April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 261 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
43 BC – Battle of Forum Gallorum : Mark Antony , besieging Caesar 's assassin Decimus Brutus in Mutina , defeats the forces of the consul Pansa , but is then immediately defeated by the army of the other consul, Hirtius .
69 – Vitellius , commander of the Rhine armies, defeats Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
70 – Siege of Jerusalem : Titus , son of emperor Vespasian , surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions .
193 – Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum (in the Balkans ).
966 – After his marriage to the Christian Dobrawa of Bohemia , the pagan ruler of the Polans , Mieszko I , converts to Christianity , an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state .
972 – Emperor Otto II married Princess Theophano, niece of Byzantine Emperor John Tzimisces, leading to a significant impact on German intellectual life, including interest in Greek literature and Byzantine art.
1028 – Henry III , son of Conrad , is elected king of the Germans .
1205 – Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders .
1294 – Temür , grandson of Kublai , is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
1341 – Sack of Saluzzo (Italy) by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo .
1434 – The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes , France is laid.
1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet ; the Earl is killed and Edward IV resumes the throne.
1639 – Imperial forces are defeated by the Swedes at the Battle of Chemnitz . The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Years' War and allows them to advance into Bohemia .
1699 – Khalsa : The Sikh religion was formalised as the Khalsa - the brotherhood of Warrior-Saints - by Guru Gobind Singh in Northern India , in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar .
1715 – The Yamasee War begins in South Carolina .
1775 – The first abolition society in North America is established. The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage is organized in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush .
1816 – Bussa , a slave in British-ruled Barbados , leads a slave rebellion and is killed. For this, he is remembered as the first national hero of Barbados.
1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary .
1846 – The Donner Party of pioneers departs Springfield, Illinois , for California , on what will become a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism , and survival.
1849 – Hungary declares itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1860 – The first Pony Express rider reaches San Francisco . The pony riders carried additionally, along with the mail, a small personal bible .
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (died April 15th).
1865 – U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked in his home by Lewis Powell .
1881 – The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas .
1890 – The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
1894 – The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes , a device for peep-show viewing of films.
1906 – The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia .
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
1927 – The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg , Sweden.
1928 – The Bremen , a German Junkers W33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
1931 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the Second Spanish Republic .
1931 – First edition of the Highway Code published in Great Britain.
1935 – "Black Sunday Storm ", the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl .
1939 – The Grapes of Wrath , by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press .
1940 – World War II : Royal Marines land in Namsos , Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
1941 – World War II: German general Erwin Rommel attacks Tobruk .
1942 – Malta receives the George Cross for its gallantry. The George Cross was given by King George VI himself and is now an emblem on the Maltese national flag .
1944 – Bombay Explosion : A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1945 – Osijek , Croatia , is liberated from fascist occupation.
1956 – In Chicago , videotape is first demonstrated.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows President of Togo Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new president, a title he would hold for the next 38 years.
1969 – At the U.S. Academy Awards there is a tie for the Academy Award for Best Actress between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand .
1978 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations : Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language .
1981 – STS-1 – The first operational space shuttle , Columbia (OV-102) completes its first test flight.
1986 – In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan orders major bombing raids against Libya , killing 60 people.
1986 – The heaviest hailstones ever recorded (1 kilogram (2.2 lb)) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh , killing 92.
1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will .
1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva , Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan .
1991 – The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
1994 – In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq , two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters , killing 26 people.
1999 – NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees – Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed.
1999 – A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$ 2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
2003 – The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas , leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985 .
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County .
2007 – At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara , Turkey, protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
2010 – Nearly 2,700 are killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu , Qinghai , China.
2014 – Twin bomb blasts in Abuja , Nigeria , kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others.
