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April 4
is the 94th day of the year (95th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 271 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1905
? An
earthquake
in
Kangra
, Northern
India
, kills around 20,000 people.
- 1906
-
Mount Vesuvius
erupts.
- 1917
- British passenger steamer
City of Paris
is sunk by a German U-boat off the
Cote d'Azur
, southern
France
, killing all 122 people on board.
- 1925
- The
Schutzstaffel
(
SS
) is founded.
- 1939
?
Faisal II
becomes King of
Iraq
.
- 1944
?
World War II
: The first Anglo-American bombardment of
Bucharest
kills around 3,000 people.
- 1945
?
World War II
: The
Soviet
Army takes control of
Hungary
.
- 1945
-
World War II
: American troops capture
Kassel
.
- 1949
?
NATO
is founded.
- 1958
- The
CND
peace
symbol
is displayed in public for the first time, in
London
.
- 1960
?
France
agrees to the independence of
Senegal
and
French Sudan
(
Mali
).
- 1964
- The
Beatles
occupy all of the top 5 places in the
Billboard Hot 100
.
- 1967
?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
delivers the
Beyond
Vietnam
: A Time to Break Silence
speech in protest against the
Vietnam War
.
- 1968
?
NASA
launches
Apollo 6
.
- 1968
?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
is shot dead in
Memphis
,
Tennessee
.
- 1969
? Dr.
Denton Cooley
implants the first temporary artificial
heart
.
- 1973
? The
World Trade Center
in
New York City
is officially dedicated.
- 1976
?
Microsoft
is founded by a partnership of
Bill Gates
and
Paul Allen
in
Albuquerque
,
New Mexico
.
- 1976
? Prince
Norodom Sihanouk
of
Cambodia
resigns and is placed under house arrest.
- 1979
?
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
is executed in
Pakistan
.
- 1983
? The
Space Shuttle Challenger
makes its first space flight.
- 1984
-
Ronald Reagan
calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
- 1988
-
Governor
Evan Mecham
of
Arizona
is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
- 1991
-
Nicephore Dieudonne Soglo
becomes
President
of
Benin
.
- 1996
?
Comet
Hyakutake is imaged by the
USA
Asteroid
Orbiter
Near Earth Rendezvous
.
- 1998
- A landslide in Southwestern
Iran
kills around 120 people.
- 188
?
Caracalla
, Roman Emperor (d.
217
)
- 1179
?
Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar
,
Islamic
saint in
South Asia
(d.
1266
)
- 1492
-
Ambrosius Blarer
, German-Swiss
theologian
and reformer (d.
1564
)
- 1572
?
William Strachey
, English writer (d.
1621
)
- 1593
-
Edward Nicholas
, English
statesman
(d.
1669
)
- 1614
-
Henry II, Duke of Guise
(d.
1664
)
- 1640
-
Gaspar Sanz
,
Aragonese
composer
,
guitarist
,
organist
and
priest
(d.
1710
)
- 1646
?
Antoine Galland
, French
archaeologist
(d.
1715
)
- 1648
?
Grinling Gibbons
,
Dutch
woodcarver
(d.
1721
)
- 1676
-
Giuseppe Maria Orlandini
, Italian composer (d.
1760
)
- 1688
-
Joseph-Nicolas Delisle
, French
astronomer
(d.
1768
)
- 1752
-
Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli
, Italian composer (d.
1837
)
- 1759
-
Israel Smith
,
Governor
of
Vermont
(d.
1810
)
- 1760
-
Juan Manuel Olivares
,
Venezuelan
composer
(d.
1797
)
- 1773
-
Etienne Maurice Gerard
, French
general
and
statesman
(d.
1852
)
- 1785
?
Bettina von Arnim
, German writer (d.
1859
)
- 1792
-
Thaddeus Stevens
, American
lawyer
and
politician
(d.
1868
)
- 1802
?
Dorothea Dix
, American social activist (d.
1887
)
- 1806
-
Claiborne Fox Jackson
,
Governor
of
Missouri
(d.
1862
)
- 1809
-
Benjamin Peirce
, American
astronomer
and
mathematician
(d.
1880
)
- 1819
? Queen
Maria II of Portugal
(d.
1853
)
- 1821
?
Linus Yale, Jr.
, American
inventor
and manufacturer (d.
1868
)
- 1826
-
Zenobe Gramme
, Belgian
engineer
(d.
1901
)
- 1828
-
Margaret Oliphant
, Scottish novelist (d.
