On this day: 7 April
Events, births and deaths on 7 April. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · William Finn
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
- Births · Miyoko Asō
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 21
- 529(Julian date)Code of Justinian — part of the 6th century codification of Roman law
- 1348(Julian date)Charles University — oldest and largest university in the Czech Republic
- 1348(Julian date)Lands of the Bohemian Crown — monarchy in Central Europe, predecessor of modern Czech Republic
- 1788Marietta — city in and county seat of Washington County, Ohio, United States
- 1798Mississippi Territory — territory of the United States of America from 1798 to 1817
- 1906Algeciras Conference — international conference to find a solution to the First Moroccan Crisis
- 1939Italian invasion of Albania — 1939 World War II invasion
- 1939Italian protectorate of Albania — kingdom in Southeast Europe between 1939–1943
- 1945Operation Ten-Go — 1945 Japanese naval operation in World War II
- 1946Kaliningrad Oblast — exclave of Russia bounded by Poland, Lithuania, and the Baltic Sea
- 1948World Health Organization — United Nations agency concerned with international public health
- 1956Morocco — sovereign state in North Africa
- 1989EVA Air — Taiwanese international airline
- 19941994 Genocide against Tutsi — 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda in which 800,000 were killed
- 1994Federal Express Flight 705 — attempted suicide hijacking
- 1995Samashki massacre — 1995 massacre by Russian forces in Chechnya
- 1999Turkish Airlines flight 5904 — 1999 aviation incident in Turkey
- 2011Rio de Janeiro school shooting — Mass murder in 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 20172017 Stockholm attack — terrorist attack in Stockholm, Sweden on 7 April 2017
- 20172017 Shayrat missile strike — United States missile strike in Syria on April 7, 2017
- 20182018 Douma chemical attack — 2018 military operations of the Syrian Civil War involving chemical weapons
Births · 60
- 1506(Julian date)Francis Xavier — Spanish Catholic saint and missionary (1506–1552)
- 1613Gerrit Dou — Dutch painter (1613-1675)
- 1652Clement XII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1730 to 1740
- 1727Michel Adanson — French naturalist (1727-1806)
- 1770William Wordsworth — English Romantic poet (1770–1850)
- 1772Charles Fourier — French utopian socialist and philosopher (1772–1837)
- 1780William Ellery Channing — American Unitarian clergyman (1780–1842)
- 1786William R. King — vice president of the United States from March to April 1853 (1786–1853)
- 1803Flora Tristan — French writer and suffragist (1803-1844)
- 1870Gustav Landauer — German anarchist, editor (1870-1919)
- 1882Kurt von Schleicher — German chancellor (1882-1934)
- 1883Gino Severini — Italian painter (1883–1966)
- 1884Bronisław Malinowski — Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and the USA (1884–1942)
- 1889Gabriela Mistral — Chilean poet, diplomat and educator (1889–1957)
- 1890Victoria Ocampo — Argentine writer and translator (1890-1979)
- 1891Ole Kirk Christiansen — Danish businessman (1891-1958)
- 1893Allen Dulles — first civilian and longest-serving Director of Central Intelligence (DCI)
- 1897Walter Winchell — American gossip journalist (1897-1972)
- 1907Le Duan — General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (1907-1986)
- 1915Billie Holiday — American jazz singer (1915–1959)
- 1919Edoardo Mangiarotti — Italian fencer (1919–2012)
- 1920Ravi Shankar — Indian sitar player (1920–2012)
- 1924Johannes Mario Simmel — Austrian writer (1924–2009)
- 1928James Garner — American film and television actor (1928–2014)
- 1928Alan J. Pakula — American film director, writer and producer (1928–1998)
Deaths · 60
- 30(Julian date)Jesus Christ — central figure of Christianity (c. 6 or 4 BC – AD 30 or 33)
- 924(Julian date)Berengar I of Italy — Holy Roman Emperor from 915 to 924
- 1498(Julian date)Charles VIII of France — King of France from 1483 to 1498
- 1503(Julian date)Sophia Palaiologina — royal consort (1455-1503)
- 1614El Greco — Greek artist, painter, sculptor and architect (1541–1614)
- 1651Lennart Torstensson — Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (1603-1651)
- 1668William Davenant — English poet and playwright
- 1719Jean-Baptiste de La Salle — French priest and Catholic saint (1651–1719)
- 1739(Julian date)Dick Turpin — English highwayman (1705–1739)
- 1761Thomas Bayes — British mathematician and Presbyterian minister (1702-1761)
- 1782Taksin — King of Siam
- 1789Abdul Hamid I — 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1774–1789)
- 1789Petrus Camper — Dutch scientist (1722-1789)
- 1803Toussaint Louverture — Haitian national hero (1743–1803)
- 1823Jacques Charles — French inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist
- 1833Antoni Radziwiłł — Polish and Prussian politician (1775-1833)
- 1836William Godwin — English journalist, political philosopher and novelist (1756–1836)
- 1858Anton Diabelli — Austrian composer and publisher
- 1871Wilhelm von Tegetthoff — Austro-Hungarian admiral (1827-1871)
- 1879Begum Hazrat Mahal — Empress of Awadh
- 1891P. T. Barnum — American showman and politician (1810–1891)
- 1900Frederic Edwin Church — American landscape painter (1826–1900)
- 1917Spiro Samara — Greek composer (1861-1917)
- 1928Alexander Bogdanov — Russian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)
- 1938Suzanne Valadon — French painter (1865—1938)
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