Sunday, 5th April 2026 in Lisbon

5th April in the Stars – Star Sign Aries

Today, the zodiac sign Aries celebrates its birthday.

Personality Profile

Personality People born on April 5th embody the courageous pioneer archetype with Martial intensity. They naturally radiate leadership and inspire action in those around them. Numerology 9 adds broader vision and understanding of interconnected patterns to their character.

Strengths & Weaknesses Their greatest strength lies in directness, assertiveness, and boundless energy that propels them forward. Impulsiveness and impatience can create obstacles in relationships and planning. They benefit greatly from pausing before major decisions.

Love These individuals bring passion and genuine honesty to relationships. They require partners who respect their independence and match their emotional fire. Boredom is their nemesis—they crave constant stimulation and authentic connection.

Caree & Finance April 5th Aries thrive in dynamic, competitive environments. Entrepreneurship, sales, and leadership roles suit them perfectly. Financial success comes naturally through self-initiative and their innate drive to achieve and excel.

Health Their high-octane energy demands regular intense physical activity and athletic outlets. Exercise-based stress management is essential for wellbeing. They should avoid impulsive health decisions and seek professional guidance when needed.

That night, the moon was in its waxing crescent phase.

Chinese year of the Horse (Fire).

Fun Facts About 5th April

Name Days in Your Language: Chandra, Ethelburga, Irene, Irina, Tyler, Tylor

Someone born on this day would be just 59 days old today — roughly 1,438 hours, 86,331 minutes, or 5,179,863 seconds spent on Earth so far.

It's the 95. day of the year. In 2026, 5th April falls on a Sunday.

There are 270 days still to come.

We’re currently in Week 14 — the year marches on.

Famous Birthdays on 5th April

On this day, 557 notable people were born on 5th April — spanning from 1170 to 2003. From world leaders to artists and scientists, discover who shares this birthday.

05/04/2003

Tetairoa McMillan, American football player

Tetairoa McMillan, nicknamed "T-Mac", is an American professional football wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Arizona Wildcats, earning Polynesian College Football Player of the Year honors in 2024. McMillan was selected by the Panthers eighth overall in the 2025 NFL draft.

05/04/2001

Johnny Beecher, American ice hockey player

John Beecher is an American professional ice hockey player who is a center for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 30th overall by the Boston Bruins in the 2019 NHL entry draft. He played college ice hockey for the Michigan Wolverines men's ice hockey team from 2019 to 2022.

Felipe Peña, Argentine footballer

Felipe Peña Biafore is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Lanús.

05/04/1999

Bobby Miller, American baseball player

Robert Anthony Miller is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Louisville Cardinals and was selected 29th overall by the Dodgers in the 2020 MLB draft.

05/04/1998

Nathan Broadhead, Welsh football player

Nathan Paul Broadhead is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a forward or left winger for EFL Championship club Wrexham and the Wales national team.

05/04/1997

Borja Mayoral, Spanish footballer

Borja Mayoral Moya is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Getafe.

Dominik Mysterio, American wrestler

Dominik Óscar Gutiérrez, better known by the ring name Dominik Mysterio, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on the Raw brand and is a member of The Judgment Day stable. He also appears in WWE's sister promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), where he is the AAA Mega Champion in his first reign. Mysterio is also a former two-time WWE Intercontinental Champion.

05/04/1996

Nicolas Beer, Danish race car driver

Nicolas Beer is a Danish former racing driver.

Raouf Benguit, Algerian footballer

Abdelraouf Benguit is an Algerian professional footballer who plays for CR Belouizdad.

05/04/1995

Daniel Caesar, Canadian singer-songwriter

Ashton Dumar Norwill Simmonds, known professionally as Daniel Caesar, is a Canadian singer and songwriter. After independently building a following through the release of two EPs, Praise Break (2014) and Pilgrim's Paradise (2015), Caesar released his debut studio album, Freudian, in 2017, which received three Grammy Award nominations, winning for the collaboration with American singer H.E.R. "Best Part". In 2019 he released his second studio album, Case Study 01, longlisted for the 2020 Polaris Music Prize.

Viliame Kikau, Fijian rugby league player

Viliame Kikau is a Fijian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a second-row forward for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League and Fiji at international level.

Sei Muroya, Japanese footballer

Sei Muroya is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right-back for FC Tokyo in the J1 League and for the Japan national team.

Gleb Rassadkin, Belarusian footballer

Gleb Rassadkin is a Belarusian professional football player.

Sebastian Starke Hedlund, Swedish footballer

Björn Sebastian Starke Hedlund is a Swedish footballer who plays for Östers IF as a defender.

05/04/1994

Mateusz Bieniek, Polish volleyball player

Mateusz Bieniek is a Polish professional volleyball player who plays as a middle blocker for Aluron CMC Warta Zawiercie, which he captains, and the Poland national team. With Poland, Bieniek won the 2018 World Champion title and took part in 3 Olympic Games – Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, winning a silver medal at the latter.

Edem Rjaïbi, Tunisian footballer

Edem Rjaïbi is a Tunisian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Richard Sánchez, Mexican footballer

Richard Sánchez Alcaraz is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for USL Championship side San Antonio FC. Born in the United States, he played for the Mexico national under-21 team.

05/04/1993

Andreas Bouchalakis, Greek footballer

Andreas Bouchalakis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Super League club Panetolikos.

Maya DiRado, American swimmer

Madeline Jane "Maya" DiRado-Andrews is a retired American competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle, butterfly, backstroke, and individual medley events. She attended and swam for Stanford University, where she won NCAA titles in the 200 and 400 meter individual medley in 2014 and graduated with a degree in management science and engineering. At the 2016 US Olympic Trials, DiRado qualified to swim the 200 meter and 400 meter individual medley events, as well as the 200 meter backstroke, at the 2016 Summer Olympics. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, she won a gold medal in the women's 4x200 meter freestyle relay, a silver medal in the 400 meter individual medley, a bronze medal in the women's 200 meter individual medley, and a gold medal in the 200 meter backstroke. Following the Olympics, DiRado retired from the sport.

Laura Feiersinger, Austrian footballer

Laura Feiersinger is an Austrian footballer who plays as a midfielder for 1. FC Köln. She represented the Austria national team from 2010 until 2025, earning 126 caps and scoring 19 goals.

Benjamin Garcia, French rugby league player

Benjamin Garcia is a French professional rugby league footballer who plays as a loose forward, hooker or second-row for the Catalans Dragons in the Super League and France at international level.

Scottie Wilbekin, American-Turkish basketball player

Scottie Jordan Wilbekin is an American-born naturalized Turkish professional basketball player who last played for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). He played college basketball for the Florida Gators, where he was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Year in 2014. Wilbekin played professional basketball in Australia, Greece, Turkey and Israel. He led Darüşşafaka to win the 2018 EuroCup title, while earning the EuroCup Finals and the Regular Season MVP awards.

05/04/1992

Emmalyn Estrada, Canadian singer-songwriter and dancer

Emmalyn Estrada, known professionally as Emmalyn, is a Canadian singer. Her first single, "Get Down", entered Billboard's Canadian Hot 100 chart for the week of August 29, 2009, at number 88 and peaked at number 59 for the week of October 31, 2009. She is best known as a member of the girl group G.R.L., formed by Robin Antin.

Shintaro Kurumaya, Japanese footballer

Shintaro Kurumaya is a Japanese footballer who plays as a left back for Kawasaki Frontale.

Kaveh Rezaei, Iranian footballer

Kaveh Rezaei is an Iranian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Sepahan and the Iran national team.

Dmytro Ryzhuk, Ukrainian footballer

Dmytro Ryzhuk is a Ukrainian football midfielder for Atyrau.

05/04/1991

Yassine Bounou, Moroccan footballer

Yassine Bounou, also known as Bono mononymously, is a Moroccan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Saudi Pro League club Al Hilal and the Morocco national team.

Nathaniel Clyne, English footballer

Nathaniel Edwin Clyne is an English professional footballer who plays as a right-back, right wing-back, or centre-back for Premier League club Crystal Palace.

Adriano Grimaldi, Italian-German footballer

Adriano Grimaldi is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for 2. Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg.

Joël Mall, Swiss footballer

Joël Yves Mall is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Swiss Super League side Servette. Born in Switzerland, he plays for the Cyprus national team after gaining citizenship in 2023.

Guilherme dos Santos Torres, Brazilian footballer

Guilherme dos Santos Torres, commonly known as Guilherme, is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder of Qatar Stars League football club Al Sadd. Born in Brazil, he plays for the Qatar national team.

05/04/1990

Amer Said Al-Shatri, Omani footballer

Amer Said Al-Shatri is an Omani international footballer who plays as a midfielder for Omani club Mirbat.

Alex Cuthbert, Welsh rugby player

Alex Cuthbert is an English-born Welsh former rugby union player. Born and raised in Gloucester, he played on the wing for the Ospreys and the Wales national team.

Patrick Dangerfield, Australian footballer

Patrick Dangerfield is an Australian rules football player for the Geelong Football Club of the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the Adelaide Football Club from 2008 to 2015. He has served as Geelong captain since the 2023 season.

Fredy Hinestroza, Colombian footballer

Freddy Hinestroza Arias is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Colombian club Atlético Bucaramanga.

Chen Huijia, Chinese swimmer

Chen Huijia is a female Chinese swimmer, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Haruma Miura, Japanese actor and singer (died 2020)

Haruma Miura was a Japanese actor and singer. He made his acting debut in the television drama Agri (1997) and rose to popularity after starring in the film Koizora (2007), winning Newcomer of the Year at the 31st Japan Academy Prize. In the following years, Miura notably starred in the third season of Gokusen (2009), Bloody Monday (2009), Naoko (2009), Kimi ni Todoke (2010), Last Cinderella (2013), Boku no Ita Jikan (2013), The Eternal Zero (2013), Attack on Titan (2015), Gintama 2 (2018), and Two Weeks (2019). He also starred as Lola in the Japanese production of Kinky Boots (2016), winning Best New Actor and the Haruko Sugimura Award at the 24th Yomiuri Theater Awards. In addition to his acting career, Miura debuted as a singer in 2019 with the single "Fight for Your Heart."

Ismaeel Mohammad, Qatari footballer

Ismaeel Mohammad Mohammad is a Qatari professional footballer who plays as a winger for Al-Duhail in the Qatar Stars League and the Qatar national football team.

Iryna Pamialova, Belarusian canoeist

Iryna Uladzimirauna Pamialova is a Belarusian canoer. She won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the K-4 500 metres event with Nadzeya Papok-Liapeshka, Volha Khudzenka, and Maryna Litvinchuk.

Jakub Sedláček, Czech ice hockey player

Jakub Sedláček is a Czech professional ice hockey goaltender who currently playing for HC Olomouc of the Czech Extraliga.

Sercan Yıldırım, Turkish footballer

Sercan Yıldırım is a Turkish former football player who played as a forward.

Género Zeefuik, Dutch footballer

Género Zeefuik is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a striker.

05/04/1989

Kader Amadou, Nigerien footballer

Kader Amadou Dodo is a Nigerien footballer who plays as a right-back or centre-back for AS SONIDEP.

Yémi Apithy, Beninese fencer

Yémi Geoffrey Apithy is a French-Beninese sabre fencer representing Benin in international competitions, silver medalist at the 2014 and 2015 African Championships. He bore the flag for Benin at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Liemarvin Bonevacia, Dutch sprinter

Liemarvin Bonevacia is a Dutch sprinter specialising in the 400 metres. He won bronze medals in the event at the 2016 and 2024 European Athletics Championships, and the 2017 and 2021 European Indoor Championships. Bonevacia also earned five major medals for the 4 × 400 m relays, either men's or mixed, including silver medal in the men's relay at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Freddie Fox, English actor

Frederick Samson Robert Morice Fox is an English film and stage actor. His prominent screen performances include roles as singer Marilyn in the BBC's Boy George biopic Worried About the Boy (2010), Freddie Baxter in series Cucumber (2015) and Banana (2015), Jeremy Bamber in White House Farm (2020) and Spider Webb in Slow Horses (2022–2023).

Emre Güral, Turkish footballer

Emre Güral is a professional footballer who plays as a forward. Born in Germany, he represented Turkey at 'A2' international level.

Justin Holiday, American basketball player

Justin Alaric Holiday is an American professional basketball player for the Guangzhou Loong Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies. He went undrafted in the 2011 NBA draft, but would sign with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2013. He won an NBA championship with the Golden State Warriors in 2015. His brothers Jrue and Aaron are also NBA players.

Rachel Homan, Canadian curler

Rachel Catherine Homan is a Canadian curler. Homan is a former Canadian junior champion, a five-time Canadian national champion, and three-time World Champion, all as a skip. She was the skip of the Canadian women's curling team at the 2018 and 2026 Winter Olympics. The team won the bronze medal in 2026 edition of the event. She also competed in the mixed doubles event at the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Lily James, English actress

Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson, known professionally as Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her career in the British television series Just William (2010). Following a supporting role in the period drama series Downton Abbey (2012–2015), her breakthrough was the title role in the fantasy film Cinderella (2015).

Trevor Marsicano, American speed skater

Trevor Marsicano is an American speed skater and silver medalist in the Winter Olympics.

Jonathan Rossini, Swiss footballer

Jonathan "Johnny" Rossini is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a centre back. He is also a former Switzerland international.

Kiki Sukezane, Japanese actress

Kiki Sukezane is a Japanese actress from Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, working mostly in American productions.

Sosuke Takatani, Japanese wrestler

Sosuke Takatani is an amateur Japanese freestyle wrestler, who competes in the middleweight category.

05/04/1988

Gerson Acevedo, Chilean footballer

Gerson Elías Acevedo Rojas is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder.

Teresa Almeida, Angolan handball player

Teresa Patricia De Almeida nicknamed Bá is an Angolan handball player for Petro de Luanda and the Angolan national team.

Quade Cooper, New Zealand-Australian rugby player and boxer

Quade Santini Cooper is an Australian professional rugby union coach, former player, and occasional boxer. Although born in New Zealand, he has represented Australia in rugby at international level. Finishing his playing career with the Hanazono Liners in Japan, Cooper established his career with the Queensland Reds in the Super Rugby. He went on to play for Toulon in the French Top 14 and also played for the Melbourne Rebels. His team position was fly-half, however Cooper was often deployed in the midfield earlier in his career, as well as fullback.

Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby union player

Jonathan Davies is a former Welsh professional rugby union player who played at centre for the Scarlets and the Wales national team. His brother is James Davies, who also played professional rugby for Wales as a flanker.

Gevorg Ghazaryan, Armenian footballer

Gevorg Ghazaryan is an Armenian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward.

Alisha Glass, American ex-indoor volleyball player

Alisha Rebecca Glass Childress is an American professional volleyball player who played as a setter for the Vegas Thrill of the Pro Volleyball Federation. Glass played collegiate volleyball for Penn State, where she led Penn State to three NCAA consecutive championships. Glass Childress won gold with the national team at the 2014 World Championship, and bronze at the 2015 World Cup and 2016 Rio Olympic Games. As of 2025, she serves as the head coach of the San Diego Mojo. Glass Childress has 3 children with husband and former NBA professional, Joshua Childress.

Vurğun Hüseynov, Azerbaijani footballer

Vurgun Huseynov is an Azerbaijani former professional footballer.

Matthias Jaissle, German footballer and manager

Matthias Jaissle is a German professional football manager and former player who is the currently head coach of Saudi Pro League club Al-Ahli.

Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier

Christopher Papamichalopoulos is an alpine skier from Cyprus. He competed for Cyprus at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the slalom and giant slalom. Christopher was Cyprus's flag bearer during the 2010 Winter Olympics opening ceremony.

Zack Smith, Canadian ice hockey player

Zachary Smith is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played for the Ottawa Senators, who drafted him 79th overall in the 2008 NHL entry draft, and the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Pape Sy, French basketball player

Pape Ousseynou Sy is a French former professional basketball player. A versatile guard/forward, Sy was drafted by the Hawks as the 53rd overall pick in the second round of the 2010 NBA draft after spending five seasons with STB Le Havre.

Alexey Volkov, Russian biathlete

Alexey Anatolyevich Volkov is a Russian former biathlete.

05/04/1987

Max Grün, German footballer

Maximilian "Max" Grün is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Regionalliga Bayern club Viktoria Aschaffenburg.

Balázs Hárai, Hungarian water polo player

Balázs Hárai is a Hungarian water polo center forward. He competed at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a gold medal at the 2013 World Championships.

Anton Kokorin, Russian sprint athlete

Anton Sergeyevich Kokorin is a Russian sprint athlete. Anton was part of the team that finished third in Men's 4x400 m relay at the 2008 Summer Olympics, but the team was disqualified after team mate Denis Alekseyev tested positive for doping.

Fyodor Kudryashov, Russian footballer

Fyodor Vasilievich Kudryashov is a Russian former professional footballer who played as a left back. He could also play as a centre back.

Etiënne Reijnen, Dutch footballer

Etiënne Reijnen is a Dutch professional football manager and former player who is assistant manager at Eredivisie club Feyenoord.

05/04/1986

Anna Sophia Berglund, American model and actress

Anna Sophia Berglund is an American actress, model, Playmate, and reality show personality. She was Playmate of the Month for Playboy in January 2011. She was discovered originally by GXS Motorsports, where she spent two years as a promotional model. She went by the name Sophi Berglund until working for Playboy and resuming her original name.

Anzor Boltukayev, Chechen wrestler

Anzor Adamovich Boltukayev is a Russian freestyle wrestler of Chechen descent. He competes in the 96 kg division and won the bronze medal in the same division at the 2013 World Wrestling Championships defeated Aleksey Krupnyakov of Kyrgyzstan.

Diego Chará, Colombian footballer

Diego Ferney Chará Zamora is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder and captains Major League Soccer club Portland Timbers.

Charlotte Flair, American wrestler, author and actress

Ashley Elizabeth Fliehr is an American professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Charlotte Flair. A record 14-time women’s world champion in WWE, Flair is often regarded as one of the greatest women’s professional wrestlers of all time.

Róbert Kasza, Hungarian Modern pentathlete

Róbert Kasza is a Hungarian modern pentathlete. He was on the gold medal-winning relay team at the 2011 World Modern Pentathlon Championships. He also qualified for and participated in the modern pentathlon at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Robert Kasza is represented by STRONGAA Management.

Eetu Muinonen, Finnish footballer

Eetu Muinonen is a Finnish footballer, who plays for RoPS.

Manuel Ruz, Spanish footballer

Manuel Ruz Baños is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a right back.

Albert Selimov, Azerbaijani boxer

Albert Shevketovich Selimov is a Russian former amateur boxer of Lezgin descent. He is best known for being the only man to defeat Vasiliy Lomachenko in the amateur ranks. Competing for Russia, he won the 2007 world title, the 2008 World Cup, and two European titles, in 2006 and 2010. After failing to qualify for the 2012 Olympics, he moved to Azerbaijan and representing that country, placed second at the 2015 World Championships and fifth at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

05/04/1985

Daniel Congré, French footballer

Daniel Congré is a French former professional footballer who played as a defender. He could operate all across defence, although he was most adept at centre-back. He is noted for his pace.

Erwin l'Ami, Dutch chess player

Erwin l'Ami is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He attained the title of grandmaster in 2005, and has reached a peak rating of 2651. l'Ami has represented the Netherlands at seven Chess Olympiads and won the 2015 Reykjavik Open.

Jolanda Keizer, Dutch heptathlete

Jolanda Keizer is a Dutch heptathlete.

Sergey Khachatryan, Armenian violinist

Sergey Khachatryan is an Armenian classical violinist. He was born in Yerevan and since 1993 has lived in Germany, where he gave his first orchestral concert at the age of nine in the Kurhaus, Wiesbaden.

Linas Pilibaitis, Lithuanian footballer

Linas Pilibaitis is a Lithuanian former professional footballer.

Jan Smeets, Dutch chess grandmaster

Jan Smeets is a Dutch chess grandmaster. He is a two-time Dutch Chess Champion.

Kristof Vandewalle, Belgian cyclist

Kristof Vandewalle is a Belgian former professional road cyclist, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2015 for the Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator, Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and Trek Factory Racing teams. While a member of the Omega Pharma–Quick-Step squad, he won two successive World Team Time Trial Championships and two consecutive Belgian National Time Trial Championships.

05/04/1984

Marshall Allman, American actor

Marshall Scot Allman is an American actor. He is known to television audiences for his role as L. J. Burrows on the Fox television series Prison Break. He is also known for playing Tommy Mickens on True Blood.

Aram Mp3, Armenian singer and comedian

Aram Avetiki Sargsyan, known professionally as Aram Mp3, is an Armenian singer and comedian. He represented Armenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 with the song "Not Alone", which finished in fourth place.

Rune Brattsveen, Norwegian biathlete

Rune Brattsveen is a former Norwegian biathlete.

Alexei Glukhov, Russian ice hockey player

Alexei Vladimirovich Glukhov is a Russian former professional ice hockey forward who last played under contract with HC Sibir Novosibirsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He was selected by Tampa Bay Lightning in the 9th round of the 2002 NHL entry draft.

Maartje Goderie, Dutch field hockey player

Maartje Goderie is a Dutch field hockey player, who plays as forward for Dutch club HC Den Bosch. She also plays for the Netherlands national team and she was part of the Dutch squad that became World Champion at the 2006 Women's Hockey World Cup and which won the 2007 Champions Trophy.

Darija Jurak, Croatian tennis player

Darija Jurak Schreiber is a Croatian tennis player. Her career-high doubles ranking is world No. 9, achieved on 15 November 2021. Her best WTA ranking in singles is 188 which she reached in April 2004. She qualified with Andreja Klepač for the 2021 WTA Finals after 20 years on the professional tour.

Dejan Kelhar, Slovenian footballer

Dejan Kelhar is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Dmitry Kozonchuk, Russian cyclist

Dmitry Anatolyevich Kozonchuk is a Russian professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team Gazprom–RusVelo.

Shin Min-a, South Korean actress

Yang Min-a, better known by the stage name Shin Min-a (신민아), is a South Korean actress who began her career as a model before debuting as an actress in 2000. She is known for her leading roles in television dramas A Love to Kill (2005), My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho (2010), Arang and the Magistrate (2012), Oh My Venus (2015), Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha (2021), Our Blues (2022), and No Gain No Love (2024).

Jess Sum, Hong Kong actress

Jess Sum Cheuk-ying is a Hong Kong actress previously under TVB.

Peter Penz, Austrian luger

Peter Penz is an Austrian former luger who competed between 2003 and 2018. He and doubles partner Georg Fischler took two medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyongchang: a silver in the doubles competition and a bronze in the team relay. They were also gold medallists in the doubles at the 2012 European Luge Championships in Paramonovo. In addition, the pair took six medals at the FIL World Luge Championships: four in the doubles and two in mixed team competitions.

Samuele Preisig, Swiss footballer

Samuele Preisig is a former footballer from Switzerland, who played as defender.

Cristian Săpunaru, Romanian footballer

Cristian Ionuț Săpunaru is a Romanian former professional footballer who played mainly as a centre-back. He also played as a right-back or a defensive midfielder.

Fabio Vitaioli, San Marinese footballer

Fabio Vitaioli is a San Marinese footballer who currently plays for Murata and the San Marino national football team.

Kisho Yano, Japanese footballer

Kisho Yano is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward or right-back for Tochigi SC.

Saba Qamar, Pakistani actress-model

Saba Qamar Zaman is a Pakistani actress who works predominantly in Urdu films and television series. Qamar is one of Pakistan's most popular and highest-paid actresses. She is a recipient of several accolades including two Lux Style Awards and three PTV Awards alongside a Filmfare nomination. The Government of Pakistan has honoured her with the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2012 and the Pride of Performance in 2016.

05/04/1983

Jaime Castrillón, Colombian footballer

Jaime Castrillón is a Colombian former footballer who last played for the Orlando SeaWolves in the Major Arena Soccer League.

Jorge Andrés Martínez, Uruguayan footballer

Jorge Andrés Martínez Barrios is a Uruguayan footballer who last played as a midfielder for Juventud de Las Piedras.

Brock Radunske, Canadian-South Korean ice hockey player

Brock Radunske is a Canadian-born South Korean former professional ice hockey forward. He was selected in the third round of the 2002 NHL entry draft, 79th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers.

Yohann Sangaré, French basketball player

Yohann Sangaré is a French former professional basketball player.

Cécile Storti, French cross-country skier

Cécile Storti is a French cross-country skier who has competed since 2000. Competing in two Winter Olympics, she earned her best finish of sixth in the 4 × 5 km relay at Vancouver in 2010.

Shikha Uberoi, Indian-American tennis player

Shikha Devi Uberoi is an Indian-American former professional tennis player, who formerly represented India in international tournaments and a former Indian No. 1. After Nirupama Sanjeev, she is also the second Indian female player in history to crack the top 200 rankings by the WTA.

05/04/1982

Hayley Atwell, English-American actress

Hayley Elizabeth Atwell is an English and American actress. After appearing in various West End productions, Atwell gained popularity for her roles in period dramas, appearing in the films Brideshead Revisited (2008), The Duchess (2008) and the miniseries The Pillars of the Earth (2010); for the latter two, she was nominated for a British Independent Film Award and a Golden Globe Award, respectively.

Matheus Coradini Vivian, Brazilian footballer

Matheus Coradini Vivian is a Brazilian former professional footballer. He also holds an Italian passport.

Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer

Thomas Hitzlsperger is a German football executive and former professional player who played as a midfielder. He is currently a board member at Serie A club Hellas Verona.

Kelly Pavlik, American boxer

Kelly Robert Pavlik is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2000 to 2012. He won the unified WBC, WBO, Ring magazine and lineal middleweight titles by defeating Jermain Taylor in 2007, and made three successful defenses before losing them to Sergio Martínez in 2010.

Matt Pickens, American soccer player

Matt Pickens is an American retired soccer player who is an assistant coach and goalkeeping coach for the Houston Dash of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL).

Alexandre Prémat, French race car driver

Alexandre Prémat is a French racing driver. He won the Pirtek Enduro Cup for Triple Eight Race Engineering alongside Shane van Gisbergen in 2016. He also won the 2019 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 with Scott McLaughlin, driving for DJR Team Penske.

Danylo Sapunov, Ukrainian-Kazakhstani triathlete

Danylo Sapunov, is a Kazakhstani and Ukrainian professional triathlete. From 2008 to 2010, Danylo Sapunov was married to the Ukrainian triathlete Yuliya Yelistratova.

Hubert Schwab, Swiss cyclist

Hubert Schwab is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer. In his final year as a professional he rode for UCI Continental team Price–Custom Bikes. He retired from cycling after 2011 in order to return to his studies.

Marcel Seip, Dutch former footballer

Marcel Seip is a Dutch former professional footballer who plays as a centre back for ACV in the Dutch Hoofdklasse. He previously played for Veendam, Heerenveen, Plymouth Argyle, Blackpool, Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic, Bradford City, VVV Venlo, Central Coast Mariners and FC Emmen.

05/04/1981

Matthew Emmons, American rifle shooter

Matthew D. Emmons is an American rifle shooter. He competed in various events at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympics and won a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal.

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

Michael Anthony Monsoor was a United States Navy SEAL who was killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom during the Battle of Ramadi when he dove onto a grenade to shield his fellow SEALs, sacrificing his own life. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 2001 and graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL Training BUD/S class 250 in 2004. After further training he was assigned to Delta Platoon, SEAL Team 3.

Mariqueen Maandig, Filipino-American musician and singer-songwriter

Mariqueen Maandig Reznor is a Filipino-American singer, songwriter, and musician. She is the vocalist for How to Destroy Angels, and the former vocalist of Los Angeles–based rock band West Indian Girl.

