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April 19th

Holidays and Festivals

Primrose Day (United Kingdom)
Stoners Eve * (See Below)
King Mswati III's birthday (Swaziland)
Landing of the 33 (Uruguay)
Dutch-American Friendship Day (United States)
National Indigenous People's Day (Brazil) * CLICK HERE

Day of Silence (previously April 20, 16, 15), a day to protest the bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students
Beginning of the Independence Movement (Venezuela)
Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
Patriots' Day (Florida)
End of the Cerealia (Roman Empire)
National Hanging Out Day
John Parker Day
Bicycle Day
National Garlic Day
Christian Feast day of Ælfheah of Canterbury
Christian Feast day of Emma of Lesum
Christian Feast day of Expeditus
Christian Feast day of George of Antioch
National Indian Festival (Bertioga, São Paulo) * CLICK HERE
* Brooklyn Beer Dinner- the Distillary, Savannah GA (2010)
* Stoners Eve, Also known as 4/20 Eve (4/19 the day before 4/20), Also known as Got a Minute Day AKA Gotta Day, or The Pre-bake

Fête de la Greffoir Translation: Knife Day (French Republican) The 30th day of the Month of Germinal in the French Republican Calendar

Toasts of The Day

1
"On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."
- Lord Byron (January 22nd, 1788 – April 19th, 1824), an English poet. (also see January 22nd).
2
"Laugh at all things,
Great and small things,
Sick and well, at sea or shore;
While we are quaffing,
Let’s have laughing,
Who the devil cares for more?"
- Lord Byron

Drinks of The Day

Rum & Coke

1 Shot of Rum
Fill With Coke

Coke & Rum
1 Shot of Coke
Fill with Rum

Wine of The Day

Pessagno Zinfandel
Style - Zinfandel
San Benito County
$20

Beer of The Day

Brugse Zot Blond
Brewer - Brouwerij de Halve Maan ; Brugge, Belgium
Style - Belgian-Style Blonde Ale
- In Celebration of Belgium Independence Recognized April 19th, 1839.

Joke of The Day

I told my Doctor I'd badly bruised my penis in a surfing accident.
He said, "Did you fall off your board?".
I said, "No, I had to slam my laptop shut quickly!"

Quotes of The Day

"Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose... it's how drunk you get."
- Homer Simpson, a fictional main character in the animated television series The Simpsons voiced by Dan Castellaneta. Homer first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, on The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. The Simpson got their own series on Fox that debuted December 17, 1989

"All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer."
- Homer Simpson

"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."
-Homer Simpson

"Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers."
- Homer Simpson

"Here's to alcohol: the source of, and answer to, all of life's problems."
- Homer Simpson

Whiskey of The Day

Elijah Craig Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 18 year old
Distiller: Heaven Hills Distillery (Bardstown, KY)
Age: 18 years
ABV: 45% (90 proof)
Price: $40 (750mL)

Song of the Day

Doh! A beer! I want a beer....
Ray, the guy who buys me beer.
Me, the guy who Ray buys beer...
Far, the way to go for beer.
So, I think I'll have a beer...
La, la la la la la la. Tea?
No thanks I'll have a beer...
And that brings us back to Doh! doh! doh!
- Homer Simpson

April Observances

ASPCA Month
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage Month
Cancer Control Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
Community Spirit Days
Confederate History Month
Couple Appreciation Month
Cranberries and Gooseberries Month
DNA, Genomics and Stem Cell Education and Awareness Month
Defeat Diabetes Month
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
Facial Protection Month
Fair Housing Month
Financial Literacy Month
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month
Frog Month
Get Yourself Tested Month
Global Child Nutrition Month
Grange Month
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month (Different Sponsor to March)
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month
Informed Woman Month
Injury Prevention Month
International Cesarean Awareness Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Daffynitions Month
International Guitar Month
International Twit Award Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
Lawn and Garden Month
Learn Thai Month
Library Snapshot Month
Math Awareness Month
Month of the Military Child
Month of the Young Child
National African American Women's Fitness Month
National Autism Awareness Month
National Car Care Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month
National Decorating Month
National Donate Life Month
National Garden Month
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month
National Humor Month
National Kite Month
National Knuckles Down Month
National Landscape Architecture Month
National Multiple Birth Awareness Month
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Oral Health Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month
National Pecan Month
National Pest Management Month
National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
National Pet Month
National Poetry Month
National Prepare Your Home To Be Sold Month
National Rebuilding Month
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Education and Awareness Month
National Stress Awareness Month
National Welding Month
National Welding Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month
Patient Safety Awareness Month
Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month
Physical Wellness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month
Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
Procrastination Awareness Month
Records and Information Management Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month
Southern Belles Month
Soy Foods Month
Sports Eye Safety Month
Straw Hat Month
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
Tomatillo and Asian Pear Month
Women's Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
World Habitat Awareness Month
Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month

