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April 15 is the 105th day of the year (106th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 260 days remain until the end of the year.
769 – The Lateran Council condemned the Council of Hieria and anathematized its iconoclastic rulings.1071 – Bari , the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard .1395 – Timur defeats Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde at the Battle of the Terek River . The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai , is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the throne.1450 – Battle of Formigny : Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War , the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France.1632 – Battle of Rain : Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War .1642 – Irish Confederate Wars : A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.1715 – The Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina .1736 – Foundation of the Kingdom of Corsica .1738 – Serse Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.1755 – Samuel Johnson 's A Dictionary of the English Language 1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.1817 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf , the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut .1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War .1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth . Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens , Greece.1900 – Philippine–American War : Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig , Philippines .1907 – Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign .1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg . Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts . Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.1922 – U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal .1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes .1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas .1936 – First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine .1941 – In the Belfast Blitz , two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast , killing around one thousand people.1942 – The George Cross is awarded "to the island fortress of Malta : Its people and defenders" by King George VI .1945 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers , breaking baseball's color line .1952 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.1955 – McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc , in Des Plaines, Illinois .1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina , Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee , one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.1969 – The EC-121 shootdown incident : North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan , killing all 31 on board.1970 – During the Cambodian Civil War , massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam .1986 – The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon , its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.1989 – Hillsborough disaster : A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium , home of Sheffield Wednesday , in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.1989 – Upon Hu Yaobang 's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China. 1994 – Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.2013 – Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston , Massachusetts , killing three people and injuring 264 others.2013 – A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.2014 – In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War , at least 200 civilians were gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire .[1] 68 BC – Gaius Maecenas , Roman politician (d. 8 BC)1282 – Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1329)1367 – Henry IV of England (d. 1413)1442 – John Paston , English noble (d. 1479)1452 – Leonardo da Vinci , Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1519)1469 – Guru Nanak , the first Sikh guru (d. 1539)1552 – Pietro Cataldi , Italian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1626)1563 – Guru Arjan Dev , fifth Sikh leader (d. 1606)1588 – Claudius Salmasius , French author and scholar (d. 1653)1592 – Francesco Maria Brancaccio , Catholic cardinal (d. 1675)1641 – Robert Sibbald , Scottish physician and geographer (d. 1722)1642 – Suleiman II , Ottoman sultan (d. 1691)1646 – Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)1684 – Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727)1688 – Johann Friedrich Fasch , German violinist and composer (d. 1758)1707 – Leonhard Euler , Swiss mathematician and physicist (d. 1783)1710 – William Cullen , Scottish physician and chemist (d. 1790)1741 – Charles Willson Peale , American painter and soldier (d. 1827)1771 – Nicolas Chopin , French-Polish educator (d. 1844)1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire , French biologist and zoologist (d. 1844)1793 – Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve , German astronomer and academic (d. 1864)1800 – James Clark Ross , English captain and explorer (d. 