April 3 Events
– 20001905 – Boca Juniors football club is founded in Buenos Aires .1922 – Joseph Stalin succeeds Vladimir Lenin as leader of the Soviet Union .1926 – Honduras introduces the Lempira as its currency .1933 – The first flight over Mount Everest occurs, as part of a British expedition led by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton , and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston .1941 – Hungarian and German troops march into Yugoslavia .1942 – World War II : Japanese forces begin an all–out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula . Bataan fell on April 9 and the Bataan Death March began.1944 – A mine explosion in Heessen, Westphalia , Germany , kills 169 miners.1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March .1948 – President Harry Truman signs the Marshall Plan which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.1948 – In Jeju , South Korea , a civil war–like period of violence and human rights abuses begins.1954 – Oxford University wins the 100th Oxford–Cambridge Boat Race.1956 – A deadly Force 5 tornado hits the western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan .1961 – Leadbeater's Possum is re–discovered in Australia , after 72 years.1968 – Elvis Presley sings Heartbreak Hotel on the Milton Berle Show with an estimated 25% of the United States population viewing.1968 – Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "mountaintop " speech.1973 – The first ever Mobile phone call is placed by Martin Cooper, in New York City 1974 – The Super Outbreak occurred. 148 tornadoes affected 13 states and 1 Canadian province in 18 hours. It was the biggest tornado outbreak in the planet 's recorded history. 315 people die, nearly 5,500 are injured.1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play a chess match against Anatoly Karpov , who wins the world championship by default as a result.1979 – Spain holds its first local elections since the death of Francisco Franco .1981 – Osborne 1 , the first–ever portable computer , is unveiled in San Francisco .1984 – Lansana Conté comes to power in Guinea through a military coup.1986 – IBM unveils the PC Convertible , their first laptop computer .1991 – Miguel Trovoada becomes President of São Tomé and Príncipe.1992 – Albania 's last Communist leader Ramiz Alia resigns.1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is arrested at his Montana cabin.1997 – Thalit massacre begins in Algeria ; all but 1 of the 53 people living in Thalit are killed by guerrillas.2000 – Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.Births
Up to 1900
1151 – Igor Svyatoslavich , Kievan Rus Prince (d. 1202 )1245 – King Philip III of France (d. 1285 )1367 – King Henry IV of England (d. 1413 )1529 – Michael Neander , German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1581 )1593 – George Herbert , Welsh–born English poet (d. 1633 )1639 – Alessandro Stradella , Italian composer (d. 1682 )1643 – Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1690 )1683 – Mark Catesby , English naturalist (d. 1749 )1715 – William Watson , English physician and scientist (d. 1787 )1764 – John Abernethy , English surgeon (d. 1831 )1769 – Christian Gunther von Bernstorff , Danish–Prussian statesman and diplomat (d. 1835 )1770 – Theodoros Kolokstronis , Greek general (d. 1843 )1781 – Swaminarayan , Indian religious leader (d. 1830 )1783 – Washington Irving , American writer (d. 1859 )1798 – Charles Wilkes , American navy officer and polar explorer (d. 1877 )1806 – Ivan Kireevsky , Russian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1856 )1807 – Jane Digby , English aristocrat and adventuress (d. 1881 )1814 – Lorenzo Snow , American Mormon leader (d. 1901 )1822 – Edward Everett Hale , American writer (d. 1909 )1823 – William M. Tweed , American politician (d. 1878 )1843 – Knut Ekvall , Swedish artist (d. 1912 )1848 – Arturo