April 18 is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 257 days remaining until the end of the year.
796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen , Ealdred and Wada. The patrician Osbald is placed on the throne , but is within 27 days abdicated.1025 – Bolesław Chrobry is crowned in Gniezno , becoming the first King of Poland.1506 – The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid.1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.1521 – Trial of Martin Luther begins its second day during the assembly of the Diet of Worms . He refuses to recant his teachings despite the risk of excommunication.1689 – Bostonians rise up in rebellion against Sir Edmund Andros .1738 – Real Academia de la Historia Madrid .1775 – American Revolution : The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.1797 – The Battle of Neuwied : French victory against the Austrians.1807 – The Harwich ferry disaster occurred near the North Sea port of Harwich on the Essex coast (England) in which 60-90 people drowned during the capsizing of a small ferry boat.1831 – The University of Alabama is founded.1848 – American victory at the battle of Cerro Gordo opens the way for invasion of Mexico.1857 – "The Spirits Book " by Allan Kardec is published, marking the birth of Spiritualism in France.1864 – Battle of Dybbøl : A Prussian -Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig . Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.1880 – An F4 tornado strikes Marshfield, Missouri , killing 99 people and injuring 100.1897 – The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire .1899 – The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria .1902 – Quetzaltenango , the second largest city of Guatemala , is destroyed by an earthquake .1906 – An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco , California .1909 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.1912 – The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.1915 – French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I .1923 – Yankee Stadium , "The House that Ruth Built", opens.1924 – Simon & Schuster publishes the first crossword puzzle book.1930 – BBC reported there was no news, then played out with piano music.1936 – The first Champions Day is celebrated in Detroit , Michigan .1942 – World War II : The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama , Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.1942 – Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France .1943 – World War II: Operation Vengeance , Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is killed when his aircraft is shot down by U.S. fighters over Bougainville Island .1945 – Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland , Germany.1946 – The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague , Netherlands.1949 – The keel for the aircraft carrier USS United States is laid down at Newport News Drydock and Shipbuilding . However, construction is canceled five days later, resulting in the Revolt of the Admirals .1954 – Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt .1955 – Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung , Indonesia , for the first Asian-African Conference .1958 – A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound be released from an insane asylum .1961 – The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations , a cornerstone of modern international relations, is adopted.1961 – CONCP is founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements opposing Portuguese colonial rule.
1974 – The Prime Minister of Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto inaugurates Lahore 's dry port .1980 – The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia ) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island . The game is suspended at 4:00 the next morning and finally completed on June 23 .1983 – A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut , Lebanon , killing 63 people.1988 – The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.1992 – General Abdul Rashid Dostum revolts against President Mohammad Najibullah of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and allies with Ahmad Shah Massoud to capture Kabul .1996 – In Lebanon, at least 106 civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces shell the United Nations compound at Quana where more than 800 civilians had taken refuge.2007 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5–4 decision.2007 – A series of bombings , two of them being suicides , occur in Baghdad , killing 198 and injuring 251.
2013 – A suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.2014 – Sixteen people are killed in an avalanche on Mount Everest .
