April 6 is the 96th day of the year

April 6 is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events[edit]

• 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
• 402 – Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
• 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
• 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
• 1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
• 1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare inAvignon.
• 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
• 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
• 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
• 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomesCape Town.
• 1667 – An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
• 1712 – The New York Slave Revolt of 1712 begins near Broadway.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
• 1782 – King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I) of Siam (modern day Thailand) founded the Chakri dynasty.
• 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
• 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
• 1812 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
• 1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration; anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba.
• 1830 – Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
• 1841 – U.S. President John Tyler is sworn in, two days after having become President upon William Henry Harrison's death.
• 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
• 1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins: In Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grantmeet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginiafights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
• 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
• 1869 – Celluloid is patented.
• 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
• 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
• 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
• 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
• 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
• 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
• 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
• 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
• 1923 – The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
• 1924 – First round-the-world flight commences.
• 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
• 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• 1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
• 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hitsGainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
• 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
• 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
• 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
• 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
• 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonicconcert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto.
• 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
• 1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
• 1968 – In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
• 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
• 1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive: American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
• 1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
• 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
• 1974 – The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
• 1979 – Student protests break out in Nepal.
• 1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV"—meaning Finnish TV—a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
• 1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed byPaul Biya.
• 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana andBurundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
• 1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
• 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
• 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office byimpeachment.
• 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
• 2008 – The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movementand Egyptian activities.
• 2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
• 2010 – Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
• 2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
• 2012 – Azawad declares itself independent from the Republic of Mali.

Births[edit]

• 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
• 1632 – Maria Leopoldine of Austria (d. 1649)
• 1651 – André Dacier, French scholar (d. 1722)
• 1660 – Johann Kuhnau, German organist and composer (d. 1722)
• 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish soldier and politician (d. 1742)
• 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
• 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer (d. 1749)
• 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright (d. 1759)
• 1708 – Georg Reutter II, Austrian composer (d. 1772)
• 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican political leader, president of the Executive Council of the General Diet of the People of Corsica (d. 1807)
• 1726 – Gerard Majella, Italian saint (d. 1755)
• 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French author and playwright (d. 1794)
• 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter (d. 1853)
• 1773 – James Mill, Scottish historian, economist, and philosopher (d. 1836)
• 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English biologist (d. 1888)
• 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian philosopher and author (d. 1870)
• 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
• 1818 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian journalist and poet (d. 1870)
• 1820 – Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (d. 1910)
• 1823 – Joseph Medill, Canadian-American publisher and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1899)
• 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
• 1841 – Karl Binding, German jurist and author (d. 1920)
• 1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
• 1855 – Charles Huot, Canadian painter and illustrator (d. 1930)
• 1857 – Arthur Wesley Dow, American artist (d. 1922)
• 1860 – René Lalique, French sculptor (d. 1945)
• 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French poet (d. 1897)
• 1864 – William Bate Hardy, English biochemist (d. 1934)
• 1866 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal (d. 1931)
• 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1951)
