April 26 in History

Historical events, births and deaths on April 26 through the ages, from Iran and around the world. This year it falls on 6 Ordibehesht 1405.

Occasions on this day in 2026

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World Intellectual Property Day
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International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day
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Lesbian Visibility Day

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Famous people born on April 26

Events (54)

1289 (737 years ago) Following weeks of bombardment, the city of Tripoli falls to the Mamluks under Qalawun. The Mamluks massacre all men they find and enslave the women and children.
1326 (700 years ago) The kingdom of France and the kingdom of Scotland agree on a treaty of mutual aid at Corbeil.
1336 (690 years ago) Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
1478 (548 years ago) The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral.
1564 (462 years ago) Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown).
1607 (419 years ago) The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry.
1721 (305 years ago) A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
1777 (249 years ago) Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rides 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British regular forces.
1794 (232 years ago) Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition.
1802 (224 years ago) Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France.
1803 (223 years ago) Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
1805 (221 years ago) First Barbary War: United States Marines capture Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
1865 (161 years ago) Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
1900 (126 years ago) Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home.
1903 (123 years ago) Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
1915 (111 years ago) World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers.
1916 (110 years ago) Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge.
1920 (106 years ago) Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.
1923 (103 years ago) The Duke of York (the future King George VI) weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
1925 (101 years ago) Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
1933 (93 years ago) The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.
1937 (89 years ago) Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.
1942 (84 years ago) Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1,549 Chinese miners dead.
1943 (83 years ago) The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
1944 (82 years ago) Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1945 (81 years ago) World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
1954 (72 years ago) The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
1954 (72 years ago) The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
1956 (70 years ago) SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
1958 (68 years ago) Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1960 (66 years ago) Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule.
1962 (64 years ago) NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
1962 (64 years ago) The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
1963 (63 years ago) In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allow for female participation in elections.
1964 (62 years ago) Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
1966 (60 years ago) The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
1966 (60 years ago) A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
1970 (56 years ago) The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
1981 (45 years ago) Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
1986 (40 years ago) The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1989 (37 years ago) The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
1989 (37 years ago) People's Daily publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests.
1991 (35 years ago) Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
1993 (33 years ago) The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
1994 (32 years ago) China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
1994 (32 years ago) South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
1999 (27 years ago) Outbreak of CIH computer virus.
2002 (24 years ago) Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide.
2005 (21 years ago) Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
2015 (11 years ago) Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history.
2015 (11 years ago) Peaceful protesters install the first anti-monument in Mexico, Antimonumento +43, as a call for justice and remembrance to commemorate the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping, later inspiring similar memorials elsewhere in the country and Latin America.
2025 (a year ago) A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada.

Births (196)

