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What happend on 13. April in History
In our data base we found 372 events happened on 13. April:
• 548: Ly Nam De, emperor of Vietnam (b. 503) [category: Deaths]
• 799: Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicler (b. c. 720) [category: Deaths]
• 814: Krum, ruler (Khan) of Bulgaria [category: Deaths]
• 1093: Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030) [category: Deaths]
• 1111: Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. [category: Events]
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• 1204: Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. [category: Events]
• 1506: Peter Faber, French theologian (d. 1546) [category: Births]
• 1519: Catherine de' Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589) [category: Births]
• 1570: Guy Fawkes, English conspirator, planned the failed Gunpowder Plot (d. 1606) [category: Births]
• 1573: Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1625) [category: Births]
• 1593: Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641) [category: Births]
• 1598: Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.) [category: Events]
• 1605: Boris Godunov Tsar of Russia (b. c. 1551) [category: Deaths]
• 1612: Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai [category: Deaths]
• 1612: Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island. [category: Events]
• 1613: Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father. She is brought to Henricus as hostage. [category: Events]
• 1618: Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693) [category: Births]
• 1635: Fakhr-al-Din II (b. 1572) [category: Deaths]
• 1638: Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579) [category: Deaths]
• 1641: Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577) [category: Deaths]
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• 1695: Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621) [category: Deaths]
• 1713: Pierre Jélyotte, French operatic tenor (d. 1797) [category: Births]
• 1722: Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (b. 1650) [category: Deaths]
• 1729: Thomas Percy, Bishop and magazine editor (d. 1811) [category: Births]
• 1732: Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792) [category: Births]
• 1735: Isaac Low, American merchan, founder and the first president of the New York Chamber of Commerce (d. 1791) [category: Births]
• 1742: George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1743: Thomas Jefferson, American politician, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826) [category: Births]
• 1747: Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793) [category: Births]
• 1762: Charles Frederick Horn, English musician and composer (d. 1830) [category: Births]
• 1764: Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830) [category: Births]
• 1769: Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830) [category: Births]
• 1771: Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor (d. 1833) [category: Births]
• 1776: American Revolutionary War: American forces are surprised in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey. [category: Events]
• 1780: Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868) [category: Births]
• 1784: Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1787: John Robertson, American politician (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1793: Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French politician (b. 1763) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741) [category: Deaths]
• 1796: The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India. [category: Events]
• 1802: Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884) [category: Births]
• 1808: Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1824: William Alexander, Irish bishop (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1825: Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868) [category: Births]
• 1826: Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763) [category: Deaths]
• 1828: Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1829: The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament. [category: Events]
• 1832: Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1841: Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905) [category: Births]
• 1849: Hungary becomes a republic. [category: Events]
• 1850: Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1851: Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928) [category: Births]
• 1852: F.W. Woolworth, American businessman, founder of the F.W. Woolworth Company (d. 1919) [category: Births]
• 1853: James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788) [category: Deaths]
• 1853: Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788) [category: Deaths]
• 1855: Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796) [category: Deaths]
• 1860: James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1861: American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces. [category: Events]
• 1866: Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1868: Tewodros II of Ethiopia (b. 1818) [category: Deaths]
• 1868: The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Maqdala. [category: Events]
• 1870: The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded. [category: Events]
• 1872: Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1873: John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1873: The Colfax Massacre takes place. [category: Events]
• 1875: Ray Lyman Wilbur, American politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior and 3rd President of Stanford University (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1879: Edward Bruce, American lawyer and entrepreneur (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1880: Charles Christie, Canadian movie studio owner (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1880: Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813) [category: Deaths]
• 1882: Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher and critic (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1885: Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1886: John Humphrey Noyes, American political and religious figure (b. 1811) [category: Deaths]
• 1887: Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1887: Peter Ratican, American soccer player (d. 1922) [category: Births]
• 1889: Herbert Osborne Yardley, American cryptographer (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1890: Dadasaheb Torne, Indian filmmaker, released first film in India (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1890: Frank Murphy, American politician, 35th Governor of Michigan, 56th United States Attorney General and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1890: Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1891: Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1891: Robert Scholl, German politician, father of Hans and Sophie Scholl (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1892: Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor, invented the Radar (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1892: Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, British Air Force commander (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1894: Arthur Fadden, Australian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1897: Werner Voss, German pilot (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1899: Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and invented Scrabble (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1900: Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1901: Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1902: Marguerite Henry, American author (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1902: Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver and wine grower (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1902: James C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. [category: Events]
• 1904: David Robinson, British entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1906: Bud Freeman, American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1906: Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1907: Harold Stassen, American politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1909: Eudora Welty, American writer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1909: Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1909: Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: The Turkish military reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. [category: Events]
