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April 5

Pre-1600

 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
 * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his army.
 * 1242 – During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
 * 1536 – Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph.
 * 1566 – Two hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces.

1601–1900

 * 1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
 * 1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
 * 1792 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
 * 1795 – Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.
 * 1818 – In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
 * 1879 – Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

1901–present

 * 1902 – A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England.
 * 1910 – The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.
 * 1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
 * 1932 – Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
 * 1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
 * 1933  – Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage.
 * 1936 – Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
 * 1938 – Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.
 * 1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad.
 * 1942  – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall (56) and HMS Dorsetshire (40) are sunk southwest of the island.
 * 1943 – World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory 1 km from the residential area hit.
 * 1945 – Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
 * 1946 – Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
 * 1946  – A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
 * 1949 – A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
 * 1951 – Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
 * 1956 – Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
 * 1958 – Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
 * 1966 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
 * 1971 – In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
 * 1974 – Carrie, the first novel by American author Stephen King, is published for the first time with a print run of 30,000 copies.
 * 1976 – In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
 * 1977 – The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.
 * 1991 – An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.
 * 1991  – The Space shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-37 to deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
 * 1992 – Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
 * 1992  – Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
 * 1998 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
 * 1999 – Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
 * 2007 – The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.
 * 2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
 * 2010 – Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two militant suicide bombings and attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar.
 * 2010 – Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
 * 2010  – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-131 to resupply the International Space Station.
 * 2018 – Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.

Pre-1600

 * 1170 – Isabella of Hainault (d. 1190)
 * 1219 – Wonjong of Goryeo, 24th ruler of Goryeo (d. 1274)
 * 1279 – Al-Nuwayri, Egyptian Muslim historian (d. 1333)
 * 1288 – Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)
 * 1315 – James III of Majorca (d. 1349)
 * 1365 – William II, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1417)
 * 1472 – Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
 * 1521 – Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect (d. 1570)
 * 1523 – Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer and diplomat (d. 1596)
 * 1533 – Giulio della Rovere, Italian Catholic Cardinal (d. 1578)
 * 1539 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1603)
 * 1549 – Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (d. 1597)
 * 1568 – Pope Urban VIII (d. 1644)
 * 1588 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679)
 * 1591 – Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (d. 1634)
 * 1595 – John Wilson, English composer and educator (d. 1674)

