April 12 April 12 this yearin various calendars Akan Nwonakwasi Armenian 26 Ahekani 1475 Aztec Tlaxochimaco 12, 2 Xōchitl Babylonian 23 Adaru, 2336 SE Balinese pawukon Luang, Pepet, Beteng, Menala, Wage, Aryang, Redite of Landep, Uma, Ogan, Raksasa Bengali 29 Chaitro , BS 1432 Chinese Yang Fire Dragon ・Emptiness Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 2 , Day 25Qingming , 8 days until Guyu )Common Era 12 April 2026 CE Coptic 4 Parmouti , AM 1742Egyptian 1 Epagomenae , 2774 NE Ethiopian 4 Miyāzyā, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Tridi de Germinal de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 12 April , AD 2026 Hebrew 25 Nisan , AM 5786Omer 10 Hindu Śravaṇa ・Sādhya Caitra , 1947 SE Daśamī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Caitra , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5126 KY ・1,872,677 Icelandic Sunnudagur, 20 Einmánuður 2025 Islamic 24 Shawwal , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W15-7 Japanese 25 Kisaragi , Reiwa 8Seimei , 8 days until Kokuu ) Julian 30 March , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461143 Korean 25 Tokkidal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.9.0 13 Pop , 2 Ahau Roman ante diem III Kalendas Apriles , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 23 Farvardin , SH 1405 Tibetan 25 dbo, me pho rta
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Day of the year
April 12 is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 263 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1606 – The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of English and Scottish ships.1776 – American Revolution : With the Halifax Resolves , the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.1782 – American Revolution: A Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral George Rodney defeats a French fleet led by the Comte de Grasse at the Battle of the Saintes off Dominica in the Caribbean Sea .1796 – War of the First Coalition : Napoleon Bonaparte wins his first victory as an army commander at the Battle of Montenotte , splitting the Austrian and Piedmontese armies away from each other, and marking the beginning of the Piedmontese surrender in the war.1807 – The Froberg mutiny on Malta ends when the remaining mutineers blow up the magazine of Fort Ricasoli .1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria , a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.1831 – Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester , England, cause it to collapse.1861 – American Civil War : Battle of Fort Sumter . The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter , in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina .1862 – American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase ) occurs, starting from Big Shanty, Georgia (now Kennesaw ).1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow : Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee .1865 – American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama , falls to the Union Army .1877 – The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal .1900 – One day after its enactment by the Congress , President William McKinley signs the Foraker Act into law, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule .1910 – SMS Zrínyi , one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.1917 – World War I : Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans .1927 – Shanghai massacre of 1927 : Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front .1927 – Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople, and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
1928 – The Bremen Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington , New Hampshire . It has since been surpassed.1934 – The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers .
1937 – Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England .1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.1945 – World War II : The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg , and reaches Tangermünde —only 80 kilometres from Berlin .
1955 – The polio vaccine , developed by Dr. Jonas Salk , is declared safe and effective .1961 – Space Race : The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1 .1963 – The Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-33 Finnclipper in the Danish straits.1970 – Soviet submarine K-8 , carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.1980 – The Americo-Liberian government of Liberia is violently deposed .1980 – Transbrasil Flight 303 , a Boeing 727 , crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport in Florianópolis , Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
1980 – Canadian runner and athlete Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope Run in St. John's, NF
1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia STS-1 mission.1983 – Harold Washington is elected as the first black mayor of Chicago .1985 – Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-51D to deploy two communications satellites .1990 – Jim Gary 's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.1990 – Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway , killing five people.
1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland Disneyland Resort Paris .1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a civil lawsuit ; he is later fined and disbarred.1999 – During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia , an American McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle shoots a passenger train , killing between 20 and 60 people.
