On this day | April 5th

On this day: April 5th

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823 Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I.

919 The Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921) of Medieval Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, Al-Qa'im (Fatimid caliph), sets out from Raqqada at the head of his army.

1242 During the Battle on the Ice of Lake Peipus, Republic of Novgorod forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

1536 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor makes a Royal Entry into Rome, demolishing a swath of the city to re-enact a Roman triumph.

1566 Two hundred Habsburg Netherlands noblemen, led by Hendrick van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Compromise of Nobles, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Seventeen Provinces.

1614 In Virginia, Native Americans in the United States Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.

1621 The ''Mayflower'' sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.

1792 United States President George Washington exercises his authority to Veto power in the United States, the first time this power is used in the United States.

1795 Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.

1818 In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement, led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín, win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.

1862 American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown (1862) begins.

1879 Bolivia declares war on Chile, and Chile declares war on Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.

1902 1902 Ibrox disaster (now Ibrox Stadium) in Glasgow, Scotland, which led to the deaths of 25 and injuries to more than 500 supporters during an international association football match between Scotland national football team and England national football team.

1910 The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.

1922 The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.

1932 Dominion of Newfoundland: 1932 Colonial Building riot seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.

1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Executive Order 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.

1933 Andorran Revolution: The Young Andorrans occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold 1933 Andorran parliamentary election with universal male suffrage.

1936 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An Fujita scale tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.

1938 Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War) occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat de Catalunya (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the Autonomous Region of Catalonia (1931–1939), and the official status of the Catalan language.

1942 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the 6th Army (Wehrmacht)'s Battle of Stalingrad.

1942 World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches Easter Sunday Raid, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers and are sunk southwest of the island.

1943 World War II: United States Army Air Forces bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1,300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. Their target was the Erla factory from the residential area hit.

1945 Cold War: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia leader Josip Broz Tito signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory".

1946 Soviet troops end their year-long occupation of the Danish island of Bornholm.

1946 A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington 1946 Rabat Vickers Wellington crash into a residential area in Rabat, Malta, Crown Colony of Malta during a training exercise, killing all 4 crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.

1949 A St. Anthony's Hospital fire in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

1951 Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for espionage for the Soviet Union.

1956 Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro declares himself at war with President of Cuba Fulgencio Batista.

1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.

1966 During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of Da Nang before backing down.

1971 In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches 1971 JVP insurrection against the United Front (Sri Lanka) government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

1974 ''Carrie (novel)'', the first novel by American author Stephen King, is Carrie (novel) # Publication with a print run of 30,000 copies.

1976 In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the 1976 Tiananmen Incident.

1977 The US supreme court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in ''Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.''

1983 – The People's Armed Police is officially founded

1991 An Atlantic Southeast Airlines EMB 120 Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 2311 in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.

1991 The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-37 to deploy the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.

1992 Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, 1992 Peruvian self-coup by military force.

1992 Peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sučić are killed on the Vrbanja Bridge in Sarajevo, becoming the first casualties of the Bosnian War.

1998 In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge opens to traffic, becoming the longest bridge span in the world.

1999 Two History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

2007 The cruise ship MS Sea Diamond strikes a volcanic reef near Nea Kameni and sinks the next day. Two passengers were never recovered and are presumed dead.

2009 North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.

2010 Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two 5 April 2010 North-West Frontier Province attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the Consulate General of the United States, Peshawar.

2010 Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster.

2010 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-131 to resupply the International Space Station.

2018 Agents with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid a 2018 Southeastern Provisions raid, detaining nearly 100 undocumented Hispanic workers in one of the largest workplace raids in the history of the United States.

1170 Isabella of Hainault (d. 1190)

1219 Wonjong of Goryeo, 24th ruler of Goryeo (d. 1274)

1279 Al-Nuwayri, Egyptian Muslim historian (d. 1333)

1288 Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)

1315 James III of Majorca (d. 1349)

1365 William II, Duke of Bavaria (d. 1417)

1472 Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)

1521 Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect (d. 1570)

1523 Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer and diplomat (d. 1596)

1533 Giulio della Rovere, Italian Catholic Cardinal (d. 1578)

1539 George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1603)

1549 Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (d. 1597)

1568 Pope Urban VIII (d. 1644)

1588 Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679)

1591 Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (d. 1634)

1595 John Wilson (composer), English composer and educator (d. 1674)

1604 Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)

1616 Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 1661)

1622 Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1703)

1649 Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (d. 1721)

1656 Nikita Demidov, Russian industrialist (d. 1725)

1664 Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy (d. 1748)

1674 Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (1674–1748) (d. 1748)

1691 Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1768)

1692 Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)

1719 Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician, Lord Marshal (Sweden) (d. 1794)

1726 Benjamin Harrison V, American politician, planter and merchant (d. 1791)

1727 Pasquale Anfossi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1797)

1729 Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1809)

1730 Jean Baptiste Seroux d'Agincourt, French archaeologist and historian (d. 1814)

1732 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and etcher (d. 1806)

1735 Franziskus Herzan von Harras, Czech Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1804)

1739 Philemon Dickinson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1809)

1752 Sébastien Érard, French instrument maker (d. 1831)

1761 Sybil Ludington, American figure of the American Revolutionary War (d. 1839)

1769 Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (d. 1839)

1773 José María Coppinger, governor of East Florida (d. 1844)

1773 Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1839)

1774 David Gillespie (surveyor), American politician and surveyor (d. 1829)

1777 Marie Jules César Savigny, French zoologist (d. 1851)

1782 Wincenty Krasiński, Polish nobleman (d. 1858)

1784 Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1859)

1788 Franz Pforr, German painter (d. 1812)

1793 Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist (d. 1843)

