April 7

April 7 is the 97th day of the year (98th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 268 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 397 – The wearing of barbarian clothing in the City of Rome is banned by the Emperor Honorius.
• 451 – Attila the Hun sacks the town of Metz and attacks other cities in Gaul.
• 529 – First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
• 611 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul sacks rival city-state Palenque in southern Mexico.
• 1141 – Empress Matilda, became the first female ruler of England, adopting the title 'Lady of the English'.
• 1348 – Charles University is founded in Prague.
• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu.
• 1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.
• 1724 – Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.
• 1767 – End of Burmese–Siamese War (1765–67).
• 1776 – Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward.
• 1788 – American pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio, as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country.
• 1789 – Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
• 1798 – The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812.
• 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River.
• 1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
• 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.
• 1829 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe.
• 1831 – Emperor Pedro I of Brazil resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King Pedro IV.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends: The Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee.
• 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by Irish Republicans, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician.
• 1890 – Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
• 1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
• 1906 – The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
• 1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
• 1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming.
• 1927 – First long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
• 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 XXI amendment.
• 1939 – World War II: Italy invades Albania.
• 1940 – Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches.
• 1943 – Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
• 1945 – World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go.
• 1945 – World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th, and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces.
• 1946 – Syria's independence from France is officially recognised.
• 1948 – The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations.
• 1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
• 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 – Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco.
• 1964 – IBM announces the System/360.
• 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.
• 1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
• 1971 – President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam.
• 1976 – Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party.
• 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.
• 1980 – The United States severs relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• 1983 – During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
• 1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.
• 1989 – Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors.
• 1990 – Iran–Contra affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal).
• 1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry Scandinavian Star, killing 159 people.
• 1992 – Republika Srpska announces its independence.
• 1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda.
• 1994 – Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack Federal Express Flight 705 and crash it to allow his family to benefit from his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely.
• 1995 – First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
• 1999 – The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas.
• 2001 – Mars Odyssey is launched.
• 2003 – U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later.
• 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.

Births

• 1506 – Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary and saint, co-founded the Society of Jesus (d. 1552)
• 1539 – Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter and illustrator (d. 1584)
• 1613 – Gerrit Dou, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
• 1644 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, French general (d. 1730)
• 1648 – John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English poet and politician, Lord President of the Council (d. 1721)
• 1652 – Pope Clement XII (d. 1740)
• 1713 – Nicola Sala, Italian composer and theorist (d. 1801)
• 1718 – Hugh Blair, Scottish minister and author (d. 1800)