2002 – A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market , killing seven people and wounding 104.2007 – A suicide bomber penetrates the Green Zone and detonates in a cafeteria within a parliament building, killing Iraqi MP Mohammed Awad and wounding more than twenty other people.2009 – Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.2010 – Merano derailment : A rail accident in South Tyrol kills nine people and injures a further 28.2013 – Two suicide bombers kill three Chadian soldiers and injure dozens of civilians at a market in Kidal, Mali .2014 – The Great Fire of Valparaíso ravages the Chilean city of Valparaíso , killing 16 people, displacing nearly 10,000, and destroying more than 2,500 homes.2026 – The Tisza Party , led by Péter Magyar wins the 2026 Hungarian parliamentary election , defeating Viktor Orbán 's Fidesz party, which had ruled the country for 16 years, marking the first change in government in Hungary for over a decade.Births
Pre-1600
811 – Muhammad al-Jawad , the ninth Imam of Shia Islam (died 835)959 – En'yū , emperor of Japan (died 991)1116 – Richeza of Poland , queen of Sweden and Grand Princess of Minsk (died 1156)1432 – Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (died 1462)1484 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger , Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace and St. Peter's Basilica (died 1546)1484 – Maharana Sangram Singh , Rana of Mewar (died 1527)
1500 – Joachim Camerarius , German scholar and translator (died 1574)1526 – Muretus , French philosopher and author (died 1585)1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford , English courtier and politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (died 1604)1577 – Christian IV of Denmark (died 1648)1612 – Simone Cantarini , Italian painter and engraver (died 1648)1639 – Martin Lister , English naturalist and physician (died 1712)1656 – Benoît de Maillet , French diplomat and natural historian (died 1738)1705 – William Cookworthy , English minister and pharmacist (died 1780)1710 – Caffarelli , Italian actor and singer (died 1783)1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal , French historian and author (died 1796)1716 – Felice Giardini , Italian violinist and composer (died 1796)1722 – Pietro Nardini , Italian violinist and composer (died 1793)1724 – Lyman Hall , American physician, clergyman, and politician, 16th Governor of Georgia (died 1790)1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu , French botanist and author (died 1836)1777 – Henry Clay , American lawyer and politician, 9th United States Secretary of State (died 1852)1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham , English soldier and politician, Lord Privy Seal (died 1840)1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin , Belgian mathematician and engineer (died 1847)1796 – George N. Briggs , American lawyer and politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1861)1799 – Henri Druey , Swiss lawyer and politician, 2nd President of the Swiss Confederation (died 1855)1801 – Joseph Lanner , Austrian composer and conductor (died 1843)1816 – Charles Gavan Duffy , Irish-Australian politician, 8th Premier of Victoria (died 1903)1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky , Russian playwright and translator (died 1886)1839 – Nikolay Przhevalsky , Russian geographer and explorer (died 1888)1845 – Gustaf Cederström , Swedish painter (died 1933)1851 – José Gautier Benítez , Puerto Rican soldier and poet (died 1880)1851 – Edward Walter Maunder , English astronomer and author (died 1928)
1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann , German mathematician and academic (died 1939)1856 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington , English mountaineer, cartographer, and politician (died 1937)1863 – Raul Pompeia , Brazilian writer (died 1895)1868 – Akiyama Saneyuki , Japanese admiral (died 1918)1869 – Henri Désiré Landru , French serial killer (died 1922)1871 – Ioannis Metaxas , Greek general and politician, 130th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1941)1874 – William B. Bankhead , American lawyer and politician, 47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1940)1880 – Addie Joss , American baseball player and journalist (died 1911)1883 – Imogen Cunningham , American photographer and educator (died 1976)1883 – Dally Messenger , Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor (died 1959)
