April 15th
Holidays and Festivals
Jackie Robinson Day * (See Below)
Arirang Festival (North Korea) * (See Below)
Titanic Remembrance Day, Anniversary of the Titanic Sinking
Global Youth Service Day
Tax Day, Income Tax Pay Day
Anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing of 2013
Equal Pay Day
National Take a Wild Guess Day
National That Sucks Day
Rubber Eraser Day
McDonald's Day
Final Day of Pohela Boishakh (Bangladesh and West Bengal state, India) * CLICK HERE
Third Day of Thingyan (Burma) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Chol Chnam Thmey (Cambodia) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Rongali Bihu (Assam state, India) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Bisu (Karnataka state, India) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Vishu (Kerala state, India) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Vaisakhi (Punjab region, India) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Alathu Aharudhuvas (Sri Lanka, Maldives, Lakshadweep and Kerala state, India) * CLICK HERE
Third Day of Songkran (Myanmar, Thailand, Laos) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Bikram Samwat (Nepal) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Maha Visuba Sankranthi (Orissa state, India) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Puthandu (Tamil Nadu state, India) * CLICK HERE
Final Day of Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnam) * CLICK HERE
Christian Feast Day of Domnina of Terni, 3rd-century martyr in Italy
Christian Feast Day of Abbo II of Metz
Christian Feast Day of Father Damien Day (Hawaii)
Christian Feast Day of Hunna
Christian Feast Day of Paternus of Avranches
Fordicidia, in honor of Tellus (Ancient Rome)
* Jackie Robinson Day, to commemorate his debut breaking major-league baseball's color barrier. (Major League Baseball)
* Arirang Festival, held to commemorate Kim Il-sung's birth. (North Korea)
New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asia * CLICK HERE
Fête de la Lilas Translation: Lilac Day (French Republican) The 26th day of the Month of Germinal in the French Republican CalendarToast of The Day
"So that our children will have wealthy parents."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
B-52
1 Part Kahlua
1 Part (Bailey's) Irish Cream Liqueur
1 Part Grand Marnier
- In Honor of the (airplane) B-52. The aircraft first flew on 15 April 1952 with "Tex" Johnston as pilot
Wine of The Day
Tomasello 2007 Oak Reserve
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Outer Coastal Plain
$30
Beer of The Day
Durango Dark
Brewer - Durango Brewing Co., Durango, Colorado, USA
Style - American-Style Dark Lager
Joke of The Day
I Passed out drunk at a friends house last night, only to awaken this morning to find that someone had drawn a forehead on my penis.
I kinda' suspect my dyslexic friend.
Quote of The Day
"To err is human. To blame it on someone else is even more human."
- Anonymous
April Observances
ASPCA Month
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage Month
Cancer Control Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
Community Spirit Days
Confederate History Month
Couple Appreciation Month
Cranberries and Gooseberries Month
DNA, Genomics and Stem Cell Education and Awareness Month
Defeat Diabetes Month
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
Facial Protection Month
Fair Housing Month
Financial Literacy Month
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month
Frog Month
Get Yourself Tested Month
Global Child Nutrition Month
Grange Month
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month (Different Sponsor to March)
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month
Informed Woman Month
Injury Prevention Month
International Cesarean Awareness Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Daffynitions Month
International Guitar Month
International Twit Award Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
Lawn and Garden Month
Learn Thai Month
Library Snapshot Month
Math Awareness Month
Month of the Military Child
Month of the Young Child
National African American Women's Fitness Month
National Autism Awareness Month
National Car Care Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month
National Decorating Month
National Donate Life Month
National Garden Month
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month
National Humor Month
National Kite Month
National Knuckles Down Month
National Landscape Architecture Month
National Multiple Birth Awareness Month
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Oral Health Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month
National Pecan Month
National Pest Management Month
National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
National Pet Month
National Poetry Month
National Prepare Your Home To Be Sold Month
National Rebuilding Month
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Education and Awareness Month
National Stress Awareness Month
National Welding Month
National Welding Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month
Patient Safety Awareness Month
Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month
Physical Wellness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month
Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
Procrastination Awareness Month
Records and Information Management Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month
Southern Belles Month
Soy Foods Month
Sports Eye Safety Month
Straw Hat Month
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
Tomatillo and Asian Pear Month
Women's Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
World Habitat Awareness Month
Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month
Observances this Week
Organize Your Files Week, Third Week of AprilMedical Labs Week, Third Week of April
Coin Week, Third Week of April
Fibroid Awareness Week, Third Week of April
National Karaoke Week, Third Week of April
National Volunteer Week, Third Week of April
National Pet ID Week, Third Week of April
National Paperboard Packaging Week, Third Week of April
National Playground Safety Week, Third Week of April
National Severe Storm Preparedness Week, Third Week of April
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, Third Week of April
Preservation Week, Third Week of April
Sky Awareness Week, Third Week of April
International Whistlers Week (IWC), Third or Fourth week of April
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
Historical Events on April 15th
(43 BC) Battle of Forum Gallorum, Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul Pansa, who is wounded.