1793 Felix de Muelenaere, Belgian politician (d. 1862)

1795 Henry Havelock, British general (d. 1857)

1799 Jacques Denys Choisy, Swiss clergyman and botanist (d. 1859)

1801 Félix Dujardin, French biologist (d. 1860)

1801 Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher, publicist and politician (d. 1852)

1804 Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (d. 1881)

1809 Karl Felix Halm, German scholar and critic (d. 1882)

1810 Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, British East India Company army officer and politician (d. 1895)

1811 Jules Dupré, French painter (d. 1889)

1814 Felix Lichnowsky, Czech soldier and politician (d. 1848)

1822 Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, Belgian economist (d. 1892)

1827 Joseph Lister, English surgeon and academic (d. 1912)

1832 Jules Ferry, French lawyer and politician, 44th Prime Minister of France (d. 1893)

1834 Prentice Mulford, American humorist and author (d. 1891)

1834 Wilhelm Olbers Focke, German medical doctor and botanist (d. 1922)

1834 Frank R. Stockton, American writer and humorist (d. 1902)

1835 Vítězslav Hálek, Czech poet, writer, journalist, dramatist and theatre critic. (d. 1874)

1837 Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (d. 1909)

1839 Robert Smalls, African-American ship's pilot, sea captain, and politician (d. 1915)

1840 Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian historian and linguist (d. 1911)

1842 Hans Hildebrand, Swedish archaeologist (d. 1913)

1845 Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, German anatomist and histopathologist (d. 1919)

1845 Jules Cambon, French diplomat (d. 1935)

1846 Sigmund Exner, Austrian physiologist (d. 1926)

1846 Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington, British peer and politician (d. 1900)

1848 Thure de Thulstrup, American illustrator (d. 1930)

1848 Ulrich Wille, Swiss army general (d. 1925)

1850 Enrico Mazzanti, Italian engineer and cartoonist (d. 1910)

1852 Émile Billard, French sailor (d. 1930)

1852 Walter W. Winans, American marksman and sculptor (d. 1920)

1852 Franz Eckert, German composer and musician (d. 1916)

1856 Booker T. Washington, African-American educator, essayist and historian (d. 1915)

1857 Alexander of Battenberg (d. 1893)

1858 Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman, founded Burpee Seeds (d. 1915)

1859 Reinhold Seeberg, German theologian (d. 1935)

1860 Harry S. Barlow, British tennis player (d. 1917)

1862 Louis Ganne, French conductor (d. 1923)

1862 Leo Stern, English cellist (d. 1904)

1863 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)

1867 Ernest Lewis (tennis), British tennis player (d. 1930)

1869 Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (d. 1942)

1869 Albert Roussel, French composer (d. 1937)

1870 Motobu Chōki, Japanese karateka (d. 1944)

1871 Stanisław Grabski, Polish economist and politician (d. 1949)

1872 Samuel Cate Prescott, American microbiologist and chemist (d. 1962)

1873 Joseph Rheden, Austrian astronomer (d. 1946)

1874 Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal of the Catholic Church (d. 1949)

1874 Manuel María Ponce Brousset, List of Presidents of Peru (d. 1966)

1878 Albert Champion (cyclist), French cyclist (d. 1927)

1878 Georg Misch, German philosopher (d. 1965)

1878 Paul Weinstein (athlete), German high jumper (d. 1964)

1879 Arthur Berriedale Keith, Scottish lawyer (d. 1944)

1879 Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, German naval officer and author (d. 1956)

1880 Eric Carlberg, Swedish Army officer, diplomat, shooter, fencer and modern pentathlete (d. 1963)

1880 Vilhelm Carlberg, Swedish Army officer and shooter (d. 1970)

1882 Song Jiaoren, Chinese revolutionary (d. 1913)

1882 Natalia Sedova, 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky (d. 1962)

1883 Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (d. 1950)

1884 Ion Inculeț, Bessarabian academic and politician, President of Moldova (d. 1940)

1885 Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian composer (d. 1978)

1886 Gotthelf Bergsträsser, German linguist (d. 1933)

1886 Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, British physicist (d. 1957)

1886 Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (d. 1933)

1887 William Cowhig, British gymnast (d. 1964)

1889 Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, Brazilian martial artist (d. 1981)

1890 Karl Kirk, Danish gymnast (d. 1955)

1890 William Moore (athlete), British track and field athlete (d. 1956)

1891 Arnold Jackson (British Army officer), English runner, soldier, and lawyer (d. 1972)

1891 Laura Vicuña, Chilean nun (d. 1904)

1892 Raymond Bonney, American ice hockey player (d. 1964)

1893 Frithjof Andersen, Norwegian wrestler (d. 1975)

1893 Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973)

1894 Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (d. 1956)

1894 Hans Hüttig, German SS officer (d. 1980)

1894 Carl Rudolf Florin, Swedish botanist (d. 1965)

1895 Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (d. 1957)

1896 Einar Lundborg, Swedish aviator (d. 1931)

1897 Hans Schuberth, German politician (d. 1976)

1898 Solange d'Ayen, French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (d. 1976)

1899 Alfred Blalock, American surgeon and academic (d. 1964)

1900 Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, and photographer (d. 1985)

1900 Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (d. 1939)

1900 Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)

1901 Curt Bois, German actor (d. 1991)

1901 Chester Bowles, American diplomat and ambassador (d. 1986)

1901 Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981)

1901 Doggie Julian, American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach (d. 1967)

1902 Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi (d. 1994)

1903 Marion Aye, American actress (d. 1951)

1904 Richard Eberhart, American poet and academic (d. 2005)

1906 Albert Charles Smith, American botanist (d. 1999)

1906 Fernando Germani, Italian organist (d. 1998)

1906 Ted Morgan (boxer), New Zealand boxer (d. 1952)

1907 Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai jurist (d. 2002)

