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April 8 is the 98th day of the year (99th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 267 days remain until the end of the year.
217 – Roman Emperor Caracalla is assassinated. He is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect , Marcus Opellius Macrinus .632 – King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde ), along with his infant son Chilperic .876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids .1093 – The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by Walkelin .1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated.1149 – Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Ptolemy II of Tusculum .1232 – Mongol–Jin War : The Mongols begin their siege on Kaifeng , the capital of the Jin dynasty .1271 – In Syria , sultan Baibars conquers the Krak des Chevaliers .1665 – English colonial patents are granted for the establishment of the Monmouth Tract , for what would eventually become Monmouth County in northeastern New Jersey .1730 – Shearith Israel , the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.1740 – War of Jenkins' Ear : Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa , taken into service as HMS Princess .1808 – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Baltimore is promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of New York , Philadelphia , Boston , and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius VII .1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Milos .1832 – Black Hawk War : Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans .1864 – American Civil War : Battle of Mansfield : Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana .1866 – Italy and Prussia ally against the Austrian Empire .1886 – William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons .1895 – In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional .1904 – The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale 1904 – Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times 1906 – Auguste Deter , the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease , dies.1908 – H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman .[1] 1908 – Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School .1911 – Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity .1913 – The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution , requiring direct election of Senators , becomes law.1916 – In Corona, California , race car driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three (including himself), and badly injuring five spectators.1918 – World War I : Actors Douglas Fairbanks and Charlie Chaplin sell war bonds on the streets of New York City's financial district.1924 – Sharia courts are abolished in Turkey , as part of Atatürk's Reforms .1929 – Indian independence movement : At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.1935 – The Works Progress Administration is formed when the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 becomes law.1942 – World War II : Siege of Leningrad : Soviet forces open a much-needed railway link to Leningrad .1942 – World War II: The Japanese take Bataan in the Philippines . 1943 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt , in an attempt to check inflation , freezes wages and prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided thereby, and bars rate increases by common carriers and public utilities .1943 – Otto and Elise Hampel are executed in Berlin for their anti-Nazi activities.1945 – World War II: After an air raid accidentally destroys a train carrying about 4,000 Nazi concentration camp internees in Prussian Hanover , the survivors are massacred by Nazis.1946 – Électricité de France , the world's largest utility company , is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.1950 – India and Pakistan sign the Liaquat–Nehru Pact .1952 – U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike .1953 – Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya 's rulers.1954 – A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan , killing 37 people.1954 – South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people. 1959 – A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL .1959 – The Organization of American States drafts an agreement to create the Inter-American Development Bank . 1960 – The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280 million German marks as Wiedergutmachung .1961 – A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.1964 – The Gemini 1 test flight is conducted.1968 – BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after take off. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross , the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.1970 – Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing : Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed.1974 – At Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium , Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth 's 39-year-old record.1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball 's first African American manager.1987 – Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racially charged remarks he had made while on Nightline 1992 – Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS , acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries.1993 – The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations .1999 – Haryana Gana Parishad , a political party in the Indian state of Haryana , merges with the Indian National Congress .2004 – War in Darfur : The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups.2006 – Shedden massacre : The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario . The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club .2008 – The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain .2013 – The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham .1320 – Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)1408 – Jadwiga of Lithuania , Polish princess (d. 1431)1435 – John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford , English noble (d. 1461)1533 – Claudio Merulo , Italian organist and composer (d. 1604)1536 – Barbara of Hesse (d. 1597)1541 – Michele Mercati , Italian physician and archaeologist (d. 1593)1580 – William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke , English noble, courtier and patron of the arts (d. 1630)1596 – Juan van der Hamen , Spanish artist (d. 1631)1605 – Philip IV of Spain (d. 1665)1605 – Mary Stuart , English-Scottish princess (d. 1607) 1641 – Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney , English general and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (d. 1704)1692 – Giuseppe Tartini , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1770)1726 – Lewis Morris , American judge and politician (d. 1798)1732 – David Rittenhouse , American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1796)1761 – William Joseph Chaminade , French priest, founded the Society of Mary (d. 1850)1770 – John Thomas Campbell , Irish-Australian banker and politician (d. 1830)1798 – Dionysios Solomos , Greek poet and author (d. 1857)1818 – Christian IX of Denmark (d. 1906)1818 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann , German chemist and academic (d. 1892) 1826 – Pancha Carrasco , Costa Rican soldier (d. 1890)1827 – Ramón Emeterio Betances , Puerto Rican ophthalmologist, journalist, and politician (d. 1898)1842 – Elizabeth Bacon Custer , American author and educator (d. 1933)1859 – Edmund Husserl , German Jewish-Austrian mathematician and philosopher (d. 1938)1864 – Carlos Deltour , French rower and rugby player (d. 1920)1867 – Allen Butler Talcott , American painter and educator (d. 1908)1869 – Harvey Cushing , American surgeon and academic (d. 1939)1871 – Clarence Hudson White , American photographer and educator (d. 1925)1874 – Manuel Díaz , Cuban fencer (d. 1929)1874 – Stanisław Taczak , Polish general (d. 1960) 1875 – Albert I of Belgium (d. 1934)1882 (O.S. 27 March) – Dmytro Doroshenko , Lithuanian-Ukrainian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Prime Minister of Ukraine (d. 1951)1883 – R. P. Keigwin , English cricketer and academic (d. 1972)1883 – Julius Seljamaa , Estonian journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia (d. 1936) 1885 – Dimitrios Levidis , Greek-French soldier, composer, and educator (d. 1951)1886 – Margaret Ayer Barnes , American author and playwright (d. 1967)1888 – Dennis Chávez , American journalist and politician (d. 1962)1889 – Adrian Boult , English conductor (d. 1983)1892 – Richard Neutra , Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records (d. 1970)1892 – Mary Pickford , Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists (d. 1979) 1896 – Yip Harburg , American composer (d. 1981)1900 – Marie Byles , Australian solicitor (d. 1979) [2] 1902 – Andrew Irvine , English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1924)1902 – Maria Maksakova, Sr. , Russian soprano (d. 1974) 1904 – John Hicks , English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)1904 – Hirsch Jacobs , American horse trainer (d. 1970) 1905 – Joachim Büchner , German sprinter and graphic designer (d. 1978)1905 – Helen Joseph , English-South African activist (d. 1992) 1905 – Erwin Keller , German field hockey player (d. 1971) 1906 – Raoul Jobin , Canadian tenor and educator (d. 1974)1908 – Hugo Fregonese , Argentinian director and screenwriter (d. 1987)1909 – John Fante , American author and screenwriter (d. 1983)1910 – George Musso , American football player and police officer (d. 2000)1911 – Melvin Calvin , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)1911 – Emil Cioran , Romanian-French philosopher and academic (d. 1995) 1912 – Alois Brunner , Austrian-German SS officer (d. 2001 or 2010)1912 – Sonja Henie , Norwegian-American figure skater and actress (d. 1969) 1914 – María Félix , Yaqui /Basque -Mexican actress (d. 2002)1915 – Ivan Supek , Croatian physicist, philosopher and writer (d. 2007)1917 – Winifred Asprey , American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2007)1917 – Lloyd Bott , Australian public servant (d. 2004) 1917 – Hubertus Ernst , Dutch bishop (d. 2017) 1917 – Grigori Kuzmin , Russian-Estonian astronomer (d. 1988) 1918 – Betty Ford , American wife of Gerald Ford , 40th First Lady of the United States (d. 2011)1918 – Glendon Swarthout , American author and academic (d. 1992) 1919 – Ian Smith , Zimbabwean lieutenant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Rhodesia (d. 2007)1921 – Franco Corelli , Italian tenor and actor (d. 2003)1921 – Jan Novák , Czech composer (d. 1984) 1921 – Herman van Raalte , Dutch footballer (d. 2013) 1922 – Carmen McRae , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress (d. 1994)1923 – George Fisher , American cartoonist (d. 2003)1923 – Edward Mulhare , Irish-American actor (d. 1997) 1924 – Frédéric Back , German-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 2013)1924 – Anthony Farrar-Hockley , English general and historian (d. 2006) 1924 – Kumar Gandharva , Hindustani classical singer (d. 1992) 1924 – Sara Northrup Hollister , American occultist (d. 1997) 1926 – Henry N. Cobb , American architect and academic, co-founded Pei Cobb Freed & Partners 1926 – Shecky Greene , American actor 1926 – Jürgen Moltmann , German theologian and academic 1927 – Tilly Armstrong , English author (d. 2010)1927 – Ollie Mitchell , American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 2013) 1928 – Fred Ebb , American lyricist (d. 2004)1929 – Jacques Brel , Belgian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1978)1929 – Renzo De Felice , Italian historian and author (d. 1996) 1930 – Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (d. 2010)1931 – John Gavin , American actor and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Mexico (d. 2018)1932 – Iskandar of Johor (d. 2010)1933 – James Lockhart , American scholar of colonial Latin America, especially Nahua peoples (d. 2014) 1934 – Kisho Kurokawa , Japanese architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower and Singapore Flyer (d. 2007)1935 – Oscar Zeta Acosta , American lawyer and politician (d. 1974)1935 – Albert Bustamante , American soldier, educator, and politician 1937 – Seymour Hersh , American journalist and author1937 – Momo Kapor , Serbian author and painter (d. 2010) 1938 – Kofi Annan , Ghanaian economist and diplomat, 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 2018)1938 – John Hamm , Canadian physician and politician, 25th Premier of Nova Scotia 1938 – Mary W. Gray , American mathematician, statistician, and lawyer 1939 – John Arbuthnott , Scottish microbiologist and academic1939 – Trina Schart Hyman , American author and illustrator (d. 2004) 1940 – John Havlicek , American basketball player (d. 2019)1941 – J. J. Jackson , American soul/R&B singer, songwriter, and arranger1941 – Vivienne Westwood , English fashion designer 1942 – Tony Banks, Baron Stratford , Northern Irish politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics (d. 2006)1942 – Roger Chapman , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1942 – Douglas Trumbull , American director, producer, and special effects artist 1943 – Michael Bennett , American dancer, choreographer, and director (d. 1987)1943 – Miller Farr , American football player 1943 – James Herbert , English author and illustrator (d. 2013) 1943 – Chris Orr , English painter and illustrator 1944 – Hywel Bennett , Welsh actor (d. 2017)1944 – Odd Nerdrum , Swedish-Norwegian painter and illustrator 1945 – Derrick Walker , Scottish businessman1945 – Jang Yong , South Korean actor 1946 – Catfish Hunter , American baseball player (d. 1999)1946 – Tim Thomerson , American actor and producer 1947 – Tom DeLay , American lawyer and politician1947 – Steve Howe , English guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1947 – Robert Kiyosaki , American businessman, co-founded Cashflow Technologies 1947 – Pascal Lamy , French businessman and politician, European Commissioner for Trade 1947 – Larry Norman , American singer-songwriter, and producer (d. 2008) 1948 – Barbara Young, Baroness Young of Old Scone , Scottish academic and politician1949 – K. C. Kamalasabayson , Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 39th Attorney General of Sri Lanka (d. 2007)1949 – John Madden , English director and producer 1949 – Brenda Russell , African-American-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1949 – John Scott , English sociologist and academic 1950 – Grzegorz Lato , Polish footballer and coach1951 – Gerd Andres , German politician1951 – Geir Haarde , Icelandic economist, journalist, and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Iceland 1951 – Mel Schacher , American bass player 1951 – Joan Sebastian , Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2015) 1952 – Ahmet Piriştina , Turkish politician (d. 2004)1954 – Gary Carter , American baseball player and coach (d. 2012)1954 – Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco (d. 2012) 1954 – G.V. Loganathan , Indian-American engineer and academic (d. 2007) 1955 – Ricky Bell , American football player (d. 1984)1955 – Gerrie Coetzee , South African boxer 1955 – Ron Johnson , American businessman and politician 1955 – Barbara Kingsolver , American novelist, essayist and poet 1955 – David Wu , Taiwanese-American lawyer and politician 1956 – Michael Benton , Scottish-English paleontologist and academic1956 – Christine Boisson , French actress 1956 – Roman Dragoun , Czech singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1956 – Jim Piddock , English actor, producer, and screenwriter 1957 – Fred Smerlas , American football player and radio host1958 – Detlef Bruckhoff , German footballer1958 – Tom Petranoff , American javelin thrower and coach 1959 – Alain Bondue , French cyclist1960 – John Schneider , American actor and country singer1961 – Richard Hatch , American reality contestant, winner of Survivor: Borneo 1961 – Brian McDermott , English footballer and manager 1962 – Paddy Lowe , English engineer1962 – Izzy Stradlin , American guitarist and songwriter 1963 – Tine Asmundsen , Norwegian bassist1963 – Julian Lennon , English singer-songwriter 1963 – Terry Porter , American basketball player and coach 1963 – Donita Sparks , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1963 – Alec Stewart , English cricketer 1963 – Seth Tobias , American businessman (d. 2007) 1964 – Biz Markie , American rapper, producer, and actor1964 – John McGinlay , Scottish footballer and manager 1965 – Steven Blaney , Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Public Safety 1965 – Michael Jones , New Zealand rugby player and coach 1966 – Iveta Bartošová , Czech singer and actress (d. 2014)1966 – Mark Blundell , English race car driver 1966 – Andy Currier , English rugby league player 1966 – Charlotte Dawson , New Zealand-Australian television host (d. 2014) 1966 – Dalton Grant , English high jumper 1966 – Mazinho , Brazilian footballer, coach, and manager 1966 – Harri Rovanperä , Finnish race car driver 1966 – Evripidis Stylianidis , Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister for the Interior 1966 – Robin Wright , American actress, director, producer 1967 – Kenny Benjamin , Antiguan cricketer1968 – Patricia Arquette , French-Canadian Russian/Polish Jewish-American actress and director1968 – Patricia Girard , French runner and hurdler 1968 – Tracy Grammer , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1970 – Care Santos , Catalan writer1971 – Darren Jessee , American singer-songwriter and drummer1972 – Paul Gray , American bass player and songwriter (d. 2010)1972 – Sergei Magnitsky , Russian lawyer and accountant (d. 2009) 1973 – Khaled Badra , Tunisian footballer1973 – Emma Caulfield , American actress 1974 – Toutai Kefu , Tongan-Australian rugby player1974 – Nnedi Okorafor , Nigerian-American author and educator 1975 – Anouk , Dutch singer1975 – Francesco Flachi , Italian footballer 1975 – Timo Pérez , Dominican-American baseball player 1975 – Funda Arar , Turkish singer 1977 – Ana de la Reguera , Mexican actress1977 – Mehran Ghassemi , Iranian journalist and author (d. 2008) 1977 – Mark Spencer , American computer programmer and engineer 1978 – Daigo , Japanese singer-songwriter, actor, and voice actor1978 – Bernt Haas , Austrian-Swiss footballer 1978 – Rachel Roberts , Canadian model and actress 1978 – Jocelyn Robichaud , Canadian tennis player and coach 1978 – Evans Rutto , Kenyan runner 1979 – Alexi Laiho , Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist1979 – Amit Trivedi , Indian singer-songwriter1980 – Manuel Ortega , Austrian singer1980 – Katee Sackhoff , American actress 1980 – Mariko Seyama , Japanese announcer, photographer, and model 1981 – Frédérick Bousquet , French swimmer1981 – Ofer Shechter , Israeli model, actor, and screenwriter 1982 – Gennady Golovkin , Kazakhstani boxer1982 – Brett White , Australian rugby league player 1983 – Tatyana Petrova Arkhipova , Russian runner1984 – Michelle Donelan , British politician1984 – Ezra Koenig , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984 – Pablo Portillo , Mexican singer and actor 1984 – Taran Noah Smith , American actor 1985 – Patrick Schliwa , German rugby player1985 – Yemane Tsegay , Ethiopian runner 1986 – Igor Akinfeev , Russian footballer1986 – Félix Hernández , Venezuelan-American baseball player 1987 – Royston Drenthe , Dutch footballer1987 – Jeremy Hellickson , American baseball player 1987 – Elton John , Trinidadian footballer 1987 – Sam Rapira , New Zealand rugby league player 1988 – Jenni Asserholt , Swedish ice hockey player1988 – Kim Myung-sung , South Korean baseball player 1990 – Kim Jong-hyun , South Korean singer (d. 2017)1991 – Dej Loaf , American rapper, singer and songwriter [3] 1993 – Viktor Arvidsson , Swedish ice hockey player1993 – Zac Santo , Australian rugby league player 1994 – Josh Chudleigh , Australian rugby league player1995 – Cedi Osman , Turkish professional basketball player1997 – Arno Verschueren , Belgian professional football player217 – Caracalla , Roman emperor (b. 188)622 – Shōtoku , Japanese prince (b. 572)632 – Charibert II , Frankish king (b. 607)894 – Adalelm , Frankish nobleman944 – Wang Yanxi , Chinese emperor956 – Gilbert , Frankish nobleman967 – Mu'izz al-Dawla , Buyid emir (b. 915)1143 – John II Komnenos , Byzantine emperor (b. 1087)1150 – Gertrude of Babenberg , duchess of Bohemia (b. 1118)1321 – Thomas of Tolentino , Italian-Franciscan missionary (b. c. 1255)1338 – Stephen Gravesend , bishop of London1364 – John II , French king (b. 1319)1450 – Sejong the Great , Korean king (b. 1397)1461 – Georg von Peuerbach , German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423)1492 – Lorenzo de' Medici , Italian ruler (b. 1449)1551 – Oda Nobuhide , Japanese warlord (b. 1510)1586 – Martin Chemnitz , Lutheran theologian and reformer (b. 1522)1587 – John Foxe , English author (b. 1516)1608 – Magdalen Dacre , English noble (b. 1538)1612 – Anne Catherine of Brandenburg (b. 1575)1691 – Carlo Rainaldi , Italian architect, designed the Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto (b. 1611)1697 – Niels Juel , Norwegian-Danish admiral (b. 1629)1704 – Hiob Ludolf , German orientalist and philologist (b. 1624)1704 – Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney , English colonel and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1641) 1709 – Wolfgang Dietrich of Castell-Remlingen , German nobleman (b. 1641)1725 – John Wise , American minister (b. 1652)1735 – Francis II Rákóczi , Hungarian prince (b. 1676)1848 – Gaetano Donizetti , Italian composer (b. 1797)1860 – István Széchenyi , Hungarian statesman and reformer (b.1791) [4] 1861 – Elisha Otis , American businessman, founded the Otis Elevator Company (b. 1811)1870 – Charles Auguste de Bériot , Belgian violinist and composer (b. 1802)1894 – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay , Indian journalist, author, and poet (b. 1838)1906 – Auguste Deter , German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)1919 – Loránd Eötvös , Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)1920 – Charles Griffes , American pianist and composer (b. 1884)1931 – Erik Axel Karlfeldt , Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)1936 – Róbert Bárány , Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)1936 – Božena Benešová , Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873) 1941 – Marcel Prévost , French novelist and playwright (b. 1862)1942 – Kostas Skarvelis , Greek guitarist and composer (b. 1880)1947 – Olaf Frydenlund , Norwegian target shooter (b. 1862)1950 – Vaslav Nijinsky , Polish dancer and choreographer (b. 1890)1959 – Marios Makrionitis , Roman Catholic Archbishop of Athens (b. 1913)1961 – Joseph Carrodus , Australian public servant (b. 1885)1962 – Juan Belmonte , Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892)1965 – Lars Hanson , Swedish actor (b. 1886)1969 – Zinaida Aksentyeva , Ukrainian astronomer (b. 1900)1973 – Pablo Picasso , Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1881)1974 – James Charles McGuigan , Canadian cardinal (b. 1894)1979 – Breece D'J Pancake , American short story writer (b. 1952)1981 – Omar Bradley , American general (b. 1893)1983 – Isamu Kosugi , Japanese actor and director (b. 1904)1984 – Pyotr Kapitsa , Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)1985 – John Frederick Coots , American pianist and composer (b. 1897)1990 – Ryan White , American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (b. 1971)1991 – Per Ohlin , Swedish musician (b. 1969)1992 – Daniel Bovet , Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)1993 – Marian Anderson , American operatic singer (b. 1897)1994 – François Rozet , French-Canadian actor (b. 1899)1996 – Ben Johnson , American actor and stuntman (b. 1918)1996 – León Klimovsky , Argentinian-Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1906) 1996 – Mick Young , Australian politician (b. 1936) 1997 – Laura Nyro , American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1947)2000 – František Šťastný , Czech motorcycle racer (b. 1927)2000 – Claire Trevor , American actress (b. 1910) 2002 – María Félix , Mexican actress (b. 1914)2002 – Harvey Quaytman , American painter (b. 1937) 2004 – Werner Schumacher , German actor (b. 1921)2005 – Onna White , Canadian choreographer and dancer (b. 1922)2006 – Gerard Reve , Dutch author and poet (b. 1923)2007 – Sol LeWitt , American painter and sculptor (b. 1928)2008 – Kazuo Shiraga , Japanese painter (b. 1924)2009 – Richard de Mille , American Scientologist, author, investigative journalist, and psychologist (b. 1922)2009 – Piotr Morawski , Polish mountaineer (b. 1976) 2010 – Malcolm McLaren , English singer-songwriter (b. 1946)2010 – Teddy Scholten , Dutch singer (b. 1926) 2011 – Hedda Sterne , Romanian-American painter and photographer (b. 1910)2012 – Blair Kiel , American football player and coach (b. 1961)2012 – Jack Tramiel , Polish-American businessman, founded Commodore International (b. 1928) 2012 – Janusz K. Zawodny , Polish-American soldier, historian, and political scientist (b. 1921) 2013 – Mikhail Beketov , Russian journalist (b. 1958)2013 – Annette Funicello , American actress and singer (b. 1942) 2013 – Sara Montiel , Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1928) 2013 – José Luis Sampedro , Spanish economist and author (b. 1917) 2013 – Margaret Thatcher , English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925) 2014 – Emmanuel III Delly , Iraqi patriarch (b. 1927)2014 – Karlheinz Deschner , German author and activist (b. 1924) 2014 – Ivan Mercep , New Zealand architect, designed the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum (b. 1930) 2015 – Jayakanthan , Indian journalist and author (b. 1934)2015 – Rayson Huang , Hong Kong chemist and academic (b. 1920) 2015 – Sergei Lashchenko , Ukrainian kick-boxer (b. 1987) 2015 – David Laventhol , American journalist and publisher (b. 1933) 2015 – Jean-Claude Turcotte , Canadian cardinal (b. 1936) Holidays and observances [ edit ] References [ edit ] External links [ edit ] Wikimedia Commons has media related to April 8
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