Editing April 19

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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 65]] &ndash; The [[freedman]] [[Milichus]] betrays [[Pisonian conspiracy|Piso's plot]] to kill the [[Roman emperor|Emperor]] [[Nero]] and all of the [[List of conspiracies (political)|conspirators]] are arrested.<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard Holland|title=Nero: The Man Behind the Myth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJ_tAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Sutton|isbn=978-0-7509-2447-4|page=188}}</ref>
* [[531]] &ndash; [[Battle of Callinicum]]: A [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] army under [[Belisarius]] is defeated by the [[Sasanian Empire|Persians]] at [[Raqqa]] (northern [[Syria]]).<ref>{{cite book|author1=Irfan Shahid|author2=Irfan Shahîd|title=Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BEvEV9OVzacC&pg=PA134|year=1995|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks|isbn=978-0-88402-214-5|pages=134}}</ref>
*[[1506]] &ndash; The [[Lisbon Massacre]] begins, in which accused Jews are slaughtered by [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] Catholics.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paulo Mendes Pinto|author2=Susana Bastos Mateus|title=The Massacre of the Jews: Lisbon April 19, 1506|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_LVmBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT28|date=2 September 2014|publisher=Alêtheia Editores|isbn=978-989-622-665-7|pages=28}}</ref>
*[[1529]] &ndash; Beginning of the [[Protestant Reformation]]: After the [[Second Diet of Speyer]] bans Lutheranism, a group of rulers (''German:'' [[Fürst]]) and [[Free imperial city|independent cities]] [[Protestation at Speyer|protest]] the reinstatement of the [[Edict of Worms]].
*[[1539]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Frankfurt (1539)|Treaty of Frankfurt]] between Protestants and the Holy Roman Emperor is signed.<ref>Smith, ''The Age of the Reformation'', p. 122.</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] &ndash; In Ireland, [[O'Doherty's Rebellion]] is launched by the [[Burning of Derry]].<ref>McCavitt p.115</ref>
*[[1677]] &ndash; The French army [[Siege of Cambrai (1677)|captures the town of Cambrai]] held by Spanish troops.<ref>{{cite book|author=John Ruler|title=Cross-Channel France: Nord-Pas de Calais - The Land Beyond the Ports|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwXioEolUbMC&pg=PA184|year=2011|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=978-1-84162-327-6|pages=184}}</ref>
*[[1713]] &ndash; With no living male heirs, [[Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor]], issues the [[Pragmatic Sanction of 1713]] to ensure that [[House of Habsburg|Habsburg]] lands and the [[Habsburg monarchy|Austrian throne]] would be inheritable by a female; his daughter and successor, [[Maria Theresa]], was not born until 1717.<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Carlyle|title=History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KVUuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA420|year=1859|publisher=Harper & Brothers|pages=420}}</ref>
*[[1770]] &ndash; Captain [[James Cook]], still holding the rank of lieutenant, sights the eastern coast of what is now Australia.<ref>{{cite book|author1=William Shurtleff|author2=Akiko Aoyagi|title=Early History of Soybeans and Soyfoods Worldwide (1024 BCE to 1899):: Extensively Annotated Bibliography and Sourcebook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEwtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA273|date=4 November 2014|publisher=Soyinfo Center|isbn=978-1-928914-69-3|pages=273}}</ref>
*  1770   &ndash; [[Marie Antoinette]] marries [[Louis XVI]] in a [[proxy marriage|proxy wedding]].<ref>{{cite book|title=A New Historical and Commercial System of Geography: Containing a Comprehensive History and Description of the Present State of All the Kingdoms of the World...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ARw7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT2|year=1806|publisher=S. Russell|pages=2}}</ref>
*[[1775]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: The war begins during the [[Battles of Lexington and Concord]] with a victory of American [[minutemen]] and other [[militia]] over [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] forces, later referred to as the "[[shot heard round the world]]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Fischer|first=David Hackett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oreq1YztDcQC&pg=PA9|title=Washington's Crossing|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|isbn=9780199756674|author-link=David Hackett Fischer|pages=9–10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Minute Man statue by Daniel Chester French|url=https://www.nps.gov/mima/learn/historyculture/the-minute-man-statue-by-daniel-chester-french.htm?mc_cid=6bed08a516&mc_eid=[2fcc1b24bd]|website=nps.gov|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=April 2, 2025}}</ref>
* 1775    &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Following the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the [[Siege of Boston]] begins with American militias blocking land access to the British-held city.<ref>{{cite web|title=Siege of Boston Map|url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/siege-of-boston-map.htm|website=nps.gov|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=April 2, 2025}}</ref>
*[[1782]] &ndash; [[John Adams]] secures [[Netherlands–United States relations|Dutch recognition of the United States]] as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in [[The Hague]] becomes the first American embassy.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Netherlands - Countries - Office of the Historian|url=https://history.state.gov/countries/netherlands|access-date=2021-11-18|website=history.state.gov}}</ref>
*[[1809]] &ndash; An Austrian corps is defeated by the forces of the [[Duchy of Warsaw]] in the [[Battle of Raszyn (1809)|Battle of Raszyn]], part of the struggles of the [[Fifth Coalition]]. On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a [[First French Empire]] Corps led by [[Louis-Nicolas Davout]] at the [[Battle of Teugen-Hausen]] in Bavaria, part of a four-day campaign that ended in a French victory.
*[[1810]] &ndash; [[Venezuela]] achieves home rule: [[Vicente Emparán]], [[Governor]] of the [[Captaincy General]] is removed by the people of [[Caracas]] and a [[Supreme Junta|junta]] is installed.
*[[1818]] &ndash; French physicist [[Augustin-Jean Fresnel|Augustin Fresnel]] signs his preliminary "Note on the Theory of Diffraction" (deposited on the following day). The document ends with what we now call the [[Fresnel integral]]s.
*[[1839]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of London (1839)|Treaty of London]] establishes Belgium as a kingdom and guarantees its neutrality.
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Baltimore riot of 1861]]: A pro-[[Secession in the United States#Confederate States of America|Secession]] mob in [[Baltimore]] attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.

===1901–present===
*[[1903]] &ndash; The [[Chișinău pogrom (1903)|Kishinev pogrom]] in [[Kishinev]] ([[Bessarabia]]) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in [[History of Palestine#Ottoman period|Palestine]] and the [[Western world]].