1908 Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)

1908 Kurt Neumann (director), German director (d. 1958)

1908 Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (d. 1986)

1908 Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (d. 1989)

1909 Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer, co-founded Eon Productions (d. 1996)

1909 Giacomo Gentilomo, Italian film director and painter (d. 2001)

1909 Károly Sós, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 1991)

1909 Erwin Wegner, German hurdler (d. 1945)

1910 Sven Andersson (politician), Swedish politician (d. 1987)

1910 Oronzo Pugliese, Italian football manager (d. 1990)

1911 Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician (d. 1993)

1911 Johnny Revolta, American golfer (d. 1991)

1912 Jehan Buhan, French fencer (d. 1999)

1912 Habib Elghanian, Iranian businessman (d. 1979)

1912 Antonio Ferri, Italian scientist (d. 1975)

1912 Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (d. 2000)

1912 Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 1997)

1912 John Le Mesurier, English actor (d. 1983)

1912 István Örkény, Hungarian author and playwright (d. 1979)

1912 Bill Roberts (athlete), English sprinter and soldier (d. 2001)

1913 Antoni Clavé, Catalan artist (d. 2005)

1913 Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (d. 1969)

1913 Ruth Smith (artist), Faroese artist (d. 1958)

1914 Felice Borel, Italian footballer (d. 1993)

1916 Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer (d. 2003)

1917 Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994)

1917 Frans Gommers, Belgian footballer (d. 1996)

1919 Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan director, screenwriter, and producer (d. 2018)

1920 Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2001)

1920 Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian soldier and author (d. 2004)

1920 Alfonso Thiele, Turkish-Italian race car driver (d. 1986)

1920 John Willem Gran, Swedish bishop (d. 2008)

1921 Christopher Hewett, English actor and theatre director (d. 2001)

1922 Tom Finney, English footballer (d. 2014)

1922 Harry Freedman, Polish-Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (d. 2005)

1922 Andy Linden (racing driver), American race car driver (d. 1987)

1922 Gale Storm, American actress and singer (d. 2009)

1923 Ernest Mandel, German-born Belgian Marxist economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist (d. 1995)

1923 Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (d. 1995)

1923 Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, Vietnamese general and politician, 5th President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)

1924 Igor Borisov, Soviet rower (d. 2003)

1925 Janet Rowley, American human geneticist (d. 2013)

1925 Pierre Nihant, Belgian cyclist (d. 1993)

1926 Roger Corman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2024)

1926 Liang Yusheng, Chinese writer (d. 2009)

1927 Thanin Kraivichien, Thai lawyer and politician, 14th prime minister of Thailand (d. 2025)

1927 Arne Hoel, Norwegian ski jumper (d. 2006)

1928 Enzo Cannavale, Italian actor (d. 2011)

1928 Tony Williams (singer), American singer (d. 1992)

1929 Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and painter (d. 2008)

1929 Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate

1929 Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (d. 2001)

1929 Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (d. 1967)

1929 Mahmoud Mollaghasemi, Iranian wrestler

1930 Mary Costa, American singer and actress

1930 Pierre Lhomme, French director of photography (d. 2019)

1931 Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)

1931 Héctor Olivera (film director), Argentine director, producer and screenwriter

1933 Feridun Buğeker, Turkish footballer (d. 2014)

1933 Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005)

1933 Barbara Holland, American author (d. 2010)

1933 K. Kailasapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and academic (d. 1982)

1934 John Carey (critic), English author and critic

1934 Roman Herzog, German lawyer and politician, 7th President of Germany (d. 2017)

1934 Moise Safra, Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Banco Safra (d. 2014)

1934 Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2000)

1935 Giovanni Cianfriglia, Italian actor (d. 2024)

1935 Peter Grant (music manager), English talent manager (d. 1995)

1935 Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 2018)

1935 Frank Schepke, German rower (d. 2017)

1936 Ronnie Bucknum, American race car driver (d. 1992)

1936 Glenn Jordan, American director and producer

1936 Dragoljub Minić, Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster (d. 2005)

1937 Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and author (d. 2024)

1937 Colin Powell, American general and politician, 65th United States Secretary of State (d. 2021)

1937 Andrzej Schinzel, Polish mathematician (d. 2021)

1937 Arie Selinger, Israeli volleyball player and manager

1937 Juan Vicente Lezcano, Paraguayan footballer (d. 2012)

1938 Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (d. 2018)

1938 Mal Colston, Australian educator and politician (d. 2003)

1938 Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (d. 2014)

1938 Natalya Kustinskaya, Soviet actress (d. 2012)

1938 Giorgos Sideris, Greek footballer

1939 Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania, Crown Prince of Albania (d. 2011)

1939 Crispian St. Peters, English singer-songwriter (d. 2010)

1939 Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Prime Minister of Yemen

1939 Ronnie White, American singer-songwriter (d. 1995)

1939 David Winters (choreographer), English-American actor, choreographer and producer (d. 2019)

1940 Tommy Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2024)

1940 Gilles Proulx, Canadian journalist, historian, and radio host

1941 Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor

1941 Dave Swarbrick, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (d. 2016)

1942 Allan Clarke (singer), English singer-songwriter

1942 Pascal Couchepin, Swiss politician

1942 Juan Gisbert Sr., Spanish tennis player

1942 Peter Greenaway, Welsh director and screenwriter

1943 Dean Brown, Australian politician, 41st Premier of South Australia

1943 Max Gail, American actor and director

1943 Fighting Harada, Japanese boxer

1943 Miet Smet, Belgian politician

1943 Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (d. 2018)

1944 Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dutch actress and director

