April 13th
Holidays and Festivals
New Year (South/Southeast Asia) * CLICK HERE
Vaisakhi (India) First day of Vaisakh (Usually April 13th)
Sinhala and Tamil New Year (Sri Lanka)
Thomas Jefferson Day, Birthday of Thomas Jefferson (3rd U.S. President)
First Day of Pohela Boishakh (Bangladesh and West Bengal state, India) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Thingyan (Burma) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Chol Chnam Thmey (Cambodia) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Rongali Bihu (Assam state, India) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Bisu (Karnataka state, India) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Vishu (Kerala state, India) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Vaisakhi (Punjab region, India) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Alathu Aharudhuvas (Sri Lanka, Maldives, Lakshadweep and Kerala state, India) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Songkran (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Bikram Samwat (Nepal) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Maha Visuba Sankranthi (Orissa state, India) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Puthandu (Tamil Nadu state, India) * CLICK HERE
First Day of Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnam) * CLICK HERE
Blame Someone Else Day
Scrabble Day
Christian Feast Day of Hermenegild
Christian Feast Day of Pope Martin I Fête de la Roquette Translation: Arugula or Rocket Day (French Republican) The 24th day of the Month of Germinal in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to a temperance supper,
With water in glasses tall,
And coffee and tea to end with...
And me not there at all!"
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Americano
1 Part Campari Bitters
1/4 Sweet Vermouth
Fill With Club Soda
- In Honor of the Casino Royale Series where Bond drinks Americano (began on April 13th, 1953)
Wine of The Day
Magnotta Gran Reserva
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Ontario
$35
Beer of The Day
Distelhäuser Kristallweizen
Brewer - Distelhäuser Brauerei, Tauberbischofsheim, Germany
Style - German-Style Pale Wheat Ale
Joke of The Day
A giraffe bellies up to the bar and says, Hey guys, the high balls are on me!
Quote of The Day
"Beer, if drunk with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health"
–Thomas Jefferson (April 13th 1743 to July 4th 1826), an American Founding Father.
Whiskey of The Day
Distiller: McClain & Kyne Distillery (Bardstown, KY)
Age: 8 years
ABV: 44% (88 proof)
Price: $3May 750mL
www.jeffersonsreserve.com
- In Honor of Thomas Jefferson (April 13th, 1743 – July 4th, 1826), the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the author of the Declaration of Independence
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
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
The Masters Tournament, Second Wednesday through Sunday in April
Historical Events on April 13th
837 Best view of Halley's Comet in 2000 years
989 Battle at Abydos: Byzantine emperor Basilius II beats Bardas Phocas
1055 Bishop Gebhard van Eichstattt named Pope Victor II
1111 Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
1111 Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II
1180 Republic day of Gelnhausen
1204 Crusaders occupy Constantinople, Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1241 Battle at Theiss, Mongols beat Hungarian King Béla IV
1250 The Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
1256 The Grand Union of the Augustinian order formed when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae.
1346 Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy
1367 Battle at Nájera Spain: Castile & England beat Aragon & France
1517 Osmaanse army occupies Cairo
1556 Portuguese Marranos who revert back to Judaism burned by order of Pope
1598 Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots. (Edict repealed in 1685.)
1612 Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojiro at Funajima island.
1640 English Short Parliament forms (May 5)
1668 John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate
1741 Dutch people protest bad quality of bread
1741 Royal Military Academy forms at Woolwich
1742 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
1759 French beat European Allies in Battle of Bergen
1796 Battle at Millesimo Italy, Napoleon beats Austrians
1796 The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
1808 William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance
1829 The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics by the Emancipation Act.
1834 HMS Beagle anchors at river mouth of Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia
1842 Lord Rosse successfully casts 72" (183-cm) mirror for a telescope
1849 Hungarian Republic proclaimed
1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento Calif
1861 After 34 hours of bombardment, Ft Sumter surrenders to Confederates, American Civil War.
1863 Battle of Irish Bend, LA (Ft Bisland)
1863 Hospital for Ruptured & Crippled in NY is 1st orthopedic hospital
1865 Battle of Raleigh, NC
1865 Sherman's march through Georgia begins
1868 The Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala.
1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1870 The Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded in New York City.
