April 20th
Holidays and Festivals
Four-Twenty AKA International Cannabis Day * CLICK HERE
Volunteer Recognition Day
Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith)
The Führer's Birthday * (See Below)
Look Alike Day
Christian Feast Day of Blessed Oda of Brabant
Christian Feast Day of Theotimos
L. Ron Hubbard Exhibition Day (Church of Scientology)
* The Führer's Birthday AKA Führergeburtstag, AKA Führers Geburtstag, once celebrated the birthday of Adolf Hitler with festivities. (Nazi Germany) Fête de la Rose Translation: Rose Day (French Republican) The 1st day of the Month of Floréal in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to cheating, stealing, fighting, and smoking.
If you cheat, cheat death.
If you steal, steal a woman's heart.
If you fight, fight for a brother.
And If you smoke, then smoke with me!!"
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
420
2 Part Tequila
1 Part Dry / Xtra Dry Vermouth
Fill with Grapefruit Juice
Lime
Pour Tequila and Dry Vermouth into a Rocks (Old Fashioned) glass over crushed ice.
Fill remaining with White Grapefruit Juice and a squeeze of lime.
Wine of The Day
Forchini (2008) Proprietor's Reserve
Style - Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley
$40
Beer of The Day
Humboldt Brown Hemp Ale
Brewer - Firestone Walker Brewing Co., Paso Robles, California, USA
Style - Brown Ale
Joke of The Day
A stoner walks into an appliance store and asks the owner, "How much for that TV set in the window?"
The owner looks at the TV set, then looks at the stoner, and says, "I don't sell stuff to potheads."
So the stoner tells the owner that he'll quit smoking pot and will come back the next week to buy the TV.
A week later, the stoner comes back and says, "I quit smoking pot. Now, how much for that TV set in the window?"
And the store owner says, "I told you I don't sell to potheads!"
So the stoner leaves again. He comes back a week later and says, "How much for that TV?"
The owner says, "I'm not going to tell you again, I don't sell to potheads!"
The giggling stoner looks back at the owner and says, "How can you tell I'm a pothead?"
The owner looks back and says, "Because that's a microwave."
Quote of The Day
"God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust?"
- Restroom in The Irish Times, Washington DC
April Observances
ASPCA Month
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage Month
Cancer Control Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
Community Spirit Days
Confederate History Month
Couple Appreciation Month
Cranberries and Gooseberries Month
DNA, Genomics and Stem Cell Education and Awareness Month
Defeat Diabetes Month
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
Facial Protection Month
Fair Housing Month
Financial Literacy Month
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month
Frog Month
Get Yourself Tested Month
Global Child Nutrition Month
Grange Month
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month (Different Sponsor to March)
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month
Informed Woman Month
Injury Prevention Month
International Cesarean Awareness Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Daffynitions Month
International Guitar Month
International Twit Award Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
Lawn and Garden Month
Learn Thai Month
Library Snapshot Month
Math Awareness Month
Month of the Military Child
Month of the Young Child
National African American Women's Fitness Month
National Autism Awareness Month
National Car Care Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month
National Decorating Month
National Donate Life Month
National Garden Month
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month
National Humor Month
National Kite Month
National Knuckles Down Month
National Landscape Architecture Month
National Multiple Birth Awareness Month
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Oral Health Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month
National Pecan Month
National Pest Management Month
National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
National Pet Month
National Poetry Month
National Prepare Your Home To Be Sold Month
National Rebuilding Month
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Education and Awareness Month
National Stress Awareness Month
National Welding Month
National Welding Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month
Patient Safety Awareness Month
Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month
Physical Wellness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month
Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
Procrastination Awareness Month
Records and Information Management Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month
Southern Belles Month
Soy Foods Month
Sports Eye Safety Month
Straw Hat Month
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
Tomatillo and Asian Pear Month
Women's Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
World Habitat Awareness Month
Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month
Observances this Week
Organize Your Files Week, Third Week of April
Medical Labs Week, Third Week of April
Coin Week, Third Week of April
Fibroid Awareness Week, Third Week of April
National Karaoke Week, Third Week of April
National Volunteer Week, Third Week of April
National Pet ID Week, Third Week of April
National Paperboard Packaging Week, Third Week of April
National Playground Safety Week, Third Week of April
National Severe Storm Preparedness Week, Third Week of April
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, Third Week of April
Preservation Week, Third Week of April
Sky Awareness Week, Third Week of April
International Whistlers Week (IWC), Third or Fourth week of April
Cleaning For A Reason Week, April 18th-24th
Consumer Awareness Week, April 18th-23rd
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week, April 18th-23rd
National Park Week, 9 Days Starting with the Third Saturday of April
Money Smart Week (Federal Reserve), Third Saturday through Fourth Saturday of April
Safe Kids Week, Third Saturday through Fourth Saturday of April
National Crime Victims Rights Week, Second Full week of April plus 3 days
Historical Events on April 20th
295 8th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
850 Guntherus becomes bishop of Cologne
1139 2nd Lateran Council (10th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1303 The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
1453 The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
1505 Jews are expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1534 Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