1884 – Tenby Davies , Welsh runner (died 1932)1884 – Otto Meyerhof , German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1951)
1885 – Robert Delaunay , French painter (died 1941)1887 – Harold Lockwood , American actor and director (died 1918)1888 – Dan Ahearn , Irish-American long jumper and police officer (died 1942)1888 – Cecil Kimber , English automobile engineer (died 1945)
1892 – Henry Darger , American writer and artist (died 1973)1894 – Dorothy Cumming , Australian-American actress (died 1983)1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes , Portuguese field marshal and politician, 13th President of Portugal (died 1964)
1898 – Lily Pons , French-American soprano and actress (died 1976)1901 – Lowell Stockman , American farmer and politician (died 1962)1902 – Louis Beel , Dutch academic and politician, 36th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 1977)1903 – Jan Tinbergen , Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)1907 – Felix de Weldon , Austrian-American sculptor, designed the Marine Corps War Memorial (died 2003)1907 – Zawgyi , Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, scholar and academic (died 1990)
1908 – Ida Pollock , English author and painter (died 2013)1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr. , American pilot and general (died 2006)
1910 – Gillo Dorfles , Italian art critic, painter and philosopher (died 2018)1910 – Irma Rapuzzi , French politician (died 2018)
1911 – Mahmoud Younis , Egyptian engineer (died 1976)1912 – Frank Dilio , Canadian businessman (died 1997)1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX , Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia (died 1988)
1912 – Hound Dog Taylor , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1975)
1913 – Keiko Fukuda , Japanese-American martial artist (died 2013)1914 – Armen Alchian , American economist and academic (died 2013)1916 – Beverly Cleary , American author (died 2021)1916 – Russell Garcia , American-New Zealand composer and conductor (died 2011)
1916 – Benjamin Libet , American neuropsychologist and academic (died 2007)
1917 – Helen Forrest , American singer and actress (died 1999)1917 – Vinoo Mankad , Indian cricketer (died 1978)
1917 – Robert Manzon , French racing driver (died 2015)
1919 – István Anhalt , Hungarian-Canadian composer and educator (died 2012)1919 – Billy Vaughn , American musician and bandleader (died 1991)
1921 – Robert Cliche , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1978)1922 – Simon Kapwepwe , Zambian politician, 2nd Vice President of Zambia (died 1980)1923 – Ann Miller , American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2004)1924 – Raymond Barre , French economist and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2007)1924 – Peter Safar , Austrian physician and academic (died 2003)
1924 – Curtis Turner , American race car driver (died 1970)
1925 – Evelyn Berezin , American computer scientist and engineer (died 2018)1925 – Ned Miller , American country music singer and songwriter (died 2016)
1925 – Oliver Postgate , English animator, puppeteer, and screenwriter (died 2008)
1926 – Jane Withers , American actress (died 2021)1927 – Thomas Hemsley , English baritone (died 2013)1927 – Alvin Sargent , American screenwriter (died 2019)
1928 – Hardy Krüger , German actor (died 2022)1928 – Jean-François Paillard , French conductor (died 2013)
1929 – Elspet Gray , Scottish actress (died 2013)1929 – Mukhran Machavariani , Georgian poet and educator (died 2010)
1930 – John Landy , Australian runner and politician, 26th Governor of Victoria (died 2022)1930 – Bryan Magee , English philosopher and politician (died 2019)
1930 – Manuel Neri , American sculptor and painter (died 2021)
1930 – Pythagoras Papastamatiou , Greek lyricist and playwright (died 1979)