*[[1925]] &ndash; [[Colo-Colo]], the most successful and popular soccer football team in the South American nation of [[Chile]], was founded at the [[Estadio Monumental David Arellano|El Llano Stadium]] in [[San Miguel, Chile|San Miguel, Santiago]], by footballer [[David Arellano]] and some of his teammates who had also left the [[Deportes Magallanes]] club.<ref name=Salinas>Sebastián Salinas, ''Por empuje y coraje. Los Albos en la época amateur 1925-1933'' ("By drive and courage: The Albos in the amateur era 1925-1933")(Centro de Estudios del Deporte, 2004)|p.44 {{ISBN|9789562991254}}</ref> 
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Mae West]] is sentenced to ten days in jail for [[obscenity]] for her play ''[[Sex (play)|Sex]]''.
*[[1936]] &ndash; The [[Jaffa riots (April 1936)|Jaffa riots]] commence, initiating the [[1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine]].<ref name="HeraldTrib">"9 Jews, 2 Arabs Dead, 54 Hurt In Jaffa Riots: Moslems Slain by British Police, Foes Knifed in Batlle (sic) Following Killing of a Jew by Bandits," [[New York Herald Tribune]], 20 April 1936, p. 1.</ref>
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: In German-occupied Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski [[ghetto]] is established, situated between the [[Lublin Ghetto]] and a [[Majdanek]] subcamp.
*[[1943]] &ndash; World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] begins, after [[Nazi Germany|German]] troops enter the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] to round up the remaining Jews.
*  1943   &ndash; [[Albert Hofmann]] deliberately doses himself with [[LSD]] for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on [[April 16]], an event commonly known and celebrated as [[History_of_lysergic_acid_diethylamide#%22Bicycle_Day%22|Bicycle Day]].
*[[1956]] &ndash; Actress [[Grace Kelly]] marries [[Rainier III, Prince of Monaco|Prince Rainier of Monaco]].
*[[1960]] &ndash; Students in South Korea hold [[April Revolution|a nationwide pro-democracy protest]] against [[president of South Korea|president]] [[Syngman Rhee]], eventually forcing him to resign.
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Sierra Leone]] becomes a [[republic]], and [[Siaka Stevens]] the president.
*  1971   &ndash; Launch of [[Salyut 1]], the first [[space station]].
*  1971   &ndash; [[Charles Manson]] is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for [[conspiracy (criminal)|conspiracy]] in the [[Tate–LaBianca murders]].
*[[1973]] &ndash; The Portuguese [[Socialist Party (Portugal)|Socialist Party]] is founded in the German town of [[Bad Münstereifel]].
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[India]]'s first satellite [[Aryabhata (satellite)|Aryabhata]] launched in orbit from [[Kapustin Yar]], Russia.
*  1975   &ndash; [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam|South Vietnamese forces]] [[Battle of Xuan Loc|withdraw from the town of Xuan Loc]] in the last major battle of the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Veith|first=George|title=Black April The Fall of South Vietnam 1973–75|publisher=Encounter Books|year=2012|isbn=9781594035722 |page=465}}</ref>
*[[1976]] &ndash; A [[1976 Brownwood tornado|violent F5 tornado]] strikes around [[Brownwood, Texas]], injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least {{convert|1000|yd|m}} by the tornado and survived uninjured.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] |author2=[[National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service]] |author3=[[National Climatic Data Center]] |editor1-last=Potter |editor1-first=Thomas D. |title=Storm Data and Unusual Weather Phenomena |journal=Storm Data |date=April 1976 |volume=18 |issue=4 |page=14 |publisher=[[United States Department of Commerce]] |language=English}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=National Climatic Data Center |author2=National Centers for Environmental Information |title=Texas Event Report: F5 Tornado (Brown County) |url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=10129516 |website=Storm Event Database |publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |access-date=22 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230922035027/https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/stormevents/eventdetails.jsp?id=10129516 |archive-date=22 September 2023 |language=English |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1984]] &ndash; ''[[Advance Australia Fair]]'' is proclaimed as Australia's [[national anthem]], and green and gold as the [[National colours of Australia|national colours]].
*[[1985]] &ndash; Two hundred [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms|ATF]] and [[FBI]] agents lay siege to the compound of the [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] [[Survivalism|survivalist]] group [[The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord]] in Arkansas; the CSA surrenders two days later. 
*[[1987]] &ndash; ''[[The Simpsons]]'' first appear as a series of [[The Simpsons|shorts]] on ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]'', first starting with "[[Good Night (The Simpsons short)|Good Night]]".
*[[1989]] &ndash; A [[gun turret]] [[USS Iowa turret explosion|explodes]] on the {{USS|Iowa|BB-61|6}}, killing 47 sailors.
*[[1993]] &ndash; The 51-day FBI [[Waco siege|siege]] of the [[Branch Davidian]] building in [[Waco, Texas]], USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Seventy-six Davidians, including 18 children under age 10, died in the fire.
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Oklahoma City bombing]]: The [[Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building]] in [[Oklahoma City]], USA, is bombed, killing 168 people including 19 children under the age of six.
*[[1999]] &ndash; The German [[Bundestag]] [[Decision on the Capital of Germany|returns]] to Berlin.
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Air Philippines Flight 541]] crashes in [[Samal, Davao del Norte]], killing all 131 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20000419-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-2H4 RP-C3010 Davao|last=Ranter|first=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=2019-04-17}}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle Endeavour|Space Shuttle ''Endeavour'']] is launched on [[STS-100]] carrying the [[Mobile Servicing System|Canadarm2]] to the [[International Space Station]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=STS-100 Mission Status Report, #20 |url=https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/sts100/STS-100-20.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010626201453/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/sts100/STS-100-20.html |archive-date=2001-06-26 |website=spaceflight.nasa.gov}}</ref>
*[[2005]] &ndash; Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is [[Papal conclave, 2005|elected]] to the papacy and becomes [[Pope Benedict XVI]].
*[[2011]] &ndash; [[Fidel Castro]] resigns as [[First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba]] after holding the title since July 1961.
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Boston Marathon bombing]] suspect [[Tamerlan Tsarnaev]] is killed in a shootout with police. His brother [[Dzhokhar Tsarnaev|Dzhokhar]] is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of [[Watertown, Massachusetts|Watertown]].
