April 4 is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 271 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1147 – First historical record of Moscow.
- 1287 – King Wareru founds Kingdom of Ramannadesa, and proclaims independence from Pagan Empire
- 1581 – Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world.
- 1660 – Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England.
- 1721 – Sir Robert Walpole takes office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
- 1812 – U.S. President James Madison enacts a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom.
- 1814 – Napoleon abdicates for the first time.
- 1818 – The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
- 1841 – William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served.
- 1850 – The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground in suspicious circumstances.
- 1850 – Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city.
- 1859 – Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.
- 1865 – American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
- 1866 – Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Kiev.
- 1873 – The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
- 1887 – Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
- 1905 – In India, the an earthquake hits the Kangra valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala
- 1913 – The Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
- 1930 – The Communist Party of Panama is founded.
- 1933 – U.S. Navy airship, USS Akron, is wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather.
- 1939 – Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
- 1944 – World War II: First bombardment of Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
- 1945 – World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
- 1945 – World War II: American troops capture Kassel.
- 1949 – Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
- 1958 – The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.
- 1960 – France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
- 1964 – The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
- 1965 – The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled.
- 1967 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church.
- 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
- 1968 – AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
- 1969 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
- 1973 – The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
- 1975 – Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Baby Lift – A United States Air Force C-5A Galaxy crashes near Saigon, South Vietnam shortly after takeoff, transporting orphans – 172 die.
- 1976 – Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
- 1979 – President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
- 1979 – The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts.
- 1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6).
- 1984 – President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- 1988 – Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
- 1991 – Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
- 1994 – Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation".
- 1996 – Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
- 2002 – The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.
- 2002 – In what are known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia.
- 2007 – 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.
Births
- 188 – Caracalla, Roman emperor (d. 217)
- 1492 – Ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564)
- 1572 – William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621)
- 1593 – Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669)
- 1640 – Gaspar Sanz, Aragonese composer, guitarist, organist and priest (d. 1710)
- 1646 – Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715)
- 1648 – Grinling Gibbons, Dutch woodcarver (d. 1721)
- 1676 – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1760)
- 1688 – Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768)
- 1718 – Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783)
- 1752 – Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer, chiefly of opera (d. 1837)
- 1762 – Stephen Storace, English composer (d. 1796)
- 1772 – Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut (d. 1810)
- 1785 – Bettina von Arnim, German writer (d. 1859)
- 1802 – Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887)
- 1818 – Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883)
- 1819 – Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853)
- 1821 – Linus Yale, Jr., American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1868)
- 1826 – Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901)
- 1835 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
- 1842 – Édouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891)
- 1843 – William Henry Jackson, American photographer (d. 1942)
- 1846 – Comte de Lautréamont, French writer (d. 1870)
- 1853 – Tad Lincoln, American son of president Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871)
- 1858 – Remy de Gourmont, French poet (d. 1915)
