April 9th
Holidays and Festivals
National Day (Iraq)
Martyr's Day (Tunisia)
Day of Valor (Philippines) * (see below)
Vimy Ridge Day (Canada) * (see below)
Winston Churchill Day
Day of the Finnish Language (Finland)
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
Name Yourself Day
National Cherish An Antique Day
National Alcohol Screening Day
Jenkins's Ear Day
Appomattox Day
Baby Massage Day
Christian Feast Day of Gaucherius
Christian Feast Day of Materiana
Christian Feast Day of Waltrude
* Snowbombing Festival Mayrhofen, Austria, Europe April 5 – 10 (5of6) (2010)
* Beer Tasting to Benefit Pints for Prostates Sarasota FL (2010)
* Vimy Ridge Day, commemorating the Battle of Vimy Ridge. (Canada) Fête de la Ruche Translation: Hive Day (French Republican) The 20th day of the Month of Germinal in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Let No Man Thirst For Lack Of Real Ale."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Bacardi Cocktail
1 Part Rum
2 Parts Sweet and Sour Mix
Splash of Grenadine
Wine of The Day
Five Star Cellars 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Walla Walla Valley
$40
Certified Organic
Beer of The Day
Schlafly Kolsch Ale
Brewer - The Saint Louis Brewery, Inc., St Louis, Missouri, USA
Style - Kölsch
Joke of The Day
Being a modest man, when I checked into my hotel on a recent trip, I said to the lady at the registration desk ... "I hope the porn channel in my room is disabled." To which she replied, "No, it's regular porn, you sick bastard."
Quote of The Day
“When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.”
- Francois Rabelais (1494 – April 9th 1553), a French Renaissance writer.
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
American Indian Awareness Week, Second Week of AprilGarden Week, Second Week of April
National Animal Control Appreciation Week, First Full Week of April
National Blue Ribbon Week, (Child Abuse) First Full Week of April
National Public Health Week, First Full Week of April
National Week of the Ocean, First Full Week of April
National Window Safety Week, First Full Week of April
The Masters Tournament, Second Wednesday through Sunday in April
Hate Week, April 4th through 10th
National Week of the Ocean, Usually the Week of April 6th
Historical Events on April 9th
193 Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans).
475 Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position.
715 Constantine ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1241 Battle of Liegnitz, Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
1388 Battle of Näfels; Glarius Swiss defeat Habsburg (Austrian) army
1413 Henry V is crowned King of England.
1440 Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
1454 Milan/Venice signs peace of Lodi
1474 Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians
1483 Edward I (12) succeeds Edward IV as king of England
1538 Danish king Christian III enters Schmalkaldische Union
1555 Marcello Cervini elected Pope Marcellus II
1609 Spain & Netherlands sign 12 Year Resistant Pact
1621 Spain & Netherlands 12 Year Resistant Pact ends
1667 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
1682 Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
1691 French troops occupy Mons
1724 1st Easter [NS=April 16]
1783 Tippu Sahib drives out English from Bednore India
1808 Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace
1814 Elias Canneman (L) resigns as minister of Finance
1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
1829 Danzig (Gdansk) dike break flood kills 1,200
1831 Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain & Spain
1833 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
1838 National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in Trafalgar Square London
1860 The oldest audible sound recording of a human voice is made.
1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill LA, 2870 casualities
1865 General Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to US Lieutenant Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1867 Alaska purchase: Passing by a single vote, the United States Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska.
1869 Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
1870 American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
1872 Samuel R Percy patents dried milk
1894 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
1906 3½th modern Olympic games opens in Athens (4/22 NS)
1909 The U.S. Congress passes the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
1912 1st exhibition baseball game at Fenway Park (Red Sox vs Harvard)
1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
1913 Brooklyn Dodger's Ebbets Field opens, Phillies win 1-0
1914 "World, the Flesh & the Devil," 1st color film, shown in London
1914 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)