Births
1126 – Averroes , Spanish physician and philosopher (d. 1198)
1527 – Abraham Ortelius , Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
1572 – Adam Tanner , Austrian mathematician (d. 1632)
1578 – Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
1629 – Christiaan Huygens , Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1695)
1668 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie , Swedish general and politician (d. 1741)
1678 – Abraham Darby I , English iron master (d. 1717)
1709 – Charles Collé , French playwright and songwriter (d. 1783)
1714 – Adam Gib , Scottish minister (d. 1788)
1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1809)
1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle , French politician, 6th Prime Minister of France (d. 1854)
1788 – David G. Burnet , American politician, 2nd Vice-President of Texas (d. 1870)
1800 – John Appold , English engineer (d. 1865)
1814 – Dimitri Kipiani , Georgian publicist and author (d. 1887)
1818 – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1909)
1827 – Augustus Pitt Rivers , English general, ethnologist, and archaeologist (d. 1900)
1854 – Martin Lipp , Estonian pastor and poet (d. 1923)
1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (d. 1944)
1866 – Anne Sullivan , American educator (d. 1936)
1868 – Peter Behrens , German architect, designed the AEG turbine factory (d. 1940)
1870 – Victor Borisov-Musatov , Russian painter (d. 1905)
1870 – Syd Gregory , Australian cricketer (d. 1929)
1872 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali , Indian-English scholar and translator (d. 1953)
1881 – Husain Salaahuddin , Maldivian poet and scholar (d. 1948)
1882 – Moritz Schlick , German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1936)
1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius , German philologist and scholar (d. 1956)
1886 – Árpád Tóth , Hungarian poet (d. 1928)
1889 – Arnold J. Toynbee , English historian and academic (d. 1975)
1891 – B. R. Ambedkar , Indian jurist and politician (d. 1956)
1891 – Otto Lasanen , Finnish wrestler (d. 1958)
1892 – Juan Belmonte , Spanish bullfighter (d. 1962)
1892 – V. Gordon Childe , Australian archaeologist and philologist (d. 1957)
1897 – Claire Windsor , American actress (d. 1972)
1902 – Sylvio Mantha , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (d. 1974)
1903 – Henry Corbin , French philosopher and educator (d. 1978)
1904 – John Gielgud , English actor, director, and producer (d. 2000)
1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby , American educator (d. 1999)
1905 – Jean Pierre-Bloch , French activist (d. 1999)
1907 – François Duvalier , Haitian politician, 40th President of Haiti (d. 1971)
1912 – Robert Doisneau , French photographer (d. 1994)
1912 – Georg Siimenson , Estonian footballer (d. 1978)
1913 – Jean Fournet , French conductor (d. 2008)
1916 – Don Willesee , Australian politician (d. 2003)
1917 – Valerie Hobson , Irish-English actress (d. 1998)
1917 – Marvin Miller , American businessman (d. 2012)
1918 – Mary Healy , American actress and singer
1919 – Shamshad Begum , Indian singer (d. 2013)
1920 – Ivor Forbes Guest , English lawyer, historian, and author
1921 – Thomas Schelling , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1923 – Roberto De Vicenzo , Argentinian golfer
1924 – Shorty Rogers , American trumpet player and composer (d. 1994)
1924 – Joseph Ruskin , American actor (d. 2013)
1924 – Philip Stone , English actor (d. 2003)
1924 – Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock , English philosopher an academic
1925 – Gene Ammons , American saxophonist (d. 1974)
1925 – Abel Muzorewa , Zimbabwean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (d. 2010)
1925 – Rod Steiger , American actor (d. 2002)
1926 – Barbara Anderson , New Zealand author (d. 2013)
1926 – Frank Daniel , Czech director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1926 – Liz Renay , American actress and author (d. 2007)
1927 – Alan MacDiarmid , New Zealand chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1927 – Dany Robin , French actress (d. 1995)
1929 – Gerry Anderson , English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1929 – Inez Andrews , American singer-songwriter (The Caravans ) (d. 2012)