1535 The Sun Dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting "Vädersolstavlan"
1551 John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal
1650 VOC-management sets new guidelines
1653 Oliver Cromwell dissolves the English Rump Parliament.
1657 Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife in Santa Cruz Bay.
1657 Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
1689 The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
1702 Comet C/1702 H1 approaches within 0.0437 AUs of Earth
1715 Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray," premieres in London
1759 George Frideric Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey
1770 Capt Cook arrives in New South Wales
1775 The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord, American Revolutionary War.
1777 New York adopts new constitution as an independent state
1792 France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia, the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
1799 Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod," premieres in Weimar
1799 Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1809 Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign which ended in a French victory.
1810 The Governors of Caracas declares the national sovereignty from Spain.
1818 The case of Ashford v Thornton was concluded, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle was upheld.
1828 René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
1836 U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1853 Harriet Tubman starts Underground Railroad
1861 Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia, American Civil War.
1861 Battle of Norfolk, VA
1861 Colonel Robert E Lee resigns from Union army
1862 Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
1865 Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
1871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1871 The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
1872 SF Bar Association organized
1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
1884 Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus "On Freemasonry".
1888 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
1894 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1896 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in NYC
1898 US Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
1902 Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium chloride
1903 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8
1903 NY Highlanders play their 1st game, with Jack Chesbro losing 3-1 to Al Orth & Washington
1904 George Bernard Shaw's "Candida," premieres in London
1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition opens in St Louis
1908 12th Boston Marathon won by Tom Morrissey of NY in 2:25:43.2
1908 Opening day of competition of the New South Wales Rugby League.
1910 Cleve Indians Addie Joss 2nd no-hitter, beats Chicago, 1-0
1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1912 Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts officially opens, Red Sox beat NY Highlanders 7-6 in 11
1912 Opening day for baseball stadiums Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, Tigers beat Cleve Indians 6-5.
1914 18th Boston Marathon won by James Duffy of Canada in 2:25:01.2
1914 Forty-five men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike, killed by soldiers.
1916 German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1916 The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings
1917 Pravda (Lenin names Russia "Free land of world")
1918 Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
1919 Polish Army captures Vilno, Lithuania from Soviet Army
1920 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium
1920 Balfour Declaration recognized, makes Palestine a British Mandate
1920 Big Show ends 2 year run on NBC radio
1920 Phillies mgr Gravvy Cravath puts himself in as pinch hitter, his 3run homer beats NY Giants 3-0
1920 Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
1925 29th Boston Marathon won by Charles Mellor of Ill in 2:33:00.6
1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
1926 Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
1931 35th Boston Marathon won by Jim Henigan of Mass in 2:46:45.8
1931 British House of Commons agrees for sports play on Sunday
1934 Heinrich Himmler becomes inspector Prussian secret state police
1935 "You're Hit Parade" begins broadcasting (becomes #1 quickly)
1936 40th Boston Marathon won by Ellison Brown of RI in 2:33:40.8
1936 Jews repel an Arab attack in Petach Tikvah Palestine
1939 Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song "Strange Fruit".
