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Events

=Pre-1600=

  • AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all of the conspirators are arrested.{{cite book|author=Richard Holland|title=Nero: The Man Behind the Myth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJ_tAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Sutton|isbn=978-0-7509-2447-4|page=188}}
  • 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Raqqa (northern Syria).{{cite book|author1=Irfan Shahid|author2=Irfan Shahîd|title=Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEvEV9OVzacC&pg=PA134|year=1995|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks|isbn=978-0-88402-214-5|pages=134}}
  • 1506 – The Lisbon Massacre begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.{{cite book|author1=Paulo Mendes Pinto|author2=Susana Bastos Mateus|title=The Massacre of the Jews: Lisbon April 19, 1506|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_LVmBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT28|date=2 September 2014|publisher=Alêtheia Editores|isbn=978-989-622-665-7|pages=28}}
  • 1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation: After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent cities protest the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms.
  • 1539 – The Treaty of Frankfurt between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.Smith, The Age of the Reformation, p. 122.

=1601–1900=

  • 1608 – In Ireland, O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry.McCavitt p.115
  • 1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.{{cite book|author=John Ruler|title=Cross-Channel France: Nord-Pas de Calais - The Land Beyond the Ports|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwXioEolUbMC&pg=PA184|year=2011|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-84162-327-6|pages=184}}
  • 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.{{cite book|author=Thomas Carlyle|title=History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KVUuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA420|year=1859|publisher=Harper & Brothers|pages=420}}
  • 1770 – Captain James Cook, still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.{{cite book|author1=William Shurtleff|author2=Akiko Aoyagi|title=Early History of Soybeans and Soyfoods Worldwide (1024 BCE to 1899):: Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEwtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA273|date=4 November 2014|publisher=Soyinfo Center|isbn=978-1-928914-69-3|pages=273}}
  • 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.{{cite book|title=A New Historical and Commercial System of Geography: Containing a Comprehensive History and Description of the Present State of All the Kingdoms of the World...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARw7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT2|year=1806|publisher=S. Russell|pages=2}}
  • 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins during the Battles of Lexington and Concord with a victory of American minutemen and other militia over British forces, later referred to as the "shot heard round the world".{{cite book|last=Fischer|first=David Hackett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oreq1YztDcQC&pg=PA9|title=Washington's Crossing|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=9780199756674|author-link=David Hackett Fischer|pages=9–10}}{{cite web|title=The Minute Man statue by Daniel Chester French|url=https://www.nps.gov/mima/learn/historyculture/the-minute-man-statue-by-daniel-chester-french.htm?mc_cid=6bed08a516&mc_eid=[2fcc1b24bd|website=nps.gov|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=April 2, 2025}}
  • 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the Siege of Boston begins with American militias blocking land access to the British-held city.{{cite web|title=Siege of Boston Map|url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/siege-of-boston-map.htm|website=nps.gov|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=April 2, 2025}}
  • 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.{{Cite web|title=The Netherlands - Countries - Office of the Historian|url=https://history.state.gov/countries/netherlands|access-date=2021-11-18|website=history.state.gov}}
  • 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=

Births

=Pre-1600=

  • 1452 – Frederick IV, King of Naples (died 1504){{cite book|author=Richard J. Walsh|title=Charles the Bold and Italy (1467-1477): Politics and Personnel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4Wvl-xRpAoC&pg=PA302|year=2005|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-838-6|pages=302}}
  • 1593 – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet, English politician (died 1647){{cite book|author=Vicesimus Knox|title=Elegant Epistles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcNIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA144|year=1807|publisher=W. Flint|pages=144}}