1601–1900

 * 1604 – Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
 * 1616 – Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1661)
 * 1622 – Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1703)
 * 1649 – Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)
 * 1656 – Nikita Demidov, Russian industrialist (d. 1725)
 * 1664 – Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy (d. 1748)
 * 1674 – Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (d. 1748)
 * 1691 – Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1768)
 * 1692 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
 * 1719 – Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician, Lord Marshal of Sweden (d. 1794)
 * 1726 – Benjamin Harrison V, American politician, planter and merchant (d. 1791)
 * 1727 – Pasquale Anfossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1797)
 * 1729 – Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1809)
 * 1730 – Jean Baptiste Seroux d'Agincourt, French archaeologist and historian (d. 1814)
 * 1732 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and etcher (d. 1806)
 * 1735 – Franziskus Herzan von Harras, Czech Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1804)
 * 1739 – Philemon Dickinson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1809)
 * 1752 – Sébastien Érard, French instrument maker (d. 1831)
 * 1761 – Sybil Ludington, American figure of the American Revolutionary War (d. 1839)
 * 1769 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (d. 1839)
 * 1773 – José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (d. 1844)
 * 1773 – Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1839)
 * 1777 – Marie Jules César Savigny, French zoologist (d. 1851)
 * 1782 – Wincenty Krasiński, Polish nobleman (d. 1858)
 * 1784 – Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1859)
 * 1788 – Franz Pforr, German painter (d. 1812)
 * 1793 – Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist (d. 1843)
 * 1793  – Felix de Muelenaere, Belgian politician (d. 1862)
 * 1795 – Henry Havelock, British general (d. 1857)
 * 1799 – Jacques Denys Choisy, Swiss clergyman and botanist (d. 1859)
 * 1801 – Félix Dujardin, French biologist (d. 1860)
 * 1801  – Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher, publicist and politician (d. 1852)
 * 1804 – Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (d. 1881)
 * 1809 – Karl Felix Halm, German scholar and critic (d. 1882)
 * 1810 – Sir Henry Rawlinson, British East India Company army officer and politician (d. 1895)
 * 1811 – Jules Dupré, French painter (d. 1889)
 * 1814 – Felix Lichnowsky, Czech soldier and politician (d. 1848)
 * 1822 – Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, Belgian economist (d. 1892)
 * 1827 – Joseph Lister, English surgeon and academic (d. 1912)
 * 1832 – Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (d. 1893)
 * 1834 – Prentice Mulford, American humorist and author (d. 1891)
 * 1834  – Wilhelm Olbers Focke, German medical doctor and botanist (d. 1922)
 * 1834  – Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist (d. 1902)
 * 1835 – Vítězslav Hálek, Czech poet, writer, journalist, dramatist and theatre critic. (d. 1874)
 * 1837 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (d. 1909)
 * 1839 – Robert Smalls, African-American ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician (d. 1915)
 * 1840 – Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian historian and linguist (d. 1911)
 * 1842 – Hans Hildebrand, Swedish archaeologist (d. 1913)
 * 1845 – Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, German anatomist and histopathologist (d. 1919)
 * 1845  – Jules Cambon, French diplomat (d. 1935)
 * 1846 – Sigmund Exner, Austrian physiologist (d. 1926)
 * 1846  – Henry Wellesley, British peer and politician (d. 1900)
 * 1848 – Thure de Thulstrup, American illustrator (d. 1930)
 * 1848  – Ulrich Wille, Swiss army general (d. 1925)
 * 1850 – Enrico Mazzanti, Italian engineer and cartoonist (d. 1910)
 * 1852 – Émile Billard, French sailor (d. 1930)
 * 1852  – Walter W. Winans, American marksman and sculptor (d. 1920)
 * 1852  – Franz Eckert, German composer and musician (d. 1916)
 * 1856 – Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, essayist and historian (d. 1915)
 * 1857 – Alexander of Battenberg (d. 1893)
 * 1858 – Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman, founded Burpee Seeds (d. 1915)
 * 1859 – Reinhold Seeberg, German theologian (d. 1935)
 * 1860 – Harry S. Barlow, British tennis player (d. 1917)
 * 1862 – Louis Ganne, French conductor (d. 1923)
 * 1862  – Leo Stern, English cellist (d. 1904)
 * 1863 – Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)
 * 1867 – Ernest Lewis, British tennis player (d. 1930)
 * 1869 – Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1942)
 * 1869  – Albert Roussel, French composer (d. 1937)
 * 1870 – Motobu Chōki, Japanese karateka (d. 1944)
 * 1871 – Stanisław Grabski, Polish economist and politician (d. 1949)
 * 1872 – Samuel Cate Prescott, American microbiologist and chemist (d. 1962)
 * 1873 – Joseph Rheden, Austrian astronomer (d. 1946)
 * 1874 – Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal of the Catholic Church (d. 1949)
 * 1874  – Manuel María Ponce Brousset, President of Peru (d. 1966)
 * 1878 – Albert Champion, French cyclist (d. 1927)
 * 1878  – Georg Misch, German philosopher (d. 1965)
 * 1878  – Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (d. 1964)
 * 1879 – Arthur Berriedale Keith, Scottish lawyer (d. 1944)
 * 1879  – Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, German naval officer and author (d. 1956)
 * 1880 – Eric Carlberg, Swedish Army officer, diplomat, shooter, fencer and modern pentathlete (d. 1963)
 * 1880  – Vilhelm Carlberg, Swedish Army officer and shooter (d. 1970)
 * 1882 – Song Jiaoren, Chinese revolutionary (d. 1913)
 * 1882  – Natalia Sedova, 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky (d. 1962)
 * 1883 – Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1950)
 * 1884 – Ion Inculeț, Bessarabian academic and politician, President of Moldova (d. 1940)
 * 1885 – Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian composer (d. 1978)
 * 1886 – Gotthelf Bergsträsser, German linguist (d. 1933)
 * 1886  – Frederick Lindemann, British physicist (d. 1957)
 * 1886  – Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (d. 1933)
 * 1887 – William Cowhig, British gymnast (d. 1964)
 * 1889 – Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, Brazilian martial artist (d. 1981)
 * 1890 – Karl Kirk, Danish gymnast (d. 1955)
 * 1890  – William Moore, British track and field athlete (d. 1956)
 * 1891 – Arnold Jackson, English runner, soldier, and lawyer (d. 1972)
 * 1891  – Laura Vicuña, Chilean nun (d. 1904)
 * 1892 – Raymond Bonney, American ice hockey player (d. 1964)
 * 1893 – Frithjof Andersen, Norwegian wrestler (d. 1975)
 * 1893  – Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973)
 * 1894 – Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (d. 1956)
 * 1894  – Hans Hüttig, German SS officer (d. 1980)
 * 1894  – Carl Rudolf Florin, Swedish botanist (d. 1965)
 * 1895 – Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (d. 1957)
 * 1896 – Einar Lundborg, Swedish aviator (d. 1931)
 * 1897 – Hans Schuberth, German politician (d. 1976)
 * 1898 – Solange d'Ayen, French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (d. 1976)
 * 1899 – Alfred Blalock, American surgeon and academic (d. 1964)
 * 1900 – Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, and photographer (d. 1985)
 * 1900  – Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (d. 1939)
 * 1900  – Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Curt Bois, German actor (d. 1991)
 * 1901  – Chester Bowles, American diplomat and ambassador (d. 1986)
 * 1901  – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981)
 * 1901  – Doggie Julian, American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach (d. 1967)
 * 1902 – Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi (d. 1994)
 * 1903 – Marion Aye, American actress (d. 1951)
 * 1904 – Richard Eberhart, American poet and academic (d. 2005)
 * 1906 – Albert Charles Smith, American botanist (d. 1999)
 * 1906  – Fernando Germani, Italian organist (d. 1998)
 * 1906  – Ted Morgan, New Zealand boxer (d. 1952)
 * 1907 – Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai jurist (d. 2002)
 * 1908 – Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
 * 1908  – Kurt Neumann, German director (d. 1958)
 * 1908  – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (d. 1986)
 * 1908  – Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (d. 1989)
 * 1909 – Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer, co-founded Eon Productions (d. 1996)
 * 1909  – Giacomo Gentilomo, Italian film director and painter (d. 2001)
 * 1909  – Károly Sós, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1991)
 * 1909  – Erwin Wegner, German hurdler (d. 1945)
 * 1910 – Sven Andersson, Swedish politician (d. 1987)
 * 1910  – Oronzo Pugliese, Italian football manager (d. 1990)
 * 1911 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician (d. 1993)
 * 1911  – Johnny Revolta, American golfer (d. 1991)
 * 1912 – Jehan Buhan, French fencer (d. 1999)
 * 1912  – Habib Elghanian, Iranian businessman (d. 1979)
 * 1912  – Antonio Ferri, Italian scientist (d. 1975)
 * 1912  – Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (d. 2000)
 * 1912  – Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 1997)
 * 1912  – John Le Mesurier, English actor (d. 1983)
 * 1912  – István Örkény, Hungarian author and playwright (d. 1979)
 * 1912  – Bill Roberts, English sprinter and soldier (d. 2001)
 * 1913 – Antoni Clavé, Catalan artist (d. 2005)
 * 1913  – Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (d. 1969)
 * 1913  – Ruth Smith, Faroese artist (d. 1958)
 * 1914 – Felice Borel, Italian footballer (d. 1993)
 * 1916 – Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer (d. 2003)
 * 1917 – Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994)
 * 1917  – Frans Gommers, Belgian footballer (d. 1996)
 * 1919 – Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2018)
 * 1920 – Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2001)
 * 1920  – Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian soldier and author (d. 2004)
 * 1920  – Alfonso Thiele, Turkish-Italian race car driver (d. 1986)
 * 1920  – John Willem Gran, Swedish bishop (d. 2008)
 * 1921 – Christopher Hewett, English actor and theatre director (d. 2001)
 * 1922 – Tom Finney, English footballer (d. 2014)
 * 1922  – Harry Freedman, Polish-Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (d. 2005)
