Events

Pre-1600

• 753 BC Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).

• 43 BC Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.

• 900 The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (the earliest known written document found in what is now the Philippines): the Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Tondo, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah, pardons from all debt the Honourable Namwaran and his relations.

• 1092 The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II.

• 1506 The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics.

• 1509 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.

• 1526 The last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi, is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.

1601–1900

• 1615 The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.

• 1782 The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

• 1789 John Adams sworn in as first US Vice President (nine days before George Washington).

• 1789 George Washington's reception at Trenton is hosted by the Ladies of Trenton as he journeys to New York City for his first inauguration.

• 1792 Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.

• 1796 War of the First Coalition: In the climax of the Montenotte Campaign, Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeats the army of Piedmont at the Battle of Mondovi, leading to Piedmont's surrender a week later and decisively turning the Italian campaign in France's favor.

• 1802 Twelve thousand Wahhabis sack Karbala, killing over three thousand inhabitants.

• 1806 Action of 21 April 1806: A French frigate escapes British forces off the coast of South Africa.

• 1809 Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.

• 1821 Benderli Ali Pasha arrives in Constantinople as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire; he remains in power for only nine days before being sent into exile.

• 1836 Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto: Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

• 1856 Australian labour movement: Stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne march from the University of Melbourne to Parliament House to achieve an eight-hour day.

• 1894 Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.

• 1898 Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cubann ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.

1901–present

• 1914 Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.

• 1918 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.

• 1926 Al-Baqi cemetery, former site of the mausoleum of four Shi'a Imams, is leveled to the ground by Wahhabis.

• 1934 The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1994, it is revealed to be a hoax).

• 1945 World War II: Soviet forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.

• 1946 The U.S. Weather Bureau records that a tornado which struck Timber Lake, South Dakota was , among the widest tornadoes on record.

• 1948 United Nations Security Council Resolution 47 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.

• 1950 The Nainital wedding massacre occurs, killing 22 members of the Harijan caste.

• 1952 Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.

• 1958 United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.

• 1960 Brasília, Brazil's capital, is officially inaugurated. At 09:30, the Three Powers of the Republic are simultaneously transferred from the old capital, Rio de Janeiro.

• 1962 The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.

• 1963 The first election of the Universal House of Justice is held, marking its establishment as the supreme governing institution of the Baháʼí Faith.

• 1964 A Transit-5bn satellite fails to reach orbit after launch; as it re-enters the atmosphere, of radioactive plutonium in its SNAP RTG power source is widely dispersed.

• 1965 The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.

• 1966 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.

• 1967 A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.

• 1967 A tornado outbreak in Illinois, United States, kills over 50 and injures over 1,000. Belvidere sustains over 500 casualties as a violent tornado strikes the high school. Another tornado near Chicago causes another 500 casualties, devastating Oak Lawn.

• 1972 Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke fly Apollo 16's Apollo Lunar Module to the Moon's surface, the fifth NASA Apollo Program crewed lunar landing.

• 1975 Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.

• 1977 Annie opens on Broadway.

• 1982 Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.

• 1985 The compound of the militant group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord surrenders to federal authorities in Arkansas after a two-day government siege.

• 1987 The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.

• 1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.

• 1993 The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.

• 1996 Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland.

• 2004 Five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people and wounding 160.

• 2010 The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.

• 2012 Two trains are involved in a head-on collision near Sloterdijk, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, killing one person and injuring 116 others.

• 2019 Eight bombs explode at churches, hotels, and other locations in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing at least 269.

• 2021 Indonesian Navy submarine KRI Nanggala (402) sinks in the Bali Sea during a military drill, killing all 53 on board.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1132 Sancho VI, king of Navarre (died 1194)

• 1488 Ulrich von Hutten, German religious reformer (died 1523)

• 1523 Marco Antonio Bragadin, Venetian lawyer and military officer (died 1571)

• 1555 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter and etcher (died 1619)

1601–1900

• 1619 Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (died 1677)

• 1630 Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, Dutch-English painter (died 1700)

• 1631 Francesco Maidalchini, Catholic cardinal (died 1700)

• 1642 Simon de la Loubère, French mathematician, poet, and diplomat (died 1729)

• 1651 Joseph Vaz, Sri Lankan priest, missionary, and saint (died 1711)

• 1652 Michel Rolle, French mathematician and academic (died 1719)

• 1671 John Law, Scottish economist (died 1729)

• 1673 Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1742)

• 1713 Louis de Noailles, French general (died 1793)

• 1730 Antonín Kammel, Czech violinist and composer (died 1788)

• 1752 Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, French engineer, hydrographer, and politician, French Minister of Marine and the Colonies (died 1807)

