April 15
April 15 this yearin various calendars Akan Kwawukuo Armenian 29 Ahekani 1475 Aztec Tlaxochimaco 15, 5 Calli Babylonian 26 Adaru, 2336 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Beteng, Jaya, Paing, Was, Buda of Landep, Guru, Tulus, Manusa Bengali 2 Boisakh , BS 1433 Chinese Yin Earth Goat ・Wall Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 2 , Day 28Qingming , 5 days until Guyu )Common Era 15 April 2026 CE Coptic 7 Parmouti , AM 1742Egyptian 4 Epagomenae , 2774 NE Ethiopian 7 Miyāzyā, 2018 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade III, Sextidi de Germinal de l'Année 234 de la République Gregorian 15 April , AD 2026 Hebrew 28 Nisan , AM 5786Omer 13 Hindu Pūrvabhādrapada ・Brahman Vaiśākha , 1948 SE Trayodaśī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Caitra , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,680 Icelandic Miðvikudagur, 23 Einmánuður 2025 Islamic 27 Shawwal , AH 1447tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W16-3 Japanese 28 Kisaragi , Reiwa 8Seimei , 5 days until Kokuu ) Julian 2 April , AD 2026 (AM 7534)Julian day 2461146 Korean 28 Tokkidal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.13.9.3 16 Pop , 5 Akbal Roman ante diem IV Nonas Apriles , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 26 Farvardin , SH 1405 Tibetan 28 dbo, me pho rta
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Day of the year
April 15 is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 260 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg . Only 712 of 2,207 passengers and crew on board survive.1919 – Jeam-ri massacre : The Imperial Japanese Army murdered more than 20 residents of Jeam-ri as retaliation of the March First Movement protests in the region.1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts . Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal .1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes .1923 – Racially motivated Nihon Shōgakkō fire lit by a serial arsonist kills 10 children in Sacramento, California.
1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine .1941 – World War II : In the Belfast Blitz , 200 bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast , killing some 1,000 people.1942 – World War II: The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta" by King George VI.1945 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers , breaking baseball's color line .1952 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc , in Des Plaines, Illinois .1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident : North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan , killing all 31 on board.1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War , massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam .1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon , its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.1989 – Hillsborough disaster : A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium , home of Sheffield Wednesday , in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans.1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang 's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.
1994 – Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.2002 – Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan , South Korea, killing 129 people.2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston , Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring over 500 others.2013 – A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.
2014 – In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War , more than 400 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire .2021 – A mass shooting occurs at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis , Indiana, killing nine and injuring seven.2026 – Twelve people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass shooting at a school in Onikişubat , Turkey.Births
Pre-1600
68 BC – Gaius Maecenas , Roman politician (died 8 BC)1282 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (died 1329)1442 – John Paston , English noble (died 1479)1452 – Leonardo da Vinci , Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1519)1469 – Guru Nanak , the first Sikh guru (died 1539)1552 – Pietro Cataldi , Italian mathematician and astronomer (died 1626)1563 – Guru Arjan Dev , fifth Sikh leader (died 1606)1588 – Claudius Salmasius , French author and scholar (died 1653)1592 – Francesco Maria Brancaccio , Catholic cardinal (died 1675)1641 – Robert Sibbald , Scottish physician and geographer (died 1722)1642 – Suleiman II , Ottoman sultan (died 1691)1646 – Christian V of Denmark (died 1699)1684 – Catherine I of Russia (died 1727)1688 – Johann