Observances this Week

Organize Your Files Week, Third Week of April
Medical Labs Week, Third Week of April
Coin Week, Third Week of April
Fibroid Awareness Week, Third Week of April
National Karaoke Week, Third Week of April
National Volunteer Week, Third Week of April
National Pet ID Week, Third Week of April
National Paperboard Packaging Week, Third Week of April
National Playground Safety Week, Third Week of April
National Severe Storm Preparedness Week, Third Week of April
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, Third Week of April
Preservation Week, Third Week of April
Sky Awareness Week, Third Week of April
International Whistlers Week (IWC), Third or Fourth week of April
Cleaning For A Reason Week, April 18th-24th
Consumer Awareness Week, April 18th-23rd
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week, April 18th-23rd
Bat Appreciation Week, Second Full Week of April
National Environmental Education Week, Second full week of April
National Robotics Week, Second Full week of April
National Library Week, Second Full week of April
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators), Second Full Week in April
Pan American Week, Second Full Week in April
Week of The Young Child, Second Full Week in April
National Crime Victims Rights Week, Second Full week of April plus 3 days
National Park Week, 9 Days Starting with the Third Saturday of April
Money Smart Week (Federal Reserve), Third Saturday through Fourth Saturday of April
Safe Kids Week, Third Saturday through Fourth Saturday of April

