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April 3
is the 93rd day of the year (94th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 272 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1905
?
Boca Juniors
football club is founded in
Buenos Aires
.
- 1922
?
Joseph Stalin
succeeds
Vladimir Lenin
as leader of the
Soviet Union
.
- 1926
-
Honduras
introduces the
Lempira
as its
currency
.
- 1933
- The first flight over
Mount Everest
occurs, as part of a British expedition led by
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton
, and funded by
Lucy, Lady Houston
.
- 1941
?
Hungarian
and
German
troops march into
Yugoslavia
.
- 1942
?
World War II
:
Japanese
forces begin an all-out assault on the
United States
and
Filipino
troops on the
Bataan Peninsula
. Bataan fell on
April 9
and the
Bataan Death March
began.
- 1944
- A
mine
explosion in Heessen,
Westphalia
,
Germany
, kills 169 miners.
- 1946
?
Japanese
Lt. General
Masaharu Homma
is executed outside
Manila
in the
Philippines
for leading the
Bataan Death March
.
- 1948
?
President
Harry Truman
signs the
Marshall Plan
which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
- 1948
- In
Jeju
,
South Korea
, a civil war-like period of
violence
and
human rights
abuses begins.
- 1954
-
Oxford University
wins the 100th Oxford-
Cambridge
Boat Race.
- 1956
- A deadly Force 5
tornado
hits the western half of the Lower
Peninsula
of
Michigan
.
- 1961
- Leadbeater's
Possum
is re-discovered in
Australia
, after 72 years.
- 1968
?
Elvis Presley
sings
Heartbreak Hotel
on the
Milton Berle Show
with an estimated 25% of the
United States
population viewing.
- 1968
?
Martin Luther King, Jr.
delivers his "
mountaintop
" speech.
- 1973
? The first ever
Mobile phone
call is placed by Martin Cooper, in
New York City
- 1974
?
The Super Outbreak
occurred. 148 tornadoes affected 13 states and 1 Canadian province in 18 hours. It was the biggest tornado outbreak in the
planet
's recorded history. 315 people die, nearly 5,500 are injured.
- 1975
-
Bobby Fischer
refuses to play a
chess
match against
Anatoly Karpov
, who wins the world championship by default as a result.
- 1979
-
Spain
holds its first local elections since the death of
Francisco Franco
.
- 1981
-
Osborne 1
, the first-ever portable
computer
, is unveiled in
San Francisco
.
- 1984
-
Lansana Conte
comes to power in
Guinea
through a
military
coup.
- 1986
?
IBM
unveils the
PC Convertible
, their first
laptop computer
.
- 1991
-
Miguel Trovoada
becomes
President
of Sao Tome and Principe.
- 1992
?
Albania
's last
Communist
leader
Ramiz Alia
resigns.
- 1996
? Suspected "Unabomber"
Theodore Kaczynski
is arrested at his
Montana
cabin.
- 1997
?
Thalit massacre
begins in
Algeria
; all but 1 of the 53 people living in Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
- 2000
?
Microsoft
is ruled to have violated
United States
antitrust
laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
- 1151
-
Igor Svyatoslavich
,
Kievan Rus
Prince (d.
1202
)
- 1245
? King
Philip III of France
(d.
1285
)
- 1367
? King
Henry IV of England
(d.
1413
)
- 1529
?
Michael Neander
, German
mathematician
and
astronomer
(d.
1581
)
- 1593
-
George Herbert
, Welsh-born English
poet
(d.
1633
)
- 1639
?
Alessandro Stradella
, Italian composer (d.
1682
)
- 1643
-
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
(d.
1690
)
- 1683
?
Mark Catesby
, English
naturalist
(d.
1749
)
- 1715
-
William Watson
, English
physician
and
scientist
(d.
1787
)
- 1764
-
John Abernethy
, English
surgeon
(d.
1831
)
- 1769
-
Christian Gunther von Bernstorff
, Danish-Prussian
statesman
and
diplomat
(d.
1835
)
- 1770
-
Theodoros Kolokstronis
, Greek general (d.
1843
)
- 1781
-
Swaminarayan
, Indian religious leader (d.
1830
)
- 1783
?
Washington Irving
, American writer (d.