=1601–1900=

  • 1603 – Michel Le Tellier, French politician, French Minister of Defence (died 1685){{cite book|author=Franklin Henry Hooper|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLcmAQAAMAAJ|year=1937|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|page=969}}
  • 1613 – Christoph Bach, German musician (died 1661){{cite book|author=Philipp Spitta|title=Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j9CJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA142|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-27412-6|pages=142}}
  • 1633 – Willem Drost, Dutch painter (died 1659){{cite book|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|author2=Walter A. Liedtke|title=Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtnQ7PIT8mcC&pg=PA167|year=2007|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-273-2|pages=167}}
  • 1655 – George St Lo(e), Royal Navy officer and administrator (died 1718){{cite book|author1=John Hutchins|author2=William Shipp|author3=James Whitworth Hodson|title=The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUI-AQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=EP Publishing|page=81|isbn=9780854099740}}
  • 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, German husband of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (died 1716){{cite book|author=Antoni van Leeuwenhoek|title=Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: 1695-1696|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuzaAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=N. v. Swets & Zeitlinger|page=339}}
  • 1665 – Jacques Lelong, French author (died 1721){{cite book|author1=Lincoln's Inn (London, England). Library|author2=Frederick William Halfpenny|title=Catalogue of Books on Foreign Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KBAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA394|year=1849|publisher=C. Roworth and sons|pages=394}}
  • 1686 – Vasily Tatishchev, Russian ethnographer and politician (died 1750)
  • 1715 – James Nares, English organist and composer (died 1783)
  • 1721 – Roger Sherman, American lawyer and politician (died 1793)
  • 1734 – Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian violinist and composer (died 1786)
  • 1757 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (died 1833)
  • 1758 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, Scottish admiral (died 1831)
  • 1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French pianist and composer (died 1858)
  • 1787 – Deaf Smith, American soldier (died 1837)
  • 1793 – Ferdinand I of Austria (died 1875)
  • 1806 – Sarah Bagley, American labor organizer (died 1889)
  • 1814 – Louis Amédée Achard, French journalist and author (died 1875)
  • 1831 – Mary Louise Booth, American writer, editor and translator (died 1889){{Cite web|date=February 10, 2000|title=Mary Louise Booth: American Journalist|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Louise-Booth|access-date=2020-09-19|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}
  • 1832 – José Echegaray, Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
  • 1835 – Julius Krohn, Finnish poet and journalist (died 1888)
  • 1861 – Amalie Andersen, Norwegian actress (died 1924){{cite book|last1=Jensson|first1=Liv|title=Biografisk skuespillerleksikon : norske, danske og svenske skuespillere på norske scener særlig på 1800-tallet|date=1981|publisher=Universitetsforl|isbn=8200056228|page=15 |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2013042906062?page=15|language=no}}
  • 1863 – Hemmo Kallio, Finnish actor (died 1940)
  • 1872 – Alice Salomon, German social reformer (died 1948){{cite book|first=Joachim|last=Schlör|title=Das Ich der Stadt: Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität, 1822-1938|location=Göttingen|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|year=2005|page=359|isbn=978-3-52556-990-0|language=DE}}
  • 1873 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (died 1967)
  • 1874 – Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (died 1952)
  • 1877 – Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor (died 1934)
  • 1879 – Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner (died 1957)
  • 1882 – Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (died 1954)
  • 1883 – Henry Jameson, American soccer player (died 1938)
  • 1883 – Richard von Mises, Austrian-American mathematician and physicist (died 1953)
  • 1885 – Karl Tarvas, Estonian architect (died 1975)
  • 1889 – Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (died 1946){{cite book |last1=Pauer-Studer |first1=Herlinde |last2=Velleman |first2=J. David |title=Konrad Morgan: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge |date=2015 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-49694-2 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw3ACQAAQBAJ&pg=PP16 }}
  • 1891 – Françoise Rosay, French actress (died 1974)
  • 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer and educator (died 1983){{cite book|first=Lindsey C.|last=Harnsberger|title=Essential Dictionary of Music: The Most Practical and Useful Music Dictionary for Students and Professionals|location=Los Angeles|publisher=Alfred Publishing Co.|year=1997|page=260|isbn=978-0-88284-728-3}}
  • 1894 – Elizabeth Dilling, American author and activist (died 1966)
  • 1897 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman and philanthropist (died 1970)
  • 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian, oldest verified man ever (died 2013)
  • 1898 – Constance Talmadge, American actress and producer (died 1973)
  • 1899 – George O'Brien, American actor (died 1985)
  • 1899 – Cemal Tollu, Turkish lieutenant and painter (died 1968)
  • 1900 – Iracema de Alencar, Brazilian film actress (died 1978)
  • 1900 – Richard Hughes, English author, poet, and playwright (died 1976)
  • 1900 – Roland Michener, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (died 1991)
  • 1900 – Rhea Silberta, American Yiddish songwriter and singing teacher (died 1959)