1939 New York World's Fair opens
1939 Ted Williams' 1st hit (off of Yankee Red Ruffing) a double
1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
1941 100 German bombers attack Athens
1941 Dodgers start to wear liners in their caps
1942 German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
1942 Heavy German assault on Malta
1943 Braves manager Casey Stengel is struck by a taxi, fractures a leg
1944 Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1944 NFL legalizes coaching from bench
1945 Cleveland Browns organization formed by Arthur "Mickey" McBride
1945 German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
1945 Soviet troops enter Berlin
1945 US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
1945 US forces conquer Motobu peninsula on Okinawa
1945 : Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface from his Fuehrerbunker to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth, World War II.
1945 US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union, World War II.
1946 1st baseball broadcast in Chicago, Cards vs Cubs
1946 50th Boston Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27
1947 Frederik IX becomes king of Denmark
1948 NYC hikes subway fare from 5 cents to 10 cents
1948 Walter P Reuther UAW pres shot & wounded at his home in Detroit
1949 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California
1950 Balt's Memorial Stadium opens Orioles of International League
1951 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1951 Velsen city council demands investigation of police collaborators
1953 57th Boston Marathon won by Keizo Yamada of Japan in 2:18:51
1954 "Golden Apple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 125 performances
1955 "Saint of Bleecker St" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 92 perfs
1957 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Conn in 2:20:05
1957 Yankee Bill Skowron becomes 3rd player to hit a ball out of Fenway
1958 Buses replace Key System trains at 3 AM
1958 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1958 Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
1958 Morocco demands departure of Spanish troops
1959 63rd Boston Marathon won by Eino Oksanen of Finland in 2:22:42
1960 "From A to Z" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 21 performances
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1961 Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil A Armstrong takes X-15 to 63,250 m
1962 New Orleans Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
1962 OAS-leader ex-general Salan arrested in Algiers
1963 "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 8 performances
1963 All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
1964 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59
1964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
1964 BBC Two launches with the power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
1965 People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1966 WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1967 A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126.
1967 French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia
1967 NY Met Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
1967 US planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War
1968 English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
1968 Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM
1968 S Afr Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed
1969 23rd Tony Awards, Great White Hope & 1776 win
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 74th Boston Marathon won by Ron Hill of Great Britain in 2:10:30
1970 Bruno Kreisky becomes 1st socialist chancellor of Austria
1970 Ron Hill's 2:10:30 at Boston, sets new US marathon record
1971 Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"
1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1972 Apollo 16's Commander John Young & Duke land on Moon with Boeing Lunar Rover #2
1972 Kallicharran scores his 2nd Test century in his 2nd Test Cricket
1973 Canadian ANIK A2 becomes 1st commercial satellite in orbit
1974 Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run"
1975 4th Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Sandra Palmer
1975 29th Tony Awards, Equus & Wiz win
1975 Penguins 1-Isles 3-Quarterfinals-Penguins hold 3-1 lead
1976 George Harrison sings lumberjack song with Monty Python
1977 Supreme Court rules "Live Free or Die" may be covered on NH licenses
1977 Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres
1978 Korean Air Flight 902 is shot down by Soviets.
1980 Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift
1980 Donna White wins LPGA Florida "Lady Citrus" Golf Tournament
1981 10th Boston Women's Marathon won by Allison Roe of NZ in 2:26:46
1981 85th Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:09:26
1981 Final performance of TV show "Soap" airs
1981 Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession
1982 Atlanta Braves become 1st team to win 1st 12 games of the season
1983 Pres Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security
1983 Rangers 2-Isles 7-Patrick Div Finals-Isles hold 3-2 lead
1983 Soyuz T-8 is launched, mission aborted when capsule fails to dock (lands 2 days later)
1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
1984 The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
1985 ATF raid on The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
1985 Carlos Lopes runs world record marathon (2:07:12)
1985 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mark Williams
1985 Karyn Marshall of NYC lifted 303 lbs in a clean & jerk lift
1986 "Jerry's Girls" closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances
1986 Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
1986 Professional basketball player Michael Jordan sets all-time record for points in an NBA playoff game with 63 against the Boston Celtics.
