April 1
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April 1 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 273 days remaining after April 1 until the end of the year.
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[change] Births
- 1578 – William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
- 1732 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
- 1755 – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French writer, philosopher and gastronome (d. 1826)
- 1776 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831)
- 1815 – Otto von Bismarck, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1898)
- 1815 – Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
- 1834 – James Fisk, entrepreneur (d. 1872)
- 1865 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
- 1866 – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924)
- 1873 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
- 1875 – Edgar Wallace, writer (d. 1932)
- 1883 – Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (d. 1930)
- 1885 – Wallace Beery, actor (d. 1949)
- 1895 – Alberta Hunter, singer (d. 1984)
- 1899 – Gustavs Celmins, politician (d. 1968)
- 1901 – Whittaker Chambers, Hiss case witness (d. 1961)
- 1906 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989)
- 1908 – Abraham Maslow, psychologist (d. 1970)
- 1914 – Jerome L. Walton. author
- 1915 – Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004)
- 1919 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon
- 1920 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
- 1922 – William Manchester, writer (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Brendan Byrne, governor of New Jersey
- 1926 – Charles Bressler, American tenor
- 1926 – Anne McCaffrey, American author
- 1929 – Jane Powell, dancer, actress, singer
- 1929 – Milan Kundera, Czech writer
- 1929 – Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006)
- 1930 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress
- 1931 – Rolf Hochhuth, German writer
- 1932 – Gordon Jump, American television actor (d. 2003)
- 1932 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress
- 1933 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist
- 1934 – Rod Kanehl, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
- 1934 – Jim Ed Brown, American country music singer
- 1934 – Don Hastings, American actor
- 1935 – Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983)
- 1938 – Ali MacGraw, American actress
- 1939 – Phil Niekro, American baseball pitcher
- 1940 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist (d. 2011)
- 1942 – Samuel R. Delany, science fiction author
- 1942 – Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey
- 1943 – Mario Botta, Swiss architect
- 1946 – Ronnie Lane, British musician (The Small Faces, The Faces) (d. 1997)
- 1946 – Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football manager
- 1947 – Alain Connes, French mathematician
- 1948 – Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician
- 1949 – Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer (d. 2011)
- 1950 – Samuel Alito, American jurist
- 1952 – Annette O'Toole, American actress
- 1953 – Barry Sonnenfeld, producer, director
- 1954 – Giancarlo Antognoni, Italian footballer
- 1954 – Jeff Porcaro, American musician (d. 1992)
- 1955 – Ronnie Burk, artist and AIDS activist (d. 2003)
- 1956 – Libby Riddles, American dogsled racer
- 1961 – Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
- 1965 – Mark Jackson, basketball player
- 1970 – Sung Hi Lee, model
- 1971 – Method Man, musician
- 1972 – Allen and Albert Hughes, American film directors
- 1976 – Gabor Kiraly, Hungarian footballer
- 1976 – David Oyelowo, British actor
- 1976 – Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer
- 1978 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (d. 2009)
- 1978 – Mirka Federer, Swiss tennis player
- 1980 – Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
- 1981 – Hannah Spearritt, British actress and singer (S Club 7)
- 1982 – Robert Vittek, Slovakian footballer
- 1983 – Amr Zaki, Egyptian footballer
- 1983 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer
- 1986 – Haminu Dramani, Ghanaian footballer
- 1987 – Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
- 1988 – Fatmire Bajramaj, German footballer
[change] Deaths
- 1085 – Emperor Shenzhong of China (b. 1048)
- 1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757)
- 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868)
- 1922 – Emperor Karl I of Austria (b. 1887)
- 1947 – King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
- 1968 – Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist (b. 1908)
- 1976 – Max Ernst, German painter (b. 1891)
- 1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
- 1990 – Carlos Peucelle, Argentine footballer (b. 1908)
- 1991 – Martha Graham, American choreographer (b. 1894)
- 1991 – Detlev Rohwedder, German manager and politician (b. 1932)
- 1998 – Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2004 – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)
- 2010 – John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
[change] Events
- 1318 – Scotland takes control of Berwick-upon-Tweed from England.
- 1789 – Frederick Muhlenberg is elected as the first speaker of the US House of Representatives.
- 1867 – Singapore becomes a British Crown Colony.
- 1873 – The RMS Atlantic sinks near Nova Scotia, killing 545 people.
- 1891 – The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago.
- 1918 – The Royal Air Force is founded.
- 1936 – Orissa becomes a State of India.
- 1937 – Aden becomes a British Crown Colony.
- 1939 – The Spanish Civil War ends, as the last Republicans surrender.
- 1946 – An Earthquake in Alaska leads to a Tsunami which destroys the town of Hilo, Hawaii.
- 1948 – The Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
- 1949 – The Irish Free State becomes the Republic of Ireland.
- 1957 – The BBC current affairs programme Panorama plays an April Fools' joke, about a Spaghetti harvest in Switzerland.
- 1976 – Apple Inc. is founded.
- 1979 – The Islamic Republic of Iran is founded.
- 1999 – Nunavut becomes a territory of Canada, after being part of the Northwest Territories.
- 2001 – Slobodan Milosevic is arrested, to be placed on trial for war crimes.
- 2001 – Same-sex marriage is legalised in the Netherlands, the first country to do so.
- 2009 – Albania and Croatia join NATO.
- 2009 – Protests occur at the G-20 summit in London.
[change] Observances
- April Fools' Day
- Islamic Republic Day in Iran
- Odisha Day in Orissa, India
