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• 404 BC – Peloponnesian War: Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the war ends.
• 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. Muslim control over Transcaucasia is solidified and its Islamization begins, while several major Armenian nakharar families lose power and their remnants flee to the Byzantine Empire.
• 799 – After mistreatment and disfigurement by the citizens of Rome, pope Leo III flees to the Frankish court of king Charlemagne at Paderborn for protection.
• 1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.
• 1607 – Eighty Years' War: The Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
• 1644 – The Chongzhen Emperor, the last Emperor of Ming Dynasty China, commits suicide during a peasant rebellion led by Li Zicheng.
• 1707 – A coalition of England, the Netherlands and Portugal is defeated by a Franco-Spanish army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
• 1792 – Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine.
• 1792 – La Marseillaise (the French national anthem) is composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
• 1804 – The western Georgian kingdom of Imereti accepts the suzerainty of the Russian Empire
• 1829 – Charles Fremantle arrives in HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom.
• 1846 – Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican–American War.
• 1847 – The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness.
• 1849 – The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots.
• 1859 – British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Forces under Union Admiral David Farragut demand the surrender of the Confederate city of New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
• 1882 – Tonkin Campaign: French and Vietnamese troops clashed in Tonkin, when Commandant Henri Rivière seized the citadel of Hanoi with a small force of marine infantry.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
• 1901 – New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
  
  Anzac Beach – Australian and New Zealand forces invade Turkey
• 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins—The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.
• 1916 – Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
• 1916 – Anzac Day is commemorated for the first time on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
• 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
• 1938 – U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
• 1940 - Merkið, the flag of the Faroe Islands is approved by the British occupation goverment.
• 1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
• 1944 – The United Negro College Fund is incorporated.
• 1945 – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.
• 1945 – Liberation Day (Italy): The Nazi occupation army surrenders and leaves Northern Italy after a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement; the puppet fascist regime dissolves and Benito Mussolini is captured after trying to escape. This day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.
• 1945 – Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organization.
• 1945 – The last German troops retreat from Finland's soil in Lapland, ending the Lapland War. Military acts of Second World War end in Finland.
• 1946 – Naperville train disaster kills 47 in Naperville, Illinois.
• 1951 – Korean War: Assaulting Chinese forces are forced to withdraw after heavy fighting with UN forces, primarily made up of Australian and Canadian troops, at the Battle of Kapyong.
• 1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
• 1954 – The first practical solar cell is publicly demonstrated by Bell Telephone Laboratories.
• 1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.
• 1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
• 1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
• 1965 – Teenage sniper Michael Andrew Clark kills three and wounds six others shooting from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Santa Maria, California.
• 1966 – The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake.
• 1972 – Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
• 1974 – Carnation Revolution: A leftist military coup in Portugal overthrows the fascist Estado Novo regime and establishes a democratic government.
• 1975 – As North Vietnamese forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost ten years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
• 1981 – More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
• 1982 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
• 1983 – American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.
• 1983 – Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit.
• 1986 – Mswati III is crowned King of Swaziland, succeeding his father Sobhuza II.
• 1988 – In Israel, John Demjanuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II.
• 1990 – Violeta Chamorro takes office as the President of Nicaragua, the first woman to hold the position.
• 2001 – Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
• 2005 – The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
• 2005 – Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union.
• 2005 – One hundred seven people die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.
• 2007 – Boris Yeltsin's funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.