1914 Tampico incident US ship crew arrested in Mexico
1916 World War I: The Battle of Verdun German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
1917 Battle of Arras begins
1917 The Battle of Arras the battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge - France, World War I.
1918 Latvia proclaims independence
1918 The Battle of the Lys the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders, World War I.
1923 Sean O'Casey's "Shadow of a Gunman," premieres in Dublin
1925 Babe Ruth rushed to hospital
1927 Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
1928 Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed," premieres in Pasadena
1928 Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"
1928 Top-Oss soccer team forms in Oss
1928 Turkey passes separation of church & state
1931 Chicago Cy Wentworth beats Mont Canadiens at 13:50 of 6th period
1932 Stanley Cup, Toronto Maple Leafs sweep NY Rangers in 3 games
1935 Stanley Cup, Montreal Maroons sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 3 games
1937 The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
1939 Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial before 75,000, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.
1940 German cruiser Blucher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord, 1,000 die
1940 Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II (Denmark surrenders)
1940 Operation Weserübung Germany invades Denmark and Norway, World War II.
1941 PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1942 The Battle of Bataan/Bataan Death March United States and Filipino forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula. The Japanese Navy launches an air raid on Trincomalee in Ceylon (Sri Lanka); Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and Royal Australian Navy Destroyer HMAS Vampire are sunk off the island's east coast, World War II.
1944 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientals Ecclesiae
1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sunk by RAF bombing in Kiel
1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
1945 NFL requires players to wear long stockings
1945 The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
1945 The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends, World War II.
1945 The German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer is sunk, World War II.
1946 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
1947 Baseball suspends Brookln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
1947 The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
1947 The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
1948 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia known as La violencia.
1948 Massacre at Deir Yassin.
1949 UN Intl Court of Justice held Albania responsible for incidents in Corfu Channel & awards Britain damages
1950 4th Tony Awards, Cocktail Party & South Pacific win
1950 14th Golf Masters Championship: Jimmy Demaret wins, shooting a 283
1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1952 Popular uprising in Bolivia, Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalisation of tin mines
1953 "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1953 Jomo Kenyatta sentenced to 7 years in Kenya
1953 Warner Brothers premieres the first 3-D film, entitled House of Wax.
1954 WECT TV channel 6 in Wilmington, NC (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1957 Howard Hanson's "Song of Democracy," premieres in Wash DC
1957 The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping.
1959 13th NBA Championship, Bost Celtics sweep Minn Lakers in 4 games Boston Celtics wins 8th straight title
1959 Baltimore Orioles pull their 2nd triple play (3-6-3 vs Wash Senators)
1959 Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot
1959 NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts for Project Mercury, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven".
1960 14th NBA Championship: Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
1960 South African premier Verwoerd wounded in battle
1962 26th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 280
1962 34th Academy Awards "West Side Story," Sophia Loren & Max Schell win
1962 JFK throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium
1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
1965 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun
1965 Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played.
1965 Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in UK
1965 India & Pakistan engage in border fight
1966 Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens
1966 Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris
1967 "At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth NYC after 105 perfs
1967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1967 31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer Jr wins, shooting a 280
1967 Shortwave broadcaster Radio NY Worldwide's transmitter burns down
1967 The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
1968 Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr., buried in Atlanta
1968 German DR adopts constitution
1968 Minnisota's Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1969 Chic Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3