1944 János Martonyi, Hungarian politician

1944 Evan Parker, British musician

1944 Douangchay Phichit, Laotian politician (d. 2014)

1944 Willy Planckaert, Belgian cyclist

1944 Pedro Rosselló, Puerto Rican physician and politician, 7th Governor of Puerto Rico

1944 Peter T. King, American soldier, lawyer, and politician

1945 Ove Bengtson, Swedish tennis player

1945 Steve Carver, American director and producer (d. 2021)

1945 Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (d. 2004)

1945 Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945), English footballer (d. 2019)

1946 Jane Asher, English actress

1946 Julio Ángel Fernández, Uruguayan astronomer

1946 Björn Granath, Swedish actor (d. 2017)

1946 Georgi Markov (wrestler), Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler

1947 Đurđica Bjedov, Yugoslav swimmer

1947 Willy Chirino, Cuban-American musician

1947 Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Filipino academic and politician, 14th President of the Philippines

1947 Ramón Mifflin, Peruvian footballer

1947 Virendra Sharma, Indian-English lawyer and politician

1948 Pierre-Albert Chapuisat, Swiss footballer

1948 Dave Holland (drummer), English drummer (d. 2018)

1948 Roy McFarland, English footballer and manager

1949 Stanley Dziedzic, American wrestler

1949 Larry Franco, American film producer

1949 Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (d. 1986)

1950 Ann C. Crispin, American writer (d. 2013)

1950 Franklin Chang Díaz, Costa Rican-Chinese American astronaut and physicist

1950 Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer

1950 Toshiko Fujita, Japanese actress, singer and narrator (d. 2018)

1950 Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor

1951 Les Binks, Irish drummer and songwriter

1951 Yevgeniy Gavrilenko, Belarusian hurdler

1951 Nedim Gürsel, Turkish writer

1951 Dean Kamen, American inventor and businessman, founded Segway Inc.

1951 Dave McArtney, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)

1951 Ubol Ratana, Thai Princess

1952 Alfie Conn Jr., Scottish international footballer

1952 John C. Dvorak, American author and editor

1952 Sandy Mayer, American tennis player

1952 Dennis Mortimer, English footballer

1952 Mitch Pileggi, American actor

1953 Frank Gaffney, American journalist and radio host

1953 Keiko Han, Japanese actress

1953 Tae Jin-ah, South Korean singer

1953 Raleb Majadele, Israeli politician

1953 Ian Swales, English accountant and politician

1954 Guy Bertrand (broadcaster), Canadian linguist and radio host

1954 Peter Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1954 Mohamed Ben Mouza, Tunisian footballer

1954 Stan Ridgway, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1954 Yoshiichi Watanabe, Japanese footballer

1955 Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter

1955 Ricardo Ferrero, Argentine footballer (d. 2015)

1955 Christian Gourcuff, French footballer and manager

1955 Anthony Horowitz, English author and screenwriter

1955 Bernard Longley, English prelate

1955 Akira Toriyama, Japanese illustrator (d. 2024)

1955 Takayoshi Yamano, Japanese footballer

1956 Diamond Dallas Page, American wrestler and actor

1956 Leonid Fedun, Russian businessman

1956 Reid Ribble, American politician

1957 Sebastian Adayanthrath, Indian bishop

1957 Karin Roßley, German hurdler

1958 Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (d. 2021)

1958 Henrik Dettmann, Finnish basketball coach

1958 Ryoichi Kawakatsu, Japanese footballer

1958 Johan Kriek, South African-American tennis player

1958 Daniel Schneidermann, French journalist

1958 Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan lawyer and journalist (d. 2009)

1959 Paul Chung, Hong Kong actor and host (d. 1989)

1960 Asteris Koutoulas, Romanian-German record producer, manager, and author

1960 Larry McCray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1960 Ian Redford (footballer), Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2014)

1960 Hiromi Taniguchi, Japanese long-distance runner

1960 Adnan Terzić, Bosnian politician

1961 Andrea Arnold, English filmmaker and actress

1961 Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian soprano

1961 Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Bahraini-Danish human rights activist

1961 Lisa Zane, American actress and singer

1962 Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (d. 2003)

1962 Sara Danius, Swedish scholar of literature and aesthetics (d. 2019)

1962 Richard Gough, Swedish born Scottish international footballer

1962 Arild Monsen, Norwegian cross-country skier

1962 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Russian businessman and politician, 1st Head of Kalmykia

1963 Arthur Adams (comics), American comic book artist and writer

1964 Neil Eckersley, British judoka

1964 Vakhtang Iagorashvili, Soviet modern pentathlete

1964 Levon Julfalakyan, Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler

1964 Marius Lăcătuș, Romanian footballer and coach

1965 Aykut Kocaman, Turkish footballer and manager

1965 Lang Tzu-yun, Taiwanese actress

1965 Elizabeth McIntyre, American freestyle skier

1965 Svetlana Paramygina, Belarusian biathlete

1966 Yoon Hyun, South Korean judoka

1966 Mike McCready, American guitarist and songwriter

1966 Peter Overton, English-Australian journalist and television host

1967 Troy Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017)

1967 Franck Silvestre, French footballer

1967 Erland Johnsen, Norwegian footballer

1967 Laima Zilporytė, Soviet cyclist

1968 Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1969 Dinos Angelidis, Greek basketball player