Births[edit]

• 1214 – Louis IX of France (d. 1270)
• 1228 – Conrad IV of Germany (d. 1254)
• 1284 – Edward II of England (d. 1327)
• 1287 – Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1330)
• 1502 – Georg Major, German theologian and academic (d. 1574)
• 1599 – Oliver Cromwell, English general and politician (d. 1658)
• 1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans (d. 1660)
• 1621 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, English soldier and politician (d. 1679)
• 1666 – Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer (d. 1727)
• 1694 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect and politician, Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (d. 1753)
• 1710 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer (d. 1776)
• 1723 – Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer (d. 1797)
• 1725 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (d. 1786)
• 1767 – Nicolas Oudinot, French general (d. 1847)
• 1770 – Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist (d. 1850)
• 1775 – Carlota Joaquina of Spain (d. 1830)
• 1776 – Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1857)
• 1843 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (d. 1878)
• 1849 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
• 1850 – Luise Adolpha Le Beau, German composer (d. 1927)
• 1851 – Leopoldo Alas, Spanish author (d. 1901)
• 1862 – Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (d. 1933)
• 1868 – John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (d. 1910)
• 1871 – Lorne Currie, French-English sailor (d. 1926)
• 1873 – Walter de la Mare, English poet and author (d. 1956)
• 1874 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor, developed Marconi's law, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
• 1874 – Ernest Webb, English race walker (d. 1937)
• 1876 – Jacob Nicol, Canadian publisher, lawyer, and politician (d. 1958)
• 1878 – William Merz, American gymnast (d. 1946)
• 1887 – Kojo Tovalou Houénou, Beninese politician and writer (d. 1936)
• 1892 – Maud Hart Lovelace, American author (d. 1980)
• 1897 – Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (d. 1965)
• 1898 – Fred Haney, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1977)
• 1900 – Gladwyn Jebb, English politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations (d. 1996)
• 1900 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1902 – Werner Heyde, German psychiatrist and academic (d. 1964)
• 1902 – Mary Miles Minter, American actress (d. 1984)
• 1903 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1987)
• 1905 – George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player and referee (d. 1986)
• 1906 – William J. Brennan, Jr., American colonel and jurist (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist (d. 1965)
• 1909 – William Pereira, American architect, designed the Transamerica Pyramid (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Connie Marrero, Cuban baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1912 – Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (d. 1965)
• 1913 – Nikolaos Roussen, Greek captain (d. 1944)
• 1913 – Kenneth Lee Spencer, American opera singer and actor (d. 1964)
• 1914 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American author (d. 1948)
• 1915 – Mort Weisinger, American journalist (d. 1978)
• 1917 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Gérard de Vaucouleurs, French-American astronomer and academic (d. 1995)
• 1918 – Astrid Varnay, Swedish soprano (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Finn Helgesen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Jean Carmet, French actor (d. 1994)
• 1920 – Robert Q. Lewis, American game show host and actor (d. 1991)
• 1921 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter and sculptor (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Francis Graham-Smith, English astronomer
• 1923 – Melissa Hayden, Canadian-American ballerina (d. 2006)
• 1923 – Albert King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992)
• 1924 – Ingemar Johansson, Swedish race walker (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Franco Mannino, Italian pianist, composer, director, and playwright (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Paulo Vanzolini, Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher, English union leader and businessman
• 1925 – Sammy Drechsel, German comedian and journalist (d. 1986)
• 1925 – Kay E. Kuter, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1925 – Louis O'Neil, Canadian educator and politician
• 1926 – Johnny Craig, American illustrator (d. 2001)
• 1926 – Gertrude Fröhlich-Sandner, Austrian politician (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Corín Tellado, Spanish author (d. 2009)
• 1927 – Albert Uderzo, French author and illustrator
• 1928 – Vassar Clements, American fiddler (Old and in the Way) (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Cy Twombly, American painter and sculptor, long based in Italy (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Yvette Williams, New Zealand long jumper
