April 24

April 24 is the 114th (hundred and fourteenth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 115th in leap years. There are 251 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1479 BC: in ancient Egypt, according to the chronology of the 18th dynasty, Tutmosis III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although effective power is in the hands of Hatshepsut.
• 1184 B.C.: In the current Turkey, according to legend, the Greeks enter the city of Troy using the treta of the Trojan horse.
• 387: in Milan (in present Italy) Saint Augustine is baptized.
• 1147: Pope Eugene III, grants the Knights Templar the right to permanently carry the red pate cross on his left shoulder.
• 1234: in Castilla (Spain), King Fernando III donates the city of Magacela to the Order of Alcantara in exchange for the city of Trujillo (Spain).
• 1312: In Spain, King Fernando IV of Castile granted the Fuero de las Villas de Ojacastro, Ezcaray, Valgañón and Zorraquín, in La Rioja.

Execution of the community of Castilla in Villalar on April 24, 1521, seen by Antonio Gisbert, year 1860.

• 1521: In Spain, in the framework of the War of the Communities of Castile, they are decapitated in Villalar de los Comuneros, Juan de Padilla, Juan Bravo and Francisco Maldonado, chief comuneros.
• 1547: In Germany the battle of Mühlberg was waged between Emperor Charles I and the Enamel League.
• 1558: in the cathedral of Notre Dame, in Paris (France), Maria Estuardo married the French dolphin Francisco II.
• 1616: in Madrid, Spain, the remains of Miguel de Cervantes are buried in the church of the Trinitarians.
• 1701: Spain begins the reign of the Casa de Borbón after the arrival of Felipe V from Spain to Madrid.
• 1748: In Aachen, the negotiations will begin to end the War of Austroca Succession.
• 1779: Spain begins the Great siege of Gibraltar, the third carried out by Spain since the loss of the city to recover the already British colony.
• 1800: In Washington, D.C. (United States) the Library of Congress is inaugurated, with an initial strength of $5000.
• 1808: In Spain, the lions rise against the French, being the first uprising against Napoleon in that country.
• 1817: in Karlsruhe (Germany), Karl Drais reveals the dresin, the first bike prototype, even without pedals.
• 1834: near Jauja (Peru), the leader of the rebel troops José Rufino Echenique meets President Luis José de Orbegoso (Abrazo de Maquinhuayo) and puts an end to the first Peruvian civil war.
• 1844: Spain recognizes the independence of its former Chilean colony.
• 1854: In Vienna, Francisco José I married Sissi (Isabel of Bavaria), who would become an empress of Austria.
• 1860: in northern Mexico—in the framework of the War of Reform— soldiers of the liberal army of the National Guard of San Luis Potosí and Zacatecas (in command of General José López Uraga) wage the battle of Loma Alta against soldiers of the conservative army (in command of General Rómulo Díaz de la Vega).
• 1877: In the framework of the Russian-Turkish War, Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1880: in Illinois, United States, a tornado takes root in the village of West Prairie.
• 1883: In La Plata, Argentina human bone remains are found when the foundations of the House of Government of the Province of Buenos Aires are excavated.
• 1898: Spain declares war on the United States.
• 1913: in New York (United States) the skyscraper Woolworth Building is open to the public.
• 1915: in Turkey begins the Armenian Genocide, the first mass massacre of the twentieth century. One and a half million Armenians die.
• 1916: The Easter Uprising takes place in Ireland. The Irish Independence War begins with the uprising of a group led by Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and Joseph Plunkett.
• 1918: the first clash of history occurs between armoured cars during the First World War.
• 1918: the Battle of Víborg began in the Finnish city of Víborg, between the Red Guard and the White Guard, and it was the last battle of the Finnish civil war.
• 1923: thesis is published in Vienna, Austria Das Ich und das (I and I) of Sigmund Freud where the ideas of it, the self and the superjay appear for the first time.
• 1925: Aimé Tschiffely takes part next to his Gato and Mancha horses from Buenos Aires to New York, arriving to destination after just over three years of travel.
• 1926: the Treaty of Berlin signed by which Germany and the Soviet Union will respect the neutrality of the other in the conflict with a third over the next five years.
• 1932: in Spain, Spanish aviator Fernando Rein Loring departs from Madrid to make the first trip to Manila in civil avioneta.