69 Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
193 Lucius Septimus Severus crowned emperor of Rome
754 Pact of Quierzy: between Pope Stephen II, [III] & Pippin the Korte
966 Christianisation of Poland
972 Notger becomes bishop of Liege
979 Challenge to throne of King Aethelred II of England
1028 German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king of the Germans.
1191 85-year old Giacinto Bobo becomes Pope Coelestinus III
1205 Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
1294 Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
1341 Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1434 The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
1471 In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1536 English king Henry VIII expropriate minor monasteries
1544 Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss
1570 Polish Calvinists/Lutherians/Hernhutters unify against Jesuits
1574 Battle of Mookerhei-D'Avila beats Louis of Nassau
1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1629 England & France sign Peace of Susa
1671 Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin
1699 Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1756 Gov Glen of SC protests against 900 Acadia indians
1775 The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1777 NY adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 France declares war on Austria, starting French Revolutionary Wars
1799 Napoleon called for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 Napoleon defeated Austria in the Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria
1814 Napoleon abdicated & was banished to Elba
1818 US Medical Corp forms
1828 18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
1828 Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1831 Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse.
1836 Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1841 Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published
1846 The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1847 Persia & Osmaanse sign 2nd Treaty of Erzurum
1849 Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1853 Harriet Tubman began her Underground Railroad, helping slaves escape
1860 The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California from St Joseph, Mo.
1861 Formal Union surrender of Ft Sumter
1861 Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1862 Battle of Ft Pillow TN
1863 William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1864 Battle of Dybbøl, A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
1865 Mobile, Alabama is captured
1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell.
1865 US Secret Service created to fight counterfeiting
1868 SC voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
1871 Canada sets denominations of currency as dollars, cents, & mills
1872 Dominion Lands Act passed-Canada's Homestead Act
1872 San Francisco organizes Bar Association
1881 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupts in El Paso, Texas.
1883 Leo Delibes' opera "Lakmé," premieres in Paris
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Reigate Squires" (BG)
1890 The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device, The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Edison's Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films (moving pictures).
1895 1st performance of Gustav Mahler's (incomplete) 2nd Symphony
1896 John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres (NYC)
1900 President Loubet opens International Fairs in Paris
1900 Veteran's Hospital at Ft Miley forms
1902 JC Penney opens his 1st store, in Kemmerer, Wyo
1903 Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1904 George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premiered in London
1906 Pres Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press
1909 Anglo-Persian Oil Company forms in London
1910 Pan American Union forms
1910 President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1912 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sinks the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
1913 Belgium begins general strike for voting rights
1914 Stacy G Carkhuff patents non-skid tire pattern
1915 A's Herb Pennock is within 1 out of pitching 1st Opening Day no-hitter
1915 Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1915 The Turks invade Armenia.
1917 Chic White Sox Ed Cicotte no-hits St Louis Browns, 11-0
1918 Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1920 Tornadoes killed 219 people in Alabama & Mississippi
1921 NHL Championship, Ottawa Senators sweep Toronto St Patricks in 2 games
1921 Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
1922 Republic rebels occupies 4 government courts in Dublin
1923 Etienne Oehmichen sets helicopter distance record of 358 meters
1925 1st regular-season Cubs game to be broadcast on radio (WGN)
1927 The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1928 Maddus Airlines starts 1st regular passenger flights between SF & LA
1928 Stanley Cup, NY Rangers beat Montreal Maroons, 3 games to 2
1930 Philip Barry's "Hotel Universe," premieres in NYC
1931 Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.
1931 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 3 games to 2
1932 Bizet, Massine & Mira's "Jeux d'Enfants," premieres in Monte Carlo
1935 Sandstorm ravages US midwest, "Black Sunday Storm", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1939 "The Grapes of Wrath", by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
1940 Allied troops land in Norway
1940 RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
1940 Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later, World War II.
