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- B040119-- Heather Young, Bremerton Wash, actress (Betty-Land of Giants) [1945]\-
- B04011905 Mother Clara Hale, founder (Hale House)
- B04011926 Lyndon Brook, actor
- B04011939 Rudolph Isley, singer (Isley Brothers-Shout)\=
- B04011945 Heather Young, Bremerton Wash, actress (Betty-Land of Giants)\=
- B04011946 Ronnie "Plonk" Lane, rock bassist (Small Faces-Hey Girl)\=
- B04011946 John Barbata, drummer (Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor)
- B04011952 Billy Currie, rock keyboardist/violinist (Ultravox-We Came to Dance)\=
- B04011954 Jeff Porcaro, drummer/percussionist (Toto-Roxanne, Africa)
- B04021915 Antony Dornhorst, professor of medicine
- B04021919 Sir Ian Hunter, impresario
- B04021923 Sir Hugh Overton, British diplomat
- B04021924 Sir Denis Rooke, CEO (British Gas)
- B04021925 George MacDonald Fraser, poet/author (Flashman at the Charge)
- B04021926 Michael Rizzello, sculpter/coin designer
- B04021929 Catherine Gaskin, romantic novelist (Fiona, Coporation Wife)
- B04021934 Brian Glover, actor (McGuffin)
- B04021934 Sir Peter Middleton, British permanent secretary (Treasury)
- B04021934 Christopher France, British permanent secretary (Dept of Health)
- B04021936 Jack Brabham, race car driver
- B04021940 Penelope Keith, British actress (Norman Conquests, Priest of Love)
- B04021942 Graham Bright, private sec to British PM
- B04021945 Don Sutton, baseball pitcher (LA Dodgers)
- B04021945 Lord Skelmersdale, British minister (C)
- B04021946 Kurt Winter, rocker (The Guess Who)
- B04021947 Larry Coryell, jazz guitarist
- B04021949 Paul Gambaccini, British disc jockey
- B04021960 Linford Christie, athlete
- B04021963 Dermot Reeve, British cricketeer
- B04031925 Tony Benn, British minister of technology (1968)
- B04031930 Helmut Kohl, chancellor (Germany)
- B04031937 Simon Brown, British high court judge
- B04031938 Phillppe Wynn, rocker (Spinners)
- B04031941 Jan Berry, singer (Jan & Dean-Deadman's Curve)\=
- B04031944 Tony Orlando, NYC, singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon)\=
- B04031944 Richard Manuel, rocker (Band-Cripple Creek)
- B04031945 Richard Manuel, pianist/vocalist (Up on Cripple Creek)
- B04031945 Catherine Spaak, France, actress (Empty Canvas, Hotel)
- B04031946 Carlos Salinas de Gortari, president (México)
- B04031949 Lyle Alzado, NFLer (LA Raiders)/actor\=
- B04031951 Mel Schacher, bassist (Grand Funk Railroad-Some Kind of Wonderful)
- B04031956 Miguel Bose, Panama, spanish singer
- B04031962 John Gruffith, rocker (Red Rockers)
- B04041648 Grinling Gibbons, sculptor/woodcarver
- B04041752 Nicolo Antonio Zingarelli, composer (Andromeda)
- B04041758 John Hoppner, portrait painter
- B04041828 Margaret Oliphant, Scotland, novelist/biographer\=
- B04041832 Jose Echegaray y Elizaguirre, playwright/writer/scientist
- B04041843 Hans Richter, conductor
- B04041899 [Edward Kennedy] Duke Ellington, Wash DC (or 4/29)
- B04041914 Sir John Beith, British diplomat
- B04041915 Muddy Waters, [McKinley Morganfield], guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man)\=
- B04041918 Earl Jellicoe, chancellor (U of Southhampton)
- B04041918 Margaret Dupont, tennis champion
- B04041924 Peter Vaughan, actor (Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling)
- B04041928 Monty Norman, composer/writer
- B04041928 Jimmy Logan, British comedian
- B04041930 David Sexton, soccer manager
- B04041935 Lord Ichayra, secretary-general (British Banking Assn)
- B04041935 Trevor Griffiths, playwright (Absolute Beginners)
- B04041937 Ian St James, novelist
- B04041938 Peter Attenborough, British headmaster (Charterhouse)
- B04041943 Ian Robertson, British museum director (National Army Museum)
- B04041944 David Melville, professor/director (Middlesex Polytechnic)
- B04041952 Dave Hill, rock guitarist (Slade-Coz I Love You)
- B04041957 Paul Downton, British cricketeer
- B04041958 Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, painter
- B04041960 Jonathan Agnew, British broadcaster/test bowler
- B04041964 Paul Parker, soccer player
- B04051732 Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter
- B04051752 Sébastien Erard, piano/harp manufacturer
- B04051784 Ludwig Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)\=
- B04051795 Sir Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39)
- B04051811 Jules Dupré, landscape painter
- B04051824 Sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (The Roman)
- B04051832 Jules-François Camille Ferry, French statesman
- B04051899 Willianm Hornby Steer, barrister/judge