• 1939: Gaby, Fofó and Miliki decide to form a trio offering their first performances at the Teatro Circo Price in Madrid.
• 1945: in the forest of Spreewald, near the Spree River—in the framework of the Second World War— the battle of Halbe begins, by which the Red Army near the troops led by General Theodor Busse and General Walther Wenck, to together deliver their men to the Anglo-American forces.
• 1953: In London (United Kingdom), Queen Elizabeth II appointed Winston Churchill as a gentleman.
• 1955: the Bandung Conference ends, where 25 Asian and African countries that had just gained independence agree to cooperate economically and culturally, in opposition to colonialism and neo-colonialism both in the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1957: Near the Nevada Test Site, at 14:27 GMT United States detonates an atomic test (Project 57) to analyze how an accidental nuclear explosion would be.
• 1957: The Suez Canal is reopened after the incursion of United Nations Emergency Force troops into the area.
• 1958: The Philippines, in the province of Dávao del Sur is created the municipality of Sulop.
• 1965: In the Dominican Republic begins the April Revolution, ruled by Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó.
• 1966: in Neuquén, Argentina, the oil city of Plaza Huincul is officially founded.
• 1967: the cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when the opening of the parachute of the ship fails. He's the first human being to die on a space mission.
• 1968: the Mauritius Islands enter the UN.
• 1969: in the U2b area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:00 (local time), the United States simultaneously detonates its Gourd-Amber atomic bombs (in an artificial well, 181 meters deep) and Gourd-Brown (on the surface), of 0.8 and 19 kilotons respectively. It is the 617 and 618 of the 1132 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1970: In Costa Rica there are protests against mining concessions to Alcoa.
• 1970: China launches a complete CZ-1 rocket, which orbits the DFH-1 satellite, making China the fifth country launch its own satellite.
• 1972: in Spain the popular contest is premiered One, two, three... answer again, which would later become the first international versioned Spanish television format.
• 1980: in Spain, Jordi Pujol is elected president of the Generality of Catalonia.
• 1982: in Harrogate (United Kingdom), Nicole's song "Ein bißchen frieden", wins the XXVII edition of Eurovision in Germany.
• 1990: The United States launches Hubble Space Telescope.
• 1992: in Spain, arabist Emilio García Gómez is awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Communication and Humanities.
• 1994: in El Salvador, Armando Calderón Sol, candidate of the official party, ARENA, defeats in the presidential elections Rubén Zamora, candidate of a coalition of opposition parties led by the FMLN (Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional).
• 1996: the Palestinian Legislative Council approves by majority the modification of the articles of the Constitution that incited the destruction of Israel.
• 1996: in Rome, Pope John Paul II beats Pier Giorgio Frassati (the Italian musician and mountaineer) and Gianna Beretta Molla (the Italian music, the fighter against abortion).
• 1999: In Yugoslavia, under Operation Allied Force, the NATO air bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, NATO bombs Serbia ' s Radio Television headquarters, causing the death of sixteen employees and wounding at least eighteen others.
• 2004: María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, chairs the Council of Ministers of Spain, being the first woman to do so.
• 2005: German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger inaugurates the 265th papacy with the name of Benedict XVI.
• 2005: at the University of Seoul (South Korea) Snuppy was born, the first cloned dog in the world (f. 2015).
• 2007: The first Earth-like exoplanet is discovered in the living area of its star, with a temperature suitable for liquid water on its surface, Gliese 581c.

• 2009: in Pasto, Colombia, the Galeras volcano erupted.
• 2013: In Savar, near Daca (Banglades), there is a collapse of a building, killing 1127 people and wounding another 2500.
• 2017: In Valparaiso (Chile) an earthquake of magnitude 6.9 occurs in the seismic scale of magnitude of the moment.
• 2018: Lionel Messi becomes the first footballer to exceed 100 million euros of profit per year
• 2021: The so-called "Josh's Fight" that was a massive event called on the internet, through a Facebook Messenger chat.

