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Events

=Pre-1600=

  • 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.{{cite book|last=Dahmus|first=Joseph|title=Seven Decisive Battles of the Middle Ages|location=Chicago|publisher=Nelson-Hall|date=1983|isbn=9780830410309|page=48|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Holmes|first=T. Scott|title=The Origin and Development of the Christian Church in Gaul During the First Six Centuries of the Christian Era|location=London|publisher=MacMillan|date=1911|oclc=417462582|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vWn9SabAOUoC|page=312}}
  • 529 – First Corpus Juris Civilis, a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.{{cite book|last=Watson|first=Alan|title=The Evolution of Western Private Law|location=Baltimore, Md.|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|date=2001|isbn=9780801864841|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ka8UGkNA2T0C|page=2}}
  • 1141 – Empress Matilda becomes the first female ruler of England, adopting the title "Lady of the English".{{cite book|last=Weir|first=Alison|title=Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy|location=London|publisher=Vintage Books|date=2008|isbn=9780099539735|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7nZ90l1_IzAC|pages=59–60}}
  • 1348 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV charters Prague University.{{Cite web|title=Foundation Charter|url=http://cuni.cz/UKEN-116.html|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Charles University|language=en|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Spinka|first=Matthew|title=John Hus: A Biography|location=Princeton, N.J.|publisher=Princeton University Press|date=2017|isbn=9780691622194|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJMrDgAAQBAJ|page=5}}
  • 1449 – Felix V abdicates his claim to the papacy, ending the reign of the final Antipope.{{cite book|last1=Gregorovius|first1=Ferdinand|translator-last=Hamilton|translator-first=Annie|title=History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages. Vol. 3: Carolingian Epoch up to the Year 900|location=London|publisher=G. Bell|date=1900|oclc=19856308|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IW1OAAAAMAAJ|page=109}}
  • 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.{{cite book|last=Lach|first=Donald F.|title=Asia in the Making of Europe. Vol. 1, Book 2: The Century of Discovery|location=Chicago|publisher=University of Chicago Press|date=1965|isbn=9780226467320|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xD52ge5a8vYC|page=631}}
  • 1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.{{cite book|last=Coleridge|first=Henry James|title=The Life and Letters of St. Francis Xavier|location=London|publisher=Burns and Oates|date=1872|oclc=13155466|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbJSAAAAcAAJ|page=101}}