1930 – Martin Adolf Bormann , German theologian (d. 2013)
1930 – Arnold Burns , American lawyer and politician, 21st United States Deputy Attorney General (d. 2013)
1930 – René Desmaison , French mountaineer (d. 2007)
1930 – Bradford Dillman , American actor and author
1930 – Jay Robinson , American actor (d. 2013)
1931 – Geoffrey Dalton , English admiral
1931 – Paul Masnick , Canadian ice hockey player
1932 – Atef Ebeid , Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2014)
1932 – Bob Grant , English actor (d. 2003)
1932 – Loretta Lynn , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1932 – Cameron Parker , Scottish businessman
1933 – Paddy Hopkirk , Irish race car driver
1933 – Boris Strugatsky , Russian author (d. 2012)
1934 – Fredric Jameson , American philosopher and theorist
1935 – Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton , English politician
1935 – John Oliver English bishop
1935 – Erich von Däniken , Swiss author
1936 – Arlene Martel , American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1936 – Bobby Nichols , American golfer
1936 – Frank Serpico , American police officer
1937 – Efi Arazi , Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (d. 2013)
1937 – Sepp Mayerl , Austrian mountaineer (d. 2012)
1940 – David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes English archbishop
1940 – Richard Thompson English physician and academic
1941 – Julie Christie , Indian-English actress
1941 – Pete Rose , American baseball player and manager
1942 – Valeriy Brumel , Russian high jumper (d. 2003)
1942 – Valentin Lebedev , Russian engineer and astronaut
1942 – Björn Rosengren , Swedish politician
1943 – Fouad Siniora , Lebanese politician, 65th Prime Minister of Lebanon
1944 – John Sergeant , English journalist
1945 – Ritchie Blackmore , English guitarist and songwriter (The Outlaws , Deep Purple , Rainbow , and Blackmore's Night )
1945 – Roger Frappier , Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi , Samoan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
1946 – Mireille Guiliano , French-American author
1946 – Michael Sarris , Cypriot economist and politician
1947 – Dominique Baudis , French journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1948 – Berry Berenson , American model, actress, and photographer (d. 2001)
1948 – Anastasios Papaligouras , Greek lawyer and politician
1949 – Dave Gibbons , English illustrator
1949 – DeAnne Julius , American-English economist
1949 – Chris Langham , English actor and screenwriter
1949 – John Shea , American actor and director
1950 – Francis Collins , American physician and geneticist
1950 – Péter Esterházy , Hungarian author
1951 – José Eduardo González Navas , Spanish politician
1951 – Julian Lloyd Webber , English cellist
1951 – Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean English politician
1952 – Mickey O'Sullivan , Irish footballer and manager
1952 – David Urquhart Scottish bishop
1953 – David Buss , American psychologist
1954 – Sue Hill , English pathologist and civil servant
1954 – Katsuhiro Otomo , Japanese director, screenwriter, and illustrator
1954 – Bruce Sterling , American author
1956 – Barbara Bonney , American soprano
1956 – Boris Šprem , Croatian politician, 8th President of Croatian Parliament (d. 2012)
1957 – Lothaire Bluteau , Canadian actor
1957 – Richard Jeni , American comedian and actor (d. 2007)
1957 – Mikhail Pletnev , Russian pianist, composer, and conductor
1958 – Peter Capaldi , Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
1958 – John D'Aquino , American actor
1960 – Brian Forster , American actor
1960 – Brad Garrett , American comedian and actor
1960 – Myoma Myint Kywe , Burmese historian
1960 – Tina Rosenberg , American journalist and author
1961 – Robert Carlyle , Scottish actor
1961 – Daniel Clowes , American cartoonist and screenwriter
1962 – Scott Boman , American politician
1962 – Guillaume LeBlanc , Canadian race walker
1963 – Kalle Vellevoog , Estonian architect
1964 – Greg Battle , American-Canadian football player
1964 – Gina McKee , English actress
1965 – Tom Dey , American director and producer
1965 – Alexandre Jardin , French author