Births

• 1086: Ramiro II the Monk, king of Aragones (f. 1157).
• 1532: Thomas Lucy, an English missionary (f. 1600).
• 1533: William of Orange, German aristocrat (f. 1584).
• 1538: Guillermo Gonzaga de Mantua, an Italian aristocrat (f. 1587).
• 1575: Jakob Böhme, German philosopher (f. 1624).
• 1581: Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (f. 1660).
• 1616: Gustavo Gustavsson of Vasaborg, aristocrat Swedish (f. 1653).
• 1620: John Graunt, English statesman (f. 1674).
• 1633: Paolo Silvio Boccone, Italian botanist (f. 1704).
• 1660: Cornelis Dusart, a Dutch painter (f. 1704).
• 1669: Joseph of Peralta Barnuevo, Peruvian bishop (n. 1746).
• 1678: Francisco del Rallo Calderón, Spanish aristocrat.
• 1706: Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (f. 1780).
• 1719: Giuseppe Baretti, Italian writer (f. 1789).
• 1742: Roman Hoffstetter, German composer (f. 1815).
• 1743: Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (f. 1823).
• 1743: Bartolome María de las Heras, a Spanish priest (f. 1823).
• 1767: José Imaz Baquedano, economist and Spanish politician (f. 1834).
• 1774: Jean Itard, a French doctor-pedagogue (f. 1838).
• 1777: Mary Clementine of Austria, Austrian aristocrat (f. 1801).
• 1783: Gregorio Cordovez, a Chilean politician (f. 1843).

Mateo Orfila.

• 1787: Mateo Orfila, Spanish scientist (f. 1853).
• 1788: Francisco Abad Moreno, Spanish guerrilla (f. 1827).
• 1788: Carl Mayer von Rothschild, German banker (f. 1855).
• 1796: Karl Leberecht Immermann, German writer (f. 1840).
• 1800: Georg Hellmesberger, Austrian composer and violinist (f. 1873).
• 1800: Heinrich Wydler, Swiss botanist (f. 1883).
• 1815: Vicente Fidel López, Argentine writer (f. 1903).
• 1815: Anthony Trollope, British writer (f. 1882).
• 1818: Juan Esteban Rodríguez Segura, Chilean politician (f. 1901).
• 1820: Celso Golmayo Zúpide, a Spanish chess player (f. 1898).
• 1823: Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican president (f. 1889).
• 1825: Robert Michael Ballantyne, British writer (f. 1894).
• 1829: José Antonio Barrenechea and Morales, Peruvian jurist (f. 1889).
• 1830: Eugenia of Sweden, Swedish aristocrat (f. 1889).
• 1831: George Strong Nares, British naval officer and explorer (f. 1915).
• 1841: Charles Sprague Sargent, American botanist (f. 1927).
• 1842: Marcos Zapata Mañas, playwright and Spanish poet (f. 1913).
• 1845: Carl Spitteler, Swiss writer, Nobel Literature Prize in 1919 (f. 1924).
• 1846: Marcus Clarke, Australian writer (f. 1881).
• 1849: Joseph Gallieni, French military (f. 1916).
• 1853: Isaac Newell, founder of the Newell's Old Boys football club (f. 1907).

Philippe Pétain.

• 1856: Philippe Pétain, French military and political (f. 1951).
• 1859: Fidel García Berlanga, a Spanish lawyer and politician (f. 1914).
• 1859: Manuel Moncloa and Covarrubias, a Peruvian writer (f. 1911).
• 1860: Juan Antonio Bibiloni, Argentine lawyer and politician (f. 1933).
• 1862: A. C. Benson, essayist and British poet (f. 1925).
• 1862: Cyril Maude, British actor (f. 1951).
• 1862: Tomitarō Makino, Japanese botanist (f. 1957).
• 1870: Joan Rubió, Spanish architect (f. 1952).
• 1871: José Franchy and Roca, Spanish politician (f. 1944).
• 1871: Enrique Hermitte, Argentine engineer (f. 1955).

Blanche Ring.

