April 19 is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 256 days remaining until the end of the year.
65 – The freedman Milichus betrayed Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested.
531 – Battle of Callinicum : A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at Ar-Raqqah (northern Syria ).
797 – Empress Irene organizes a conspiracy against her son, the Byzantine emperor Constantine VI . He is deposed and blinded . Shortly after Constantine dies of his wounds, and Irene proclaims herself basileus .
1012 – Martyrdom of Ælfheah in Greenwich , England.
1529 – Beginning of the Protestant Reformation : After the Second Diet of Speyer bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (German: Fürst ) and independent cities protests the reinstatement of the Edict of Worms .
1539 – Charles V and Protestants signs Treaty of Frankfurt .
1608 – In Ireland, O'Doherty's Rebellion is launched by the Burning of Derry
1677 – The French army captures the town of Cambrai held by Spanish troops.
1713 – With no living male heirs, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor , issues the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713 to ensure that Habsburg lands and the Austrian throne would be inherited by his daughter, Maria Theresa (not actually born until 1717).
1770 – Captain James Cook , still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.
1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France in a proxy wedding .
1775 – American Revolutionary War : The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord .
1782 – John Adams secures the Dutch Republic 's recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague , Netherlands becomes the first American embassy .
1809 – An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle of Raszyn , part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition . On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
1810 – Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente Emparán , Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a junta is installed.
1839 – The Treaty of London establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guaranteeing its neutrality.
1855 – Visit of Napoleon III to Guildhall, London
1861 – American Civil War : Baltimore riot of 1861 : A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore , attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.
1865 – Funeral service for Abraham Lincoln is held in the East Room of the White House.
1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts .
1897 – Léo Taxil exposes his own fabrications concerning Freemasonry
1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia ) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world .
1919 – Leslie Irvin of the United States makes the first successful voluntary free-fall parachute jump using a new kind of self-contained parachute.
1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex .
1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1942 – World War II : In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
1943 – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1943 – World War II: In Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.
1948 – Burma joins the United Nations .
1950 – Argentina becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
1954 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan recognises Urdu and Bengali as the national languages of Pakistan .
1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco .
1960 – Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee , eventually forcing him to resign.
1971 – Sierra Leone becomes a republic , and Siaka Stevens the president.
1971 – Vietnam War : Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin "Operation Dewey Canyon III ", a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C.
1971 – Launch of Salyut 1 , the first space station .
1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate–LaBianca murders .
1973 – The Portuguese Socialist Party is founded in the German town of Bad Münstereifel .
1975 – India's first satellite , Aryabhata , is launched.
1984 – Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem , and green and gold as the national colours .
1985 – U.S.S.R performs nuclear tests at Eastern Kazakhstan /Semipalatinsk .
1985 – Two hundred ATF and FBI agents lay siege to the compound of the neo-Nazi survivalist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord in Arkansas. The CSA surrenders two days later.
1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show .
1989 – A gun turret explodes on the USS Iowa , killing 47 sailors.
1993 – The 51-day FBI siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas , USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
1993 – South Dakota governor George Mickelson and seven others are killed when a state-owned aircraft crashes in Iowa.
1995 – Oklahoma City bombing : The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City , USA, is bombed, killing 168.
1997 – The 1997 Red River Flood overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota . Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
1999 – The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1933.
2000 – Security guard David Sanes killed in accidental bombing in Vieques, Puerto Rico that resulted in U.S. Navy closing down its bombing range there.
2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba after 45 years of holding the title.
2013 – Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts .
626 – Eanflæd , English nun and saint (d. 685)
1603 – Michel Le Tellier , French politician, French Minister of Defence (d. 1685)
1613 – Christoph Bach , German pianist (d. 1661)
1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine , German husband of Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria (d. 1716)
1660 – Sebastián Durón , Spanish composer (d. 1716)
1665 – Jacques Lelong , French author (d. 1721)
1686 – Vasily Tatishchev , Russian ethnographer and politician (d. 1750)
1715 – James Nares , English organist and composer (d. 1783)
1721 – Roger Sherman , American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
1734 – Karl von Ordóñez , Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1786)
1757 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth , English admiral and politician (d. 1833)
1758 – William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk , Scottish admiral (d. 1831)
1785 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly , French pianist and composer (d. 1858)
1787 – Deaf Smith , American soldier (d. 1837)
1793 – Ferdinand I of Austria (d. 1875)
1814 – Louis Amédée Achard , French journalist and author (d. 1875)
1832 – José Echegaray , Spanish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1835 – Julius Krohn , Finnish poet and journalist (d. 1888)
1874 – Ernst Rüdin , Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
1877 – Ole Evinrude , Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor (d. 1934)
1879 – Arthur Robertson , Scottish runner (d. 1957)
1882 – Getúlio Vargas , Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil (d. 1954)
1883 – Henry Jameson , American soccer player (d. 1938)
1883 – Richard von Mises , Austrian-American mathematician and physicist (d. 1953)
1885 – Karl Tarvas , Estonian architect (d. 1975)
1889 – Otto Georg Thierack , German jurist and politician (d. 1946)
1891 – Françoise Rosay , French actress and singer (d. 1974)
1892 – Germaine Tailleferre , French composer and educator (d. 1983)
1894 – Elizabeth Dilling , American author and activist (d. 1966)
1897 – Peter de Noronha , Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
1897 – Jiroemon Kimura , Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2013)
1897 – Constance Talmadge , American actress and producer (d. 1973)
1899 – George O'Brien , American actor and singer (d. 1985)
1899 – Cemal Tollu , Turkish lieutenant and painter (d. 1968)
1900 – Richard Hughes , English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
1900 – Roland Michener , Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Governor General of Canada (d. 1991)
1902 – Veniamin Kaverin , Russian author and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1903 – Eliot Ness , American lawman (d. 1957)
1907 – Alan Wheatley , English actor (d. 1991)
1912 – Glenn T. Seaborg , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1913 – Ken Carpenter , American discus thrower and coach (d. 1984)
1917 – Sven Hassel , Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012)
1919 – Sol Kaplan , American pianist and composer (d. 1990)
1920 – Gene Leis , American guitarist, composer, and producer (d. 1993)
1920 – Marvin Mandel , American lawyer and politician, 56th Governor of Maryland (d. 2015)
1920 – John O'Neil , American baseball player and manager (d. 2012)
1920 – Julien Ries , Belgian cardinal (d. 2013)
1921 – Anna Lee Aldred , American jockey (d. 2006)
1921 – Roberto Tucci , Italian cardinal and theologian (d. 2015)
1922 – Erich Hartmann , German colonel and pilot (d. 1993)
1925 – John Kraaijkamp, Sr. , Dutch actor (d. 2011)
1925 – Hugh O'Brian , American actor and singer
1926 – Rawya Ateya , Egyptian captain and politician (d. 1997)
1927 – Mr. Kenneth , American hairdresser (d. 2013)
1928 – John Horlock , English engineer and academic (d. 2015)
1928 – Alexis Korner , French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blues Incorporated and Collective Consciousness Society ) (d. 1984)
1928 – Azlan Shah of Perak (d. 2014)
1930 – Ewan Jamieson , New Zealand air marshal (d. 2013)
1930 – Dick Sargent , American actor (d. 1994)
1931 – Garfield Morgan , English actor (d. 2009)
1931 – Walter Stewart , Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)
1932 – Fernando Botero , Colombian painter and sculptor
1933 – Dickie Bird , English cricketer and umpire
1933 – Jayne Mansfield , American model, actress, and singer (d. 1967)
1933 – Philip Lavallin Wroughton , English captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire
1934 – Ox Baker , American wrestler and actor (d. 2014)