1873 Colfax Massacre takes place in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
1882 Anti-Semitic League forms in Prussia
1883 Alfred Packer convicted of cannibalism
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Solitary Cyclist" (BG)
1902 J. C. Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1904 Battle at Oviumbo Africa, Herero's chase away German army
1904 Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin
1906 Mutiny on Portuguese battleships Dom Carlos & Vasco da Gama
1908 Groundbreaking on Philadelphia's Shibe Park (home of A's & Phillies)
1911 Polo Grounds grandstand & left field bleachers go up in flames
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1914 1st Federal League Game: Balt Terrapins beat Buffalo 3-2
1918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
1919 Eugene V. Debs enters prison at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, British troops massacre at least 379 unarmed Indian Nationalists demonstrators in Amritsar, India. At least 1200 wounded.
1919 The Establishment of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1920 1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed
1921 Foundation of the Spanish Communist Workers' Party.
1923 Army wins 1st college three-weapon fencing championships
1924 Greek plebiscite for a republic
1925 Virginia Theater (ANTA, Guild) opens at 245 W 52nd St NYC
1926 At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout
1926 Bicyclists without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
1927 Stanley Cup. Ottawa Senators beat Boston Bruins, in 2 games & 2 ties
1928 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-US (Fitzmaurice-von Hunefeld-Köhl)
1932 Kozakken Boys soccer team forms in Werkendam forms
1933 1st flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
1933 Stanley Cup, NY Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3 games to 1
1934 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
1934 US Congress passes Johnson Debt Default Act
1936 Metaxas proclaims himself dictator of Greece
1938 Clifford Goldsmith' "What a Life," premieres in NYC
1939 In India, the Hindustani Lal Sena (Indian Red Army) is formed and vows to engage in armed struggle against the British.
1939 W Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands," premieres in NYC
1940 2nd battle of Narvik-8 German destroyers, destroyed
1940 Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft
1940 Stanley Cup, NY Rangers beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 2
1941 Heavy German assault on Tobruk
1941 Pact of neutrality no-attack treaty between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1943 Catholic University Nijegen closes
1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial
1943 James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest and Floyd G. Hamilton take part in an attempt to escape from Alcatraz .
1943 The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth.
1943 In World War II, the Nazi's discover a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyn Forest Massacre, alienating the Western Allies, the Polish government in exile in London, from the Soviet Union.
1944 South Carolina rejects black suffrage
1944 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens sweep Chicago Blackhawks in 4 games
1944 The diplomatic relations between New Zealand and the Soviet Union are established.
1944 Transport nr 71 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1945 Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen Neth from Nazis
1945 German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
1945 Red Army occupy Wien (Vienna)
1945 US marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1946 Belgian premier Acker proclaims wage & price freeze over
1946 Eddie Klepp, a white pitcher signed by defending Negro League champ Cleveland Buckeyes, is barred from field in Birmingham Alabama
1948 The Hadassah medical convoy massacre, In an ambush, 79 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital and a British soldier are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarra near Jerusalem on their way to Mount Scopus.
1949 3rd NBA Championship: Minn Lakers beat Wash Capitols, 4 games to 2
1953 1st game of Milwaukee Braves, they beat Cin Reds 2-0
1953 CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
1954 Baltimore Orioles 1st game, loses to Tigers in Detroit 3-0
1954 Milwaukee Braves' Hank Aaron's 1st game
1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
1955 20.33" (51.64 cm) of rainfall, Axis, Alabama (state record)
1956 KETA TV channel 13 in Oklahoma City, OK (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 "Shinbone Alley" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
1957 11th NBA Championship, Bost Celtics beat St Louis Hawks, 4 games to 3
1957 11th Tony Awards, Long Days Journey into the Night & My Fair Lady win
1957 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in US is temp halted
1958 12th Tony Awards, Sunrise at Campobello & Music Man win
1958 Van Cliburn is the first American to win the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
1959 USAF launches Discoverer II into polar orbit
1959 Vanguard SLV-5 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1959 Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists
1960 France becomes 4th nuclear nation exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
1961 "Carnival!" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 719 performances