=1601–1900=

=1901–present=

  • 1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
  • 1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
  • 1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leases federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
  • 1926 – Violet Gibson attempts to assassinate Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.{{Cite news|date=2021-02-21|title=Violet Gibson - The Irish woman who shot Benito Mussolini|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56111443|access-date=2022-01-10}}
  • 1927 – AT&T engineer Herbert Ives transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).{{cite news |title=Radio Board Tests Television Process. Finds Demonstration Satisfactory and Will Keep Top Air Band for It |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/04/28/archives/radio-board-tests-television-process-finds-demonstration.html |quote=A demonstration of television was given here today for the benefit of Admiral Bullard and the other members of the Radio Commission by Dr. Herbert E. Ives, inventor of an American process, and Dr. Frank B. Jewett, Vice President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. ...|newspaper=New York Times |date=April 28, 1927 |access-date=2014-01-11 }}
  • 1933 – Prohibition in the United States is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
  • 1933 – Nazi Germany issues the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service banning Jews and political dissidents from civil service posts.{{Cite web|title=Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|url=https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1933-1938/law-for-the-restoration-of-the-professional-civil-service|access-date=2022-01-10|website=www.ushmm.org}}
  • 1939 – Benito Mussolini declares an Italian protectorate over Albania and forces King Zog I into exile.{{Britannica URL|title=On This Day - What Happened on April 7 |url=on-this-day/April-7}}
  • 1939 – Benito Mussolini invades Albania.
  • 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
  • 1943 – The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
  • 1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
  • 1943 – The National Football League makes helmets mandatory.{{Cite web|last=PlexusGroupe|date=2014-04-08|title=Recalling when the NFL made helmets mandatory|url=https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/04/07/recalling-when-the-nfl-made-helmets-mandatory/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=ProFootballTalk|language=en-US}}
  • 1944 – In the Fragheto massacre, soldiers belonging to the German 356th Infantry Division kill 30 Italian civilians and 15 partisans near Casteldelci in central-northern Italy.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=6 April 2024 |title=7 aprile 1944 – 80 anni fa la strage di Fragheto |trans-title=7 April 1944 – 80 years ago, the Fragheto massacre |url=https://www.chiamamicitta.it/7-aprile-1944-80-anni-fa-la-strage-di-fragheto/ |access-date=7 April 2024 |website=Chiamami Città |language=it-IT}}{{Cite web |date=7 April 2024 |title=Eccidio di Fragheto: Rimini presente alla commemorazione a 74 anni dalla strage |trans-title=Fragheto massacre: Rimini present at the commemoration 74 years after the massacre |url=https://www.comune.rimini.it/novita/eccidio-di-fragheto-rimini-presente-alla-commemorazione-74-anni-dalla-strage |access-date=7 April 2024 |website=Comune di Rimini}}{{Cite web |date=30 November 2011 |title=Eccidio di Fragheto, rinviati a giudizio 3 soldati tedeschi |trans-title=Fragheto massacre: 3 German soldiers sent to trial |url=https://www.riminitoday.it/cronaca/eccidio-di-fragheto-rinviati-a-giudizio-3-soldati-tedeschi.html |access-date=7 April 2024 |website=RiminiToday |language=it}}
  • 1945 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato, one of the two largest ever constructed, is sunk by United States Navy aircraft during Operation Ten-Go.
  • 1946 – The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.{{Cite web|title=Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) region formed in the RSFSR|url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/history/619151|access-date=2022-01-10|website=Presidential Library|language=en}}
  • 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
  • 1954 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
  • 1955 – Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
  • 1956 – Francoist Spain agrees to surrender its protectorate in Morocco.{{Britannica URL|title=Morocco - The Spanish Zone |url=place/Morocco/The-Spanish-Zone}}
  • 1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
  • 1965 – Representatives of the National Congress of American Indians testify before members of the US Senate in Washington, D.C., against the termination of the Colville tribe.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BIsNAQAAMAAJ|title=The Native North American Almanac: A Reference Work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada|last=Champagne|first=Duane|date=2001|publisher=Gale Research|isbn=978-0-7876-1655-7|language=en}}
  • 1968 – Two-time Formula One British World Champion Jim Clark dies in an accident during a Formula Two race in Hockenheim.{{Cite web|title=Motorsport was left in disbelief when Jim Clark died 52 years ago today|url=https://www.scotsman.com/sport/other-sport/motorsport-was-left-disbelief-when-jim-clark-died-52-years-ago-today-2531278|access-date=2021-05-18|website=www.scotsman.com|date=7 April 2020 |language=en}}
  • 1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
  • 1971 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
  • 1972 – Vietnam War: Communist forces overrun the South Vietnamese town of Loc Ninh.{{cite book|last=Willbanks|first=James H.|title= The Battle of An Loc|publisher=Indiana University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780253344816|page=51}}
  • 1976 – Member of Parliament and suspected spy John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party after being arrested for faking his own death.
  • 1977 – German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
  • 1978 – Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter.{{cite news|title=BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 April | 1978: Carter delays N-bomb production|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/7/newsid_2523000/2523051.stm|year=2008|publisher=BBC|access-date=22 August 2021}}
  • 1980 – During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
  • 1982 – Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is arrested.{{Cite news|date=1982-09-07|title=No Headline|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/07/world/no-headline-134559.html|access-date=2022-01-10|issn=0362-4331}}
  • 1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
  • 1988 – Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.{{Cite web|title=Afghanistan and the Soviet Withdrawal 1989 – 20 Years Later|url=https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB272/|access-date=2022-01-10|website=nsarchive2.gwu.edu}}