Friedrich Fasch , German violinist and composer (died 1758)1707 – Leonhard Euler , Swiss mathematician and physicist (died 1783)1710 – William Cullen , Scottish physician and chemist (died 1790)1731 – William B. Whiting , New York politician (died 1796)1741 – Charles Willson Peale , American painter and soldier (died 1827)1771 – Nicolas Chopin , French-Polish educator (died 1844)1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire , French biologist and zoologist (died 1844)1793 – Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve , German astronomer and academic (died 1864)1795 – Maria Schicklgruber , mother of Alois Hitler and the paternal grandmother of Adolf Hitler (died 1847)1800 – James Clark Ross , English captain and explorer (died 1862)1808 – William Champ , English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (died 1892)1809 – Hermann Grassmann , German linguist and mathematician (died 1877)1817 – William Crowther , Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania (died 1885)1828 – Jean Danjou , French captain (died 1863)1829 – Mary Harris Thompson , Mary Harris Thompson, American physician and surgeon (died 1895)1832 – Wilhelm Busch , German poet, painter, and illustrator (died 1908)1841 – Mary Grant Roberts , Australian zoo owner (died 1921)1841 – Joseph E. Seagram , Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company Ltd (died 1919)
1843 – Henry James , American novelist, short story writer, and critic (died 1916)1856 – Jean Moréas , Greek poet and critic (died 1910)1858 – Émile Durkheim , French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (died 1917)1861 – Bliss Carman , Canadian-British poet and playwright (died 1929)1863 – Ida Freund , Austrian-born chemist and educator (died 1914)1874 – George Harrison Shull , American botanist and geneticist (died 1954)1874 – Johannes Stark , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957)
1875 – James J. Jeffries , American boxer and promoter (died 1953)1877 – Georg Kolbe , German sculptor (died 1947)1877 – William David Ross , Scottish philosopher (died 1971)
1878 – Robert Walser , Swiss author and playwright (died 1956)1879 – Melville Henry Cane , American lawyer and poet (died 1980)1883 – Stanley Bruce , Australian captain and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (died 1967)1885 – Tadeusz Kutrzeba , Polish general (died 1947)1886 – Nikolay Gumilyov , Russian poet and critic (died 1921)1887 – Felix Pipes , Austrian tennis player (died 1983)1887 – William Forgan Smith , Scottish-Australian politician, 24th Premier of Queensland (died 1953)
1888 – Maximilian Kronberger , German poet and author (died 1904)1889 – Thomas Hart Benton , American painter and educator (died 1975)1889 – A. Philip Randolph , American activist (died 1979)
1890 – Percy Shaw , English businessman, invented the cat's eye (died 1976)1892 – Theo Osterkamp , German general and pilot (died 1975)1892 – Corrie ten Boom , Dutch-American clocksmith, Nazi resister , and author (died 1983)
1894 – Nikita Khrushchev , Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union (died 1971)1894 – Bessie Smith , African-American singer and actress (died 1937)
1895 – Clark McConachy , New Zealand snooker player (died 1980)1895 – Abigail Mejia , Dominican feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator (died 1941)
1896 – Nikolay Semyonov , Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1986)1898 – Harry Edward , Guyanese-English sprinter (died 1973)1900 – Ramón Iribarren , Spanish civil engineer (died 1967)1901 – Joe Davis , English snooker player (died 1978)1901 – Ajoy Mukherjee , Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (died 1986)
1901 – René Pleven , French businessman and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 1993)
1902 – Fernando Pessa , Portuguese journalist (died 2002)1903 – John Williams , English-American actor (died 1983)1904 – Arshile Gorky , Armenian-American painter and illustrator (died 1948)1907 – Nikolaas Tinbergen , Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1988)1908 – eden ahbez , American songwriter and recording artist (died 1995)1908 – Lita Grey , American actress (died 1995)
1909 – Robert Edison Fulton Jr. , American inventor and adventurer (died 2004)1910 – Sulo Bärlund , Finnish shot putter (died 1986)1910 – Miguel Najdorf , Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician (died 1997)
1912 – William Congdon , American-Italian painter and sculptor (died 1998)1912 – Kim Il Sung , North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (died 1994)
1915 – Elizabeth Catlett , African-American sculptor and illustrator (died 2012)1916 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale , American businessman (died 1982)1916 – Helene Hanff , American author and screenwriter (died 1997)
1917 – Hans Conried , American actor (died 1982)1917 – Elmer Gedeon , American baseball player and bomber pilot (died 1944)
1917 – James Kee , American lawyer and politician (died 1989)
1918 – Hans Billian , German film director, screenwriter, and actor (died 2007)1919 – Alberto Breccia , Uruguayan-Argentinian author and illustrator (died 1993)1920 – Godfrey Stafford , English-South African physicist and academic (died 2013)1920 – Thomas Szasz , Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (died 2012)
1920 – Richard von Weizsäcker , German soldier and politician, 6th President of Germany (died 2015)
1921 – Georgy Beregovoy , Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (died 1995)1921 – Angelo DiGeorge , American physician and endocrinologist (died 2009)
1922 – Michael Ansara , Syrian-American actor (died 2013)1922 – Donn F. Draeger , American martial arts practitioner (died 1982)
1922 – Hasrat Jaipuri , Indian poet and songwriter (died 1999)
1922 – Harold Washington , American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (died 1987)
1922 – Graham Whitehead , English racing driver (died 1981)
1923 – Artur Alliksaar , Estonian poet and author (died 1966)1923 – Robert DePugh , American activist, founded the Minutemen (an anti-Communist organization) (died 2009)
1924 – M. Canagaratnam , Sri Lankan politician (died 1980)1924 – Rikki Fulton , Scottish comedian (died 2004)
1924 – Neville Marriner , English violinist and conductor (died 2016)
1926 – Jurriaan Schrofer , Dutch sculptor, designer, and educator (died 1990)1927 – Robert Mills , American physicist and academic (died 1999)1929 – Gérald Beaudoin , Canadian lawyer and politician (died 2008)1929 – Adrian Cadbury , English rower and businessman (died 2015)
1930 – Georges Descrières , French actor (died 2013)1930 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , Icelandic educator and politician, 4th President of Iceland
1931 – Kenneth Bloomfield , Northern Irish civil servant (died 2025)1931 – Tomas Tranströmer , Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)
1933 – Roy Clark , American musician and television personality (died 2018)1933 – David Hamilton , English-French photographer and director (died 2016)
1933 – Elizabeth Montgomery , American actress and producer (died 1995)
1935 – Stavros Paravas , Greek actor and producer (died 2008)1936 – Raymond Poulidor , French cyclist (died 2019)1937 – Bob Luman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1978)1937 – Robert W. Gore , American engineer and businessman, co-inventor of Gore-Tex (died 2020)
1938 – Claudia Cardinale , Italian actress (died 2025)1938 – Hso Khan Pha , Burmese-Canadian geologist and politician (died 2016)
1939 – Marty Wilde , English singer-songwriter and actor1939 – Desiré Ecaré , Ivorian filmmaker (died 2009)
1940 – Jeffrey Archer , English author, playwright, and politician (died 2026)1940 – Penelope Coelen , South African actress, model, beauty queen and 1958 Miss World
1940 – Willie Davis , American baseball player and actor (died 2010)
1940 – Robert Lacroix , Canadian economist and academic
1940 – Robert Walker , American actor (died 2019)
1941 – Howard Berman , American lawyer and politician1942 – Francis X. DiLorenzo , American bishop (died 2017)1942 – Walt Hazzard , American basketball player and coach (died 2011)
1942 – Kenneth Lay , American businessman and criminal (died 2006)
1942 – Tim Lankester , English economist and academic
1943 – Pınar Kür , Turkish author, playwright, and academic (died 2025)1943 – Robert Lefkowitz , American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1943 – Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater , English politician (died 2022)
1943 – Hugh Thompson, Jr. , American soldier and pilot (died 2006)
1944 – Dave Edmunds , Welsh singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer1946 – John Lloyd , Scottish journalist and author1946 – Pete Rouse , American politician, White House Chief of Staff
1947 – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason , American screenwriter and producer1947 – Martin Broughton , English businessman
1947 – Lois Chiles , American model and actress
1947 – David Omand , English civil servant and academic
1947 – Cristina Husmark Pehrsson , Swedish nurse and politician, Swedish Minister for Social Security
1948 – Christopher Brown , English historian, curator, and academic1948 – Michael Kamen , American composer and conductor (died 2003)
1948 – Phil Mogg , English singer-songwriter and musician
1949 – Alla Pugacheva , Russian singer-songwriter and actress1949 – Craig Zadan , American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2018)
