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What happend on 15. April in History
In our data base we found 374 events happened on 15. April:
• 769: The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings. [category: Events]
• 1053: Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001) [category: Deaths]
• 1071: Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard. [category: Events]
• 1220: Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne (b. 1157) [category: Deaths]
• 1395: Tokhtamysh–Timur war: Battle of the Terek River: Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Volga. The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne. Tokhtamysh escapes to Lithuania. [category: Events]
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• 1415: Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian (b. 1355) [category: Deaths]
• 1446: Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377) [category: Deaths]
• 1450: Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France. [category: Events]
• 1452: Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519) [category: Births]
• 1469: Guru Nanak Dev, Indian religious leader, founder of the religion of Sikhism and the first of the ten Sikh Gurus (d. 1539) [category: Births]
• 1489: Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588) [category: Births]
• 1552: Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626) [category: Births]
• 1588: Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (d. 1653) [category: Births]
• 1610: Robert Parsons, English priest (b. 1546) [category: Deaths]
• 1621: John Carver, English merchant, first governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1576) [category: Deaths]
• 1632: George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, English politician and colonizer (b. 1580) [category: Deaths]
• 1632: Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. [category: Events]
• 1638: Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels. [category: Events]
• 1641: Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722) [category: Births]
• 1641: Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581) [category: Deaths]
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• 1642: Suleiman II, Ottoman sultan (d. 1691) [category: Births]
• 1642: Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of the British Army. [category: Events]
• 1646: Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699) [category: Births]
• 1646: Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719) [category: Births]
• 1652: Patriarch Joseph, Russian religious leader [category: Deaths]
• 1659: Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605) [category: Deaths]
• 1684: Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727) [category: Births]
• 1688: Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758) [category: Births]
• 1704: Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628) [category: Deaths]
• 1707: Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783) [category: Births]
• 1710: William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790) [category: Births]
• 1715: Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. [category: Events]
• 1719: Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635) [category: Deaths]
• 1721: Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765) [category: Births]
• 1738: Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. [category: Events]
• 1741: Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827) [category: Births]
• 1754: Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676) [category: Deaths]
• 1755: Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London. [category: Events]
• 1761: Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682) [category: Deaths]
• 1761: William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696) [category: Deaths]
• 1764: Madame de Pompadour, French court, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721) [category: Deaths]
• 1764: Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (b. 1679) [category: Deaths]
• 1765: Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1772: Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844) [category: Births]
• 1783: Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified. [category: Events]
• 1788: Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711) [category: Deaths]
• 1793: Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1793: Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian missionary and geographer (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867) [category: Births]
• 1800: James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862) [category: Births]
• 1802: William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. [category: Events]
• 1804: Charles Pichegru, French general (b. 1761) [category: Deaths]
• 1809: Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1817: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut. [category: Events]
• 1828: Jean Danjou, French Foreign Legion officer (d. 1863) [category: Births]
• 1832: Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1841: Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian politician, philanthropist, and founder of the Seagram Company Ltd (d. 1919) [category: Births]
• 1843: Henry James, American author (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1854: Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773) [category: Deaths]
• 1856: Jean Moréas, Greek poet (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1858: Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1861: Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1861: Sylvester Jordan, German politician and lawyer (b. 1792) [category: Deaths]
• 1865: Abraham Lincoln, American politician, 16th President of the United States (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1865: Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. [category: Events]
• 1874: George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1874: Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1875: James J. Jeffries, American boxer (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1878: Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1879: Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1883: Stanley Bruce, Australian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1885: Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1886: Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1888: Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1888: Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822) [category: Deaths]
• 1889: A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1889: Thomas Hart Benton, American painter (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1889: Father Damien, Flemish missionary (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1892: Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1892: Theo Osterkamp, German fighter pilot (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1892: The General Electric Company is formed. [category: Events]
• 1894: Bessie Smith, American singer (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1894: Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1895: Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1896: Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1896: Robert Henry Best, South Carolina-born broadcaster of Nazi propaganda convicted of treason in 1948 (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1896: Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece. [category: Events]
• 1898: Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader [category: Deaths]
• 1900: Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines. [category: Events]
• 1901: Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1902: Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1904: Arshile Gorky, Armenian artist (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1907: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1908: Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1908: Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1910: Miguel Najdorf, Argentine chess grandmaster (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1912: Kim Il-sung, Korean politician, Eternal President of North Korea (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1912: Benjamin Guggenheim American businessman (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Edward Smith, English navy officer and captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Henry Tingle Wilde, English chief officer (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Isidor Straus co-owner of Macy's department store and former Congressman from New York (b. 1845) and his wife Ida (b. 1849) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Jack Phillips, British wireless telegraphist (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Jacques Futrelle, American journalist and mystery writer (b. 1875) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: James Paul Moody, English sixth officer (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: John Jacob Astor IV, American businessman, real estate builder, investor, inventor and writer (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: John Thayer, American cricket player (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Thomas Andrews, Irish businessman and shipbuilder (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster [category: Deaths]