1859
)
- 1798
?
Charles Wilkes
, American navy officer and polar explorer (d.
1877
)
- 1806
?
Ivan Kireevsky
, Russian literary critic and
philosopher
(d.
1856
)
- 1807
-
Jane Digby
, English
aristocrat
and
adventuress
(d.
1881
)
- 1814
?
Lorenzo Snow
, American
Mormon
leader (d.
1901
)
- 1822
-
Edward Everett Hale
, American writer (d.
1909
)
- 1823
-
William M. Tweed
, American politician (d.
1878
)
- 1843
?
Knut Ekvall
, Swedish
artist
(d.
1912
)
- 1848
-
Arturo Prat
,
Chilean
lawyer
and naval officer (d.
1879
)
- 1861
-
Frederik van Eeden
, Dutch writer and
psychiatrist
(d.
1932
)
- 1863
-
Henry van de Velde
, Belgian
architect
and
designer
(d.
1957
)
- 1876
-
Margaret Anglin
, Canadian
Broadway
actress (d.
1958
)
- 1876
-
Celso Constantini
, Italian
cardinal
(d.
1958
)
- 1880
-
Jorge Brown
, Argentine
footballer
and
cricketer
(d.
1936
)
- 1880
?
Otto Weininger
, Austrian
philosopher
(d.
1903
)
- 1881
?
Alcide De Gasperi
,
Prime Minister of Italy
(d.
1954
)
- 1882
-
Philippe Desranleau
, Canadian
archbishop
(d.
1952
)
- 1883
-
Ikki Kita
, Japanese
philosopher
and
writer
(d.
1937
)
- 1885
-
Bud Fisher
, American
cartoonist
(d.
1954
)
- 1885
-
Allan Dwan
, American director, producer and screenwriter (d.
1981
)
- 1887
-
Otori Tanigoro
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (d.
1956
)
- 1889
-
Grigoras Dinicu
, Romanian
composer
and
violinist
(d.
1949
)
- 1893
-
Leslie Howard
, British actor (d.
1943
)
- 1895
?
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
, Italian composer (d.
1968
)
- 1898
?
Henry Luce
, American publisher (d.
1967
)
- 1898
-
George Jessel
, American actor, singer and producer (d.
1981
)
- 1899
?
David Jack
, English
footballer
(d.
1958
)
- 1899
-
Maria Redaelli
, Italian
supercentenarian
(d.
2013
)
- 1900
-
Camille Chamoun
,
President
of
Lebanon
(d.
1987
)
- 1903
-
Lili Kraus
, Hungarian-American pianist (d.
1986
)
- 1904
-
Sally Rand
, American Burlesque dancer (d.
1979
)
- 1905
-
Robert Sink
, American military officer (d.
1965
)
- 1907
-
Iron Eyes Cody
, American actor (d.
1999
)
- 1911
?
Stanislawa Walasiewicz
, Polish athlete (d.
1980
)
- 1912
-
Grigoris Lambrakis
, Greek politician,
physician
and athlete (d.
1963
)
- 1913
?
Per Borten
,
Prime Minister
of
Norway
(d.
2005
)
- 1915
?
Piet de Jong
,
Prime Minister
of the
Netherlands
(d.
2016
)
- 1918
-
Mary Anderson
, American actress (d.
2014
)
- 1919
-
Ervin Drake
, American
songwriter
and
composer
(d.
2015
)
- 1920
?
Stan Freeman
, American composer and lyricist (d.
2001
)
- 1920
?
John Demjanjuk
, Ukrainian convicted
Nazi
war criminal
(d.
2012
)
- 1920
-
Yoshibayama Junnosuke
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (d.
1977
)
- 1922
-
Doris Day
, American actress (d.
2019
)
- 1922
-
Jose Hierro
, Spanish
poet
(d.
2002
)
- 1922
-
Carlo Lizzani
, Italian
movie director
,
screenwriter
and
actor
(d.
2013
)
- 1924
?
Marlon Brando
,
American
actor
(d.
2004
)
- 1925
?
Tony Benn
, British politician (d.
2014
)
- 1926
?
Gus Grissom
, American
astronaut
(d.
1967
)
- 1926
- Timothy Bateson, English actor (d.
