# April 8

* April 8 in recent years
* 2024 (Monday)
* 2023 (Saturday)
* 2022 (Friday)
* 2021 (Thursday)
* 2020 (Wednesday)
* 2019 (Monday)
* 2018 (Sunday)
* 2017 (Saturday)
* 2016 (Friday)
* 2015 (Wednesday)
April 8 is the 98th day of the year (99th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 267 days remain until the end of the year.

## Events
### Pre-1600

* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
* 1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy.
* 1232 – Mongol–Jin War: The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng, the capital of the Jin dynasty.
* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
* 1271 – In Syria, sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers.

### 1601–1900

* 1605 – The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.
* 1730 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in continental North America, is dedicated.
* 1812 – Czar Alexander I, the Russian Emperor and the Grand Duke of Finland, officially announces the transfer of the status of the Finnish capital from Turku to Helsinki.
* 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos.
* 1832 – Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
* 1866 – Austro-Prussian War: Italy and Prussia sign a secret alliance against the Austrian Empire.
* 1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
* 1895 – In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.

### 1901–present

* 1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
* 1940 – The Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party elects Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal as General Secretary, marking the beginning of his 44-year-long tenure as de facto leader of Mongolia.
* 1974 – Hank Aaron passes Babe Ruth as the all-time leader in career home runs by hitting his 715th home run off of Al Downing at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
* 1993 – The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56.
* 2002 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-110, carrying the S0 truss to the International Space Station. Astronaut Jerry L. Ross also becomes the first person to fly on seven spaceflights.
* 2005 – A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela.
* 2010 – U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty.
* 2014 – Windows XP reaches its standard End Of Life and is no longer supported.
* 2020 – Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee.
* 2024 – Solar eclipse of April 8, 2024: A total solar eclipse takes place at the Moon's ascending node, visible across North America.

## Births
### Pre-1600

* 1320 – Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)
* 1408 – Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (d. 1431)
* 1435 – John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, English noble (d. 1461)
* 1533 – Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer (d. 1604)
* 1536 – Barbara of Hesse (d. 1597)
* 1541 – Michele Mercati, Italian physician and archaeologist (d. 1593)
* 1580 – William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, English noble, courtier and patron of the arts (d. 1630)
* 1596 – Juan van der Hamen, Spanish artist (d. 1631)

### 1601–1900

* 1605 – Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)
* 1605 – Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess (d. 1607)
* 1641 – Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English general and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (d. 1704)
* 1692 – Giuseppe Tartini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1770)
* 1726 – Lewis Morris, American judge and politician (d. 1798)
* 1732 – David Rittenhouse, American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1796)
* 1761 – William Joseph Chaminade, French priest, founded the Society of Mary (d. 1850)
* 1770 – John Thomas Campbell, Irish-Australian banker and politician (d. 1830)
* 1798 – Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet and author (d. 1857)
* 1818 – Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)
* 1818 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (d. 1892)
* 1826 – Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (d. 1890)
* 1827 – Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican ophthalmologist, journalist, and politician (d. 1898)
* 1842 – Elizabeth Bacon Custer, American author and educator (d. 1933)
* 1859 – Edmund Husserl, German Jewish-Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1938)
* 1864 – Carlos Deltour, French rower and rugby player (d. 1920)
* 1867 – Allen Butler Talcott, American painter and educator (d. 1908)
* 1869 – Harvey Cushing, American surgeon and academic (d. 1939)
* 1871 – Clarence Hudson White, American photographer and educator (d. 1925)
* 1874 – Manuel Díaz, Cuban fencer (d. 1929)
* 1874 – Stanisław Taczak, Polish general (d. 1960)
* 1875 – Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)
* 1882 (O.S. 27 March) – Dmytro Doroshenko, Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 1951)
* 1883 – R. P. Keigwin, English cricketer and academic (d. 1972)
* 1883 – Julius Seljamaa, Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (d. 1936)
* 1885 – Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator (d. 1951)
* 1886 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American author and playwright (d. 1967)
* 1888 – Dennis Chávez, American journalist and politician (d. 1962)
* 1889 – Adrian Boult, English conductor (d. 1983)
* 1892 – Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designer of the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (d. 1970)
* 1892 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of United Artists (d. 1979)
* 1896 – Yip Harburg, American composer (d. 1981)
* 1900 – Marie Byles, Australian solicitor (d. 1979)