• 1871: Blanche Ring, American singer (f. 1961).
• 1873: André Bauchant, a French painter (f. 1958).
• 1873: Robert Wiene, German filmmaker (f. 1938).
• 1876: Hutin Britton, British actress (f. 1965).
• 1876: Erich Raeder, German admiral (f. 1960).
• 1877: José Ingenieros, Argentine philosopher (f. 1925).
• 1878: Fidel Dávila Arrondo, a Spanish military officer (f. 1962).
• 1878: Ioseb Iremashvili, a politician and a Soviet writer (f. 1944).
• 1880: Fidel Fuedio, Spanish archaeologist (f. 1936).
• 1880: Fidel García, Spanish bishop (f. 1973).
• 1880: Gideon Sundback, American engineer and magnate (f. 1954).
• 1882: Hugh Dowding, British military (f. 1970).
• 1885: Jean Prouvost, a French entrepreneur (f. 1978).
• 1886: Tokijiro Maekawa, Japanese botanist (f. 1977).
• 1887: Denys Finch Hatton, British hunter (f. 1931).

Augusto Aguirre Morales.

• 1888: Augusto Aguirre Morales, Peruvian poet (f. 1957).
• 1888: Manuel Velasco de Pando, Spanish engineer (f. 1956).
• 1889: Rafael Aizpun, a Spanish politician (cf. 1981).
• 1889: Stafford Cripps, British politician (f. 1952).
• 1889: Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (f. 1924).
• 1890: Arturo De Bassi, Argentinian musician (f. 1950).
• 1892: Jack Hulbert, British actor (f. 1978).
• 1894: Viktor Abakúmov, Soviet politician (f. 1954).
• 1894: Otto Froitzheim, German tennis player (f. 1964).
• 1895: Fernando González, Colombian writer and philosopher (f. 1964).
• 1897: Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican military and political president of Mexico between 1940 and 1946 (f. 1955).
• 1897: Michael Lippert, SS commander (f. 1969).
• 1897: Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist (f. 1941).
• 1899: Oscar Zariski, Polish-American mathematician (f. 1986).
• 1900: Elizabeth Goudge, British writer (f. 1984).
• 1900: Fidel Velázquez, Mexican politician (f. 1997).
• 1901: Luis Chávez and González, Salvadoran Catholic bishop (f. 1987).
• 1903: José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish politician (f. 1936).
• 1903: Juan Monjardín Callejón, Spanish footballer (f. 1950).
• 1904: Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (f. 1997).
• 1905: Arturo Pacheco Altamirano, Chilean painter (f. 1978).
• 1905: Helen Tamiris, American dancer and choreographer (f. 1966).

Robert Penn Warren.

• 1905: Robert Penn Warren, American writer and poet (f. 1989).
• 1906: William Joyce, a politician and a U.S. television producer (f. 1946).
• 1906: Vera Constantinovna of Russia, Russian princess (f. 2001).
• 1907: Rupert Cambridge, British aristocrat (f. 1928).
• 1907: Gabriel Figueroa, director of Mexican photography (f. 1997).

Marceline Day.

• 1908: Marceline Day, American actress (f. 2000).
• 1908: Vera Chaplina, a naturalist, screenwriter and writer of Soviet child literature (f. 1994).
• 1908: Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medalist (f. 1963).
• 1910: Pedro Ferreira, Uruguayan musician (f. 1980).
• 1910: Roberto García-Peña, journalist and Colombian lawyer (f. 1993).
• 1912: Miguel Ángel García-Lomas, politician and Spanish architect (f. 1976).
• 1912: Víctor Ruiz Iriarte, Spanish writer (f. 1982).
• 1913: Paul Esser, German actor (f. 1988).
• 1914: William Castle, American filmmaker (f. 1977).
• 1917: Ernesto de la Torre Villar, Mexican historian (f. 2009).
• 1918: Jorge Prat, Chilean politician (f. 1971).
• 1919: Glafcos Klerides, Cypriot politician, fourth president.
• 1919: Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst, German anti-Nazi military (f. 1993).
• 1920: Jacques Lancelot, French musician. (f. 2009)
• 1922: Blue Demon: Mexican professional fighter (f. 2000).
• 1923: Henri Ecochard, French military (f. 2020).
• 1924: Clement Freud, communicator and German-British politician (f. 2009).
• 1924: Nahuel Moreno, an Argentine politician (f. 1987).
• 1924: Isadore Singer, American mathematician.
• 1925: Virginia Huston, American actress (f. 1981).
• 1926: Florinda Chico, Spanish actress (f. 2011).
• 1926: Thorbjörn Fälldin, Swedish politician, 272nd Prime Minister.
• 1926: Heriberto Herrera, footballer and Spanish-Paraguayan coach (f. 1996).
• 1927: Alfredo Morles Hernández, Venezuelan jurist.
• 1928: Johnny Griffin, American saxophoneist (f. 2008).
• 1928: Tavito Vásquez, Dominican saxophoneist (f. 1995).
• 1930: Henrique Canto e Castro, Portuguese actor (f. 2005).
• 1930: Maria da Conceição Tavares, Brazilian economist.