1480 – Lucrezia Borgia , Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519)1503 – Henry II of Navarre , (d. 1555)1590 – Ahmed I , Ottoman sultan (d. 1617)1605 – Giacomo Carissimi , Italian priest and composer (d. 1674)1648 – Jeanne Guyon , French mystic and author (d. 1717)1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel , French violinist and composer (d. 1747)1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet , English banker and politician (d. 1810)1759 – Jacques Widerkehr , French cellist and composer (d. 1823)1771 – Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820)1772 – David Ricardo , English economist and politician (d. 1823)1794 – William Debenham , English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863)1797 – Adolphe Thiers , French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877)1813 – James McCune Smith , American physician and author (d. 1865)1819 – Carlos Manuel de Céspedes , Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874)1819 – Franz von Suppé , Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895)
1838 – Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran , French chemist and academic (d. 1912)1857 – Clarence Darrow , American lawyer (d. 1938)1857 – Alexander Shirvanzade , Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935)
1858 – Dhondo Keshav Karve , Indian educator and activist (d. 1962)1863 – Count Leopold Berchtold , Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942)1863 – Linton Hope , English sailor and architect (d. 1920)
1864 – Richard Harding Davis , American journalist and author (d. 1916)1874 – Abd-ru-shin , German author (d. 1941)1874 – Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić , Croatian author and poet (d. 1938)
1877 – Vicente Sotto , Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950)1879 – Korneli Kekelidze , Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962)1880 – Sam Crawford , American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968)1882 – Isaac Babalola Akinyele , Nigerian ruler (d. 1964)1882 – Leopold Stokowski , English conductor (d. 1977)
1884 – Jaan Anvelt , Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937)1888 – Duffy Lewis , American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979)1889 – Jessie Street , Australian activist (d. 1970)1893 – Violette Morris , French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944)1896 – Na Hye-sok , South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948)1897 – Ardito Desio , Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001)1897 – Per-Erik Hedlund , Swedish skier (d. 1975)
1898 – Patrick Hennessy , Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981)1901 – Al Lewis , American songwriter (d. 1967)1901 – László Németh , Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975)
1902 – Waldemar Hammenhög , Swedish author (d. 1972)1902 – Giuseppe Pella , Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1904 – Pigmeat Markham , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981)1905 – Sydney Halter , Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990)1905 – George H. Hitchings , American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1907 – Miklós Rózsa , Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995)1911 – Ilario Bandini , Italian businessman and race car driver (d. 1992)1911 – Maurice Goldhaber , Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (d. 2011)
1914 – Claire Martin , Canadian author (d. 2014)1915 – Joy Davidman , American poet and author (d. 1960)1916 – Carl Burgos , American illustrator (d. 1984)1916 – Doug Peden , Canadian basketball player (d. 2005)
1917 – Ty LaForest , Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947)1917 – Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981)
1918 – Gabriel Axel , Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)1918 – André Bazin , French critic and theorist (d. 1958)
1918 – Shinobu Hashimoto , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
1918 – Clifton Hillegass , American publisher, founded CliffsNotes
1918 – Tony Mottola , American guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1919 – Vondell Darr , American actress (d. 2012)1919 – Virginia O'Brien , American actress and singer (d. 2001)
1920 – John F. Wiley , American football player and coach (d. 2013)1921 – Jean Richard , French actor and singer (d. 2001)1922 – Barbara Hale , American actress1922 – Lord Kitchner , Trinidadian singer (d. 2000)
1923 – Alfred Bieler , Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013)1923 – Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle , English engineer and politician (d. 2015)