1969 Viatcheslav Djavanian, Russian cyclist

1969 Pontus Kåmark, Swedish footballer

1969 Pavlo Khnykin, Ukrainian swimmer

1969 Tomislav Piplica, Bosnian footballer and manager

1969 Ravindra Prabhat, Indian writer and journalist

1970 Soheil Ayari, French race car driver

1970 Valérie Bonneton, French actress

1970 Diamond D, American hip hop producer

1970 Petar Genov, Bulgarian chess grandmaster

1970 Thea Gill, Canadian actress

1970 Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter

1970 Irina Timofeyeva, Russian long-distance runner

1971 Dong Abay, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist

1971 Krista Allen, American actress

1971 Austin Berry (footballer), Costa Rican footballer

1971 Simona Cavallari (actress), Italian actress

1971 Victoria Hamilton, English actress

1971 Nelson Parraguez, Chilean footballer

1971 Kim Soo-nyung, South Korean archer

1972 Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-Canadian theoretical physicist

1972 Tom Coronel, Dutch race car driver

1972 Paul Okon, Australian footballer and manager

1972 Duncan Spencer, English cricketer

1972 Yasuhiro Takemoto, Japanese animator and director (d. 2019)

1972 Junko Takeuchi, Japanese actress

1973 Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress

1973 Brendan Cannon, Australian rugby player

1973 Lidia Trettel, Italian snowboarder

1973 Pharrell Williams, American singer, songwriter and rapper

1974 Sandra Bagarić, Croatian opera singer and actress

1974 Julien Boutter, French tennis player

1974 Katja Holanti, Finnish biathlete

1974 Oleg Khodkov, Russian handball player

1974 Ariel López (footballer, born 1974), Argentine footballer

1974 Lukas Ridgeston, Slovak actor and director

1974 Vyacheslav Voronin, Russian high jumper

1975 Sarah Baldock, English organist and conductor

1975 John Hartson, Welsh footballer and coach

1975 Juicy J, American rapper and producer

1975 Serhiy Klymentiev, Ukrainian ice hockey player

1975 Caitlin Moran, English journalist, author, and critic

1975 Marcos Vales, Spanish footballer

1975 Shammond Williams, American basketball player and coach

1976 Luis de Agustini, Uruguayan footballer

1976 Péter Biros, Hungarian water polo player

1976 Sterling K. Brown, American actor

1976 Aleksei Budõlin, Estonian judoka

1976 Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer

1976 Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer and coach

1976 Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer

1976 Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer

1976 Valeria Straneo, Italian long-distance runner

1976 Indrek Tobreluts, Estonian biathlete

1976 Anouska van der Zee, Dutch cyclist

1977 Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player

1977 Trevor Letowski, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1977 Daniel Majstorović, Swedish footballer

1978 Dwain Chambers, British track sprinter

1978 Marcone Amaral Costa, Qatari footballer

1978 Tarek El-Said, Egyptian footballer

1978 Jairo Patiño, Colombian footballer

1978 Sohyang, South Korean singer

1978 Stephen Jackson, American basketball player

1978 Arnaud Tournant, French cyclist

1978 Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer

1978 Günther Weidlinger, Austrian long-distance runner

1979 Vlada Avramov, Serbian footballer

1979 Josh Boone (director), American screenwriter and director

1979 Song Dae-nam, South Korean judoka

1979 Timo Hildebrand, German footballer

1979 Imany, French singer

1979 Barel Mouko, Congolese footballer

1979 Cesare Natali, Italian footballer

1979 Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer

1979 Alexander Resch, German luger

1979 Andrius Velička, Lithuanian footballer

1979 Dante Wesley, American football player

1979 Chen Yanqing, Chinese weightlifter

1980 Matt Bonner, American basketball player

1980 Alberta Brianti, Italian tennis player

1980 Rafael Cavalcante, Brazilian mixed martial artist

1980 David Chocarro, Argentinian baseball player and actor

1980 Mike Glumac, Canadian ice hockey player

1980 Mario Kasun, Croatian basketball player

1980 Lee Jae-won (singer), South Korean DJ and singer

1980 Joris Mathijsen, Dutch footballer

1980 Rasmus Quist Hansen, Danish rower

1980 Odlanier Solís, Cuban boxer

1981 Matthew Emmons, American rifle shooter

1981 Michael A. Monsoor, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2006)

1981 Mariqueen Maandig, Filipino-American musician and singer-songwriter

1981 Daba Modibo Keïta, Malian taekwondo athlete

1981 Marissa Nadler, American musician

1981 Tom Riley (actor), English actor and producer

1981 Mompati Thuma, Botswana footballer

1981 Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist

1982 Hayley Atwell, English-American actress

1982 Matheus Coradini Vivian, Brazilian footballer

1982 Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer

1982 Kelly Pavlik, American boxer

1982 Matt Pickens, American soccer player

1982 Alexandre Prémat, French race car driver

1982 Danylo Sapunov, Ukrainian-Kazakhstani triathlete

1982 Hubert Schwab, Swiss cyclist

1982 Marcel Seip, Dutch former footballer

1983 Jaime Castrillón, Colombian footballer

1983 Jorge Andrés Martínez, Uruguayan footballer

1983 Brock Radunske, Canadian-South Korean ice hockey player

1983 Yohann Sangaré, French basketball player

1983 Cécile Storti, French cross-country skier

1983 Shikha Uberoi, Indian-American tennis player

1984 Marshall Allman, American actor

1984 Aram Mp3, Armenian singer and comedian

1984 Rune Brattsveen, Norwegian biathlete

1984 Alexei Glukhov, Russian ice hockey player

1984 Maartje Goderie, Dutch field hockey player

1984 Darija Jurak, Croatian tennis player

1984 Dejan Kelhar, Slovenian footballer

1984 Dmitry Kozonchuk, Russian cyclist

1984 Shin Min-a, South Korean actress

1984 Jess Sum, Hong Kong actress