2009
)
- 1928
-
Earl Lloyd
, American
basketball
player (d.
2015
)
- 1928
-
Cheikh Hamidou Kane
,
Senegalese
writer
- 1929
-
Miyoshi Umeki
, Japanese actress (d.
2007
)
- 1929
-
Poul Schluter
, former
Prime Minister
of
Denmark
- 1930
?
Helmut Kohl
, former
Chancellor of Germany
(d.
2017
)
- 1930
-
Lawton Chiles
, 41st
Governor
of
Florida
(d.
1998
)
- 1930
-
Mario Menendez
, Argentine
general
and
politician
(d.
2015
)
- 1933
-
Bob Dornan
, American
politician
- 1933
-
Fu Da-ren
, Taiwanese sports broadcaster and assisted suicide activist (d.
2018
)
- 1934
?
Jane Goodall
,
English
zoologist
- 1935
-
Salvatore Senese
, Italian magistrate and politician (d.
2019
)
- 1936
?
Reginald Hill
, English
crime fiction
writer (d.
2012
)
- 1936
-
Harold Vick
, American
jazz
saxophonist and
flautist
(d.
1987
)
- 1942
-
Wayne Newton
, American singer and actor
- 1942
-
Billy Joe Royal
, American singer (d.
2015
)
- 1942
-
Marsha Mason
, American actress
- 1943
-
Mario Lavista
, Mexican composer
- 1943
-
Jonathan Lynn
, English
actor
,
director
and
screenwriter
- 1945
-
Bernie Parent
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1945
-
Catherine Spaak
, French actress
- 1946
-
Dee Murphy
, English musician (d.
1992
)
- 1946
-
Marisa Paredes
, Spanish actress
- 1946
-
Hanna Suchocka
, 5th
Prime Minister
of
Poland
- 1948
?
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
, former
President
of
Mexico
- 1948
?
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
, Dutch politician and former
NATO
Secretary-General
- 1948
-
Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck
, German
footballer
- 1949
?
Daniel Catan
, Mexican composer (d.
2011
)
- 1949
-
A. C. Grayling
, British
philosopher
- 1950
-
Sally Thomsett
, English actress
- 1953
-
Wakanohana Kanji II
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler
- 1956
-
Miguel Bose
, Spanish singer and actor
- 1957
-
Yves Chaland
, French cartoonist (d.
1990
)
- 1958
-
Francesca Woodman
, American
photographer
(d.
1981
)
- 1958
?
Alec Baldwin
, American actor
- 1959
?
David Hyde Pierce
, American actor
- 1960
-
Elizabeth Gracen
, American actress and model
- 1960
-
Arjen Anthony Lucassen
, Dutch
singer-songwriter
,
guitarist
and
producer
- 1961
?
Eddie Murphy
, American actor and
comedian
- 1962
?
Jennifer Rubin
, American actress
- 1964
?
Bjarne Riis
, Danish cyclist
- 1964
?
Andy Robinson
, English
rugby
player and coach
- 1964
-
Nigel Farage
, English politician, former leader of
UKIP
- 1965
-
Katsumi Oenoki
, Japanese
footballer
- 1966
?
Mina Tominaga
, Japanese
voice actress
- 1966
-
Michael Mittermeier
, German comedian
- 1968
?
Sebastian Bach
, Canadian singer
- 1968
-
Charlotte Coleman
, English actress (d.
2001
)
- 1968
-
Jamie Hewlett
, English comic creator
- 1970
-
Donald-Olivier Sie
,
Ivorian
footballer
- 1971
-
Robert da Silva Almeida
, Brazilian
footballer
- 1971
?
Vitalijs Astafjevs
,
Latvian
footballer
- 1971
-
Picabo Street
, American
skier
- 1972
?
Kenny Logan
, Scottish
rugby
player
- 1972
-
Lola Pagnani
, Italian
movie
actress
- 1972
-
Jennie Garth
, American actress
- 1972
-
Leigh-Allyn Baker
, American actress
- 1972
-
Catherine McCormack
, English actress
- 1973
-
Prabhu Deva
, Indian dancer,
choreographer
,
movie director
and
actor
- 1973
?
Jamie Bamber
, English actor
- 1975
-
Shawn Bates
, American
ice hockey
player
- 1976
?