1969 The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
1969 The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford.
1970 Paul McCartney announces official split of Beatles
1971 Ringo releases "It Don't Come Easy" in UK
1972 "Sugar" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 506 performances
1972 36th Golf Masters Championship, Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286
1972 Glenn Turner (259) & Terry Jarvis make 387 opening cricket stand v WI
1972 USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1973 37th Golf Masters Championship, Tommy Aaron wins, shooting a 283
1973 Netherlands recognizes North Vietnam
1973 Otto Kerner, former governor of Illinois, convicted for his role in an illegal racetrack scheme
1974 Padres owner Ray Kroc, addresses fans "Ladies & gentlemen, I suffer with you I've never seen such stupid baseball playing in my life"
1975 8 people in South Korea, who were involved in People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
1975 The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
1976 US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
1977 Communist party in Spain allowed legally after 40 years
1978 42nd Golf Masters Championship, Gary Player wins, shooting a 277
1978 Brewers sweep Orioles 11-3, 16-3, & 13-5 (each with a grand slam)
1978 Denver's David Thompson scores 73 points & San Antonio's George Gervin scores 63 points in separate NBA games (33 in 1 quarter). The 3rd highest total in the NBA
1979 51st Academy Awards "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hrs, begins
1980 Belgium's Marten's government resigns
1980 Kings tie NHL rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Isles
1980 Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
1980 The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
1981 LA Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0
1981 US sub George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1982 LA Lakers block 21 Denver shots setting NBA regulation game record
1983 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
1983 Caps 2-Isles 6 -Patrick Semis-Denis Potvin fails on penalty shot
1984 56th Academy Awards "Terms of Endearment," R Duvall & S Maclaine win
1985 White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver starts a record 15th opening day game
1986 "Dallas" announces it will revive killed Bobby Ewing character
1987 For 3rd time, Wayne Gretzky, scores 7 goals in a Stanley Cup game Wayne Gretzky passes Jean Beliveau as all time playoff scoring champ
1988 "Les Miserables," opens at Umeda-Koma Theatre, Osaka
1988 Devils 3-0 over Islanders-Devils lead 2-1 in 1st round
1988 US imposes economic sanctions on Panama
1989 53rd Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 283
1989 Mike Tyson strikes a parking attendant when asked to move his car
1989 Patti Rizzo wins LPGA Red Robin Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1989 Rickey Henderson steals his 800th career base in NY's 4-3 loss to Clev
1989 Scott Hoch chokes on 18 inch putt & loses Masters golf tournament
1989 The April 9th tragedy in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strikes, demanding restoration of Georgian independence is dispersed by the Soviet army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
1989 Wash DC march supporting 1973 Roe vs Wade decision (allow abortions)
1990 "Capital News" starring Lloyd Bridges premieres on ABC-TV
1990 Don Mattingly signs a $19.7 million 5-year contract with Yankees
1990 NY Islanders beat NY Rangers 4-3 in double overtime-Rangers lead 2-1
1990 World's largest bunny hop at Radio City Music Hall (NYC)
1991 Georgia SSR votes to secede from USSR, declares its independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 "Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway
1992 A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering (8 of 10 charges) charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
1992 Florida drops rape charges against NY Mets Gooden, Boston & Coleman
1992 John Major's Conservative Party wins an unprecedented fourth general election victory in the United Kingdom.
1992 Record 18 golfers shoot in 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
1992 William O Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA
1993 Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
1994 BPAA US Open by Justin Hromek
1994 STS-59 (Endeavour) launches into orbit
1994 Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)
1995 "Translations" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 25 performances
1995 59th Golf Masters Championship, Ben Crenshaw wins, shooting a 274
1997 Cleveland Indians closer Jose Mesa found guilty of rape
1997 Major League Soccer announces Miami & Chicago expansion
1997 NFL announces it will give $3M to CFL & possible "World Classic Bowl"
1999 Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, President of Niger, is assassinated.