Richard Donner.

• 1930: Richard Donner, American filmmaker.
• 1930: José Sarney, a Brazilian politician and lawyer.
• 1931: Bridget Riley, English painter.
• 1932: Manuel Moreno Barranco, a Spanish writer (f. 1963).

Shirley MacLaine.

• 1934: Shirley MacLaine, American actress.
• 1935: Carlos Corach, Argentine politician.
• 1935: Julia von Grolman, an Argentine actress (f. 2013).
• 1936: Guillermo Escalada, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1936: Jill Ireland, British actress and writer (f. 1990).
• 1937: Joe Henderson, American saxophoneist (f. 2001).
• 1938: Ricardo Doménech, a Spanish writer (f. 2010).
• 1940: Bayan Northcott, British composer.
• 1940: Sue Grafton, American writer.
• 1940: Michael Parks, American singer.
• 1941: Barry Bridges, British footballer.
• 1941: Kenneth Hall, Jamaican politician.
• 1941: Richard Holbrooke, journalist, banker and U.S. diplomat (f. 2010).
• 1941: Javier Rupérez, Spanish politician.
• 1941: John Christopher Williams, Australian guitarist.
• 1942: Richard M. Daley, American politician.
• 1942: Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress and filmmaker.
• 1942: Silvia Federici, an Italian-American feminist activist and philosopher.
• 1943: Curtis Ebbesmeyer, American oceanographer.
• 1943: David Morrell, Canadian writer.
• 1945: Dick Rivers, French singer (f. 2019, same day).
• 1945: Doug Clifford, American musician.
• 1947: Josep Borrell, Spanish politician, president of the European Parliament.
• 1947: Roger D. Kornberg, American scientist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2006.
• 1948: Armando Calderón Sol, Salvadoran politician.
• 1948: Julia Costa, Spanish writer.
• 1949: Peter Friedman, American actor.
• 1950: Rafael González Córdova, Chilean footballer.
• 1950: Enrique Verástegui, writer, philosopher, physicist and Peruvian mathematician (f. 2018).
• 1951: Alejandro González Alcocer, Mexican politician.
• 1951: Enda Kenny, Irish politician.
• 1952: Jean-Paul Gaultier, a French fashion designer.
• 1953: Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer.
• 1954: Mumia Abu-Jamal, American political activist.
• 1955: Ernie Grunfeld, American basketball player.
• 1955: John de Mol, Dutch magante.
• 1955: Michael O'Keefe, American actor.
• 1957: Bamir Topi, Albanian biologist and politician.
• 1958: Luis Chero Zurita, Peruvian archaeologist.
• 1959: Alberto Carrasquilla, Colombian economist and politician.
• 1959: Arturo Tagle, Chilean businessman.
• 1961: Francisco Romero Fernández, Spanish writer.
• 1962: Stuart Pearce, British footballer and coach.
• 1963: Mano Solo, composer and French guitarist (f. 2010).
• 1964: Helga Arendt, German athlete (f. 2013).
• 1964: Ricardo Bussi, politician and Argentine lawyer.
• 1964: Cedric the Entertainer, American actor and comic.
• 1964: Djimon Hounsou, a nationalized American actor.
• 1964: Josep María Sala and Boix, Spanish footballer.
• 1964: Patricio Vallespín, Chilean politician.
• 1966: Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer. Dino Rađa, Croatian basketball player.
• 1968: Oliverio Rincón, is a Colombian rider who stood out during the 1990s.
• 1968: Miguel Ángel Gómez Campuzano, Spanish athlete (f. 1993).
• 1969: Melinda Clarke, American actress.

Alejandro Fernández.