Prat , Chilean lawyer and naval officer (d. 1879 )1861 – Frederik van Eeden , Dutch writer and psychiatrist (d. 1932 )1863 – Henry van de Velde , Belgian architect and designer (d. 1957 )1876 – Margaret Anglin , Canadian Broadway actress (d. 1958 )1876 – Celso Constantini , Italian cardinal (d. 1958 )1880 – Jorge Brown , Argentine footballer and cricketer (d. 1936 )1880 – Otto Weininger , Austrian philosopher (d. 1903 )1881 – Alcide De Gasperi , Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1954 )1882 – Philippe Desranleau , Canadian archbishop (d. 1952 )1883 – Ikki Kita , Japanese philosopher and writer (d. 1937 )1885 – Bud Fisher , American cartoonist (d. 1954 )1885 – Allan Dwan , American director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1981 )1887 – Otori Tanigoro , Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1956 )1889 – Grigoras Dinicu , Romanian composer and violinist (d. 1949 )1893 – Leslie Howard , British actor (d. 1943 )1895 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , Italian composer (d. 1968 )1898 – Henry Luce , American publisher (d. 1967 )1898 – George Jessel , American actor, singer and producer (d. 1981 )1899 – David Jack , English footballer (d. 1958 )1899 – Maria Redaelli , Italian supercentenarian (d. 2013 )1900 – Camille Chamoun , President of Lebanon (d. 1987 )– 19501903 – Lili Kraus , Hungarian–American pianist (d. 1986 )1904 – Sally Rand , American Burlesque dancer (d. 1979 )1905 – Robert Sink , American military officer (d. 1965 )1907 – Iron Eyes Cody , American actor (d. 1999 )1911 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz , Polish athlete (d. 1980 )1912 – Grigoris Lambrakis , Greek politician, physician and athlete (d. 1963 )1913 – Per Borten , Prime Minister of Norway (d. 2005 )1915 – Piet de Jong , Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2016 )1918 – Mary Anderson , American actress (d. 2014 )1919 – Ervin Drake , American songwriter and composer (d. 2015 )1920 – Stan Freeman , American composer and lyricist (d. 2001 )1920 – John Demjanjuk , Ukrainian convicted Nazi war criminal (d. 2012 )1920 – Yoshibayama Junnosuke , Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1977 )1922 – Doris Day , American actress (d. 2019 )1922 – José Hierro , Spanish poet (d. 2002 )1922 – Carlo Lizzani , Italian movie director , screenwriter and actor (d. 2013 )1924 – Marlon Brando , American actor (d. 2004 )1925 – Tony Benn , British politician (d. 2014 )1926 – Gus Grissom , American astronaut (d. 1967 )1926 – Timothy Bateson, English actor (d. 2009 )1928 – Earl Lloyd , American basketball player (d. 2015 )1928 – Cheikh Hamidou Kane , Senegalese writer 1929 – Miyoshi Umeki , Japanese actress (d. 2007 )1929 – Poul Schlüter , former Prime Minister of Denmark 1930 – Helmut Kohl , former Chancellor of Germany (d. 2017 )1930 – Lawton Chiles , 41st Governor of Florida (d. 1998 )1930 – Mario Menéndez , Argentine general and politician (d. 2015 )1933 – Bob Dornan , American politician 1933 – Fu Da-ren , Taiwanese sports broadcaster and assisted suicide activist (d. 2018 )1934 – Jane Goodall , English zoologist 1935 – Salvatore Senese , Italian magistrate and politician (d. 2019 )1936 – Reginald Hill , English crime fiction writer (d. 2012 )1936 – Harold Vick , American jazz saxophonist and flautist (d. 1987 )1942 – Wayne Newton , American singer and actor1942 – Billy Joe Royal , American singer (d. 2015 )1942 – Marsha Mason , American actress1943 – Mario Lavista , Mexican composer1943 – Jonathan Lynn , English actor , director and screenwriter 1945 – Bernie Parent , Canadian ice hockey player1945 – Catherine Spaak , French actress1946 – Dee Murphy , English musician (d. 1992 )1946 – Marisa Paredes , Spanish actress1946 – Hanna Suchocka , 5th Prime Minister of Poland 1948 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari , former President of Mexico 1948 – Jaap de Hoop