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Up to 1900 
 257 BC – A solar eclipse is seen over southern Gaul and Tuscany.
 33 – Crucifixion of Jesus (traditional date)
 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
 1559 – The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis treaty is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
 1764 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned Roman-German King in Frankfurt.
 1834 – The Generals in the Greek War of Independence stand trial for treason.
 1860 – The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California is started (completed on April 13).
 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the break-away Confederate States of America.
 1881 - The Greek island of Chios is hit by a major earthquake. People do not return to the island until 1911.
 1882 - American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.
 1884 - Belgian passenger ship Daniel Steinmann sinks in a storm of Halifax, Nova Scotia, killing 121 people.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
 1895 - The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins. It eventually leads to imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
 1896 - La Gazzetta dello Sport first goes on sale in Italy. It is the world's oldest sports paper.
1901  2000 
 1905 – Boca Juniors football club is founded in Buenos Aires.
 1922 – Joseph Stalin succeeds Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union.
 1926 - Honduras introduces the Lempira as its currency.
 1933 - The first flight over Mount Everest occurs, as part of a British expedition led by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
 1941 – Hungarian and German troops march into Yugoslavia.
 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.
 1944 - A mine explosion in Heessen, Westphalia, Germany, kills 169 miners.
 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
 1948 – President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
1948 - In Jeju, South Korea, a civil war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins.
 1954 - Oxford University wins the 100th Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race.
 1956 - A deadly Force 5 tornado hits the western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
 1961 - Leadbeater's Possum is re-discovered in Australia, after 72 years.
 1968 – Elvis Presley sings Heartbreak Hotel on the Milton Berle Show with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.
 1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "mountaintop" speech.
 1973 – The first ever Mobile phone call is placed by Martin Cooper, in New York City
 1974 – The Super Outbreak occurred. 148 tornadoes affected 13 states and 1 Canadian province in 18 hours. It was the biggest tornado outbreak in the planet's recorded history. 315 people die, nearly 5,500 are injured.
 1975 - Bobby Fischer refuses to play a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, who wins the world championship by default as a result.
1979 - Spain holds its first local elections since the death of Francisco Franco.
 1981 - Osborne 1, the first-ever portable computer, is unveiled in San Francisco.
 1984 - Lansana Conté comes to power in Guinea through a military coup.
 1986 – IBM unveils the PC Convertible, their first laptop computer.
 1991 - Miguel Trovoada becomes President of São Tomé and Príncipe.
 1992 – Albania's last Communist leader Ramiz Alia resigns.
 1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.
 1997 – Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 people living in Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
 2000 – Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
From 2001 
 2004 – Islamist terrorists blow themselves up in Madrid, after a shootout with police.
 2007 – A new speed record is set by a TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line in France.
 2008 – ATA Airlines files for bankruptcy.
 2010 – South African far-right politician Eugene Terre'Blanche is beaten to death on his farm near the town of Ventersdorp.
 2013 - Over 50 people are killed in floods in Buenos Aires and La Plata in Argentina.
 2016 - Panama Papers: A leak of 11 million legal documents related to the firm Mossack Fonseca in Panama reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies, involving many rich and famous people, including political leaders, businessmen and celebrities.
 2017 - 2017 Saint Petersburg Metro bombing: A bomb is detonated in the subway system in Saint Petersburg, Russia, killing 14 people.
 2018 - YouTube headquarters shooting: Nasim Najafi Aghdam injures several people at the headquarters of YouTube in San Bruno, California, before turning the gun on herself.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1151 - Igor Svyatoslavich, Kievan Rus Prince (d. 1202)
 1245 – King Philip III of France (d. 1285)
 1367 – King Henry IV of England (d. 1413)
 1529 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)
 1593 - George Herbert, Welsh-born English poet (d. 1633)
 1639 – Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (d. 1682)
 1643 - Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1690)
 1683 – Mark Catesby, English naturalist (d. 1749)
 1715 - William Watson, English physician and scientist (d. 1787)
 1764 - John Abernethy, English surgeon (d. 1831)
 1769 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835)
 1770 - Theodoros Kolokstronis, Greek general (d. 1843)
 1781 - Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (d. 1830)
 1783 – Washington Irving, American writer (d. 1859)
 1798 – Charles Wilkes, American navy officer and polar explorer (d. 1877)
 1806 – Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856)
1807 - Jane Digby, English aristocrat and adventuress (d. 1881)
 1814 – Lorenzo Snow, American Mormon leader (d. 1901)
 1822 - Edward Everett Hale, American writer (d. 1909)
 1823 - William M. Tweed, American politician (d. 1878)
 1843 – Knut Ekvall, Swedish artist (d. 1912)
 1848 - Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and naval officer (d. 1879)
 1861 - Frederik van Eeden, Dutch writer and psychiatrist (d. 1932)
