45 Events
140 Births
67 Deaths
- 2019 A redacted version of the Mueller report is released to the United States Congress and the public. ↗
- 2018 King Mswati III of Swaziland announces that his country's name will change to Eswatini. ↗
- 2018 Anti-government protests start in Nicaragua. ↗
- 1996 The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more. ↗
- 1988 The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II. ↗
- 1988 In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned. ↗
- 1980 The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency. ↗
- 1980 The town of Elmore City, Oklahoma holds its first dance in the town's history. ↗
- 1972 East African Airways Flight 720 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 43. ↗
- 1955 Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference. ↗
- 1954 Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt. ↗
- 1949 The Republic of Ireland Act comes into force, declaring Éire to be a republic and severing Ireland's "association" with the Commonwealth of Nations. ↗
- 1947 The Operation Big Bang, the largest non-nuclear man-made explosion to that time, destroys bunkers and military installations on the North Sea island of Heligoland, Germany. ↗
- 1946 The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands. ↗
- 1946 Jackie Robinson makes his regular season debut for the Montreal Royals of the International League, to make them the first integrated modern professional baseball team. ↗
- 1945 World War II: Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany. ↗
- 1945 Italian resistance movement: In Turin, despite the harsh repressive measures adopted by Nazi-fascists, a great pre-insurrectional strike begins. ↗
- 1943 World War II: Operation Vengeance, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island. ↗
- 1942 World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed. ↗
- 1942 Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France. ↗
- 1939 Robert Menzies, who became Australia's longest-serving prime minister, is elected as leader of the United Australia Party after the death of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. ↗
- 1938 Superman debuts in Action Comics #1 (cover dated June 1938). ↗
- 1930 A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services. ↗
- 1916 World War I: During a mine warfare in high altitude on the Dolomites, the Italian troops conquer the Col di Lana held by the Austrian army. ↗
- 1915 World War I: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines. ↗
- 1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City. ↗
- 1909 Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome. ↗
- 1906 The 7.9 Mw earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disasters in American history. ↗
- 1902 The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800 and 2,000. ↗
- 1899 The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria. ↗
- 1897 The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. ↗
- 1864 Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement. ↗
- 1857 "The Spirits Book" by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France. ↗
- 1847 American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico. ↗
- 1831 The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. ↗
- 1797 War of the First Coalition: The Peace of Leoben is signed by Napoleon Bonaparte and Maximilian, Count of Merveldt, creating an armistice between France and Austria, setting the stage for the Treaty of Campo Formio and ending the War of the First Coalition.[citation needed] ↗
- 1783 Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three-fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution. ↗
- 1775 American Revolution: The British Army advances up the Charles River in Massachusetts to destroy supplies of American militias, while Paul Revere and other riders rapidly warn the countryside. ↗
- 1738 Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid. ↗
- 1689 Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros. ↗
- 1521 Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication. ↗
- 1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland. ↗
- 1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid. ↗
- 1428 Peace of Ferrara between Republic of Venice, Duchy of Milan, Republic of Florence and House of Gonzaga: ending of the second campaign of the Wars in Lombardy fought until the Treaty of Lodi in 1454, which will then guarantee the conditions for the development of the Italian Renaissance. ↗
- 796 King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days. ↗
- 2001 PinkPantheress, English singer, songwriter, and record producer ↗
- 1996 Ski Mask the Slump God, American rapper ↗
- 1995 Divock Origi, Belgian footballer ↗
- 1994 Aminé, American singer-songwriter ↗
- 1993 Mika Zibanejad, Swedish ice hockey player ↗
- 1992 Chloe Bennet, American actress ↗
- 1990 Wojciech Szczęsny, Polish footballer ↗
- 1989 Jessica Jung, South Korean-American singer, songwriter, actress, author, fashion designer and businesswoman ↗
- 1989 Alia Shawkat, American actress ↗
- 1988 Vanessa Kirby, English actress ↗
- 1986 Tina Bru, Norwegian politician ↗
- 1985 Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer ↗
- 1984 America Ferrera, American actress ↗
- 1983 Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player ↗
- 1981 Audrey Tang, Taiwanese Minister of Digital Affairs and programmer ↗
- 1979 Matt Cooper, Australian rugby league player ↗
- 1979 Kourtney Kardashian, American television personality ↗
- 1976 Melissa Joan Hart, American actress ↗
- 1974 Edgar Wright, English filmmaker ↗
- 1973 Derrick Brooks, American football player ↗
- 1973 Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian runner ↗
- 1972 Rosa Clemente, American journalist and activist ↗
- 1972 Eli Roth, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
- 1971 David Tennant, Scottish actor ↗
- 1970 Saad Hariri, Saudi Arabian-Lebanese businessman and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of Lebanon ↗
- 1970 Willie Roaf, American football player ↗
- 1969 Keith DeCandido, American author ↗
- 1967 Maria Bello, American actress ↗
- 1964 Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian and academic ↗
