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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[769]] &ndash; The [[Lateran Council (769)|Lateran Council]] ends by condemning the [[Council of Hieria]] and [[anathema]]tizing its [[Iconoclasm|iconoclastic]] rulings.<ref>{{cite book|last=von Hefele|first=Karl Joseph|title=A History of the Councils of the Church: From the Original Documents. Volume 5: A.D. 626 to close of Second Council of Nicea, 797|location=Edinburgh|publisher=T. & T. Clark|date=1896|oclc=10158388|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sn_SNC11TTQC|page=338|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Noble|first=Thomas F.X.|title=Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|date=2013|isbn=9780812222562|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o_IADUZ-4yQC|page=146}}</ref>
*[[1071]] &ndash; [[Bari]], the last [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] possession in southern Italy, [[siege of Bari|is surrendered]] to [[Robert Guiscard]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Vryonis| first=Spyros P. Jr. |chapter=Byzantine Society and Civilization|title=The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261|editor-last1=Evans|editor-first1=Helen C.|editor-last2=Wixom|editor-first2=William D.|location=New York|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|date=1997|isbn=9780870997778|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Caqa12aj55wC|page=15}}</ref>
*[[1450]] &ndash; [[Battle of Formigny]]: Toward the end of the [[Hundred Years' War]], the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.<ref>{{cite book|last=Burne|first=Alfred Higgins|title=The Agincourt War: A Military History of the Latter Part of the Hundred Years' War From 1369 to 1453|location=London|publisher=FrontLine Books|date=2014|isbn=9781848327658|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2nOpBQAAQBAJ|pages=315, 322}}</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1632]] &ndash; [[Battle of Rain]]: [[Sweden|Swedes]] under [[Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden|Gustavus Adolphus]] defeat the [[Holy Roman Empire]] during the [[Thirty Years' War]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Watts|first=Tim J.|chapter=Lech River, Battle of (April 15, 1632)|title=Germany at War: 400 years of Military History|editor-last=Zabecki|editor-first=David T.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2014|isbn=9781598849806|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCWMBQAAQBAJ|page=745}}</ref>
*[[1642]] &ndash; [[Irish Confederate Wars]]: A [[Confederate Ireland|Confederate Irish]] militia is routed in the [[Battle of Kilrush]] when it attempts to halt the progress of a [[Royalist]] Army.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bagwell|first=Richard|title=Ireland Under the Stuarts. Volume 2|location=London|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co.|date=1909|isbn=9783752350623|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XJzyDwAAQBAJ|pages=16–17}}</ref>
*[[1715]] &ndash; The [[Yamasee War#Pocotaligo massacre|Pocotaligo Massacre]] triggers the start of the [[Yamasee War]] in [[Province of Carolina|colonial South Carolina]].<ref>{{cite book|title=History of South Carolina. Volume 1: Proprietary Administration (1670–1719)|editor-last1=Snowden|editor-first1=Yates|editor-last2=Cutler|editor-first2=H.G.|location=Chicago|publisher=Lewis Publishing Co.|date=1920|oclc=2395214|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9rdhTozA2YC|page=166}}</ref>
*[[1736]] &ndash; Foundation of the short-lived [[Kingdom of Corsica (1736)|Kingdom of Corsica]].
*[[1738]] &ndash; ''[[Serse]]'', an [[Italian opera]] by [[George Frideric Handel]], receives its premiere performance in London, England.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lang|first=Paul Henry|title=George Frideric Handel|location=New York|publisher=Dover Publications|date=1996|isbn=9780486292274|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9aK8AQAAQBAJ|page=299}}</ref>
*[[1755]] &ndash; [[Samuel Johnson]]'s ''[[A Dictionary of the English Language]]'' is published in London.<ref>{{cite book|last=Vizetelly|first=Frank H.|title=The Development of the Dictionary of the English Language, With Special Reference to the Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary|location=New York|publisher=Funk & Wagnalls Company|date=1915|oclc=4428183|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1dJWAAAAMAAJ|page=11}}</ref>
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet]] and [[Laurent Clerc]] found the [[American School for the Deaf]] (then called the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons), the first American school for deaf students, in [[Hartford, Connecticut]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Crouch|first=Barry A.|chapter=Lessons From the Connecticut Asylum|title=The Deaf Way: Perspectives From the International Conference on Deaf Culture|editor-last1=Erting|editor-first1=Carol J.|editor-last2=Johnson|editor-first2=Robert C.|editor-last3=Smith|editor-first3=Dorothy L.|editor-last4=Snider|editor-first4=Bruce D.|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=Gallaudet University Press|date=1994|isbn=9781563680267|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bqJxAcmA9yEC|page=226}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; President [[Abraham Lincoln]] calls for [[President Lincoln's 75,000 volunteers|75,000 volunteers]] to quell the insurrection that soon became the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Eicher|first=David J.|title=The Longest Night: A Military History of the Civil War|location=London|publisher=Pimlico|date=2002|isbn=9780712668545|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1p94XzYASDAC|page=58}}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; President Abraham Lincoln dies after being [[Assassination of Abraham Lincoln|shot]] the previous evening by actor [[John Wilkes Booth]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Steers| first=Edward J. Jr. |title=Lincoln's Assassination|location=Carbondale, Ill.|publisher=Southern Illinois University Press|date=2014|isbn=9780809333493|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Sl9BAAAQBAJ|pages=72–74}}</ref> Three hours later, Vice President [[Andrew Johnson]] is sworn in as president.<ref>{{cite book|last=Donhardt|first=Gary L.|title=In the Shadow of the Great Rebellion: The Life of Andrew Johnson, Seventeenth President of the United States (1808–1875)|location=New York|publisher=Nova Science|date=2006|isbn=9781600210860|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UW32n2HWwRIC|page=63}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; The [[General Electric|General Electric Company]] is formed.<ref>{{cite book|last=Davtyan|first=Lusine|chapter=General Electric|title=Technical Innovation in American History: An Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Volume 2: Reconstruction Through World War II|editor-last1=Welch|editor-first1=Rosanne|editor-last2=Lamphier|editor-first2=Peg A.|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2019|isbn=9781610690935|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWGHDwAAQBAJ|page=74}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; Closing ceremony of the [[1896 Summer Olympics|Games of the I Olympiad]] in [[Athens]], Greece.<ref>{{cite book|last=Hanold|first=Maylon|title=World Sports: A Reference Handbook|location=Santa Barbara, Calif.|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2012|isbn=9781598847789|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTsDeI_ZbncC|page=149}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Philippine–American War]]: [[Filipino people|Filipino]] guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a [[Siege of Catubig|four-day siege]] of [[Catubig, Northern Samar|Catubig]], Philippines.<ref>{{cite book|last=Alegre|first=Joycie Y. Dorado|title=Abaknon of Samar. Katutubo: Profiles of Philippine Cultural Communities|location=Manila|publisher=National Commission on Culture and the Arts|date=2009|isbn=9789718141618|page=12}}</ref>
===1901–present===
*[[1912]] &ndash; The British passenger liner {{RMS|Titanic}} [[Sinking of the RMS Titanic|sinks]] in the [[Atlantic Ocean|North Atlantic]] at 2:20&nbsp;a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an [[iceberg]]. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
*[[1920]] &ndash; Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in [[South Braintree, Massachusetts]]. [[Anarchism|Anarchists]] [[Sacco and Vanzetti]] would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.