 1863 - Henry van de Velde, Belgian architect and designer (d. 1957)
 1876 - Margaret Anglin, Canadian Broadway actress (d. 1958)
 1876 - Celso Constantini, Italian cardinal (d. 1958)
 1880 - Jorge Brown, Argentine footballer and cricketer (d. 1936)
 1880 – Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (d. 1903)
 1881 – Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1954)
 1882 - Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (d. 1952)
 1883 - Ikki Kita, Japanese philosopher and writer (d. 1937)
 1885 - Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)
 1885 - Allan Dwan, American director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1887 - Otori Tanigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1956)
 1889 - Grigoras Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (d. 1949)
 1893 - Leslie Howard, British actor (d. 1943)
 1895 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (d. 1968)
 1898 – Henry Luce, American publisher (d. 1967)
 1898 - George Jessel, American actor, singer and producer (d. 1981)
 1899 – David Jack, English footballer (d. 1958)
 1899 - Maria Redaelli, Italian supercentenarian (d. 2013)
 1900 - Camille Chamoun, President of Lebanon (d. 1987)
1901  1950 
 1903 - Lili Kraus, Hungarian-American pianist (d. 1986)
 1904 - Sally Rand, American Burlesque dancer (d. 1979)
 1905 - Robert Sink, American military officer (d. 1965)
 1907 - Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (d. 1999)
 1911 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish athlete (d. 1980)
 1912 - Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek politician, physician and athlete (d. 1963)
 1913 – Per Borten, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2005)
 1915 – Piet de Jong, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2016)
 1918 - Mary Anderson, American actress (d. 2014)
 1919 - Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (d. 2015)
 1920 – Stan Freeman, American composer and lyricist (d. 2001)
 1920 – John Demjanjuk, Ukrainian convicted Nazi war criminal (d. 2012)
 1920 - Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1977)
 1922 - Doris Day, American actress (d. 2019)
 1922 - José Hierro, Spanish poet (d. 2002)
 1922 - Carlo Lizzani, Italian movie director, screenwriter and actor (d. 2013)
 1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
1925 – Tony Benn, British politician (d. 2014)
 1926 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut (d. 1967)
 1926 - Timothy Bateson, English actor (d. 2009)
 1928 - Earl Lloyd, American basketball player (d. 2015)
 1928 - Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegalese writer
 1929 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress (d. 2007)
 1929 - Poul Schlüter, former Prime Minister of Denmark
 1930 – Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017)
 1930 - Lawton Chiles, 41st Governor of Florida (d. 1998)
 1930 - Mario Menéndez, Argentine general and politician (d. 2015)
 1933 - Bob Dornan, American politician
 1933 - Fu Da-ren, Taiwanese sports broadcaster and assisted suicide activist (d. 2018)
 1934 – Jane Goodall, English zoologist
 1935 - Salvatore Senese, Italian magistrate and politician (d. 2019)
 1936 – Reginald Hill, English crime fiction writer (d. 2012)
 1936 - Harold Vick, American jazz saxophonist and flautist (d. 1987)
 1942 - Wayne Newton, American singer and actor
 1942 - Billy Joe Royal, American singer (d. 2015)
1942 - Marsha Mason, American actress
 1943 - Mario Lavista, Mexican composer
 1943 - Jonathan Lynn, English actor, director and screenwriter
 1945 - Bernie Parent, Canadian ice hockey player
 1945 - Catherine Spaak, French actress
 1946 - Dee Murphy, English musician (d. 1992)
 1946 - Marisa Paredes, Spanish actress
 1946 - Hanna Suchocka, 5th Prime Minister of Poland
 1948 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari, former President of Mexico
 1948 – Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch politician and former NATO Secretary-General
 1948 - Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, German footballer
 1949 – Daniel Catan, Mexican composer (d. 2011)
 1949 - A. C. Grayling, British philosopher
 1950 - Sally Thomsett, English actress
1951  1975 
 1953 - Wakanohana Kanji II, Japanese sumo wrestler
 1956 - Miguel Bosé, Spanish singer and actor
 1957 - Yves Chaland, French cartoonist (d. 1990)
 1958 - Francesca Woodman, American photographer (d. 1981)
 1958 – Alec Baldwin, American actor
 1959 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor
 1960 - Elizabeth Gracen, American actress and model
 1960 - Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1961 – Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
 1962 – Jennifer Rubin, American actress
 1964 – Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist
 1964 – Andy Robinson, English rugby player and coach
 1964 - Nigel Farage, English politician, former leader of UKIP
 1965 - Katsumi Oenoki, Japanese footballer
 1966 – Mina Tominaga, Japanese voice actress
 1966 - Michael Mittermeier, German comedian
 1968 – Sebastian Bach, Canadian singer
 1968 - Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001)
 1968 - Jamie Hewlett, English comic creator
 1970 - Donald-Olivier Sié, Ivorian footballer
1971 - Robert da Silva Almeida, Brazilian footballer
 1971 – Vitalijs Astafjevs, Latvian footballer
 1971 - Picabo Street, American skier
 1972 – Kenny Logan, Scottish rugby player
 1972 - Lola Pagnani, Italian movie actress
 1972 - Jennie Garth, American actress
 1972 - Leigh-Allyn Baker, American actress
 1972 - Catherine McCormack, English actress
 1973 - Prabhu Deva, Indian dancer, choreographer, movie director and actor
 1973 – Jamie Bamber, English actor
 1975 - Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player
From 1976 
 1976 – Drew Shirley, American musician
 1976 – Will Mellor, English actor
 1978 – Matthew Goode, English actor
 1978 – Tommy Haas, German tennis player
 1978 – John Smit, South African rugby player
 1980 – Suella Braverman, English politician
 1981 – Aaron Bertram, American trumpeter (Suburban Legends)