1934 – Dickie Goodman , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1989)
1935 – Dudley Moore , English actor, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2002)
1935 – Justin Francis Rigali , American cardinal
1936 – Wilfried Martens , Belgian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2013)
1936 – Jack Pardee , American football player and coach (d. 2013)
1937 – Antonio Carluccio , Italian-English chef and author
1937 – Elinor Donahue , American actress and singer
1937 – Joseph Estrada , Filipino actor, producer, and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
1938 – Stanley Fish , American theorist, author, and scholar
1939 – E. Clay Shaw, Jr. , American accountant, judge, and politician (d. 2013)
1940 – Dougal Haston , Scottish mountaineer (d. 1977)
1940 – Genya Ravan , American singer-songwriter and producer (Goldie and the Gingerbreads and Ten Wheel Drive )
1941 – Priit Aimla , Estonian author, poet, and playwright
1941 – Roberto Carlos , Brazilian singer-songwriter and actor
1941 – Michel Roux , French-English chef and author
1941 – Bobby Russell , American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
1942 – Bas Jan Ader , Dutch-American photographer and director (d. 1975)
1942 – Alan Price , English keyboard player and songwriter (The Animals )
1942 – Jack Roush , American businessman, founded Roush Fenway Racing
1942 – Maarten van den Bergh , American-Dutch businessman
1943 – Eve Graham , Scottish singer (The New Seekers )
1943 – Margo MacDonald , Scottish journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1943 – Lorenzo Sanz , Spanish businessman
1944 – Keith Erickson , American basketball player and sportscaster
1944 – James Heckman , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – Bernie Worrell , American keyboard player and songwriter (Parliament-Funkadelic , Praxis , and Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains )
1946 – Duygu Asena , Turkish journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
1946 – Tim Curry , English actor, singer, and producer
1946 – Euphrosyne Doxiadis , Greek-French painter and author
1946 – Mary Jo Slater , American casting director and producer
1947 – Murray Perahia , American pianist and conductor
1947 – Wilfrid Stevenson, Baron Stevenson of Balmacara , English civil servant
1947 – Yan Pascal Tortelier , French violinist and conductor
1947 – Mark Volman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Turtles , Flo & Eddie , and The Mothers of Invention )
1948 – Stuart McLean , Canadian radio host and author
1948 – Rick Miller , American baseball player and manager
1949 – Paloma Picasso , French-Spanish fashion designer
1949 – Larry Walters , American truck driver and pilot (d. 1993)
1950 – Julia Cleverdon , English businesswoman and philanthropist
1951 – Barry Brown , American actor and playwright (d. 1978)
1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard , Faroese educator and politician, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
1952 – Alexis Argüello , Nicaraguan boxer and politician (d. 2009)
1952 – Tony Plana , Cuban-American actor and director
1952 – Michael Trend , English journalist and politician
1953 – Rod Morgenstein , American drummer (Winger , Dixie Dregs , Platypus , and The Jelly Jam )
1953 – Sara Simeoni , Italian high jumper
1953 – Ruby Wax , American-English comedian, actress, and screenwriter
1954 – Trevor Francis , English footballer and manager
1954 – Bob Rock , Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Payolas )
1956 – Sue Barker , English tennis player and journalist
1956 – Randy Carlyle , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1956 – Anne Glover , Scottish biologist and academic
1957 – Mukesh Ambani , Yemeni-Indian businessman
1957 – Tony Martin , English singer-songwriter (Black Sabbath , Giuntini Project , and Empire )
1958 – Steve Antin , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Denis O'Brien , Irish businessman, founded BT Ireland
1958 – Vytautas Šapranauskas , Lithuanian actor (d. 2013)
1959 – Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton , English activist
1959 – Teofisto Guingona III , Filipino lawyer and politician
1959 – Donald Markwell , Australian sociologist and academic
1960 – Nicoletta Braschi , Italian actress and producer
1960 – Ara Gevorgyan , Armenian pianist, composer, and producer
1960 – Roger Merrett , Australian footballer and coach
1960 – John Schweitz , American basketball player and coach
1960 – Frank Viola , American baseball player and coach
1961 – Albert Martinez , Filipino actor, director, and producer
1961 – Spike Owen , American baseball player and coach