 * 1922  – Andy Linden, American race car driver (d. 1987)
 * 1922  – Gale Storm, American actress and singer (d. 2009)
 * 1923 – Ernest Mandel, German-born Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist (d. 1995)
 * 1923  – Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (d. 1995)
 * 1923  – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)
 * 1924 – Igor Borisov, Soviet rower (d. 2003)
 * 1925 – Janet Rowley, American human geneticist (d. 2013)
 * 1925  – Pierre Nihant, Belgian cyclist (d. 1993)
 * 1926 – Roger Corman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2024)
 * 1926  – Liang Yusheng, Chinese writer (d. 2009)
 * 1927 – Thanin Kraivichien, Thai lawyer and politician
 * 1927  – Arne Hoel, Norwegian ski jumper (d. 2006)
 * 1928 – Enzo Cannavale, Italian actor (d. 2011)
 * 1928  – Tony Williams, American singer (d. 1992)
 * 1929 – Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and painter (d. 2008)
 * 1929  – Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1929  – Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (d. 2001)
 * 1929  – Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (d. 1967)
 * 1929  – Mahmoud Mollaghasemi, Iranian wrestler
 * 1930 – Mary Costa, American singer and actress
 * 1930  – Pierre Lhomme, French director of photography (d. 2019)
 * 1931 – Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)
 * 1931  – Héctor Olivera, Argentine director, producer and screenwriter
 * 1933 – Feridun Buğeker, Turkish footballer (d. 2014)
 * 1933  – Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005)
 * 1933  – Barbara Holland, American author (d. 2010)
 * 1933  – K. Kailasapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and academic (d. 1982)
 * 1934 – John Carey, English author and critic
 * 1934  – Roman Herzog, German lawyer and politician, 7th President of Germany (d. 2017)
 * 1934  – Moise Safra, Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Banco Safra (d. 2014)
 * 1934  – Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2000)
 * 1935 – Giovanni Cianfriglia, Italian actor
 * 1935  – Peter Grant, English talent manager (d. 1995)
 * 1935  – Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 2018)
 * 1935  – Frank Schepke, German rower (d. 2017)
 * 1936 – Ronnie Bucknum, American race car driver (d. 1992)
 * 1936  – Glenn Jordan, American director and producer
 * 1936  – Dragoljub Minić, Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster (d. 2005)
 * 1937 – Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and author (d. 2024)
 * 1937  – Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State (d. 2021)
 * 1937  – Andrzej Schinzel, Polish mathematician (d. 2021)
 * 1937  – Arie Selinger, Israeli volleyball player and manager
 * 1937  – Juan Vicente Lezcano, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2012)
 * 1938 – Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 2018)
 * 1938  – Mal Colston, Australian educator and politician (d. 2003)
 * 1938  – Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (d. 2014)
 * 1938  – Natalya Kustinskaya, Soviet actress (d. 2012)
 * 1938  – Giorgos Sideris, Greek footballer
 * 1939 – Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania (d. 2011)
 * 1939  – Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
 * 1939  – Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Prime Minister of Yemen
 * 1939  – Ronald White, American singer-songwriter (d. 1995)
 * 1939  – David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer and producer (d. 2019)
 * 1940 – Tommy Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1940  – Gilles Proulx, Canadian journalist, historian, and radio host
 * 1941 – Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor
 * 1941  – Dave Swarbrick, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2016)
 * 1942 – Allan Clarke, English singer-songwriter
 * 1942  – Pascal Couchepin, Swiss politician
 * 1942  – Juan Gisbert Sr., Spanish tennis player
 * 1942  – Peter Greenaway, Welsh director and screenwriter
 * 1943 – Dean Brown, Australian politician, 41st Premier of South Australia
 * 1943  – Max Gail, American actor and director
 * 1943  – Fighting Harada, Japanese boxer
 * 1943  – Miet Smet, Belgian politician
 * 1943  – Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (d. 2018)
 * 1944 – Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dutch actress and director
 * 1944  – János Martonyi, Hungarian politician
 * 1944  – Evan Parker, British musician
 * 1944  – Douangchay Phichit, Laotian politician (d. 2014)
 * 1944  – Willy Planckaert, Belgian cyclist
 * 1944  – Pedro Rosselló, Puerto Rican physician and politician, 7th Governor of Puerto Rico
 * 1944  – Peter T. King, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
 * 1945 – Ove Bengtson, Swedish tennis player
 * 1945  – Steve Carver, American director and producer (d. 2021)
 * 1945  – Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (d. 2004)
 * 1945  – Tommy Smith, English footballer (d. 2019)
 * 1946 – Jane Asher, English actress
 * 1946  – Julio Ángel Fernández, Uruguayan astronomer
 * 1946  – Björn Granath, Swedish actor (d. 2017)
 * 1946  – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler
 * 1947 – Đurđica Bjedov, Yugoslav swimmer
 * 1947  – Willy Chirino, Cuban-American musician
 * 1947  – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Filipino academic and politician, 14th President of the Philippines
 * 1947  – Ramón Mifflin, Peruvian footballer
 * 1947  – Virendra Sharma, Indian-English lawyer and politician
 * 1948 – Pierre-Albert Chapuisat, Swiss footballer
 * 1948  – Dave Holland, English drummer (d. 2018)
 * 1948  – Roy McFarland, English footballer and manager
 * 1949 – Stanley Dziedzic, American wrestler
 * 1949  – Larry Franco, American film producer
 * 1949  – Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (d. 1986)
 * 1950 – Ann C. Crispin, American writer (d. 2013)
 * 1950  – Franklin Chang Díaz, Costa Rican-Chinese American astronaut and physicist
 * 1950  – Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1950  – Toshiko Fujita, Japanese actress, singer and narrator (d. 2018)
 * 1950  – Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor
 * 1951 – Les Binks, Irish drummer and songwriter
 * 1951  – Yevgeniy Gavrilenko, Belarusian hurdler
 * 1951  – Nedim Gürsel, Turkish writer
 * 1951  – Dean Kamen, American inventor and businessman, founded Segway Inc.
 * 1951  – Dave McArtney, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
 * 1951  – Ubol Ratana, Thai Princess
 * 1952 – Alfie Conn, Scottish international footballer
 * 1952  – John C. Dvorak, American author and editor
 * 1952  – Sandy Mayer, American tennis player
 * 1952  – Dennis Mortimer, English footballer
 * 1952  – Mitch Pileggi, American actor
 * 1953 – Frank Gaffney, American journalist and radio host
 * 1953  – Keiko Han, Japanese actress
 * 1953  – Tae Jin-ah, South Korean singer
 * 1953  – Raleb Majadele, Israeli politician
 * 1953  – Ian Swales, English accountant and politician
 * 1954 – Guy Bertrand, Canadian linguist and radio host
 * 1954  – Peter Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1954  – Mohamed Ben Mouza, Tunisian footballer
 * 1954  – Stan Ridgway, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1954  – Yoshiichi Watanabe, Japanese footballer
 * 1955 – Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1955  – Ricardo Ferrero, Argentine footballer (d. 2015)
 * 1955  – Christian Gourcuff, French footballer and manager
 * 1955  – Anthony Horowitz, English author and screenwriter
 * 1955  – Bernard Longley, English prelate
 * 1955  – Akira Toriyama, Japanese illustrator (d. 2024)
 * 1955  – Takayoshi Yamano, Japanese footballer
 * 1956 – Diamond Dallas Page, American wrestler and actor
 * 1956  – Leonid Fedun, Russian businessman
 * 1956  – Reid Ribble, American politician
 * 1957 – Sebastian Adayanthrath, Indian bishop
 * 1957  – Karin Roßley, German hurdler
 * 1958 – Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (d. 2021)
 * 1958  – Henrik Dettmann, Finnish basketball coach
 * 1958  – Ryoichi Kawakatsu, Japanese footballer
 * 1958  – Johan Kriek, South African-American tennis player
 * 1958  – Daniel Schneidermann, French journalist
 * 1958  – Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan lawyer and journalist (d. 2009)
 * 1959 – Paul Chung, Hong Kong actor and host (d. 1989)
 * 1960 – Asteris Koutoulas, Romanian-German record producer, manager, and author
 * 1960  – Larry McCray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1960  – Ian Redford, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
 * 1960  – Hiromi Taniguchi, Japanese long-distance runner
 * 1960  – Adnan Terzić, Bosnian politician
 * 1961 – Andrea Arnold, English filmmaker and actress
 * 1961  – Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian soprano
 * 1961  – Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Bahraini-Danish human rights activist
 * 1961  – Lisa Zane, American actress and singer
 * 1962 – Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (d. 2003)
 * 1962  – Sara Danius, Swedish scholar of literature and aesthetics (d. 2019)
 * 1962  – Richard Gough, Swedish born Scottish international footballer
 * 1962  – Arild Monsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
 * 1962  – Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Russian businessman and politician, 1st President of Kalmykia
 * 1963 – Arthur Adams, American comic book artist and writer
 * 1964 – Neil Eckersley, British judoka
 * 1964  – Vakhtang Iagorashvili, Soviet modern pentathlete
 * 1964  – Levon Julfalakyan, Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler
 * 1964  – Marius Lăcătuș, Romanian footballer and coach
 * 1965 – Aykut Kocaman, Turkish footballer and manager
 * 1965  – Lang Tzu-yun, Taiwanese actress
 * 1965  – Elizabeth McIntyre, American freestyle skier
 * 1965  – Svetlana Paramygina, Belarusian biathlete
 * 1966 – Yoon Hyun, South Korean judoka
 * 1966  – Mike McCready, American guitarist and songwriter
 * 1966  – Peter Overton, English-Australian journalist and television host
 * 1967 – Troy Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)
 * 1967  – Franck Silvestre, French footballer
 * 1967  – Erland Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
 * 1967  – Laima Zilporytė, Soviet cyclist
 * 1968 – Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter and pianist
 * 1969 – Dinos Angelidis, Greek basketball player
 * 1969  – Viatcheslav Djavanian, Russian cyclist
 * 1969  – Pontus Kåmark, Swedish footballer
 * 1969  – Pavlo Khnykin, Ukrainian swimmer
 * 1969  – Tomislav Piplica, Bosnian footballer and manager