 1982 – Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
 1983 – Ben Foster, English footballer
 1985 – Leona Lewis, English singer
 1986 – Amanda Bynes, American actress
 1986 – Coleen Rooney, English celebrity
 1987 – Park Jung-min, South Korean singer, dancer and actor
 1987 – Martyn Rooney, English sprinter
 1988 – Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
 1989 – Israel Folau, Australian rugby player
 1990 – Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer
 1990 – Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer
 1991 – Hayley Kiyoko, American singer, dancer and actress
 1992 – Simone Benedetti, Italian footballer
 1992 – Yuliya Yefimova, Russian swimmer
 1992 – Juan Cazares, Ecuadorean footballer
 1993 – Pape Moussa Konaté, Senegalese footballer
1994 – Dylann Roof, American murderer, perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting
 1995 – William de Asevedo Furtado, Brazilian footballer
 1997 – Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 963 – William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)
 1203 - Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1196)
 1287 - Pope Honorius IV (b. 1240)
 1350 - Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)
 1617 – John Napier, Scottish mathematician (b. 1550)
 1680 - Shivaji, Indian founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1608)
 1682 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (b. 1618)
 1691 - Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (b. 1608)
 1717 - Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician (b. 1640)
 1849 – Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (b. 1809)
 1857 - Federico de Roncali, 1st Count of Alcoy, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1809)
 1868 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and inventor (b. 1796)
 1882 – Jesse James, American outlaw (b. 1847)
 1897 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (b. 1833)
1901  2000 
 1901 - Richard D'Oyly Carte, British talent agent, impresario, composer and hotelier (b. 1844)
 1936 – Bruno Hauptmann, German, convicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh III (b. 1899)
 1941 – Pal Teleki, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879)
 1941 - Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1877)
 1943 - Conrad Veidt, German-American actor (b. 1893)
 1950 – Kurt Weill, German composer (b. 1900)
 1950 - Carter G. Woodson, American historian, writer and journalist (b. 1875)
 1952 – Miina Sillanpaa, Finnish politician (b. 1866)
 1954 - Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese diplomat (b. 1885)
 1975 - Mary Ure, Scottish actress (b. 1933)
 1978 - Ray Noble, English bandleader, actor and composer (b. 1903)
 1982 - Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)
 1986 – Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)
 1990 – Sarah Vaughan, American jazz singer and pianist (b. 1924)
 1991 – Graham Greene, English writer (b. 1904)
1994 – Frank Wells, American businessman, President of the Walt Disney Company (b. 1932)
 1996 - Ron Brown, American politician (b. 1941)
 1999 – Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)
From 2001 
 2003 – Edwin Starr, American singer (b. 1942)
 2004 - Gabriella Ferri, Italian singer (b. 1942)
 2007 – Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman (b. 1937)
 2008 – Hrvoje Custic, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)
 2010 – Eugene Terre'Blanche, South African far-right politician (b. 1941)
 2012 - Xenia Stade-de Jong, Dutch athlete (b. 1922)
 2013 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-born novelist, short story writer and screenwriter (b. 1927)
 2014 - Régine Deforges, French writer, playwright and director (b. 1935)
 2014 - Fred Kida, American illustrator (b. 1920)
 2014 - Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler and composer (b. 1921)
 2014 - Paul Salamunovich, American choral director and movie scorer (b. 1927)
 2014 - Virginie Korte-van Hemel, Dutch politician (b. 1929)
 2014 - Edvard Grimstad, Norwegian politician (b. 1933) 
 2014 - Tommy Lynn Sells, American serial killer (b. 1964)
 2015 - Nigel Boocock, British speedway rider (b. 1937)
 2015 - Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi (b. 1913)
2015 - Sarah Brady, American gun control campaigner (b. 1942)
 2015 - Kayahan, Turkish pop singer (b. 1949)
 2015 - Robert Rietti, British-Italian actor (b. 1923)
 2015 - Vivian Nathan, American actress (b. 1916)
 2015 - Bob Burns, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1950)
 2016 - Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1932)
 2016 - Joe Medicine Crow, American historian (b. 1913)
 2016 - Lars Gustafsson, Swedish writer (b. 1936)
 2016 - Martin Lampkin, British motorcycle rider (b. 1950)
 2016 - Lola Novakovic, Serbian singer (b. 1935)
 2016 - Erik Bauersfeld, American radio dramatist and voice actor (b. 1922)
 2016 - Don Francks, Canadian jazz singer and actor (b. 1932)
 2016 - Rowley Habib, New Zealand writer (b. 1933)
 2016 - Clarence Clifton Young, American politician (b. 1922)
 2016 - Jules Schelvis, Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor (b. 1921)
 2017 - John Chrispinsson, Swedish journalist (b. 1956)
 2017 - Akbarzhan Jalilov, Kyrgyz-born Russian terrorist (b. 1995)
2017 - Roy Sievers, American baseball player (b. 1926)
 2017 - Michel Arrivé, French linguist and novelist (b. 1936)
 2017 - Stella Turk, British zoologist, naturalist and conservationist (b. 1925)
 2018 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer (b. 1938)
 2018 - Nasim Najafi Aghdam, Iranian-American animal rights and internet personality (b. 1979)
 2018 - Arrigo Petacco, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
 2018 - Jacques Tixier, French archaeologist and prehistorian
 2019 - Maurice Pon, French lyricist (b. 1921)
 2019 - Aleksey Buldakov, Russian actor (b. 1951)
 2019 - Gabriel Piroird, French bishop (b. 1932)
 2019 - Carmelita Pope, American actress (b. 1924)
Up to 1900 
 648 BC – Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipo and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the Battle of Thapsus.