Historical Events on April 19th

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607 Comet 1P/607 H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 AUs of Earth
1012 Martyrdom of Alphege in Greenwich, London.
1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
1524 Pope Clemens VII fires Neth inquisitor-general French Van de Holly
1529 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism. At the Second Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms, beginning the Protestant Reformation.
1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
1552 Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel
1587 Francis Drake's expedition sinks the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor, Spain.
1591 Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France
1619 Theatrum Anatomicum opens in Amsterdam
1660 Two of the 18 members of Adam Dollard-des-Ormeaux's expedition had become the first prioneering casualties in the St.Lawrence river (near the island of St.Paul): Mathurin Soulard & Blaise Guillet of Avignon, France were chased by Iroquois.
1713 With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria (not actually born until 1717).
1770 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
1770 Captain James Cook sights the eastern coast of Australia.
1770 Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.
1774 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis," premieres in Paris
1775 The American Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord. Minutemen Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon, shot "heard round the world"
1782 John Adams secures the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague, Netherlands becomes the first American embassy.
1809 An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign which ended in a French victory.
1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
1825 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
1836 Nikolai Gogol's "Revisor," premieres in St Petersburg
1837 Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
1839 Treaty of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom & Luxembourg a Grand Duchy
1847 New portico at British Museum opened
1852 California Historical Society forms
1853 Netherlands Van Hall government forms
1855 Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
1861 American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861, a pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1861 Baltimore riots-4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
1863 Union troops/fleet occupy For Huger, Virginia
1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR: USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1877 Opera "Les Cloches de Cornerville" is produced (Paris)
1890 Henry Morton Stanley inaugurated in Brussels
1892 Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
1894 Jules Massenet's opera "Werther," premieres in NYC
1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
1897 1st American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston)
1897 1st performance of Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande"
1898 2nd Boston Marathon won by Ron McDonald of Mass in 2:42:00
1899 3rd Boston Marathon won by Lawrence Brignolia of Mass in 2:54:38
1900 4th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:39:44.4
1900 Highest scoring opening game, Phils beat Braves 19-17 in 10
1901 5th Boston Marathon won by Jim Caffrey of Canada in 2:29:23.6
1901 James J Caffrey wins Boston marathon (2:29:23.6)
1902 6th Boston Marathon won by Sam Mellor of NY in 2:43:12
1904 8th Boston Marathon won by Michael Spring of NY in 2:38:04.4
1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
1905 9th Boston Marathon won by Fred Lorz of NY in 2:38:25.4
1906 10th Boston Marathon won by Tim Ford of Mass in 2:45:45
1906 Belgian naval education ship Comte The Stain de Naeyer sets sail
1906 SF Earthquake ends killing 452
1907 11th Boston Marathon won by Tom Longboat of Canada in 2:24:24
1909 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of NH in 2:53:36.8
1909 Joan of Arc receives beatification
1910 14th Boston Marathon won by Fred Cameron of Canada in 2:28:52.4
1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1911 15th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:21:39.6
1911 George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play," premieres in London
1912 16th Boston Marathon won by Mike Ryan of NY in 2:21:18.2
1913 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson of Minn in 2:25:14.8
1915 19th Boston Marathon won by Edouard Fabre of Canada in 2:31:41.2
1916 "Bing Boys are Here" opens in London
1916 20th Boston Marathon won by Arthur Roth of Mass in 2:27:16.4
1916 Italians troops conquer Col di Lana at Merano
1917 21st Boston Marathon won by Bill Kennedy of NY in 2:28:37.2
1919 23rd Boston Marathon won by Carl Linder of Mass in 2:29:13.4
1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day
1919 Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1919 Opera "Monsieur Beaucaire" is produced (London)
1920 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31
1921 25th Boston Marathon won by Frank Zuna of NJ in 2:18:57.6
1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
1922 26th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:18:10
1923 27th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:23:37.4
1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
1924 "National Barn Dance" premieres on WLS Chicago
1924 28th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:29:40.2
1926 30th Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:25:40.4
1927 "Vagabond King" opens in London
1927 31st Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:40:22.2
1927 Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
1928 32nd Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:37:07.8
1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1928 Yanks are out of 1st place for 1st time since May 1926
1929 33rd Boston Marathon won by Johnny Miles of Canada in 2:33:08.6
1930 34th Boston Marathon won by Clarence DeMar of Mass in 2:34:48.2
1932 36th Boston Marathon won by Paul de Bruyn of Germany in 2:33:36.4
1932 Pres Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1933 37th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:31:01.6
1933 FDR announces US will leave gold standard
1934 38th Boston Marathon won by Dave Komonen of Canada in 2:32:53.8
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"
1935 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:32:07.4
1936 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Palestine
1936 First day of the Great Uprising in Palestine.
1937 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20
1938 42nd Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:35:34.8
1938 Phil Emmett Mueller & Dodger Ernie Koy both homer in their 1st at bat
1939 43rd Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:28:51.8
1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)
1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY
1940 44th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:28.6
1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
1941 45th Boston Marathon won by Leslie Pawson of RI in 2:30:38
1941 B Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder," premieres in Zurich
1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
1941 Milk rationed in Holland
1942 46th Boston Marathon won by Joe Smith of Mass in 2:26:51.2
1942 World War II, In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 47th Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:28:25.8
1943 Bicycle Day Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1943 SS-lt-gen Jurgen Stoop leads destruction of ghetto of Warsaw
1943 World War II, In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
1945 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:30:40.2
1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
1945 The diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Guatemala are established.
1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
1945 US offensive against Shuri-barrier on Okinawa
1946 Yankees switch from 3rd base to 1st base dug out
1947 51st Boston Marathon won by Yun Bok Soh of Korea in 2:25:39
1947 AAU record for a 25' rope climb is set in 4.7 seconds
1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1947 Stanley Cup, Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2
1947 Suh Yun Buck wins world record marathon (2:25:39)
1948 52nd Boston Marathon won by Gerard Cote of Canada in 2:31:02
1948 ABC-TV network begins
1948 Burma (now Myanmar) joins the United Nations.
1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China
1949 53rd Boston Marathon won by Gosta Leandersson of Sweden in 2:31:50.8
