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April 7
is the 97th day of the year (98th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 268 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1906
?
Mount Vesuvius
erupts.
- 1906
- The Algeciras
Conference
gives
France
and
Spain
control over
Morocco
.
- 1908
?
H. H. Asquith
becomes
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
.
- 1919
- The
Federation Francais de Football
is founded.
- 1927
- The first long-distance
television
broadcast is made from
Washington, DC
to
New York City
.
- 1933
-
Prohibition
in the
United States
is removed for
beer
of no more than 3.2%
alcohol
by
weight
.
- 1939
-
World War II
:
Italy
invades
Albania
.
- 1940
?
Booker T. Washington
becomes the first
African American
to be depicted on a US postage stamp.
- 1943
-
Holocaust
: In Trebovlia,
Ukraine
,
Nazi
troops order 1,100
Jews
to undress to their underwear and march through the
city
to the
village
of Plebanivka, where they are shot dead.
- 1943
-
Ioannis Rallis
becomes collaborationist
Prime Minister
of
Greece
during the occupation by the
Axis Powers
.
- 1945
-
World War II
:
Japanese
battleship
Yamato
, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200
miles
north of
Okinawa
while on the way to a
suicide
mission in
Operation Ten-Go
.
- 1946
?
Syria
's independence is recognised.
- 1948
? The
United Nations
created the
World Health Organization
.
- 1954
-
Dwight D. Eisenhower
gives his "Domino Theory" speech during a
news
conference.
- 1955
?
Anthony Eden
replaced
Winston Churchill
as
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
.
- 1956
-
Spain
relinquishes its
protectorate
in
Morocco
.
- 1964
-
IBM
announces the
System/360
.
- 1967
-
Roger Ebert
publishes his first
movie
review in the
Chicago
Sun-Times.
- 1968
- Scottish racing driver
Jim Clark
is killed in a crash at
Hockenheim
,
Germany
, aged 32.
- 1969
- The
Internet
's symbolic birth date.
- 1971
-
Richard Nixon
announces his decision to increase the rate of American troops withdrawals from
Vietnam
.
- 1977
? German federal prosecutor
Siegfried Buback
is shot dead, along with his driver, by two members of the
Red Army Faction
.
- 1978
- Development of the
neutron
bomb
is cancelled by US President
Jimmy Carter
.
- 1980
- The
United States
severs
diplomatic
relations with
Iran
.
- 1983
- During
STS-6
mission,
astronauts
Story Musgrave
and
Don Peterson
perform the first
space shuttle
space walk
.
- 1989
?
Soviet
submarine Komsomolets sinks in the
Barents Sea
, killing 42 people.
- 1990
- A
fire
breaks out on the
passenger
ferry
M/S Scandinavian Star
, killing 198 people.
- 1992
? Republika Srpska declares
independence
.
- 1994
? The
Rwandan Genocide
begins. One of the first victims is
Rwandan
Prime Minister
Agathe Uwilingiyimana
.
- 1995
-
First Chechen War
:
Russian
paramilitary troops begin a massacre of
civilians
in Samashki,
Chechnya
.
- 1999
- The
World Trade Organization
rules in favour of the
United States
in its long-running trade dispute with the
European Union
over
bananas
.
- 1506
-
Francis Xavier
, Spanish Roman Catholic missionary (d.
1552
)
- 1539
-
Tobias Stimmer
, Swiss painter (d.
1584
)
- 1613
-
Gerrit Dou
, Dutch painter (d.
1675
)
- 1629
-
John of Austria the Younger
, Spanish military leader and statesman (d.
1679
)
- 1648
-
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
, English
statesman
and
poet
(d.
1721
)
- 1652
?
Pope Clement XII
(d.
1740
)
- 1713
-
Nicola Sala
, Italian composer and music theorist (d.
1801
)
- 1718
-
Hugh Blair
, Scottish minister and writer (d.
1800
)
- 1742
-
Gunning Bedford, Sr.
,
Governor
of
Delaware
(d.
