April 1

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 286 &ndash; Roman Emperor Diocletian makes his general Maximian co–emperor.
* 325 &ndash; Emperor Cheng of Jin, at the age of 4 years, becomes Emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China, succeeding his father, Emperor Ming of Jin.
* 527 &ndash; Byzantine Empire: Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co–ruler.
* 1318 &ndash; Scotland takes control of Berwick-upon-Tweed from England.
* 1545 &ndash; The Bolivian city of Potosi is founded after the discovery of major silver deposits in the area.
* 1605 &ndash; Alessandro Ottaviano de Medici is elected Pope, and becomes Pope Leo XI.
* 1789 &ndash; Frederick Muhlenberg is elected as the first Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
* 1790 &ndash; William Herschel discovers the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3079.
* 1814 &ndash; The first gas lighting is used in London's streets.
* 1826 &ndash; Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine.
* 1865 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks.
* 1867 &ndash; Singapore becomes a British Crown colony.
* 1873 &ndash; The RMS *Atlantic* sinks near Nova Scotia, killing 545 people.
* 1887 &ndash; Bombay's Fire Brigade is founded.
* 1888 &ndash; The Dutch football team Sparta Rotterdam is founded.
* 1891 &ndash; The painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti.
* 1891 &ndash; The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.
* 1893 &ndash; The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is created.
* 1893 &ndash; Germany officially adopts "Central European Time", one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.
* 1897 &ndash; The Japanese city of Nagano is founded.
* 1899 &ndash; Germany takes of control of present–day Papua New Guinea, calling it German New Guinea.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1908 &ndash; Territorial Force, which is later renamed the Territorial Army, is as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
* 1918 &ndash; The Royal Air Force is founded.
* 1919 &ndash; The Bauhaus school is founded in Germany by the architect Walter Gropius.
* 1921 &ndash; Adrienne Bolland becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Andes, from Mendoza in Argentina to Santiago, Chile.
* 1924 &ndash; The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
* 1924 &ndash; Adolf Hitler is sent to five years in prison for his part in the Beer Hall Putsch, he only spends nine months there, writing *Mein Kampf*.
* 1933 &ndash; England cricketer Wally Hammond sets a record for the highest individual test innings of 336 against New Zealand.
* 1935 &ndash; India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, is founded.
* 1936 &ndash; Orissa becomes a state of India.
* 1937 &ndash; Aden becomes a British Crown colony.
* 1939 &ndash; The Spanish Civil War ends, as the last Republicans surrender.
* 1941 &ndash; Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: Navigation errors lead to a mistaken United States air raid on Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: As part of Operation Iceberg, American soldiers land on Okinawa.
* 1946 &ndash; The Malayan Union is formed.
* 1946 &ndash; An earthquake in Alaska leads to a tsunami which destroys the town of Hilo, Hawaii.
* 1948 &ndash; The Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
* 1949 &ndash; The Irish Free State becomes the Republic of Ireland.
* 1949 &ndash; Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds successful talks with the Kuomintang.
* 1949 &ndash; Canada's government ends Japanese internment after seven years.
* 1954 &ndash; American President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
* 1957 &ndash; The BBC current affairs programme *Panorama* plays an April Fools' Day joke, about a spaghetti harvest in Switzerland.
* 1960 &ndash; The first Dr. Martens boots go on sale.
* 1967 &ndash; The United States Department of Transportation begins its operations.
* 1973 &ndash; Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is introduced in India.
* 1974 &ndash; Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan counties are created in the United Kingdom.
* 1976 &ndash; Apple Inc. is founded.
* 1979 &ndash; The Islamic Republic of Iran is founded.
* 1989 &ndash; British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher introduces the Community Charge (poll tax) in Scotland.
* 1992 &ndash; Start of the war in present–day Bosnia and Herzegovina.
* 1997 &ndash; Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing perihelion.
* 1999 &ndash; Nunavut becomes a territory of Canada, after being part of the Northwest Territories.
* 2000 &ndash; In the United Kingdom the wartime coding machine, used to crack the Enigma code, is stolen. It is found the following October.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Slobodan Milosevic is arrested, to be placed on trial for war crimes.
* 2001 &ndash; Same-sex marriage is legalised in the Netherlands, the first country to do so.
* 2002 &ndash; New euthanasia laws come into force in the Netherlands.
* 2004 &ndash; Google announces the creation of Gmail to the public.
* 2006 &ndash; The Serious Organised Crime Agency is created in the United Kingdom.