• 1910: William Quiller Orchardson, British painter (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1911: Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1911: George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: John McLane, American politician (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: Kermit Tyler, American air force officer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1916: Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist, and publisher (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1917: Robert Orville Anderson, American businessman, founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1918: Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Howard Keel, American actor and singer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1919: Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American activist, founder of the organization American Atheists (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1919: Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1919: Roland Gaucher, French journalist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1919: Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I. [category: Events]
• 1919: Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 are wounded. [category: Events]
• 1919: The establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea. [category: Events]
• 1920: Claude Cheysson, French politician [category: Births]
• 1920: John LaPorta, American jazz musician (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1920: Liam Cosgrave, Irish politician [category: Births]
• 1920: Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1922: Heinz Baas, German footballer (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1922: John Braine, English novelist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1922: Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian president (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1923: Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1923: Stanley Tanger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1924: Jack Chick, American evangelist [category: Births]
• 1924: Stanley Donen, American director [category: Births]
• 1925: Frederik Buch, Danish actor (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1926: John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough [category: Births]
• 1927: Maurice Ronet, French actor (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1927: Georg Voigt, German politician (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1931: Arturo Rodenak, Argentinian-Chilean footballer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1931: Dan Gurney, American race car driver [category: Births]
• 1931: Jon Stone, American writer and producer, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1931: Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1932: Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1933: Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American politician [category: Births]
• 1935: Lyle Waggoner, American actor [category: Births]
• 1936: Pierre Rosenberg, French historian [category: Births]
• 1936: Konstantinos Demertzis, Greek politician Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Milton Brown, American bandleader and vocalist (Light Crust Doughboys) (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Edward Fox, English actor [category: Births]
• 1937: Lanford Wilson, American playwright (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1938: Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and writer (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: Paul Sorvino, American actor [category: Births]
• 1939: Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1940: J.M.G. Le Clézio, French novelist, Nobel laureate. [category: Births]
• 1940: Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1940: Max Mosley, British race car driver and engineer [category: Births]
• 1940: Mike Beuttler, British race car driver (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1940: Vladimir Cosma, Romanian composer [category: Births]
• 1941: Jean-Marc Reiser, French artist and writer (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1941: Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, Nobel laureate [category: Births]
• 1941: Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: William Twaits, Canadian football player (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed. [category: Events]
• 1942: Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer [category: Births]
• 1942: Bill Conti, American composer [category: Births]
• 1942: Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Henk Sneevliet, Dutch communist (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: Billy Kidd, American skier [category: Births]
• 1943: The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth. [category: Events]
• 1943: World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. [category: Events]
• 1944: Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1944: Charles Burnett, American director [category: Births]
• 1944: Jack Casady, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and Jefferson Starship) [category: Births]
• 1944: Susan Davis, American politician [category: Births]
• 1944: Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established. [category: Events]
• 1945: Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1945: Charles Robinson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Judy Nunn, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1945: Lowell George, American singer, guitarist, and producer (Little Feat and Mothers of Invention) (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1945: Tony Dow, American actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany. [category: Events]
• 1945: World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna, Austria. [category: Events]
• 1946: Al Green, American singer and pastor [category: Births]
• 1947: Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer and minister [category: Births]
• 1948: Drago Jančar, Slovenian writer [category: Births]
• 1948: Nam Hae-il, Korean chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy [category: Births]
• 1948: Sue Doughty, British politician [category: Births]
• 1948: The Hadassah medical convoy massacre: In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem. [category: Events]
• 1949: Christopher Hitchens, English journalist, critic, and author (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1949: Frank Doran, Scottish politician [category: Births]
• 1949: Ricardo Zunino, Argentine race car driver [category: Births]
• 1950: Ron Perlman, American actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Terry Lester, American actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1950: William Sadler, American actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Joachim Streich, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1951: Max Weinberg, American drummer (E Street Band) [category: Births]
• 1951: Peabo Bryson, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1951: Peter Davison, English actor [category: Births]
• 1952: David Drew, British politician [category: Births]
• 1952: Erick Avari, British-Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Ron Dittemore, American space administrator [category: Births]
• 1953: Dany Laferrière, Canadian novelist [category: Births]
• 1953: Stephen Byers, British politician [category: Births]
• 1953: CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA. [category: Events]
• 1954: Barbara Roche, British politician [category: Births]
• 1954: Jimmy Destri, American musician and songwriter (Blondie) [category: Births]
• 1954: Niels "Noller" Olsen, Danish singer (Olsen Brothers) [category: Births]
• 1954: Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Samuel Jones, American athlete (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer [category: Births]
• 1955: Ole von Beust, German politician, 1st Mayor of Hamburg [category: Births]
• 1955: Steve Camp, American singer and musician [category: Births]
• 1956: Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1956: Emil Nolde, German painter and printmaker (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Amy Goodman, American activist [category: Births]
• 1957: Dallas Moir, Scottish cricketer [category: Births]
• 1957: Gary Kroeger, American actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Saundra Santiago, American actress [category: Births]
• 1958: During the Cold War, American Van Cliburn wins the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. [category: Events]
• 1959: Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Bob Casey, Jr., American senator [category: Births]
• 1960: Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist [category: Births]
• 1960: Rudi Völler, German football manager [category: Births]
• 1960: The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system. [category: Events]
• 1961: Hiro Yamamoto, American bassist (Soundgarden and Truly) [category: Births]
• 1961: John A. Bennett, American soldier (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Dave Miley, former baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1962: Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers and What Is This?) (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1962: Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player [category: Births]