 402 – Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
 1199 - Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder. His brother, John of England, succeeds him.
 1250 - Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids in Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
 1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
 1327 – The poet Petrarch first saw his idealized love Laura in the church of Saint Claire in Avignon.
 1385 - John I of Portugal becomes King.
 1453 - Mehmed II begins his Siege of Constantinople.
 1580 - Areas around the English Channel experience once of their strongest earthquakes, at an estimated magnitude of over 5. It affects Southeastern England, Northern France and present-day Belgium.
1652 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp at the Cape of Good Hope, which will eventually develop into Cape Town.
 1667 – Dubrovnik is destroyed by an earthquake, killing 5,000 people.
 1782 – Rama I succeeds King Taksin of Thailand, who was overthrown in a coup d'état.
 1793 - During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company.
 1812 - British forces under command of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington assault the fortress at Badajoz, near the Spain-Portugal border, marking a turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon Bonaparte-led France.
 1814 - Napoleon Bonaparte is exiled to the Italian island of Elba.
 1815 - Geneva becomes the 22nd canton of Switzerland.
 1830 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is formed by Joseph Smith, Jr. at Fayette, New York.
1832 – Indian Wars: Black Hawk War begins - The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.
 1841 – John Tyler is inaugurated as the 10th President of the United States.
 1862 – American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh begins - In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh.
 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Sayler's Creek - Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
 1869 – Celluloid is patented.
 1886 – Vancouver, British Columbia is incorporated as a city.
 1893 - Salt Lake Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested after losing a libel case against the John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry.
 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games after 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
1901  2000 
 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) began, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the west.
 1909 – Robert Peary allegedly reaches the North Pole.
 1911 – Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, Leader of the Malësori Albanians raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro for the first time after Gjergj Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
 1917 – World War I: United States declares war on Germany
 1919 - Mahatma Gandhi orders a general strike in India.
 1924 - The first round-the-world flight begins.
 1926 – Walter Varney Airlines makes first commercial flight from Pasco, Washington, to Elko, Nevada. Varney is the root company of United Airlines.
 1930 – Gandhi raised a lump of mud and salt (some say just a pinch, some say just a grain) and declared, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." Thus he started Salt Satyagraha.
 1930 – Hostess Twinkies are invented.
 1930 – Will Rogers starts broadcasting The Will Rogers Program on radio.
1931 – Little Orphan Annie debuts on the Blue Network of NBC.
 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville Outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
 1941 – World War II: Operation Castigo begins - Germany invades Kingdom of Yugoslavia and Greece.
 1945 - World War II: Yugoslavian Partisans liberate Sarajevo from German and Croatian forces.
 1947 - The first Tony Awards are presented for achievement in theatre.
 1965 – Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in synchronous orbit, is launched.
 1968 – In London, United Kingdom, Massiel wins the thirteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Spain singing "La, la, la."
 1970 – Four California Highway Patrol officers die in one of the worst cop killings in the CHP's history; this is known as the Newhall Incident.
 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive - The first day of clear weather in three days allows American forces to start sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
 1974 – The California Jam Rock concert begins.
 1974 – In Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the nineteenth Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden singing "Waterloo."
 1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard from country's northern region attack various government buildings in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
 1987 – Sugar Ray Leonard takes the middleweight boxing title from Marvin Hagler.
 1993 – Russian nuclear accident at Tomsk 7.
 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down, responsibility is disputed.
 1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
 1998 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 49.82 to close at 9,033.23 - its first-ever close above 9,000.
From 2001 
 2001 – Miller Park opens in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first President of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from the post by impeachment.
 2005 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco dies, at the age of 81 years. His son succeeds him as Albert II, Prince of Monaco.
 2005 – Jalal Talabani becomes President of Iraq.
 2006 - Boni Yayi becomes President of Benin.
 2009 – A magnitude 6 earthquake strikes near L'Aquila in central Italy, killing around 300 people, mainly as a result of collapsing buildings.
 2011 - In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 300 bodies are exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
 2012 - Rebel groups declare an independent state called Azawad in northern Mali, which is not internationally recognized as independent.
 2016 - Emmanuel Macron starts his bid to become President of France.
 2018 - South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye is sentenced to 24 years in prison on corruption charges.