- 1869 – Mary Jane Colter, American architect (d. 1958)
- 1875 – Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964)
- 1876 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (d. 1958)
- 1882 – Kurt von Schleicher, German general and Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934)
- 1884 – Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (d. 1971)
- 1884 – Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander (d. 1943)
- 1888 – Tris Speaker, American baseball player (d. 1958)
- 1888 – Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d. 1975)
- 1895 – Arthur Murray, American dance teacher (d. 1991)
- 1896 – Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (d. 1955)
- 1897 – Dina Manfredini, Italian-American supercentenarian, 2nd oldest living person in the world
- 1897 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (d. 1975)
- 1898 – Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940)
- 1899 – Hillel Oppenheimer, German-Israeli botanist (d. 1971)
- 1902 – Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French writer (d. 1969)
- 1902 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (d. 1935)
- 1905 – Eugene Bozza, French composer (d. 1991)
- 1906 – Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968)
- 1906 – John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d. 1995)
- 1907 – Robert Askin, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1981)
- 1908 – Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American author (d. 2006)
- 1910 – Dang Van Ngu, Vietnamese physician (d. 1967)
- 1911 – Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992)
- 1913 – Frances Langford, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1913 – Jules Léger, Canadian diplomat and Governor general of Canada (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Muddy Waters, American Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader (d. 1983)
- 1914 – Marguerite Duras, French writer (d. 1996)
- 1915 – Louis Archambault, Canadian sculptor (d. 2003)
- 1916 – Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslav general, Serbian communist politician (d. 2005)
- 1916 – Mickey Owen, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1916 – David White, American actor (d. 1990)
- 1918 – George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (d. 2007)
- 1920 – Éric Rohmer, French director (d. 2010)
- 1922 – Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004)
- 1923 – Peter Vaughan, English actor
- 1924 – Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972)
- 1925 – Gene Reynolds, American actor
- 1925 – Claude Wagner, French-Canadian politician and judge (d. 1979)
- 1925 – Emmett Williams, American poet (d. 2007)
- 1926 – Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and pro-life activist (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Maya Angelou, American writer
- 1928 – Estelle Harris, American actor
- 1931 – Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence director
- 1932 – Clive Davis, American record producer
- 1932 – Estelle Harris, American actress
- 1932 – Richard Lugar, American politician
- 1932 – Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1932 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet-Russian director (d. 1986)
- 1933 – Bill France, Jr., American motorsports executive (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist (d. 1996)
- 1938 – A. Bartlett Giamatti, American university president and Commissioner of Baseball (d. 1989)
- 1939 – JoAnne Carner, American golfer
- 1939 – Major Lance, American singer (d. 1994)
- 1939 – Hugh Masekela, South African singer, musician, and composer
- 1939 – Ernie Terrell, American singer, record producer, and boxer
- 1940 – Richard Attwood, British race car driver
- 1940 – Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (d. 2002)
- 1942 – Jim Fregosi, American baseball player and manager
- 1942 – Kitty Kelley, American writer
- 1942 – Elizabeth Levy, American author
- 1944 – Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician
- 1944 – Craig T. Nelson, American actor
- 1945 – Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French political activist
- 1945 – Caroline McWilliams, American actress (d. 2010)
- 1945 – Konrad von Finckenstein, Canadian public servant, chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
- 1946 – Colin Coates, Australian speed skater
- 1946 – Dave Hill, English guitarist (Slade)
- 1946 – Katsuaki Sato, Japanese martial artist
- 1946 – György Spiró, Hungarian novelist and playwright
- 1947 – Ray Fosse, American baseball player and broadcaster
- 1947 – Luke Halpin, American actor
- 1947 – Wiranto, Indonesian general
- 1948 – Michael Blassie, American military officer (d. 1972)
- 1948 – Berry Oakley, American bassist (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 1972)
- 1948 – Werner Roth, American soccer player
- 1948 – Dan Simmons, American writer
- 1948 – Derek Thompson, Irish actor
- 1948 – Pick Withers, British drummer (Dire Straits and Magna Carta)
- 1949 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican singer (The Wailers) (d. 1999)
- 1949 – Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese mathematician
- 1950 – Christine Lahti, American actress