1949 Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth
1950 54th Boston Marathon won by Kee Yong Ham of Korea in 2:32:39
1950 Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 267 perfs
1951 55th Boston Marathon won by Shigeki Tanaka of Japan in 2:27:45
1951 General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1952 56th Boston Marathon won by Doroteo Flores of Guatemala in 2:31:53
1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Diego Golf Open
1953 WAFB TV channel 9 in Baton Rouge, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 7-time winner of Boston Marathon, 65-year-old Clarence Demar, runs his last race at Boston finishing 78th
1954 58th Boston Marathon won by Veikko Karvonen of Finland in 2:20:39
1954 Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali to be national languages of Pakistan.
1955 59th Boston Marathon won by Hideo Hamamura of Japan in 2:18:22
1955 The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network.
1956 1st ML baseball game in NJ, Dodgers beat Phils in Roosevelt Stadium
1956 60th Boston Marathon won by Antti Viskari of Finland in 2:14:14
1956 American actress Grace Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III (in Church)
1958 62nd Boston Marathon won by Franjo Mihalic of Yugoslavia in 2:25:54
1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1959 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
1960 64th Boston Marathon won by Paavo Kotila of Finland in 2:20:54
1960 Baseball uniforms begin displaying player's names on their backs
1960 Comiskey Park's famed "exploding" scoreboard begins operating
1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against their president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
1961 65th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:39
1961 The Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
1962 66th Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:23:48
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m
1963 "Hot Spot" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 43 performances
1963 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:18:58
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
1964 Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma," premieres in West-Berlin
1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
1965 69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in 2:16:33
1965 At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die
1965 T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London
1966 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11
1966 In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic
1966 Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
1967 "Casino Royale" premieres
1967 71st Boston Marathon won by Dave McKenzie of New Zealand in 2:15:45
1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)
1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years
1968 72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot of Conn in 2:22:17
1968 Belgian construction workers strike
1968 NL owners approve expansion for 2 new teams
1970 "Look to the Lilies" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 25 perfs
1970 24th Tony Awards: Borstal Boy & Applause win
1970 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational
1971 75th Boston Marathon won by Alvaro Mejia of Colombia in 2:18:45
1971 Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.
1971 Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president (Natl Day).
1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
1971 Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..
1972 "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" opens at Playhouse NYC for 1,065 perfs
1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
1972 Hungary revises constitution
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Barbra Streisand records "Between Yesterday & Tomorrow"
1973 Steinbrenner replaces Mike Burke with Gabe Paul as Yankee president
1973 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1974 Oriole Al Bumbry hits an inside-the-park HR against NY Yankees
1975 India's first satellite Aryabhata is launched with help of USSR.
1976 5th Boston Women's Marathon won by Kim Merritt of Wis in 2:47:10
1976 80th Boston Marathon won by Jack Fultz of Wash, DC in 2:20:19
1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th president of Israel
1979 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WFAT (Bkln NY)
1979 Following a 6-3 loss to the Orioles, Yanks Goose Gossage & Cliff
1979 Johnson brawl, Gossage sustains a sprained ligament in his left thumb
1981 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf
1981 Oakland A's runs record to 11-0
1981 Rochester Red Wings & Pawtucket Red Sox play to 2-2 tie in 32 innings, game suspended at 4:07 AM (Pawtucket later wins in 33rd)
1981 William Finn's musical "March of Falsettos," premieres in NYC
1982 11th Boston Women's Marathon won by Charlotte Teske of Ger in 2:29:33
1982 86th Boston Marathon won by Alberto Salazar of Oreg in 2:08:51
1982 Guinon Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
1982 Rosie Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
1983 France performs nuclear test
1984 Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1984 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature mag)
1985 16th Space Shuttle Mission (51-D)-Discovery 4 returns to Earth
1985 Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
1985 FBI siege on the compound of The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSAL) in Arkansas
1985 U.S.S.R performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalatinsk.
1986 Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 Brendon Kuruppu scores 201* on Test Cricket debut (Sri Lanka v NZ)
1987 Brewers score 5 runs in 9th to win 6-4 & record 12th straight AL win
1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious skydiver
1987 Jacqueline Blanc, sets women's downhill ski speed rec (124.902 mph)
1987 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Santa Barbara Golf Open
1987 LA Clippers end season with a terrible 12-70 record
1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
1987 The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show
1987 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1989 Heavy smoke pours from USS Iowa’s #2 Turret following an internal gun turret explosion killing 47 sailors.
1989 Kevin Elster (NY Mets), sets errorless shortstop mark at 73
1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas & incoming government agree to truce
1990 Marla Maples appears on ABC's Prime-Time
1990 Pistons & 76'ers get into a fight accruing $162,500 fines (NBA record)
1990 Truce in Nicaragua's civil war
1991 Evander Holyfield beats George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 Greyhound Bus posts $195 million loss for 1990
1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" closes at Beaumont NYC after 38 perf
1992 Balki & Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"
1992 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Sega Women's Golf Championship
1993 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27
1993 97th Boston Marathon won by Cosmas N'deti of Kenya in 2:09:33
1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
1993 South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashed lands in Iowa.
1993 The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die (accident, suicide, tear gas are disputed causes).
1994 15th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1995 Chopper 4 1st used on WNBC TV (NYC) news
1995 Oklahoma City bombing, The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to one of the bombers, Timothy McVeigh, is executed in Arkansas.
1996 Rangers scores 16 in 8th vs Orioles
1996 South Africa defeat Pakistan to win the Pepsi Cup in Sharjah
1997 Renee Slaughter, crowned 14th Miss Hawaiian Tropic Intl
1997 SD Padres & St Louis Cards play at Aloha Stadium Hawaii
1997 The Red River Flood of 1997 overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
1998 59th PGA Seniors Golf Championship:
1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
2007 A suicide car bomber drove his explosive-laden vehicle into a fuel tanker in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 12 and wounding 34 people
2011 Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title
2012 Levon Helm, American rock musician, dies from throat cancer
2013 Boston bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days
2015 Boat carrying approx. 850 migrants is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean between Italian and Libya, with only 27 migrants rescued
2015 Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Miranda Lambert win at the 50th Academy of Country Music Awards