Up to 1900 
 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter (d. 1520)
 1632 – Maria Leopoldine of Austria (d. 1649)
 1660 - Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist (d. 1722)
 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish politician (d. 1742)
 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
 1706 - Louis de Cahusac, French playwright (d. 1759)
 1725 - Pascuale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807)
 1726 - Gerard Majella, Italian saint (d. 1755)
 1732 - José Celestino Mutis, Spanish priest, botanist and mathematician (d. 1808)
 1741 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (d. 1794)
 1765 - Charles Felix of Sardinia (d. 1831)
 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1836)
 1801 - William Hallowes Miller, Welsh mineralogist (d. 1880)
 1802 - Thomas Walker Gilmer, Governor of Virginia (d. 1844)
 1812 - Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1870)
 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
 1818 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
1820 - Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
 1823 - Joseph Metill, American publisher and politician (d. 1899)
 1824 - George Marsden Waterhouse, Premier of South Australia and 7th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1906)
 1826 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
 1839 – Antonio Starabba, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1908)
 1841 - Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
 1849 - John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
 1851 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
 1857 - Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter (d. 1922)
 1860 - René Lalique, French glass designer (d. 1945)
 1861 - Stanislas de Guaita, French poet (d. 1897)
 1864 - William Bate Hardy, English biochemist (d. 1934)
 1866 - Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (d. 1931)
 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet (d. 1951)
 1878 - Erich Mühsam, German writer (d. 1934)
 1881 - Karl Staaf, Swedish athlete (d. 1953)
 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (d. 1950)
1886 - Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (d. 1972)
 1888 - Hans Richter, Swiss painter, movie maker and graphic artist (d. 1976)
 1890 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer (d. 1939)
 1892 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist (d. 1981)
 1892 - Lowell Thomas, American writer (d. 1981)
 1893 - Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (d. 1917)
 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
 1898 - Jeanne Hebuterne, French artist (d. 1920)
1901  1950 
 1903 - Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
 1903 - Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer (d. 1990)
 1904 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1988)
 1910 - Barys Kit, Belarussian-American rocket scientist (d. 2018)
 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist (d. 1979)
 1915 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish theatre director (d. 1990)
 1917 - Leonora Carrington, British-Mexican painter and writer (d. 2011)
 1918 - Alfredo Ovando Candia, President of Bolivia (d. 1982)
 1918 – Big Walter Horton, American blues musician (d. 1981)
 1920 – Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist
 1920 - Jack Cover, American inventor of the taser gun (d. 2009)
 1921 - Heinrich Schmid, Swiss linguist (d. 1999)
 1925 – Helga Deen, victim of the Holocaust (d. 1943)
 1926 - Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor (d. 1990)
 1926 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish minister and politician (d. 2014)
1926 - Alexander Butterfield, American political figure
 1927 - Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger (d. 1996)
 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist
 1929 – André Previn, German-born American musician (d. 2019)
 1931 - Baba Ram Dass, American Hindu teacher
 1931 - Suchitra Sen, Indian actress (d. 2014)
 1933 - Eduardo Malapit, American politician (d. 2007)
 1934 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (d. 2010)
 1934 - Mario Merola, Italian singer
 1937 – Merle Haggard, American musician (d. 2016)
 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
 1937 - Terrence Hardiman, English actor
 1937 - Peter Maivia, American Samoan professional wrestler (d. 1982)
 1938 - Paul Daniels, English magician (d. 2016)
 1938 - Roy Thinnes, American actor
 1939 - André Ouellet, French-Canadian politician
 1939 - John Sculley, American businessman
 1940 - Pedro Armendariz, Jr., American actor (d. 2011)
 1941 - Phil Austin, American comedian and writer (d. 2014)
1942 – Barry Levinson, American director
 1943 - Max Clifford, English journalist and publicist
 1944 – Felicity Palmer, English soprano
 1944 - Anita Pallenberg, Italian-English model, actress and fashion designer (d. 2017)
 1944 - Charles Sobhraj, Vietnamese-Indian serial killer
 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
 1947 - Mike Warboys, English mathematician
 1949 - Patrick Hernandez, French singer and songwriter
 1949 – Horst Ludwig Stoermer, German physicist
 1950 - Christer Sjögren, Swedish singer
1951  1975 
 1951 - Jean-Marc Boivin, French skier, mountaineer and pilot (d. 1990)
 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
 1952 - Marilu Henner, American actress
 1952 - Udo Dirkschneider, German musician
 1953 - Christopher Franke, German-American drummer and songwriter
 1955 - Blind Mississippi Morris, American blues musician
 1955 - Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-American serial killer
 1956 - Michele Bachmann, American politician
 1957 - Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
 1957 - Maurizio Damilano, Italian athlete
 1960 - Warren Haynes, American musician
 1961 – Rory Bremner, British comedian
 1963 – Rafael Correa, former President of Ecuador
 1964 – David Woodard, American writer and conductor
 1965 – Amedeo Carboni, Italian footballer
 1965 - Black Francis, American singer-songwriter
 1967 – Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
 1967 - Tanya Byron, English psychologist
 1967 - Julian Anderson, English composer and educator
 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor
1969 - Louie Spence, British dancer and choreographer
 1969 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (d. 2002)
 1970 - Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
 1971 – Martin Hansson, Swedish football referee
 1972 - Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish screenwriter and movie director
 1973 – Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress
 1974 – Robert Kovac, Croatian footballer