- 1951 – John Hannah, American football player
- 1951 – Hun Sen, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister of Cambodia
- 1952 – Rosemarie Ackermann, German athlete
- 1952 – Pat Burns, Canadian hockey coach (d. 2010)
- 1952 – Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and car racer (d. 1995)
- 1952 – Karen Magnussen, Canadian figure skater
- 1952 – Gary Moore, Northern Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Skid Row, and Bruce-Baker-Moore) (d. 2011)
- 1952 – Villy Søvndal, Danish politician
- 1953 – Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician
- 1953 – Henry Fotheringham, South African cricketer
- 1953 – Simcha Jacobovici, Canadian director, producer, journalist, and writer
- 1953 – Sammy Wilson, Northern Irish politician
- 1953 – Chen Yi, Chinese composer and violinist
- 1954 – Julie Carmen, American actress
- 1955 – Casey Biggs, American actor
- 1956 – Evelyn Hart, Canadian ballerina
- 1956 – Tom Herr, American baseball player
- 1956 – David E. Kelley, American writer and producer
- 1957 – Ali El Haggar, Egyptian singer and actor
- 1957 – Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director
- 1957 – Graeme Kelling, Scottish musician (Deacon Blue) (d. 2004)
- 1957 – Kelso, American race horse (d. 1983)
- 1957 – Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese musician (Rats & Star)
- 1958 – Cazuza, Brazilian singer and composer (d. 1990)
- 1958 – Mary-Margaret Humes, American actress
- 1959 – Phil Morris, American actor
- 1960 – Jane Eaglin, English soprano
- 1960 – Hugo Weaving, English-Australian actor
- 1961 – Tom Byron, American porn actor and director
- 1961 – Hildi Santo-Tomas, American interior decorator
- 1962 – Craig Adams, English musician (The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, The Alarm, Spear of Destiny, and Theatre of Hate)
- 1962 – Ava Fabian, American model and actress
- 1962 – Marco Giovannetti, Italian cyclist
- 1963 – A. Michael Baldwin, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
- 1963 – Jack Del Rio, American football coach
- 1963 – Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian hockey player
- 1963 – Jane McDonald, British singer, actress and broadcaster
- 1963 – Graham Norton, Irish actor, comedian, and talk show host
- 1964 – Branco, Brazilian footballer and coach
- 1964 – Dr. Chud, American drummer and singer (Misfits, Graves, Kryst the Conqueror, and Dr. Chud's X-Ward)
- 1964 – Anthony Clark, American actor and comedian
- 1964 – David Cross, American actor and comedian
- 1964 – Sertab Erener, Turkish singer-songwriter
- 1964 – Laurie Hibberd, Canadian reporter
- 1964 – Riduan Isamuddin, Indonesian terrorist
- 1964 – Robbie Rist, American actor
- 1964 – Dang Than, Vietnamese poet and writer
- 1965 – Robert Downey, Jr., American actor
- 1965 – Sean Wilson, English actor,
- 1966 – Riduan Isamuddin, Indonesian terrorist
- 1966 – Nancy McKeon, American actor
- 1966 – Mike Starr, American musician (Alice In Chains, Sun Red Sun, and Days of the New) (d. 2011)
- 1966 – Christos Tsekos Greek basketball player
- 1967 – George Mavrotas, Greek water polo player
- 1968 – Jesús Rollán, Spanish water polo player (d. 2006)
- 1968 – Xenia Seeberg, German actress
- 1969 – Karren Brady, British sports executive and broadcaster
- 1970 – Georgios Amanatidis, Greek footballer
- 1970 – Wendy Bell, American news reporter
- 1970 – Anthony Green, British actor
- 1970 – Greg Garcia, American television director, producer, and writer
- 1970 – Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
- 1971 – Mark Chapman, English sports presenter and DJ
- 1971 – Yanic Perreault, Canadian hockey player
- 1971 – Tatia Rosenthal, Israeli-American animator and director
- 1971 – Josh Todd, American singer (Buckcherry)
- 1971 – Malik Yusef, American actor, musician, producer, and poet
- 1971 – John Zandig, American wrestler
- 1972 – Lisa Ray, Canadian actress
- 1972 – Jill Scott, American singer, songwriter, and actress
- 1972 – Xenia Seeberg, German actress
- 1972 – Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans)
- 1973 – David Blaine, American illusionist
- 1973 – Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer
- 1973 – Peter Hoekstra, Dutch footballer
- 1973 – Chris McCormack, Australian athlete
- 1973 – Kelly Price, American singer
- 1974 – Dave Mirra, American BMX athlete
- 1975 – Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman
- 1975 – Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish cross-country skier
- 1975 – Joyce Giraud, Puerto Rican actress and model
- 1975 – Roy Padrick, American journalist
- 1975 – Pamela Ribon, American author and actress
- 1975 – Miranda Lee Richards, American singer-songwriter
- 1975 – Scott Rolen, American baseball player
- 1975 – Kevin Weekes, Canadian hockey player
- 1976 – Emerson, Brazilian footballer
- 1976 – Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver (d. 1997)
- 1976 – James Roday, American actor
- 1977 – Stephan Bonnar, American mixed martial artist
- 1977 – Keith Bulluck, American football player and agent
- 1977 – Adam Dutkiewicz, American guitarist and producer (Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Aftershock, and Times of Grace)
- 1977 – Stephen Mulhern, British magician
