

• 1849 Juliusz Słowacki, Polish-French poet and playwright (born 1809)

• 1868 Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and surgeon (born 1796)

• 1880 Felicita Vestvali, German actress and opera singer (born 1831)

• 1882 Jesse James, American criminal and outlaw (born 1847)

• 1897 Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (born 1833)

1901–present

• 1901 Richard D'Oyly Carte, English composer and talent agent (born 1844)

• 1902 Esther Hobart Morris, American lawyer and judge (born 1814)

• 1930 Emma Albani, Canadian-English operatic soprano (born 1847)

• 1936 Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer (born 1899)

• 1941 Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (born 1877)

• 1941 Pál Teleki, Hungarian academic and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1879)

• 1943 Conrad Veidt, German actor, director, and producer (born 1893)

• 1946 Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (born 1887)

• 1950 Kurt Weill, German-American composer and pianist (born 1900)

• 1950 Carter G. Woodson, American historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month (born 1875)

• 1951 Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and playwright (born 1890)

• 1952 Miina Sillanpää, Finnish minister and politician (born 1866)

• 1957 Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor (born 1883)

• 1958 Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (born 1891)

• 1962 Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer and educator (born 1883)

• 1970 Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (born 1890)

• 1971 Joseph Valachi, American gangster (born 1904)

• 1972 Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (born 1892)

• 1975 Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (born 1933)

• 1976 David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (born 1900)

• 1976 Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1894)

• 1978 Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (born 1903)

• 1978 Winston Sharples, American composer (born 1909)

• 1981 Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (born 1899)

• 1982 Warren Oates, American actor (born 1928)

• 1983 Jimmy Bloomfield, English footballer and manager (born 1934)

• 1986 Peter Pears, English tenor and educator (born 1910)

• 1987 Tom Sestak, American football player (born 1936)

• 1988 Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (born 1907)

• 1990 Sarah Vaughan, American singer (born 1924)

• 1991 Charles Goren, American bridge player and author (born 1901)

• 1991 Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1904)

• 1993 Pinky Lee, American television host (born 1907)

• 1994 Frank Wells, American businessman (born 1932)

• 1995 Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman, co-founded Canadian Tire (born 1902)

• 1996 Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (born 1941)

• 1997 John Ugelstad, Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor (born 1921)

• 1998 Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic (born 1900)

• 1999 Lionel Bart, English composer (born 1930)

• 1999 Geoffrey Walsh, Canadian general (born 1909)

• 2000 Terence McKenna, American botanist and philosopher (born 1946)

• 2000 Dina Abramowicz, Librarian and YIVO and Yiddish language expert (born 1909)

• 2005 François Gérin, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1944)

• 2007 Nina Wang, Chinese businesswoman (born 1937)

• 2008 Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (born 1983)

• 2012 Mingote, Spanish cartoonist and journalist (born 1919)

• 2012 Richard Descoings, French civil servant (born 1958)

• 2012 Govind Narain, Indian politician, 8th Governor of Karnataka (born 1917)

• 2012 Chief Jay Strongbow, American wrestler (born 1928)

• 2012 José María Zárraga, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1930)

• 2013 Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (born 1930)

• 2013 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (born 1927)

• 2014 Régine Deforges, French author, playwright, and director (born 1935)

• 2014 Fred Kida, American illustrator (born 1920)

• 2014 Prince Michael of Prussia (born 1940)

• 2014 Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (born 1936)

• 2014 Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (born 1921)

• 2015 Sarah Brady, American activist and author (born 1942)

• 2015 Bob Burns, American drummer and songwriter (born 1950)

• 2015 Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (born 1913)

• 2016 Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (born 1932)

• 2016 Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (born 1913)

• 2016 Koji Wada, Japanese singer and songwriter (born 1974)

• 2017 Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical vocalist (born 1931)

• 2021 Stan Stephens, Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (born 1929)

• 2022 June Brown, English actress (born 1927)

• 2024 Bob Lanigan, Australian rugby league player (born 1942)

• 2024 Gaetano Pesce, Italian architect and designer (born 1939)

• 2025 Theodore McCarrick, American former cardinal (born 1930)

• 2025 Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager (born 1936)

• 2026 Fred Curry, Lebanese-American professional wrestler (born 1941)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Agape, Chionia, and Irene

• Burgundofara

• Joseph the Hymnographer

• Luigi Scrosoppi

• Piotr Edward Dankowski

• Richard of Chichester

• April 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on April 3