=1901–present=

  • 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author and screenwriter (died 1989)
  • 1903 – Eliot Ness, American law enforcement agent (died 1957){{cite web|url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2151|title=Eliot Ness - Ohio History Central|website=www.ohiohistorycentral.org|access-date=27 November 2018}}
  • 1908 – Irena Eichlerówna, Polish actress (died 1990)
  • 1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999)
  • 1913 – Ken Carpenter, American discus thrower and coach (died 1984)
  • 1917 – Sven Hassel, Danish-German soldier and author (died 2012)
  • 1919 – Sol Kaplan, American pianist and composer (died 1990)
  • 1920 – Marvin Mandel, American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (died 2015){{cite web |title=Marvin Mandel (1920-2015) |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001400/001487/html/1487bio.html |website=Archives of Maryland (Biographical Series) |access-date=19 June 2019}}
  • 1920 – Julien Ries, Belgian cardinal (died 2013)
  • 1920 – Ragnar Ulstein, Norwegian journalist and war historian (died 2019){{cite encyclopedia|title=Ragnar Ulstein |first=Harald |last=Kjølås |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |date=August 2023 |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Ragnar_Ulstein |language=no|access-date=16 March 2024}}
  • 1921 – Anna Lee Aldred, American jockey (died 2006){{cite web |url=https://www.montrosepress.com/obituaries/anna-lee-aldred/article_61b09b4f-86e3-5497-b0fc-aced23b33791.html|title=Anna Lee Aldred|date=June 16, 2006|access-date=January 17, 2019|work=Montrose Press}}
  • 1921 – Leon Henkin, American logician (died 2006){{cite web|url=http://www.orovillemr.com/news/bayarea/ci_4714675 |title=UC Berkeley mathematics professor dies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524091446/http://www.orovillemr.com/news/bayarea/ci_4714675 |archive-date=May 24, 2011|website=Oroville Mercury-Register |date=November 24, 2006}}
  • 1921 – Roberto Tucci, Italian Jesuit leader, cardinal, and theologian (died 2015)
  • 1922 – Erich Hartmann, German colonel and pilot (died 1993)
  • 1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr., Dutch actor (died 2011)
  • 1925 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (died 2016)
  • 1927 – Cora Sue Collins, American child actress (died2025){{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cora-sue-collins-dead-child-actress-mgm-1236202858/|title=Cora Sue Collins, Celebrated Child Actress at MGM in the 1930s, Dies at 98|publisher=The Hollywood Reporter|date=April 28, 2025|accessdate=1 May 2025}}
  • 1926 – Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (died 1997){{citation needed|date=May 2024}}
  • 1928 – John Horlock, English engineer and academic (died 2015){{cite web |last1=Dalyell |first1=Tam |author-link1=Tam Dalyell |title=Sir John Horlock: Engineer who led campaign to prevent closure of the Open University |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sir-john-horlock-engineer-who-led-campaign-to-prevent-closure-of-the-open-university-10303111.html |website=Independent |access-date=19 June 2019 |date=7 June 2015}}
  • 1928 – Azlan Shah of Perak, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (died 2014)
  • 1931 – Walter Stewart, Canadian journalist and author (died 2004)
  • 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor (died 2023)
  • 1933 – Jayne Mansfield, American model and actress (died 1967){{cite news |title=Jayne Mansfield is Killed in Early Morning Smash Up on Narrow Louisiana Road |work=St. Petersburg Times |date=June 30, 1967 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RPYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4382,5839230 |quote=Born Vera Jayne Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pa., April 19, 1933, Miss Mansfield grew up in Phillipsburg, N.J., }}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • 1934 – Dickie Goodman, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1989)
  • 1935 – Dudley Moore, English actor, comedian, and pianist (died 2002){{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389041/Dudley-Moore.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389041/Dudley-Moore.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Obituaries: Dudley Moore |work=The Daily Telegraph|date=22 March 2002 |access-date=23 April 2016}}{{cbignore}}
  • 1935 – Justin Francis Rigali, American cardinal
  • 1936 – Wilfried Martens, Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2013)
  • 1936 – Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (died 2013)
  • 1937 – Antonio Carluccio, Italian-English chef and author (died 2017){{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/08/antonio-carluccio-obituary|title=Antonio Carluccio obituary|first=Tom|last=Jaine|date=8 November 2017|access-date=8 November 2017|work=The Guardian}}
  • 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 (died 2013){{cite web |title=SHAW, Eugene Clay, Jr., (1939 - 2013) |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000303 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=19 June 2019}}
  • 1941 – Michel Roux, French-English chef and author (died 2020)
  • 1941 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (died 1992)
  • 1942 – Alan Price, English keyboard player, singer, and composer
  • 1943 – Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (died 2014){{cite book |last1=Torrance |first1=David |title=MacDonald [née Aitken], Margo Symington Jack |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-108517 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=19 June 2019 |date=15 February 2018|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.108517 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}
