April 3rd
Holidays and Festivals
World Party Day
Don't Go to Work Unless it's Fun Day
Pony Express Day, Anniversary of Pony Express Mail Service
Find A Rainbow Day a.k.a. Share A Rainbow Day
Sow The Seeds of Greatness Day
Weed Out Hate Day
Tweed Day
Birthday of Washington Irving (author)
Christian Feast Day of Agape, Chionia, and Irene
Christian Feast Day of Mary of Egypt (Roman Catholic)
Christian Feast Day of Richard of Chichester
* Hinterland Festival Mayrhofen, Austria, Europe April 3 (2010)
Toast of The Day
"There are good ships, and there are wood ships,
The ships that sail the sea.
But the best ships, are friendships,
And may they always be."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
John Collins
1 Part Whiskey
2 Parts Sweet and Sour Mix
Fill With Soda
Add a Cherry
John Collins (Alternative)
2 parts Whiskey
1 part freshly squeezed lemon juice
drizzle of sugar syrup
chilled carbonated water to taste
Wine of The Day
Heitz NV Ink Grade Port
Style - Port
Napa Valley
$30
Beer of The Day
Tauras Alus su medumi
Brewer - UAB "Kalnapilio – Tauro grupė", Panevezys, Lithuania
Style - Honey Beer
Joke of The Day
A guy comes walking into a bar with a turtle in his hand. The turtle's one eye is black and blue, two of his legs are bandaged, and his whole shell is taped together with duct tape. The bartender looks at the guy and asks: "What's wrong with your turtle?" "Not a thing," the man responds, this beat up turtle is faster than your dog!" "Not a chance!", replies the barkeep. "Okay then, says the guy... you take your dog and let him stand at one end of the bar. Then go and stand at the other end of the room and call your dog. I'll bet you $500 that before your dog reaches you, my turtle will be there." So the bartender, thinking it's an easy $500, agrees. The bartender goes to the other side of the bar, and on the count of three calls his dog. Suddenly the guy picks up his turtle and throws it across the room, narrowly missing the bartender, and smashing into the wall and says - "I WIN... Told you it'll be there before your dog!"
Quote of the Day
"They who drink beer will think beer."
- Washington Irving (April 3rd 1783 – November 28th 1859), an American author
Whiskey of The Day
Rebel Yell Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey
Distiller: Rebel Yell Distillery (Louisville, KY)
ABV: 40% (Rebell Yell) and 45.3% (Rebel Reserve)
Price: $25 750mL
www.rebelyellwhiskey.com
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
National Public Health Week, First Week in AprilLibrary Week, First Week in April
Read a Road Map Week, First Week in April
The APAWS Pooper Scooper, First Week in April
Explore Your Career Options, First Week in April
Golden RuleWeek, First Week in April
Laugh at Work Week, First Week in April
Medication Safety Week, First Week in April
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week, First Week in April
NanoDays, 9 Days Starting the Last Saturday in March
National Week of the Ocean, Usually the Week of April 6th
Historical Events on April 3rd
419 (Etalius) ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
1077 The first Parliament of Friuli is created.
1312 2nd council of Vienna
1376 Battle of Navarrete (Najera), English beat France
1559 Spain & France signs 2nd Treaty of Le Cateau-Cambrésis, ending the Italian Wars.
1582 French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1645 English parliament accept Self-Denying Ordinance
1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1679 Edmund Halley meets Johannes Hevelius in Danzig
1721 Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury
1764 Austrian arch duke Jozef crowned himself Roman Catholic king
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1783 Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity & Commerce
1790 Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard), created
1834 The generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
1848 Thomas Douglas becomes 1st SF public teacher
1856 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
1860 The first successful United States Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.
1864 Skirmish at Okolona, Arkansas
1865 American Civil War, Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
1865 Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond Va & Petersberg
1868 A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever, he rides a 50' tidal wave
1882 Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1889 Savings Bank of Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Va
1893 1st NSW v Queensland F-C game, at Brisbane Exhibition Ground
1895 Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1908 Frank Gotch wins world heavyweight wrestling championship in 2 hrs
1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley climbed
1911 Harry James Smith' "Mrs Bumsted-Leigh," premieres in NYC
1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1917 Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.