1965 – Kirk Windstein , English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crowbar , Down , Valume Nob , and Kingdom of Sorrow )
1966 – André Boisclair , Canadian politician
1966 – David Justice , American baseball player and sportscaster
1966 – Greg Maddux , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1967 – Nicola Berti , Italian footballer
1967 – Steve Chiasson , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1967 – Alain Côté , Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Barrett Martin , American drummer, producer, and songwriter (Mad Season , Screaming Trees , Skin Yard , and Tuatara )
1967 – Julia Zemiro , French-Australian actress and singer
1968 – Anthony Michael Hall , American actor, director, and producer
1969 – Brad Ausmus , American baseball player
1969 – Martyn LeNoble , Dutch-American bass player (Porno for Pyros , Jane's Addiction , and Thelonious Monster )
1969 – Vebjørn Selbekk , Norwegian journalist
1969 – Pieter Zandvliet , Dutch mixed media artist
1970 – Emre Altuğ , Turkish singer-songwriter and actor
1970 – Steve Avery , American baseball player
1970 – Shizuka Kudō , Japanese singer and actress (Onyanko Club )
1971 – Miguel Calero , Colombian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1971 – Carlos Pérez , Dominican-American baseball player
1971 – Gregg Zaun , American baseball player and sportscaster
1972 – Paul Devlin , English-Scottish footballer
1972 – Roberto Mejía , Dominican baseball player
1973 – Roberto Ayala , Argentinian footballer
1973 – Adrien Brody , American actor and producer
1973 – David Miller , American tenor and actor (Il Divo )
1974 – Da Brat , American rapper and actress
1975 – Lita , American wrestler and singer (The Luchagors )
1975 – Luciano Almeida , Brazilian footballer
1975 – Amy Birnbaum , American voice actress
1975 – Avner Dorman , Israeli-American composer
1975 – Konstantinos Nebegleras , Greek footballer
1975 – Rajeshwari Sachdev , Indian actress
1975 – Anderson Silva , Brazilian mixed martial artist
1976 – Christian Älvestam , Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Scar Symmetry , Miseration , and Solution .45 )
1976 – Georgina Chapman , English model, actress, and fashion designer, co-founded Marchesa
1976 – Anna DeForge , American basketball player
1976 – Kyle Farnsworth , American baseball player
1976 – Jason Wiemer , Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Nate Fox , American basketball player (d. 2014)
1977 – Martin Kaalma , Estonian footballer
1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar , American actress and producer
1977 – Chandra Levy , American murder victim (d. 2001)
1977 – Rob McElhenney , American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – JD McPherson , American singer-songwriter
1978 – Roland Lessing , Estonian biathlete
1978 – Paul O'Brien , South-African-Australian actor
1979 – Rebecca DiPietro , American wrestler and model
1979 – Marios Elia , Cypriot footballer
1979 – Ross Filipo , New Zealand rugby player
1979 – Noé Pamarot , French footballer
1980 – Win Butler , American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Arcade Fire )
1980 – Claire Coffee , American actress
1981 – Mustafa Güngör , German rugby player
1981 – Amy Leach , English director and producer
1983 – James McFadden , Scottish footballer
1983 – William Obeng , Ghanaian-American football player
1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili , Georgian basketball player
1984 – Blake Costanzo , American football player
1984 – Charles Hamelin , Canadian speed skater
1984 – Harumafuji Kōhei , Mongolian sumo wrestler, 70th yokozuna
1984 – Kristina Rose , American porn actress
1984 – Adán Sánchez , American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)
1984 – Tyler Thigpen , American football player
1985 – Grant Clitsome , Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Matt Derbyshire , English footballer
1986 – Todd Gilles , American ice dancer
1986 – Anne Watanabe , Japanese model, actress, and singer
1987 – Michael Baze , American jockey (d. 2011)
1987 – Erwin Hoffer , Austrian footballer
1987 – Korina Perkovic , German tennis player
1988 – Eliška Klučinová , Czech heptathlete
1988 – Vasileios Pliatsikas , Greek footballer
1989 – Aleksei Olegovich Alekseyev , Russian footballer