1924 – Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005)1924 – Henry Hyde , American commander, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007)
1924 – Roy Mason , English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2015)
1925 – Bob Hastings , American actor (d. 2014)1925 – Marcus Schmuck , Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005)
1926 – Doug Insole , English cricketer1926 – Günter Meisner , German actor (d. 1994)
1927 – Samuel P. Huntington , American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008)1927 – Tadeusz Mazowiecki , Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013)
1927 – Charles Pasqua , French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 2015)
1928 – Karl Josef Becker , German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015)1928 – Otto Piene , German sculptor and academic (d. 2014)
1929 – Peter Hordern , English soldier and politician1930 – Clive Revill , New Zealand-English actor and singer1931 – Bill Miles , American director and producer (d. 2013)1934 – James Drury , American actor1934 – George Shirley , American tenor and educator
1935 – Jerry Dexter , American voice actor (d. 2013)1935 – Costas Ferris , Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1936 – Roger Graef , American-English criminologist, director, and producer1936 – Vladimir Hütt , Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997)
1936 – Tommy Ivo , American actor and race car driver
1937 – Jan Kaplický , Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009)1937 – Tatyana Shchelkanova , Russian long jumper and heptathlete (d. 2011)
1937 – Teddy Taylor , Scottish journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland
1939 – Thomas J. Moyer , American lawyer and judge (d. 2010)1940 – Joseph L. Goldstein , American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate1940 – Jaak Lipso , Estonian basketball player and coach
1940 – Mike Vickers , English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds )
1941 – Michael D. Higgins , Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland 1942 – Michael Beloff , English lawyer and academic1942 – Steve Blass , American baseball player and sportscaster
1942 – Robert Christgau , American journalist and critic
1942 – Jochen Rindt , German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970)
1943 – Zeki Alasya , Turkish actor and director (d. 2015)1944 – Frances D'Souza, Baroness D'Souza , English academic and politician1944 – Robert Hanssen , American FBI agent and spy
1944 – Philip Jackson , Scottish sculptor and photographer
1945 – Bernard Arcand , Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009)1945 – Richard Bausch , American author and academic1945 – Robert Bausch , American author and academic
1945 – Margaret Hassan , Irish-Iraqi aid worker (d. 2004)
1946 – Jean-François Balmer , Swiss actor1946 – Irene Fernandez , Malaysian activist (d. 2014)
1946 – Hayley Mills , English actress and singer
1946 – Skip Spence , Canadian-American singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape ) (d. 1999)
1947 – Kathy Acker , American author and poet (d. 1997)1947 – Moses Blah , Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013)
1947 – Dorothy Lyman , American actress, director, and producer
1947 – Herbert Mullin , American serial killer
1947 – Cindy Pickett , American actress
1947 – Greg Quill , Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013)
1947 – Jerzy Stuhr , Polish actor, director, and screenwriter
1947 – James Woods , American actor and producer
1948 – Régis Wargnier , French director, producer, and screenwriter1949 – Geoff Bodine , American race car driver1950 – Paul Callery , Australian footballer1950 – Tina Chow , American model and jewelry designer (d. 1992)
1950 – Kenny Ortega , American director, producer, and choreographer
1950 – Grigory Sokolov , Russian pianist and composer
1951 – Ricardo Fortaleza , Australian-Filipino boxer and coach1951 – Pierre Pettigrew , Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1953 – Rick Moranis , Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter1954 – Robert Greenberg , American pianist and composer1956 – Eric Roberts , American actor1956 – Melody Thomas Scott , American actress
1957 – Ian Campbell , Australian jumper1957 – Anna Kathryn Holbrook , American actress and educator
1958 – Malcolm Marshall , Barbadian cricketer and coach (d. 1999)1958 – Karen Mayo-Chandler , English actress and model (d. 2006)
1958 – Thomas Simaku , Albanian-English composer
1958 – Tarmo Teder , Estonian poet and critic
1959 – Susan Faludi , American journalist and author1959 – Frank Mulholland , Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland
1960 – Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova , Ukrainian runner1961 – Kelly Hansen , American singer-songwriter (Foreigner and Hurricane )1961 – Jane Leeves , English actress and dancer
1961 – Steve Lombardi , American wrestler and agent
1961 – John Podhoretz , American journalist and author
1962 – Poonam Dhillon , Indian model and actress1962 – Jeff Dunham , American comedian and ventriloquist
1962 – Nick Farr-Jones , Australian rugby player and sportscaster
1963 – Mike Mangini , American drummer (Dream Theater , Annihilator , Extreme , and Tribe of Judah )1963 – Eric McCormack , Canadian-American actor and producer
1963 – Conan O'Brien , American actor, producer, screenwriter, and talk show host
1963 – Peter Van Loan , Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of International Trade
1964 – Bez , English drummer and dancer (Happy Mondays and Black Grape )1964 – Jim Ellison , American singer-songwriter (Material Issue ) (d. 1996)
1964 – Niall Ferguson , Scottish historian and academic
1964 – Rithy Panh , Cambodian director and screenwriter
1965 – Steven Stayner , American kidnap victim (d. 1989)1965 – Rob Stenders , Dutch radio host
1966 – Camille Coduri , English actress1966 – Trine Hattestad , Norwegian javelin thrower
1966 – Valeri Kamensky , Russian ice hockey player
1967 – Maria Bello , American actress and singer1968 – Mary Birdsong , American actress, singer, and screenwriter1968 – David Hewlett , English-Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
1969 – Keith DeCandido , American author1969 – Sayako Kuroda , Japanese daughter of Akihito
1969 – Stefan Schwarz , Swedish footballer and manager
1969 – Robert Změlík , Czech decathlete
1970 – Rico Brogna , American baseball player and coach1970 – Greg Eklund , American drummer and guitarist (Everclear and The Oohlas )
1970 – Saad Hariri , Saudi Arabian-Lebanese businessman and politician, 66th Prime Minister of Lebanon
1970 – François Leroux , Canadian ice hockey player and radio host
1970 – Lisa LoCicero , American actress
1970 – Esther Schweins , German actress
1970 – Tatiana Stefanidou , Greek journalist and talk show host
1971 – Tamara Braun , American actress1971 – Samantha Cameron , English businesswoman, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1971 – Oleg Petrov , Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Fredro Starr , American rapper and actor (Onyx )
1971 – David Tennant , Scottish actor and singer
1972 – Rosa Clemente , American journalist and activist1972 – Eli Roth , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Michael Rutter , English motorcycle racer
1973 – Jad Abumrad , American radio host and producer1973 – Derrick Brooks , American football player
1973 – Brady Clark , American baseball player
1973 – Haile Gebrselassie , Ethiopian runner
1974 – Millie Corretjer , Puerto Rican singer and actress1974 – Mark Tremonti , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Creed , Alter Bridge , and Tremonti )
1974 – Edgar Wright , English director and screenwriter
1975 – GoonRock , American songwriter and producer1975 – Jeong Jae-heon , South Korean voice actor
1975 – Kerim Tekin , Turkish singer (d. 1998)
1975 – Sergei Terehhov , Estonian footballer and manager
1976 – Fayray , Japanese singer-songwriter and actress1976 – Gavin Creel , American actor and singer
1976 – Jo Gibb , Scottish actress and dancer
1976 – Melissa Joan Hart , American actress, director, and producer
1976 – Sean Maguire , English actor and singer
1976 – Kevin Rankin , American actor
1976 – Justin Ross , American politician
1976 – Staffan Strand , Swedish high jumper
1977 – Anna Fegi , Filipino singer and actress1977 – Dan LaCouture , American ice hockey player
1977 – Cindy Taylor , Paraguayan model and actress
1979 – Michael Bradley , American basketball player and coach1979 – Ethan Cohn , American actor
1979 – Anthony Davidson , English race car driver
1979 – Nuria Fergó , Spanish singer and actress
1979 – Kourtney Kardashian , American model, actress, and businesswoman
1979 – Matthew Upson , English footballer
1979 – Karl Wolf , Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter and producer (Sky )
1980 – Rabiu Afolabi , Nigerian footballer and manager1980 – Carolina Crescentini , Italian actress
1980 – Justin Levens , American mixed martial artist (d. 2008)
1980 – Laura Mennell , Canadian actress
1980 – Robyn Regehr , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Priit Võigemast , Estonian actor
1981 – Elastinen , Finnish rapper and producer (Fintelligens )1981 – Brian Buscher , American baseball player
1981 – Jamie Davis , English actor
1981 – Mai Hoshimura , Japanese singer-songwriter and pianist
1981 – Milan Jovanović , Serbian footballer
1981 – Aldo Ramírez , Colombian footballer