2000 64th Golf Masters Championship
2002 The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey.
2003 Baghdad falls to American forces, Saddam Hussein statue topples as Iraqis turn on symbols of their former leader, pulling down the statue and tearing it to pieces during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2005 Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceromony at Windsor's Guildhall
2011 A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands
2012 The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking The Phantom of the Opera
2013 12 civilians and UN peacekeepers are killed in an ambush in Jonglei, Sudan
2013 13 people are killed and 3 are injured from a shooting spree in Velika Ivanča, Serbia
2013 37 people are killed and 850 are injured after a magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Iran
2013 Connecticut beats Louisville 93-60 in the 32nd NCAA Women's Basketball Championship
2013 The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage
2014 Stuart Parkin is awarded the Millennium Technology Prize for his work on magnetic storage
Born on April 9th
1336 Tamerlane (Timur), Central Asian, Turkic conqueror (d. 1405)
1498 John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
1597 John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (d. 1670)
1611 Giacomo Maria Predieri, composer
1627 Johann Kaspar Kerll, composer
1634 Albertine Agnes of Nassau, Regent of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe (d. 1696)
1648 Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Viscount Galway, French soldier and diplomat (d. 1720)
1649 James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of Great Britain (d. 1685)
1680 Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (d. 1754)
1686 James Craggs the Younger, British politician (d. 1721)
1691 Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (d. 1761)
1716 Johann Georg Zechner, composer
1717 Georg Matthias Monn, composer
1751 Emanuel Schikaneder (Johann Schickeneder), German playwright
1754 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer
1754 Pieter Paulus, Dutch lawyer/CEO (National Convention)
1757 Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)
1757 Wojciech Boguslawski, composer
1770 Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
1773 Étienne Aignan, French writer (d. 1824)
1785 Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch physician/chemist (electric car 1835)
1794 Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
1798 Giuditta Pasta (Negri), soprano
1806 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer (d. 1859)
1812 Randolph Barnes Marcy, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1821 Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, French symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil) (d. 1867)
1826 Thomas Hewson Neill, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1830 Eadweard Muybridge, English-born photographer and motion picture pioneer (d. 1904)
1835 Leopold II, King of Belgians (1865-1909) (d. 1909)
1847 Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
1847 Francis William Davenport, composer
1848 F A MacKinnon, cricketer (later the 35th Mackinnon of Mackinnon)
1848 Helena Lange, German feminist
1850 Herman Zumpe, composer
1851 C E Arthur Wichmann, German/Dutch geologist (Neth Indies)
1854 Seaborn M Denson, composer
1855 Gyula Reviczky, Hungarian author/poet
1861 Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher
1865 Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-born engineer (AC electricity) and mathmetician (d. 1923)
1865 Erich Ludendorff, German general in World War I (d. 1937)
1867 Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
1871 Arthur Fickenscher, composer
1872 Léon Blum, French prime minister (People's front government) (d. 1950)
1874 Julius Bittner, Austrian composer (Little Violet)
1879 Gerald Festus Kelly, artist
1882 Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, (d. 1946)
1883 Renzo Bossi, composer
1884 Franco Vittadini, composer
1888 Florence Smith Price, US composer (Wanamaker Prize 1932)
1888 Sol Hurok, Russian-born theatrical impresario (d. 1974)
1889 Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (d. 1985)
1891 John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor (Electricity, Hostage Rights)
1893 Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian historian, writer, scholar (d. 1963)
1894 Ernest Kanitz, composer
1895 Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
1895 Michel Simon (Francois), French actor (d. 1975)
1895 Rudolf Kattnigg, composer
1897 John B. Gambling, American radio talk show host (d. 1974)
1898 Curly Lambeau, American football coach, executive (d. 1965)