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Born on April 19th

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1320 Pedro I, King of Portugal (1357-67)
1603 Michel le Tellier, French statesman (d. 1685)
1605 Orazio Benevoli, composer
1658 Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (d. 1716)
1660 Sebastian Duron, composer
1665 Jacques Lelong, French bibliographer (d. 1721)
1686 Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (d. 1750)
1700 Georg Abraham Schneider, composer
1715 James Nares, composer
1721 Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence (d. 1793)
1721 Thomas McKean, attorney (signed Declaration of Independence)
1728 Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright
1737 Geert Reinders, Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation propagandist
1768 Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist
1771 Giuseppe Cartufo, composer
1772 David Ricardo, English political economist (d. 1823)
1785 Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer (d. 1858)
1787 Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary (d. 1837)
1793 Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1795 Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg, German zoologist
1798 Franz Joseph Glaser, composer
1798 Heinrich Maria von Hess, historical painter
1801 Gustav T Fechner, [Dr Mises], German philosopher/physicist
1814 Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist (d. 1875)
1817 John Philip, painter
1821 Mortimer Dormer Leggett, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1830 Rudolf Cornely, German bible expert/jesuit
1832 Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish mathematician and dramatist (Nobel Prize laureate 1904) (d. 1916)
1832 Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, 1st lady (1881)
1840 Andrea Bezzola, writer
1850 Edward John Gregory, painter/engraver
1850 Theo Mann-Bouwmeester, Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler)
1857 Lucien Levy-Bruhl, philosopher
1858 May Robson (Mary J Robison), Melbourne Aust, actress (Apple Annie)
1858 Siegfried Ochs, composer
1861 Warden Oncle (Edward Vermeulen), Flemish farmer/writer
1863 Felix Blumenfeld, composer
1866 Henri WA Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell)
1868 Max Von Schillings, German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag)
1873 Sydney Barnes, cricketer (probably England's greatest bowler)
1874 Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
1874 Firmin Baes, Flemish painter
1876 Hendrik W A E, duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/king of Netherlands
1877 Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American inventor (outboard marine engine) (d. 1934)
1879 Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz)
1883 Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer (d. 1954)
1883 Richard von Mises, Austrian-born mathematician (d. 1953)
1888 William L Axt, composer
1889 Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
1890 Lou Bandy (Lodewijk F Dieben), revue-artist (Look for the Sun)
1891 Francoise Rosay, Paris, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison, Saraband)
1891 Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet (La Ronda)
1892 Germaine Tailleferre (Les Six), French composer (d. 1983)
1895 Anton F Pieck, Den Helder, Netherlands, illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel)
1897 Constance Talmadge, American actress (d. 1973)
1897 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, sculptor/art benefactor
1897 Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese supercentenarian
1897 Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1897 Vivienne Segal, Phila, Broadway actress (Pal Joey)
1898 Constance Talmadge, Brooklyn NY, comedienne/actress (Intolerance)
1898 Sybil Andrews, English/Canadian painter
1899 George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
1900 Richard Arthur Warren Hughes, English writer (Fiction as Truth)
1900 Richard Hughes, English novelist (d. 1976)
1900 Roland Michener, Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
1903 Eliot Ness, American lawman, untouchable (FBI agent-Chicago) (d. 1957)
1905 John S "Jimmy" Thach, US pilot/admiral (WW II)
1905 Tommy Benford, jazz drummer
1907 Alan Wheatley, England, actor (Adventure of Robin Hood)
1907 Gino Contilli, composer
1907 Lina Basquette, Mateo Cal, actress (Paradise Park, Pleasure, Goldie)
1910 Andrew Gilchrist, historian/diplomat
1911 Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer
1912 Glenn T Seaborg, American chemist (AEC, Plutonium) (Nobel Prize laureate 1951) (d. 1999)
1912 William Murray, teacher/educationalist
1913 Cyril English, British educator
1914 Andrew Wilkinson, pediatrician
1915 Dorian Le Gallienne, composer
1915 Harry Craft, baseball manager
1917 Johnny Hoes, Dutch musician/producer (Wished I'd stayed with my Mom)
1919 Gil Langley, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper 1951-56)