121 (1905 years ago) Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (died 180)
757 (1269 years ago) Hisham I of Córdoba,
764 (1262 years ago) Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (died 786)
1284 (742 years ago) Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick (died 1324)
1319 (707 years ago) John II of France,
1538 (488 years ago) Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter and academic (died 1600)
1575 (451 years ago) Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (died 1642)
1647 (379 years ago) William Ashhurst, English banker, Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London and politician (died 1720)
1648 (378 years ago) Peter II of Portugal,
1697 (329 years ago) Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer (died 1754)
1710 (316 years ago) Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic (died 1796)
1718 (308 years ago) Esek Hopkins, American commander (died 1802)
1774 (252 years ago) Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (died 1853)
1782 (244 years ago) Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (died 1866)
1785 (241 years ago) John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (died 1851)
1787 (239 years ago) Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (died 1862)
1798 (228 years ago) Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (died 1863)
1801 (225 years ago) Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1889)
1804 (222 years ago) Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician (died 1876)
1822 (204 years ago) Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park (died 1903)
1834 (192 years ago) Charles Farrar Browne, American author (died 1867)
1856 (170 years ago) Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930)
1862 (164 years ago) Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator (died 1938)
1865 (161 years ago) Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (died 1931)
1876 (150 years ago) Ernst Felle, German rower (died 1959)
1877 (149 years ago) James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (died 1950)
1878 (148 years ago) Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (died 1938)
1879 (147 years ago) Eric Campbell, British actor (died 1917)
1879 (147 years ago) Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959)
1886 (140 years ago) Ma Rainey, American singer-songwriter (died 1939)
1886 (140 years ago) Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist (died 1913)
1889 (137 years ago) Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1981)
1889 (137 years ago) Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1951)
1894 (132 years ago) Rudolf Hess, German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941 (died 1987)
1896 (130 years ago) Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (died 1967)
1896 (130 years ago) Ernst Udet, leading German fighter pilot in World War I and Chief of Procurement and Supply in the Luftwaffe (died 1941)
1897 (129 years ago) Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (died 1967)
1897 (129 years ago) Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (died 1987)
1898 (128 years ago) Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
1898 (128 years ago) John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (died 1972)
1899 (127 years ago) Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (died 1958)
1900 (126 years ago) Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher (died 1969)
1900 (126 years ago) Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (died 1985)
1900 (126 years ago) Hack Wilson, American baseball player (died 1948)
1904 (122 years ago) Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (died 1991)
1904 (122 years ago) Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (died 2004)
1905 (121 years ago) Jean Vigo, French director and screenwriter (died 1934)
1907 (119 years ago) Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968)
1909 (117 years ago) Marianne Hoppe, German actress (died 2002)
1910 (116 years ago) Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer (died 1997)
1911 (115 years ago) Paul Verner, German soldier and politician (died 1986)
1912 (114 years ago) A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (died 2000)
1914 (112 years ago) Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (died 1986)
1914 (112 years ago) James Rouse, American real estate developer (died 1996)
1916 (110 years ago) Eyvind Earle, American artist, author, and illustrator (died 2000)
1916 (110 years ago) Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot (died 2013)
1916 (110 years ago) Morris West, Australian author and playwright (died 1999)
1917 (109 years ago) Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (died 1992)
1917 (109 years ago) I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower (died 2019)
1917 (109 years ago) Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (died 2013)
1918 (108 years ago) Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper (died 2004)
1921 (105 years ago) Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (died 2008)
1922 (104 years ago) J. C. Holt, English historian and academic (died 2014)
1922 (104 years ago) Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (died 1993)
1922 (104 years ago) Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer (died 2019)
1924 (102 years ago) Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (died 1998)
1925 (101 years ago) Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (died 2019)
1925 (101 years ago) Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013)
1925 (101 years ago) Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (died 2015)
1925 (101 years ago) Frank Hahn, British economist (died 2013)
1926 (100 years ago) David Coleman, British sports commentator and television presenter (died 2013)
1926 (100 years ago) Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (died 2003)
1927 (99 years ago) Jack Douglas, English actor (died 2008)
1927 (99 years ago) Anne McLaren, British scientist (died 2007)
1927 (99 years ago) Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
1927 (99 years ago) Granny Hamner, American baseball player (died 1993)
1929 (97 years ago) Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (died 2002)
1930 (96 years ago) Roger Moens, Belgian runner and sportscaster
1931 (95 years ago) Paul Almond, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)
1931 (95 years ago) Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (died 2008)
1931 (95 years ago) John Cain Jr., Australian politician, 41st Premier of Victoria (died 2019)
1932 (94 years ago) Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (died 2010)
1932 (94 years ago) Shirley Cawley, English long jumper
1932 (94 years ago) Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (died 2013)
1932 (94 years ago) Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer (died 2018)
1932 (94 years ago) Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
1933 (93 years ago) Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer
1933 (93 years ago) Al McCoy, American sports announcer (died 2024)
1933 (93 years ago) Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (died 2005)
1933 (93 years ago) Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024)
1937 (89 years ago) Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver and motorcycle racer (died 2015)