*[[1922]] &ndash; U.S. Senator [[John B. Kendrick]] of [[Wyoming]] introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the [[Teapot Dome scandal]].
*[[1923]] &ndash; [[Insulin]] becomes generally available for use by people with [[diabetes mellitus|diabetes]].
*  1923   &ndash; Racially motivated [[Nihon Shōgakkō fire]] lit by a serial arsonist kills 10 children in Sacramento, California.<ref name="latimes">{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|161579022}} |title=FIRE FIEND UNMASKED: Lives and Homes Sacrificed; Confession Uncovers Arson Mystery Reaching From Seattle to Mexico; Hatred of Japanese Incites Army Deserter to Burn Church Mission FIRE MURDERS ARE ADMITTED |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=17 August 1923 |page=I1 }}</ref>
*[[1936]] &ndash; First day of the [[1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine|Arab revolt]] in [[Mandatory Palestine]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; In the [[Belfast Blitz]], two hundred bombers of the German [[Luftwaffe]] attack [[Belfast]], killing around one thousand people.
*[[1942]] &ndash; The [[Award of the George Cross to Malta|George Cross is awarded]] "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Bergen-Belsen concentration camp]] is liberated.
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Jackie Robinson]] debuts for the [[History of the Brooklyn Dodgers|Brooklyn Dodgers]], breaking [[Baseball color line|baseball's color line]].
*[[1952]] &ndash; First flight of the [[Boeing B-52]] Stratofortress.
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[McDonald's]] restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by [[Ray Kroc]], in [[Des Plaines, Illinois]].
*[[1960]] &ndash; At [[Shaw University]] in Raleigh, North Carolina, [[Ella Baker]] leads a conference that results in the creation of the [[Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]], one of the principal organizations of the [[civil rights movement]] in the 1960s.
*[[1969]] &ndash; The [[EC-121 shootdown incident]]: [[North Korea]] shoots down a [[United States Navy]] aircraft over the [[Sea of Japan]], killing all 31 on board.
*[[1970]] &ndash; During the [[Cambodian Civil War]], massacre of the [[Vietnamese Cambodians|Vietnamese minority]] results in 800 bodies flowing down the [[Mekong]] river into [[South Vietnam]].
*[[1986]] &ndash; The United States launches [[Operation El Dorado Canyon]], its bombing raids against [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi#Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2012)|Libyan targets]] in response to a [[West Berlin discotheque bombing|discotheque bombing in West Germany]] that killed two U.S. servicemen.
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Hillsborough disaster]]: A human crush occurs at [[Hillsborough Stadium]], home of [[Sheffield Wednesday F.C.|Sheffield Wednesday]], in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] fans.
*  1989   &ndash; Upon [[Hu Yaobang]]'s death, the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]] begin in China.
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Marrakesh Agreement]] relating to foundation of [[World Trade Organization]] is adopted.
*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Air China Flight 129]] crashes on approach to [[Gimhae International Airport]] in [[Busan]], South Korea, killing 129 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 767-2J6ER B-2552 Pusan-Kimhae Airport (PUS)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20020415-0|url-status=live|access-date=2021-03-14|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation safety Network]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051110094142/http://aviation-safety.net:80/database/record.php?id=20020415-0 |archive-date=2005-11-10 }}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Boston Marathon bombing|Two bombs explode]] near the finish line at the [[2013 Boston Marathon|Boston Marathon]] in [[Boston]], Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 281 others.
*  2013   &ndash; [[15 April 2013 Iraq attacks|A wave of bombings]] across Iraq kills at least 75 people.
*[[2014]] &ndash; In the [[2014 Bentiu massacre|worst massacre]] of the [[South Sudanese Civil War]], at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.