1981 – Audrey Tang , Taiwanese computer scientist and academic
1982 – Ibrahim al-Asiri , Saudi Arabian terrorist1982 – Greg Camarillo , American football player
1982 – Ricardo Colclough , Canadian-American football player
1982 – Franzen Fajardo , Filipino actor
1982 – Simone Farina , Italian footballer
1982 – Scott Hartnell , Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Blair Late , American singer-songwriter and journalist (B3 )
1982 – Kristina Sisco , American actress and director
1982 – Darren Sutherland , Irish boxer (d. 2009)
1982 – Marie-Élaine Thibert , Canadian singer
1983 – Miguel Cabrera , Venezuelan baseball player1983 – Reeve Carney , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1983 – Fodil Hadjadj , Algerian footballer
1983 – Cheryl Haworth , American weightlifter
1983 – Cristina Nardozzi , American model, Miss Massachusetts USA 2005
1984 – Sokoudjou , Cameroonian mixed martial artist1984 – Red Bryant , American football player
1984 – America Ferrera , American actress and producer
1985 – Łukasz Fabiański , Polish footballer1985 – Sasa Handa , Japanese model and actress
1985 – Sukollawat Kanarot , Thai actor and singer
1985 – Jessica Lu , American actress
1985 – Karl Reindler , Australian race car driver
1985 – Rachel Smith , Panamanian-American model, Miss USA 2007
1985 – Elena Temnikova , Russian singer (Serebro )
1986 – Billy Butler , American baseball player1986 – Maurice Edu , American soccer player
1986 – Taylor Griffin , American basketball player
1986 – Eleanor James , English actress and dancer
1986 – Denice Klarskov , Danish porn actress, producer, and radio host
1986 – Conrad Logan , Irish footballer
1986 – Efraín Velarde , Mexican footballer
1987 – Brett Deledio , Australian footballer1987 – Danny Guthrie , English footballer
1987 – Sandra Lyng Haugen , Norwegian singer
1987 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley , English model and actress
1987 – Samantha Jade , Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1987 – Ivan Tričkovski , Macedonian footballer
1987 – Cara Mia Wayans , American actress
1988 – Anagabriela Espinoza , Mexican model, Miss International 2009 1988 – Andre Frolov , Estonian footballer
1988 – Alexander Hauck , South African-German rugby player
1989 – Simas Buterlevičius , Lithuanian basketball player1989 – Jessica Jung , American-South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation )
1989 – Alia Shawkat , American actress
1989 – Chaiwat Thongsaeng , Thai model and actor
1990 – Cigar , American race horse (d. 2014)1990 – Henderson Álvarez , Venezuelan baseball player
1990 – Jake Howells , English footballer
1990 – Britt Robertson , American actress
1990 – Wojciech Szczęsny , Polish footballer
1990 – Junior Torunarigha , Nigerian footballer
1990 – Inna Zlidnis , Estonian footballer
1992 – Chloe Bennet , American actress and singer1992 – Misa Eguchi , Japanese tennis player
1993 – Matt Salisbury , English cricketer1993 – Nathan Sykes , English singer-songwriter (The Wanted )
1994 – Moisés Arias , American actor1995 – Divock Origi , Belgian footballer1996 – Ioana Ducu , Romanian tennis player1999 – Michael Andrew , American swimmer
1161 – Theobald of Bec , French-English archbishop (b. 1090)1552 – John Leland , English poet and historian (b. 1502)1556 – Luigi Alamanni , Italian poet and politician (b. 1495)1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach , German adventurer (b. 1503)1587 – John Foxe , English historian and author (b. 1516)1636 – Julius Caesar , English judge and politician (b. 1557)1650 – Simonds d'Ewes , English lawyer and politician (b. 1602)1674 – John Graunt , English demographer and statistician (b. 1620)1689 – George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys , Welsh judge and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1648)1732 – Louis Feuillée , French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (b. 1660)1763 – Marie-Josephte Corriveau , Canadian murderer (b. 1733)1794 – Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden , English lawyer, judge, and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)1796 – Johan Wilcke , Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1732)1802 – Erasmus Darwin , English physician and botanist (b. 1731)1832 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet , French painter (b. 1761)1859 – Tatya Tope , Indian general (b. 1814)1864 – Juris Alunāns , Latvian philologist and linguist (b. 1832)1873 – Justus von Liebig , German chemist and academic (b. 1803)1898 – Gustave Moreau , French painter and academic (b. 1826)1904 – Sumner Paine , American target shooter (b. 1868)1906 – Luis Martín , Spanish religious leader, 24th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1846)1913 – Harrison Clark , American soldier (b. 1842)1917 – Vladimir Serbsky , Russian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1858)