1897
)
- 1835
-
John Hughlings Jackson
, English
neurologist
(d.
1911
)
- 1842
-
Edouard Lucas
, French
mathematician
(d.
1891
)
- 1843
-
William Henry Jackson
, American painter (d.
1942
)
- 1848
-
Artruro Prat
,
Chilean
naval hero (d.
1879
)
- 1858
-
Remy de Gourmont
, French
writer
,
poet
and critic (d.
1915
)
- 1869
-
Mary Jane Cotter
, American
architect
(d.
1958
)
- 1875
-
Pierre Monteux
, French
conductor
(d.
1964
)
- 1876
?
Maurice de Vlaminck
, French painter (d.
1958
)
- 1878
-
Stylianos Lykoudis
, Greek
admiral
(d.
1958
)
- 1884
?
Isoroku Yamamoto
, Japanese naval commander (d.
1943
)
- 1889
-
Makhanlal Chaturvedi
, Indian
Hindi language
poet
(d.
1968
)
- 1895
-
Arthur Murray
, American dancer and educator (d.
1991
)
- 1896
-
Robert E. Sherwood
, American
playwright
, editor and
screenwriter
(d.
1955
)
- 1897
?
Dina Manfredini
, Italian-born American
supercentenarian
(d.
2012
)
- 1897
-
Pierre Fresnay
, French actor (d.
1975
)
- 1898
-
Agnes Ayres
, American actress (d.
1940
)
- 1899
-
Hillel Oppenheimer
, German-Israeli
botanist
(d.
1971
)
- 1905
-
Dougie Gray
, Scottish
footballer
(d.
1972
)
- 1905
-
George Stevenson
, Scottish
footballer
(d.
1990
)
- 1905
-
Shojiro Sugimura
, Japanese
footballer
(d.
1975
)
- 1906
-
Yasuo Haruyama
, Japanese
footballer
(d.
1987
)
- 1906
-
Bea Benaderet
, American
actress
(d.
1968
)
- 1906
-
John Cameron Swayze
, American
journalist
(d.
1995
)
- 1907
?
Robert Askin
,
Premier
of
New South Wales
(d.
1981
)
- 1910
?
Barthelemy Boganda
, Central African politician (d.
1959
)
- 1910
-
Dang Van Ngu
,
Vietnamese
physician
(d.
1967
)
- 1911
-
Max Dupain
, Australian
photographer
(d.
1992
)
- 1913
-
Rosemary Lane
, American
actress
and
singer
(d.
1974
)
- 1913
-
Frances Langford
, American
actress
and
singer
(d.
2005
)
- 1913
?
Jules Leger
, Canadian
diplomat
and Governor General of
Canada
(d.
1980
)
- 1914
?
Marguerite Duras
, French writer (d.
1996
)
- 1914
-
Richard Coogan
, American actor (d.
2014
)
- 1915
?
Muddy Waters
, American musician (d.
1983
)
- 1916
?
Nikola Ljubicic
, Yugoslavian general and politician (d.
2005
)
- 1920
-
Ignatius IV of Antioch
,
Syrian
patriarch
(d.
2012
)
- 1920
-
Eric Rohmer
, French
movie director
(d.
2010
)
- 1921
-
Elizabeth Wilson
, American
actress
(d.
2015
)
- 1921
-
Orunamamu
, American-Canadian storyteller (d.
2014
)
- 1922
-
Elmer Bernstein
, American
movie
composer
(d.
2004
)
- 1923
-
Peter Vaughan
, English
actor
(d.
2016
)
- 1924
-
Gil Hodges
, American
baseball
player and manager (d.
1972
)
- 1925
-
Gene Reynolds
, American
actor
,
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1925
-
Dettmar Cramer
, German
footballer
and coach (d.
2015
)
- 1925
-
Frank Truitt
, American sports coach (d.
2014
)
- 1926
-
Ronnie Masterson
, Irish
actress
(d.
2014
)
- 1928
?
Maya Angelou
, American
writer
and
poet
(d.
2014
)
- 1928
-
Elina Bystritskaya
, Russian actress (d.
2019
)
- 1931
-
Catherine Tizard
, 16th
Governor-General of New Zealand
- 1931
-
Bobby Ray Inman
, American
admiral
and intelligence director
- 1932
?
Andrei Tarkovsky
, Soviet movie maker (d.
1986
)
- 1932
?
Anthony Perkins
, American actor (d.