1930 – Michał Życzkowski , Polish technician and educator (died 2006)
1931 – Leonid Derbenyov , Russian poet and songwriter (died 1995)1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 5th Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2005)1932 – Herbert Butros Khaury , American singer and ukulele player (died 1996)
1932 – Jean-Pierre Marielle , French actor (died 2019)
1933 – Montserrat Caballé , Spanish soprano and actress (died 2018)1934 – Heinz Schneiter , Swiss footballer and manager (died 2017)1935 – Jimmy Makulis , Greek singer (died 2007)1936 – Tony Earl , American politician, 40th Governor of Wisconsin (died 2023)1936 – Charles Napier , American actor (died 2011)
1936 – Kennedy Simmonds , Kittitian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
1937 – Dennis Banks , American author and activist (died 2017)1937 – Igor Volk , Ukrainian-Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 2017)
1939 – Alan Ayckbourn , English director and playwright1939 – Johnny Raper , Australian rugby league player and coach (died 2022)
1940 – Woodie Fryman , American baseball player (died 2011)1940 – Herbie Hancock , American pianist, composer, and bandleader
1941 – Bobby Moore , English footballer and manager (died 1993)1942 – Bill Bryden , Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2022)1942 – Carlos Reutemann , Argentinian race car driver and politician (died 2021)
1942 – Jacob Zuma , South African politician, 4th President of South Africa
1943 – Sumitra Mahajan , Indian politician, 16th Speaker of the Lok Sabha 1944 – Lisa Jardine , English historian, author, and academic (died 2015)1944 – John Kay , German-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1945 – Lee Jong-wook , South Korean physician and diplomat (died 2006)1946 – John Dunsworth , Canadian actor and comedian (died 2017)1946 – Ed O'Neill , American actor and comedian
1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen , Scottish politician and diplomat, 10th Secretary General of NATO
1947 – Roy M. Anderson , English epidemiologist, zoologist, and academic1947 – Martin Brasier , English palaeontologist, biologist, and academic (died 2014)
1947 – Tom Clancy , American historian and author (died 2013)
1947 – David Letterman , American comedian and talk show host
1947 – Wayne Northrop , American actor (died 2024)
1948 – Jeremy Beadle , English television host and producer (died 2008)1948 – Joschka Fischer , German academic and politician
1948 – Christos Iakovou , Greek weightlifter
1948 – Marcello Lippi , Italian footballer, manager, and coach
1949 – Scott Turow , American lawyer and author1949 – Pravin Gordhan , South African politician (died 2024)
1950 – Joyce Banda , Malawian politician, 4th president of Malawi1950 – Flavio Briatore , Italian businessman
1950 – David Cassidy , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)
1950 – Nicholas Sackman , English composer and educator
1951 – Tom Noonan , American actor (died 2026)1952 – Reuben Gant , American football player1952 – Leicester Rutledge , New Zealand rugby player
1952 – Gary Soto , American poet, novelist, and memoirist
1952 – Ralph Wiley , American journalist (died 2004)
1953 – Tanino Liberatore , Italian author and illustrator1954 – John Faulkner , Australian educator and politician, 52nd Australian Minister for Defence 1954 – Steve Stevaert , Belgian businessman and politician (died 2015)
1954 – Pat Travers , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Fabian Hamilton , English graphic designer, engineer, and politician1956 – Andy Garcia , Cuban-American actor, director, and producer1956 – Herbert Grönemeyer , German singer-songwriter and actor
1957 – Greg Child , Australian mountaineer and author1957 – Vince Gill , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1957 – Tama Janowitz , American novelist and short story writer
1958 – Will Sergeant , English guitarist1958 – Klaus Tafelmeier , German javelin thrower
1958 – Ginka Zagorcheva , Bulgarian hurdler
1960 – David Thirdkill , American basketball player1961 – Corrado Fabi , Italian racing driver1961 – Charles Mann , American football player and sportscaster