  • 1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway, killing 42 sailors.
  • 1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
  • 1990 – John Poindexter is convicted for his role in the Iran–Contra affair.{{Cite web|title=CNN Transcript - Morning News: CNN 20: John Poindexter Convicted, April 7, 1990 - April 7, 2000|url=http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0004/07/mn.12.html|access-date=2022-01-10|website=www.cnn.com}} In 1991 the convictions are reversed on appeal.
  • 1994 – Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers kill the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
  • 1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to destroy Federal Express Flight 705 in order to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy.
  • 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
  • 1999 – Turkish Airlines Flight 5904 crashes near Ceyhan in southern Turkey, killing six people.{{cite web |title=Accident report TC – JEP (07.04.1999) |url=http://www.shgm.gov.tr/kaza/tcjep.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615143040/http://www.shgm.gov.tr/kaza/tcjep.htm |archive-date=2008-06-15 |publisher=Civil Aviation Authority |language=tr}}
  • 2001 – NASA launches the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter.
  • 2003 – Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
  • 2003 – Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide demands reparations of $21 billion from France for the Haiti Independence Debt.{{Cite news |last=Méheut |first=Constant |last2=Porter |first2=Catherine |last3=Gebrekidan |first3=Selam |last4=Apuzzo |first4=Matt |date=2022-05-20 |title=Demanding Reparations, and Ending Up in Exile |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-aristide-reparations-france.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240714100559/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/haiti-aristide-reparations-france.html |archive-date=2024-07-14 |access-date=2024-08-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
  • 2005 – First release of Git distributed version control system.
  • 2009 – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
  • 2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
  • 2011 – The Israel Defense Forces use their Iron Dome missile system to successfully intercept a BM-21 Grad launched from Gaza, marking the first short-range missile intercept ever.{{cite magazine|first=Sholom|last=Friedmann|date=February 14, 2018|title=Our Journey|magazine=Ami Magazine|issue=355|page=118}}
  • 2011 – A gunman opens fire at an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing twelve children and injuring 22 others before committing suicide.{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Tom |title=Brazil shooting: 12 children killed in school rampage |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/07/brazil-shooting-rampage-gunman |website=The Guardian |access-date=8 April 2025}}
  • 2017 – A man deliberately drives a hijacked truck into a crowd of people in Stockholm, Sweden, killing five people and injuring fifteen others.{{Cite web|date=2017-04-08|title=The Latest: Swedish police haul away truck used in attack|url=https://apnews.com/article/90d69285769b4b619a9af3d551bb25d9|access-date=2021-05-23|website=AP NEWS}}{{Cite news |date=2017-04-10 |title=Stockholm truck attack: Who is Rakhmat Akilov? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39552691 |access-date=2024-04-21 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}15 were reported injured on the day of the attack. However, a woman died three weeks after the attack, bringing the number of injuries down to 14.
  • 2017 – U.S. President Donald Trump orders the 2017 Shayrat missile strike against Syria in retaliation for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack.{{Cite web|author=Faith Karimi and Jason Hanna|title=What you need to know about US strike on Syrian air base|url=https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/07/politics/trump-syria-airstrike-what-we-know/index.html|access-date=2022-01-10|website=CNN|date=7 April 2017}}
  • 2018 – Former Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is arrested for corruption by determination of Judge Sérgio Moro, from the "Car-Wash Operation".{{cite web |title=Lula Da Silva, Brazil's Beloved Ex-President, Surrenders After Standoff |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/07/600499624/lula-da-silva-brazils-beloved-ex-president-continues-resisting-order-to-surrende |website=NPR |date=7 April 2018 |access-date=31 July 2021|last1=Pinter |first1=Jacob }} Lula stayed imprisoned for 580 days, after being released by the Brazilian Supreme Court.{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Dom |title=Brazil's former president Lula walks free from prison after supreme court ruling |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/08/lula-brazil-released-prison-supreme-court-ruling |website=The Guardian |date=8 November 2019 |access-date=31 July 2021}}
  • 2018 – Syria launches the Douma chemical attack during the Eastern Ghouta offensive of the Syrian Civil War.{{Cite news|date=2018-07-10|title=Syria war: What we know about Douma 'chemical attack'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43697084|access-date=2022-01-10}}
  • 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: China ends its lockdown in Wuhan.{{Cite news|last1=Zhong|first1=Raymond|last2=Wang|first2=Vivian|date=2020-04-07|title=China Ends Wuhan Lockdown, but Normal Life Is a Distant Dream|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/asia/wuhan-coronavirus.html|access-date=2022-01-10|issn=0362-4331}}
  • 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly resigns for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic on USS Theodore Roosevelt and the dismissal of Brett Crozier.{{Cite web|author=Jim Sciutto, Barbara Starr, Zachary Cohen and Ryan Browne|title=Acting secretary of the Navy resigns after calling ousted aircraft carrier captain 'stupid'|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/modly-resign-crozier-esper-trump/index.html|access-date=2022-01-10|website=CNN|date=7 April 2020 }}
  • 2021 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces that the SARS-CoV-2 Alpha variant has become the dominant strain of COVID-19 in the United States.{{Cite news|last=Stolberg|first=Sheryl Gay|date=2021-04-07|title=Most U.S. infections are now caused by a contagious virus variant, the C.D.C. says.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/us/covid-variant-infection.html|access-date=2022-01-10|issn=0362-4331}}
  • 2022 – Ketanji Brown Jackson is confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.{{Cite news|date=2021-04-07|title=Supreme Court Highlights: Senate Confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url= https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/04/07/us/ketanji-brown-jackson-vote-scotus}}