1920 Frank Fontaine, Cambridge Mass, comedian (Crazy Guggenheim)
1920 Gene Leis, American Jazz guitarist and educator (d. 1993)
1921 Anna Lee Aldred, American first licenced female jockey (d. 2006)
1921 Glyn England, CEO (CEGB, Windcluster Ltd)
1921 Will Ogdon, composer
1922 Erich Hartmann, German fighter pilot, WW II (downed 352 Russian aircrafts) (d. 1993)
1922 Luigi Barbbarito, reverend (Apostolic ProNuncio)
1925 Hugh O'Brian (Krampke), American actor (Wyatt Earp, Search)
1927 Don Barbour, Greencastle Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
1928 Alexis Korner, English musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him) (d. 1984)
1928 John Horlock, British vice-chancellor (Open College)
1929 Edward Crook, Detroit Mich, middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1960)
1930 Dick Sargent, American actor (d. 1994)
1931 Alex Webster, Kearney, New Jersey, football coach (NY Giants), (d. 2012)
1931 Denis Henry, British high court judge
1931 Garfield Morgan, Brtish actor (Odessa File, To Catch a Spy)
1931 Hendrick J "Kobie" Coetsee, South Africa minister of Defense/Justice
1931 Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist (d. 2004)
1932 Andrea Mead Lawrence, Rutland Vt, alpine slalom skier (Oly-2 gold-52)
1932 Fernando Botero, Colombian artist
1933 Dick Sargent, Carmel California, actor (Darrin-Bewitched)
1933 Dickie Bird, English cricket umpire
1933 Harold "Dickie" Bird, cricketer (noted England Test umpire)
1933 Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jane Palmer), American actress (Fat Spy) (d. 1967)
1934 Dickie Goodman, American producer of novelty songs (Flying Saucer) (d. 1989)
1934 Jan Helge Guttorm Bark, composer
1934 John Roch, high court judge
1935 Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian and composer (10, Arthur, Bedazzled, 6 Weeks) (d. 2002)
1935 Justin Rigali, American Roman Catholic cardinal
1935 Peter Scott, QC
1936 Csaba Szabo, composer
1936 Ruby Johnson, US singer (I'll Run Your Hurt Away)
1936 Wilfried Martens, Prime Minister of Belgium (1979-81, 1981-92)
1937 Elinor Donahue, American actress (Father Knows Best, Get a Life)
1937 Joseph Estrada, actor and 13th President of the Philippines
1938 Jonathan Tunick, composer
1938 Stanley Fish, American literary theorist and legal scholar
1939 E Clay Shaw Jr, (Rep-R-FL, 1981)
1939 Ellen Weston, NYC, actress (Betty-SWAT)
1939 Michael Macaulay, cricketer (Tvl, W Prov, OFS, NE Tvl, E Prov & S Afr)
1940 Algy Cluff, CEO (Spectator, Cluff Resources)
1940 Dougal Haston, Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
1940 Genya Ravan, American vocalist (Goldie & the Gingerbreads, Ten Wheel Drive)
1941 Alan Price, English musician (The Animals, The Alan Price Set)
1941 Bobby Russell, American songwriter (d. 1992)
1941 Michel Roux, chef de cuisine
1941 Roberto Carlos, Brazilian singer
1942 Alan Price, England, rock keyboardist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1942 Bas Jan Ader, Dutch artist (disappeared 1975)
1942 Jack Roush, American racing entrepreneur
1943 Eve Graham, Scottish singer (The New Seekers)
1943 Mike Kelly, rocker (Duprees)
1944 Bernard Worrell, American keyboardist (Paliment Funkadelic (P Funk))
1944 James Heckman, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize
1944 Keith Erickson, American basketball player
1944 Margo MacDonald, Scotish national broadcaster
1944 Mark "Flo" Volman, rocker (Flo & Eddie, Turtles-Eleanor)/DJ (WKRK)
1945 Nuria Ortiz, Mexico, skeet shooter (Olympic-13th-1968)
1946 Leon Wessels, S Afr lawyer/underminister of Law & Order
1946 Mary Jo Slater, American casting director
1946 Tim Curry, British actor (Rocky Horror Show)
1946 Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky, Russia, cosmonaut (BST-02)
1947 Frits Castricum, journalist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1947 Mark Volman, American musician (The Turtles, The Mothers Of Invention)
1947 Murray Perahia, American pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, Grammy 1988)
1947 Wilf Stevenson, director (British Film Institute)
1948 Rick Miller, American baseball player
1949 Larry Walters, American "lawn chair" pilot (d. 1993)
1949 Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator
1949 Paloma Picasso (Gilot), actress (Immoral Tales), daughter of artist Pablo Picasso
1950 Jeff Hammond, cricketer (Australian fast bowler on 1973 WI tour)
1950 Marc Demeyer, Belgian bicyclist (Paris-Brussel '74)
1951 Barry Brown, American actor and writer (d. 1978)
1951 Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1952 Adny Shernoff, rocker
1952 Alexis Arguello, Nicaraguan boxer (d. 2009)
1953 Rod Morgenstein, American musician (Winger)
1953 Ruby Wax, British television personality
1953 Sara Simeoni, Italy, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1980)
1954 Bob Rock, Canadian record producer & musician (The Payolas)
1954 Trevor Francis, British soccer manager
1956 Lori West, Denver CO, LPGA golfer (1994 State Farm-5th)
1956 Sue Barker, BBC Sports Presenter & former Tennis Professional.
