Explore fascinating moments from history that shaped our world
A massive landslide in Oso, Washington, killed 43 people after engulfing a rural neighborhood, the largest death toll for a standalone landslide in U.S. history.
Palestinian imam Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, a founder and the spiritual leader of Hamas, was killed by an Israeli missile as he left early morning prayers.
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from the space station Mir aboard Soyuz TM-20 after 437 days in space, setting a record for the longest spaceflight.
USAir Flight 405 crashed in Flushing Bay shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, killing 27 people, and leading to studies into the effects of ice on aircraft.
Teachers at a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were falsely charged with the sexual abuse of schoolchildren, leading to the longest and costliest criminal trial in United States history.
British propaganda radio station Deutscher Kurzwellensender Atlantik began broadcasting to German submariners.
Second World War: British and Italian naval forces fought the Second Battle of Sirte in the Gulf of Sidra north of Libya.

Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed emperor of Vietnam, was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
Charilaos Vasilakos (pictured) won the first modern marathon in preparation for the inaugural Summer Olympics.

William Woods Holden, Governor of North Carolina, became the first U.S. state governor to be removed from office through impeachment.
The Emerald Buddha (pictured), considered to be the sacred palladium of Thailand, was installed in its current location at Wat Phra Kaew on the grounds of the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
The Parliament of Great Britain passed the Stamp Act, requiring that many printed materials in the Thirteen Colonies in British America carry a tax stamp.
Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for her participation in the Antinomian Controversy.
Pope Clement V issued a bull dissolving the Order of the Knights Templar.
The Bostran era, the official era of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, began.
At least 145 people are killed and 551 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia.
Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.
Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.
A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.
Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.
NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on its 16th mission, STS-76.
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.
NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama, causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me.

Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
A United States Navy Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster crashes into Hawaii's Waiʻanae Range, killing 66.
The United Kingdom grants full independence to Transjordan.
World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany, is heavily damaged in a British air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.
The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.

The first Masters Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.
Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.
Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.
Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attack the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
Yuan Shikai abdicates as Emperor of China, restoring the Republic and returning to the Presidency.

Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, is arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first modern Olympic marathon race with a time of three hours and 18 minutes.
Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
The Stanley Cup ice hockey competition is held for the first time, in Montreal, Canada.
The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
The Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves.
Battle of Croix-des-Bouquets: Black slave insurgents gain a victory in the first major battle of the Haitian Revolution.
The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
Notable Privateer Henry Morgan lands in Cuba to raid and plunder the inland town of Puerto del Príncipe during the latter stages of the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660).
Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, led by governor John Carver, sign a peace treaty with Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoags; Squanto serves as an interpreter between the two sides.
Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
Vox in excelso: Pope Clement V dissolves the Order of the Knights Templar.
Battle of Yashima: the Japanese forces of the Taira clan are defeated by the Minamoto clan.
Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
Artūrs Šilovs, Latvian ice hockey player
Dimitrios Meliopoulos, Greek footballer
Alex Meret, Italian footballer
Chimezie Metu, Nigerian-American basketball player
Nick Robinson, American actor
Edwin Díaz, Puerto Rican baseball player
Taurean Prince, American basketball player

Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarusian tennis player
Ha Sung-woon, South Korean singer
Roston Chase, Barbadian cricketer
Edy Tavares, Cape Verdean basketball player
Dominique Fishback, American actress
Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer
J. J. Watt, American football player
Chris Ivory, American football player

Ike Davis, American baseball player
Liam Doran, British rallycross driver
Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist (died 2013)
Dexter Fowler, American baseball player
Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
Justin Masterson, American baseball player
Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer
Piotr Trochowski, German footballer
Thomas Davis Sr., American football player
Deng Gai, South Sudanese basketball player
Enrico Gasparotto, Italian cyclist
Michael Janyk, Canadian skier
Michael Morse, American baseball player
Piá, Brazilian footballer
Mike Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
Constance Wu, American actress
Tiffany Dupont, American actress
Arne Gabius, German runner
Mims, American rapper
Michalis Kouinelis, Greek hip hop singer
Aaron North, American guitarist
Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
Josh Heupel, American football player and coach
John Otto, American musician and songwriter
Joey Porter, American football player and coach
Tom Poti, American ice hockey player
Anabel Rodríguez Ríos, Venezuelan film director and screenwriter
Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
Asako Toki, Japanese singer-songwriter
Reese Witherspoon, American actress and producer
Guillermo Díaz, American actor
Anne Dudek, American actress
Cole Hauser, American actor and producer
Jiří Novák, Czech-Monegasque tennis player
Marcus Camby, American basketball player
Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
Grigoria Golia, Greek handball player
Tuomas Grönman, Finnish ice hockey player
Geo Meneses, Mexican producer and singer
Beverley Knight, English singer-songwriter and producer