### 1901–present

* 1902 – Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1924)
* 1902 – Maria Maksakova Sr., Russian soprano (d. 1974)
* 1904 – John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
* 1904 – Hirsch Jacobs, American horse trainer (d. 1970)
* 1905 – Joachim Büchner, German sprinter and graphic designer (d. 1978)
* 1905 – Helen Joseph, English-South African activist (d. 1992)
* 1905 – Erwin Keller, German field hockey player (d. 1971)
* 1906 – Raoul Jobin, Canadian tenor and educator (d. 1974)
* 1908 – Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
* 1909 – John Fante, American author and screenwriter (d. 1983)
* 1910 – George Musso, American football player and police officer (d. 2000)
* 1911 – Melvin Calvin, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
* 1911 – Emil Cioran, Romanian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1995)
* 1912 – Alois Brunner, Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010)
* 1912 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian-American figure skater and actress (d. 1969)
* 1914 – María Félix, Yaqui/Basque-Mexican actress (d. 2002)
* 1915 – Ivan Supek, Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer (d. 2007)
* 1917 – Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2007)
* 1917 – Lloyd Bott, Australian public servant (d. 2004)
* 1917 – Hubertus Ernst, Dutch bishop (d. 2017)
* 1917 – Grigori Kuzmin, Russian-Estonian astronomer (d. 1988)
* 1918 – Betty Ford, American wife of Gerald Ford, 40th First Lady of the United States (d. 2011)
* 1918 – Glendon Swarthout, American author and academic (d. 1992)
* 1919 – Ian Smith, Zimbabwean lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)
* 1921 – Franco Corelli, Italian tenor and actor (d. 2003)
* 1920 – Carmen McRae, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress (d. 1994)
* 1921 – Jan Novák, Czech composer (d. 1984)
* 1921 – Herman van Raalte, Dutch footballer (d. 2013)
* 1923 – George Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 2003)
* 1923 – Edward Mulhare, Irish-American actor (d. 1997)
* 1924 – Frédéric Back, German-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
* 1924 – Anthony Farrar-Hockley, English general and historian (d. 2006)
* 1924 – Kumar Gandharva, Hindustani classical singer (d. 1992)
* 1924 – Sara Northrup Hollister, American occultist (d. 1997)
* 1926 – Henry N. Cobb, American architect and academic, co-founded Pei Cobb Freed & Partners (d. 2020)
* 1926 – Shecky Greene, American comedian (d. 2023)
* 1926 – Jürgen Moltmann, German theologian and academic (d. 2024)
* 1927 – Tilly Armstrong, English author (d. 2010)
* 1927 – Ollie Mitchell, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 2013)
* 1928 – Fred Ebb, American lyricist (d. 2004)
* 1929 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1978)
* 1929 – Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and author (d. 1996)
* 1930 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d. 2010)
* 1931 – John Gavin, American actor and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (d. 2018)
* 1931 – Jack Le Goff, French equestrian (d. 2009)
* 1932 – Iskandar of Johor (d. 2010)
* 1933 – James Lockhart, American scholar of colonial Latin America, especially Nahua peoples (d. 2014)
* 1934 – Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower and Singapore Flyer (d. 2007)
* 1935 – Oscar Zeta Acosta, American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)
* 1935 – Albert Bustamante, American soldier, educator, and politician (d. 2021)
* 1937 – Tony Barton, English footballer and manager (d. 1993)
* 1937 – Seymour Hersh, American journalist and author
* 1937 – Momo Kapor, Serbian author and painter (d. 2010)
* 1938 – Kofi Annan, Ghanaian economist and diplomat, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2018)
* 1938 – John Hamm, Canadian physician and politician, 25th Premier of Nova Scotia
* 1938 – Mary W. Gray, American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer
* 1939 – Manolis Angelopoulos, Greek singer, composer and songwriter (d. 1989)
* 1939 – John Arbuthnott, Scottish microbiologist and academic (d. 2023)
* 1939 – Trina Schart Hyman, American author and illustrator (d. 2004)
* 1939 – Martin J. Schreiber, American politician, 39th Governor of Wisconsin
* 1940 – John Havlicek, American basketball player (d. 2019)
* 1941 – Vivienne Westwood, English fashion designer (d. 2022)
* 1942 – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, Northern Irish politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (d. 2006)
* 1942 – Roger Chapman, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1942 – Douglas Trumbull, American director, producer, and special effects artist (d. 2022)
* 1943 – Michael Bennett, American dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 1987)
* 1943 – Miller Farr, American football player (d. 2023)
* 1943 – James Herbert, English author and illustrator (d. 2013)
* 1943 – Chris Orr, English painter and illustrator
* 1944 – Hywel Bennett, Welsh actor (d. 2017)
* 1944 – Odd Nerdrum, Swedish-Norwegian painter and illustrator
* 1945 – Derrick Walker, Scottish businessman
* 1945 – Jang Yong, South Korean actor
* 1946 – Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (d. 1999)
* 1946 – Tim Thomerson, American actor and producer
* 1947 – Tom DeLay, American lawyer and politician
* 1947 – Steve Howe, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
* 1947 – Pascal Lamy, French businessman and politician, European Commissioner for Trade
* 1947 – Larry Norman, American singer-songwriter, and producer (d. 2008)
* 1948 – Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone, Scottish academic and politician
* 1949 – K. C. Kamalasabayson, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 39th Attorney General of Sri Lanka (d. 2007)
* 1949 – John Madden, English director and producer
* 1949 – Brenda Russell, African-American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
* 1949 – John Scott, English sociologist and academic
* 1950 – Grzegorz Lato, Polish footballer and coach
* 1951 – Gerd Andres, German politician
* 1951 – Geir Haarde, Icelandic economist, journalist, and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Iceland