1957 Belinda Lipscomb, vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 Bo(as) Watson, vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1957 Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman
1957 Rod Morgenstern, rocker (Winger)
1957 Tony Martin, English musician
1959 Donald Markwell, Australian educator, Warden of Rhodes House, Oxford
1960 Frank Viola, American baseball player, pitcher (Twins, Mets/Cy Young-1988)
1960 John Schweitz, American basketball player and coach
1960 Roger Merrett, Australian footballer
1961 Richard Phelps, British pentathelete
1961 Spike Owen, American baseball player
1962 Al Unser, Jr., American race car driver, Indy-car (over 10 wins)
1962 Christa Teno, Tecumseh Ontario, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi-44th)
1963 Valerie Plame Wilson, American C.I.A. agent
1964 Gordon Marshall, Scottish footballer
1964 Harris Barton, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
1964 Scott Kamienicki, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1965 Natalie Dessay, French soprano
1965 Suge Knight, American record producer
1966 David La Haye, Canadian actor
1966 Julia Neigel, German singer, songwriter, producer, author and entertainer
1966 Osamu Matsuda, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 Paul Reiffel, cricketer (Victorian & Australian pace bowler)
1966 Randolph Keys, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
1966 Véronique Gens, French soprano
1967 Dar Williams, American musician and songwriter
1967 Steven H Silver, American science fiction editor
1968 Arshad Warsi, Indian actor
1968 Ashley Taylor Judd, American actress (Kuffs, Sisters)
1968 Brent Mayne, Loma Linda CA, catcher (NY Mets)
1968 Craig McNeil, American writer, lawyer, and military officer
1968 Keith McCants, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1968 Mswati III, King of Swaziland
1968 Pascal Kleiman, Spanish DJ, producer, musician
1968 Roger Reinson, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1968 Thomas Nock, Zurich Switzerland, actor (Tartort, Gemini-Twin Stars)
1969 Andrew Carnie, Linguistics Professor at the University of Arizona
1969 Carlos Reyes, Miami FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1969 Danelle Marie Folta, Hammond IN, playmate (Apr, 1995)
1969 James Westphal, Oak Park Illinois, 10k runner
1969 Jesse James, American television personality and motorcycle builder
1969 Susan Polgar, Hungarian-born American chess player
1970 Kelly Holmes, English athlete
1970 Luis Miguel, Mexican pop-singer
1970 Michael Barrow, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Carolina Panthers)
1970 Rick Hamilton, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 Otis Scott, Gainesville Fla, 400m/800m runner
1972 Eric Jack, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 Jeff Wilkins, American football player, NFL kicker (SF 49ers)
1972 Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
1974 Akara Amarttayakul, Thai actor
1974 Ante Moric, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1975 Jason Gillespie, Australian cricketer
1975 Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish footballer
1975 Nazarena Almada, Miss Argentina Universe (1997)
1975 Temoc Suarez, Greenwood SC, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1976 Ruud Jolie, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
1976 Scott Padgett, American basketball player
1976 Vanessa Guzman, Miss Universe-Mexico (1996)
1977 Dennys Reyes, Mexican baseball player
1977 Joe Beimel, American baseball player
1977 Lucien Mettomo, Cameroonian footballer
1978 Adrienne Parker, Miss Tennessee Teen USA (1996)
1978 Amanda Sage, American born visionary artist
1978 Gabriel Heinze, Argentinian footballer
1978 James Franco, American actor
1978 Whitney Metzler, 400m medley swimmer (Olympics-8th-96)
1979 Challen Sievers, Downers Grove Ill, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 Kate Hudson, American actress (Almost Famous, You, Me and Dupree)
1979 Mariah Billado, Miss Vermont Teen USA (1997)
1980 Alexis Thorpe, American actress
1981 Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress
1981 Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor (Sam-Life as a House, Star Wars)
1981 Kasie Head, American actress and model
1981 Martin Havlat, Czech hockey player
1981 Troy Polamalu, American football player
1983 Alberto Callaspo, Venezuelan baseball player
1983 Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
1983 Joe Mauer, American baseball player
1983 Zack Duke, American baseball player
1984 Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
1985 Valon Behrami, Swiss Footballer
1986 Candace Parker, American basketball player
1987 Courtland Mead, American actor
1987 Joe Hart, English Under-21 Footballer
1987 Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
1987 Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
1989 Fiona MacGillivray, Canadian vocalist (The Cottars)
1990 Kim Chiu, Filipino actress