 1974 - Camilla Dallerup, Danish-British dancer
 1974 - Gina Yashere, British comedienne
 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor
From 1976 
 1976 – Candace Cameron, American actress
 1976 - James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor
 1976 - Georg Hólm, Icelandic musician
 1978 - Igor Semshov, Russian footballer
 1978 – Myleene Klass, English singer
 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Welsh footballer
 1982 – Herculez Gomez, American soccer player
 1982 - Alana Austin, American actress
 1982 - Miguel Angel Silvestre, Spanish actor
 1982 - Bret Harrison, American actor
 1983 – Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer
 1983 - Remi Nicole, English singer, songwriter and actor
 1983 - Katie Weatherston, Canadian ice hockey player
 1983 - Bobbi Starr, American pornographic actress
 1984 - Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer
 1985 - Al Mukadam, Canadian actor, director and producer
 1985 - Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and coach
 1986 – Ryota Moriwaki, Japanese footballer
 1987 - Robin Haase, Dutch tennis player
 1988 – Fabrice Muamba, English-Congolese footballer
 1990 - Charlie McDermott, American actor
1991 - Alexandra Popp, German footballer
 1995 - Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer
 1998 - Peyton List, American actress
 1998 - Spencer List, American actor
 1999 - Kwesi Boakye, American actor
 2000 - CJ Adams, American actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 885 - Saint Methodius (b. 815)
 1147 - Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
 1199 – King Richard I of England (b. 1157)
 1490 - Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (b. 1443)
 1520 – Raphael, Italian painter (b. 1483)
 1528 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist (b. 1471)
 1551 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
 1782 – Taksin, King of Siam (b. 1734)
 1790 - Louis IX, Margrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
 1825 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
 1829 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
 1838 - Jose Bonifacio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist (b. 1763)
 1860 - James Kirke Paulding, American writer and politician (b. 1778)
 1865 - Antonio Pinto Soares, Costa Rican politician (b. 1780)
 1883 - Benjamin Wright Raymond, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1801)
 1886 - William Edward Foster, English industrialist, philanthropist and politician (b. 1818)
 1899 - Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)
1901  2000 
 1906 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian writer (b. 1845)
 1917 - Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (b. 1893)
 1933 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American writer and widow of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
 1950 - Louis Wilkins, American athlete (b. 1882)
 1953 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
 1961 – Jules Bordet, Belgian doctor, won the 1919 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
 1963 - Otto Struve, Russian astronomer (b. 1897)
 1970 - Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
 1971 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
 1972 – Heinrich Lübke, second President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1894)
 1974 - Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman (b. 1895)
 1992 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born writer (b. 1920)
 1994 – Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
 1994 – Cyprien Ntaryamira, President of Burundi (b. 1956)
 1996 – Greer Garson, British actress (b. 1904)
 1998 – Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
1998 - Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
 2000 – Habib Bourguiba, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
From 2001 
 2001 - Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
 2003 - Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (b. 1912)
 2004 – Victor Argo, American movie actor (b. 1934)
 2005 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
 2006 - Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat (b. 1917)
 2007 – Luigi Comencini, Italian movie director (b. 1916)
 2010 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939)
 2012 - Fang Lizhi, Chinese activist (b. 1936)
 2012 - Thomas Kinkade, American painter (b. 1958)
 2013 - Hilda Bynoe, 2nd Governor of Grenada (b. 1921)
 2013 - Bigas Luna, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1946)
 2013 - Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (b. 1928)
 2014 - Mary Anderson, American actress (b. 1918)
 2014 - Massimo Tamburini, Italian motorcycle designer (b. 1943)
 2014 - Chuck Stone, American navigator (b. 1924)
 2014 - Liv Dommersnes, Norwegian actress (b. 1922)
 2014 - Mickey Rooney, American actor (b. 1920)
 2015 - Gertrude Weaver, American supercentenarian (b. 1898)
2015 - Dave Ulliott, English poker player (b. 1954)
 2015 - Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
 2015 - James Best, American actor (b. 1926)
 2015 - Romualdas Ozolas, Lithuanian politician (b. 1939)
 2015 - Giovanni Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1924)
 2015 - Ray Charles, American musician (b. 1918)
 2015 - Ben Powers, American actor (b. 1950)
 2015 - Hardijs Baumanis, Latvian diplomat (b. 1967)
 2015 - John Papit, American football player (b. 1928)
 2016 - Merle Haggard, American musician (b. 1937)
 2016 - Darrell Hogan, American football player (b. 1926)
 2017 - Bob Cerv, American baseball player (b. 1925)
 2017 - Armand Gatti, Monegasque-French playwright, filmmaker and journalist (b. 1924)
 2017 - David Peel, American musician and political activist (b. 1943)
 2017 - Don Rickles, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
 2017 - Jerzy Vetulani, Polish neuroscientist (b. 1936)
 2018 - Daniel Akaka, American politician, United States Senator for Hawaii (b. 1924)
2018 - Daniel Chavarria, Uruguayan-Cuban author (b. 1933)
 2018 - Jacques Higelin, French singer (b. 1940)
 2018 - Donald McKayle, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
 2018 - Henryk Skolimowski, Polish philosopher (b. 1930)
 2019 - Jim Glaser, American country music singer (b. 1936)
 2019 - Fritz Hollings, American politician, United States Senator and 106th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1922)
 2019 - Lloyd McDermott, Australian rugby union player and barrister (b. 1939)
 2019 - David J. Thouless, Scottish physicist (b. 1934)
 2020 - Al Kaline, American baseball player (b. 1934)
Observances 
 Tartan Day (Canada and United States)
 Chakri Day (Thailand)

April 06
Up to 1900 
193 - Septimius Severus is proclaimed Roman Emperor by the army in Illyricum.