• 1930 – Paul Mazursky, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
• 1930 – Godfrey Milton-Thompson, English admiral and surgeon (d. 2012)
• 1930 – Peter Schulz, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician and physicist (d. 1980)
• 1931 – James Fenton, Irish linguist and poet
• 1931 – David Shepherd, English painter
• 1932 – Meadowlark Lemon, American basketball player and actor
• 1932 – Lia Manoliu, Romanian discus thrower (d. 1998)
• 1932 – William Roache, English actor
• 1933 – Jerry Leiber, American songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Joyce Ricketts, American baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1934 – Peter McParland, Irish footballer and manager
• 1934 – Denny Miller, American actor (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Bob Gutowski, American pole vaulter (d. 1960)
• 1935 – Reinier Kreijermaat, Dutch footballer
• 1936 – Henck Arron, Surinamese politician, 1st Prime Ministers of the Republic of Suriname (d. 2000)
• 1938 – Roger Boisjoly, American engineer (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Ton Schulten, Dutch painter
• 1939 – Tarcisio Burgnich, Italian footballer and manager
• 1939 – Ted Kooser, American poet
• 1939 – Richard Lapthorne, English businessman
• 1939 – Michael Llewellyn-Smith, English academic and diplomat
• 1939 – Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, Chinese-English historian and academic
• 1939 – Veronica Sutherland, British diplomat and academic
• 1940 – Jochen Borchert, German politician
• 1940 – Al Pacino, American actor and director
• 1941 – Princess Muna al-Hussein of Jordan
• 1941 – Bertrand Tavernier, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 – Mr. Hito, Japanese wrestler (d. 2010)
• 1942 – Jon Kyl, American lawyer and politician
• 1943 – Tony Christie, English singer-songwriter and actor
• 1943 – Alan Feduccia, American ornithologist and academic
• 1944 – Len Goodman, English dancer
• 1944 – Stephen Nickell, English economist and academic
• 1945 – Stu Cook, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Creedence Clearwater)
• 1945 – Richard C. Hoagland, American theorist and author
• 1945 – Björn Ulvaeus, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer (ABBA and Hootenanny Singers)
• 1946 – Talia Shire, American actress
• 1946 – Peter Sutherland, Irish lawyer and politician, Attorney General of Ireland
• 1946 – Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian colonel, lawyer, and politician
• 1947 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1947 – Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor
• 1948 – Mike Selvey, English cricketer and sportscaster
• 1948 – Yu Shyi-kun, Taiwanese politician, 39th Premier of the Republic of China
• 1949 – Michael Brown, American keyboard player and songwriter (The Left Banke and Stories) (d. 2015)
• 1949 – James Fenton, English poet and critic
• 1949 – Vicente Pernía, Argentinian footballer and race car driver
• 1949 – Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist, lawyer, and politician
• 1950 – Donnell Deeny, British judge
• 1950 – Steve Ferrone, English drummer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and Average White Band)
• 1950 – Peter Jurasik, American actor
• 1950 – Valentyna Kozyr, Ukrainian high jumper
• 1950 – Apollo Quiboloy, Filipino religious leader
• 1951 – Ian McCartney, Scottish politician, Minister of State for Trade
• 1952 – Ketil Bjørnstad, Norwegian pianist and composer
• 1952 – Vladislav Tretiak, Russian ice hockey player
• 1952 – Jacques Santini, French footballer and coach
• 1953 – Ron Clements, American animator, producer, and screenwriter
• 1953 – Anthony Venables, British economist
• 1954 – Melvin Burgess, English author
• 1954 – Randy Cross, American football player and sportscaster
• 1954 – Róisín Shortall, Irish politician
• 1955 – Américo Gallego, Argentinian footballer and coach
• 1955 – Parviz Parastui, Iranian actor and singer
• 1955 – Zev Siegl, American businessman, co-founded Starbucks
• 1956 – Dominique Blanc, French actress
• 1956 – Jaroslava Schallerová, Czech actress
• 1956 – Andres Sõber, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1957 – Eric Bristow, English darts player
• 1957 – Theo de Rooij, Dutch cyclist and manager
• 1958 – Fish, Scottish singer-songwriter and actor (Marillion)
• 1959 – Clarissa Burt, American model and actress
• 1959 – Paul Madden, British diplomat, British High Commissioner to Australia
• 1959 – Daniel Kash, Canadian actor and director
• 1959 – Tony Phillips, American baseball player
• 1960 – Michael Lohan, American father of Lindsay Lohan
• 1960 – Robert Peston, English journalist
• 1960 – Bruce Redman, Australian director, producer, and critic
• 1961 – Dinesh D'Souza, Indian-American educator, pundit and author
• 1962 – Foeke Booy, Dutch footballer and manager
• 1963 – Joy Covey, American businesswoman (d. 2013)
• 1963 – Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, French actress
• 1963 – David Moyes, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1963 – Bernd Müller, German footballer and manager
• 1963 – Paul Wassif, British guitar player
• 1964 – Hank Azaria, American actor and director