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[2020 Nova Scotia attacks|A killing spree]] in [[Nova Scotia]], Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.<ref name="CBC4">{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/mass-killing-shooting-victims-remembered-1.5538032|title=22 victims of N.S. rampage include retirees, pregnant health care worker, veteran|publisher=CBC News|access-date=April 21, 2020|date=April 20, 2020}}</ref><ref name="AP">{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/7c9a33ae52420e0ddbfb5275898a7e79|title=16 killed in shooting rampage, deadliest in Canadian history|last=Gillies|first=Rob |publisher=Associated Press|access-date=April 19, 2020|date=April 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419202425/https://apnews.com/7c9a33ae52420e0ddbfb5275898a7e79|archive-date=April 19, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; The ''[[Ingenuity (helicopter)|Ingenuity]]'' helicopter becomes the first aircraft to achieve flight on another planet.<ref name="NBC - First Flight of Ingenuity">{{cite web |last1=Talmazan |first1=Yuliya |title=NASA launches tiny Mars chopper 'Ingenuity' on a historic flight |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/mars-helicopter-flight-test-promises-wright-brothers-moment-nasa-n1264449 |website=NBC News |date=19 April 2021 |publisher=Yuliya Talmazan, Associated Press and Reuters |access-date=19 April 2021}}</ref>

==Births==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1452]] &ndash; [[Frederick of Naples|Frederick IV]], King  of Naples (d. 1504)<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard J. Walsh|title=Charles the Bold and Italy (1467-1477): Politics and Personnel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F4Wvl-xRpAoC&pg=PA302|year=2005|publisher=Liverpool University Press|isbn=978-0-85323-838-6|pages=302}}</ref>
*[[1593]] &ndash; [[Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet]], English politician (d. 1647)<ref>{{cite book|author=Vicesimus Knox|title=Elegant Epistles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcNIAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA144|year=1807|publisher=W. Flint|pages=144}}</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1603]] &ndash; [[Michel Le Tellier]], French politician, [[Minister of Defence (France)|French Minister of Defence]] (d. 1685)<ref>{{cite book|author=Franklin Henry Hooper|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FLcmAQAAMAAJ|year=1937|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|page=969}}</ref>
*[[1613]] &ndash; [[Christoph Bach (musician)|Christoph Bach]], German musician (d. 1661)<ref>{{cite book|author=Philipp Spitta|title=Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j9CJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA142|date=1 January 1992|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-27412-6|pages=142}}</ref>
*[[1633]] &ndash; [[Willem Drost]], Dutch painter (d. 1659)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)|author2=Walter A. Liedtke|title=Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtnQ7PIT8mcC&pg=PA167|year=2007|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-273-2|pages=167}}</ref>
*[[1655]] &ndash; [[George St Lo|George St Lo(e)]], Royal Navy officer and administrator (d. 1718)<ref>{{cite book|author1=John Hutchins|author2=William Shipp|author3=James Whitworth Hodson|title=The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RUI-AQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=EP Publishing|page=81|isbn=9780854099740}}</ref>
*[[1658]] &ndash; [[Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine]], German husband of [[Archduchess Maria Anna Josepha of Austria]] (d. 1716)<ref>{{cite book|author=Antoni van Leeuwenhoek|title=Alle de brieven van Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: 1695-1696|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuzaAAAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=N. v. Swets & Zeitlinger|page=339}}</ref>
*[[1665]] &ndash; [[Jacques Lelong]], French author (d. 1721)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Lincoln's Inn (London, England). Library|author2=Frederick William Halfpenny|title=Catalogue of Books on Foreign Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KBAIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA394|year=1849|publisher=C. Roworth and sons|pages=394}}</ref>
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[Vasily Tatishchev]], Russian ethnographer and politician (d. 1750)
*[[1715]] &ndash; [[James Nares (composer)|James Nares]], English organist and composer (d. 1783)
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[Roger Sherman]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
*[[1734]] &ndash; [[Karl von Ordóñez]], Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1786)
*[[1757]] &ndash; [[Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth]], English admiral and politician (d. 1833)
*[[1758]] &ndash; [[William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk]], Scottish admiral (d. 1831)
*[[1785]] &ndash; [[Alexandre Pierre François Boëly]], French pianist and composer (d. 1858)
*[[1787]] &ndash; [[Deaf Smith]], American soldier (d. 1837)
*[[1793]] &ndash; [[Ferdinand I of Austria]] (d. 1875)
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Sarah Bagley]], American labor organizer (d. 1889)
*[[1814]] &ndash; [[Louis Amédée Achard]], French journalist and author (d. 1875)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Mary Louise Booth]], American writer, editor and translator (d. 1889)<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 10, 2000|title=Mary Louise Booth: American Journalist|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Louise-Booth|access-date=2020-09-19|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1832]] &ndash; [[José Echegaray]], Spanish poet and playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1916)
*[[1835]] &ndash; [[Julius Krohn]], Finnish poet and journalist (d. 1888)
*[[1861]] &ndash; [[Amalie Andersen (actress)|Amalie Andersen]], Norwegian actress (d. 1924)<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jensson|first1=Liv|title=Biografisk skuespillerleksikon : norske, danske og svenske skuespillere på norske scener særlig på 1800-tallet|date=1981|publisher=Universitetsforl|isbn=8200056228|page=15 |url=https://www.nb.no/items/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2013042906062?page=15|language=no}}</ref>
*[[1863]] &ndash; [[Hemmo Kallio]], Finnish actor (d. 1940)
*[[1872]] &ndash; [[Alice Salomon]], German social reformer (d. 1948)<ref>{{cite book|first=Joachim|last=Schlör|title=Das Ich der Stadt: Debatten über Judentum und Urbanität, 1822-1938|location=Göttingen|publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht|year=2005|page=359|isbn=978-3-52556-990-0|language=DE}}</ref>
*[[1873]] &ndash; [[Sydney Barnes]], English cricketer (d. 1967)
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Ernst Rüdin]], Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist (d. 1952)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Ole Evinrude]], Norwegian-American engineer, invented the [[outboard motor]] (d. 1934)
*[[1879]] &ndash; [[Arthur Robertson (athlete)|Arthur Robertson]], Scottish runner (d. 1957)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Getúlio Vargas]], Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th [[President of Brazil]] (d. 1954)
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Henry Jameson]], American soccer player (d. 1938)
*  1883   &ndash; [[Richard von Mises]], Austrian-American mathematician and physicist (d. 1953)
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Karl Tarvas]], Estonian architect (d. 1975)
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Otto Georg Thierack]], German jurist and politician (d. 1946)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pauer-Studer |first1=Herlinde |last2=Velleman |first2=J. David |title=Konrad Morgan: The Conscience of a Nazi Judge |date=2015 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-49694-2 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw3ACQAAQBAJ&pg=PP16 }}</ref>
*[[1891]] &ndash; [[Françoise Rosay]], French actress (d. 1974)
