Events

Pre-1600

• 503 BC Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.

• 190 Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.

• 611 Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.

• 619 The Bijapur-Mumbai inscription is issued by Pulakeshin II, describing the Battle of Narmada.

• 801 King Louis the Pious captures Barcelona from the Moors after a siege of several months.

• 1268 A five-year Byzantine–Venetian peace treaty is concluded between Venetian envoys and Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos.

• 1423 Death of the Venetian Doge Tommaso Mocenigo, under whose rule victories were achieved against the Kingdom of Hungary and against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Gallipoli (1416).

• 1581 Francis Drake is knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for completing a circumnavigation of the world.

1601–1900

• 1609 Moriscos are expelled from the Kingdom of Valencia.

• 1660 Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of Great Britain promises, among other things, a general pardon to all royalists and opponents of the monarchy for crimes committed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum.

• 1796 Georges Cuvier delivers the first paleontological lecture.

• 1814 Napoleon abdicates (conditionally) for the first time and names his son Napoleon II as Emperor of the French, followed by unconditional abdication two days later.

• 1818 The United States Congress, affirming the Second Continental Congress, adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (20 at that time).

• 1841 William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia, becoming the first President of the United States to die in office, and setting the record for the briefest administration. Vice President John Tyler succeeds Harrison as President.

• 1860 The declaration on the introduction of the Finnish markka as an official currency is read in different parts of the Grand Duchy of Finland.

• 1865 American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.

• 1866 Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg.

• 1887 Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.

• 1894 Foyot bombing by the Russian or French state during the Ère des attentats.

1901–present

• 1904 Two ~7.1 earthquakes, among the largest in Europe, strike Bulgaria, killing over 200 people and causing destruction.

• 1905 In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.

• 1913 First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.

• 1920 The four-day Nebi Musa riots commence.

• 1925 The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in Germany.

• 1933 U.S. Navy airship is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.

• 1944 World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3,000 civilians.

• 1945 World War II: United States Army troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.

• 1945 World War II: United States Army troops capture Kassel.

• 1945 World War II: Soviet Red Army troops liberate Hungary from German occupation.

• 1946 Greek judge and archeologist Panagiotis Poulitsas is appointed Prime Minister of Greece in the midst of the Greek Civil War.

• 1949 Cold War: Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

• 1958 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.

• 1960 France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.

• 1963 Bye Bye Birdie, a musical romantic comedy film directed by George Sidney, was released.

• 1964 The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.

• 1967 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.

• 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

• 1968 Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.

• 1969 Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.

• 1973 The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City are officially dedicated.

• 1973 A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.

• 1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

• 1975 Vietnam War: A United States Air Force Lockheed C-5A Galaxy transporting orphans, crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, killing 172 people.

• 1977 Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes in New Hope, Paulding County, Georgia, killing 72.

• 1979 Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.

• 1981 Iran–Iraq War: The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force mounts an attack on H-3 Airbase and destroys about 50 Iraqi aircraft.

• 1983 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space on STS-6.

• 1984 President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.

• 1987 Garuda Indonesia Flight 032 crashes at Medan Airport, killing 23.

• 1988 Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.

• 1990 The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.

• 1991 Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.

• 1991 Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. Three of the hostage takers and three hostages are killed.

• 1994 Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

• 1996 Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.

• 1997 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-83. However, the mission is later cut short due to a fuel cell problem.

• 2002 The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.

• 2009 France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.

• 2010 A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing at least two and damaging buildings across the two countries.

• 2011 Georgian Airways Flight 834 crashes at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, killing 32.

• 2013 Seventy-four people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.

• 2017 Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians.

• 2020 China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.

• 2023 Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey accepts its membership request.

• 2024 Russo-Ukrainian war: The Battle of Chasiv Yar begins.

• 2025 The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea in response to his declaration of martial law is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending his presidency.