• 1912: Wallace Hartley, English violinist (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish sailor and first officer (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: William T. Stead English author and journalist (b. 1849) [category: Deaths]
• 1912: The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survived. [category: Events]
• 1916: Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American heir and businessman (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1917: Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1917: James Kee, American politician (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1917: János Murkovics, Slovene writer and teacher (b. 1839) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Alberto Breccia, Uruguay-Argentine illustrator and writer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1920: René Pleven, French politician (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1920: Richard von Weizsäcker, German politician, President of Germany [category: Births]
• 1920: Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1920: Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy. [category: Events]
• 1921: Angelo DiGeorge, Italian-American pediatric endocrinologist (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1921: Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1921: Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England. [category: Events]
• 1922: Harold Washington, American politician (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1922: Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor [category: Births]
• 1922: U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal. [category: Events]
• 1923: Robert DePugh, American anti-Communist activist (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1923: Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. [category: Events]
• 1924: Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor [category: Births]
• 1924: Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. [category: Events]
• 1927: Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1927: Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins. [category: Events]
• 1929: Gérald Beaudoin, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1930: Georges Descrières, French actor [category: Births]
• 1930: Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, Icelandic politician, President of Iceland [category: Births]
• 1931: Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish writer, poet and translator, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature [category: Births]
• 1933: David Hamilton, British photographer, director and producer [category: Births]
• 1933: Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1933: Jim Towers, English footballer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1933: Roy Clark, American singer, musician, and television host [category: Births]
• 1935: Stavros Paravas, Greek actor [category: Births]
• 1935: Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C. [category: Events]
• 1936: Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist [category: Births]
• 1936: Aer Lingus (Aer Loingeas) is founded by the Irish government as the national airline of the Republic of Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1936: First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine. [category: Events]
• 1937: Bob Luman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1938: Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician [category: Births]
• 1938: César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian actress [category: Births]
• 1939: Marty Wilde, British singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1940: Jeffrey Archer, British author [category: Births]
• 1940: Robert Lacroix, French-Canadian professor [category: Births]
• 1940: Robert Walker Jr., American actor [category: Births]
• 1940: Willie Davis, American baseball player (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1940: Woodie Fryman, American baseball player (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1940: Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1940: The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany. [category: Events]
• 1941: Howard Berman, American politician [category: Births]
• 1941: In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people. [category: Events]
• 1942: Francis X. DiLorenzo, American bishop [category: Births]
• 1942: Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1942: Walt Hazzard, American basketball player (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1942: Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: The George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta – its people and defenders" by King George VI. [category: Events]
• 1943: Robert Lefkowitz, American physician, NobelPrize laureate [category: Births]
• 1943: Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians. [category: Events]
• 1944: Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician and producer (Love Sculpture and Rockpile) [category: Births]
• 1944: Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader, first President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1944: Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Soviet general (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Hermann Florstedt, German Nazi leader (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. [category: Events]
• 1946: Michael Tucci, American actor [category: Births]
• 1946: Pete Rouse, American political consultant [category: Births]
• 1947: Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American television producer and writer [category: Births]
• 1947: Lois Chiles, American actress [category: Births]
• 1947: Mike Chapman, British songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1947: Woolly Wolstenholme, British musician (Barclay James Harvest) [category: Births]
• 1947: Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. [category: Events]
• 1948: Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1948: Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer [category: Births]
• 1949: Craig Zadan, American producer, director, and writer [category: Births]
• 1949: Tonio K, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1949: Wallace Beery, American actor (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Amy Wright, American actress [category: Births]
• 1950: Josiane Balasko, French actress, director, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1951: Heloise, American columnist [category: Births]
• 1951: John L. Phillips, American astronaut [category: Births]
• 1952: Avital Ronell, American philosopher [category: Births]
• 1952: Bengt Gingsjö, Swedish swimmer [category: Births]
• 1952: Brian Muir, British sculptor and designer [category: Births]
• 1952: Glenn Shadix, American actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian [category: Births]
• 1952: Sam McMurray, American actor [category: Births]
• 1952: The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress [category: Events]
• 1953: Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1954: Seka, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1955: Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian film producer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1955: McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois [category: Events]
• 1956: Michael Cooper, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1957: Evelyn Ashford, American athlete [category: Births]
• 1957: Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city. [category: Events]
• 1958: Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer [category: Births]
• 1958: Dolores Gordon-Smith, British writer [category: Births]
• 1958: Keith Acton, Canadian hockey player and coach [category: Births]
• 1958: Memos Ioannou, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1958: Noni Ιoannidou, Greek model and actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Emma Thompson, English actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Fruit Chan, Hong Kong director [category: Births]
• 1959: Kevin Lowe, Canadian hockey player and manager [category: Births]
• 1959: Thomas F. Wilson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist [category: Births]
• 1960: Pierre Aubry, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1960: Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant [category: Births]
• 1960: Susanne Bier, Danish director [category: Births]
• 1960: Tony Jones, English snooker player [category: Births]
• 1960: At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. [category: Events]
• 1962: Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan hurdler [category: Births]
• 1962: Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi singer [category: Births]
• 1962: Tom Kane, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and writer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Bobby Pepper, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1963: Edward Greeves, Australian footballer (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Linda Perry, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (4 Non Blondes) [category: Births]