1797
)
- 1763
-
Domenico Dragonetti
, Italian double-bass
virtuoso
and composer (d.
1846
)
- 1767
-
Henry Bell
, Scottish
engineer
(d.
1830
)
- 1770
?
William Wordsworth
,
English
poet
(d.
1850
)
- 1772
-
Charles Fourier
, French
philosopher
(d.
1837
)
- 1786
-
William R. King
, 13th
Vice President of the United States
(d.
1853
)
- 1803
-
James Curtiss
,
Mayor
of
Chicago
(d.
1859
)
- 1803
-
Flora Tristan
, French
writer
(d.
1884
)
- 1811
-
Hasan Tahsini
, Albanian
astronomer
,
mathematician
and
philosopher
(d.
1881
)
- 1839
-
Ida Ferenczy
, Hungarian
Lady-in-waiting
to
Elisabeth of Bavaria
(d.
1928
)
- 1847
?
Jens Peder Jacobsen
, Danish
writer
(d.
1885
)
- 1848
-
Randall Davidson, 1st Baron Davidson of Lambeth
,
Archbishop
of
Canterbury
(d.
1930
)
- 1853
?
Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany
(d.
1884
)
- 1857
-
Nazrullah Khan
,
Emir
of
Afghanistan
(d.
1920
)
- 1859
-
Walter Camp
,
American football
player, coach and writer (d.
1925
)
- 1860
-
Will Keith Kellogg
, American
businessman
and
food
manufacturer (d.
1951
)
- 1867
?
Holger Pedersen
, Danish
linguist
(d.
1953
)
- 1868
-
Jose de Castro
,
Prime Minister
of
Portugal
(d.
1929
)
- 1870
?
Gustav Landauer
, German anarchist and revolutionary (d.
1919
)
- 1871
-
Epifanio de los Santos
, Filipino jurist, historian and scholar (d.
1927
)
- 1872
-
William Monroe Trotter
, American
newspaper
editor (d.
1934
)
- 1873
-
John McGraw
, American
baseball
player and manager (d.
1934
)
- 1874
-
Frederick Carl Frieseke
, German-American painter (d.
1939
)
- 1876
-
Fay Moulton
, American
sprinter
, football player, coach and lawyer (d.
1945
)
- 1882
?
Kurt von Schleicher
, German military officer and politician,
Chancellor of Germany
(d.
1934
)
- 1883
?
Gino Severini
,
Italian
painter
(d.
1966
)
- 1884
-
Clement Smoot
, American
golfer
(d.
1963
)
- 1886
-
Emilio Pujols
,
Catalan
guitarist
and
composer
(d.
1980
)
- 1887
-
Joseph Stadler
, American jumper (d.
1950
)
- 1889
?
Gabriela Mistral
,
Chilean
writer (d.
1945
)
- 1890
-
Paul Berth
, Danish
footballer
(d.
1969
)
- 1890
-
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
, American
journalist
and
activist
(d.
1998
)
- 1891
?
Ole Kirk Christiansen
,
Danish
inventor
, of
Lego
(d.
1958
)
- 1893
-
Allen Dulles
, American
CIA
director (d.
1969
)
- 1896
-
Frits Peutz
, Dutch
architect
(d.
1974
)
- 1897
-
Walter Winchell
, American broadcaster and journalist (d.
1972
)
- 1899
-
Robert Casadesus
, French pianist (d.
1972
)
- 1900
-
Jebbs Lloyd Johnson
, English race walker (d.
1984
)
- 1907
-
Le Duan
,
Vietnamese
politician (d.
1986
)
- 1907
-
John Burroughs
,
Governor
of
New Mexico
(d.
1978
)
- 1908
-
Percy Faith
, Canadian composer, conductor and
bandleader
(d.
1976
)
- 1911
-
Herve Bazin
, French writer (d.
1996
)
- 1913
-
Louise Currie
, American
actress
(d.
2013
)
- 1913
-
Charles Vanik
, American
politician
(d.