 * 1969  – Ravindra Prabhat, Indian writer and journalist
 * 1970 – Soheil Ayari, French race car driver
 * 1970  – Valérie Bonneton, French actress
 * 1970  – Diamond D, American hip hop producer
 * 1970  – Petar Genov, Bulgarian chess grandmaster
 * 1970  – Thea Gill, Canadian actress
 * 1970  – Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter
 * 1970  – Irina Timofeyeva, Russian long-distance runner
 * 1971 – Dong Abay, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1971  – Krista Allen, American actress
 * 1971  – Austin Berry, Costa Rican footballer
 * 1971  – Simona Cavallari, Italian actress
 * 1971  – Victoria Hamilton, English actress
 * 1971  – Nelson Parraguez, Chilean footballer
 * 1971  – Kim Soo-nyung, South Korean archer
 * 1972 – Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-Canadian theoretical physicist
 * 1972  – Tom Coronel, Dutch race car driver
 * 1972  – Paul Okon, Australian footballer and manager
 * 1972  – Duncan Spencer, English cricketer
 * 1972  – Yasuhiro Takemoto, Japanese animator and director (d. 2019)
 * 1972  – Junko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
 * 1973 – Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress
 * 1973  – Brendan Cannon, Australian rugby player
 * 1973  – Lidia Trettel, Italian snowboarder
 * 1973  – Pharrell Williams, American singer, songwriter and rapper
 * 1974 – Sandra Bagarić, Croatian opera singer and actress
 * 1974  – Julien Boutter, French tennis player
 * 1974  – Katja Holanti, Finnish biathlete
 * 1974  – Oleg Khodkov, Russian handball player
 * 1974  – Ariel López, Argentine footballer
 * 1974  – Lukas Ridgeston, Slovak actor and director
 * 1974  – Vyacheslav Voronin, Russian high jumper
 * 1975 – Sarah Baldock, English organist and conductor
 * 1975  – John Hartson, Welsh footballer and coach
 * 1975  – Juicy J, American rapper and producer
 * 1975  – Serhiy Klymentiev, Ukrainian ice hockey player
 * 1975  – Caitlin Moran, English journalist, author, and critic
 * 1975  – Marcos Vales, Spanish footballer
 * 1975  – Shammond Williams, American basketball player and coach
 * 1976 – Luis de Agustini, Uruguayan footballer
 * 1976  – Péter Biros, Hungarian water polo player
 * 1976  – Sterling K. Brown, American actor
 * 1976  – Aleksei Budõlin, Estonian judoka
 * 1976  – Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
 * 1976  – Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer and coach
 * 1976  – Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer
 * 1976  – Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer
 * 1976  – Valeria Straneo, Italian long-distance runner
 * 1976  – Indrek Tobreluts, Estonian biathlete
 * 1976  – Anouska van der Zee, Dutch cyclist
 * 1977 – Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player
 * 1977  – Trevor Letowski, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
 * 1977  – Daniel Majstorović, Swedish footballer
 * 1978 – Dwain Chambers, British track sprinter
 * 1978  – Marcone Amaral Costa, Qatari footballer
 * 1978  – Tarek El-Said, Egyptian footballer
 * 1978  – Jairo Patiño, Colombian footballer
 * 1978  – Sohyang, South Korean singer
 * 1978  – Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
 * 1978  – Arnaud Tournant, French cyclist
 * 1978  – Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
 * 1978  – Günther Weidlinger, Austrian long-distance runner
 * 1979 – Vlada Avramov, Serbian footballer
 * 1979  – Josh Boone, American screenwriter and director
 * 1979  – Song Dae-nam, South Korean judoka
 * 1979  – Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
 * 1979  – Imany, French singer
 * 1979  – Barel Mouko, Congolese footballer
 * 1979  – Cesare Natali, Italian footballer
 * 1979  – Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer
 * 1979  – Alexander Resch, German luger
 * 1979  – Andrius Velička, Lithuanian footballer
 * 1979  – Dante Wesley, American football player
 * 1979  – Chen Yanqing, Chinese weightlifter
 * 1980 – Matt Bonner, American basketball player
 * 1980  – Alberta Brianti, Italian tennis player
 * 1980  – Rafael Cavalcante, Brazilian mixed martial artist
 * 1980  – David Chocarro, Argentinian baseball player and actor
 * 1980  – Mike Glumac, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1980  – Mario Kasun, Croatian basketball player
 * 1980  – Lee Jae-won, South Korean DJ and singer
 * 1980  – Joris Mathijsen, Dutch footballer
 * 1980  – Rasmus Quist Hansen, Danish rower
 * 1980  – Odlanier Solís, Cuban boxer
 * 1981 – Matthew Emmons, American rifle shooter
 * 1981  – Michael A. Monsoor, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2006)
 * 1981  – Mariqueen Maandig, Filipino-American musician and singer-songwriter
 * 1981  – Daba Modibo Keïta, Malian taekwondo athlete
 * 1981  – Marissa Nadler, American musician
 * 1981  – Tom Riley, English actor and producer
 * 1981  – Mompati Thuma, Botswana footballer
 * 1981  – Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist
 * 1982 – Hayley Atwell, English-American actress
 * 1982  – Matheus Coradini Vivian, Brazilian footballer
 * 1982  – Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
 * 1982  – Kelly Pavlik, American boxer
 * 1982  – Matt Pickens, American soccer player
 * 1982  – Alexandre Prémat, French race car driver
 * 1982  – Danylo Sapunov, Ukrainian-Kazakhstani triathlete
 * 1982  – Hubert Schwab, Swiss cyclist
 * 1982  – Marcel Seip, Dutch former footballer
 * 1983 – Jaime Castrillón, Colombian footballer
 * 1983  – Jorge Andrés Martínez, Uruguayan footballer
 * 1983  – Brock Radunske, Canadian-South Korean ice hockey player
 * 1983  – Yohann Sangaré, French basketball player
 * 1983  – Cécile Storti, French cross-country skier
 * 1983  – Shikha Uberoi, Indian-American tennis player
 * 1984 – Marshall Allman, American actor
 * 1984  – Aram Mp3, Armenian singer and comedian
 * 1984  – Rune Brattsveen, Norwegian biathlete
 * 1984  – Alexei Glukhov, Russian ice hockey player
 * 1984  – Maartje Goderie, Dutch field hockey player
 * 1984  – Darija Jurak, Croatian tennis player
 * 1984  – Dejan Kelhar, Slovenian footballer
 * 1984  – Dmitry Kozonchuk, Russian cyclist
 * 1984  – Shin Min-a, South Korean actress
 * 1984  – Jess Sum, Hong Kong actress
 * 1984  – Peter Penz, Austrian luger
 * 1984  – Samuele Preisig, Swiss footballer
 * 1984  – Cristian Săpunaru, Romanian footballer
 * 1984  – Fabio Vitaioli, San Marinese footballer
 * 1984  – Kisho Yano, Japanese footballer
 * 1984  – Saba Qamar, Pakistani actress-model
 * 1985 – Daniel Congré, French footballer
 * 1985  – Erwin l'Ami, Dutch chess player
 * 1985  – Jolanda Keizer, Dutch heptathlete
 * 1985  – Sergey Khachatryan, Armenian violinist
 * 1985  – Linas Pilibaitis, Lithuanian footballer
 * 1985  – Jan Smeets, Dutch chess grandmaster
 * 1985  – Kristof Vandewalle, Belgian cyclist
 * 1986 – Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress
 * 1986  – Anzor Boltukayev, Chechen wrestler
 * 1986  – Diego Chará, Colombian footballer
 * 1986  – Charlotte Flair, American wrestler, author and actress
 * 1986  – Róbert Kasza, Hungarian Modern pentathlete
 * 1986  – Eetu Muinonen, Finnish footballer
 * 1986  – Manuel Ruz, Spanish footballer
 * 1986  – Albert Selimov, Azerbaijani boxer
 * 1987 – Max Grün, German footballer
 * 1987  – Balázs Hárai, Hungarian water polo player
 * 1987  – Anton Kokorin, Russian sprint athlete
 * 1987  – Fyodor Kudryashov, Russian footballer
 * 1987  – Etiënne Reijnen, Dutch footballer
 * 1988 – Gerson Acevedo, Chilean footballer
 * 1988  – Teresa Almeida, Angolan handball player
 * 1988  – Quade Cooper, New Zealand-Australian rugby player and boxer
 * 1988  – Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby union player
 * 1988  – Gevorg Ghazaryan, Armenian footballer
 * 1988  – Alisha Glass, American ex-indoor volleyball player
 * 1988  – Vurğun Hüseynov, Azerbaijani footballer
 * 1988  – Matthias Jaissle, German footballer and manager
 * 1988  – Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier
 * 1988  – Zack Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1988  – Pape Sy, French basketball player
 * 1988  – Alexey Volkov, Russian biathlete
 * 1989 – Kader Amadou, Nigerien footballer
 * 1989  – Yémi Apithy, Beninese fencer
 * 1989  – Liemarvin Bonevacia, Dutch sprinter
 * 1989  – Freddie Fox, English actor
 * 1989  – Emre Güral, Turkish footballer
 * 1989  – Justin Holiday, American basketball player
 * 1989  – Rachel Homan, Canadian curler
 * 1989  – Lily James, English actress
 * 1989  – Trevor Marsicano, American speed skater
 * 1989  – Jonathan Rossini, Swiss footballer
 * 1989  – Kiki Sukezane, Japanese actress
 * 1989  – Sosuke Takatani, Japanese wrestler
 * 1990 – Amer Said Al-Shatri, Omani footballer
 * 1990  – Alex Cuthbert, Welsh rugby player
 * 1990  – Patrick Dangerfield, Australian footballer
 * 1990  – Fredy Hinestroza, Colombian footballer
 * 1990  – Chen Huijia, Chinese swimmer
 * 1990  – Haruma Miura, Japanese actor and singer (d. 2020)
 * 1990  – Ismaeel Mohammad, Qatari footballer
 * 1990  – Iryna Pamialova, Belarusian canoeist
 * 1990  – Jakub Sedláček, Czech ice hockey player
 * 1990  – Sercan Yıldırım, Turkish footballer
 * 1990  – Género Zeefuik, Dutch footballer
 * 1991 – Yassine Bounou, Moroccan footballer
 * 1991 – Nathaniel Clyne, English footballer
 * 1991 – Adriano Grimaldi, Italian-German footballer
 * 1991 – Joël Mall, Swiss footballer
 * 1991 – Guilherme dos Santos Torres, Brazilian footballer
 * 1992 – Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
 * 1992 – Shintaro Kurumaya, Japanese footballer
 * 1992 – Kaveh Rezaei, Iranian footballer
 * 1992 – Dmytro Ryzhuk, Ukrainian footballer
 * 1993 – Andreas Bouchalakis, Greek footballer
 * 1993 – Maya DiRado, American swimmer
 * 1993 – Laura Feiersinger, Austrian footballer
 * 1993 – Benjamin Garcia, French rugby league player
 * 1993  – Kurtis Patterson, Australian cricketer
 * 1993  – Scottie Wilbekin, American-Turkish basketball player
 * 1994 – Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player
 * 1994  – Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer
 * 1994  – Richard Sánchez, Mexican footballer
 * 1995 – Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player
 * 1995 – Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer
 * 1995 – Gleb Rassadkin, Belarusian footballer
 * 1995 – Sebastian Starke Hedlund, Swedish footballer
 * 1996 – Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver
 * 1996  – Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer
 * 1997 – Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
 * 1997  – Dominik Mysterio, American wrestler
 * 1999 – Bobby Miller, American baseball player
 * 2001 – Johnny Beecher, American ice hockey player