1862)1808 – William Champ , English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1892)1809 – Hermann Grassmann , German linguist and mathematician (d. 1877)1817 – William Crowther , Dutch-Australian politician, 14th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1885)1828 – Jean Danjou , French captain (d. 1863)1832 – Wilhelm Busch , German poet, painter, and illustrator (d. 1908)1841 – Joseph E. Seagram , Canadian businessman and politician, founded the Seagram Company Ltd (d. 1919)1843 – Henry James , American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1916)1856 – Jean Moréas , Greek poet and critic (d. 1910)1858 – Émile Durkheim , French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher (d. 1917)1861 – Bliss Carman , Canadian-British poet and playwright (d. 1929)1863 – Ida Freund , Austrian-born chemist and educator (d. 1914)[2] 1874 – George Harrison Shull , American botanist and geneticist (d. 1954)1874 – Johannes Stark , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1957) 1875 – James J. Jeffries , American boxer and promoter (d. 1953)1877 – Georg Kolbe , German sculptor (d. 1947)1878 – Robert Walser , Swiss author and playwright (d. 1956)1879 – Melville Henry Cane , American lawyer and poet (d. 1980)1883 – Stanley Bruce , Australian captain and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)1885 – Tadeusz Kutrzeba , Polish general (d. 1947)1886 – Nikolay Gumilyov , Russian poet and critic (d. 1921)1887 – William Forgan Smith , Scottish-Australian politician, 24th Premier of Queensland (d. 1953)1888 – Maximilian Kronberger , German poet and author (d. 1904)1889 – Thomas Hart Benton , American painter and educator (d. 1975)1889 – A. Philip Randolph , American activist (d. 1979) 1890 – Percy Shaw , English businessman, invented the cat's eye (d. 1976)1892 – Theo Osterkamp , German general and pilot (d. 1975)1892 – Corrie ten Boom , Dutch-American clocksmith, Nazi resister , and author (d. 1983) 1894 – Nikita Khrushchev , Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971)1894 – Bessie Smith , African-American singer and actress (d. 1937) 1895 – Clark McConachy , New Zealand snooker player (d. 1980)1895 – Abigail Mejia , Dominican feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator (d. 1941) 1896 – Nikolay Semyonov , Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)1898 – Harry Edward , Guyanese-English sprinter (d. 1973)1901 – Joe Davis , English snooker player (d. 1978)1901 – Ajoy Mukherjee , Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (d. 1986) 1901 – René Pleven , French businessman and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1993) 1902 – Fernando Pessa , Portuguese journalist (d. 2002)1903 – John Williams , English-American actor (d. 1983)1904 – Arshile Gorky , Armenian-American painter and illustrator (d. 1948)1907 – Nikolaas Tinbergen , Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)1908 – eden ahbez , Scottish-American songwriter and recording artist (d. 1995)1908 – Lita Grey , American actress (d. 1995) 1910 – Sulo Bärlund , Finnish shot putter (d. 1986)1910 – Miguel Najdorf , Polish-Argentinian chess player and theoretician (d. 1997) 1912 – William Congdon , American-Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1998)1912 – Kim Il-sung , North Korean general and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea (d. 1994) 1915 – Elizabeth Catlett , African-American sculptor and illustrator (d. 2012)1916 – Alfred S. Bloomingdale , American businessman (d. 1982)1916 – Helene Hanff , American author and screenwriter (d. 1997) 1917 – Hans Conried , American actor (d. 1982)1917 – James Kee , American lawyer and politician (d. 1989) 1918 – Hans Billian , German film director, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2007)1919 – Alberto Breccia , Uruguayan-Argentinian author and illustrator (d. 1993)1920 – Godfrey Stafford , English-South African physicist and academic (d. 2013)1920 – Thomas Szasz , Hungarian-American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2012) 1920 – Richard von Weizsäcker , German soldier and politician, 6th President of Germany (d. 2015) 1921 – Georgy Beregovoy , Ukrainian-Russian general, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1995)1921 – Angelo DiGeorge , American physician and endocrinologist (d. 2009) 1922 – Michael Ansara , Syrian-American actor (d. 2013)1922 – Hasrat Jaipuri , Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1999) 1922 – Harold Washington , American lawyer and politician, 51st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1987) 1922 – Graham Whitehead , English racing driver (d. 1981) 1923 – Artur Alliksaar , Estonian poet and author (d. 1966)1923 – Robert DePugh , American activist, founded the Minutemen (an anti-Communist organization) (d. 2009) 1924 – M. Canagaratnam , Sri Lankan politician (d. 1980)1924 – Rikki Fulton , Scottish comedian (d. 2004) 1924 – Neville Marriner , English violinist and conductor (d. 2016) 1927 – Robert Mills , American physicist and academic (d. 1999)1929 – Gérald Beaudoin , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2008)1929 – Adrian Cadbury , English rower and businessman (d. 2015) 1930 – Georges Descrières , French actor (d. 2013)1930 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir , Icelandic educator and politician, 4th President of Iceland 1931 – Kenneth Bloomfield , Northern Irish civil servant1931 – Tomas Tranströmer , Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2015) 1933 – Roy Clark , American musician and television personality (d. 2018)1933 – David Hamilton , English-French photographer and director (d. 2016) 1933 – Elizabeth Montgomery , American actress and producer (d. 1995) 1935 – Stavros Paravas , Greek actor and producer (d. 2008)1936 – Raymond Poulidor , French cyclist1937 – Bob Luman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1978)1938 – Claudia Cardinale , Italian actress1938 – Hso Khan Pha , Burmese-Canadian geologist and politician (d. 2016) 1939 – Marty Wilde , English singer-songwriter and actor1939 – Desiré Ecaré , Ivorian filmmaker (d. 2009) 1940 – Jeffrey Archer , English author, playwright, and politician1940 – Penelope Coelen , South African actress, model, beauty queen and 1958 Miss World 1940 – Willie Davis , American baseball player and actor (d. 2010) 1940 – Robert Lacroix , Canadian economist and academic 1941 – Howard Berman , American lawyer and politician1942 – Francis X. DiLorenzo , American bishop (d. 2017)1942 – Walt Hazzard , American basketball player and coach (d. 2011) 1942 – Kenneth Lay , American businessman (d. 2006) 1942 – Tim Lankester , English economist and academic 1943 – Pınar Kür , Turkish author, playwright, and academic1943 – Robert Lefkowitz , American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate 1943 – Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater , English politician 1943 – Hugh Thompson, Jr. , American soldier and pilot (d. 2006) 1944 – Dzhokhar Dudayev , Russian-Chechen general and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (d. 1996)1944 – Dave Edmunds , Welsh singer, guitarist, and producer 1946 – John Lloyd , Scottish journalist and author1946 – Pete Rouse , American politician, White House Chief of Staff 1947 – Linda Bloodworth-Thomason , American screenwriter and producer1947 – Martin Broughton , English businessman 1947 – Lois Chiles , American model and actress 1947 – David Omand , English civil servant and academic 1947 – Cristina Husmark Pehrsson , Swedish nurse and politician, Swedish Minister for Social Security 1947 – Woolly Wolstenholme , English singer and keyboard player (d. 2010) 1948 – Christopher Brown , English historian, curator, and academic1948 – Michael Kamen , American composer and conductor (d. 2003) 1948 – Phil Mogg , English singer-songwriter and musician (UFO ) 1949 – Alla Pugacheva , Russian singer-songwriter and actress1949 – Craig Zadan , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018) 1950 – Josiane Balasko , French actress, director, and screenwriter1950 – Amy Wright , American actress 1950 – Karel Kroupa , Czech football player 1951 – Heloise , American journalist and author1951 – John L. Phillips , American captain and astronaut 1951 – Stuart Prebble , English journalist and producer 1951 – Marsha Ivins , American engineer and astronaut 1952 – Kym Gyngell , Australian actor, comedian, and screenwriter1952 – Brian Muir , English sculptor and set designer 1952 – Avital Ronell , Czech-American philosopher and academic 1955 – Dodi Fayed , Egyptian film producer (d. 1997)1955 – Joice Mujuru , Zimbabwean politician [3] 1956 – Michael Cooper , American basketball player and coach1957 – Evelyn Ashford , American runner and coach1958 – Keith Acton , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1958 – John Bracewell , New Zealand cricketer 1958 – Memos Ioannou , Greek basketball player and coach 1958 – Benjamin Zephaniah , English actor, author, poet, and playwright 1959 – Fruit Chan , Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter1959 – Kevin Lowe , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager 1959 – Emma Thompson , English actress, comedian, author, activist and screenwriter 1960 – Pierre Aubry , Canadian ice hockey player1960 – Susanne Bier , Danish director and screenwriter 1960 – Pedro Delgado , Spanish cyclist and sportscaster 1960 – Tony Jones , English snooker player 1961 – Neil Carmichael , English academic and politician1961 – Carol W. Greider , American molecular biologist 1961 – Dawn Wright , American geographer and oceanographer 1962 – Nawal El Moutawakel , Moroccan athlete and politician1962 – Tom Kane , American voice actor 1963 – Alex Crawford , Nigerian-South African journalist1963 – Manzoor Elahi , Pakistani cricketer 1963 – Manoj Prabhakar , Indian cricketer and sportscaster 1964 – Andre Joubert , South African rugby player1964 – Lee Kernaghan , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1965 – Linda Perry , American singer-songwriter, musician and record producer (4 Non Blondes )[4] 1965 – Kevin Stevens , American ice hockey player 1966 – Samantha Fox , English singer-songwriter and actress1966 – Mott Green , American businessman (d. 2013) 1967 – Frankie Poullain , Scottish bass player and songwriter1967 – Dara Torres , American swimmer and journalist 1968 – Ben Clarke , English rugby player and coach1968 – Brahim Lahlafi , Moroccan-French runner 1968 – Ed O'Brien , English guitarist 1969 – Jeromy Burnitz , American baseball player1969 – Kaisa Roose , Estonian pianist and conductor 1969 – Jimmy Waite , Canadian-German ice hockey player and coach 1970 – Chris Huffins , American decathlete and coach1971 – Philippe Carbonneau , French rugby player1971 – Finidi George , Nigerian footballer 1971 – Jason Sehorn , American football player 1971 – Josia Thugwane , South African runner 1971 – Karl Turner , English lawyer and politician 1972 – Arturo Gatti , Italian-Canadian boxer (d. 2009)1972 – Lou Romano , American animator and voice actor 1974 – Kim Min-kyo , South Korean actor and director1974 – Danny Pino , American actor and screenwriter 1974 – Mike Quinn , American football player 1974 – Douglas Spain , American actor, director, and producer 1974 – Tim Thomas , American ice hockey player 1975 – Sarah Teichmann , German-American biophysicist and immunologist1976 – Jason Bonsignore , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1976 – Darius Regelskis , Lithuanian footballer 1976 – Kęstutis Šeštokas , Lithuanian basketball player 1976 – Steve Williams , English rower 1977 – Sudarsan Pattnaik , Indian sculptor1977 – Brian Pothier , American ice hockey player 1978 – Milton Bradley , American baseball player1978 – Tim Corcoran , American baseball player 1978 – Luis Fonsi , Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and dancer 1978 – Chris Stapleton , American country singer-songwriter and guitarist 1980 – Patrick Carney , American drummer, musician, and producer (The Black Keys )1980 – James Foster , English cricketer 1980 – Raül López , Spanish basketball player 1980 – Willie Mason , New Zealand-Australian rugby league player 1980 – Aida Mollenkamp , American chef and author 1980 – Billy Yates , American football player 1981 – Andrés D'Alessandro , Argentinian footballer1982 – Michael Aubrey , American baseball player1982 – Anthony Green , American singer-songwriter 1982 – Seth Rogen , Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1983 – Alice Braga , Brazilian actress1983 – Matt Cardle , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1983 – Dudu Cearense , Brazilian footballer 1983 – Andreas Fransson , Swedish skier (d. 2014) 1983 – Ilya Kovalchuk , Russian ice hockey player 1983 – Martin Pedersen , Danish cyclist 1984 – Antonio Cromartie , American football player1984 – Cam Janssen , American ice hockey player 1984 – Daniel Paille , Canadian ice hockey player 1985 – Ryan Hamilton , Canadian ice hockey player1986 – Tom Heaton , English footballer1986 – Sylvain Marveaux , French footballer 1988 – Blake Ayshford , Australian rugby league player1988 – Steven Defour , Belgian footballer 1988 – Chris Tillman , American baseball pitcher 1990 – Emma Watson , English actress1991 – Daiki Arioka , Japanese idol, singer, and actor1991 – Javier Fernández López , Spanish figure skater 1995 – Leander Dendoncker , Belgian footballer1999 – Denis Shapovalov , Canadian tennis player2001 – Shanti Dope , Filipino rapper[5] 628 – Suiko , emperor of Japan (b. 554)943 – Liu Bin , emperor of Southern Han (b. 920)956 – Lin Yanyu , Chinese court official and eunuch 1053 – Godwin, Earl of Wessex (b. 1001)1136 – Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare (b. 1094)1220 – Adolf of Altena , German archbishop (b. 1157)1237 – Richard Poore , English ecclesiastic1415 – Manuel Chrysoloras , Greek philosopher and translator (b. 1355)1446 – Filippo Brunelleschi , Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1377)1502 – John IV of Chalon-Arlay , Prince of Orange (b. 1443)1558 – Roxelana , wife of Suleiman the Magnificent (b. c. 1500)1610 – Robert Persons , English Jesuit priest, insurrectionist, and author (b. 1546)1632 – George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore , English politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1580)1652 – Patriarch Joseph of Moscow , Russian patriarch1659 – Simon Dach , German poet and hymnwriter (b. 1605)1719 – Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon , French wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)1754 – Jacopo Riccati , Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1676)1761 – Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll , Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Court of Session (b. 1682)1761 – William Oldys , English historian and author (b. 1696) 1764 – Peder Horrebow , Danish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1679)1765 – Mikhail Lomonosov , Russian chemist and physicist (b. 1711)1788 – Giuseppe Bonno , Austrian composer (b. 1711)1793 – Ignacije Szentmartony , Croatian priest, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1718)1854 – Arthur Aikin , English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1773)1861 – Sylvester Jordan , Austrian-German lawyer and politician (b. 1792)1865 – Abraham Lincoln , 16th President of the United States (b. 1809)1888 – Matthew Arnold , English poet and critic (b. 1822)1889 – Father Damien , Belgian priest and saint (b. 1840)1898 – Te Keepa Te Rangihiwinui , New Zealand commander and politician1912 – Victims of the Titanic disasterThomas Andrews , Irish shipbuilder (b. 1873)John Jacob Astor IV , American colonel, businessman, and author (b. 1864)Archibald Butt , American general and journalist (b. 1865)Jacques Futrelle , American journalist and author (b. 1875)Benjamin Guggenheim , American businessman (b. 1865)Henry B. Harris , American producer and manager (b. 1866)Wallace Hartley , English violinist and bandleader (b. 1878)James Paul Moody , English Sixth Officer (b. 1887)William McMaster Murdoch , Scottish First Officer (b. 1873)Jack Phillips , English telegraphist (b. 1887)Edward Smith , English Captain (b. 1850)William Thomas Stead , English journalist (b. 1849)Ida Straus , German-American businesswoman (b. 1849)Isidor Straus , German-American businessman and politician (b. 1845)John B. Thayer , American business and sportsman (b. 1862)Henry Tingle Wilde , English chief officer (b. 1872)1917 – János Murkovics , Slovene author, poet, and educator (b. 1839)1927 – Gaston Leroux , French journalist and author (b. 1868)1938 – César Vallejo , Peruvian journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)1942 – Robert Musil , Austrian-Swiss author and playwright (b. 1880)1943 – Aristarkh Lentulov , Russian painter and set designer (b. 1882)1944 – Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin , Russian general (b. 1901)1945 – Hermann Florstedt , German SS officer (b. 1895)1948 – Radola Gajda , Montenegrin-Czech general and politician (b. 1892)1949 – Wallace Beery , American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1885)1962 – Clara Blandick , American actress (b. 1880)1962 – Arsenio Lacson , Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (b. 1912) 1963 – Edward Greeves, Jr. , Australian footballer (b. 1903)1966 – Habibullah Bahar Chowdhury , Bengali politician, writer, journalist, first health minister of East Pakistan 1967 – Totò , Italian comedian (b. 1898)1971 – Gurgen Boryan , Armenian poet and playwright (b. 1915)1971 – Friedebert Tuglas , Estonian author and critic (b. 1886) 1979 – David Brand , Australian politician, 19th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1912)1980 – Raymond Bailey , American actor and soldier (b. 1904)1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre , French philosopher and author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) 1982 – Arthur Lowe , English actor (b. 1915)1984 – Tommy Cooper , Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)1986 – Jean Genet , French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)1988 – Kenneth Williams , English actor and screenwriter (b. 1926)1989 – Hu Yaobang , Chinese soldier and politician, former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1915)1990 – Greta Garbo , Swedish-American actress (b. 1905)1993 – Leslie Charteris , English author and screenwriter (b. 1907)1993 – John Tuzo Wilson , Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908) 1998 – William Congdon , American-Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1912)1998 – Pol Pot , Cambodian general and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1925) 1999 – Harvey Postlethwaite , English engineer (b. 1944)2000 – Edward Gorey , American poet and illustrator (b. 1925)2001 – Joey Ramone , American singer-songwriter (b. 1951)2002 – Damon Knight , American author and critic (b. 1922)2002 – Byron White , American football player, lawyer, and jurist, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1917) 2004 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama , Japanese illustrator (b. 1934)2007 – Brant Parker , American illustrator (b. 1920)2008 – Krister Stendahl , Swedish bishop, theologian, and scholar (b. 1921)2009 – Clement Freud , German-English journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1924)2009 – László Tisza , Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1907) 2009 – Salih Neftçi , Turkish economist and author (b. 1947) 2010 – Jack Herer , American author and activist (b. 1939)2010 – Michael Pataki , American actor and director (b. 1938) 2011 – Vittorio Arrigoni , Italian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1975)2012 – Paul Bogart , American director and producer (b. 1919)2012 – Dwayne Schintzius , American basketball player (b. 1968) 2013 – Benjamin Fain , Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930)2013 – Richard LeParmentier , American-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1946) 2013 – Jean-François Paillard , French conductor (b. 1928) 2014 – John Houbolt , American engineer and academic (b. 1919)2014 – Eliseo Verón , Argentinian sociologist and academic (b. 1935) 2015 – Jonathan Crombie , Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1966)2015 – Surya Bahadur Thapa , Nepalese politician, 24th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1928) 2017 – Clifton James , American actor (b. 1920)2017 – Emma Morano , Italian supercentenarian , last person verified born in the 1800s (b. 1899) 2018 – R. Lee Ermey , American actor (b. 1944)2018 – Vittorio Taviani , Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1929) Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to April 15
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