*[[2019]] &ndash; The cathedral of [[Notre-Dame de Paris]] in France is seriously damaged by [[Notre-Dame de Paris fire|a large fire]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47941794|title=Notre-Dame: Massive fire ravages Paris cathedral|publisher=BBC News|date=16 April 2019|access-date=16 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; A [[Indianapolis FedEx shooting|mass shooting]] occurred at a [[FedEx Ground|Fedex Ground]] facility in [[Indianapolis]], Indiana, killing nine and injuring seven.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Neuman |first1=Scott |last2=Jones |first2=Dustin |date=April 16, 2021<!-- 3:22am Eastern Time--> |title=Police ID Suspect And Victims In Shooting Deaths At FedEx Facility In Indianapolis |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/04/16/987929888/ |access-date=February 21, 2023 |website=[[NPR]]}}</ref>
==Births==
===Pre-1600===
*[[68 BC]] &ndash; [[Gaius Maecenas]], Roman politician (d. 8 BC)
*[[1282]] &ndash; [[Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine]] (d. 1329)
*[[1442]] &ndash; [[John Paston (died 1479)|John Paston]], English noble (d. 1479)
*[[1452]] &ndash; [[Leonardo da Vinci]], Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1519)
*[[1469]] &ndash; [[Guru Nanak]], the first [[Sikh]] guru (d. 1539)
*[[1552]] &ndash; [[Pietro Cataldi]], Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1626)
*[[1563]] &ndash; [[Guru Arjan Dev]], fifth Sikh leader (d. 1606)
*[[1588]] &ndash; [[Claudius Salmasius]], French author and scholar (d. 1653)
*[[1592]] &ndash; [[Francesco Maria Brancaccio]], Catholic cardinal (d. 1675)
===1601–1900===
*[[1641]] &ndash; [[Robert Sibbald]], Scottish physician and geographer (d. 1722)
*[[1642]] &ndash; [[Suleiman II of the Ottoman Empire|Suleiman II]], Ottoman sultan (d. 1691)
*[[1646]] &ndash; [[Christian V of Denmark]] (d. 1699)
*[[1684]] &ndash; [[Catherine I of Russia]] (d. 1727)
*[[1688]] &ndash; [[Johann Friedrich Fasch]], German violinist and composer (d. 1758)
*[[1707]] &ndash; [[Leonhard Euler]], Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)
*[[1710]] &ndash; [[William Cullen]], Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)<ref>{{cite web |title=William Cullen {{!}} Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh |url=https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/college-history/william-cullen |website=rcpe.ac.uk |date=8 February 2017 |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref>
*[[1741]] &ndash; [[Charles Willson Peale]], American painter and soldier (d. 1827)
*[[1771]] &ndash; [[Nicolas Chopin]], French-Polish educator (d. 1844)
*[[1772]] &ndash; [[Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire]], French biologist and zoologist (d. 1844)
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve]], German astronomer and academic (d. 1864)
*[[1795]] &ndash; [[Maria Schicklgruber]], mother of [[Alois Hitler]] and the paternal grandmother of [[Adolf Hitler]] (d. 1847)
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[James Clark Ross]], English captain and explorer (d. 1862)
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[William Champ]], English-Australian politician, 1st [[Premier of Tasmania]] (d. 1892)
*[[1809]] &ndash; [[Hermann Grassmann]], German linguist and mathematician (d. 1877)
*[[1817]] &ndash; [[William Crowther (Australian politician)|William Crowther]], Dutch-Australian politician, 14th [[Premier of Tasmania]] (d. 1885)
*[[1828]] &ndash; [[Jean Danjou]], French captain (d. 1863)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lepage |first1=Jean-Denis G. G. |title=The French Foreign Legion: An Illustrated History |date=18 April 2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-6253-7 |pages=47 and 49 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qqeOMjr9kqYC&pg=PA47}}</ref>
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm Busch]], German poet, painter, and illustrator (d. 1908)
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[Mary Grant Roberts]], Australian zoo owner (d. 1921)<ref>{{cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |last1=Guiler |first1=Eric |title=Roberts, Mary Grant (1841–1921) |id2=roberts-mary-grant-8228 |access-date=9 January 2020}}</ref>
*  1841   &ndash; [[Joseph E. Seagram]], Canadian businessman and politician, founded the [[Seagram|Seagram Company Ltd]] (d. 1919)
*[[1843]] &ndash; [[Henry James]], American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1916)
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Jean Moréas]], Greek poet and critic (d. 1910)
*[[1858]] &ndash; [[Émile Durkheim]], French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (d. 1917)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Bliss Carman]], Canadian-British poet and playwright (d. 1929)
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Ida Freund]], Austrian-born chemist and educator (d. 1914)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJc8afOZV0QC&q=Ida+Freund+15+April+1863&pg=PA301|title=The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History|last1=Rubinstein|first1=William D.|last2=Jolles|first2=Michael|last3=Rubinstein|first3=Hilary L.|author-link1=William Rubinstein|author-link3=Hilary L. Rubinstein|date=2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9781403939104|pages=301}}</ref>
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[George Harrison Shull]], American botanist and geneticist (d. 1954)
*  1874   &ndash; [[Johannes Stark]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1957)
*[[1875]] &ndash; [[James J. Jeffries]], American boxer and promoter (d. 1953)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Georg Kolbe]], German sculptor (d. 1947)
*1877 &ndash; [[W. D. Ross|William David Ross]], Scottish philosopher (d. 1971)<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/william-david-ross/|title=William David Ross – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|chapter=William David Ross|year=2022|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Robert Walser]], Swiss author and playwright (d. 1956)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Melville Henry Cane]], American lawyer and poet (d. 1980)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Stanley Bruce]], Australian captain and politician, 8th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. 1967)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Tadeusz Kutrzeba]], Polish general (d. 1947)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Nikolay Gumilyov]], Russian poet and critic (d. 1921)
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Felix Pipes]], Austrian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/fritz-felix-pipes|title=Fritz Felix PIPES – Olympic Tennis &#124; Austria|date=June 14, 2016|website=International Olympic Committee}}</ref> (d. 1983)
*  1887   &ndash; [[William Forgan Smith]], Scottish-Australian politician, 24th [[Premier of Queensland]] (d. 1953)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Maximilian Kronberger]], German poet and author (d. 1904)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Thomas Hart Benton (painter)|Thomas Hart Benton]], American painter and educator (d. 1975)
*  1889   &ndash; [[A. Philip Randolph]], American activist (d. 1979)
*[[1890]] &ndash; [[Percy Shaw]], English businessman, invented the [[Cat's eye (road)|cat's eye]] (d. 1976)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Theo Osterkamp]], German general and pilot (d. 1975)
*  1892   &ndash; [[Corrie ten Boom]], Dutch-American clocksmith, [[Dutch Resistance|Nazi resister]], and author (d. 1983)
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Nikita Khrushchev]], Russian general and politician, 7th [[Premier of the Soviet Union]] (d. 1971)