  • 1944 – James Heckman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1944 – Bernie Worrell, American keyboard player and songwriter (died 2016){{cite news|last= Sweeting|first=Adam |title= Bernie Worrell obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/26/bernie-worrell-obituary |access-date= November 9, 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|date=June 26, 2016}}
  • 1946 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/tim-curry-once-got-thrown-out-of-a-rocky-horror-picture-show-screening|title = Tim Curry Once Got Thrown Out of a 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Screening|website = The Hollywood Reporter|date = 19 April 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://movieweb.com/tim-curry-75th-birthday/|title=Tim Curry Fans Celebrate the Iconic Actor on His 75th Birthday|date=19 April 2021}}
  • 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands{{Cite web |date=11 January 2025 |title=Former Prime Ministers of the Faroe Islands - The Government |url=https://www.government.fo/en/the-government/ministries/prime-ministers-office/the-prime-minister-of-the-faroe-islands/former-prime-ministers-of-the-faroe-islands }}
  • 1952 – Simon Cowell, English conservationist and author (died 2024){{cite web|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/wildlife-crusader-simon-cowell-when-i-collapsed-from-executive-burn-out-i-realised-that-i-really-wanted-to-work-with-injured-animals-34993206.html|title=Wildlife crusader Simon Cowell: 'When I collapsed from executive burn-out I realised that I really wanted to work with injured animals'|date=25 August 2016|work=Belfast Telegraph|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716002336/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/wildlife-crusader-simon-cowell-when-i-collapsed-from-executive-burn-out-i-realised-that-i-really-wanted-to-work-with-injured-animals-34993206.html|url-status=live|archive-date=16 July 2022}}{{cite tweet|user=wildlifeaid|number=722502970827530240|title=Happy birthday to our founder, Simon Cowell. Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for wildlife!!}}
  • 1954 – Trevor Francis, English footballer and manager (died 2023)
  • 1956 – Anne Glover, Scottish biologist and academic
  • 1957 – Mukesh Ambani, Indian businessman, chairman of Reliance Industries{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mukesh-Ambani|title=Mukesh Ambani {{!}} Indian businessman|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-29}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/mukesh-ambani/|title=Mukesh Ambani|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-11-29}}
  • 1960 – Ara Gevorgyan, Armenian pianist, composer, and producer
  • 1960 – Gustavo Petro, Colombian politician, 34th and current President of Colombia{{cite web |work=Semana |title=Gustavo Petro Urrego: hoja de vida del candidato de 'Colombia Humana' |url=http://especiales.semana.com/elecciones-presidenciales-2018/candidatos-hoja-de-vida/gustavo-petro.html |access-date=19 April 2025|archive-date=20 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620205209/http://especiales.semana.com/elecciones-presidenciales-2018/candidatos-hoja-de-vida/gustavo-petro.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web|date=14 March 2022 |title=¿Quién es Gustavo Petro? Perfil del candidato de la izquierda en Colombia |url=https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/03/14/gustavo-petro-candidato-izquierda-presidencia-colombia-orix/ |access-date=19 April 2025 |publisher=CNN |archive-date=7 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607090046/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/05/29/gustavo-petro-perfil-candidato-izquierda-presidencia-colombia-orix/ |url-status=live }}
  • 1960 – Frank Viola, American baseball player and coach{{cite book|author=Ron Smith|title=1997 Official Major League Baseball Fact Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=moAH8Wr3m5AC|date=1 February 1997|publisher=Sporting News Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-89204-570-9|page=235}}
  • 1964 – Kim Weaver, American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
  • 1965 – Suge Knight, American record executive{{cite web |last1=Feeney |first1=Nolan |title=Everything to Know About Suge Knight As He Turns 50 |url=https://time.com/3827121/suge-knight/ |publisher=Time |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=17 April 2015}}
  • 1966 – Véronique Gens, French soprano and actress
  • 1968 – Ashley Judd, American actress{{cite web |last1=Vulpo |first1=Mike |title=How Ashley Judd Emerged From Her Hollywood Hiatus to Become a Time's Up Advocate and More |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/926852/how-ashley-judd-emerged-from-her-hollywood-hiatus-to-become-a-time-s-up-advocate-and-more |publisher=E! |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=19 April 2018}}
  • 1968 – Mswati III, King (Ngwenyama) of Eswatini (Swaziland){{cite web |title=Eswatini Public Holidays 2021 |url=https://publicholidays.africa/eswatini/2021-dates/ |website=PublicHolidays.africa |access-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-date=January 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128003342/https://publicholidays.africa/eswatini/2021-dates/ |url-status=dead }}
  • 1970 – Kelly Holmes, English athlete and double Olympic champion
