On this day: 4 April
Events, births and deaths on 4 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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- Deaths · Manoj Kumar
10 years ago2016
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100 years ago1926
- Births · Ronnie Masterson
1000 years ago1026
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Events · 24
- 1268(Julian date)Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1268 — agreement between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice that brought to a temporary end the hostilities between the two powers which had erupted after the Byzantine recovery of Constantinople by emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos in 1261
- 1721Leader of the House of Commons — responsible for arranging government business in the House of Commons
- 1859Dixie — popular song in the Southern United States
- 1860Finnish markka — currency of Finland in 1860–2002
- 19051905 Kangra earthquake — earthquake struck Himachal Pradesh, India on April 4, 1905
- 19201919-1920 Arab riots in Palestine — Arab attacks on Hebrew settlements in the Galilee - Tel Hai events and neighborhoods of Jews in Jerusalem that occurred in 1920
- 1925Schutzstaffel — Nazi paramilitary organization (1925–45) with the Waffen-SS as a military branch; conducted the mass murder of the European Jews (holocaust)
- 1947Convention on International Civil Aviation — international treaty that established the ICAO
- 1949NATO — intergovernmental military alliance between 32 member states
- 1949North Atlantic Treaty — treaty that forms the legal basis of, and is implemented by, the NATO
- 1968assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. — April 1968 murder in Memphis, Tennessee, U.S
- 1975Microsoft — American multinational technology corporation
- 1975Operation Babylift — 1975 battle
- 19751975 Tan Son Nhut C-5 accident — U.S. Air Force aircraft crash during Operation Babylift
- 1977Southern Airways Flight 242 — 1977 aviation accident in Georgia, United States
- 1981Attack on H3 — successful operation by Iranian air force against Iraq's air base
- 1987Garuda Indonesia Flight 035 — aviation accident
- 1990flag of Hong Kong — regional flag representing the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
- 19911991 Merion mid-air collision — 1991 mid-air collision
- 1994Netscape — American computer services company
- 1994KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 — crash of KLM Cityhopper flight 433 and subsequent investigation results
- 20102010 Baja California earthquake — earthquake
- 2011Georgian Airways Flight 834 — 4 April 2011, Aircraft accident
- 2017Khan Shaykhun chemical attack — 2017 chemical attack in Syria
Births · 60
- 188(Julian date)Caracalla — Roman emperor from 198 to 217
- 1646Antoine Galland — French orientalist, numismatist and translator (1646–1715)
- 1688Joseph-Nicolas Delisle — French astronomer
- 1785Bettina von Arnim — German writer and novelist (1785-1859)
- 1802Dorothea Dix — American author and social reformer (1802–1887)
- 1818Thomas Mayne Reid — American writer (1818–1883)
- 1819Maria II of Portugal — Queen of Portugal (r. 1826–1828; 1834–1853)
- 1842Édouard Lucas — French mathematician (1842–1891)
- 1846Comte de Lautréamont — Uruguayan born French poet, Isidore Ducasse (1846-1870)
- 1876Maurice de Vlaminck — French Fauvist and Cubist painter (1876–1958)
- 1884Isoroku Yamamoto — Japanese Marshal Admiral (1884–1943)
- 1892Edith Södergran — Finland Swedish poet and writer (1892–1923)
- 1910Barthélemy Boganda — 1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic autonomous territory (1910-1959)
- 1913Muddy Waters — American blues musician (1913–1983)
- 1914Marguerite Duras — French writer and film director (1914-1996)
- 1922Elmer Bernstein — American composer and conductor (1922-2004)
- 1923Peter Vaughan — British actor (1923–2016)
- 1925Dettmar Cramer — German football manager (1925–2015)
- 1928Maya Angelou — American poet, author, and civil rights activist (1928–2014)
- 1932Andrei Tarkovsky — Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
- 1932Anthony Perkins — American actor (1932–1992)
- 1932Richard Lugar — American politician (1932-2019)
- 1939Hugh Masekela — South African jazz trumpeter
- 1944Craig T. Nelson — American actor and comedian (born 1944)
- 1945Daniel Cohn-Bendit — German/French journalist and politician
Deaths · 60
- 397(Julian date)Ambrose — Roman theologian and Bishop of Milan (c. 340–397)
- 636(Julian date)Isidore of Seville — Hispano-Roman scholar, theologian and bishop (c. 560–636)
- 896(Julian date)Formosus — pope
- 1284(Julian date)Alfonso X of Castile and Leon — King of Castile from 1252 to 1284
- 1292(Julian date)Nicholas IV — pope of the Catholic Church from 1288 to 1292 (1227–1292)
- 1406(Julian date)Robert III of Scotland — King of Scotland
- 1536(Julian date)Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach — Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1460-1536)
- 1588(Julian date)Frederick II of Denmark — King of Denmark and Norway (1534–1588)
- 1589Benedict the Moor — Italian-born African Franciscan friar in Sicily
- 1609Carolus Clusius — Flemish doctor and botanist (1526–1609)
- 1617John Napier — Scottish mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (1550–1617)
- 1774Oliver Goldsmith — Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and physician (d. 1774)
- 1807Jérôme Lalande — French astronomer (*1732 – †1807)
- 1817André Masséna — French military commander during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1758-1817)
- 1841William Henry Harrison — president of the United States in 1841 (1773-1841)
- 1863Ludwig Emil Grimm — German artist (1790-1863)
- 1870Heinrich Gustav Magnus — German chemist and physicist (1802–1870)
- 1875Karl Mauch — German explorer (1837-1875)
- 1879Heinrich Wilhelm Dove — German scientist (1803–1879)
- 1883Peter Cooper — American politician and businessman (1791-1883)
- 1919William Crookes — British chemist and physicist (1832-1919)
- 1923John Venn — British logician and philosopher (1834-1923)
- 1929Carl Benz — German automotive and engine designer and manufacturer (1844–1929)
- 1931André Michelin — French engineer and industrialist; co-founder (with his brother) of the Michelin Tyre Company
- 1932Wilhelm Ostwald — Baltic German chemist (1853–1932)
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