1941 1st massive German raid in Paris, 3,600 Jews rounded up
1941 King Peter leaves Yugoslavia
1941 The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. Rommel attacks Tobruk, World War II.
1942 Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1943 Gen Alexander, Eisenhower, Anderson, and Bradley discuss assault on Tunis
1943 James Gow & A d'Usseau's "Tomorrow the World," premieres in NYC
1944 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1944 Bombay Explosion, A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1944 Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 1,376
1944 Gen Eisenhower becomes head commander of allied air fleet
1944 Greek Colonel Venizelos forms government
1945 American planes bombed Tokyo & damaged the Imperial Palace
1945 Arnhem, Zwolle freed from nazis
1945 Osijek, Croatia, is liberated from fascist occupation.
1945 US 7th Army & allies forces captured Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945 US forces conquered Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1945 US marines attack Yae Take on Okinawa
1946 "Day Before Spring" closes at National Theater NYC after 167 perfs
1946 Manager Mel Ott of Giants hits 511th & final HR
1948 A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1948 NYC subway fares jump from 5 cents to 10 cents
1948 Stanley Cup, Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1949 International Military Tribunal at Neurenberg's last judgment
1950 1st edition of British strip "Eagle"
1950 Doorne's Auto factory opens in Netherlands
1953 Viet-Minh offensive in Laos
1953 WHYN (now WGGB) TV channel 40 in Springfield-Holyoke, MA (ABC) begins
1954 Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov asks for politics asylum in Canberra
1955 Elston Howard becomes the 1st black to wear the Yankee uniform
1955 Stanley Cup, Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3
1955 WBRZ TV channel 2 in Baton Rouge, LA (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 "Plain & Fancy" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 476 perfs
1956 Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder in Chicago, Illinois
1957 Leah Neuberger wins her 8th women's singles ping pong championship
1957 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Dallas Golf Open
1958 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) falls from orbit, burns up in atmosphere after a mission duration of 162 days.
1959 (Robert) Taft Memorial Bell Tower dedicated in Wash DC
1959 KDIN TV channel 11 in Des Moines, IA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 "Bye Bye Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 607 performances
1960 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile
1960 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Maple Leafs in 4 games
1961 1st live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1961 Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua
1961 US element 103 (Lawrencium) discovered
1962 Demonstration for sovereign status of New-Guinea in Amsterdam
1962 Georges Pompidou becomes president of France
1963 George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1964 Sandy Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Gen Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo
1967 In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time
1967 Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at
1967 Yankee Stadium, Elston Howard singles on a 3-2 pitch
1968 1st NBA game at Madison Sq Garden, Knicks beat SD Clippers
1968 32nd Golf Masters Championship, Bob Goalby wins, shooting a 277
1968 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA O'Sullivan Golf Open
1968 Roberto de Vicenzo loses Masters for signing an incorrect score card
1969 1st major league baseball game outside US played (Montreal Canada)
1969 At the 41st U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand. "Oliver," C Robertson also win.
1969 KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1969 Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
1970 "Boy Friend" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 119 performances
1971 Fort Point, SF dedicated as a national historic site
1971 President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Follies," premieres in NYC
1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation
1972 "That's Entertainment" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 4 performances
1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal
1974 38th Golf Masters Championship, Gary Player wins, shooting a 278
1977 Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license
1978 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations, Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1978 David Hare's "Plenty," premieres in London
1978 Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1978 WRR-AM in Dallas Texas changes call letters to KAAM
1979 Susan Horvath, of Penn, crowned America's Young Woman of the Year
1980 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 52nd Academy Awards "Kramer vs Kramer," D Hoffman & Sally Field win
1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1981 1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth
1981 STS-1 The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
1983 Isles tie own rec with 2 shorthanded playoff goals in a pd vs Ranger
1983 Pres Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
1983 Rangers 1-Isles 4-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 1-0 lead
1984 Farewell concert of "Doe Maar" in Den Bosch Neth
1985 "Take Me Along!" opens/closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1985 49th Golf Masters Championship: Bernhard Langer wins, shooting a 282
1985 Ahmed Salah wins 1st World Cup marathon (2:08:09)
1985 Alan Garcia wins elections in Peru
1985 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Kyocera Inamori Golf Classic
1985 Bob Carpenter is unsuccessful on Wash Caps 1st playoff penalty shot
1985 Caps 4-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Series tied at 2-2
1985 Jack C Burcham is 5th to receive "Jarvik 7" permanent artificial heart
1986 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92. These are the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1986 21st Academy of Country Music Awards: G Strait, Alabama, R McEntire
1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican archbishop of Capetown