*  1894   &ndash; [[Bessie Smith]], African-American singer and actress (d. 1937)
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Clark McConachy]], New Zealand snooker player (d. 1980)
*  1895   &ndash; [[Abigail Mejia]], Dominican feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator (d. 1941)<ref>{{cite book|first=Néstor|last=Contín Aybar|title=Historia de la Literatura Dominicana Volume 4|location=San Pedro de Macorís|publisher=Univ. Central del Este|year=1986|oclc=630212151|language=es|page=94}}</ref>
*[[1896]] &ndash; [[Nikolay Semyonov]], Russian physicist and chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1986)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Harry Edward]], Guyanese-English sprinter (d. 1973)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Ramón Iribarren]], Spanish civil engineer (d. 1967) <ref>{{cite journal |date=October 2003 |title=Relación de académicos desde el año 1847 hasta el 2003. |trans-title=List of academics from 1847 until 2003. |url=https://rac.es/ficheros/doc/00186.pdf |language=es |journal=Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales |access-date=15 April 2023}}</ref>
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; [[Joe Davis]], English snooker player (d. 1978)
*  1901   &ndash; [[Ajoy Mukherjee]], Indian politician, [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (d. 1986)
*  1901   &ndash; [[René Pleven]], French businessman and politician, [[Prime Minister of France]] (d. 1993)
*[[1902]] &ndash; [[Fernando Pessa]], Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)
*[[1903]] &ndash; [[John Williams (actor)|John Williams]], English-American actor (d. 1983)
*[[1904]] &ndash; [[Arshile Gorky]], Armenian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1948)
*[[1907]] &ndash; [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]], Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1988)
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[eden ahbez]], American songwriter and recording artist (d. 1995)
*  1908   &ndash; [[Lita Grey]], American actress (d. 1995)
*[[1909]] &ndash; [[Robert Edison Fulton Jr.]], American inventor and adventurer (d. 2004)<ref>Fulton, R. E. Jr., (1983) – ''The One Man Caravan of Robert E. Fulton Jr. An Autofilmography'' – Newtown, Connecticut: Flying Ridge</ref>
*[[1910]] &ndash; [[Sulo Bärlund]], Finnish shot putter (d. 1986)
*  1910   &ndash; [[Miguel Najdorf]], Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician (d. 1997)
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[William Congdon]], American-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1998)
*  1912   &ndash; [[Kim Il Sung]], North Korean general and politician, 1st [[List of leaders of North Korea|Supreme Leader of North Korea]] (d. 1994)
*[[1915]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Catlett]], African-American sculptor and illustrator (d. 2012)
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Alfred S. Bloomingdale]], American businessman (d. 1982)
*  1916   &ndash; [[Helene Hanff]], American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[Hans Conried]], American actor (d. 1982)
*  1917   &ndash; [[Elmer Gedeon]], American baseball player and bomber pilot (d. 1944)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bedingfield|first=Gary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ilzBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA137|title=Baseball's Dead of World War II: A Roster of Professional Players Who Died in Service|date=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-4454-0|pages=137}}</ref>
*  1917   &ndash; [[James Kee]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
*[[1918]] &ndash; [[Hans Billian]], German film director, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2007)
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Alberto Breccia]], Uruguayan-Argentinian author and illustrator (d. 1993)
*[[1920]] &ndash; [[Godfrey Stafford]], English-South African physicist and academic (d. 2013)
*  1920   &ndash; [[Thomas Szasz]], Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2012)
*  1920   &ndash; [[Richard von Weizsäcker]], German soldier and politician, 6th [[President of Germany]] (d. 2015)
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[Georgy Beregovoy]], Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995)
*  1921   &ndash; [[Angelo DiGeorge]], American physician and endocrinologist (d. 2009)
*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Michael Ansara]], Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)
*  1922   &ndash; [[Hasrat Jaipuri]], Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1999)
*  1922   &ndash; [[Harold Washington]], American lawyer and politician, 51st [[Mayor of Chicago]] (d. 1987)
*  1922   &ndash; [[Graham Whitehead]], English racing driver (d. 1981)
*[[1923]] &ndash; [[Artur Alliksaar]], Estonian poet and author (d. 1966)
*  1923   &ndash; [[Robert DePugh]], American activist, founded the [[Minutemen (anti-Communist organization)|Minutemen (an anti-Communist organization)]] (d. 2009)
*[[1924]] &ndash; [[M. Canagaratnam]], Sri Lankan politician (d. 1980)
*  1924   &ndash; [[Rikki Fulton]], Scottish comedian (d. 2004)
*  1924   &ndash; [[Neville Marriner]], English violinist and conductor (d. 2016)
*[[1926]] &ndash; [[Jurriaan Schrofer]], Dutch sculptor, designer, and educator (d. 1990)<ref>"[https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/Schrofer%2C%20Jurriaan Jurriaan Schrofer]" (in Dutch), ''[[Netherlands Institute for Art History]]''. Retrieved 3 April 2022.</ref>
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Robert Mills (physicist)|Robert Mills]], American physicist and academic (d. 1999)
*[[1929]] &ndash; [[Gérald Beaudoin]], Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2008)
*  1929   &ndash; [[Adrian Cadbury]], English rower and businessman (d. 2015)
*[[1930]] &ndash; [[Georges Descrières]], French actor (d. 2013)
*  1930   &ndash; [[Vigdís Finnbogadóttir]], Icelandic educator and politician, 4th [[President of Iceland]]
*[[1931]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Bloomfield]], Northern Irish civil servant
*  1931   &ndash; [[Tomas Tranströmer]], Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2015)
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Roy Clark]], American musician and television personality (d. 2018)
*  1933   &ndash; [[David Hamilton (photographer)|David Hamilton]], English-French photographer and director (d. 2016)
*  1933   &ndash; [[Elizabeth Montgomery]], American actress and producer (d. 1995)
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[Stavros Paravas]], Greek actor and producer (d. 2008)
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Raymond Poulidor]], French cyclist (d. 2019)
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[Bob Luman]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)
*  1937   &ndash; [[Robert W. Gore]], American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of [[Gore-Tex]] (d. 2020)<ref>{{cite web |title=Robert W. Gore, Chairman Emeritus of W. L. Gore & Associates, and Inventor of GORE-TEX® Technology Dies at 83 |url=https://www.gore.com/news-events/press-release/robert-gore-passing |website=gore.com |publisher=[[W. L. Gore and Associates]] |access-date=22 September 2020|date=18 September 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Schudel|first=Matt|date=September 19, 2020|title=Robert W. Gore, company president and inventor of Gore-Tex, dies at 83|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/robert-w-gore-company-president-and-inventor-of-gore-tex-dies-at-83/2020/09/19/c6da5244-faa9-11ea-89e3-4b9efa36dc64_story.html|access-date=September 21, 2020|issn=0190-8286}}</ref>
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[Claudia Cardinale]], Italian actress