• 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author, poet, and playwright (d. 1934)
• 1881 – Karl Staaf, Swedish pole vaulter and hammer thrower (d. 1953)
• 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor (d. 1950)
• 1884 – J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer (d. 1927)
• 1886 – Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople (d. 1972)
• 1886 – Walter Dandy, American neurosurgeon (d. 1946)
• 1886 – Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Indian ruler (d. 1967)
• 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, illustrator, and director (d. 1976)
• 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (d. 1967)
• 1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch engineer and businessman, founded Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer (d. 1939)
• 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American businessman, founded the Douglas Aircraft Company (d. 1981)
• 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American journalist (d. 1981)
• 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American super-centenarian (d. 2009)
• 1895 – Dudley Nichols, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1960)
• 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French painter (d. 1920)
• 1900 – Leo Robin, American composer and songwriter (d. 1984)
• 1901 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian activist (d. 1925)
• 1902 – Julien Torma, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1933)
• 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and manager (d. 1962)
• 1903 – Harold Eugene Edgerton, American engineer and academic (d. 1990)
• 1904 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German politician, 3rd Chancellor of Germany (d. 1988)
• 1908 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Canadian preacher, author, and broadcaster (d. 1994)
• 1909 – William M. Branham, American minister (d. 1965)
• 1909 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
• 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979)
• 1913 – Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, North Korean-American geographer (d. 1993)
• 1915 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish director, painter, and set designer (d. 1990)
• 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1916 – Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist (d. 1987)
• 1917 – Leonora Carrington, English-Mexican painter and author (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian general and politician, 56th President of Bolivia (d. 1982)
• 1918 – Big Walter Horton, American harmonica player (d. 1981)
• 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (d. 1998)
• 1920 – Jack Cover, American pilot and physicist, invented the Taser gun (d. 2009)
• 1920 – Edmond H. Fischer, Chinese-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian-American singer and actor (d. 1990)
• 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian-American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish minister and politician, 2nd First Minister of Northern Ireland (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and composer (d. 1996)
• 1928 – James Watson, American biologist, geneticist, and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and author (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model, actress, and singer (d. 1972)
• 1929 – André Previn, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1931 – Ram Dass, American author and educator
• 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2008)
• 1931 – Suchitra Sen, Indian actress (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Connie Broden, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor and director (d. 2004)
• 1933 – Roy Goode, English lawyer and academic
• 1933 – Tom C. Korologos, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Belgium
• 1933 – Eduardo Malapit, American politician, Mayor of Kauai (d. 2007)
• 1933 – Dudley Sutton, English actor
• 1934 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (d. 1996)
• 1934 – Anton Geesink, Dutch martial artist (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian painter, illustrator, and photographer (d. 2008)
• 1935 – Douglas Hill, Canadian author (d. 2007)
• 1936 – Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli painter and illustrator
• 1936 – Jean-Pierre Changeux, French biologist
• 1937 – Merle Haggard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Strangers and The Buckaroos)
• 1937 – Terrence Hardiman, English actor
• 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan-American wrestler (d. 1982)
• 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor and singer
• 1938 – Paul Daniels, English magician
• 1938 – Roy Thinnes, American actor
• 1939 – André Ouellet, Canadian politician, 1st Minister of Foreign Affairs for Canada
• 1939 – John Sculley, American businessman
• 1940 – Homero Aridjis, Mexican journalist, author, and poet
• 1940 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., Mexican-American actor (d. 2011)
• 1941 – Christopher Allsopp, English economist
• 1941 – Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1941 – Hans W. Geißendörfer, German director and producer
• 1941 – Don Prudhomme, American race car driver
• 1941 – Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian flute player and composer
• 1942 – Barry Levinson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 – Max Clifford, English journalist and publicist
• 1943 – Roger Cook, New Zealand-English journalist and academic
• 1943 – Mitchell Melton, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Anita Pallenberg, Italian-English model, actress, and fashion designer
• 1944 – Felicity Palmer, English soprano and educator
• 1945 – Rodney Bickerstaffe, English union leader
• 1945 – Neal Boortz, American radio host and author
• 1945 – Peter Hill, English journalist
• 1946 – Paul Beresford, New Zealand-English dentist and politician
• 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
• 1947 – André Weinfeld, French-American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1947 – Mike Worboys, English mathematician and computer scientist
• 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress
• 1949 – Alyson Bailes, British academic and diplomat
• 1949 – Patrick Hernandez, French singer-songwriter
• 1949 – Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American author (d. 2001)
• 1951 – Bert Blyleven, Dutch-American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1951 – Jean-Marc Boivin, French skier, mountaineer, and pilot (d. 1990)
• 1951 – Pascal Rogé, French pianist
• 1952 – Udo Dirkschneider, German singer-songwriter (Accept and U.D.O.)