• 1964: Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1964: Davis Love III, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1964: At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field. [category: Events]
• 1965: Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect [category: Births]
• 1966: Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian football player [category: Births]
• 1966: Mando, Greek singer [category: Births]
• 1966: Marc Ford, American guitarist (The Black Crowes and Burning Tree) [category: Births]
• 1966: Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Dana Barros, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer (Chantelle) [category: Births]
• 1967: Nicole Berger, French actress (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Dirk Muschiol, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Monty Brown, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1970: Ricardo Rincon, Mexican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1970: Rick Schroder, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast [category: Births]
• 1970: An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon. [category: Events]
• 1971: Bo Outlaw, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Dina Korzun, Russian actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Valensia, Dutch singer, musician, composer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1971: Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Michel Brière, Canadian hockey player (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Aaron Lewis, American singer and guitarist (Staind) [category: Births]
• 1972: Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish hockey player [category: Births]
• 1972: The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan. [category: Events]
• 1972: Vietnam War: The Battle of An Lộc begins. [category: Events]
• 1973: Bokeem Woodbine, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Darren Turner, British race car driver [category: Births]
• 1974: David Schurmann, Brazilian director [category: Births]
• 1974: David Zdrilić, Australian footballar [category: Births]
• 1974: Sergei Gonchar, Russian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1974: Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1. [category: Events]
• 1975: Bruce Dyer, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: David Philip Hefti, Swiss composer and conductor [category: Births]
• 1975: Jasey-Jay Anderson, Canadian snowboarder [category: Births]
• 1975: Lou Bega, German singer [category: Births]
• 1975: François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Bus massacre in Lebanon: An attack by the Phalangist resistance kills 26 militia members of the P.F.L. of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. [category: Events]
• 1976: Glenn Howerton, American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1976: Patrik Eliáš, Czech hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: Valentina Cervi, Italian actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor [category: Births]
• 1976: The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. [category: Events]
• 1977: Jeff Stearns, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Arron Asham, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1978: Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Chris Sligh, American singer, songwriter, and producer (Half Past Forever) [category: Births]
• 1978: James Jordan, English dancer [category: Births]
• 1978: Keydrick Vincent, American football player [category: Births]
• 1978: Kyle Howard, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Nick Garrett, English singer (The Swingle Singers and Amici Forever) [category: Births]
• 1978: Raemon Sluiter, Dutch tennis player [category: Births]
• 1978: Sylvie van der Vaart, Dutch model [category: Births]
• 1978: Jack Chambers, Canadian artist and filmmaker (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Baron Davis, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Gréta Arn, Hungarian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1979: Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1979: Murat Yıldırım, Turkish actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Tony Lundon, Irish singer-songwriter and dancer (Liberty X) [category: Births]
• 1980: Alan Melikdjanian, Latvian-American actor, director, and producer [category: Births]
• 1980: Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress, producer, director, and writer [category: Births]
• 1980: Jana Cova, Czech porn actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Kelli Giddish, American actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Quentin Richardson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Markus Höttinger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Bryan Scott, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Courtney Peldon, American actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Nat Borchers, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1981: Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Nellie McKay, American singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Tim Hamilton, Czech porn actor and model [category: Births]
• 1983: Claudia Rossi, Slovak porn actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Derek Lee Nixon, American actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Heidi Anderson, American voice actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Hunter Pence, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Schalk Burger, South African rugby player [category: Births]
• 1983: Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Matthew Needham, English actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician, musicologist, and harpsichordist (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Richard Hurndall, British actor (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control. [category: Events]
• 1985: Anna Jennings-Edquist, Australian actress, playwright, and director [category: Births]
• 1986: Stephen Stucker, American actor (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Brandon Hardesty, American comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1987: Massimiliano Pesenti, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999. [category: Events]
• 1988: Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Kallie Flynn Childress, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1988: Sam Loeb, American writer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1988: Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Alyssa Mendonsa, Delhi singer [category: Births]
• 1991: Ulises Dávila, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist, businessman and politician (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: The Great Chicago Flood. [category: Events]
• 1993: Hannah Marks, American actress [category: Births]
• 1993: Heather Cave, English actress [category: Births]
• 1993: Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Ángelo Henríquez, Chilean footballer [category: Births]
• 1996: James Burke, American gangster (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Leila Mackinlay, British writer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Luke Gair, Canadian actor and dancer [category: Births]
• 1997: Bryant Bowles, American white supremacist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament. [category: Events]
• 1998: Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver, skysurfer, and BASE jumper (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Robert Moon, American postal inspector, created the ZIP Code (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Desmond Titterington, Irish race car driver (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Caron Keating, British-Irish television presenter (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer-songwriter (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Don Selwyn, New Zealand actor and director (b. c. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Bruce Snyder, American football coach (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani human rights activist and pilot (b.1942) [category: Deaths]
• 70_bc: Gaius Maecenas, Roman politician {d. 8 BC} [category: Births]
• _: April 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cambodian New Year (Cambodia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: First day of Songkan (Laos) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: First day of Songkran (Thailand) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hermenegild [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Jefferson's Birthday (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures. (see April 14): [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Martin I [category: Holidays and observances]