1989 – Joe Haden , American football player
1989 – Dafina Zeqiri , Swedish-Kosovar singer and dancer
1990 – Christian Alexander , Greek-American actor
1990 – Markus Smarzoch , German footballer
1992 – Frederik Sørensen , Danish footballer
1993 – Vivien Cardone , American actress
1993 – Graham Phillips , American actor and singer
1993 – Burnell Taylor , American singer
1993 – Ellington Ratliff , American drummer
1994 – Skyler Samuels , American actress
1996 – Abigail Breslin , American actress
Deaths
1132 – Mstislav I of Kiev (b. 1076)
1279 – Bolesław the Pious , Polish husband of Yolanda of Poland (b. 1224)
1322 – Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere , English soldier and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1275)
1345 – Richard de Bury , English bishop (b. 1287)
1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick , English commander and politician (b. 1428)
1574 – Louis of Nassau (b. 1538)
1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell , English husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1534)
1599 – Henry Wallop , English politician (b. 1540)
1662 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele , English politician (b. 1582)
1682 – Avvakum , Russian priest (b. 1620)
1721 – Michel Chamillart , French politician (b. 1652)
1759 – George Frideric Handel , German-English organist and composer (b. 1685)
1785 – William Whitehead , English poet and playwright (b. 1715)
1792 – Maximilian Hell , Slovak-Hungarian astronomer and priest (b. 1720)
1843 – Joseph Lanner , Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1801)
1864 – Charles Lot Church , American-Canadian politician (b. 1777)
1910 – Mikhail Vrubel , Russian painter (b. 1856)
1911 – Addie Joss , American baseball player (b. 1880)
1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau , Canadian jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada (b. 1836)
1912 – Henri Brisson , French politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (b. 1835)
1914 – Hubert Bland , English activist, co-founded the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
1917 – L. L. Zamenhof , Polish linguist, created Esperanto (b. 1859)
1925 – John Singer Sargent , American painter (b. 1856)
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky , Georgian-Russian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1893)
1931 – Richard Armstedt , German philologist, historian, and educator (b. 1851)
1935 – Emmy Noether , German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1882)
1941 – Guillermo Kahlo , German-Mexican photographer (b. 1871)
1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili , Georgian-Russian lieutenant (b. 1907)
1950 – Ramana Maharshi , Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1879)
1951 – Al Christie , Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1881)
1962 – Visvesvaraya , Indian engineer and scholar (b. 1860)
1963 – Rahul Sankrityayan , Indian monk and historian (b. 1893)
1964 – Tatyana Afanasyeva , Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (b. 1876)
1964 – Rachel Carson , American biologist and author (b. 1907)
1965 – Richard Hickock , American murderer (b. 1933)
1965 – Perry Smith , American murderer (b. 1928)
1968 – Al Benton , American baseball player (b. 1911)
1969 – Matilde Muñoz Sampedro , Spanish actress (b. 1900)
1975 – Günter Dyhrenfurth , German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (b. 1886)
1975 – Fredric March , American actor (b. 1897)
1976 – José Revueltas , Mexican author and activist (b. 1914)
1978 – Joe Gordon , American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
1978 – F. R. Leavis , English educator and critic (b. 1895)
1983 – Pete Farndon , English bass player (The Pretenders ) (b. 1952)
1983 – Gianni Rodari , Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
1985 – Noele Gordon , English actress (b. 1919)
1986 – Simone de Beauvoir , French philosopher and author (b. 1908)
1990 – Thurston Harris , American singer (b. 1931)
1990 – Olabisi Onabanjo , Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ogun State (b. 1927)
1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui , Pakistani chemist and scholar (b. 1897)