1938 (88 years ago) Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024)
1938 (88 years ago) Maurice Williams, American doo-wop/R&B singer-songwriter
1940 (86 years ago) Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1940 (86 years ago) Cliff Watson, English rugby league player (died 2018)
1940 (86 years ago) Tan Cheng Bock, Singaporean doctor and politician
1941 (85 years ago) Claudine Auger, French model and actress (died 2019)
1942 (84 years ago) Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (died 2014)
1942 (84 years ago) Sharon Carstairs, Canadian lawyer and politician, Leader of the Government in the Senate
1942 (84 years ago) Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States
1942 (84 years ago) Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor (died 2022)
1942 (84 years ago) Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist, political scientist, and academic (died 2024)
1943 (83 years ago) Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2023)
1943 (83 years ago) Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals
1944 (82 years ago) Richard Bradshaw, English conductor (died 2007)
1945 (81 years ago) Richard Armitage, American diplomat and government official (died 2025)
1945 (81 years ago) Howard Davies, English director and producer (died 2016)
1945 (81 years ago) Dick Johnson, Australian racing driver
1945 (81 years ago) Sylvain Simard, Canadian academic and politician
1946 (80 years ago) Ralph Coates, English international footballer (died 2010)
1946 (80 years ago) Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author
1946 (80 years ago) Alberto Quintano, Chilean footballer
1949 (77 years ago) Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer and manager
1949 (77 years ago) Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (died 1995)
1950 (76 years ago) Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (died 2023)
1951 (75 years ago) John Battle, English politician
1954 (72 years ago) Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player
1954 (72 years ago) Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer
1955 (71 years ago) Kurt Bodewig, German politician
1956 (70 years ago) Koo Stark, American actress and photographer
1958 (68 years ago) John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish racing driver (died 2021)
1958 (68 years ago) Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director, and producer
1958 (68 years ago) Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer, coach, and manager
1959 (67 years ago) John Corabi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 (67 years ago) Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rican politician
1960 (66 years ago) H. G. Carrillo, American writer and academic (died 2020)
1960 (66 years ago) Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player and coach
1960 (66 years ago) Roger Taylor, English drummer
1961 (65 years ago) Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 (65 years ago) Chris Mars, American artist
1962 (64 years ago) Colin Anderson, English footballer
1962 (64 years ago) Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
1963 (63 years ago) Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer
1963 (63 years ago) Colin Scotts, Australian-American football player
1963 (63 years ago) Cornelia Ullrich, German hurdler
1963 (63 years ago) Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player
1965 (61 years ago) Susannah Harker, English actress
1965 (61 years ago) Kevin James, American actor and comedian
1967 (59 years ago) Glenn Thomas Jacobs, American professional wrestler, actor, businessman and politician
1967 (59 years ago) Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress and singer-songwriter
1967 (59 years ago) Toomas Tõniste, Estonian sailor and politician
1970 (56 years ago) Dean Austin, English footballer and manager
1970 (56 years ago) Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States
1970 (56 years ago) Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and academic
1970 (56 years ago) Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1971 (55 years ago) Naoki Tanaka, Japanese comedian and actor
1971 (55 years ago) Jay DeMarcus, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
1972 (54 years ago) Jason Bargwanna, Australian racing driver
1972 (54 years ago) Kiko, Spanish footballer
1972 (54 years ago) Natrone Means, American football player and coach
1972 (54 years ago) Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer and manager
1973 (53 years ago) Geoff Blum, American baseball player and sportscaster
1973 (53 years ago) Jules Naudet, French-American director and producer
1973 (53 years ago) Chris Perry, English footballer
1973 (53 years ago) Óscar, Spanish footballer and coach
1975 (51 years ago) Joey Jordison, American musician and songwriter (died 2021)
1975 (51 years ago) Rahul Verma, Indian social worker and activist
1976 (50 years ago) Václav Varaďa, Czech ice hockey player
1977 (49 years ago) Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut
1977 (49 years ago) Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
1977 (49 years ago) Roxana Saberi, American journalist and author
1977 (49 years ago) Tom Welling, American actor
1978 (48 years ago) Stana Katic, Canadian actress
1978 (48 years ago) Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
1980 (46 years ago) Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress
1980 (46 years ago) Marlon King, English footballer
1980 (46 years ago) Anna Mucha, Polish actress and journalist
1980 (46 years ago) Channing Tatum, American actor and producer
1981 (45 years ago) Caro Emerald, Dutch pop and jazz singer
1981 (45 years ago) Ms. Dynamite, English rapper and producer
1981 (45 years ago) Sandra Schmitt, German skier (died 2000)
1982 (44 years ago) Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter
1983 (43 years ago) José María López, Argentinian racing driver
1983 (43 years ago) Jessica Lynch, American soldier
1985 (41 years ago) John Isner, American tennis player
1986 (40 years ago) Lior Refaelov, Israeli footballer
1986 (40 years ago) Yuliya Zaripova, Russian runner
1987 (39 years ago) Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer
1989 (37 years ago) Melvin Ingram, American football player
1989 (37 years ago) Kang Daesung, South Korean singer
1990 (36 years ago) Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1990 (36 years ago) Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player
1990 (36 years ago) Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (died 2012)
1990 (36 years ago) Joey Wendle, American baseball player
1991 (35 years ago) Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer
1991 (35 years ago) Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player
1992 (34 years ago) Aaron Judge, American baseball player
1992 (34 years ago) Delon Wright, American basketball player
1994 (32 years ago) Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver
1994 (32 years ago) Odysseas Vlachodimos, Greek international footballer
1996 (30 years ago) Jordan Pefok, American footballer
1997 (29 years ago) Kirill Kaprizov, Russian ice hockey player
1997 (29 years ago) Amber Midthunder, American actress
1997 (29 years ago) Calvin Verdonk, Indonesian footballer
2001 (25 years ago) Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer
2005 (21 years ago) Alex Sarr, French basketball player

