50 Events
196 Births
92 Deaths
- 2025 A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada. ↗
- 2015 Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history. ↗
- 2005 Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon). ↗
- 2002 Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before committing suicide. ↗
- 1994 China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. ↗
- 1994 South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. ↗
- 1993 The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module. ↗
- 1991 Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado. ↗
- 1989 The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. ↗
- 1989 People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests. ↗
- 1986 The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. ↗
- 1981 Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. ↗
- 1970 The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. ↗
- 1966 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed. ↗
- 1966 A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. ↗
- 1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania. ↗
- 1963 In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections. ↗
- 1962 NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. ↗
- 1962 The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1. ↗
- 1960 Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule. ↗
- 1958 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. ↗
- 1956 SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas. ↗
- 1954 The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. ↗
- 1954 The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia. ↗
- 1945 World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. ↗
- 1945 World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita. ↗
- 1944 Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. ↗
- 1944 Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. ↗
- 1943 The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden. ↗
- 1942 Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1,549 Chinese miners dead. ↗
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria. ↗
- 1933 The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring. ↗
- 1925 Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. ↗
- 1923 The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. ↗
- 1920 Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match. ↗
- 1916 Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge. ↗
- 1915 World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers. ↗
- 1903 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded. ↗
- 1900 Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home. ↗
- 1865 Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia. ↗
- 1805 First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. ↗
- 1803 Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist. ↗
- 1802 Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France. ↗
- 1794 Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. ↗
- 1777 Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rode 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British regular forces ↗
- 1721 A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. ↗
- 1607 The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry. ↗
- 1564 Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown). ↗
- 1478 The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. ↗
- 1336 Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. ↗
- 2005 Alex Sarr, French basketball player ↗
- 2001 Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer ↗
- 1997 Kirill Kaprizov, Russian ice hockey player ↗
- 1997 Amber Midthunder, American actress ↗
- 1997 Calvin Verdonk, Indonesian footballer ↗
- 1996 Jordan Pefok, American footballer ↗
- 1994 Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver ↗
- 1994 Odysseas Vlachodimos, Greek international footballer ↗
- 1992 Aaron Judge, American baseball player ↗
- 1992 Delon Wright, American basketball player ↗
- 1991 Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer ↗
- 1991 Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player ↗
- 1990 Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer ↗
- 1990 Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player ↗
- 1990 Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (died 2012) ↗
- 1990 Joey Wendle, American baseball player ↗
- 1989 Melvin Ingram, American football player ↗
- 1989 Kang Daesung, South Korean singer ↗
- 1987 Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer ↗
- 1986 Lior Refaelov, Israeli footballer ↗
- 1986 Yuliya Zaripova, Russian runner ↗
- 1985 John Isner, American tennis player ↗
- 1983 José María López, Argentinian racing driver ↗
- 1983 Jessica Lynch, American soldier ↗
- 1982 Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter ↗
- 1981 Caro Emerald, Dutch pop and jazz singer ↗
- 1981 Ms. Dynamite, English rapper and producer ↗
- 1981 Sandra Schmitt, German skier (died 2000) ↗
- 1980 Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress ↗
- 1980 Marlon King, English footballer ↗
- 1980 Anna Mucha, Polish actress and journalist ↗
- 1980 Channing Tatum, American actor and producer ↗
- 1978 Stana Katic, Canadian actress ↗
- 1978 Peter Madsen, Danish footballer ↗
- 1977 Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut ↗
- 1977 Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player ↗
- 1977 Roxana Saberi, American journalist and author ↗
- 1977 Tom Welling, American actor ↗
- 1976 Václav Varaďa, Czech ice hockey player ↗
- 1975 Joey Jordison, American musician and songwriter (died 2021) ↗
- 1975 Rahul Verma, Indian social worker and activist ↗
- 1973 Geoff Blum, American baseball player and sportscaster ↗
- 1973 Jules Naudet, French-American director and producer ↗
- 1973 Chris Perry, English footballer ↗
- 1973 Óscar, Spanish footballer and coach ↗
- 1972 Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver ↗
- 1972 Kiko, Spanish footballer ↗
- 1972 Natrone Means, American football player and coach ↗
- 1972 Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer and manager ↗
- 1971 Naoki Tanaka, Japanese comedian and actor ↗
- 1971 Jay DeMarcus, American bass player, songwriter, and producer ↗
- 1970 Dean Austin, English footballer and manager ↗
- 1970 Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States ↗
- 1970 Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and academic ↗
- 1970 Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress ↗
- 1967 Glenn Thomas Jacobs, American professional wrestler, actor, businessman and politician ↗
- 1967 Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress and singer-songwriter ↗
- 1967 Toomas Tõniste, Estonian sailor and politician ↗
- 1965 Susannah Harker, English actress ↗
- 1965 Kevin James, American actor and comedian ↗
- 1963 Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer ↗
- 1963 Colin Scotts, Australian-American football player ↗
- 1963 Cornelia Ullrich, German hurdler ↗
- 1963 Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player ↗
- 1962 Colin Anderson, English footballer ↗
- 1962 Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian ↗
- 1961 Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
- 1961 Chris Mars, American artist ↗
- 1960 H. G. Carrillo, American writer and academic (died 2020) ↗
- 1960 Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player and coach ↗
- 1960 Roger Taylor, English drummer ↗
- 1959 John Corabi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
- 1959 Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rican politician ↗
- 1958 John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish racing driver (died 2021) ↗
- 1958 Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director, and producer ↗
- 1958 Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer, coach, and manager ↗
- 1956 Koo Stark, American actress and photographer ↗
- 1955 Kurt Bodewig, German politician ↗
- 1954 Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player ↗
- 1954 Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer ↗
- 1951 John Battle, English politician ↗
- 1950 Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (died 2023) ↗
- 1949 Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer and manager ↗
- 1949 Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (died 1995) ↗
- 1946 Ralph Coates, English international footballer (died 2010) ↗
- 1946 Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author ↗
- 1946 Alberto Quintano, Chilean footballer ↗
- 1945 Richard Armitage, American diplomat and government official (died 2025) ↗
- 1945 Howard Davies, English director and producer (died 2016) ↗
- 1945 Dick Johnson, Australian racing driver ↗
- 1945 Sylvain Simard, Canadian academic and politician ↗
- 1944 Richard Bradshaw, English conductor (died 2007) ↗
- 1943 Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2023) ↗
- 1943 Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals ↗
- 1942 Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (died 2014) ↗
- 1942 Sharon Carstairs, Canadian lawyer and politician, Leader of the Government in the Senate ↗
- 1942 Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States ↗
- 1942 Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor (died 2022) ↗
- 1942 Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist, political scientist, and academic (died 2024) ↗
- 1941 Claudine Auger, French model and actress (died 2019) ↗
- 1940 Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer-songwriter and producer ↗
- 1940 Cliff Watson, English rugby league player (died 2018) ↗
- 1940 Tan Cheng Bock, Singaporean doctor and politician ↗
- 1938 Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024) ↗
- 1938 Maurice Williams, American doo-wop/R&B singer-songwriter ↗
- 1937 Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver and motorcycle racer (died 2015) ↗
- 1933 Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer ↗
- 1933 Al McCoy, American sports announcer (died 2024) ↗
- 1933 Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (died 2005) ↗
- 1933 Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024) ↗
- 1932 Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (died 2010) ↗
- 1932 Shirley Cawley, English long jumper ↗
- 1932 Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (died 2013) ↗
- 1932 Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer (died 2018) ↗
- 1932 Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000) ↗
- 1931 Paul Almond, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015) ↗
- 1931 Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (died 2008) ↗
- 1931 John Cain Jr., Australian politician, 41st Premier of Victoria (died 2019) ↗
- 1930 Roger Moens, Belgian runner and sportscaster ↗
- 1929 Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (died 2002) ↗
- 1927 Jack Douglas, English actor (died 2008) ↗
- 1927 Anne McLaren, British scientist (died 2007) ↗
- 1927 Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (died 2015) ↗
- 1927 Granny Hamner, American baseball player (died 1993) ↗
- 1926 David Coleman, British sports commentator and television presenter (died 2013) ↗
- 1926 Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (died 2003) ↗
- 1925 Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (died 2019) ↗
- 1925 Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013) ↗
- 1925 Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (died 2015) ↗
- 1925 Frank Hahn, British economist (died 2013) ↗
- 1924 Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (died 1998) ↗
- 1922 J. C. Holt, English historian and academic (died 2014) ↗
- 1922 Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (died 1993) ↗
- 1922 Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer (died 2019) ↗
- 1921 Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (died 2008) ↗
- 1918 Fanny Blankers-Koen – Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper (died 2004) ↗
- 1917 Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (died 1992) ↗
- 1917 I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower (died 2019) ↗
- 1917 Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (died 2013) ↗
- 1916 Eyvind Earle, American artist, author, and illustrator (died 2000) ↗
- 1916 Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot (died 2013) ↗
- 1916 Morris West, Australian author and playwright (died 1999) ↗
- 1914 Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (died 1986) ↗
- 1914 James Rouse, American real estate developer (died 1996) ↗
- 1912 A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (died 2000) ↗
- 1911 Paul Verner, German soldier and politician (died 1986) ↗
- 1910 Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer (died 1997) ↗
- 1909 Marianne Hoppe, German actress (died 2002) ↗
- 1907 Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968) ↗
- 1905 Jean Vigo, French director and screenwriter (died 1934) ↗
- 1904 Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (died 1991) ↗
- 1904 Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (died 2004) ↗
- 1900 Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher (died 1969) ↗
- 1900 Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (died 1985) ↗
- 1900 Hack Wilson, American baseball player (died 1948) ↗
- 1899 Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (died 1958) ↗
- 1898 Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984) ↗
- 1898 John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (died 1972) ↗
- 1897 Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (died 1967) ↗
- 1897 Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (died 1987) ↗
- 1896 Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (died 1967) ↗
- 1896 Ernst Udet, leading German fighter pilot in World War I and Chief of Procurement and Supply in the Luftwaffe (died 1941) ↗
- 1894 Rudolf Hess, German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941 (died 1987) ↗
- 1889 Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1981) ↗
- 1889 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1951) ↗
- 1886 Ma Rainey, American singer-songwriter (died 1939) ↗
- 1886 Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist (died 1913) ↗
- 1879 Eric Campbell, British actor (died 1917) ↗
- 1879 Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959) ↗
- 1878 Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (died 1938) ↗
- 1877 James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (died 1950) ↗
- 1876 Ernst Felle, German rower (died 1959) ↗
- 1865 Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (died 1931) ↗
- 1862 Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator (died 1938) ↗
- 1856 Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930) ↗
- 1834 Charles Farrar Browne, American author (died 1867) ↗
- 1822 Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park (died 1903) ↗
- 1804 Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician (died 1876) ↗
- 1801 Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1889) ↗
- 1798 Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (died 1863) ↗
- 1787 Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (died 1862) ↗
- 1785 John James Audubon – French-American ornithologist and painter (died 1851) ↗
- 1782 Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (died 1866) ↗
- 1774 Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (died 1853) ↗
- 1718 Esek Hopkins, American commander (died 1802) ↗
- 1710 Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic (died 1796) ↗
- 1697 Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer (died 1754) ↗
- 1648 Peter II of Portugal (died 1706) ↗
- 1647 William Ashhurst, English banker, Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London and politician (died 1720) ↗
- 1575 Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (died 1642) ↗
- 1538 Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter and academic (died 1600) ↗
- 1319 John II of France (died 1364) ↗
- 1284 Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick (died 1324) ↗
- 764 Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (died 786) ↗
- 757 Hisham I of Córdoba (died 796) ↗
- 121 Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (died 180) ↗
- 2023 Jerry Apodaca, American politician, 24th Governor of New Mexico (born 1934) ↗
- 2023 Tangaraju Suppiah, Singaporean drug trafficker (born 1977) ↗
- 2022 Klaus Schulze, German composer and musician (born 1947) ↗
- 2017 Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (born 1944) ↗
- 2016 Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (born 1937) ↗
- 2015 Jayne Meadows, American actress (born 1919) ↗
- 2015 Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1930) ↗
- 2014 Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (born 1936) ↗
- 2014 Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (born 1927) ↗
- 2014 DJ Rashad, American electronic musician, producer and DJ (born 1979) ↗
- 2013 Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (born 1930) ↗