Drew Shirley
, American musician
- 1976
?
Will Mellor
, English actor
- 1978
?
Matthew Goode
, English actor
- 1978
?
Tommy Haas
, German
tennis
player
- 1978
?
John Smit
, South African
rugby
player
- 1980
?
Suella Braverman
, English politician
- 1981
?
Aaron Bertram
, American
trumpeter
(
Suburban Legends
)
- 1982
?
Cobie Smulders
, Canadian actress
- 1983
?
Ben Foster
, English footballer
- 1985
?
Leona Lewis
, English
singer
- 1986
?
Amanda Bynes
, American actress
- 1986
?
Coleen Rooney
, English celebrity
- 1987
?
Park Jung-min
, South Korean
singer
,
dancer
and
actor
- 1987
?
Martyn Rooney
, English sprinter
- 1988
?
Tim Krul
, Dutch footballer
- 1989
?
Israel Folau
, Australian rugby player
- 1990
?
Sotiris Ninis
, Greek footballer
- 1990
?
Karim Ansarifard
, Iranian footballer
- 1991
?
Hayley Kiyoko
, American singer, dancer and actress
- 1992
?
Simone Benedetti
, Italian
footballer
- 1992
?
Yuliya Yefimova
, Russian swimmer
- 1992
?
Juan Cazares
, Ecuadorean
footballer
- 1993
?
Pape Moussa Konate
,
Senegalese
footballer
- 1994
?
Dylann Roof
, American
murderer
, perpetrator of the
Charleston church shooting
- 1995
?
William de Asevedo Furtado
, Brazilian
footballer
- 1997
?
Gabriel Jesus
, Brazilian
footballer
- 963
?
William III, Duke of Aquitaine
(b.
915
)
- 1203
-
Arthur I, Duke of Brittany
(b.
1196
)
- 1287
-
Pope Honorius IV
(b.
1240
)
- 1350
-
Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy
(b.
1295
)
- 1617
?
John Napier
, Scottish
mathematician
(b.
1550
)
- 1680
-
Shivaji
, Indian founder of the
Maratha Empire
(b.
1608
)
- 1682
?
Bartolome Esteban Murillo
, Spanish painter (b.
1618
)
- 1691
-
Jean Petitot
, French-Swiss painter (b.
1608
)
- 1717
-
Jacques Ozanam
, French
mathematician
(b.
1640
)
- 1849
?
Juliusz Slowacki
, Polish
poet
(b.
1809
)
- 1857
-
Federico de Roncali, 1st Count of Alcoy
,
Prime Minister of Spain
(b.
1809
)
- 1868
?
Franz Berwald
,
Swedish
composer
and
inventor
(b.
1796
)
- 1882
?
Jesse James
, American outlaw (b.
1847
)
- 1897
?
Johannes Brahms
,
German
composer (b.
1833
)
- 1901
-
Richard D'Oyly Carte
, British talent agent, impresario, composer and
hotelier
(b.
1844
)
- 1936
?
Bruno Hauptmann
, German, convicted for the murder of
Charles Lindbergh III
(b.
1899
)
- 1941
?
Pal Teleki
,
Prime Minister
of
Hungary
(b.
1879
)
- 1941
-
Tachiyama Mineemon
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (b.
1877
)
- 1943
-
Conrad Veidt
, German-American actor (b.
1893
)
- 1950
?
Kurt Weill
, German composer (b.
1900
)
- 1950
-
Carter G. Woodson
, American
historian
,
writer
and
journalist
(b.
1875
)
- 1952
?
Miina Sillanpaa
, Finnish politician (b.
1866
)
- 1954
-
Aristides de Sousa Mendes
, Portuguese
diplomat
(b.
1885
)
- 1975
-
Mary Ure
, Scottish actress (b.
1933
)
- 1978
-
Ray Noble
, English
bandleader
,
actor
and
composer
(b.
1903
)
- 1982
-
Warren Oates
, American actor (b.
1928
)
- 1986
?
Peter Pears
, English
tenor
(b.
1910
)
- 1990
?
Sarah Vaughan
, American
jazz
singer and pianist (b.
1924
)
- 1991
?