Daba Modibo Keïta, Malian taekwondo athlete

Daba Modibo Keïta is a Malian taekwondo athlete. Keïta has competed in international competitions since 1996, and in 2007 became the heavyweight (+84 kg) division 2007 World Taekwondo Champion in Beijing, and competed in both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in the +80 kg class.

Marissa Nadler, American musician

Marissa Rachael Nadler is an American singer and songwriter. She is currently signed to Sacred Bones Records and Bella Union, and released her tenth studio album, New Radiations, in August 2025. Her music has been characterized as blending "traditional folk, Gothic Americana, and dreamy pop into an original musical framework". Her music "is rooted in old-school country and folk but brings in elements of experimental and black metal". Sometimes the term "dream folk" has been invoked to describe her work.

Tom Riley, English actor and producer

Tom Riley is an English actor, producer, and director.

Mompati Thuma, Botswana footballer

Mompati Thuma is a Motswana former footballer. He currently plays for the Botswana Defence Force XI in the Botswana Premier League.

Pieter Weening, Dutch cyclist

Pieter Weening is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2020 – for teams Rabobank (2004–2011), Orica–GreenEDGE (2012–2015), Roompot–Charles (2016–2019), and Trek–Segafredo (2020). During his career, Weening took a total of thirteen victories, including Grand Tour stage victories at the 2005 Tour de France, the 2011 Giro d'Italia and the 2014 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 2013 Tour de Pologne and 2016 Tour of Norway stage races.

05/04/1980

Matt Bonner, American basketball player

Matthew Robert Bonner, also known as the Red Rocket or Red Mamba, is an American former professional basketball player. Bonner played college basketball for the University of Florida before being selected by the Chicago Bulls with the 45th overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft. During his career Bonner played for the Toronto Raptors and the San Antonio Spurs with whom he won two NBA championships. He is the only player in NBA history to be born in New Hampshire.

Alberta Brianti, Italian tennis player

Alberta Brianti is a former professional tennis player from Italy. On 13 June 2011, Brianti achieved her career-high singles ranking of 55. On 13 February 2012, she peaked at No. 68 in the doubles rankings. She won one singles title on the WTA Tour, defeating Simona Halep in the final at Fes, Morocco, in 2011. Brianti reached one other WTA Tour final at the 2009 Guangzhou Open, which she lost to Shahar Pe'er. Her best performance at a Grand Slam tournament was making it through to the third round at the 2010 Australian Open.

Rafael Cavalcante, Brazilian mixed martial artist

Rafael Cavalcante, often known by his nickname of Feijão, is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who fights in the light heavyweight division. He is currently competing for Bellator MMA. He trains with Anderson Silva and Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira as part of the Black House camp. He formerly competed in Strikeforce, where he was at one time Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion. His nickname means "bean" in Portuguese. He holds notable wins over Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal and Yoel Romero.

David Chocarro, Argentinian baseball player and actor

David Chocarro is an Argentine actor, model and former baseball player.

Mike Glumac, Canadian ice hockey player

Michael Glumac is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who last played as Captain for Croatian hockey club KHL Medveščak Zagreb in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He is of Croatian descent.

Mario Kasun, Croatian basketball player

Mario Kasun is a Croatian former professional basketball player. He played at the center position.

Lee Jae-won, South Korean DJ and singer

Lee Jae-won is a South Korean singer, rapper and DJ. He is the former member of Korean groups H.O.T. and jtL.

Joris Mathijsen, Dutch footballer

Joris Mathijsen is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is the director of football at Willem II.

Rasmus Quist Hansen, Danish rower

Rasmus Quist Hansen, also known as Rasmus Quist, is a Danish rower and double World Champion in the lightweight double sculls, with his partner Mads Rasmussen.

Odlanier Solís, Cuban boxer

Odlanier Solís Fonte is a Cuban former professional boxer who competed from 2007 to 2016. He challenged once for the WBC heavyweight title in 2011. As an amateur, he won a gold medal at the 2004 Olympics; 2001, 2003, and 2005 World Championships; 1999, and 2003 Pan American; and 2001 Goodwill Games.

05/04/1979

Vlada Avramov, Serbian footballer

Vlada Avramov is a Serbian football coach and former professional football player who is the goalkeeper coach of Al-Okhdood who played as a goalkeeper.

Josh Boone, American screenwriter and director

Josh Boone is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars (2014). Boone also wrote and directed the romantic comedy Stuck in Love (2012) and the superhero horror film The New Mutants (2020). In 2020, he directed the first and last episode of the miniseries The Stand.

Song Dae-nam, South Korean judoka

Song Dae-Nam is a former South Korean judoka.

Timo Hildebrand, German footballer

Timo Hildebrand is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Imany, French singer

Nadia Mladjao, better known by her stage name Imany, is a French pop-soul recording artist of Comorian descent. Her debut album, The Shape of a Broken Heart, which was released in 2011, reached platinum status in France, Greece and triple platinum in Poland.

Barel Mouko, Congolese footballer

Barel Morial Mouko is a Congolese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Rostrenen FC.

Cesare Natali, Italian footballer

Cesare Natali is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

Mitsuo Ogasawara, Japanese footballer

Mitsuo Ogasawara is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He played for Japan national team.

Alexander Resch, German luger

Alexander Resch is a German former luger who competed from 1998 to 2010. Together with Patric Leitner, he won the men's doubles event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. They also competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics, finishing sixth. At their last race at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, they won bronze.

Andrius Velička, Lithuanian footballer

Andrius Velička is a Lithuanian retired professional association footballer who played as a striker for clubs in Russia, Kazakhstan, Scotland, England, Norway and Azerbaijan in addition to his homeland. He also played for the Lithuania national team.

Dante Wesley, American football player

Dante Julius Wesley is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Carolina Panthers in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL draft. He played college football for the Arkansas–Pine Bluff Golden Lions. Wesley was also a member of the Chicago Bears, New England Patriots and Detroit Lions.

Chen Yanqing, Chinese weightlifter

Chen Yanqing is a Chinese weightlifter who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics. She won the gold medal in the 58 kg class in both competitions, making her the first woman to win gold medals in weightlifting in two consecutive Olympics.

05/04/1978

Dwain Chambers, British track sprinter

Dwain Anthony Chambers is a British track sprinter. He has won international medals at World and European levels and is one of the fastest European sprinters in the history of athletics. His primary event is the 100 metres, with a best of 9.97 seconds, which ranks him equal 9th on the British all-time list. He is the former European record holder for the 60 metres and 4 × 100 metres relay events with 6.42 seconds and 37.73 s respectively.

Marcone Amaral Costa, Qatari footballer

Marcone Amaral Costa Jr., known as Marcone, is a former footballer. Born in Brazil, he represented Qatar at international level.

Tarek El-Said, Egyptian footballer

Tarek El-Said Mohamed Aly Abdo is a former Egyptian footballer. He was a left winger who played for Al-Ahly, Zamalek, and Anderlecht in the Belgian First Division.

Jairo Patiño, Colombian footballer

Jairo Leonard Patiño Rosero is a Colombian retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Sohyang, South Korean singer

Kim So-hyang, known mononymously as Sohyang, is a South Korean singer-songwriter.

Stephen Jackson, American basketball player

Stephen Jesse Jackson is an American former professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the New Jersey Nets, Atlanta Hawks, Indiana Pacers, Golden State Warriors, Milwaukee Bucks, Charlotte Bobcats, San Antonio Spurs, and Los Angeles Clippers. Jackson won an NBA championship with the Spurs in 2003. Jackson emerged as an activist and spokesman for civil rights during the Black Lives Matter movement.

Arnaud Tournant, French cyclist

Arnaud Tournant is a French track cyclist. He has won 14 World Championships and won a gold, silver and a bronze at the Summer Olympics. In track cycling, he is third behind Harrie Lavreysen (20) and Sir Chris Hoy (17) in the number of global gold medals in his palmares.

Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer

Franziska van Almsick is a retired German swimmer, former world record holder in 200 metres freestyle. She was multiple World and European champion, in both Long and Short Course Championships.

Günther Weidlinger, Austrian long-distance runner

Günther Weidlinger is an Austrian long-distance runner who is a former 3000 metres steeplechase specialist but now competes in the marathon.

05/04/1977

Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player

Jonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich is an Israeli former professional tennis player. During his career, he was mainly a doubles specialist, having won the men's doubles title at the 2008 Australian Open with Andy Ram. He attained his career-high doubles ranking of world No. 5 in July 2008. Erlich has reached 44 doubles finals and won 22, mostly with partner Andy Ram; together, they are known in Israel as "Andyoni". His Davis Cup doubles record, as of 2018, was 22–12.

Trevor Letowski, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Trevor Letowski is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger and current assistant coach for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the seventh round, 174th overall, by the Phoenix Coyotes in the 1996 NHL entry draft. Letowski also played for the Vancouver Canucks, Columbus Blue Jackets, and Carolina Hurricanes. Following retirement from active play, he has served as head coach of the OHL's Sarnia Sting and Windsor Spitfires.

Daniel Majstorović, Swedish footballer

Daniel Majstorović is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a centre back.

05/04/1976

Luis de Agustini, Uruguayan footballer

Luis Alejandro Rubén de Agustini Varela, known simply as Luis de Agustini, is a former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Born in Uruguay, he represented the Libya national team.

Péter Biros, Hungarian water polo player

Péter Biros is a Hungarian former water polo player, who played on the gold medal squads at the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics, which makes him one of six male athletes who won three Olympic gold medals in water polo. He also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Sterling K. Brown, American actor

Sterling Kelby Brown is an American actor. He has received numerous accolades including three Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award as well as a nomination for an Academy Award. He was included in Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2018.

Aleksei Budõlin, Estonian judoka

Aleksei Budõlin is an Estonian former judoka and current coach. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal in the men's Half Middleweight (‍–‍81 kg) category, together with Nuno Delgado of Portugal.

Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer

Simone Inzaghi is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is currently the head coach of Saudi Pro League club Al-Hilal. Nicknamed "Il demone di Piacenza" because of his ability to find unexpected tactical solutions and his verbal and non-verbal coaching communication style, Inzaghi is known for helping revive the 3–5–2 tactical setup.

Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer and coach

Fernando Morientes Sánchez is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer

Natalia Yurievna Ragozina, better known as Natascha Ragosina, is an undefeated retired Russian professional boxer who spent much of her career ranked as the top female super middleweight in the world.

Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer

Henrik Olof Stenson is a Swedish professional golfer. In the late 1990s, Stenson turned pro and had much success on the European Tour, winning a number of events in the 2000s. In 2009, Stenson won the PGA Tour's flagship event, The Players Championship, and has primarily focused on the United States since then. Shortly thereafter, however, Stenson entered a drought where he fell out of the top 200 in the world. In 2013, however, Stenson had his most successful year, winning a number of significant worldwide titles and finishing runner-up at the Open Championship. Due to his success he won the season-ending titles for the PGA Tour, the FedEx Cup, and European Tour, the Race to Dubai. In 2016, Stenson won his only major championship, the Open Championship by three strokes over Phil Mickelson.

Valeria Straneo, Italian long-distance runner

Valeria Straneo is an Italian long-distance runner, winner of the silver medal at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics and Italian record holder in the marathon.

Indrek Tobreluts, Estonian biathlete

Indrek Tobreluts is an Estonian former biathlete and cross-country skier. He has competed at five Winter Olympics.

Anouska van der Zee, Dutch cyclist

Annuska Johanna Maria 'Anouska' van der Zee is a retired Dutch racing cyclist. She participated both on track and at the road.

05/04/1975

Sarah Baldock, English organist and conductor

Sarah Baldock is an English organist and choral conductor, formerly the Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral. She is notable as one of the earliest women to be appointed to the senior music post at a Church of England cathedral. She was married to counter-tenor David Hurley. Baldock has become known as a popular soloist in the UK and abroad.

John Hartson, Welsh footballer and coach

John Hartson is a Welsh former professional footballer, coach and sports television pundit for S4C, Sky Sports, Premier Sports TV and TNT Sports.

Juicy J, American rapper and producer

Jordan Michael Houston III, known professionally as Juicy J, is an American rapper and record producer. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, he is a founding member of the Southern hip-hop group Three 6 Mafia, established in 1991. He released ten studio albums with the group, which began as an underground act until attaining mainstream recognition and signing with Loud Records, an imprint of Columbia Records in 2000. The group's 2005 single, "Stay Fly", yielded their furthest commercial success, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. That same year, they recorded the song "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" for the film Hustle & Flow, which won an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

Serhiy Klymentiev, Ukrainian ice hockey player

Serhiy Volodomyrovych Klymentiev is a Ukrainian former professional ice hockey defenceman.

Caitlin Moran, English journalist, author, and critic

Catherine Elizabeth Moran is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author at The Times, where she writes two columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch".

Marcos Vales, Spanish footballer

Marcos Vales Illanes is a Spanish former footballer who played as a midfielder.

Shammond Williams, American basketball player and coach

Shammond Omar Williams is an American-born naturalized Georgian former professional basketball player. Standing at 1.85 m, he played at both point guard and shooting guard positions. During his career he played in the NBA and in Europe. He most recently served as the interim head coach for the Denver Pioneers men's basketball team after head coach Jeff Wellbrun was placed on leave for the remainder of the 2024-25 season. He was not retained on Tim Bergstraser's staff.

05/04/1974

Sandra Bagarić, Croatian opera singer and actress

Sandra Bagarić is a Bosnian and Croatian opera singer and actress.

Julien Boutter, French tennis player

Julien Boutter is a former professional male tennis player from France.

Katja Holanti, Finnish biathlete

Katja Minna Marita Holanti is a Finnish biathlete. She competed at the 1994, 1998 and the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Oleg Khodkov, Russian handball player

Oleg Khodkov is a former Russian handball player. He is the current head coach of HBC CSKA Moscow.

Ariel López, Argentine footballer

Ariel Maximiliano López is a former Argentine football player.

Lukas Ridgeston, Slovak actor and director

Lukas Ridgeston is a Slovak actor and director in gay erotic movies and model in Bel Ami gay erotic magazines and books. He was born in Bratislava, then part of the former Czechoslovakia, now capital of Slovakia. Lukas Ridgeston is best known as "The King of Gay Porn" or just "The King".

Vyacheslav Voronin, Russian high jumper

Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin is a Russian track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump.

05/04/1973

Élodie Bouchez, French-American actress

Élodie Bouchez is a French actress. She became internationally known for her role as Renée Rienne on the fifth and final season of the television show Alias and for playing Maïté Alvarez in the film Wild Reeds.

Brendan Cannon, Australian rugby player

Brendan Cannon is a former Australian rugby union footballer who played for the national team, The Wallabies and three Australian teams in the Super 12 and Super 14 competitions.

Lidia Trettel, Italian snowboarder

Lidia Trettel is an Italian snowboarder and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Pharrell Williams, American singer, songwriter and rapper

Pharrell Lanscilo Williams is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and fashion designer. He initially became known as one half of the music production duo the Neptunes, which he established alongside Chad Hugo in 1992. Fifteen of their productions have peaked within the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, which includes four songs that peaked atop the chart. The two also formed the rock and hip-hop band N.E.R.D. with Shay Haley in 1999, for which Williams served as lead vocalist. He has been regarded as one of the most influential producers in modern popular music. He has also contributed music to all Despicable Me animated films.

05/04/1972

Nima Arkani-Hamed, American-Canadian theoretical physicist

Nima Arkani-Hamed is an Iranian-American-Canadian theoretical physicist, with interests in high-energy physics, quantum field theory, string theory, cosmology and collider physics. Arkani-Hamed is a member of the permanent faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where he is also director of the Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation. He is also director of The Center for Future High Energy Physics (CFHEP) in Beijing, China.

Tom Coronel, Dutch race car driver

Tom Romeo Coronel is a Dutch professional racing driver. Tom's twin brother Tim is also a racer, just like their father Tom Coronel Sr. His most important results are winning the Marlboro Masters of Formula 3 race in 1997, the Formula Nippon championship in 1999, and the 2006 and 2009 World Touring Car Championship Independents' Trophy. As of September 2016, Tom Coronel has driven over 1,000 races.

Paul Okon, Australian footballer and manager

Paul Michael Okon is an Australian former soccer player who played as a defender or midfielder.

Duncan Spencer, English cricketer

Duncan Spencer is an English former cricketer.

Yasuhiro Takemoto, Japanese animator and director (died 2019)

Yasuhiro Takemoto was a Japanese animator and television and film director. He worked at Kyoto Animation for almost his entire animation career after joining the company in 1996 until his death in 2019.

Junko Takeuchi, Japanese actress

Junko Takeuchi is a Japanese actress and voice actress employed by Ogipro The Next Co. Inc. & BQMAP. Taking a well-trod path by many voice actresses, she often voices young male characters, with generally very quirky and goofy personalities. One of her most well-known roles includes Naruto Uzumaki in the popular anime series Naruto. She has played Takuya Kanbara in Digimon Frontier, Rin Natsuki/Cure Rouge in Yes! PreCure 5, Metabee in Medabots, Mamoru Endou in Inazuma Eleven and Inazuma Eleven GO, Gon Freecss in the 1999 version of Hunter × Hunter, MrBeast in the Japanese dub of MrBeast, and GingerBrave in the Japanese dub of Cookie Run: Kingdom.

05/04/1971

Dong Abay, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist

Westdon Martin Abay, popularly known as Dong Abay, is a poet and a Pinoy rock musician. He was the founding member, songwriter and lead vocalist of the bands Yano, Pan, and dongabay, which are now all defunct. In 2005, he pursued a solo career as an independent artist by releasing an album entitled Sampol. In 2017, he formed a rock band named Dong Abay Music Organization or D.A.M.O. while having other endeavors such as a songwriting school.

Krista Allen, American actress

Krista Allen is an American actress, comedian and model. Allen is known for playing soap opera roles, including Billie Reed on Days of Our Lives (1996–1999) and Taylor Hayes on The Bold and the Beautiful (2021–2023), earning a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for the latter.

Austin Berry, Costa Rican footballer

Austin Gerardo Berry Moya is a Costa Rican former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Simona Cavallari, Italian actress

Simona Cavallari is an Italian actress of the cinema, theatre, and television.

Victoria Hamilton, English actress

Victoria Hamilton is an English actress known for her roles in theatre and period dramas. Training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, Hamilton began appearing in productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She starred alongside Clive Owen, and later Eddie Izzard, in the London stage play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (2002), making her Broadway debut a year later, and earned a Tony Award nomination for Best Actress in a Play.

Nelson Parraguez, Chilean footballer

Nelson Rodrigo Parraguez Riveros is a retired Chilean football midfielder who was capped 52 times for the Chile national team between 1991 and 2001, including three games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.

Kim Soo-nyung, South Korean archer

Kim Soo-nyung is a former member of the South Korean Olympic archery team in 1988, 1992, and 2000.

05/04/1970

Soheil Ayari, French race car driver

Soheil Ayari is a French-Iranian race car driver born in Aix-les-Bains, Savoie, from an Iranian father and a French mother. He won the French Formula Ford championship of 1994, Formula Three championship of 1996 and the Macau Grand Prix of 1997. From 1997 until 2000, he competed in Formula 3000 where he won two races before moving on to the French Supertouring Championship in 2001 where he became champion in 2002, 2004 and 2005.

Valérie Bonneton, French actress

Valérie Bonneton is a French actress.

Diamond D, American hip hop producer

Joseph Kirkland, better known by his stage name Diamond D, is an American hip hop MC and record producer from The Bronx, New York City, and one of the founding members of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew, abbreviated as D.I.T.C.

Petar Genov, Bulgarian chess grandmaster

Petar Genov is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster (2002).

Thea Gill, Canadian actress

Thea Louise Gill is a Canadian actress best known for her starring role as Lindsay Peterson in the Showtime television series Queer as Folk.

Miho Hatori, Japanese singer-songwriter

Miho Hatori is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and musician. She is best known as a solo artist, co-founder of New York City band Cibo Matto, and as the first person to provide the voice of Noodle in the virtual band Gorillaz, as well as for her work with the Beastie Boys, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Smokey Hormel, John Zorn, and many more.

Irina Timofeyeva, Russian long-distance runner

Irina Nikolayevna Timofeyeva is a Russian former long-distance runner who specialized in running the marathon.

05/04/1969

Dinos Angelidis, Greek basketball player

Konstantinos "Dinos" Angelidis is an Austrian-born former Greek professional basketball player of mixed Greek-Austrian descent. Born in Vienna, he played professionally in the Greek Basket League, and he also represented the Greek national team at the senior level. He played as either a power forward or center.

Viatcheslav Djavanian, Russian cyclist

Viatcheslav Djavanian is a Russian former professional road cyclist. He won the Tour de Pologne 1996.

Pontus Kåmark, Swedish footballer

Sven Pontus Kåmark is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a defender. He played for Västerås SK, IFK Göteborg, Leicester City and AIK, and won 57 caps for the Sweden national team. He was part of the Swedish team that finished third at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Pavlo Khnykin, Ukrainian swimmer

Pavlo Khnykin is a retired freestyle swimmer from Vinnytsia, Ukraine. He was born in Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR.

Tomislav Piplica, Bosnian footballer and manager

Tomislav Piplica is a Bosnian football manager who formerly played as goalkeeper. His nickname is "Pipi" and he is considered to be a cult-goalkeeper, in Germany as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ravindra Prabhat, Indian writer and journalist

Ravindra Prabhat is a Hindi-language novelist, journalist, poet, and short story writer from India.

05/04/1968

Paula Cole, American singer-songwriter and pianist

Paula Dorothy Cole is an American singer and songwriter. After gaining attention for her performances as a vocalist on Peter Gabriel's 1993–1994 Secret World Tour, she released her first album, Harbinger, which suffered from a lack of promotion when the label, Imago Records, folded shortly after its release. Her second album, This Fire (1996), brought her worldwide acclaim, peaking at number 20 on the Billboard 200 album chart and producing two hit singles, the triple-Grammy nominated "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?", which reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and "I Don't Want to Wait", which was used as the theme song of the television show Dawson's Creek. Cole was a featured performer in the 1996 prototype mini-tour for Lilith Fair, and also was a headliner for Lilith Fair in 1997 and 1998. She won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1998, and that same year became the first woman to be nominated for "Producer of the Year" without a male collaborator.

05/04/1967

Troy Gentry, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)

Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo/solo act founded by singers Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry, both Kentucky natives. They began performing together in the 1990s as part of two different bands with Montgomery's brother, John Michael Montgomery. Although Gentry won a talent contest in 1994, he reunited with Eddie Montgomery after Gentry was unable to find a solo record deal, and Montgomery Gentry was formed in 1999. The duo is known for its Southern rock influences, and has collaborated with Charlie Daniels, Toby Keith, Five for Fighting, and members of The Allman Brothers Band.

Franck Silvestre, French footballer

Franck Claude Silvestre is a French former professional footballer who played as a centre back.

Erland Johnsen, Norwegian footballer

Erland Johnsen is a Norwegian football manager and former professional footballer who is director of youth at Sarpsborg 08 FF.

Laima Zilporytė, Soviet cyclist

Laima Zilporytė is a retired female cyclist, who trained at Dynamo sports society in Panevėžys and represented the USSR at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. There she won the bronze medal in the women's individual road race, after being defeated in the sprint by the Netherlands' Monique Knol and West Germany's Jutta Niehaus.

05/04/1966

Yoon Hyun, South Korean judoka

Yoon Hyun is a South Korean judoka.

Mike McCready, American guitarist and songwriter

Michael David McCready is an American musician known for being a founding member and lead guitarist of Pearl Jam. McCready was also a member of the side project bands Flight to Mars, Temple of the Dog, Mad Season, and The Rockfords. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a part of Pearl Jam in 2017 alongside the four other founding members, and former member Matt Cameron.

Peter Overton, English-Australian journalist and television host

Peter John Overton, is an Australian television journalist and news presenter.

05/04/1965

Aykut Kocaman, Turkish footballer and manager

Aykut Kocaman is a former Turkish footballer, who played as a striker. Before he made his debut 1980 with the amateur club Kabataş Altınmızrak in Istanbul, Kocaman performed gymnastics at the club Eczacıbaşı, winning 40 medals and reaching second place at the national level. 1984, he moved to Sakaryaspor in Adapazarı, Sakarya and turned professional. In 1988, Kocaman signed a contract with Fenerbahçe, where he played and contributed much to the success of his club until he was transferred to Istanbulspor in 1996.

Lang Tzu-yun, Taiwanese actress

Lang Tzu-yun is a Taiwanese actress.

Elizabeth McIntyre, American freestyle skier

Elizabeth Geary McIntyre, sometimes known as Liz McIntyre, is an American freestyle skier and Olympic medalist. She received a silver medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, in moguls. She finished 8th at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

Svetlana Paramygina, Belarusian biathlete

Svetlana Paramygina is a former Belarusian biathlete. Her international biathlon career began in 1983. In the 1993/1994 season she won the overall World Cup. The following year she finished second overall. At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer she won a silver medal in the sprint event. After the 2000/2001 season she retired as a biathlete.

05/04/1964

Neil Eckersley, British judoka

Neil Eckersley is a retired judoka from the United Kingdom, who represented Great Britain at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he won a bronze medal in the men's extra-lightweight division (‍–‍60 kg), alongside USA's Edward "Ed" Liddie.

Vakhtang Iagorashvili, Soviet modern pentathlete

Vakhtang "Vaho" Iagorashvili is a Soviet modern pentathlete, who has been a member of three different Olympic teams during his sporting career.

Levon Julfalakyan, Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler

Levon Julfalakyan is a former Soviet Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic Champion, World Champion, and European Champion and was merited Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR in 1988. Julfalakyan is the current head coach of the Armenian national Greco-Roman wrestling team and President of the Union of Armenian Olympians, as well as a member of the executive committee of the NOC.

Marius Lăcătuș, Romanian footballer and coach

Marius Mihai Lăcătuș is a Romanian professional football manager and former player.

05/04/1963

Arthur Adams, American comic book artist and writer

Arthur Adams is an American comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries Longshot. His subsequent interior comics work includes a number of Marvel's major books, including The Uncanny X-Men, Excalibur, X-Factor, Fantastic Four, Hulk, and Ultimate Comics: X, as well as books by various other publishers, such as Action Comics, Vampirella, The Rocketeer, and The Authority. Adams has also illustrated books featuring characters for which he has a personal love, such as Godzilla, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and Gumby, the latter of which garnered him a 1988 Eisner Award for Best Single Issue.

05/04/1962

Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (died 2003)

Lana Jean Clarkson was an American actress and fashion model. During the 1980s, she rose to prominence in several sword and sorcery films. In 2003, record producer and songwriter Phil Spector shot and killed Clarkson inside his home; he was charged with second-degree murder and convicted in 2009.

Sara Danius, Swedish scholar of literature and aesthetics (died 2019)

Sara Maria Danius was a Swedish literary critic and philosopher, and a scholar of literature and aesthetics. Danius was professor of aesthetics at Södertörn University, docent of literature at Uppsala University and professor in literary science at Stockholm University.

Richard Gough, Swedish born Scottish international footballer

Charles Richard Gough is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a defender.

Arild Monsen, Norwegian cross-country skier

Arild Monsen is a former Norwegian cross-country skier who competed at international level from 1982 to 1989. He won the 4 × 10 km gold at the 1985 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Seefeld and finished seventh in the 15 km event at same championship.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Russian businessman and politician, 1st President of Kalmykia

Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov is a Russian oligarch, administrator and politician. He was President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and was president of FIDE, the chess international governing body, from 1995 to 2018. He has also been at the forefront of promoting chess in schools in Russia and overseas. He is the founder of Novy Vzglyad publishing house.

05/04/1961

Andrea Arnold, English filmmaker and actress

Andrea Patricia Arnold OBE is an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009) and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, while her first documentary feature Cow premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Anna Caterina Antonacci, Italian soprano

Anna Caterina Antonacci is an Italian soprano known for roles in the bel canto and Baroque repertories. She performed as a mezzo-soprano for several years, particularly performing the Rossini canon.

Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, Bahraini-Danish human rights activist

Abdulhadi Abdulla Hubail al-Khawaja is a Bahraini political activist. On 22 June 2011, al-Khawaja and eight others were sentenced to life imprisonment following the suppression of pro-democracy protests against the Bahraini government. Al-Khawaja has previously gone on a series of hunger strikes while serving his life sentence, in protest of the political conditions in Bahrain.

Lisa Zane, American actress and singer

Lisa Zane is an American actress.

05/04/1960

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

Asteris Koutoulas is a Greek-Romanian event and music producer, publicist, translator, filmmaker and author. He was the manager of Mikis Theodorakis and the event producer of Gert Hof. Koutoulas rose to prominence as a director when his documentary fiction film "Recycling Medea: Not an Opera Ballet Film" won the Cinema for Peace Most Valuable Documentary Film Award in 2014.

Larry McCray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Larry McCray, is an American blues guitarist and singer from Magnolia, Arkansas.

Ian Redford, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2014)

Ian Petrie Redford was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a midfielder or forward. He played for Dundee before joining Rangers for a then Scottish record transfer fee. At Rangers he won in three domestic cup finals. He then joined Dundee United where he scored in the 1987 UEFA Cup semi final win against Borussia Mönchengladbach. He then played for Ipswich Town, St Johnstone and Brechin City before wrapping up his career with two winners medals at Raith Rovers.

Hiromi Taniguchi, Japanese long-distance runner

Hiromi Taniguchi is a former Japanese long-distance runner, best known from winning the gold medal in the marathon at the 1991 World Championships in Athletics in Tokyo. The favourite to win the race, Olympic champion Gelindo Bordin, only finished eighth. The marathon was run under extremely adverse conditions of heat and humidity, which are reflected in the slow winning time of 2:14:57h. Taniguchi is the only male Japanese runner ever to have won a gold medal at World Championships.

Adnan Terzić, Bosnian politician

Adnan Terzić is a Bosnian politician who served as Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2007. He was a longtime member of the Party of Democratic Action, until he left it to join the Union for a Better Future.

05/04/1959

Paul Chung, Hong Kong actor and host (died 1989)

Paul Chung Po Lo was a Hong Kong actor, MC and a DJ in the early 1980s. He committed suicide on 1 September 1989.

05/04/1958

Kevin Dann, Australian rugby league player (died 2021)

Kevin George Dann was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played his entire club football career with the Penrith Panthers, as a fullback.

Henrik Dettmann, Finnish basketball coach

Henrik Dettmann is a Finnish professional basketball coach who last served as head coach of the French LNB Pro A team SIG Strasbourg and the Finnish national basketball team. He was the head coach of German national basketball team from 1997 to 2003, winning the bronze medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship. In 2004, Dettman won FIBA EuroCup Challenge with Mitteldeutscher. He coached Finland national team on two occasions, for 23 years in total.

Ryoichi Kawakatsu, Japanese footballer

Ryoichi Kawakatsu is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

Johan Kriek, South African-American tennis player

Johan Christiaan Kriek is a South African–American former professional tennis player. He won two Australian Open titles, beating Steve Denton in four sets in the 1981 final and the same opponent in the 1982 final in straight sets, when he tamed Denton's cannonball serve and "relentlessly whipped winners past him from all angles of the court". He reached the semifinals at the French Open and US Open, as well as the quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Championships. Kriek won 14 professional singles and eight doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 7 in September 1984.

Daniel Schneidermann, French journalist

Daniel Schneidermann is a French journalist who focuses on the analysis of televised media. He is mainly active in weekly columns—in the past in Le Monde and presently in Libération and on a video channel: Arrêt sur images (Freeze-frame), formerly broadcast by the public TV channel France 5, but currently financed by subscription. The television show was canceled in 2007 by France 5 direction, an incident that led to the creation of the Arret Sur Images web site.

Lasantha Wickrematunge, Sri Lankan lawyer and journalist (died 2009)

Lasantha Manilal Wickrematunge was a high-profile Sri Lankan journalist, politician, broadcaster, and human rights activist who was assassinated in January 2009.

05/04/1957

Sebastian Adayanthrath, Indian bishop

Sebastian Adayantharath is a Syro-Malabar Catholic bishop. He is the current bishop of Mandya and also a former auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly.

Karin Roßley, German hurdler

Karin Roßley, is a retired East German hurdler, who represented the sports team SC Cottbus. She was born in Cottbus.

05/04/1956

Diamond Dallas Page, American wrestler and actor

Dallas Page, is an American fitness instructor, actor, and retired professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE under a Legends contract, under the ring name Diamond Dallas Page. In the course of his wrestling career Page has wrestled for mainstream wrestling promotions World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the World Wrestling Federation, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

Leonid Fedun, Russian businessman

Leonid Arnoldovich Fedun is a Ukrainian-born Russian billionaire businessman known for co-founding Russian oil company Lukoil. Until retiring in 2022, Fedun was vice president of Lukoil. He formerly served as president of FC Spartak Moscow before selling 100% of his shares to Lukoil.

Reid Ribble, American politician

Reid James Ribble is an American businessman and Republican politician from the Fox Cities region of Wisconsin. He served three terms in the United States House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 8th congressional district from 2011 to 2017.

T. V. Smith, English singer-songwriter

Timothy "T. V." Smith is an English singer-songwriter who was part of punk band The Adverts in the late 1970s. Since then he has fronted other bands, as well as pursuing a solo career.

05/04/1955

Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress, producer, and screenwriter

Anne-Charlotte de Turckheim is a French actress, screenwriter, comedian and film producer.

Ricardo Ferrero, Argentine footballer (died 2015)

Ricardo Ferrero was an Argentine professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Cruz Azul, Barcelona, and Racing de Santander. He later became a manager with Deportivo Toluca.

Christian Gourcuff, French footballer and manager

Christian Jean Gourcuff is a French former professional football player and manager. He spent a majority of his managerial career at Lorient, where he was the head coach for 25 years across three different spells.

Anthony Horowitz, English author and screenwriter

Anthony John Horowitz is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include the Alex Rider series featuring a 14-year-old British boy who spies for MI6, The Power of Five series, and The Diamond Brothers series.

Bernard Longley, English prelate

Bernard Longley is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was named the Archbishop of Birmingham on 1 October 2009, and installed on 8 December 2009.

Akira Toriyama, Japanese illustrator (died 2024)

Akira Toriyama was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors in the history of manga and created numerous highly influential and popular series, with his most famous and successful project being the Dragon Ball franchise.

Takayoshi Yamano, Japanese footballer

Takayoshi Yamano is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

05/04/1954

Guy Bertrand, Canadian linguist and radio host

Guy Bertrand is a Canadian linguist and broadcast personality.

Peter Case, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Peter Case is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His career is wide-ranging, from rock n' roll and blues, to folk rock and solo acoustic performance.

Mohamed Ben Mouza, Tunisian footballer

Mohamed Ali Ben Moussa was a Tunisian footballer who played as a defender, mainly as a left-back, for Club Africain and the Tunisia national team.

Stan Ridgway, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Stanard "Stan" Ridgway is an American singer-songwriter, and film and television composer known for his distinctive voice, dramatic lyrical narratives, and eclectic solo albums. He was the original lead singer and a founding member of the band Wall of Voodoo.

Yoshiichi Watanabe, Japanese footballer

Yoshiichi Watanabe is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

05/04/1953

Frank Gaffney, American journalist and radio host

Frank J. Gaffney Jr. is an American defense policy analyst and founder of the Center for Security Policy (CSP). He founded the CSP in 1988, serving as its president until 2023, and thereafter as executive chairman. In the 1970s and 1980s, he worked for the federal government in multiple posts, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear Forces and Arms Control Policy from 1983 to 1987, and seven months as Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan administration. He was awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service in 1987. In later years, he has been described as an anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist.

Keiko Han, Japanese actress

Keiko Han is a Japanese actress and voice actress. She sang the theme songs in productions, such as Story of the Alps: My Annette and The Swiss Family Robinson: Flone of the Mysterious Island. She is also a fortune teller of western horoscopes. She wrote books on the subject, and is employed by talent agency Never Land Arts. She was a former member of Aoni Production and 81 Produce.

Tae Jin-ah, South Korean singer

Jo Bang-heon, better known by his stage name, Tae Jin-ah (태진아), is a South Korean trot singer and entertainer. He debuted in 1973 with the song, "My Heart Express Train," and rose to fame soon after with the song, "Memory of a Blue Hill." Since 2002, he has hosted a radio program on KBS Radio 2 called the Tae Jin Ah Show Show Show. He often appears on the KBS 1TV 'Golden Oldies(Korean: 가요무대)'.

Raleb Majadele, Israeli politician

Raleb Majadele is an Israeli Arab politician. He served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party in three spells between 2004 and 2015, and became the country's first Muslim minister when appointed Minister without Portfolio on 28 January 2007. Between March 2007 - March 2009 he served as Minister of Science, Culture and Sport, the first Muslim minister in Israeli history.

Ian Swales, English accountant and politician

Ian Cameron Swales is a British Liberal Democrat politician. He was the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Redcar in England. He is the only person ever to gain a North East Region Commons seat for the Liberal Democrats. Swales took Redcar from Labour incumbent Vera Baird for the Liberal Democrats at the 2010 general election, with a 21.8% swing adding over 11,000 votes to his 2005 general election total. This was the biggest swing against any Labour candidate in the election and was also the biggest majority overcome by any Liberal Democrat, until the 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election. He stood down at the 2015 general election.

05/04/1952

Alfie Conn, Scottish international footballer

Alfie James Conn is a Scottish former professional footballer, who was the first post-World War II player to play for both Old Firm rivals Rangers and Celtic.

John C. Dvorak, American author and editor

John C. Dvorak is an American writer and broadcaster in the areas of technology and personal computing. He has been a columnist for multiple magazines since the 1980s and has written or co-authored over a dozen how-to books on software and technology. He was vice president of Mevio, and has been a host on TechTV and TWiT.tv. He is currently a co-host of the No Agenda podcast.

Sandy Mayer, American tennis player

Alexander Mayer is a former tennis player from the United States. He won twelve titles in singles and twenty-four titles in doubles in his professional career, and was part of the winning tennis squad at Stanford University in 1973.

Dennis Mortimer, English footballer

Dennis George Mortimer is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder and captained Aston Villa. He made nearly 600 appearances in the Football League playing for Coventry City, Aston Villa, Sheffield United, Brighton & Hove Albion and Birmingham City.

Mitch Pileggi, American actor

Mitchell Pileggi is an American actor. He played Horace Pinker in Shocker, Walter Skinner on The X-Files, Colonel Steven Caldwell on Stargate Atlantis, Ernest Darby in Sons of Anarchy, and Harris Ryland in the TNT revival of Dallas (2012–2014).

05/04/1951

Les Binks, Irish drummer and songwriter

James Leslie Binks was a Northern Irish heavy metal drummer. He is best-known for being the drummer for Judas Priest, where he was a member from 1977 to 1979.

Yevgeniy Gavrilenko, Belarusian hurdler

Yevgeniy Mikhailovich Gavrilenko is a former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metre hurdles. He trained at Dynamo in Gomel.

Nedim Gürsel, Turkish writer

Nedim Gürsel is a Turkish writer. In the late 1960s, he published novellas and essays in Turkish magazines. After graduating from Galatasaray High School in 1970, he studied at the Sorbonne. In 1974, he graduated from the Sorbonne's Department of Modern French Literature. In 1979, he received his doctorate in comparative literature after completing his dissertation on Louis Aragon and Nazim Hikmet. He returned to Turkey, but the unrest there in 1980 persuaded him to go back to France.

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

Dean Lawrence Kamen is an American engineer, inventor, and businessman. He is known for his invention of the Segway and iBOT, as well as founding the non-profit organization FIRST with Woodie Flowers. Kamen holds over 1,000 patents.

Dave McArtney, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2013)

David Ewan McArtney was a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s with the band Hello Sailor and his band Dave McArtney & The Pink Flamingos.

Ubol Ratana, Thai Princess

Ubol Ratana is a member of the Thai royal family. She is the eldest child of King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit, and the elder sister of King Vajiralongkorn.

05/04/1950

Ann C. Crispin, American writer (died 2013)

Ann Carol Crispin was an American science fiction writer and the author of 23 published novels. She wrote several Star Trek and Star Wars novelizations; she also created an original science fiction series called StarBridge.

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

Franklin Ramon Chang-Díaz is a Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer, physicist, and former NASA astronaut. He is the sole founder and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company as well as a member of the Cummins' board of directors. He became a U. S. citizen in 1977.

Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer

Agneta Åse "Agnetha" Fältskog is a Swedish singer, songwriter, and a member of the pop group ABBA. She first achieved success in Sweden with the release of her 1968 self-titled debut album. She rose to international stardom in the 1970s as a member of ABBA, which is one of the best-selling music acts in history.

Toshiko Fujita, Japanese actress, singer and narrator (died 2018)

Toshiko Fujita was a Japanese actress, singer and narrator. She was affiliated with Aoni Production at the time of her death.

Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor

Predrag "Miki" Manojlović is a Serbian actor, famous for his starring roles in some of the most important films of Yugoslav cinema. Since the early 1990s, he successfully branched out into movies made outside the Balkans and became active in productions all over Europe.

05/04/1949

Stanley Dziedzic, American wrestler

Stanley Joseph Dziedzic Jr. is an American former welterweight freestyle wrestler.

Larry Franco, American film producer

Larry Joseph Franco is an American film producer. He has also served as an actor, second unit director and assistant director. He is the father of former Atlanta Braves baseball player Matt Franco and Phronsie Franco. He is the ex-brother-in-law of actor Kurt Russell and the ex-son-in-law of actor Bing Russell. Franco attended UCLA film school.

Judith Resnik, American engineer and astronaut (died 1986)

Judith Arlene Resnik was an American electrical engineer, software engineer, biomedical engineer, pilot and NASA astronaut who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. She was the fourth woman, the second American woman and the first Jewish woman of any nationality to fly in space, logging 145 hours in orbit.

05/04/1948

Pierre-Albert Chapuisat, Swiss footballer

Pierre-Albert 'Gabet' Chapuisat is a Swiss retired football defender and manager.

Dave Holland, English drummer (died 2018)

David Holland was an English drummer, best remembered for his time with the rock band Trapeze from 1969 to 1979 and Judas Priest from 1979 to 1989.

Roy McFarland, English footballer and manager

Roy Leslie McFarland is an English former football manager and player. With Derby County, he played 442 league games, helping him to earn 28 caps for England.

05/04/1947

Đurđica Bjedov, Yugoslav swimmer

Đurđa "Đurđica" Bjedov is a retired Croatian swimmer and the only Yugoslav Olympic champion in swimming.

Willy Chirino, Cuban-American musician

Willy Chirino is a Cuban singer, songwriter, musician and record producer.

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

Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo, often referred to as PGMA or GMA, is a Filipino academic and politician who served as the 14th president of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010. She is the longest-serving president since Ferdinand Marcos. Before her presidency, she was the 10th vice president of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001 under President Joseph Estrada, becoming the first female vice president. She was also a senator from 1992 to 1998. After her presidency, she was elected as the representative of Pampanga's 2nd district in 2010 and continues to serve in this role. She also served as the speaker of the House from 2018 to 2019, and as deputy speaker from 2016 to 2017 and 2022 to 2023. Alongside former president Sergio Osmeña, she is one of only two Filipinos to hold at least three of the four highest offices: vice president, president, and house speaker.

Ramón Mifflin, Peruvian footballer

Ramón Antonio Mifflin Páez is a former Peruvian football player.

Virendra Sharma, Indian-English lawyer and politician

Virendra Kumar Sharma is a British-Indian Labour Party politician. He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ealing Southall from 2007 to 2024.

05/04/1946

Jane Asher, English actress

Jane Asher is an English actress and author. She achieved early fame as a child actress. She has worked extensively in film and television.

Julio Ángel Fernández, Uruguayan astronomer

Julio Ángel Fernández Alves is a Uruguayan astronomer and teacher, member of the department of astronomy at the Universidad de la República in Montevideo. He is also a member of PEDECIBA,, and the Uruguayan Society of Astronomy. From 2005 to 2010, he was the Dean of the Universidad de la Republica's Faculty of Sciences. The asteroid 5996 Julioangel, discovered in 1983, was named after him.

Björn Granath, Swedish actor (died 2017)

Björn Gösta Tryggve Granath was a Swedish actor who appeared in over 100 films and television shows.

Georgi Markov, Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler

Georgi Markov is a retired Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler. He was born in 1946, in Gorno Vyrshilo, Pazardzhik province.

05/04/1945

Ove Bengtson, Swedish tennis player

Ove Nils Bengtson is a former professional tennis player from Sweden. He enjoyed most of his tennis success while playing doubles. During his career, he won five doubles titles. Bengtson was a member of the Swedish Davis Cup team from 1967 to 1979, posting a 7–14 record in singles and a 15–14 record in doubles. He was part of the Swedish team winning the 1975 Davis Cup, defeating Czechoslovakia in the final in Stockholm.

Steve Carver, American director and producer (died 2021)

Steve Carver was an American film director, producer, and photographer.

Cem Karaca, Turkish musician (died 2004)

Muhtar Cem Karaca was a Turkish rock musician and one of the most important figures in the Anatolian rock movement. He was a graduate of Robert College. He worked with various Turkish rock bands such as Apaşlar, Kardaşlar, Moğollar and Dervişan. With these bands, he brought a new understanding and interpretation to Turkish rock. He became a defining voice of protest and social commentary in Turkey from the late 1960s through the 1980s.

Tommy Smith, English footballer (died 2019)

Thomas Smith was an English footballer, who played as a defender at Liverpool for 16 years from 1962 to 1978. Known for his uncompromising defensive style, manager Bill Shankly once said of him: "Tommy Smith wasn't born, he was quarried". A central defender for most of his career, Smith's most memorable moment for the club probably came when he scored Liverpool's second goal in the 1977 European Cup Final against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Smith played once for England in 1971, and also played at club level for Tampa Bay Rowdies, Los Angeles Aztecs and Swansea City.

05/04/1944

Willeke van Ammelrooy, Dutch actress and director

Willy Geertje van Ammelrooij, known as Willeke van Ammelrooy, is a Dutch actress.

János Martonyi, Hungarian politician

János Martonyi is a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2002 and from 2010 to 2014. He is a member of the Fidesz – Hungarian Civic Union party. He was part of the Amato Group that unofficially drafted a new treaty for the European Union after the European Constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch voters.

Evan Parker, British musician

Evan Shaw Parker is a British tenor and soprano saxophone player who plays free improvisation.

Douangchay Phichit, Laotian politician (died 2014)

Lieutenant general Douangchay Phichit was a Laotian politician from Attapeu and a Politburo member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. He served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense.

Willy Planckaert, Belgian cyclist

Willy Planckaert is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. His brothers, Eddy and Walter Planckaert, as well as his son Jo Planckaert, are also former professional road bicycle racers.

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

Pedro Juan Rosselló González is a Puerto Rican physician and politician who served two consecutive terms as the seventh democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico from 1993 to 2001. Rosselló was president of the New Progressive Party (PNP) from 1991 to 1999 and 2003 to 2008. He was also a member of the Senate of Puerto Rico for the district of Arecibo from 2005 to 2008. His son, Ricardo, was governor of Puerto Rico from 2017 to 2019.

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

Peter Thomas King is an American former politician and novelist who represented New York in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he represented a South Shore Long Island district that includes parts of Nassau County and Suffolk County and was numbered as the 3rd and later the 2nd district.

05/04/1943

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

Dean Craig Brown, AO is a politician who served as the Premier of South Australia between 14 December 1993 and 28 November 1996, and also served as 10th Deputy Premier of South Australia between 22 October 2001 and 5 March 2002, representing the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia. He became premier when he led the party to a landslide win at the 1993 state election, and lost the office when he lost a leadership challenge to John Olsen in November 1996.

Max Gail, American actor and director

Maxwell Trowbridge Gail, Jr. is an American actor who has starred on stage, and in television and film roles. He is best known for his role as Detective Stan "Wojo" Wojciehowicz on the sitcom Barney Miller (1975–1982), which earned him two consecutive Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series nominations. Gail also won the 2019 and 2021 Daytime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Mike Corbin on the soap opera General Hospital.

Fighting Harada, Japanese boxer

Masahiko Harada, better known as Fighting Harada, is a Japanese former professional boxer. He is a world champion in two weight classes, having held the NYSAC, WBA, and The Ring undisputed flyweight titles from 1962 to 1963 and the WBA, WBC, and The Ring undisputed bantamweight titles from 1965 and 1968. He is currently the president of the Japanese boxing association.

Miet Smet, Belgian politician

Miet Smet was a Belgian politician for the Christian Democratic and Flemish party (CD&V).

Jean-Louis Tauran, French cardinal (died 2018)

Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. When he died, he had been the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue since 2007 and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church since the end of 2014. He was made a cardinal in 2003 and was the Cardinal Protodeacon from 2011 to 2014. His earlier career included almost thirty years in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and several years as the Vatican's chief archivist and librarian.

05/04/1942

Allan Clarke, English singer-songwriter

Harold Allan Clarke is an English singer and musician who was one of the founding members and the original lead singer of the Hollies. He achieved international hit singles with the group and is credited as co-writer on several of their best-known songs, including "On a Carousel", "Carrie Anne", "Jennifer Eccles" and "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress". He retired from performing in 2000, but returned to the music industry in 2019. Clarke was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010 as a member of the Hollies.

Pascal Couchepin, Swiss politician

Pascal Couchepin is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1998 to 2009. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD), he was President of the Swiss Confederation twice, in 2003 and 2008. Couchepin headed the Federal Department of Economic Affairs from 1998 to 2002 and Federal Department of Home Affairs from 2003 until 2009.

Juan Gisbert Sr., Spanish tennis player

Juan Gisbert Sr. is a retired Spanish professional tennis. He was ranked world No. 14 in 1967. He was active from 1956 to 1976 and won 14 career singles titles.

Peter Greenaway, Welsh director and screenwriter

Peter Greenaway is a British filmmaker and visual artist.

05/04/1941

Michael Moriarty, American-Canadian actor

Michael George Moriarty is an American actor. He received an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for his role as a Nazi SS officer in the 1978 miniseries Holocaust and a Tony Award in 1974 for his performance in the play Find Your Way Home. He starred as Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone for the first four seasons (1990–1994) of the television show Law & Order. Moriarty is also known for his roles in films such as Bang the Drum Slowly, Who'll Stop the Rain, Q: The Winged Serpent, The Stuff, Pale Rider, Troll, Courage Under Fire, and Shiloh.

Dave Swarbrick, English singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2016)

David Cyril Eric Swarbrick was an English traditional folk musician and songwriter who primarily played the violin. He was one of the most highly regarded musicians produced by the second British folk revival, contributing to some of the most important groups and projects of the 1960s, and he became a much sought-after session musician, which led him throughout his career to work with many of the major figures in folk and folk rock music.

05/04/1940

Tommy Cash, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2024)

Tommy Cash was an American country musician. His elder brother was Johnny Cash.

Gilles Proulx, Canadian journalist, historian, and radio host

Gilles Proulx is a Canadian radio and television host in the province of Quebec. His radio career began in 1962, notably working for CHMP-FM and currently for Quebecor and Radio Ville-Marie. A strong Quebec nationalist, known for his conservative views and criticism of the anglophone community, he’s published 153 opinion columns in the Le Journal de Montréal as of 2020.

05/04/1939

Leka I, Crown Prince of Albania (died 2011)

Leka, Crown Prince of Albania was the only son of King Zog I and Queen Geraldine of Albania. He was called Crown Prince Skander at birth. After his father's death in 1961, Leka was the pretender to the Albanian throne, and his supporters referred to him as King Leka I.

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

Crispian St. Peters was an English pop singer-songwriter, best known for his work in the 1960s, particularly hit songs written by the duo The Changin' Times, including "The Pied Piper", and Ian & Sylvia's "You Were on My Mind". His popularity waned after he claimed he was a better performer than other well known singers and declared that he was a better songwriter than the Beatles.

Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Prime Minister of Yemen

Haidar Abu Bakr al-Attas is a Yemeni politician. He was appointed Prime Minister of Yemen by President Ali Abdullah Saleh when the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen and Yemen Arab Republic united in 1990 to form present-day Yemen. Al-Attas served until 1994. He is a member of the Yemeni Socialist Party.

Ronald White, American singer-songwriter (died 1995)

Ronald Anthony White was an American baritone singer, best known as the co-founder of the Miracles and its only consistent original member. White was also known for bringing Stevie Wonder to the attention of Motown Records and writing several hit singles for the Miracles as well as other artists including the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and Mary Wells. White died of leukemia in 1995, at 57 years old. In 2012, White was a posthumous inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Miracles.

David Winters, English-American actor, choreographer and producer (died 2019)

David Winters was an English-born American actor, dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. At a young age, he acted in film and television projects such as Lux Video Theatre, Naked City; Mister Peepers, Rock, Rock, Rock, and Roogie's Bump. He received some attention in Broadway musicals for his roles in West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy (1959). In the film adaptation of West Side Story (1961) he was one of the few actors to be re-cast in a different role than what he performed in the original stage version. West Side Story became the highest grossing motion picture of that year, and won 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

05/04/1938

Colin Bland, Zimbabwean-South African cricketer (died 2018)

Kenneth Colin Bland was a Rhodesian cricketer who played in 21 Test matches for South Africa in the 1960s. He is regarded as one of the greatest fielders in the history of Test cricket.

Mal Colston, Australian educator and politician (died 2003)

Malcolm Arthur Colston was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1975 to 1999. He was a member of the Labor Party until 1996, when he resigned to sit as an independent following a dispute over his candidacy for Deputy President of the Senate. Colston was a schoolteacher before entering politics, and held a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Queensland.

Nancy Holt, American sculptor and painter (died 2014)

Nancy Holt was an American artist most known for her public sculpture, installation art, concrete poetry, and land art. Throughout her career, Holt also produced works in other media, including film and photography. Since 2018, her legacy has been cared for by Holt/Smithson Foundation.

Natalya Kustinskaya, Soviet actress (died 2012)

Natalya Nikolayevna Kustinskaya was a Soviet actress, who was a Meritorious Artist of Russia from 1999.

Giorgos Sideris, Greek footballer

Giorgos Sideris is a Greek former footballer, who played as striker.

05/04/1937

Joseph Lelyveld, American journalist and author (died 2024)

Joseph Salem Lelyveld was an American journalist. He was executive editor of The New York Times from 1994 to 2001, and interim executive editor in 2003 after the resignation of Howell Raines. He was a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books.

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

Colin Luther Powell was an American Army general, diplomat, and statesman who was the 65th United States secretary of state from 2001 to 2005, being the first Black American to hold the office, and was the highest-ranking Black American in the federal executive branch in American history until the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008. Initially politically independent, Powell joined the Republican Party in 1995. He was the 15th national security advisor from 1987 to 1989, and the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1989 to 1993.

Andrzej Schinzel, Polish mathematician (died 2021)

Andrzej Bobola Maria Schinzel was a Polish mathematician who specialised predominantly in number theory.

Arie Selinger, Israeli volleyball player and manager

Arie Selinger is an Israeli volleyball coach and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest volleyball coaches of all time. He is credited with transforming the United States women's national volleyball team into a powerhouse in the 1980s.

Juan Vicente Lezcano, Paraguayan footballer (died 2012)

Juan Vicente Lezcano López was a Paraguayan football defender.

05/04/1936

Ronnie Bucknum, American race car driver (died 1992)

Ronald James Bucknum was an American race car driver, born in Alhambra, California.

Glenn Jordan, American director and producer

Glenn Jordan is a retired American television director and producer.