  • 1972 – Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira, Brazilian footballer{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rivaldo|title=Rivaldo|publisher=Britannica|access-date=September 3, 2021}}
  • 1978 – James Franco, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1978 – Amanda Sage, American-Austrian painter and educator{{cite web | url=http://templeofvisions.com/artists/amanda-sage/ | title=Amanda Sage | publisher=Temple of Visions | accessdate=1 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204223224/http://templeofvisions.com/artists/amanda-sage/ | archive-date=4 February 2010 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}
  • 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress{{cite web |last1=Sanwari |first1=Ahad |title=Kate Hudson provides glimpse into her home to share breathtaking birthday present |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/homes/20220420138366/kate-hudson-rare-glimpse-into-home-breathtaking-birthday-present/ |publisher=Hello! |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=20 April 2022}}
  • 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor{{cite web |title=Happy 40th Birthday, Hayden Christensen! |url=https://scifi.radio/2021/04/19/happy-40th-birthday-hayden-christensen/ |website=SCIFI Radio |date=19 April 2021 |access-date=June 26, 2021}}
  • 1981 – Lise Klaveness, Norwegian footballer and lawyer, president of the Norwegian Football Federation{{cite encyclopedia|title=Lise Klaveness |first=Jan |last=Holm |encyclopedia=Store norske leksikon |date=19 December 2023 |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Lise_Klaveness |language=no|access-date=22 March 2024}}
  • 1981 – Troy Polamalu, American football player{{cite web |title=Troy Polamalu |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/4474/troy-polamalu |publisher=ESPN |access-date=7 April 2023}}
  • 1982 – Samuel C. Morrison, Jr., Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1982 – Ali Wong, American comedian and actress{{cite web |last1=Bird |first1=Michele |title=17 Things Absolutely Worth Knowing About Actor And Comedian Ali Wong |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/michelelbird/ali-wong-fun-facts |publisher=BuzzFeed |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=9 May 2022}}
  • 1983 – Joe Mauer, American baseball player{{cite web |title=Joe Mauer |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/joe-mauer-408045 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=7 April 2023}}
  • 1986 – Candace Parker, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Candace Parker |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/candace-parker/#/career |publisher=WNBA |access-date=7 April 2023}}
  • 1987 – Joe Hart, English footballer{{cite web |title=Joe Hart |url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/3143/Joe-Hart/overview |publisher=Premier League |access-date=7 April 2023}}
  • 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player{{cite web |title=Sharapova Celebrates 33rd Birthday in Isolation |url=https://www.tennis.com/baseline/articles/sharapova-celebrates-33rd-birthday-in-isolation |website=Tennis.com |access-date=June 26, 2021}}
  • 1989 – Simu Liu, Canadian actor{{cite web |last1=Rohoman |first1=Sarah |title=Simu Liu Was Surprised With An Early Birthday Gift By Fans & He Had Best Response |url=https://www.narcity.com/simu-liu-was-surprised-with-an-early-birthday-gift-by-fans-he-had-best-response-photos |publisher=Narcity Media |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=10 April 2022}}
  • 1990 – Jackie Bradley Jr., American baseball player{{cite web |title=Jackie Bradley Jr. |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jackie-bradley-jr-598265 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=7 April 2023}}
  • 1990 – Kim Chiu, Filipino actress, singer, and dancer{{cite news|title=Kim Chiu poses in bikini in birthday photo|url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/04/20/13/kim-chiu-poses-bikini-birthday-photo|newspaper=ABS-CBN Entertainment News|date=April 20, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204025313/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/04/20/13/kim-chiu-poses-bikini-birthday-photo|archive-date=December 4, 2013}}
  • 1991 – Kelly Olynyk, Canadian basketball player{{Cite web |title=Kelly Olynyk |url=https://www.nba.com/player/203482/kelly-olynyk |access-date=10 April 2024 |publisher=National Basketball Association}}
  • 2001 – Dalton Knecht, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Dalton Knecht - Los Angeles Lakers Guard |url=https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4897943/dalton-knecht |website=ESPN |access-date=18 April 2025}}
  • 2002 – Loren Gray, American singer and internet personality{{cite web |title=Loren Gray: 16 things you never knew about the TikTok star |url=https://www.popbuzz.com/internet/viral/loren-gray/ |website=Pop Buzz |access-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419165844/https://www.popbuzz.com/internet/viral/loren-gray/ |url-status=dead }}
  • 2003 – Jackson Merrill, American baseball player{{Cite web |title=Jackson Merrill Stats, Age, Position, Height, Weight, Fantasy & News |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jackson-merrill-701538 |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}
  • 2016 – The Rizzler, American internet personality{{Cite Instagram |user=itztherealrizzler |postid=C58wEoULGak |date=19 April 2024 |title= Screaming Happy 8th Birthday to my main man}}