• 1752 Humphry Repton, English gardener and author (died 1818)

• 1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (died 1862)

• 1775 Alexander Anderson, Scottish-American illustrator and engraver (died 1870)

• 1783 Reginald Heber, English priest (died 1821)

• 1790 Manuel Blanco Encalada, Spanish-Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (died 1876)

• 1810 John Putnam Chapin, American politician, 10th Mayor of Chicago (died 1864)

• 1811 Alson Sherman, American merchant and politician, 8th Mayor of Chicago (died 1903)

• 1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, English art collector and philanthropist (died 1906)

• 1816 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (died 1855)

• 1837 Fredrik Bajer, Danish lieutenant and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1922)

• 1838 John Muir, Scottish-American environmentalist and author (died 1914)

• 1854 William Stang, German-American bishop (died 1907)

• 1864 Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (died 1920)

• 1868 Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (died 1932)

• 1868 Mary Rogers Miller, American author and educator (died 1971)

• 1870 Edwin Stanton Porter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1941)

• 1874 Vincent Scotto, French composer and actor (died 1952)

• 1882 Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1961)

• 1885 Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (died 1967)

• 1887 Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (died 1978)

• 1889 Marcel Boussac, French businessman (died 1980)

• 1889 Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1971)

• 1889 Efrem Zimbalist, Sr., Russian-American violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1985)

• 1892 Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and racing driver (died 1956)

• 1893 Romeo Bertini, Italian runner (died 1973)

• 1897 Odd Lindbäck-Larsen, Norwegian Army general and war historian (died 1975)

• 1898 Maurice Wilson, English soldier, pilot, and mountaineer (died 1934)

• 1899 Randall Thompson, American composer and academic (died 1984)

1901–present

• 1903 Luis Saslavsky, Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1995)

• 1904 Jean Hélion, French painter (died 1987)

• 1904 Odilo Globocnik, Italian-Austrian SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator (died 1945)

• 1905 Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California (died 1996)

• 1911 Ivan Combe, American businessman, developed Clearasil (died 2000)

• 1911 Kemal Satır, Turkish physician and politician (died 1991)

• 1912 Eve Arnold, Russian-American photojournalist (died 2012)

• 1912 Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (died 1982)

• 1913 Norman Parkinson, English photographer (died 1990)

• 1914 Angelo Savoldi, Italian-American wrestler and promoter, co-founded International World Class Championship Wrestling (died 2013)

• 1915 Garrett Hardin, American ecologist, author, and academic (died 2003)

• 1915 Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (died 2001)

• 1916 Estella B. Diggs, American businesswoman and politician (died 2013)

• 1918 Eddy Christiani, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)

• 1919 Don Cornell, American singer (died 2004)

• 1919 Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (died 1981)

• 1919 Licio Gelli, Italian financer (died 2015)

• 1922 Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist and screenwriter (died 1987)

• 1922 Allan Watkins, Welsh-English cricketer (died 2011)

• 1923 John Mortimer, English lawyer and author (died 2009)

• 1924 Ira Louvin, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (died 1965)

• 1925 Anthony Mason, Australian soldier and judge, 9th Chief Justice of Australia (died 2026)

• 1925 John Swinton of Kimmerghame, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire (died 2018)

• 1926 Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and her other realms (died 2022)

• 1926 Arthur Rowley, English footballer, manager, and cricketer (died 2002)

• 1927 Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author (died 1991)

• 1928 Jack Evans, Welsh-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1996)

• 1930 Hilda Hilst, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (died 2004)

• 1930 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (died 1989)

• 1930 Dieter Roth, German-Swiss illustrator and sculptor (died 1998)

• 1930 Jack Taylor, English footballer and referee (died 2012)

• 1931 Morgan Wootten, American high school basketball coach (died 2020)

• 1932 Slide Hampton, African-American trombonist and composer (died 2021)

• 1932 Elaine May, American actress, comedian, director, and screenwriter

• 1932 Angela Mortimer, English tennis player (died 2025)

• 1933 Edelmiro Amante, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 2013)

• 1933 Easley Blackwood, Jr., American pianist, composer, and educator (died 2023)

• 1933 Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi patriarch (died 2014)

• 1935 Charles Grodin, American actor and talk show host (died 2021)

• 1935 Thomas Kean, American academic and politician, 48th Governor of New Jersey

• 1936 James Dobson, American evangelist, psychologist, and author, founded Focus on the Family (died 2025)

• 1936 Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 2009)

• 1937 Gary Peters, American baseball player (died 2023)

• 1937 Ben Zinn, Israeli-born American academic and former international soccer player

• 1939 John McCabe, English pianist and composer (died 2015)