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Germaine Tailleferre]], French composer and educator (d. 1983)<ref>{{cite book|first=Lindsey C.|last=Harnsberger|title=Essential Dictionary of Music: The Most Practical and Useful Music Dictionary for Students and Professionals|location=Los Angeles|publisher=Alfred Publishing Co.|year=1997|page=260|isbn=978-0-88284-728-3}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Dilling]], American author and activist (d. 1966)
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Peter de Noronha]], Indian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1970)
*  1897   &ndash; [[Jiroemon Kimura]], Japanese super-centenarian, oldest verified man ever (d. 2013)
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Constance Talmadge]], American actress and producer (d. 1973)
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[George O'Brien (actor)|George O'Brien]], American actor (d. 1985)
*  1899   &ndash; [[Cemal Tollu]], Turkish lieutenant and painter (d. 1968)
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Iracema de Alencar]], Brazilian film actress (d. 1978)
*  1900   &ndash; [[Richard Hughes (writer)|Richard Hughes]], English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1976)
*  1900   &ndash; [[Roland Michener]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th [[Governor General of Canada]] (d. 1991)
*  1900   &ndash; [[Rhea Silberta]], American Yiddish songwriter and singing teacher (d. 1959)

===1901–present===
*[[1902]] &ndash; [[Veniamin Kaverin]], Russian author and screenwriter (d. 1989)
*[[1903]] &ndash; [[Eliot Ness]], American law enforcement agent (d. 1957)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2151|title=Eliot Ness - Ohio History Central|website=www.ohiohistorycentral.org|access-date=27 November 2018}}</ref>
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[Irena Eichlerówna]], Polish actress  (d. 1990) 
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[Glenn T. Seaborg]], American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1999)
*[[1913]] &ndash; [[Ken Carpenter (discus thrower)|Ken Carpenter]], American discus thrower and coach (d. 1984)
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[Sven Hassel]], Danish-German soldier and author (d. 2012)
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Sol Kaplan]], American pianist and composer (d. 1990)
*[[1920]] &ndash; [[Marvin Mandel]], American lawyer and politician, 56th [[Governor of Maryland]] (d. 2015)<ref>{{cite web |title=Marvin Mandel (1920-2015) |url=https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/001400/001487/html/1487bio.html |website=Archives of Maryland (Biographical Series) |access-date=19 June 2019}}</ref>
*  1920   &ndash; [[Julien Ries]], Belgian cardinal (d. 2013)
*  1920   &ndash; [[Ragnar Ulstein]], Norwegian journalist and war historian (d. 2019)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Ragnar Ulstein |first=Harald |last=Kjølås |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date=August 2023 |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Ragnar_Ulstein |language=no|access-date=16 March 2024}}</ref>
*[[1921]] &ndash; [[Anna Lee Aldred]], American jockey (d. 2006)<ref name=Montrose>{{cite web |url=https://www.montrosepress.com/obituaries/anna-lee-aldred/article_61b09b4f-86e3-5497-b0fc-aced23b33791.html|title=Anna Lee Aldred|date=June 16, 2006|access-date=January 17, 2019|work=Montrose Press}}</ref>
*  1921   &ndash; [[Leon Henkin]], American logician (d. 2006)<ref name="OrovilleMR">{{cite web|url=http://www.orovillemr.com/news/bayarea/ci_4714675 |title=UC Berkeley mathematics professor dies |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524091446/http://www.orovillemr.com/news/bayarea/ci_4714675 |archive-date=May 24, 2011|website=Oroville Mercury-Register |date=November 24, 2006}}</ref>
*  1921   &ndash; [[Roberto Tucci]], Italian Jesuit leader, cardinal, and theologian (d. 2015)
*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Erich Hartmann]], German colonel and pilot (d. 1993)
*[[1925]] &ndash; [[John Kraaijkamp, Sr.]], Dutch actor (d. 2011)
*  1925   &ndash; [[Hugh O'Brian]], American actor (d. 2016)
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Cora Sue Collins]], American child actress (d.2025)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cora-sue-collins-dead-child-actress-mgm-1236202858/|title=Cora Sue Collins, Celebrated Child Actress at MGM in the 1930s, Dies at 98|publisher=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=April 28, 2025|accessdate=1 May 2025}}</ref>
*[[1926]] &ndash; [[Rawya Ateya]], Egyptian captain and politician (d. 1997){{cn|date=May 2024}}
*[[1928]] &ndash; [[John Horlock]], English engineer and academic (d. 2015)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dalyell |first1=Tam |author-link1=Tam Dalyell |title=Sir John Horlock: Engineer who led campaign to prevent closure of the Open University |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sir-john-horlock-engineer-who-led-campaign-to-prevent-closure-of-the-open-university-10303111.html |website=Independent |access-date=19 June 2019 |date=7 June 2015}}</ref>
*  1928   &ndash; [[Azlan Shah of Perak]], Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2014) 
*[[1931]] &ndash; [[Walter Stewart (journalist)|Walter Stewart]], Canadian journalist and author (d. 2004)
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Fernando Botero]], Colombian painter and sculptor (d. 2023)
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Jayne Mansfield]], American model and actress (d. 1967)<ref name=SPTimes>{{cite news |title=Jayne Mansfield is Killed in Early Morning Smash Up on Narrow Louisiana Road |work=[[St. Petersburg Times]] |date=June 30, 1967 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RPYLAAAAIBAJ&pg=4382,5839230 |quote=Born Vera Jayne Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pa., April 19, 1933, Miss Mansfield grew up in Phillipsburg, N.J., }}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*[[1934]] &ndash; [[Dickie Goodman]], American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1989)
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[Dudley Moore]], English actor, comedian, and pianist (d. 2002)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389041/Dudley-Moore.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1389041/Dudley-Moore.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Obituaries: Dudley Moore |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=22 March 2002 |access-date=23 April 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*  1935   &ndash; [[Justin Rigali|Justin Francis Rigali]], American cardinal
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Wilfried Martens]], Belgian politician, 60th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (d. 2013)
*  1936   &ndash; [[Jack Pardee]], American football player and coach (d. 2013)
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[Antonio Carluccio]], Italian-English chef and author (d. 2017)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/nov/08/antonio-carluccio-obituary|title=Antonio Carluccio obituary|first=Tom|last=Jaine|date=8 November 2017|access-date=8 November 2017|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>
*  1937   &ndash; [[Elinor Donahue]], American actress 
*  1937   &ndash; [[Joseph Estrada]], Filipino politician, 13th [[President of the Philippines]]
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[Stanley Fish]], American theorist, author, and scholar
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Clay Shaw (politician)|Clay Shaw]], American accountant, judge, and politician (d. 2013)<ref>{{cite web |title=SHAW, Eugene Clay, Jr., (1939 - 2013) |url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000303 |website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress |access-date=19 June 2019}}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Michel Roux]], French-English chef and author (d. 2020)
*  1941   &ndash; [[Bobby Russell]], American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[Alan Price]], English keyboard player, singer, and composer