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843 Judith, French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome
1012 Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 954)
1044 Gothelo, duke of Neth-Lotharingen
1054 Leo IX (Bruno von Egesheim und Dagsburg), Pope (1049-54) (b. 1002)
1390 Robert II, King of Scotland (b. 1316)
1529 John Cuspinianus (Spiessheimer), German physician
1560 Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), German humanist and reformer (b. 1497)
1567 Michael Stifel, German mathematician (b. 1487)
1578 Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
1588 Paolo Veronese (Cagliari), Italian painter (b. 1528)
1608 Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman
1608 Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet (b. 1536)
1618 Thomas Bastard, clergyman and epigrammatist (b. 1565 or 1566)
1627 John Beaumont, English poet (b. 1583)
1629 Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer
1645 Anton van Diemen, gov-gen (Neth East Indies
1645 William Smith, composer
1684 Roger Williams, English theologian and colonist (b. 1603)
1686 Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish writer (b. 1610)
1689 Christina, Queen of Sweden (1644-54) (b. 1626)
1706 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist leader, dies
1733 Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (b. 1655)
1739 Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1751 Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
1768 Canaletto, Italian artist (b. 1697)
1768 Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor
1770 Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer
1772 Johann Peter Kellner, composer
1773 Florian Johann Deller, composer
1776 Jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi
1791 Richard Price, Welsh philosopher (Alabi's World) (b. 1723)
1799 Pieter Hellendaal, violinist/organist/composer (Glees)
1813 Benjamin Rush, physician, activist, abolotionist (signed Decl of Ind) (b. 1745)
1824 George Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron, 6th Baron Byron, English poet (b. 1788)
1831 Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
1840 Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Roman Catholic bishop of Montreal (b. 1777)
1852 Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus)
1854 Robert Jameson, Scottish naturalist (b. 1774)
1862 Louis Powell Harvey, US governor of Wisconsin, drowns
1862 Simon Fraser, Canadian explorer
1867 Robert Smirke, British architect
1870 Andreas Schelfhout, painter/etcher/lithographer
1870 Camille Marie Stamaty, composer
1870 William Henry Havergal, composer
1874 Owen Jones, architect
1876 Samuel Sebastian Wesley, composer
1881 Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield) (b. 1804)
1881 Michel Abeloos, Flemish sculptor
1882 Charles Darwin, English biologist (Origin of Species) (b. 1809)
1889 Warren De La Rue, astronomer/chemist
1892 Fr. Thomas Dale SSC, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (b. 1821)
1893 John Addington Symonds, critic/poet
1895 George Scharf, critic
1895 Victor J van Hinsbergh, South Neth engraver (PTT-stempels)
1901 Alfred Horatio Belo, American newswriter and businessman (b. 1839)
1906 Pierre Curie, French physicist, (Nobel Prize laureate 1903) (b. 1859)
1906 Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1914 Charles Sanders Peirce, American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1839)
1916 Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
1923 Thomas Paine Westendorf, composer
1926 Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian statistician (b. 1874)
1926 Squire Bancroft (Butterfield), actor/manager (Haymarket)
1930 Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian senator (b. 1827)
1932 Wladyslaw Rzepko, composer
1937 William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer (Spitzbergen) (b. 1856)
1938 Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green & Gray)
1941 Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer and pedagogue (b. 1878)
1943 Alexander Schmorell, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 Gustave Doret, composer
1943 Kurt Huber, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1943 Willy Graf, German resistance fighter, beheaded
1944 Tommy Hitchcock, polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27)
1945 J P Heyboer, resistance fighter, executed
1949 Ulrich Salchow, Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 Ernst Robert Curtius, Alsatian philologist (b. 1886)
1950 Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th baron Berners/composer
1956 Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian
1956 Leon N H Jungschlaeger, head milt intelligence Neth-Indies
1956 Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb, British diver (WW II)
1957 Charles Funk, Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls)
1957 Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45)
1964 Cyril Merry, cricketer (WI batsman in 2 Tests 1933)
1965 George Davis, actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care)
1966 Javier Solis, Mexican singer (b. 1931)
1967 Konrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63) (b. 1876)
1968 Tommy Bridges, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1972 Adolf Bach, German philologist/sociologist
1978 Emile de Strijker, Belgian philosopher
1980 Ethel Wilson, actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family)
1980 Tony Beckley, actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls)
1981 Ernst Levy, composer
1983 Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes & Diamonds)
1983 Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill)
1986 Alvin Childress, actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy)
1986 Dag Ivar Wiren, composer
1987 Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans)
1987 Maxwell D Taylor, US commander 101st airborne (WW II)
1988 Kwon Ki-ok, first Korean female pilot (b. 1901)
1989 Daphne Du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn) (b. 1907)
1990 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut
1991 Stanley Hawes, British-born Australian film producer, director and administrator (b. 1905)
1992 Alice Mary Riley, entertainer
1992 Benny Hill, English comic actor (b. 1924)
1992 Frankie Howerd, actor (Carry on Doctor, Up the Front)
1992 Pat Thompson, actress (Strictly Ballroom)
1992 Robert F Clayton, drummer (Jody Grind), dies in a car crash
1992 Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies in a car crash
1993 David Koresh (Vernon Howell), cult leader (Branch Davidians) suicide (b. 1959)
1993 George S. Mickelson, American politician, Gov of SD, & 7 others, die in a plane crash (b. 1941)
1994 Frederick Ferrari, crazy Gang Member
1994 Larry Davis, blues Singer/Guitarist
1994 Louis Simmonds, bookseller
1994 Michael Carreras, film Director
1994 Michel van Rooy, Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack)
1995 "King" Herbert Whitaker, tenor sax
1995 Igor Hajek, translator/writer
1995 J Peter Grace Jr, CEO (W R Grace)
1995 Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/Orientalist
1996 Bernard Edwards, bass player
1996 Norman Oldfield, cricketer (scored 99 runs in Test for England)
1996 Peg Ridge, peace campaigner
1997 El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (b. 1958)
1998 Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 David Sanes, US Navy employee (b. 1954)
1999 Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (b. 1919)
2000 Louis Applebaum, Canadian conductor and composer (b. 1918)
2002 Layne Staley, American musician, Alice in Chains (b. 1967)
2004 John Maynard Smith, English biologist (b. 1920)
2004 Norris McWhirter, Scottish co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records (b. 1925)
2005 Clement Meadmore, Australian sculptor (b. 1929)
2005 George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (b. 1941)
2005 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish jazz bassist (b. 1946)
2005 Ruth Hussey, American actress (b. 1911)
2006 Scott Crossfield, American pilot, first man to fly at Mach 2 (b. 1921)
2006 Zola Levitt, Messianic Jewish preacher (b. 1938)
2007 Helen Walton, wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton (b. 1919)
2007 Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
2008 Alfonso López Trujillo, Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1935)
2008 Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (b. 1907)
2008 John Marzano, American baseball player (b. 1963)
2009 J.G. Ballard, British novelist (b. 1930)
2010 Carl Williams, Australian criminal (b. 1970)
2010 Edwin Valero, Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
2010 Keith "Guru" Elam, American rapper (b. 1966
2011 Elisabeth Sladen, British actress (b. 1946)
2012 Levon Helm, American rock musician
2012 Valeri Vasiliev, Society ice hockey defenceman
2013 François Jacob, French Nobel biologist (b. 1920)
2013 Allan Arbus, American actor
2013 Mike Denness, Scottish cricketer
2013 Patrick Garland, British director, writer, and actor
2016 Milt Pappas, American baseball pitcher
2016 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born American scientist (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1998)

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