• 1966: Samantha Fox, English model, singer, and actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Dara Torres, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1967: Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness) [category: Births]
• 1967: Totò, Italian comedian, actor, writer, singer, and songwriter (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Ed O'Brien, British musician and songwriter (Radiohead) [category: Births]
• 1968: Stacey Williams, American model [category: Births]
• 1969: Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1969: Jimmy Waite, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1969: Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board. [category: Events]
• 1970: Flex Alexander, American actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam. [category: Events]
• 1971: Jason Sehorn, American football player [category: Births]
• 1971: Kate Harbour, English voice actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Katy Hill, British television presenter [category: Births]
• 1971: Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1972: Lou Romano, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Danny Pino, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Douglas Spain, American actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Keith Malley, American comedian and podcaster [category: Births]
• 1974: Mike Quinn, American football player [category: Births]
• 1974: Tim Thomas, American hockey player [category: Births]
• 1974: Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1975: Phil Labonte, American singer and guitarist (All That Remains and Shadows Fall) [category: Births]
• 1975: Richard Conte, American actor (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Jason Bonsignore, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: Susan Ward, American actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Brian Pothier, American hockey player [category: Births]
• 1977: Sudarshan Pattnaik, Indian Sand artist [category: Births]
• 1978: Austin Aries, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1978: Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican singer and composer [category: Births]
• 1978: Milton Bradley, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Tim Corcoran, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Aida Mollenkamp, American chef and writer [category: Births]
• 1980: Billy Yates, American football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist [category: Births]
• 1980: James Foster, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1980: Michelle L'amour, American burlesque performer [category: Births]
• 1980: Natalie Casey, British actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Raúl López, Spanish basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Willie Mason, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1980: Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Seth Wulsin, American artist [category: Births]
• 1982: Albert Riera, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Anthony Green, American singer-songwriter and musician (Circa Survive, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Saosin, High and Driving, and Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer) [category: Births]
• 1982: Michael Aubrey, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer [category: Births]
• 1982: Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Alice Braga, Brazilian actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Blu, American rapper and producer (All City Chess Club) [category: Births]
• 1983: Bronson La'Cassie, Australian golfer [category: Births]
• 1983: Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1983: Martin Pedersen, Danish cyclist [category: Births]
• 1983: Matt Cardle, British singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1983: Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: John Engstead, American photographer (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Ben Kasica, American guitarist and producer (Skillet) [category: Births]
• 1984: Cam Janssen, American hockey player [category: Births]
• 1984: Daniel Paille, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1984: Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Aaron Laffey, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Amy Reid, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1985: Chris Cates, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Diana Zubiri, Filipina actress [category: Births]
• 1985: John Danks, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Ghanaian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Sylvain Marveaux, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Tom Heaton, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen. [category: Events]
• 1987: Iyaz, Virgin Islander singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1987: Sapphire Elia, English actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Eliza Doolittle, English singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1988: Emily Parr, English actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Thomas Albanese, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Yann David, French rugby player [category: Births]
• 1988: Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Youri Egorov, Soviet pianist (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Andre Kinney, American actor [category: Births]
• 1989: Charles Vanel, French actor (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi Final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans. [category: Events]
• 1989: Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China. [category: Events]
• 1990: Emma Watson, English actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Daiki Arioka, Japanese actor and singer (Hey! Say! JUMP) [category: Births]
• 1992: Amy Diamond, Swedish singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1992: John Guidetti, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Kimberly Dos Ramos, Venezuelan actress, model, and singer [category: Births]
• 1992: Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder, martial artist, and actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Otis Barton, American diver (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. [category: Events]
• 1993: Madeleine Martin, American actress [category: Births]
• 1993: John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Leslie Charteris, Singapore author (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: John Curry, English figure skater (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995). [category: Events]
• 1995: Harry Shoulberg, American painter (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Maisie Williams, English actress [category: Births]
• 1998: Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Sharlene San Pedro, Filipino actress [category: Births]
• 1999: Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and race car designer (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Ramones and Sniper) (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and United States Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Reg Bundy, British drag queen, actor, and dancer (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Ray Condo, Canadian singer and musician (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: John Fred, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Benoît Lamy, Belgian director (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Krister Stendahl, Swedish theologian and bishop (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Sean Costello, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1979) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Clement Freud, British writer and broadcaster (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Ed Blake, American baseball player (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: László Tisza, Hungarian-American physicist (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian activist (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Dwayne Schintzius, American basketball player (b. 1968) [category: Deaths]
• _: Abbo II of Metz [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: April 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Arirang Festival (North Korea) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Sechseläuten can fall, while April 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Monday in April. (Zurich) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Father Damien Day (Hawaii) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Fordicidia (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hillsborough Disaster Memorial (Anfield at Liverpool) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hunna [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Jackie Robinson Day (Major League Baseball) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Latest day on which New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures can fall. (see April 14) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Paternus of Avranches [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Tax Day, the official deadline for filing an individual tax return (or requesting an extension). (United States, Philippines) [category: Holidays and observances]