Deaths (91)

499 (1527 years ago) Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei,
645 (1381 years ago) Richarius, Frankish monk and saint (born 560)
680 (1346 years ago) Mu'awiya I, Umayyad caliph (born 602)
757 (1269 years ago) Pope Stephen II,
893 (1133 years ago) Chen Jingxuan, general of the Tang Dynasty
962 (1064 years ago) Adalbero I, bishop of Metz
1192 (834 years ago) Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan,
1366 (660 years ago) Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury
1392 (634 years ago) Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (born 1338)
1444 (582 years ago) Robert Campin, Flemish painter (born 1378)
1478 (548 years ago) Giuliano de' Medici, Italian ruler (born 1453)
1489 (537 years ago) Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (born 1465)
1558 (468 years ago) Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497)
1686 (340 years ago) Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (born 1622)
1716 (310 years ago) John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1651)
1784 (242 years ago) Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (born 1718)
1789 (237 years ago) Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (born 1721)
1809 (217 years ago) Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (born 1748)
1865 (161 years ago) John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838)
1881 (145 years ago) Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (born 1815)
1895 (131 years ago) Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (born 1860)
1910 (116 years ago) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1832)
1915 (111 years ago) John Bunny, American actor (born 1863)
1915 (111 years ago) Ida Hunt Udall, American diarist (born 1858)
1916 (110 years ago) Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Portuguese poet and writer (born 1890)
1920 (106 years ago) Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (born 1887)
1932 (94 years ago) William Lockwood, English cricketer (born 1868)
1934 (92 years ago) Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (born 1876)
1934 (92 years ago) Konstantin Vaginov, Russian poet and novelist (born 1899)
1940 (86 years ago) Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874)
1944 (82 years ago) Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (born 1893)
1945 (81 years ago) Sigmund Rascher, German physician and SS member, conductor of human experiments in the concentration camps (born 1909)
1945 (81 years ago) Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (born 1871)
1946 (80 years ago) James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (born 1882)
1950 (76 years ago) George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1881)
1951 (75 years ago) Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (born 1868)
1956 (70 years ago) Edward Arnold, American actor (born 1890)
1957 (69 years ago) Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (born 1868)
1964 (62 years ago) E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (born 1882)
1968 (58 years ago) John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (born 1891)
1969 (57 years ago) Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (born 1883)
1970 (56 years ago) Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (born 1886)
1970 (56 years ago) Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, striptease dancer, and writer (born 1911)
1973 (53 years ago) Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (born 1902)
1976 (50 years ago) Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (born 1903)
1976 (50 years ago) Sid James, South African-English actor (born 1913)
1976 (50 years ago) Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (born 1897)
1980 (46 years ago) Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer (born 1893)
1981 (45 years ago) Jim Davis, American actor (born 1909)
1984 (42 years ago) Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1904)
1986 (40 years ago) Broderick Crawford, American actor (born 1911)
1986 (40 years ago) Bessie Love, American actress (born 1898)
1986 (40 years ago) Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (born 1899)
1987 (39 years ago) Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (born 1922)
1987 (39 years ago) John Silkin, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (born 1923)
1989 (37 years ago) Lucille Ball, American model, actress, comedian, and producer (born 1911)
1991 (35 years ago) Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (born 1904)
1991 (35 years ago) Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (born 1910)
1991 (35 years ago) A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian, (born 1901)
1991 (35 years ago) Richard Hatfield, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (born 1931)
1994 (32 years ago) Masutatsu Ōyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin kaikan (born 1923)
1996 (30 years ago) Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (born 1918)
1999 (27 years ago) Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1957)
1999 (27 years ago) Jill Dando, English journalist and television personality (born 1961)
2003 (23 years ago) Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (born 1930)
2003 (23 years ago) Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (born 1984)
2003 (23 years ago) Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (born 1904)
2004 (22 years ago) Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (born 1928)
2005 (21 years ago) Mason Adams, American actor (born 1919)
2005 (21 years ago) Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1925)
2005 (21 years ago) Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (born 1926)
2005 (21 years ago) Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (born 1917)
2007 (19 years ago) Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (born 1921)
2008 (18 years ago) Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (born 1938)
2009 (17 years ago) Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (born 1920)
2010 (16 years ago) Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (born 1930)
2010 (16 years ago) Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (born 1942)
2011 (15 years ago) Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)
2012 (14 years ago) Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (born 1938)
2013 (13 years ago) Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (born 1930)
2013 (13 years ago) George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1931)
2013 (13 years ago) Earl Silverman, Canadian men's rights advocate (born 1948)
2014 (12 years ago) Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (born 1936)
2014 (12 years ago) Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (born 1927)
2014 (12 years ago) DJ Rashad, American electronic musician, producer and DJ (born 1979)
2015 (11 years ago) Jayne Meadows, American actress (born 1919)
2015 (11 years ago) Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1930)
2016 (10 years ago) Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (born 1937)
2017 (9 years ago) Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (born 1944)
2022 (4 years ago) Klaus Schulze, German composer and musician (born 1947)
2023 (3 years ago) Jerry Apodaca, American politician, 24th Governor of New Mexico (born 1934)