1995 – Burl Ives , American actor and singer (b. 1909)
1997 – Gerda Christian , German secretary (b. 1913)
1999 – Ellen Corby , American actress (b. 1911)
1999 – Anthony Newley , English-American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
2000 – Phil Katz , American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (b. 1962)
2000 – Wilf Mannion , English footballer (b. 1918)
2001 – Jim Baxter , Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
2001 – Hiroshi Teshigahara , Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2003 – Jyrki Otila , Finnish politician (b. 1941)
2004 – Micheline Charest , English-Canadian television producer, co-founded the Cookie Jar Group (b. 1953)
2005 – John Fred , American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2006 – Mahmut Bakalli , Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
2007 – June Callwood , Canadian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1924)
2007 – Don Ho , American singer and ukulele player (b. 1930)
2007 – René Rémond , French historian and economist (b. 1918)
2008 – Miguel Galván , Mexican actor (b. 1957)
2008 – Tommy Holmes , American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
2008 – Ollie Johnston , American animator and voice actor (b. 1912)
2009 – Maurice Druon , French author (b. 1918)
2010 – Israr Ahmed , Pakistani theologian and scholar (b. 1932)
2010 – Alice Miller , Polish-French psychologist and author (b. 1923)
2010 – Peter Steele , American singer-songwriter and bass player (Type O Negative , Carnivore , and Fallout ) (b. 1962)
2011 – Trevor Bannister , English actor (b. 1934)
2011 – Walter Breuning , American super-centenarian (b. 1896)
2011 – Jean Gratton , Canadian bishop (b. 1924)
2012 – Émile Bouchard , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1919)
2012 – Jonathan Frid , Canadian actor (b. 1924)
2012 – William Finley , American actor (b. 1940)
2012 – Piermario Morosini , Italian footballer (b. 1986)
2012 – Martin Poll , American film producer (b. 1922)
2013 – Efi Arazi , Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (b. 1937)
2013 – Colin Davis , English conductor and educator (b. 1927)
2013 – R. P. Goenka , Indian businessman, founded RPG Group (b. 1930)
2013 – George Jackson , American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
2013 – Rentarō Mikuni , Japanese actor and director (b. 1923)
2013 – Armando Villanueva , Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1915)
2013 – Charlie Wilson , American politician (b. 1943)
2014 – Nina Cassian , Romanian poet and critic (b. 1924)
2014 – Karl-Heinz Euling , German SS officer (b. 1919)
2014 – Brian Harradine , Australian politician (b. 1935)
2014 – Crad Kilodney , Canadian author (b. 1948)
2014 – Wally Olins , English businessman and academic (b. 1930)
2014 – Armando Peraza , Cuban-American drummer (Santana ) (b. 1924)
2014 – Mick Staton , American soldier and politician (b. 1940)
Holidays and observances
Ambedkar Jayanti (India)
Black Day (South Korea)
Christian Feast Day :
Dhivehi Language Day (Maldives )
Day of the Georgian language (Georgia )
Day of Mologa (Yaroslavl Oblast , Russia)
N'Ko Alphabet Day (Mande speakers )
New Year festivals in South and Southeast Asian cultures, celebrated on the sidereal vernal equinox :
Assamese New Year, or Rongali Bihu (India's Assam Valley )
Bengali New Year, or Pohela Boishakh (Bangladesh and India's West Bengal state)
Burmese New Year, or Thingyan (Burma )
Khmer New Year, or Chol Chnam Thmey , most commonly celebrated on April 13 (Cambodia )
Lao New Year, or Songkan / Pi Mai Lao, generally celebrated from 13 to 15 April (Laos )
Maithili New Year , Jude-Sheetal in Mithila and Nepal
Malayali New Year, or Vishu (India's Kerala state)
Nepali New Year, or Bikram Samwat / Vaishak Ek (Nepal )
Oriya New Year, or Maha Visuba Sankranthi (India's Odisha state)
Sinhalese New Year, or Aluth Avurudhu (Sri Lanka )
Tamil New Year, or Puthandu (India's Tamil Nadu state, Sri Lanka , Singapore )
Thai New Year, or Songkran , celebrated from 13 to 15 April (Thailand )
Tuluva New Year, or Bisu (India's Karnataka state)
The first day of Takayama Spring Festival (Takayama, Gifu , Japan)
Vaisakhi (Punjab region )
Youth Day (Angola )
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