On This Day - April 30th

On This Day - April 30th 1006 – Supernova SN 1006, the brightest supernova in recorded history, appears in the constellation Lupus.

On This Day - April 30th 1789 – George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

On This Day - April 30th 1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.

On This Day - April 30th 1938 – The first televised FA Cup Final takes place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End.

On This Day - April 30th 1945 – Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.

On This Day - April 29th 1975 – The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh.

On This Day - April 30th 1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.

On This Day - April 30th 2009 – Seven people are killed and seventeen injured in a failed attack on the Dutch Royal Family.


Today's Birthdays

Born On This Day - April 30th 1245 – King Philip III of France (d. 1285)

Born On This Day - April 30th 1662 – Queen Mary II of England (d. 1694)

Born On This Day - April 30th 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist (d. 1944)

Born On This Day - April 30th 1908 – Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990)

Born On This Day - April 30th 1926 – Today is the birthday of Cloris Leachman, American actress.

Born On This Day - April 30th 1933 – Today is the birthday of Willie Nelson, American musician.

Born On This Day - April 30th 1943 – Today is the birthday of Bobby Vee, American singer.

Born On This Day - April 30th 1959 – Today is the birthday of Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada.

Born On This Day - April 30th 1981 – Today is the birthday of John O'Shea, Irish footballer.

Born On This Day - April 30th 1983 – Today is the birthday of Troy Williamson, American football player.

Born On This Day - April 30th 1987 – Today is the birthday of Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer.

On This Day - April 29th

On This Day - April 29th 1429 – Joan of Arc arrives to relieve the Siege of Orleans.

On This Day - April 29th 1770 – James Cook arrives at and names Botany Bay, Australia.

On This Day - April 29th 1916 – Ireland's Easter Rebellion is over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

On This Day - April 29th 1945 – The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by United States troops.

On This Day - April 29th 1967 – Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title after refusing induction into the United States Army the day before (citing religious reasons).

On This Day - April 29th 1970 – United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.

On This Day - April 29th 1992 – Following the acquittal of police officers charged with excessive force in the beating of Rodney King riots break out in Los Angeles, costing the lives of 53 people over the next three days.

On This Day - April 29th 2004 – After 107 years of production Oldsmobile builds its final car.


Today's Birthdays

Born On This Day - April 29th 1769 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman (d. 1852)

Born On This Day - April 29th 1863 – William Randolph Hearst, American publisher (d. 1951)

Born On This Day - April 29th 1899 – Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (d. 1974)

Born On This Day - April 29th 1933 – Today is the birthday of Rod McKuen, American poet, composer and singer.

Born On This Day - April 29th 1938 – Today is the birthday of Klaus Voormann, German musician, artist, and record producer.

Born On This Day - April 29th 1952 –Today is the birthday of David Icke, English writer.

Born On This Day - April 29th 1954 – Today is the birthday of Jerry Seinfeld, American comedian.

Born On This Day - April 29th 1957 – Today is the birthday of Daniel Day-Lewis, Irish actor.

Born On This Day - April 29th 1970 – Today is the birthday of Andre Agassi, American tennis player.

Born On This Day - April 29th 1970 – Today is the birthday of Uma Thurman, American actress.

Born On This Day - April 29th 1980 – Today is the birthday of Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)

On This Day - April 28th

On This Day - April 28th 1192 – Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I), King of Jerusalem, is assassinated in Tyre.

On This Day - April 28th 1788 – Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States.

On This Day - April 28th 1789 – Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift from HMS Bounty.

On This Day - April 28th 1862 – Admiral David Farragut captures New Orleans, Louisiana during the American Civil War.

On This Day - April 28th 1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.

On This Day - April 28th 1945 – Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are executed by a firing squad.

On This Day - April 28th 1952 – The United States occupation of Japan ends.

On This Day - April 28th 1969 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.

On This Day - April 28th 1996 – Whitewater controversy: Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.

On This Day - April 28th 2001 – Millionaire Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.


Today's Birthdays

Born On This Day - April 28th 1442 – King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)

Born On This Day - April 28th 1758 – James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)

Born On This Day - April 28th 1878 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)

Born On This Day - April 28th 1908 – Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman (d. 1974) credited with saving the lives of almost 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

Born On This Day - April 28th 1926 – Today is the birthday of Harper Lee, American author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

Born On This Day - April 28th 1937 – Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq (d. 2006)

Born On This Day - April 28th 1941 – Today is the birthday of Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress.

Born On This Day - April 28th 1960 – Today is the birthday of Scottish novelist Ian Rankin.

Born On This Day - April 28th 1966 – Today is the birthday of American golfer John Daly.

Born On This Day - April 28th 1974 – Today is the birthday of Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress.

Born On This Day - April 28th 1981– Today is the birthday of Jessica Alba, American actress.

On This Day - April 27th

On This Day - April 27th 1124 – David I becomes King of Scots.

On This Day - April 27th 1565 – Cebu becomes the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.

On This Day - April 27th 1667 – A blind and impoverished John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10.


On This Day - April 27th 1749 – Sees the first performance of Handel's Fireworks Music in Green Park, London.

On This Day - April 27th 1810 – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.

On This Day - April 27th 1840 – The foundation stone for the new Palace of Westminster, London, was laid by the wife of its architect Sir Charles Barry.

On This Day - April 26th

On This Day - April 26th 1467 – The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appears in Genazzano, Italy.

On This Day - April 26th 1607 – English colonists of the Jamestown settlement make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.

On This Day - April 26th 1805 – United States Marines captured Derne, Tripoli under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.

On This Day - April 26th 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, is shot dead by Union cavalry troopers at Richard H. Garrett's farm, just south of Port Royal, Caroline County, Virginia.

On This Day - April 26th 1937 – The German Luftwaffe bomb Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.

On This Day - April 26th 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

On This Day - April 26th 1965 – In London, Ontario a Rolling Stones concert is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.

On This Day - April 26th 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

On This Day - April 26th 2005 – Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country.

On This Day - April 25th

On This Day - April 25th 1607 - The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar during the Eighty Years' War.

On This Day - April 25th 1792 – La Marseillaise (French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

On This Day - April 25th 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal which would cover 100 miles and link the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.

On This Day - April 25th 1898 – The United States declares war on Spain.

On This Day - April 25th 1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.

On This Day - April 25th 1916 – Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.

On This Day - April 25th 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

On This Day - April 25th 1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA.

On This Day - April 25th 1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.

On This Day - April 25th 1990 – The Hubble Telescope is deployed into orbit from the Space Shuttle Discovery.


On This Day - April 25th 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral – the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894 took place in Moscow.

On This Day - April 24th

On This Day - April 24th 1184 BC - The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse.

On This Day - April 24th 1704 - The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.

On This Day - April 24th 1877 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.


On This Day - April 24th 1916 - Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation of the Republic outside the GPO at the start of Ireland's Easter Rising.

On This Day - April 24th 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

On This Day - April 24th 1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

On This Day - April 24th 1975 – The Baader-Meinhof Gang takes 13 hostages at the West German embassy in Stockholm.

On This Day - April 24th 1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.

On This Day - April 24th 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

On This Day - April 23rd

On This Day - April 23rd 1014 - At the Battle of Clontarf Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.

On This Day - April 23rd 1597 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I in attendance.

On This Day - April 23rd 1635 - Boston Latin School, the first public school in the United States, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

On This Day - April 23rd 1867 - William Lincoln patents the zoetrope, a machine that shows animated pictures by mounting a strip of drawings in a wheel.

On This Day - April 23rd 1935 - The first official Children's day was celebrated in Turkey.

On This Day - April 23rd 1942 - In the Baedeker Raids, German bombers hit Exeter, Bath and York in retaliation for the British bombing of Lübeck.

On This Day - April 23rd 1968 - Students protesting against the Vietnam War at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.

On This Day - April 23rd 1979 - Blair Peach, a New Zealand born teacher, died at an anti National Front demonstration allegedly as a result of police brutality.

On This Day - April 23rd 1988 – Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon leaves the charts for the first time after spending a record of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200.


On This Day - April 23rd 2003 - Beijing closes all schools for two weeks because of the SARS virus.

On This Day - April 22nd

On This Day - April 22nd 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral becomes the first European to sight Brazil.

On This Day - April 22nd 1836 – A day after the Battle of San Jacinto forces under Texas General Sam Houston capture Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.

On This Day - April 22nd 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act which mandates that the inscription "In God We Trust" be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.

On This Day - April 22nd 1912 – Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.