• 1971: Alejandro Fernández, Mexican singer and actor.
• 1972: Chipper Jones, American baseball player.
• 1973: Damon Lindelof, American screenwriter.
• 1973: Eric Snow, American basketball player.
• 1973: Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricket player.
• 1973: Carlos Viver, Spanish basketball player.
• 1974: Joseph Bruce, American rapper, of the Insane Clown Posse band.
• 1974: Eric Kripke, American filmmaker.
• 1974: Derek Luke, American actor.
• 1974: Barry Stock, Canadian guitarist, Three Days Grace band.
• 1974: Stephen Wiltshire, British illustrator.
• 1975: Sebastian Bieniek, German painter and filmmaker.
• 1975: Samia Doumit, American actress.
• 1975: Thad Luckinbill, American actor.
• 1976: Steve Finnan, Irish footballer.
• 1976: Juanma Gárate, Spanish cyclist.
• 1977: Diego Placente, Argentine soccer player.

Eric Balfour.

• 1977: Eric Balfour, American actor.
• 1980: Kimberley Cooper, Australian actress.
• 1980: Reagan Gomez-Preston, American actress.
• 1980: Alejandro Sánchez Pereira, Uruguayan politician.
• 1980: Jaime Melo Jr., Brazilian motor racing driver.
• 1980: Luis Eduardo Zapata, Colombian footballer.
• 1980: Danny Gokey, American singer.
• 1981: Andrija Delibašić, a Montenegrin footballer.
• 1981: Taylor Dent, American tennis player.

Kelly Clarkson.

• 1982: Kelly Clarkson, American singer.
• 1983: Javier Jattin, is a Colombian television model and actor.
• 1984: Jérémy Berthod, French footballer.
• 1984: Rafael Robayo, Colombian footballer.
• 1985: Joséphine Jobert, French actress and singer
• 1986: Kellin Quinn, American singer.
• 1986: Eva Marree Kullander Smith, prostitute and sex worker rights activist.
• 1987: Serdar Taşçı, German footballer.
• 1988: Stefan Marković, Serbian basketball player.
• 1992: Doc Shaw, American actor.
• 1997: Erik Palmer-Brown, American footballer.
• 2002: Skylar Stecker, American singer and actress.
• 2002: Exequiel Zeballos, Argentine soccer player.

Deaths

• 624: Melito de Canterbury, English Archbishop (n. s. VI).
• 1313: Alfonso Dionisio, Portuguese aristocrat (n. 1260?).
• 1338: Theodore I of Montferrato, an Italian aristocrat (n. 1291).

Jorge Manrique.

• 1479: Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (n. 1440).
• 1521: Juan Bravo, Juan de Padilla and Francisco Maldonado, chief comuneros in the War of the Communities of Castile.
• 1599: Diego Aponte Quiñones, Spanish bishop.
• 1617: Concino Concini, Marshal of Ancre (n. 1575).
• 1622: Fidel of Sigmaringa, friar and holy German (n. 1577).
• 1633: Sigrid Eriksdotter, Swedish princess (n. 1566).
• 1642: Bartolomeu Guerreiro, religious and Portuguese writer (n. 1564).
• 1658: Francesco Maria Richini, Italian architect (n. 1584).
• 1671: François Vatel, Swiss cook (n. 1631).
• 1678: Louis VI, aristocrat and German landgrave (n. 1630).
• 1710: Manuel de Oms y de Santa Pau, virrey española en Perú (n. 1651).

Daniel Defoe

• 1731: Daniel Defoe, British writer and journalist (n. 1660).
• 1737: Rafael de Eslava, a Spanish military officer (n. 1688).
• 1803: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, a French painter (n. 1749).
• 1806: José Solano and Bote, a Spanish military officer (n. 1726).
• 1816: Federico Carlos de Schleswig, German aristocrat (n. 1757).
• 1821: Athanasios Diakos, Greek religious and military (n. 1788).
• 1824: Auguste Marie Taunay, French sculptor (n. 1768).
• 1827: Israel Pickens, American politician (n. 1780).
• 1836: Firmín Didot, French printer (n. 1764).
• 1852: Leopoldo I of Baden, German aristocrat (n. 1790).