*  1938   &ndash; [[Hso Khan Pha]], Burmese-Canadian geologist and politician (d. 2016)
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Marty Wilde]], English singer-songwriter and actor
*  1939   &ndash; [[Desiré Ecaré]], Ivorian filmmaker (d. 2009)
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[Jeffrey Archer]], English author, playwright, and politician
*  1940   &ndash; [[Penelope Coelen]], South African actress, model, beauty queen and [[Miss World|1958 Miss World]]
*  1940   &ndash; [[Willie Davis (baseball)|Willie Davis]], American baseball player and actor (d. 2010)
*  1940   &ndash; [[Robert Lacroix]], Canadian economist and academic
*  1940   &ndash; [[Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)|Robert Walker]], American actor (d. 2019)<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Huff|first=Lauren|date=2019-12-06|title='Star Trek' actor Robert Walker Jr. dies at 79|url=https://ew.com/tv/2019/12/06/robert-walker-jr-star-trek-actor-dead-79/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-08-11|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191207073152/https://ew.com/tv/2019/12/06/robert-walker-jr-star-trek-actor-dead-79/ |archive-date=2019-12-07 }}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Howard Berman]], American lawyer and politician
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[Francis X. DiLorenzo]], American bishop (d. 2017)
*  1942   &ndash; [[Walt Hazzard]], American basketball player and coach (d. 2011)
*  1942   &ndash; [[Kenneth Lay]], American businessman and criminal(d. 2006)
*  1942   &ndash; [[Tim Lankester]], English economist and academic
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[Pınar Kür]], Turkish author, playwright, and academic
*  1943   &ndash; [[Robert Lefkowitz]], American physician and biochemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*  1943   &ndash; [[Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater]], English politician
*  1943   &ndash; [[Hugh Thompson, Jr.]], American soldier and pilot (d. 2006)
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[Dave Edmunds]], Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[John Lloyd (journalist)|John Lloyd]], Scottish journalist and author
*  1946   &ndash; [[Pete Rouse]], American politician, [[White House Chief of Staff]]
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Linda Bloodworth-Thomason]], American screenwriter and producer
*  1947   &ndash; [[Martin Broughton]], English businessman
*  1947   &ndash; [[Lois Chiles]], American model and actress
*  1947   &ndash; [[David Omand]], English civil servant and academic
*  1947   &ndash; [[Cristina Husmark Pehrsson]], Swedish nurse and politician, [[Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (Sweden)|Swedish Minister for Social Security]]
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Christopher Brown (museum director)|Christopher Brown]], English historian, curator, and academic
*  1948   &ndash; [[Michael Kamen]], American composer and conductor (d. 2003)
*  1948   &ndash; [[Phil Mogg]], English singer-songwriter and musician
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Alla Pugacheva]], Russian singer-songwriter and actress
*  1949   &ndash; [[Craig Zadan]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Josiane Balasko]], French actress, director, and screenwriter
*  1950   &ndash; [[Amy Wright]], American actress
*  1950   &ndash; [[Karel Kroupa]], Czech football player
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Heloise (columnist)|Heloise]], American journalist and author
*  1951   &ndash; [[John L. Phillips]], American captain and astronaut
*  1951   &ndash; [[Stuart Prebble]], English journalist and producer
*  1951   &ndash; [[Marsha Ivins]], American engineer and astronaut
*[[1952]] &ndash; [[Kym Gyngell]], Australian actor, comedian, and screenwriter
*  1952   &ndash; [[Brian Muir (sculptor)|Brian Muir]], English sculptor and set designer
*  1952   &ndash; [[Avital Ronell]], Czech-American philosopher and academic
*  1952   &ndash; [[Glenn Shadix]], American actor, (d. 2010)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-09-09 |title=PASSINGS: Glenn Shadix, Lucius Walker, LeRoy A. Beavers Jr., Mike Edwards, Larry Ashmead, Corneille |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-passings-20100909-story.html |access-date=2023-03-08 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[Dodi Fayed]], Egyptian film producer (d. 1997)
*  1955   &ndash; [[Joice Mujuru]], Zimbabwean politician <ref>"Presentism, Contested Narratives and Dissonances in Zimbabwe’s Liberation War Heritage: The Case of." Colonial Heritage, Memory and Sustainability in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Prospects (2015): p 11.</ref>
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[Michael Cooper]], American basketball player and coach
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Evelyn Ashford]], American runner and coach
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[Keith Acton]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*  1958   &ndash; [[John Bracewell]], New Zealand cricketer
*  1958   &ndash; [[Memos Ioannou]], Greek basketball player and coach
*  1958   &ndash; [[Benjamin Zephaniah]], English actor, author, poet, and playwright (d. 2023)
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Fruit Chan]], Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter
*  1959   &ndash; [[Kevin Lowe]], Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
*  1959   &ndash; [[Emma Thompson]], English actress, comedian, author, activist and screenwriter
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Pierre Aubry]], Canadian ice hockey player
*  1960   &ndash; [[Susanne Bier]], Danish director and screenwriter
*  1960   &ndash; [[Pedro Delgado]], Spanish cyclist and sportscaster
*  1960   &ndash; [[Tony Jones (snooker player)|Tony Jones]], English snooker player
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Neil Carmichael (Conservative politician)|Neil Carmichael]], English academic and politician
*  1961   &ndash; [[Carol W. Greider]], American molecular biologist
*  1961   &ndash; [[Dawn Wright]], American geographer and oceanographer
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Nawal El Moutawakel]], Moroccan athlete and politician
*  1962   &ndash; [[Tom Kane]], American voice actor
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Alex Crawford]], Nigerian-South African journalist
*  1963   &ndash; [[Manzoor Elahi]], Pakistani cricketer
*  1963   &ndash; [[Manoj Prabhakar]], Indian cricketer and sportscaster
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Andre Joubert]], South African rugby player
*  1964   &ndash; [[Lee Kernaghan]], Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Soichi Noguchi]], Japanese engineer and astronaut<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Sullivan |first1=John |title=Japanese Missions to the International Space Station: Hope from the East |date=2019 |publisher=Springer Praxis Books |location=Cham, Switzerland |isbn=9783030045340 |page=42}}</ref>
*  1965   &ndash; [[Linda Perry]], American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer<ref name=allmusic>{{cite web | url = http://www.allmusic.com/artist/linda-perry-mn0000285294/biography | title= Artist Biography [Linda Perry] | first=Jason | last=Anderson | publisher= [[AllMusic.com]] | access-date= 2014-03-31}}</ref>
*  1965   &ndash; [[Kevin Stevens]], American ice hockey player
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Samantha Fox]], English singer-songwriter and actress
*  1966   &ndash; [[Mott Green]], American businessman (d. 2013)
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Frankie Poullain]], Scottish bass player and songwriter
*  1967   &ndash; [[Dara Torres]], American swimmer and journalist