On This Day - April 22nd 1945 – After learning that Soviet forces have taken Eberswalde without a fight, Adolf Hitler admits defeat in his underground bunker and states that suicide is his only recourse.

On This Day - April 22nd 1965 -'Ticket To Ride', The Beatles' seventh UK No. 1 topped the UK singles charts.


On This Day - April 22nd 1970 – First Earth Day celebrated.

On This Day - April 21st

On This Day - April 21st 753 BC – Romulus and Remus founded Rome.

On This Day - April 21st 1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.

On This Day - April 21st 1836 – Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto.

On This Day - April 21st 1918 – German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.


On This Day - April 21st 1944 – Women in France receive the right to vote.

On This Day - April 21st 1960 – Brasília is officially inaugurated as the capital of Brazil.

On This Day - April 21st 1975 – President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.

On This Day - April 21st 1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.

On This Day - April 20th

On This Day - April 20th 1303 - The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.

On This Day - April 20th 1653 - Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.

On This Day - April 20th 1689 – The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.

On This Day - April 20th 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.

On This Day - April 20th 1914 – Forty-five men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.

On This Day - April 20th 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song "Strange Fruit".


On This Day - April 20th 1968 – British politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.

On This Day - April 20th 1972 – Apollo 16 lands on the Moon.

On This Day - April 20th 1999 – Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School in Jefferson County, Colorado.

On This Day - April 20th 2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.

On This Day - April 19th

On This Day - April 19th 1587, Francis Drake sank the Spanish fleet in Cádiz harbor.

On This Day - April 19th 1775, The American War of Independence began when British soldiers exchanged fire with a party of American militia at Lexington, Massachusetts.

On This Day - April 19th 1943, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis began.

On This Day - April 19th 1956, Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco.

On This Day - April 19th 1993, The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended. A fire destroyed the structure after federal agents moved in; dozens of people including the leader, David Koresh, were killed.

On This Day - April 19th 1995, A truck bomb blew up outside the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killing 168.

On This Day - April 19th 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany was elected Pope Benedict XVI.

On This Day - April 14th

On this day - April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.

On This Day - April 13th

Tiger Woods won his first Masters on April 13th, 1997

On this day - April 13, 1997, Tiger Woods, at the age of 21, won his first Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. This was also his first win in a Major Championship. Woods won the tournament by a record 12 strokes.

On This Day - April 13th

Born on this day- April 13th

Seamus Heaney winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature is 70 today

1506 – Peter Faber, French Jesuit theologian (d. 1546)

1519 – Catherine de' Medici, wife of Henry II of France (d. 1589)

1547 – Elisabeth of Valois, third wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1568)

1570 – Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator (d. 1606)

1573 – Christina of Holstein-Gottorp, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1625)

1584 – Albert VI of Bavaria (d. 1666)

1593 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman (d. 1641)

1618 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French writer (d. 1693)

1732 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)

1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)

1747 – Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)

1769 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter (d. 1830)

1771 – Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor (d. 1833)

1780 – Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (d. 1868)

1784 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)

1787 – John Robertson, U.S. politician (d. 1873)

1802 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist (d. 1884)

1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (d. 1896)

1825 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 1868)

1828 – Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop (d. 1889)

1832 – Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889)

1850 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer (d. 1917)

1852 – F.W. Woolworth, American businessman (d. 1919)

1866 – Butch Cassidy, American outlaw (d. 1908)

1873 – John W. Davis, American politician (d. 1955)

1890 – Frank Murphy, American public servant (d. 1949)

1891 – Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian winner of the Victoria Cross (d. 1921)

1891 – Nella Larsen, African-American novelist (d. 1964)

1892 – Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, British Air Force commander (d. 1984)

1892 – Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (d. 1973)

1895 – Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1973)

1897 – Werner Voss, German World War I pilot (d. 1917)

1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and Scrabble inventor (d. 1993)

1900 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)

1901 – Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and semanticist (d. 1981)

1902 – Philippe de Rothschild, French race car driver and wine grower (d. 1988)

1904 – Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (d. 1987)

1906 – Samuel Beckett, Irish writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1989)

1906 – Bud Freeman, American musician (d. 1991)

1907 – Harold Stassen, American Presidential candidate (d. 2001)

1909 – Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish mathematician (d. 1984)

1909 – Eudora Welty, American writer (d. 2001)

1911 – Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer (d. 1946)

1911 – Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist (d. 1994)