Pre-1600

 * 517 – Timothy I of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch
 * 582 – Eutychius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch
 * 584 – Ruadán of Lorrha, Irish abbot
 * 902 – Al-Mu'tadid, Abbasid caliph
 * 1168 – Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1104)
 * 1183 – Ramon Berenguer III, Spanish count of Cerdanya and Provence
 * 1205 – Isabella I of Jerusalem, queen regnant of Jerusalem (b. 1172)
 * 1258 – Juliana of Liège, Belgian canoness and saint
 * 1308 – Ivan Kőszegi, Hungarian baron and oligarch
 * 1325 – Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron of Monthermer and Earl of Gloucester (b. c. 1270)
 * 1419 – Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
 * 1431 – Bernard I, margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1364)
 * 1512 – Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter (b. 1429)
 * 1534 – Jan Matthys, Dutch anabaptist reformer
 * 1594 – Catherine of Palma, Spanish nun (b. 1533)

1601–1900

 * 1612 – Diana Scultori, Italian engraver (b. 1547)
 * 1617 – Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
 * 1626 – Anna Koltovskaya, Russian tsarina
 * 1673 – François Caron, Belgian-French explorer and politician, 8th Governor of Formosa (b. 1600)
 * 1679 – Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess (b. 1619)
 * 1684 – William Brouncker, English mathematician (b. 1620)
 * 1684  – Karl Eusebius, prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1611)
 * 1693 – Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, French noblewoman (b. 1627)
 * 1693  – Philip William August, German nobleman (b. 1668)
 * 1695 – George Savile, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1633)
 * 1697 – Charles XI, king of Sweden (b. 1655)
 * 1704 – Christian Ulrich I, German nobleman and Duke of Württemberg-Oels (b. 1652)
 * 1708 – Christian Heinrich, German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern (b. 1661)
 * 1709 – Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (b. 1635)
 * 1712 – Jan Luyken, Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver (b. 1649)
 * 1717 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
 * 1723 – Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect, sculptor and historian (b. 1656)
 * 1735 – William Derham, English minister and philosopher (b. 1657)
 * 1751 – Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (b. 1676)
 * 1765 – Edward Young, English poet and author (b. 1683)
 * 1767 – Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1685)
 * 1768 – Egidio Forcellini, Italian philologist (b. 1688)
 * 1769 – Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jesuit priest (b. 1713)
 * 1794 – Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (b. 1759)
 * 1794  – François Chabot, French politician (b. 1756)
 * 1794  – Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1760)
 * 1794  – Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, dramatist, poet and politician (b. 1750)
 * 1794  – Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French judge and politician (b. 1759)
 * 1794  – Pierre Philippeaux, French lawyer (b. 1754)
 * 1794  – François Joseph Westermann, French general (b. 1751)
 * 1799 – Johann Christoph Gatterer, German historian (b. 1727)
 * 1804 – Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (b. 1761)
 * 1808 – Johann Georg Wille, German engraver (b. 1715)
 * 1830 – Richard Chenevix, Irish chemist and playwright (b. 1774)
 * 1831 – Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, Belgian entomologist (b. 1797)
 * 1842 – Shah Shujah Durrani, 5th Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1785)
 * 1852 – Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, (b. 1800)
 * 1861 – Ferdinand Joachimsthal, German mathematician (b. 1818)
 * 1862 – Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch artist (b. 1803)
 * 1865 – Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (b. 1806)
 * 1866 – Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (b. 1798)
 * 1868 – Karel Purkyně, Czech painter (b. 1834)
 * 1871 – Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (b. 1798)
 * 1872 – Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (b. 1812)
 * 1873 – Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (b. 1824)
 * 1882 – Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (b. 1806)
 * 1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
 * 1891 – Johann Hermann Bauer, Austrian chess master (b. 1861)
 * 1900 – Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)
 * 1900  – Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (b. 1820)
 * 1902 – Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)
 * 1904 – Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (b. 1830)
 * 1904  – Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (b. 1822)
 * 1906 – Eastman Johnson, American painter (b. 1824)
 * 1914 – Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (b. 1836)
 * 1916 – Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (b. 1851)
 * 1918 – George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)
 * 1918  – Paul Vidal de La Blache, French geographer (b. 1845)
 * 1920 – Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (b. 1848)
 * 1921 – Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (b. 1862)
 * 1921  – Sophie Elkan, Swedish writer and translator (b. 1853)
 * 1923 – George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (b. 1866)
 * 1924 – Victor Hensen, German zoologist (b. 1835)
 * 1928 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1890)
 * 1928  – Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
 * 1929 – Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (b. 1846)
 * 1929  – Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (b. 1846)
 * 1932 – María Blanchard, Spanish painter (b. 1881)
 * 1933 – Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (b. 1884)
 * 1933  – Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and functional theorist (b. 1854)
 * 1934 – Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (b. 1860)
 * 1934  – Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player (b. 1908)
 * 1935 – Achille Locatelli, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1856)
 * 1935  – Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (b. 1870)
 * 1935  – Franz von Vecsey, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1893)
 * 1936 – Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (b. 1884)
 * 1937 – Gustav Adolf Deissmann, (b. 1866)
 * 1937  – José Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (b. 1858)
 * 1938 – Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (b. 1857)
 * 1938  – Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (b. 1890)
 * 1940 – Charles Freer Andrews, English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (b. 1871)
 * 1940  – Robert Maillart, Swiss civil engineer (b. 1872)
 * 1940  – Jay O'Brien, American bobsledder (b. 1883)
 * 1940  – Song Zheyuan, Chinese general (b. 1885)
 * 1941 – Parvin E'tesami, Persian poet (b. 1907)
 * 1941  – Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (b. 1876)
 * 1941  – Franciszek Kleeberg, Polish general (b. 1888)
 * 1945 – Heinrich Borgmann, German officer (b. 1912)
 * 1945  – Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (b. 1897)
 * 1946 – Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (b. 1898)
 * 1947 – Bernhard Pankok, German painter, artist and architect (b. 1872)
 * 1947  – Elis Strömgren, Swedish-Danish astronomer (b. 1870)
 * 1948 – Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (b. 1874)
 * 1949 – Erich Zeigner, Prime Minister of Saxony (b. 1886)
 * 1950 – Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter (b. 1876)
 * 1952 – Agnes Morton, British tennis player (b. 1872)
 * 1954 – Princess Märtha of Sweden, (b. 1901)
 * 1954  – Claude Delvincourt, French pianist and composer (b. 1888)
 * 1955 – Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1918)
 * 1956 – William Titt, British gymnast (b. 1881)
 * 1958 – Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (b. 1884)
 * 1958  – Ásgrímur Jónsson, Icelandic painter (b. 1876)
 * 1958  – Isidora Sekulić, Serbian writer (b. 1877)
 * 1961 – Nikolai Kryukov, Russian composer (b. 1908)
 * 1962 – Boo Kullberg, Swedish gymnast (b. 1889)
 * 1963 – Jacobus Oud, Dutch architect (b. 1890)
 * 1964 – James Chapin, American ornithologist (b. 1889)
 * 1964  – Aloïse Corbaz, Swiss artist (b. 1886)
 * 1964  – Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
 * 1965 – Pedro Sernagiotto, Italian-Brazilian footballer (b. 1908)
 * 1965  – Sándor Szalay, Hungarian figure skater (b. 1893)
 * 1967 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1891)
 * 1967  – Johan Falkberget, Norwegian author (b. 1879)
 * 1967  – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
 * 1967  – Herbert Johnston, British runner (b. 1902)
 * 1968 – Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (b. 1900)
 * 1968  – Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1932)
 * 1968  – Giuseppe Paris, Italian gymnast (b. 1895)
 * 1969 – Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (b. 1918)
 * 1969  – Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician (b. 1917)
 * 1969  – Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian SS officer (b. 1903)
 * 1970 – Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (b. 1877)
 * 1970  – Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (b. 1891)
 * 1970  – Karl von Spreti, German diplomat (b. 1907)
 * 1971 – José Cubiles, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1894)
 * 1972 – Isabel Jewell, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
 * 1973 – David Murray, British race car driver (b. 1909)
 * 1973  – Alla Tarasova, Russian ballerina (b. 1898)
 * 1974 – Bino Bini, Italian fencer (b. 1900)
 * 1974  – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
 * 1975 – Tell Berna, American middle and long-distance runner (b. 1891)
 * 1975  – Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician (b. 1917)
 * 1975  – Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
 * 1975  – Harold Osborn, American track and fielder (b. 1899)
 * 1976 – Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (b. 1905)
 * 1976  – Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (b. 1891)
 * 1976  – Harry Wyld, British cyclist (b. 1900)
 * 1977 – Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (b. 1903)
 * 1977  – Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (b. 1894)
 * 1981 – Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (b. 1892)
 * 1981  – Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
 * 1981  – Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (b. 1890)
 * 1982 – Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1910)
 * 1983 – Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari, Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer. (b. 1907)
 * 1984 – Hans Lunding, Danish military officer (b. 1899)
 * 1984  – Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (b. 1894)
 * 1986 – Manly Wade Wellman, American writer (b. 1903)
 * 1987 – Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (b. 1914)
 * 1988 – Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (b. 1920)
 * 1989 – Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (b. 1895)
 * 1989  – Karel Zeman, Czech director, artist, production designer and animator (b. 1910)
 * 1991 – Sonny Carter, American soccer player, physician, and astronaut (b. 1947)
 * 1991  – Jay Miller, American basketball player (b. 1943)
 * 1991  – Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist, writer and screenwriter (b. 1915)
 * 1991  – William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (b. 1909)
 * 1991  – John Tower, American soldier, academic, and politician (b. 1925)
 * 1992 – Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)
 * 1992  – Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)
 * 1992  – Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (b. 1918)
 * 1993 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
 * 1994 – Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)
 * 1995 – Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch chess player (b. 1915)
 * 1995  – Emilio Greco, Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1913)
 * 1995  – Christian Pineau, French Resistance fighter (b. 1904)
 * 1996 – Charlene Holt, American actress (b. 1928)
 * 1997 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
 * 1998 – Frederick Charles Frank, British theoretical physicist (b. 1911)
 * 1998  – Cozy Powell, English drummer (b. 1947)
 * 1999 – Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (b. 1912)
 * 2000 – Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (b. 1909)
 * 2000  – Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
 * 2001 – Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (b. 1910)
 * 2002 – Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967)
 * 2002  – Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (b. 1917)
 * 2003 – Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (b. 1944)
 * 2004 – Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (b. 1938)
 * 2004  – Sławomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (b. 1915)
 * 2004  – Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936)
 * 2005 – Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
 * 2005  – Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (b. 1913)
 * 2005  – Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (b. 1917)
 * 2006 – Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (b. 1927)
 * 2006  – Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
 * 2006  – Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (b. 1958)
 * 2006  – Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1923)
 * 2007 – Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1923)
 * 2007  – Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (b. 1908)
 * 2007  – Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (b. 1922)
 * 2007  – Mark St. John, American guitarist (b. 1956)
 * 2007  – Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (b. 1912)
 * 2008 – Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (b. 1923)
 * 2009 – I. J. Good, British mathematician (b. 1916)
 * 2010 – Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (b. 1935)
 * 2011 – Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
 * 2011  – Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician (b. 1937)
 * 2012 – Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German designer (b. 1935)
 * 2012  – Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, Dominican Republican politician military officer (b. 1921)
 * 2012  – Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (b. 1923)
 * 2012  – Barney McKenna, Irish musician (b. 1939)
 * 2012  – Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawian economist and politician, 3rd President of Malawi (b. 1934)
 * 2013 – Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (b. 1921)
 * 2013  – Piero de Palma, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1924)
 * 2013  – Nikolaos Pappas, Greek Navy admiral (b. 1930)
 * 2014 – Alan Davie, Scottish saxophonist and painter (b. 1920)
 * 2014  – Mariano Díaz, Spanish cyclist (b. 1939)
 * 2014  – Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (b. 1927)
 * 2014  – John Pinette, American comedian (b. 1964)
 * 2014  – José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director, and producer (b. 1947)
 * 2015 – Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (b. 1949)
 * 2015  – Juan Carlos Cáceres, Argentinian singer and pianist (b. 1936)
 * 2016 – Koço Kasapoğlu, Turkish footballer (b. 1936)
 * 2017 – Attilio Benfatto, Italian cyclist (b. 1943)
 * 2017  – Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (b. 1929)
 * 2017  – Paul G. Comba, Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer (b. 1926)
 * 2017  – Makoto Ōoka, Japanese poet and literary critic (b. 1931)
 * 2017  – Paul O'Neill, American rock composer and producer (b. 1956)
 * 2017  – Tim Parnell, British race car driver (b. 1932)
 * 2017  – Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (b. 1947)
 * 2017  – Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (b. 1942)
 * 2017  – Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1958)
 * 2018 – Isao Takahata, Japanese director (b. 1935)
 * 2019 – Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
 * 2021 – Paul Ritter, English actor (b. 1966)
 * 2022 – Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (b. 1919)
 * 2022 – Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwanese actor (b. 1943)
 * 2024 – C. J. Snare, American musician and songwriter (b. 1959)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Albert of Montecorvino
 * Derfel Gadarn
 * Æthelburh of Kent
 * Gerald of Sauve-Majeure
 * Juliana of Liège
 * Maria Crescentia Höss
 * Blessed Mariano de la Mata
 * Pandita Mary Ramabai (Episcopal Church (USA))
 * Ruadhán of Lorrha
 * Vincent Ferrer
 * April 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Cold Food Festival, held on April 4 if it is a leap year (China); and its related observances:
 * Earliest day on which Sham el-Nessim can fall, while May 9 is the latest; celebrated on Monday after the Orthodox Easter (Egypt)
 * Children's Day (Palestinian territories)
 * First Contact Day (International observance)
 * Sikmogil (South Korea)
 * National Maritime Day is observed in India, in commemoration of the first voyage of SS Loyalty of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. in 1919.
 * International Day of Conscience

Other

 * April the Fifth (1929–1954), British Thoroughbred racehorse
 * (ends 5 April)

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April 20

Pre-1600

 * 1303 – The Sapienza University of Rome is instituted by a bull of Pope Boniface VIII.