• 1964 – Andy Bell, English singer-songwriter and DJ (Erasure)
• 1964 – Fiona Bruce, British journalist
• 1965 – Eric Avery, American bass player and songwriter (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, and Polar Bear)
• 1965 – Mark Bryant, American basketball player
• 1965 – Simon Fowler, English singer and guitarist (Ocean Colour Scene and Merrymouth)
• 1965 – John Henson, American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2014)
• 1966 – Man Arenas, Belgian-Spanish production designer and illustrator
• 1966 – James Stacy Barbour, American actor and singer
• 1966 – Diego Domínguez, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
• 1966 – Femke Halsema, Dutch politician
• 1966 – Darren Holmes, American baseball player
• 1966 – Erik Pappas, American baseball player and coach
• 1966 – Rubén Sosa, Uruguayan footballer and coach
• 1967 – Tim Davie, English broadcaster
• 1968 – Vitaliy Kyrylenko, Ukrainian long jumper
• 1969 – Joe Buck, American sportscaster
• 1969 – Martin Koolhoven, Dutch director and screenwriter
• 1969 – Gina Torres, American actress
• 1969 – Darren Woodson, American football player and sportscaster
• 1969 – Renée Zellweger, American actress and producer
• 1970 – Jason Lee, American skateboarder, actor, and producer
• 1970 – Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (d. 2011)
• 1970 – Steve Tovar, American football player and coach
• 1970 – Jason Wiles, American actor
• 1971 – Sara Baras, Spanish dancer
• 1971 – Brad Clontz, American baseball player
• 1972 – Zaza Zazirov, Ukrainian wrestler
• 1973 – Carlota Castrejana, Spanish athlete
• 1973 – Fredrik Larzon, Swedish drummer (Millencolin)
• 1974 – Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou
• 1974 – Dean Phoenix, Mexican porn actor
• 1975 – Emily Bergl, English-American actress
• 1975 – Jacque Jones, American baseball player and coach
• 1976 – Gilberto da Silva Melo, Brazilian footballer
• 1976 – Tim Duncan, American basketball player
• 1976 – Kim Jong-kook, South Korean singer (Turbo)
• 1976 – Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
• 1976 – Kristin Sutton, American actress and voice over actress
• 1977 – Constantinos Christoforou, Cypriot singer-songwriter (One)
• 1977 – Ilias Kotsios, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Tommy Mac, Canadian bass player (Hedley)
• 1977 – Marguerite Moreau, American actress
• 1977 – Paavo Siljamäki, Finnish DJ and producer (Above & Beyond)
• 1977 – Matthew West, American singer-songwriter and actor
• 1978 – Letícia Birkheuer, Brazilian model and actress
• 1978 – Duncan Kibet, Kenyan runner
• 1978 – Matt Walker, English swimmer
• 1980 – Ben Johnston, Scottish drummer and songwriter (Biffy Clyro)
• 1980 – James Johnston, Scottish bass player and songwriter (Biffy Clyro)
• 1980 – Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor
• 1980 – Bruce Martin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1980 – Lee Spick, English snooker player (d. 2015)
• 1980 – Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
• 1980 – Alejandro Valverde, Spanish cyclist
• 1981 – Dwone Hicks, American football player
• 1981 – Felipe Massa, Brazilian race car driver
• 1981 – John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter
• 1981 – Anja Pärson, Swedish skier
• 1982 – Brian Barton, American baseball player
• 1982 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer
• 1982 – Marco Russo, Italian footballer
• 1983 – J. P. Howell, American baseball player
• 1983 – Joanne Peh, Singaporean actress
• 1983 – Johnathan Thurston, Australian rugby player
• 1983 – DeAngelo Williams, American football player
• 1983 – Nick Willis, New Zealand runner
• 1984 – Robert Andino, American baseball player
• 1984 – Melonie Diaz, American actress
• 1984 – Jen Johnson, American model and actress
• 1984 – Isaac Kiprono Songok, Kenyan runner
• 1984 – Andre' Woodson, American football player and coach
• 1985 – Jadyn Maria, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Giedo van der Garde, Dutch race car driver
• 1986 – Daniel Sharman, British actor
• 1986 – John DeLuca, American actor
• 1986 – Alexei Emelin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Claudia Rath, German heptathlete
• 1987 – Razak Boukari, Togolese footballer
• 1987 – Jay Park, American-South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor(2PM and Art of Movement)
• 1987 – Johann Smith, American soccer player
• 1988 – James Sheppard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Sara Paxton, American actress
• 1989 – Victor Engström, Swedish Bandy player (d. 2013)
• 1989 – Marie-Michèle Gagnon, Canadian skier
• 1989 – Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player
• 1989 – Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, Chinese 11th Panchen Lama
• 1990 – Jean-Éric Vergne, French race car driver
• 1990 – Taylor Walker, Australian footballer
• 1993 – Alex Bowman, American race car driver
• 1993 – Raphaël Varane, French footballer
• 1993 – Daniel Norris, American baseball player
• 1996 – Allisyn Ashley Arm, American actress

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• 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux.