Births

Pre-1600

• 188 Caracalla, Roman emperor (died 217)

• 1436 Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Bavaria-Landshut (died 1501)

• 1490 Vojtěch I of Pernstein, Bohemian nobleman (died 1534)

• 1492 Ambrosius Blarer, German-Swiss theologian and reformer (died 1564)

• 1572 William Strachey, English author (died 1621)

• 1586 Richard Saltonstall, English diplomat (died 1661)

• 1593 Edward Nicholas, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (died 1669)

1601–1900

• 1640 Gaspar Sanz, Spanish guitarist, composer, and priest (died 1710)

• 1646 Antoine Galland, French orientalist and archaeologist (died 1715)

• 1648 Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor (died 1721)

• 1676 Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Italian composer (died 1760)

• 1688 Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer and cartographer (died 1768)

• 1718 Benjamin Kennicott, English theologian and scholar (died 1783)

• 1752 Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer (died 1837)

• 1760 Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan organist and composer (died 1797)

• 1762 Stephen Storace, English actor and composer (died 1796)

• 1772 Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement (died 1810)

• 1780 Edward Hicks, American minister and painter (died 1849)

• 1785 Bettina von Arnim, German author, illustrator, and composer (died 1859)

• 1792 Thaddeus Stevens, American lawyer and politician (died 1868)

• 1802 Dorothea Dix, American nurse and activist (died 1887)

• 1818 Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American author and poet (died 1883)

• 1819 Maria II of Portugal (died 1853)

• 1821 Linus Yale Jr., American engineer and businessman (died 1868)

• 1826 Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer, invented the Gramme machine (died 1901)

• 1829 Owen Suffolk, Australian bushranger, poet, confidence-man and author (died ?)

• 1835 John Hughlings Jackson, English physician and neurologist (died 1911)

• 1842 Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (died 1891)

• 1843 William Henry Jackson, American painter and photographer (died 1942)

• 1846 Comte de Lautréamont, Uruguayan-French poet and educator (died 1870)

• 1851 James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (died 1931)

• 1853 Remy de Gourmont, French poet, novelist, and critic (died 1915)

• 1868 Philippa Fawcett, English mathematician and educator (died 1948)

• 1869 Mary Colter, American architect, designed the Desert View Watchtower (died 1958)

• 1875 Pierre Monteux, Sephardic Jewish French-American viola player and conductor (died 1964)

• 1876 Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter and poet (died 1958)

• 1878 Walter Conrad Arensberg, American art collector, critic and poet (died 1954)

• 1878 Stylianos Lykoudis, Greek admiral and historian (died 1958)

• 1879 Gustav Goßler, German rower (died 1940)

• 1884 James Alberione, Italian priest, founded the Society of St. Paul (died 1971)

• 1884 Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (died 1943)

• 1886 Frank Luther Mott, American historian and journalist (died 1964)

• 1888 Tris Speaker, American baseball player and manager (died 1958)

• 1888 Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish historian and academic (died 1975)

• 1889 Makhanlal Chaturvedi, Indian journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1968)

• 1892 Italo Mus, Italian painter (died 1967)

• 1892 Edith Södergran, Swedish-Finnish poet (died 1923)

• 1895 Arthur Murray, American dancer and educator (died 1991)

• 1896 Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright and screenwriter (died 1955)

• 1897 Pierre Fresnay, French actor and screenwriter (died 1975)

• 1898 Agnes Ayres, American actress (died 1940)

• 1899 Hillel Oppenheimer, German-Israeli botanist and academic (died 1971)

1901–present

• 1902 Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, French journalist and author (died 1969)

• 1902 Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author and poet (died 1935)

• 1905 Eugène Bozza, French composer and conductor (died 1991)

• 1905 Erika Nõva, Estonian architect and engineer (died 1987)

• 1906 Bea Benaderet, Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (died 1968)

• 1906 John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (died 1995)

• 1907 Robert Askin, Australian sergeant and politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (died 1981)

• 1910 Đặng Văn Ngữ, Vietnamese physician and academic (died 1967)

• 1913 Dave Brown, Australian rugby league player (died 1974)

• 1913 Rosemary Lane, American actress and singer (died 1974)

• 1913 Frances Langford, American actress and singer (died 2005)

• 1913 Jules Léger, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Governor General of Canada (died 1980)

• 1913 Muddy Waters, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1983)

• 1914 Richard Coogan, American actor (died 2014)

• 1914 Marguerite Duras, French novelist, screenwriter, and director (died 1996)

• 1914 David W. Goodall, Australian ecologist and botanist (died 2018)

• 1915 Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (died 2003)

• 1916 Nikola Ljubičić, Serbian general and politician, 10th President of Serbia (died 2005)

• 1916 Mickey Owen, American baseball player and coach (died 2005)

• 1916 David White, American actor (died 1990)

• 1918 George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe, English soldier and politician, Leader of the House of Lords (died 2007)