Graham Greene
, English writer (b.
1904
)
- 1994
?
Frank Wells
, American businessman,
President
of the
Walt Disney Company
(b.
1932
)
- 1996
-
Ron Brown
, American politician (b.
1941
)
- 1999
?
Lionel Bart
, English composer (b.
1930
)
- 2003
?
Edwin Starr
, American singer (b.
1942
)
- 2004
-
Gabriella Ferri
, Italian singer (b.
1942
)
- 2007
?
Nina Wang
,
Asia
's richest
woman
(b.
1937
)
- 2008
?
Hrvoje Custic
, Croatian footballer (b.
1983
)
- 2010
?
Eugene Terre'Blanche
, South African far-right politician (b.
1941
)
- 2012
-
Xenia Stade-de Jong
, Dutch athlete (b.
1922
)
- 2013
-
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
, German-born
novelist
, short story writer and
screenwriter
(b.
1927
)
- 2014
-
Regine Deforges
, French writer,
playwright
and
director
(b.
1935
)
- 2014
-
Fred Kida
, American illustrator (b.
1920
)
- 2014
-
Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith
, American
guitarist
,
fiddler
and
composer
(b.
1921
)
- 2014
-
Paul Salamunovich
, American choral director and movie scorer (b.
1927
)
- 2014
-
Virginie Korte-van Hemel
, Dutch politician (b.
1929
)
- 2014
-
Edvard Grimstad
, Norwegian politician (b.
1933
)
- 2014
-
Tommy Lynn Sells
, American
serial killer
(b.
1964
)
- 2015
-
Nigel Boocock
, British speedway rider (b.
1937
)
- 2015
-
Shmuel Wosner
, Austrian-Israeli
rabbi
(b.
1913
)
- 2015
-
Sarah Brady
, American gun control campaigner (b.
1942
)
- 2015
-
Kayahan
, Turkish pop singer (b.
1949
)
- 2015
-
Robert Rietti
, British-Italian actor (b.
1923
)
- 2015
-
Vivian Nathan
, American actress (b.
1916
)
- 2015
-
Bob Burns
, American
drummer
(
Lynyrd Skynyrd
) (b.
1950
)
- 2016
-
Cesare Maldini
, Italian
footballer
and manager (b.
1932
)
- 2016
-
Joe Medicine Crow
, American
historian
(b.
1913
)
- 2016
-
Lars Gustafsson
, Swedish writer (b.
1936
)
- 2016
-
Martin Lampkin
, British
motorcycle
rider (b.
1950
)
- 2016
-
Lola Novakovic
, Serbian
singer
(b.
1935
)
- 2016
-
Erik Bauersfeld
, American radio dramatist and voice actor (b.
1922
)
- 2016
-
Don Francks
, Canadian
jazz
singer and actor (b.
1932
)
- 2016
-
Rowley Habib
, New Zealand writer (b.
1933
)
- 2016
-
Clarence Clifton Young
, American politician (b.
1922
)
- 2016
-
Jules Schelvis
, Dutch
historian
and
Holocaust
survivor (b.
1921
)
- 2017
-
John Chrispinsson
, Swedish
journalist
(b.
1956
)
- 2017
-
Akbarzhan Jalilov
, Kyrgyz-born Russian terrorist (b.
1995
)
- 2017
-
Roy Sievers
, American
baseball
player (b.
1926
)
- 2017
-
Michel Arrive
, French
linguist
and
novelist
(b.
1936
)
- 2017
-
Stella Turk
, British zoologist, naturalist and conservationist (b.
1925
)
- 2018
-
Lill-Babs
, Swedish singer (b.
1938
)
- 2018
-
Nasim Najafi Aghdam
, Iranian-American animal rights and internet personality (b.
1979
)
- 2018
-
Arrigo Petacco
, Italian journalist and writer (b.
1929
)
- 2018
-
Jacques Tixier
, French
archaeologist
and
prehistorian
- 2019
-
Maurice Pon
, French lyricist (b.
1921
)
- 2019
-
Aleksey Buldakov
, Russian actor (b.
1951
)
- 2019
-
Gabriel Piroird
, French
bishop
(b.
1932
)
- 2019
-
Carmelita Pope
, American actress (b.
1924
)