1918 House of Reps accepts American Creed written by William Tyler
1919 Austria expels all Habsburgers
1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1922 Stalin appointed General Secretary of Communist Party
1923 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary
1925 Great Britain goes back to gold standard
1925 Neth & Belgium sign accord of Westerschelde
1926 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C
1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1926 Italy establishes corp of force in order to break powerful unions
1927 Interstate Commerce Comm transfers Ohio to Eastern time zone
1929 Persia agrees to Litvinov Pact
1929 RMS Queen Mary is ordered from John Brown & Company Shipbuilding and Engineering by Cunard Line.
1930 Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1930 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 2 games
1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1933 Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime as Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
1935 Yasuo Ikenada runs world record marathon (2:26:44)
1936 Shortest boxing bout with gloves, Al Carr KOs Lew Massey on 1 punch, :07 of 1st round
1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh II, the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1941 Churchill warns Stalin of German invasion
1941 Rasjid al-Gailani forms pro-German regime in Iraq
1941 Waltons overture "Scapino," premieres in Chicago
1942 Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula, World War II.
1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested
1944 British dive bombers attack battle cruiser Tirpitz
1944 Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
1945 Hengelo freed from nazi control by Canadian army
1945 Nazi's begin evacuation of camp Buchenwald
1945 US 1st army conquers Hofgeismar
1946 Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
1946 Netherlands and German postal relations resume
1947 "Barefoot Boy with Cheek" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 108 perfs
1948 1st US figure skating championships held
1948 In Jeju, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins, known as the Jeju massacre.
1948 President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1948 US female Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1948 US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1949 KQW-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KCBS
1949 North Atlantic Treaty, pact signed by US, Britain, France & Canada
1949 WLWS (now WCMH) TV channel 4 in Columbus, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 Christopher Fry's "Sleep of Prisoners," premieres in Oxford
1952 Dutch Queen Juliana speaks to US Congress
1954 "Me & Juliet" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 358 performances
1954 Don Perry climbs a 20' rope in under 2.8 seconds (AAU record)
1955 Balt Orioles pull their 1st triple play (3-6-2 vs KC Athletics)
1955 Fire in cinema to Sclessin Belgium, kills 39
1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Oklahoma City Golf Open
1955 Night express train in Guadalajara derails, killing 300
1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.
1956 "Silk Stockings" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 461 performances
1956 Bulgarian vice premier Traitsjo Kostov rehabilitated
1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/Viebahn freed
1956 Hudsonville-Standale Tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
1957 Samuel Beckett's "Endgame," premieres in London
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 "Say, Darling" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 332 performances
1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1960 Earthquake at Havre, Belgium
1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" opens at Martin Beck NYC for 97 perfs
1961 Connie Mack Stadium in Phila is sold to J Schleifer Properties
1962 Jockey Eddie Arcaro retires after 31 years (24,092 races)
1962 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA
1964 Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts
1964 US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft (snap) launched
1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon
1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open
1966 Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus
1967 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum
1967 WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech.
1968 N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1969 U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort, Vietnam War.
1970 Miriam Hargrave of England passes her drivers test on 40th try
1973 The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.
1974 148 tornadoes are reported over an area covering a dozen states
1974 Gold hits record $197 an ounce in Paris
1974 The Super Outbreak occurs, the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history. The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
1975 Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
1975 James Rupers kills his family to inherit
1976 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1976 Phila Flyers win record tying 20th straight NHL home game
1977 6th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Kathy Whitworth
1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
1977 Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat 1st meeting with President Jimmy Carter
1977 Netherlands/Belgium/Luxembourg adopt summer time
1978 50th Academy Awards, "Annie Hall," Rich Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win
1978 European market & China signs trade agreement
1978 Larry King moves his radio show from Miami to Washington DC
1979 Belgium's Martens government forms
1979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill
1980 France performs nuclear test
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 Arnie Boldt of Saskatchewan jumped 6' 8.25," with 1 leg
1981 Race riots in London's Brixton area
1982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point
1982 The United Kingdom sends a naval task force to the south Atlantic to reclaim the disputed Falkland Islands from Argentina.