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[Margo MacDonald]], Scottish journalist and politician (d. 2014)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Torrance |first1=David |title=MacDonald [née Aitken], Margo Symington Jack |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-108517 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=19 June 2019 |date=15 February 2018|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.108517 |isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[James Heckman]], American economist and academic, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*  1944   &ndash; [[Bernie Worrell]], American keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2016)<ref>{{cite news|last= Sweeting|first=Adam |title= Bernie Worrell obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/26/bernie-worrell-obituary |access-date= November 9, 2016|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=June 26, 2016}}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Tim Curry]], English actor and singer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/tim-curry-once-got-thrown-out-of-a-rocky-horror-picture-show-screening|title = Tim Curry Once Got Thrown Out of a 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' Screening|website = [[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date = 19 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://movieweb.com/tim-curry-75th-birthday/|title=Tim Curry Fans Celebrate the Iconic Actor on His 75th Birthday|date=19 April 2021}}</ref>
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Jóannes Eidesgaard]], Faroese educator and politician, [[Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=11 January 2025 |title=Former Prime Ministers of the Faroe Islands - The Government |url=https://www.government.fo/en/the-government/ministries/prime-ministers-office/the-prime-minister-of-the-faroe-islands/former-prime-ministers-of-the-faroe-islands }}</ref>
*[[1952]] &ndash; [[Simon Cowell (conservationist)|Simon Cowell]], English conservationist and author (d. 2024)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/wildlife-crusader-simon-cowell-when-i-collapsed-from-executive-burn-out-i-realised-that-i-really-wanted-to-work-with-injured-animals-34993206.html|title=Wildlife crusader Simon Cowell: 'When I collapsed from executive burn-out I realised that I really wanted to work with injured animals'|date=25 August 2016|work=Belfast Telegraph|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716002336/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/wildlife-crusader-simon-cowell-when-i-collapsed-from-executive-burn-out-i-realised-that-i-really-wanted-to-work-with-injured-animals-34993206.html|url-status=live|archive-date=16 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite tweet|user=wildlifeaid|number=722502970827530240|title=Happy birthday to our founder, Simon Cowell. Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do for wildlife!!}}</ref>
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[Trevor Francis]], English footballer and manager (d. 2023)
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[Anne Glover (biologist)|Anne Glover]], Scottish biologist and academic
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Mukesh Ambani]], Indian businessman, chairman of [[Reliance Industries Limited|Reliance Industries]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mukesh-Ambani|title=Mukesh Ambani {{!}} Indian businessman|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/profile/mukesh-ambani/|title=Mukesh Ambani|website=Forbes|language=en|access-date=2019-11-29}}</ref>
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Ara Gevorgyan]], Armenian pianist, composer, and producer
*  1960   &ndash; [[Gustavo Petro]], Colombian politician, 34th and current [[President of Colombia]]<ref>{{cite web |work=Semana |title=Gustavo Petro Urrego: hoja de vida del candidato de 'Colombia Humana' |url=http://especiales.semana.com/elecciones-presidenciales-2018/candidatos-hoja-de-vida/gustavo-petro.html |access-date=19 April 2025|archive-date=20 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220620205209/http://especiales.semana.com/elecciones-presidenciales-2018/candidatos-hoja-de-vida/gustavo-petro.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=14 March 2022 |title=¿Quién es Gustavo Petro? Perfil del candidato de la izquierda en Colombia |url=https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/03/14/gustavo-petro-candidato-izquierda-presidencia-colombia-orix/ |access-date=19 April 2025 |publisher=[[CNN]] |archive-date=7 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607090046/https://cnnespanol.cnn.com/2022/05/29/gustavo-petro-perfil-candidato-izquierda-presidencia-colombia-orix/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1960   &ndash; [[Frank Viola]], American baseball player and coach<ref>{{cite book|author=Ron Smith|title=1997 Official Major League Baseball Fact Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=moAH8Wr3m5AC|date=1 February 1997|publisher=Sporting News Publishing Company|isbn=978-0-89204-570-9|page=235}}</ref>
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Kim Weaver]], American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Suge Knight]], American record executive<ref>{{cite web |last1=Feeney |first1=Nolan |title=Everything to Know About Suge Knight As He Turns 50 |url=https://time.com/3827121/suge-knight/ |publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=17 April 2015}}</ref>
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Véronique Gens]], French soprano and actress
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Ashley Judd]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Vulpo |first1=Mike |title=How Ashley Judd Emerged From Her Hollywood Hiatus to Become a Time's Up Advocate and More |url=https://www.eonline.com/news/926852/how-ashley-judd-emerged-from-her-hollywood-hiatus-to-become-a-time-s-up-advocate-and-more |publisher=[[E!]] |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=19 April 2018}}</ref>
*  1968   &ndash; [[Mswati III]], King (''[[Ngwenyama]]'') of [[Eswatini]] (Swaziland)<ref name="eswatine_holidays">{{cite web |title=Eswatini Public Holidays 2021 |url=https://publicholidays.africa/eswatini/2021-dates/ |website=PublicHolidays.africa |access-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-date=January 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128003342/https://publicholidays.africa/eswatini/2021-dates/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Kelly Holmes]], English athlete and double Olympic champion
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Rivaldo Vitor Borba Ferreira]], Brazilian footballer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rivaldo|title=Rivaldo|publisher=[[Britannica]]|access-date=September 3, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[James Franco]], American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
*  1978   &ndash; [[Amanda Sage]], American-Austrian painter and educator<ref>{{cite web | url=http://templeofvisions.com/artists/amanda-sage/ | title=Amanda Sage | publisher=Temple of Visions | accessdate=1 January 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204223224/http://templeofvisions.com/artists/amanda-sage/ | archive-date=4 February 2010 | url-status=dead | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Kate Hudson]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sanwari |first1=Ahad |title=Kate Hudson provides glimpse into her home to share breathtaking birthday present |url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/homes/20220420138366/kate-hudson-rare-glimpse-into-home-breathtaking-birthday-present/ |publisher=[[Hello! (magazine)|Hello!]] |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=20 April 2022}}</ref>
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Hayden Christensen]], Canadian actor<ref name="christensen">{{cite web |title=Happy 40th Birthday, Hayden Christensen! |url=https://scifi.radio/2021/04/19/happy-40th-birthday-hayden-christensen/ |website=SCIFI Radio |date=19 April 2021 |access-date=June 26, 2021}}</ref>
*  1981   &ndash; [[Lise Klaveness]], Norwegian footballer and lawyer, president of the [[Norwegian Football Federation]]<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Lise Klaveness |first=Jan |last=Holm |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date=19 December 2023 |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Lise_Klaveness |language=no|access-date=22 March 2024}}</ref>