Vasili Zhukovski

• 1852: Vasili Zhukovski, Russian writer (n. 1783).
• 1864: Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, Dutch botanist (n. 1809).
• 1865: Nicholas Aleksándrovich of Russia, Zarevich Russian (n. 1843).
• 1873: Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, mariscal Prussian (n. 1797).
• 1874: Octave Tassaert, French engraver (n. 1800).
• 1878: Giovanni Zanardini, Italian doctor (n. 1804).
• 1880: Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Peruvian military (n. 1838).
• 1881: Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst, German botanist (n. 1806).
• 1882: Daniel Rapin, Swiss botanist and pharmacist (n. 1799).
• 1883: Jules Sandeau, French writer (n. 1811).

Marie Taglioni

• 1884: Marie Taglioni, Swedish dancer (n. 1804).
• 1885: Nísia Floresta, a Brazilian writer (n. 1810).
• 1891: Helmuth von Moltke, German Marshal (n. 1800).
• 1901: Arvid Posse, Swedish politician (n. 1820).
• 1905: Eduard Pospichal, Austrian botanist (n. 1838).
• 1910: José María Sbarbi and Osuna, religious, philologist and Spanish musicologist (n. 1834).
• 1914: Benito Menni, Italian priest (n. 1841).
• 1917: Florentino Ballesteros, Spanish bullfighter (n. 1893).
• 1917: Abel Botelho, Portuguese politician (n. 1855).
• 1917: István Tömörkény, Hungarian writer and archaeologist (n. 1866).
• 1918: José María Menéndez Menéndez, a Spanish entrepreneur (n. 1846).
• 1921: Olga Fédchenko, Russian botanist (n. 1845).
• 1924: Stanley Hall, American psychologist (n. 1844).
• 1924: Guillermo Ernesto de Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, German aristocrat (n. 1876).
• 1926: Sunjong, Korean emperor (n. 1874).
• 1927: Carl H. Eigenmann, American ictologist (n. 1863).
• 1929: Barnabas McDonald, American philanthropist (n. 1865).
• 1930: Henry Dudeney, British mathematician (n. 1857).
• 1933: Felix Adler, German intellectual (n. 1851).
• 1933: Felix Lorenzo, a Spanish publisher (n. 1879).
• 1934: Emile Chautard, French filmmaker (n. 1864).
• 1936: Manuel Bertrés, Argentine jurist.
• 1939: Harald Scavenius, a Danish politician (n. 1873).
• 1939: Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (n. 1881).
• 1941: Karin Boye, Swedish writer (n. 1900).
• 1941: José del Carmen Sánchez Magallanes, a Mexican revolutionary (n. 1891).
• 1942: Louis Bernacchi, Belgian astronomer (n. 1876).
• 1942: Camille du Gast, French pioneer (n. 1868).
• 1942: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (n. 1874).
• 1942: Charles Seignobos, French historian (n. 1854).
• 1945: Anton de Kom, a Surinamese soldier and activist (n. 1898).
• 1945: Günther Lützow, German military (n. 1912).
• 1947: Willa Cather, American writer (n. 1873).
• 1948: Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar, Mexican composer (n. 1882).
• 1948: Lionel Edwards Atherton, Chilean politician (n. 1888).
• 1952: Hendrik Anthony Kramers, Dutch physicist (n. 1894).
• 1955: Walter Allward, Canadian sculptor (n. 1876).
• 1957: Andries Cornelis Dirk de Graeff, a Dutch politician (n. 1872).
• 1958: Richard Goldschmidt, German geneticist (n. 1878).
• 1960: Andrés Chazarreta, Argentine composer (n. 1876).
• 1960: Max von Laue, German physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1914 (n. 1879).
• 1961: Rosario Bourdon, director of orchestra and Canadian chelist (n. 1885).
• 1962: Milt Franklyn, American composer (n. 1897).
• 1963: Manuel Bartlett Bautista, Mexican politician (n. 1893).
• 1964: Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and virologist (n. 1895).
• 1966: George Ohsawa, Japanese philosopher (n. 1893).
• 1966: Emilio Prados, Spanish poet (n. 1899).
• 1967: Jacques Brunius, French actor (n. 1906).
• 1967: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov, Soviet engineer and astronaut (n. 1927).
• 1967: Enrico Dante, Italian cardinal (n. 1884).
• 1968: John Tewksbury, American athlete (n. 1876).
• 1970: Cassiano Branco, Portuguese architect (n. 1897).
• 1970: Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (n. 1930).
• 1974: Bud Abbott, American actor (n. 1895).
• 1974: Franz Jonas, Australian politician (n. 1899).
• 1976: Mark Tobey, American painter (n. 1890).
• 1979: John Carroll, American actor (n. 1906).
• 1979: Juvenal Hernández Jaque, a Chilean professor and lawyer (n. 1899).