Deaths

=Pre-1600=

=1601–1900=

  • 1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (born 1536)
  • 1618 – Thomas Bastard, English priest and author (born 1566)
  • 1619 – Jagat Gosain, Mughal empress (born 1573){{cite book|author=Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan|title=The Jahangirnama : memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|translator=Wheeler M. Thackston|url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha|date=1999|publisher=Oxford Univ. Press|location=New York [u.a.]|isbn=9780195127188|page=[https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/300 300]}}
  • 1629 – Sigismondo d'India, Italian composer (born 1582)
  • 1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra, Spanish historian and playwright (born 1610)
  • 1689 – Christina, queen of Sweden (born 1626){{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TrtbAAAAQAAJ&q=19+April+1689+christina&pg=PA334|title=Het leven en bedryf van Christina, koninginne van Sweeden, &c. sedert haar geboorte tot op des zelfs dood ...|first=Christian Gottfried|last=Franckenstein|date=10 July 1697|publisher=by Boudewyn vander Aa|access-date=10 July 2017|via=Google Books}}
  • 1733 – Elizabeth Hamilton, countess of Orkney (born 1657)
  • 1739 – Nicholas Saunderson, English mathematician and academic (born 1682)
  • 1768 – Canaletto, Italian painter and etcher (born 1697)
  • 1776 – Jacob Emden, German rabbi and author (born 1697)
  • 1791 – Richard Price, Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (born 1723)
  • 1813 – Benjamin Rush, American physician and educator (born 1745)
  • 1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright (born 1788)
  • 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1765)
  • 1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born 1756)
  • 1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue, Canadian bishop (born 1777)
  • 1854 – Robert Jameson, Scottish mineralogist and academic (born 1774)
  • 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1804)
  • 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist (born 1809){{cite web |url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=CUL-DAR210.9&pageseq=16 |title=[Reminiscences of Charles Darwin's last years.] CUL-DAR210.9|author=Darwin, Emma|author-link=Emma Darwin |year=1882 |access-date=8 January 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628080442/http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=CUL-DAR210.9&pageseq=16 |archive-date=28 June 2009}}
  • 1893 – Martin Körber, Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (born 1817)