• 1727 – Michel Adanson, French botanist, entomologist, and mycologist (d. 1806)
• 1763 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian bassist and composer (d. 1846)
• 1770 – William Wordsworth, English mystic and poet (d. 1850)
• 1772 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher and author (d. 1837)
• 1780 – William Ellery Channing, American preacher and theologian (d. 1842)
• 1803 – James Curtiss, American journalist and politician, 11th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859)
• 1803 – Flora Tristan, French author and activist (d. 1844)
• 1811 – Hasan Tahsini, Albanian astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1881)
• 1848 – Randall Davidson, Scottish archbishop (d. 1930)
• 1853 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, (d. 1884)
• 1859 – Walter Camp, American football player and coach (d. 1925)
• 1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (d. 1951)
• 1867 – Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist and academic (d. 1953)
• 1870 – Gustav Landauer, German theorist and activist (d. 1919)
• 1871 – Epifanio de los Santos, Filipino jurist, historian, and scholar (d. 1927)
• 1873 – John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
• 1874 – Frederick Carl Frieseke, German-American painter (d. 1939)
• 1876 – Fay Moulton, American sprinter, football player, coach, and lawyer (d. 1945)
• 1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and politician, 23rd Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
• 1883 – Gino Severini, Italian-French painter and author (d. 1966)
• 1884 – Clement Smoot, American golfer (d. 1963)
• 1886 – Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and soldier (d. 1971)
• 1889 – Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957)
• 1890 – Paul Berth, Danish footballer (d. 1969)
• 1890 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and activist (d. 1998)
• 1891 – Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group (d. 1958)
• 1893 – Allen Dulles, American lawyer and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 1969)
• 1895 – John Flannagan, American soldier and sculptor (d. 1942)
• 1895 – Margarete Schön, German actress (d. 1985)
• 1896 – Frits Peutz, Dutch architect, designed the Glaspaleis (d. 1974)
• 1897 – Erich Löwenhardt, Polish-German lieutenant and pilot (d. 1918)
• 1897 – Walter Winchell, American journalist and radio host (d. 1972)
• 1899 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist and composer (d. 1972)
• 1900 – Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, English race walker (d. 1984)
• 1902 – Eduard Eelma, Estonian footballer (d. 1941)
• 1903 – M. Balasundaram, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1965)
• 1903 – Edwin T. Layton, American admiral (d. 1984)
• 1904 – Roland Wilson, Australian economist and statistician (d. 1996)
• 1908 – Percy Faith, Canadian composer, conductor, and bandleader (d. 1976)
• 1909 – Robert Charroux, French author and critic (d. 1978)
• 1909 – Pete Zaremba, American hammer thrower (d. 1994)
• 1911 – Hervé Bazin, French author and poet (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Louise Currie, American actress (d. 2013)
• 1913 – Charles Vanik, American soldier, judge, and politician (d. 2007)
• 1914 – Ralph Flanagan, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1995)
• 1915 – Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1977)
• 1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1959)
• 1915 – Henry Kuttner, American author (d. 1958)
• 1916 – Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1917 – R. G. Armstrong, American actor and playwright (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Bobby Doerr, American baseball player and coach
• 1919 – Roger Lemelin, Canadian author and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1919 – Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer (d. 2012)
• 1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (d. 2012)
• 1921 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (d. 1992)
• 1922 – Mongo Santamaría, Cuban-American drummer (d. 2003)
• 1924 – Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian-English author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Chaturanan Mishra, Indian trade union leader and politician (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Jan van Roessel, Dutch footballer (d. 2011)
• 1926 – Prem Nazir, Indian actor (d. 1989)
• 1927 – Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian-American drummer, educator, and activist (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Leonid Shcherbakov, Russian triple jumper
• 1928 – James Garner, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1928 – James White, Northern Irish author and educator (d. 1999)
• 1929 – Bob Denard, French soldier (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Joe Gallo, American gangster (d. 1972)
• 1930 – Jane Priestman, English interior designer
• 1930 – Yves Rocher, French businessman, founded the Yves Rocher Company (d. 2009)