Shawn Bradley, German-American basketball player, coach, and actor
Cory Lidle, American baseball player (died 2006)
Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater and sportscaster
Keegan-Michael Key, American actor, comedian, and writer
Will Yun Lee, American actor and martial artist
Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer-songwriter
Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist

Hwang Young-cho, South Korean runner
Russell Maryland, American football player
Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
Bernie Gallacher, Scottish-English footballer (died 2011)
Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2015)
Artis Pabriks, Latvian academic and politician, 11th Minister for Defence of Latvia
António Pinto, Portuguese runner
Brian Shaw, American basketball player and coach
Ice MC, British rapper
Deborah Bull, English ballerina
Pelle Eklund, Swedish ice hockey player

Susan Ann Sulley, English pop singer
Hannu Virta, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
Martín Vizcarra, Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th President of Peru
Nikos Kourbanas, Greek footballer
Simon Furman, British comic book writer
Jim Covert, American football player
Matthew Modine, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
Jürgen Bucher, German footballer
Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer
Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Lena Olin, Swedish actress
Valdis Zatlers, Latvian physician and politician, 7th President of Latvia
Kenneth Rogoff, American economist and chess grandmaster
Des Browne, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
Bob Costas, American sportscaster
Fanny Ardant, French actress, director, and screenwriter
Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (died 2010)
Wolf Blitzer, American journalist
Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer and director
George Ferguson, English architect and politician, 1st Mayor of Bristol
James Patterson, American author and producer
Maarten van Gent, Dutch basketball player and coach

Don Chaney, American basketball player and coach
Rivka Golani, Israeli viola player and composer

Rudy Rucker, American mathematician, computer scientist, and author
Harry Vanda, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
Eric Roth, American screenwriter and producer
George Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Nazem Ganjapour, Iranian footballer and manager (died 2013)
Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 1976)
Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian singer-songwriter
Dick Pound, Canadian lawyer and academic
Billy Collins, American poet
Jeremy Clyde, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (died 2019)

Cassam Uteem, Mauritian politician, 2nd President of Mauritius
George Edward Alcorn, Jr., American physicist and inventor
Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author (died 1996)
Rein Etruk, Estonian chess player (died 2012)

Angelo Badalamenti, American pianist and composer (died 2022)
Armin Hary, German sprinter
Jon Hassell, American trumpet player and composer (died 2021)

Foo Foo Lammar, British drag queen (died 2003)
Erol Büyükburç, Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor (died 2015)
Ron Carey, American trade union leader (died 2008)
Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2023)

Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova, Russian-born Soviet test pilot and aerobatics champion (died 2004)
Lea Pericoli, Italian tennis player and journalist (died 2024)

Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (died 2013)
M. Emmet Walsh, American actor (died 2024)
May Britt, Swedish actress
Sheila Cameron, English lawyer and judge
Orrin Hatch, American lawyer and politician (died 2022)
Abolhassan Banisadr, Iranian economist and politician, 1st President of Iran (died 2021)
Els Borst, Dutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2014)

Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (died 2010)

Burton Richter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018)
William Shatner, Canadian actor
Ann Shulgin, psychedelic researcher and author (died 2022)
Leslie Thomas, Welsh journalist and author (died 2014)
Derek Bok, American lawyer and academic
Pat Robertson, American minister and broadcaster, founded the Christian Broadcasting Network (died 2023)
Stephen Sondheim, American composer and songwriter (died 2021)
Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist

P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer (died 1973)
Carrie Donovan, American journalist (died 2001)
E. D. Hirsch, American author, critic, and academic
Ed Macauley, American basketball player, coach, and priest (died 2011)
Marty Blake, American basketball player and manager (died 2013)
Nicolas Tikhomiroff, Russian photographer (died 2016)
Al Neuharth, American journalist and author, founded USA Today (died 2013)

Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite (died 1960)

Osman F. Seden, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1998)

Bill Wendell, American television announcer (died 1999)
Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (died 2007)
John J. Gilligan, American politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (died 2013)
Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (died 2015)
Nino Manfredi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2004)
James Brown, American actor and singer (died 1992)
Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (died 2000)
Lloyd MacPhail, Canadian businessman and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (died 1995)
Ross Martin, American actor (died 1981)

Katsuko Saruhashi, Japanese geochemist (died 2007)
Fanny Waterman, English pianist and educator, founded the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (died 2020)
Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (died 1990)
Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (died 1997)
Virginia Grey, American actress (died 2004)
Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (died 2006)
Paul Rogers, English actor (died 2013)

John Stanley, American author and illustrator (died 1993)
Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, English businessman (died 2008)
Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (died 1983)
Lew Wasserman, American businessman and talent agent (died 2002)
James Westerfield, American actor (died 1971)

Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor and performer (died 1985)
Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (died 1959)
Karl Malden, American actor (died 2009)

Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter and educator (died 2004)
Nicholas Monsarrat, English sailor and author (died 1979)
Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author and educator (died 1983)
Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (died 1991)
Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (died 1988)
James M. Gavin, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (died 1990)

Bill Holman, American cartoonist (died 1987)
Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect, designed the Van Nelle Factory (died 1949)
Madeleine Milhaud, French actress and composer (died 2008)

Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter (died 1991)
Ruth Page, American ballerina and choreographer (died 1991)
He Long, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 1969)
Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-American actor (died 1964)

Charlie Poole, American country banjo player (died 1931)
Johannes Semper, Estonian poet and scholar (died 1970)
George Clark, American race car driver (died 1978)
Chico Marx, American actor (died 1961)
August Rei, Estonian lawyer and politician, Head of State of Estonia (died 1963)

Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator (died 1969)
Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician (died 1951)
Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (died 1959)

Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach (died 1960)
Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (died 1939)
Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (died 1964)
Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer (died 1939)
Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1953)
Jack Boyle, American baseball player and umpire (died 1913)
Paul Doumer, French mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France (died 1932)
Dorothy Tennant, British painter (died 1926)
Otakar Ševčík, Czech violinist and educator (died 1934)
Hector Sévin, French cardinal (died 1916)

Randolph Caldecott, English illustrator and painter (died 1886)
James Timberlake, American lieutenant, police officer, and farmer (died 1891)
Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1912)
Anastassios Christomanos, Greek scientist (died 1906)
Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, scholar, statesman and jurist (died 1895)
John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-Australian explorer, founded Penwortham (died 1846)
Braxton Bragg, American general (died 1876)
Thomas Crawford, American sculptor, designed the Statue of Freedom (died 1857)

Stephen Pearl Andrews, American author and activist (died 1886)
Caroline Norton, English feminist, social reformer, and author (died 1877)
David Swinson Maynard, American physician and lawyer (died 1873)
William I, German Emperor (died 1888)
Adam Sedgwick, English scientist (died 1873)
Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter and theorist (died 1779)
Charles Carroll, American lawyer and politician (died 1783)
Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect, designed the Yellow Palace and Bernstorff Palace (died 1799)
Edward Moore, English poet and playwright (died 1757)
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (died 1764)
August Hermann Francke, German clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar (died 1727)
Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, British scientist (died 1691)
John II Casimir Vasa, Polish king (died 1672)
Anthony van Dyck, Flemish-English painter and etcher (died 1641)
John Williams, Archbishop of York (died 1650)
Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman (died 1580)
Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (died 1590)
Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian author and educator (died 1583)
Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler (died 1537)
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1519)
Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician (died 1449)
Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (probable); (died 1399)
Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (died 1235)

William I, Duke of Aquitaine (died 918)
Bernard Plantapilosa, Frankish son of Bernard of Septimania (died 885)
Jessica Aber, American lawyer (born 1981)