1982 UN Security Council demanded Argentina withdraw from Falkland Islands
1983 2nd NCAA Womens Basketball Championship: South Cal beats LA Tech 69-67
1983 12th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1984 Bombay beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1984 Guinea suspends constitution after coup
1984 Soyuz T-11 carries 3 cosmonauts (1 Indian-Rakesh Sharma) to Salyut 7
1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
1985 Players' Association agrees to expand LCS from 5 to 7 games
1985 Vic Elliot pocketed 15,780 pool balls in 24 hours in London
1986 Maureen O'Boyle (future host of Current Affair) is raped
1986 US national debt hits $2,000,000,000,000
1987 Bill Elliott sets NASCAR qualify record of 212.809 mph at Talladega
1987 Cubs trade Dennis Eckersley to A's for 3 minor leaguers
1987 Duchess of Windsors jewels auctioned for £31,380,197
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1988 7th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Louisiana Tec beat Auburn 56-54
1988 17th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Amy Alcott
1988 Mario Lemieux wins NHL scoring title, stopping Gretzky's 7 year streak
1988 NJ Devils beat Blackhawks, 4-3 in OT to join playoffs for 1st time
1988 Somalia & Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 "Sunrise" a Gannett newspaper begins publishing for Bronx
1989 51st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich beats Seton Hall 80-79 (OT)
1989 Mets win 11th consecutive home opener 8-4 over St Louis at Shea Stad
1991 "Penn & Teller Refrigerator Tour" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC
1991 12th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1991 Bo Jackson signs 1-year contract with Chicago White Sox
1991 Thomas Bos skates world record 3 km (3:65.16)
1991 UN Security Council adopts Gulf War truce resolution
1992 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat NY Mets
1994 1st roster of Silver Bullets (all-female pro baseball team) announced
1994 6th Seniors Golf Tradition: Ray Floyd
1994 13th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: NC beats Louisiana Tech 60-59
1995 57th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA Bruins beats Arkansas 89-78
1995 Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena
1996 A United States Air Force airplane carrying United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown crashes in Croatia, killing all 35 on board.
1996 South Australia grab exciting draw vs W A to win Sheffield Shield
1996 St Francis Fighting Saints scores college baseball run record 71-1
1996 Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his cabin in Montana, United States.
1997 "Dream-Johnny Mercer Musical," opens at Royale NYC for 109 performance
1997 Thalit massacre begins in Algeria, all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
1997 The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
1998 World Ice Dance Figure Skating Championship in Minn
2000 62nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at RCA Dome Indianapolis
2000 United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 11 March 2004 Madrid attacks are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
2007 Conventional-Train World Speed Record: a French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record.
2008 ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations.
2009 Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
2012 Baylor beats Notre Dame 80-61 for the 31st NCAA Women's Basketball Championship
2012 Moscow fire kills 17 migrant workers
2012 Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%
2012 US President Barack Obama officially secures Democratic presidential nomination
2013 24 people are killed after a bus plunges off a cliff in Papa New Guinea
2013 46 people are killed and 100 are injured by a court-house suicide bombing in Farah, Afghanistan
2013 50 people are killed by flooding across Argentina
2014 Marie Louise Coleiro Preca is elected President of Malta
2016 Joseph Medicine Crow, Native American chief and historian, dies at 102
2016 ICC World Twenty20 won by the West Indies, beating at England by 4 wickets with 2 balls to spare at Eden Gardens in Kolkata
2016 Panama Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca, world largest data leak
Born on April 3rd
1151 Igor Svyatoslavich, Ukrainian prince (d. 1202)
1245 Philips III, the Stout, King of France (1270-85)
1367 Henry IV, Bolingbroke Lincolnshire, King of England (1399-1413) (d. 1413)
1438 John III van Egmont (Manke John), viceroy of Holland
1485 Lieven van der Maude (Ammonius), South Netherland poet
1529 Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)
1569 Giovanni Battista Massarengo, composer
1593 George Herbert, English metaphysical poet and orator (5 Mystical Songs) (d. 1633)
1603 William Smith, composer
1617 Antimo Liberati, composer
1627 Johann Caspar Kerll, composer