1986 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1987 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21
1987 91st Boston Marathon won by Toshihiko Seko of Japan in 2:11:50
1987 In Sri Lanka, Tamils shoot 122 Singalezen dead
1987 US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR
1988 Baltimore Orioles set worst record to start a season 0-14 (will go 0-21)
1988 NJ Devils 1st playoff hat trick-Eric Broten
1988 US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
1988 Yanks HR 9,999 (D Winfield) 10,000 (C Washington) 10,001 (J Clarke)
1990 8 2/3 inning perfect game pitched by Brian Holman of Oakland A's is spoiled by a home run hit by Ken Philips
1990 Pete Rose pleads guilty to hiding $300,000 in income
1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Odense Teater, Odense
1991 1st non stop flight Schiphol-Flamingo airport Bonaire
1991 Mark Lenzi is 1st diver to score 100 pts on a dive (101.85)
1991 Raghib "Rocket" Ismael signs with Toronto Argonauts for $26.2 million
1992 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43
1992 96th Boston Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya in 2:08:14
1992 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
1992 All star concert in memory of Freddie Mercury held at Wembley Stadium
1992 Expo '92 opens in Seville Spain
1992 Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse
1992 Madonna signs $60-million deal with Time Warner
1993 Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
1994 Danny Harold Rolling, sentenced to death in Florida, for killing 5
1994 Serbian army bombs hospital in Goradze Bosnia, 47 killed
1994 Sohail & Inzamam make world record ODI partnership of 263
1994 Space shuttle STS-59 (Endeavour 6), lands
1996 Chicago Bulls win record 72 games in a season
1997 "Gin Game," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 144 performances
1997 "Present Laughter," closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1997 1st baseball game in Hawaii, Cards beat Padres in doubleheader
1997 27th Easter Seal Telethon raises $47,392,682
1997 58th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Hale Irwin
1997 Cubs beat NY Mets ending NL worst opening, lost 14 straight games
1997 Karrie Webb wins LPGA Susan G Komen International
1997 Mark McGwire, is 4th to HR on Detroit Tiger left field roof (others are Frank Howard, Harmon Killibrew, & Cecil Fielder)
1997 Myrtle Beach LPGA Classic
1997 Nick Price wins golf MCI Classic
1997 PGA Seniors Championship
1998 German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1998 TAME Boeing 727-200 chartered by Air France crashes into Cerro El Cable mountain after takeoff from Bogotá, Colombia, killing 53.
1999 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado.
2004 In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92.
2007 Johnson Space Center Shooting, A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
2008 Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico
2012 40 people are killed and 27 injured after a tractor trailer collided with a bus in Alamo, Mexico
2012 Plane crash near Islamabad, Pakistan, kills 127 people
2013 5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in Loveland Pass, Colorado
2013 193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China
2013 Giorgio Napolitano is re-elected President of Italy
2015 Anthony Doerr's novel All the Light We Cannot See & Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History win the 2015 Pulitzer Prize
2015 Lelisa Desisa Benti of Ethiopia 1st man in 2:09:17 and Caroline Rotich of Kenya 1st woman in 2:24:55 at the 119th Boston Marathon
Born on April 20th
571 Muhammad, (traditional date) Prophet and founder of Islam (d. 632)
702 Jafar Sadiq, Shi'a Imam and Muslim scholar (d. 765)
1442 Edward IV, King (England, 1461-83)
1494 Johannes Agricola (Schneider), German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
1586 Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
1592 John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author
1594 Matthaus Apelles von Lowenstern, composer
1633 Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
1646 Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)
1650 William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
1668 Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
1705 Balthasar Schmid, composer
1718 David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
1723 Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congress delegate (d. 1781)
1725 Johann Friedrich Kloffler, composer
1726 Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer
1727 Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
1745 Philippe Pinel, French physician, founder of psychiatry (d. 1826)
1748 Georg Michael Telemann, composer
1748 Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer
1761 Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer
1808 Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France (1852-71) (d. 1873)
1809 John Smith Preston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1881)
1818 Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