1986 Double-decker ferry sinks in stormy weather in Bangladesh killing 200
1986 In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya at 5 terrorist locations, killing 60 people.
1987 Turkey asks to join European market
1988 "Mail" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 36 performances
1988 Devils 6-5 over Islanders-Devils take 1st round 4-2
1988 In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1988 The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 USSR, US, Pakistan & Afghanistan sign Afghanistan treaty
1989 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
1989 In the Iran-Contra trial, Oliver North's case goes to the jury
1991 "Mule Bone" closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 67 perfs
1991 "Oh, Kay!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1991 55th Golf Masters Championship, Ian Woosnam wins, shooting a 277
1991 Chic Blackhawks becomes 1st NHL regular season champion in 20 years to lose in 1st round of the playoffs (To Minn North Stars)
1992 "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances
1992 "Les Miserables," opens at Palace Theatre, Manchester
1992 Court throws out Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft
1992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
1992 UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
1994 Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley announces plans to divorce
1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
1994 In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer
1994 NJ Devils end best regular season, 47-25-12 record for 106 points
1994 US F-15 accidentally shoots 2 US helicopters down over Iraq, 26 die
1995 India beats Sri Lanka to win the Asia Cricket Cup final in Sharjah
1995 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Pinewild Women's Golf Championship
1996 "Apple Doesn't Fall" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 1 performance
1996 60th Golf Masters Championship: Nick Faldo wins, shooting a 276
1996 Detroit Red Wings win NHL record 62 games
1999 A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
1999 NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees Yugoslav officials say 75 people are killed.
2000 Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
2002 Tiger Woods becomes the third golfer to win The Masters in two consecutive years
2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 The U.S. Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2007 At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
2010 Volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupts in Iceland resulting in massive disruption to air traffic in most of Europe
2013 Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, killing 3 and injuring 264 others
2013 33 people are killed and 163 are injured in a wave of bombings across Iraq
2013 Nicolás Maduro is narrowly elected President of Venezuela
2013 Lelisa Desisa Benti of Ethiopia 1st man in 2:10:22 and Rita Jeptoo of Kenya 1st woman in 2:26:25 at the 117th Boston Marathon
Born on April 15th
1452 Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)
1469 Guru Nanak Dev, the first of the ten Sikh Gurus (d. 1539)
1489 Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)
1552 Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)
1588 Claudius Salmasius (Claude Saumaise), French linguist and classical scholar (d. 1653)
1637 Valentin Molitor, composer
1641 Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)
1642 Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
1646 King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)
1646 Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719)
1651 Domenico Gabrielli, composer
1682 John van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)
1684 Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27) (d. 1727)
1688 Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758)
1689 Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
1707 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (Euler's Constant) (d. 1783)
1710 William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790)
1721 Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765)
1741 Charles Willson Peale, American painter (George Washington), soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)
1757 George Knowil Jackson, composer
1766 Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic
1772 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
1793 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer, founded dynasty of astronomers (d. 1864)
1794 Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)
1800 James Clark Ross, English explorer (British Antarctic) (d. 1862)
1809 Hermann Gunther Grassmann, German mathematician (d. 1877)
1812 Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter
1814 John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep)
1820 Evander McNair, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1821 Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894
1822 Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 Julius Tausch, composer
1829 Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon
1832 Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
1837 Horace Porter, Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921
1841 Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
1843 Carl Eilhardt, composer
1843 Henry James, British author (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians) (d. 1916)
1845 Dave Gregory, cricketer (Australia's 1st Test captain)
1850 John Munroe Longyear, US, capitalist/bank president
1856 Jean Moréas, Greek poet (d. 1910)
1858 Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard, Dutch painter/lithographer/etcher
1858 Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (Division du travail social) (d. 1917)
1861 Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929)
1874 George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954)