1898 Earl "Curly" Lambeau, NFL coach (GB Packers)
1898 Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor singer
1898 Paul Robeson, American singer and activist (Old Man River) (d. 1976)
1900 Allen Jenkins, American actor (Hey Jeannie, Top Cop, Girl Habit) (d. 1974)
1901 Paul Willis, American actor (d. 1960)
1902 Frantisek Suchy, composer
1903 Gregory Pincus, inventor (birth control pill)
1903 Ward Bond, American actor (Seth-Wagon Trains) (d. 1960)
1903 Willem Pee, Belgian linguist
1904 Lyle Latell, IA, actor (Not of the Earth, Sky Dragon)
1904 Sharkey Bonano, American musician (d. 1972)
1905 J. William Fulbright, American politician (Sen-D-Ark) (d. 1995)
1906 Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (Dresden Opera 1928-29) (d. 1988)
1906 Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996)
1906 Todd Naylor "Hugh" Gaitskell, MP (Labour)
1908 Fred Lohse, composer
1908 Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-born painter (Op Art) (d. 1997)
1909 Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio
1909 Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer
1909 Robert Murray Halpmann, dancer and actor (Second Time Lucky)
1910 Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (Sen-D-Ct) (d. 1998)
1910 Sharon Lynn, Weatherford TX, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast)
1911 Albert Remy, Sevres France, actor (Grand Prix, Gigot, Train)
1911 Lord Deramore, architect
1912 Lew Kopelew, Russian author (d. 1997)
1914 Richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)
1915 Daniel Johnson, Sr., Quebec politician (d. 1968)
1917 Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
1917 Johannes Bobrowski, German lyricist and writer (d. 1965)
1917 Vincent O'Brien, racehorse trainer
1918 Jorn Utzon, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House) (d. 2008)
1919 John Presper Eckert, American computer pioneer, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC) (d. 1995)
1920 Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle)
1920 Art Van Damme, Norway Mich, jazz accordionist (Chicago Jazz)
1920 David Walker, Professor of Law (Glasgow University)
1920 F Don Miller, Racine Wisc, Boxing coach (Olympic-1956)
1921 Frankie Thomas, American actor (Tom Corbett Space Cadet) (d. 2006)
1921 Jean-Marie Balestre, French motorsports official (FIA) (d. 2008)
1922 Carl Amery, German writer (d. 2005)
1922 Gerald Moverley, Roman Catholic bishop (Hallam)
1922 Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service
1923 Bruno Kiefer, composer
1924 Harald Heilmann, composer
1925 Michael Richardson, vice CEO (N M Rotschild)
1925 Tom Jackson, British union leader (Post Office)
1926 Graham Hills, principal (Strathclyde University, England)
1926 Harris Wofford, (Sen-R-Pennsylvania)
1926 Hugh Hefner (Marston), American entrepreneur and publisher (Playboy)
1926 Lord Fitt, MP (Belfast Ireland)
1926 Michael Ogden, QC
1928 Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant
1928 Floyd D Spence, (Rep-R-SC, 1971)
1928 Paul Arizin, American basketball player (d. 2006)
1928 Tom Lehrer, American satirist, folk singer (That Was The Week That Was), and mathematician
1929 Harvey Lichtenstein, pres (Bkln Academy of Music)
1930 F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (d. 2007)
1930 Nathaniel Branden, Canadian psychotherapist
1931 Bill Gilbert, Wash DC, sports author (They Also Served, Big E)
1931 Martin Rogers, director (Farmington Institute for Christian Studies)
1931 Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician (d. 1991)
1932 Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (d. 2006)
1932 Carl Perkins, American musician (Blue Suede Shoes) (d. 1998)
1932 Cheeta, chimpanzee actor
1932 Jim Fowler, American zoologist (Wild Kingdom)
1932 Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist (MAD Magazine)/founder (Yippies)
1932 Peter Moores, director (Littlewoods)
1932 Vladimir Aleksandrovich Degtyaryov, cosmonaut
1933 Jacques Molicard, translator/navigator
1933 Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor (Casino Royale, Magnifique)
1933 Richard Rose, Professor of Public Policy (Strathclyde University)
1934 Bill Birch, New Zealand politician
1935 Aulis Sallinen, composer
1935 Avery Schreiber, American actor, comedian (My Mother the Car) (d. 2002)
1936 Jerzy Maksymiuk, composer
1936 Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister (Paupa & New Guinea)
1936 Valerie Solanas, American feminist (d. 1988)
1937 Barrington J(ohn) Bayley, UK, sci-fi author (Collision Course)
1937 Marty Krofft, Canadian television producer
1937 Valerie Singleton, British television presenter
1938 Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician
1939 Michael Learned, American actress (Olivia-Waltons, Nurse)
1940 Jim Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player
1940 Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut
1941 Chu Song-woong, Korean stage actor (d. 1985)
1941 Hannah Gordon, British actress (Oh Alfie)
1941 Kaye Adams, American country singer
1942 Brandon De Wilde, American actor (Jamie, Wild in the Sky) (d. 1972)
1942 Earl F Hillard, (Rep-D-Alabama)
1942 Galina A Kulakova, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1972)
1943 Terry Knight, American music promoter (Gloria, Terry Knight & the Pack) (d. 2004)
1945 Gus Hardin (Carol Ann Blankenship), American country singer
1945 Peter Gammons, American sports journalist
1945 Steve Gadd, American session drummer
1946 Alan Knott, great English cricket wicketkeeper (1967-81)
1946 David Webb, English footballer and coach
1946 Les Gray, vocalist (Mud-Cat Crept In)
1946 Philip Wright, rocker (Paper Lace)
1948 Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress
1949 Chico Ryan, rock vocalist (Sha Na Na)
1949 Steve Gadd, jazz drummer (Triplet Hop, Complex Jazz)
1950 Ehtesham-ud-din, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in 5 Tests 1980-82)
1950 Kenneth D Cockrell, Austin Texas, Astronaut (STS 56, 69, 80)
1950 Nathan Cook, Phila Pa, actor (Milton-White Shadow, Billy-Hotel)
1952 Magnar Am, composer
1953 Hal Ketchum, American country singer (Small Town Saturday Night)
1954 Dennis Quaid, American actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff)
1954 Iain Duncan Smith, British politician
1955 Joolz Denby, English poet and novelist
1955 Kate Heyhoe, American food writer
1956 Miguel Ángel Russo, Argentine footballer
1957 Brian Alexander, British broadcaster
1957 Ednita Nazario, Ponce PR, spanish singer
1957 Martin Margiela, Belgian fashion designer
1957 Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer
1957 Severiano Ballesteros, Spain, golfer (British Open 1979, 84, 88)
1958 Tony Sibson, boxer
1959 Dave Innis, Bartlesville Oklahoma, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
1961 Kirk McCaskill, pro baseball (Chic White Sox) and hockey player
1961 Mark Kelly, Irish keyboard player (Marillion)
1962 Freddie Joe Nunn, NFL defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1962 Ihor Podolchak, Ukrainian artist and film director
1962 Imran Sherwani, British field hockey player
1962 Jeff Turner, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1963 Joe Scarborough, American television personality
1963 Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer
1964 Rick Tocchet, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 Rob Awalt, American football player
1964 Shane Robinson, Adelaide SA, Australasia golfer
1964 Soyo Oka, Japanese musician
1965 Hal Morris, Fort Rucker Alabama, infielder (Cin Reds)
1965 Helen Alfredsson, Goteborg Sweden, LPGA golfer (1993 Dinah Shore)
1965 Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
1965 Jeff Zucker, American television executive
1965 Mark Pellegrino, American actor
1965 Paolo Cane, Itaty, tennis star
1965 Paulina Porizkova, Czechoslovakian actress and supermodel (Playboy-Aug 87)
1966 Cynthia Nixon, American actress (Addams Family Values, Pelican Brief)
1966 Oliver Barnett, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1967 Alex Kahn, American artist
1967 Graeme Lloyd, Australian pitcher (NY Yankees, Milwaukee Brewers)
1968 Janne Ojanen, Tampere FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland)
1969 Amy Feng, Tianjin China, US table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1969 Karl Krikken, cricketer (Derbyshire 1989-, wicketkeeper)
1969 Timothy Young, Phila, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 Chuck Bradley, CFL/WLAF tackle (BC Lions, Barcelona Dragons)
1970 Mike Barz, American meteorologist and TV anchor
1970 Neal Caloia, Torrance California, free pistol (Olympics-1996)
1970 Olaf Kolzig, Johannesburg SAF, NHL goalie (Team Germany, Washington)
1971 Anthony Redmon, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 Austin Peck, American actor (Austin Reed-Days of Our Lives)
1971 Derwin Gray, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Earl Cole, Winner of Survivor: Fiji
1971 Jacques Villeneuve, French-Canadian race car driver
1971 James Hundon, wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 Peter Canavan, Gaelic footballer
1971 Wang Yang, youngest Olympic record breaker at age 17 (Oly-1988)
1972 Brian DeMarco, NFL tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Craig Jones, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Jeff Wilkins, kicker (St Louis Rams)
1972 Jeffrey van As, soccer player (MVV)