* 2009 &ndash; Albania and Croatia join NATO.
* 2009 &ndash; Protests occur at the G-20 summit in London.
* 2009 &ndash; A Super Puma helicopter crashes in the North Sea off the east coast of Scotland, killing all 18 people on board.
* 2012 &ndash; Aung San Suu Kyi wins a seat in the Burmese parliament.
* 2017 &ndash; A landslide in Mocoa, Colombia, kills at least 254 people.
* 2018 &ndash; Mokgweetsi Masisi becomes President of Botswana.
* 2018 &ndash; Carlos Alvarado Quesada is elected President of Costa Rica, defeating Fabricio Alvarado Muñoz.
* 2018 &ndash; The People's Republic of China's Tiangong-1 space station breaks up on re–entry to Earth's atmosphere and lands in the Southern Pacific Ocean near Tahiti.
* 2019 &ndash; It is revealed that "Reiwa" will be the name of Japan's new imperial era when Emperor Akihito abdicates at the end of the month in favour of his son Naruhito.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 1220 &ndash; Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
* 1282 &ndash; Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1347)
* 1578 &ndash; William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
* 1624 &ndash; Maria Miloslavskaya, Empress of Russia (d. 1669)
* 1629 &ndash; Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, French harpsichordist and organist (d. 1691)
* 1640 &ndash; Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697)
* 1647 &ndash; John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)
* 1697 &ndash; Antoine François Prévost, French writer and novelist (d. 1763)
* 1730 &ndash; Salomon Gessner, Swiss poet and artist (d. 1788)
* 1732 &ndash; Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
* 1753 &ndash; Joseph de Maistre, French philosopher, writer, lawyer and diplomat (d. 1821)
* 1755 &ndash; Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French writer, philosopher and gastronome (d. 1826)
* 1757 &ndash; Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Swedish–Finnish statesman, military and diplomat (d. 1814)
* 1776 &ndash; Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1809 &ndash; Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer (d. 1852)
* 1815 &ndash; Otto von Bismarck, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1898)
* 1815 &ndash; Edward Clark, 8th Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
* 1815 &ndash; Henry B. Anthony, 21st Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1884)
* 1823 &ndash; Simon Bolivar Buckner, 30th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1891)
* 1825 &ndash; Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria (d. 1864)
* 1834 &ndash; James Fisk, entrepreneur (d. 1872)
* 1837 &ndash; Jorge Isaacs, Colombian writer (d. 1895)
* 1848 &ndash; Commodore Nutt, American entertainer (d. 1881)
* 1851 &ndash; Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1928)
* 1865 &ndash; Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian–born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
* 1866 &ndash; Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)
* 1873 &ndash; Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
* 1873 &ndash; Bibb Graves, Governor of Alabama (d. 1942)
* 1874 &ndash; Prince Karl of Bavaria (d. 1927)
* 1875 &ndash; Edgar Wallace, English writer (d. 1932)
* 1883 &ndash; Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (d. 1930)
* 1885 &ndash; Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (d. 1977)
* 1885 &ndash; Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
* 1888 &ndash; Jean Alavoine, French cyclist (d. 1943)
* 1889 &ndash; K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and advocate of Hindu nationalism (d. 1940)
* 1895 &ndash; Alexander Aitken, New Zealand mathematician (d. 1967)
* 1895 &ndash; Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984)
* 1899 &ndash; Gustavs Celmins, politician (d. 1968)

### 1901 &ndash; 1925 
* 1901 &ndash; Whittaker Chambers, American writer and Alger Hiss case witness (d. 1961)
* 1901 &ndash; William Anderson, English ice hockey player (d. 1983)
* 1902 &ndash; Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930)
* 1905 &ndash; Gaston Eyskens, Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1988)
* 1905 &ndash; Paul Hasluck, 17th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1993)
* 1906 &ndash; Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
* 1907 &ndash; Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, Japanese–American Rinzai Zen teacher and centenarian (d. 2014)
* 1908 &ndash; Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
* 1911 &ndash; Fauja Singh, Indian–British marathon runner
* 1915 &ndash; Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
* 1917 &ndash; Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (d. 1950)