- 1977 – Omarr Smith, American football player
- 1978 – Jason Ellison, American baseball player
- 1978 – Lemar, English singer
- 1978 – Alan Mahon, Irish footballer
- 1978 – Sam Moran, Australian actor and musician (The Wiggles)
- 1978 – Irene Skliva, Greek model, Miss World 1996
- 1978 – Aska Yang, Taiwanese singer
- 1979 – Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
- 1979 – Roberto Luongo, Canadian hockey player
- 1979 – Natasha Lyonne, American actress
- 1979 – Andy McKee, American guitarist
- 1979 – Jessica Napier, New Zealand actress
- 1980 – Johnny Borrell, English guitarist and singer (Razorlight and The Libertines)
- 1980 – Trevor Moore, American comedian
- 1980 – Eric Steinbach, American football player
- 1980 – Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver
- 1981 – Curren$y, American rapper (504 Boyz)
- 1981 – Casey Daigle, American baseball player
- 1981 – Eduardo Luís Carloto, Brazilian footballer
- 1981 – Ned Vizzini American author
- 1982 – Kett Turton, Canadian-American actor
- 1983 – Fabian Geiser, Swiss footballer
- 1983 – Ben Gordon, American basketball player
- 1983 – Doug Lynch, Canadian hockey player
- 1983 – Natalie Pike, British model
- 1983 – Amanda Righetti, American actress and producer
- 1983 – Angelle Tymon, American journalist and game-show host
- 1984 – Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer
- 1985 – Rudy Fernández, Spanish basketball player
- 1985 – Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Eunhyuk, Korean singer (Super Junior)
- 1986 – Cameron Barker, Canadian hockey player
- 1986 – Aiden McGeady, Irish footballer
- 1987 – Devon Anderson, English actor
- 1987 – Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress
- 1987 – Sami Khedira, German footballer
- 1987 – McDonald Mariga, Kenyan footballer
- 1987 – Cameron Maybin, American baseball player
- 1987 – Lauri Pedaja, Estonian actor and hairdresser
- 1987 – Markos Vellidis, Greek footballer
- 1988 – Frank Fielding, English footballer
- 1988 – Georgia Jones, American porn actress and model
- 1989 – Vurnon Anita, Dutch footballer
- 1989 – Chris Herd, Australian footballer
- 1989 – Spencer Scott, American model
- 1991 – Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer
- 1992 – Lucy May Barker, British actress
- 1992 – Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer
- 1992 – Alexa Nikolas, American actress
- 1993 – Samir Carruthers, Irish Footballer
- 1994 – Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer (Berryz Kobo, Guardians 4, and v-u-den)
- 1996 – Austin Mahone, YouTube Star and Singer
Deaths
- 397 – St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (b. c. 338)
- 636 – Isidore of Seville (b. c. 560)
- 896 – Pope Formosus (b. 816)
- 1284 – Alfonso X of Castile (b. 1221)
- 1292 – Pope Nicholas IV (b. 1227)
- 1305 – Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (b. 1273)
- 1536 – Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (b. 1460)
- 1588 – Frederick II of Denmark (b. 1534)
- 1609 – Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (b. 1526)
- 1617 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
- 1643 – Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (b. 1583)
- 1661 – Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. c. 1580)
- 1701 – Joseph Haines, English entertainer and author
- 1743 – Daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678)
- 1761 – Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (b. 1722)
- 1766 – John Taylor, English scholar (b. 1704)
- 1774 – Oliver Goldsmith, English writer (b. 1728)
- 1792 – James Sykes, American politician (b. 1725)
- 1807 – Joseph Jérôme Lefrançais de Lalande, French astronomer (b. 1732)
- 1817 – André Masséna, Duke of Rivoli, Prince of Essling and Marshal of France (b. 1758)
- 1841 – William Henry Harrison, American politician, 9th President of the United States (b. 1773)
- 1846 – Solomon Sibley, American senator (b. 1769)
- 1861 – John McLean, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1785)
- 1863 – Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
- 1864 – Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (b. 1808)
- 1870 – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
- 1874 – Charles Ernest Beulé, French archaeologist and politician (b. 1826)
- 1878 – Richard M. Brewer, American outlaw and cowboy (b. 1850)
- 1879 – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (b. 1803)
- 1883 – Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (b. 1791)
- 1890 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Canadian politician (b. 1820)
- 1890 – Edmond Hébert, French geologist (b. 1812)
- 1912 – Charles Brantley Aycock, American politician, 50th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina (b. 1859)
- 1912 – Isaac Kaufmann Funk, American lexicographer, co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls (b. 1839)
- 1919 – Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (b. 1832)
- 1923 – John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
- 1929 – Karl Benz, German engine designer, inventor, and engineer (b. 1844)
- 1931 – André Michelin, French industrialist (b. 1853)
- 1932 – Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
- 1947 – William O'Donnell, Irish politician (b. ?)