1950 – Josiane Balasko , French actress, director, and screenwriter1950 – Amy Wright , American actress
1950 – Karel Kroupa , Czech football player
1951 – Heloise , American journalist and author1951 – John L. Phillips , American captain and astronaut
1951 – Stuart Prebble , English journalist and producer
1951 – Marsha Ivins , American engineer and astronaut
1952 – Kym Gyngell , Australian actor, comedian, and screenwriter1952 – Brian Muir , English sculptor and set designer
1952 – Avital Ronell , Czech-American philosopher and academic
1952 – Glenn Shadix , American actor, (died 2010)
1955 – Dodi Fayed , Egyptian film producer (died 1997)1955 – Joice Mujuru , Zimbabwean politician
1956 – Michael Cooper , American basketball player and coach1957 – Evelyn Ashford , American runner and coach1958 – Keith Acton , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1958 – John Bracewell , New Zealand cricketer
1958 – Memos Ioannou , Greek basketball player and coach
1958 – Benjamin Zephaniah , English actor, author, poet, and playwright (died 2023)
1959 – Fruit Chan , Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter1959 – Kevin Lowe , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1959 – Emma Thompson , English actress, comedian, author, activist and screenwriter
1960 – Pierre Aubry , Canadian ice hockey player1960 – Susanne Bier , Danish director and screenwriter
1960 – Pedro Delgado , Spanish cyclist and sportscaster
1960 – Tony Jones , English snooker player
1961 – Neil Carmichael , English academic and politician1961 – Carol W. Greider , American molecular biologist
1961 – Dawn Wright , American geographer and oceanographer
1962 – Nawal El Moutawakel , Moroccan athlete and politician1962 – Tom Kane , American voice actor (died 2026)
1963 – Alex Crawford , Nigerian-South African journalist1963 – Manzoor Elahi , Pakistani cricketer
1963 – Manoj Prabhakar , Indian cricketer and sportscaster
1964 – Andre Joubert , South African rugby player1964 – Lee Kernaghan , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Soichi Noguchi , Japanese engineer and astronaut1965 – Linda Perry , American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
1965 – Kevin Stevens , American ice hockey player
1966 – Samantha Fox , English singer-songwriter and actress1966 – Mott Green , American businessman (died 2013)
1967 – Frankie Poullain , Scottish bass player and songwriter1967 – Dara Torres , American swimmer and journalist
1968 – Ben Clarke , English rugby player and coach1968 – Brahim Lahlafi , Moroccan-French runner
1968 – Ed O'Brien , English guitarist
1969 – Jeromy Burnitz , American baseball player1969 – Kaisa Roose , Estonian pianist and conductor
1969 – Jimmy Waite , Canadian-German ice hockey player and coach
1970 – Chris Huffins , American decathlete and coach1971 – Philippe Carbonneau , French rugby player1971 – Finidi George , Nigerian footballer
1971 – Jason Sehorn , American football player
1971 – Josia Thugwane , South African runner
1971 – Karl Turner , English lawyer and politician
1972 – Arturo Gatti , Italian-Canadian boxer (died 2009)1972 – Lou Romano , American animator and voice actor
1974 – Kim Min-kyo , South Korean actor and director1974 – Danny Pino , American actor and screenwriter
1974 – Mike Quinn , American football player
1974 – Douglas Spain , American actor, director, and producer
1974 – Tim Thomas , American ice hockey player
1975 – Sarah Teichmann , German-American biophysicist and immunologist1976 – Jason Bonsignore , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1976 – Darius Regelskis , Lithuanian footballer
1976 – Kęstutis Šeštokas , Lithuanian basketball player
1976 – Steve Williams , English rower
1977 – Sudarsan Pattnaik , Indian sculptor1977 – Brian Pothier , American ice hockey player
1978 – Milton Bradley , American baseball player1978 – Tim Corcoran , American baseball player
1978 – Luis Fonsi , Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and dancer
1978 – Chris Stapleton , American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Luke Evans , Welsh actor and singer1980 – Patrick Carney , American drummer, musician, and producer1980 – James Foster , English cricketer
1980 – Raül López , Spanish basketball player
1980 – Willie Mason , New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
1980 – Billy Yates , American football player
1981 – Andrés D'Alessandro , Argentinian footballer1982 – Michael Aubrey , American baseball player1982 – Anthony Green , American singer-songwriter
1982 – Albert Riera , Spanish footballer and manager
1982 – Seth Rogen , Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1983 – Alice Braga , Brazilian actress1983 – Matt Cardle , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983 – Dudu Cearense , Brazilian footballer