1601–1900

 * 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves England's Rump Parliament.
 * 1657 – English Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet, under heavy fire from the shore, at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
 * 1657  – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
 * 1752 – Start of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in the Burmese Civil War (1740–57).
 * 1770 – The Georgian king, Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
 * 1789 – George Washington arrives at Grays Ferry, Philadelphia, while en route to Manhattan for his inauguration.
 * 1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of the French Revolutionary Wars.
 * 1800 – The Septinsular Republic is established.
 * 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
 * 1828 – René Caillié becomes the second non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu, following Major Gordon Laing. He would also be the first to return alive.
 * 1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
 * 1861 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of Virginia.
 * 1861  – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, attempting to display the value of balloons, makes record journey, flying 900 miles from Cincinnati to South Carolina.
 * 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the experiment disproving the theory of spontaneous generation.
 * 1865 – Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
 * 1876 – The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
 * 1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus, condemning Freemasonry.
 * 1898 – U.S. President William McKinley signs a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.

1901–present

 * 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
 * 1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
 * 1914 – Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
 * 1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, a.k.a. The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
 * 1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
 * 1945 – World War II: U.S. troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
 * 1945  – World War II: Führerbunker: On his 56th birthday Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
 * 1945  – Twenty Jewish children used in medical experiments at Neuengamme are killed in the basement of the Bullenhuser Damm school.
 * 1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
 * 1961 – Cold War: Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed Cuban exiles against Cuba.
 * 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.
 * 1968  – South African Airways Flight 228 crashes near the Hosea Kutako International Airport in South West Africa (now Namibia), killing 123 people.
 * 1972 – Apollo program: Apollo 16 Lunar Module, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the Moon.
 * 1998 – Air France Flight 422 crashes after taking off from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.
 * 1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Columbine, Colorado.
 * 2004 - The Nicoll Highway in Singapore collapsed, killing four workers.
 * 2007 – Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips barricades himself with a handgun 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 – The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six months.
 * 2012 – One hundred twenty-seven people are killed when a plane crashes in a residential area near the Benazir Bhutto International Airport near Islamabad, Pakistan.
 * 2013 – A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes Lushan County, Ya'an, in China's Sichuan province, killing at least 193 people and injuring thousands.
 * 2015 – Ten people are killed in a bomb attack on a convoy carrying food supplies to a United Nations compound in Garowe in the Somali region of Puntland.
 * 2020 – For the first time in history, oil prices drop below zero, an effect of the 2020 Russia-Saudi Arabia oil price war.
 * 2021 – State of Minnesota v. Derek Michael Chauvin: Derek Chauvin is found guilty of all charges in the murder of George Floyd by the Fourth Judicial District Court of Minnesota.
 * 2023 – SpaceX's Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, launches for the first time. It explodes 4 minutes into flight.

Pre-1600

 * 1494 – Johannes Agricola, German theologian and reformer (d. 1566)
 * 1544 – Renata of Lorraine, Duchess consort of Bavaria (d. 1602)
 * 1586 – Rose of Lima, Peruvian mystic and saint (d. 1617)

1601–1900

 * 1633 – Emperor Go-Kōmyō of Japan (d. 1654)
 * 1646 – Charles Plumier, French botanist and author (d. 1704)
 * 1650 – William Bedloe, English spy (d. 1680)
 * 1718 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
 * 1723 – Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and politician (d. 1781)
 * 1727 – Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian minister and diplomat (d. 1794)
 * 1745 – Philippe Pinel, French physician and psychiatrist (d. 1826)
 * 1748 – Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian (d. 1831)
 * 1808 – Napoleon III, French politician, 1st President of France, Emperor of French Second Empire (d. 1873)
 * 1816 – Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer (d. 1895)
 * 1818 – Heinrich Göbel, German-American mechanic and engineer (d. 1893)
 * 1826 – Dinah Craik, English author and poet (d. 1887)
 * 1839 – Carol I of Romania, King of Romania (d. 1914)
 * 1840 – Odilon Redon, French painter and illustrator (d. 1916)
 * 1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor, designed the Lincoln statue (d. 1931)
 * 1851 – Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (d. 1918)
 * 1851  – Siegmund Lubin, Polish-American businessman, founded the Lubin Manufacturing Company (d. 1923)
 * 1860 – Justinien de Clary, French target shooter (d. 1933)
 * 1871 – Sydney Chapman, English economist and civil servant (d. 1951)
 * 1873 – James Harcourt, English character actor (d. 1951)
 * 1875 – Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet and lawyer (d. 1909)
 * 1879 – Paul Poiret, French fashion designer (d. 1944)
 * 1882 – Holland Smith, American general (d. 1967)
 * 1884 – Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
 * 1884  – Oliver Kirk, American boxer (d. 1960)
 * 1884  – Daniel Varoujan, Armenian poet and educator (d. 1915)
 * 1889 – Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish rabbi, lawyer, and activist (d. 1996)
 * 1889  – Prince Erik, Duke of Västmanland (d. 1918)
 * 1889  – Marie-Antoinette de Geuser, French mystic (d. 1918)
 * 1889  – Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
 * 1889  – Tonny Kessler, Dutch footballer (d. 1960)
 * 1890 – Maurice Duplessis, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Premier of Quebec (d. 1959)
 * 1890  – Adolf Schärf, Austrian soldier and politician, 6th President of Austria (d. 1965)
 * 1891 – Dave Bancroft, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
 * 1893 – Harold Lloyd, American actor, comedian, and producer (d. 1971)
 * 1893  – Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983)
 * 1895 – Henry de Montherlant, French essayist, novelist, and dramatist (d. 1972)
 * 1896 – Wop May, Canadian captain and pilot (d. 1952)
 * 1899 – Alan Arnett McLeod, Canadian lieutenant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)