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Ben Clarke]], English rugby player and coach
*  1968   &ndash; [[Brahim Lahlafi]], Moroccan-French runner
*  1968   &ndash; [[Ed O'Brien]], English guitarist
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Jeromy Burnitz]], American baseball player
*  1969   &ndash; [[Kaisa Roose]], Estonian pianist and conductor
*  1969   &ndash; [[Jimmy Waite]], Canadian-German ice hockey player and coach
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Chris Huffins]], American decathlete and coach
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Philippe Carbonneau]], French rugby player
*  1971   &ndash; [[Finidi George]], Nigerian footballer
*  1971   &ndash; [[Jason Sehorn]], American football player
*  1971   &ndash; [[Josia Thugwane]], South African runner
*  1971   &ndash; [[Karl Turner (British politician)|Karl Turner]], English lawyer and politician
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Arturo Gatti]], Italian-Canadian boxer (d. 2009)
*  1972   &ndash; [[Lou Romano]], American animator and voice actor
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Kim Min-kyo]], South Korean actor and director
*  1974   &ndash; [[Danny Pino]], American actor and screenwriter
*  1974   &ndash; [[Mike Quinn]], American football player
*  1974   &ndash; [[Douglas Spain]], American actor, director, and producer
*  1974   &ndash; [[Tim Thomas (ice hockey, born 1974)|Tim Thomas]], American ice hockey player
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Sarah Teichmann]], German-American biophysicist and immunologist
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[Jason Bonsignore]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*  1976   &ndash; [[Darius Regelskis]], Lithuanian footballer
*  1976   &ndash; [[Kęstutis Šeštokas]], Lithuanian basketball player
*  1976   &ndash; [[Steve Williams (rower)|Steve Williams]], English rower
*[[1977]] &ndash; [[Sudarsan Pattnaik]], Indian sculptor
*  1977   &ndash; [[Brian Pothier]], American ice hockey player
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[Milton Bradley (baseball)|Milton Bradley]], American baseball player
*  1978   &ndash; [[Tim Corcoran (pitcher)|Tim Corcoran]], American baseball player
*  1978   &ndash; [[Luis Fonsi]], Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and dancer
*  1978   &ndash; [[Chris Stapleton]], American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Luke Evans]], Welsh actor and singer<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fearon |first1=Faye |title=Luke Evans is winning the menswear game right now |url=https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/fashion/article/luke-evans-style |publisher=[[GQ]] |access-date=4 April 2023 |date=15 April 2020}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[Patrick Carney]], American drummer, musician, and producer
*  1980   &ndash; [[James Foster (cricketer, born 1980)|James Foster]], English cricketer
*  1980   &ndash; [[Raül López (basketball)|Raül López]], Spanish basketball player
*  1980   &ndash; [[Willie Mason]], New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
*  1980   &ndash; [[Aida Mollenkamp]], American chef and author
*  1980   &ndash; [[Billy Yates (American football)|Billy Yates]], American football player
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Andrés D'Alessandro]], Argentinian footballer
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Michael Aubrey]], American baseball player
*  1982   &ndash; [[Anthony Green (musician)|Anthony Green]], American singer-songwriter
*  1982   &ndash; [[Seth Rogen]], Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Alice Braga]], Brazilian actress
*  1983   &ndash; [[Matt Cardle]], English singer-songwriter and guitarist
*  1983   &ndash; [[Dudu Cearense]], Brazilian footballer
*  1983   &ndash; [[Andreas Fransson]], Swedish skier (d. 2014)
*  1983   &ndash; [[Ilya Kovalchuk]], Russian ice hockey player
*  1983   &ndash; [[Martin Pedersen (cyclist)|Martin Pedersen]], Danish cyclist
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[Antonio Cromartie]], American football player
*  1984   &ndash; [[Cam Janssen]], American ice hockey player
*  1984   &ndash; [[Daniel Paille]], Canadian ice hockey player
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Ryan Hamilton (ice hockey)|Ryan Hamilton]], Canadian ice hockey player
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[Tom Heaton]], English footballer
*  1986   &ndash; [[Sylvain Marveaux]], French footballer
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Blake Ayshford]], Australian rugby league player
*  1988   &ndash; [[Steven Defour]], Belgian footballer
*  1988   &ndash; [[Chris Tillman]], American baseball pitcher
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Darren Nicholls]], Australian rugby league player
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Emma Watson]], English actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Emma Watson {{!}} Biography, Movie, Harry Potter, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emma-Watson |website=britannica.com |access-date=9 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Daiki Arioka]], Japanese idol, singer, and actor
*  1991   &ndash; [[Javier Fernández López]], Spanish figure skater
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Jeremy McGovern]], Australian rules football player
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Brodie Grundy]], Australian rules football player
*  1994   &ndash; [[Shaunae Miller-Uibo]], Bahamian sprinter<ref>{{cite web|title=Shaunae Miller|url=https://www.olympic.org/shaunae-miller|publisher=International Olympic Committee|access-date=10 May 2020}}</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Leander Dendoncker]], Belgian footballer
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Ashleigh Gardner]], Australian cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ashleigh Gardner profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/ashleigh-gardner-858809|access-date=2021-04-15|website=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>
*  1997   &ndash; [[Maisie Williams]], English actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kazi |first1=Safeeyah |title=Maisie Williams marks 22nd birthday with funny childhood throwback snaps |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/maisie-williams-marks-22nd-birthday-with-funny-childhood-throwback-snaps-a4118976.html |publisher=[[Evening Standard]] |access-date=4 April 2023 |date=16 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[Sexyy Red]], American rapper<ref>{{Cite tweet|number=1643372196440555520|user=SexyyRed314_|title=My birthday day April 15th}}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Denis Shapovalov]], Canadian tennis player
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Shanti Dope]], Filipino rapper<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wave891.fm/hotspot/?article=423|title=Artist of the Month: 10 Things to Know About Shanti Dope|work=[[Wave 89.1]]|access-date=6 December 2019|archive-date=30 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330015748/http://www.wave891.fm/hotspot/?article=423|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[628]] &ndash; [[Empress Suiko|Suiko]], emperor of Japan (b. 554)
* [[943]] &ndash; [[Liu Bin (Southern Han)|Liu Bin]], emperor of [[Southern Han]] (b. 920)
* [[956]] &ndash; [[Lin Yanyu]], Chinese court official and [[eunuch]]
*[[1053]] &ndash; [[Godwin, Earl of Wessex]] (b. 1001)
*[[1136]] &ndash; [[Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare]] (b. 1094)
*[[1220]] &ndash; [[Adolf of Altena]], German archbishop (b. 1157)
*[[1237]] &ndash; [[Richard Poore]], English ecclesiastic