2007
)
- 1914
-
Charles Flanagan
, American bandleader, conductor, pianist, composer and arranger (d.
1995
)
- 1915
?
Stanley Adams
, American
actor
(d.
1977
)
- 1915
?
Billie Holiday
, American
jazz
singer (d.
1959
)
- 1915
-
Henry Kuttner
, American writer (d.
1977
)
- 1916
?
Anthony Caruso
, American actor (d.
2003
)
- 1917
-
R. G. Armstrong
, American actor (d.
2012
)
- 1918
-
Bobby Doerr
, American
baseball
player and coach
- 1919
-
Edoardo Mangiarotti
, Italian
fencer
(d.
2012
)
- 1920
?
Ravi Shankar
,
Indian
sitar
player (d.
2012
)
- 1924
?
Johannes Mario Simmel
,
Austrian
writer (d.
2009
)
- 1927
-
Babatunde Olatunji
,
Nigerian
drummer
, educator and activist (d.
2003
)
- 1927
-
Leonid Shcherbakov
, Russian high jumper
- 1928
?
James Garner
,
American
actor
(d.
2014
)
- 1928
-
James White
, Northern Irish writer (d.
1999
)
- 1928
-
Alan J. Pakula
, American
movie
maker (d.
1998
)
- 1929
?
Bob Denard
,
French
mercenary
(d.
2007
)
- 1930
?
Andrew Sachs
,
German
-born
British
actor
- 1930
-
Cliff Morgan
, Welsh
rugby
player (d.
2013
)
- 1930
-
Roger Verge
, French chef and restaurateur (d.
2015
)
- 1930
-
Vilma Espin
, Cuban
revolutionary
and
politician
(d.
2007
)
- 1931
-
Donald Barthelme
, American writer (d.
1989
)
- 1931
-
Ted Kotcheff
, Canadian director
- 1933
?
Wayne Rogers
, American actor (d.
2015
)
- 1934
?
Ian Richardson
,
Scottish
actor (d.
2007
)
- 1937
-
Cynthia Lynn
, Latvian-American
actress
(d.
2014
)
- 1938
?
Jerry Brown
, American
politician
, former
Governor
of
California
- 1938
?
Freddie Hubbard
, American
jazz
musician
(d.
2008
)
- 1938
-
Spencer Dryden
, American drummer (d.
2005
)
- 1938
-
Justin Lekhanya
, former
Prime Minister
of
Lesotho
- 1939
?
David Frost
,
British
broadcaster (d.
2013
)
- 1939
?
Francis Ford Coppola
, American
movie director
- 1941
?
Gorden Kaye
, British actor (d.
2017
)
- 1943
-
Mick Abrahams
, English
guitarist
(
Jethro Tull
)
- 1944
-
Makoto Kobayashi
, Japanese
physicist
- 1944
?
Gerhard Schroder
, former
Chancellor of Germany
- 1944
-
Bill Stoneman
, American
baseball
player and manager
- 1945
-
Megas
, Icelandic
singer-songwriter
- 1945
?
Werner Schroeter
, German
movie
movie director
(d.
2010
)
- 1945
-
Robert S. Wistrich
, Kazakh-born British-Israeli
professor
(d.
2015
)
- 1946
-
Colette Besson
, French
sprinter
(d.
2005
)
- 1946
-
Stan Winston
, American special effects expert (d.
2008
)
- 1947
?
Florian Schneider
, German musician (
Kraftwerk
)
- 1947
-
Patricia Bennett
, American singer
- 1948
?
Pietro Anastasi
, Italian footballer
- 1949
-
Valentina Matviyenko
, Russian politician
- 1949
?
Mitch Daniels
, American politician,
Governor
of
Indiana
- 1949
- Wells Kelly, American
singer-songwriter
and musician (
Orleans
) (d.
1984
)
- 1951
?
Janis Ian
, American
singer
and songwriter
- 1952
-
Clarke Peters
, American
actor
and
singer
- 1954
?
Jackie Chan
,
Chinese
(
Hong Kong
) actor
- 1955
-
Tim Cochran
, American
mathematician
(d.