* 1917 &ndash; Sydney Newman, Canadian television producer (d. 1997)
* 1919 &ndash; Joseph Murray, American surgeon and Nobel Prize winner (d. 2012)
* 1920 &ndash; Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
* 1920 &ndash; Harry Lewis, American actor (d. 2013)
* 1921 &ndash; Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American composer and producer (d. 2014)
* 1922 &ndash; William Manchester, writer (d. 2004)
* 1922 &ndash; Alan Perlis, American computer scientist (d. 1990)
* 1923 &ndash; Don Butterfield, American tuba player (d. 2006)
* 1923 &ndash; Leora Dana, American actress (d. 1983)
* 1924 &ndash; Brendan Byrne, former Governor of New Jersey (d. 2018)

### 1926 &ndash; 1950 
* 1926 &ndash; Charles Bressler, American tenor
* 1926 &ndash; Anne McCaffrey, American writer (d. 2011)
* 1927 &ndash; Ferenc Puskas, Hungarian footballer (d. 2006)
* 1927 &ndash; Walter Bahr, American soccer player and coach (d. 2018)
* 1928 &ndash; Kiyonori Kikutake, Japanese architect (d. 2011)
* 1929 &ndash; Jane Powell, American dancer, actress and singer
* 1929 &ndash; Jonathan Haze, American actor
* 1929 &ndash; Milan Kundera, Czech writer
* 1929 &ndash; Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
* 1930 &ndash; Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (d. 2015)
* 1931 &ndash; Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
* 1932 &ndash; Gordon Jump, American television actor (d. 2003)
* 1932 &ndash; Debbie Reynolds, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
* 1933 &ndash; Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist
* 1934 &ndash; Rod Kanehl, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
* 1934 &ndash; Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer (d. 2015)
* 1934 &ndash; Don Hastings, American actor
* 1935 &ndash; Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)
* 1936 &ndash; Tarun Gogoi, Indian politician
* 1936 &ndash; Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician (d. 1998)
* 1936 &ndash; Dhiraj Choudhury, Indian painter (d. 2018)
* 1938 &ndash; Akihito Kondo, Japanese baseball player (d. 2019)
* 1939 &ndash; Rudolph Isley, American singer (The Isley Brothers)
* 1939 &ndash; Ali MacGraw, American actress
* 1939 &ndash; Phil Niekro, American baseball pitcher
* 1939 &ndash; Vitali Davydov, Soviet–Russian ice hockey player
* 1940 &ndash; Wangari Maathai, Kenyan political and environmental activist, Nobel Peace Prize winner (d. 2011)
* 1941 &ndash; David Childs, American architect
* 1942 &ndash; Max Keeping, Canadian broadcaster (d. 2015)
* 1942 &ndash; Samuel R. Delany, science fiction writer
* 1942 &ndash; Philip Margo, American singer (The Tokens)
* 1942 &ndash; Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey
* 1943 &ndash; Mario Botta, Swiss architect
* 1943 &ndash; Dafydd Wigley, Welsh academic and politician, former leader of Plaid Cymru
* 1944 &ndash; Rusty Staub, American baseball player (d. 2018)
* 1946 &ndash; Ronnie Lane, British musician (The Small Faces, The Faces) (d. 1997)
* 1946 &ndash; Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football manager
* 1946 &ndash; Nikitas Kaklamanis, 77th Mayor of Athens
* 1947 &ndash; Alain Connes, French mathematician
* 1947 &ndash; Ingrid Steeger, German actress
* 1947 &ndash; Norm Van Lier, American basketball player (d. 2009)
* 1948 &ndash; J. J. Williams, Welsh rugby player
* 1948 &ndash; Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
* 1949 &ndash; Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer (d. 2011)
* 1949 &ndash; Paul Manafort, American lobbyist, lawyer and political consultant
* 1950 &ndash; Samuel Alito, American jurist
* 1950 &ndash; Paolo Conti, Italian footballer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Brendan Grace, Irish actor, comedian and singer (d. 2019)
* 1952 &ndash; Annette O'Toole, American actress
* 1952 &ndash; Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher
* 1952 &ndash; Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, Libyan intelligence officer (d. 2012)
* 1953 &ndash; Barry Sonnenfeld, American producer and director
* 1953 &ndash; Alberto Zaccheroni, Italian footballer and coach
* 1954 &ndash; Giancarlo Antognoni, Italian footballer
* 1954 &ndash; Jeff Porcaro, American musician (Toto) (d. 1992)
* 1955 &ndash; Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani statesman
* 1955 &ndash; Ronnie Burk, artist and AIDS activist (d. 2003)
* 1955 &ndash; Roberto Pruzzo, Italian footballer
* 1956 &ndash; Libby Riddles, American dogsled racer
* 1957 &ndash; David Gower, English cricketer
* 1957 &ndash; Denise Nickerson, American actress (d. 2019)
* 1958 &ndash; Anton Innauer, Austrian ski jumper
* 1958 &ndash; Tita, Brazilian footballer
* 1959 &ndash; Christian Thielemann, German conductor
* 1960 &ndash; Reijo Ruotsalainen, Finnish ice hockey player
