Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 Hispanic workers in one of the largest immigration raids in the history of the U.S.
An explosion at a coal mine in West Virginia killed 29 miners in the United States' worst mining disaster in 40 years.
The North Korean satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 was launched from the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground and passed over Japan, sparking concerns it may have been a trial run of technology that could be used to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles.
In the first reported data breach, 250,000 social security numbers collected by the State of California were stolen from a data center.
Fan violence broke out before a UEFA Cup semifinal in Istanbul, Turkey, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending the second leg in England.
The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge (pictured), then the world's longest suspension bridge, linking Awaji Island and Kobe in Japan, opened to traffic.
The Libyan secret service bombed a discotheque in West Berlin, resulting in three deaths and 229 others injured.
Faculty members, clerical workers, and librarians at Boston University went on strike.
During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempted to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally in his old age, Winston Churchill retired as prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Siegfried Lederer, a Czech Jew, escaped from Auschwitz with the aid of an SS officer who opposed the Holocaust.
An F5 tornado struck Tupelo, Mississippi, killing at least 216 people during one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
Nazi sympathisers attempted to kidnap two German-Jewish filmmakers in Liechtenstein.
A spectator stand collapsed (pictured) during a football match at Ibrox Park in Govan, Scotland, killing 25 supporters and injuring more than 500 others.
New Zealand Wars: The invasion of the Waikato ended after the Kīngitanga forces of King Tāwhiao abandoned their pā at Te Tiki o te Ihingarangi and migrated east to what became known as the King Country.
Birkenhead Park, generally acknowledged as the world's first publicly funded civic park, opened in Birkenhead, England.
The Statute of Anne, the first legislation in Great Britain providing for copyright regulated by the government and courts, received royal assent and entered into force five days later.
Pocahontas (pictured), a Native American woman, married English colonist John Rolfe, leading to a period of peace between the Powhatan people and the inhabitants of Jamestown, Virginia.
The Fatimid Caliphate began a second unsuccessful invasion of Egypt, then under Abbasid rule.
Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.
Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two militant suicide bombings and attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar.
Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia.
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-131 to resupply the International Space Station.
North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.
Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.
In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.
Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.
Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.
An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.
The Space shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-37 to deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.
The People's Armed Police is officially founded
The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.
In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
Carrie, the first novel by American author Stephen King, is published for the first time with a print run of 30,000 copies.
In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.
During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with Cuban President Fulgencio Batista.
Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.
A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.
A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.
Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".
World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the residential area hit.
World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad.
World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.
Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.
Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.
Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic elections with universal male suffrage.
Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.
The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.
A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland and England.
Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.
In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.
United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.
The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.
In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.
Two hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces.
Charles V makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph.
During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.
The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his army.
Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.
Johnny Beecher, American ice hockey player
Felipe Peña, Argentine footballer
Bobby Miller, American baseball player
Nathan Broadhead, Welsh football player
Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer
Dominik Mysterio, American wrestler
Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver
Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer
Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player
Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer
Gleb Rassadkin, Belarusian footballer
Sebastian Starke Hedlund, Swedish footballer
Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player
Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer
Richard Sánchez, Mexican footballer
Andreas Bouchalakis, Greek footballer
Maya DiRado, American swimmer
Laura Feiersinger, Austrian footballer
Benjamin Garcia, French rugby league player
Scottie Wilbekin, American-Turkish basketball player
Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer
Shintaro Kurumaya, Japanese footballer
Kaveh Rezaei, Iranian footballer
Dmytro Ryzhuk, Ukrainian footballer
Yassine Bounou, Moroccan footballer
Nathaniel Clyne, English footballer
Adriano Grimaldi, Italian-German footballer
Joël Mall, Swiss footballer
Guilherme dos Santos Torres, Brazilian footballer
Amer Said Al-Shatri, Omani footballer
Alex Cuthbert, Welsh rugby player
Patrick Dangerfield, Australian footballer
Fredy Hinestroza, Colombian footballer
Chen Huijia, Chinese swimmer
Haruma Miura, Japanese actor and singer (died 2020)
Ismaeel Mohammad, Qatari footballer
Iryna Pamialova, Belarusian canoeist
Jakub Sedláček, Czech ice hockey player
Sercan Yıldırım, Turkish footballer
Género Zeefuik, Dutch footballer
Kader Amadou, Nigerien footballer
Yémi Apithy, Beninese fencer
Liemarvin Bonevacia, Dutch sprinter
Freddie Fox, English actor
Emre Güral, Turkish footballer
Justin Holiday, American basketball player
Rachel Homan, Canadian curler
Lily James, English actress
Trevor Marsicano, American speed skater
Jonathan Rossini, Swiss footballer
Kiki Sukezane, Japanese actress
Sosuke Takatani, Japanese wrestler
Gerson Acevedo, Chilean footballer
Teresa Almeida, Angolan handball player
Quade Cooper, New Zealand-Australian rugby player and boxer
Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby union player
Gevorg Ghazaryan, Armenian footballer
Alisha Glass, American ex-indoor volleyball player
Vurğun Hüseynov, Azerbaijani footballer
Matthias Jaissle, German footballer and manager
Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier
Zack Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
Pape Sy, French basketball player
Alexey Volkov, Russian biathlete
Max Grün, German footballer
Balázs Hárai, Hungarian water polo player
Anton Kokorin, Russian sprint athlete
Fyodor Kudryashov, Russian footballer
Etiënne Reijnen, Dutch footballer
Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress
Anzor Boltukayev, Chechen wrestler
Diego Chará, Colombian footballer
Charlotte Flair, American wrestler, author and actress
Róbert Kasza, Hungarian Modern pentathlete
Eetu Muinonen, Finnish footballer
Manuel Ruz, Spanish footballer
Albert Selimov, Azerbaijani boxer
Daniel Congré, French footballer
Erwin l'Ami, Dutch chess player
Jolanda Keizer, Dutch heptathlete
Sergey Khachatryan, Armenian violinist
Linas Pilibaitis, Lithuanian footballer
Jan Smeets, Dutch chess grandmaster
Kristof Vandewalle, Belgian cyclist
Marshall Allman, American actor
Aram Mp3, Armenian singer and comedian
Rune Brattsveen, Norwegian biathlete
Alexei Glukhov, Russian ice hockey player
Maartje Goderie, Dutch field hockey player
Darija Jurak, Croatian tennis player
Dejan Kelhar, Slovenian footballer
Dmitry Kozonchuk, Russian cyclist
Shin Min-a, South Korean actress
Jess Sum, Hong Kong actress
Peter Penz, Austrian luger
Samuele Preisig, Swiss footballer
Cristian Săpunaru, Romanian footballer
Fabio Vitaioli, San Marinese footballer
Kisho Yano, Japanese footballer
Saba Qamar, Pakistani actress-model
Jaime Castrillón, Colombian footballer
Jorge Andrés Martínez, Uruguayan footballer
Brock Radunske, Canadian-South Korean ice hockey player
Yohann Sangaré, French basketball player
Cécile Storti, French cross-country skier
Shikha Uberoi, Indian-American tennis player
Hayley Atwell, English-American actress
Matheus Coradini Vivian, Brazilian footballer
Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
Kelly Pavlik, American boxer
Matt Pickens, American soccer player
Alexandre Prémat, French race car driver
Danylo Sapunov, Ukrainian-Kazakhstani triathlete
Hubert Schwab, Swiss cyclist
Marcel Seip, Dutch former footballer
Matthew Emmons, American rifle shooter
Michael A. Monsoor, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2006)
Mariqueen Maandig, Filipino-American musician and singer-songwriter
Daba Modibo Keïta, Malian taekwondo athlete
Marissa Nadler, American musician
Tom Riley, English actor and producer
Mompati Thuma, Botswana footballer
Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist
Matt Bonner, American basketball player
Alberta Brianti, Italian tennis player
Rafael Cavalcante, Brazilian mixed martial artist
David Chocarro, Argentinian baseball player and actor
Mike Glumac, Canadian ice hockey player
Mario Kasun, Croatian basketball player
Lee Jae-won, South Korean DJ and singer
Joris Mathijsen, Dutch footballer
Rasmus Quist Hansen, Danish rower
Odlanier Solís, Cuban boxer
Vlada Avramov, Serbian footballer
Josh Boone, American screenwriter and director
Song Dae-nam, South Korean judoka
Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
Imany, French singer
Barel Mouko, Congolese footballer
Cesare Natali, Italian footballer
Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer
Alexander Resch, German luger
Andrius Velička, Lithuanian footballer
Dante Wesley, American football player
Chen Yanqing, Chinese weightlifter
Dwain Chambers, British track sprinter
Marcone Amaral Costa, Qatari footballer
Tarek El-Said, Egyptian footballer
Jairo Patiño, Colombian footballer
Sohyang, South Korean singer
Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
Arnaud Tournant, French cyclist
Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
Günther Weidlinger, Austrian long-distance runner
Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player
Trevor Letowski, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Daniel Majstorović, Swedish footballer
Luis de Agustini, Uruguayan footballer
Péter Biros, Hungarian water polo player
Sterling K. Brown, American actor
Aleksei Budõlin, Estonian judoka
Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer and coach
Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer
Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer
Valeria Straneo, Italian long-distance runner
Indrek Tobreluts, Estonian biathlete
Anouska van der Zee, Dutch cyclist
Sarah Baldock, English organist and conductor
John Hartson, Welsh footballer and coach
Juicy J, American rapper and producer
Serhiy Klymentiev, Ukrainian ice hockey player
Caitlin Moran, English journalist, author, and critic
Marcos Vales, Spanish footballer
Shammond Williams, American basketball player and coach
Sandra Bagarić, Croatian opera singer and actress
Julien Boutter, French tennis player
Katja Holanti, Finnish biathlete
Oleg Khodkov, Russian handball player
Ariel López, Argentine footballer
Lukas Ridgeston, Slovak actor and director
Vyacheslav Voronin, Russian high jumper
Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress
Brendan Cannon, Australian rugby player
Lidia Trettel, Italian snowboarder
Pharrell Williams, American singer, songwriter and rapper
Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-Canadian theoretical physicist
Tom Coronel, Dutch race car driver
Paul Okon, Australian footballer and manager
Duncan Spencer, English cricketer
Yasuhiro Takemoto, Japanese animator and director (died 2019)
Junko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
Dong Abay, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist
Krista Allen, American actress
Austin Berry, Costa Rican footballer
Simona Cavallari, Italian actress
Victoria Hamilton, English actress
Nelson Parraguez, Chilean footballer
Kim Soo-nyung, South Korean archer
Soheil Ayari, French race car driver
Valérie Bonneton, French actress
Diamond D, American hip hop producer
Petar Genov, Bulgarian chess grandmaster
Thea Gill, Canadian actress
Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter
Irina Timofeyeva, Russian long-distance runner
Dinos Angelidis, Greek basketball player
Viatcheslav Djavanian, Russian cyclist
Pontus Kåmark, Swedish footballer
Pavlo Khnykin, Ukrainian swimmer
Tomislav Piplica, Bosnian footballer and manager
Ravindra Prabhat, Indian writer and journalist
Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter and pianist
Troy Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)
Franck Silvestre, French footballer
Erland Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
Laima Zilporytė, Soviet cyclist
Yoon Hyun, South Korean judoka
Mike McCready, American guitarist and songwriter
Peter Overton, English-Australian journalist and television host
Aykut Kocaman, Turkish footballer and manager
Lang Tzu-yun, Taiwanese actress
Elizabeth McIntyre, American freestyle skier
Svetlana Paramygina, Belarusian biathlete
Neil Eckersley, British judoka
Vakhtang Iagorashvili, Soviet modern pentathlete
Levon Julfalakyan, Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler
Marius Lăcătuș, Romanian footballer and coach
Arthur Adams, American comic book artist and writer
Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (died 2003)
Sara Danius, Swedish scholar of literature and aesthetics (died 2019)
Richard Gough, Swedish born Scottish international footballer
Arild Monsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Russian businessman and politician, 1st President of Kalmykia
Andrea Arnold, English filmmaker and actress
Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian soprano
Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Bahraini-Danish human rights activist
Lisa Zane, American actress and singer
Asteris Koutoulas, Romanian-German record producer, manager, and author
Larry McCray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Ian Redford, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2014)
Hiromi Taniguchi, Japanese long-distance runner
Adnan Terzić, Bosnian politician
Paul Chung, Hong Kong actor and host (died 1989)
Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (died 2021)
Henrik Dettmann, Finnish basketball coach
Ryoichi Kawakatsu, Japanese footballer
Johan Kriek, South African-American tennis player
Daniel Schneidermann, French journalist
Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan lawyer and journalist (died 2009)
Sebastian Adayanthrath, Indian bishop
Karin Roßley, German hurdler
Diamond Dallas Page, American wrestler and actor
Leonid Fedun, Russian businessman
Reid Ribble, American politician
Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter
Ricardo Ferrero, Argentine footballer (died 2015)
Christian Gourcuff, French footballer and manager
Anthony Horowitz, English author and screenwriter
Bernard Longley, English prelate
Akira Toriyama, Japanese illustrator (died 2024)
Takayoshi Yamano, Japanese footballer
Guy Bertrand, Canadian linguist and radio host
Peter Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Mohamed Ben Mouza, Tunisian footballer
Stan Ridgway, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Yoshiichi Watanabe, Japanese footballer
Frank Gaffney, American journalist and radio host
Keiko Han, Japanese actress
Tae Jin-ah, South Korean singer
Raleb Majadele, Israeli politician
Ian Swales, English accountant and politician
Alfie Conn, Scottish international footballer
John C. Dvorak, American author and editor
Sandy Mayer, American tennis player
Dennis Mortimer, English footballer
Mitch Pileggi, American actor
Les Binks, Irish drummer and songwriter
Yevgeniy Gavrilenko, Belarusian hurdler
Nedim Gürsel, Turkish writer
Dean Kamen, American inventor and businessman, founded Segway Inc.