• 1930 – Andrew Sachs, German-English actor and screenwriter
• 1931 – Donald Barthelme, American journalist and author (d. 1989)
• 1931 – Daniel Ellsberg, American theorist and author
• 1932 – Cal Smith, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Wayne Rogers, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1933 – Sakıp Sabancı, Turkish businessman and philanthropist (d. 2004)
• 1934 – Ian Richardson, Scottish-English actor (d. 2007)
• 1935 – Bobby Bare, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1935 – Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs
• 1937 – Cynthia Lynn, Latvian-American actress (d. 2014)
• 1938 – Jerry Brown, American lawyer and politician, 34th Governor of California
• 1938 – Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Dinosaurs, and The Peanut Butter Conspiracy) (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Freddie Hubbard, American trumpet player and composer (d. 2008)
• 1938 – Iris Johansen, American author
• 1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1939 – David Frost, English journalist and game show host (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Gary Kellgren, American record producer, co-founded Record Plant (d. 1977)
• 1939 – Brett Whiteley, Australian painter (d. 1992)
• 1939 – Vaçe Zela, Albanian-Swiss singer and guitarist (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Marju Lauristin, Estonian academic and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of Social Affairs
• 1941 – James Di Pasquale, American composer
• 1941 – Peter Fluck, English puppet maker and illustrator
• 1941 – Cornelia Frances, English-Australian actress and game show host
• 1941 – Gorden Kaye, English actor and singer
• 1941 – Tord Magnuson, Swedish businessman
• 1941 – Danny Wells, Canadian actor (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Jeetendra, Indian actor and producer
• 1942 – Nam Gi-nam, South Korean director and screenwriter
• 1943 – Mick Abrahams, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Jethro Tull and Blodwyn Pig)
• 1943 – Dennis Amiss, English cricketer and manager
• 1944 – Julia Phillips, American film producer and author (d. 2002)
• 1944 – Gerhard Schröder, German lawyer and politician, 7th Chancellor of Germany
• 1944 – Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager
• 1945 – Megas, Icelandic singer-songwriter
• 1945 – Gerry Cottle, English businessman
• 1945 – Marilyn Friedman, American philosopher and academic
• 1945 – Martyn Lewis, Welsh journalist and author
• 1945 – Joël Robuchon, French chef and author
• 1945 – Werner Schroeter, German director and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1945 – Hans van Hemert, Dutch songwriter and producer
• 1946 – Zaid Abdul-Aziz, American basketball player
• 1946 – Colette Besson, French runner and educator (d. 2005)
• 1946 – Herménégilde Chiasson, Canadian poet, playwright, and politician, 29th Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
• 1946 – Stan Winston, American special effects designer and makeup artist (d. 2008)
• 1947 – Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons)
• 1947 – Florian Schneider, German singer and drummer (Kraftwerk and Organisation)
• 1947 – Eliseo Soriano, Filipino minister and television host
• 1947 – Michèle Torr, French singer and author
• 1948 – Carol Douglas, American singer
• 1948 – Arnie Robinson, American long jumper and coach
• 1949 – Luca Cumani, Italian-English horse trainer
• 1949 – Mitch Daniels, American academic and politician, 49th Governor of Indiana
• 1949 – John Oates, American singer-songwriter guitarist, and producer (Hall & Oates)
• 1950 – Brian J. Doyle, American press secretary
• 1951 – Janis Ian, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – David Baulcombe, English geneticist and academic
• 1952 – Jane Frederick, American hurdler and heptathlete
• 1952 – Clarke Peters, American actor and singer
• 1952 – Gilles Valiquette, Canadian actor, singer, and producer
• 1953 – Fatih Erkoç, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Douglas Kell English biochemist and academic
• 1954 – Jackie Chan, Hong Kong actor, martial artist, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1954 – Tony Dorsett, American football player
• 1955 – Tim Cochran, American mathematician and academic (d. 2014)
• 1955 – Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer and journalist
• 1955 – Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993)
• 1956 – Annika Billström, Swedish businessman and politician, 16th Mayor of Stockholm
• 1956 – Christopher Darden, American lawyer, author, and academic
• 1956 – Georg Werthner, Austrian decathlete
• 1957 – Kim Kap-soo, South Korean actor
• 1958 – Brian Haner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1958 – Hindrek Kesler, Estonian architect
• 1960 – Buster Douglas, American boxer and actor
• 1960 – Sandy Powell, English costume designer
• 1961 – Thurl Bailey, American basketball player and actor
• 1961 – Pascal Olmeta, French footballer
• 1961 – Brigitte van der Burg, Tanzanian-Dutch geographer and politician