- B040519-- Willy Chirino, spanish singer
- B04051909 Alberto Romero "Cubby" Broccoli, film producer
- B04051919 Sir Douglas Henley, British auditor-general
- B04051921 Lady Fisher, founder (British Women Caring Trust)
- B04051922 Tom Finney, British soccer star
- B04051923 Stanley Orme, chairman (British Labour Party)
- B04051928 Michael Bryant, actor (Sakharov, Girly)
- B04051928 Will Gaines, jazz dancer
- B04051929 Nigel Hawthorne, actor (Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II)
- B04051934 Stanley Turrentine, saxophonist
- B04051935 Donald Lynden-Bell, British astronomer
- B04051936 John Albert, professor (Master of University College Oxford)
- B04051939 Lonnie White, vocalist (Smokey Robinson & Miracles-Shop Around)
- B04051941 David LaFlamme, electric violinist (It's a Beautiful Day)
- B04051942 Allan Clarke, rock vocalist (Hollies-The Air That I Breathe)
- B04051946 Jennifer Penney, ballerina
- B04051951 Everett Morton, rocker (English Beat)
- B04051955 Janice Long, British radio host\=
- B04061830 James Augustine Healy, Macon Ga, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop\=
- B04061929 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster
- B04061944 John Stax, rocker (Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down)
- B04061947 Tony Cooner, drummer (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
- B04061951 Ralph Cooper, drummer (Air Supply-All Out of Love)
- B04061962 Stan Cullimore, bassist (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)\=
- B040719-- Elaine Mille, actress (Marilyn-Northern Exposure)
- B04071915 Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Business)\=
- B04071943 Spencer Dryden, rocker (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
- B04071943 Mick Abrahams, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
- B04071946 Bill Kreutzmann, drummer (Grateful Dead-Touch of Grey)
- B04071949 John Oates, rocker (Hall & Oates-Your Kiss is on My List)\-
- B04071952 Bruce Gary, drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
- B04071960 Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)\=
- B04081533 Claudio Merulo, organist/composer
- B04081631 Coirnelis de Heem, painter
- B04081783 John Claudius, London England, horticulturist
- B04081798 Dionysios Solomos, poet
- B04081816 Frederick William Burton, painter
- B04081843 Asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer
- B04081850 William Henry Welch, pathologist
- B04081880 Victor Schertzinger, coposer/director (Uptown NY)
- B04081887 Walter Connolly, actor (Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl)
- B04081893 Mary Pickford, [Gladsys Smith], actress (Poor Little Rich Girl)\=
- B04081898 E Y "Yip" Harburg, [Isidore Hochberg], lyricist/librettist
- B04081908 Neil Lawson, British high court judge
- B04081912 Sonja Henie, Oslo Norway, ice skater/actress (Olympic-gold-1928,32,36)\=
- B04081930 Mary Moore, principal (St Hilda's College, Oxford)
- B04081943 J P Kavanaugh, racehorse trainer
- B04081943 Tony Banks, English politician (Lab)
- B04081944 Anthony Farrar Hockley, military historian
- B04081944 Roger Chapman, vocalist (Family-Family Entertainment)
- B04081947 Steve Howe, Yes, he plays guitar (Asia, Yes-Roundabout)\=
- B04081951 Mel Schachter, rocker (Grand Funk Railroad)
- B04081952 Adam Woods, rocker (The Fixx)
- B04081963 Julian Lennon, John's son/singer (Too Late for Goodbyes)\=
- B04091649 James Scott Duke, of Monmouth
- B04091794 Theobald Böhm, flautist/composer
- B04091798 Giuditta Pasta, [Negri], soprano
- B04091802 Elias Lönrot, folklorist
- B04091821 Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, France, symbolist poet (Flowers of Evil)\=
- B04091835 Leopold II, king (Belgium)
- B04091847 Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer
- B04091861 Charles Holroyd, painter/etcher
- B04091872 Léon Blum, statesman
- B04091879 W C Fields, [Claude William Dukinfield], Phila (or 01291880)\=
- B04091879 Gerald Festus Kelly, artist
- B04091888 Sol Hurok, theatrical impresario
- B04091906 Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell, statesman
- B04091908 Victor Vasarely, painter (Op Art)
- B04091909 Domenico Enrici, Apostolic Nuncio
- B04091909 Robert Murray Halpmann, dancer
- B04091911 Lord Deramore, architect
- B04091914 Richard Young, CEO (Boosey & Hawkes)
- B04091917 Vincent O'Brien, racehorse trainer
- B04091920 Alex Moulton, bicycle designer
- B04091920 David Walker, Professor of Law (Glasgow University)
- B04091922 Michael Palliser, head of British diplomatic service
- B04091922 Gerald Moverley, Roman Catholic bishop (Hallam)