1241 - Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol Empire forces defeat the German and Polish armies.
1388 - Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Nafels.
1413 - King Henry V of England is crowned.
1440 - Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark.
1454 - The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among the northern Italian city states for almost 50 years.
1511 - Saint John's College, Cambridge, receives its charter.
1609 - Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp.
1682 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River.
1860 - On his phonautograph machine, Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest-known recording of an audible human voice.
1865 – The American Civil War ends, as Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.
1867 – By a single vote, the United States Senate approves the treaty with Russia for the purchase of Russian America, present-day Alaska.
1901  2000 
1914 - Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico. 
1916 – World War I: Battle of Verdun - German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
1917 - World War I: Battle of Arras - The battle begins when Canadian corps execute a massive assault on the Vimy Ridge.
1918 - The National Council of Bessarabia, in present-day Moldova, proclaims a union with Romania.
1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at Constitution Hall.
1940 – World War II: The Nazis invade Denmark and Norway.
1940 - World War II: Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway.
1942 - World War II: Bataan Death March - US forces surrender on the Bataan Peninsula.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.
1945 - The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed.
1947 - The Glazier-Higgins-Woodward tornadoes kill 181 people in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.
1948 - President of Colombia Jorge Eliecer Gaitan is assassinated.
1948 - Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attack the Arab village of Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100 people.
1952 - Hugo Gallivan's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution.
1957 – The Suez Canal opens to shipping.
1959 - Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the first seven US astronauts.
1961 - The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles ends operations.
1963 – Winston Churchill becomes an honorary US citizen, becoming the first non-American to be given this honour.
1965 - The first indoor game of baseball is played.
1967 – The Boeing 737 makes its first flight.
1969 - The "Chicago Eight" plead not guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
1975 - The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association is played.
1981 - United States Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington (SSBN-598) accidentally collides with Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it.
1989 – April 9 tragedy: In Tbilisi, in the then-Soviet Republic of Georgia, a peaceful pro-independence demonstration is broken up by the Soviet army, killing 20 people, and injuring hundreds.
1991 – The Republic of Georgia, under Zviad Gamsakhurdia, declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1992 – The British Conservative Party under John Major, wins a fourth term in office in the United Kingdom, defeating Neil Kinnock of the Labour Party. Kinnock resigns shortly after.
1992 - A US Federal Court finds Panama's former military leader Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering offences.
1999 – Niger's President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara is overthrown, and killed at Niamey airport.
From 2001 
2003 – Baghdad falls to US forces, as Saddam Hussein's regime crumbles, while a statue of him is torn down in the centre of the city.
2005 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. Their wedding had been postponed from the previous day, for the funeral of Pope John Paul II.
2009 – In Tbilisi, 60,000 people gather to protest against the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
2011 – Seven people, including the gunman, are killed in a shooting at a mall, in Alphen an den Rijn, in the Netherlands.
2013 - Thirteen people are shot dead in a shooting rampage in a village south of Belgrade, Serbia.
2013 - Uhuru Kenyatta is formally sworn in as President of Kenya.
2017 - 2017 Palm Sunday church bombings occur in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, killing 45 people.
2019 - An election is held for the Israeli Knesset, with Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu looking for a record fifth term in office.

Births
Up to 1900 
1283 – Margaret, Maid of Norway (d. 1290)
1336 – Tamerlane, also known as Timur, Turkic conqueror, in Transoxiana (d. 1405)
1498 - Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine (d. 1550)
1597 - John Davenport, English clergyman (d. 1670)
1686 - James Craggs the Younger, British politician (d. 1721)
1770 - Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
1773 – Étienne Aignan, translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Académie française (d. 1824)
1794 – Theobald Boehm, inventor of the modern flute.