*[[1415]] &ndash; [[Manuel Chrysoloras]], Greek philosopher and translator (b. 1355)
*[[1446]] &ndash; [[Filippo Brunelleschi]], Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1377)
*[[1502]] &ndash; [[John IV of Chalon-Arlay]], Prince of Orange (b. 1443)
*[[1558]] &ndash; [[Roxelana]], wife of [[Suleiman the Magnificent]] (b. c. 1500)
*[[1578]] &ndash; [[Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg]], German nobleman (b. 1509)<ref>{{cite book |last=Haarmann |first=Torsten |title=Das Haus Waldeck und Pyrmont. Mehr als 900&nbsp;Jahre Gesamtgeschichte mit Stammfolge |language=de |location=Werl |publisher=Börde-Verlag |date=2014 |series=Deutsche Fürstenhäuser |volume=Heft&nbsp;35 |pages=48 |isbn=978-3-981-4458-2-4 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hoffmeister |first=Jacob Christoph Carl |title=Historisch-genealogisches Handbuch über alle Grafen und Fürsten von Waldeck und Pyrmont seit 1228 |language=de |location=Cassel |publisher=Verlag Gustav Klaunig |date=1883 |pages=46 |url=https://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-474762 }}</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1610]] &ndash; [[Robert Persons]], English Jesuit priest, insurrectionist, and author (b. 1546)
*[[1632]] &ndash; [[George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore]], English politician, [[Secretary of State (England)|English Secretary of State]] (b. 1580)
*[[1652]] &ndash; [[Patriarch Joseph of Moscow]], Russian patriarch
*[[1659]] &ndash; [[Simon Dach]], German poet and hymnwriter (b. 1605)
*[[1719]] &ndash; [[Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon]], French wife of [[Louis XIV of France]] (b. 1635)
*[[1754]] &ndash; [[Jacopo Riccati]], Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1676)
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Rosalba Carriera]], Italian painter (b. 1673)<ref>{{cite book|first=Ursula|last=Mehler|title=Rosalba Carriera, 1673–1757: die Bildnismalerin des 18. Jahrhunderts|trans-title=Rosalba Carriera, 1673–1757: Portrait Painter of the 18th Century|location=Königstein im Taunus|publisher=Ortensia Koenigstein|year=2006|page=31|language=de|isbn=978-3-00016-194-0}}</ref>
*[[1761]] &ndash; [[Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll]], Scottish lawyer and politician, [[Lord President of the Court of Session]] (b. 1682)
*  1761   &ndash; [[William Oldys]], English historian and author (b. 1696)
*[[1764]] &ndash; [[Peder Horrebow]], Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1679)
*  1764   &ndash; [[Madame de Pompadour]], mistress of King Louis XV (b. 1721)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Alden R. |title=Searching for the Elusive Madame de Pompadour |journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies |date=2003 |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=95 |doi=10.1353/ecs.2003.0062 |jstor=25098031 |s2cid=144477737 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25098031 |issn=0013-2586}}</ref>
*[[1765]] &ndash; [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], Russian chemist and physicist (b. 1711)
*[[1788]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Bonno]], Austrian composer (b. 1711)
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Ignacije Szentmartony]], Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1718)
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[Arthur Aikin]], English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Sylvester Jordan]], Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Abraham Lincoln]], 16th [[President of the United States]] (b. 1809)
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Matthew Arnold]], English poet and critic (b. 1822)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Father Damien]], Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui]], New Zealand commander and politician
===1901–present===
*[[1912]] &ndash; Victims of the [[Sinking of the RMS Titanic|''Titanic'' disaster]]:
**                [[Thomas Andrews]], Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873)<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Andrews {{!}} Irish ship designer {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Andrews-Irish-ship-designer |website=britannica.com |access-date=15 April 2022}}</ref>
**                [[John Jacob Astor IV]], American colonel, businessman, and author (b. 1864)
**                [[Archibald Butt]], American general and journalist (b. 1865)
**                [[Jacques Futrelle]], American journalist and author (b. 1875)
**                [[Benjamin Guggenheim]], American businessman (b. 1865)
**                [[Henry B. Harris]], American producer and manager (b. 1866)
**                [[Wallace Hartley]], English violinist and bandleader (b. 1878)
**                [[Charles Melville Hays]], American businessman (b. 1856)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Widow and Daughters of Hays Speed Home|url=http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/widow-and-daughters-of-hays-speed-home.html|encyclopedia=encyclopedia-titanica.org|date=August 9, 2011 |publisher=Chicago Examiner (as re-printed on Encyclopedia Titanica)|access-date=March 20, 2012}}</ref>
**                [[James Paul Moody]], English Sixth Officer (b. 1887)
**                [[William McMaster Murdoch]], Scottish First Officer (b. 1873)
**                [[Jack Phillips (wireless officer)|Jack Phillips]], English telegraphist (b. 1887)
**                [[Edward Smith (sea captain)|Edward Smith]], English Captain (b. 1850)
**                [[William Thomas Stead]], English journalist (b. 1849)
**                [[Ida Straus]], German-American businesswoman (b. 1849)
**                [[Isidor Straus]], German-American businessman and politician (b. 1845)
**                [[John B. Thayer]], American business and sportsman (b. 1862)
**                [[Henry Tingle Wilde]], English chief officer (b. 1872)
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[János Murkovics]], Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Gaston Leroux]], French journalist and author (b. 1868)
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[César Vallejo]], Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[Robert Musil]], Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[Aristarkh Lentulov]], Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin]], Russian general (b. 1901)
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Hermann Florstedt]], German [[SS]] officer (b. 1895)
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Radola Gajda]], Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Wallace Beery]], American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Clara Blandick]], American actress (b. 1880)
*  1962   &ndash; [[Arsenio Lacson]], Filipino journalist and politician, [[Mayor of Manila]] (b. 1912)
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Edward Greeves, Jr.]], Australian footballer (b. 1903)
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury]], Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of [[East Pakistan]] (b. 1906)
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Totò]], Italian comedian (b. 1898)
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Gurgen Boryan]], Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)
*  1971   &ndash; [[Friedebert Tuglas]], Estonian author and critic (b. 1886)
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[David Brand]], Australian politician, 19th [[Premier of Western Australia]] (b. 1912)
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[Raymond Bailey]], American actor and soldier (b. 1904)
*  1980   &ndash; [[Jean-Paul Sartre]], French philosopher and author, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1905)
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Arthur Lowe]], English actor (b. 1915)