1961 UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid
1962 Stan Musial scores his 1,869th run, a new NL record
1962 US steel industry forced to give up price increases
1963 At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for Lilies of the Field.
1963 Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit
1963 Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game
1964 36th Academy Awards "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier & Patricia Neal win
1964 Ian D Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia
1964 New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day
1965 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by NY Sen Jacob Javits
1965 Beatles record "Help"
1966 Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s
1969 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281
1969 Closure of the Brisbane tramway network.
1970 34th Golf Masters Championship, Billy Casper wins, shooting a 279
1970 An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon. Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!"
1970 Greek composer Mikis Theordorakis freed
1970 Oakland uses gold-colored bases during the club's home opener Rules Committee subsequently bans this innovation
1972 1st baseball players' strike ends after 13 days
1972 The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.
1974 Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States' first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
1975 39th Golf Masters Championship, Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 276
1975 Bus Massacre in Lebanon, Attack by the Christian Phalangist resistance kill 26 militia members of the P.F.L. of Palestine, marking the start of the 15-year Lebanese Civil War.
1975 Chad military coup by General Odingar
1975 Penguins 5-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 1-0 lead
1976 $2 bill re-introduced as US currency
1976 1st NBA playoff game for Cleve Cavliers, they lose 100-95 to Wash
1976 The United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
1978 NY Yanks defeat White Sox 4-2 in home opener on Reggie Candy Bar Day, Jackson slugs a 3-run HR in the 1st inning, & the field is showered
1979 Christian Turks occupy St Jansbasiliek
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1979 Yusuf Lule becomes premier of Uganda
1980 "Grease" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 3,388 performances
1980 "Reggae" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 21 performances
1980 44th Golf Masters Championship: Seve Ballesteros wins, shooting a 275
1980 Amy Alcott wins LPGA American Defender/WRAL Golf Classic
1980 Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1980 US boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
1981 Pulitzer prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart"
1981 Wash Post Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize (later admits story a hoax)
1982 Penguins 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Preliminary-Isles win series (3-2)
1983 Harold Washington is elected as the first African-American mayor in Chicago's history.
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 Undefeated middleweight boxer Tony Ayala gets 35 years on sex assault
1984 11th Space Shuttle Mission (41C)-Challenger 5-returns to Earth
1984 India beats Pakistan by 58 runs to win 1st Asia Cricket Cup in Sharjah
1984 India moves into Siachen Glacier thus annexing more territory from the Line of Control.
1984 Pete Rose becomes 1st NL to get get 4,000 hits in a career
1985 "TASS" denounced US boycott of Moscow Olympics
1985 Atlantis ferried to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB, Texas
1985 Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div SemifinalsCaps hold 2-1 lead
1985 Katrin Dörre wins 1st female World Cup marathon (2:33:30)
1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania
1986 50th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 279
1986 Boston Celtics end season with a 40-1 home win record
1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1986 Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
1986 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
1987 1st 3 SD Padres hit HRs off SF starter Roger Mason
1987 Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.
1988 Italy government of De Mita forms
1989 "Welcome to the Club" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 12 perfs
1990 4th largest NBA crowd (45,458) see Orlando play at Minneapolis
1990 Final episode of Pat Sajak's late night TV show on CBS
1990 NY Rangers beat NY Islanders 6-5, Rangers win preliminary, 4-1
1991 BPAA US Open by Pete Weber
1992 "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 160 perfs
1992 5.5 earthquake hits Netherlands
1992 American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
1992 Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver & Dallas
1992 The Great Chicago Flood, Chicago's underground tunnels flood
1992 Longest 2 undefeated baseball teams to meet (NY Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto Blue Jays 6-0); Yanks score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
1992 Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St John's basketball team
1992 Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from Winnie
1993 "3 Men on a Horse" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 40 performances
1993 14th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1993 Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia," premieres in London
1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1994 Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal, doesn't occur
1994 United Arab Emirates' 1st official ODI, losing to India
1995 Yankees beat the Mets 2-0
1996 En route to NHL record 62 victories Detroit Red Wings win #61
1996 Ottawa Senators eliminate Stanley Cup Champs NJ Devils from playoff
1997 "American Daughter" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 88 performances
1997 48th time opposing pitchers hit HRS, Carlos Perez (Mon)/Darren Holmes
1997 61st Golf Masters Championship, Tiger Woods at 21 (270 18 under par)
1997 Hartford Whalers last NHL game
1997 NHL Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Lemieux's last NHL regular game
1997 Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win The Masters Tournament.
