On this day | April 3rd

On this day: April 3rd

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686 Maya civilization king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.

1043 Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

1077 The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.

1559 The second of two treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars.

1589 The janissaries Beylerbeyi event in response to the debasement of coins.

1721 Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title.

1851 Mongkut is crowned Monarchy of Thailand of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.

1860 The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.

1865 American Civil War: Union (American Civil War) forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.

1882 American Old West: Robert Ford (outlaw) kills Jesse James.

1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.

1888 Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 Whitechapel murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.

1895 The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

1920 Attempts are made to carry out the failed Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim # The 1920 assassination attempt, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard (Finland) parade in Tampere, Finland.

1922 Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

1933 First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.

1936 Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Lindbergh kidnapping, the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.

1942 World War II: Empire of Japan forces begin an assault on the United States and Commonwealth of the Philippines troops on the Battle of Bataan.

1946 Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.

1948 Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.

1948 In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins.

1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book ''Howl (poem)'' against obscenity charges.

1956 Hudsonville–Standale tornado of April 1956: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly Fujita scale tornado.

1968 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day.

1969 Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamization" the war effort.

1973 Martin Cooper (inventor) of Motorola makes the History of mobile phones to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.

1974 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.

1975 Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.

1975 Bobby Fischer World Chess Championship 1975 in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

1980 Us congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits Band of Paiutes, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.

1981 The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.

1989 The US supreme court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act in Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield.

1993 The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time

1996 Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.

1996 A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 1996 Croatia USAF CT-43 crash near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.

1997 The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.

2000 ''United States v. Microsoft Corp. (2001)'': Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.

2004 Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.

2007 TGV world speed record # Record of 2007: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record of 574.8 km/h (159.6 m/s, 357.2 mph).

2008 ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.

2008 Texas law enforcement cordons off the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.

2009 Jiverly Antares Wong 2009 Binghamton shooting at the American Civic Association (Binghamton) immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.

2010 Apple Inc. released the IPad (1st generation), a tablet computer.

2013 More than 50 people die in 2013 Argentina floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2016 The Panama Papers, a news leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 Offshore financial centre.

2017 A 2017 St. Petersburg Metro bombing in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.

2018 YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.

1016 Emperor Xingzong of Liao, Chinese emperor (d. 1055)

1151 Igor Svyatoslavich, Kievan Rus' prince (d. 1202)

1395 George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher, scholar and humanist (d. 1486)

1438 John III of Egmont, Dutch nobleman (d. 1516)

1529 Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581)

1540 Maria de' Medici (1540–1557), Italian noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo. (d. 1557)

1593 George Herbert, English poet (d. 1633)

1643 Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, duke of Lorraine (d. 1690)

1682 Valentin Rathgeber, German organist and composer (d. 1750)

1693 George Edwards (naturalist), English ornithologist and entomologist (d. 1773)

1715 William Watson (scientist), English physician, physicist, and botanist (d. 1787)

1764 John Abernethy (surgeon), English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1831)

1769 Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (d. 1835)

1770 Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (d. 1843)

1778 Pierre Bretonneau, French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy (d. 1862)

1781 Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (d. 1830)

1782 Alexander Macomb (general), American general (d. 1841)

1783 Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian (d. 1859)

1791 Anne Lister, English diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (d. 1840)

1798 Charles Wilkes, American admiral, geographer, and explorer (d. 1877)

1807 Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (d. 1877)

1814 Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1901)

1822 Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (d. 1909)

1823 George Derby, American lieutenant and journalist (d. 1861)

1823 William M. Tweed, American politician (d. 1878)

1826 Cyrus K. Holliday, American businessman (d. 1900)

1837 John Burroughs, American botanist and author (d. 1921)

1842 Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (d. 1864)

1848 Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and captain (d. 1879)