1972 Karen Clark, Calgary Alberta, synchro swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1973 Spenny Rice, Canadian Entertainer
1974 Alexander Pichushkin, Russian serial killer
1974 Ben Bordelon, tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1974 Jenna Jameson, American pornographic actress
1974 Kevin Mathis, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 Sharon Pelletier, Madawaska Maine, Miss America-Maine (1996)
1975 David Gordon Green, American filmmaker
1975 Robbie Fowler, English footballer
1977 Gerard Way, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
1978 Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
1978 Rachel Stevens, English singer (S Club)
1978 Veronica Taylor, American actress
1978 Vesna Pisarovic, Croatian singer
1979 Albert Hammond, Jr., American guitarist (The Strokes)
1979 Jeff Reed, American football player
1979 Katsuni, French pornographic actress
1979 Keith Nobbs, American actor
1979 Keshia Knight Pulliam, American actress (Rudy-The Cosby Show)
1980 Clueso, German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer
1980 Jerko Leko, Croatian footballer
1980 Kristin Lee, Bethesda Md, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
1980 Yoanna House, American model
1981 Dennis Sarfate, American baseball player
1981 Eric Harris, Columbine High School shooter (d. 1999)
1981 Ireneusz Jelen, Polish footballer
1981 Milan Bartovic, Slovak ice hockey player
1982 Carlos Hernández, Costa Rican footballer
1982 Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor
1984 Adam Loewen, Canadian baseball player
1984 Linda Chung, Hong Kong actress and singer
1985 Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese actor and singer (NEWS)
1986 Brian Larsen, American musician and record producer
1986 Leighton Meester, American singer and actress
1987 Craig Mabbitt, American singer (Escape the Fate)
1987 Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league footballer
1987 Jazmine Sullivan, American R&B singer
1987 Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
1988 Dino Imperial, Filipino actor
1988 Uee, South Korean actress and singer (After School)
1989 Danielle Kahle, American figure skater
1990 Kristen Stewart, American actress (Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga)
1990 Marston Glenn Hefner, son of Hugh Hefner & Kimberley Conrad
1998 Elle Fanning, American actress
Died on April 9th
93 Yuan An, Minister over the Masses of the Han dynasty
491 Zeno, Byzantine Emperor
715 Constantine I, Greek Pope (708-15)
1024 Benedict VIII (Theophylactus van Tusculum), Pope (1012-24)
1137 William X, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1099)
1483 Edward IV, King of England (1461-70, 71-83) (b. 1442)
1484 Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (b. 1473)
1492 Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian (Florentine) statesmen (b. 1449)
1553 Francois Rabelais, French author (Gargantua/Pantagruel)
1557 Mikael Agricola, Finnish scholar, church reformer (b. c. 1510)
1626 Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1561)
1654 Matei Basarab, Prince of Wallachia (b. 1588)
1681 Alfonso Marsh, composer
1693 Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (b. 1618)
1747 Lord Lovat, English jacobiet
1747 Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief, last man beheaded in England
1754 Christian Wolff, German philosopher (b. 1679)
1761 William Law, British minister (b. 1686)
1765 Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, princess of Orange-Nassau
1793 Ernestus Weinrauch, composer
1804 Jacques Necker, French statesman (b. 1732)
1806 William V Batavus of Orange-Nassau, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (b. 1748)
1807 John Opie, Engl painter/illustrator: Shakespeare gallery
1821 Felix Maximo Lopez, composer
1850 William Prout, physician/chemist
1851 Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer
1852 John Howard Payne, actor/playwright (Fair Warning)
1862 George W Johnson, US planter/Confederate (gov-Ky)
1865 Thomas Alfred Smyth, Irish/US Union general-major
1872 Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (b. 1794)
1876 Charles Goodyear, American politician (b. 1804)
1879 Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer
1882 D G Rossetti,
1882 Gabriel Dante Rossetti, English poet, painter, and writer
1886 Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard)
1889 Michel Eugène Chevreul, French chemist (b. 1786)
1893 Disma Fumagalli, composer
1904 Isabella II, Queen of Spain (1833-68)
1909 Charles Conder, artist
1909 Helena Modrzejewska, Polish-American actress (b. 1840)
1916 Vicente Goicoechea Errasti, composer
1917 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I