1901–present

 * 1904 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
 * 1907 – Miran Bakhsh, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1991)
 * 1907  – Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek bishop (d. 2010)
 * 1908 – Lionel Hampton, American vibraphone player, pianist, bandleader, and actor (d. 2002)
 * 1910 – Fatin Rüştü Zorlu, Turkish diplomat and politician (d. 1961)
 * 1913 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor and poet (d. 1986)
 * 1913  – Willi Hennig, German biologist and entomologist (d. 1976)
 * 1914 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
 * 1915 – Joseph Wolpe, South African psychotherapist and physician (d. 1997)
 * 1916 – Nasiba Zeynalova, Azerbaijani actress (d. 2004)
 * 1918 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
 * 1919 – Richard Hillary, Australian lieutenant and pilot (d. 1943)
 * 1920 – Frances Ames, South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist (d. 2002)
 * 1920  – Clement Isong, Nigerian banker and politician, Governor of Cross River State (d. 2000)
 * 1920  – John Paul Stevens, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 2019)
 * 1921 – Katarína Kolníková, Slovak actress (d. 2006)
 * 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster, founded Eternal Word Television Network (d. 2016)
 * 1923  – Irene Lieblich, Polish-American painter and illustrator (d. 2008)
 * 1923  – Tito Puente, American drummer and producer (d. 2000)
 * 1924 – Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (d. 2008)
 * 1924  – Leslie Phillips, English actor and producer (d. 2022)
 * 1924  – Guy Rocher, Canadian sociologist and academic
 * 1925 – Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach (d. 2006)
 * 1925  – Elena Verdugo, American actress (d. 2017)
 * 1927 – Bud Cullen, Canadian judge and politician, 1st Canadian Minister of Employment and Immigration (d. 2005)
 * 1927  – Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
 * 1927  – K. Alex Müller, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
 * 1928 – Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (d. 2013)
 * 1928  – Johnny Gavin, Irish international footballer (d. 2007)
 * 1930 – Dwight Gustafson, American composer and conductor (d. 2014)
 * 1930  – Antony Jay, English director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
 * 1931 – Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby, English lieutenant and politician (d. 2014)
 * 1931  – John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, English businessman and politician
 * 1932 – Myriam Bru, French actress
 * 1936 – Lisa Davis, English-American actress
 * 1936  – Pauli Ellefsen, Faroese technician, surveyor, and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 2012)
 * 1936  – Pat Roberts, American captain, journalist, and politician
 * 1937 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2011)
 * 1937  – Harvey Quaytman, American painter and educator (d. 2002)
 * 1937  – George Takei, American actor
 * 1938 – Betty Cuthbert, Australian sprinter (d. 2017)
 * 1938  – Manfred Kinder, German runner
 * 1938  – Eszter Tamási, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
 * 1939 – Peter S. Beagle, American author and screenwriter
 * 1939  – Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norwegian physician and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Norway
 * 1939  – Johnny Tillotson, American singer-songwriter
 * 1940 – James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
 * 1941 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor (d. 2023)
 * 1943 – Alan Beith, English academic and politician
 * 1943  – John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor and director
 * 1944 – Toivo Aare, Estonian journalist and author (d. 1999)
 * 1945 – Michael Brandon, American actor and director
 * 1945  – Olga Karlatos, Greek actress and Bermudian lawyer
 * 1945  – Thein Sein, Burmese general and politician, 8th President of Burma
 * 1945  – Naftali Temu, Kenyan runner (d. 2003)
 * 1945  – Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
 * 1946 – Sandro Chia, Italian painter and sculptor
 * 1947 – Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Canadian economist and politician
 * 1947  – Viktor Suvorov, Russian intelligence officer, historian, and author
 * 1948 – Matthias Kuhle, German geographer and academic (d. 2015)
 * 1949 – Veronica Cartwright, English-American actress
 * 1949  – Toller Cranston, Canadian-Mexican figure skater and painter (d. 2015)
 * 1949  – Massimo D'Alema, Italian journalist and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
 * 1949  – Jessica Lange, American actress
 * 1950 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
 * 1950  – N. Chandrababu Naidu, Indian politician, 13th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh
 * 1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2005)
 * 1952 – Louka Katseli, Greek economist and politician
 * 1953 – Sebastian Faulks, English journalist and author
 * 1953  – James Chance, American musician (d. 2024)
 * 1955 – Donald Pettit, American engineer and astronaut
 * 1955  – Svante Pääbo, Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate
 * 1956 – Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister for Justice
 * 1956  – Peter Chelsom, English film director, writer, and actor
 * 1956  – Kakha Bendukidze, Georgian economist and politician (d. 2014)
 * 1958 – Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player and coach
 * 1960 – Debbie Flintoff-King, Australian hurdler and coach
 * 1961 – Don Mattingly, American baseball player, coach, and manager
 * 1961  – Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
 * 1963 – Rachel Whiteread, English sculptor
 * 1964 – John Carney, American football player
 * 1964  – Crispin Glover, American actor and filmmaker
 * 1964  – Andy Serkis, English actor and director
 * 1964  – Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
 * 1965 – Kostis Chatzidakis, Greek politician, Ministry of Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism
 * 1965  – Léa Fazer, Swiss film director, screenwriter and actress
 * 1966 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher and academic
 * 1966  – David Filo, American businessman, co-founded Yahoo!
 * 1967 – Mike Portnoy, American drummer and songwriter
 * 1968 – Julia Morris, Australian entertainer
 * 1969 – Felix Baumgartner, Austrian daredevil
 * 1969  – Will Hodgman, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Tasmania
 * 1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor
 * 1971 – Allan Houston, American basketball player
 * 1972 – Carmen Electra, American model and actress
 * 1972  – Stephen Marley, Jamaican-American musician
 * 1973 – Julie Powell, American food writer and memoirist (d. 2022)
 * 1975 – Killer Mike, American rapper
 * 1978 – Carl Greenidge, English cricketer
 * 1980 – Emma Husar, Australian politician
 * 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian model
 * 1987 – Jorge Pinto, Portuguese politician
 * 1988 – Brandon Belt, American baseball player
 * 1989 – Vannesa Rosales, Venezuelan activist and teacher
 * 1990 – Jason Behrendorff, Australian cricketer
 * 1991 – Luke Kuechly, American football player
 * 1997 – Alexander Zverev, German tennis player

Pre-1600

 * 689 – Cædwalla, king of Wessex (b. 659)
 * 888 – Xi Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 862)
 * 1099 – Peter Bartholomew (b. 1061)
 * 1164 – Antipope Victor IV
 * 1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English-Irish politician, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland (b. 1130)
 * 1248 – Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (b. 1206)
 * 1284 – Hōjō Tokimune, regent of Japan (b. 1251)
 * 1314 – Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
 * 1322 – Simon Rinalducci, Italian Augustinian friar
 * 1502 – Mary of Looz-Heinsberg, Dutch noble (b. 1424)
 * 1521 – Zhengde, Chinese emperor (b. 1491)
 * 1534 – Elizabeth Barton, English nun and martyr (b. 1506)
 * 1558 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German priest and theologian (b. 1485)

1601–1900

 * 1643 – Christoph Demantius, German composer and poet (b. 1567)
 * 1703 – Lancelot Addison, English clergyman and educator (b. 1632)
 * 1769 – Chief Pontiac, American tribal leader (b. 1720)
 * 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (b. 1764)
 * 1873 – William Tite, English architect, designed the Royal Exchange (b. 1798)
 * 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1817)
 * 1881 – William Burges, English architect and designer (b. 1827)
 * 1886 – Charles-François-Frédéric, marquis de Montholon-Sémonville, French general and diplomat, French ambassador to the United States (b. 1814)
 * 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Greek-Egyptian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1826)
 * 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German ornithologist and illustrator (b. 1820)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet and educator (b. 1833)
 * 1912 – Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish novelist and critic, created Count Dracula (b. 1847)
 * 1918 – Jussi Merinen, Finnish politician (b. 1873)
 * 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
 * 1927 – Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1866)
 * 1929 – Prince Henry of Prussia (b. 1862)
 * 1931 – Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, 5th Baronet, Scottish-English fencer and businessman (b. 1862)
 * 1932 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1858)
 * 1935 – John Cameron, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1872)
 * 1935  – Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer (b. 1863)
 * 1942 – Jüri Jaakson, Estonian businessman and politician, 6th State Elder of Estonia (b. 1870)
 * 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, American baseball player and pilot (b. 1917)
 * 1945 – Erwin Bumke, Polish-German jurist and politician (b. 1874)
 * 1946 – Mae Busch, Australian actress (b. 1891)
 * 1947 – Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
 * 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Italian politician, 25th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
 * 1967 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1896)
 * 1968 – Rudolph Dirks, German-American illustrator (b. 1877)
 * 1969 – Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (b. 1914)
 * 1980 – M. Canagaratnam, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1924)
 * 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (b. 1892)
 * 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani journalist, scholar, and activist (b. 1916)
 * 1991 – Steve Marriott, English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
 * 1991  – Don Siegel, American director and producer (b. 1912)
 * 1992 – Marjorie Gestring, American springboard diver (b. 1922)
 * 1992  – Benny Hill, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
 * 1993 – Cantinflas, Mexican actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
 * 1995 – Milovan Đilas, Yugoslav communist, politician, theorist and author (b. 1911)
 * 1996 – Trần Văn Trà, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
 * 1999 – Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * 1999 – Rachel Scott, American victim of Columbine High School massacre (b. 1981)
 * 1999 – Cassie Bernall, American victim of Columbine High School massacre (b. 1981)
 * 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
 * 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
 * 2003 – Bernard Katz, German-English biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * 2004 – Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (b. 1956)
 * 2005 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese journalist and author (b. 1904)
 * 2007 – Andrew Hill, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1931)
 * 2007  – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931)
 * 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian journalist and author (b. 1923)
 * 2010 – Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (b. 1912)
 * 2011 – Tim Hetherington, English photographer and journalist (b. 1970)
 * 2012 – Bert Weedon, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1920)
 * 2014 – Neville Wran, Australian politician, 35th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1926)
 * 2016 – Victoria Wood, British comedian, actress and writer (b. 1953)
 * 2018 – Avicii, Swedish DJ and musician (b. 1989)
 * 2021 – Idriss Déby, Chadian politician and military officer (b. 1952)
 * 2021  – Monte Hellman, American film director (b. 1929)
 * 2021  – Les McKeown, Scottish pop singer (b. 1955)
 * 2022 – Gavin Millar, Scottish film director (b. 1938)
 * 2024 – Antonio Cantafora, Italian film and television actor (b. 1944)
 * 2024 – Andrew Davis, English conductor (b. 1944)
 * 2024 – Roman Gabriel, Filipino-American NBA American footballer
 * 2024 – Lourdes Portillo, Mexican film director, producer, and writer (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Agnes of Montepulciano
 * Beuno
 * Johannes Bugenhagen (Lutheran)
 * Theotimos
 * April 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * 420 (cannabis culture)
 * UN Chinese Language Day (United Nations)

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April 19

Pre-1600

 * AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.
 * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).
 * 1506 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
 * 1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
 * 1539 – The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.

1601–1900

 * 1608 – In Ireland, O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.
 * 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
 * 1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, Maria Theresa, was not born until 1717.
 * 1770 – Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
 * 1770  – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.
 * 1782 – John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
 * 1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
 * 1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
 * 1818 – French physicist Augustin Fresnel signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the Fresnel integrals.
 * 1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
 * 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.