1643 Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, general of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1690)
1649 Joseph-Francois Salomon, composer
1682 Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German benedictine/composer
1683 Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
1693 George Edwards, English naturalist (d. 1773)
1715 William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)
1720 Elia van Vilnius, [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman], Latvian rabbi
1727 Philippe-Lambert-Joseph Spruyt, Flemish painter/engraver
1751 Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer
1757 Ferenc Verseghy, composer
1764 John Abernathy, English surgeon (d. 1831)
1769 Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835)
1770 Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843)
1783 Washington Irving, American author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow) (d. 1859)
1798 Charles D Wilkes, Commander (Union Navy) (d. 1877)
1806 Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
1812 Louisa Maria, Queen of the Belgians (1832-50/wife of Leopold I)
1814 Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS or Mormon Church) (d. 1901)
1821 T. Pelham Dale, Anglican clergyman prosecuted for Ritualist practices in the 1870s (d. 1892)
1822 Edward Everett Hale, American writer (Man without a Country) (d. 1909)
1823 George Horatio Derby, Early American humorist (d. 1861)
1823 William Macy "Boss" Tweed, American corrupt political boss (NYC) (d. 1878)
1825 Adolf Rzepko, composer
1837 John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast (Burroughs Medal namesake)
1838 Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney/premier (1881-82)
1842 Ulric Dahlgren, American Unionist colonel (d. 1864)
1858 Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature
1859 Reginald De Koven, composer
1860 Frederik W van Eeden, Dutch utopian writer (Walden)
1866 James B Hertzog, South African general/premier (1914-39)
1871 Jose Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (El Florilegio)
1874 Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
1880 Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (d. 1903)
1881 Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (1945-1953) (d. 1954)
1881 Margaret MJ "Daisy" Ashford, English author (Young Sisters)
1882 Simon Elzinga, Dutch educator
1884 Jackie Matthews, cricketer (Aust leg-spinner, two hat-tricks 1912)
1885 Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American film director (d. 1981)
1885 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
1885 Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer
1888 Neville Cardus, cricketer (doyen of cricket writers)
1889 Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (d. 1949)
1893 Leslie Howard (Stainer), English actor (Gone With the Wind) (d. 1943)
1893 Princess Maud of Fife (d. 1945)
1894 Dooley Wilson, Tyler Tx, actor (Bill-Beulah, Casablanca)
1895 Bjarne Brustad, composer
1895 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (Florence) (d. 1968)
1896 Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary/leader (Young Frisian Movement)
1897 Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, officer who served in World War I, the Minor Asia Campaign and World War II (d. 1989)
1898 George Jessel, American comedian (Diary of Young Comic) (d. 1981)
1898 Henry R Luce, American publisher (Time, Fortune, Life) (d. 1967)
1899 Cees Lasseur, Dutch actor/owner (Hague Comedy)
1899 David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
1900 Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1958)
1900 Camille Chamoun, president of Lebanon
1902 Henri Garat, Paris France, actor (Congress Dances)
1902 Siguringi Eirikur Hjorleifsson, composer
1903 Peter Huchel, writer
1904 Iron Eyes Cody, Tulsa OK, actor (Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp)
1904 Peter Van Steeden, Amsterdam Neth, orchestra leader (Break the Bank)
1904 Russel Wright, American industrial designer (d. 1976)
1904 Sally Rand, American burlesque dancer (d. 1979)
1905 Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (d. 1965)
1906 Kathleen Tillotson, Emeritus Professor of English (Bedford College)
1907 Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (d. 1999)
1907 Isaac Deutscher, Polish/English historian (Stalin/Trotsky biography)
1911 Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist
1911 Michael Woodruff, FRS, surgeon
1911 Stella Walsh, Polish Olympic athlete (d. 1980)
1911 W R Lee, language teacher
1912 Addeke H Boerma, Dutch dir-gen (FAO)
1912 Bert Bakker, Dutch publisher (Free Netherlands)
1912 Gregoris Lambrakis, Greek politician, physician and athlete (d. 1963)
1913 F H Tate, vice-CEO (Tate & Lyle)
1913 George Barati, composer
1913 Per Borten, Premier of Norway (d. 2005)
1914 Katherine Stammers Menzies, England, doubles tennis player (Wimb 1935)
1915 Ihsan Dogramaci, Turkish physician and academic (d. 2010)