* 1951 – Mel Schacher, American bass player
* 1951 – Joan Sebastian, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2015)
* 1951 – Phil Schaap, American jazz disc jockey and historian (d. 2021)
* 1952 – Ahmet Piriştina, Turkish politician (d. 2004)
* 1954 – Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach (d. 2012)
* 1954 – Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco (d. 2012)
* 1954 – G.V. Loganathan, Indian-American engineer and academic (d. 2007)
* 1955 – Gerrie Coetzee, South African boxer (d. 2023)
* 1955 – Ron Johnson, American businessman and politician
* 1955 – Barbara Kingsolver, American novelist, essayist and poet
* 1955 – David Wu, Taiwanese-American lawyer and politician
* 1956 – Michael Benton, Scottish-English paleontologist and academic
* 1956 – Christine Boisson, French actress
* 1956 – Roman Dragoun, Czech singer-songwriter and keyboard player
* 1958 – Detlef Bruckhoff, German footballer
* 1958 – Tom Petranoff, American javelin thrower and coach
* 1959 – Alain Bondue, French cyclist
* 1960 – John Schneider, American actor and country singer
* 1961 – Richard Hatch, American reality contestant
* 1961 – Brian McDermott, English footballer and manager
* 1962 – Paddy Lowe, English engineer
* 1962 – Izzy Stradlin, American guitarist and songwriter
* 1963 – Tine Asmundsen, Norwegian bassist
* 1963 – Julian Lennon, English singer-songwriter
* 1963 – Dean Norris, American actor
* 1963 – Terry Porter, American basketball player and coach
* 1963 – Donita Sparks, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1963 – Alec Stewart, English cricketer
* 1964 – Biz Markie, American rapper, producer, and actor (d. 2021)
* 1964 – John McGinlay, Scottish footballer and manager
* 1965 – Steven Blaney, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Public Safety
* 1965 – Michael Jones, New Zealand rugby player and coach
* 1966 – Iveta Bartošová, Czech singer and actress (d. 2014)
* 1966 – Mark Blundell, English race car driver
* 1966 – Andy Currier, English rugby league player
* 1966 – Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand-Australian television host (d. 2014)
* 1966 – Dalton Grant, English high jumper
* 1966 – Mazinho, Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager
* 1966 – Harri Rovanperä, Finnish race car driver
* 1966 – Evripidis Stylianidis, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior
* 1966 – Robin Wright, American actress, director, producer
* 1967 – Kenny Benjamin, Antiguan cricketer
* 1968 – Patricia Arquette, American actress and director
* 1968 – Patricia Girard, French runner and hurdler
* 1968 – Tracy Grammer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1971 – Darren Jessee, American singer-songwriter and drummer
* 1972 – Paul Gray, American bass player and songwriter (d. 2010)
* 1972 – Sergei Magnitsky, Russian lawyer and accountant (d. 2009)
* 1973 – Khaled Badra, Tunisian footballer
* 1973 – Emma Caulfield, American actress
* 1974 – Toutai Kefu, Tongan-Australian rugby player
* 1974 – Chris Kyle, American sniper and memoirist (d. 2013)
* 1974 – Nnedi Okorafor, Nigerian-American author and educator
* 1974 – Nayden Todorov, Bulgarian conductor and culture minister
* 1975 – Anouk, Dutch singer
* 1975 – Francesco Flachi, Italian footballer
* 1975 – Timo Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
* 1975 – Funda Arar, Turkish singer
* 1977 – Ana de la Reguera, Mexican actress
* 1977 – Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist and author (d. 2008)
* 1977 – Mark Spencer, American computer programmer and engineer
* 1978 – Daigo, Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and voice actor
* 1978 – Bernt Haas, Austrian-Swiss footballer
* 1978 – Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress
* 1978 – Jocelyn Robichaud, Canadian tennis player and coach
* 1978 – Evans Rutto, Kenyan runner
* 1979 – Alexi Laiho, Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2020)
* 1979 – Amit Trivedi, Indian singer-songwriter
* 1980 – Manuel Ortega, Austrian singer
* 1980 – Katee Sackhoff, American actress
* 1980 – Mariko Seyama, Japanese announcer, photographer, and model
* 1981 – Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer
* 1981 – Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model
* 1981 – Ofer Shechter, Israeli model, actor, and screenwriter
* 1982 – Gennady Golovkin, Kazakhstani boxer
* 1982 – Brett White, Australian rugby league player
* 1982 – Allu Arjun, Indian actor
* 1983 – Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova, Russian runner
* 1984 – Michelle Donelan, British politician
* 1984 – Ezra Koenig, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1984 – Pablo Portillo, Mexican singer and actor
* 1984 – Taran Noah Smith, American actor
* 1985 – Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player
* 1985 – Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian runner
* 1986 – Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer
* 1986 – Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
* 1986 – Carlos Santana, Dominican baseball player
* 1987 – Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
* 1987 – Jeremy Hellickson, American baseball player
* 1987 – Elton John, Trinidadian footballer
* 1987 – Sam Rapira, New Zealand rugby league player
* 1988 – Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1989 – Matty Healy, English singer-songwriter and producer
* 1990 – Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (d. 2017)
* 1992 – Jeff McNeil, American baseball player
* 1993 – Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1993 – TBJZL, English YouTuber
* 1994 – Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player
* 1995 – Cedi Osman, Turkish professional basketball player
* 1996 – Anna Korakaki, Greek Olympic shooter
* 1997 – Kim Woo-jin, South Korean singer
* 1997 – Saygrace, Australian singer and songwriter
* 1997 – Roquan Smith, American football player
* 1997 – Arno Verschueren, Belgian footballer
* 1998 – Lavinia Valbonesi, Ecuadorian nutritionist, businesswoman and First Lady of Ecuador
* 1999 – CeeDee Lamb, American football player
* 2002 – Jamie Drysdale, Canadian ice hockey player
* 2002 – Viktória Forster, Slovak track and field athlete
* 2002 – Skai Jackson, American actress