• 1478 – The Pazzi attack Lorenzo de' Medici and kill his brother Giuliano during High Mass in the Duomo of Florence.
• 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare was baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of actual birth is unknown).
• 1607 – English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia.
• 1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz.
• 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture with the factions of the Ancien Régime and to eventually consolidate his own rule.
• 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.
• 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
• 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln, in Virginia.
• 1903 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
• 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
• 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
• 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque), Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
• 1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1549 Chinese miners dead.
• 1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden.
• 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt.
• 1944 – Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete.
• 1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
• 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army are liberated in Baguio City and they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
• 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
• 1956 – SS Ideal X, the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
• 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
• 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after twelve years of dictatorial rule.
• 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
• 1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allows for female participation in elections.
• 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.
• 1965 – A Rolling Stones concert in London, Ontario is shut down by police after 15 minutes due to rioting.
• 1966 – An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent.
• 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
• 1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force.
• 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
• 1982 – Fifty-seven people are killed by former police officer Woo Bum-kon in a shooting spree in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea.
• 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.
  
  

  Reactor No. 4 with its enclosing sarcophagus.
• 1989 – The deadliest tornado in world history strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless.
• 1989 – People's Daily publishes the People's Daily editorial of April 26 which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests
• 1991 – Seventy tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado (see Andover, Kansas Tornado Outbreak).
• 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board.
• 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
• 2005 – Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).

Births[edit]

• 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (d. 180)
• 757 – Hisham I, 2nd Emir of Córdoba (d. 796)
• 1538 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (d. 1600)
• 1564 – William Shakespeare, English poet, playwright and actor (d. 1616)
• 1575 – Marie de' Medici, Italian wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
• 1607 – Countess Palatine Magdalene Catherine of Zweibrücken (d. 1648)
• 1648 – Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
• 1697 – Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer (d. 1754)
• 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic (d. 1796)
• 1718 – Esek Hopkins, American commander (d. 1802)
• 1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853)
• 1782 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1866)
• 1785 – John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (d. 1851)
• 1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (d. 1862)
• 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (d. 1863)
• 1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1889)
• 1804 – Charles Goodyear, American politician (d. 1876)
• 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park (d. 1903)
• 1826 – George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
• 1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American general and politician (d. 1872)
• 1834 – Charles Farrar Browne, American author (d. 1867)
• 1856 – Joseph Ward, New Zealand politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
• 1862 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter (d. 1938)
• 1876 – Ernst Felle, German rower (d. 1959)
• 1878 – Rafael Guízar Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (d. 1938)
• 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
• 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
• 1886 – Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet (d. 1913)
• 1889 – Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
• 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher (d. 1951)
• 1894 – Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician (d. 1987)
• 1896 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (d. 1967)
• 1896 – Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)
• 1897 – Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (d. 1967)
• 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
• 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
• 1898 – John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (d. 1972)
• 1899 – Oscar Rabin, Latvian born English bandleader and musician (d. 1958)
• 1900 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
• 1904 – Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (d. 1991)
• 1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
• 1911 – Paul Verner, German politician (d. 1986)
• 1912 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Charlie Chester, English radio and television host (d. 1997)
• 1914 – Bernard Malamud, American author (d. 1986)
• 1914 – James Rouse, American real estate developer, founded The Rouse Company (d. 1996)
• 1916 – Morris West, Australian author and playwright (d. 1999)