1915 Paul Touvier, war criminal
1915 Piet de Jong, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1967 until 1971
1916 Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (SF Chronicle) (d. 1997)
1916 Robert Jesse Charleston, museum Curator
1917 Bill Finegan, Newark NJ, (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
1917 Tibor Andrasovan, composer
1918 Enrique Iturriaga, composer
1918 Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer, conductor and administrator (d. 2000)
1918 Sixten Ehrling, Malmö Sweden, conductor (Royal Opera of Stockholm)
1919 Duke of Grafton, KG
1920 John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged Nazi and convicted war criminal (under appeal at death), (d. 2012)
1920 Stan Freeman, American composer and lyricist (Melody Tour) (d. 2001)
1921 Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer and songwriter (d. 1968)
1921 Harry Landers, NYC, actor (Ted Hoffman-Ben Casey)
1921 Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)
1921 Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)
1922 Doris Day, American actress, singer and animal rights activist (Pillow Talk)
1923 Jan Sterling, NYC, actress (1st Monday in October, HS Confidential)
1923 John Smith, English large landowner/financier/MP (C)
1924 Canon A D Caesar, Sub Dean (HM Chapels Royal)
1924 Marlon Brando, American actor (Superman, Godfather) (d. 2004)
1924 Murray Dickie, opera singer/director
1925 Tony Benn, British minister of technology (1968)
1926 Alex Grammas, American Major League Baseball coach, most notably for the Cincinnati Reds during the era of The Big Red Machine
1926 Andrew Keir, actor (Rob Roy, Absolution, Blood Hunt, Catholics)
1926 Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
1926 Virgil Grissom, Mitchell Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Merc 4, Gemini 3)
1927 Wesley Brown, Baltimore, Maryland, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, (d. 2012)
1928 Don Gibson, American country musician (d. 2003)
1928 Jennifer Paterson, English chef and TV personality (d. 1999)
1928 Kevin Hagen, American actor (d. 2005)
1929 Dennis Farr, director (Courtauld Institute Galleries)
1929 Lee Leonard, American television personality
1929 Miyoshi Umeki, Jap, actr (Mrs Livingston-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
1929 Poul Schlüter, Danish politician
1930 Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (1982)
1930 Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator and Governor (Florida1971-89/91) (d. 1998)
1930 Max Frankel, journalist (Tables of Id of Organic Compounds)
1930 Wally Moon, American baseball player
1931 Johnny Nicholss, soccer star
1932 Janet Bately, Prof of English Language (King's College London)
1932 Nourse, British lord justice
1933 Bob Dornan, American politician
1933 Robert K Dornan, (Rep-R-CA, 1977-83, 85)
1934 David Jones, British reverend/headmaster (Bryanston School)
1934 Jane Goodall, London England, ethologist (studied African chimps)
1934 Jim Parker, NFL guard, tackle (Baltimore Colts)
1934 John Lelliott, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1935 Jeffery Bowman, CEO (Price Waterhouse Europe)
1936 Jimmy McGriff, American jazz organist (d. 2008)
1936 Reginald Hill, British crime author (Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe novels)
1936 Scott LaFaro, American musician (d. 1961)
1937 Sandra Spuzich, LPGA golfer
1937 Simon Brown, British high court judge
1937 William Gaunt, Leeds England, actor (Champions)
1938 Jeff Barry, American songwriter and record producer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
1938 Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (Detroit Spinners, Ghetto Child)
1939 François de Roubaix, French film score composer (d. 1975)
1939 Malcolm Thornton, MP
1939 Vitaliy Davidov, USSR, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1940 Lino Brocka, San Jose Philippines, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar)
1940 R S Burman, CEO (Association of British Chambers of Commerce)
1941 Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (d. 1984)
1941 Eric Braeden, German-born actor (Victor Newman-Young & Restless, Colossus)
1941 Jan Berry, American musician (Jan & Dean) (d. 2004)
1941 Philippé Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
1942 Billy Joe Royal, American singer (Down in the Boondocks)
1942 Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (d. 2005)
1942 Marsha Mason, American actress (Blume in Love, Cinderella Liberty)
1942 Michael Elliott, US, skier (Olympics-1968)
1942 Rick Sylvester, parachute ski jumper (world record 3,300')
1942 Wayne Newton, American singer
1943 Doreen Tracey, English-born Mouseketeer
1943 Jonathan Lynn, British actor and comedy writer (Greedy, Bar Mitzvah Boy)
1943 Mario Lavista, Mexican composer
1943 Richard Manuel, Canadian musician and songwriter (d. 1986)
1944 Barry Pritchard, rock guitarist (Fortunes)