- B04091925 Tom Jackson, British union leader (Post Office)
- B04091925 Michael Richardson, vice chairman (N M Rotschild)
- B04091926 Graham Hills, principal (Strathclyde University, England)
- B04091926 Lord Fitt, MP (Belfast Ireland)
- B04091926 Michael Ogden, QC
- B04091928 Brian Cubbon, British senior civil servant
- B04091931 Martin Rogers, director (Farmington Institute for Christian Studies)
- B04091932 Peter Moores. director of Littlewoods
- B04091933 Richard Rose, Professor of Public Policy (Strathclyde University)
- B04091936 Michael Somare, British foreign affairs minister (Paupa & New Guinea)
- B04091937 Valerie Singleton, British broadcaster
- B04091941 Hannah Gordon, actress (Oh Alfie)
- B04091946 Alan Knott, cricketer
- B04091946 Philip Wright, rocker (Paper Lace)
- B04091946 Les Gray, vocalist (Mud-The Cat Crept In)
- B04091948 Chico Ryan, rocker (Sha Na Na)
- B04091954 Dennis Quaid, Houston TX, actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff)\=
- B04091957 Ednita Nazario, Ponce PR, spanish singer
- B04091957 Severlano Ballesteros, Spain, golfer (British Open 1979, 84, 88)\=
- B04091958 Tony Sibson, boxer
- B04101880 Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor)\=
- B041019-- Brian Setzer, rocker (Lobos-La Bamba, Stray Cats) [1960]\-
- B041019-- Olivia Brown, Frankfurt GFR, actor (Det Trudy Joplin-Miami Vice)\-
- B04101906 Kathleen Major, principal (St Hilda's College, England)
- B04101908 Aidan Crawley, CEO (London Weekend TV)
- B04101911 Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer
- B04101930 Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator (College of Justice, Scotland)
- B04101932 Adrian Henri, poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts)
- B04101933 Robert Rhodes James, historian
- B04101935 Patrick Garland, director (Doll House)
- B04101936 Robert Smith, rocker (Spinners)
- B04101937 Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer/jockey
- B04101940 Gloria Hunniford, British broadcaster
- B04101947 Bunny Waller, vocalist/percussionist (Bob Marley & Wailers)
- B04101948 Thomas Spencer, conservative MEP
- B04101952 Steven Seagal, actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill)
- B04101953 David Moorcroft, British athlete
- B04101960 Brian Setzer, rock guitarist (Lobos-La Bamba, Stray Cats-Sexy & 17)
- B04101969 William Jayne, actor (Mikey Randall-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
- B04101979 Keisha Knight Pullem, actress (The Cosby Show)\-
- B04111919 Hugh Carey, (Gov-D-NY)
- B04111948 Ellen Goodman, syndicated columnist
- B04121898 Sir Grantley H Adams, president of Barbados
- B04121951 Jackson Spires, rocker (Blackfoot)
- B04121954 Pat Travers
- B04121958 Will Sergeant, rock guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen-Killing Moon)
- B04121967 Mellow Man Ace, Cuba, spanish rapper
- B041319-- Ruben Rabassa, Havana Cuba, spanish personality
- B04131940 Lester Chambers, vocalist (Chamber Brothers-Time Has Come Today)
- B04131944 Brian Pendleton, rocker (The Pretty Things)
- B04131944 Jack Casady, bassist (Jefferson Airplane-Miracles, Hot Tuna)\=
- B04131945 Lowell George, rock vocalist/guitarist (Little Feat-Time is a Hero)
- B04131950 Riff West, rocker (Molly Hatchet)
- B04131954 Jimmy Destri, rocker (Blondie-Rapture)
- B04131955 Louis Johnson, rocker (Brothers Johnson)
- B04131992 Jet Travolta, daughter of John Travolta & Kelly Preston
- B04141902 Menachem A Schneerson, rebee (head of Lubavitcher Jews)
- B04141945 Ritchie Blackmore, Engld, guitarist (Rainbow-Stone Cold, Deep Purple)\=
- B04141946 Patrick Fairley, guitarist (Marmalade-Oh La Di Oh La Do)
- B04141948 Larry Ferguson, keyboardist (Hot Chocolate-You Sexy Thing)
- B041519-- Julie Sommers, Fremont Neb, actress (Governor & JJ, Herbie Goes to MC)\-
- B041519-- Peter Billingsley, TV personality (Real People) [1972]\-
- B04151933 Roy Clark, Meherrin Va, country singer (Hee Haw)
- B04151935 Roy Clark, Meherrin Va, country singer (Hee Haw)\-
- B0415194- Julie Sommars, Fremont Neb, actress (Governor & JJ, Herbie Goes to MC)
- B04151940 Phil Lesh, bassist (Grateful Dead-Truckin')
- B04151942 Allan Clarke, rocker (Hollies-The Air That I Breathe)\-
- B04151947 Wooly Wolstenholme, keyboardist/vocalist (Barclay James Harvest)
- B04151951 Hansel, Cuba, spanish personality
- B04151966 Graeme Clark, bassist (Wet Wet Wet-Angel Eyes)
- B04151982 Mark Pugh, rocker (Another Bad Creation)
- B04161939 Dusty Springfield, London England, rock vocalist (Growing Pains)\=
- B04161947 Gerry Rafferty, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)
- B04161955 Ellen Barkin, Bronx NY, actress (Big Easy, Sea of Love, Switch)\=
- B04171941 Bill Fury, vocalist/guitarist (When Will You Say I Love You)
- B04171949 John Oates, guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl)
- B04181941 Mike Vickers, guitarist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
- B04181946 Alexander "Skip" Spence, guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape-Omaha)
- B04191932 Jayne Mansfield, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Guide for the Married Man)\=
- B04191933 Jayne Mansfield, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Guide for the Married Man)\-
- B04191942 Alan Price, rock keyboardist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)\=
- B04201945 Jimmy Winston, organist (Samll Facres-Itchycoo Park)
- B04201948 Craig Frost, keyboardist (Grand Funk Railroad-Somew Kind of Wonderful)\=
- B04201951 Luther Vandross, rock vocalist (On the Wings of Love)\=
- B04211947 John Weider, bassist (Family-Family Entertainment)
- B04211948 Paul Davis, country/rock vocalist (I Go Crazy)
- B04211959 Robert Smith, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cure-Hell's Kitchen)\=
- B042219-- Lauri Hendler, actress (Julie-Gimme a Break)\-
- B04221950 Peter Frampton, rock guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive)\=
- B04221985 Lauri Hendler, Ft Belvoir Va, actress (Julie-Gimme a Break)\=
- B04231955 Captain Sensible, bassist (Damned-Happy Talk)
- B04231960 Steve Clark, rock guitarist (Def Leppard-Hysteria)\=
- B04241945 Doug Clifford, rock drummer (Credence Clearwater-Proud Mary)\=
- B04241947 Glenn Cornick, rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
- B04251945 Stu Cook, rock bassist (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
- B04251945 Bjorn Ulvaeus, rock vocalist/guitarist (ABBA-Waterloo, Dancing Queen)\=
- B04251949 Michael Brown, keyboardist (Left Bank-Don't Walk Away Renee)
- B04251958 Fish, rock vocalist (Marillon-Sugar Mice)
- B042619-- Heather Rattray, actress (Lily-As the World Turns)
- B04261904 William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist
- B04261960 Roger Taylor, rock drummer (Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)\=
- B04271883 Hubert Harrison, St Croix Virgin Island, writer/freedom fighter
- B042719-- Hayley Barr, actress (Courtney-As the World Turns)
- B04271947 Pete Ham, rock guitarist/pianist/vocalist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
- B04271948 Katie Pierson, vocals/guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love Shack)\=
- B04281950 Jay Leno, New Rochelle, comedian (Tonight Show host)\=
- B04281954 Ellen Barkin, Bronx NYC, actress (Sea of Love, Switch)\-
- B04281955 Eddie Jobson, rock violinist (Zappa, UK, Roxy Music-For Your Pleasure)\=
- B04291928 Carl Gardner, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin)
- B04291942 Klaus Voorman, rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Might Quinn)
- B04291949 Francis Rossi, guitarist/vocalist (Status Quo-Down Down)
- B04291968 Carnie Wilson, singer (Wilson Phillips)
- B04301915 Johnny Galecki, actor (Danny-American Dreamer)
- B09041904 Eli Prins, art historian
- D04011930 Zawditu, 1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies
- D04011950 Charles R Drew, surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, dies at 45
- D04011992 Juanito, soccer star (Madrid Real 1977-87), dies at 37 in car crash
- D04031946 Lt Gen Masaharu Homma, (responsible for Bataan Death March), executed\=
- D04031950 Carter G Woodson, "father of black history," dies in Wash DC at 74
- D04041284 Alfonso X, Spanish king (Castile & Leon), dies at 62\=
- D04041588 Frederick II, king of Denmark, dies
- D04041604 Thomas Churchyard, poet/pamphleteer, dies
- D04041807 Joseph Jérôme Le Francais de Lalande, astronomer, dies
- D04041817 André Masséna Duc de Rivoli, soldier, dies
- D04041817 Prince d'Essing, dies
- D04041919 William Crookes, phsicist/chemist, dies
- D04041929 Karl Freidrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies
- D04041931 Andre Michelin, CEO (Michelin Tires), dies
- D04041932 Wilhelm Ostwald, physical chemist, dies
- D04041939 Ghazi, King of Iraq, dies
- D04041953 King Carol II, (Romania), dies
- D04041972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr, (Rep-D-NY), dies at 63
- D04041991 Graham Green, english novelist, dies at 86
- D04051531 Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop\=
- D04051649 John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies
- D04051684 William Brouncker, 2nd viscout/1st pres of Royal Society, dies
- D04051765 Edward Young, poet, dies
- D04051794 Georges-Jaques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined
- D04051811 Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies
- D04051923 George Edward Stanhope Molyneúx Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, dies
- D04051928 Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archelogist, dies
- D04051946 Vincent Millie Youmans, composer, dies
- D04051964 Douglas MacArthur, US general (Pacific theater-WW II), dies at 84\=
- D04051975 Chai Kai-shek, leader (Taiwan), dies
- D04051984 Arthur Travors Harris, marshal of British RAF, dies
- D04051992 Sam Walton, Billionaire CEO (Walmart), dies of cancer at 74
- D04061992 Isaac Asimov, science fiction writer (I Robot), dies at 72
- D04061992 Molly Picon, yiddish actress (Milk & Honey) dies of Alzheimers at 94
- D04071934 William Monroe Trotter, dies at 62 in Boston
- D04071972 "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
- D0408 217 Caracalla, [Marcus Aureiius Antoniius], Roman emperor, dies
- D04081143 John II, Byzantine emperor, dies in an accident
- D04081794 Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicholas-Caritat, mathematician dies
- D04081897 Heinrich von Stephan, UK politician, dies
- D04081919 Baron Roland Eötvös, physicist, dies
- D04081931 Eric Axel Karlfeldt, poet, dies
- D04081935 Edwin Cannan, economist, dies
- D04081937 William Henry Hadow, author/musicologist, dies
- D04081941 Eugène-Marcel Prévost, novelist, dies
- D04081950 Vaslav Fromich Nijinsky, ballet dancer, dies in London\=
- D04091483 Edward IV, king of England, dies
- D04091492 Lorenzo de' Medici, Florentine statesman, dies
- D04091553 François Rabelais, author, dies
- D04091626 Francis Bacon, Viscount St Albans, statesman, dies
- D04091747 Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England\=
- D04091761 William Law, theologian, dies
- D04091804 Jacques Necker, fiancier/statesman
- D04091807 John Opie, infant prodigy/painter/illustrator, dies
- D04091850 William Prout, physician/chemist, dies
- D04091852 John Howard Payne, actor/playwright, dies
- D04091882 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet/pre-Raphaelite painter, dies
- D04091909 Charles Conder, artist, dies
- D04091917 Edward Thomas, poet, killed in WW I
- D04091940 Mrs Patrick Campbell, actress, dies
- D04091945 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian, dies
- D04091984 Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies
- D04101938 Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Afrianist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
- D04101958 W C Handy, composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY
- D04101992 Sam Kinison, loud mouth comedian, dies at 38 in a car crash
- D04121980 William R Tolbert Jr, Liberian President & 27 others killed in coup\=
- D04141915 James Hutton Brew, "Pioneer of West African Journalism," dies
- D04181976 Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78
- D04201900 Mebel Mercer, popular singer of England
- D04221950 Charles H Houston, architect of NAACP legal campaign, dies at 54
- D04221981 Brailsford Reese Brazeal (76), dean (Morehouse College), dies at 76
- D04231971 William Tubman, president of Liberia, dies
- D04271972 Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, dies at 62
- D04301828 Shaka, the great Zulu king, killed
- H0418 [Zimbabwe] Independence Day (1989)
- I0404 [Christian] Feast of St Benedict, the black\=
- I0404 [Christian] Feast of St Agathopus & Theodulus
- I0404 [Christian] Feast of St Plato & St Tigernach
- I0405 [Christian] Feast of St Ethelburga of Lyminge
- I0405 [Christian] Feast of St Albert of Montecorvino
- I0405 [Christian] Feast of St DerfelGadarn
- I0405 [Christian] Feast of St Gerard of Suave-Majeure
- I0408 [Christian] Feast of St Perpetuus of tours
- I0408 [Christian] Feast of St Dionysius of Corinth
- I0408 [Christian] Feast of St Walter of Pontoise\=
- I0409 [Christian] Feast of St Hugh of Rouen
- I0409 [Christian] Feast of St Gaucherius
- I0409 [Christian] Feast of St Mary Cleophas
- I0409 [Christian] Feast of St Uramar
- I0409 [Christian] Feast of St Waldetrudis of Waudru
- R0400 Flower-Sweet Pea & Daisy Gem-Diamond\=
- R0401 [US] Taxes in 2 weeks!
- R0401 1[US] National Library Week begins
- R0402 1[US] National Library Week begins
- R0403 1[US] National Library Week begins
- R0404 1[US] National Library Week begins
- R0405 1[US] National Library Week begins
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- R0407 1[US] National Library Week begins
- R0408 [US] Taxes in 1 week!
- R0414 [US] Taxes tomorrow!
- R0415 [US] Income Taxes are due today, keep IRS happy\=
- R0415 1[US] National Coin Week begins
- R0416 1[US] National Coin Week begins
- R0417 1[US] National Coin Week begins
- R0418 1[US] National Coin Week begins
- R0418 1National Secretary's Week begins [dup]\-
- R0419 1[US] National Secretary's Week begins [dup]\-
- R0419 1[US] National Coin Week begins
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- R0420 1[US] National Secretary's Week begins [dup]\-
- R0421 1[US] National Coin Week begins
- R0421 1[US] National Secretary's Week begins [dup]\-
- R0422 1[US] National Secretary's Week begins [dup]\-
- R0423 1[US] National Secretary's Week begins [dup]\-
- R0424 1[US] National Secretary's Week begins [dup]\-
- S04011867 Blacks vote in municipal election in Tuscumbia, Alabama
- S04011868 Hampton Institute opens
- S04011873 Steamer 'Atlantic' sank off Nova Scotia drowning 481
- S04011925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated [see May 9, 1925]\=
- S04011929 Morehouse College, Spelman College & Atlanta University affiliate
- S04011946 Tsunamis generated by a quake in Aleutian Trench strike Hilo Hawaii
- S04011961 Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
- S04011966 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
- S04011992 NFL decides to stay with 17 week sched instead of expanded 18 games
- S04021902 Country singer Wynonna Judd's 1st appearance as a single act
- S04021979 Israeli PM Menachem Begin visits Cairo Egypt
- S04021986 4 US passengers killed byy bomb at TWA counter Athens Airport Greece
- S04021992 "Hamlet" opens at Criterion Center on Broadway
- S04021992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
- S04031889 Savings Bank of the Order of True Reformers opens in Richmond, Va
- S04031933 Then longest North American hockey game requires a 1:44:46 overtime\=
- S04031933Cas Maple Leaf Ken Doraty scores to beat Canadiens 1-0
- S04031944 Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional
- S04031948 Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)\=
- S04031977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
- S04031982 Buffalo Sabre Gil Perrault scores his 1,000th NHL point
- S04031992 1st exhibition game at Camden Field-Orioles beat NY Mets
- S04041460 University of Basle in Swizerland forms
- S04041541 Ignatius of Loyola becomes 1st superior-general of the Jesuits
- S04041581 Frances Drake completres circumnavigation of the world
- S04041687 King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
- S04041862 Battle of Yorktown begins
- S04041905 Earthquake in Kangra India, kills 370,000
- S04041912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet
- S04041918 Battle of Somme, ends
- S04041929 "New Moon" musical opens in London
- S04041939 Faisal II ascends to throne of Iraq
- S04041944 British troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
- S04041971 Marine clay under houses liquifies, 31 die (St-Jean-Vianney Quebec)
- S04041975 C5A Galaxy on military charter crashes, taking 155 lives (Saigon)
- S04041975 USAF transport carrying orphans from Saigon crashes killing 155
- S04041979 Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago Ill
- S04041987 Dow Jones up 69.89 points, ending at record 2,390.34 pts
- S04041992 Game 1 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees beat NY Mets 6-4 at Yank Stad
- S04041992 Jury deliberations begin in the Noriega case
- S04051614 2nd parliment of King James I begin session (no enactments)\=
- S04051815 Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)
- S04051874 "Die Fledermaus" 1st performed (Vienna)
- S04051895 Writer Oscar Wylde is arrested
- S04051900 Attempted assassination of Prince of Wales in Brussels, fails
- S04051911 W W Aster acquires the Daily Observer
- S04051919 Polish Army executes 35 young Jews
- S04051919 Eamon de Valera becomes president of Dail Eireann
- S04051936 Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die
- S04051938 Anti-Jewish riots break out in Dabrowa Poland
- S04051945 Kuniaki Koiso resigns as PM of Japan; replaced by Kantaro Suzuki
- S04051949 60 year old St Anthony's Hospital burns, kills 77 (Effingham Ill)
- S04051959 Art Wall wins golf's Masters
- S04051964 1st driverless trains run on the London Underground
- S04051967 '76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds
- S04051971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily Italy
- S04051972 Baseball season is delayed due to a strike
- S04051976 Harold Wilson resigns as PM of England
- S04051982 Lord Carrington, British foreign sect resigns due to Falkland Is war
- S04051984Cscoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)\=
- S04051986 US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing
- S04051987 Fox TV network premiers showing Married With Children & Tracey Ullman
- S04051992 Comedian Sam Kenison marries live-in girlfriend Maleeka
- S04051992 Wrestlemania VIII-Randy "Macho Man" Savage beats Ric Flair for title
- S04051992 Game 2 of Mayor Challenge - NY Yankees sweep NY Mets 6-5 at Shea
- S04061848 Jews of Prussia granted equality
- S04061909 Matthew Henson, explorer, leads a party of 6 to North Pole
- S04061931 1st Scottsboro (Ala) trial begins - 9 blacks accused of rape
- S04061936 Tornado, kills 203 & injuring 1,800 in Gainesville Georgia
- S04061968 Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va)
- S04061992 Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage stamps
- S04061992 1st game at Camden Field, Balt-Orioles beat Indians 2-0
- S04061992 Britain Radio Authority licenses Virgin & TV-AM radio licenses
- S04071712 Slave revolt (NYC)
- S04071926 Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo Calif)
- S04081838 Steamship "Great Western" maiden voyage (Bristol England to NYC)
- S04081904 Entente Cordiale signed by France & England
- S04081908 Herbert Henry Asquith becomes PM of England\=
- S04081912 Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200
- S04081914 US & Columbia sign a treaty concerning the Panama Canal Zone
- S04081931 "White Horse Inn" opens in London
- S04081943 Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya convicted of involvement with Mau Mau
- S04081961 British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
- S04081966 AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner
- S04081992 After 151 years Britain's "Punch Magazine" final issue
- S04081992 "Five Guys Named Moe" opens at Eugene O'Neill theater on Broadway
- S04091241 Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
- S04091770 Capt James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
- S04091816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes (Phila)
- S04091838 National Galley opens in London
- S04091866 Civil Rights Bill passes over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
- S04091869 Hudson Bay Company cedes it's territory to Canada
- S04091870 American Anti-Slavery Society dissolves
- S04091914 1st full color film shown "The World, The Flesh & the Devil" (London)
- S04091917 Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
- S04091917 Battle of Arras begins
- S04091945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes, kills 360
- S04091947 Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
- S04091957 Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
- S04091968 Martin Luther King Jr, buried
- S04091968 Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference
- S04091991 Georgia SSR votes to seceede from the USSR
- S04091992 John Majors, (C) elected PM of England
- S04091992 Noriega convicted on 8 of 10 drug & racketeering charges
- S04091992 Record 18 golfers shoot in the 60s in Masters round 1 (old record 12)
- S04091992 "Redwood Curtain" opens at Neiderlander theater on Broadway
- S04101845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
- S04101872 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
- S04101877 Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
- S04101913 Pres Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
- S04101913CWalter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
- S04101917 Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
- S04101925 F Scott Fitzgerald publishes "The Great Gatsby"
- S04101948 Jewish Hagana repells an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
- S04101959 Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
- S04101960 Brian Setzer, rocker (Stray Cats)[B]\-
- S04101962 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
- S04101962 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR
- S04101964 Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
- S04101971 1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos\=
- S04101972 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
- S04101972 US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
- S04101973 BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
- S04101981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliment
- S04101992 NHL strike ends after 10 days
- S04111881 River ferry "Princess Victoria" sinks in Thames River Ont, 180 die
- S04111891 8 year old Jewish tailor's daughter disappears in Greece, rumour
- S04111891Cspreads that she was a Christian girl ritually killed by Jews
- S04111945 US soldiers liberate Nazi concentration camp "Buchenwald"
- S04111956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater by whites
- S04111965 40 tornadoes strike US midwest killing 272 & injuring 5,000
- S04111966 Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire
- S04111967 Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr
- S04111972 Benjamin L Hooks, named to the FCC
- S04111980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harrassment
- S04111992 Boston Red Sox beat Cleve Indians, 7-5, in 19 innings
- S04121606 England adopts the Union Jack as its flag
- S04121787 Philadelphia's Free African Society forms
- S04121864 Confederate Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, Tn
- S04121869 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
- S04121908 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
- S04121954 Joe Turner releases "Shake, Rattle & Roll"
- S04121955 1st game in KC, KC A's beat Detroit Tigers, 6-2
- S04121961 Ray Charles wins 4 Grammys
- S04121966 Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2\=
- S04121969 Simon & Garfunkel releases "Boxer"
- S04121975 Linda Ronstadt releases "When Will I Be Loved"
- S04121980 Milwaukee beats Boston Red Sox, 18-1 (Cooper & Money hit grand slams)
- S04121982 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking lot
- S04121983 Harold Washington becomes Chicago's 1st black mayor
- S04121987 Texaco files for brankruptcy
- S04121990 James Brown moves to a work-release center after serving 15 months
- S04121990C1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliment,
- S04121990Cacknowledges responsibilty for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgiveness
- S04121991 US announces closing of 31 major US military bases
- S04121992 Earthquake rocks Germany
- S04121992 NY Mets lose 1st 3 home games for 1st time since 1962
- S04121992 2nd lowest NBA scoring game - Detroit Piston 72, NY Knicks 61
- S04121992 Trump Shuttle becomes US Air Shuttle
- S04121992 Fred Couples wins Golf's master
- S04121992 Matt Young no-hits Cleveland, but loses 2-1
- S04121992 "Streetcar Named Desire" opens at Ethel Barrymore theater on Broadway
- S04121992 Lynn Gunther of Calif threatens to blow herself up in front of UN
- S04131808 William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects the tap dance
- S04131873 Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish Louisiana (60 blacks killed)
- S04131918 Electrical fire kills 38 mental patients at Oklahoma State Hospital
- S04131943 Jack Cassidy, rocker (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)[B]\-
- S04131992 Crystal Pepsi begins test marketing in Providence, Denver & Dallas
- S04131992 American Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
- S04131992 Great Chicago Flood - Chicago's underground tunnels flood
- S04131992 "Two Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr theater on Broadway
- S04131992 Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St John's basketball team
- S04131992C Latest 2 undefeated baseball teams meet (NY Yanks 5-0 vs Toronto
- S04131992CBlue Jays 6-0); Yanks score 3 in top of 9th to win 5-2
- S04141775 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila
- S04141828 18-gun sloop "Acorn" sinks off Halifax with 115 men aboard
- S04141868 South Carolina voters approved constitution, 70,758 to 27,228
- S04141944 Freighter "Fort Stikene" explodes in Bombay India, killing 900
- S04141969 Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
- S04141969 Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540
- S04141992 UN imposes embargo against Libya takes effect
- S04141992 UAW ends 5 month strike against Caterpillar Inc
- S04141992 "Guys & Dolls" opens at Martin Beck theater on Broadway
- S04151948 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
- S04151960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizes at Shaw U
- S04151968 Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
- S04151992 Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx loses its accreditation
- S04151992 Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
- S04151992 Jay Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight
- S04151992 NY Islander, Al Arbour, coaches the most NHL games (1,438)
- S04151992 William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy & DeForest Kelley inducted into
- S04151992CNational Association of Bradcasters Hall of Fame
- S04161854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die
- S04161868 Louisiana voters approve new constitution
- S04161970 70 die in a snow crush (France)
- S04161992 "Metro" opens at Minskoff theater on Broadway
- S04171758 Francis Williams, 1st US black college graduate, publishes poems
- S04181906 SF earthquake & fire kills nearly 4,000 & destroys 75% of the city\=
- S04181989 Zimbabwe gains independence
- S04191940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails speed killing 34 near Little Falls NY
- S04191989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
- S04191992 Balki & Mary Ann wed on "Perfect Strangers"
- S04201871 3rd Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
- S04201964 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools
- S04201992 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
- S04211878 The ship Azor leaves Charleston with 206 blacks for Liberia
- S04211892 Black Longshoremen strike for higher wages in St Louis Mo
- S04211898 Spanish-American War begins
- S04211930 Fire at Ohio State Penitentiary kills 320
- S04211966 Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
- S04211992 "High Rollers" opens at Helen Hayes theater on Broadway
- S04231940 Dance hall fires kills 198 (Natchez Miss)
- S04231969 Over 1000² mi flooded in Shantung Province China
- S04231971 Columbia University operations virtually end, by student strike
- S04231992 "Shirnada" opens at Broadhurst theater on Broadway
- S04241867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
- S04241884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
- S04241944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
- S04241962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
- S04241992 "Man of La Mancha" with Sheena Easton opens at Marquis theater
- S04251896 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire (Cripple Creek Colorado)
- S04251945 United Nations founded at San Francisco
- S04251946 "Exposition Flyer" rammed at Napierville Illinois, killing 48
- S04261942 Colliery explosion kills 1,549 at Honkeiko Manchuria
- S04261952 US minesweeper "Hobson" rams aircraft carrier "Wasp," kills 176
- S04261962 1st Lockheed A-12 flies
- S04261968 Students seize administration building at Ohio State
- S04261971 Heaviest rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs
- S04261974 Landslide in Huancavelica Province Peru creates a natural dam
- S04261992 "Who's The Boss," final episode after 8 years
- S04261992 "Jolly's Last Jam" opens at Virginia theater on Broadway
- S04261992 Final episode of "Growing Pains" airs
- S04271859 "Pomona" sinks in North Atlantic drowning all 400 aboard
- S04271865 Steamboat "Sultana" explodes in Mississippi River, kills up to 2,000
- S04271874 White League, Paramilitary white supremacist organization, forms
- S04271942 Tornado destroys Pryor Oklahoma killing 100, injuring 300
- S04271974 Pan Am 707 crashes into mountains of Bali, killing 107
- S04271984 Cleve Indians beat Detroit Tigers, 8-4, in 19 innings
- S04281914 181 die in coal mine collapse at Eccles WV
- S04281924 119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster
- S04281967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title\=
- S04281971 Samuel Lee Gravely Jr becomes 1st black admiral in US Navy
- S04291903 Limestone slides at Turtle Mountain kills 9 (Frank Alberta)
- S04291992 Voting ends on choice of Elvis stamps
- S04291992 "March of Falsettos & Falsettoland" opens on Broadway
- S04301888 Hailsones kill 246 in Moradabad India
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- S04021992 Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) lands