- 2013 George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1931) ↗
- 2013 Earl Silverman, Canadian men's rights advocate (born 1948) ↗
- 2012 Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (born 1938) ↗
- 2011 Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950) ↗
- 2010 Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (born 1930) ↗
- 2010 Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (born 1942) ↗
- 2009 Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (born 1920) ↗
- 2008 Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (born 1938) ↗
- 2007 Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (born 1921) ↗
- 2005 Mason Adams, American actor (born 1919) ↗
- 2005 Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1925) ↗
- 2005 Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (born 1926) ↗
- 2005 Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (born 1917) ↗
- 2004 Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (born 1928) ↗
- 2003 Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (born 1930) ↗
- 2003 Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (born 1984) ↗
- 2003 Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (born 1904) ↗
- 1999 Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1957) ↗
- 1999 Jill Dando, English journalist and television personality (born 1961) ↗
- 1996 Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (born 1918) ↗
- 1994 Masutatsu Ōyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin kaikan (born 1923) ↗
- 1991 Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (born 1904) ↗
- 1991 Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (born 1910) ↗
- 1991 A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian, (born 1901) ↗
- 1991 Richard Hatfield, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (born 1931) ↗
- 1989 Lucille Ball, American model, actress, comedian, and producer (born 1911) ↗
- 1987 Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (born 1922) ↗
- 1987 John Silkin, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (born 1923) ↗
- 1986 Broderick Crawford, American actor (born 1911) ↗
- 1986 Bessie Love, American actress (born 1898) ↗
- 1986 Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (born 1899) ↗
- 1984 Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1904) ↗
- 1981 Jim Davis, American actor (born 1909) ↗
- 1980 Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer (born 1893) ↗
- 1976 Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (born 1903) ↗
- 1976 Sid James, South African-English actor (born 1913) ↗
- 1976 Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (born 1897) ↗
- 1973 Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (born 1902) ↗
- 1970 Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (born 1886) ↗
- 1970 Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, striptease dancer, and writer (born 1911) ↗
- 1969 Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (born 1883) ↗
- 1968 John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (born 1891) ↗
- 1964 E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (born 1882) ↗
- 1957 Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (born 1868) ↗
- 1956 Edward Arnold, American actor (born 1890) ↗
- 1951 Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (born 1868) ↗
- 1950 George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1881) ↗
- 1946 James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (born 1882) ↗
- 1945 Sigmund Rascher, German physician (born 1909) ↗
- 1945 Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (born 1871) ↗
- 1944 Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (born 1893) ↗
- 1940 Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874) ↗
- 1934 Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (born 1876) ↗
- 1934 Konstantin Vaginov, Russian poet and novelist (born 1899) ↗
- 1932 William Lockwood, English cricketer (born 1868) ↗
- 1920 Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (born 1887) ↗
- 1916 Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Portuguese poet and writer (born 1890) ↗
- 1915 John Bunny, American actor (born 1863) ↗
- 1915 Ida Hunt Udall, American diarist (born 1858) ↗
- 1910 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1832) ↗
- 1895 Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (born 1860) ↗
- 1881 Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (born 1815) ↗
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln – American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838) ↗
- 1809 Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (born 1748) ↗
- 1789 Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (born 1721) ↗
- 1784 Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (born 1718) ↗
- 1716 John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1651) ↗
- 1686 Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (born 1622) ↗
- 1558 Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497) ↗
- 1489 Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (born 1465) ↗
- 1478 Giuliano de' Medici, Italian ruler (born 1453) ↗
- 1444 Robert Campin, Flemish painter (born 1378) ↗
- 1392 Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (born 1338) ↗
- 1366 Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury ↗
- 1192 Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (born 1127) ↗
- 962 Adalbero I, bishop of Metz ↗
- 893 Chen Jingxuan, general of the Tang Dynasty ↗
- 757 Pope Stephen II (born 715) ↗
- 680 Mu'awiya I, Umayyad caliph (born 602) ↗
- 645 Richarius, Frankish monk and saint (born 560) ↗
- 499 Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (born 467) ↗