1824 Alfred Holt Colquitt, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1894)
1826 Dina M Craik, English author (d. 1887)
1827 John Gibbon, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1839 Carol I, King of Romania (1881-1914)
1850 Daniel Chester, French-American sculptor (Minute Man) (d. 1931)
1851 Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
1857 Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/author (HW Knife Day)
1857 Hermann Bang, writer
1858 Auguste Chapuis, composer
1860 Charles Gordon Curtis, US attorney/inventor (Curtis Turbine)
1860 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch MP (SDAP)
1866 Victor Hollaender, composer
1870 Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Urdu, Pakistani scholar (d.1961)
1870 Simeon Roncal, composer
1871 Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (d. 1951)
1871 William Henry Davies, Wales, poet (Autobiography of a Super Tramp)
1876 Gerard J Arbous, actor/publicist (Prince William of Orange)
1879 Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
1879 Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic (Pleasures of Ignorance)
1881 Nikolai Miaskovsky, Novogeorievsk Poland, composer (Kirov is With Us)
1881 Sem Dresden, composer/conductor
1882 Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)
1884 Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
1889 Adolf Hitler, dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45) (d. 1945)
1889 Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and social activist (d. 1996)
1890 Adolf Scharf, president Austria (1957-65)
1890 Maurice Duplessis, premier of Québec, known as "Le Chef" (d. 1959)
1893 Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (d. 2008)
1893 Harold Lloyd, American actor, silent comic (Why Worry, Safety Last) (d. 1971)
1893 Hermann Ungar, writer
1893 Joan Miró, Spanish painter (Dog Barking at the Moon) (d. 1983)
1894 Martinus Nijhoff, poet/interpreter/linguistic (spelling)
1895 Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
1896 Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
1896 Senor Wences, ventriloquist (Close the Door)
1896 Wop May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
1897 Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature (About the Laugh)
1897 Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor/director (Corsican Brothers)
1900 Fred Raymond, composer
1900 Kees Verwey, painter/water colors painter/cartoonist
1901 Michel Leiris, French cultural anthropologist
1902 Donald Wolfit, England, actor (Lawrence of Arabia, Becket, Accursed)
1902 Vesselin Stoyanov, composer
1903 Dagmar Edqvist, Swedish author (Kamrathustru-Wife & Comrade)
1904 Bruce Cabot, American actor (Diamonds are Forever, King Kong) (d. 1972)
1904 George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)
1907 Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier, Haitian president (d. 1971)
1907 Miran Bux, cricketer (his one season of Test & 1st-class play 1954-55)
1907 William Dollar, St Louis, ballet dancer/choreographer
1908 Lionel Hampton, American musician, orchestra leader, vibraphone improviser (Depths Below) (d. 2002)
1908 Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Hertogenbosch
1909 Guido Alberti, literary patron/businessman
1909 Richard Stubbs, publicity adviser
1910 Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1954-65) [or May 15]
1911 Kukrit Pramoj, politician
1912 David Townsend, cricketer (3 Tests Eng v WI 1935)
1912 Ed Jones, (Rep-D-TN, 1969)
1912 Frederick Craig Riddle, violist
1912 Soewarsil Djojopoespito, Indonesia, writer (Toe the Line)
1913 Dick Wessel, WI, actor (Dick Tracy vs Cueball, Beware of Blondie)
1914 Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
1915 Joseph Wolpe, South African-born psychotherapist (d. 1997)
1918 Edward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer, author (d. 2002)
1918 Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1919 Richard Hillary, Australian Spitfire pilot and author (d. 1943)
1920 John Paul Stevens, American jurist, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975)
1920 Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007)
1921 Donald Gunn MacRae, sociologist
1921 Janine Sutto, French-Canadian actress
1923 Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster
1923 Tito Puente, American musician, bandleader (Dance Mania) (d. 2000)
1924 Gerhard Samuel, composer
1924 Leslie Phillips, English actor
1924 Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (American in Paris) (d. 2008)
1924 Paul M Van Buren, US theologist (Theological Explorations)
1925 Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player, NFL tackle (Steelers), WLAF head coach (Galaxy) (d. 2006)
1925 Richard Hoffmann, composer
1926 Harriett Elizabeth Byrd, politician (Wyoming house of Reps)
1927 Karl Muller, Swiss superconductivity physicist (Nobel Prize laureate 1987)
1927 Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
1928 Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003)
1928 Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