=1901–present=

  • 1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo, American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (born 1839)
  • 1903 – Oliver Mowat, Canadian politician, third Premier of Ontario, eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (born 1820){{cite DCB |last=Romney |first=Paul |title=Mowat, Sir Oliver |volume=13 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mowat_oliver_13E.html}}
  • 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859){{cite journal |last1=Chavaudra |first1=Jean |title=Pierre and Marie Curie-Sklodowska |journal=Medical Physics |date=November 1995 |volume=22 |issue=11 |pages=1877–1887 |doi=10.1118/1.597443|pmid=8587541 |bibcode=1995MedPh..22.1877C }}
  • 1906 – Spencer Gore, English tennis player and cricketer (born 1850)
  • 1909 – Signe Rink, Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (born 1836)
  • 1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician and philosopher (born 1839)
  • 1915 – Thomas Playford II, English-Australian politician, 17th Premier of South Australia (born 1837)
  • 1916 – Ephraim Shay, American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (born 1839)
  • 1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov, Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (born 1874)
  • 1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1827)
  • 1937 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington, English cartographer and politician (born 1856)
  • 1937 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist and zoologist (born 1865)
  • 1940 – Jack McNeela, Irish Republican Army, died on hunger strike{{Cite web|url=https://republicansinnfein.org/hunger-strike-roll-of-honour/|title=Roll of Honor/Hunger Strikers|date=6 May 2014}}
  • 1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann, Austrian composer (born 1878)
  • 1949 – Ulrich Salchow, Danish-Swedish figure skater (born 1877)
  • 1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius, French-German philologist and scholar (born 1886)
  • 1952 – Steve Conway, British singer (born 1921){{Cite web|title=Steve Conway Biography, Songs, & Albums|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-conway-mn0000032317/biography|access-date=2021-09-23|website=AllMusic|language=en}}
  • 1955 – Jim Corbett, British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (born 1875)
  • 1960 – Beardsley Ruml, American economist and statistician (born 1894)
  • 1961 – Max Hainle, German swimmer (born 1882)
  • 1966 – Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1881){{cite web |title=Väinö Tanner {{!}} prime minister of Finland |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vaino-Tanner |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=5 January 2020 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006030803/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vaino-Tanner |archive-date=6 October 2019 |url-status=live }}
  • 1967 – Konrad Adenauer, German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (born 1876)
  • 1971 – Luigi Piotti, Italian race car driver (born 1913)
  • 1975 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (born 1899)
  • 1988 – Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (born 1901){{cite book |first=Justin |last=Corfield |title=Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang |location=London |publisher=Anthem Press |year=2014 |page=115 |isbn=978-1-78308-341-1}}
  • 1989 – Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (born 1907){{cite book|author1=Joanne Shattock|author2=Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock|title=The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-214176-7|page=138}}
  • 1991 – Stanley Hawes, English-Australian director and producer (born 1905)
  • 1992 – Frankie Howerd, English actor and screenwriter (born 1917){{cite ODNB|id=51134|title=Howerd, Frankie}}
  • 1993 – David Koresh, American cult leader (born 1959)
  • 1993 – George S. Mickelson, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (born 1941)
  • 1998 – Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (born 1914)
  • 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner, Austrian-German SS officer (born 1919)
  • 2000 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (born 1918)
  • 2002 – Reginald Rose, American writer (born 1920)
  • 2004 – Norris McWhirter, English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (born 1925)
  • 2004 – John Maynard Smith, English biologist and geneticist (born 1920)
  • 2004 – Jenny Pike, Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (born 1922){{Cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timescolonist/obituary.aspx?n=jenny-pike&pid=157444998|title=Jenny Pike - Obituary|date=April 21, 2004|work=The Times Colonist|access-date=March 30, 2020}}
  • 2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (born 1921)
  • 2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel, French actor (born 1932)
  • 2009 – J. G. Ballard, English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1930)
  • 2011 – Elisabeth Sladen, English actress (born 1946){{cite web |last1=Hadoke |first1=Toby |title=Elisabeth Sladen obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/20/doctor-who-fantasy |website=The Guardian |access-date=1 February 2020 |date=20 April 2011}}
  • 2012 – Levon Helm, American musician and actor (born 1940){{cite magazine |last1=Brown |first1=David |title=Levon Helm, Drummer and Singer of The Band, dead at 71 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/levon-helm-drummer-and-singer-of-the-band-dead-at-71-202155/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=2021-04-21|date=2012-04-19}}
  • 2013 – François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1920)
  • 2013 – Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (born 1924)
  • 2015 – Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (born 1919)
  • 2015 – Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (born 1924){{cite news|title=Campaigning comes to a standstill in honour of Labour stalwart Roy Mason, 91 |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/community/death-of-lord-mason-of-barnsley-at-91-1-7218568|access-date=20 April 2015|work=Yorkshire Post|date=20 April 2015}}
  • 2016 – Patricio Aylwin, Chilean politician (born 1918){{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/world/americas/patricio-aylwin-president-who-guided-chile-to-democracy-diesat-97.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/world/americas/patricio-aylwin-president-who-guided-chile-to-democracy-diesat-97.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited|title=Patricio Aylwin, President Who Guided Chile to Democracy, Dies at 97|last1=Kandell|first1=Jonathan|date=2016-04-19|last2=Bonnefoy|first2=Pascale|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-04-21}}{{cbignore}}
  • 2017 – Lu Chao-Hsuan, Taiwanese guitarist, performer and educator. (born 1929){{Cite web|title=呂昭炫|url=http://www.luchaohsuan.com/2017132057--3214727511.html|access-date=2023-02-01|archive-date=2023-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201063133/http://www.luchaohsuan.com/2017132057--3214727511.html|url-status=dead|language=zh}}
  • 2020 – Ian Whitcomb, English singer-songwriter (born 1941){{Cite news |last=Slotnik |first=Daniel E. |date=2020-05-08 |title=Ian Whitcomb, Rocker Turned Pop Music Historian, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/arts/music/ian-whitcomb-dead.html |access-date=2025-04-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
  • 2021 – Walter Mondale, American politician, 42nd Vice President of the United States (born 1928){{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/19/former-vice-president-walter-mondale-has-died-at-93.html|title = Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter's vice president, dies at 93|website = CNBC|date = 20 April 2021}}
  • 2021 – Jim Steinman, American composer, lyricist (born 1947){{Cite web|date=2021-04-22|title=Jim Steinman obituary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/22/steinman-obituary-bat-out-of-hell|access-date=2021-04-26|website=The Guardian|language=en}}{{Cite news|date=2021-04-21|title=Jim Steinman: Tributes paid to 'the Wagner of rock'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56830626|access-date=2021-04-21}}
  • 2022 – Kane Tanaka, Japanese supercentenarian (born 1903){{Cite web |last=Mills |first=Kelly-Ann |date=2022-04-25 |title=World's oldest person Kane Tanaka dies in Japan at the age of 119 |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-worlds-oldest-person-kane-26789849 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=mirror |language=en |archive-date=25 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425101320/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-worlds-oldest-person-kane-26789849 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2022-04-25 |title=The world's oldest person has died in Japan |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/kane-tanaka-oldest-person-death-age-b2064718.html |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=25 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425102051/https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/kane-tanaka-oldest-person-death-age-b2064718.html |url-status=live }}
  • 2023 – Moonbin, South Korean singer and actor (born 1998){{Cite web|last=Lee|first=Ho-young|title=[속보] "아스트로 문빈, 사망"…소속사 확인 중|url=https://enews.imbc.com/News/RetrieveNewsInfo/379633|date=April 20, 2023|access-date=April 19, 2023|website=iMBC|language=ko}}{{Cite news|last1=Mackenzie|first1=Jean|last2=Ng|first2=Kelly|last3=Wright|first3=George|title=Moonbin: Fans anguished over K-pop star's death in suspected suicide|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65331824|date=19 April 2023|access-date=April 20, 2023|website=BBC|language=en}}
  • 2023 – Ron Hamilton, American musician (born 1950){{Cite web |last=Gryboski |first=Michael |date=2023-04-20 |title=Ron Hamilton, musician known for 'Patch the Pirate,' dies at 72 |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/ron-hamilton-musician-known-for-patch-the-pirate-dies-at-72.html |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=www.christianpost.com |language=en}}
  • 2024 – Daniel Dennett, American philosopher and author (born 1942){{Cite news |last=Kandell |first=Jonathan |date=2024-04-19 |title=Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, Dies at 82 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead.html |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}