1984 Peter Penz, Austrian luger

1984 Samuele Preisig, Swiss footballer

1984 Cristian Săpunaru, Romanian footballer

1984 Fabio Vitaioli, San Marinese footballer

1984 Kisho Yano, Japanese footballer

1984 Saba Qamar, Pakistani actress-model

1985 Daniel Congré, French footballer

1985 Erwin l'Ami, Dutch chess player

1985 Jolanda Keizer, Dutch heptathlete

1985 Sergey Khachatryan, Armenian violinist

1985 Linas Pilibaitis, Lithuanian footballer

1985 Jan Smeets, Dutch chess grandmaster

1985 Kristof Vandewalle, Belgian cyclist

1986 Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress

1986 Anzor Boltukayev, Chechen wrestler

1986 Diego Chará, Colombian footballer

1986 Charlotte Flair, American wrestler, author and actress

1986 Róbert Kasza, Hungarian Modern pentathlete

1986 Eetu Muinonen, Finnish footballer

1986 Manuel Ruz, Spanish footballer

1986 Albert Selimov, Azerbaijani boxer

1987 Max Grün, German footballer

1987 Balázs Hárai, Hungarian water polo player

1987 Anton Kokorin, Russian sprint athlete

1987 Fyodor Kudryashov, Russian footballer

1987 Etiënne Reijnen, Dutch footballer

1988 Gerson Acevedo, Chilean footballer

1988 Teresa Almeida, Angolan handball player

1988 Quade Cooper, New Zealand-Australian rugby player and boxer

1988 Jonathan Davies (rugby union, born 1988), Welsh rugby union player

1988 Gevorg Ghazaryan, Armenian footballer

1988 Alisha Glass, American ex-indoor volleyball player

1988 Vurğun Hüseynov, Azerbaijani footballer

1988 Matthias Jaissle, German footballer and manager

1988 Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier

1988 Zack Smith, Canadian ice hockey player

1988 Pape Sy, French basketball player

1988 Alexey Volkov (biathlete), Russian biathlete

1989 Kader Amadou, Nigerien footballer

1989 Yémi Apithy, Beninese fencer

1989 Liemarvin Bonevacia, Dutch sprinter

1989 Freddie Fox (actor), English actor

1989 Emre Güral, Turkish footballer

1989 Justin Holiday, American basketball player

1989 Rachel Homan, Canadian curler

1989 Lily James, English actress

1989 Trevor Marsicano, American speed skater

1989 Jonathan Rossini, Swiss footballer

1989 Kiki Sukezane, Japanese actress

1989 Sosuke Takatani, Japanese wrestler

1990 Amer Said Al-Shatri, Omani footballer

1990 Alex Cuthbert, Welsh rugby player

1990 Patrick Dangerfield, Australian footballer

1990 Fredy Hinestroza, Colombian footballer

1990 Chen Huijia, Chinese swimmer

1990 Haruma Miura, Japanese actor and singer (d. 2020)

1990 Ismaeel Mohammad, Qatari footballer

1990 Iryna Pamialova, Belarusian canoeist

1990 Jakub Sedláček (ice hockey), Czech ice hockey player

1990 Sercan Yıldırım, Turkish footballer

1990 Género Zeefuik, Dutch footballer

1991 Yassine Bounou, Moroccan footballer

1991 Nathaniel Clyne, English footballer

1991 Adriano Grimaldi, Italian-German footballer

1991 Joël Mall, Swiss footballer

1991 Guilherme dos Santos Torres, Brazilian footballer

1992 Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

1992 Shintaro Kurumaya, Japanese footballer

1992 Kaveh Rezaei, Iranian footballer

1992 Dmytro Ryzhuk, Ukrainian footballer

1993 Andreas Bouchalakis, Greek footballer

1993 Maya DiRado, American swimmer

1993 Laura Feiersinger, Austrian footballer

1993 Benjamin Garcia, French rugby league player

1993 Kurtis Patterson, Australian cricketer

1993 Scottie Wilbekin, American-Turkish basketball player

1994 Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player

1994 Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer

1994 Richard Sánchez (footballer, born 1994), Mexican footballer

1995 Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player

1995 Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer

1995 Gleb Rassadkin, Belarusian footballer

1995 Sebastian Starke Hedlund, Swedish footballer

1996 Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver

1996 Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer

1997 Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer

1997 Dominik Mysterio, American wrestler

1999 Bobby Miller (baseball), American baseball player

2001 Johnny Beecher (ice hockey), American ice hockey player

517 Timothy I of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch

582 Eutychius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch

584 Ruadán of Lorrha, Irish abbot

902 Al-Mu'tadid, Abbasid caliph

1168 Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (b. 1104)

1183 Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Provence, Spanish count of Cerdanya and Provence

1205 Isabella I of Jerusalem, queen regnant of Jerusalem (b. 1172)

1258 Juliana of Liège, Belgian canoness and saint

1308 Ivan Kőszegi, Hungarian baron and Oligarch (Kingdom of Hungary)

1325 Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, 1st Baron of Monthermer and Earl of Gloucester (b. c. 1270)

1419 Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)

1431 Bernard I, Margrave of Baden-Baden, margrave of Baden-Baden (b. 1364)

1512 Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter (b. 1429)

1534 Jan Matthys, Dutch anabaptist reformer

1594 Catherine of Palma, Spanish nun (b. 1533)

1612 Diana Scultori, Italian engraver (b. 1547)

1617 Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)

1626 Anna Koltovskaya, Russian tsarina

1673 François Caron, Belgian-French explorer and politician, 8th Governor of Formosa (b. 1600)

1679 Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess (b. 1619)

1684 William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, English mathematician (b. 1620)

1684 Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, prince of Liechtenstein (b. 1611)

1693 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, French noblewoman (b. 1627)

1693 Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg, German nobleman (b. 1668)