2014
)
- 1955
-
Werner Stocker
, German
actor
(d.
1993
)
- 1960
-
Buster Douglas
, American
boxer
- 1961
?
Luigi De Agostini
,
Italian
footballer
- 1962
?
Ram Gopal Varma
, Indian
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1962
-
Jon Cruddas
, English
politician
- 1963
-
Jaime de Marichalar
, Spanish
nobleman
- 1963
-
Nick Herbert
, English
politician
- 1964
?
Russell Crowe
,
New Zealand
-
Australian
actor
- 1965
?
Alison Lapper
, British
artist
- 1965
-
Bill Bellamy
, American
comedian
and
actor
- 1966
-
Gary Wilkinson
, British
snooker
player
- 1967
-
Bodo Illgner
, German
footballer
- 1968
?
Jennifer Lynch
, American director
- 1968
-
Vasiliy Sokov
, Russian triple jumper
- 1970
-
Leif Ove Andsnes
, Norwegian pianist
- 1971
?
Guillaume Depardieu
,
French
actor (d.
2008
)
- 1971
?
Victor Kraatz
,
Canadian
figure skater
- 1971
-
Jennifer Schwalbach Smith
, American
journalist
and
actress
- 1972
-
Tim Peake
, English
astronaut
- 1973
-
Marco Delvecchio
, Italian
footballer
- 1973
-
Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert
, Dutch
politician
- 1975
-
Karin Dreijer Andersson
, Swedish singer
- 1976
-
Kevin Alejandro
, American actor
- 1977
-
Jenni Haukio
, Finnish
writer
and First Lady of
Finland
- 1979
?
Pascal Dupuis
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1979
?
Duncan James
, British singer
- 1979
-
Danny Sandoval
,
Venezuelan
baseball
player
- 1980
-
Dragan Bogavac
,
Montenegrin
footballer
- 1980
?
Carl Fletcher
,
Welsh
footballer
- 1981
-
Kelli Young
, English singer (
Liberty X
)
- 1982
-
Silvana Arias
,
Peruvian
actress
- 1983
-
Franck Ribery
, French
footballer
- 1983
-
Jon Stead
, English
footballer
- 1985
-
Humza Yousaf
, Scottish
politician
- 1986
-
Christian Fuchs
, Austrian
footballer
- 1987
-
Martin Caceres
,
Uruguayan
footballer
- 1989
-
Alexa Demara
, American actress, model, writer and martial artist
- 1989
?
Franco Di Santo
,
Argentine
footballer
- 1989
-
Sylwia Grzeszczak
, Polish singer
- 1989
-
Yulia Samoylova
, Russian singer
- 1991
-
Anne-Marie
, English singer and songwriter
- 1992
-
William Carvalho
, Angolan-born Portuguese
footballer
- 1992
?
Alexis Jordan
, American singer
- 1992
-
Jessica Sara
, American actress
- 1993
-
Irina Shtork
, Estonian
ice
dancer
- 1994
-
Johanna Allik
, Estonian figure skater
- 1997
-
Oliver Burke
, Scottish
footballer
- 924
-
Berengar I of Italy
(b.
845
)
- 1498
? King
Charles VIII of France
(b.
1470
)
- 1614
?
El Greco
,
Greek
-born
Spanish
painter (b.
1541
)
- 1638
-
Shimazu Tadatsune
, Japanese ruler of
Satsuma
(b.
1576
)
- 1651
?
Lennart Torstensson
,
Swedish
Governor-General (b.
1603
)
- 1658
-
Juan Eusebio Nieremberg
, Spanish mystic (b.
1595
)
- 1719
-
Jean-Baptiste de La Salle
, French saint (b.
1651
)
- 1739
?
Dick Turpin
, English outlaw (b.
1705
)
- 1762
?
Pietro Guarneri
, Italian
violin
maker (b.
1695
)
- 1789
?
Abdul Hamid I
,
Ottoman
Sultan
(b.