Dave McArtney, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)
Ubol Ratana, Thai Princess
Ann C. Crispin, American writer (died 2013)
Franklin Chang Díaz, Costa Rican-Chinese American astronaut and physicist
Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer
Toshiko Fujita, Japanese actress, singer and narrator (died 2018)
Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor
Stanley Dziedzic, American wrestler
Larry Franco, American film producer
Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (died 1986)
Pierre-Albert Chapuisat, Swiss footballer
Dave Holland, English drummer (died 2018)
Roy McFarland, English footballer and manager
Đurđica Bjedov, Yugoslav swimmer
Willy Chirino, Cuban-American musician
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Filipino academic and politician, 14th President of the Philippines
Ramón Mifflin, Peruvian footballer
Virendra Sharma, Indian-English lawyer and politician
Jane Asher, English actress
Julio Ángel Fernández, Uruguayan astronomer
Björn Granath, Swedish actor (died 2017)
Georgi Markov, Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler
Ove Bengtson, Swedish tennis player
Steve Carver, American director and producer (died 2021)
Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (died 2004)
Tommy Smith, English footballer (died 2019)
Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dutch actress and director
János Martonyi, Hungarian politician
Evan Parker, British musician
Douangchay Phichit, Laotian politician (died 2014)
Willy Planckaert, Belgian cyclist
Pedro Rosselló, Puerto Rican physician and politician, 7th Governor of Puerto Rico
Peter T. King, American soldier, lawyer, and politician
Dean Brown, Australian politician, 41st Premier of South Australia
Max Gail, American actor and director
Fighting Harada, Japanese boxer
Miet Smet, Belgian politician
Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (died 2018)
Allan Clarke, English singer-songwriter
Pascal Couchepin, Swiss politician
Juan Gisbert Sr., Spanish tennis player
Peter Greenaway, Welsh director and screenwriter
Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor
Dave Swarbrick, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2016)
Tommy Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)
Gilles Proulx, Canadian journalist, historian, and radio host
Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania (died 2011)
Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (died 2010)
Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Prime Minister of Yemen
Ronald White, American singer-songwriter (died 1995)
David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer and producer (died 2019)
Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (died 2018)
Mal Colston, Australian educator and politician (died 2003)
Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (died 2014)
Natalya Kustinskaya, Soviet actress (died 2012)
Giorgos Sideris, Greek footballer
Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and author (died 2024)
Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State (died 2021)
Andrzej Schinzel, Polish mathematician (died 2021)
Arie Selinger, Israeli volleyball player and manager
Juan Vicente Lezcano, Paraguayan footballer (died 2012)
Ronnie Bucknum, American race car driver (died 1992)
Glenn Jordan, American director and producer
Dragoljub Minić, Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster (died 2005)
Giovanni Cianfriglia, Italian actor (died 2024)
Peter Grant, English talent manager (died 1995)
Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2018)
Frank Schepke, German rower (died 2017)
John Carey, English author and critic
Roman Herzog, German lawyer and politician, 7th President of Germany (died 2017)
Moise Safra, Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Banco Safra (died 2014)
Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist and composer (died 2000)
Feridun Buğeker, Turkish footballer (died 2014)
Frank Gorshin, American actor (died 2005)
Barbara Holland, American author (died 2010)
K. Kailasapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and academic (died 1982)
Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)
Héctor Olivera, Argentine director, producer and screenwriter
Mary Costa, American singer and actress
Pierre Lhomme, French director of photography (died 2019)
Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and painter (died 2008)
Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)
Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (died 2001)
Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (died 1967)
Mahmoud Mollaghasemi, Iranian wrestler
Enzo Cannavale, Italian actor (died 2011)
Tony Williams, American singer (died 1992)
Thanin Kraivichien, Thai lawyer and politician, 14th prime minister of Thailand (died 2025)
Arne Hoel, Norwegian ski jumper (died 2006)
Roger Corman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)
Liang Yusheng, Chinese writer (died 2009)
Janet Rowley, American human geneticist (died 2013)
Pierre Nihant, Belgian cyclist (died 1993)
Igor Borisov, Soviet rower (died 2003)
Ernest Mandel, German-born Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist (died 1995)
Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (died 1995)
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (died 2001)
Tom Finney, English footballer (died 2014)
Harry Freedman, Polish-Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (died 2005)
Andy Linden, American race car driver (died 1987)
Gale Storm, American actress and singer (died 2009)
Christopher Hewett, English actor and theatre director (died 2001)
Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)
Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian soldier and author (died 2004)
Alfonso Thiele, Turkish-Italian race car driver (died 1986)
John Willem Gran, Swedish bishop (died 2008)
Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan director, screenwriter, and producer (died 2018)
Robert Bloch, American author (died 1994)
Frans Gommers, Belgian footballer (died 1996)
Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer (died 2003)
Felice Borel, Italian footballer (died 1993)
Antoni Clavé, Catalan artist (died 2005)
Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (died 1969)