1695 George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1633)

1697 Charles XI of Sweden, king of Sweden (b. 1655)

1704 Christian Ulrich I, Duke of Württemberg-Oels, German nobleman and Duke of Württemberg-Oels (b. 1652)

1708 Christian Heinrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern (b. 1661)

1709 Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (b. 1635)

1712 Jan Luyken, Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver (b. 1649)

1717 Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)

1723 Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect, sculptor and historian (b. 1656)

1735 William Derham, English minister and philosopher (b. 1657)

1751 Frederick I of Sweden, prince consort and king of Sweden (b. 1676)

1765 Edward Young, English poet and author (b. 1683)

1767 Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (b. 1685)

1768 Egidio Forcellini, Italian philologist (b. 1688)

1769 Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jesuit priest (b. 1713)

1794 Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, Ministry of Justice (France) (b. 1759)

1794 François Chabot, French politician (b. 1756)

1794 Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1760)

1794 Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, dramatist, poet and politician (b. 1750)

1794 Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French judge and politician (b. 1759)

1794 Pierre Philippeaux, French lawyer (b. 1754)

1794 François Joseph Westermann, French general (b. 1751)

1799 Johann Christoph Gatterer, German historian (b. 1727)

1804 Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (b. 1761)

1808 Johann Georg Wille, German engraver (b. 1715)

1830 Richard Chenevix (chemist), Irish chemist and playwright (b. 1774)

1831 Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, Belgian entomologist (b. 1797)

1842 Shah Shujah Durrani, 5th Emir of Afghanistan (b. 1785)

1852 Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, (b. 1800)

1861 Ferdinand Joachimsthal, German mathematician (b. 1818)

1862 Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch artist (b. 1803)

1865 Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (b. 1806)

1866 Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (b. 1798)

1868 Karel Purkyně, Czech painter (b. 1834)

1871 Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (b. 1798)

1872 Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (b. 1812)

1873 Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (b. 1824)

1882 Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (b. 1806)

1888 Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)

1891 Johann Hermann Bauer, Austrian chess master (b. 1861)

1900 Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)

1900 Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)

1901 Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (b. 1820)

1902 Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)

1904 Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen, 4th Prince of Leiningen (b. 1830)

1904 Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (b. 1822)

1906 Eastman Johnson, American painter (b. 1824)

1914 Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (b. 1836)

1916 Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (b. 1851)

1918 George Tupou II, King of Tonga (b. 1874)

1918 Paul Vidal de La Blache, French geographer (b. 1845)

1920 Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (b. 1848)

1921 Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (b. 1862)

1921 Sophie Elkan, Swedish writer and translator (b. 1853)

1923 George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (b. 1866)

1924 Victor Hensen, German zoologist (b. 1835)

1928 Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (b. 1890)

1928 Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1861)

1929 Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (b. 1846)

1929 Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (b. 1846)

1932 María Blanchard, Spanish painter (b. 1881)

1933 Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (b. 1884)

1933 Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and functional theorist (b. 1854)

1934 Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (b. 1860)

1934 Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player (b. 1908)

1935 Achille Locatelli, Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1856)

1935 Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (b. 1870)

1935 Franz von Vecsey, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1893)

1936 Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (b. 1884)

1937 Gustav Adolf Deissmann, (b. 1866)

1937 José Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (b. 1858)

1938 Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (b. 1857)

1938 Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (b. 1890)

1940 Charles Freer Andrews, English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (b. 1871)

1940 Robert Maillart, Swiss civil engineer (b. 1872)

1940 Jay O'Brien (bobsleigh), American bobsledder (b. 1883)

1940 Song Zheyuan, Chinese general (b. 1885)

1941 Parvin E'tesami, Persian poet (b. 1907)

1941 Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (b. 1876)

1941 Franciszek Kleeberg, Polish general (b. 1888)

1945 Heinrich Borgmann, German officer (b. 1912)

1945 Karl-Otto Koch, German Schutzstaffel officer (b. 1897)

1946 Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (b. 1898)

1947 Bernhard Pankok, German painter, artist and architect (b. 1872)

1947 Elis Strömgren, Swedish-Danish astronomer (b. 1870)

1948 Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (b. 1874)

1949 Erich Zeigner, Prime Minister of Saxony (b. 1886)

1950 Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter (b. 1876)

1952 Agnes Morton, British tennis player (b. 1872)

1954 Princess Märtha of Sweden, (b. 1901)

1954 Claude Delvincourt, French pianist and composer (b. 1888)

1955 Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1918)

1956 William Titt, British gymnast (b. 1881)

1958 Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (b. 1884)

1958 Ásgrímur Jónsson, Icelandic painter (b. 1876)

1958 Isidora Sekulić, Serbian writer (b. 1877)

1961 Nikolai Kryukov (composer), Russian composer (b. 1908)

1962 Boo Kullberg, Swedish gymnast (b. 1889)

1963 Jacobus Oud, Dutch architect (b. 1890)

1964 James Chapin, American ornithologist (b. 1889)

1964 Aloïse Corbaz, Swiss artist (b. 1886)

1964 Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)

1965 Pedro Sernagiotto, Italian-Brazilian footballer (b. 1908)

1965 Sándor Szalay (figure skater), Hungarian figure skater (b. 1893)

1967 Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (b. 1891)

1967 Johan Falkberget, Norwegian author (b. 1879)

1967 Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1890)

1967 Herbert Johnston, British runner (b. 1902)

1968 Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (b. 1900)

1968 Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1932)

1968 Giuseppe Paris, Italian gymnast (b. 1895)

1969 Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (b. 1918)

1969 Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician (b. 1917)

1969 Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Schutzstaffel officer (b. 1903)

1970 Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (b. 1877)

1970 Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (b. 1891)