• 1920 Ignatius IV of Antioch, Greek patriarch (died 2012)

• 1921 Orunamamu, American-Canadian author and educator (died 2014)

• 1921 Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (died 2015)

• 1922 Elmer Bernstein, American composer and conductor (died 2004)

• 1923 Peter Vaughan, English actor (died 2016)

• 1923 Gene Reynolds, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (died 2020)

• 1924 Bob Christie, American race car driver (died 2009)

• 1924 Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (died 1972)

• 1925 Dettmar Cramer, German footballer and manager (died 2015)

• 1925 Frank Truitt, American basketball player and coach (died 2014)

• 1925 Claude Wagner, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1979)

• 1925 Emmett Williams, American poet and author (died 2007)

• 1926 Ronnie Masterson, Irish actress (died 2014)

• 1927 Joe Orlando, Italian-American author and illustrator (died 1998)

• 1928 Maya Angelou, American memoirist and poet (died 2014)

• 1928 Jimmy Logan, Scottish actor, director, and producer (died 2001)

• 1928 Monty Norman, English singer-songwriter and producer (died 2022)

• 1929 Humbert Allen Astredo, American actor (died 2016)

• 1930 Netty Herawaty, Indonesian actress (died 1989)

• 1931 James Dickens, English politician (died 2013)

• 1931 Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence officer

• 1931 Catherine Tizard, New Zealand politician, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 2021)

• 1932 Clive Davis, American record producer, founded Arista Records and J Records (died 2026)

• 1932 Richard Lugar, American lieutenant and politician, 44th Mayor of Indianapolis (died 2019)

• 1932 Anthony Perkins, American actor (died 1992)

• 1932 Johanna Reiss, Dutch-American author

• 1932 Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and producer (died 1986)

• 1933 Bill France Jr., American businessman (died 2007)

• 1933 Brian Hewson, English runner (died 2022)

• 1933 Bapu Nadkarni, Indian cricketer (died 2020)

• 1934 Helen Hanft, American actress (died 2013)

• 1934 Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist and activist (died 1996)

• 1935 Geoff Braybrooke, English-New Zealand soldier and politician (died 2013)

• 1935 Kenneth Mars, American actor and comedian (died 2011)

• 1935 Trevor Griffiths, English playwright and educator (died 2024)

• 1938 A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (died 1989)

• 1939 JoAnne Carner, American golfer

• 1939 Darlene Hooley, American educator and politician

• 1939 Hugh Masekela, South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer (died 2018)

• 1940 Richard Attwood, English race car driver

• 1940 Sharon Sheeley, American singer-songwriter (died 2002)

• 1941 Zia Uddin, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician

• 1942 Jim Fregosi, American baseball player and manager (died 2014)

• 1942 Kitty Kelley, American journalist and biographer

• 1942 Elizabeth Levy, American author

• 1943 Paulette Jiles, American writer (died 2025)

• 1944 Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician

• 1944 Mary Kenny, Irish journalist, author, and playwright

• 1944 Bob McDill, American country music songwriter

• 1944 Craig T. Nelson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1944 Nelson Prudêncio, Brazilian triple jumper and educator (died 2012)

• 1944 Toktamış Ateş, Turkish academician, political commentator, columnist and writer (died 2013)

• 1945 Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French-German educator and politician

• 1945 Caroline McWilliams, American actress (died 2010)

• 1946 Colin Coates, Australian speed skater

• 1946 Dave Hill, English guitarist

• 1946 Katsuaki Satō, Japanese martial artist and coach

• 1946 György Spiró, Hungarian author and playwright

• 1946 Bubba Wyche, American football player and coach

• 1947 Wiranto, Indonesian general and politician

• 1947 Ray Fosse, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 2021)

• 1947 Eliseo Soriano, Filipino minister and television host (died 2021)

• 1948 Abdullah Öcalan, Turkish activist

• 1948 Berry Oakley, American bass player (died 1972)

• 1948 Richard Parsons, American lawyer and businessman (died 2024)

• 1948 Dan Simmons, American author (died 2026)

• 1948 Derek Thompson, Northern Irish actor

• 1948 Pick Withers, English drummer

• 1949 Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican-American singer (died 1999)

• 1949 Litsa Diamanti, Greek singer

• 1949 Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese-American mathematician and academic

• 1950 Christine Lahti, American actress and director

• 1951 John Hannah, American football player and coach

• 1952 Rosemarie Ackermann, German high jumper

• 1952 Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2010)

• 1952 Gregg Hansford, Australian race car driver and motorcycle racer (died 1995)

• 1952 Cherie Lunghi, English actress and dancer

• 1952 Karen Magnussen, Canadian figure skater and coach

• 1952 Gary Moore, Northern Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2011)

• 1952 Villy Søvndal, Danish educator and politician, Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs

• 1953 Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician (died 2022)

• 1953 Henry Fotheringham, South African cricketer

• 1953 Simcha Jacobovici, Canadian director, producer, journalist, and author

• 1953 Sammy Wilson, Northern Irish politician, 31st Lord Mayor of Belfast

• 1953 Chen Yi, Chinese violinist and composer

• 1956 Evelyn Hart, Canadian ballerina

• 1956 Tom Herr, American baseball player and manager

• 1956 David E. Kelley, American screenwriter and producer

• 1957 Paul Downton, English cricketer

• 1957 Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1957 Graeme Kelling, Scottish guitarist (died 2004)

• 1957 Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese singer and trumpet player

• 1958 Peter Baltes, German bass player

• 1958 Cazuza, Brazilian singer-songwriter (died 1990)

• 1958 Rodney Eade, Australian footballer and coach

• 1958 Constance Shulman, American actress

• 1959 Phil Morris, American actor and screenwriter

• 1960 Jonathan Agnew, English cricketer and sportscaster

• 1960 Jane Eaglen, English soprano

• 1960 Godknows Igali, Nigerian diplomat, civil servant and technocrat

• 1960 Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-Australian actor and producer

• 1961 Hildi Santo-Tomas, American interior decorator

• 1962 Craig Adams, English bass player and songwriter

• 1962 Kailasho Devi, Indian social worker and politician

• 1963 A. Michael Baldwin, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1963 Jack Del Rio, American football player and coach

• 1963 Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2020)

• 1963 Jane McDonald, English singer and broadcaster

• 1963 Graham Norton, Irish actor and talk show host

• 1964 Branco, Brazilian footballer and coach

• 1964 Dr. Chud, American drummer and singer

• 1964 Anthony Clark, American actor

• 1964 David Cross, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1964 Satoshi Furukawa, Japanese surgeon and astronaut

• 1964 Paul Parker, England international footballer and TV pundit

• 1964 Đặng Thân, Vietnamese writer and poet

• 1965 Vinny Burns, English guitarist and producer

• 1965 Robert Downey Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter.

• 1966 Nancy McKeon, American actress

• 1966 Mike Starr, American bass player (died 2011)

• 1966 Christos Tsekos, Greek basketball player

• 1967 Edith Masai, Kenyan-German runner

• 1967 George Mavrotas, Greek water polo player and politician

• 1968 Jesús Rollán, Spanish water polo player (died 2006)

• 1969 Piotr Anderszewski, Polish pianist and composer

• 1969 Karren Brady, English journalist and businesswoman

• 1970 Georgios Amanatidis, Greek footballer and manager

• 1970 Dimitris Basis, Greek singer

• 1970 Greg Garcia, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1970 Barry Pepper, Canadian actor and producer

• 1970 Jason Stoltenberg, Australian tennis player

• 1970 Josh Todd, American singer-songwriter and actor

• 1970 Yelena Yelesina, Russian high jumper

• 1971 Clay Davidson, American singer-songwriter

• 1971 Yanic Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1971 Malik Yusef, American actor, producer, and poet

• 1971 John Zandig, American wrestler and promoter

• 1972 Jim Dymock, Australian rugby league player and coach

• 1972 Martin Rundkvist, Swedish archaeologist and professor

• 1972 Jill Scott, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1972 Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish bass player

• 1973 Chris Banks, American football player (died 2014)

• 1973 David Blaine, American magician and producer

• 1973 Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer

• 1973 Peter Hoekstra, Dutch footballer and coach

• 1973 Chris McCormack, Australian triathlete and coach

• 1973 Kelly Price, American singer-songwriter

• 1975 Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman

• 1975 Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish skier

• 1975 Joyce Giraud, Puerto Rican television actress and producer, Miss Puerto Rico 1994

• 1975 Pamela Ribon, American actress, screenwriter, and author

• 1975 Miranda Lee Richards, American singer-songwriter

• 1975 Scott Rolen, American baseball player

• 1975 Kevin Weekes, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1976 Nathan Blacklock, Australian rugby player