1944 Tony Orlando, American musician (Tie a Yellow Ribbon)
1945 Bernard Parent, Quebec ice hockey player
1945 Catherine Spaak, France, actress (Libertine, Hotel, Circle of Love)
1945 Richard Manuel, rock pianist/vocalist (Band-Up on Cripple Creek)
1945 Wim J Deetman, Dutch minister of education/MP (CDA)
1946 Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president (Mexico, 1988-94)
1946 Dee Murray, rocker (Elton John Band)
1946 Hanna Suchocka, Poland's first female prime minister
1946 John Virgo, British snooker player
1946 Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
1948 Arlette Cousture, French-Canadian writer
1948 Carlos Salinas, President of Mexico
1948 Garrick Ohlsson, Bronxville NY, pianist (Intl Busoni winner 1969)
1948 H C Tomlinson, Headmaster (Hereford Cathedral School)
1948 Jaap G de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch MP (CDA)
1948 Mary Gordon-Watson, England, equestrian 3 day event (Oly-gold-1972)
1949 Anthony Grayling, British philosopher
1949 Jan Keizer, Dutch singer (BZN-Rhythm of My Heart)
1949 Lyle Alzado, American football player (LA Raiders), actor (Oceans of Fire, Hangfire) (d. 1992)
1949 Richard Thompson, English musician and songwriter (Shoot Out the Lights)
1950 Curtis Stone, N Hollywood California, singer (Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry)
1950 Sally Thomsett, English actress
1951 Gwen Welles, US actress (Desert Hearts, Nashville)
1951 Mel Schacher, American musician, bassist (Grand Funk Railroad)
1952 K. Krishnasamy, Indian politician,Physician
1952 Mike Moore, American politician and attorney
1953 Craig Taubman, Jewish singer
1953 Huub van der Lubbe, Dutch rock singer (Stampei-The Dike)
1953 Sandra Boynton, American greeting-card designer, illustrator, and author
1954 Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer
1955 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yablontsev, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1955 Hariharan, Indian singer
1955 Mick Mars, guitarst (Motley Crue)
1956 Boris Miljkovic, Serbian director
1956 Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor (El Avaro, Queen Margot)
1956 Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (d. 1996)
1957 Charles Jones, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1958 Alec Baldwin, American actor (Beetlejuice, 30 Rock)
1958 Jaya Prada, Indian Actress
1959 David Hyde Pierce, American actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser)
1960 Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch musician
1960 Marie Denise Pelletier, Quebec singer
1961 Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw)
1961 Michalis Rakintzis, Greek songwriter and singer
1962 Jennifer Rubin, American actress
1962 John Gruffith, rocker (Red Rockers)
1962 Mike Ness, American musician (Social Distortion)
1962 Nancy Filteau, Swift Current Saskatchawan, 72k judoka (Olympics-96)
1963 Chris Bosio, baseball pitcher (Seattle Mariners)
1963 Criss Oliva, American musician (d. 1993)
1963 Jack Del Rio, American football coach
1963 Tsuyoshi Sekito, Japanese composer
1963 Zakir Khan, cricketer (two Tests for Pakistan 1986-89)
1964 Ajay Sharma, cricketer (Indian spin all-rounder played one Test 1988)
1964 Andy Robinson, English rugby player
1964 Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist
1965 Nazia Hassan, South Asian pop singer (d. 2000)
1966 Bo Orlando, NFL safety (San Diego Chargers, Cincinnati Bengals)
1966 John de Vries, Australian racing driver
1966 Mina Tominaga, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
1966 Shelley Michelle, Hollywood California, actress (Golden Eye)
1967 Brent Gilchrist, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1967 Mark Skaife, Australian racing driver
1967 Pervis Ellison, American basketball player, NBA forward/center (Boston Celtics)
1968 Bernd Karbacher, Germany, tennis star
1968 Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001)
1968 Jamie Hewlett, English illustrator
1968 Mike Lansing, Rawlins Wyoming, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1968 Sebastian (Philip Clerk) Bach, Canadian musician (Skid Row)
1969 David Morland, North Bay Ont, golfer (1992 Trafalgar Rookie of Year)
1969 Lance Storm, Canadian wrestler
1969 Reid Hayston Hamilton, NZ, beach volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1969 Rodney Hampton, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1970 Keith Franklin, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 Matt Gay, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1971 Anthony McClanahan, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1971 Jonathan Star
1971 Kevin Farkas, WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Peter Schwab, Boston, Mass, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 Picabo Street, American alpine ski champion (Olympic-gold-94)
1971 Quilvio Veras, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1972 Jennie Garth, American actress (Kelly Taylor-Beverly Hills 90210)