1993
)
- 1932
-
Richard Lugar
, American politician (d.
2019
)
- 1932
?
Clive Davis
, American music manager and producer
- 1935
-
Kenneth Mars
, American actor (d.
2011
)
- 1935
-
Trevor Griffiths
, English
playwright
- 1938
-
A. Bartlett Giamatti
, 7th
Commissioner
of
Major League Baseball
(d.
1989
)
- 1938
-
Norro Wilson
, American country music singer-songwriter and record producer (d.
2017
)
- 1939
-
Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad
, Norwegian politician (d.
2017
)
- 1939
?
Hugh Masekela
, South African musician (d.
2018
)
- 1939
-
Ernie Terrell
, American boxer and singer (d.
2014
)
- 1942
-
Jim Fregosi
, American
baseball
player and manager
- 1942
?
Kitty Kelley
, American actress
- 1942
-
Michel Fourniret
, French
serial killer
- 1944
-
Ann-Louise Hanson
, Swedish singer
- 1944
?
Craig T. Nelson
, American actor
- 1945
?
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
, French-German political activist
- 1945
-
Katherine Neville
, American writer
- 1946
-
Katsuaki Sato
, Japanese martial artist
- 1946
?
Dave Hill
, English musician (
Slade
)
- 1948
-
Abdullah Ocalan
,
Kurdish
activist
- 1948
-
Berry Oakley
, American musician (d.
1997
)
- 1948
-
Pick Withers
, British musician
- 1949
?
Junior Braithwaite
, Jamaican musician (d.
1999
)
- 1950
?
Christine Lahti
, American actress
- 1951
-
Hun Sen
,
Prime Minister
of
Cambodia
- 1952
?
Gary Moore
, Northern Irish musician (d.
2011
)
- 1952
-
Rosemarie Ackermann
, German athlete
- 1952
-
Karen Magnussen
, Canadian figure skater
- 1952
-
Cherie Lunghi
, English
actress
- 1953
-
Chen Yi
, Chinese composer and
violinist
- 1953
-
Henry Fotheringham
, South African
cricketer
- 1954
-
Michel Camilo
,
Dominican
pianist
- 1954
-
Dave Ulliott
, English
poker
player (d.
2015
)
- 1956
?
David E. Kelley
, American writer and television producer
- 1957
?
Aki Kaurismaki
, Finnish director
- 1957
-
Graeme Kelling
, Scottish
guitarist
(
Deacon Blue
) (d.
2004
)
- 1958
-
Cazuza
, Brazilian
composer
and
singer
(d.
1990
)
- 1958
-
Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha
, Thai businessman (d.
2018
)
- 1960
-
Hugo Weaving
, Australian actor
- 1960
-
Jonathan Agnew
, English
cricketer
- 1962
-
Craig Adams
, English
bass
player and
songwriter
- 1963
?
Graham Norton
, Irish television host
- 1963
-
A. Michael Baldwin
, American
actor
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1963
-
Jane McDonald
, English
singer
and
actress
- 1964
?
Branco
, Brazilian
footballer
- 1965
?
Robert Downey Jr.
, American actor
- 1966
?
Mike Starr
, American musician (d.
2011
)
- 1966
?
Stefan Mappus
, German politician
- 1967
-
Edith Masai
, Kenyan runner
- 1969
?
Karren Brady
, British sports executive and broadcaster
- 1970
?
Georgius Amanatidis
, Greek footballer
- 1970
-
Greg Garcia
, American
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1970
-
Yelena Yelesina
, Russian high jumper
- 1972
?
Magnus Sveningsson
, Swedish musician (
The Cardigans
)
- 1972
?
Jill Scott
, American singer and actress
- 1972
-
Xenia Seeberg
, German
actress
- 1973
?
David Blaine
, American illusionist and magician
- 1973
-
Chris McCormack
, Australian athlete
- 1974
-
Dave Mirra
, American
BMX
rider (d.
2016
)
- 1975
-
Thobias Fredriksson
, Swedish cross-country skier
- 1975
-
Carl Ruiz
, American chef and television personality (d.
2019
)
- 1976
?
Emerson
, Brazilian footballer
- 1977
?
Adam Dutkiewicz
, American
guitarist
and
producer
- 1977
?
Stephen Mulhern
, English magician
- 1978
?
Lemar
, English singer
- 1978
?
Irene Skliva
, Greek
model
- 1978
-
Sam Moran
,
Australian
musician (
The Wiggles
)
- 1979
?