1936 – Milton Brown , American singer and bandleader (Light Crust Doughboys ) (b. 1903)1936 – Ottorino Respighi , Italian composer and conductor (b. 1879)
1938 – George Bryant , American archer (b. 1878)1942 – Aleksander Mitt , Estonian speed skater (b. 1903)1942 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney , American sculptor and art collector, founded the Whitney Museum of American Art (b. 1875)
1943 – Isoroku Yamamoto , Japanese admiral (b. 1884)1945 – John Ambrose Fleming , English physicist and engineer, invented the vacuum tube (b. 1849)1945 – William, Prince of Albania (b. 1876)
1945 – Ernie Pyle , American journalist and soldier (b. 1900)
1947 – Jozef Tiso , Slovak priest and politician, President of Slovakia (b. 1887)1949 – Will Hay , English actor and director (b. 1888)1951 – Óscar Carmona , Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)1955 – Albert Einstein , German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)1958 – Maurice Gamelin , Belgian-French general (b. 1872)1959 – Irving Cummings , American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)1959 – Percy Smith , English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
1963 – Meyer Jacobstein , American academic and politician (b. 1880)1964 – Ben Hecht , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)1965 – Guillermo González Camarena , Mexican engineer (b. 1917)1967 – Karl Miller , German footballer (b. 1913)1974 – Marcel Pagnol , French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)1976 – Mahmoud Younis , Egyptian engineer (b. 1911)1986 – Marcel Dassault , French businessman, founded Dassault Aviation (b. 1892)1988 – Pierre Desproges , French journalist and actor (b. 1939)1988 – Oktay Rıfat Horozcu , Turkish poet and playwright (b. 1914)
1990 – Gory Guerrero , American wrestler and trainer (b. 1921)1990 – Victoria O'Keefe , English actress (b. 1969)
1993 – Masahiko Kimura , Japanese martial artist and wrestler (b. 1917)1995 – Arturo Frondizi , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Argentina (b. 1908)1995 – Roza Makagonova , Russian actress (b. 1927)
1996 – Brook Berringer , American football player (b. 1973)1996 – Bernard Edwards , American bass player and producer (Chic and The Power Station ) (b. 1952)
1997 – Edward Barker , English cartoonist (b. 1950)1997 – Don Pietromonaco , American actor and radio host (b. 1935)
1998 – Terry Sanford , American lieutenant and politician, 65th Governor of North Carolina (b. 1917)2002 – Thor Heyerdahl , Norwegian ethnographer and explorer (b. 1914)2002 – Wahoo McDaniel , American football player and wrestler (b. 1938)
2003 – Edgar F. Codd , English-American soldier, pilot, and computer scientist (b. 1923)2004 – Kamisese Mara , Fijian politician, 2nd President of Fiji (b. 1920)2005 – Sam Mills , American football player and coach (b. 1959)2007 – Iccho Itoh , Japanese politician (b. 1945)2008 – Germaine Tillion , French ethnologist and anthropologist (b. 1907)2009 – Stephanie Parker , English-Welsh actress (b. 1987)2011 – Olubayo Adefemi , Nigerian footballer (b. 1985)2012 – Dick Clark , American television host and producer, founded Dick Clark Productions (b. 1929)2012 – Cora Hansen , American-Canadian super-centenarian (b. 1899)
2012 – René Lépine , Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929)
2012 – John O'Neil , American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
2012 – K. D. Wentworth , American author (b. 1951)
2013 – Ilona Edelsheim-Gyulai , Hungarian-English wife of István Horthy (b. 1918)2013 – Cordell Mosson , American bass player (Parliament-Funkadelic ) (b. 1952)
2013 – Steuart Pringle , English general (b. 1928)
2013 – Vytautas Šapranauskas , Lithuanian actor (b. 1958)
2013 – Goran Švob , Croatian philosopher and author (b. 1947)
2013 – Storm Thorgerson , English graphic designer (b. 1944)
2013 – Anne Williams , English activist (b. 1951)
2014 – Guru Dhanapal , Indian director and producer (b. 1959)2014 – Sanford Jay Frank , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1954)
2014 – Deon Jackson , American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2014 – Eduard Kosolapov , Russian footballer (b. 1976)
2014 – David McClarty , Northern Irish politician (b. 1951)
2014 – Brian Priestman , English conductor and academic (b. 1927)
2014 – Dylan Tombides , Australian footballer (b. 1994)
2015 – Roger Lobo , Macanese-Hong Kong businessman and politician (b. 1923)2015 – Erwin Waldner , German footballer (b. 1933)
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