• 1976 Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver (died 1997)

• 1976 Emerson Ferreira da Rosa, Brazilian footballer

• 1976 James Roday, American actor, director, and screenwriter

• 1977 Stephan Bonnar, American mixed martial artist (died 2022)

• 1977 Keith Bulluck, American football player and sportscaster

• 1977 Adam Dutkiewicz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer

• 1977 Stephen Mulhern, English magician and television host

• 1977 Omarr Smith, American football player and coach

• 1978 Jason Ellison, American baseball player and scout

• 1978 Alan Mahon, Irish footballer

• 1979 Heath Ledger, Australian actor (died 2008)

• 1979 Roberto Luongo, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1979 Natasha Lyonne, American actress

• 1979 Andy McKee, American guitarist

• 1979 Maksim Opalev, Russian canoeist

• 1980 Johnny Borrell, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1980 Trevor Moore, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2021)

• 1980 Eric Steinbach, American football player

• 1980 Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver

• 1981 Currensy, American rapper

• 1981 Eduardo Luís Carloto, Brazilian footballer

• 1981 Casey Daigle, American baseball player

• 1981 Anna Pyatykh, Russian triple jumper

• 1981 Ned Vizzini, American author and screenwriter (died 2013)

• 1982 Justin Cook, American voice actor and producer

• 1983 Evgeny Artyukhin, Russian ice hockey player

• 1983 Eric André, American comedian

• 1983 Ben Gordon, American basketball player

• 1983 Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1983 Natalie Pike, Scottish-English model and actress

• 1983 Amanda Righetti, American actress

• 1984 Sean May, American basketball player

• 1984 Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer

• 1985 Rudy Fernández, Spanish basketball player

• 1985 Dudi Sela, Israeli tennis player

• 1985 Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer

• 1986 Eunhyuk, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

• 1986 Cameron Barker, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1986 Maurice Manificat, French skier

• 1986 Aiden McGeady, Scottish-born Irish footballer

• 1986 Alexander Tettey, Norwegian footballer

• 1987 Sami Khedira, German footballer

• 1987 McDonald Mariga, Kenyan footballer

• 1987 Cameron Maybin, American baseball player

• 1987 Marcos Vellidis, Greek footballer

• 1987 Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress

• 1988 Frank Fielding, English footballer

• 1989 Vurnon Anita, Dutch footballer

• 1989 Steven Finn, English cricketer

• 1989 Chris Herd, Australian footballer

• 1989 Jens Toornstra, Dutch footballer

• 1990 Elizabeth Booker Houston American lawyer, public health professional, stand‑up comedian, and political commentator.

• 1991 Yui Koike, Japanese singer and actress

• 1991 Asia Muhammad, American tennis player

• 1991 Justin O'Neill, Australian rugby league player

• 1991 Martín Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1991 Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer

• 1991 Marlon Stöckinger, Filipino race car driver

• 1992 Lucy May Barker, English actress and singer

• 1992 Ricky Dillon, American YouTuber and singer

• 1993 Daniela Bobadilla, Mexican-Canadian actress

• 1993 Samir Carruthers, English footballer

• 1993 David Soria, Spanish footballer

• 1993 Frank Kaminsky, American basketball player

• 1994 Shunsuke Nishikawa, Japanese actor

• 1994 Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer and actress

• 1996 Austin Mahone, American singer-songwriter and actor

• 2001 Anzor Alem, Congolese actor and singer

• 2001 Jalen Carter, American football player

• 2001 Angelo Stiller, German footballer

• 2003 Harvey Elliott, English footballer

• 2005 Lil Mabu, American rapper

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 397 Ambrose, Roman archbishop and saint (born 338)

• 636 Isidore of Seville, Spanish archbishop and saint (born 560)

• 814 Plato of Sakkoudion, Byzantine monk and saint (born 735)

• 896 Formosus, pope of the Catholic Church (born 816)

• 911 Liu Yin, Chinese warlord and governor (born 874)

• 931 Kong Xun, Chinese official and governor (born 884)

• 968 Abu Firas al-Hamdani, Arab prince and poet (born 932)

• 991 Reginold, bishop of Eichstätt

• 1284 Alfonso X, king of Castile and León (born 1221)

• 1292 Nicholas IV, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1227)

• 1406 Robert III, king of Scotland (born 1337)