Andy Peebles, English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator (born 1948)
Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (born 1925)
Scott Walker, British-American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (born 1911)
Rob Ford, Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (born 1969)
Rita Gam, American actress (born 1927)
Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (born 1933)
Horst Buhtz, German footballer and manager (born 1923)
Norman Scribner, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)

Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian author (born 1928)
Mickey Duff, Polish-English boxer and manager (born 1929)
Thor Listau, Norwegian soldier and politician (born 1938)
Tasos Mitsopoulos, Cypriot politician, Cypriot Minister of Defence (born 1965)
Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician (born 1951)
Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (born 1918)

Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (born 1928)
David Waltz, American computer scientist and academic (born 1943)
Neil L. Whitehead, English anthropologist and author (born 1956)
Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (born 1920)
Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (born 1926)

James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)
Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman (born 1943)
Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (born 1918)

U. G. Krishnamurti, Indian-Italian philosopher and educator (born 1918)
Pierre Clostermann, French soldier, pilot, and politician (born 1921)
Pío Leyva, Cuban singer and author (born 1917)
Kurt von Trojan, Austrian-Australian journalist and author (born 1937)
Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1947)

Gemini Ganesan, Indian film actor (born 1920)
Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (born 1913)

Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer and academic (born 1943)
Ahmed Yassin, Co-founded Hamas (born 1937)
V. M. Tarkunde, Indian lawyer and civil rights activist (born 1909)
Terry Lloyd, English journalist (born 1952)
Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (born 1917)
Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (born 1925)
Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish soldier and pilot (born 1913)
William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (born 1910)

Robert Fletcher Shaw, Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (born 1910)
Carlo Parola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1921)

Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (born 1913)

David Strickland, American actor (born 1969)
Don Murray, American drummer (born 1945)
Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1936)
Billy Williamson, American guitarist (born 1925)

Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter, and producer (born 1950)
Walter Lantz, American animator, director, and producer (born 1899)
Steve Olin, American baseball player (born 1965)
Léon Balcer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1917)

Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (born 1908)

Dave Guard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1934)
Gloria Holden, English-American actress (born 1908)
Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer and academic (born 1928)
Peta Taylor, English cricketer (born 1912)
Odysseas Angelis, Greek general and politician (born 1912)
Olive Deering, American actress (born 1918)
Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer, and engraver (born 1910)

Spyros Vassiliou, Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer (born 1903)
James Elliott, American runner and coach (born 1915)
Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, 13th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1907)
Ben Lyon, American actor and studio executive (born 1901)
Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (born 1905)
A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician (born 1904)

John Dwyer McLaughlin, American painter (born 1898)
Peter Revson, American race car driver (born 1939)
Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer (born 1910)

Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner (born 1893)

Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (born 1886)
John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot (born 1935)

José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (born 1904)
Mike Todd, American film producer (born 1909)

Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1892)
D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1883)
Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (born 1875)
William Donne, English captain and cricketer (born 1875)

María Collazo, Uruguayan journalist and activist (born 1884)
James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (born 1851)
William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (born 1848)
Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (born 1882)
Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (born 1864)
Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (born 1822)
Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (born 1793)
Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (born 1838)
Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (born 1798)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (born 1749)
Stephen Decatur, American commander (born 1779)
Jonathan Edwards, English minister, theologian, and philosopher (born 1703)
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer and conductor (born 1632)
Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (born 1638)
Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and educator (born 1557)
Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (born 1488)

George of Poděbrady (born 1420)

John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury

Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of England (born 1388)
Dietrich of Nieheim, German bishop and historian (born 1345)
Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England (born 1278)
William of Norwich, child murder victim

Carloman of Bavaria, Frankish king
Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (born 208)
Bihar Day (Bihar, India)
Christian feast day: Basil of Ancyra
Christian feast day: Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen
Christian feast day: Darerca of Ireland
Christian feast day: Epaphroditus
Christian feast day: Jonathan Edwards (Lutheranism)

Christian feast day: Lea of Rome
Christian feast day: Nicholas Owen
Christian feast day: Paul of Narbonne
Christian feast day: March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Earliest day on which Easter Sunday can fall (last in 1818, will not happen again until 2285), while April 25 is the latest. (Christianity)
Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud (Puerto Rico)
World Water Day (International)