1916 – Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress, journalist, and publisher (d. 2006)

1917 – Robert O. Anderson, American businessman (d. 2007)

1919 – Roland Gaucher, French journalist (d. 2007)

1919 – Howard Keel, American actor, singer, and president of the Screen Actors Guild (d. 2004)

1919 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair, American atheist activist (d. 1995)

1919 – Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (d. 2000)

1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)

1920 – Claude Cheysson, French politician

1920 – Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland

1920 – John LaPorta, American musician (d. 2004)

1922 – John Braine, British novelist (d. 1986)

1922 – Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (d. 1999)

1923 – Don Adams, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)

1924 – Jack Chick, American evangelist

1924 – Stanley Donen, American film director

1926 – John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough

1926 – Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983)

1927 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor (d. 1983)

1928 – Alan Clark, English politician (d. 1999)

1931 – Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (d. 2001)

1931 – Dan Gurney, American race car driver and team owner

1931 – Jon Stone, co-creator of Sesame Street (d. 1997)

1932 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean politician (d. 1976)

1933 – Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. politician

1935 – Lyle Waggoner, American actor

1937 – Edward Fox, English actor

1937 – Lanford Wilson, American playwright

1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish writer, Nobel laureate

1939 – Paul Sorvino, American actor

1940 – Mike Beuttler, British racing driver (d. 1988)

1940 – J.M.G. Le Clézio, French novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature.

1940 – Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)

1941 – Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, Nobel laureate

1942 – Bill Conti, American composer

1942 – Ataol Behramoglu Turkish poet and writer.

1943 – Billy Kidd, American skier

1944 – Jack Casady, American musician

1944 – Susan Davis, American politician

1944 – Brian Pendleton, musician (d. 2001)

1945 – Tony Dow, American actor

1945 – Lowell George, American singer/guitarist (d. 1979)

1945 – Bob Kalsu, American football player (d. 1970)

1945 – Judy Nunn, Australian actress

1945 – Charles Robinson, American actor

1946 – Al Green, American singer and pastor

1947 – Thanos Mikroutsikos, Greek composer & former minister

1948 – Sue Doughty, British politician

1948 – Nam Hae-il, Chief of Naval Operations of Republic of Korea Navy

1949 – Frank Doran, Scottish politician

1949 – Christopher Hitchens, English-born journalist, critic, and author

1949 – Ricardo Zuniño, Argentine racing driver

1950 – Terry Lester, American actor (d. 2003)

1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor

1950 – William Sadler, American actor

1951 – Peabo Bryson, American singer

1951 – Peter Davison, English actor

1951 – Joachim Streich, East German footballer

1951 – Max Weinberg, American drummer

1952 – Ron Dittemore, American space administrator

1952 – David Drew, British politician

1952 – Erick Avari, British-Indian actor

1953 – Stephen Byers, British politician

1954 – Niels Olsen, Danish singer

1955 – Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg

1955 – Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer

1956 – Peter 'Possum' Bourne, New Zealand rally driver (d. 2003)

1957 – Saundra Santiago, American actress

1957 – Dallas Moir, Scottish cricketer

1957 – Amy Goodman, American activist, host of Democracy Now

1960 – Rudi Völler, German football coach

1960 – Bob Casey, Jr., Democratic U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania

1960 – Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist

1961 – Hiro Yamamoto, American rock bassist

1962 – Dave Miley, former baseball player and manager

1962 – Hillel Slovak, Israeli-born guitarist (d. 1988)

1962 – Jennifer Rubin, American actress

1963 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player

1964 – Davis Love III, Professional Golfer

1964 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress

1965 – Patricio Pouchulu, Argentine architect

1966 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian football player

1966 – Marc Ford, American musician

1967 – Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican singer

1970 – Monty Brown, American professional wrestler

1970 – Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer

1970 – Rick Schroder, American actor

1970 – Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast, Olympic gold medalist

1970 – Ricardo Rincon, Mexican baseball player

1971 – Dina Korzun, Russian actress

1971 – Bo Outlaw, American basketball player

1971 – Valensia, Dutch singer

1972 – Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player

1972 – Aaron Lewis, American singer (Staind)

1974 – Darren Turner , British Race Driver

1974 – Sergei Gonchar, Russian ice hockey player

1974 – David Zdrilić, Australian soccer player

1975 – Lou Bega, German-born musician and artist

1975 – Bruce Dyer, English footballer

1976 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)