1972 Sandrine Testud, French Top-10 tennis player (1993 Strasbourg)
1973 Greg DeLong, NFL tight end (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Jamie Bamber, English actor
1973 Jim Campbell, Worchester Mass, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1973 Kelly Lochbaum, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1973 Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor
1975 Aries Spears, American comedian
1975 Koji Uehara, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
1975 Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian basketball player
1975 Mickey Beyer Clausen, Danish entrepreneur and philanthropist
1975 Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player
1975 Thomas Hamilton, NBA center (Boston Celtics)
1975 Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese professional baseball player
1976 Drew Shirley, American musician (Switchfoot)
1976 Keith Closs, NBA center (LA Clippers)
1976 Will Mellor, English actor
1977 Veronique De Kock, Miss Universe-Belgium (1996)
1978 John Smit, South African rugby player
1978 Matthew Goode, English actor
1978 Tommy Haas, German tennis player
1979 Esmeralda Gonzales, Miss Wyoming Teen USA (1997)
1979 Grégoire, French singer-songwriter
1981 Aaron Bertram, American musician
1981 DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player
1981 Heath Ramsay, Australian Olympic swimmer
1981 Matthew Nash, Australian soccer player
1982 Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
1982 Fler, German rapper
1982 Iain Fyfe, Australian soccer player
1982 Jared Allen, American football player
1982 Kasumi Nakane, Japanese gravure idol
1983 Ben Foster, English footballer
1983 Errol Barnett, English reporter
1984 Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer
1984 Maxi López, Argentine footballer
1985 Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish rally driver
1985 Leona Lewis, English singer
1986 Amanda Bynes, American actress
1986 Sergio Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1987 Jay Bruce, American baseball player
1987 Julie Sokolow, American musician
1987 Park Jung Min, Korean singer (SS501)
1987 Sal Zizzo, American soccer player
1988 Peter Hartley, English footballer
1988 Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
1989 Israel Falou, Australian Rugby League player
1990 Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer
1992 Yuliya Efimova, Russian swimmer
1993 Dakoda Dowd, American golfer
Died on April 3rd
33 Christ, crucified (according to astronomer Humphreys & Waddington)
628 Chosroes II, emperor of Persia (579..628), murdered by his son
963 William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)
1287 Honorius IV (Giacomo Savelli), Italian Pope (1285-87) (b. 1210)
1350 Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
1512 Richard Pafraet, Dutch printer
1525 Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api)
1581 Huibert Duifhuis, Roman Catholic pastor (Rotterdam/Utrecht)
1606 Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)
1680 Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, India (b. 1630)
1682 Bartolomé Estéban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)
1691 Jean Petitot, Swiss enamel painter (b. 1608)
1694 Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter
1695 Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch still life painter (b. c. 1636)
1717 Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
1728 James Anderson, Scottish lawyer (b. 1662)
1769 Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood)
1792 George Pocock, British admiral (b. 1706)
1797 Nonnosus Madlseder, composer
1804 Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest (b. 1727/1728)
1811 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen, Flemish (court)painter
1822 Friedrich Bertuch, writer, dies
1826 Reginald Heber, bishop & hymn writer
1827 Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756)
1838 François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (St Helena) (b. 1780)
1849 Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Father of the Plague-Patient) (b. 1809)
1850 Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer
1858 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer
1862 James Clark Ross, Arctic explorer
1868 Franz Adolf Berwald, Swedish composer and inventor (b. 1796)
1876 Henriette Davidis, writer
1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer
1882 Jesse James, American outlaw, shot dead at in St Joseph Mo. by Robert Ford (b. 1847)
1884 Carel JCH van Nispen tot Sevenaer, Dutch Cath politician
1897 Johannes Brahms, German composer (Hung Dances) (b. 1833)
1901 Richard D'Oyly Carte, British impresario (Gilbert & Sullivan operas) (b. 1844)
1909 Benjamin Johnson Lang, composer
1915 Andrew Stoddart, cricketer (England capt at turn of century), suicide
1919 Paul Geisler, composer
1920 Homer Newton Bartlett, composer