• 1952 – Marilu Henner, American actress, producer, and author
• 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 1992)
• 1953 – Patrick Doyle, Scottish actor and composer
• 1953 – Christopher Franke, German-American drummer and songwriter (Tangerine Dream and Agitation Free)
• 1955 – Rob Epstein, American director and producer
• 1955 – Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-American serial killer
• 1955 – Cathy Jones, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1955 – Blind Mississippi Morris, American singer and harmonica player
• 1955 – Michael Rooker, American actor
• 1956 – Michele Bachmann, American politician
• 1956 – Normand Corbeil, Canadian composer (d. 2013)
• 1956 – Lee Scott, English politician
• 1956 – Sebastian Spreng, Argentinian-American painter and journalist
• 1956 – Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer
• 1957 – Jaroslava Maxová, Czech soprano
• 1957 – Paolo A. Nespoli, Italian soldier, engineer, and astronaut
• 1958 – Graeme Base, Australian author and illustrator
• 1959 – Gail Shea, Canadian politician
• 1960 – Batem, Congolese-Belgian illustrator
• 1960 – Adriana Altaras, Croatian-German actress and director
• 1960 – Warren Haynes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Allman Brothers Band, Gov't Mule, and The Dead)
• 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1961 – Rory Bremner, Scottish actor and screenwriter
• 1961 – Peter Jackson, English footballer and manager
• 1962 – Iris Häussler, German sculptor
• 1962 – Marco Schällibaum, Swiss footballer, coach, and manager
• 1963 – Rafael Correa, Ecuadorian politician, 54th President of Ecuador
• 1964 – Phil Gayle, English journalist
• 1965 – Black Francis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pixies and Grand Duchy)
• 1965 – Sterling Sharpe, American football player
• 1965 – Lieve Slegers, Belgian runner
• 1966 – Vince Flynn, American author (d. 2013)
• 1966 – Young Man Kang, South Korean-American director and producer
• 1967 – Julian Anderson, English composer and educator
• 1967 – Kathleen Barr, Canadian voice actress
• 1967 – Tanya Byron, English psychologist and academic
• 1967 – Jonathan Firth, English actor
• 1967 – Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish-American bowler
• 1968 – Archon Fung, American public policy academic
• 1968 – Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian race car driver
• 1969 – Bret Boone, American baseball player and manager
• 1969 – Jack Canfora, American actor, singer, and playwright
• 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player (d. 2002)
• 1969 – Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican-American actress
• 1969 – Philipp Peter, Austrian race car driver
• 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1969 – Louie Spence, English dancer and choreographer
• 1969 – Spencer Wells, American geneticist and anthropologist
• 1970 – Olaf Kölzig, South African-German ice hockey player and coach
• 1970 – Roy Mayorga, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Stone Sour, Black President,Nausea)
• 1970 – Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
• 1971 – Lou Merloni, American baseball player and radio host
• 1971 – Sanjay Suri, Indian actor and producer
• 1972 – Scott Martin Brooks, American actor
• 1972 – Chad Eaton, American football player and coach
• 1972 – Jason Hervey, American actor and producer
• 1972 – Ami James, Israeli-American tattoo artist
• 1972 – Anders Thomas Jensen, Danish director and screenwriter
• 1972 – Dickey Simpkins, American basketball player
• 1972 – Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower
• 1973 – Donnie Edwards, American football player
• 1973 – Randall Godfrey, American football player
• 1973 – Lori Heuring, American actress
• 1973 – Joe Machine, English painter and poet
• 1973 – Rie Miyazawa, Japanese model and actress
• 1973 – Sun Wen, Chinese footballer
• 1974 – Camilla Dallerup, Danish-English dancer and model
• 1974 – Flash Flanagan, American wrestler
• 1974 – Érica García, Argentinian-American singer-songwriter and actress (Fool's Gold)
• 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer and coach
• 1974 – Jeff Tymoschuk, Canadian composer
• 1974 – Gina Yashere, English comedian and actor
• 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Hal Gill, American ice hockey player
• 1975 – Sonia Lopes, Cape Verdean runner
• 1975 – Joel West, American actor
• 1976 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress, model, director and producer
• 1976 – James Fox, Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1976 – Chris Hoke, American football player
• 1976 – Georg Hólm, Icelandic bass player (Sigur Rós)
• 1976 – Hirotada Ototake, Japanese author and educator
• 1977 – Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1977 – Andy Phillips, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 – Teddy Sears, American actor
• 1978 – Tim Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster
• 1978 – Myleene Klass, English singer, pianist, and model (Hear'Say)
• 1978 – Martin Mendez, Uruguayan bass player and songwriter (Opeth)
• 1978 – Blaine Neal, American baseball player
• 1978 – Igor Semshov, Russian footballer
• 1978 – Kendra Todd, American real estate agent and author
• 1979 – Sam Atwell, Australian actor
• 1979 – Eilen Jewell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Christine Smith, American model and actress
• 1979 – Lord Frederick Windsor, English journalist and financier
• 1980 – Matthew Carey, American actor
• 1980 – Tommi Evilä, Finnish long jumper
• 1980 – Tanja Poutiainen, Finnish skier
• 1981 – Eliza Coupe, American actress
• 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Zambian-Welsh footballer
• 1981 – Jeff Faine, American football player
• 1981 – Kari Jobe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gateway Worship)
• 1981 – Anastassia Morkovkina, Estonian footballer
• 1981 – Alex Suarez, American bass player (Cobra Starship and This Is Ivy League)
• 1982 – Alana Austin, American actress
• 1982 – Sofia Boutella, Algerian-American dancer and actress
• 1982 – Michael Guy Chislett, Australian-American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Academy Is... and Hillsong United)
• 1982 – Herculez Gomez, American soccer player
• 1982 – Ilan Hall, American chef
• 1982 – Bret Harrison, American actor and singer
• 1982 – Travis Moen, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1982 – Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Spanish actor
• 1982 – Euclides Varela, Cape Verdean runner
• 1983 – Diora Baird, American model and actress
• 1983 – Mehdi Ballouchy, Moroccan footballer
• 1983 – Jerome Kaino, New Zealand rugby player
• 1983 – Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer
• 1983 – Remi Nicole, English singer-songwriter and actress
• 1983 – Jekaterina Patjuk, Estonian runner
• 1983 – Jade Seah, Singaporean model and actress
• 1983 – Bobbi Starr, American porn actress
• 1983 – James Wade, English darts player
• 1983 – Katie Weatherston, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Max Bemis, American singer-songwriter (Say Anything, Max Bemis and the Painful Splits)
• 1984 – Michaël Ciani, French footballer
• 1984 – Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer
• 1985 – Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Ali Mukaddam, Canadian actor, director, and producer
• 1985 – Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer
• 1985 – Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and actor
• 1986 – Nikolas Asprogenis, Cypriot footballer
• 1986 – Aaron Curry, American football player
• 1986 – Ryota Moriwaki, Japanese footballer
• 1986 – Tara Osseck, American model, Miss Missouri 2009
• 1987 – Benjamin Corgnet, French footballer
• 1987 – Heidi Mount, American model
• 1987 – Juan Adriel Ochoa, Mexican footballer
• 1987 – Levi Porter, English footballer
• 1987 – Hilary Rhoda, American model
• 1988 – Jucilei, Brazilian footballer
• 1988 – Leigh Adams, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Mike Bailey, English actor and singer
• 1988 – Melisa Cantiveros, Filipino actress
• 1988 – Daniele Gasparetto, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Carlton Mitchell, American football player
• 1988 – Fabrice Muamba, Congolese-English footballer
• 1988 – Ivonne Orsini, Puerto Rician model, Miss World Puerto Rico 2008
• 1989 – Katie Griffiths, English actress
• 1989 – Renārs Rode, Latvian footballer
• 1989 – Rigard van Klooster, Dutch cyclist and speed skater
• 1990 – Charlie McDermott, American actor
• 1990 – Andrei Veis, Estonian footballer
• 1994 – Adrián Alonso, Mexican actor
• 1995 – Darya Lebesheva, Belarusian tennis player
• 1995 – Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer (Hey! Say! JUMP)
• 1998 – Peyton List, American actress
• 1998 – Spencer List, American actor
• 1999 – Kwesi Boakye, American actor
• 2000 – CJ Adams, American actor

Deaths[edit]

• 885 – Saint Methodius, Byzantine missionary and saint (b. 815)
• 1147 – Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
• 1199 – Richard I of England (b. 1157)
• 1340 – Basil of Trebizond
• 1362 – James I, Count of La Marche (b. 1319)
• 1490 – Matthias Corvinus, Hungarian king (b. 1443)
• 1520 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (b. 1483)
• 1528 – Albrecht Dürer, German painter, engraver, and mathematician (b. 1471)
• 1551 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss scholar and politician (b. 1484)
• 1571 – John Hamilton, Scottish archbishop (b. 1512)
• 1590 – Francis Walsingham, English politician (b. 1532)
• 1605 – John Stow, English historian (b. 1525)
• 1655 – David Blondel, French clergyman and scholar (b. 1591)
• 1686 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, Irish-English politician (b. 1614)
• 1707 – Willem van de Velde the Younger, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
• 1755 – Richard Rawlinson, English minister and historian (b. 1690)
• 1790 – Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1719)
• 1825 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-Russian painter (b. 1757)
• 1829 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
• 1833 – Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (b. 1748)
• 1838 – José Bonifácio de Andrada, Brazilian politician (b. 1763)
• 1860 – James Kirke Paulding, American author and politician, 11th United States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1778)
• 1862 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American general (b. 1803)
• 1883 – Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician, 3rd Mayor of Chicago (b. 1801)
• 1886 – William Edward Forster, English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman (b. 1818)
• 1899 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)
• 1906 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
• 1935 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)
• 1947 – Herbert Backe, German politician (b. 1896)