1802 – Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and writer (d. 1884)
1806 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer (d. 1859)
1816 - Charles-Eugene Delaunay, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1872)
1817 - Alexander Thomson, Scottish architect (d. 1895)
1821 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet (d. 1867)
1830 – Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer, movie pioneer (d. 1904)
1834 - Edmond Laguerre, French mathematician (d. 1886)
1835 – King Leopold II of Belgium (d. 1909)
1846 - Paolo Tosti, Italian composer (d. 1916)
1848 – Helene Lange, German teacher (d. 1930)
1865 – Charles Proteus Steinmetz, German-born engineer and mathematician (d. 1923)
1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson, English poet (d. 1904)
1865 – Erich Ludendorff, German general in World War I (d. 1937)
1867 – Chris Watson, third Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1941)
1867 - Charles Winckler, Danish tug of war competitor (d. 1932)
1869 - Élie Cartan, French mathematician (d. 1951)
1872 – Léon Blum, Prime Minister of France (d. 1950)
1880 - Jan Letzel, Czech architect (d. 1925)
1882 - Frederick Francis IV, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (d. 1945)
1883 - Frank King, American cartoonist (d. 1969)
1888 – Sol Hurok, American impresario (d. 1974)
1889 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (d. 1985)
1893 - Charles E. Burchfield, American painter (d. 1967)
1893 - Rahul Sankrityanan, Indian travel writer and scholar (d. 1962)
1895 - Michel Simon, French actor (d. 1975)
1897 – John B. Gambling, radio talk-show host (d. 1974)
1897 - Fred G. Aandahl, 23rd Governor of North Dakota (d. 1966)
1898 – Paul Robeson, American singer and political activist (d. 1976)
1898 – Curly Lambeau, American football coach, executive (d. 1965)
1901  1950 
1902 - Theodore Monod, French naturalist, explorer and scholar (d. 2000)
1903 – Ward Bond, actor (d. 1960) 
1904 – Sharkey Bonano, jazz musician (d. 1972)
1905 – J. William Fulbright, former Senator from Arkansas (d. 1995)
1906 - Hugh Gaitskell, British politician (d. 1963)
1906 - Rafaela Aparicio, Spanish actress (d. 1996)
1906 – Antal Dorati, Hungarian conductor (d. 1988)
1908 – Victor Vasarely, painter (d. 1997)
1910 – Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (d. 1998)
1912 – Lev Kopelev, Russian writer and humanist (d. 1997)
1914 - Koichi Oita, Japanese footballer (d. 1996)
1915 - Daniel Johnson, Sr., Canadian politician, 20th Premier of Quebec (d. 1968)
1917 – Brad Dexter, American actor (d. 2002)
1917 - Johannes Bobrowski, German poet (d. 1965)
1917 - Rolf Kauka, German comics creator and publisher (d. 2000)
1918 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (d. 2008)
1919 – J. Presper Eckert, inventor of the ENIAC computer (d. 1995)
1920 - Jorge Pacheco Areco, President of Uruguay (d. 1998)
1921 - Yitzhak Navon, 5th President of Israel (d. 2015)
1921 - Frankie Thomas, American actor (d. 2006)
1925 – Heinz Nixdorf, industrialist (d. 1985)
1925 - Virginia Gibson, American actress, singer and dancer (d. 2013)
1925 - Art Kane, American photographer (d. 1995)
1926 – Hugh Hefner, American editor and publisher (d. 2017)
1928 – Tom Lehrer, American musician, mathematician and satirist
1928 - Aubrey Woods, American actor and singer (d. 2013)
1929 - Manuel Jiménez de Parga, Spanish politician (d. 2014) 
1930 - Wallace McCain, Canadian businessman (d. 2001)
1930 - Alphonse Alley, President of Benin (d. 1987)
1930 - Nathaniel Branden, Canadian-American psychologist (d. 2014)
1931 - Leone Frollo, Italian comic book artist (d. 2018)
1931 - Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (d. 1991) 
1932 – Carl Perkins, country and rockabilly musician (d. 1998)
1932 – Jim Fowler, American naturalist
1933 – Jean-Paul Belmondo, French actor
1933 - René Burri, Swiss photographer (d. 2014)
1935 – Avery Schreiber, actor (d. 2002)
1935 – Josef Fritzl, Austrian criminal
1936 - Valerie Solanas, American feminist writer (d. 1988)
1937 - Valerie Singleton, British television presenter
1937 – Marty Krofft, children's television producer
1938 - Aziz Asli, Iranian footballer (d. 2015)
1938 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (d. 2010)
1939 – Michael Learned, American actress
1940 - Jimmy Roberts, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)
1941 - Hannah Gordon, Scottish actress
1942 – Brandon De Wilde, American actor (d. 1972)
1942 - Petar Nadoveza, Croatian footballer
1945 – Peter Gammons, American baseball sportswriter, journalist
1945 - Steve Gadd, American musician
1946 - Sara Parkin, Scottish activist and politician
1948 - Jaya Bachchan, Indian actress and politician
1948 - Michel Parizeau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1948 - Patty Pravo, Italian singer
1951  1975 
1952 - Jerzy Szmajdzinski, Polish politician (d. 2010)
1953 – Hal Ketchum, American country musician
1954 – Dennis Quaid, actor (The Right Stuff, Any Given Sunday, Traffic)
1954 – Iain Duncan Smith, British politician
1955 - Yanina Benguigui, French director and politician
1956 - Michael Hashim, American saxophonist
1956 - Miguel Angel Russo, Argentine footballer and coach
1956 - Marina Zueva, Russian ice dancer and coach
1957 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (d. 2011)
1958 - Nigel Slater, English chef and cookery writer
1959 - Bernard Jenkin, English politician
1962 - Jeff Turner, American basketball player and broadcasting announcer
1963 - Marc Jacobs, American fashion designer
1964 - Doug Ducey, American politician, 23rd Governor of Arizona
1964 - Akihiro Nagashima, Japanese footballer
1965 - Paulina Porizkova, Czech-American actress and model
1965 – Jeff Zucker, American television executive
1965 - Mark Pellegrino, American actor
1966 - John Hammond, English weather presenter
1966 – Cynthia Nixon, American actress
1967 - Sam Harris, American philosopher and writer
1970 - Tricia Penrose, English actress and singer
1971 – Jacques Villeneuve, French-Canadian racing driver
1972 - Alain Berset, Swiss politician
1972 - Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress
1973 - Spencer Rice, Canadian actor, director, producer and screenwriter
1974 – Alexander Pichushkin, Russian serial killer
1974 – Jenna Jameson, American pornographic actress
1975 – Robbie Fowler, English footballer (soccer)
1975 - Balzhinima Tsyrempilov, Russian archer