*  1981   &ndash; [[Troy Polamalu]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Troy Polamalu |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/4474/troy-polamalu |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref>
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Samuel C. Morrison, Jr.]], Liberian-American journalist, producer, and screenwriter
*  1982   &ndash; [[Ali Wong]], American comedian and actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bird |first1=Michele |title=17 Things Absolutely Worth Knowing About Actor And Comedian Ali Wong |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/michelelbird/ali-wong-fun-facts |publisher=[[BuzzFeed]] |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=9 May 2022}}</ref>
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Joe Mauer]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Mauer |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/joe-mauer-408045 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref>
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[Candace Parker]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Candace Parker |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/candace-parker/#/career |publisher=[[WNBA]] |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref>
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Joe Hart]], English footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Joe Hart |url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/3143/Joe-Hart/overview |publisher=[[Premier League]] |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref>
*  1987   &ndash; [[Maria Sharapova]], Russian tennis player<ref name="sharapova">{{cite web |title=Sharapova Celebrates 33rd Birthday in Isolation |url=https://www.tennis.com/baseline/articles/sharapova-celebrates-33rd-birthday-in-isolation |website=Tennis.com |access-date=June 26, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Simu Liu]], Canadian actor<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rohoman |first1=Sarah |title=Simu Liu Was Surprised With An Early Birthday Gift By Fans & He Had Best Response |url=https://www.narcity.com/simu-liu-was-surprised-with-an-early-birthday-gift-by-fans-he-had-best-response-photos |publisher=[[Narcity Media]] |access-date=7 April 2023 |date=10 April 2022}}</ref>
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Jackie Bradley Jr.]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jackie Bradley Jr. |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jackie-bradley-jr-598265 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=7 April 2023}}</ref>
*  1990   &ndash; [[Kim Chiu]], Filipino actress, singer, and dancer<ref>{{cite news|title=Kim Chiu poses in bikini in birthday photo|url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/04/20/13/kim-chiu-poses-bikini-birthday-photo|newspaper=ABS-CBN Entertainment News|date=April 20, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131204025313/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/entertainment/04/20/13/kim-chiu-poses-bikini-birthday-photo|archive-date=December 4, 2013}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Kelly Olynyk]], Canadian basketball player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kelly Olynyk |url=https://www.nba.com/player/203482/kelly-olynyk |access-date=10 April 2024 |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]]}}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Dalton Knecht]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Dalton Knecht - Los Angeles Lakers Guard |url=https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/4897943/dalton-knecht |website=ESPN |access-date=18 April 2025}}</ref>
*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Loren Gray]], American singer and internet personality<ref>{{cite web |title=Loren Gray: 16 things you never knew about the TikTok star |url=https://www.popbuzz.com/internet/viral/loren-gray/ |website=Pop Buzz |access-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419165844/https://www.popbuzz.com/internet/viral/loren-gray/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Jackson Merrill]], American baseball player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jackson Merrill Stats, Age, Position, Height, Weight, Fantasy & News |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jackson-merrill-701538 |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[The Rizzler]], American internet personality<ref name="BOOM">{{Cite Instagram |user=itztherealrizzler |postid=C58wEoULGak |date=19 April 2024 |title= Screaming Happy 8th Birthday to my main man}}</ref>
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[843]] &ndash; [[Judith of Bavaria (died 843)|Judith of Bavaria]], Frankish empress
*[[1012]] &ndash; [[Ælfheah of Canterbury]], English archbishop and saint (b. 954)
*[[1013]] &ndash; [[Hisham II]], Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (b. 966)
*[[1044]] &ndash; [[Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine|Gothelo I]], duke of Lorraine
*[[1054]] &ndash; [[Pope Leo IX|Leo IX]], pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1002)
*[[1321]] &ndash; [[Gerasimus I of Constantinople|Gerasimus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
*[[1390]] &ndash; [[Robert II of Scotland|Robert II]], king of Scotland (b. 1316)
*[[1405]] &ndash; [[Thomas West, 1st Baron West]], English nobleman (b. 1335)<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last=Everingham |editor-first=Kimball G. |year=2011 |last=Richardson |first=Douglas |title=Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families |location=Salt Lake City |edition=2nd |volume=IV |page=317 |ref={{sfnref |Richardson IV |2011}} |isbn=978-1460992708 }}</ref>
*[[1431]] &ndash; [[Adolph III, Count of Waldeck|Adolph III]], count of Waldeck (b. 1362)
*[[1560]] &ndash; [[Philip Melanchthon]], German theologian and reformer (b. 1497)
*[[1567]] &ndash; [[Michael Stifel]], German monk and mathematician (b. 1487)
*[[1578]] &ndash; [[Uesugi Kenshin]], Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
*[[1588]] &ndash; [[Paolo Veronese]], Italian painter (b. 1528)
===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] &ndash; [[Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset]], English poet, playwright, and politician, [[Lord High Treasurer]] (b. 1536)
*[[1618]] &ndash; [[Thomas Bastard]], English priest and author (b. 1566)
*[[1619]] &ndash; [[Jagat Gosain]], Mughal empress (b. 1573)<ref>{{cite book|author=Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan|title=The Jahangirnama : memoirs of Jahangir, Emperor of India|translator=Wheeler M. Thackston|url=https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha|date=1999|publisher=Oxford Univ. Press|location=New York [u.a.]|isbn=9780195127188|page=[https://archive.org/details/jahangirnamamemo00jaha/page/300 300]}}</ref>
*[[1629]] &ndash; [[Sigismondo d'India]], Italian composer (b. 1582)
*[[1686]] &ndash; [[Antonio de Solís y Ribadeneyra]], Spanish historian and playwright (b. 1610)
*[[1689]] &ndash; [[Christina, Queen of Sweden|Christina]], queen of Sweden (b. 1626)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TrtbAAAAQAAJ&q=19+April+1689+christina&pg=PA334|title=Het leven en bedryf van Christina, koninginne van Sweeden, &c. sedert haar geboorte tot op des zelfs dood ...|first=Christian Gottfried|last=Franckenstein|date=10 July 1697|publisher=by Boudewyn vander Aa|access-date=10 July 2017|via=Google Books}}</ref>
*[[1733]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney|Elizabeth Hamilton]], countess of Orkney (b. 1657)
*[[1739]] &ndash; [[Nicholas Saunderson]], English mathematician and academic (b. 1682)
*[[1768]] &ndash; [[Canaletto]], Italian painter and etcher (b. 1697)
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[Jacob Emden]], German rabbi and author (b. 1697)
*[[1791]] &ndash; [[Richard Price]], Welsh-English preacher and philosopher (b. 1723)
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Rush]], American physician and educator (b. 1745)