1976 – Valentina Cervi, Italian actress

1976 – Patrik Eliáš, Czech ice hockey player

1976 – Yu Ji-tae, South Korean actor

1978 – Arron Asham, Canadian ice hockey player

1978 – Kyle Howard, American actor

1978 – Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer

1978 – Chris Sligh, American Idol finalist

1979 – Baron Davis, American basketball player

1979 – Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player

1980 – Jana Cova, Czech pornographic actress

1980 – Quentin Richardson, American basketball player

1980 – Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress

1981 – Courtney Peldon, American actress

1981 – Nat Borchers, American soccer player

1982 – Nellie McKay, American singer

1982 – Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer

1982 – Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer

1983 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player

1983 – Hunter Pence, American baseball player

1984 – Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor

1987 – Brandon Hardesty, American internet entertainer

1988 – Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, Brazilian footballer

1992 – Emma Degerstedt, American actress

Died on this day - April 13th
799 – Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and chronicler (b. c. 720)

814 – Krum of Bulgaria

1093 – Prince Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)

1279 – Boleslaw the Pious, Polish duke

1605 – Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia (b. c. 1551)

1612 – Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai

1635 – Fakhr-al-Din II, Druze Prince of Lebanon (b. 1572)

1638 – Henri, duc de Rohan, French Huguenot leader (b. 1579)

1641 – Richard Montagu, English clergyman (b. 1577)

1695 – Jean de la Fontaine, French author (b. 1621)

1722 – Charles Leslie, Irish Anglican theologian (b. 1650)

1793 – Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French revolutionary (b. 1763)

1794 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (b. 1741)

1826 – Franz Danzi, German composer (b. 1763)

1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)

1853 – James Iredell, Jr., American politician (b. 1788)

1855 – Henry De la Beche, English geologist (b. 1796)

1868 – Tewodros II, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1818)

1880 – Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist (b. 1813)

1882 – Bruno Bauer, German theologian (b. 1809)

1890 – Samuel J. Randall, American politician (b. 1828)

1909 – Whitley Stokes, British lawyer (b. 1830)

1910 – William Quiller Orchardson, British painter (b. 1835)

1911 – George Washington Glick, American politician (b. 1827)

1911 – John McLane, American politician (b. 1852)

1912 – Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)

1918 – Lavr Georgevich Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)

1936 – Milton Brown, American swing bandleader (b. 1903)

1938 – Archibald Belaney, Canadian conservationist (b. 1888)

1941 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)

1944 – Cécile Chaminade, French composer and pianist (b. 1857)

1945 – Ernst Cassirer, German philosopher (b. 1874)

1954 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian politician (b. 1890)

1959 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch conductor (b. 1901)

1961 – John A. Bennett, American convicted rapist (b. 1935)

1962 – Culbert Olson, American politician (b. 1876)

1966 – Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi politician (b. 1921)

1966 – Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)

1971 – Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)

1971 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (b. 1921)

1975 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)

1975 – François (Ngarta) Tombalbaye, Chadian politician (b. 1918)

1978 – Jack Chambers, Canadian artist (b. 1931)

1980 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian racing driver (b. 1956)

1981 – Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)

1983 – Theodore Stephanides, Greek doctor and naturalist (b. 1896)

1984 – Richard Hurndall. British actor (b. 1910)

1984 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician (b. 1911)

1984 – Dionyssis Papayannopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1912)

1986 – Stephen Stucker. American actor (b. 1947)

1993 – Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)

1997 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and military figure (b. 1896)

1997 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler (b. 1903)

1998 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfer (b. 1960)

1999 – Ortvin Sarapu, New Zealand chess player (b. 1924)

1999 – Willi Stoph, German politician (b. 1914)

2000 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (b. 1916)

2001 – Robert Moon, American postal inspector (b. 1917)

2002 – Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racecar driver (b. 1928)

2004 – Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)

2004 – Caron Keating, British television presenter (b. 1962)

2005 – Don Blasingame, American baseball player (b. 1932)

2005 – Johnnie Johnson, American blues musician (b. 1924)

2005 – Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer (b. 1945)

2005 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (b. 1959)

2006 – Bill Baker, American baseball player (b. 1911)

2007 – Don Selwyn, Māori actor and film director (b. c. 1936)

2008 – John Wheeler, American physicist and educator (b. 1911)