• 1483 Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex (born c. 1405)

• 1536 Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (born 1460)

• 1538 Elena Glinskaya, Grand Princess and regent of Russia

• 1588 Frederick II, king of Denmark and Norway (born 1534)

• 1589 Benedict the Moor, Sicilian Franciscan friar and saint (born 1526) 1

• 1596 Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (born 1533)

1601–1900

• 1609 Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist, mycologist, and academic (born 1526)

• 1617 John Napier, Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (born 1550)

• 1643 Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian and academic (born 1583)

• 1661 Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish field marshal (born 1580)

• 1743 Daniel Neal, English historian and author (born 1678)

• 1761 Théodore Gardelle, Swiss painter (born 1722)

• 1766 John Taylor, English librarian and scholar (born 1704)

• 1774 Oliver Goldsmith, Irish novelist, playwright and poet (born 1728)

• 1792 James Sykes, American lawyer and politician (born 1725)

• 1807 Jérôme Lalande, French astronomer and academic (born 1732)

• 1817 André Masséna, French general (born 1758)

• 1841 William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (born 1773)

• 1846 Solomon Sibley, American lawyer and politician, 1st Mayor of Detroit (born 1769)

• 1861 John McLean, American jurist and politician, 6th United States Postmaster General (born 1785)

• 1863 Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (born 1790)

• 1864 Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American commander and paleontologist (born 1808)

• 1870 Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (born 1802)

• 1874 Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (born 1826)

• 1875 Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (born 1837)

• 1878 Richard M. Brewer, American criminal (born 1850)

• 1879 Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (born 1803)

• 1883 Peter Cooper, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Cooper Union (born 1791)

• 1890 Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (born 1820)

• 1890 Edmond Hébert, French geologist and academic (born 1812)

1901–present

• 1912 Charles Brantley Aycock, American lawyer and politician, 50th Governor of North Carolina (born 1859)

• 1912 Isaac K. Funk, American minister, lexicographer, and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (born 1839)

• 1913 Emmanouil Argyropoulos, Greek pioneer aviator (born 1889)

• 1913 Konstantinos Manos, Greek politician, poet, soldier and sportsman (born 1869)

• 1919 William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (born 1832)

• 1919 Francisco Marto, Portuguese saint (born 1908)

• 1923 John Venn, English mathematician and philosopher, created the Venn diagram (born 1834)

• 1928 Konstantinos Maleas, Greek painter (born 1879)

• 1929 Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (born 1844)

• 1931 André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (born 1853)

• 1932 Wilhelm Ostwald, Latvian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1853)

• 1933 Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author and educator (born 1842)

• 1944 Morris H. Whitehouse, American architect (born 1878)

• 1945 Berta Bock, Romanian composer (born 1857)

• 1951 George Albert Smith, American religious leader, 8th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1870)

• 1953 Carol II of Romania (born 1893)

• 1957 E. Herbert Norman, Canadian historian and diplomat (born 1909)

• 1958 Johnny Stompanato, American soldier and bodyguard (born 1925)

• 1959 – Florence Goodenough, American child psychologist (born 1886)

• 1961 Harald Riipalu, Estonian military commander (born 1912)

• 1961 Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician and academic (born 1873)

• 1963 Oskari Tokoi, Finnish socialist and the Chairman of the Senate of Finland (born 1873)

• 1967 Al Lewis, American songwriter (born 1901)

• 1967 Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1898)

• 1968 Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (assassinated) (born 1929)

• 1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American pastor and politician (born 1908)

• 1972 Stefan Wolpe, German-American composer and academic (born 1902)

• 1976 Harry Nyquist, Swedish engineer and theorist (born 1889)

• 1977 Andrey Dikiy, Ukrainian-American journalist, historian, and politician (born 1893)

• 1979 Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 4th President of Pakistan (born 1928)

• 1979 Edgar Buchanan, American actor (born 1903)

• 1980 Red Sovine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1917)

• 1983 Gloria Swanson, American actress (born 1899)

• 1983 Bernard Vukas, Croatian football player, played for 1953 FIFA's "Rest of the World" team against England at Wembley (born 1927)

• 1984 Oleg Antonov, Russian-Ukrainian engineer and businessman, founded Antonov Design Bureau (born 1906)

• 1985 Kate Roberts, Welsh author and activist (born 1891)

• 1987 C. L. Moore, American author and academic (born 1911)

• 1987 Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan guru, poet, and scholar (born 1939)