## Deaths
### Pre-1600

* 217 – Caracalla, Roman emperor (b. 188)
* 622 – Shōtoku, Japanese prince (b. 572)
* 632 – Charibert II, Frankish king (b. 607)
* 894 – Adalelm, Frankish nobleman
* 944 – Wang Yanxi, Chinese emperor
* 956 – Gilbert, Frankish nobleman
* 967 – Mu'izz al-Dawla, Buyid emir (b. 915)
* 1143 – John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1087)
* 1150 – Gertrude of Babenberg, duchess of Bohemia (b. 1118)
* 1321 – Thomas of Tolentino, Italian-Franciscan missionary (b. c. 1255)
* 1338 – Stephen Gravesend, bishop of London
* 1364 – John II, French king (b. 1319)
* 1450 – Sejong the Great, Korean king (b. 1397)
* 1461 – Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)
* 1492 – Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1449)
* 1551 – Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
* 1586 – Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran theologian and reformer (b. 1522)

### 1601–1900

* 1608 – Magdalen Dacre, English noble (b. 1538)
* 1612 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (b. 1575)
* 1691 – Carlo Rainaldi, Italian architect, designed the Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto (b. 1611)
* 1697 – Niels Juel, Norwegian-Danish admiral (b. 1629)
* 1704 – Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist and philologist (b. 1624)
* 1704 – Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1641)
* 1709 – Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen, German nobleman (b. 1641)
* 1725 – John Wise, American minister (b. 1652)
* 1735 – Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian prince (b. 1676)
* 1848 – Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (b. 1797)
* 1860 – István Széchenyi, Hungarian statesman and reformer (b. 1791)
* 1861 – Elisha Otis, American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)
* 1870 – Charles Auguste de Bériot, Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)
* 1877 – Bernardino António Gomes, Portuguese physician and naturalist (b. 1806)
* 1894 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)