Births

=Pre-1600=

=1601–1900=

  • 1613 – Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (died 1675)
  • 1644 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, French general (died 1730)
  • 1648 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (died 1721)
  • 1652 – Pope Clement XII (died 1740){{Britannica URL |title=Clement XII {{!}} pope |url=biography/Clement-XII }}
  • 1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and theorist (died 1801)
  • 1718 – Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and author (died 1800)
  • 1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist, entomologist, and mycologist (died 1806)
  • 1763 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian bassist and composer (died 1846)
  • 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet (died 1850)
  • 1772 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (died 1837){{Britannica URL |title=Charles Fourier {{!}} French philosopher |url=biography/Charles-Fourier }}
  • 1780 – William Ellery Channing, American preacher and theologian (died 1842)
  • 1803 – James Curtiss, American journalist and politician, 11th Mayor of Chicago (died 1859)
  • 1803 – Flora Tristan, French author and activist (died 1844){{cite book|first=Patricia|last=Howe|chapter=Appropriation and Alienation: Women Travellers and the Construction of Identity|editor-first1=Paul|editor-last1=Gifford|editor-first2=Tessa|editor-last2=Hauswedell|title=Europe and Its Others: Essays on Interperception and Identity|location=Oxford|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2010|page=78|isbn=9783039119684}}
  • 1811 – Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1881)
  • 1817 – Francesco Selmi, Italian chemist and patriot (died 1881)
  • 1848 – Randall Davidson, Scottish archbishop (died 1930)
  • 1859 – Walter Camp, American football player and coach (died 1925)
  • 1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (died 1951)
  • 1867 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (died 1953)
  • 1870 – Gustav Landauer, German theorist and activist (died 1919)
  • 1871 – Epifanio de los Santos, Filipino jurist, historian, and scholar (died 1927)
  • 1873 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (died 1934)
  • 1874 – Frederick Carl Frieseke, German-American painter (died 1939)
  • 1876 – Fay Moulton, American sprinter, football player, coach, and lawyer (died 1945)
  • 1882 – Bert Ironmonger, Australian cricketer (died 1971)
  • 1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (died 1934)
  • 1883 – Gino Severini, Italian-French painter and author (died 1966)
  • 1884 – Clement Smoot, American golfer (died 1963)
  • 1886 – Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and soldier (died 1971)
  • 1889 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957){{cite book|first=Marie-Lise|last=Gazarian-Gautier|chapter=The Walking Geography of Gabriela Mistral|editor-first=Marjorie|editor-last=Agosín|title=Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler|location=Athens|publisher=Ohio University Press|year=2003|page=270|isbn=978-0-89680-230-8}}
  • 1890 – Paul Berth, Danish footballer (died 1969)
  • 1890 – Victoria Ocampo, Argentine writer (died 1979){{cite book|first=Tracy|last=Chevalier|title=Encyclopedia of the Essay|location=London|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|page=612|isbn=978-1-88496-430-5}}
  • 1890 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and activist (died 1998)
  • 1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group (died 1958)
  • 1892 – Julius Hirsch, German footballer (died 1945){{cite book | last1=Bräunche | first1=E.O. | last2=Steck | first2=V. | author3=Stadtarchiv Karlsruhe | title=Sport in Karlsruhe: von den Anfängen bis heute | publisher=Info-Verlag | series=Veröffentlichungen des Karlsruher Stadtarchivs | year=2006 | isbn=978-3-88190-440-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7N1B-sMuXJ4C&pg=PA186 | language=de | page=186}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/25/imperishable-story-julius-hirsch-great-goalscorer-murdered-auschwitz/ |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=The imperishable story of Julius Hirsch: the great goalscorer murdered at Auschwitz who adorns Stamford Bridge mural|first=Sam|last=Wallace|date=January 25, 2020|newspaper=The Telegraph}}{{cbignore}}
  • 1893 – José Sobral de Almada Negreiros, Portuguese artist (died 1970){{Cite web |last=Muñoz |first=Antonio Trinidad |date= |title=Almada Negreiros, José Sobral de (1883–1970) |url=https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/almada-negreiros-jose-sobral-de-1883-1970 |website=Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism}}
  • 1893 – Allen Dulles, American lawyer and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (died 1969)
  • 1895 – John Bernard Flannagan, American soldier and sculptor (died 1942)
  • 1895 – Margarete Schön, German actress (died 1985)
  • 1896 – Frits Peutz, Dutch architect, designed the Glaspaleis (died 1974)
  • 1897 – Erich Löwenhardt, Polish-German lieutenant and pilot (died 1918)
  • 1897 – Walter Winchell, American journalist and radio host (died 1972)
  • 1899 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (died 1972)
  • 1900 – Adolf Dymsza, Polish actor (died 1975)
  • 1900 – Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, English race walker (died 1984)