1725
)
- 1789
-
Petrus Camper
, Dutch
anatomist
(b.
1722
)
- 1801
-
Noel Francois de Wailly
, French lexicographer (b.
1724
)
- 1804
?
Toussaint Louverture
,
Haitian
revolutionary (b.
1743
)
- 1811
?
Garsevan Chavchavadze
,
Georgian
diplomat
and politician (b.
1757
)
- 1823
-
Jacques Charles
, French
physicist
and
mathematician
(b.
1746
)
- 1833
?
Antoni Radziwill
,
Polish
politician (b.
1775
)
- 1836
-
William Godwin
, English
journalist
and writer (b.
1756
)
- 1849
-
Pedro Ignacio de Castro Barros
, Argentine
priest
and
politician
(b.
1777
)
- 1868
?
Thomas D'Arcy McGee
, Canadian
journalist
and Father of the Confederation (b.
1825
)
- 1871
-
Alexander Loyd
,
Mayor
of
Chicago
(b.
1805
)
- 1885
?
Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold
, German physiologist (b.
1804
)
- 1889
-
Youssef Karam
, Lebanese nationalist leader (b.
1823
)
- 1891
?
P. T. Barnum
, American
circus
impresario (b.
1810
)
- 1900
-
Frederic Edwin Church
, American painter (b.
1826
)
- 1914
-
Mohammad Ayub Khan
, interim regent of
Afghanistan
(b.
1857
)
- 1917
-
Spyridon Samaras
, Greek
composer
(b.
1861
)
- 1918
-
David Kolehmainen
, Finnish wrestler (b.
1885
)
- 1920
-
Karl Binding
, German jurist (b.
1841
)
- 1928
-
Alexander Bogdanov
, Russian
physician
and
philosopher
(b.
1873
)
- 1930
-
Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo
, 4th
Governor
of
New Mexico
(b.
1859
)
- 1932
-
Grigore Constantinescu
, Romanian priest and journalist (b.
1875
)
- 1934
-
William Monroe Trotter
, American
newspaper
editor (b.
1872
)
- 1938
-
Suzanne Valadon
, French painter (b.
1865
)
- 1939
?
Joseph Lyons
,
Prime Minister of Australia
(b.
1879
)
- 1943
?
Alexandre Millerand
,
President of France
(b.
1859
)
- 1944
-
Johann Gruber
, Austrian
priest
(b.
1889
)
- 1947
?
Henry Ford
, American
business
person (b.
1863
)
- 1950
?
Walter Huston
, Canadian-born actor (b.
1884
)
- 1955
-
Theda Bara
, American
actress
(b.
1885
)
- 1956
-
Fred Appleby
, English long-distance runner (b.
1879
)
- 1957
-
John Hart
, Irish-Canadian
politician
,
Premier
of
British Columbia
(b.
1879
)
- 1960
-
Henri Guisan
, Swiss army officer (b.
1874
)
- 1965
-
Roger Leger
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (b.
1919
)
- 1966
-
Fred G. Aandahl
, American politician,
Governor
of
North Dakota
(b.
1897
)
- 1968
?
Jim Clark
, Scottish racing driver (b.
1936
)
- 1972
?
Abeid Karume
,
President
of
Zanzibar
(b.
1905
)
- 1977
?
Siegfried Buback
, German federal prosecutor (b.
1920
)
- 1981
-
Norman Taurog
, American
movie director
(b.
1899
)
- 1982
?
Harald Ertl
, Austrian racing driver (b.
1948
)
- 1984
-
Frank Church
, American politician (b.
1924
)
- 1985
-
Carl Schmitt
, German
philosopher
and theorist (b.
1888
)
- 1986
-
Leonid Kantorovich
, Soviet-Russian
mathematician
and
economist
(b.
1912
)
- 1990
-
Ronald Evans
, American
astronaut
(b.
1933
)
- 1992
?
Ace Bailey
, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1903
)
- 1994
?
Albert Gudmundsson
,
Icelandic
footballer and politician (b.