Alejo Carpentier

• 1980: Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer and musicologist (n. 1904).
• 1981: Pat Conway, Canadian actor (n. 1931).
• 1981: Margaret of Greece and Denmark, Greek princess (n. 1905).
• 1982: Ville Ritola, a Finnish athlete (n. 1896).
• 1983: Jimmy Mundy, American jazz composer (n. 1907).
• 1983: Rolf Stommelen, German racing pilot (n. 1943).
• 1983: Ivan Yampolski, Soviet military (n. 1925).
• 1984: Rafael Pérez and Pérez, a Spanish writer (n. 1891).
• 1986: Antonio Rosón, Spanish politician (n. 1911).
• 1986: Wallis Simpson, American aristocrat (n. 1896).
• 1989: Clyde Geronimi, American director of animation cinema (n. 1901).

Oliver Tambo

• 1993: Oliver Tambo, a South African politician (n. 1917).
• 1997: Allan Francovich, American filmmaker (n. 1941).
• 1997: Eugene Stoner, American engineer (n. 1922).
• 1998: Yákov Malkiel, American historian (n. 1914).
• 2003: Belus Smawley, basketball player and American coach (n. 1918).
• 2004: José Giovanni, Franco-Swiss filmmaker (n. 1923).
• 2004: Estée Lauder, American businessman (n. 1906).
• 2005: Carlos Moyano Llerena, Argentine lawyer and economist (n. 1914).
• 2005: Ezer Weizman, an Israeli politician (n. 1924).
• 2007: Alan Ball, British footballer (n. 1945).
• 2008: Tristram Cary, British composer (n. 1925).
• 2008: Jimmy Giuffre, American saxophoneist (n. 1921).
• 2009: Mario Moreno, Peruvian cartoonist (n. 1944).
• 2009: Sixto Palavecino, Argentine musician and violinist (n. 1915).
• 2009: Kurt Sametreiter, German military (n. 1922).
• 2010: Pierre Hadot, a French philosopher (n. 1922).
• 2010: Paul Schäfer, a Nazi criminal and a German-born Chilean pedophile (n. 1921).
• 2011: Aitzol Aramaio, Basque filmmaker (n. 1971).
• 2011: Marie-France Pisier, French actress (n. 1944).
• 2013: Juan José Manauta, Argentine writer (n. 1919).
• 2014: Hans Hollein, Austrian architect (n. 1934).
• 2015: Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish historian, journalist and politician.
• 2016: Pope Wemba, Congolese singer (n. 1949)
• 2017: Agustín Edwards Eastman, Chilean businessman.
• 2019: Dick Rivers, French singer (n. 1945, same day)
• 2019: Conrado San Martín, Spanish actor (n. 1921).
• 2021: Christa Ludwig, German opera and lied interpreter (n. 1928).

Celebrations

• International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace
• World Meningitis Day
• ArmeniaArmenia. International Day of Solidarity in Commemoration of the Genocide of the Armenian People.
• SpainSpain. Alcoy, Alicante: Day of Thunder (Día dels Trons); representation of the taking of the city by the Moorish troops and the subsequent Christian reconquest and last day of the feasts in honor of St.
• Argentina. Day of Action for Tolerance and Respect among Peoples.

Catholic saints list

• San Alejandro de Lyon
• San Benito Menni,
• Santa Bova
• San Deodato de Blois
• San Dova
• San Egberto
• San Fidel de Sigmaringa,
• San Gregorio de Elvira
• San Guillermo Firmato
• San Ivo de Ramsey
• Virgin of the Good Air
• Santa Maria de Santa Eufrasia Pelletier
• Santa Maria de Cleofás
• San Melito de Canterbury
• Holy Brother Pedro de San José Betancur (liturgically celebrated on 25 April, but usually moved to the previous day)
• Santa Salome
• San Wilfredo of York.
• Blessed Maria Elisabet Hesselbald.