Dragoljub Minić, Yugoslavian chess Grandmaster (died 2005)

Dragoljub Minić was a Yugoslav Grandmaster of chess. He won the championship of Yugoslavia in 1962.

05/04/1935

Giovanni Cianfriglia, Italian actor (died 2024)

Giovanni Cianfriglia, also known as Ken Wood, was an Italian film actor and stuntman. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1958 to 2000.

Peter Grant, English talent manager (died 1995)

Peter Grant was an English music manager, best known as the manager of Led Zeppelin from their creation in 1968 to their breakup in 1980. With his intimidating size and weight, confrontational manner, knowledge and experience, Grant was able to procure strong and unprecedented deals for Led Zeppelin, and is widely credited with improving pay and conditions for all musicians in dealings with concert promoters. Grant has been described as "one of the shrewdest and most ruthless managers in rock history".

Donald Lynden-Bell, English astrophysicist and astronomer (died 2018)

Donald Lynden-Bell CBE FRS was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Lynden-Bell was President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1985–1987) and received numerous awards for his work, including the inaugural Kavli Prize for Astrophysics. He worked at the University of Cambridge for his entire career, where he was the first director of its Institute of Astronomy.

Frank Schepke, German rower (died 2017)

Frank Schepke was a German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

05/04/1934

John Carey, English author and critic

John Carey was a British literary critic, and post-retirement (2002) emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He was a scholar on John Milton and he also published a number of books on various literary figures. He became known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books such as The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts? Carey twice chaired the Booker Prize committee, in 1982 and 2003, and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005.

Roman Herzog, German lawyer and politician, 7th President of Germany (died 2017)

Roman Herzog was a German politician, judge and legal scholar, who served as President of Germany from 1994 to 1999. A member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), he was the first president to be elected after German reunification. He previously served as a judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, and he was president of the court from 1987 to 1994. Before his appointment as a judge, he was a professor of law. He received the 1997 Charlemagne Prize.

Moise Safra, Brazilian businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Banco Safra (died 2014)

Moise Yacoub Safra was a Lebanese-Brazilian businessman and philanthropist of Syrian descent. He co-founded Banco Safra with his brothers Edmond Safra and Joseph Safra.

Stanley Turrentine, American saxophonist and composer (died 2000)

Stanley William Turrentine, nicknamed Mr. T, was an American Grammy nominated jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazz recording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touching on jazz fusion during a stint on CTI in the 1970s. He was described by critic Steve Huey as "renowned for his distinctively thick, rippling tone [and] earthy grounding in the blues." In the 1960s Turrentine was married to organist Shirley Scott, with whom he frequently recorded, and he was the younger brother of trumpeter Tommy Turrentine, with whom he also recorded.

05/04/1933

Feridun Buğeker, Turkish footballer (died 2014)

Feridun İsmail Buğeker was a Turkish football forward who played for Turkey in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Fenerbahçe S.K. between 1950–55 and 1961–63.

Frank Gorshin, American actor (died 2005)

Frank John Gorshin Jr. was an American actor, comedian and impressionist. He made many guest appearances on television variety and talk shows, including The Ed Sullivan Show, Tonight Starring Steve Allen, The Dean Martin Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

Barbara Holland, American author (died 2010)

Barbara Murray Holland was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.

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

Kanagasabapathy Kailasapathy was a Sri Lankan journalist and academic. He was the first president of the Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka.

05/04/1931

Jack Clement, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 2013)

Jack Henderson Clement was an American musician, songwriter, record producer, film producer, and music executive.

Héctor Olivera, Argentine director, producer and screenwriter

Héctor Emilio Olivera is an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter. Olivera worked mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but also has directed or contributed to several films made for the United States market.

05/04/1930

Mary Costa, American singer and actress

Mary Costa is an American retired actress and singer. Her most notable film credit is providing the voice of Princess Aurora in the 1959 Disney animated film Sleeping Beauty. She is the last surviving voice actress of the three Disney Princesses created in Walt Disney's lifetime and was named a Disney Legend in 1999. She is a recipient of the 2020 National Medal of Arts.

Pierre Lhomme, French director of photography (died 2019)

Pierre Lhomme was a French cinematographer and filmmaker.

05/04/1929

Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and painter (died 2008)

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, novels, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English. He won the 2000 International Nonino Prize in Italy.

Ivar Giaever, Norwegian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025)

Ivar Giaever was a Norwegian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics with Leo Esaki and Brian Josephson. One half of the prize was jointly awarded to Esaki and Giaever "for their experimental discoveries regarding tunneling phenomena in semiconductors and superconductors, respectively."

Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (died 2001)

Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne was an English actor. He is known for his stage acting and his portrayal of Sir Humphrey Appleby, the permanent secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. For this role, he won four British Academy Television Awards for Best Entertainment Performance.

Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (died 1967)

Robert George "Joe" Meek was an English record producer and songwriter considered one of the most influential sound engineers of all time, being one of the first to develop ideas such as the recording studio as an instrument, and becoming one of the first producers to be recognised for his individual identity as an artist. Meek pioneered space age and experimental pop music, and assisted in the development of recording practices like overdubbing, sampling and reverberation.

Mahmoud Mollaghasemi, Iranian wrestler

Mahmoud Mollaghasemi Tabrizi is a retired Iranian freestyle wrestler. He won a silver medal at the 1951 World Championships and a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics.

05/04/1928

Enzo Cannavale, Italian actor (died 2011)

Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including Cinema Paradiso, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990. He was awarded the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actor in 32 dicembre by Luciano De Crescenzo.

Tony Williams, American singer (died 1992)

Samuel Edward "Tony" Williams was an American R&B singer. From 1953 to 1960, he was the lead vocalist of the Platters.

05/04/1927

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

Thanin Kraivichien was a Thai judge, politician and law professor. He was the prime minister of Thailand between 1976 and 1977. He was then appointed to the Privy Council and became its president in 2016. With the death of Prem Tinsulanonda in May 2019, he became the oldest living former Thai Prime Minister.

Arne Hoel, Norwegian ski jumper (died 2006)

Arne Hoel was a Norwegian ski jumper who competed in the 1940s and 1950s. He won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen ski festival three times. Because of his successes, Hoel was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1956. He also finished sixth and eleventh in the individual large hill event at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics, respectively.

05/04/1926

Roger Corman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2024)

Roger William Corman was an American film director, producer, and actor. Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", “King of the Beatnik Movies”, "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of Cult", he was known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.

Liang Yusheng, Chinese writer (died 2009)

Chen Wentong, better known by his pen name Liang Yusheng, was a Chinese-born Australian novelist best known for being a pioneer of the "new school" of the wuxia genre in the 20th century. Along with Jin Yong and Gu Long, he was one of the best known wuxia writers in the later half of the 20th century. Throughout his career, he published a total of 35 wuxia novels. The more notable ones include Baifa Monü Zhuan, Yunhai Yugong Yuan, Qijian Xia Tianshan and Pingzong Xiaying Lu. Some of them have been adapted into films and television series, including The Bride with White Hair (1993) and Seven Swords (2005).

05/04/1925

Janet Rowley, American human geneticist (died 2013)

Janet Davison Rowley was an American human geneticist and the first scientist to identify a chromosomal translocation as the cause of leukemia and other cancers, thus proving that cancer is a genetic disease. Rowley spent the majority of her life working in Chicago and received many awards and honors throughout her life, recognizing her achievements and contributions in the area of genetics.

Pierre Nihant, Belgian cyclist (died 1993)

Pierre Nihant was a Belgian cyclist. He was born in Trembleur, in the province of Liège. He won a silver medal in the 1000m time trial at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

05/04/1924

Igor Borisov, Soviet rower (died 2003)

Igor Anddreyevich Borisov was a Russian rower who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

05/04/1923

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

Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter, was a Belgian Marxian economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist, and Holocaust survivor. He fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis during the occupation of Belgium.

Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (died 1995)

Michael Vincenzo Gazzo was an American playwright who later in life became a movie and television actor. He was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in The Godfather Part II (1974).

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

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces (RVNAF), became head of a military junta in 1965, and then president after winning a rigged election in 1967. He headed the government of South Vietnam until he resigned and left the nation and relocated to Taipei a few days before the fall of Saigon and the ultimate North Vietnamese victory.

05/04/1922

Tom Finney, English footballer (died 2014)

Sir Thomas Finney was an English international footballer who played from 1946 to 1960 as an outside left for Preston North End and England. He is widely acknowledged to have been one of England's greatest ever players. He was noted for his loyalty to Preston, for whom he made 433 Football League and 39 FA Cup appearances, scoring a total of 210 goals. He played for England 76 times, scoring 30 goals.

Harry Freedman, Polish-Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (died 2005)

Harry Freedman, was a Canadian composer, English hornist and teacher.

Andy Linden, American race car driver (died 1987)

Andrew Logan Linden was an American racecar driver.

Gale Storm, American actress and singer (died 2009)

Josephine Owaissa Cottle, known professionally as Gale Storm, was an American actress and singer. After a film career from 1940 to 1952, she starred in two popular television programs of the 1950s, My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show. Six of her songs were top ten hits. Storm's greatest recording success was a cover version of "I Hear You Knockin'," which hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1955.

05/04/1921

Christopher Hewett, English actor and theatre director (died 2001)

Christopher George Hewett was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere.

05/04/1920

Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2001)

Barend Willem Biesheuvel was a Dutch politician of the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 6 July 1971 until 11 May 1973.

Arthur Hailey, English-Canadian soldier and author (died 2004)

Arthur Frederick Hailey, AE was a British-Canadian novelist whose plot-driven storylines were set against the backdrops of various industries. His books, which include such best sellers as Hotel (1965), Airport (1968), Wheels (1971), The Moneychangers (1975), and Overload (1979), have sold 170 million copies in 38 languages.

Alfonso Thiele, Turkish-Italian race car driver (died 1986)

Alfonso Thiele was an Italian and American racing driver. He participated in one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, on 4 September 1960. He scored no championship points. Most of his career was spent in sports car racing.

John Willem Gran, Swedish bishop (died 2008)

Willem Nicolaysen Gran Norwegian Catholic who was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo from 1963 to 1983.

05/04/1919

Lester James Peries, Sri Lankan director, screenwriter, and producer (died 2018)

Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries was a Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered as the father of Sri Lankan cinema, Lester worked as a filmmaker from 1949 to 2006, and was involved in over 28 films, including shorts and documentaries.

05/04/1917

Robert Bloch, American author (died 1994)

Robert Albert Bloch was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, psychological horror, and fantasy, much of which has been dramatized for radio, cinema and television. He also wrote a relatively small amount of science fiction. His writing career lasted 60 years, including more than 30 years in television and film. He began his professional writing career immediately after graduation from high school, aged 17. He is best known as the writer of the novel Psycho (1959), the basis for the 1960 film Psycho directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Bloch wrote hundreds of short stories and over 30 novels. He was a protégé of H. P. Lovecraft, who was the first to seriously encourage his talent. However, while he started emulating Lovecraft and his brand of cosmic horror, he later specialized in crime and horror stories, often emphasizing psychological aspects of the characters within.

Frans Gommers, Belgian footballer (died 1996)

François Gommers was a Belgian footballer. He was a defender for Beerschot VAC with whom he was twice Belgian Champion in 1938 and 1939.

05/04/1916

Gregory Peck, American actor, political activist, and producer (died 2003)

Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor and one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1970s. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Peck the 12th-greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

05/04/1914

Felice Borel, Italian footballer (died 1993)

Felice Placido Borel was an Italian football player who played as a striker. He was a member of the Italy national football team that won the 1934 FIFA World Cup.

05/04/1913

Antoni Clavé, Catalan artist (died 2005)

Antoni Clavé was a Catalan master painter, printmaker, sculptor, stage designer and costume designer. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for his work on the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen.

Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (died 1969)

Nicolas Grunitzky was the second president of Togo and its third head of state. He was President from 1963 to 1967. Grunitzky was Prime Minister of Togo from 1956 to 1958 under the French Colonial loi cadre system, which created a limited "national" government in their colonial possessions. He was elected Prime Minister of Togo —still under French administration— in 1956. Following the 1963 coup which killed his nationalist political rival and brother-in-law Sylvanus Olympio, Grunitzky was chosen by the military committee of coup leaders to be Togo's second President.

Ruth Smith, Faroese artist (died 1958)

Ruth Smith Nielsen was a Faroese artist.

05/04/1912

Jehan Buhan, French fencer (died 1999)

Jehan Buhan was a French fencer and Olympic champion in foil competition.

Habib Elghanian, Iranian businessman (died 1979)

Habib (Habibollah) Elghanian was a prominent Iranian Jewish businessman and philanthropist who served as the president of the Tehran Jewish Society and acted as the symbolic head of the Iranian Jewish community in the 1970s. He was arrested and sentenced to death by an Islamic revolutionary tribunal shortly after the Iranian Revolution for charges including corruption, contacts with Israel and Zionism, and "friendship with the enemies of God", and was executed by firing squad on 9 May 1979 in Tehran, Iran. He was the first Jew and businessman to be executed by the Council of the Islamic Revolution.

Antonio Ferri, Italian scientist (died 1975)

Antonio Ferri was an Italian scientist, prominent in the field of aerodynamics, with a specialization in hypersonic and supersonic flight.

Carlos Guastavino, Argentine composer (died 2000)

Carlos Guastavino was an Argentine composer, considered one of the foremost composers of his country. His production amounted to over 500 works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished. His style was quite conservative, always tonal and lushly romantic. His compositions were clearly influenced by Argentine folk music. His reputation was based almost entirely on his songs, and Guastavino has sometimes been called "the Schubert of the Pampas". Some of his songs, for example Pueblito, mi pueblo, La rosa y el sauce and Se equivocó la paloma, became national favorites. Unlike most other composers, at any time or place, Guastavino earned enough from his royalties and performing rights that he had little need for other income.

Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 1997)

Makar Mykhaylovych Honcharenko, was a Ukrainian football player and coach. During his career, he played as a forward for a number of clubs, but most noticeably for Dynamo Kyiv. Honcharenko is best known for being the last surviving player of The Death Match.

John Le Mesurier, English actor (died 1983)

John Le Mesurier was an English actor. He is probably best remembered for his comedic role as Sergeant Arthur Wilson in the BBC television situation comedy Dad's Army (1968–1977). A self-confessed "jobbing actor", Le Mesurier appeared in more than 120 films across a range of genres, normally in smaller supporting parts.

István Örkény, Hungarian author and playwright (died 1979)

István György Örkény was a Hungarian writer whose plays and novels often featured grotesque situations. He was a recipient of the Kossuth Prize in 1973.

Bill Roberts, English sprinter and soldier (died 2001)

William Roberts was an English sprinter and winner of gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay for Great Britain at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

05/04/1911

Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician (died 1993)

Hédi Amara Nouira was a Tunisian politician. He served as the second prime minister of Tunisia between 1970 and 1980.

Johnny Revolta, American golfer (died 1991)

John F. Revolta was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. He won a major title, the 1935 PGA Championship, and had 20 career wins on tour.

05/04/1910

Sven Andersson, Swedish politician (died 1987)

Sven Olof Morgan Andersson was a Swedish Social Democratic politician. He served as Minister for Defence from 1957 to 1973, and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1973 to 1976. Andersson also served as Minister for Communications (Transport) from 1951 to 1957.

Oronzo Pugliese, Italian football manager (died 1990)

Oronzo Pugliese was an Italian football manager from Turi in the Province of Bari.

05/04/1909

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

Albert Romolo Broccoli, nicknamed "Cubby", was an American film producer who made more than 40 motion pictures throughout his career. Most of the films were made in the United Kingdom and often filmed at Pinewood Studios. Co-founder of Danjaq, LLC and Eon Productions, Broccoli is most notable as the producer of many of the James Bond films. He and Harry Saltzman saw the films develop from relatively low-budget origins to large-budget, high-grossing extravaganzas. Broccoli's heirs Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson continued to produce new Bond films until 2025 when the franchise rights were sold to Amazon.

Giacomo Gentilomo, Italian film director and painter (died 2001)

Giacomo Gentilomo was an Italian film director and painter.

Károly Sós, Hungarian footballer and manager (died 1991)

Károly Sós, was a Hungarian footballer and manager. After playing for various clubs as a midfielder he became a coach, most notably with Ferencvárosi TC, Bp. Honvéd SE, East Germany and Hungary.

Erwin Wegner, German hurdler (died 1945)

Erwin Wegner was a German athlete, born in Stettin. Wegner won the silver medal at the 1934 European Championships in the 110 metres hurdles and competed in the Olympic Games as both a hurdler and a decathlete.

05/04/1908

Bette Davis, American actress (died 1989)

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. Regarded as one of the greatest actresses in Hollywood history, she was noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was known for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, was the first person to accrue ten Academy Award nominations for acting, and was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute.

Kurt Neumann, German director (died 1958)

Kurt Neumann was a German film director, screenwriter, and producer who spent much of his career in the United States. He was a prolific director of genre films from the 1930s through the 1950s, totaling over 60 feature film credits during that time. He was the principal director of the Tarzan films for many years, and specialized in science fiction films in his later career.

Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1986)

Jagjivan Ram, popularly known as Babuji, was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as a minister with various portfolios for over 30 years, making him the longest-serving Union Cabinet minister in Indian history. He also served as the Deputy Prime Minister of India from January to July 1979. He played a pivotal role as the Defence Minister of India during the Indo-Pak War of 1971. As Union Agriculture Minister during two separate tenures, he contributed significantly to the Green Revolution and the modernization of Indian agriculture, particularly during the 1974 drought when he was entrusted with addressing a severe food crisis.

Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (died 1989)

Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during World War II he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a controversial but dominant figure in European classical music from the mid-1950s until his death. Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate, he sold 200 million records.

05/04/1907

Sanya Dharmasakti, Thai jurist (died 2002)

Sanya Dharmasakti was a Thai jurist, university professor and politician. He served as the 12th Prime Minister of Thailand from 1973 to 1975.

05/04/1906

Albert Charles Smith, American botanist (died 1999)

Albert Charles Smith was an American botanist who served as director of the National Museum of Natural History and Arnold Arboretum and was the former president of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists.

Fernando Germani, Italian organist (died 1998)

Fernando Germani was an Italian organist of the Basilica of St. Peter in Rome during the reign of Pope Pius XII.

Ted Morgan, New Zealand boxer (died 1952)

Edward "Ted" Morgan was a New Zealand boxer. He won the gold medal in the welterweight division at the 1928 Summer Olympics, despite competing throughout the tournament with a dislocated knuckle in his left hand. This was the first gold medal won for an athlete representing New Zealand.

05/04/1904

Richard Eberhart, American poet and academic (died 2005)

Richard Ghormley Eberhart was an American poet who published more than a dozen books of poetry and approximately twenty works in total. "Richard Eberhart emerged out of the 1930s as a modern stylist with romantic sensibilities." He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1930–1965 and the 1977 National Book Award for Poetry for Collected Poems, 1930–1976. He was the grandfather of Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Ben Cherington.

05/04/1903

Marion Aye, American actress (died 1951)

Marion Aye was an American actress of screen and stage who starred in several films during the 1920s, mostly comedies. She was sometimes credited as Maryon Aye.

05/04/1902

Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Russian-American rabbi (died 1994)

Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to adherents of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement as the Lubavitcher Rebbe or simply the Rebbe, was an Orthodox rabbi and the Rebbe of the Lubavitch Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century.

05/04/1901

Curt Bois, German actor (died 1991)

Curt Bois was a German actor with a career spanning over 80 years. He is best remembered for his performances as the pickpocket in Casablanca (1942) and the poet Homer in Wings of Desire (1987).

Chester Bowles, American diplomat and ambassador (died 1986)

Chester Bliss Bowles was an American diplomat and ambassador, governor of Connecticut, congressman and co-founder of a major advertising agency, Benton & Bowles, now part of Publicis Groupe. Bowles is best known for his influence on American foreign policy during Cold War years, when he argued that economic assistance to the Third World was the best means to fight communism, and even more important, to create a more peaceable world order.

Melvyn Douglas, American actor (died 1981)

Melvyn Douglas was an American actor, whose stage and screen careers spanned from the late 1920s until the early 1980s. He was one of 24 performers to win the Triple Crown of Acting - winning two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.

Doggie Julian, American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach (died 1967)

Alvin Fred "Doggie" Julian was an American college football coach, a college basketball player and coach, and an National Basketball Association (NBA) coach.

05/04/1900

Herbert Bayer, Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, and photographer (died 1985)

Herbert Bayer was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He served as a design consultant to and then Chairman of the Department of Design at the Container Corporation of America. He helped design the campus of The Aspen Institute in Aspen, Colorado, where his seminal earthwork Grass Mound (1955) is located. He was also instrumental in the development of the Atlantic Richfield Company's corporate art collection until his death in 1985.

Roman Steinberg, Estonian wrestler (died 1939)

Roman Steinberg, was an Estonian Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medal winner in middleweight class at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Steinberg was also three times Estonian wrestling champion 1921–1923, coached by Robert Oksa. He died after contracting tuberculosis, age 39, and was buried at Alexander Nevsky Cemetery, Tallinn.

Spencer Tracy, American actor (died 1967)

Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American actor. He was known for his natural performing style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, from nine nominations. During his career, he appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the ninth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

05/04/1899

Alfred Blalock, American surgeon and academic (died 1964)

Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon most noted for his work on the medical condition of shock as well as tetralogy of Fallot – commonly known as blue baby syndrome. He created, with assistance from his research and laboratory assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig, the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt, a surgical procedure to relieve the cyanosis from tetralogy of Fallot. This operation ushered in the modern era of neonatal cardiac surgery. He worked at both Vanderbilt University and Johns Hopkins University, where he studied medicine and later served as chief of surgery. He is known as a medical pioneer who won various awards, including Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award. Blalock was also nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

05/04/1898

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

Solange Marie Christine Louise de Labriffe, Duchess of Ayen, known professionally as Solange d'Ayen, Solange de Noailles, and Solange de Labriffe, was a French noblewoman and journalist, known for being the fashion editor of French Vogue magazine from the 1920s until the 1940s. She also wrote for American Vogue. She was born into the House of Labriffe and was named Duchess of Ayen by marrying Jean Maurice Paul Jules de Noailles, the 6th Duke of Ayen in 1919, with whom she had two children.

05/04/1897

Hans Schuberth, German politician (died 1976)

Hans Schuberth was a German politician who from 1949 to 1953 was the first Federal Minister of Post and Telecommunications in Konrad Adenauer's first cabinet.

05/04/1896

Einar Lundborg, Swedish aviator (died 1931)

Einar Paul Albert Muni Lundborg was a Swedish aviator.

05/04/1895

Mike O'Dowd, American boxer (died 1957)

Michael Joseph O'Dowd was an American boxer who held the World Middleweight Championship from 1917 to 1920.

05/04/1894

Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation (died 1956)

Lawrence Dale "Larry" Bell was an American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation.

Hans Hüttig, German SS officer (died 1980)

Hans Benno Hüttig was a German SS functionary and Nazi concentration camp commandant.

Carl Rudolf Florin, Swedish botanist (died 1965)

Carl Rudolf Florin was a Swedish biologist botanist, specialising in gymnosperms, including both modern and fossil material.

05/04/1893

Frithjof Andersen, Norwegian wrestler (died 1975)

Frithjof Andersen is a Norwegian wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, from Oslo.

Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (died 1973)

Arnold Clas ("Classe") Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz. He was the most successful athlete at both of these Winter Olympics, sharing the honour for 1928 Winter Olympics with Johan Grøttumsbraaten of Norway. No other athlete ever won such a high fraction of all Olympic events at a single Games. He was born and died in Helsinki.

05/04/1892

Raymond Bonney, American ice hockey player (died 1964)

Raymond Leroy Bonney was an American ice hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was born in Phoenix, New York. He was the goaltender who competed in 1920 for the American ice hockey team, which won the silver medal.

05/04/1891

Arnold Jackson, English runner, soldier, and lawyer (died 1972)

Brigadier General Arnold Nugent Strode Strode-Jackson, was a British athlete, British Army officer, and a barrister. He was the winner of the 1500 m at the 1912 Summer Olympics, in what was hailed at the time as "the greatest race ever run". He was a brigadier general and amongst the most highly decorated British general officers of the First World War.

Laura Vicuña, Chilean nun (died 1904)

Laura del Carmen Vicuña Pino was a Chilean child who was noted for her religious devotion. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988 as the patron of abuse victims, having herself experienced physical abuse.

05/04/1890

Karl Kirk, Danish gymnast (died 1955)

Karl Kirk was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Danish team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event.

William Moore, British track and field athlete (died 1956)

William Craig Moore was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

05/04/1889

Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, Brazilian martial artist (died 1981)

Vicente Ferreira Pastinha, known as Mestre Pastinha, was a mestre of the Afro-Brazilian martial art capoeira and a codifier of the traditional capoeira Angola style.

05/04/1887

William Cowhig, British gymnast (died 1964)

William Cowhig was a British gymnast who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics, the 1912 Summer Olympics and the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was part of the British team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912. In the individual all-around competition he finished 29th. As a member of the British team in 1920 he finished fifth in the team, European system competition.

05/04/1886

Gotthelf Bergsträsser, German linguist (died 1933)

Gotthelf Bergsträsser was a German linguist specializing in Semitic studies, generally considered to be one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Bergsträsser was initially a teacher of classical languages before deciding to approach Semitic.

Frederick Lindemann, British physicist (died 1957)

Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell, was a British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II.

Gustavo Jiménez, Peruvian colonel and politician, 73rd President of Peru (died 1933)

Gustavo Jiménez was a Peruvian colonel who served as Interim President of Peru, officially as the President of the Provisional Government Junta, in 1931.

05/04/1885

Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian composer (died 1978)

Dimitrie Cuclin was a Romanian classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer.

05/04/1884

Ion Inculeț, Bessarabian academic and politician, President of Moldova (died 1940)

Ion Inculeț was a Bessarabian and Romanian politician. He served as President of the Country Council of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, Minister of the Interior of Romania, and, from 1918, a full member of the Romanian Academy.

05/04/1883

Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer (died 1950)

Walter Thomas Huston was a Canadian actor and singer. Huston won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, directed by his son John Huston. He is the patriarch of the four generations of the Huston acting family, including his son John, grandchildren Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston, as well as great-grandchild Jack Huston.

05/04/1882

Song Jiaoren, Chinese revolutionary (died 1913)

Song Jiaoren was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). Song Jiaoren led the KMT to electoral victories in China's first democratic election. He based his appeal on the upper class gentry, landowners, and merchants. Historians have concluded that provisional president Yuan Shikai was responsible for his assassination on 22 March 1913.

Natalia Sedova, 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky (died 1962)

Natalia Ivanovna Sedova was a Russian revolutionary and author known as the second wife of Leon Trotsky. She wrote on cultural matters pertaining to Marxism.

05/04/1880

Eric Carlberg, Swedish Army officer, diplomat, shooter, fencer and modern pentathlete (died 1963)

Gustaf Eric Carlberg was a Swedish Army officer, diplomat, sport shooter, fencer, and modern pentathlete who competed at the 1906, 1908, 1912 and 1924 Olympics alongside his twin brother Vilhelm.

Vilhelm Carlberg, Swedish Army officer and shooter (died 1970)

Gustaf Vilhelm Carlberg was a Swedish Army officer and sports shooter. He competed at the 1908, 1912, and 1924 Olympics and won three gold and four silver. With three gold and two silver medals he was the most successful athlete at the 1912 Olympics. In 1913, he won two medals at the ISSF World Shooting Championships. His twin brother Eric competed alongside Gustaf at all those four Olympics.

05/04/1879

Arthur Berriedale Keith, Scottish lawyer (died 1944)

Arthur Berriedale Keith, FBA was a Scottish constitutional lawyer, scholar of Sanskrit and Indologist. He became Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology and Lecturer on the Constitution of the British Empire in the University of Edinburgh. He served in this role from 1914 to 1944.

Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien, German naval officer and author (died 1956)

Nikolaus Burggraf und Graf zu Dohna-Schlodien was a German naval officer and author.

05/04/1878

Albert Champion, French cyclist (died 1927)

Albert Champion was a French track bicycle racer and later an industrialist who won the 1899 Paris–Roubaix. In 1905 he incorporated the Albert Champion Company in Boston to make porcelain spark plugs with his name on them. Three years later founded the Champion Ignition Company in Flint, Michigan. In 1922 he changed the name to AC Spark Plug Company, after his initials, to settle out of court with his original partners in the Albert Champion Company. The company is now known as ACDelco and is owned by General Motors.

Georg Misch, German philosopher (died 1965)

Georg Misch was a German philosopher.

Paul Weinstein, German high jumper (died 1964)

Paul Weinstein was a German athlete who competed in the early twentieth century. He was born in Wallendorf.

05/04/1874

Emmanuel Célestin Suhard, French Cardinal of the Catholic Church (died 1949)

Emmanuel Célestin Suhard was a French cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Paris from 1940 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. He was instrumental in the founding of the Mission of France and the worker-priest movement, to bring the clergy closer to the people.

Manuel María Ponce Brousset, President of Peru (died 1966)

Manuel María Ponce Brousset briefly served as the President of Peru in August 1930.

05/04/1873

Joseph Rheden, Austrian astronomer (died 1946)

Joseph Rheden was an Austrian astronomer, born in Amlach, East Tyrol, known for his astrographic observations of planets, minor planets and comets, and for the asteroids 744 Aguntina, 771 Libera, and 844 Leontina, which he discovered in 1913 and 1916, respectively.

05/04/1872

Samuel Cate Prescott, American microbiologist and chemist (died 1962)

Samuel Cate Prescott was an American food scientist and microbiologist who was involved in the development of food safety, food science, public health, and industrial microbiology.

05/04/1871

Stanisław Grabski, Polish economist and politician (died 1949)

Stanisław Grabski was a Polish economist and politician associated with the National Democracy political camp. As the top Polish negotiator during the Peace of Riga talks in 1921, Grabski greatly influenced the future of Poland and the Soviet Union.

05/04/1870

Motobu Chōki, Japanese karateka (died 1944)

Motobu Chōki was an Okinawan karate master and founder of Motobu-ryū. He was born into a branch of the Ryukyuan royal family, and at the age of 12, he and his older brother Motobu Chōyū were invited by Ankō Itosu to be taught karate.

05/04/1869

Sergey Chaplygin, Russian physicist, mathematician, and engineer (died 1942)

Sergey Alexeyevich Chaplygin was a Russian and Soviet physicist, mathematician, and mechanical engineer. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

Albert Roussel, French composer (died 1937)

Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel was a French composer. He spent seven years as a midshipman, turned to music as an adult, and became one of the most prominent French composers of the interwar period. His early works were strongly influenced by the Impressionism of Debussy and Ravel, while he later turned toward neoclassicism.

05/04/1867

Ernest Lewis, British tennis player (died 1930)

Ernest Wool Lewis was a British lawn tennis player who was active at the end of the 19th century. He twice won the Irish Championships in 1890 and 1891, and was a four time losing finalist in singles at the Wimbledon Championships in 1886, 1888, 1892 and 1894. He won the men's doubles championship title in 1892 partnered with Harry S. Barlow.

05/04/1863

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (died 1950)

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, later Princess Louis of Battenberg and then Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.

05/04/1862

Louis Ganne, French conductor (died 1923)

Louis-Gaston Ganne was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches.

Leo Stern, English cellist (died 1904)

Leo Stern was an English cellist, best remembered for being the soloist in the premiere performance of Antonín Dvořák's Cello Concerto in B minor in London in 1896.

05/04/1860

Harry S. Barlow, British tennis player (died 1917)

Harry Sibthorpe Barlow was a British amateur lawn tennis player, active at the end of the 19th century.

05/04/1859

Reinhold Seeberg, German theologian (died 1935)

Reinhold Seeberg was a German Lutheran theologian. He was a professor of theology at Erlangen, where he had studied, and then in 1893 a professor of dogmatic theology at Friedrich Wilhelm University .

05/04/1858

Washington Atlee Burpee, Canadian businessman, founded Burpee Seeds (died 1915)

Washington Atlee Burpee was the founder of the W. Atlee Burpee & Company, now more commonly known as Burpee Seeds.

05/04/1857

Alexander of Battenberg (died 1893)

Alexander Joseph, known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince (knyaz) of the autonomous Principality of Bulgaria from 1879 until his abdication in 1886.

05/04/1856

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

Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, and orator. Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the primary leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary Black elite.

05/04/1852

Émile Billard, French sailor (died 1930)

François Alexandre Émile Billard was a French sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Billard took the gold in the 10 to 20 ton.

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

Walter W. Winans was an American marksman, horse breeder, sculptor, and painter who participated in the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics. He won two medals for shooting: a gold in 1908 and a silver in 1912, as well as demonstrating the sport of pistol duelling in the 1908 Games. He also won a gold medal for his sculpture An American Trotter at Stockholm in 1912. In addition, Winans wrote ten books.

Franz Eckert, German composer and musician (died 1916)

Franz Eckert was a German composer and musician who composed the harmony for Japan's national anthem, "Kimigayo" and the national anthem of the Korean Empire, "Daehan Jeguk Aegukga".

05/04/1850

Enrico Mazzanti, Italian engineer and cartoonist (died 1910)

Enrico Mazzanti was an Italian engineer and cartoonist, who illustrated the first edition of Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio.

05/04/1848

Thure de Thulstrup, American illustrator (died 1930)

Thure de Thulstrup was a Swedish-born American illustrator with contributions for numerous magazines, including three decades of work for Harper's Weekly. He primarily illustrated historical military scenes.

Ulrich Wille, Swiss army general (died 1925)

Conrad Ulrich Sigmund Wille was a Swiss military officer who served as General of the Swiss Army during the First World War. Inspired by the Prussian techniques that he had been able to observe at the time of his studies in Berlin, he attempted to impress the Swiss Army with a spirit based on instruction, discipline and technical control.

05/04/1846

Sigmund Exner, Austrian physiologist (died 1926)

Sigmund Exner was an Austrian physiologist born in Vienna.

Henry Wellesley, British peer and politician (died 1900)

Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington was a British peer and Conservative Party politician.

05/04/1845

Friedrich Sigmund Merkel, German anatomist and histopathologist (died 1919)

Friedrich Sigmund Merkel was a leading German anatomist and histopathologist of the late 19th century. In 1875, he provided the first full description of Tastzellen, which occur in the skin of all vertebrates. They were subsequently given the eponym "Merkel cells" in 1878 by Robert Bonnet (1851–1921).

Jules Cambon, French diplomat (died 1935)

Jules-Martin Cambon was a French diplomat and brother of Paul Cambon. As the ambassador to Germany (1907–1914), he worked hard to secure a friendly détente. He was frustrated by French leaders such as Raymond Poincaré, who decided that Berlin was trying to weaken the Triple Entente of France, Russia and Britain and was not sincere in seeking peace. The French consensus was that war was inevitable.

05/04/1842

Hans Hildebrand, Swedish archaeologist (died 1913)

Hans Olof Hildebrand Hildebrand was a Swedish archeologist. He is internationally known as one of the pioneers of the archaeological technique of typology.

05/04/1840

Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian historian and linguist (died 1911)

Ghazaros (Lazarus) Aghayan was an Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure.

05/04/1839

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

Robert Smalls was an American politician who was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. During the American Civil War, the still enslaved Smalls commandeered a Confederate transport ship in Charleston Harbor and sailed it from the Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.S. blockade that surrounded it. He then piloted the ship to the Union-controlled enclave in Beaufort–Port Royal–Hilton Head area, where it became a Union warship. In the process, he freed himself, his crew, and their families. His example and persuasion helped convince President Abraham Lincoln to accept African-American soldiers into the Union Army.

05/04/1837

Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic (died 1909)

Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He was a major contributor to the Pre-Raphaelite movement in poetry, along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris. His greatest works are the verse drama Atalanta in Calydon (1865), written in the form of an Ancient Greek tragedy, and his Pre-Raphaelite Poems and Ballads (1866).

05/04/1835

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

Vítězslav Hálek was a Czech poet, writer, journalist and dramatist. He was known for his optimistic work, which earned him fame and recognition during his lifetime.

05/04/1834

Prentice Mulford, American humorist and author (died 1891)

Prentice Mulford was an American literary humorist, philosopher, and early figure in the development of the New Thought movement. Many of the principles that would become standard in the movement, including the Law of Attraction, the power of thought, spiritual autonomy, and mental healing, were clearly laid out in his Your Forces and How to Use Them, released as a series of essays during 1886–1892. Mulford’s writings laid foundational concepts that shaped later metaphysical and psychological systems, including auto-suggestion and personal magnetism. He is recognized as one of the earliest voices to articulate the idea that thought itself is a creative force that influences both personal health and external circumstances.

Wilhelm Olbers Focke, German medical doctor and botanist (died 1922)

Wilhelm Olbers Focke was a medical doctor and botanist who in 1881 published a significant work on plant breeding entitled Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Ein Beitrag zur Biologie der Gewächse which briefly mentioned Gregor Mendel's discoveries on hybridization. Although Charles Darwin had a copy of Focke's book he passed it along to a colleague apparently without reading this particular section. The rediscovery of Mendel's work is generally considered to have taken place in the first years of the 20th century, however in Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge, Mendel is mentioned about 18 times - although Focke did not apparently take Mendel's work all that seriously. Along with hybridization, Focke analyzed the non-Mendelian phenomena of graft hybrids, pseudogamy, and xenia.

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

Frank Richard Stockton was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century.

05/04/1832

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

Jules François Camille Ferry was a French statesman and republican philosopher. He was one of the leaders of the Moderate Republicans and served as Prime Minister of France from 1880 to 1881 and 1883 to 1885. He was a promoter of laicism and colonial expansion. Under the Third Republic, Ferry made primary education free and compulsory through several new laws. However, he was forced to resign following the Sino-French War in 1885 due to his unpopularity and public opinion against the war.

05/04/1827

Joseph Lister, English surgeon and academic (died 1912)

Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister was an English surgeon, medical scientist, experimental pathologist and pioneer of antiseptic surgery and preventive healthcare. Lister revolutionised the craft of surgery by the use of close anatomical observation, in the same manner that John Hunter revolutionised the science of surgery.

05/04/1822

Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye, Belgian economist (died 1892)

Émile Louis Victor de Laveleye was a Belgian economist. He was one of the co-founders of the Institut de Droit International in 1873.

05/04/1820

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar, continued the studio after his death.

05/04/1814

Felix Lichnowsky, Czech soldier and politician (died 1848)

Felix (von) Lichnowsky, fully Felix Maria Vincenz Andreas Fürst von Lichnowsky, Graf von Werdenberg was a son of the historian Eduard Lichnowsky who had written a history of the Habsburg family.

05/04/1811

Jules Dupré, French painter (died 1889)

Jules Louis Dupré was a French painter, one of the chief members of the Barbizon school of landscape painters.

05/04/1810

Sir Henry Rawlinson, British East India Company army officer and politician (died 1895)

Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet was a British East India Company army officer, politician, and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology. His son, also Henry, was to become a senior commander in the British Army during the First World War.

05/04/1809

Karl Felix Halm, German scholar and critic (died 1882)

Karl Felix Halm was a German classical scholar and critic.

05/04/1804

Matthias Jakob Schleiden, German botanist (died 1881)

Matthias Jakob Schleiden was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. He published some poems and non-scientific work under the pseudonym Ernst.

05/04/1801

Félix Dujardin, French biologist (died 1860)

Félix Dujardin was a French biologist born in Tours. He is remembered for his research on protozoans and other invertebrates.

Vincenzo Gioberti, Italian philosopher, publicist and politician (died 1852)

Vincenzo Gioberti was an Italian Catholic priest, philosopher, publicist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Sardinia from 1848 to 1849. He was a prominent spokesman for liberal Catholicism.

05/04/1799

Jacques Denys Choisy, Swiss clergyman and botanist (died 1859)

Jacques Denys (Denis) Choisy was a Swiss Protestant clergyman and botanist.

05/04/1795

Henry Havelock, British general (died 1857)

Major-General Sir Henry Havelock was a British general who is particularly associated with India and his recapture of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

05/04/1793

Casimir Delavigne, French poet and dramatist (died 1843)

Jean-François Casimir Delavigne was a French poet and dramatist.

Felix de Muelenaere, Belgian politician (died 1862)

Félix Amandus, Count de Muelenaere was a Belgian Roman Catholic politician who served as the prime minister of Belgium from 1831 to 1832

05/04/1788

Franz Pforr, German painter (died 1812)

Franz Pforr was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.

05/04/1784

Louis Spohr, German violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1859)

Louis Spohr, baptized Ludewig Spohr, later often in the modern German form of the name Ludwig, was a German composer, violinist and conductor.

05/04/1782

Wincenty Krasiński, Polish nobleman (died 1858)

Count Wincenty Krasiński was a Polish nobleman (szlachcic), political activist and military leader.

05/04/1777

Marie Jules César Savigny, French zoologist (died 1851)

Marie Jules César Lelorgne de Savigny was a French zoologist and naturalist who served on Emperor Napoleon's Egypt expedition in 1798. He published descriptions of numerous taxa and was among the first to propose that the mouth-parts of insects are derived from the jointed legs of segmented arthropods.

05/04/1774

David Gillespie, American politician and surveyor (died 1829)

David B. Gillespie was an American land surveyor and politician. He was the first person granted a document in the nature of a diploma from what is today the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received the document prior to leaving the university in 1796 to assist the astronomer Andrew Ellicott with determining the Southern boundary of the United States after the 1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo with Spain. Gillespie was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons from Bladen County, served on the North Carolina Council of State, and in the North Carolina militia as a second major in the War of 1812.

05/04/1773

José María Coppinger, governor of Spanish East Florida (died 1844)

José María Coppinger was a Spanish soldier who served in the infantry of the Royal Spanish Army (Ejército de Tierra) and governed East Florida (1816–1821) and several areas in Cuba including Pinar Del Río, Bayamo, the Cuatro Villas and Trinidad at various times between 1801 and 1834. He was also a member of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Ferdinand and San Hermenegildo.

Duchess Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (died 1839)

Duchess Therese Mathilde Amalie of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a member of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and a Duchess of Mecklenburg. Through her marriage to Karl Alexander, 5th Prince of Thurn and Taxis, Therese was also a member of the House of Thurn and Taxis.

05/04/1769

Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English admiral (died 1839)

Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, 1st Baronet, GCB was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He took part in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797, the Battle of the Nile in August 1798 and the Battle of Copenhagen in April 1801 during the French Revolutionary Wars. Hardy served as flag captain to Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson, and commanded HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in October 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars. Nelson was shot as he paced the decks with Hardy, and as he lay dying, Nelson's famous remark of "Kiss me, Hardy" was directed at him. Hardy went on to become First Naval Lord in November 1830 and in that capacity refused to become a Member of Parliament and encouraged the introduction of steam warships.

05/04/1761

Sybil Ludington, American figure of the American Revolutionary War (died 1839)

Sybil Ludington was a heroine of the American Revolution and daughter of Patriot colonel Henry Ludington. Relatives of Ludington have stated that on April 26, 1777, at age 16, she made an all-night horseback ride 40 miles (64 km) to stir American militiamen to attack British forces near Danbury, Connecticut. According to the legend, Ludington rode near the Connecticut–New York border after British forces raided and burned Danbury, rallying combatants for the Battle of Ridgefield the following day.

05/04/1752

Sébastien Érard, French instrument maker (died 1831)

Sébastien Érard was a French instrument maker who specialised in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and pioneering the modern piano.

05/04/1739

Philemon Dickinson, American lawyer and politician (died 1809)

Philemon Dickinson was an American lawyer and politician from Trenton, New Jersey. As a brigadier general of the New Jersey militia, he was one of the most effective militia officers of the American Revolutionary War. He was also a Continental Congressman from Delaware and a United States Senator from New Jersey.

05/04/1735

Franziskus Herzan von Harras, Czech Roman Catholic cardinal (died 1804)

Franziskus von Paula Herzan von Harras or František de Paula Hrzán z Harasova was a Roman Catholic cardinal from what is now the Czech Republic.

05/04/1732

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and etcher (died 1806)

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter and printmaker whose late Rococo manner was distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. One of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime, Fragonard produced more than 550 paintings, of which only five are dated. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy and veiled eroticism.

05/04/1730

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

Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt was a French archaeologist and historian.

05/04/1729

Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1809)

Frederick Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was a member of the House of Guelph. He was a Danish field marshal and also the last Duke of Brunswick-Bevern.

05/04/1727

Pasquale Anfossi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1797)

Pasquale Anfossi was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Republic of Genoa, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome.

05/04/1726

Benjamin Harrison V, American politician, planter and merchant (died 1791)

Benjamin Harrison V was an American planter, merchant, and politician who was a Founding Father of the United States. He served as a delegate to the United States Continental Congress, and was a signer of the Continental Association and the Declaration of Independence. He also served as Virginia's governor (1781–1784), affirming a tradition of public service in the Harrison family.

05/04/1719

Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician, Lord Marshal of Sweden (died 1794)

Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen was a Swedish statesman and soldier of Baltic German descent. He served as Lord Marshal of the Riksdag of the Estates, and although he worked closely with King Gustav III before and through the Revolution of 1772, he later opposed the king.

05/04/1692

Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (died 1730)

Adrienne Lecouvreur was a French actress, considered by many as the greatest of her time. Born in Damery, Champagne, she first appeared professionally on the stage in Lille. After her Paris debut at the Comédie-Française in 1717, she was immensely popular with the public. Together with Michel Baron, she was credited for having developed a more natural, less stylized, type of acting.

05/04/1691

Louis VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (died 1768)

Louis VIII was the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1739 to 1768. He was the son of Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and Margravine Dorothea Charlotte of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

05/04/1674

Margravine Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (died 1748)

Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg, was a Duchess consort of Courland by marriage to Duke Frederick Casimir Kettler of Courland, a Margravine consort of Brandenburg-Bayreuth by marriage to Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, and a Duchess consort of Saxe-Meiningen by marriage to Ernst Ludwig I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. She was joint regent in Courland during the minority of her son Frederick William, Duke of Courland from 1698 until 1701.

05/04/1664

Élisabeth Thérèse de Lorraine, French noblewoman and Princess of Epinoy (died 1748)

Élisabeth of Lorraine was a French noblewoman and the Princess of Epinoy by marriage. She is often styled as the princesse de Lillebonne. She was the mother of Louis de Melun, Duke of Joyeuse and of Anne Julie de Melun, princesse de Soubise.

05/04/1656

Nikita Demidov, Russian industrialist (died 1725)

Nikita Demidov, was a Russian industrialist who founded the Demidov industrial dynasty.

05/04/1649

Elihu Yale, American-English merchant and philanthropist (died 1721)

Elihu Yale was a British-American colonial administrator.

05/04/1622

Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (died 1703)

Vincenzo Viviani was an Italian mathematician and scientist. He was a pupil of Torricelli and Galileo.

05/04/1616

Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (died 1661)

Frederick was the Duke of Zweibrücken from 1635 until 1661.

05/04/1604

Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (died 1675)

Charles IV was Duke of Lorraine from 1624 until his death in 1675, with a brief interruption in 1634, when he abdicated under French pressure in favor of his younger brother, Nicholas Francis.

05/04/1595

John Wilson, English composer and educator (died 1674)

John Wilson was an English composer, lutenist and teacher. Born in Faversham, Kent, he moved to London by 1614, where he succeeded Robert Johnson as principal composer for the King's Men, and entered the King's Musick in 1635 as a lutenist. He received the degree of D.Mus from Oxford in 1644, and he was Heather Professor of Music there from 1656 to 1661. Following the Restoration, he joined the Chapel Royal in 1662. He died at Westminster.

05/04/1591

Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (died 1634)

Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was prince of Wolfenbüttel from 1613 until his death.

05/04/1588

Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (died 1679)

Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher and political theorist, best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory. He is considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.

05/04/1568

Pope Urban VIII (died 1644)

Pope Urban VIII, born Maffeo Vincenzo Barberini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 August 1623 to his death, in July 1644. As pope, he expanded the papal territory by force of arms and advantageous politicking, and was also a prominent patron of the arts, commissioning works from artists like Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and a reformer of Church missions. His papacy also covered 21 years of the Thirty Years' War.

05/04/1549

Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (died 1597)

Princess Elizabeth of Sweden, was a Swedish princess, and a duchess consort of Mecklenburg-Gadebusch by marriage to Christopher, Duke of Mecklenburg-Gadebusch. She was a daughter of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second spouse, Queen Margaret.

05/04/1539

George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (died 1603)

George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach was Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, as well as Regent of Prussia. He was the son of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and a member of the House of Hohenzollern. He married firstly, in 1559, Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Küstrin. He married secondly, in 1579, Sophie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, daughter of William of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Dorothea of Denmark.

05/04/1533

Giulio della Rovere, Italian Catholic Cardinal (died 1578)

Giulio della Rovere, also known as Giulio Feltrio della Rovere, was an Italian Cardinal of the Catholic Church and a member of the della Rovere family.

05/04/1523

Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer and diplomat (died 1596)

Blaise de Vigenère was a French diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist.

05/04/1521

Francesco Laparelli, Italian architect (died 1570)

Francesco Laparelli da Cortona was an Italian architect. He was an assistant of Michelangelo, and later was sent by the Pope to supervise the construction of Valletta in Malta.

05/04/1472

Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1510)

Bianca Maria Sforza was Queen of Germany and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire as the third spouse of Maximilian I. She was the eldest legitimate daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan by his second wife, Bona of Savoy.

05/04/1365

William II, Duke of Bavaria (died 1417)

William II of Bavaria was Duke of Bavaria-Straubing and count of Holland, Hainaut and Zeeland. He ruled from 1404 until 1417, when he died from an infection caused by a dog bite.

05/04/1315

James III of Majorca (died 1349)

James III, known as James the Rash, was King of Majorca from 1324 to 1344. He was the son of Ferdinand of Majorca and Isabella of Sabran.

05/04/1288

Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (died 1336)

Emperor Go-Fushimi was the 93rd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1298 to 1301.

05/04/1279

Al-Nuwayri, Egyptian Muslim historian (died 1333)

Al-Nuwayrī, full name Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad bin ʿAbd al-Wahhāb al-Nuwayrī was an Egyptian Muslim historian and civil servant of the Bahri Mamluk dynasty. He is most notable for his compilation of a 9,000-page encyclopedia of the Mamluk era, titled The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition, which pertained to zoology, anatomy, history, chronology, amongst others. He is also known for his extensive work regarding the Mongols' conquest of Syria. Al-Nuwayri started his encyclopedia around the year 1314 and completed it in 1333.

05/04/1219

Wonjong of Goryeo, 24th ruler of Goryeo (died 1274)

Wonjong, personal name Wang Chŏng, was the 24th ruler of the Goryeo dynasty of Korea, reigning from 1260 to 1274. His rule was briefly interrupted by that of King Yeongjong in 1269, although the legitimacy of the latter is disputed by scholars.

05/04/1170

Isabella of Hainault (died 1190)

Isabella of Hainault was a Queen of France as the first wife of King Philip II. She was also formally ruling Countess of Artois de jure between 1180 and 1190.

Lives Remembered on 5th April

On 5th April, 244 remarkable people passed away — from 517 to 2024. Remember the lives and legacies of those we lost on this day.

05/04/2024

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

Carl Jeffrey Snare was an American singer best known for being the frontman and founding member of the hard rock/glam metal band FireHouse.

05/04/2022

Nehemiah Persoff, Israeli-American actor (born 1919)

Nehemiah Persoff was an American actor and painter. He appeared in more than 200 television series, films, and theatre productions, and also performed as a voice artist in a career spanning 55 years.

Jimmy Wang Yu, Taiwanese actor (born 1943)

Jimmy Wang Yu was a Hong Kong-Taiwanese martial artist, actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter. Initially a contract player for Shaw Brothers, he rose to fame for his starring role in The One-Armed Swordsman (1967) and its sequels, and was one of the first major stars of martial arts and wuxia cinema. At the height of his fame in the 1970s, he was the highest-paid martial arts actor in the world. According to The New York Times, Wang was "the biggest star of Asian martial arts cinema until the emergence of Bruce Lee."

05/04/2021

Paul Ritter, English actor (born 1966)

Simon Paul Adams, known professionally as Paul Ritter, was an English actor. He had roles in films including Son of Rambow (2007), Quantum of Solace (2008), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), The Eagle (2011), and Operation Mincemeat (2021), as well as television programmes including Friday Night Dinner (2011–2020), Vera (2011–2013), The Hollow Crown (2012), The Last Kingdom (2015), Chernobyl (2019), Belgravia (2020) and Resistance.

05/04/2019

Sydney Brenner, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

Sydney Brenner was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston. Brenner made significant contributions to work on the genetic code, and other areas of molecular biology while working in the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. He established the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism for the investigation of developmental biology, and founded the Molecular Sciences Institute in Berkeley, California, United States.

Wowaka, Japanese musician (born 1987)

Wowaka, also known as Genjitsutouhi-P (現実逃避P), was a Japanese singer, songwriter, and record producer. He is frequently ranked among the most influential Vocaloid producers of the 2000s and of all time.

05/04/2018

Isao Takahata, Japanese director (born 1935)

Isao Takahata was a Japanese director, screenwriter and producer. A co-founder of Studio Ghibli, he earned international critical acclaim for his work as a director of Japanese animated feature films.

05/04/2017

Attilio Benfatto, Italian cyclist (born 1943)

Attilio Benfatto was an Italian professional road cyclist. He most notably won two stages of the Giro d'Italia. Throughout his career, he competed in eight editions of the Giro d'Italia and two editions of the Tour de France. His best placing was 25th overall in the 1969 Giro d'Italia.

Arthur Bisguier, American chess Grandmaster (born 1929)

Arthur Bernard Bisguier was an American chess player, chess promoter, and writer who held the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM).

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

Paul G. Comba was an Italian-American computer scientist, an amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

Makoto Ōoka, Japanese poet and literary critic (born 1931)

Makoto Ōoka was a Japanese poet and literary critic. He pioneered the collaborative poetic form renshi in the 1990s, in which he has collaborated with such well-known literary figures as Charles Tomlinson, James Lasdun, Joseph Stanton, Shuntarō Tanikawa and Mikirō Sasaki.

Paul O'Neill, American rock composer and producer (born 1956)

Paul O'Neill was an American composer, lyricist, record producer, and guitarist. He was the producer of the progressive metal band Savatage, and the founder of Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

Tim Parnell, British race car driver (born 1932)

Reginald Harold Haslam "Tim" Parnell Jr. was a British racing driver from England. He was the son of Reg Parnell, another racing driver.

Memè Perlini, Italian actor and director (born 1947)

Amelio "Memè" Perlini was an Italian actor and film director. His directorial debut, Italian Postcards, was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Atanase Sciotnic, Romanian sprint canoeist (born 1942)

Atanase Sciotnic, also listed as Atanasie, was a Romanian sprint canoeist. He took part in the two-man and four man events at most major competitions between 1963 and 1974 and won two Olympic and nine world championships medals, including four gold medals.

Ilkka Sinisalo, Finnish ice hockey player (born 1958)

Ilkka Antero Jouko Sinisalo was a Finnish professional ice hockey forward who played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota North Stars and Los Angeles Kings. Later he was a scout for the Flyers.

05/04/2016

Koço Kasapoğlu, Turkish footballer (born 1936)

Koço Kasapoğlu, also known as Yorgo or Kostas Kasapoğlu, was a Greek-Turkish football player and manager. A forward, throughout his career he was also nicknamed penaltı kralı because he scored 500 of the 501 penalties he took in his career and is considered the best penalty taker in Turkish football history.