1970 Karl von Spreti, German diplomat (b. 1907)

1971 José Cubiles, Spanish pianist and conductor (b. 1894)

1972 Isabel Jewell, American actress and singer (b. 1907)

1973 David Murray (racing driver), British race car driver (b. 1909)

1973 Alla Tarasova, Russian ballerina (b. 1898)

1974 Bino Bini, Italian fencer (b. 1900)

1974 A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)

1975 Tell Berna, American middle and long-distance runner (b. 1891)

1975 Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician (b. 1917)

1975 Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)

1975 Harold Osborn, American track and fielder (b. 1899)

1976 Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (b. 1905)

1976 Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (b. 1891)

1976 Harry Wyld, British cyclist (b. 1900)

1977 Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (b. 1903)

1977 Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (b. 1894)

1981 Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (b. 1892)

1981 Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)

1981 Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (b. 1890)

1982 Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1910)

1983 Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari, Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer. (b. 1907)

1984 Hans Lunding, Danish military officer (b. 1899)

1984 Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (b. 1894)

1986 Manly Wade Wellman, American writer (b. 1903)

1987 Leabua Jonathan, 2nd List of Prime Ministers of Lesotho (b. 1914)

1988 Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (b. 1920)

1989 Frank Foss (athlete), American pole vaulter (b. 1895)

1989 Karel Zeman, Czech director, artist, production designer and animator (b. 1910)

1991 Sonny Carter, American soccer player, physician, and astronaut (b. 1947)

1991 Jay Miller (basketball), American basketball player (b. 1943)

1991 Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist, writer and screenwriter (b. 1915)

1991 William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (b. 1909)

1991 John Tower, American soldier, academic, and politician (b. 1925)

1992 Takeshi Inoue (footballer), Japanese footballer (b. 1928)

1992 Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)

1992 Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (b. 1918)

1993 Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)

1994 Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)

1995 Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch chess player (b. 1915)

1995 Emilio Greco, Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1913)

1995 Christian Pineau, French Resistance fighter (b. 1904)

1996 Charlene Holt, American actress (b. 1928)

1997 Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)

1998 Charles Frank (physicist), British theoretical physicist (b. 1911)

1998 Cozy Powell, English drummer (b. 1947)

1999 Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (b. 1912)

2000 Heinrich Müller (footballer, born 1909), Austrian footballer (b. 1909)

2000 Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)

2001 Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (b. 1910)

2002 Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1967)

2002 Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (b. 1917)

2003 Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (b. 1944)

2004 Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (b. 1938)

2004 Sławomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (b. 1915)

2004 Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (b. 1936)

2005 Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (b. 1915)

2005 Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (b. 1913)

2005 Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (b. 1917)

2006 Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (b. 1927)

2006 Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)

2006 Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (b. 1958)

2006 Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1923)

2007 Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (b. 1923)

2007 Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (b. 1908)

2007 Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (b. 1922)

2007 Mark St. John, American guitarist (b. 1956)

2007 Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (b. 1912)

2008 Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (b. 1923)

2009 I. J. Good, British mathematician (b. 1916)

2010 Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (b. 1935)

2011 Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)

2011 Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician (b. 1937)

2012 Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German designer (b. 1935)

2012 Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, Dominican Republican politician military officer (b. 1921)

2012 Jim Marshall (businessman), English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (b. 1923)

2012 Barney McKenna, Irish musician (b. 1939)

2012 Bingu wa Mutharika, Malawian economist and politician, 3rd President of Malawi (b. 1934)

2013 Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (b. 1921)

2013 Piero de Palma, Italian tenor and actor (b. 1924)

2013 Nikolaos Pappas, Greek Navy admiral (b. 1930)

2014 Alan Davie, Scottish saxophonist and painter (b. 1920)

2014 Mariano Díaz (cyclist), Spanish cyclist (b. 1939)

2014 Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded ''The Paris Review'' (b. 1927)

2014 John Pinette, American comedian (b. 1964)

2014 José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director, and producer (b. 1947)

2015 Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (b. 1949)

2015 Juan Carlos Cáceres, Argentinian singer and pianist (b. 1936)

2016 Koço Kasapoğlu, Turkish footballer (b. 1936)

2017 Attilio Benfatto, Italian cyclist (b. 1943)

2017 Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (b. 1929)

2017 Paul G. Comba, Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer (b. 1926)

2017 Makoto Ōoka, Japanese poet and literary critic (b. 1931)

2017 Paul O'Neill (producer), American rock composer and producer (b. 1956)

2017 Tim Parnell, British race car driver (b. 1932)

2017 Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (b. 1947)

2017 Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (b. 1942)

2017 Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (b. 1958)

2018 Isao Takahata, Japanese director (b. 1935)

2019 Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)

2021 Paul Ritter (actor), English actor (b. 1966)

2022 Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (b. 1919)

2022 Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwanese actor (b. 1943)

2024 C. J. Snare, American musician and songwriter (b. 1959)

Christian feast day:

- Albert of Montecorvino

- Saint Derfel

- Æthelburh of Kent

- Gerald of Sauve-Majeure

- Juliana of Liège

- Maria Crescentia Höss

- Beatification Mariano de la Mata

- Pandita Mary Ramabai (Episcopal Church (USA))

- Ruadhán of Lorrha

- Vincent Ferrer

- April 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Cold Food Festival, held on April 4 if it is a leap year (China); and its related observances:

Earliest day on which Sham el-Nessim can fall, while May 9 is the latest; celebrated on Monday after the Eastern Christianity Easter (Egypt)

Children's Day (Palestinian territories)

First Contact Day (International observance)

Sikmogil (South Korea)

Indian maritime history # National Maritime Day is observed in India, in commemoration of the first voyage of RMS Empress of India (1890) of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. in 1919.

International Day of Conscience

April the Fifth (1929–1954), British Thoroughbred racehorse

(ends 5 April)

[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/5 BBC: On This Day]

[https://www.onthisday.com/events/april/5 Historical Events on April 5]