• 1950 – Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (b. 1882)
• 1953 – Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
• 1959 – Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli scholar (b. 1895)
• 1961 – Jules Bordet, Belgian microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870)
• 1963 – Otto Struve, Russian-American astronomer (b. 1897)
• 1970 – Sam Sheppard, American physician (b. 1923)
• 1970 – Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• 1971 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian-American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1882)
• 1974 – Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
• 1974 – Hudson Fysh, Australian pilot and businessman, co-founded Qantas Airways Limited (b. 1895)
• 1977 – Kōichi Kido, Japanese politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1889)
• 1979 – Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect, designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library (b. 1893)
• 1984 – Ral Donner, American singer (b. 1943)
• 1992 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-American author and educator (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician, 3rd President of Rwanda (b. 1937)
• 1994 – Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (b. 1956)
• 1995 – Ioannis Alevras, Greek politician, President of Greece (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Greer Garson, English-American actress (b. 1904)
• 1998 – Norbert Schmitz, German footballer (b. 1958)
• 1998 – Wendy O. Williams, American singer-songwriter (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
• 1998 – Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
• 1999 – Red Norvo, American vibraphone player and composer (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician, 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
• 2001 – Charles Pettigrew, American singer-songwriter (Charles & Eddie) (b. 1963)
• 2003 – David Bloom, American journalist (b. 1963)
• 2003 – Anita Borg, American computer scientist (b. 1949)
• 2003 – Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (b. 1912)
• 2003 – Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer, educator, and activist (b. 1927)
• 2004 – Lou Berberet, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist (b. 1929)
• 2004 – Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
• 2006 – Maggie Dixon, American basketball player and coach (b. 1977)
• 2006 – Francis L. Kellogg, American diplomat (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Stefanos Stratigos, Greek actor (b. 1926)
• 2007 – Luigi Comencini, Italian director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2009 – J. M. S. Careless, Canadian historian (b. 1919)
• 2009 – Shawn Mackay, Australian rugby player (b. 1982)
• 2010 – Wilma Mankiller, American tribal leader (b. 1945)
• 2010 – Neva Morris, American super-centenarian (b. 1895)
• 2010 – Corin Redgrave, English actor (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Sujatha, Indian actress (b. 1952)
• 2011 – Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani scholar (b. 1917)
• 2011 – Gerald Finnerman, American cinematographer (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Roland Guilbault, American admiral (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Thomas Kinkade, American painter (b. 1958)
• 2012 – Fang Lizhi, Chinese astrophysicist and academic (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Michael Sands, American model, actor, and publicist (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Sheila Scotter, Australian fashion designer and journalist (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Reed Whittemore, American poet and critic (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Hilda Bynoe, Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor of Grenada (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Johnny Esaw, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Bill Guttridge, English footballer and manager (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Bigas Luna, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Michael Norgrove, Zambian-English boxer (b. 1981)
• 2013 – Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Ottmar Schreiner, German lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Mary Anderson, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Jacques Castérède, French pianist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2014 – Liv Dommersnes, Norwegian actress (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Erzsi Kovács, Hungarian singer (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Mickey Rooney, American actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1920)
• 2014 – Chuck Stone, American soldier, journalist, and academic (b. 1924)
• 2014 – Massimo Tamburini, Italian motorcycle designer (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances[edit]

• Birth of Jesus according to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Chakri Day, commemorating the reign of the Chakri Dynasty. (Thailand)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Albrecht Dürer and Lucas Cranach (Lutheran Church).
  • Brychan
  • Eutychius of Constantinople (Byzantine Church)
  • Marcellinus of Carthage
  • Pope Celestine I (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Pope Sixtus I
  • April 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Tartan Day (United States & Canada)