05/04/2015

Fredric Brandt, American dermatologist and author (born 1949)

Fredric Sheldon Brandt was an American physician, researcher, lecturer, author, and radio host specializing in cosmetic dermatology. Among the first to use botulinum toxin ("botox") and fillers, Brandt was noted for his role in the FDA approval of numerous fillers and botulinum toxins for cosmetic use in the United States.

Juan Carlos Cáceres, Argentinian singer and pianist (born 1936)

Juan Carlos Cáceres was an Argentine musician.

05/04/2014

Alan Davie, Scottish saxophonist and painter (born 1920)

James Alan Davie was a Scottish painter and musician.

Mariano Díaz, Spanish cyclist (born 1939)

Mariano Díaz Díaz was a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. In 1967, he won a stage of the 1967 Vuelta a España, and also won the mountains classification. He also competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (born 1927)

Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, wilderness writer, zen teacher, and onetime CIA agent. A co-founder of the literary magazine The Paris Review, he is the only writer to have won the National Book Award in both nonfiction and fiction. He was also a prominent environmental activist.

John Pinette, American comedian (born 1964)

John Paul Pinette was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and Broadway performer. He toured the comedy club circuit beginning in the 1980s and appeared in cinema and on television. Besides stand-up, Pinette did various impressions, among them Michael Jackson, The Chipmunks, Elvis Presley, Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, Hervé Villechaize, an Ewok, actor Marlon Brando, as well as a range of regional accents. He occasionally sang in his stand-up routines, working in songs such as "Over the Rainbow" from The Wizard of Oz, "Will You Be There" from Free Willy, and "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".

José Wilker, Brazilian actor, director, and producer (born 1947)

José Wilker Almeida was a Brazilian film, stage, and television actor and director. He gained fame in telenovelas such as Roque Santeiro (1985), but became internationally known for his role as Vadinho, the husband who returns from the dead to tempt Sônia Braga's character in the film Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976).

05/04/2013

Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (born 1921)

Regina Bianchi was an Italian stage and film actress.

Piero de Palma, Italian tenor and actor (born 1924)

Piero de Palma was an Italian operatic tenor, particularly associated with comprimario roles.

Nikolaos Pappas, Greek Navy admiral (born 1930)

Nikolaos Pappas was a Hellenic Navy admiral who, as commander of the destroyer Velos, played a major part in the abortive rebellion of the Navy in May 1973 against the ruling military junta. After the restoration of democracy he served as chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff in 1982–1986 and Minister for Mercantile Marine in 1989–1990.

05/04/2012

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, German designer (born 1935)

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, also known by the nickname "Butzi", was a German-Austrian designer whose best known product was the first Porsche 911. He was the son of Ferry Porsche, and the grandson of Ferdinand Porsche.

Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, Dominican Republican politician military officer (born 1921)

Pedro Bartolomé Benoit Vanderhorst was a politician and military officer from the Dominican Republic. He served as the 7th provisional president of the Dominican Republic from 1 May until 7 May 1965. He was also a member of the Revolutionary Committee, which ruled the country for about few hours on 25 April 1965.

Jim Marshall, English businessman, founded Marshall Amplification (born 1923)

James Charles Marshall known as The Father of Loud or The Lord of Loud, was an English businessman and pioneer of guitar amplification. His company, Marshall Amplification, founded in 1962, has created equipment that is used by some of the biggest names in rock music, producing amplifiers with an iconic status.

Barney McKenna, Irish musician (born 1939)

Bernard Noël McKenna, known as Barney McKenna or Banjo Barney, was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He is regarded as a major figure in the development of the tenor banjo in Irish traditional music, and is widely credited with establishing GDAE tuning as the instrument's standard tuning in the tradition.

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

Bingu wa Mutharika was a Malawian politician and economist who served as the third president of Malawi from 2004 until his death in 2012. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he served as the party's president from 2005 to 2012, and was also the eighth chairperson of the African Union from 2010 to 2011.

05/04/2011

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, American physician and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1925)

Baruch Samuel Blumberg, known as Barry Blumberg, was an American physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for his work on the hepatitis B virus while an investigator at the NIH and at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He was president of the American Philosophical Society from 2005 until his death.

Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African politician (born 1937)

Ange-Félix Patassé was a Central African politician who was president of the Central African Republic from 1993 until 2003, when he was deposed by the rebel leader François Bozizé in the 2003 coup d'état. Patassé was the first president in the CAR's history to be chosen in what was generally regarded as a fairly democratic election (1993) in that it was brought about by donor pressure on President André Kolingba and assisted by the United Nations Electoral Assistance Unit.

05/04/2010

Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut and engineer (born 1935)

Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov was a Soviet cosmonaut and an engineer who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions.

05/04/2009

I. J. Good, British mathematician (born 1916)

Irving John Good was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Good moved to the United States where he was a professor at Virginia Tech.

05/04/2008

Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (born 1923)

Charlton Heston was an American actor. He gained stardom for his leading man roles in numerous Hollywood films including biblical epics, historical drama films, science-fiction films, and action films. He won an Academy Award, a David di Donatello Award, a Laurel Award, a Photoplay Award, a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards. He received numerous honorary accolades including a Hollywood Walk of Fame Star in 1960, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1967, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1971, an honorary Saturn Award in 1975, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Academy Award in 1978, the ShoWest Convention Lifetime Achievement Award in 1984, the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003.

05/04/2007

Maria Gripe, Swedish journalist and author (born 1923)

Maria Gripe, born Maja Stina Walter, was a Swedish author of books for children and young adults, which were often written in magical and mystical tone. She has written almost forty books, with many of her characters presented in short series of three or four books. For her lasting contribution to children's literature, she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing in 1974.

Leela Majumdar, Indian author and academic (born 1908)

Leela Majumdar was an Indian Bengali-language writer.

Werner Maser, German historian and journalist (born 1922)

Werner Maser was a German historian, journalist and professor at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. Maser was the first historian to claim that the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.

Mark St. John, American guitarist (born 1956)

Mark Leslie Norton, better known as Mark St. John, was an American guitarist best known for his brief stint with the hard rock band Kiss from April to November 1984. His work can be heard on the band's 1984 album Animalize and their 2023 live album Off the Soundboard: Poughkeepsie, NY. After leaving Kiss, he co-founded the band White Tiger.

Thomas Stoltz Harvey, American pathologist (born 1912)

Thomas Stoltz Harvey was an American pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. Harvey afterwards preserved Einstein's brain on the condition that it would be studied for scientific purposes.

05/04/2006

Allan Kaprow, American painter and educator (born 1927)

Allan Kaprow was an American performance artist, installation artist, painter, and assemblagist. He helped to develop the "Environment" and "Happening" in the late 1950s and 1960s, as well as their theory. His Happenings — some 200 of them — evolved over the years. Eventually Kaprow shifted his practice into what he called "Activities", intimately scaled pieces for one or several players, devoted to the study of normal human activity in a way congruent to ordinary life. Fluxus, performance art, and installation art were, in turn, influenced by his work.

Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

Gene Francis Alan Pitney was an American pop and country singer, songwriter, and musician. Pitney charted 16 top-40 hits in the United States, four in the top ten. In the United Kingdom, he had 22 top-40 hit singles, including 11 in the top ten.

Yevgeny Seredin, Russian swimmer (born 1958)

Yevgeny Alekseyevich Seredin was a Russian swimmer who competed in the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. In 1980, he won a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley relay and placed fifth in the individual 100 m butterfly event. He held eight Soviet titles: in the 100 m butterfly, medley relay (1977–79), and 4×100 m and 4×200 m freestyle relays (1979). After retiring in 1983, Seredin coached swimmers in Saint Petersburg. He died of a heart attack.

Pasquale Macchi, Roman Catholic archbishop (born 1923)

Pasquale Macchi was a Catholic archbishop and the private secretary to Pope Paul VI.

05/04/2005

Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)

Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990.

Robert Borg, American military officer and equestrian (born 1913)

Robert John Borg was an American military officer and equestrian. He was born in Manila, Philippines. He placed fourth in individual dressage, and won a silver medal in team dressage at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. He participated at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

Chung Nam-sik, South Korean footballer (born 1917)

Chung Nam-sik was a Korean football player and manager. He played as a striker for the South Korea national team during the 1940s and 1950s, including at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

05/04/2004

Fernand Goyvaerts, Belgian footballer (born 1938)

Fernand Goyvaerts was a Belgian international footballer. He played as an attacker.

Sławomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (born 1915)

Sławomir Rawicz was a Polish Army lieutenant who was imprisoned by the NKVD after the Soviet invasion of Poland. In a ghost-written book called The Long Walk, he claimed that in 1941 he and six others had escaped from a Siberian Gulag camp and begun a long journey south on foot, supposedly travelling through the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and the Himalayas before finally reaching India in the winter of 1942.

Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician and academic (born 1936)

Heiner Zieschang was a German mathematician. He was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum from 1968 till 2002. He was a topologist. In 1996 he was an honorary doctor of University of Toulouse and in 1997 he was an honorary professor of Moscow State University.

05/04/2003

Keizo Morishita, Japanese painter (born 1944)

Keizo Morishita was a Japanese painter who lived most of his life in Italy.

05/04/2002

Layne Staley, American singer-songwriter (born 1967)

Layne Thomas Staley was an American singer-songwriter. He was the original lead vocalist of Alice in Chains, which rose to international fame in the early 1990s as part of Seattle's grunge movement. He was known for his distinctive vocal style as well as his harmonizing with bandmate Jerry Cantrell. Before his success with Alice in Chains, Staley was also a member of the glam metal bands Sleze and Alice N' Chains. He was also a part of the supergroups Mad Season and Class of '99.

Kim Won-gyun, North Korean composer and politician (born 1917)

Kim Won-gyun was a North Korean composer and politician. He is considered one of the most prominent, if not the most celebrated, composer of North Korea. He composed "Aegukka" — the national anthem of the country — and "Song of General Kim Il Sung", in addition to revolutionary operas.

05/04/2001

Aldo Olivieri, Italian footballer (born 1910)

Aldo Olivieri was an Italian football goalkeeper from 1931 to 1943, and manager after World War II.

05/04/2000

Heinrich Müller, Austrian footballer (born 1909)

Heinrich "Wudi" Müller was an Austrian football player and coach. In the early 1930s he was an albeit minor part of Austria's all conquering Wunderteam. As coach he defined the post-World War II glory period of Austria Wien.

Lee Petty, American race car driver (born 1914)

Lee Arnold Petty was an American stock car racing driver who competed during the 1950s and 1960s. He is the patriarch of the Petty racing family. He was one of the early pioneers of NASCAR and one of its first stars. He was NASCAR's first three-time Cup champion. He is the father of Richard Petty, who went on to become one of the most successful stock car racing drivers in history. He is also the grandfather of Kyle Petty and great grandfather of Adam Petty.

05/04/1999

Giulio Einaudi, Italian book publisher (born 1912)

Giulio Einaudi was an Italian book publisher. The eponymous company that he founded in 1933 became "a European wellspring of fine literature, intellectual thought and political theory" and was once considered the most prestigious publishing house in Italy. He was also the author of books on literature, history, philosophy, art and science.

05/04/1998

Charles Frank, British theoretical physicist (born 1911)

Sir Frederick Charles Frank, FRS was a British theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work on crystal dislocations, including the idea of the Frank–Read source of dislocations. He also proposed the cyclol reaction in the mid-1930s, and made many other contributions to solid-state physics, geophysics, and the theory of liquid crystals.

Cozy Powell, English drummer (born 1947)

Cozy Powell was an English drummer who made his name with major rock bands and artists such as The Jeff Beck Group, Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Gary Moore, Graham Bonnet, Brian May, Whitesnake, Emerson, Lake & Powell, and Black Sabbath.

05/04/1997

Allen Ginsberg, American poet (born 1926)

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.

05/04/1996

Charlene Holt, American actress (born 1928)

Verna Charlene Stavely, professionally known as Charlene Holt, was an American actress known for her supporting roles in television and film.

05/04/1995

Nicolaas Cortlever, Dutch chess player (born 1915)

Nicolaas (Nico) Cortlever was a Dutch chess master.

Emilio Greco, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1913)

Emilio Greco was an Italian sculptor, engraver, medallist, writer and poet. He is best known for his monumental bronze sculptures, which are located around the world in museums such as the Tate Modern (London), Hermitage, Museu de Arte Contemporânea e Centro de Arquitetura (Lisbon), and Hawke's Bay Museum.

Christian Pineau, French Resistance fighter (born 1904)

Christian Pineau was a noted French Resistance fighter, who later served an important term as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1956 through 1958.

05/04/1994

Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1967)

Kurt Donald Cobain was an American musician. He was the lead vocalist, guitarist, primary songwriter, and a founding member of the grunge band Nirvana. Through his angsty songwriting and anti-establishment persona, he widened the thematic conventions of mainstream rock music. He was heralded as a spokesman of Generation X, and is widely recognized as one of the most influential musicians in the history of rock music.

05/04/1993

Divya Bharti, Indian actress (born 1974)

Divya Bharti was an Indian actress who predominantly worked in Hindi and Telugu cinema. Known for her acting, vivacity and beauty, she was among the highest-paid actresses of her time. She received a Filmfare Award and a Nandi Award for her performances.

05/04/1992

Takeshi Inoue, Japanese footballer (born 1928)

Takeshi Inoue was a Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team.

Molly Picon, American actress (born 1898)

Molly Picon was an American actress of stage, screen, radio and television, as well as a lyricist and dramatic storyteller.

Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (born 1918)

Samuel Moore Walton was an American business magnate best known for co-founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club, which he started in Rogers, Arkansas, and Midwest City, Oklahoma, in 1962 and 1983 respectively. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world. For a period of time, Walton was the richest person in the United States. His family has remained the richest family in the U.S. for several consecutive years, with a net worth of around $440.62 billion US as of January 2026. In 1992 at the age of 74, Walton died of blood cancer and was buried at the Bentonville Cemetery in his longtime home of Bentonville, Arkansas.

05/04/1991

Sonny Carter, American soccer player, physician, and astronaut (born 1947)

Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr., M.D., , was an American physician, professional soccer player, naval officer, aviator, and NASA astronaut who flew on STS-33.

Jay Miller, American basketball player (born 1943)

Jay Julian Miller was an American basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA). Miller first played for the St. Louis Hawks before being selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1968 NBA expansion draft. After his time with the Bucks, he spent the rest of his career in the ABA, with the Los Angeles Stars and Indiana Pacers.

Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist, writer and screenwriter (born 1915)

Jiří Mucha was a Czech journalist, writer, screenwriter, author of autobiographical novels and studies of the works of his father, the painter Alphonse Mucha.

William Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle (born 1909)

William Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle, known as Lord De L'Isle and Dudley between 1945 and 1956, was a British Army officer, politician and Victoria Cross recipient who served as the 15th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1961 to 1965. He was the last non-Australian to hold the position and the last British national to be appointed Governor-General of any Commonwealth realm.

John Tower, American soldier, academic, and politician (born 1925)

John Goodwin Tower was an American politician and military veteran who represented Texas in the United States Senate from 1961 to 1985. He was the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Texas since Reconstruction. Tower is known for leading the Tower Commission, which investigated the Iran-Contra Affair in the Reagan administration.

05/04/1989

Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (born 1895)

Frank Kent Foss was an American pole vaulter. He won a gold medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics, while breaking his own unofficial world record.

Karel Zeman, Czech director, artist, production designer and animator (born 1910)

Karel Zeman was a Czech film director, artist, production designer and animator. He is best known for directing fantasy films combining live-action footage with animation, including Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955) and Invention for Destruction (1958). Because of his creative use of special effects and animation in his films, he has often been called the "Czech Méliès".

05/04/1988

Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (born 1920)

Alf Kjellin was a Swedish film actor and director, who also appeared on some television shows.

05/04/1987

Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (born 1914)

Joseph Leabua Jonathan was the first prime minister of Lesotho. He succeeded Chief Sekhonyana Nehemia Maseribane following a by-election and held that post from 1965 to 1986.

05/04/1986

Manly Wade Wellman, American writer (born 1903)

Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary Weird Tales and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. Karl Edward Wagner referred to him as "the dean of fantasy writers." Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction.

05/04/1984

Hans Lunding, Danish military officer (born 1899)

Hans Mathiesen Lunding was a Danish military officer, eventing rider, resistance fighter and director of military intelligence in Denmark.

Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (born 1894)

Giuseppe Tucci was an Italian orientalist, Indologist and scholar of East Asian studies, specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism. During its zenith, Tucci was a supporter of Italian fascism, and he used idealized portrayals of Asian traditions to support Italian ideological campaigns. Tucci was fluent in several European languages, Sanskrit, Bengali, Pali, Prakrit, Chinese and Tibetan and he taught at the University of Rome La Sapienza until his death. He is considered one of the founders of the field of Buddhist studies.

05/04/1983

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

Abd al-Quddus al-Ansari was a Saudi Arabian historian, journalist and writer, born and raised in Medina under Ottoman and Hashemite rule into a Khazraji family. Employed by local government just after graduation from a local madrasah in 1928, he held several official positions from 1928 to 1954. A self-taught historian and archaeologist, he was the author of works about the history of Medina and wrote about various topics of his region, the Hejaz. In 1937, he founded the monthly magazine “Al-Manhal”. He also wrote literary works like The Twins (1930), the first Hejazi-Saudi novel, but his many professional activities prevented him from writing more than one novel. He died at the age of 76 in Mecca due to an incurable disease and was buried in Al-Mu'alla Cemetery.

05/04/1982

Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist (born 1910)

Abraham Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Fortas graduated from Rhodes College and Yale Law School. He later became a law professor at Yale and then an advisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Fortas worked at the Department of the Interior under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was appointed by President Harry S. Truman to delegations that helped set up the United Nations in 1945.

05/04/1981

Émile Hanse, Belgian footballer (born 1892)

Émile Jean Ghislain Hanse was a Belgian football (soccer) player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Belgium team, which won the gold medal in the football tournament. Hanse played for R.U. Saint-Gilloise and appeared in 254 matches and scored 23 goals.

Bob Hite, American singer-songwriter (born 1945)

Robert Ernest Hite, also known as "The Bear", was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer who was the co-lead vocalist of the blues rock band Canned Heat from 1965 until his death in 1981.

Pinchus Kremegne, French artist (born 1890)

Pinchus Krémègne, aka Pinchus Kremegne, was a Lithuanian Belarusian Jewish-French artist, primarily known as a sculptor, painter and lithographer.

05/04/1977

Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba, (born 1903)

Carlos Manuel Prío Socarrás was a Cuban politician. He served as the President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held. He was the first president of Cuba to be born in an independent Cuba and the last to gain his post through universal, contested elections. He went into exile in the United States, where he lived for 25 years before dying by suicide at age 73.

Yuri Zavadsky, Russian actor and director (born 1894)

Yuri Aleksandrovich Zavadsky was a Soviet and Russian theater director, actor and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1948) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1973).

05/04/1976

Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (born 1905)

Howard Robard Hughes Jr. was an American aviator, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was one of the richest and most influential people in the world during his lifetime. He first became prominent as a film producer, and then as an important figure in the aviation industry. Later in life, he became known for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle—oddities that were caused in part by his worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), chronic pain from a near-fatal plane crash, and increasing deafness.

Wilder Penfield, American-Canadian surgeon and academic (born 1891)

Wilder Graves Penfield was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus. His scientific contributions on neural stimulation expand across a variety of topics including hallucinations, illusions, dissociation and déjà vu. Penfield devoted much of his thinking to mental processes, including contemplation of whether there was any scientific basis for the existence of the human soul.

Harry Wyld, British cyclist (born 1900)

Frederick Henry "Harry" Wyld was a British track cyclist. He won bronze medals at the 1924 and the 1928 Summer Olympics.

05/04/1975

Tell Berna, American middle and long-distance runner (born 1891)

Tell Schirnding Berna was an American middle-distance and long-distance runner.

Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician (born 1917)

Victor Gerard Marie Marijnen was a Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 24 July 1963 until 14 April 1965.

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

Chiang Kai-shek was a Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman who was President of the Republic of China from 1948 to 1975 and head of the Nationalist government from 1925 to 1948. As the de facto leader of the Republic of China (ROC), he ruled the country through World War II and oversaw the relocation of its government to Taiwan following its defeat in the Chinese Civil War.

Harold Osborn, American track and fielder (born 1899)

Harold Marion Osborn D.O. was an American track athlete. He won a gold medal in Olympic decathlon and high jump in 1924 and was the first athlete to win a gold medal in both the decathlon and an individual event.

05/04/1974

Bino Bini, Italian fencer (born 1900)

Bino Bini was an Italian fencer. He won a gold medal at the 1924 Summer Olympics and a silver and bronze at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (born 1882)

Alexander Young Jackson LL. D. was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven. Jackson made a significant contribution to the development of art in Canada, and was instrumental in bringing together the artists of Montreal and Toronto. In addition to his work with the Group of Seven, his long career included serving as a war artist during World War I (1917–1919) and teaching at the Banff School of Fine Arts, from 1943 to 1949. In his later years he was artist-in-residence at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in Kleinburg, Ontario.

05/04/1973

David Murray, British race car driver (born 1909)

David Hugh Murray was a British racing driver from Scotland. He participated in five Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 13 May 1950, and also founded the Ecurie Ecosse Scottish motor racing team, based at Merchiston Mews in Edinburgh.

Alla Tarasova, Russian ballerina (born 1898)

Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress and pedagogue. She was a leading actress of Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre from the late 1920s onward. People's Artist of the USSR (1937) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1973).

05/04/1972

Isabel Jewell, American actress and singer (born 1907)

Isabel Jewell was an American actress, who rose to prominence in the 1930s and early 1940s. Some of her more famous films were Ceiling Zero, Marked Woman, A Tale of Two Cities, Lost Horizon, and Gone with the Wind.

05/04/1971

José Cubiles, Spanish pianist and conductor (born 1894)

José Antonio Cubiles Ramos was a noted Spanish pianist, conductor and teacher.

05/04/1970

Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (born 1877)

Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus née Kensit was a South African botanist and taxonomist, and the longtime curator of the Bolus Herbarium, from 1903. Bolus also has the legacy of authoring more land plant species than any other female scientist, in total naming 1,494 species.

Alfred Sturtevant, American geneticist and academic (born 1891)

Alfred Henry Sturtevant was an American geneticist. Sturtevant constructed the first genetic map of a chromosome in 1911. Throughout his career he worked on the organism Drosophila melanogaster with Thomas Hunt Morgan. By watching the development of flies in which the earliest cell division produced two different genomes, he measured the embryonic distance between organs in a unit which is called the sturt in his honor. On February 13, 1968, Sturtevant received the 1967 National Medal of Science from President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Karl von Spreti, German diplomat (born 1907)

Karl Borromäus Maria Heinrich Graf von Spreti was a German diplomat. He is best known as the West German Ambassador to Guatemala from 1968 until his assassination in 1970. The story of his assassination by Guatemalan guerillas was depicted in a 1970 book, Why Karl von Spreti Died, by Ryszard Kapuściński.

05/04/1969

Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (born 1918)

Alberto Bonucci was an Italian film actor and director. He appeared in 53 films between 1950 and 1967.

Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician (born 1917)

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. In 1948, he became the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. He was removed from power after only nine months by a military coup.

Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian SS officer (born 1903)

Ain Mere was an Estonian military officer in World War II. During the German occupation of Estonia, he served in the German-controlled Estonian Security Police and SD.

05/04/1968

Félix Couchoro, Togolese writer (born 1900)

Félix Couchoro was a Togolese writer and educator.

Lajos Csordás, Hungarian footballer (born 1932)

Lajos Csordás was a Hungarian footballer. He won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and was runner-up of the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

Giuseppe Paris, Italian gymnast (born 1895)

Giuseppe Paris was an Italian gymnast who competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics, the 1924 Summer Olympics and the 1928 Summer Olympics. He was born in Milan. He was part of the Italian team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1920 as well as in the team competition 1924.

05/04/1967

Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (born 1891)

Mischa Elman was a Russian-American violinist famed for his passionate style, beautiful tone, and impeccable artistry and musicality.

Johan Falkberget, Norwegian author (born 1879)

Johan Falkberget, born Johan Petter Lillebakken, was a Norwegian author. He was nominated for the --Nobel Prize in Literature.

Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)

Hermann Joseph Muller was an American geneticist who was awarded the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation". Muller warned of long-term dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear war and nuclear testing, which resulted in greater public scrutiny of these practices.

Herbert Johnston, British runner (born 1902)

Herbert Arthur Johnston was a British runner who competed in events ranging from one to four miles.

05/04/1965

Pedro Sernagiotto, Italian-Brazilian footballer (born 1908)

Pedro Sernagiotto, also known as Pietro Sernagiotto or Ministrinho was an Italian Brazilian professional football player. He also held Italian citizenship and on October 22, 1933, played for the Italian national B team against Hungary.

Sándor Szalay, Hungarian figure skater (born 1893)

Sándor Szalay was a Hungarian pair skater. With partner Olga Orgonista, he was the 1930 and 1931 European Champion. They won two medals at the World Figure Skating Championships, a bronze in 1929 and a silver in 1931. They placed 4th at the 1932 Winter Olympics. After the 1932 World Figure Skating Championships, Sándor and Olga retired. Sándor worked as a construction inspector in a rubber factory, and served as the president of the Hungarian Skating Federation from 1945 to 1950.

05/04/1964

James Chapin, American ornithologist (born 1889)

James Paul Chapin was an American ornithologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History.

Aloïse Corbaz, Swiss artist (born 1886)

Aloïse Blanche Corbaz was a Swiss outsider artist included in Jean Dubuffet's initial collection of psychiatric art. She is one of very few acclaimed female outsider artists.

Douglas MacArthur, American general (born 1880)

Douglas MacArthur was an American general who served as a top commander during World War II and the Korean War, achieving the rank of General of the Army. He served with distinction in World War I; as chief of staff of the United States Army from 1930 to 1935; as Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area, from 1942 to 1945; as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers overseeing the occupation of Japan from 1945 to 1951; and as head of the United Nations Command in the Korean War from 1950 to 1951. MacArthur was nominated for the Medal of Honor three times, and awarded it for his WWII service in the Philippines. He is one of only five people to hold the rank of General of the Army, and the only person to hold the rank of Field Marshal in the Philippine Army.

05/04/1963

Jacobus Oud, Dutch architect (born 1890)

Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud was a Dutch architect. His fame began as a follower of the De Stijl movement.

05/04/1962

Boo Kullberg, Swedish gymnast (born 1889)

Anders Boo Georg Kullberg was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Swedish team, which won the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, Swedish system event.

05/04/1961

Nikolai Kryukov, Russian composer (born 1908)

Nikolai Nikolayevich Kryukov was a Russian composer active in the Soviet era.

05/04/1958

Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria (born 1884)

Prince Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria and Bourbon was a prince of the House of Wittelsbach and Infante of Spain, the eldest son and child of Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria and Infanta María de la Paz of Spain. He became an Infante of Spain on 20 October 1905 and renounced his rights to the throne of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1914.

Ásgrímur Jónsson, Icelandic painter (born 1876)

Ásgrímur Jónsson was an Icelandic painter, and one of the first in the country to make art a professional living.

Isidora Sekulić, Serbian writer (born 1877)

Isidora Sekulić was a Serbian writer, novelist, essayist, polyglot and art critic. She was the first woman academic in the history of Serbia, after she joined the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1950.

05/04/1956

William Titt, British gymnast (born 1881)

William Titt was a British gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics and in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was born in Cork. Originally named William Lebeau he took on the name of William Titt after his stepfather. When his stepfather died he reverted to the original Lebeau. As a member of the British team in 1908 he finished eighth in the team competition. He was part of the British team, which won the bronze medal in the gymnastics men's team, European system event in 1912.