• 1962 – Jon Cruddas, English lawyer and politician
• 1962 – Andrew Hampsten, American cyclist
• 1962 – Hugh O'Connor, Italian-American actor (d. 1995)
• 1963 – Jaime de Marichalar, Spanish husband of Infanta Elena, Duchess of Lugo
• 1963 – Nick Herbert, English businessman and politician, Minister for Policing
• 1963 – Dave Johnson, American decathlete and educator
• 1963 – Paul Michael Robinson, American model, actor, and photographer
• 1964 – Jace Alexander, American actor and director
• 1964 – Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor, singer, director and producer (30 Odd Foot of Grunts)
• 1964 – Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1965 – Bill Bellamy, American comedian, actor, and producer
• 1965 – Alison Lapper, English painter and photographer
• 1965 – Nenad Vučinić, Serbian-New Zealand basketball player and coach
• 1966 – Richard Gomez, Filipino actor and politician
• 1966 – Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player
• 1967 – Artemis Gounaki, Greek-German singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Simone Schilder, Dutch tennis player
• 1968 – Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer and sportscaster
• 1968 – Jennifer Lynch, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1968 – Vasiliy Sokov, Russian triple jumper
• 1969 – Ricky Watters, American football player
• 1970 – Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist and educator
• 1971 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (d. 2008)
• 1971 – Victor Kraatz, German-Canadian figure skater
• 1971 – Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American journalist and actress
• 1973 – Marco Delvecchio, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence
• 1973 – Carole Montillet, French skier
• 1973 – Ève Salvail, Canadian model and actress
• 1973 – Brett Tomko, American baseball player
• 1974 – Nathan Baesel, American actor
• 1974 – Tygo Gernandt, Dutch actor
• 1975 – Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (The Knife and Honey Is Cool)
• 1975 – Ronde Barber, American football player and sportscaster
• 1975 – Tiki Barber, American football player and journalist
• 1975 – Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player
• 1975 – John Cooper, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Skillet)
• 1976 – Kevin Alejandro, American actor and producer
• 1976 – Martin Buß, German high jumper
• 1976 – Jessica Lee, English lawyer and politician
• 1976 – Barbara Jane Reams, American actress
• 1978 – Jo Appleby, English soprano (Amici Forever)
• 1978 – Duncan James, English singer-songwriter and actor (Blue)
• 1978 – Lilia Osterloh, American tennis player
• 1979 – Adrián Beltré, Dominican-American baseball player
• 1979 – Patrick Crayton, American football player
• 1979 – Pascal Dupuis, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Robert Jozinović, Australian actor
• 1979 – Anika Knudsen, American model and actress
• 1979 – Danny Sandoval, Venezuelan-American baseball player
• 1979 – Zbych Trofimiuk, Polish-Australian actor
• 1980 – Ourasi, French race horse (d. 2013)
• 1980 – Dragan Bogavac, Montenegrin footballer
• 1980 – David Otunga, American wrestler, actor, and lawyer
• 1981 – Sharka Blue, Czech porn actress
• 1981 – Alex Lanipekun, English actor
• 1981 – Vanessa Olivarez, American singer-songwriter, and actress
• 1981 – Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer
• 1981 – Kelli Young, English singer (Liberty X)
• 1982 – Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress
• 1982 – Sonjay Dutt, American wrestler
• 1982 – Soledad Fandiño, Argentinian actress
• 1983 – Kyle Labine, Canadian actor
• 1983 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer
• 1983 – Jon Stead, English footballer
• 1983 – Jakub Smrž, Czech motorcycle rider
• 1983 – Janar Talts, Estonian basketball player
• 1984 – Norman D. Golden II, American actor
• 1985 – KC Concepcion, Filipino actress and singer
• 1985 – Ariela Massotti, Brazilian actress
• 1986 – Brooke Brodack, American comedian
• 1986 – Andi Fraggs, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1986 – Christian Fuchs, Austrian footballer
• 1987 – Martín Cáceres, Uruguayan footballer
• 1987 – Jack Duarte, Mexican actor, singer, and guitarist (Eme 15)
• 1987 – Jaimee Kaire-Gataulu, New Zealand actress and singer
• 1987 – Jack Johnson, American actor
• 1987 – Alexis Love, American porn actress and model
• 1987 – April O'Neil, American porn actress
• 1987 – Eelco Sintnicolaas, Dutch decathlete
• 1988 – Antonio Piccolo, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Ed Speleers, English actor and producer
• 1988 – Sarah Walker, Australian actress
• 1989 – Franco Di Santo, Argentinian footballer
• 1990 – Anna Bogomazova, Russian-American kick-boxer, martial artist, and wrestler
• 1990 – Sorana Cîrstea, Romanian tennis player
• 1990 – Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer
• 1991 – Luka Milivojević, Serbian footballer
• 1992 – Andreea Acatrinei, Romanian gymnast
• 1992 – Alexis Jordan, American singer and actress