1930 Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (b. 1847)
1936 Bruno Hauptmann, German killer of Charles Lindbergh III, convicted and executed (b. 1899)
1941 Pál Teleki, Prime Minister of Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), suicide (b. 1879)
1942 Albert Siklos, composer
1942 Paul Gilson, composer
1943 Conrad Veidt, German actor (Cabinet of Dr Calgary) (b. 1893)
1945 Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Vienna Verbatim)
1946 Masaharu Homma, Lt Gen (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed
1949 Basil Harwood, composer
1950 Adolf Wiklund, composer
1950 Carter G Woodson, American historian (African-American studies), journalist and founder of Black History Month (b. 1875)
1950 Kurt Julian Weill, German composer (Dreigroschenoper) (b. 1900)
1951 Johannes C Kielstra, Dut economist/gov (Suriname 1933-44)
1952 Miina Sillanpää, Finnish politician, first female Finnish minister (b. 1866)
1956 T Kostov, Bulgarian vice-premier, executed
1958 Theodor Kramer, writer
1960 Anton Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer/marxist theorist
1962 Benny "Kid" Paret, US welterweight boxer, dies after fight
1962 Manolis Kalomiris, Greek classical composer (b. 1883)
1965 Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian communist and resistance fighter (b. 1898)
1966 Russel Crouse, US stagewriter (Life with Father)
1969 Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara)
1971 Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)
1971 Manfred Bonnington Lee (Ellery Queen), detective writer
1972 Ferde Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe, American composer (Grand Canyon Suite) (b. 1882)
1975 Mary Ure, Scottish actress (Sons & Lovers, Where Eagles Dare) (b. 1933)
1976 Maurice Johnstone, composer
1977 Jack Ryder, cricketer (20 Tests for Aust, 1394 runs)
1978 Ray Noble, English bandleader and composer (b. 1903)
1980 Luella Gear, actress (Joe & Mabel)
1981 Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur and pioneer, Pan Am founder (b. 1899)
1982 Herman W Filarski, Dutch bridge journalist
1982 Warren Oates, American character actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke) (b. 1928)
1986 Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice) (b. 1910)
1987 Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)
1988 Milton A Caniff, American cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon) (b. 1907)
1989 Norman Woolard, actor (Guilty, Saul & David, Medeleine)
1990 Katharine Balfour, actress (Love Story)
1990 Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer (b. 1924)
1991 Charles Goren, American bridge player, writer, and columnist (b. 1901)
1991 Graham Greene, English writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana) (b. 1904)
1992 Lloyd "Slim" Andrews, actor (Buf Bill in Tomahawk Territory)
1992 Margaret Barker, actress (Fathers & Son)
1993 Alexander Mnouchkine, French movie producer (Professional)
1993 Dieter Plage, German wildlife filmmaker
1993 Eduardo Cabellero Calderon, Colombian writer/diplomat
1993 Pinky Lee, American comic and children's television host (Pinky Lee Show) (b. 1907)
1994 Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC)
1994 Frank G Wells, American entertainment businessman (Walt Disney) (b. 1932)
1994 Jerome Lejeune, French geneticist (Syndrome of Down)
1994 Pat Harper, NYC news anchor (WPIX, WNBC)
1995 Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman (Canadian Tire) (b. 1902)
1995 David Alexander Reginald Herbert, write
1995 Harvey Pennick, golfer/teacher
1996 Carl Stokes, Mayor of Cleveland, 1st black mayor of a major US city (b. 1927)
1996 Christopher John Seward, aid worker
1996 Ron(ald Harmon) Brown, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, dies in an accident (b. 1941)
1996 Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, bluesman
1997 Judy Flannery, master triathelete, killed by a car
1998 Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (b. 1900)
1999 Lionel Bart, English composer (Oliver!) (b. 1930)
2000 Terence McKenna, American writer and philosopher (b. 1946)
2002 Fad Gadget, English singer and musician (b. 1956)
2003 Michael Kelly, American journalist (b. 1957)
2004 Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer (b. 1942)
2005 Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (b. 1933)
2005 Tony Croatto, Italian singer (b. 1940)
2007 Eddie Robinson, American football coach (b. 1919)
2007 Marion Eames, Welsh novelist (b. 1921)
2007 Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (b. 1937)
2008 Hrvoje Custic, Croatian football player (b. 1983)
2013 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born British novelist and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2014 Freda Kida, American cartoonist
2015 Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
2016 Erik Bauersfeld, voice actor (Star Wars' Admiral Ackbar "Its a trap")