1852 Talbot Baines Reed, English author (d. 1893)

1858 Jacob Gaudaur, Canadian rower (d. 1937)

1860 Frederik van Eeden, Dutch psychiatrist and author (d. 1932)

1864 Emil Kellenberger, Swiss target shooter (d. 1943)

1875 Mistinguett, French actress and singer (d. 1956)

1876 Margaret Anglin, Canadian actress, director, and producer (d. 1958)

1876 Tomáš Baťa, Czech businessman, founded Bata Shoes (d. 1932)

1880 Otto Weininger, Jewish-Austrian philosopher and author (d. 1903)

1881 Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1954)

1882 Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (d. 1952)

1883 Ikki Kita, Japanese philosopher and author (d. 1937)

1885 Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)

1885 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1954)

1885 Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (d. 1944)

1885 St John Philby, English colonial and explorer (d. 1960)

1886 Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (d. 1953)

1887 Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Makuuchi # Yokozuna (d. 1956)

1887 Nishizō Tsukahara, Japanese admiral (d. 1966)

1888 Thomas C. Kinkaid, American admiral (d. 1972)

1889 Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (d. 1949)

1893 Leslie Howard (actor), English actor (d. 1943)

1895 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American composer and educator (d. 1968)

1895 Zez Confrey, American pianist and composer (d. 1971)

1897 Joe Kirkwood Sr., Australian golfer (d. 1970)

1897 Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general (d. 1989)

1898 David Jack (footballer), English footballer and manager (d. 1958)

1898 George Jessel (actor), American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1981)

1898 Henry Luce, American publisher, co-founded ''Time (magazine)'' magazine (d. 1967)

1900 Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (d. 1987)

1900 Albert Walsh, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador (d. 1958)

1903 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian social reformer and freedom fighter (d. 1988)

1904 Iron Eyes Cody, American actor and stuntman (d. 1999)

1904 Sally Rand, American dancer (d. 1979)

1904 Russel Wright, American furniture designer (d. 1976)

1905 Robert Sink, American general (d. 1965)

1910 Ted Hook, Australian public servant (d. 1990)

1911 Nanette Bordeaux, Canadian-American actress (d. 1956)

1911 Michael Woodruff, English-Scottish surgeon and academic (d. 2001)

1911 Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (d. 1980)

1912 Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author (d. 1982)

1912 Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (d. 1963)

1913 Per Borten, Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2005)

1914 Ray Getliffe, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)

1914 Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (d. 2008)

1915 Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2016)

1915 İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish physician and academic (d. 2010)

1916 Herb Caen, American journalist and author (d. 1997)

1916 Cliff Gladwin, English cricketer (d. 1988)

1916 Louis Guglielmi, Catalan composer (d. 1991)

1918 Mary Anderson (actress, born 1918), American actress (d. 2014)

1918 Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (d. 2000)

1919 Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (d. 2015)

1919 Clairette Oddera, French-Canadian actress and singer (d. 2008)

1920 Stan Freeman, American composer and conductor (d. 2001)

1920 Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Makuuchi # Yokozuna (d. 1977)

1921 Robert Karvelas, American actor (d. 1991)

1921 Jan Sterling, American actress (d. 2004)

1922 Yevhen Bulanchyk, Ukrainian hurdler (d. 1996)

1922 Doris Day, American singer and actress (d. 2019)

1923 Daniel Hoffman, American poet and academic (d. 2013)

1924 Marlon Brando, American actor and director (d. 2004)

1924 Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant and sniper (d. 1945)

1925 Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (d. 2014)

1926 Alex Grammas, American baseball player, manager, and coach (d. 2019)

1926 Gus Grissom, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1967)

1927 Wesley A. Brown, American general and engineer (d. 2012)

1928 Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)

1928 Emmett Johns, Canadian priest, founded Dans la Rue (d. 2018)

1928 Earl Lloyd, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)

1928 Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television personality (d. 1999)

1929 Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center (d. 1982)

1929 Poul Schlüter, Danish lawyer and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Denmark (d. 2021)

1930 Lawton Chiles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Governor of Florida (d. 1998)

1930 Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic) (d. 2017)

1930 Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and politician (d. 2015)