Ruth Smith, Faroese artist (died 1958)
Jehan Buhan, French fencer (died 1999)
Habib Elghanian, Iranian businessman (died 1979)
Antonio Ferri, Italian scientist (died 1975)
Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (died 2000)
Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 1997)
John Le Mesurier, English actor (died 1983)
István Örkény, Hungarian author and playwright (died 1979)
Bill Roberts, English sprinter and soldier (died 2001)
Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician (died 1993)
Johnny Revolta, American golfer (died 1991)
Sven Andersson, Swedish politician (died 1987)
Oronzo Pugliese, Italian football manager (died 1990)
Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer, co-founded Eon Productions (died 1996)
Giacomo Gentilomo, Italian film director and painter (died 2001)
Károly Sós, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 1991)
Erwin Wegner, German hurdler (died 1945)
Bette Davis, American actress (died 1989)
Kurt Neumann, German director (died 1958)
Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1986)
Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (died 1989)
Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai jurist (died 2002)
Albert Charles Smith, American botanist (died 1999)
Fernando Germani, Italian organist (died 1998)
Ted Morgan, New Zealand boxer (died 1952)
Richard Eberhart, American poet and academic (died 2005)
Marion Aye, American actress (died 1951)
Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi (died 1994)
Curt Bois, German actor (died 1991)
Chester Bowles, American diplomat and ambassador (died 1986)
Melvyn Douglas, American actor (died 1981)
Doggie Julian, American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach (died 1967)
Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, and photographer (died 1985)
Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (died 1939)
Spencer Tracy, American actor (died 1967)
Alfred Blalock, American surgeon and academic (died 1964)
Solange d'Ayen, French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (died 1976)
Hans Schuberth, German politician (died 1976)
Einar Lundborg, Swedish aviator (died 1931)
Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (died 1957)
Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (died 1956)
Hans Hüttig, German SS officer (died 1980)
Carl Rudolf Florin, Swedish botanist (died 1965)
Frithjof Andersen, Norwegian wrestler (died 1975)
Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (died 1973)
Raymond Bonney, American ice hockey player (died 1964)
Arnold Jackson, English runner, soldier, and lawyer (died 1972)
Laura Vicuña, Chilean nun (died 1904)
Karl Kirk, Danish gymnast (died 1955)
William Moore, British track and field athlete (died 1956)
Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, Brazilian martial artist (died 1981)
William Cowhig, British gymnast (died 1964)
Gotthelf Bergsträsser, German linguist (died 1933)
Frederick Lindemann, British physicist (died 1957)
Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (died 1933)
Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian composer (died 1978)
Ion Inculeț, Bessarabian academic and politician, President of Moldova (died 1940)
Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1950)
Song Jiaoren, Chinese revolutionary (died 1913)
Natalia Sedova, 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky (died 1962)
Eric Carlberg, Swedish Army officer, diplomat, shooter, fencer and modern pentathlete (died 1963)
Vilhelm Carlberg, Swedish Army officer and shooter (died 1970)
Arthur Berriedale Keith, Scottish lawyer (died 1944)
Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, German naval officer and author (died 1956)
Albert Champion, French cyclist (died 1927)
Georg Misch, German philosopher (died 1965)
Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (died 1964)
Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal of the Catholic Church (died 1949)
Manuel María Ponce Brousset, President of Peru (died 1966)
Joseph Rheden, Austrian astronomer (died 1946)
Samuel Cate Prescott, American microbiologist and chemist (died 1962)
Stanisław Grabski, Polish economist and politician (died 1949)
Motobu Chōki, Japanese karateka (died 1944)
Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (died 1942)
Albert Roussel, French composer (died 1937)
Ernest Lewis, British tennis player (died 1930)
Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1950)
Louis Ganne, French conductor (died 1923)
Leo Stern, English cellist (died 1904)
Harry S. Barlow, British tennis player (died 1917)
Reinhold Seeberg, German theologian (died 1935)
Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman, founded Burpee Seeds (died 1915)
Alexander of Battenberg (died 1893)
Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, essayist and historian (died 1915)
Émile Billard, French sailor (died 1930)
Walter W. Winans, American marksman and sculptor (died 1920)
Franz Eckert, German composer and musician (died 1916)
Enrico Mazzanti, Italian engineer and cartoonist (died 1910)
Thure de Thulstrup, American illustrator (died 1930)
Ulrich Wille, Swiss army general (died 1925)
Sigmund Exner, Austrian physiologist (died 1926)
Henry Wellesley, British peer and politician (died 1900)
Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, German anatomist and histopathologist (died 1919)
Jules Cambon, French diplomat (died 1935)
Hans Hildebrand, Swedish archaeologist (died 1913)
Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian historian and linguist (died 1911)
Robert Smalls, African-American ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician (died 1915)
Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (died 1909)
Vítězslav Hálek, Czech poet, writer, journalist, dramatist and theatre critic. (died 1874)
Prentice Mulford, American humorist and author (died 1891)
Wilhelm Olbers Focke, German medical doctor and botanist (died 1922)
Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist (died 1902)
Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (died 1893)
Joseph Lister, English surgeon and academic (died 1912)
Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, Belgian economist (died 1892)
Felix Lichnowsky, Czech soldier and politician (died 1848)
Jules Dupré, French painter (died 1889)