Heath Ledger
,
Australian
actor (d.
2008
)
- 1980
?
Johnny Borrell
, English singer (
Razorlight
)
- 1980
?
Trevor Moore
, American
actor
,
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1981
?
Anna Pyatykh
, Russian triple jumper
- 1981
?
Ned Vizzini
, American writer (d.
2013
)
- 1983
?
Amanda Righetti
, American actress
- 1983
?
Evgeny Artyukhin
, Russian
ice hockey
player
- 1984
?
Sean May
, American
basketball
player
- 1985
?
Rudy Fernandez
, Spanish
basketball
player
- 1986
?
Eunhyuk
, South Korean singer
- 1986
?
Rachel Korine
, American actress
- 1986
?
Aiden McGeady
, Scottish-Irish footballer
- 1987
?
Devon Anderson
, English actor
- 1987
?
Sami Khedira
, German footballer
- 1988
?
Nadine Kessler
, German footballer
- 1991
?
Jamie Lynn Spears
, American singer and actress
- 1992
?
Alexa Nikolas
, American actress
- 1992
?
Lucy Mae Barker
, English
actress
and
singer
- 1992
?
Christina Metaxa
, Cypriot
singer-songwriter
- 1996
?
Austin Mahone
, American singer
- 1999
?
Miki Nishino
, Japanese
singer
,
dancer
and
actress
(
AKB48
)
- 2012
?
Grumpy Cat
, famous American
cat
and
internet
celebrity (d.
2019
)
- 397
?
Saint Ambrose
of
Milan
(b.
338
)
- 636
-
Isidore of Seville
, Spanish
archbishop
and
saint
(b.
560
)
- 896
-
Pope Formosus
- 968
-
Abu Firas al-Hamdani
, Arab
prince
,
general
and
poet
(b.
932
)
- 1284
-
Alfonso X of Castile
(b.
1221
)
- 1292
-
Pope Nicholas IV
(b.
1227
)
- 1305
-
Jeanne of Navarre
, Queen of
France
(b.
1273
)
- 1406
? King
Robert III of Scotland
(b.
1337
)
- 1459
-
Eric of Pomerania
, King of
Denmark
(b.
1382
)
- 1536
-
Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
(b.
1460
)
- 1588
? King
Frederick II
of
Denmark
(b.
1534
)
- 1617
-
John Napier
, Scottish
mathematician
(b.
1550
)
- 1761
-
Theodore Gardell
, Swiss painter and enameler (b.
1722
)
- 1774
?
Oliver Goldsmith
, Irish writer (b.
1728
)
- 1807
-
Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande
, French
astronomer
(b.
1732
)
- 1817
-
Andre Massena
, Marshal of France (b.
1758
)
- 1841
?
William Henry Harrison
, 9th
President of the United States
(b.
1773
)
- 1846
-
Solomon Sibley
,
United States
Senator (b.
1769
)
- 1861
-
John McLean
, 6th
United States Postmaster General
(b.
1785
)
- 1863
?
Ludwig Emil Grimm
, German painter and engraver (b.
1790
)
- 1870
-
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
, German
chemist
and
physicist
(b.
1802
)
- 1874
-
Charles Ernest Beule
, French
archaeologist
and
politician
(b.
1826
)
- 1875
-
Karl Mauch
, German explorer (b.
1837
)
- 1879
-
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
, German
physicist
(b.
1803
)
- 1883
-
Peter Cooper
, American businessman and philanthropist (b.
1791
)
- 1890
-
Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau
, 1st
Premier
of
Quebec
(b.
1820
)
- 1890
-
Edmond Hebert
, French geologist (b.
1812
)
- 1912
-
Charles Brantley Aycock
, 50th
Governor
of
North Carolina
(b.
1859
)
- 1919
-
Francisco Marto
, Portuguese
saint
(b.
1908
)
- 1923
-
John Venn
, English
mathematician
and
philosopher
(b.
1834
)
- 1929
?
Karl Benz
, German automobile designer and inventor (b.
1844
)
- 1931
?
Andre Michelin
, French industrialist (b.
1853
)
- 1932
?
Wilhelm Ostwald
, German chemist (b.
1853
)
- 1933
-
Elizabeth Bacon Custer
, American writer (b.
1842
)
- 1939
- King
Ghazi of Iraq
(b.
1912
)
- 1951
-
George Albert Smith
, American Mormon leader (b.