1923
)
- 1994
?
Agathe Uwilingiyimana
,
Prime Minister
of
Rwanda
(b.
1953
)
- 1994
-
Golo Mann
, German historian (b.
1909
)
- 1997
-
Georgi Shonin
,
Soviet
cosmonaut
(b.
1935
)
- 1997
?
Tomoyuki Tanaka
, Japanese movie producer (b.
1910
)
- 2000
-
Moacir Barbosa Nascimento
, Brazilian
footballer
(b.
1921
)
- 2003
-
David Greene
, British director (b.
1921
)
- 2004
-
Victor Argo
, American actor (b.
1934
)
- 2005
-
Cliff Allison
, Britsh racing driver (b.
1932
)
- 2007
?
Barry Nelson
, American actor (b.
1917
)
- 2008
-
Mark Speight
, English
television
presenter (b.
1965
)
- 2009
?
Dave Arneson
, American creator of the
game
Dungeons and Dragons
(b.
1947
)
- 2010
?
Christopher Cazenove
, British actor (b.
1945
)
- 2012
-
Mike Wallace
, American
journalist
(b.
1918
)
- 2012
-
Ignatius Moses I Daoud
,
Syrian
Catholic
patriarch
(b.
1930
)
- 2013
-
Lilly Pulitzer
, American socialite and fashion designer (b.
1931
)
- 2013
-
Les Blank
, American
director
and
producer
(b.
1935
)
- 2014
-
George Dureau
, American
artist
(b.
1930
)
- 2014
-
Frans van der Lugt
, Dutch
priest
(b.
1938
)
- 2014
-
Josep Maria Subirachs
,
Catalan
sculptor
and
painter
(b.
1927
)
- 2014
-
John Shirley-Quirk
, English
opera
singer (b.
1931
)
- 2014
-
Peaches Geldof
, English
model
and
television
host (b.
1989
)
- 2014
-
Zeituni Onyango
, Kenyan-American
computer
programmer (b.
1952
)
- 2014
-
George Shuffler
, American musician (b.
1925
)
- 2015
-
Jean Germain
, French
politician
,
Mayor
of
Tours
(b.
1947
)
- 2015
-
Richard Henyekane
, South African
footballer
(b.
1983
)
- 2015
-
Kardam, Prince of Turnovo
, Bulgarian-Spanish
nobleman
(b.
1962
)
- 2015
-
Stan Freberg
, American
writer
,
actor
and
comedian
(b.
1926
)
- 2015
-
Tim Babcock
, American
politician
,
Governor
of
Montana
(b.
1919
)
- 2015
-
Geoffrey Lewis
, American actor (b.
1935
)
- 2015
-
James B. Rhoads
, American public servant (b.
1928
)
- 2016
-
Frank E. Denholm
, American politician (b.
1923
)
- 2016
-
Carlo Monti
, Italian athlete (b.
1920
)
- 2017
-
Marthe Gosteli
, Swiss women's rights activist (b.
1917
)
- 2017
-
Peter Isaacson
, Australian media publisher (b.
1920
)
- 2017
-
Christopher Morahan
, English stage and television director (b.
1929
)
- 2017
-
Glenn O'Brien
, American journalist, editor and television presenter (b.
1947
)
- 2017
-
Tim Pigott-Smith
, English actor (b.
1946
)
- 2018
-
Petr Braiko
, Soviet-Russian
World War II
soldier (b.
1919
)
- 2018
-
Peter Grunberg
, German
physicist
(b.
1939
)
- 2019
-
Hugo Ballesteros Reyes
, Chilean politician and diplomat (b.
1931
)
- 2019
-
Michael E. Busch
, American politician (b.
1947
)
- 2019
-
Seymour Cassel
, American actor (b.
1935
)
- 2019
-
Cho Yang-ho
, South Korean businessman (b.
1949
)
- 2019
-
Arie Irawan
, Malaysian
golfer
(b.
1990
)
- 2019
-
Mya-Lecia Naylor
, English actress (b.
2002
)