### 1901–present

* 1906 – Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
* 1919 – Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
* 1920 – Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
* 1931 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
* 1936 – Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
* 1936 – Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
* 1941 – Marcel Prévost, French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)
* 1942 – Kostas Skarvelis, Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)
* 1947 – Olaf Frydenlund, Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)
* 1950 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)
* 1959 – Marios Makrionitis, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)
* 1961 – Joseph Carrodus, Australian public servant (b. 1885)
* 1962 – Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)
* 1965 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886)
* 1969 – Zinaida Aksentyeva, Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)
* 1973 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)
* 1974 – James Charles McGuigan, Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)
* 1979 – Breece D'J Pancake, American short story writer (b. 1952)
* 1981 – Omar Bradley, American general (b. 1893)
* 1983 – Isamu Kosugi, Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)
* 1984 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
* 1985 – John Frederick Coots, American pianist and composer (b. 1897)
* 1990 – Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)
* 1991 – Per Ohlin, Swedish musician (b. 1969)
* 1992 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
* 1993 – Marian Anderson, American operatic singer (b. 1897)
* 1994 – François Rozet, French-Canadian actor (b. 1899)
* 1996 – Ben Johnson, American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)
* 1996 – León Klimovsky, Argentinian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
* 1996 – Mick Young, Australian politician (b. 1936)
* 1997 – Laura Nyro, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1947)
* 2000 – František Šťastný, Czech motorcycle racer (b. 1927)
* 2000 – Claire Trevor, American actress (b. 1910)
* 2002 – María Félix, Mexican actress (b. 1914)
* 2002 – Harvey Quaytman, American painter (b. 1937)
* 2004 – Werner Schumacher, German actor (b. 1921)
* 2005 – Onna White, Canadian choreographer and dancer (b. 1922)
* 2006 – Gerard Reve, Dutch author and poet (b. 1923)
* 2007 – Sol LeWitt, American painter and sculptor (b. 1928)
* 2008 – Kazuo Shiraga, Japanese painter (b. 1924)
* 2009 – Richard de Mille, American Scientologist, author, investigative journalist, and psychologist (b. 1922)
* 2009 – Piotr Morawski, Polish mountaineer (b. 1976)
* 2010 – Antony Flew, English philosopher and academic (b. 1923)
* 2010 – Malcolm McLaren, English singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
* 2010 – Teddy Scholten, Dutch singer (b. 1926)
* 2011 – Hedda Sterne, Romanian-American painter and photographer (b. 1910)
* 2012 – Blair Kiel, American football player and coach (b. 1961)
* 2012 – Jack Tramiel, Polish-American businessman, founded Commodore International (b. 1928)
* 2012 – Janusz K. Zawodny, Polish-American soldier, historian, and political scientist (b. 1921)
* 2013 – Mikhail Beketov, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
* 2013 – Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
* 2013 – Sara Montiel, Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1928)
* 2013 – José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (b. 1917)
* 2013 – Margaret Thatcher, English politician, first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
* 2014 – Emmanuel III Delly, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1927)
* 2014 – Karlheinz Deschner, German author and activist (b. 1924)
* 2014 – Ivan Mercep, New Zealand architect, designed the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum (b. 1930)
* 2015 – Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1934)
* 2015 – Rayson Huang, Hong Kong chemist and academic (b. 1920)
* 2015 – Sergei Lashchenko, Ukrainian kick-boxer (b. 1987)
* 2015 – David Laventhol, American journalist and publisher (b. 1933)
* 2015 – Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (b. 1936)
* 2019 – Josine Ianco-Starrels, Romanian-born American art curator (b. 1926)
* 2020 – Rick May, American-Canadian voice actor (b. 1940)
* 2020 – Abdul Momin Imambari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (b. 1930)
* 2022 – Mimi Reinhardt, Jewish Austrian secretary (b. 1915)
* 2024 – Keith Barnes, Welsh-Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1934)
* 2024 – Peter Higgs, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1929)
* 2024 – Ralph Puckett, American Army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1926)

## Holidays and observances

* Buddha's Birthday, also known as Hana Matsuri, "Flower Festival" (Japan)
* Christian feast day:
** Anne Ayres (Episcopal Church (USA))
** Constantina
** Julie Billiart of Namur
** Perpetuus
** Walter of Pontoise
** William Augustus Muhlenberg (Episcopal Church (USA))
** April 8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Earliest day on which Fast and Prayer Day can fall, while April 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Friday in April (Liberia)
* International Romani Day