1870
)
- 1953
? King
Carol II of Romania
(b.
1893
)
- 1961
-
Simeon Stoilow
, Romanian
mathematician
(b.
1873
)
- 1962
-
James Hanratty
, British
murderer
(b.
1936
)
- 1967
-
Al Lewis
, American
songwriter
(b.
1901
)
- 1967
-
Hector Scarone
,
Uruguayan
footballer
(b.
1898
)
- 1968
?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
, American civil rights activist (b.
1929
)
- 1972
-
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
, American politician (b.
1908
)
- 1976
-
Harry Nyquist
, Swedish contributor to
Information Theory
(b.
1889
)
- 1979
?
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
, Pakistani politician (b.
1928
)
- 1983
?
Gloria Swanson
, American actress (b.
1899
)
- 1984
?
Oleg Antonov
, Russian airplane designer (b.
1906
)
- 1991
?
Edmund Adamkiewicz
, German footballer (b.
1920
)
- 1991
?
H. John Heinz III
, US Senator (b.
1938
)
- 1991
?
Max Frisch
, Swiss writer (b.
1911
)
- 1993
?
Alfred Mosher-Butts
, American inventor of
Scrabble
(b.
1899
)
- 1995
?
Kenny Everett
, British entertainer (b.
1944
)
- 1995
?
Priscilla Lane
, American singer and actress (b.
1915
)
- 1996
-
Barney Ewell
, American runner (b.
1918
)
- 1999
?
Faith Domergue
, American actor (b.
1924
)
- 2003
?
Anthony Caruso
, American actor (b.
1916
)
- 2004
-
Alberic Schotte
, Belgian cyclist (b.
1919
)
- 2007
?
Bob Clark
, American director (b.
1941
)
- 2007
-
Karen Sparck Jones
, British
computer
scientist
(b.
1935
)
- 2009
?
Gonzalo Olave
, Chilean actor (b.
1983
)
- 2012
-
Claude Miller
, French
movie director
(b.
1942
)
- 2013
-
Roger Ebert
, American movie critic and writer (b.
1942
)
- 2013
-
Carmine Infantino
, American illustrator (b.
1925
)
- 2014
-
Margo MacDonald
, Scottish
politician
, member of the
Scottish Parliament
(b.
1943
)
- 2014
-
Kumba Iala
,
President
of
Guinea-Bissau
(b.
1953
)
- 2014
-
Anja Niedringhaus
, German
journalist
(b.
1965
)
- 2014
-
Jose Aguilar
,
Cuban
boxer (b.
1958
)
- 2015
-
Elmer Lach
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (b.
1918
)
- 2015
-
Jamaluddin Jarjis
,
Malaysian
politician
(b.
1951
)
- 2015
-
Klaus Rifbjerg
, Danish
writer
(b.
1931
)
- 2015
-
Donald N. Levine
, American
sociologist
(b.
1931
)
- 2015
-
Ira Lewis
, American actor and playwright (b.
1932
)
- 2016
-
Chus Lampreave
, Spanish actress (b.
1930
)
- 2016
-
Getatchew Mekurya
, Ethiopian
jazz
saxophonist (b.
1935
)
- 2016
-
Royston Nash
, English conductor (b.
1933
)
- 2016
-
George Radosevich
, American football player (b.
1928
)
- 2016
-
Mike Sandlock
, American
baseball
player (b.
1915
)
- 2016
-
Abe Segal
, South African
tennis
player (b.
1930
)
- 2017
-
Samir Farid
, Egyptian film critic and historian (b.
1943
)
- 2017
-
Giovanni Sartori
, Italian political scientist and journalist (b.
1924
)
- 2018
-
Andres Ammas
, Estonian politician (b.
1956
)
- 2018
-
Soon-Tek Oh
, South Korean-American actor (b.
1932
)
- 2018
-
Johnny Valiant
, American
professional wrestler
(b.
1946
)
- 2018
-
Ray Wilkins
, English
footballer
and manager (b.
1956
)
- 2018
-
Leonid Sokov
, Russian artist and sculptor (b.
1941
)
- 2019
-
Alberto Cortez
, Argentine singer and songwriter (b.
1940
)
- 2019
-
Georgiy Daneliya
, Russian film director and screenwriter (b.
1930
)
- 2019
-
Barry Malkin
, American film editor (b.
1938
)
- 2019
-
Marilyn Mason
, American concert organist and academic (b.
1925
)