=1901–present=

Deaths

=Pre-1600=

  • AD 30 – Jesus Christ (possible date of the crucifixion){{cite journal | last1=Humphreys | first1=Colin J. | last2=Waddington | first2=W. G. | title=Dating the Crucifixion | journal=Nature | volume=306 | issue=5945 | date=1983 | issn=1476-4687 | doi=10.1038/306743a0 | pages=743–746 | bibcode=1983Natur.306..743H | url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v306/n5945/abs/306743a0.html| url-access=subscription }}{{cite book | last=Humphreys | first=Colin J. |authorlink=Colin Humphreys | title=The Mystery of the Last Supper | publisher=Cambridge University Press | publication-place=Cambridge New York | date=2011-03-28 | isbn=978-0-521-73200-0 | page=194}}{{cite book |last=Blinzler |first=J. |title=Der Prozess Jesu |edition=fourth |location=Regensburg |publisher=Pustet |year=1969 |pages=101–126}} (born circa 4 BC)
  • 821 – George the Standard-Bearer, archbishop of Mytilene (born c. 776)
  • 924 – Berengar I of Italy (born 845)
  • 1201 – Baha al-Din Qaraqush, regent of Egypt and builder of the Cairo Citadel{{Cite book |last=De Slane |first=Mac Guckin |url=https://archive.org/details/ibnkhallikansbi00slangoog |title=Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Translated from The Arabic. Volume II |date=1843 |publisher=Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland |location=Paris |page=251 }}
  • 1206 – Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine
  • 1340 – Bolesław Jerzy II of Mazovia (born 1308)
  • 1498 – Charles VIII of France (born 1470){{Britannica URL |title=Charles VIII {{!}} king of France |url=biography/Charles-VIII }}
  • 1499 – Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (born 1442){{cite book|last=Schmitt|first=Charles B.|title=Gianfrancesco Pico Della Mirandola (1469–1533) and His Critique of Aristotle|location=The Hague|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff|year=1967|page=17|isbn=978-9-40119-681-9}}
  • 1501 – Minkhaung II, king of Ava (born 1446)

=1601–1900=

=1901–present=

  • 1917 – Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer and playwright (born 1861)
  • 1918 – David Kolehmainen, Finnish wrestler (born 1885)
  • 1918 – George E. Ohr, American potter (born 1857)
  • 1920 – Karl Binding, German lawyer and jurist (born 1841)
  • 1922 – James McGowen, Australian politician, 18th Premier of New South Wales (born 1855)
  • 1928 – Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician, philosopher, and author (born 1873)
  • 1932 – Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist (born 1875)
  • 1938 – Suzanne Valadon, French painter (born 1865)
  • 1939 – Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (born 1879)
  • 1943 – Jovan Dučić, Serbian-American poet and diplomat (born 1871)
  • 1943 – Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (born 1859)
  • 1947 – Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (born 1863){{cite web |title=Henry Ford, Founder, Ford Motor Company |url=https://www.thehenryford.org/explore/stories-of-innovation/visionaries/henry-ford/ |website=Henry Ford - Visionaries on Innovation |access-date=26 July 2020 |language=en}}
  • 1949 – John Gourlay, Canadian soccer player (born 1872)
  • 1950 – Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (born 1883)
  • 1955 – Theda Bara, American actress (born 1885)
  • 1956 – Fred Appleby, English runner (born 1879)
  • 1960 – Henri Guisan, Swiss general (born 1874)
  • 1965 – Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1919)
  • 1966 – Walt Hansgen, American race car driver (born 1919)
  • 1968 – Edwin Baker, Canadian co-founder of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) (born 1893)
  • 1968 – Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (born 1936)
  • 1972 – Joe Gallo, American gangster (born 1929)
  • 1972 – Abeid Karume, Tanzanian politician, 1st President of Zanzibar (born 1905)
  • 1981 – Kit Lambert, English record producer and manager (born 1935)
  • 1981 – Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter (born 1899)
  • 1982 – Harald Ertl, Austrian race car driver and journalist (born 1948)
  • 1984 – Frank Church, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (born 1924)
  • 1985 – Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist (born 1888)
  • 1986 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist (born 1912)
  • 1990 – Ronald Evans, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (born 1933)
  • 1991 – Memduh Ünlütürk, Turkish general (born 1913)
  • 1992 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1903)
  • 1992 – Antonis Tritsis, Greek high jumper and politician, 71st Mayor of Athens (born 1937)
  • 1994 – Lee Brilleaux, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1952)
  • 1994 – Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer, manager, and politician (born 1923)
  • 1994 – Golo Mann, German historian and author (born 1909)
  • 1994 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Rwandan chemist, academic, and politician, Prime Minister of Rwanda (born 1953)
  • 1995 – Philip Jebb, English architect and politician (born 1927)
  • 1997 – Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player (born 1923)
  • 1997 – Georgy Shonin, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (born 1935)
  • 1998 – Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican painter and illustrator (born 1905)
  • 1999 – Heinz Lehmann, German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (born 1911)
  • 2001 – David Graf, American actor (born 1950)
  • 2001 – Beatrice Straight, American actress (born 1914)
  • 2002 – John Agar, American actor (born 1921)
  • 2003 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French pianist and author (born 1903)
  • 2003 – David Greene, English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)
  • 2004 – Victor Argo, American actor (born 1934)
  • 2004 – Konstantinos Kallias, Greek politician (born 1901)
  • 2005 – Cliff Allison, English race car driver (born 1932)
  • 2005 – Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (born 1922)
  • 2005 – Bob Kennedy, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1920)
  • 2005 – Melih Kibar, Turkish composer and educator (born 1951)
  • 2007 – Johnny Hart, American author and illustrator (born 1931)
  • 2007 – Barry Nelson, American actor (born 1917)
  • 2008 – Ludu Daw Amar, Burmese journalist and author (born 1915)
  • 2009 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (born 1947)
  • 2011 – Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter (born 1922)
  • 2012 – Steven Kanumba, Tanzanian actor and director (born 1984)
  • 2012 – Satsue Mito, Japanese zoologist and academic (born 1914)
  • 2012 – Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Syrian cardinal (born 1930)
  • 2012 – David E. Pergrin, American colonel and engineer (born 1917)
  • 2012 – Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, Pakistani politician (born 1959)
  • 2012 – Mike Wallace, American television news journalist (born 1918)
  • 2013 – Marty Blake, American businessman (born 1927)
  • 2013 – Les Blank, American director and producer (born 1935)
  • 2013 – Andy Johns, English-American record producer (born 1950)
  • 2013 – Lilly Pulitzer, American fashion designer (born 1931)
  • 2013 – Irma Ravinale, Italian composer and educator (born 1937)
  • 2013 – Mickey Rose, American screenwriter (born 1935)
  • 2013 – Carl Williams, American boxer (born 1959)
  • 2014 – George Dureau, American painter and photographer (born 1930)
  • 2014 – James Alexander Green, American-English mathematician and academic (born 1926)
  • 2014 – V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer (born 1923)
  • 2014 – Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (born 1952)
  • 2014 – John Shirley-Quirk, English opera singer (born 1931)
  • 2014 – George Shuffler, American guitarist (born 1925)
  • 2014 – Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter (born 1927)
  • 2014 – Royce Waltman, American basketball player and coach (born 1942)
  • 2015 – Tim Babcock, American soldier and politician, 16th Governor of Montana (born 1919)
  • 2015 – José Capellán, Dominican-American baseball player (born 1981)
  • 2015 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (born 1926)
  • 2015 – Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (born 1983)
  • 2015 – Geoffrey Lewis, American actor (born 1935)
  • 2016 – Blackjack Mulligan, American professional wrestler (born 1942)
  • 2017 – Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca, Romanian historian and philologist (born 1941){{cite news|url=https://basilica.ro/un-om-credincios-si-un-savant-erudit-prof-dr-nicolae-serban-tanasoca-1941-2017/|title=Un om credincios și un savant erudit – Prof. Dr. Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca (1941-2017)|first=Aurelian|last=Iftimiu|newspaper=Basilica News Agency|date=7 April 2017|language=ro}}
  • 2019 – Seymour Cassel, American actor (born 1935){{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/apr/09/seymour-cassel-obituary|title=Seymour Cassel obituary|website=The Guardian|date=2019-04-09|access-date=2019-04-10}}
  • 2020 – John Prine, American country folk singer-songwriter (born 1946)
  • 2020 – Herb Stempel, American television personality (born 1926){{Cite web|last=McNary|first=Dave|date=2020-05-31|title=Herbert Stempel, Whistleblower in Quiz Show Scandals, Dies at 93|url=https://variety.com/2020/film/news/herbert-stempel-dies-dead-whistleblower-quiz-show-scandals-1234621642/|access-date=2021-08-01|website=Variety|language=en-US}}
  • 2021 – Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1950){{Cite web|url=https://www.nrl.com/news/2021/04/07/league-legend-tommy-raudonikis-passes-away/|title=League legend Tommy Raudonikis passes away at 70|date=April 7, 2021|website=National Rugby League}}
  • 2023 – Ben Ferencz, American lawyer (born 1920){{Cite news |date=2023-04-08 |title=Benjamin B. Ferencz, Last Surviving Nuremberg Prosecutor, Dies at 103 |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/08/world/europe/benjamin-b-ferencz-dead.html |access-date=2023-08-16 |last1=McFadden |first1=Robert D. }}
  • 2023 – Philippe Bouvatier, French cyclist (born 1964){{Cite web |title=Cyclisme : Philippe Bouvatier, ancien grand espoir français, est mort après avoir été victime d'un double AVC |url=https://www.ladepeche.fr/2023/04/07/disparition-philippe-bouvatier-le-maudit-de-guzet-neige-11119395.php |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=ladepeche.fr |language=fr}}
  • 2024 – Jerry Grote, American baseball player (born 1942){{Cite web |last=Villani |first=James |date=2024-04-08 |title=Mets Hall of Famer Jerry Grote Passes Away |url=https://metsmerizedonline.com/mets-hall-of-famer-jerry-grote-passes-away/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=Metsmerized Online |language=en-US}}
  • 2024 – Joe Kinnear, Irish football player and manager (born 1946){{Cite news |last=Ho |first=Vivian |date=2024-04-07 |title=Joe Kinnear, former Tottenham player and Wimbledon manager, dies aged 77 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/07/joe-kinnear-former-tottenham-player-and-wimbledon-manager-dies-aged-77 |access-date=2024-04-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
  • 2025 – William Finn, American composer and lyricist (born 1952){{Cite news |last=Paulson |first=Michael |date=April 8, 2025 |title=William Finn, Tony Winner for ‘Falsettos,’ Is Dead at 73 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/theater/william-finn-dead.html |access-date=April 17, 2025 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}
  • 2025 – Greg Millen, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (born 1957){{Cite web |last=Butler |first=Alex |date=April 8, 2025 |title=Longtime NHL goalie, analyst Greg Millen dies at 67 |url=https://www.upi.com/Sports_News/NHL/2025/04/08/canada-NHL-goalie-Greg-Millen-dies/3591744111148/ |access-date=April 17, 2025 |website=United Press International |language=en}}

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  • [https://www.onthisday.com/events/april/7 Historical Events on April 7]

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