• 1939 Sister Helen Prejean, American nun, activist, and author

• 1939 Reni Santoni, American actor (died 2020)

• 1940 Jacques Caron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1940 Souleymane Cissé, Malian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2025)

• 1941 David Boren, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Oklahoma (died 2025)

• 1942 Geoffrey Palmer, New Zealand politician, 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand

• 1945 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, Indian cricketer and umpire

• 1945 Mark Wainberg, Canadian researcher and HIV/AIDS activist (died 2017)

• 1945 Diana Darvey, English actress, singer and dancer (died 2000)

• 1947 Al Bumbry, American baseball player

• 1947 Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

• 1947 John Weider, English bass player

• 1948 Gary Condit, American businessman and politician

• 1948 Paul Davis, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2008)

• 1948 Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist

• 1948 Dieter Fromm, German runner

• 1949 Patti LuPone, American actress and singer

• 1950 Shivaji Satam, Indian actor

• 1951 Tony Danza, American actor and producer

• 1951 Michael Freedman, American mathematician and academic

• 1951 Bob Varsha, American sportscaster

• 1951 Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1951 Soledad Gallego-Díaz, Spanish journalist (died 2026)

• 1952 Gerald Early, American author and academic

• 1952 Cheryl Gillan, British businesswoman and politician, Secretary of State for Wales (died 2021)

• 1953 John Brumby, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Victoria

• 1954 Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1954 James Morrison, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1954 Mike Wingfield, South African academic and scientist

• 1955 Murathan Mungan, Turkish author, poet, and playwright

• 1956 Peter Kosminsky, English director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1956 Phillip Longman, German-American demographer and journalist

• 1957 Hervé Le Tellier, French linguist and author

• 1957 Herbert Wetterauer, German painter, sculptor, and author

• 1958 Andie MacDowell, American model, actress, and producer

• 1958 Yoshito Usui, Japanese illustrator (died 2009)

• 1958 Michael Zarnock, American author

• 1959 Tim Jacobus, American illustrator and painter

• 1959 Robert Smith, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1961 David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (died 2011)

• 1963 Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (died 2004)

• 1963 John Cameron Mitchell, American actor and director

• 1965 Fiona Kelleghan, American academic, critic and librarian

• 1966 Michael Franti, American singer-songwriter and rapper

• 1969 Toby Stephens, English actor

• 1970 Glen Hansard, Irish singer-songwriter (died 2026)

• 1970 Rob Riggle, American actor and comedian

• 1970 Nicole Sullivan, American actress and comedian

• 1971 Michael Turner, American author and illustrator (died 2008)

• 1973 Steve Backshall, English naturalist, writer, and television presenter

• 1974 David Peachey, Australian rugby league player

• 1975 Danyon Loader, New Zealand swimmer

• 1976 Petero Civoniceva, Fijian-Australian rugby league player

• 1977 Gyula Koi, Hungarian scholar and educator

• 1977 Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater

• 1979 Virginie Basselot, French chef

• 1979 James McAvoy, Scottish actor

• 1980 Tony Romo, American football player and announcer

• 1983 Tarvaris Jackson, American football player (died 2020)

• 1983 Kim Wall, British sprinter

• 1988 Ricky Berens, American swimmer

• 1988 Jencarlos Canela, American singer-songwriter and actor

• 1988 Christoph Sanders, American actor

• 1989 Nikki Cross, Scottish wrestler

• 1991 Frank Dillane, British actor

• 1992 Isco, Spanish footballer

• 1992 Joc Pederson, American baseball player

• 1994 Ludwig Augustinsson, Swedish footballer

• 1995 Ana Grozdanović, Serbian politician

• 1996 Arianne Hartono, Dutch tennis player

• 1997 Mikel Oyarzabal, Spanish footballer

• 1998 Jarrett Allen, American basketball player

• 1999 Choi Hyun-suk, South Korean rapper

• 2003 Xavi Simons, Dutch footballer

• 2007 Princess Isabella of Denmark, daughter of King Frederik X and Queen Mary of Denmark

• 2008 Hyein, South Korean singer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 234 Emperor Xian of Han, Chinese emperor (born 181)

• 586 Liuvigild, king of the Visigoths

• 847 Odgar, Frankish archbishop of Mainz

• 866 Bardas, de facto regent of the Byzantine Empire

• 941 Bajkam, de facto regent of the Abbasid Caliphate

• 1073 Pope Alexander II

• 1109 Anselm of Canterbury, Italian-English archbishop and saint (born 1033)

• 1136 Stephen, Count of Tréguier Breton noblemen (born )

• 1142 Peter Abelard, French philosopher and theologian (born 1079)