1917 James Hope Moulton, British scholar of Classical Greek (b. 1863)
1923 Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder)
1931 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
1933 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer
1936 Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (b. 1855)
1939 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
1940 Mrs Patrick Campbell, English actress (Outcast Lady, Riptide) (b. 1865)
1944 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer
1944 Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II pilot (b. 1920)
1945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologian, hanged (b. 1906)
1945 Georg Elser, failed assassin of Hitler (b. 1903)
1945 Hans Oster, German General, member of the German Resistance, "July 20th plot", hanged (b. 1887)
1945 Hans von Dohnanyi, German jurist, member of the German Resistance, "July 20th plotter", hanged (b. 1902)
1945 Karl Sack, German jurist, member of the German Resistance (b. 1896)
1945 Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral, hanged (b. 1887)
1947 Konrad Friedrich Noetel, composer
1948 George Carpenter, Australian Salvation Army general (b. 1872)
1948 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (b. 1903)
1951 Sadiq Hidajat, Persian writer (Hadji Aga)
1951 Vilhelm F K Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist, meteorology (b. 1862)
1953 C.E.M. Joad, English philosopher and broadcaster (b. 1891)
1953 Eddie Cochems, father of the Forward Pass in American football (b. 1877)
1954 Philip Greeley Clapp, composer
1959 Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (Guggenheim Museum NY) (b. 1867)
1961 Zog I (Ahmed Zogu), King of Albania (1925-39) (b. 1895)
1962 Juan Belmonte, famed bullfighter
1963 Eddie Edwards, American jazz tromboner (b. 1891)
1966 Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
1970 Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (b. 1896)
1976 Akio Yashiro, composer
1976 Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer, pianist (b. 1903)
1976 Phil Ochs, American singer (Draft Dodger Rag), commits suicide (b. 1940)
1978 Clough Williams-Ellis, Welsh architect (b. 1883)
1979 Staats Cotsworth,
1980 Bint al-Huda, Islamic writer (b. 1938)
1980 Kathleen Burke
1980 Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Islamic philospher and economist (b. 1935)
1982 Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies
1982 Wilfrid Pelletier, French Canadian conductor (Voice of Firestone) (b. 1896)
1984 Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher
1986 Jean Mogin, Belgian poet
1988 Brook Benton, American singer (Just a Matter of Time) (b. 1931)
1988 David Prater, American singer (Sam & Dave), dies in a car crash (b. 1937)
1991 Martin Hannett, record producer (b. 1948)
1991 Maurice Binder, title designer (James Bond Movies)
1992 Gale McGee, senator (Wyoming, 1959-77)
1992 Ruth Hammond
1993 Wouter Perquin, journalist/Dutch MP (KVP)
1994 Cornelis N "Cor" van Dis Jr, Dutch MP (1971-94)
1994 Keith Watson, British comic strip artist (Dan Dare)
1994 Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram)
1994 Raouf Khayrat, Egyptian general-major, murdered
1995 James Bullock, colliery manager
1996 James WILLIAM Rouse, American real estate developer (shopping malls), activist, and philanthropist (b. 1914)
1996 Maisie Fitter, editor/conservationist
1996 Richard Condon, American novelist (b. 1915)
1996 Richard Thomas Condon, author
1996 Sandy Becker, NYC Kiddie TV Show host (Sandy Becker Show)
1997 Helene Hanff, American writer (84 Charing Cross Road) (b. 1916)
1997 Mae Boren Axton, American singer and songwriter (b. 1914)
1998 Tom Cora, American cellist and composer (b. 1953)
1999 Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Niger politician and general (b. 1949)
2001 Willie Stargell, American baseball player (b. 1940)
2002 Leopold Vietoris, Austrian mathematician (b. 1891)
2002 Pat Flaherty, American racecar driver (b. 1926)
2003 Earl Bramblett, American murderer (b. 1942)
2005 Andrea Dworkin, American feminist activist and writer (b. 1946)
2006 Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player, coach, and official (b. 1916)
2006 Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (b. 1924)
2007 Egon Bondy, Czech philosopher and writer (b. 1930)
2009 Nick Adenhart, American baseball player, MLB pitcher (b. 1986)
2010 Aladár Kovácsi, Hungarian modern pentathlon olimpic champion (1952, Helsinki) (b. 1932)
2010 Zoltán Varga, Hungarian Footballer (b. 1945)
2011 Sidney Lumet, American film director (b. 1924)
2012 Mark Lenzi, American Olympic Diver
2013 Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect (b. 1919)
2013 David Hayes, American sculptor