1961 – Magda Szubanski , English-Australian actress, comedian and writer
1962 – Art Alexakis , American singer-songwriter and musician1962 – Carlos Sainz , Spanish racing driver
1962 – Nobuhiko Takada , Japanese mixed martial artist and wrestler, founded Hustle
1963 – Lydia Cacho , Mexican journalist and author1964 – Chris Fairclough , English footballer and coach1964 – Amy Ray , American folk-rock singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer
1965 – Kim Bodnia , Danish actor and director1965 – Chi Onwurah , English politician
1965 – Gervais Rufyikiri , Burundian politician
1965 – Mihai Stoica , Romanian footballer and manager
1966 – Nils-Olav Johansen , Norwegian guitarist and singer1966 – Lorenzo White , American football player
1967 – Sarah Cracknell , English singer-songwriter1968 – Alicia Coppola , American actress1968 – Toby Gad , German songwriter and producer
1968 – Adam Graves , Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Michael Jackson , American football player and politician (died 2017)1969 – Jörn Lenz , German footballer and manager
1969 – Lucas Radebe , South African footballer and sportscaster
1970 – Sylvain Bouchard , Canadian speed skater1971 – Nicholas Brendon , American actor (died 2026)1971 – Shannen Doherty , American actress, director, and producer (died 2024)
1972 – Paul Lo Duca , American baseball player and sportscaster1973 – J. Scott Campbell , American author and illustrator1973 – Ryan Kisor , American trumpet player and composer
1973 – Antonio Osuna , Mexican-American baseball player
1973 – Christian Panucci , Italian footballer and manager
1974 – Belinda Emmett , Australian actress (died 2006)1974 – Bryan Fletcher , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1974 – Roman Hamrlík , Czech ice hockey player
1974 – Marley Shelton , American actress
1974 – Sylvinho , Brazilian footballer and manager
1976 – Olga Kotlyarova , Russian runner1976 – Brad Miller , American basketball player
1977 – Giovanny Espinoza , Ecuadorian footballer1977 – Sarah Monahan , Australian actress
1977 – Jason Price , Welsh footballer
1977 – Glenn Rogers , Australian-Scottish cricketer
1978 – Guy Berryman , Scottish bassist (Coldplay )1978 – Scott Crary , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 – Svetlana Lapina , Russian high jumper
1978 – Robin Walker , English businessman and politician
1979 – Claire Danes , American actress1979 – Elena Grosheva , Russian gymnast
1979 – Mateja Kežman , Serbian footballer
1979 – Jennifer Morrison , American actress
1979 – Sergio Pellissier , Italian footballer
1979 – Cristian Ranalli , Italian footballer
1979 – Lee Soo-young , South Korean singer
1980 – Sara Head , Welsh Paralympic table tennis champion1980 – Brian McFadden , Irish singer-songwriter
1981 – Yuriy Borzakovskiy , Russian runner1981 – Nicolás Burdisso , Argentinian footballer
1981 – Tulsi Gabbard , American politician
1981 – Grant Holt , English footballer and professional wrestler
1981 – Hisashi Iwakuma , Japanese baseball pitcher
1983 – Jelena Dokic , Serbian-Australian tennis player1983 – Luke Kibet , Kenyan runner
1984 – Aleksey Dmitrik , Russian high jumper1985 – Brennan Boesch , American baseball player1985 – Hitomi Yoshizawa , Japanese singer
1986 – Blerim Džemaili , Swiss footballer1986 – Marcel Granollers , Spanish tennis player
1986 – Jonathan Pitroipa , Burkinabé footballer
1987 – Luiz Adriano , Brazilian professional footballer1987 – Brooklyn Decker , American model and actress
1987 – Shawn Gore , Canadian football player
1987 – Brendon Urie , American singer, songwriter, musician and multi-instrumentalist
1988 – Ricky Álvarez , Argentinian footballer1988 – Stephen Brogan , English footballer
1988 – Amedeo Calliari , Italian footballer
1988 – Jessie James Decker , American singer-songwriter
1988 – Moamen Zakaria , Egyptian footballer
1989 – Bethan Dainton , Welsh rugby union player1989 – Ádám Hanga , Hungarian basketball player
1989 – Miguel Ángel Ponce , American-Mexican footballer
1989 – Valentin Stocker , Swiss footballer
1989 – Kaitlyn Weaver , Canadian-American ice dancer