*[[1824]] &ndash; [[Lord Byron]], English-Scottish poet and playwright (b. 1788)
*[[1831]] &ndash; [[Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger]], German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1765)
*[[1833]] &ndash; [[James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier]], Bahamian-English admiral and politician, 36th [[List of lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador|Commodore Governor of Newfoundland]] (b. 1756)
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Jean-Jacques Lartigue]], Canadian bishop (b. 1777)
*[[1854]] &ndash; [[Robert Jameson]], Scottish mineralogist and academic (b. 1774)
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Disraeli]], English journalist and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1804)
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[Charles Darwin]], English biologist and theorist (b. 1809)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=CUL-DAR210.9&pageseq=16 |title=[Reminiscences of Charles Darwin's last years.] CUL-DAR210.9|author=Darwin, Emma|author-link=Emma Darwin |year=1882 |access-date=8 January 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090628080442/http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=CUL-DAR210.9&pageseq=16 |archive-date=28 June 2009}}</ref>
*[[1893]] &ndash; [[Martin Körber]], Estonian-German pastor, composer, and conductor (b. 1817)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; [[Alfred Horatio Belo]], American publisher, founded ''[[The Dallas Morning News]]'' (b. 1839)
*[[1903]] &ndash; [[Oliver Mowat]], Canadian politician, third [[Premier of Ontario]], eighth [[Lieutenant Governor of Ontario]] (b. 1820)<ref>{{cite DCB |last=Romney |first=Paul |title=Mowat, Sir Oliver |volume=13 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mowat_oliver_13E.html}}</ref>
*[[1906]] &ndash; [[Pierre Curie]], French physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1859)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Chavaudra |first1=Jean |title=Pierre and Marie Curie-Sklodowska |journal=Medical Physics |date=November 1995 |volume=22 |issue=11 |pages=1877–1887 |doi=10.1118/1.597443|pmid=8587541 |bibcode=1995MedPh..22.1877C }}</ref>
*  1906   &ndash; [[Spencer Gore (sportsman)|Spencer Gore]], English tennis player and cricketer (b. 1850)
*[[1909]] &ndash; [[Signe Rink]], Greenland-born Danish writer and ethnologist (b. 1836)
*[[1914]] &ndash; [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1839)
*[[1915]] &ndash; [[Thomas Playford II]], English-Australian politician, 17th [[Premier of South Australia]] (b. 1837)
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Ephraim Shay]], American engineer, designed the [[Shay locomotive]] (b. 1839)
*[[1926]] &ndash; [[Alexander Alexandrovich Chuprov]], Russian-Swiss statistician and theorist (b. 1874)
*[[1930]] &ndash; [[Georges-Casimir Dessaulles]], Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1827)
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington]], English cartographer and politician (b. 1856)
*  1937   &ndash; [[William Morton Wheeler]], American entomologist and zoologist (b. 1865)
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[Jack McNeela]], [[Irish Republican Army]], died on hunger strike<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://republicansinnfein.org/hunger-strike-roll-of-honour/|title=Roll of Honor/Hunger Strikers|date=6 May 2014}}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Johanna Müller-Hermann]], Austrian composer (b. 1878)
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Ulrich Salchow]], Danish-Swedish figure skater (b. 1877)
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Ernst Robert Curtius]], French-German philologist and scholar (b. 1886)
*[[1952]] &ndash; [[Steve Conway (singer)|Steve Conway]], British singer (b. 1921)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Steve Conway Biography, Songs, & Albums|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-conway-mn0000032317/biography|access-date=2021-09-23|website=AllMusic|language=en}}</ref>
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[Jim Corbett]], British-Indian colonel, hunter, and author (b. 1875)
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Beardsley Ruml]], American economist and statistician (b. 1894)
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Max Hainle]], German swimmer (b. 1882)
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[Väinö Tanner]], Finnish politician of [[Social Democratic Party of Finland]]; the [[Prime Minister of Finland]] (b. 1881)<ref>{{cite web |title=Väinö Tanner {{!}} prime minister of Finland |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vaino-Tanner |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=5 January 2020 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006030803/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vaino-Tanner |archive-date=6 October 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Konrad Adenauer]], German politician, 1st [[Chancellor of Germany]] (b. 1876)
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Luigi Piotti]], Italian race car driver (b. 1913)
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Percy Lavon Julian]], American chemist and academic (b. 1899)
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Kwon Ki-ok]], Korean pilot (b. 1901)<ref>{{cite book |first=Justin |last=Corfield |title=Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang |location=London |publisher=Anthem Press |year=2014 |page=115 |isbn=978-1-78308-341-1}}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Daphne du Maurier]], English novelist and playwright (b. 1907)<ref>{{cite book|author1=Joanne Shattock|author2=Senior Lecturer Department of English Joanne Shattock|title=The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KoEYAAAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-214176-7|page=138}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Stanley Hawes]], English-Australian director and producer (b. 1905)
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Frankie Howerd]], English actor and screenwriter (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=51134|title=Howerd, Frankie}}</ref>
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[David Koresh]], American cult leader (b. 1959)
*  1993   &ndash; [[George S. Mickelson]], American captain, lawyer, and politician, 28th [[Governor of South Dakota]] (b. 1941)
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[Octavio Paz]], Mexican poet, philosopher, and academic [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1914)
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Hermine Braunsteiner]], Austrian-German [[SS]] officer (b. 1919)
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Louis Applebaum]], Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1918)
*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Reginald Rose]], American writer (b. 1920)
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Norris McWhirter]], English author and activist co-founded the [[Guinness World Records]] (b. 1925)
*  2004   &ndash; [[John Maynard Smith]], English biologist and geneticist (b. 1920)
*  2004   &ndash; [[Jenny Pike]], Canadian WWII servicewoman and photographer (b. 1922)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/timescolonist/obituary.aspx?n=jenny-pike&pid=157444998|title=Jenny Pike - Obituary|date=April 21, 2004|work=The Times Colonist|access-date=March 30, 2020}}</ref>
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[Albert Scott Crossfield]], American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1921)
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Jean-Pierre Cassel]], French actor (b. 1932)
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[J. G. Ballard]], English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1930)
*[[2011]] &ndash; [[Elisabeth Sladen]], English actress (b. 1946)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hadoke |first1=Toby |title=Elisabeth Sladen obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/20/doctor-who-fantasy |website=The Guardian |access-date=1 February 2020 |date=20 April 2011}}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Levon Helm]], American musician and actor (b. 1940)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Brown |first1=David |title=Levon Helm, Drummer and Singer of The Band, dead at 71 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/levon-helm-drummer-and-singer-of-the-band-dead-at-71-202155/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=2021-04-21|date=2012-04-19}}</ref>