* 1961 &ndash; Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
* 1962 &ndash; Chris Grayling, English politician
* 1962 &ndash; Phillip Schofield, English television presenter
* 1965 &ndash; Jane Adams, American actress
* 1965 &ndash; Simona Ventura, Italian journalist and television presenter
* 1965 &ndash; Mark Jackson, American basketball player
* 1966 &ndash; Chris Evans, English television presenter
* 1968 &ndash; Mike Baird, Australian politician, 44th Premier of New South Wales
* 1968 &ndash; Ingrid Klimke, German equestrian
* 1968 &ndash; Alexander Stubb, former Prime Minister of Finland
* 1969 &ndash; Dean Windass, English footballer and coach
* 1970 &ndash; Sung Hi Lee, model
* 1971 &ndash; Method Man, American musician
* 1971 &ndash; Karen Dunbar, Scottish comedienne
* 1972 &ndash; Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1972 &ndash; Jesse Tobias, American musician
* 1972 &ndash; Allen and Albert Hughes, American movie directors
* 1973 &ndash; Kris Marshall, English actor
* 1973 &ndash; Rachel Maddow, American broadcaster
* 1975 &ndash; Washington Stecanela Cerqueira, Brazilian footballer

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Gábor Király, Hungarian footballer
* 1976 &ndash; David Oyelowo, British actor
* 1976 &ndash; Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (d. 2009)
* 1978 &ndash; Mirka Federer, Swiss tennis player
* 1979 &ndash; Ivano Balic, Croatian handball player
* 1980 &ndash; Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
* 1981 &ndash; Hannah Spearritt, British actress and singer (S Club 7)
* 1982 &ndash; Róbert Vittek, Slovakian footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
* 1983 &ndash; Sergey Lazarev, Russian singer
* 1983 &ndash; Amr Zaki, Egyptian footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Franck Ribéry, French footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Olafur Ingi Skulason, Icelandic footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Craig Samson, Scottish footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Beth Tweddle, British gymnast
* 1986 &ndash; Haminu Draman, Ghanaian footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Ireen Wüst, Dutch speed skater
* 1986 &ndash; Hillary Scott, American singer (Lady Antebellum)
* 1987 &ndash; Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
* 1987 &ndash; Li Ting, Chinese diver
* 1987 &ndash; Vitorino Antunes, Portuguese footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Andrew Considine, Scottish footballer
* 1987 &ndash; José Ortigoza, Paraguayan footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Fatmire Bajramaj, German footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Robin Lopez, American basketball player
* 1988 &ndash; Brook Lopez, American basketball player
* 1989 &ndash; David N'Gog, French footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Justin Hamilton, American basketball player
* 1993 &ndash; Keito Okamoto, Japanese singer
* 1994 &ndash; Ella Eyre, English singer-songwriter
* 1995 &ndash; Logan Paul, American social media entertainer and actor
* 1997 &ndash; Asa Butterfield, English actor

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 1085 &ndash; Emperor Shenzhong of China (b. 1048)
* 1204 &ndash; Eleanor of Aquitaine (b. 1122)
* 1205 &ndash; Amalric II of Jerusalem (b. 1145)
* 1340 &ndash; Gerhard III of Holstein (b. 1292)
* 1580 &ndash; Alonso Mudarra, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1510)
* 1621 &ndash; Cristofori Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
* 1637 &ndash; Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
* 1839 &ndash; Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757)
* 1865 &ndash; Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
* 1868 &ndash; Rasoherina, Queen of Madagascar (b. 1814)
* 1872 &ndash; Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian and academic (b. 1805)
* 1890 &ndash; Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
* 1890 &ndash; David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
* 1897 &ndash; Jandamarra, Indigenous–Australian resistance leader (b. 1873)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1914 &ndash; Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1826)
* 1917 &ndash; Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868)
* 1922 &ndash; Emperor Karl I of Austria (b. 1887)
* 1922 &ndash; Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychologist (b. 1884)
* 1930 &ndash; Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner (b. 1837)
* 1946 &ndash; Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (b. 1882)
* 1947 &ndash; King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
* 1950 &ndash; Recep Peker, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1889)