1990 – Hiroki Sakai , Japanese footballer1991 – Lionel Carole , French professional footballer1991 – Oliver Norwood , English-born Northern Irish international footballer
1991 – Magnus Pääjärvi , Swedish ice hockey player
1991 – Jazz Richards , Welsh international footballer
1992 – Chad le Clos , South African swimmer1992 – The Vivienne , Welsh drag queen (died 2025)
1993 – Robin Anderson , American tennis player1993 – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins , Canadian ice hockey player
1994 – Eric Bailly , Ivorian professional footballer1994 – Isabelle Drummond , Brazilian actress and singer
1994 – Guido Rodríguez , Argentine footballer
1994 – Saoirse Ronan , American-born Irish actress
1994 – Sehun , South Korean musician
1995 – Pedro Cachin , Argentine tennis player1996 – Jan Bednarek , Polish footballer1996 – Matteo Berrettini , Italian tennis player Deaths
Pre-1600
45 BC – Gnaeus Pompeius , Roman general and politician (born 75 BC)352 – Julius I , pope of the Catholic Church434 – Maximianus , archbishop of Constantinople901 – Eudokia Baïana , Byzantine empress and wife of Leo VI 1125 – Vladislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (born 1065)1167 – Charles VII , king of Sweden (born c. 1130)1256 – Margaret of Bourbon, Queen of Navarre , regent of Navarre (born c. 1217)1443 – Henry Chichele , English archbishop (born 1364)1500 – Leonhard of Gorizia , Count of Gorz (born 1440)1530 – Joanna La Beltraneja , Princess of Castile (born 1462)1550 – Claude, Duke of Guise (born 1496)1555 – Joanna , Queen of Castile and Aragon (born 1479)1675 – Richard Bennett , English politician, colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1609)1684 – Nicola Amati , Italian instrument maker (born 1596)1687 – Ambrose Dixon , English-American soldier (born 1619)1704 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet , French bishop and theologian (born 1627)1748 – William Kent , English architect, designed Holkham Hall and Chiswick House (born 1685)1782 – Metastasio , Italian-Austrian poet and composer (born 1698)1788 – Carlo Antonio Campioni , French-Italian composer (born 1719)1795 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée , Bavarian general (born 1710)1814 – Charles Burney , English composer and historian (born 1726)1817 – Charles Messier , French astronomer and academic (born 1730)1850 – Adoniram Judson , American lexicographer and missionary (born 1788)1866 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood , English politician, founded Fleetwood (born 1801)1872 – Nikolaos Mantzaros , Greek composer and theorist (born 1795)1878 – William M. Tweed , American lawyer and politician (born 1823)1879 – Richard Taylor , Confederate general (born 1826)1885 – William Crowther , Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania (born 1817)1898 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau , Canadian cardinal (born 1820)1902 – Marie Alfred Cornu , French physicist and academic (born 1842)1906 – Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya , Indian scholar, academic, and philanthropist (born 1836)1912 – Clara Barton , American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (born 1821)1920 – Vlasis Gavriilidis , Greek jourtnalist (born 1848)1933 – Adelbert Ames , American general and politician, 30th Governor of Mississippi (born 1835)1937 – Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan , Turkish playwright and poet (born 1852)1938 – Feodor Chaliapin , Russian opera singer (born 1873)1943 – Viktor Puskar , Estonian colonel (born 1889)1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt , American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States (born 1882)1953 – Lionel Logue , Australian actor and therapist (born 1880)1962 – Ron Flockhart , Scottish racing driver (born 1923)1966 – Sydney Allard , English racing driver and founder of the Allard car company (born 1910)1968 – Heinrich Nordhoff , German engineer (born 1899)1971 – Ed Lafitte , American baseball player and dentist (born 1886)1973 – Arthur Freed , American songwriter and producer (born 1894)1975 – Josephine Baker , French actress, activist, and humanitarian (born 1906)1976 – Christos Kakkalos , Greek mountain guide (born 1882)1977 – Philip K. Wrigley , American businessman, co-founded Lincoln Park Gun Club (born 1894)1980 – William R. Tolbert, Jr. , Liberian politician, 20th President of Liberia (born 1913)1981 – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (born 1887)1981 – Joe Louis , American boxer and wrestler (born 1914)