Scheffer , Dutch politician and former NATO Secretary–General1948 – Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck , German footballer 1949 – Daniel Catan , Mexican composer (d. 2011 )1949 – A. C. Grayling , British philosopher 1950 – Sally Thomsett , English actress– 19751953 – Wakanohana Kanji II , Japanese sumo wrestler1956 – Miguel Bosé , Spanish singer and actor1957 – Yves Chaland , French cartoonist (d. 1990 )1958 – Francesca Woodman , American photographer (d. 1981 )1958 – Alec Baldwin , American actor1959 – David Hyde Pierce , American actor1960 – Elizabeth Gracen , American actress and model1960 – Arjen Anthony Lucassen , Dutch singer-songwriter , guitarist and producer 1961 – Eddie Murphy , American actor and comedian 1962 – Jennifer Rubin , American actress1964 – Bjarne Riis , Danish cyclist1964 – Andy Robinson , English rugby player and coach1964 – Nigel Farage , English politician, former leader of UKIP 1965 – Katsumi Oenoki , Japanese footballer 1966 – Mina Tominaga , Japanese voice actress 1966 – Michael Mittermeier , German comedian1968 – Sebastian Bach , Canadian singer1968 – Charlotte Coleman , English actress (d. 2001 )1968 – Jamie Hewlett , English comic creator1970 – Donald-Olivier Sié , Ivorian footballer 1971 – Robert da Silva Almeida , Brazilian footballer 1971 – Vitalijs Astafjevs , Latvian footballer1971 – Picabo Street , American skier 1972 – Kenny Logan , Scottish rugby player1972 – Lola Pagnani , Italian movie actress 1972 – Jennie Garth , American actress1972 – Leigh-Allyn Baker , American actress1972 – Catherine McCormack , English actress1973 – Prabhu Deva , Indian dancer, choreographer , movie director and actor 1973 – Jamie Bamber , English actor1975 – Shawn Bates , American ice hockey playerFrom 1976
1976 – Drew Shirley , American musician1976 – Will Mellor , English actor1978 – Matthew Goode , English actor1978 – Tommy Haas , German tennis player1978 – John Smit , South African rugby player1980 – Suella Braverman , English politician1981 – Aaron Bertram , American trumpeter (Suburban Legends )1982 – Cobie Smulders , Canadian actress1983 – Ben Foster , English footballer1985 – Leona Lewis , English singer 1986 – Amanda Bynes , American actress1986 – Coleen Rooney , English celebrity1987 – Park Jung-min , South Korean singer , dancer and actor 1987 – Martyn Rooney , English sprinter1988 – Tim Krul , Dutch footballer1989 – Israel Folau , Australian rugby player1990 – Sotiris Ninis , Greek footballer1990 – Karim Ansarifard , Iranian footballer1991 – Hayley Kiyoko , American singer, dancer and actress1992 – Simone Benedetti , Italian footballer 1992 – Yuliya Yefimova , Russian swimmer1992 – Juan Cazares , Ecuadorean footballer 1993 – Pape Moussa Konaté , Senegalese footballer 1994 – Dylann Roof , American murderer , perpetrator of the Charleston church shooting 1995 – William de Asevedo Furtado , Brazilian footballer 1997 – Gabriel Jesus , Brazilian footballer Deaths
Up to 1900
963 – William III, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 915 )1203 – Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (b. 1196 )1287 – Pope Honorius IV (b. 1240 )1350 – Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1295 )1617 – John Napier , Scottish mathematician (b. 1550 )1680 – Shivaji , Indian founder of the Maratha Empire (b. 1608 )1682 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo , Spanish painter (b. 1618 )1691 – Jean Petitot , French–Swiss painter (b. 1608 )1717 – Jacques Ozanam , French mathematician (b. 1640 )1849 – Juliusz Slowacki , Polish poet (b. 1809 )1857 – Federico de Roncali, 1st Count of Alcoy , Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1809 )1868 – Franz Berwald , Swedish composer and inventor (b. 1796 )1882 – Jesse James , American outlaw (b. 1847 )1897 – Johannes Brahms , German composer (b. 1833 )– 20001901 – Richard D'Oyly Carte , British talent