1997 Travis Fryman homers off R Hernandez in both games of double header 1st time since 1961 that 2 doubleheaders are played in the same city Giants vs Mets & Oakland A's vs Yankees in NY
2002 Pedro Carmona, interim president of Venezuela, resigns one day after taking office.
2006 Powerful tornadoes rip through Iowa City, Iowa
2009 Citi Field opens to almost 44,000 people in a game lost by the New York Mets 6-5 to the San Diego Padres
2012 North Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up after launch
2013 8 people are killed after a bomb explodes on a bus in Peshawar, Pakistan
2013 20 civilians are killed by the government bombing of Saraqib, Idlib
2014 Bubba Watson wins the 78th Masters Golf Tournament, shooting a 280
2014 Kenyan Wilson Kipsang wins the London Marathon
2014 Manny Pacquiao defeats Timothy Bradley to regain his WBO welterweight boxing title
2015 Migrant ship carrying around 550 sinks off the Libyan coast, about 400 drown.
Born on April 13th
1506 Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)
1519 Catherine de' Medici, Queen of Spain, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)
1519 De Medicis, queen consort (Henry II of France)
1545 Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain, daughter of Henri II, third wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)
1570 Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)
1573 Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1625)
1584 Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)
1593 Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)
1618 Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)
1626 Aert Jansz van Nes, Lt-admiral, baptised
1648 Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (d. 1717)
1713 Pierre de Jelyotte, composer
1715 John Hanson, President of the United States in Congress Assembled, 1st US Pres under Articles of Confederation (d. 1783)
1729 Thomas Percy, Bishop and magazine editor (d. 1811)
1732 Frederick North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1770-82) (d. 1792)
1733 Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
1735 Isaac Low, delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
1743 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (1801-09) (d. 1826)
1747 Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
1749 Frederik Sigismund van Bylandt, Dutch count/vice-admiral
1756 Louis H J Condé, French prince
1762 Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, Dutch actress (Phaedra, Lady Macbeth)
1762 Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
1764 Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (d. 1830)
1769 Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)
1771 Adam FJA van der Duyn, Dutch governor (South Holland)
1771 Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor (steam locomotive) (d. 1833)
1780 Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)
1784 Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder
1784 Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
1787 John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)
1791 Félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance
1799 Heinrich F L Rellstab, German music theorist
1799 Joseph Rastrelli, composer
1802 Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)
1808 Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1889)
1816 William Sterndale Bennett, composer
1817 Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian/archivist (Brussels)
1822 Leroy Augustus Stafford, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)
1822 William Stephen Walker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1899)
1825 Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)
1828 Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop (d. 1889)
1830 Eduard Lassen, composer
1832 James Wimshurst, British designer/inventor (electricstatic generator)
1832 Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889)
1841 Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
1847 Cornelis Pijnacker Hordijk, gov-gen (Neth East-Indies)
1849 Enrique Jose Varona, Cuban sociologist/psychologist
1850 Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)
1851 Robert Abbe, American surgeon (d. 1928)
1852 F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)
1854 Richard T Ely, US economist (Hard Times)
1860 James Ensor, Belgian painter (De lampenjongen) (d. 1949)
1865 Heinrich Reinhardt, composer
1866 Butch Cassidy (Robert LeRoy Parker), American outlaw (Wild Bunch Passage) (d. 1908)
1867 Sammy Woods, cricket bowler (Aust & Engld Rugby wing-forward)
1868 John Blackwood McEwen, composer
1872 Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian writer (d. 1945)
1873 John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)
1873 Theodore Morse, composer
1875 Ray Lyman Wilbur, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior and 3rd President of Stanford University (d. 1949)
1879 Edward Bruce, Director art projects (d. 1943)
1880 Charles Christie, Canadian film studio owner (d. 1955)
1883 Alexander Alexandrov, composer
1883 Demjan Bednyi, writer
1885 Georg Lukács, Hungarian-born philosopher and literary critic (d. 1971)
1885 Pieter S Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer/premier in London (1940-45)
1885 Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1886 Ethel Leginska, composer
1887 Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and President of the Canadian Medical Association (d. 1995)
1889 Herbert Osborne Yardley, American cryptographer (d. 1958)
1890 Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949)
1891 Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)
1891 Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)
1891 Robert Scholl, German politician, father of Hans and Sophie Scholl (d. 1973)
1892 Arthur Harris, Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF
1892 Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, British Air Force commander (d. 1984)
1892 Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (radar) (d. 1973)
1894 Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)
1894 Ludvig Irgens Jensen, composer
1895 Olga Rudge, violinist
1897 Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917)
1899 Alexander Alexandrovich Davidenko, composer
1899 Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and Scrabble inventor (d. 1993)
1899 Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher
1900 Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1901 Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)
1901 René-Jean Pleven, French premier (1950-52)
1902 Duke of Marlborough
1902 Godfrey Kenton, actor (Well's Theater)
1902 Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver and wine grower (Bordeaux Vineyard) (d. 1988)
1903 Rex Evans, actor (Frankenstein meets the Wolfman, Zara, Matchmaker)
1904 Georges Yves Marie Congar, dominican Theologian cardinal
1904 David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)
1906 Bud Freeman, American musician, US jazz saxophonist (Eel) (d. 1991)
1906 Samuel Beckett, French playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel laureate 1969) (d. 1989)
1907 Harold Stassen, American Presidential candidate (Gov-R-Minn) (d. 2001)
1909 Eudora Welty, American writer (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973) (d. 2001)
1909 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI)
1909 Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist
1909 Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician (d. 1984)
1911 Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)
1911 Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1994)
1911 Nino Sanzogno, composer
1912 Roy Winsor, Chicago, producer (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life)
1913 Bernard Chacksfield, Air Vice-Marshal
1913 David Donald Albritton, Danville Al, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1936)
1915 Bert (Albert L F) Peleman (Dirk Dyckmans), Flemish writer
1915 R N Coote, Bishop (Colchester)
1915 Stephan Hermlin, writer
1915 Stephen Roberts, CEO (British Milk Marketing Board)
1915 Tom Greenshields, sculptor
1916 Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist, and publisher (d. 2006)
1917 Howard Keel, Ill, actor/singer and president of the Screen Actors Guild (7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Kiss Me Kate)
1917 Robert O. Anderson, American businessman (d. 2007)
1918 Audrey Barker, writer
1919 Howard Keel, American actor, singer, and president of the Screen Actors Guild (d. 2004)
1919 Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (opppsed prayer in school) (d. 1995)
1919 Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)
1919 Roland Gaucher, French journalist (d. 2007)
1920 Claude Cheysson, French politician
1920 John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004)
1920 Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (Fine Gael Party)
1920 Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
1921 Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, industrialist
1921 Carlo Prosperi, composer
1921 James Wilson, British Lt-General
1921 Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet/publisher (Gift of Blood)
1922 John Braine, English novelist (Life at the Top) (d. 1986)
1922 Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian First President and Father of the Nation (d. 1999)
1923 Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
1924 Jack Chick, American evangelist
1924 Stanley Donen, American film director (Bedazzled, Damn Yankees)
1925 Frank Chamberlain, CEO (Test & County Cricket Board)
1925 Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist
1925 Hilda Dianda, composer
1926 11th duke of Marlborough, English large landowner
1926 Don Adams, NYC, comedian (Maxwell Smart-Get Smart, Check it Out)
1926 Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983)
1926 Godfrey Kenton, actor
1926 John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
1927 Lord Wedderburn of Charlton, QC, (d. 2012)
1927 Mari Blanchard, Long Beach California, actress (Kathy-Klondike)
1927 Maurice Ronet, French film actor (Frantic, Sphinz, Circle of Love) (d. 1983)
1927 Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist
1928 Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)
1929 Marilynn Smith, Topeka KS, LPGA golfer (1972 Pabst Open)
1930 Justice Harman
1931 Beverley Cross, playwright
1931 Dan Gurney, American race car driver and team owner
1931 Jon Stone, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997)
1931 Michael Burchill, actor
1931 Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1932 Barney Simon, theatre director/writer
1932 Karl Kroeger, composer
1932 Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976)
1933 Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. politician (Sen-D Colorado)
1933 Shani Wallis, Ireland, singer/actress (Oliver)
1934 Horace Kay, US singer (Tams-You Lied to Your Daddy)
1934 Siegfried Matthus, composer
1935 Kenneth Hayr, air marshal
1935 Lyle Waggoner, American actor (Carol Burnette Show, Wonder Woman)
1935 Peter Heap, diplomat
1937 Edward Fox, English actor (M-Never Say Never Again)
1937 Lanford Wilson, American playwright (Hot L Baltimore)
1937 Peter M Harris, Official Solicitor (Supreme Court)
1938 Frederic Rzewski, Westfield Mass, composer (Spacecraft)
1938 John Weston, diplomat
1939 Barbara-Rose Collins, (Rep-D-Michigan)
1939 Paul Sorvino, American actor (Chiefs, Dick Tracy)
1939 Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel laureate
1939 Wijnie Jabaaij, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 J.M.G. Le Clézio, French novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature.