1981 – Little River attacks in Durham, North Carolina
1983 – Jørgen Juve , Norwegian football player and journalist (born 1906)1983 – Carl Morton , American baseball player (born 1944)
1984 – Edwin T. Layton , American admiral and cryptanalyst (born 1903)1986 – Valentin Kataev , Russian author and playwright (born 1897)1988 – Colette Deréal , French singer and actress (born 1927)1988 – Alan Paton , South African historian and author (born 1903)
1989 – Abbie Hoffman , American activist, co-founded Youth International Party (born 1936)1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson , American boxer (born 1921)
1992 – Ilario Bandini , Italian racing driver and businessman (born 1911)1997 – George Wald , American neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)1998 – Robert Ford , Canadian poet and diplomat (born 1915)1999 – Boxcar Willie , American singer-songwriter (born 1931)2001 – Harvey Ball , American illustrator, created the smiley (born 1921)2002 – George Shevelov , Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist (born 1908)2004 – Moran Campbell , Canadian physician and academic, invented the venturi mask (born 1925)2006 – William Sloane Coffin , American minister and activist (born 1924)2007 – Kevin Crease , Australian journalist (born 1936)2008 – Cecilia Colledge , English-American figure skater and coach (born 1920)2008 – Patrick Hillery , Irish physician and politician, 6th President of Ireland (born 1923)
2008 – Jerry Zucker , Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist (born 1949)
2009 – Marilyn Chambers , American actress2010 – Michel Chartrand , Canadian trade union leader (born 1916)2010 – Werner Schroeter , German director and screenwriter (born 1945)
2011 – Karim Fakhrawi , Bahraini journalist, co-founded Al-Wasat 2012 – Mohit Chattopadhyay , Indian poet and playwright (born 1934)2012 – Rodgers Grant , American pianist and composer (born 1935)
2013 – Robert Byrne , American chess player and author (born 1928)2013 – Johnny du Plooy , South African boxer (born 1964)
2013 – Michael France , American screenwriter (born 1962)
2013 – Brennan Manning , American priest and author (born 1934)
2013 – Annamária Szalai , Hungarian journalist and politician (born 1961)
2013 – Ya'akov Yosef , Israeli rabbi and politician (born 1946)
2014 – Pierre Autin-Grenier , French author and poet (born 1947)2014 – Pierre-Henri Menthéour , French cyclist (born 1960)
2014 – Maurício Alves Peruchi , Brazilian footballer (born 1990)
2014 – Hal Smith , American baseball player and coach (born 1931)
2014 – Billy Standridge , American race car driver (born 1953)
2015 – Paulo Brossard , Brazilian jurist and politician (born 1924)2015 – Patrice Dominguez , Algerian-French tennis player and trainer (born 1950)
2015 – Alfred Eick , German commander (born 1916)
2015 – André Mba Obame , Gabonese politician (born 1957)
2016 – Mohammad Al Gaz , Emirati politician & diplomat (born 1930)2016 – Anne Jackson , American actress (born 1925)
2017 – Charlie Murphy , American actor and comedian (born 1959)2020 – Tarvaris Jackson , American football player (born 1983)2021 – Joseph Siravo , American actor and producer (born 1955)2022 – Gilbert Gottfried , American comedian, actor, and singer (born 1955)2024 – Roberto Cavalli , Italian fashion designer and inventor (born 1940)2024 – Eleanor Coppola , American filmmaker (born 1936)
2024 – Robert MacNeil , Canadian-American journalist and author (born 1931)
2025 – Pilita Corrales , Filipino singer-songwriter and actress (born 1939)
2026 – Asha Bhosle , Indian playback singer , businesswoman, actress and television personality (born 1933)2026 – Chris Payton-Jones American football player (born 1995)