- 1951 – Al Christie, Canadian director and producer (b. 1881)
- 1951 – George Albert Smith, American religious leader, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
- 1953 – Carol II of Romania (b. 1893)
- 1957 – E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (b. 1909)
- 1958 – Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (b. 1925)
- 1961 – Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (b. 1873)
- 1962 – James Hanratty, British rapist and murderer (b. 1936)
- 1967 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
- 1967 – Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1898)
- 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929)
- 1970 – Byron Foulger, American actor (b. 1899)
- 1972 – Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American politician (b. 1908)
- 1972 – Stefan Wolpe, German composer (b. 1902)
- 1976 – Harry Nyquist, Swedish contributor to information theory (b. 1889)
- 1979 – Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistani politician, 4th President of Pakistan and 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1928)
- 1979 – Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
- 1980 – Red Sovine, American singer (b. 1917)
- 1983 – Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1984 – Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer, founder of Antonov ASTC, (b. 1906)
- 1985 – Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (b. 1891)
- 1987 – C.L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Chögyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist meditation master (b. 1939)
- 1988 – Zlatko Grgić, Croatian animator (b. 1931)
- 1991 – Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (b. 1920)
- 1991 – Max Frisch, Swiss writer (b. 1911)
- 1991 – H. John Heinz III, American senator (b. 1938)
- 1991 – Forrest Towns, American hurdler (b. 1914)
- 1992 – Yvette Brind'Amour, French-Canadian actress and director (b. 1918)
- 1992 – Jack Hamilton, Australian football player (b. 1928)
- 1992 – Arthur Russell, American cellist (b. 1951)
- 1993 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and inventor of Scrabble (b. 1899)
- 1995 – Kenny Everett, British radio DJ and television entertainer (b. 1944)
- 1995 – Priscilla Lane, American singer and actress (b. 1915)
- 1996 – Barney Ewell, American athlete (b. 1918)
- 1996 – Boone Guyton, American test pilot (b. 1913)
- 1996 – Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (b. 1913)
- 1997 – Leo Picard, Israeli geologist (b. 1900)
- 1999 – Faith Domergue, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1999 – Early Wynn, American baseball player (b. 1920)
- 1999 – Bob Peck, British actor (b. 1945)
- 2001 – Ed Roth, American artist and car designer (b. 1932)
- 2001 – Maury Van Vliet, American-Canadian educator (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Anthony Caruso, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Resortes, Mexican comedian (b. 1916)
- 2004 – Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (b. 1919)
- 2005 – Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1924)
- 2007 – Bob Clark, American director (b. 1941)
- 2007 – Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (b. 1927)
- 2008 – Francis Tucker, South African race car driver (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Gonzalo Olave, Chilean actor (b. 1983)
- 2011 – Scott Columbus, American drummer (Manowar) (b. 1956)
- 2011 – Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and political activist (b. 1958)
- 2012 – Dubravko Pavličić, Croatian footballer (b. 1967)
Holidays and observances
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