• 1916 – Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1916 – George Tuska, American illustrator (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Ken Wallis, English pilot and commander (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player (d. 1992)
• 1917 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower
• 1917 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch runner (d. 2004)
• 1918 – Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
• 1921 – Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, and saxophonist, and composer (d. 2008)
• 1922 – J. C. Holt, British historian and academic (d. 2014)
• 1922 – Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada (d. 1993)
• 1922 – Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer
• 1924 – Browning Ross, American runner (d. 1998)
• 1925 – Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
• 1925 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish singer and guitarist (Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann) (d. 2015)
• 1926 – David Coleman, English sportscaster (d. 2013)
• 1926 – J. B. Hutto, American singer and guitarist (d. 1983)
• 1926 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Jack Douglas, English actor (d. 2008)
• 1929 – Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (d. 2002)
• 1930 – Roger Moens, Belgian runner
• 1931 – Paul Almond, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1931 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer
• 1932 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
• 1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress, comedian, singer and producer
• 1933 – Aleksandr Chuchelov, Estonian sailor
• 1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican general (d. 2005)
• 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1935 – Patricia Reilly Giff, American author and educator
• 1937 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
• 1938 – Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1938 – Willie Wood, Scottish bowler
• 1940 – Harry Fielder, English actor
• 1940 – Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician (d. 2014)
• 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
• 1940 – Cliff Watson, English rugby player
• 1941 – Claudine Auger, French model and actress
• 1941 – Claudine Clark, American singer-songwriter
• 1941 – Robin Jacob, English judge and academic
• 1941 – John Mitchell, American composer
• 1942 – Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (d. 2014)
• 1942 – Sharon Carstairs, Canadian politician
• 1942 – Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat
• 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor
• 1942 – Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist
• 1943 – Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Spooky Tooth)
• 1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect, designed the Therme Vals
• 1944 – Richard Bradshaw, English conductor (d. 2007)
• 1944 – Roger Coulam, English keyboard player (Blue Mink)
• 1944 – Amien Rais, Indonesian politician
• 1945 – Howard Davies, English director and producer
• 1945 – Dick Johnson, Australian race car driver
• 1945 – Sylvain Simard, Canadian academic and politician
• 1946 – Ralph Coates, English footballer (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author
• 1947 – Warren Clarke, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
• 1949 – Dominic Sena, American director and screenwriter
• 1951 – John Battle, English politician
• 1952 – Spice Williams-Crosby, American actress
• 1953 – Nancy Lenehan, American actress
• 1953 – David Reddaway, Canadian-English diplomat
• 1953 – Linda Thompson, American lawyer
• 1954 – Chito S. Roño, Filipino director
• 1954 – Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player
• 1954 – Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer
• 1955 – Kurt Bodewig, German politician
• 1955 – Mike Scott, American baseball player
• 1956 – Koo Stark, American actress
• 1957 – Michel Barrette, Canadian comedian and actor
• 1957 – Diane Hébert, Canadian medical patient (d. 2008)
• 1957 – Edwina Hart, Welsh politician
• 1958 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish race car driver
• 1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director, and producer
• 1958 – Jeffrey Guterman, American psychotherapist, author, and educator
• 1958 – Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer, coach, and manager
• 1959 – John Corabi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mötley Crüe, Angora, The Scream, Union, and Brides of Destruction)
• 1959 – Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
• 1960 – Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player and coach
• 1960 – Roger Taylor, English drummer (Duran Duran and Arcadia)
• 1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1961 – Chris Mars, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer (The Replacements and Golden Smog)
• 1962 – Colin Anderson, English footballer
• 1962 – Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
• 1962 – Debra Wilson, American actress
• 1963 – Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer
• 1963 – Colin Scotts, Australian-American football player
• 1963 – Mark Serwotka, British General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)
• 1964 – Rebecka Törnqvist, Swedish singer
• 1965 – Susannah Harker, English actress
• 1965 – Kevin James, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Kane, Spain-born American wrestler and actor
• 1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress
• 1967 – Tõnu Tõniste, Estonian sailor
• 1967 – Toomas Tõniste, Estonian sailor and politician
• 1969 – Teresa Lewis, American murderer (d. 2010)
• 1969 – Kate Hardie, English actress
• 1970 – Dean Austin, English footballer and manager
• 1970 – Kristen Ghodsee, American ethnographer
• 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian-American model and jewelry designer
• 1970 – Tionne Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (TLC)
• 1971 – Jay DeMarcus, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Rascal Flatts and East to West)
• 1972 – Kiko, Spanish footballer
• 1972 – Jason Bargwanna, Australian race car driver