• 1992 – Guilherme Negueba, Brazilian footballer
• 1993 – Irina Shtork, Estonian ice dancer
• 1994 – Johanna Allik, Estonian figure skater
• 1997 – Rafaela Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player

Deaths

• 924 – Berengar I of Italy (b. 845)
• 1498 – Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
• 1614 – El Greco, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1541)
• 1638 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese daimyo (b. 1576)
• 1651 – Lennart Torstensson, Swedish field marshal and engineer (b. 1603)
• 1658 – Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic and philosopher (b. 1595)
• 1661 – Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English commander and politician (b. 1604)
• 1663 – Francis Cooke, English-American settler (b. 1583)
• 1668 – William Davenant, English poet and playwright (b. 1606)
• 1719 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French priest and saint, founded the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (b. 1651)
• 1739 – Dick Turpin, English criminal (b. 1705)
• 1747 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b. 1676)
• 1761 – Thomas Bayes, English minister and mathematician (b. 1701)
• 1766 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (b. 1685)
• 1767 – Franz Sparry, Austrian composer and director (b. 1715)
• 1782 – Taksin, Thai king (b. 1734)
• 1789 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1725)
• 1789 – Petrus Camper, Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (b. 1722)
• 1801 – Noël François de Wailly, French lexicographer and author (b. 1724)
• 1804 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian general (b. 1743)
• 1811 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (b. 1757)
• 1823 – Jacques Charles, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1746)
• 1833 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Lithuanian composer and politician (b. 1775)
• 1836 – William Godwin, English journalist and author (b. 1756)
• 1849 – Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros, Argentinian priest and politician (b. 1777)
• 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (b. 1762)
• 1858 – Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer and publisher (b. 1781)
• 1868 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Irish-Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1825)
• 1885 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (b. 1804)
• 1889 – Youssef Bey Karam, Lebanese soldier and politician (b. 1823)
• 1891 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman and politician, co-founded The Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1810)
• 1917 – Spyridon Samaras, Greek composer and playwright (b. 1861)
• 1918 – David Kolehmainen, Finnish wrestler (b. 1885)
• 1918 – George E. Ohr, American potter (b. 1857)
• 1920 – Karl Binding, German lawyer and jurist (b. 1841)
• 1928 – Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician, philosopher, and author (b. 1873)
• 1932 – Grigore Constantinescu, Romanian priest and journalist (b. 1875)
• 1938 – Suzanne Valadon, French painter (b. 1865)
• 1939 – Joseph Lyons, Australian educator and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1879)
• 1943 – Jovan Dučić, Serbian-American poet and diplomat (b. 1871)
• 1943 – Alexandre Millerand, French lawyer and politician, 12th President of France (b. 1859)
• 1944 – Johann Gruber, Austrian priest (b. 1889)
• 1947 – Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company (b. 1863)
• 1949 – John Gourlay, Canadian soccer player (b. 1872)
• 1950 – Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (b. 1883)
• 1955 – Theda Bara, American actress (b. 1885)
• 1956 – Fred Appleby, English runner (b. 1879)
• 1960 – Henri Guisan, Swiss general (b. 1874)
• 1965 – Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
• 1966 – Walt Hansgen, American race car driver (b. 1919)
• 1968 – Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (b. 1936)
• 1972 – Joe Gallo, American gangster (b. 1929)
• 1972 – Abeid Karume, Tanzanian politician, 1st President of Zanzibar (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Maria Michi, Italian actress (b. 1921)
• 1981 – Rajendra Coomaraswamy, Sri Lankan civil servant and diplomat (b. 1915)
• 1981 – Kit Lambert, English record producer and manager (b. 1935)
• 1981 – Norman Taurog, American director and screenwriter (b. 1899)
• 1982 – Brenda Benet, American actress (b. 1945)
• 1982 – Harald Ertl, Austrian race car driver and journalist (b. 1948)
• 1984 – Frank Church, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (b. 1924)
• 1985 – Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and jurist (b. 1888)
• 1986 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian mathematician and economist (b. 1912)
• 1990 – Ronald Evans, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
• 1992 – Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1903)
• 1992 – Antonis Tritsis, Greek high jumper and politician, 71st Mayor of Athens (b. 1937)