1929 Bob Braun, Ludlow Ky, singer (Dotty Mack Show)
1930 Alan Oakman, cricketer (England batsman against Australia 1956)
1931 John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, British businessman and peer
1931 Lee H Hamilton, Daytona Beach Fla, (Rep-D-Ind, 1965)
1934 Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian
1936 Pat Roberts, American politician (Rep-R-KS, 1981)
1937 Antonios Kounadis, Greek discus thrower
1937 George Takei, American actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets)
1938 Bernard Malivoire, France, cox pair (Olympic-gold-1952)
1938 Betty Cuthbert, Australia 100m/200m/400m dash (Olympic-gold-1956, 64)
1938 Johnny Tillotson, Jacksonville Fla, singer (Gidget, Poetry in Motion)
1939 Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian Prime Minister (1981-82, 86-89, 90)
1939 Johnny Tillotson, American singer
1939 Peter S. Beagle, American author
1940 James Gammon, Newman Ill, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Nick-Nash Bridges)
1940 Jan Cremer, Dutch writer/sculptor (I, John Cremer)
1940 Pilar Miro, director (Wether, Beltenebros)
1941 Joni Evans, NYC, publisher (Simon & Schuster, Random House)
1941 Ryan O'Neal, American actor
1942 Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer
1943 Edie Sedgwick, American actress (Ciao Manhattan) (d. 1971)
1943 Ian Watson, UK, sci-fi author (Book of Being, Whores of Babylon)
1943 John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
1943 Michael Greer, Galesburg Ill, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
1945 Jimmy Winston, London, organist (Samll Facres-Itchycoo Park)
1945 Michael Brandon, American actor
1945 Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
1946 Gordon Smiley, American racecar driver (d. 1982)
1946 Julien Poulin, French Canadian actor
1946 Mel Winkler, American voice actor
1947 Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
1947 Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
1947 David Leland, British actor, director and screenwriter (Nothing But Trouble)
1947 Ken Scott, English record producer and recording engineer
1948 Craig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk Railroad, Bob Seger)
1948 Gregory Itzin, American actor
1948 Rémy Trudel, French Canadian politician
1949 Jessica Lange, American actress (King Kong, Tootsie)
1949 Massimo D'Alema, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
1949 Michal, rocker
1949 Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater and artist
1949 Veronica Cartwright, American actress
1950 Aleksandr Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
1950 Chandra Babu Naidu, Indian politician
1950 Itumeleng J Mosala, S Afr president (Azanian People's Org)
1950 Steve Erickson, American novelist
1951 Geraint Wyn Davies, Wales, actor (Bury Me in Niagara, High Hopes)
1951 Luther Vandross, American singer (Dance with my Father), (d. 2005)
1952 Božidar Maljkovic, Serbian basketball coach
1952 Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova, Russian cosmonaut
1952 Toine van Benthem, dentist/playwright/cabaret performer (Purper)
1953 Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
1954 Gilles Lupien, French-Canadian ice hockey player
1954 Peter Toohey, cricketer (NSW & Australian batsman 1977-80)
1955 Don(ald) R Pettit, American Astronaut and Inventor
1956 Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
1957 Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-Canadian actor
1957 Graeme Fowler, cricketer (England left-handed opener early 80s)
1957 Richenel (Hubertus R Baars), singer/performer (Turn My Page)
1958 Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Team Russia, Detroit)
1959 Clint Howard, American actor (Gentle Ben)
1960 Rodney Holman, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1961 Barry Smolin, American radio host, writer, and musician
1961 Don Mattingly, American baseball player, 1st baseman (NY Yankees/MVP 1985)
1961 Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
1961 Marci Bozarth, Lampasas TX, LPGA golfer (1994 Lady Keystone Open-37th)
1961 Ralph Cirella, American radio personality
1962 Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf), American radio personality (d. 2001)
1963 Aubrey de Grey, British biomedical gerontologist
1963 Brett Edward Garsed, Victoria Australia, heavy metal artist (Nelson)
1963 Kal Swan, heavy metal rocker
1963 Mauricio Gugelmin, Brazilian racing driver
1964 Andy Serkis, English actor
1964 Crispin Glover, American actor
1964 John Carney, NFL kicker (San Diego Chargers)
1964 Paul Nobes, cricketer (prolific opening batsman for Victoria & SA)
1964 Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
1965 Adrian Fernández, Mexican racing driver
1965 April March, American musician
1965 Jim Terrell, Cin Oh, sprint canoe (Olympics-96)
1965 Kostas Hatzidakis, Greek politician
1966 David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
1967 J D Roth, Beverly Hills California, TV host (Fun House)
1967 Lara Jill Miller, American actress (Samantha-Gimme a Break)
1967 Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater)