05/04/1955

Tibor Szele, Hungarian mathematician (born 1918)

Tibor Szele was a Hungarian mathematician, working in combinatorics and abstract algebra.

05/04/1954

Princess Märtha of Sweden, (born 1901)

Princess Märtha of Sweden was Crown Princess of Norway as the spouse of the future King Olav V from 1929 until her death in 1954. As Olav only became king in 1957, Märtha never became Queen of Norway. Her son, Harald V, is the current king of Norway. Princess Märtha was also an elder sister of Queen Astrid of Belgium and a maternal aunt of Grand Duchess Joséphine-Charlotte of Luxembourg and Kings Baudouin and Albert II of Belgium.

Claude Delvincourt, French pianist and composer (born 1888)

Claude Étienne Edmond Marie Pierre Delvincourt was a French pianist and composer of classical music.

05/04/1952

Agnes Morton, British tennis player (born 1872)

Agnes Morton was a British female tennis player. She twice reached the Ladies Singles finals at the 1908 and 1909 Wimbledon Championships and claimed victory in 1914 in Ladies Doubles with partner Elizabeth Ryan, the same year she reached the singles final at the Northern Championships. She placed fourth at the 1908 Summer Olympics in Ladies Lawn Tennis.

05/04/1950

Hiroshi Yoshida, Japanese painter (born 1876)

Hiroshi Yoshida was a 20th-century Japanese painter and woodblock printmaker. Along with Hasui Kawase, he is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the shin-hanga style, and is noted especially for his landscape prints. Yoshida made numerous trips around the world, with the aim of getting to know different artistic expressions and making works of different landscapes. He traveled widely, and was particularly known for his images of non-Japanese subjects done in traditional Japanese woodblock style, including the Taj Mahal, the Swiss Alps, the Grand Canyon, and other National Parks in the United States.

05/04/1949

Erich Zeigner, Prime Minister of Saxony (born 1886)

Erich Zeigner was a German politician. He was Prime Minister of the German state of Saxony during the attempted communist uprising of 1923.

05/04/1948

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, American socialite and philanthropist (born 1874)

Abigail Greene Aldrich Rockefeller was an American socialite and philanthropist. She was a prominent member of the Rockefeller family through her marriage to financier and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr., the son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller Sr. Her father was Nelson W. Aldrich, who served as a senator from Rhode Island. Rockefeller was known for being the driving force behind the establishment of the Museum of Modern Art. She was the mother of Nelson Rockefeller, who served from 1974 to 1977 as the 41st vice president of the United States.

05/04/1947

Bernhard Pankok, German painter, artist and architect (born 1872)

Bernhard Wilhelm Maria Pankok was a German painter, graphic artist, architect, and designer. His works are characterized by the transition between Art Nouveau and the International Style. His furniture and book design, such as the catalog for the German section of the Exposition Universelle (1900) in Paris, have garnered him the most recognition.

Elis Strömgren, Swedish-Danish astronomer (born 1870)

Svante Elis Strömgren was a Swedish–Danish astronomer.

05/04/1946

Vincent Youmans, American composer and producer (born 1898)

Vincent Millie Youmans was an American Broadway composer and producer.

05/04/1945

Heinrich Borgmann, German officer (born 1912)

Heinrich Borgmann was a German officer during World War II. He was seriously injured by the 20 July plot bomb planted by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg at the Wolf's Lair headquarters in Rastenburg, East Prussia.

Karl-Otto Koch, German SS officer (born 1897)

Karl-Otto Koch was a German military officer who was a mid-ranking commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany, and the first commandant of the Nazi concentration camps at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. From September 1941 until August 1942, he served as the first commandant of the Majdanek concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, stealing vast amounts of valuables and money from murdered Jews. His wife, Ilse Koch, also participated in the crimes at Buchenwald.

05/04/1941

Parvin E'tesami, Persian poet (born 1907)

Rakhshandeh E'tesami, better known as Parvin E'tesami, was a 20th-century Iranian Persian-language poet.

Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (born 1876)

Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER). He was the designer of some of the most famous steam locomotives in Britain, including the LNER Class A1 and LNER Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific engines. An A1 Pacific, Flying Scotsman, was the first steam locomotive officially recorded over 100 mph in passenger service, and an A4, No. 4468 Mallard, still holds the record for being the fastest steam locomotive in the world (126 mph).

Franciszek Kleeberg, Polish general (born 1888)

Franciszek Kleeberg was a Polish general. He served in the Austro-Hungarian Army before joining the Polish Legions in World War I and following the Polish Independence later the Polish Army. During the German Invasion of Poland he commanded Independent Operational Group Polesie. He never lost a battle in the Invasion of Poland, although he was eventually forced to surrender after his forces ran out of ammunition. Imprisoned in Oflag IV-B Koenigstein, he died in a hospital in Dresden on 5 April 1941 and was buried there.

05/04/1940

Charles Freer Andrews, English-Indian priest, missionary, and educator (born 1871)

Charles Freer Andrews was an Anglican priest and Christian missionary, educator and social reformer, and an activist for Indian independence. He became a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi and identified with the Indian liberation struggle. He was instrumental in persuading Gandhi to return to India from South Africa, where Gandhi had been a leading light in the campaign for Indian civil rights.

Robert Maillart, Swiss civil engineer (born 1872)

Robert Maillart was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings. His Salginatobel (1929–1930) and Schwandbach (1933) bridges changed the aesthetics and engineering of bridge construction dramatically and influenced decades of architects and engineers after him. In 1991 the Salginatobel Bridge was declared an International Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Jay O'Brien, American bobsledder (born 1883)

Jay James O'Brien was an American bobsledder who competed in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He won two medals at the Winter Olympics with a gold in the four-man event at Lake Placid, New York, in 1932 and a silver in the five-man event at St. Moritz in 1928. At 48 years old, he was the oldest Olympic champion.

Song Zheyuan, Chinese general (born 1885)

Song Zheyuan was a Chinese general during the Chinese Civil War and Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).

05/04/1938

Helena Westermarck, Finnish artist and writer (born 1857)

Helena Charlotta Westermarck was a Swedish-speaking Finnish artist and writer. She is known for her pioneering biographies of women.

Verner Lehtimäki, Finnish revolutionary (born 1890)

Verner Lehtimäki was a Finnish socialist, soldier, pilot, aerospace engineer and revolutionary who fought for the Reds during the Finnish Civil War.

05/04/1937

Gustav Adolf Deissmann, (born 1866)

Gustav Adolf Deissmann was a German Protestant theologian, best known for his leading work on the Greek language used in the New Testament, which he showed was the koine, or commonly used tongue of the Hellenistic world of that time.

José Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (born 1858)

José Benlliure y Gil was a Spanish painter.

05/04/1936

Chandler Egan, American golfer and architect (born 1884)

Henry Chandler Egan was an American amateur golfer and golf course architect of the early 20th century.

05/04/1935

Achille Locatelli, Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1856)

Achille Locatelli was a Roman Catholic cardinal. He worked in papal diplomacy, and among other positions, he was nuntius in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

Emil Młynarski, Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue (born 1870)

Emil Szymon Młynarski was a Polish conductor, violinist, composer, and pedagogue.

Franz von Vecsey, Hungarian violinist and composer (born 1893)

Franz von Vecsey was a Hungarian violinist and composer, who became a well-known virtuoso in Europe through the early 20th century. He made his first public debut at the age of 10. An accomplished violinist, he went onto perform concerts in the early twentieth century in the United Kingdom, Europe and both North America and South America.

05/04/1934

Salvatore Di Giacomo, Italian poet, playwright, songwriter and fascist intellectual (born 1860)

Salvatore Di Giacomo was an Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist, one of the signatories to the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals.

Jiro Sato, Japanese tennis player (born 1908)

Jiro Sato was a Japanese tennis player. He was ranked world No. 3 in 1933 but committed suicide in the Strait of Malacca during his trip to the Davis Cup in 1934.

05/04/1933

Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright (born 1884)

Earl Derr Biggers was an American novelist and playwright. His novels featuring the fictional Chinese American detective Charlie Chan were adapted into popular films made in the United States and China.

Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and functional theorist (born 1854)

Robert Hjalmar Mellin was a Finnish mathematician and function theorist.

05/04/1932

María Blanchard, Spanish painter (born 1881)

María Gutiérrez-Cueto y Blanchard was a Spanish painter. She was known for developing a unique style of Cubism.

05/04/1929

Francis Aidan Gasquet, English Benedictine monk (born 1846)

Francis Aidan Gasquet was an English Benedictine monk and historical scholar. He controversially challenged what he regarded as the anti-Catholic narrative of the English history of his age, and uncovered the extent of the Black Death in England. He was created a cardinal in 1914.

Ludwig von Sybel, German archeologist (born 1846)

Ludwig von Sybel was a German archaeologist.

05/04/1928

Roy Kilner, English cricketer and soldier (born 1890)

Roy Kilner was an English professional cricketer who played nine Test matches for England between 1924 and 1926. An all-rounder, he played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1911 and 1927. In all first-class matches, he scored 14,707 runs at an average of 30.01 and took 1,003 wickets at an average of 18.45. Kilner scored 1,000 runs in a season ten times and took 100 wickets in a season five times. On four occasions, he completed the double: scoring 1,000 runs and taking 100 wickets in the same season, recognised as a sign of a quality all-rounder.

Viktor Oliva, Czech painter and illustrator (born 1861)

Viktor Oliva was a Czech painter and illustrator.

05/04/1924

Victor Hensen, German zoologist (born 1835)

Christian Andreas Victor Hensen was a German zoologist and marine biologist (planktology). He coined the term plankton and laid the foundation for biological oceanography and quantitative studies.

05/04/1923

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English archaeologist and businessman (born 1866)

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, styled Lord Porchester until 1890, was an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

05/04/1921

Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer (born 1862)

Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist.

Sophie Elkan, Swedish writer and translator (born 1853)

Sophie Elkan was a Swedish writer and translator.

05/04/1920

Laurent Marqueste, French sculptor (born 1848)

Laurent-Honoré Marqueste was a French sculptor in the neo-Baroque Beaux-Arts tradition. He was a pupil of François Jouffroy and of Alexandre Falguière. Marqueste won the Prix de Rome in 1871.

05/04/1918

George Tupou II, King of Tonga (born 1874)

George Tupou II was the King of Tonga from 18 February 1893 until his death. He was officially crowned at Nukuʻalofa, on 17 March 1893. He was also the 20th Tuʻi Kanokupolu.

Paul Vidal de La Blache, French geographer (born 1845)

Paul Vidal de La Blache was a French geographer. He is considered to be the founder of modern French geography and also the founder of the French School of Geopolitics. He conceived the idea of genre de vie, which is the belief that the lifestyle of a particular region reflects the economic, social, ideological and psychological identities imprinted on the landscape.

05/04/1916

Maksim Kovalevsky, Russian sociologist (born 1851)

Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevsky was a jurist and the main authority on sociology in the Russian Empire. He was vice-president (1895) and president (1905) of the International Institute of Sociology. He also held a chair in sociology at the Psycho-Neurological Institute. Kovalevsky was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1914. The Russian Sociological Society adopted his name in 1916.

05/04/1914

Bernard Borggreve, German forestry scientist (born 1836)

Bernard Robert August Borggreve was a German forestry scientist. He is known for introducing the "Borggreve method", a silvicultural process for selection cutting of trees.

05/04/1906

Eastman Johnson, American painter (born 1824)

Jonathan Eastman Johnson was an American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He was best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people and prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His later works often show the influence of the 17th-century Dutch masters, whom he studied in The Hague in the 1850s; he was known as The American Rembrandt in his day.

05/04/1904

Ernst Leopold, 4th Prince of Leiningen (born 1830)

Ernst, Prince of Leiningen was a German nobleman who served with distinction in the British Royal Navy.

Frances Power Cobbe, Irish writer (born 1822)

Frances Power Cobbe was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in 1875 and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women's Suffrage.

05/04/1902

Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (born 1850)

Hans Ernst August Buchner was a German bacteriologist who was born and raised in Munich. He was the older brother of Eduard Buchner (1860–1917), winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

05/04/1901

Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (born 1820)

Angelo Messedaglia was an Italian social scientist, statistician and politician.

05/04/1900

Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (born 1822)

Joseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician and historian of science whose work emphasized number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

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

Osman Nuri Pasha, also known as Gazi Osman Pasha, was an Ottoman Turkish field marshal. Being one of the most respected and decorated Ottoman pashas of all time, many songs have been written for him, and many places named after him. This is mainly because he held the Bulgarian town of Plevna for five months against superior Russo-Romanian forces in 1877 during the Russo-Turkish War, though the city eventually fell.

05/04/1891

Johann Hermann Bauer, Austrian chess master (born 1861)

Johann Hermann Bauer was an Austrian chess master.

05/04/1888

Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (born 1855)

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian author of short stories.

05/04/1882

Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, (born 1806)

Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play was a French engineer, sociologist and economist.

05/04/1873

Milivoje Blaznavac, Serbian soldier and politician (born 1824)

Milivoje Petrović Blaznavac was a Serbian general and politician who served as regent from 1868 to 1872, as well as head of government from 1872 to 1873.

05/04/1872

Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier, French astronomer (born 1812)

Paul-Auguste-Ernest Laugier was a French astronomer, one of two French astronomers referred to as M. Laugier.

05/04/1871

Paolo Savi, Italian geologist and ornithologist (born 1798)

Paolo Savi was an Italian geologist and ornithologist.

05/04/1868

Karel Purkyně, Czech painter (born 1834)

Karel Purkyně was a Czech painter and art critic. He was one of the most prominent proponents of realism in Czech art in the second half of the 19th century.

05/04/1866

Thomas Hodgkin, British physician (born 1798)

Thomas Hodgkin RMS was a British physician, considered one of the most prominent pathologists of his time and a pioneer in preventive medicine. He is now best known for the first account of Hodgkin's disease, a form of lymphoma and blood disease, in 1832. Hodgkin's work marked the beginning of times when a pathologist was actively involved in the clinical process. He was a contemporary of Thomas Addison and Richard Bright at Guy's Hospital in London.

05/04/1865

Manfredo Fanti, Italian general (born 1806)

Manfredo Fanti was an Italian general; he is known as the founder of the Royal Italian Army.

05/04/1862

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek, Dutch artist (born 1803)

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek was a Dutch landscape artist and lithographer, and the most famous member of the Koekkoek family of painters.

05/04/1861

Ferdinand Joachimsthal, German mathematician (born 1818)

Ferdinand Joachimsthal was a German mathematician.

05/04/1852

Prince Felix of Schwarzenberg, (born 1800)

Felix Ludwig Johann Friedrich, Prince of Schwarzenberg was a Bohemian nobleman and an Austrian statesman who restored the Austrian Empire as a European great power following the Revolutions of 1848. He served as Minister-President of the Austrian Empire and Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire from 1848 to 1852.

05/04/1842

Shah Shuja Durrani, 5th Emir of Afghanistan (born 1785)

Shuja Shah Durrani was Shah of the Durrani Empire from 1803 until his deposition in 1809, and again from 1839 until his assassination in 1842. A son of Timur Shah Durrani, Shuja was of the Sadozai lineage of the Durrani clan of Pashtuns. He became the fifth King of the Durrani Empire.

05/04/1831

Pierre Léonard Vander Linden, Belgian entomologist (born 1797)

Pierre Léonard Vander Linden was a Belgian entomologist born in Brussels. In Italy, he studied under the botanist Antonio Bertoloni (1775–1869), the zoologist Camillo Ranzani (1775–1841) and the physician Giacomo Tommasini (1768–1846). During his studies, he worked on Odonata. In 1826 he was appointed as the first professor of zoology, at the Musée des Sciences et Lettres in Brussels.

05/04/1830

Richard Chenevix, Irish chemist and playwright (born 1774)

Richard Chenevix was an Irish chemist, mineralogist and playwright who also wrote on a range of other topics. He was known for his sharp cynicism and for engaging in combative criticism. Chenevix received the Copley Medal in 1803, "for his various Chemical Papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions."

05/04/1808

Johann Georg Wille, German engraver (born 1715)

Johann Georg Wille, or Jean Georges Wille was a German-born copper engraver, who spent most of his life in France. He also worked as an art dealer.

05/04/1804

Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (born 1761)

Divisional-General Jean-Charles Pichegru was a French Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars. Under his command, French troops overran the Austrian Netherlands and Dutch Republic in the Flanders campaign before fighting on the Rhine front. Pichegru's Royalist views subsequently led to his fall from grace and imprisonment in Cayenne following the Coup of 18 Fructidor in 1797. After escaping into exile in London and joining the staff of Alexander Korsakov, he returned to France and planned the Pichegru Conspiracy to remove Napoleon from power, which led to his arrest and suicide. Despite Pichegru's defection, his surname is one of the names inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe.

05/04/1799

Johann Christoph Gatterer, German historian (born 1727)

Johann Christoph Gatterer was a German historian who was a native of Lichtenau. He was the father of cameralist Christoph Wilhelm Jacob Gatterer (1759–1838) and poet Magdalena Philippine Engelhard (1756–1831). He was a member of the Göttingen school of history.

05/04/1794

Georges Danton, French lawyer and politician, French Minister of Justice (born 1759)

Georges Jacques Danton was a French politician and leading figure of the French Revolution. A modest and unknown lawyer on the eve of the Revolution, Danton became a famous orator of the Cordeliers Club and was raised to governmental responsibilities as the French Minister of Justice following the fall of the monarchy on the tenth of August 1792, and was allegedly responsible for inciting the September Massacres. He was tasked by the National Convention to intervene in the military conquest of Belgium led by General Dumouriez, and in the spring of 1793 supported the foundation of a Revolutionary Tribunal, becoming the first president of the Committee of Public Safety.

François Chabot, French politician (born 1756)

François Chabot was a French politician.

Camille Desmoulins, French journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1760)

Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins was a French journalist, politician and a prominent figure of the French Revolution. He is best known for playing an instrumental role in the events that led to the Storming of the Bastille. Desmoulins was also noted for his radical criticism of the Reign of Terror as the editor of the journal Le Vieux Cordelier. He was a schoolmate and close friend of Maximilien Robespierre and a close friend and political ally of Georges Danton, who were leading figures in the French Revolution.

Fabre d'Églantine, French actor, dramatist, poet and politician (born 1750)

Philippe François Nazaire Fabre d'Églantine, commonly known as Fabre d'Églantine, was a French actor, dramatist, poet, and politician of the French Revolution.

Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles, French judge and politician (born 1759)

Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles was a French judge, freemason and politician who took part in the French Revolution.

Pierre Philippeaux, French lawyer (born 1754)

Pierre Philippeaux(French pronunciation: [pjɛʁ filipo]; 9 November 1754 – 5 April 1794, Paris), was a French lawyer who was a deputy to the National Convention for Sarthe.

François Joseph Westermann, French general (born 1751)

Brigadier-General François Joseph Westermann was a French Army officer. He is best known as one of the main French Republican commanders in the initial stage of the War in the Vendée.

05/04/1769

Marc-Antoine Laugier, Jesuit priest (born 1713)

Marc-Antoine Laugier was a Jesuit priest until 1755, then a Benedictine monk. Overlooking Claude Perrault and numerous other figures, Summerson notes,Marc Antoine Laugier can perhaps be called the first modern architectural philosopher.

05/04/1768

Egidio Forcellini, Italian philologist (born 1688)

Egidio Forcellini was an Italian philologist.

05/04/1767

Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, German princess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (born 1685)

Princess Charlotte Wilhelmine of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was a German princess by birth and Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg by marriage.

05/04/1765

Edward Young, English poet and author (born 1683)

Edward Young was an English poet, best remembered for Night-Thoughts, a series of philosophical writings in blank verse, reflecting his state of mind following several bereavements. It was one of the most popular poems of the century, influencing Goethe and Edmund Burke, among many others, and at the end of the century was illustrated by William Blake.

05/04/1751

Frederick I, prince consort and king of Sweden (born 1676)

Frederick I was King of Sweden from 1720 until his death, having been prince consort of Sweden from 1718 to 1720, and was also Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1730. He ascended the throne following the death of his brother-in-law absolutist Charles XII in the Great Northern War, and the abdication of his wife, Charles's sister and successor Ulrika Eleonora, after she had to relinquish most powers to the Riksdag of the Estates and thus chose to abdicate. His powerless reign and lack of legitimate heirs of his own saw his family's elimination from the line of succession after the parliamentary government dominated by pro-revanchist Hat Party politicians ventured into a war with Russia, which ended in defeat and the Russian tsarina Elizabeth getting Adolf Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp instated following the death of the king. Whilst being the only Swedish monarch called Frederick, he was Frederick I of Hesse-Kassel and thus Frederick I also of Sweden, though other Swedish monarchs with non-repeating names had not been enumerated.

05/04/1735

William Derham, English minister and philosopher (born 1657)

William Derham FRS was an English clergyman, natural theologian, natural philosopher and scientist. He produced the earliest reasonably accurate measurement of the speed of sound.

05/04/1723

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect, sculptor and historian (born 1656)

Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach was an Austrian architect, sculptor, engraver, and architectural historian whose Baroque architecture profoundly influenced and shaped the tastes of the Habsburg Empire. His influential book A Plan of Civil and Historical Architecture (1721) was one of the first and most popular comparative studies of world architecture. His major works include Schönbrunn Palace, Karlskirche, and the Austrian National Library in Vienna, and Schloss Klessheim, Holy Trinity Church, and the Kollegienkirche in Salzburg.

05/04/1717

Jean Jouvenet, French painter (born 1647)

Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet was a French painter, especially of religious subjects.

05/04/1712

Jan Luyken, Dutch poet, illustrator and engraver (born 1649)

Johannes or Jan Luyken was a Dutch poet, illustrator, and engraver.

05/04/1709

Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635)

Roger de Piles was a French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat.

05/04/1708

Christian Heinrich, German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern (born 1661)

Christian Heinrich of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach, was a German prince and member of the House of Hohenzollern and nominal Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth-Kulmbach.

05/04/1704

Christian Ulrich I, German nobleman and Duke of Württemberg-Oels (born 1652)

Duke Christian Ulrich I of Württemberg-Oels was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Duke of Württemberg-Bernstadt from 1669 to 1697 and then the ruling Duke of Oels-Württemberg from 1697 until his death.

05/04/1697

Charles XI, king of Sweden (born 1655)

Charles XI or Carl was King of Sweden from 1660 until his death in 1697.

05/04/1695

George Savile, English politician, Lord President of the Council (born 1633)

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, was an English statesman and writer. He sat in the House of Commons of England in 1660 before being elevated to the House of Lords in 1668.

05/04/1693

Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, French noblewoman (born 1627)

Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, known as La Grande Mademoiselle, was the only daughter of Gaston d'Orléans with his first wife, Marie, Duchess of Montpensier. One of the greatest heiresses in history, she died unmarried and childless, leaving her vast fortune to her cousin Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. After a string of proposals from various members of European ruling families, including Charles II of England, Afonso VI of Portugal, and Charles Emmanuel II of Savoy, she eventually fell in love with the courtier Antoine Nompar de Caumont and scandalised the court of France when she asked Louis XIV for permission to marry him, as such a union was viewed as a mésalliance. She is best remembered for her role in the Fronde, for bringing the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully to the king's court, and for her Mémoires.

Philip William August, German nobleman (born 1668)

Philip William August, Count Palatine of Neuburg was a Prince and Count Palatine of Neuburg.

05/04/1684

William Brouncker, English mathematician (born 1620)

William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, FRS was an Anglo-Irish peer and mathematician who served as the president of the Royal Society from 1662 to 1677. Best known for introducing Brouncker's formula, he also worked as a civil servant, serving as a commissioner in the Royal Navy. Brouncker was a friend and colleague of Samuel Pepys, and features prominently in the Pepys' diary.

Karl Eusebius, prince of Liechtenstein (born 1611)

Karl Eusebius was the Prince of Liechtenstein. He inherited this title in 1627 from his father Karl I. He was 16 and thus considered underage, and his uncles Prince Gundakar and Maximillian acted as regents until 1632. From 1639 to 1641 Karl was Chief Captain of High and Low Silesia.

05/04/1679

Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, French princess (born 1619)

Anne-Geneviève de Bourbon was a French princess who is remembered for her beauty and amours, her influence during the civil wars of the Fronde, and her final conversion to Jansenism.

05/04/1673

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

François Caron was a French Huguenot refugee to the Netherlands who served the Dutch East India Company for 30 years, rising from cook's mate to the director-general at Batavia (Jakarta), only one grade below governor-general. He retired from the VOC in 1651, and was later recruited to become director-general of the newly formed French East Indies Company in 1665 until his death in 1673.

05/04/1626

Anna Koltovskaya, Russian tsarina

Anna Alexeievna Koltovskaya, also known by her monastic name Daria (Дария), was tsaritsa of all Russia as the fourth wife of Ivan the Terrible, the tsar of all Russia.

05/04/1617

Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (born 1555)

Alonso Lobo was a Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. Although not as famous as Tomás Luis de Victoria, he was highly regarded at the time, and Victoria himself considered him to be his equal.

05/04/1612

Diana Scultori, Italian engraver (born 1547)

Diana Scultori was an Italian engraver from Mantua, Italy. She is one of the earliest known women printmakers, making mostly reproductive engravings of well-known paintings or drawings, especially those of Raphael and Giulio Romano, or ancient Roman sculptures.

05/04/1605

John Stow, English historian and antiquary (born 1524/25)

John Stow was an English historian and antiquarian. He wrote a series of chronicles of English history, published from 1565 onwards under such titles as The Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles, The Chronicles of England, and The Annales of England; and also A Survey of London. A. L. Rowse has described him as "one of the best historians of that age; indefatigable in the trouble he took, thorough and conscientious, accurate – above all things devoted to truth".

05/04/1594

Catherine of Palma, Spanish nun (born 1533)

Catherine of Palma was a Spanish canon and mystic from Mallorca. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and her feast day is commonly celebrated on 5 April although in her home town of Valldemossa she is remembered on the 27 and 28 of July.

05/04/1534

Jan Matthys, Dutch anabaptist reformer

Jan Matthys was a charismatic Anabaptist leader of the Münster Rebellion, regarded by his followers as a prophet.

05/04/1512

Lazzaro Bastiani, Italian painter (born 1429)

Lazzaro Bastiani was an Italian painter of the Renaissance, active mainly in Venice. His students included Vittore Carpaccio and Benedetto Rusconi.

05/04/1431

Bernard I, margrave of Baden-Baden (born 1364)

Bernard I of Baden was Margrave of the Margraviate of Baden from 1391 to 1431.

05/04/1419

Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (born 1350)

Vincent Ferrer, OP was a Valencian Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician. After supporting Antipope Benedict XIII during the Western Schism, Ferrer travelled to preach across Western Europe and the British Isles. His preaching has been credited in some sources as converting 25,000 Jews to Catholicism. Other sources indicate that it involved support for coercive means, such as the forcible conversion of synagogues into churches. He was canonized in 1455.

05/04/1325

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

Ralph de Monthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer, between 1297 and 1307 jure uxoris Earl of Gloucester and Earl of Hertford, and between 1306 and 1307 also 1st Earl of Atholl, was an English nobleman, who was the son-in-law of King Edward I. His clandestine marriage to the King's widowed daughter Joan greatly offended her father, but he was quickly persuaded to pardon Ralph.

05/04/1308

Ivan Kőszegi, Hungarian baron and oligarch

Ivan Kőszegi was an influential lord in the Kingdom of Hungary at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Earlier historiographical works also refer to him Ivan Németújvári. He was Palatine in 1281, between 1287 and 1288, and from 1302 until 1307, Ban of Slavonia in 1275, from 1284 until 1285 and in 1290, and Master of the treasury in 1276 and 1291.