1940 Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1940 Lester Chambers, Ms, vocalist (Chamber Brothers-Time Has Come Today)
1940 Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (d. 1988)
1941 Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
1942 Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer.
1942 Bill Conti, American composer (For Your Eyes Only, Rocky IV)
1943 Bill Koch, US skier
1943 Billy Kidd, American skier
1943 Eve Graham, rocker (New Seekers)
1944 Brian Pendleton, musician (Pretty Things) (d. 2001)
1944 Charles Burnett, director (When it Rains, Glass Shield)
1944 Jack Casady, American musician, bassist (Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane)
1944 Michael Saunders, barrister
1944 Susan Davis, American politician
1945 Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970)
1945 Carlos Gimenez, Arg/Venez founder (Theater festival of Caracas)
1945 Charles Robinson, American actor
1945 Edward J Caruthers Jr, Troy Ala, high jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
1945 Judy Nunn, Australian actress
1945 Lowell George, American singer/guitarist (Little Feat) (d. 1979)
1945 Raymond van Geytenbeek, Dutch singer/drummer (Les Baroques)
1945 Stacy Johnson, US singer (Sharpees-Tired of Being Alone)
1945 Tony Dow, American actor (Wally-Leave it to Beaver)
1946 Al Green, American singer (Lets Stay Together) and pastor
1946 Roy Loney, rocker (Flaming Groovies)
1947 Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer & former minister
1948 Amy Robinson, Trenton NJ, writer/actress (Mean Streets)
1948 Drago Jancar, Slovenian writer
1948 Nam Hae-il, Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy
1948 Peter Swevel, rocker
1948 Sue Doughty, British politician
1949 Christopher Hitchens, English-born journalist, critic, and author
1949 Frank Doran, Scottish politician
1949 Jean-Jacques Favier, Kehl Germany, astronaut (STS 78)
1949 Philippe Petit, Nemours France, juggler/aerialist
1949 Ricardo Zunino, Argentine racing driver
1950 Riff West, rock bassist (Molly Hatchet)
1950 Ron Perlman, American actor (Quest for Fire, Beauty & the Beast)
1950 Terry Lester, American actor (Young & Restless, As World Turns) (d. 2003)
1950 William Sadler, American actor
1951 Beatrix "Trixie" Schuba, Austria, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 Jack Quinn, (Rep-R-New York)
1951 Joachim Streich, East German footballer
1951 Max Weinberg, American drummer (E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show)
1951 Peabo Bryson, American singer, R&B (I'm So into You)
1951 Peter Davison, English actor (Dr Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three)
1952 David Drew, British politician
1952 Erick Avari, British-Indian actor
1952 Jonjo O'Neill, racehorse trainer
1952 Ron Dittemore, American space administrator
1953 Stephen Byers, British politician
1954 Barbara Roche, British politician
1954 Jimmy Destri, American keyboardist (Blondie)
1954 Niels Olsen, Danish singer
1955 Kabaka of Buganda
1955 Louis Johnson, LA California, rock bassist/vocalist (Brothers Johnson)
1955 Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer
1955 Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg
1956 Michael Nikolay, German DR, gymnist (Olympics)
1956 Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand rally driver (d. 2003)
1957 Amy Goodman, American activist, host of Democracy Now
1957 Dallas Moir, Scottish cricketer
1957 Gary Kroeger, American actor (SNL, Return of Shaggy Dog)
1957 Saundra Santiago, American actress (Gina-Miami Vice)
1957 Wayne Lewis, keyboardist, (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1958 Randy Piper, heavy metal rocker (Wasp-Wildchild)
1959 Vicki Witt Lansing MI, playmate (Aug, 1978)
1960 Bob Casey, Jr., Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
1960 Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist
1960 Rudi Völler, German football coach
1961 Hiro Yamamoto, American rock bassist
1961 Tammy Stephens, Arlington Tx, singer (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1962 Dave Miley, former baseball player and manager
1962 Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)
1962 Jennifer Rubin, American actress
1963 Gary Kimovich Kasparov, Russian world chess champion (1985)
1963 Jan Willem van Ede, Dutch soccer player (FC Utrecht, PSV)
1963 Mark Leiter, Joliet IL, pitcher (SF Giants)
1964 Bill D'Angelo, heavy metal rocker
1964 Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress
1964 Davis Love III, Professional Golfer, PGA tour (1987 MCI Heritage)
1964 Doug Strange, Greenville SC, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1964 Jose Rijo, pitcher (NY Yankees, Cin Reds)
1964 Page Hannah, Chicago Ill, actress (Kate Riley-Fame)
1965 Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinean architect
1965 Quinn Early, NFL wide receiver (NO Saints, Buffalo Bills)
1966 Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian football player
1966 Mando, Greek singer
1966 Marc Ford, American musician
1967 Dana Barros, American basketball player, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1967 Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer
1968 Tami Lyn Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 Ted Washington, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1968 Toni Lee Jameson, Minneapolis, team handball back court (Olympics-96)
1969 Harold Pruett, rocker (Outsiders-Time Won't Let Me)
1970 Eddie Robinson, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer
1970 Monty Brown, American professional wrestler, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Ramona Reuter, Miss USA-NY (1997)
1970 Ricardo Rincon, Mexican baseball player
1970 Rick Schroder, American actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling)
1970 Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast
1971 Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
1971 Charles Outlaw, NBA forward (LA Clippers, Orlando Magic)
1971 Corey Yothers, LA California, actor (Off the Rock)
1971 Dina Korzun, Russian actress
1971 Valensia, Dutch singer
1972 Aaron Lewis, American singer (Staind)
1972 Dave Wohlabaugh, NFL center/guard (NE Patriots)
1972 Jeroen Thesseling, pop bassist (Pestilence, Spheres)
1972 Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1972 Mike Kennedy, Vancouver, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1973 Aaron Hayden, NFL running back (San Diego Chargers, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 Dave Wohlabaugh, corner (New England Patriots)
1974 Darren Turner , British Race Driver
1974 David Schurmann, Brazilian film director
1974 David Zdrilic, Australian soccer player
1974 Sergei Gonchar, Russian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Capitals, Oly-S-1998)
1975 Bruce Dyer, English footballer
1975 David Philip Hefti, Swiss composer and conductor
1975 Lou Bega, German-born musician and artist
1976 Everton Matambanadzo, Zimbabwean cricket pace bowler (v Paki 1996)
1976 Glenn Howerton, American actor
1976 Jonathan Brandis, American actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV) (d. 2003)
1976 Patrik Eliáš, Czech ice hockey player
1976 Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
1976 Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor
1978 Arron Asham, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 Carles Puyol, Catalan footballer
1978 Chris Sligh, American Idol finalist
1978 Grace Murray Tubbs, Miss Montana Teen USA (1996)
1978 James Jordan, English professional ballroom dancer
1978 Kyle Howard, American actor
1979 Baron Davis, American basketball player
1979 Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player
1979 Monica Ivey, Miss Hawaii Teen USA (1996)
1980 Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
1980 Jana Cova, Czech pornographic actress
1980 Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
1981 Courtney Peldon, American actress
1981 Nat Borchers, American soccer player
1982 Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer
1982 Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer
1982 Nellie McKay, American singer
1983 Hunter Pence, American baseball player
1983 Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
1984 Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor
1987 Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer
1988 Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1991 Dylan Francis Penn, LA California, daughter of Sean Penn & Robin Wright
1992 Emma Degerstedt, American actress
1992 Jet Travolta, daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston
1997 Sloane Momsen, American actress
Died on April 13th
799 Paulus Diaconus Warnafridi, Longobardisch Italian monk and chronicler (b. c. 720)
814 Krum of Bulgaria
1093 Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
1279 Boleslaw the Pious, Polish duke
1517 Tuman Bey, last Mamelukken sultan of Egypt, hanged
1605 Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (b. c. 1551)
1612 Sasaki Kojiro, Japanese samurai
1635 Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (b. 1572)
1638 Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)
1641 Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)
1695 Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)
1722 Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (b. 1650)
1728 Johann Christoph Schmidt, composer
1742 Giovanni Veneziano, composer
1756 Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer
1793 Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)
1794 Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)
1806 Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter
1822 Gaetano Valeri, composer
1825 Josef Gelinek, composer
1826 Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763)
1831 Ferdinand Kauer, composer
1853 James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)
1853 Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1855 Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)
1864 Johann Schneider, composer
1868 Theodros II (Kasa), Emperor of Ethiopia (Abyssinia), commits suicide (b. 1818)
1873 Carlo Coccia, composer
1880 Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)
1882 Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)
1886 John Humphrey Noyes, American political and religious figure (b. 1811)
1886 Karoly Thern, composer
1890 Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)
1903 Derk J A Haspels, Dutch actor
1904 Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War & Peace)