- 1963 Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor ↗
- 1963 Conan O'Brien, American television host, comedian, and podcaster ↗
- 1962 Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist and comedian ↗
- 1961 Jane Leeves, English actress and dancer ↗
- 1961 John Podhoretz, American journalist and author ↗
- 1960 Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova, Ukrainian runner ↗
- 1959 Susan Faludi, American journalist, author and feminist ↗
- 1958 Gabi Delgado-López, Spanish-German singer, co-founder of D.A.F. (died 2020) ↗
- 1958 Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (died 1999) ↗
- 1956 Eric Roberts, American actor ↗
- 1954 Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer ↗
- 1953 Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, comedian, singer and screenwriter ↗
- 1953 Sk. Mujibur Rahman, Bengali politician ↗
- 1950 Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer ↗
- 1948 Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
- 1947 Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (died 2013) ↗
- 1947 Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter ↗
- 1947 James Woods, American actor and producer ↗
- 1946 Hayley Mills, English actress ↗
- 1945 Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (died 2009) ↗
- 1944 Kathy Acker, American author and poet (died 1997) ↗
- 1944 Philip Jackson, Scottish sculptor and photographer ↗
- 1942 Michael Beloff, English lawyer and academic ↗
- 1942 Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic ↗
- 1942 Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian racing driver (died 1970) ↗
- 1941 Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland ↗
- 1940 Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate ↗
- 1940 Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter ↗
- 1939 Glen Hardin, American pianist and arranger ↗
- 1939 Thomas J. Moyer, American lawyer and judge (died 2010) ↗
- 1937 Keiko Abe, Japanese marimba player and composer ↗
- 1937 Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (died 2009) ↗
- 1936 Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer (died 2022) ↗
- 1936 Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (died 1997) ↗
- 1935 Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
- 1934 James Drury, American actor (died 2020) ↗
- 1934 George Shirley, African-American tenor and educator ↗
- 1931 Bill Miles, American director and producer (died 2013) ↗
- 1930 Clive Revill, New Zealand actor and singer (died 2025) ↗
- 1930 Jean Guillou, French organist (died 2019) ↗
- 1929 Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician (died 2024) ↗
- 1928 Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (died 2015) ↗
- 1928 Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (died 2014) ↗
- 1927 Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (died 2008) ↗
- 1927 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (died 2013) ↗
- 1926 Doug Insole, English cricketer (died 2017) ↗
- 1925 Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author (died 2005) ↗
- 1924 Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2005) ↗
- 1922 Barbara Hale, American actress (died 2017) ↗
- 1921 Jean Richard, French actor and singer (died 2001) ↗
- 1920 John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (died 2013) ↗
- 1919 Virginia O'Brien, American actress and singer (died 2001) ↗
- 1919 Esther Afua Ocloo, Ghanaian entrepreneur and pioneer of microlending (died 2002) ↗
- 1918 Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (died 2014) ↗
- 1918 André Bazin, French critic and theorist (died 1958) ↗
- 1918 Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018) ↗
- 1918 Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded CliffsNotes (died 2001) ↗
- 1918 Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (died 2004) ↗
- 1916 Carl Burgos, American illustrator (died 1984) ↗
- 1915 Joy Davidman, Polish-Ukrainian American poet and author (died 1960) ↗
- 1914 Claire Martin, Canadian author (died 2014) ↗
- 1911 Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (died 2011) ↗
- 1907 Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (died 1995) ↗
- 1905 Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (died 1990) ↗
- 1905 George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998) ↗
- 1904 Pigmeat Markham, African-American comedian, singer, and dancer (died 1981) ↗
- 1902 Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (died 1972) ↗
- 1902 Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (died 1981) ↗
- 1901 Al Lewis, American songwriter (died 1967) ↗
- 1901 László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (died 1975) ↗
- 1900 Bertha Isaacs, Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist (died 1997) ↗
- 1898 Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (died 1981) ↗
- 1897 Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (died 2001) ↗
- 1892 Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor (died 1962) ↗
- 1889 Jessie Street, Australian activist (died 1970) ↗
- 1884 Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician (died 1937) ↗
- 1883 Aleksanteri Aava, Finnish poet (died 1956) ↗
- 1882 Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (died 1964) ↗
- 1882 Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (died 1977) ↗
- 1880 Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (died 1968) ↗
- 1879 Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (died 1962) ↗
- 1877 Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (died 1950) ↗
- 1874 Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (died 1938) ↗
- 1864 Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (died 1916) ↗
- 1863 Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (died 1942) ↗
- 1863 Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (died 1920) ↗
- 1863 Siegfried Bettmann, founder of the Triumph Motorcycle Company and Mayor of Coventry (died 1955) ↗
- 1858 Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (died 1962) ↗
- 1858 Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (died 1935) ↗
- 1857 Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (died 1938) ↗