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[François Jacob]], French biologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1920)
*  2013   &ndash; [[Al Neuharth]], American journalist, author, and publisher, founded ''[[USA Today]]'' (b. 1924)
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[Raymond Carr]], English historian and academic (b. 1919)
*  2015   &ndash; [[Roy Mason]], English miner and politician, [[Secretary of State for Defence]] (b. 1924)<ref>{{cite news|title=Campaigning comes to a standstill in honour of Labour stalwart Roy Mason, 91 |url=http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/community/death-of-lord-mason-of-barnsley-at-91-1-7218568|access-date=20 April 2015|work=Yorkshire Post|date=20 April 2015}}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[Patricio Aylwin]], Chilean politician (b. 1918)<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/world/americas/patricio-aylwin-president-who-guided-chile-to-democracy-diesat-97.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/world/americas/patricio-aylwin-president-who-guided-chile-to-democracy-diesat-97.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited|title=Patricio Aylwin, President Who Guided Chile to Democracy, Dies at 97|last1=Kandell|first1=Jonathan|date=2016-04-19|last2=Bonnefoy|first2=Pascale|newspaper=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-04-21}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
*[[2017]] &ndash; [[Lu Chao-Hsuan]], Taiwanese guitarist, performer and educator. (b. 1929)<ref>{{Cite web|title=呂昭炫|url=http://www.luchaohsuan.com/2017132057--3214727511.html|access-date=2023-02-01|archive-date=2023-02-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201063133/http://www.luchaohsuan.com/2017132057--3214727511.html|url-status=dead|lang=zh}}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; [[Ian Whitcomb]], English singer-songwriter (b. 1941)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Slotnik |first=Daniel E. |date=2020-05-08 |title=Ian Whitcomb, Rocker Turned Pop Music Historian, Dies at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/arts/music/ian-whitcomb-dead.html |access-date=2025-04-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; [[Walter Mondale]], American politician, 42nd [[Vice President of the United States]] (b. 1928)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/19/former-vice-president-walter-mondale-has-died-at-93.html|title = Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter's vice president, dies at 93|website = [[CNBC]]|date = 20 April 2021}}</ref>
* 2021 &ndash; [[Jim Steinman]], American composer, lyricist (b. 1947)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-04-22|title=Jim Steinman obituary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/22/steinman-obituary-bat-out-of-hell|access-date=2021-04-26|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-04-21|title=Jim Steinman: Tributes paid to 'the Wagner of rock'|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56830626|access-date=2021-04-21}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Kane Tanaka]], Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1903)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mills |first=Kelly-Ann |date=2022-04-25 |title=World's oldest person Kane Tanaka dies in Japan at the age of 119 |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-worlds-oldest-person-kane-26789849 |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=mirror |language=en |archive-date=25 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425101320/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-worlds-oldest-person-kane-26789849 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-25 |title=The world's oldest person has died in Japan |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/kane-tanaka-oldest-person-death-age-b2064718.html |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=25 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425102051/https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/kane-tanaka-oldest-person-death-age-b2064718.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2023]] &ndash; [[Moonbin]], South Korean singer and actor (b. 1998)<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lee|first=Ho-young|title=[속보] "아스트로 문빈, 사망"…소속사 확인 중|url=https://enews.imbc.com/News/RetrieveNewsInfo/379633|date=April 20, 2023|access-date=April 19, 2023|website=iMBC|language=ko}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Mackenzie|first1=Jean|last2=Ng|first2=Kelly|last3=Wright|first3=George|title=Moonbin: Fans anguished over K-pop star's death in suspected suicide|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65331824|date=19 April 2023|access-date=April 20, 2023|website=BBC|language=en}}</ref>
*2023 &ndash; [[Ron Hamilton (musician)|Ron Hamilton]], American musician (b. 1950)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gryboski |first=Michael |date=2023-04-20 |title=Ron Hamilton, musician known for 'Patch the Pirate,' dies at 72 |url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/ron-hamilton-musician-known-for-patch-the-pirate-dies-at-72.html |access-date=2025-02-18 |website=www.christianpost.com |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; [[Daniel Dennett]], American philosopher and author (b. 1942)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kandell |first=Jonathan |date=2024-04-19 |title=Daniel C. Dennett, Widely Read and Fiercely Debated Philosopher, Dies at 82 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/19/books/daniel-dennett-dead.html |access-date=2024-04-19 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
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==Holidays and observances==
* Christian [[Calendar of saints|feast day]]:
** [[Ælfheah of Canterbury]] ([[Anglican]], [[Catholic]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Delaney, John P. |title=Dictionary of Saints|edition=Second |publisher=Doubleday |location=Garden City, NY |date=1980 |isbn=0-385-13594-7|pages=29–30}}</ref>
** [[Conrad of Ascoli]] 
** [[Emma of Lesum]]
** [[Expeditus]]
** [[Saint George the Confessor|George of Antioch]]
** [[Olaus Petri|Olaus]] and [[Laurentius Petri]] ([[Lutheran]])
** [[Pope Leo IX]]
** [[Ursmar]]
** [[April 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
* [[Bicycle Day (psychedelic holiday)|Bicycle Day]], a [[psychedelic drug|psychedelic]] holiday<ref name="Fusar-PoliBorgwardt2008">{{cite journal | vauthors = Fusar-Poli P, Borgwardt S | title = Albert Hofmann, the father of LSD (1906-2008) | journal = Neuropsychobiology | volume = 58 | issue = 1 | pages = 53–54 | date = 2008 | pmid = 18799895 | doi = 10.1159/000157779 | url = | quote = Three days later, on April 19, 1943, [Albert Hofmann] decided to verify his results by intentionally ingesting LSD. This day has become known as ‘Bicycle Day’ as Hofmann experienced an incredible bicycle ride on his way home from the lab.}}</ref><ref name="BelouinHenningfield2018">{{cite journal | vauthors = Belouin SJ, Henningfield JE | title = Psychedelics: Where we are now, why we got here, what we must do | journal = Neuropharmacology | volume = 142 | issue = | pages = 7–19 | date = November 2018 | pmid = 29476779 | doi = 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2018.02.018 | url = | quote = Although discovered in 1938, [LSD's] potentially powerful effects to alter mood and cognition were not realized until the self-experiment by its inventor, Albert Hofmann, a Sandoz pharmaceutical company chemist, in 1943 on a day that later came to be renowned internationally as Bicycle Day [...]| doi-access = free }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/19 BBC: On This Day]
* {{NYT On this day|month=4|day=19}}
* [https://www.onthisday.com/events/april/19 Historical Events on April 19]

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