1930 Wally Moon, American baseball player and coach (d. 2018)

1931 William Bast, American screenwriter and author (d. 2015)

1933 Bob Dornan, American politician

1933 Rod Funseth, American golfer (d. 1985)

1934 Pamela Allen, New Zealand children's writer and illustrator

1934 Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist

1934 Jim Parker (American football), American football player (d. 2005)

1935 Harold Kushner, American rabbi and author (d. 2023)

1936 Jimmy McGriff, American organist and bandleader (d. 2008)

1936 Harold Vick, American saxophonist and flute player (d. 1987)

1938 Jeff Barry, American singer-songwriter, and producer

1938 Phil Rodgers, American golfer (d. 2018)

1939 François de Roubaix, French composer (d. 1975)

1939 Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (d. 2012)

1939 Paul Craig Roberts, American economist and politician

1941 Jan and Dean, American singer-songwriter (d. 2004)

1941 Philippé Wynne, American soul singer (d. 1984)

1942 Marsha Mason, American actress

1942 Wayne Newton, American singer

1942 Billy Joe Royal, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)

1943 Mario Lavista, Mexican composer (d. 2021)

1943 Jonathan Lynn, English actor, director, and screenwriter

1943 Richard Manuel, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1986)

1943 Hikaru Saeki, Japanese admiral, the first female flag officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces

1944 Peter Colman, Australian biologist and academic

1944 Tony Orlando, American singer

1945 Doon Arbus, American author and journalist

1945 Bernie Parent, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1945 Catherine Spaak, French actress (d. 2022)

1946 Nicholas Jones (actor), English actor

1946 Dee Murray, English bass player (d. 1992)

1946 Marisa Paredes, Spanish film actress (d. 2024)

1946 Hanna Suchocka, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland

1947 Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (d. 2013)

1948 Arlette Cousture, Canadian author and screenwriter

1948 Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch academic, politician, and diplomat, 11th Secretary General of NATO

1948 Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, German footballer

1948 Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico

1949 Lyle Alzado, American football player and actor (d. 1992)

1949 A. C. Grayling, English philosopher and academic

1949 Richard Thompson (musician), English singer-songwriter and guitarist

1950 Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Sri Lankan cricketer and economist

1951 Brendan Barber, English trade union leader

1951 Annette Dolphin, British academician and educator

1951 Mitch Woods, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1952 Mike Moore (U.S. politician), American lawyer and politician

1953 Sandra Boynton, American author and illustrator

1953 Wakanohana Kanji II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 56th Makuuchi # Yokozuna (d. 2022)

1953 James Smith (boxer), American boxer

1954 Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer

1954 K. Krishnasamy, Indian physician and politician

1956 Kalle Kulbok, Estonian politician

1956 Boris Miljković, Serbian director and producer

1956 Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor

1956 Ray Combs, American game show host (d. 1996)

1958 Alec Baldwin, American actor, comedian, producer and television host

1958 Adam Gussow, American scholar, musician, and memoirist

1958 Francesca Woodman, American photographer (d. 1981)

1959 David Hyde Pierce, American actor and activist

1960 Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1961 Tim Crews, American baseball player (d. 1993)

1961 Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian

1962 Dave Miley, American baseball player and manager

1962 Mike Ness, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1962 Jaya Prada, Indian actress and politician

1963 Les Davidson, Australian rugby league player

1963 Ricky Nixon, Australian footballer and manager

1963 Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1993)

1964 Marco Ballotta, Italian footballer and manager

1964 Nigel Farage, English politician

1964 Claire Perry, English banker and politician

1964 Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist and manager

1964 Andy Robinson, English rugby player and coach

1964 Jay Weatherill, Australian politician, 45th Premier of South Australia

1965 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist (d. 2000)