1874 Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel laureate 1919) (d. 1957)
1875 James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953)
1875 Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker, Dutch playwright/novelist (Poverty)
1878 Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956)
1879 Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
1882 Giovanni Amendola, Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief (Il Mondo)
1883 Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)
1885 Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947)
1886 Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921)
1888 Florence Bates, San Antonio Tx, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama)
1888 Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904)
1889 A. Philip Randolph, American activist (Railroad Porter's Union) (d. 1979)
1889 Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (Lonesome Road) (d. 1975)
1891 Alvin Carter, Virginia, vocalist (Carter Family)
1891 Vaino Raitio, composer
1891 Wallace Reid, St Louis MO, actor/dir/screenwriter (Every Inch a Man)
1892 Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983)
1892 Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
1894 (Elizabeth Mae) "Bessie" Smith, American blues singer, Empress of Blues (over 200 songs) (d. 1937)
1894 Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64), Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)
1895 Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980)
1895 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
1895 Harry F V Edward, British Guiana, 100m/200m runner (Oly-bronze-1920)
1896 Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986)
1898 Marian Jordan, actress, radio comedienne (Molly-Fibber McGee & Molly)
1898 Nini de Boel, Flemish operette singer (White Horse)
1901 Joe Davis, English snooker player, billiards-world champ (1927-46) (d. 1978)
1902 Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
1903 Erich Arendt, writer [or Apr 16]
1903 John Williams, England, actor (Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder)
1904 Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
1906 A J "Sandy" Bell, South African cricket fast bowler (16 Tests 1929-35)
1906 Susan Walker, vice CEO (WRVS)
1907 Gerald Abrahams, Liverpool, author (Teach Yourself Chess)
1907 Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist (Nobel laureate 1973) (d. 1988)
1908 Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (d. 1995)
1908 Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995)
1908 Louise Chaplin, actress
1910 Lord Grey of Naunton, chancellor (Ulster University)
1910 Miguel Najdorf, Argentine chess grandmaster (d. 1997)
1911 Jacob Fresco, Dutch architect (Antilles Brewery/Autonomy Monument)
1912 Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (1945-94) (d. 1994)
1912 Peter Menzies, CEO (British Electricity Council)
1914 John Gregory, dancer
1915 Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist
1916 Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
1917 Hans Conried, American actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy) (d. 1982)
1917 James Kee, American politician (d. 1989)
1917 Pietro Grossi, composer
1918 John Baragrey, Haleyville AL, actor (Creeper, Colossus of NY)
1919 Clive Beadon, airman
1919 Elizabeth Catelett, sculptor/lithographer
1919 Meriol Trevor, novelist/biographer (Civil Prisoners)
1920 Richard von Weizsäcker, President of Germany (1984-94)
1920 Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist
1921 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi, USSR cosmonaut (Soyuz 3) (d. 1995)
1921 Norman Ewart Thurston, musician
1922 Harold Washington, American politician, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87) (d. 1987)
1922 Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow, Centennial)
1923 Douglas Wass, CEO (Equity & Law Life Assurance Company)
1924 John Grigg, British historian
1924 Neville Marriner, English conductor (Minn Orch 1978)
1927 Abha Gandhi, servant to Gandhi
1927 Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999)
1928 Norma Merrick Sklarek, 1st black woman architect in NY & Calif
1928 Richard Evans, British diplomat
1929 Adrian Cadbury, candy manufacturer (Cadbury, Schweppes)
1929 Jocelyn Barrow, deputy chair person (British Broadcast Standards)
1930 Elijah Barayi, head of South Africa union centre (COSATU)
1930 Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, President of Iceland
1931 Kenneth Bloomfield, BBC governor (Ireland)
1932 David Bolton, director (British Royal United Service for Defense)
1932 Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin, Russian cosmonaut
1933 Boris Strugatski, USSR sci-fi author (Tale of Troika)
1933 David Hamilton, British photographer, film director and producer
1933 Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched) (d. 1995)
1933 Roy Clark, American musician, country singer (Hee Haw)
1935 Gene Cherico, bassist
1936 Hector Quintanar, composer
1936 Jack Noreiga, cricketer (9-95 WI v India 1971)
1936 Maurice Shock, rector (Lincoln College in Oxford)
1936 Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist
1937 Bob Luman, American country singer (d. 1978)
1937 Earl Russell, historian
1938 Carles Marsden, professor (neurology)
1938 Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress (The Pink Panther)
1938 Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician
1939 Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress
1939 Marty Wilde, British singer, father of musician Kim Wilde
1940 Edy Hubacher, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1972)
1940 Jeffrey Archer, British author (Matter of Honor)
1940 Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics
1940 Robert Walker Jr., American actor (Ceremony, Ms Don Juan, Ensign Pulver)
1940 Willie Davis, American baseball player
1940 Woodie Fryman, American baseball player