05/04/1258

Juliana of Liège, Belgian canoness and saint

Juliana of Liège, was a medieval Norbertine canoness regular and mystic in what is now Belgium. Traditional scholarly sources have long recognized her as the promoter of the Feast of Corpus Christi, first celebrated in Liège in 1246, and later adopted for the Catholic Church in 1264. More recent scholarship includes manuscript analysis of the initial version of the Office, as found in The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands and a close reading of her Latin vita, a critical edition of which was published in French by the Belgian scholar and current (2023) bishop of Liège, Jean-Pierre Delville.

05/04/1205

Isabella I of Jerusalem, queen regnant of Jerusalem (born 1172)

Isabella I was the queen of Jerusalem who reigned from the early 1190s to her death. She received the homage of her vassals as the rightful heir to the throne after the death of her half-sister Queen Sibylla in 1190, but Sibylla's widower, Guy of Lusignan, held onto the kingdom until 1192. Isabella became queen upon her coronation in 1198. Having little political ambition, she passed the government on to three successive husbands, Conrad of Montferrat, Henry II of Champagne, and Aimery of Lusignan, all of whom included her in the issuing of their charters. Isabella's co-reign with Aimery saw the compilation of the Livre au Roi, a law treatise establishing the rights and obligations of queens regnant of Jerusalem.

05/04/1183

Ramon Berenguer III, Spanish count of Cerdanya and Provence

Ramon Berenguer III or IV, born Peter, was the count of Cerdanya (1162–1168) and count of Provence (1173–1181).

05/04/1168

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, English politician (born 1104)

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester was Justiciar of England 1155–1168.

05/04/0902

Al-Mu'tadid, Abbasid caliph

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn, better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh, was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 892 until his death in 902.

05/04/0584

Ruadán of Lorrha, Irish abbot

Ruadán mac Fergusa Birn, also known Rowan, Ruadon, Roadan, Ruadhán, Rodon and Rodan, was an Irish Christian abbot who founded the monastery of Lorrha, near Terryglass. He was known for his prophecies. After his death, he was venerated as a saint and as one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland". His feast day is 15 April.

05/04/0582

Eutychius of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch

Eutychius of Constantinople, considered a saint in the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Christian traditions, was the patriarch of Constantinople from 552 to 565 and from 577 to 582. His feast is kept by the Orthodox Church on 6 April, and he is mentioned in the Catholic Church's "Corpus Juris". His terms of office, occurring during the reign of Emperor Justinian I, were marked by controversies with both imperial and papal authority.

05/04/0517

Timothy I of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch

Timothy I of Constantinople or Timotheus I was a Christian priest who was appointed patriarch of Constantinople by the Byzantine emperor Anastasius I Dicorus in 511.

Celebrations & Special Days Worldwide on 5th April

Christian feast day: Agape, Chionia, and Irene

Saint Agape, Saint Chionia and Saint Irene were sisters and Christian saints from Aquileia, martyred at Thessalonica in 304 AD. Agape and Chionia were charged with refusing to eat sacrificial offerings, whilst Irene was killed for keeping Christian books in violation of existing law. All were condemned to be burned alive.

Christian feast day: Albert of Montecorvino

Albert, born in Normandy, was taken to Motta Montecorvino in Apulia, Italy as a child. He later became Bishop there. Albert became blind in later years, but was known for his visions and as a miracle worker.

Christian feast day: Catherine of Palma

Catherine of Palma was a Spanish canon and mystic from Mallorca. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and her feast day is commonly celebrated on 5 April although in her home town of Valldemossa she is remembered on the 27 and 28 of July.

Christian feast day: Derfel Gadarn

Derfel, known as Derfel Gadarn, was a 6th-century Celtic Christian monk regarded as a saint. Local legend holds that he was a warrior of King Arthur.

Christian feast day: Æthelburh of Kent

Æthelburh of Kent (born c. 601, sometimes spelled Æthelburg, Ethelburga, Æthelburga; Old English: Æþelburh, Æðelburh, Æðilburh, also known as Tate or Tata), was an early Anglo-Saxon queen consort of Northumbria, the second wife of King Edwin. As she was a Christian from Kent, their marriage triggered the initial phase of the conversion of the pagan north of England to Christianity.

Christian feast day: Gerald of Sauve-Majeure

Saint Gerald of Sauve-Majeure, OSB, also known, from his place of origin, as Gerald of Corbie, was a Benedictine abbot.

Christian feast day: Juliana of Liège

Juliana of Liège, was a medieval Norbertine canoness regular and mystic in what is now Belgium. Traditional scholarly sources have long recognized her as the promoter of the Feast of Corpus Christi, first celebrated in Liège in 1246, and later adopted for the Catholic Church in 1264. More recent scholarship includes manuscript analysis of the initial version of the Office, as found in The Hague, National Library of the Netherlands and a close reading of her Latin vita, a critical edition of which was published in French by the Belgian scholar and current (2023) bishop of Liège, Jean-Pierre Delville.

Christian feast day: Maria Crescentia Höss

Maria Crescentia Höss (Höß), TOR (1682–1744) was a religious sister of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis. In 1900, she was beatified by Pope Leo XIII, and she was canonized in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.

Christian feast day: Blessed Mariano de la Mata

Beatification is a recognition accorded by the Catholic Church of a deceased person's entrance into Heaven and capacity to intercede on behalf of individuals who pray in their name. Beati is the plural form, referring to those who have undergone the process of beatification; they possess the title of "Blessed" before their names and are often referred to in English as "a Blessed" or, plurally, "Blesseds".

Christian feast day: Pandita Mary Ramabai (Episcopal Church (USA))

Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati was an Indian social reformer and Christian missionary. She was the first woman to be awarded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta. She was one of the ten women delegates of the Indian National Congress session of 1889. During her stay in England in early 1880s she converted to Christianity. She then toured extensively in the United States to collect funds for destitute Indian women. With the funds raised, she started Sharada Sadan for child widows. In the late 1890s, Ramabai founded Mukti Mission, a Christian charity at Kedgaon village, forty miles east of the city of Pune. The mission was later named Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission.

Christian feast day: Ruadhán of Lorrha

Ruadán mac Fergusa Birn, also known Rowan, Ruadon, Roadan, Ruadhán, Rodon and Rodan, was an Irish Christian abbot who founded the monastery of Lorrha, near Terryglass. He was known for his prophecies. After his death, he was venerated as a saint and as one of the "Twelve Apostles of Ireland". His feast day is 15 April.

Christian feast day: Vincent Ferrer

Vincent Ferrer, OP was a Valencian Dominican friar who gained acclaim as a preacher, missionary and logician. After supporting Antipope Benedict XIII during the Western Schism, Ferrer travelled to preach across Western Europe and the British Isles. His preaching has been credited in some sources as converting 25,000 Jews to Catholicism. Other sources indicate that it involved support for coercive means, such as the forcible conversion of synagogues into churches. He was canonized in 1455.

Christian feast day: April 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

April 4 – Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar – April 6

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

The Cold Food or Hanshi Festival (寒食节) is a traditional Chinese holiday which developed from the local commemoration of the death of the Jin nobleman Jie Zitui in the 7th century BC under the Zhou dynasty, into an occasion across East Asia for the commemoration and veneration of ancestors by the 7th-century Tang dynasty. Its name derives from the tradition of avoiding the lighting of any kind of fire, even for the preparation of food. This practice originally occurred at midwinter for as long as a month, but the hardship this involved led to repeated attempts to ban its observance out of concern for its practitioners. By the end of the Three Kingdoms period, it was limited to three days in the spring around the Qingming solar term. Under the Tang, ancestral observance was limited to the single day which is now the Tomb-Sweeping Festival. The Tomb-Sweeping Festival is an official holiday in several countries, and the Cold Food Festival which stretches either side of it continues to see some observance in China, South Korea, and Vietnam.

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

Sham Ennessim is a festival marking the beginning of spring, celebrated by Egyptians of all religions. It is an official public holiday in Egypt. Sham Ennessim always falls on Easter Monday, which is the day after Easter, in accordance with the Orthodox Church. The Arabic name Sham Ennesim translates into "Smelling in the Zephyrs".

Children's Day (Palestinian territories)

Children's Day is a commemorative date celebrated annually in honour of children, whose date of observance varies by country. In 1925, International Children's Day was first proclaimed in Geneva during the World Conference on Child Welfare. Since 1950, it is celebrated on 1 June in many countries that were part of the Eastern Bloc and Non-Aligned Movement, which follow the suggestion from Women's International Democratic Federation. World Children's Day is celebrated on 20 November to commemorate the issuance of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child by the UN General Assembly on 20 November 1959, along with the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child on that date in 1989. In some countries, it is Children's Week and not Children's Day.

First Contact Day (International observance)

First Contact Day is an informal commemorative day observed annually on April 5 to celebrate the Star Trek media franchise.

Sikmogil (South Korea)

Singmogil or Sikmogil is the Korean Arbor Day holiday celebrated annually on April 5 in South Korea.

National Maritime Day is observed in India, in commemoration of the first voyage of SS Loyalty of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company Ltd. in 1919.

Indian maritime history begins during the 3rd millennium BCE when inhabitants of the Indus-Saraswati Valley civilisation initiated maritime trading contact with Mesopotamia. India's long coastline, which occurred due to the protrusion of India's Deccan Plateau, helped it to make new trade relations with the Europeans, especially the Greeks, and the length of its coastline on the Indian Ocean is partly a reason why it's known as that.

International Day of Conscience

The International Day of Conscience is a global day of awareness celebrated on April 5, commemorating the importance of human conscience. It was established by the United Nations General Assembly on July 25, 2019, with the adoption of UN resolution 73/329. The first International Day of Conscience was celebrated on April 5, 2020.

What Happened on 5th April?

50 significant events took place on Wednesday, 5th April — stretching from 823 to 2018. Explore the moments that shaped history on this day.

05/04/2018

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

The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security. Its stated mission is to conduct criminal investigations, enforce immigration laws, preserve national security, and protect public safety. ICE was created as part of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 following the September 11 attacks. It absorbed the prior functions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the United States Customs Service.

05/04/2010

Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two militant suicide bombings and attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar.

On April 5, 2010, two bombings in Pakistan killed up to 50 people and injured 100 more. In the first attack the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar was attacked by militants. The coordinated attack involved a vehicle suicide bomb and attackers who tried to enter the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar by using grenades and weapons fire. Three explosions went off within a span of 15 minutes in the area of Saddar and Hayatabad Avenue, near the American consulate and the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan's intelligence agency. Several militants came in two vehicles. The first vehicle exploded near a security checkpoint, and gunmen in the second car opened fire. A Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan spokesman claimed responsibility for the assault on the consulate. In Timergara, Lower Dir district an Awami National Party rally came under attack. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq said "Americans are our enemies. We carried out the attack on their consulate in Peshawar. We plan more such attacks."

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

The Upper Big Branch Mine disaster occurred on April 5, 2010, roughly 1,000 feet (300 m) underground in Raleigh County, West Virginia at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch coal mine located in Montcoal. 29 miners were killed in the explosion, and 3 were injured. The coal dust explosion occurred at 3:27 pm. The incident was the worst in the United States since 1970, when 38 miners were killed at Finley Coal Company's No. 15 and 16 mines in Hyden, Kentucky. A state funded independent investigation later found Massey Energy directly responsible for the blast.

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

Space Shuttle Discovery is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and landed 39 times, aggregating more spaceflights than any other spacecraft as of December 2024. The Space Shuttle launch vehicle had three main components: the Space Shuttle orbiter, a single-use central fuel tank, and two reusable solid rocket boosters. Nearly 25,000 heat-resistant tiles cover the orbiter to protect it from high temperatures on re-entry.

05/04/2009

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.

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city.

05/04/2007

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.

Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports of call, where passengers may go on tours known as "shore excursions".

05/04/1999

Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands.

Muammar Gaddafi became the de facto leader of Libya on 1 September 1969 after leading a group of Libyan Army officers against King Idris I in a bloodless coup d'état. When Idris was in Turkey for medical treatment, the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) headed by Gaddafi abolished the monarchy and the constitution and established the Libyan Arab Republic, with the motto "Unity, Freedom, Socialism".

05/04/1998

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

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland, it is bordered to the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea in the south. The Japanese archipelago consists of four major islands alongside 14,121 smaller islands. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions, and around 75% of its terrain is mountainous and heavily forested, concentrating its agriculture and highly urbanized population along its eastern coastal plains. With a population of almost 123 million as of 2026, it is the world's 11th most populous country. Tokyo is the country's capital and largest city.

05/04/1992

Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force.

Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto was a Peruvian politician, professor, and engineer who served as the president of Peru from 1990 to 2000, effectively ruling as a dictator. During Fujimori's tenure, the Peruvian Armed Forces responded to the far-left guerrilla group Shining Path with repressive and lethal force, halting the group's actions while also killing thousands of innocent civilians. Fujimori became known for his neoliberal political and economic ideology of Fujimorism, which pushed a free market economy and social conservatism. He also collaborated with the head of the National Intelligence Service (SIN), Vladimiro Montesinos, in his efforts to consolidate power and eliminate his opponents. Fujimori's presidency was marked by severe authoritarian measures, excessive use of propaganda, entrenched political corruption, multiple cases of extrajudicial killings, and human rights violations.

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

Suada and Olga Bridge, also known by its old name Vrbanja Bridge, is a bridge across the Miljacka river in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

05/04/1991

An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard, including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.

Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) was a regional airline in the United States based in the A-Tech Center in College Park, Georgia, flying to 144 destinations as a Delta Connection carrier on behalf of Delta Air Lines via a code sharing agreement; in February 2010, it also commenced service as a United Express carrier on behalf of United Airlines via a separate code sharing agreement. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of SkyWest, Inc. ASA operated nearly 900 flights each day. Its main hub was located at Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), which is also a hub for Delta. After a 2010 merger with ExpressJet, ASA adopted the ExpressJet name and branding in 2011.

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

Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southern California and was delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Eastern Florida in April 1985. Atlantis is the fourth operational and the second-to-last Space Shuttle built. Its maiden flight was STS-51-J made from October 3 to 7, 1985.

05/04/1983

The People's Armed Police is officially founded.

The People's Armed Police Force, abbreviated PAP, is a Chinese gendarmerie organization primarily responsible for internal security, riot control, counter-terrorism, disaster response, law enforcement and maritime rights protection as well as providing support to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) during wartime.

05/04/1977

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.

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law. It also has original jurisdiction over a narrow range of cases, specifically "all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party". In 1803, the court asserted itself the power of judicial review, the ability to invalidate a statute for violating a provision of the Constitution. It is also able to strike down presidential directives for violating either the Constitution or statutory law.

05/04/1976

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

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the second-most populous country after India, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, representing 17% of the world's population. China borders fourteen countries by land across an area of 9.6 million square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), making it the third-largest country by area. The country is divided into 33 province-level divisions: 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the capital, while Shanghai is the most populous city by urban area and largest financial center.

05/04/1974

Carrie, the first novel by American author Stephen King, is published for the first time with a print run of 30,000 copies.

Carrie is the debut horror novel by American author Stephen King, released in 1974. Set in the town of Chamberlain, Maine, the plot revolves around Carrie White, a friendless high school girl from an abusive religious household who has telekinetic powers. After a cruel prank pulled by one of her bullies on prom night, Carrie decides to take revenge.

05/04/1971

In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches a revolt against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna is a Marxist–Leninist political party in Sri Lanka. The party was formerly a revolutionary movement and was involved in two armed uprisings against the government of Sri Lanka: once in 1971 (SLFP), and another in 1987–1989 (UNP). The motive for both uprisings was to establish a socialist state. Since then the JVP has entered mainstream democratic politics and has updated its ideology, abandoning some of its original Marxist policies such as the abolition of private property, and moderating its rhetoric. The JVP has been led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake since 2014.

05/04/1966

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

The Buddhist Uprising of 1966, or more widely known in Vietnam as the Crisis in Central Vietnam, was a period of civil and military unrest in South Vietnam, mostly in the I Corps area in the north of the country in central Vietnam. The area is a center of Vietnamese Buddhism, and at the time, activist Buddhist monks and civilians were at the forefront of opposition to a series of military juntas that had been ruling the nation, as well as prominently questioning the escalation of the Vietnam War.

05/04/1965

My Fair Lady wins Best Picture at the 37th Academy Awards.

My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy drama film adapted from Lerner and Loewe's 1956 stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears a phonetics professor, Henry Higgins, as he casually wagers that he could teach her to speak English so well she could pass for a duchess in Edwardian-era London, or secure employment in a flower store.

05/04/1958

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.

Ripple Rock is an underwater mountain located in the Seymour Narrows of the Discovery Passage in British Columbia, Canada. It had two peaks that produced large, dangerous eddies from the strong tidal currents that flowed around them at low tide. Ships transiting the strait preferred to wait until slack tide in order to safely bypass the rock.

05/04/1956

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

The Cuban Revolution was the military and political movement that overthrew the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, who had ruled Cuba from 1952 to 1959. The revolution began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état, in which Batista overthrew the emerging Cuban democracy and consolidated power. Among those who opposed the coup was Fidel Castro, then a young lawyer, who initially tried to challenge the takeover through legal means in the Cuban courts. When these efforts failed, Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl led an armed assault on the Moncada Barracks, a Cuban military post, on 26 July 1953.

05/04/1951

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

Julius Rosenberg and Ethel Rosenberg were an American married couple who were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union, including providing top-secret information about American radar, sonar, jet propulsion engines, and nuclear weapon designs. They were executed by the federal government of the United States in 1953 using New York's state execution chamber in Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, becoming the first American civilians to be executed for such charges and the first to be executed during peacetime.

05/04/1949

A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.

St. Anthony's Hospital fire was a disaster that occurred on April 4, 1949 in Effingham, Illinois. The disaster killed 74 people at the hospital. It is used as a prime example of possible fire hazards hospitals could and can have. St. Anthony's Hospital in Effingham, Illinois, was operated by the Sisters of St. Francis, who lived in a convent next door.

05/04/1946

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

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until its dissolution in 1991. It was the world's third-most populous country, the largest by area, and bordered twelve countries. A diverse multinational state, it was organized as a federal union of national republics, with the largest and most populous being the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party, it was the flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.

A Fleet Air Arm Vickers Wellington crashes into a residential area in Rabat, Malta during a training exercise, killing all four crew members and 16 civilians on the ground.

The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the naval aviation component of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy (RN). The FAA is one of five RN fighting arms. As of 2023 it is primarily a helicopter force, though also operating the F-35B Lightning II carrier-based stealth fighter jointly with the Royal Air Force.

05/04/1945

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

The Cold War was a period of international geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc. It began in the aftermath of the Second World War and ended with the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.

05/04/1943

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 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the residential area hit.

The United States Army Air Forces was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947). It was created on 20 June 1941 as successor to the previous United States Army Air Corps and is the direct predecessor of the United States Air Force, today one of the six armed forces of the United States. The AAF was a component of the United States Army, which on 2 March 1942 was divided functionally by executive order into three autonomous forces: the Army Ground Forces, the United States Army Services of Supply, and the Army Air Forces. Each of these forces had a commanding general who reported directly to the Army chief of staff.

05/04/1942

World War II: Adolf Hitler issues Fuhrer Directive No. 41 summarizing Case Blue, including the German Sixth Army's planned assault on Stalingrad.

World War II, or the Second World War, was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, the latter enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the only nuclear weapons used in war. World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 60 to 75 million people. Millions died as a result of massacres, starvation, disease, and genocides, including the Holocaust. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.

World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island.

The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) was formed between 1952 and 1954 after the dissolution of the IJN.

05/04/1938

Spanish Civil War: Two days after the Nationalist army occupied the Catalan city of Lleida, dictator Francisco Franco decrees the abolition of the Generalitat (the autonomous government of Catalonia), the self-government granted by the Republic, and the official status of the Catalan language.

The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalist rebels. Republicans loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic included socialists, anarchists, communists, and separatists, supported by the Soviet Union. The opposing Nationalists were an alliance of fascist Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists, supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Initially led by a military junta, until General Francisco Franco was appointed supreme leader on 1 October 1936 of what he called the Spanish State. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, religious struggle, or struggle between republican democracy and dictatorship, revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.

05/04/1936

Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi.

On April 5–6, 1936, an outbreak of at least fourteen tornadoes struck the Southeastern United States, killing at least 454 people and injuring at least 2,500 others. Over two hundred people died in Georgia alone, making it the deadliest disaster ever recorded in the state.

05/04/1933

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

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more than two terms. His first two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth focused on US involvement in World War II. A member of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt served in the New York State Senate from 1911 to 1913 and as the 44th governor of New York from 1929 to 1932.

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

The Andorran Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1933, was a democratic uprising led by the Young Andorrans that called for political reforms, universal suffrage for all Andorrans and acted in defense of the rights of local and foreign workers during the construction of FHASA's hydroelectric power station in Encamp. On April 5, 1933, the Young Andorrans seized the Andorran Parliament. These actions were preceded by the arrival of Colonel René-Jules Baulard with 50 gendarmes and the mobilization of 200 local militias or sometent led by the Síndic Francesc Cairat.

05/04/1932

Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.

The Dominion of Newfoundland, or simply Newfoundland, was a British Dominion in eastern North America, today the modern Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It included the island of Newfoundland, and Labrador on the continental mainland. Newfoundland was one of the original dominions under the Balfour Declaration of 1926, and accordingly enjoyed a constitutional status equivalent to the other dominions of the time. Its dominion status was confirmed by the Statute of Westminster 1931, although the statute was not otherwise applicable to Newfoundland.

05/04/1922

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

The American Birth Control League (ABCL) was founded by Margaret Sanger in 1921 at the First American Birth Control Conference in New York City. The organization promoted the founding of birth control clinics and encouraged women to control their own fertility. In 1942, the league became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

05/04/1910

The Transandine Railway connecting Chile and Argentina is inaugurated.

The Transandine Railway was a 1,000 mm metre gauge combined rack and adhesion railway which operated from Mendoza in Argentina, across the Andes mountain range via the Uspallata Pass, to Santa Rosa de Los Andes in Chile, a distance of 248 km. It was a part of the first rail route linking the southern Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

05/04/1902

A stand box collapses at Ibrox Park (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 and England.

The 1902 Ibrox disaster was the collapse of a stand at Ibrox Park in Govan, Scotland. The collapse caused the deaths of 25 supporters, and injuries to 500 more during an international association football match between Scotland and England on 5 April 1902 as part of the 1901–02 British Home Championship.

05/04/1879

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

Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. Its geography primarily consists of an Andean region to the west and tropical lowlands to the east and north. The country has a diverse environment, including the vast Amazonian plain, the Gran Chaco, temperate valleys, the high-altitude Altiplano plateau, snow-capped peaks, and mountains, encompassing a wide range of climates and biomes across its regions and cities. It includes part of the Pantanal, the largest tropical wetland in the world, along its eastern border. Bolivia is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay to the southeast, Argentina to the south, Chile to the southwest, and Peru to the west. The seat of government is La Paz, which contains the executive, legislative, and electoral branches of government, while the constitutional capital is Sucre, the seat of the judiciary. While most population and urban centers lie in the Andean region, the largest city and principal industrial center is Santa Cruz de la Sierra, located in the eastern tropical lowlands.

05/04/1862

American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United States, which they saw as threatened because of the election of Abraham Lincoln and the growing abolitionist movement in the North. The war ended with Union victory, the dissolution of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery, freeing four million African Americans.

05/04/1818

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.

The Battle of Maipú was fought near Santiago, Chile on 5 April 1818, between South American rebels and Spanish royalists, during the Chilean War of Independence. The Patriot rebels led by Argentine general José de San Martín effectively destroyed the Spanish forces commanded by General Mariano Osorio, and completed the independence of the core area of Chile from Spanish domination.

05/04/1795

Peace of Basel between France and Prussia is made.

The Peace of Basel of 1795 consists of three peace treaties involving France during the French Revolution.The first was with Prussia on 5 April; The second was with Spain on 22 July, ending the War of the Pyrenees; and The third was with the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel on 28 August, concluding the stage of the French Revolutionary Wars against the First Coalition.

05/04/1792

United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War against the British Empire. He is commonly known as the Father of His Country for his role in bringing about American independence.

05/04/1621

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

Mayflower was an English square-rigged merchant sailing ship, active from before 1609 until 1622. Her tonnage was 180+, and she was 110 feet long and 25 feet in the beam, with several decks. She was notable in that she transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620.

05/04/1614

In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. It borders Kentucky to the west, Tennessee to the south-west, North Carolina to the south, West Virginia to the north-west, and Maryland to the north. The state's capital is Richmond and its most populous city is Virginia Beach. With a population of 8.8 million, it is the 12th-most populous and 15th-most densely populated state. More than one-third of Virginia's population lives in Northern Virginia, which includes the most populous jurisdiction in the state, Fairfax County.

The second English Parliament of king James I, the so-called Addled Parliament, opens.

James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603, until his death in 1625. Though he long attempted to get both countries to adopt a closer political union, the kingdoms of Scotland and England remained sovereign states ruled by James in personal union, with their own parliaments, judiciaries and laws.

05/04/1566

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

Habsburg Netherlands were the parts of the Low Countries that were ruled by sovereigns from the House of Habsburg. Their rule began in 1482 and ended for the Northern Netherlands in 1581 and for the Southern Netherlands in 1797. Habsburg rule began with the accession of Philip the Handsome in 1482, when he succeeded his mother Mary of Burgundy of the House of Valois-Burgundy, who was the ruler of the Low Countries. Philip's son and heir Charles, future King of Spain (1516), and the Holy Roman Emperor (1519), was born in the Habsburg Netherlands and made Brussels one of his capitals.

05/04/1536

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

Charles V was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain from 1516 to 1556, King of Sicily and Naples from 1516 to 1554, and also Lord of the Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1506 to 1555. He was heir to and then head of the rising House of Habsburg. His dominions in Europe included the Holy Roman Empire, extending from Germany to northern Italy with rule over the Austrian hereditary lands and Burgundian Low Countries, and Spain with its possessions of the southern Italian kingdoms of Sicily, Naples, and Sardinia. In the Americas, he oversaw the continuation of Spanish colonization and a short-lived German colonization. The personal union of the European and American territories he ruled was the first collection of realms labelled "the empire on which the sun never sets".

05/04/1242

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

The Battle on the Ice, also known as the Battle of Lake Peipus, took place on 5 April 1242. It was fought on the frozen Lake Peipus when the united forces of the Republic of Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal, led by Prince Alexander Nevsky, emerged victorious against the forces of the Livonian Order and Bishopric of Dorpat, led by Bishop Hermann of Dorpat.

05/04/0919

The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his army.

The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt occurred in 919–921, following the failure of the first attempt in 914–915. The expedition was again commanded by the Fatimid Caliphate's heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah. As during the previous attempt, the Fatimids captured Alexandria with ease. However, while the Abbasid garrison in Fustat was weaker and mutinous due to lack of pay, al-Qa'im did not exploit it for an immediate attack on the city, such as the one that had failed in 914. Instead, in March 920, the Fatimid navy was destroyed by the Abbasid fleet under Thamal al-Dulafi, and Abbasid reinforcements under Mu'nis al-Muzaffar arrived at Fustat. Nevertheless, in the summer of 920, al-Qa'im was able to capture the Fayyum Oasis, and in the spring of 921, extend his control over much of Upper Egypt as well, while Mu'nis avoided an open confrontation and remained at Fustat. During that time, both sides were engaged in a diplomatic and propaganda battle, with the Fatimids' in particular trying to sway the Muslim populace to their side, without success. The Fatimid expedition was condemned to failure when Thamal's fleet took Alexandria in May/June 921; when the Abbasid forces moved on Fayyum, al-Qa'im was forced to abandon it and flee west over the desert.

05/04/0823

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

Lothair I was a 9th-century Emperor of the Carolingian Empire and King of Italy (818–855) and Middle Francia (843–855).

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