- 1854 Ludwig Levy, German architect (died 1907) ↗
- 1838 Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (died 1912) ↗
- 1819 Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (died 1874) ↗
- 1819 Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1895) ↗
- 1813 James McCune Smith, African-American physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author (died 1865) ↗
- 1794 William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (died 1863) ↗
- 1772 David Ricardo, British economist and politician (died 1823) ↗
- 1771 Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (died 1820) ↗
- 1759 Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (died 1823) ↗
- 1740 Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (died 1810) ↗
- 1666 Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (died 1747) ↗
- 1605 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (died 1674) ↗
- 1590 Ahmed I, Ottoman Emperor (died 1617) ↗
- 1580 Thomas Middleton, English Jacobean playwright and poet (died 1627) ↗
- 1534 William Harrison, English clergyman (died 1593) ↗
- 1503 Henry II of Navarre (died 1555) ↗
- 1480 Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI (died 1519) ↗
- 1446 Ippolita Maria Sforza, Italian noble (died 1484) ↗
- 812 Al-Wathiq, Abbasid caliph (died 847) ↗
- 588 K'an II, Mayan ruler (died 658) ↗
- 359 Gratian, Roman emperor (died 383) ↗
- 2024 Dickey Betts, American guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer (born 1943) ↗
- 2024 Mandisa, American gospel singer (born 1976) ↗
- 2022 Harrison Birtwistle, British composer (born 1934) ↗
- 2019 Lyra McKee, Irish journalist (born 1990) ↗
- 2014 Guru Dhanapal, Indian director and producer (born 1959) ↗
- 2014 Sanford Jay Frank, American screenwriter and producer (born 1954) ↗
- 2014 Brian Priestman, English conductor and academic (born 1927) ↗
- 2013 Goran Švob, Croatian philosopher and author (born 1947) ↗
- 2013 Anne Williams, English activist (born 1951) ↗
- 2012 Dick Clark, American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (born 1929) ↗
- 2012 René Lépine, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born 1929) ↗
- 2012 Robert O. Ragland, American musician (born 1931) ↗
- 2012 K. D. Wentworth, American author (born 1951) ↗
- 2008 Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and anthropologist (born 1907) ↗
- 2004 Kamisese Mara, Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (born 1920) ↗
- 2002 Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (born 1914) ↗
- 1995 Arturo Frondizi, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (born 1908) ↗
- 1988 Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (born 1914) ↗
- 1974 Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (born 1895) ↗
- 1965 Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (born 1917) ↗
- 1964 Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1894) ↗
- 1963 Meyer Jacobstein, American academic and politician (born 1880) ↗
- 1958 Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (born 1872) ↗
- 1955 Albert Einstein – German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1879) ↗
- 1951 Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (born 1869) ↗
- 1947 Jozef Tiso, Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (born 1887) ↗
- 1945 John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (born 1849) ↗
- 1945 Ernie Pyle, American journalist and soldier (born 1900) ↗
- 1943 Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese admiral (born 1884) ↗
- 1942 Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (born 1903) ↗
- 1942 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American heiress, sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (born 1875) ↗
- 1938 George Bryant, American archer (born 1878) ↗
- 1936 Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (born 1903) ↗
- 1936 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (born 1879) ↗
- 1923 Savina Petrilli, Italian religious leader (born 1851) ↗
- 1917 Vladimir Serbsky, Russian psychiatrist and academic (born 1858) ↗
- 1912 Martha Ripley, American physician (born 1843) ↗
- 1906 Luis Martín, Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (born 1846) ↗
- 1898 Gustave Moreau, French painter and academic (born 1826) ↗
- 1890 Paweł Bryliński, Polish sculptor (born 1814) ↗
- 1873 Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (born 1803) ↗
- 1864 Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and linguist (born 1832) ↗
- 1859 Tatya Tope, Indian general (born 1814) ↗
- 1832 Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (born 1761) ↗
- 1802 Erasmus Darwin, English physician and botanist (born 1731) ↗
- 1796 Johan Wilcke, Swedish physicist and academic (born 1732) ↗
- 1794 Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1714) ↗
- 1763 Marie-Josephte Corriveau, Canadian murderer (born 1733) ↗
- 1742 Arvid Horn, Swedish general and politician (born 1664) ↗
- 1732 Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (born 1660) ↗
- 1689 George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, Welsh judge and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1648) ↗
- 1674 John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (born 1620) ↗
- 1650 Simonds d'Ewes, English lawyer and politician (born 1602) ↗
- 1636 Julius Caesar, English judge and politician (born 1557) ↗
- 1587 John Foxe, English historian and author (born 1516) ↗
- 1567 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (born 1503) ↗
- 1556 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and politician (born 1495) ↗
- 1555 Polydore Vergil, English historian (born 1470) ↗
- 1552 John Leland, English poet and historian (born 1502) ↗
- 1430 John III, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count ↗
- 1176 Galdino della Sala, Italian archdeacon and saint ↗
- 1161 Theobald of Bec, French-English archbishop (born 1090) ↗
- 963 Stephen Lekapenos, co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire ↗
- 943 Fujiwara no Atsutada, Japanese nobleman and poet (born 906) ↗
- 909 Dionysius II, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch ↗
- 850 Perfectus, Spanish monk and martyr ↗
- 727 Agallianos Kontoskeles, Byzantine commander and rebel leader ↗