1966 John de Vries (racing driver), Australian race car driver

1967 Cat Cora, American chef and author

1967 Pervis Ellison, American basketball player

1967 Brent Gilchrist, Canadian ice hockey player

1967 Cristi Puiu, Romanian director and screenwriter

1967 Mark Skaife, Australian race car driver and sportscaster

1968 Sebastian Bach, Bahamian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

1968 Charlotte Coleman, English actress (d. 2001)

1968 Jamie Hewlett, English director and performer

1968 Tomoaki Kanemoto, Japanese baseball player

1969 Rodney Hampton, American football player

1969 Peter Matera, Australian footballer and coach

1969 Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor

1969 Lance Storm, Canadian wrestler and trainer

1971 Vitālijs Astafjevs, Latvian footballer and manager

1971 Emmanuel Collard, French race car driver

1971 Picabo Street, American skier

1972 Jennie Garth, American actress and director

1972 Catherine McCormack, English actress

1972 Sandrine Testud, French tennis player

1973 Nilesh Kulkarni, Indian cricketer

1973 Adam Scott (actor), American actor

1974 Marcus Brown, American basketball player

1974 Lee Williams (actor), Welsh model and actor

1975 Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player

1975 Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-American basketball player

1975 Aries Spears, American comedian and actor

1975 Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese baseball player

1975 Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball player

1976 Nicolas Escudé, French tennis player

1978 Matthew Goode, English actor

1978 Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player

1978 John Smit, South African rugby player

1979 Simon Black, Australian footballer and coach

1980 Andrei Lodis, Belarusian footballer

1980 Megan Rohrer, American pastor and transgender activist

1981 Aaron Bertram, American trumpet player

1981 DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player

1982 Jared Allen, American football player

1982 Iain Fyfe, Australian footballer

1982 Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress

1983 Ben Foster (footballer), English footballer

1983 Stephen Weiss, Canadian ice hockey player

1984 Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer

1984 Maxi López, Argentinian footballer

1985 Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver

1985 Leona Lewis, English singer-songwriter and producer

1986 Amanda Bynes, American actress

1986 Stephanie Cox, American soccer player

1986 Annalisa Cucinotta, Italian cyclist

1986 Sergio Sánchez Ortega, Spanish footballer

1987 Rachel Bloom, American actress, writer, and producer

1987 Jay Bruce, American baseball player

1987 Yileen Gordon, Australian rugby league player

1987 Jason Kipnis, American baseball player

1987 Martyn Rooney, English sprinter

1987 Julie Sokolow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1987 Yuval Spungin, Israeli footballer

1988 Kam Chancellor, American football player

1988 Brandon Graham, American football player

1988 Peter Hartley (footballer), English footballer

1988 Tim Krul, Dutch footballer

1989 Romain Alessandrini, French footballer

1989 Israel Folau, Australian rugby player and footballer

1989 Joel Romelo, Australian rugby league player

1989 Thisara Perera, Sri Lankan cricketer

1990 Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer

1990 Madison Brengle, American tennis player

1990 Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer

1990 Natasha Negovanlis, Canadian actress and singer

1991 Hayley Kiyoko, American actress and singer

1992 Simone Benedetti, Italian footballer

1992 Yuliya Yefimova, Russian swimmer

1993 Pape Moussa Konaté, Senegalese footballer

1994 Kodi Nikorima, New Zealand rugby league player

1994 Dylann Roof, American mass murderer

1996 Mayo Hibi, Japanese tennis player

1997 Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer

1998 Paris Jackson, American actress, model and singer

1999 Chanel Harris-Tavita, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player

AD 33 Jesus

963 William III of Aquitaine, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915)

1153 al-Adil ibn al-Sallar, vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate

1171 Philip of Milly, seventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. )

1203 Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1187)

1253 Saint Richard of Chichester

1287 Pope Honorius IV (b. 1210)

1325 Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint (b. 1238)

1350 Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295)

1538 Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (b. 1480)

1545 Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (b. 1481)

1606 Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1563)

1630 Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English noble (b. c. 1593)

1637 Joseph Yuspa Nördlinger Hahn, German rabbi

1680 Shivaji, Indian emperor, founded the Maratha Empire (b. 1630)

1682 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter and educator (b. 1618)

1691 Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (b. 1608)

1695 Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (b. 1636)

1717 Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (b. 1640)

1728 James Anderson (lawyer), Scottish lawyer and historian (b. 1662)

1792 George Pocock, English admiral (b. 1706)

1804 Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest, historian, and author (b. 1727)

1826 Reginald Heber, English priest (b. 1783)

1827 Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (b. 1756)