* 1960 &ndash; Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan, King of Malaysia (b. 1895)
* 1962 &ndash; Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (b. 1910)
* 1966 &ndash; Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)
* 1967 &ndash; Dang Van Ngu, Vietnamese doctor and intellectual (b. 1910)
* 1968 &ndash; Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist (b. 1908)
* 1976 &ndash; Max Ernst, German painter (b. 1891)
* 1984 &ndash; Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
* 1990 &ndash; Carlos Peucelle, Argentine footballer (b. 1908)
* 1991 &ndash; Martha Graham, American choreographer (b. 1894)
* 1991 &ndash; Jaime Guzman, Chilean politician (b. 1946)
* 1991 &ndash; Detlev Rohwedder, German manager and politician (b. 1932)
* 1992 &ndash; Michael Havers, Baron Havers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
* 1992 &ndash; Nigel Preston, English musician (b. 1959)
* 1993 &ndash; Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, Spanish royal (b. 1913)
* 1994 &ndash; Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
* 1997 &ndash; Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1912)
* 1998 &ndash; Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922)

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; Simo Hayha, Finnish sniper (b. 1905)
* 2004 &ndash; Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946)
* 2005 &ndash; Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)
* 2006 &ndash; In Tam, Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1916)
* 2007 &ndash; Hans Filbinger, German politician (b. 1913)
* 2009 &ndash; Arne Andersson, Swedish middle-distance runner (b. 1917)
* 2009 &ndash; Umberto Betti, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
* 2010 &ndash; John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
* 2010 &ndash; Ed Roberts, American computer engineer (b. 1941)
* 2010 &ndash; Tzannis Tzannetakis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1927)
* 2011 &ndash; Varkey Vithayathil, Indian cardinal (b. 1927)
* 2012 &ndash; Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian footballer (b. 1947)
* 2012 &ndash; Leila Denmark, American pediatrician and supercentenarian (b. 1898)
* 2012 &ndash; Miguel de la Madrid, 52nd President of Mexico (b. 1934)
* 2013 &ndash; Moses Blah, President of Liberia (b. 1947)
* 2014 &ndash; Jacques Le Goff, French historian (b. 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Merimeri Penfold, New Zealand academic (b. 1920)
* 2014 &ndash; Anker Buch, Danish violinist (b. 1940)
* 2014 &ndash; Carlos Oneto, Peruvian actor and comic (b. 1929)
* 2014 &ndash; Bill Mitchell, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1930)
* 2014 &ndash; King Fleming, American jazz pianist (b. 1922)
* 2015 &ndash; Misao Okawa, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1898)
* 2015 &ndash; Cynthia Lennon, first wife of John Lennon and mother of Julian Lennon (b. 1939)
* 2015 &ndash; Eddie LeBaron, American football player (b. 1930)
* 2015 &ndash; Nicolae Rainea, Romanian football referee (b. 1933)
* 2015 &ndash; John Paul Hammerschmidt, American politician (b. 1922)
* 2016 &ndash; Pratyusha Banerjee, Indian actress (b. 1991)
* 2016 &ndash; Emil Keres, Hungarian actor (b. 1925)
* 2017 &ndash; Gary Austin, American theatre writer and director (b. 1941)
* 2017 &ndash; Lonnie Brooks, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1933)
* 2017 &ndash; Gösta Ekman, Swedish actor (b. 1939)
* 2017 &ndash; Darcus Howe, Trinidadian–born British editor and civil rights activist (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Antonio Lamela, Spanish architect (b. 1926)
* 2017 &ndash; Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russian poet (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Burton Watson, American translator (b. 1925)
* 2018 &ndash; Bob Beattie, American skiing coach and sports commentator (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; Steven Bochco, American television producer (b. 1943)
* 2018 &ndash; Evert Kroon, Dutch water polo player (b. 1946)
* 2018 &ndash; Avichai Rontzki, Israeli general (b. 1951)
* 2018 &ndash; Michel Sénéchal, French tenor (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; Efraín Ríos Montt, President of Guatemala (b. 1926)
* 2019 &ndash; Dimitar Dobrev, Bulgarian wrestler (b. 1931)
* 2019 &ndash; Francisco Massiani, Venezuelan writer and painter (b. 1944)
* 2019 &ndash; Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
* 2019 &ndash; Kit Napier, Scottish footballer (b. 1943)
* 2019 &ndash; Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
* 2019 &ndash; Ruth-Margret Pütz, German soprano (b. 1930)

## Observances 
* April Fools' Day
* Islamic Republic Day in Iran
* Orissa Day in Orissa, India
* First day of school in Japan