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[Tommy Cooper]], Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[Jean Genet]], French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Kenneth Williams]], English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Hu Yaobang]], Chinese soldier and politician, former [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party]] (b. 1915)
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Greta Garbo]], Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[Leslie Charteris]], English author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
*  1993   &ndash; [[John Tuzo Wilson]], Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[William Congdon]], American-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
*  1998   &ndash; [[Pol Pot]], Cambodian general and politician, 29th [[Prime Minister of Cambodia]] (b. 1925)
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Harvey Postlethwaite]], English engineer (b. 1944)
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Edward Gorey]], American poet and illustrator (b. 1925)
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Joey Ramone]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Damon Knight]], American author and critic (b. 1922)
*  2002   &ndash; [[Byron White]], American football player, lawyer, and jurist, 4th [[United States Deputy Attorney General]] (b. 1917)
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Mitsuteru Yokoyama]], Japanese illustrator (b. 1934)
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Brant Parker]], American illustrator (b. 1920)
*[[2008]] &ndash; [[Krister Stendahl]], Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (b. 1921)
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Clement Freud]], German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924)
*  2009   &ndash; [[László Tisza]], Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907)
*  2009   &ndash; [[Salih Neftçi]], Turkish economist and author (b. 1947)
*[[2010]] &ndash; [[Jack Herer]], American author and activist (b. 1939)
*  2010   &ndash; [[Michael Pataki]], American actor and director (b. 1938)
*[[2011]] &ndash; [[Vittorio Arrigoni]], Italian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1975)
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Paul Bogart]], American director and producer (b. 1919)
*  2012   &ndash; [[Dwayne Schintzius]], American basketball player (b. 1968)
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Fain]], Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930)
*  2013   &ndash; [[Richard LeParmentier]], American-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1946)
*  2013   &ndash; [[Jean-François Paillard]], French conductor (b. 1928)
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[John Houbolt]], American engineer and academic (b. 1919)
*  2014   &ndash; [[Eliseo Verón]], Argentinian sociologist and academic (b. 1935)
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[Jonathan Crombie]], Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1966)
*  2015   &ndash; [[Surya Bahadur Thapa]], Nepalese politician, 24th [[Prime Minister of Nepal]] (b. 1928)
*[[2017]] &ndash; [[Clifton James]], American actor (b. 1920)
*  2017   &ndash; [[Emma Morano]], Italian [[supercentenarian]], last person verified born in the 1800s (b. 1899)
*[[2018]] &ndash; [[R. Lee Ermey]], American actor (b. 1944)
*  2018   &ndash; [[Vittorio Taviani]], Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929)
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Bilquis Edhi]], Pakistani philanthropist and wife of [[Abdul Sattar Edhi]] (b. 1947)<ref>{{cite news |title=Bilquis Edhi passes away at 74 in Karachi |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2352734/bilquis-edhi-passes-away-at-74-in-karachi |access-date=17 April 2022 |work=[[The Express Tribune]] |date=15 April 2022}}</ref>
*  2022   &ndash; [[Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb|Henry Plumb]], British politician and farmer (b. 1925)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harley |first=David |date=2022-04-26 |title=Lord Plumb obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/26/lord-plumb-obituary |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>
*  2022 &ndash; [[Liz Sheridan]], American actress (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jerry Seinfeld pays tribute to 'TV mom' Liz Sheridan following her death aged 93 |url=https://www.itv.com/news/2022-04-15/jerry-seinfeld-pays-tribute-to-tv-mom-liz-sheridan-following-her-death-aged-93 |website=ITV News |access-date=15 April 2022|date=15 April 2022}}</ref>
*  [[2024]] &ndash; [[Whitey Herzog]], American professional baseball outfielder and manager (b. 1931)<ref>{{Cite web |last=report |first=Post-Dispatch staff |date=2024-04-16 |title=Whitey Herzog, Cardinals champion manager and creator of 'Whiteyball,' dies at 92 |url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/professional/mlb/cardinals/whitey-herzog-cardinals-champion-manager-and-creator-of-whiteyball-dies-at-92/article_d58ec338-e9f8-11ed-bc34-67a54ce626f6.html |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=STLtoday.com}}</ref>
*  2024 &ndash; [[Josip Manolić]], Croatian politician, [[Prime Minister of Croatia|prime minister]], and [[Speaker of the Chamber of Counties of Croatia|speaker of the Chamber of Counties]] (b. 1920)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Potvrdila njegova kći: Preminuo Josip Manolić |url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/preminuo-josip-manolic-1534499 |access-date=2024-04-15 |website=vecernji.hr |language=hr}}</ref>
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==Holidays and observances==
*Christian [[Calendar of saints|feast day]]:
**[[Abbo II of Metz]]
**[[Father Damien]] ([[Episcopal Church (United States)|The Episcopal Church]])
**[[Hunna]]
**[[Paternus|Paternus of Avranches]]
**[[April 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
*[[Day of the Sun]] ([[North Korea]])
*[[Father Damien]] Day ([[Hawaii]])
*[[Hillsborough disaster#Memorials|Hillsborough Disaster Memorial]] ([[Liverpool]], England)
*[[Jackie Robinson Day]] (United States)
*National [[American Sign Language]] Day (United States)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newsweek.com/asl-day-2019-american-sign-language-1394695|title=Today is #ASLDay, but how is it used In today's society?|author=Sophia Waterfield|date=April 15, 2019|website=Newsweek}}</ref>
*[[Pohela Boishakh]] (Bengali New Year; India)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bureau |first=ABP News |date=2022-04-14 |title=Poila Boishakh 1429: Why Bangladesh & West Bengal Celebrate Bengali New Year On Different Days |url=https://news.abplive.com/lifestyle/poila-boishakh-1429-history-of-bengali-calendar-and-why-bangladesh-and-bengal-celebrate-bengali-new-year-on-different-days-1525756 |access-date=19 September 2022|website=news.abplive.com}}</ref>
*[[Tax Day]], the official deadline for filing an individual [[Tax return (United States)|tax return]] (or requesting an extension). (United States,<ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Jonathan |last1=Blitzer |magazine=The New Yorker|title=What Kevin McCarthy Will Do to Gain Power |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/12/26/what-kevin-mccarthy-will-do-to-gain-power |date=19 December 2022|access-date=19 December 2022 |page=37 |issn=0028-792X |volume=98 |issue=43}}</ref> Philippines)
*[[Universal Day of Culture]]
*[[World Art Day]]
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/15 BBC: On This Day]
* {{NYT On this day|month=4|day=15}}
* [https://www.onthisday.com/events/april/15 Historical Events on April 15]
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