Holidays and observances

  • Christian feast day:
  • Ælfheah of Canterbury (Anglican, Catholic){{cite book |author=Delaney, John P. |title=Dictionary of Saints|edition=Second |publisher=Doubleday |location=Garden City, NY |date=1980 |isbn=0-385-13594-7|pages=29–30}}
  • Conrad of Ascoli
  • Emma of Lesum
  • Expeditus
  • George of Antioch
  • Olaus and Laurentius Petri (Lutheran)
  • Pope Leo IX
  • Ursmar
  • April 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Bicycle Day, a psychedelic holiday{{cite journal | vauthors = Fusar-Poli P, Borgwardt S | title = Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD (1906-2008) | journal = Neuropsychobiology | volume = 58 | issue = 1 | pages = 53–54 | date = 2008 | pmid = 18799895 | doi = 10.1159/000157779 | url = | quote = Three days later, on April 19, 1943, [Albert Hofmann] decided to verify his results by intentionally ingesting LSD. This day has become known as ‘Bicycle Day’ as Hofmann experienced an incredible bicycle ride on his way home from the lab.}}{{cite journal | vauthors = Belouin SJ, Henningfield JE | title = Psychedelics: Where we are now, why we got here, what we must do | journal = Neuropharmacology | volume = 142 | issue = | pages = 7–19 | date = November 2018 | pmid = 29476779 | doi = 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.02.018 | url = | quote = Although discovered in 1938, [LSD's] potentially powerful effects to alter mood and cognition were not realized until the self-experiment by its inventor, Albert Hofmann, a Sandoz pharmaceutical company chemist, in 1943 on a day that later came to be renowned internationally as Bicycle Day [...]| doi-access = free }}

References

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External links

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  • [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/19 BBC: On This Day]
  • {{NYT On this day|month=4|day=19}}
  • [https://www.onthisday.com/events/april/19 Historical Events on April 19]

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