Sir Henry Rawlinson, British East India Company army officer and politician (died 1895)
Karl Felix Halm, German scholar and critic (died 1882)
Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (died 1881)
Félix Dujardin, French biologist (died 1860)
Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher, publicist and politician (died 1852)
Jacques Denys Choisy, Swiss clergyman and botanist (died 1859)
Henry Havelock, British general (died 1857)
Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist (died 1843)
Felix de Muelenaere, Belgian politician (died 1862)
Franz Pforr, German painter (died 1812)
Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1859)
Wincenty Krasiński, Polish nobleman (died 1858)
Marie Jules César Savigny, French zoologist (died 1851)
David Gillespie, American politician and surveyor (died 1829)
José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (died 1844)
Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1839)
Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (died 1839)
Sybil Ludington, American figure of the American Revolutionary War (died 1839)
Sébastien Érard, French instrument maker (died 1831)
Philemon Dickinson, American lawyer and politician (died 1809)
Franziskus Herzan von Harras, Czech Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1804)
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and etcher (died 1806)
Jean Baptiste Seroux d'Agincourt, French archaeologist and historian (died 1814)
Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1809)
Pasquale Anfossi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1797)
Benjamin Harrison V, American politician, planter and merchant (died 1791)
Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician, Lord Marshal of Sweden (died 1794)
Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (died 1730)
Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1768)
Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (died 1748)
Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy (died 1748)
Nikita Demidov, Russian industrialist (died 1725)
Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (died 1721)
Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (died 1703)
Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died 1661)
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (died 1675)
John Wilson, English composer and educator (died 1674)
Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died 1634)
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679)
Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)
Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (died 1597)
George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1603)
Giulio della Rovere, Italian Catholic Cardinal (died 1578)
Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer and diplomat (died 1596)
Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect (died 1570)
Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1510)
William II, Duke of Bavaria (died 1417)
James III of Majorca (died 1349)
Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (died 1336)
Al-Nuwayri, Egyptian Muslim historian (died 1333)
Wonjong of Goryeo, 24th ruler of Goryeo (died 1274)
Isabella of Hainault (died 1190)
C. J. Snare, American musician and songwriter (born 1959)
Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (born 1919)
Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwanese actor (born 1943)
Paul Ritter, English actor (born 1966)
Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
Isao Takahata, Japanese director (born 1935)
Attilio Benfatto, Italian cyclist (born 1943)
Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (born 1929)
Paul G. Comba, Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer (born 1926)
Makoto Ōoka, Japanese poet and literary critic (born 1931)
Paul O'Neill, American rock composer and producer (born 1956)
Tim Parnell, British race car driver (born 1932)
Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (born 1947)
Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (born 1942)
Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (born 1958)
Koço Kasapoğlu, Turkish footballer (born 1936)
Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (born 1949)
Juan Carlos Cáceres, Argentinian singer and pianist (born 1936)
Alan Davie, Scottish saxophonist and painter (born 1920)
Mariano Díaz, Spanish cyclist (born 1939)
Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (born 1927)
John Pinette, American comedian (born 1964)
José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director, and producer (born 1947)
Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (born 1921)
Piero de Palma, Italian tenor and actor (born 1924)
Nikolaos Pappas, Greek Navy admiral (born 1930)
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German designer (born 1935)
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, Dominican Republican politician military officer (born 1921)
Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (born 1923)
Barney McKenna, Irish musician (born 1939)
Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawian economist and politician, 3rd President of Malawi (born 1934)
Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)
Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician (born 1937)
Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (born 1935)
I. J. Good, British mathematician (born 1916)
Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (born 1923)
Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (born 1923)
Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (born 1908)
Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (born 1922)
Mark St. John, American guitarist (born 1956)
Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (born 1912)
Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (born 1927)
Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)
Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (born 1958)
Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (born 1923)
Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (born 1913)
Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (born 1917)
Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (born 1938)
Sławomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (born 1915)
Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (born 1936)
Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (born 1944)
Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (born 1967)
Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (born 1917)
Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (born 1910)
Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (born 1909)
Lee Petty, American race car driver (born 1914)
Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (born 1912)
Charles Frank, British theoretical physicist (born 1911)
Cozy Powell, English drummer (born 1947)
Allen Ginsberg, American poet (born 1926)
Charlene Holt, American actress (born 1928)
Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch chess player (born 1915)
Emilio Greco, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1913)
Christian Pineau, French Resistance fighter (born 1904)
Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1967)
Divya Bharti, Indian actress (born 1974)
Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (born 1928)
Molly Picon, American actress (born 1898)
Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (born 1918)
Sonny Carter, American soccer player, physician, and astronaut (born 1947)
Jay Miller, American basketball player (born 1943)
Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist, writer and screenwriter (born 1915)
William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (born 1909)
John Tower, American soldier, academic, and politician (born 1925)
Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (born 1895)
Karel Zeman, Czech director, artist, production designer and animator (born 1910)
Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (born 1920)
Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (born 1914)
Manly Wade Wellman, American writer (born 1903)
Hans Lunding, Danish military officer (born 1899)
Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (born 1894)
Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari, Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer. (born 1907)
Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (born 1910)
Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (born 1892)
Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (born 1945)
Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (born 1890)
Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (born 1903)
Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (born 1894)
Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (born 1905)
Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (born 1891)
Harry Wyld, British cyclist (born 1900)
Tell Berna, American middle and long-distance runner (born 1891)
Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician (born 1917)
Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1887)
Harold Osborn, American track and fielder (born 1899)
Bino Bini, Italian fencer (born 1900)
A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (born 1882)
David Murray, British race car driver (born 1909)
Alla Tarasova, Russian ballerina (born 1898)
Isabel Jewell, American actress and singer (born 1907)
José Cubiles, Spanish pianist and conductor (born 1894)
Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (born 1877)
Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (born 1891)
Karl von Spreti, German diplomat (born 1907)
Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (born 1918)
Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician (born 1917)
Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian SS officer (born 1903)
Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (born 1900)
Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer (born 1932)
Giuseppe Paris, Italian gymnast (born 1895)
Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (born 1891)
Johan Falkberget, Norwegian author (born 1879)
Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)
Herbert Johnston, British runner (born 1902)
Pedro Sernagiotto, Italian-Brazilian footballer (born 1908)
Sándor Szalay, Hungarian figure skater (born 1893)
James Chapin, American ornithologist (born 1889)
Aloïse Corbaz, Swiss artist (born 1886)
Douglas MacArthur, American general (born 1880)
Jacobus Oud, Dutch architect (born 1890)
Boo Kullberg, Swedish gymnast (born 1889)
Nikolai Kryukov, Russian composer (born 1908)
Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (born 1884)
Ásgrímur Jónsson, Icelandic painter (born 1876)
Isidora Sekulić, Serbian writer (born 1877)
William Titt, British gymnast (born 1881)
Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (born 1918)
Princess Märtha of Sweden, (born 1901)
Claude Delvincourt, French pianist and composer (born 1888)
Agnes Morton, British tennis player (born 1872)
Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter (born 1876)
Erich Zeigner, Prime Minister of Saxony (born 1886)
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (born 1874)
Bernhard Pankok, German painter, artist and architect (born 1872)
Elis Strömgren, Swedish-Danish astronomer (born 1870)
Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (born 1898)
Heinrich Borgmann, German officer (born 1912)
Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (born 1897)
Parvin E'tesami, Persian poet (born 1907)
Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (born 1876)
Franciszek Kleeberg, Polish general (born 1888)
Charles Freer Andrews, English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (born 1871)
Robert Maillart, Swiss civil engineer (born 1872)
Jay O'Brien, American bobsledder (born 1883)
Song Zheyuan, Chinese general (born 1885)
Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (born 1857)
Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (born 1890)
Gustav Adolf Deissmann, (born 1866)
José Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (born 1858)
Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (born 1884)
Achille Locatelli, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1856)
Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (born 1870)
Franz von Vecsey, Hungarian violinist and composer (born 1893)
Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (born 1860)
Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player (born 1908)
Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (born 1884)
Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and functional theorist (born 1854)
María Blanchard, Spanish painter (born 1881)
Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (born 1846)
Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (born 1846)
Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (born 1890)
Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (born 1861)
Victor Hensen, German zoologist (born 1835)
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (born 1866)
Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (born 1862)
Sophie Elkan, Swedish writer and translator (born 1853)
Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (born 1848)
George Tupou II, King of Tonga (born 1874)
Paul Vidal de La Blache, French geographer (born 1845)
Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (born 1851)
Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (born 1836)
Eastman Johnson, American painter (born 1824)
Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (born 1830)
Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (born 1822)
Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (born 1850)
Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (born 1820)
Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (born 1822)
Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (born 1832)
Johann Hermann Bauer, Austrian chess master (born 1861)
Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (born 1855)
Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (born 1806)
Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (born 1824)
Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (born 1812)
Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (born 1798)
Karel Purkyně, Czech painter (born 1834)
Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (born 1798)
Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (born 1806)
Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch artist (born 1803)
Ferdinand Joachimsthal, German mathematician (born 1818)
Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, (born 1800)
Shah Shuja Durrani, 5th Emir of Afghanistan (born 1785)
Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, Belgian entomologist (born 1797)
Richard Chenevix, Irish chemist and playwright (born 1774)
Johann Georg Wille, German engraver (born 1715)
Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (born 1761)
Johann Christoph Gatterer, German historian (born 1727)
Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (born 1759)
François Chabot, French politician (born 1756)
Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1760)
Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, dramatist, poet and politician (born 1750)
Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French judge and politician (born 1759)
Pierre Philippeaux, French lawyer (born 1754)
François Joseph Westermann, French general (born 1751)
Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jesuit priest (born 1713)
Egidio Forcellini, Italian philologist (born 1688)
Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (born 1685)
Edward Young, English poet and author (born 1683)
Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (born 1676)
William Derham, English minister and philosopher (born 1657)
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect, sculptor and historian (born 1656)
Jean Jouvenet, French painter (born 1647)
Jan Luyken, Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver (born 1649)
Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635)
Christian Heinrich, German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern (born 1661)
Christian Ulrich I, German nobleman and Duke of Württemberg-Oels (born 1652)
Charles XI, king of Sweden (born 1655)
George Savile, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1633)
Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, French noblewoman (born 1627)
Philip William August, German nobleman (born 1668)
William Brouncker, English mathematician (born 1620)
Karl Eusebius, prince of Liechtenstein (born 1611)
Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess (born 1619)
François Caron, Belgian-French explorer and politician, 8th Governor of Formosa (born 1600)
Anna Koltovskaya, Russian tsarina
Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (born 1555)
Diana Scultori, Italian engraver (born 1547)
John Stow, English historian and antiquary (born 1524/25)
Catherine of Palma, Spanish nun (born 1533)
Jan Matthys, Dutch anabaptist reformer
Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter (born 1429)
Bernard I, margrave of Baden-Baden (born 1364)
Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (born 1350)
Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron of Monthermer and Earl of Gloucester (born c. 1270)
Ivan Kőszegi, Hungarian baron and oligarch
Juliana of Liège, Belgian canoness and saint
Isabella I of Jerusalem, queen regnant of Jerusalem (born 1172)
Ramon Berenguer III, Spanish count of Cerdanya and Provence
Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (born 1104)
Al-Mu'tadid, Abbasid caliph
Ruadán of Lorrha, Irish abbot
Eutychius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch
Timothy I of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch
Christian feast day: Albert of Montecorvino
Christian feast day: Derfel Gadarn
Christian feast day: Æthelburh of Kent
Christian feast day: Gerald of Sauve-Majeure
Christian feast day: Juliana of Liège
Christian feast day: Maria Crescentia Höss
Christian feast day: Blessed Mariano de la Mata
Christian feast day: Pandita Mary Ramabai (Episcopal Church (USA))
Christian feast day: Ruadhán of Lorrha
Christian feast day: Vincent Ferrer
Christian feast day: April 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Cold Food Festival, held on April 4 if it is a leap year (China); and its related observances:
Earliest day on which Sham el-Nessim can fall, while May 9 is the latest; celebrated on Monday after the Orthodox Easter (Egypt)
Children's Day (Palestinian territories)
First Contact Day (International observance)
Sikmogil (South Korea)
National Maritime Day is observed in India, in commemoration of the first voyage of SS Loyalty of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. in 1919.
International Day of Conscience