1838 François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician and author (b. 1780)

1844 Edward Bigge, English cleric, 1st Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (b. 1807)

1846 William Braine, English soldier and explorer (b. 1814)

1849 Juliusz Słowacki, Polish-French poet and playwright (b. 1809)

1868 Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and surgeon (b. 1796)

1880 Felicita Vestvali, German actress and opera singer (b. 1831)

1882 Jesse James, American criminal and outlaw (b. 1847)

1897 Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (b. 1833)

1901 Richard D'Oyly Carte, English composer and talent agent (b. 1844)

1902 Esther Hobart Morris, American lawyer and judge (b. 1814)

1930 Emma Albani, Canadian-English operatic soprano (b. 1847)

1936 Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer (b. 1899)

1941 Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (b. 1877)

1941 Pál Teleki, Hungarian academic and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879)

1943 Conrad Veidt, German actor, director, and producer (b. 1893)

1946 Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (b. 1887)

1950 Kurt Weill, German-American composer and pianist (b. 1900)

1950 Carter G. Woodson, American historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month (b. 1875)

1951 Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and playwright (b. 1890)

1952 Miina Sillanpää, Finnish minister and politician (b. 1866)

1957 Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor (b. 1883)

1958 Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (b. 1891)

1962 Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer and educator (b. 1883)

1970 Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (b. 1890)

1971 Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)

1972 Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (b. 1892)

1975 Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (b. 1933)

1976 David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (b. 1900)

1976 Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1894)

1978 Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (b. 1903)

1978 Winston Sharples, American composer (b. 1909)

1981 Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (b. 1899)

1982 Warren Oates, American actor (b. 1928)

1983 Jimmy Bloomfield, English footballer and manager (b. 1934)

1986 Peter Pears, English tenor and educator (b. 1910)

1987 Tom Sestak, American football player (b. 1936)

1988 Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (b. 1907)

1990 Sarah Vaughan, American singer (b. 1924)

1991 Charles Goren, American bridge player and author (b. 1901)

1991 Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1904)

1993 Pinky Lee, American television host (b. 1907)

1994 Frank Wells, American businessman (b. 1932)

1995 Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman, co-founded Canadian Tire (b. 1902)

1996 Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1941)

1997 John Ugelstad, Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor (b. 1921)

1998 Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic (b. 1900)

1999 Lionel Bart, English composer (b. 1930)

1999 Geoffrey Walsh, Canadian general (b. 1909)

2000 Terence McKenna, American botanist and philosopher (b. 1946)

2000 Dina Abramowicz, Librarian and YIVO and Yiddish language expert (b. 1909)

2005 François Gérin, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1944)

2007 Nina Wang, Chinese businesswoman (b. 1937)

2008 Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (b. 1983)

2012 Mingote, Spanish cartoonist and journalist (b. 1919)

2012 Richard Descoings, French civil servant (b. 1958)

2012 Govind Narain, Indian politician, 8th List of Governors of Karnataka (b. 1917)

2012 Chief Jay Strongbow, American wrestler (b. 1928)

2012 José María Zárraga, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1930)

2013 Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (b. 1930)

2013 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)

2014 Régine Deforges, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1935)

2014 Fred Kida, American illustrator (b. 1920)

2014 Prince Michael of Prussia (b. 1940)

2014 Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (b. 1936)

2014 Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (b. 1921)

2015 Sarah Brady, American activist and author (b. 1942)

2015 Bob Burns (drummer), American drummer and songwriter (b. 1950)

2015 Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1913)

2016 Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1932)

2016 Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (b. 1913)

2016 Koji Wada, Japanese singer and songwriter (b. 1974)

2017 Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical vocalist (b. 1931)

2021 Stan Stephens, Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (b. 1929)

2022 June Brown, English actress (b. 1927)

2024 Bob Lanigan, Australian rugby league player (b. 1942)

2024 Gaetano Pesce, Italian architect and designer (b. 1939)

Christian feast day:

- Agape, Chionia, and Irene

- Burgundofara

- Luigi Scrosoppi

- Richard of Chichester

- April 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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