1961 – Richard Phelps , English pentathlete
1962 – Al Unser Jr. , American race car driver
1964 – Gordon Marshall , Scottish footballer and coach
1964 – Kim Weaver , American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
1965 – Natalie Dessay , French soprano and actress
1965 – Suge Knight , American record producer, co-founded Death Row Records
1966 – Véronique Gens , French soprano and actress
1966 – Brett J. Gladman , Canadian astronomer and academic
1966 – David La Haye , Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Julia Neigel , Russian-German singer-songwriter and producer
1966 – El Samurai , Japanese wrestler
1967 – Philippe Saint-André , French rugby player and coach
1967 – Steven H Silver , American journalist and author
1967 – Dar Williams , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cry Cry Cry )
1968 – Mswati III of Swaziland
1968 – Ashley Judd , American actress and producer
1968 – Pascal Kleiman , Spanish DJ, producer, and songwriter
1968 – Arshad Warsi , Indian actor, singer, and producer
1969 – Andrew Carnie , Canadian-American linguist, author, and academic
1969 – Jesse James , American motorcycle builder, founded West Coast Choppers
1969 – Susan Polgar , Hungarian-American chess player
1970 – Kelly Holmes , English runner
1970 – Luis Miguel , Mexican singer-songwriter and producer
1971 – Gad Elmaleh , Moroccan-French actor, director, and screenwriter
1971 – You Hee-yeol , South Korean singer-songwriter (Toy )
1972 – Rivaldo , Brazilian footballer
1972 – Binnur Kaya , Turkish actress
1972 – Jeff Wilkins , American football player
1973 – George Gregan , Zambian-Australian rugby player and coach
1973 – Alessio Scarpi , Italian footballer
1974 – Akara Amarttayakul , Thai actor
1975 – Jason Gillespie , Australian cricketer and coach
1975 – Jussi Jääskeläinen , Finnish footballer
1975 – Hugh O'Conor , Irish actor
1976 – Ruud Jolie , Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation and Maiden uniteD )
1976 – Scott Padgett , American basketball player, coach, and radio host
1976 – Kim Young-oh , South Korean author and illustrator
1977 – Joe Beimel , American baseball player
1977 – Anju Bobby George , Indian long jumper
1977 – Lucien Mettomo , Cameroonian footballer
1977 – Dennys Reyes , Mexican baseball player
1977 – Jonny Storm , English wrestler and trainer
1978 – James Franco , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 – Gabriel Heinze , Argentinian footballer
1978 – Amanda Sage , American-Austrian painter and educator
1979 – Rocky Bernard , American football player
1979 – Kate Hudson , American actress, singer, and producer
1979 – Zhao Junzhe , Chinese footballer
1979 – Nicole Raczynski , American wrestler
1979 – Antoaneta Stefanova , Bulgarian chess player
1980 – Jason Blaine , Canadian singer-songwriter
1980 – Robyn Regehr , Brazilian-Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Alexis Thorpe , American actress
1981 – Hayden Christensen , Canadian-American actor and producer
1981 – Ryuta Hara , Japanese footballer
1981 – Martin Havlát , Czech ice hockey player
1981 – Kasie Head , American model and actress, Miss Oklahoma USA 2002
1981 – James Hibberd , English cricketer
1981 – Napakpapha Nakprasitte , Thai actress
1981 – Troy Polamalu , American football player
1981 – Catalina Sandino Moreno , Colombian actress
1982 – Joseph Hagerty , American gymnast
1982 – Filip Jícha , Czech handball player
1982 – Samuel C. Morrison, Jr. , Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter
1982 – Rocco Sabato , Italian footballer
1982 – Ignacio Serricchio , Argentinian-American actor
1982 – Sitiveni Sivivatu , New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Alberto Callaspo , Venezuelan-American baseball player
1983 – Zach Duke , American baseball player
1983 – Joe Mauer , American baseball player
1983 – Patrick Platins , German footballer
1983 – Curtis Thigpen , American baseball player
1984 – Lee Da-hae , South Korean actress and singer
1984 – Christopher Pearce , English cricketer
1985 – Valon Behrami , Swiss footballer
1985 – Jan Zimmermann , German footballer
1986 – Maxine , American wrestler and actress
1986 – Pascal Angan , Beninese footballer
1986 – Heather Kuzmich , American model
1986 – Zhou Mi , Chinese singer-songwriter and actor (Super Junior-M and SM the Ballad )
1986 – Candace Parker , American basketball player
1986 – Gabe Pruitt , American basketball player
1986 – Will Thursfield , English-Australian footballer
1987 – Oksana Akinshina , Russian actress
1987 – David Cavazos , Mexican singer-songwriter
1987 – Luigi Giorgi , Italian footballer