agent, impresario, composer and hotelier (b. 1844 )1936 – Bruno Hauptmann , German, convicted for the murder of Charles Lindbergh III (b. 1899 )1941 – Pal Teleki , Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1879 )1941 – Tachiyama Mineemon , Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1877 )1943 – Conrad Veidt , German–American actor (b. 1893 )1950 – Kurt Weill , German composer (b. 1900 )1950 – Carter G. Woodson , American historian , writer and journalist (b. 1875 )1952 – Miina Sillanpaa , Finnish politician (b. 1866 )1954 – Aristides de Sousa Mendes , Portuguese diplomat (b. 1885 )1975 – Mary Ure , Scottish actress (b. 1933 )1978 – Ray Noble , English bandleader , actor and composer (b. 1903 )1982 – Warren Oates , American actor (b. 1928 )1986 – Peter Pears , English tenor (b. 1910 )1990 – Sarah Vaughan , American jazz singer and pianist (b. 1924 )1991 – Graham Greene , English writer (b. 1904 )1994 – Frank Wells , American businessman, President of the Walt Disney Company (b. 1932 )1996 – Ron Brown , American politician (b. 1941 )1999 – Lionel Bart , English composer (b. 1930 )From 2001
2003 – Edwin Starr , American singer (b. 1942 )2004 – Gabriella Ferri , Italian singer (b. 1942 )2007 – Nina Wang , Asia 's richest woman (b. 1937 )2008 – Hrvoje Custic , Croatian footballer (b. 1983 )2010 – Eugene Terre'Blanche , South African far–right politician (b. 1941 )2012 – Xenia Stade-de Jong , Dutch athlete (b. 1922 )2013 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala , German–born novelist , short story writer and screenwriter (b. 1927 )2014 – Régine Deforges , French writer, playwright and director (b. 1935 )2014 – Fred Kida , American illustrator (b. 1920 )2014 – Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith , American guitarist , fiddler and composer (b. 1921 )2014 – Paul Salamunovich , American choral director and movie scorer (b. 1927 )2014 – Virginie Korte-van Hemel , Dutch politician (b. 1929 )2014 – Edvard Grimstad , Norwegian politician (b. 1933 )2014 – Tommy Lynn Sells , American serial killer (b. 1964 )2015 – Nigel Boocock , British speedway rider (b. 1937 )2015 – Shmuel Wosner , Austrian–Israeli rabbi (b. 1913 )2015 – Sarah Brady , American gun control campaigner (b. 1942 )2015 – Kayahan , Turkish pop singer (b. 1949 )2015 – Robert Rietti , British–Italian actor (b. 1923 )2015 – Vivian Nathan , American actress (b. 1916 )2015 – Bob Burns , American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd ) (b. 1950 )2016 – Cesare Maldini , Italian footballer and manager (b. 1932 )2016 – Joe Medicine Crow , American historian (b. 1913 )2016 – Lars Gustafsson , Swedish writer (b. 1936 )2016 – Martin Lampkin , British motorcycle rider (b. 1950 )2016 – Lola Novakovic , Serbian singer (b. 1935 )2016 – Erik Bauersfeld , American radio dramatist and voice actor (b. 1922 )2016 – Don Francks , Canadian jazz singer and actor (b. 1932 )2016 – Rowley Habib , New Zealand writer (b. 1933 )2016 – Clarence Clifton Young , American politician (b. 1922 )2016 – Jules Schelvis , Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor (b. 1921 )2017 – John Chrispinsson , Swedish journalist (b. 1956 )2017 – Akbarzhan Jalilov , Kyrgyz–born Russian terrorist (b. 1995 )2017 – Roy Sievers , American baseball player (b. 1926 )2017 – Michel Arrivé , French linguist and novelist (b. 1936 )2017 – Stella Turk , British zoologist, naturalist and conservationist (b. 1925 )2018 – Lill-Babs , Swedish singer (b. 1938 )2018 – Nasim Najafi Aghdam , Iranian–American animal rights and internet personality (b. 1979 )2018 – Arrigo Petacco , Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929 )2018 – Jacques Tixier , French archaeologist and prehistorian 2019 – Maurice Pon , French lyricist (b. 1921 )2019 – Aleksey Buldakov , Russian actor (b. 1951 )2019 – Gabriel Piroird , French bishop (b. 1932 )2019 – Carmelita Pope , American actress (b. 1924 )