1941 Howard Berman, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1983)
1942 Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate
1942 Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006)
1942 Walter Raphael Hazzard, American basketball player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Riem de Wolff, Indonesian/Dutch singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
1944 Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician (Rockpile)
1944 Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader and President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (1991) (d. 1996)
1944 Gerard Schoenaker, Dutch singer (Les Baroques)
1945 Jos F B van Rey, Dutch MP (VVD)
1946 Wayne Gilchrest, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1947 Bojoura (Raina GB van Melzen), Dutch singer and wife of Hans Cleuver
1947 Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician
1947 DeDe Lind, LA California, playmate (Aug, 1967)
1947 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American writer and television producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)
1947 Lois Chiles, American actress
1947 Michael DeBello, singer (Maniac)
1947 Mike Chapman, Australian songwriter and producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1947 Woolly Wolstenholme, British musician, vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
1948 Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003)
1949 Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer
1949 Craig Zadan, American film producer
1949 Tonio K, American singer
1950 Amy Wright, American actress (Inside Moves, Accidental Tourist)
1950 Josiane Balasko, French actress, director and screenwriter
1951 Hansel, Cuba, spanish personality
1951 Heloise, American newspaper columnist (Heloise's Helpful Hints)
1951 John L Phillips, Ft Belvoir Va, PhD/astronaut
1951 Marsha S Ivins, Baltimore Maryland, astronaut (STS 32, 46, 62, 81)
1952 Bengt Gingsjö, Swedish swimmer
1952 Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian
1952 Sam McMurray, American actor (Tracey Ullman)
1953 Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Greek politician
1954 Emmanuel, Mexico City Mexico, spanish singer
1954 Seka, American pornographic actress
1955 Barbara Barrow, LPGA golfer
1955 Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997)
1955 Enith Salle Brigitha, Neth, 100m/200m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1956 Gregory J Harbaugh, Cleveland Ohio, astronaut (STS 39, 54, 71, 82)
1956 Michael Cooper, American basketball player, NBA (LA Lakers)
1957 Evelyn Ashford, American athlete, 100m runner (Oly-4 gold-1976, 84)
1958 Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer
1958 Dolores Gordon-Smith, British Writer
1958 John Bracewell, NZ cricketer (premiere spinner of 80's)
1958 Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1958 Matt Reid, rock keyboardist (Berlin-Takes Your Breathe Away)
1958 Memos Ioannou, Greek basketball player
1958 Noni Ιoannidou, Greek fashion model and actress
1959 Emma Thompson, English actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar-1992)
1959 Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
1959 Kevin Lowe, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers) and general manager
1959 Thomas F. Wilson, American actor
1960 HRH Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne
1960 Marvin Clyde Goodwin, New Orleans La, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1960 Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist
1960 Philip, Belgian prince/husband of princess Paola
1960 Tony Jones, English snooker player
1961 Lynne Austin, Plant City Fla, playmate (Jul, 1986)
1961 Tiina Lillak, Finland, javelin thrower (Olympic-silver-1984)
1962 Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler
1962 Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer
1962 Tom Kane, American voice actor
1963 Bobby Pepper, American journalist
1963 Manoj Prabhakar, cricketer (Indian opening batsman & opening bowler)
1963 Teresa Wentzel DeWitt, Ft Bragg NC, double trap (Olympics-1996)
1964 Lydie Denier, St Nazaire France, actress (General Hospital)
1964 Nadeem Abbasi, cricketer (three Tests for Pakistan v India 1989)
1965 Anthony Miller, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos, Dallas Cowboys)
1965 Kevin Stevens, Brockton, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1965 Linda Perry, American musician
1965 Mark Dennis, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1965 Michele Redman, Zanesville OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Star Bank-3rd)
1965 Soichi Noguchi, Yokohama Japan, astronaut
1966 Andrei Olhovskiy, Moscow Russia, tennis pro
1966 Graeme Clark, bassist (Wet Wet Wet-Angel Eyes, Love is All Around)
1966 Samantha Fox, English singer (Touch Me)
1967 Alt, Brazilian comic creator
1967 Dara Torres, American swimmer (Olympic-gold-84)
1967 Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness)
1967 Lance Zeno, NFL/WLAF corner (Rams, Scottish Claymores)
1967 Mark Mortimer, actor (Nick Hudson-Another World)
1967 Suzy Green, Detroit MI, LPGA golfer (1995 Fieldcrest Cannon-26th)
1968 Billy Brewer, Fort Worth Texas, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1968 Ed O'Brien, British musician (Radiohead)
1968 Stacey Williams, American model (SI Swimsuit 1996)
1969 Chris Smith, Indianapolis IN, Nike golfer (1993 BC Open-8th)
1969 Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player, outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1969 Jimmy Waite, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1969 Michael Jones, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders, St Louis Rams)
1969 Phillippi Sparks, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1970 Darrin Smith, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles)
1970 Flex Alexander, American actor
1971 Craig Whelihan, NFL quarterback (San Diego Chargers)
1971 Derek Brown, NFL running back (NO Saints)
1971 Guivi Sissaouri, Tbilisi Georgia, Canada freestyle wrestler (Oly-s-96)
1971 Jason Sehorn, American football player, NFL cornerback, safety (NY Giants)
1971 Kate Harbour, English voice actress
1971 Katy Hill, British television presenter
1971 Rich McKenzie, NFL linebacker (Cleveland Browns)
1971 Sarah Jane Hamilton, British pornographic actress
1971 Tim Tindale, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (d. 2009)
1972 Lou Romano, American voice actor
1972 Melvin Johnson, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1972 Peter Billingsley, NYC, actor (Real People)
1972 Ricky Otero, Vega Baja Puerto Rico, outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 Ronald Cherry, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 Vickie Johnson, WNBA guard/forward (NY Liberty)
1973 Jeremy Burkett, NFL/WLAF tight end (NY Giants, Barcelona Dragons)
1974 Danny Pino, American actor
1974 Douglas Spain, American actor
1974 Josh Todd, American musician (Buckcherry)
1974 Keith Malley, American comedian and podcaster (Keith and The Girl)
1974 Marena Bencomo, Miss Universe-2nd place (Venezuela, 1997)
1974 Mike Quinn, American football player, quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 Sergei Krivokrasov, Angarsk Russia, NHL right wing (Blackhawks, Oly-S-98)
1975 Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1975 Phil Labonte, American vocalist (All That Remains)
1976 Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 Susan Ward, American actress
1977 Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player
1977 Lisa Bell, Rockford Ill, figure skater (1997 Midwestern Sr champ)
1978 Austin Aries, American wrestler
1978 Milton Bradley, American baseball player
1978 Tim Corcoran, American baseball player
1979 Anna Torv, Australian actress
1980 Fränk Schleck, Luxembourgish cyclist
1980 James Foster, English cricketer
1980 Natalie Casey, British actress
1980 Raúl López, Spanish basketball player
1980 Victor Núñez, Costa Rican footballer
1980 Willie Mason, Australian Rugby League Player
1981 Andrés D'Alessandro, Argentine football player
1981 Seth Wulsin, American artist
1982 Albert Riera, Spanish footballer
1982 Anthony Green, American musician
1982 Mark Mizzark (Marlis Pugh), Akron Ohio, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1982 Michael Aubrey, American baseball player
1982 Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
1983 Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
1983 Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer
1983 Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer
1983 Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
1984 Ben Kasica, guitarist (Skillet)
1984 Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player
1984 Rodney Carney, NBA athlete
1985 Aaron Laffey, American baseball player
1985 Amy Reid, German pornographic actress
1985 John Danks, American baseball player
1986 Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Dutch footballer
1986 Tom Heaton, English footballer
1987 Sapphire Elia, English actres
1990 Emma Watson, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series)
1991 Daiki Arioka, Japanese actor & singer
1992 Amy Diamond, Swedish singer
1992 Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder
1993 Madeleine Martin, American television actress
Died on April 15th
1053 Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)
1220 Adolf I of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne (b. 1157)
1415 Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian (b. 1355)
1446 Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)
1472 Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis)
1502 Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange
1605 Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605)
1607 Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet
1610 Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond
1610 Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
1621 John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1576)
1632 George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (b. 1580)
1641 Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (b. 1581)
1652 Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church
1659 Simon Dach, German poet (b. 1605)
1704 Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (b. 1628)
1719 Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
1719 Johann Friedrich Treiber, composer
1754 Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
1756 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer
1761 Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (b. 1682)
1761 William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (b. 1696)
1764 Jeanne-Antoinette-Poison LeNormant d'Etoiles, Marquis de Pomador
1764 Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
1764 Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (b. 1679)
1765 Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (b. 1711)
1788 Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (b. 1711)
1793 Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (b. 1718)
1804 Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (b. 1761)
1811 Ernest Louis Muller, composer
1824 Theodorus F van Capellen, vice-admiral (Algiers)
1853 Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer
1854 Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (b. 1773)
1863 Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
1865 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, dies from gunshot wound (b. 1809)
1866 William Jackson, composer
1888 Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
1889 Father Damien, Belgian missionary (b. 1840)
1891 Stephen Albert Emery, composer
1898 Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader
1911 Georg Knorr, German engineer
1912 Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (b. 1850)
1912 Jack Phillips, British wireless telegraphist. (b. 1887)
1912 John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864)
1912 Thomas Andrews, Irish-born businessman and shipbuilder (b. 1873)
1912 William T. Stead American author and journalist (b. 1849)
1916 Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanist
1920 Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector
1924 Eduardo Caudella, composer
1925 John Singer Sargent, US portrait painter
1926 Frank Iredale, cricketer (14 Tests for Aust, 807 runs at 36 68)
1927 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo)
1927 Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
1929 Antonio Smareglia, composer
1937 Nikolai Artzibushev, composer
1938 César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (Trilce, Russia & 1931) (b. 1892)
1942 Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (Mann ohne Eigenschaften) (b. 1880)
1943 Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (b. 1882)
1943 Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer
1945 Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (b. 1895)
1947 Wolstenholme, Musician
1948 Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (b. 1892)
1949 Wallace Beery, American actor (The Champ) (b. 1885)
1954 Juan Vicente Lecuna, composer
1956 Emile Nolde (Hansen), German painter (Grablegung Christi)
1957 Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
1958 Estelle Taylor
1962 Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (b. 1911)
1962 Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1881), committed suicide
1962 Esther Minciotti
1963 Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (b. 1903)
1965 Syd Chaplin
1966 Joseph Crehan
1967 Antonio de Curtis Toto, comedian
1968 Boris Mykolayovich Lyatoshyns'ky, composer
1969 Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain, wife of Spanish king Alfonso (b. 1887)
1970 Ripper Collins, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1971 Dan Reeves, American football team owner (b. 1912)
1972 Otto Brenner, German trade union leader
1974 Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
1975 Charles Marshall
1975 John B McKay, US test pilot (X-15)
1975 Richard Conte, American actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show) (b. 1910)
1976 Gerald Smith, antisemite/catholic (Natl Christian Crusade)
1980 Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel laureate 1964) (b. 1905)
1980 Marshall Reed, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup)
1980 Paul Langton, actor (Leslie-Peyton Place)
1980 Raymond Bailey, American actor (Mr Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies) (b. 1904)
1981 French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader
1982 5 murderers, of Egyptian pres Sadat, execution
1982 Arthur Lowe, British actor (Capt Mainwaring in Dad's army) (b. 1915)
1982 Louis M de Guiringaud, Fren forgn min (1976-78), commits suicide
1983 Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (b. 1892)
1983 Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes)
1983 Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez)
1984 Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
1984 Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
1986 Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910)
1986 Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut
1986 Tim McIntire, actor (Bob Younger-Legend of Jesse James)
1988 Hendrikus G "Han" Hoekstra, Dutch poet (Zandloper)
1988 Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (b. 1926)
1988 Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (b. 1954)
1989 Charles Vanel
1989 Hu Yaobang, general sec of Chinese Commnist Party (b. 1915)
1989 Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
1990 Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (Anna Karenina, Camille) (b. 1905)
1991 Marjorie Warfield
1991 Martin Ashe
1992 Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor (b. 1899)
1993 George Ives (dies at 111yo)
1993 H H "Bull" Alexander, cricketer (Test for Aust 1933, avg 154),
1993 John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (b. 1908)
1993 Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (Saint) (b. 1907)
1993 William Bakewell, dies of leukemia at 84
1994 John Curry, English figure skater (Oly-gold-76) (b. 1949)
1995 Cleo Brown, pianist
1995 Denis Harding, soldier
1995 Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (b. 1903)
1997 Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian
1997 Zdenek Mlynar, Sec of Czech Communist Central Committee (1968)
1998 Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
1999 Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (b. 1944)
2000 Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
2001 Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2002 Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1917)
2002 Damon Knight, American author (b. 1922)
2003 Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (b. 1941)
2003 Reg Bundy, British performer (b. 1941)
2004 Ray Condo, Canadian musician (b. 1950)
2005 John Fred, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 Brant Parker, American cartoonist (b. 1920)
2008 Benoît Lamy, Belgian Movie Director (b. 1945)
2008 Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (b. 1921)
2008 Sean Costello, American blues musician (b. 1979)
2009 Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster and former liberal MP (b. 1924)
2009 Ed Blake, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2009 László Tisza, Hungarian-born American physicist (b. 1907)
2010 Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (b. 1939)
2011 Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist (b. 1975)
2012 Murray Rose, Australian Olympic gold winning swimmer
2012 Joan Tozzer, American figure skater
2013 Sal Castro, Mexican-American activist
2013 Richard LeParmentier, American actor
2015 Jonathan Crombie, Canadian actor (Anne of Green Gables)