1909 Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)
1910 William Quiller Orchardson, British painter (b. 1835)
1911 George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)
1911 John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)
1912 Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1918 Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1928 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer
1932 Johannes T de Visser, 1st Dutch Min of Education
1936 Demertzis, Greek premier,
1936 Konstantinos Demertzis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1936 Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)
1938 Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)
1941 Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (Henry Draper catalogues) (b. 1863)
1942 Anton Uesson, Estonian politician and engineer (b. 1879)
1942 Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed
1944 Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857)
1944 Paul Hazard, French literature historian
1945 Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)
1946 William Henry Bell, composer
1949 C V France
1952 (Rosalie) Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress (Adelaarsjong)
1954 Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)
1959 Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901)
1959 Rigardus "Rijn" Rijnhout, Giant of Rotterdam (2.375m)
1961 John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)
1962 Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876)
1966 Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)
1966 Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
1967 Luis Somoza Debayle, president of Nicaragua (1956-63)
1971 Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)
1971 Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
1973 Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book)
1974 Stanley Smith, actor (Honey, King of Jazz, Soup to Nuts)
1975 François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (b. 1918)
1975 Larry Parks, American actor (Jazz Singer) (b. 1914)
1975 N'garta Tombalbaye, president Chad
1978 Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (b. 1931)
1978 Paul McGrath, actor (Witness, No Time for Love)
1980 Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)
1981 Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
1983 Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)
1984 Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self
1984 Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)
1984 Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)
1984 Richard Hurndall, British actor (b. 1910)
1986 Stephen Stucker, American actor (Trading Places, Airplane) (b. 1947)
1990 Luis Trenker
1990 Ronald Ibbs
1992 Brian Oulton
1992 Wallace Stegner, novelist (Pulitzer 1972)
1992 Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Capt of Surrey)
1993 Barry Karas
1993 Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag)
1993 Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP
1993 Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
1994 Donald Benjamin Harden, archaeologist
1994 Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov, actor (Telegram)
1994 Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje)
1994 P J Engels, Dutch MP (KVP)
1994 Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor (Short Cut, Golden Eels)
1994 Taleb Ali al-Suheil, Iran sheik, murdered in Lebanon
1995 Edward Firth Henderson, arabist
1995 Lawrence Allan Laurie Scott, script writer
1996 Denis Sargan, econometrician
1996 George Mackey Brown, poet
1996 James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, criminal,
1997 Ann Craft, researcher/writer
1997 Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896)
1997 George Wald, scientist (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina)
1997 Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)
1998 Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (b. 1960)
1999 Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)
1999 Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)
2000 Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)
2001 Robert Moon, American postal inspector (b. 1917)
2002 Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)
2003 Possum Bourne, New Zealand rally car driver (b. 1956
2004 Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)
2004 Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
2005 Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)
2005 Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924)
2005 Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (b. 1945)
2005 Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)
2006 Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)
2007 Don Selwyn, Maori actor and film director (b. c. 1936)
2008 John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)
2009 Bruce Snyder, American football coach (b. 1940)
2009 Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
2009 Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (b. 1954)
2013 Chi Cheng, American Bassist (Deftones)
2015 Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and writer
2015 Günter Grass, German writer (The Tin Drum) and playwright and Nobel Prize laureate (1999)