• 1987 Sachchidananda Vatsyayan, Indian journalist and author (born 1911)

• 1991 Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (born 1920)

• 1991 Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist (born 1911)

• 1991 H. John Heinz III, American soldier and politician (born 1938)

• 1991 Graham Ingels, American illustrator (born 1915)

• 1992 Yvette Brind'Amour, Canadian actress and director (born 1918)

• 1992 Jack Hamilton, Australian footballer (born 1928)

• 1992 Arthur Russell, American singer-songwriter and cellist (born 1951)

• 1993 Alfred Mosher Butts, American game designer, invented Scrabble (born 1899)

• 1993 Douglas Leopold, Canadian radio and television host (born 1947)

• 1995 Kenny Everett, English radio and television host (born 1944)

• 1995 Priscilla Lane, American actress (born 1915)

• 1996 Barney Ewell, American runner and long jumper (born 1918)

• 1996 Boone Guyton, American lieutenant and pilot (born 1913)

• 1997 Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic (born 1900)

• 1997 Alparslan Türkeş, Turkish colonel and politician, 39th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1917)

• 1999 Lucille Lortel, American actress, artistic director and producer (born 1900)

• 1999 Early Wynn, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1920)

• 2001 Liisi Oterma, Finnish astronomer (born 1915)

• 2001 Ed Roth, American illustrator and engineer (born 1932)

• 2001 Maury Van Vliet, American-Canadian academic (born 1913)

• 2003 Anthony Caruso, American actor (born 1916)

• 2004 Briek Schotte, Belgian cyclist and coach (born 1919)

• 2005 Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1924)

• 2007 Bob Clark, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1941)

• 2007 Karen Spärck Jones, English computer scientist and academic (born 1935)

• 2008 Francis Tucker, South African race car driver (born 1923)

• 2009 Maxine Cooper, American actress, activist and photographer (born 1924)

• 2011 Scott Columbus, American drummer (born 1956)

• 2011 Ned McWherter, American politician, 46th Governor of Tennessee (born 1930)

• 2011 Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (born 1958)

• 2012 A. Dean Byrd, American psychologist and academic (born 1948)

• 2012 Dimitris Christoulas, Greek pensioner who committed suicide in public (born 1935)

• 2012 Anne Karin Elstad, Norwegian author and educator (born 1938)

• 2012 Claude Miller, French director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1942)

• 2012 Dubravko Pavličić, Croatian footballer (born 1967)

• 2012 Roberto Rexach Benítez, Puerto Rican academic and politician, 10th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico (born 1929)

• 2013 Bengt Blomgren, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1923)

• 2013 Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (born 1942)

• 2013 Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (born 1925)

• 2013 Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1928)

• 2013 Ian Walsh, Australian rugby player and coach (born 1933)

• 2013 Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese author (born 1972)

• 2014 İsmet Atlı, Turkish wrestler and trainer (born 1931)

• 2014 Wayne Henderson, American trombonist and producer (born 1939)

• 2014 Kumba Ialá, Bissau-Guinean soldier and politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1953)

• 2014 Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (born 1943)

• 2014 Curtis Bill Pepper, American journalist and author (born 1917)

• 2014 Muhammad Qutb, Egyptian author and academic (born 1919)

• 2015 Jamaluddin Jarjis, Malaysian engineer and politician (born 1951)

• 2015 Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1918)

• 2015 Donald N. Levine, American sociologist and academic (born 1931)

• 2015 Klaus Rifbjerg, Danish author and poet (born 1931)

• 2016 Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (born 1930)

• 2024 Lynne Reid Banks, British author (born 1929)

• 2024 Thomas Gumbleton, American Roman Catholic prelate (born 1930)

• 2024 Pat Zachry, American baseball player (born 1952)

• 2025 Manoj Kumar, Indian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1937)

• 2025 Tony Rundle, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Tasmania (born 1939)

Holidays and observances

• Children's Day (Hong Kong, Taiwan)

Christian feast day:

• Benedict the Moor

• Gaetano Catanoso

• Isidore of Seville

• Martin Luther King Jr. (Episcopal Church (USA))

• Reginald Heber (Anglican Church of Canada)

• Tigernach of Clones

• Plato of Sakkoudion

• April 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Senegal from France (1960).

• Peace Day (Angola)

• One of the possible days for Qingming Festival.

• NATO Day

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on April 4