1987 – Joe Hart , English footballer
1987 – Courtland Mead , American actor
1987 – Daniel Schuhmacher , German singer-songwriter
1987 – Maria Sharapova , Russian tennis player
1987 – Lauren Wilson , Canadian figure skater
1988 – Enrique Esqueda , Mexican footballer
1988 – Haruna Kojima , Japanese singer and actress (AKB48 and no3b )
1988 – Saya Yūki , Japanese actress
1989 – Dominik Mader , German footballer
1989 – Kristen O'Connor , American singe-songwriter and guitarist
1989 – Belinda Owusu , English actress
1989 – Daisuke Watabe , Japanese footballer
1990 – Jackie Bradley, Jr. , American baseball player
1990 – Kim Chiu , Filipino actress, singer, and dancer
1990 – Héctor Miguel Herrera , Mexican footballer
1990 – Kim Him-chan , South Korean singer and dancer (B.A.P )
1990 – Gretchen Ho , Filipino volleyball player and television host
1990 – Damien Le Tallec , French footballer
1990 – Teo Olivares , American actor
1990 – Patrick Wiegers , German footballer
1991 – Steve Cook , English footballer
1991 – Kelly Olynyk , Canadian basketball player
1992 – Paul-Jose M'Poku , Belgian footballer
1993 – Sebastian de Souza , English actor
1995 – Akira Saitō , Japanese actress
1012 – Ælfheah of Canterbury , English archbishop and saint (b. 954)
1044 – Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine , (b. 967)
1054 – Pope Leo IX (b. 1002)
1321 – Gerasimus I of Constantinople
1390 – Robert II of Scotland (b. 1316)
1560 – Philipp Melanchthon , German theologian and reformer (b. 1497)
1567 – Michael Stifel , German monk and mathematician (b. 1487)
1578 – Uesugi Kenshin , Japanese daimyo (b. 1530)
1588 – Paolo Veronese , Italian painter (b. 1528)
1608 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset , English poet, playwright, and politician, Lord High Treasurer (b. 1536)
1618 – Thomas Bastard , English priest and author (b. 1566)
1629 – Sigismondo d'India , Italian composer (b. 1582)
1686 – Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra , Spanish historian and playwright (b. 1610)
1689 – Christina, Queen of Sweden (b. 1626)
1733 – Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (b. 1655)
1739 – Nicholas Saunderson , English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)
1768 – Canaletto , Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)
1776 – Jacob Emden , German rabbi and author (b. 1697)
1783 – Filip Lastrić , Bosnian friar and writer (b. 1700)
1791 – Richard Price , Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (b. 1723)
1813 – Benjamin Rush , American physician and educator (b. 1745)
1824 – Lord Byron , English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)
1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger , German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
1833 – James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier , Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1756)
1840 – Jean-Jacques Lartigue , Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
1854 – Robert Jameson , Scottish mineralogist and academic (b. 1774)
1881 – Benjamin Disraeli , English journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1804)
1882 – Charles Darwin , English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)
1892 – Pelham Dale , English priest (b. 1821)
1893 – Martin Körber , Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)
1901 – Alfred Horatio Belo , American publisher, founded The Dallas Morning News (b. 1839)
1906 – Pierre Curie , French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
1906 – Spencer Gore , English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
1914 – Charles Sanders Peirce , American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
1916 – Ephraim Shay , American engineer, designed the Shay locomotive (b. 1839)
1926 – Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov , Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
1930 – Georges-Casimir Dessaulles , Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
1937 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington , English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
1937 – William Morton Wheeler , American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann , Austrian composer (b. 1878)
1949 – Ulrich Salchow , Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
1950 – Ernst Robert Curtius , French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
1955 – Jim Corbett , Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
1958 – Artur Kukk , Estonian wrestler (b. 1899)
1960 – Beardsley Ruml , American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
1961 – Max Hainle , German swimmer (b. 1882)
1966 – Eduards Smiļģis , Latvian actor and director (b. 1886)
1966 – Javier Solís , Mexican singer and actor (b. 1931)
1967 – Konrad Adenauer , German politician, 1st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1971 – Luigi Piotti , Italian race car driver (b. 1913)
1975 – Percy Lavon Julian , American chemist and academic (b. 1899)
1988 – Kwon Ki-ok , North Korean pilot (b. 1901)
1989 – Daphne du Maurier , English author and playwright (b. 1907)
1991 – Stanley Hawes , English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)
1992 – Frankie Howerd , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1917)
1993 – David Koresh , American religious leader (b. 1959)
1993 – George S. Mickelson , American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1941)
1993 – Timos Perlegas , Greek actor (b. 1938)
1993 – Joseph Wallace , American murder victim (b. 1990)
1996 – John Martin Scripps , English murderer (b. 1959)
1997 – Eldon Hoke , American singer and drummer (Mentors and The Screamers ) (b. 1958)
1998 – Octavio Paz , Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner , Austrian-German SS officer (b. 1919)
1999 – David Sanes , Puerto Rican security guard (b. 1954)
2000 – Louis Applebaum , Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
2001 – Meldrim Thomson, Jr. . American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1912)
2003 – Mirza Tahir Ahmad , Indian-English caliph (b. 1928)
2004 – Norris McWhirter , English author and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (b. 1925)
2004 – John Maynard Smith , English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920)
2005 – George P. Cosmatos , Italian-Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1941)
2005 – Ruth Hussey , American actress (b. 1911)
2005 – Clement Meadmore , Australian-American sculptor and author (b. 1929)
2005 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen , Danish bassist and composer (b. 1946)
2006 – Albert Scott Crossfield , American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921)
2007 – Jean-Pierre Cassel , French actor and singer (b. 1932)
2007 – Helen Walton , American businesswomen (b. 1919)
2008 – John Marzano , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1963)
2008 – Alfonso López Trujillo , Colombian cardinal (b. 1935)
2009 – J. G. Ballard , Chinese-English author (b. 1930)
2010 – Guru , American rapper, producer, and actor (Gang Starr ) (b. 1961)
2010 – Edwin Valero , Venezuelan boxer (b. 1981)
2010 – Carl Williams , Australian murderer and drug trafficker (b. 1970)
2011 – Elisabeth Sladen , English actress (b. 1946)
2012 – Leopold David de Rothschild , English financier and philanthropist (b. 1927)
2012 – Greg Ham , Australian saxophonist, songwriter, and actor (Men at Work ) (b. 1953)
2012 – Levon Helm , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Band ) (b. 1940)
2012 – Murtaza Razvi , Pakistani journalist (b. 1964)
2012 – Valeri Vasiliev , Russian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
2013 – Sivanthi Adithan , Indian businessman (b. 1936)
2013 – Allan Arbus , American actor and photographer (b. 1918)
2013 – Günseli Başar , Turkish model, Miss Europe 1952 (b. 1932)
2013 – Mike Denness , Scottish-English cricketer and referee (b. 1940)
2013 – Patrick Garland , English actor and director (b. 1935)
2013 – François Jacob , French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
2013 – E. L. Konigsburg , American author and illustrator (b. 1930)
2013 – Al Neuharth , American journalist, author, and publisher, founded USA Today (b. 1924)
2013 – Tamerlan Tsarnaev , Russian-American terrorist (b. 1986)
2014 – Bashir Ahmad , Indian-Bangladeshi singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
2014 – Lindy Berry , American football player (b. 1927)
2014 – Mimi Kok , Dutch actress and singer (b. 1934)
2014 – Ian McIntyre , Scottish journalist and producer (b. 1930)
2014 – Kevin Sharp , American singer (b. 1970)
2014 – Sonia Silvestre , Dominican singer (b. 1952)
2014 – Frits Thors , Dutch journalist (b. 1909)
2015 – Raymond Carr , English historian and academic (b. 1919)
2015 – William Price Fox , American journalist and author (b. 1926)
2015 – Freddie Gray , American murder victim (b. 1989)
2015 – Roy Mason , English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (b. 1924)
2015 – Tom McCabe , Scottish social worker and politician (b. 1954)
2015 – Hiroyuki Nishimoto , Japanese actor (b. 1927)
2015 – Oktay Sinanoğlu , Italian-Turkish chemist and academic (b. 1935)
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