1967 Miroslav Stefanovic, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1967 Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
1967 Townsend Saunders, White Sands NM, freestyle wrestler (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1968 J. D. Roth, American game show host and television personality
1968 LeShundra Nathan, Birmingham Ala, heptathlete
1969 Chris Jarvis, children's TV personality
1969 John van Halst, soccer player (FC Twente)
1969 Takayuki Kobori, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1970 Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer
1970 Ben Weir, Rock Island Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Bogey Hills-2nd)
1970 Shemar Moore, American actor (Malcolm-Young & Restless)
1971 Allan Houston, American basketball player
1971 Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
1971 Chris Penn, NFL wide receiver (KC Chiefs, Chicago Bears)
1971 Grant Smith, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1971 John Senden, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer
1971 Terry Smith, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Tina Cousins, English singer
1971 Yonel Jourdain, NFL running back/kick returner (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Carmen Electra (Tara Leigh Patrick), American model and actress (Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans)
1972 Le Huynh Ðuc, Vietnamese footballer
1972 Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician
1972 Željko Joksimovic, Serbian singer, songwriter and producer
1973 Geoff Lloyd, British radio presenter
1973 Itula Mili, tight end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Lamond Murray, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1973 Todd Hollandsworth, Dayton OH, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1974 Ben(jamin) Lincoln Holbrook, Hartland Wis, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 Kevin Sullivan, Brantford Ontario, 1.5k runner (Olympics-96)
1974 Paul Bradford, cornerback (San Diego Chargers)
1976 Chris Mason, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1976 Joey Lawrence, American actor (Gimme a Break, Blossom, Summer Rental)
1976 Lenka Nemeckova, Brno Czech, tennis star (1993 Futures-Maribor-SLO)
1976 Shay Given, Irish footballer
1977 Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, professional wrestler
1977 Lisa Ervin, figure skater (US Nationals-4th-1992)
1978 Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol
1979 Nathan Marquardt, American Mixed Martial Artist
1979 Quinn Weng, Taiwanese singer (Seraphim)
1980 Chris Duffy, American baseball player
1980 Jasmin Wagner, German singer
1981 Matus Valent, male fitness model
1983 Danny Granger, American basketball player
1983 Joanne King, Irish/English Actress
1983 Miranda Kerr, Australian supermodel
1983 Terrence J, American television host
1984 Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
1985 Greg Lutzka, American Skateboarder
1986 Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (d. 2003)
1987 John Patrick Amedori, American actor
Died on April 20th
1164 Victor IV (Ottaviano Montecello), Italian antipope (1159-64)
1176 Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English military leader (b. 1130)
1314 Clement V (Bertrand Got), pope (1305-14) move papacy to Avignon (b. 1264)
1317 Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint
1521 Zhengde, Emperor of China (b. 1491)
1534 Elizabeth Barton (St Magd van Kent), British prophet, nun (executed)
1558 Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
1632 Nicolas Antione, converted to Judiasm, burned at the stake
1643 Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
1662 Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter
1695 Georg Caspar Weckler, composer
1703 Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
1765 Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials (b. 1674)
1768 Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto)
1769 Pontiac, indian chief to Ottawa, murdered (b. 1720)
1786 John Goodricke, English deaf & dumb astronomer
1812 George Clinton, 4th US VP, 1st VP to die in office
1820 Arthur Young, author (Annals of Agriculture)
1821 Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist
1831 John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
1836 Johan I Jozef, monarch of Liechtenstein/fieldmarshal
1839 Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini
1869 Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer
1869 Piotr Studzinski, composer
1872 Ljudwit Gaj, Croatian writer/poet (Pjesma iz Zagorja)
1873 William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
1874 Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
1887 Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
1899 Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
1900 Mebel Mercer, popular British singer
1906 Australian wombat; oldest known marsupial, dies in London Zoo at 26yo
1908 Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball)
1912 Bram Stoker, Irish author (Dracula) (b. 1847)
1918 Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
1918 Reginald Harry Mybirgh Hands, cricketer (1 Test for SA)
1929 Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia (b. 1862)
1932 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
1935 Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
1941 Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer
1945 Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
1947 Christian X, king of Denmark (1912-47) (b. 1870)
1951 Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
1953 Erich Weinert, writer
1956 Jaap Vranken, organist/composer (Stabat mater)
1956 Lieven Duvosel, Flemish music composer (Levensschets)
1962 Arthur Harmat, composer
1962 Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine
1964 Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1965 Dick Wessel, dies of heart attack on his 52nd birthday
1968 Marion Weeks, singer/actress
1971 Cecil Parker, actor (Court Jester, Operation Snafu)
1973 Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed)
1974 Agnes Moorehead, actress (Endora-Bewitched)
1974 Mohammed Ayub Khan, premier/president (Pakistan)
1977 Bryan Foy, director/writer
1977 Len Johnson, cricketer (one Test for Australia, 3-66 & 3-8)
1977 Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
1979 Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party)
1982 Andrew Sandham, cricketer (325 Eng 1930, 879 runs in 14 Tests)
1982 Archibald MacLeish, American poet (Conquistador) and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
1982 Mimi Boesnach, actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roses)
1983 Jerzy Andrezjewski, writer
1984 Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
1984 Mabel Mercer, English/US singer (Fly me to the moon)
1986 Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916)
1987 Antony Tudor, dancer/choreographer (Amer Ballet Theater)
1989 Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and fighter pilot (b. 1945)
1990 Horst Sinderman, RDA 1st minister (1973-76)
1991 Don(ald) Siegel, American film director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry) (b. 1912)
1991 Jumjaagiyn Tsedenbal, Mongolian politician
1991 Sean O'Faolain (J Whelan), Irish writer (Nest of Simple)
1991 Steve Marriott, British singer and songwriter (Humble Pie, Small Faces) (b. 1947)
1991 Yumzhagin Tsendenbal, PM of Mongolia (1952-74)
1992 Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show)
1992 Johnny Shines, Delta blues singer/guitarist
1993 Cantinflas (Mario Moreno), Mexican actor (Pepe) (b. 1911)
1994 Jean Carmet, French actor (Merci la Vie, Le Sucre) (b. 1920)
1995 Milovan Djilas, Yugoslavian politician (1945-54)
1995 R E S Wyatt, cricketer (England capt 16 times)
1995 Sunil Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan wicketkeeper (1979 World Cup), suicide
1995 Tessie O'Shea, entertainer
1996 Cecilia Grace Hunt Reeves Gillie, bBC Executive
1996 Christopher Robin Milne, son of A.A. Milne, bookseller (b. 1920)
1996 Tran Van Tra, soldier
1999 Cassie Bernall, Columbine High School massacre victim (b. 1981)
1999 Dylan Klebold, perpetrator of the Columbine High massacre (b. 1981)
1999 Eric David Harris, perpetrator of the Columbine High massacre (b. 1981)
1999 Rachel Joy Scott, Columbine High School massacre victim (b. 1981)
1999 Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1999 Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
1999 Victims and shooters of the Columbine High School massacre
2001 Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
2002 Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
2003 Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
2003 Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2003 Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
2005 Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
2005 Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
2006 Anna Svidersky (b. 1988)
2007 Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
2007 Fred Fish, a computer programmer on the GNU Debugger and "Fish disks" (b. 1952)
2007 Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931)
2008 Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)
2008 VL Mike, American Rapper (b. 1976)
2009 Beata Asimakopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1932)
2010 Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist (b. 1912)
2011 Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)
2011 Tim Hetherington, British-American photojournalist (b. 1970)
2012 Bert Weedon, English guitar player
2013 Howard Phillips, American politician
2013 Nosher Powell, English actor and boxer
2014 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, American boxer whose murder convictions were overturned after 19 years in prison
2015 Bob St. Clair "The Geek", American football player
2015 Sir Raymond Carr, English historian and warden (St Antony's College Oxford)
2016 Guy Hamilton, British director (Goldfinger)
2016 Chyna [Joanie Laurer], American professional wrestler and reality TV star
2016 Victoria Wood, British comedian and actress