• 1213 Maria of Montpellier, Lady of Montpellier, Queen of Aragon (born 1182)

• 1329 Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (born 1282)

• 1400 John Wittlebury, English politician (born 1333)

• 1509 Henry VII of England (born 1457)

• 1557 Petrus Apianus, German mathematician and astronomer (born 1495)

• 1574 Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1519)

• 1591 Sen no Rikyū, Japanese exponent of the tea ceremony (born 1522)

1601–1900

• 1650 Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (born 1607)

• 1668 Jan Boeckhorst, Flemish painter (born )

• 1699 Jean Racine, French playwright and poet (born 1639)

• 1719 Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (born 1640)

• 1720 Antoine Hamilton, Irish-French soldier and author (born 1646)

• 1722 Robert Beverley, Jr., English historian and author (born 1673)

• 1736 Prince Eugene of Savoy (born 1663)

• 1740 Thomas Tickell, English poet and author (born 1685)

• 1758 Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (born 1679)

• 1815 Joseph Winston, American soldier and politician (born 1746)

• 1825 Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic (born 1765)

• 1852 Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (born 1787)

• 1863 Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (born 1782)

• 1900 Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (born 1819)

1901–present

• 1910 Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (born 1835)

• 1918 Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot, known popularly as the Red Baron (born 1892)

• 1924 Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (born 1858)

• 1930 Robert Bridges, English poet and author (born 1844)

• 1932 Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (born 1864)

• 1938 Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani National philosopher and poet (born 1877)

• 1941 Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (born 1875)

• 1945 Walter Model, German field marshal (born 1891)

• 1946 John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (born 1883)

• 1947 Meir Feinstein (born 1929, disputed) with Moshe Barazani (born 1927), suicide militants.

• 1948 Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (born 1887)

• 1952 Leslie Banks, American actor, director and producer (born 1890)

• 1954 Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (born 1897)

• 1956 Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1895)

• 1965 Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)

• 1971 François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (born 1907)

• 1973 Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1894)

• 1973 Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (born 1910)

• 1977 Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian and talent agent (born 1892)

• 1978 Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (born 1947)

• 1978 Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and academic (born 1877)

• 1980 Alexander Oparin, Russian biochemist and academic (born 1894)

• 1980 Sohrab Sepehri, Iranian poet and painter (born 1928)

• 1983 Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor and singer (born 1902)

• 1984 Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (born 1895)

• 1984 Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian engineer and mountaineer (born 1943)

• 1985 Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer, created the monokini (born 1922)

• 1985 Tancredo Neves, Brazilian banker and politician, Prime Minister of Brazil (born 1910)

• 1986 Marjorie Eaton, American painter and actress (born 1901)

• 1986 Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, playwright, and composer (born 1930)

• 1987 Gustav Bergmann, Austrian-American philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1906)

• 1990 Erté, Russian-French illustrator (born 1892)

• 1991 Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (born 1909)

• 1992 Väinö Linna, Finnish author (born 1920)

• 1996 Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (born 1925)

• 1996 Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (born 1919)

• 1997 Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines (born 1910)

• 1998 Jean-François Lyotard, French sociologist and philosopher (born 1924)

• 1999 Buddy Rogers, American actor (born 1904)

• 2003 Nina Simone, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and activist (born 1933)

• 2005 Zhang Chunqiao, Chinese writer and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1917)

• 2010 Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)

• 2010 Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish businessman, seventh President of the International Olympic Committee (born 1920)

• 2010 Kanagaratnam Sriskandan, Sri Lankan-English engineer and civil servant (born 1930)

• 2011 Catharina Halkes, Dutch theologian and academic (born 1920)

• 2012 Doris Betts, American author and academic (born 1932)

• 2013 Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (born 1929)

• 2013 Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, author, and educator (born 1905)

• 2014 George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (born 1936)

• 2014 Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (born 1930)

• 2016 Prince, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (born 1958)

• 2017 Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer (born 1972)

• 2018 Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian (born 1900)

• 2019 Polly Higgins, Scottish barrister, author and environmental lobbyist (born 1968)

• 2024 Terry A. Anderson, American journalist (born 1947)

• 2025 Pope Francis (born 1936)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Abdecalas

• Anastasius Sinaita

• Anselm of Canterbury

• Conrad of Parzham

• Holy Infant of Good Health

• Máel Ruba

• Shemon Bar Sabbae

• Wolbodo

• April 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Natale di Roma (Rome)

• Parilia (ancient Rome)

• Civil Service Day (India)

• Grounation Day (Rastafari)

• National Tea Day (United Kingdom)

• National Tree Planting Day (Kenya)

• San Jacinto Day (Texas)

References

Sources

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on April 21