1983 – Andreas Fransson , Swedish skier (died 2014)
1983 – Ilya Kovalchuk , Russian ice hockey player
1983 – Martin Pedersen , Danish cyclist
1984 – Antonio Cromartie , American football player1984 – Cam Janssen , American ice hockey player
1984 – Daniel Paille , Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Ryan Hamilton , Canadian ice hockey player1986 – Tom Heaton , English footballer1986 – Sylvain Marveaux , French footballer
1988 – Blake Ayshford , Australian rugby league player1988 – Steven Defour , Belgian footballer
1988 – Chris Tillman , American baseball pitcher
1989 – Darren Nicholls , Australian rugby league player1990 – Emma Watson , English actress1991 – Daiki Arioka , Japanese idol, singer, and actor1991 – Javier Fernández López , Spanish figure skater
1992 – Remo Freuler , Swiss footballer1992 – John Guidetti , Swedish footballer
1992 – Jeremy McGovern , Australian rules football player
1993 – Felipe Anderson , Brazilian footballer1994 – Brodie Grundy , Australian rules football player1994 – Shaunae Miller-Uibo , Bahamian sprinter
1995 – Leander Dendoncker , Belgian footballer1997 – Ashleigh Gardner , Australian cricketer1997 – Maisie Williams , English actress
1998 – Sexyy Red , American rapper1999 – Denis Shapovalov , Israeli-Canadian tennis player2001 – Shanti Dope , Filipino rapperDeaths
Pre-1600
628 – Suiko , emperor of Japan (born 554)943 – Liu Bin , emperor of Southern Han (born 920)956 – Lin Yanyu , Chinese court official and eunuch 1053 – Godwin, Earl of Wessex (born 1001)1136 – Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (born 1094)1220 – Adolf of Altena , German archbishop (born 1157)1237 – Richard Poore , English ecclesiastic1415 – Manuel Chrysoloras , Greek philosopher and translator (born 1355)1446 – Filippo Brunelleschi , Italian sculptor and architect (born 1377)1502 – John IV of Chalon-Arlay , Prince of Orange (born 1443)1558 – Hurrem Sultan , wife of Suleiman the Magnificent and the Haseki sultan of Ottoman Empire (born 1505)1578 – Wolrad II, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg , German nobleman (born 1509)1610 – Robert Persons , English Jesuit priest, insurrectionist, and author (born 1546)1632 – George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore , English politician, English Secretary of State (born 1580)1652 – Patriarch Joseph of Moscow , Russian patriarch1659 – Simon Dach , German poet and hymnwriter (born 1605)1719 – Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon , French wife of Louis XIV (born 1635)1754 – Jacopo Riccati , Italian mathematician and academic (born 1676)1757 – Rosalba Carriera , Italian painter (born 1673)1761 – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll , Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (born 1682)1761 – William Oldys , English historian and author (born 1696)
1764 – Peder Horrebow , Danish astronomer and mathematician (born 1679)1764 – Madame de Pompadour , mistress of King Louis XV (born 1721)
1765 – Mikhail Lomonosov , Russian chemist and physicist (born 1711)1788 – Giuseppe Bonno , Austrian composer (born 1711)1793 – Ignacije Szentmartony , Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (born 1718)1854 – Arthur Aikin , English chemist and mineralogist (born 1773)1861 – Sylvester Jordan , Austrian-German lawyer and politician (born 1792)1865 – Abraham Lincoln , 16th President of the United States (born 1809)1888 – Matthew Arnold , English poet and critic (born 1822)1889 – Father Damien , Belgian priest and saint (born 1840)1898 – Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui , New Zealand commander and politician1912 – Victims of the Titanic disasterThomas Andrews , Irish shipbuilder (born 1873)John Jacob Astor IV , American colonel, businessman, and author (born 1864)Archibald Butt , American general and journalist (born 1865)Jacques Futrelle , American journalist and author (born 1875)Benjamin Guggenheim , American businessman (born 1865)Henry B. Harris , American producer and manager (born 1866)Wallace Hartley , English violinist and bandleader (born 1878)Charles Melville Hays , American businessman (born 1856)James Paul Moody , English Sixth Officer (born 1887)William McMaster Murdoch , Scottish First Officer (born 1873)Jack Phillips , English telegraphist (born 1887)Edward Smith , English Captain (born 1850)William Thomas Stead , English journalist (born 1849)Ida Straus , German-American businesswoman (born 1849)Isidor Straus , German-American businessman and politician (born 1845)John B. Thayer , American business and sportsman (born 1862)Henry Tingle Wilde , English chief officer (born 1872)1917 – János Murkovics , Slovene author, poet, and educator (born 1839)1925 – Fritz Haarmann , German serial killer (born 1879)1927 – Gaston Leroux , French journalist and author (born 1868)1938 – César Vallejo , Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1892)1942 – Robert Musil , Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (born 1880)1943 – Aristarkh Lentulov , Russian painter and set designer (born 1882)1944 – Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin , Russian general (born 1901)1945 – Hermann Florstedt , German SS officer (born 1895)1948 – Radola Gajda , Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (born 1892)1949 – Wallace Beery , American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1885)1962 – Clara Blandick , American actress (born 1880)1962 – Arsenio Lacson , Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (born 1912)
1963 – Edward Greeves, Jr. , Australian footballer (born 1903)1966 – Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury , Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan (born 1906)1967 – Totò , Italian comedian (born 1898)1971 – Gurgen Boryan , Armenian poet and playwright (born 1915)1971 – Friedebert Tuglas , Estonian author and critic (born 1886)
1979 – David Brand , Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (born 1912)1980 – Raymond Bailey , American actor and soldier (born 1904)1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre , French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)
1982 – Arthur Lowe , English actor (born 1915)1984 – Tommy Cooper , Welsh comedian and magician (born 1921)1986 – Jean Genet , French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1910)1988 – Kenneth Williams , English actor and screenwriter (born 1926)1989 – Hu Yaobang , Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (born 1915)1990 – Greta Garbo , Swedish-American actress (born 1905)1993 – Leslie Charteris , English author and screenwriter (born 1907)1993 – John Tuzo Wilson , Canadian geophysicist and geologist (born 1908)
1998 – William Congdon , American-Italian painter and sculptor (born 1912)1998 – Pol Pot , Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (born 1925)
1999 – Harvey Postlethwaite , English engineer (born 1944)2000 – Edward Gorey , American poet and illustrator (born 1925)2001 – Joey Ramone , American singer-songwriter (born 1951)2002 – Damon Knight , American author and critic (born 1922)2002 – Byron White , American football player, lawyer, and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (born 1917)
2004 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama , Japanese illustrator (born 1934)2007 – Brant Parker , American illustrator (born 1920)2008 – Krister Stendahl , Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (born 1921)2009 – Clement Freud , German-English journalist, academic, and politician (born 1924)2009 – László Tisza , Hungarian-American physicist and academic (born 1907)
2009 – Salih Neftçi , Turkish economist and author (born 1947)
2010 – Jack Herer , American author and activist (born 1939)2010 – Michael Pataki , American actor and director (born 1938)
2011 – Vittorio Arrigoni , Italian journalist, author, and activist (born 1975)2012 – Paul Bogart , American director and producer (born 1919)2012 – Dwayne Schintzius , American basketball player (born 1968)
2013 – Benjamin Fain , Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (born 1930)2013 – Richard LeParmentier , American-English actor and screenwriter (born 1946)
2013 – Jean-François Paillard , French conductor (born 1928)
2014 – John Houbolt , American engineer and academic (born 1919)2014 – Eliseo Verón , Argentinian sociologist and academic (born 1935)
2015 – Jonathan Crombie , Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (born 1966)2015 – Surya Bahadur Thapa , Nepalese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (born 1928)
2017 – Clifton James , American actor (born 1920)2017 – Emma Morano , Italian supercentenarian , last person verified born in the 1800s (born 1899)
2018 – R. Lee Ermey , American actor (born 1944)2018 – Vittorio Taviani , Italian film director and screenwriter (born 1929)
2022 – Bilquis Edhi , Pakistani philanthropist and wife of Abdul Sattar Edhi (born 1947)2022 – Henry Plumb , British politician and farmer (born 1925)
2022 – Liz Sheridan , American actress (born 1929)
2024 – Whitey Herzog , American professional baseball outfielder and manager (born 1931)2024 – Josip Manolić , Croatian politician, prime minister , and speaker of the Chamber of Counties (born 1920)
2025 – Wink Martindale , American DJ, radio personality, and TV personality (born 1933)2026 – José Santamaría , Uruguayan-Spanish footballer and manager (born 1929)