1901–present

 * 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
 * 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
 * 1936 – The Jaffa riots commence, initiating the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
 * 1942 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
 * 1943 – World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
 * 1943  – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16, an event commonly known and celebrated as Bicycle Day.
 * 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
 * 1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
 * 1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic, and Siaka Stevens the president.
 * 1971  – Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
 * 1971  – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
 * 1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel.
 * 1975 – India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia.
 * 1975  – South Vietnamese forces withdrew from the town of Xuan Loc in the last major battle of the Vietnam War.
 * 1976 – A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1000 yd by the tornado and survived uninjured.
 * 1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
 * 1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the white supremacist survivalist group The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later.
 * 1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".
 * 1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa (BB-61), killing 47 sailors.
 * 1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building in Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.
 * 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
 * 1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
 * 2000 – Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
 * 2001 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-100 carrying the Canadarm2 to the International Space Station.
 * 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI.
 * 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
 * 2013 – Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
 * 2020 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.
 * 2021 – The Ingenuity helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.

Pre-1600

 * 1452 – Frederick IV, King of Naples (d. 1504)
 * 1593 – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (d. 1647)

1601–1900

 * 1603 – Michel Le Tellier, French politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1685)
 * 1613 – Christoph Bach, German musician (d. 1661)
 * 1633 – Willem Drost, Dutch painter (d. 1659)
 * 1655 – George St Lo(e), Royal Navy officer and administrator (d. 1718)
 * 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German husband of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (d. 1716)
 * 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French author (d. 1721)
 * 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (d. 1750)
 * 1715 – James Nares, English organist and composer (d. 1783)
 * 1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
 * 1734 – Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1786)
 * 1757 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (d. 1833)
 * 1758 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral (d. 1831)
 * 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (d. 1858)
 * 1787 – Deaf Smith, American soldier (d. 1837)
 * 1793 – Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
 * 1806 – Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer (d. 1889)
 * 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French journalist and author (d. 1875)
 * 1831 – Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor and translator (d. 1889)
 * 1832 – José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
 * 1835 – Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (d. 1888)
 * 1863 – Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (d. 1940)
 * 1872 – Alice Salomon, German social reformer (d. 1948)
 * 1873 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (d. 1967)
 * 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
 * 1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934)
 * 1879 – Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner (d. 1957)
 * 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (d. 1954)
 * 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1938)
 * 1883  – Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician and physicist (d. 1953)
 * 1885 – Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect (d. 1975)
 * 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
 * 1891 – Françoise Rosay, French actress (d. 1974)
 * 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer and educator (d. 1983)
 * 1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (d. 1966)
 * 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
 * 1897  – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian, oldest verified man ever (d. 2013)
 * 1898 – Constance Talmadge, American actress and producer (d. 1973)
 * 1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (d. 1985)
 * 1899  – Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (d. 1968)
 * 1900 – Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (d. 1978)
 * 1900  – Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
 * 1900  – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
 * 1900  – Rhea Silberta, American Yiddish songwriter and singing teacher (d. 1959)

1901–present

 * 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author and screenwriter (d. 1989)
 * 1903 – Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (d. 1957)
 * 1908 – Irena Eichlerówna, Polish actress (d. 1990)
 * 1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
 * 1913 – Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower and coach (d. 1984)
 * 1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012)
 * 1919 – Sol Kaplan, American pianist and composer (d. 1990)
 * 1920 – Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (d. 2015)
 * 1920  – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (d. 2013)
 * 1920  – Ragnar Ulstein, Norwegian journalist and war historian (d. 2019)
 * 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (d. 2006)
 * 1921  – Leon Henkin, American logician (d. 2006)
 * 1921  – Roberto Tucci, Italian Jesuit leader, cardinal, and theologian (d. 2015)
 * 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German colonel and pilot (d. 1993)
 * 1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor (d. 2011)
 * 1925  – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (d. 2016)
 * 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (d. 1997)
 * 1928 – John Horlock, English engineer and academic (d. 2015)
 * 1928  – Azlan Shah of Perak, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2014)
 * 1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)
 * 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2023)
 * 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (d. 1967)
 * 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1989)
 * 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (d. 2002)
 * 1935  – Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
 * 1936 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
 * 1936  – Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (d. 2013)
 * 1937 – Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and author (d. 2017)
 * 1937  – Elinor Donahue, American actress
 * 1937  – Joseph Estrada, Filipino politician, 13th President of the Philippines
 * 1938 – Stanley Fish, American theorist, author, and scholar
 * 1939 – Clay Shaw, American accountant, judge, and politician (d. 2013)
 * 1941 – Michel Roux, French-English chef and author (d. 2020)
 * 1941  – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
 * 1942 – Alan Price, English keyboard player, singer, and composer
 * 1943 – Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (d. 2014)
 * 1944 – James Heckman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1944  – Bernie Worrell, American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2016)
 * 1946 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer
 * 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
 * 1952 – Simon Cowell, English conservationist and author
 * 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer and manager (d. 2023)
 * 1956 – Anne Glover, Scottish biologist and academic
 * 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman, chairman of Reliance Industries
 * 1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian pianist, composer, and producer
 * 1960  – Frank Viola, American baseball player and coach
 * 1964 – Kim Weaver, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
 * 1965 – Suge Knight, American record executive
 * 1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano and actress
 * 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress
 * 1968  – Mswati III, King (Ngwenyama) of Eswatini (Swaziland)
 * 1970 – Kelly Holmes, English athlete and double Olympic champion
 * 1972 – Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira, Brazilian footballer
 * 1978 – James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1978  – Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator
 * 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress
 * 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor
 * 1981  – Lise Klaveness, Norwegian footballer and lawyer, president of the Norwegian Football Federation
 * 1981  – Troy Polamalu, American football player
 * 1982 – Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1982  – Ali Wong, American comedian and actress
 * 1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player
 * 1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player
 * 1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer
 * 1987  – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
 * 1989 – Simu Liu, Canadian actor
 * 1990 – Jackie Bradley Jr., American baseball player
 * 1990  – Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
 * 1991 – Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player
 * 2002 – Loren Gray, American singer and internet personality

Pre-1600

 * 843 – Judith of Bavaria, Frankish empress
 * 1012 – Ælfheah of Canterbury, English archbishop and saint (b. 954)
 * 1013 – Hisham II, Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 966)
 * 1044 – Gothelo I, duke of Lorraine
 * 1054 – Leo IX, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1002)
 * 1321 – Gerasimus I, patriarch of Constantinople
 * 1390 – Robert II, king of Scotland (b. 1316)
 * 1405 – Thomas West, 1st Baron West, English nobleman (b. 1335)
 * 1431 – Adolph III, count of Waldeck (b. 1362)
 * 1560 – Philip Melanchthon, German theologian and reformer (b. 1497)
 * 1567 – Michael Stifel, German monk and mathematician (b. 1487)
 * 1578 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
 * 1588 – Paolo Veronese, Italian painter (b. 1528)

1601–1900

 * 1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1536)
 * 1618 – Thomas Bastard, English priest and author (b. 1566)
 * 1619 – Jagat Gosain, Mughal empress (b. 1573)
 * 1629 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (b. 1582)
 * 1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish historian and playwright (b. 1610)
 * 1689 – Christina, queen of Sweden (b. 1626)
 * 1733 – Elizabeth Hamilton, countess of Orkney (b. 1657)
 * 1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)
 * 1768 – Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)
 * 1776 – Jacob Emden, German rabbi and author (b. 1697)
 * 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (b. 1723)
 * 1813 – Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (b. 1745)
 * 1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)
 * 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
 * 1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1756)
 * 1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
 * 1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist and academic (b. 1774)
 * 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
 * 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
 * 1893 – Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
 * 1903 – Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (b. 1820)
 * 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
 * 1906  – Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
 * 1909 – Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
 * 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
 * 1915 – Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (b. 1837)
 * 1916 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
 * 1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
 * 1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
 * 1937 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
 * 1937  – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
 * 1940 – Jack McNeela, Irish Republican died on hunger strike
 * 1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
 * 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
 * 1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
 * 1952 – Steve Conway, British singer (b. 1921)
 * 1955 – Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
 * 1960 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
 * 1961 – Max Hainle, German swimmer (b. 1882)
 * 1966 – Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1881)
 * 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
 * 1971 – Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (b. 1913)
 * 1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (b. 1899)
 * 1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (b. 1901)
 * 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (b. 1907)
 * 1991 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)
 * 1992 – Frankie Howerd, English actor and screenwriter (b. 1917)
 * 1993 – David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
 * 1993  – George S. Mickelson, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)
 * 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
 * 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919)
 * 2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
 * 2002 – Reginald Rose, American writer (b. 1920)
 * 2004 – Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925)
 * 2004  – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920)
 * 2004  – Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (b. 1922)
 * 2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921)
 * 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (b. 1932)
 * 2009 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930)
 * 2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (b. 1946)
 * 2012 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (b. 1940)
 * 2013 – François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
 * 2013  – Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924)
 * 2015 – Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (b. 1919)
 * 2015  – Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1924)
 * 2016 – Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (b. 1918)
 * 2017 – Lu Chao-Hsuan, Taiwanese guitarist, performer and educator. (b. 1929)
 * 2021 – Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1928)
 * 2021 – Jim Steinman, American composer, lyricist (b. 1947)
 * 2022 – Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903)
 * 2023 – Moonbin, South Korean singer and actor (b. 1998)
 * 2024 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher and author (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances

 * Christian feast day:
 * Ælfheah of Canterbury (Anglican, Catholic)
 * Conrad of Ascoli
 * Emma of Lesum
 * Expeditus
 * George of Antioch
 * Olaus and Laurentius Petri (Lutheran)
 * Pope Leo IX
 * Ursmar
 * April 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

title: April 19