• 1994 – Lee Brilleaux, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dr. Feelgood) (b. 1952)
• 1994 – Albert Guðmundsson, Icelandic footballer, manager, and politician (b. 1923)
• 1994 – Golo Mann, German historian and author (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Rwandan chemist, academic, and politician, Prime Minister of Rwanda (b. 1953)
• 1997 – Luis Aloma, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1923)
• 1997 – Georgy Shonin, Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1935)
• 1998 – Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican-American painter and illustrator (b. 1905)
• 1999 – Heinz Lehmann, German-Canadian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Broery, Indonesian singer (b. 1944)
• 2001 – David Graf, American actor (b. 1950)
• 2001 – Beatrice Straight, American actress (b. 1914)
• 2002 – John Agar, American actor (b. 1921)
• 2003 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French pianist and author (b. 1903)
• 2003 – David Greene, English-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
• 2004 – Victor Argo, American actor and singer (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Konstantinos Kallias, Greek politician (b. 1901)
• 2005 – Cliff Allison, English race car driver (b. 1932)
• 2005 – Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Bob Kennedy, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Melih Kibar, Turkish composer and educator (b. 1951)
• 2007 – Johnny Hart, American author and illustrator (b. 1931)
• 2007 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Ludu Daw Amar, Burmese journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 2008 – Mark Speight, English television host (b. 1965)
• 2009 – Dave Arneson, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1947)
• 2011 – Pierre Gauvreau, Canadian painter (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Steven Kanumba Tanzanian actor and director (b. 1984)
• 2012 – Satsue Mito, Japanese zoologist and academic (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Ignatius Moses I Daoud, Syrian cardinal (b. 1930)
• 2012 – David E. Pergrin, American colonel and engineer (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, Pakistani politician (b. 1959)
• 2012 – Miss Read, English author and educator (b. 1913)
• 2012 – Mike Wallace, American journalist, actor, and game show host (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Marty Blake, American businessman (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Les Blank, American director and producer (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Andy Johns, English-American record producer (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Lilly Pulitzer, American fashion designer (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Irma Ravinale, Italian composer and educator (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Mickey Rose, American screenwriter (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Carl Williams, American boxer (b. 1959)
• 2014 – George Dureau, American painter and photographer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Peaches Geldof, English model and television host (b. 1989)
• 2014 – James Alexander Green, American-English mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
• 2014 – V. K. Murthy, Indian cinematographer (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (b. 1952)
• 2014 – John Shirley-Quirk, English opera singer (b. 1931)
• 2014 – George Shuffler, American guitarist (The Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Boys) (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Josep Maria Subirachs, Spanish sculptor and painter (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Royce Waltman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1942)
• 2015 – Tim Babcock, American soldier and politician, 16th Governor of Montana (b. 1919)
• 2015 – José Capellán, Dominican-American baseball player (b. 1981)
• 2015 – Eugene Louis Faccuito, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1925)
• 2015 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor, and singer (b. 1926)
• 2015 – Richard Henyekane, South African footballer (b. 1983)
• 2015 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo (b. 1962)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast days:
  • Aibert of Crespin
  • Blessed Alexander Rawlins
  • Blessed Edward Oldcorne and Blessed Ralph Ashley
  • Blessed Notker the Stammerer
  • Brynach
  • Hegesippus
  • Henry Walpole
  • Hermann Joseph
  • Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
  • Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow
  • April 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of Maternity and Beauty (Armenia)
• Genocide Memorial Day (Rwanda), and its related observance:
  • International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (United Nations)
• Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume Day (Tanzania)
• Women's Day (Mozambique)
• World Health Day (International)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada