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April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 261 days remain 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, Aulus 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 Doubravka of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
• 1028 – Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected King of Germany.
• 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, Marquess of Saluzzo.
• 1434 – The foundation stone of Nantes Cathedral, 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 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. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika. The female dog likely lived only a few hours.
• 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.
• 1968 – 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 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.
• 2014 – 276 schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Northeastern Nigeria. The event sparks global outrage and the viral #BringBackOurGirls social media campaign.

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)
• 1903 – Ruth Svedberg, Swedish athlete (d. 2002)
• 1904 – John Gielgud, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2000)
• 1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (d. 1999)
• 1905 – Georg Lammers, German sprinter (d. 1987)
• 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, British actress (d. 1998)
• 1917 – Marvin Miller, American businessman (d. 2012)
• 1918 – Mary Healy, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
• 1919 – Shamshad Begum, Indian singer (d. 2013)
• 1919 – K. Saraswathi Amma, Indian feminist writer (d. 1975)
• 1920 – Ivor Forbes Guest, English lawyer, historian, and author
• 1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 – Audrey Long, American actress (d. 2014)
• 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, Northern Irish rally driver
• 1933 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian author (d. 2012)
• 1933 – Shani Wallis, British-American actress
• 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)
• 1938 – Mahmud Esad Coşan, Turkish academic author, preacher, professor of Islam and Naqshbandi leader (d. 2001)
• 1940 – David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes English archbishop
• 1940 – Julie Christie, Anglo-Indian actress
• 1940 – Richard Thompson English physician and academic
• 1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager
• 1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (d. 2003)
• 1942 – Ni Zhiqin, Chinese high jumper
• 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 – Uwe Beyer, German hammer thrower
• 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-British 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
• 1955 – Ana Ambrazienė, Lithuanian hurdler
• 1955 – Imrich Bugár, Czech discus thrower
• 1956 – Barbara Bonney, American soprano
• 1956 – Boris Šprem, Croatian politician, 8th President of Croatian Parliament (d. 2012)
• 1956 – Larry Winters, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2015)
• 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 – Jeff Andretti, American racing driver
• 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)
• 1965 – Ümit Ünal, Turkish film director, screenwriter and author
• 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 – Françoise Mbango Etone, Cameroonian-French triple jumper
• 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
• 1979 – King Girado, Filipino singer
• 1979 – Patrick Somerville, American novelist and short story writer
• 1979 – Kerem Tunçeri, Turkish professional basketball player
• 1980 – Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Arcade Fire)
• 1980 – Claire Coffee, American actress
• 1980 – Ayumi Ito, Japanese actress
• 1981 – Mustafa Güngör, German rugby player
• 1981 – Amy Leach, English director and producer
• 1982 – Uğur Boral, Turkish footballer
• 1983 – Simona La Mantia, Italian triple jumper
• 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 – Josanne Lucas, Tobagonian hurdler
• 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 – Wilson Kiprop, Kenyan long-distance runner
• 1987 – Korina Perkovic, German tennis player
• 1988 – Eliška Klučinová, Czech heptathlete
• 1988 – Vasileios Pliatsikas, Greek footballer
• 1988 – Roberto Bautista Agut, Spanish tennis player
• 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
• 1992 – Princess Snell, Filipino actress
• 1992 – Dar Bernardo, Filipino actor
• 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)
• 1938 – Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater (b. 1893)
• 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:
  • Saints Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus
  • Bénézet
  • Henry Beard Delany (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Domnina of Terni
  • Lidwina
  • Peter González
  • April 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• 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:
  • Bohag Bihu/Rongali Bihu (Assamese New Year), (Assam Valley)
  • Pohela Boishakh (Bengali New Year), (Bangladesh and West Bengal)
  • Thingyan (Burmese New Year)
  • Cambodian New Year (Chol Chnam Thmey), most commonly celebrated on April 13
  • Songkran (Lao) / Pi Mai Lao (Lao New Year), generally celebrated from 13 to 15 April
  • Maithili New Year, Jude-Sheetal in Mithila and Nepal
  • Vishu (Malayali New Year), (Kerala)
  • Vikram Samvat / Vaishak Ek (Nepali New Year)
  • Maha Vishuva Sankranti (Oriya New Year), Odisha)
  • Aluth Avurudda (Sinhalese New Year), (Sri Lanka)
  • Puthandu (Tamil New Year), ([Tamil Nadu]], Sri Lanka, Singapore)
  • Songkran (Thailand) (New Year), celebrated from 13 to 15 April
  • Bisu (Tuluva New Year), (Karnataka)
• The first day of Takayama Spring Festival (Takayama, Gifu, Japan)
• Vaisakhi (Punjab region)
• Youth Day (Angola)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada