On this day: 1 April
Events, births and deaths on 1 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Val Kilmer
- Deaths · Johnny Tillotson
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Anne McCaffrey
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1085 · Deaths · Emperor Shenzong of Song
Events · 27
- 1346(Julian date)Siege of Aiguillon — 1346 siege during the Hundred Years' War
- 1572
- 1789United States House of Representatives — lower house of the United States Congress
- 1865Battle of Five Forks — 1865 American Civil War history
- 1918Royal Air Force — aerial warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces
- 1922Arnon Street killings — killing of Catholics
- 1935Reserve Bank of India — central bank of India
- 1938Nescafé — instant coffee brand
- 1939Francoist Spain — 1939–1975 dictature period of Spain
- 19411941 Iraqi coup d'état — coup d'état
- 1941Fântâna Albă massacre — massacre on 1 April 1941, in Northern Bukovina
- 1945Battle of Okinawa — 1945 major battle of the Pacific War
- 19461946 Aleutian Islands earthquake — earthquake in the United States
- 1948Faroe Islands — North Atlantic archipelago organized as an autonomous constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark
- 19701970 Berrechid crash — crash of a Royal Air Maroc jetliner
- 1973Project Tiger — A Tiger Conservation programme in India . Launched -April 1973
- 1973Hong Kong Housing Authority — organisation for building public housing in Hong Kong
- 1976Apple Inc. — American multinational technology company based in Cupertino, California
- 1979Iran — country in Western Asia
- 1987Division and privatization of Japanese National Railways — 1987 reform of the Japanese Railways
- 19931993 Tennessee Fairchild Merlin crash — aircraft accident
- 1999Nunavut — territory of Canada
- 2001Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands — same-sex marriage in the Netherlands
- 2001Hainan Island incident — aviation accident
- 2006Serious Organised Crime Agency — British national law enforcement agency
- 20112011 Mazar-i-Sharif attack — Riot
- 2017Xiong'an New Area — State-level new area in Hebei Province, People's Republic of China
Births · 60
- 1220(Julian date)Emperor Go-Saga — Emperor of Japan
- 1282(Julian date)Louis IV of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria and Holy Roman Emperor
- 1578(Julian date)William Harvey — English physician (1578-1657)
- 1647John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester — English poet, and peer of the realm (1647-1680)
- 1697Antoine François Prévost — French novelist (1697–1763)
- 1753Joseph de Maistre — Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat (1753-1821)
- 1776Sophie Germain — French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
- 1809Nikolai Gogol — Russian writer of Ukrainian origin (1809–1852)
- 1815Otto von Bismarck — German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)
- 1852Edwin Austin Abbey — American illustrator and painter (1852-1911)
- 1861Katō Tomosaburō — Japanese admiral (1861-1923)
- 1865Richard Adolf Zsigmondy — Austrian chemist (1865-1929)
- 1866Ferruccio Busoni — Italian composer, pianist, and conductor (1866–1924)
- 1868Edmond Rostand — French poet and dramatist (1868–1918)
- 1873Sergei Rachmaninoff — Russian composer, pianist and conductor (1873–1943)
- 1875Edgar Wallace — British crime writer, journalist and playwright (1875–1932)
- 1883Lon Chaney — American actor (1883–1930)
- 1885Wallace Beery — American actor (1885-1949)
- 1885Clementine Churchill — Wife of Winston Churchill and life peer (1885–1977)
- 1898William James Sidis — American child prodigy (1898-1944)
- 1905Gaston Eyskens — Belgian prime minister (1905-1988)
- 1908Abraham Maslow — American psychologist (1908–1970)
- 1919Joseph Murray — US surgeon (1919–2012)
- 1920Toshirō Mifune — Japanese actor (1920–1997)
- 1926Anne McCaffrey — American-Irish novelist (1926–2011)
Deaths · 60
- 1085(Julian date)Emperor Shenzong of Song — 6th emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty
- 1132(Julian date)Hugh of Châteauneuf — saint, and Bishop of Grenoble from 1080 to 1132
- 1204Eleanor of Aquitaine — Queen consort of France; Queen consort of England; suo jure Duchess of Aquitaine; patroness
- 1205(Julian date)Aimery of Cyprus — King of Cyprus and Jerusalem
- 1282(Julian date)Abaqa Khan — the second Ilkhan of Mongol Ilkhanate (1265–1282)
- 1431Nuno Álvares Pereira — Portuguese nobleman
- 1441(Julian date)Blanche I of Navarre — Queen regnant of Navarre and queen consort of Sicily
- 1548(Julian date)Sigismund I the Old — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1580(Julian date)Alonso Mudarra — Spanish composer
- 1621Cristofano Allori — Italian portrait painter of the late Florentine Mannerist school (1577-1621)
- 1865Giuditta Pasta — Italian opera singer (1798-1865)
- 1865Antonios Kriezis — Greek politician (1796-1865)
- 1868Rasoherina I of Madagascar — queen of Madagascar (1863-1868)
- 1872Frederick Denison Maurice — English theologian, religious author and Christian Socialist (1805-1872)
- 1917Scott Joplin — American composer, musician, pianist (1867/68-1917)
- 1918Paul von Rennenkampf — Russian Tsarist general of Baltic German descent (1854-1918)
- 1922Charles I of Austria — Last monarch of Austria-Hungary (r. 1916–1918)
- 1924Stan Rowley — Australian sprinter (1876-1924)
- 1924Lloyd Hildebrand — British racing cyclist, competitor for France (1870–1924)
- 1939Anton Makarenko — Ukrainian and Soviet educator and writer
- 1946Noah Beery, Sr. — American actor (1882–1946)
- 1947George II of Greece — King of Greece (r. 1922-1924, 1935-1947)
- 1950Charles Drew — American surgeon and medical researcher (1904–1950)
- 1955Lin Huiyin — Chinese architect and writer (1904-1955)
- 1960Abdul Rahman of Negeri Sembilan — 1st Yang Di-Pertuan Agong (1895-1960)
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