• 1972 – Natrone Means, American football player and coach
• 1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer and manager
• 1973 – Geoff Blum, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1973 – Jules Naudet, French-American director and producer
• 1973 – Chris Perry, English footballer
• 1973 – Óscar García Junyent, Spanish footballer and coach
• 1974 – Shondrella Avery, American actress
• 1974 – Ivana Miličević, Bosnia-born American actress
• 1974 – Adil Ray, English actor and radio host
• 1975 – Joey Jordison, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Slipknot and Murderdolls)
• 1975 – Nerina Pallot, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1975 – India Summer, American porn actress and model
• 1976 – Luigi Panarelli, Italian footballer
• 1976 – Václav Varaďa, Czech ice hockey player
• 1977 – Jason Earles, American actor
• 1977 – Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
• 1977 – Roxana Saberi, American journalist
• 1977 – Tom Welling, American actor, director, and producer
• 1978 – Avant, American singer-songwriter
• 1978 – Joe Crede, American baseball player
• 1978 – Stana Katic, Canadian actress
• 1978 – Tyler Labine, Canadian actor
• 1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
• 1979 – Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1979 – Janne Wirman, Finnish keyboard player (Children of Bodom, Warmen, and Masterplan)
• 1980 – Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress
• 1980 – Marlon King, English footballer
• 1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress
• 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor and producer
• 1980 – Marnette Patterson, American actress
• 1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
• 1981 – Ms. Dynamite, English rapper and producer
• 1981 – Caro Emerald, Dutch singer
• 1981 – Sandra Schmitt, German skier (d. 2000)
• 1982 – Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
• 1982 – Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet
• 1982 – Jon Lee, English singer and actor (S Club)
• 1982 – Cooper Wallace, American football player
• 1982 – Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter
• 1983 – José María López, Argentine race car driver
• 1983 – Jessica Lynch, American soldier and educator
• 1985 – Nam Gyu-ri, South Korean singer and actress (SeeYa)
• 1985 – John Isner, American tennis player
• 1985 – Andrea Koch Benvenuto, Chilean tennis player
• 1986 – Lior Refaelov, Israeli footballer
• 1986 – Yuliya Zaripova, Russian runner
• 1987 – Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Jessica Lee Rose, American-New Zealand actress
• 1988 – Hazel Ann Mendoza, Filipino actress
• 1988 – Manuel Viniegra, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – Eric Salamat, Filipino basketball player
• 1989 – Daesung, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (Big Bang)
• 1990 – Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer
• 1990 – Karty, Indian actor and dancer
• 1990 – See More Business, Irish race horse (d. 2014)
• 1990 – Nevin Spence, British-Irish Ulster Rugby union player (d. 2012)
• 1990 – Kim Yu-mi, South Korean model, Miss Korea 2012
• 1991 – Shahira Barry, Irish model
• 1991 – Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer
• 1992 – Danielle Hope, English actress and singer
• 1994 – Daniil Kvyat, Russian race car driver
• 1995 – Daniel Padilla, Filipino actor and singer

Deaths[edit]

• 499 – Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (b. 467)
• 645 – Richarius, Frankish hermit and monk (b. 560)
• 757 – Stephen II, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 715)
• 1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
• 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
• 1476 – Simonetta Vespucci, Italian model (b. 1453)
• 1478 – Giuliano de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1453)
• 1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
• 1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1651)
• 1717 – Samuel Bellamy, English pirate (b. 1689)
• 1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish nun, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)
• 1789 – Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (b. 1721)
• 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
• 1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
• 1892 – Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (b. 1791)
• 1895 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
• 1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1832)
• 1915 – John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
• 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (b. 1887)
• 1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
• 1936 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
• 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
• 1944 – Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)
• 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)
• 1945 – Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
• 1946 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)
• 1950 – George Murray Hulbert, American politician (b. 1881)
• 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (b. 1868)
• 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
• 1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868)
• 1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (b. 1882)
• 1968 – John Heartfield, German illustrator (b. 1891)
• 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (b. 1883)
• 1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister (b. 1886)
• 1970 – Charles January, American soccer player (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, dancer, and playwright (b. 1911)
• 1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
• 1976 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
• 1976 – Sid James, South African-English actor (b. 1913)
• 1976 – Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
• 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
• 1981 – Herb Voland, American actor (b. 1918)
• 1984 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1904)
• 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
• 1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
• 1987 – Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (b. 1922)
• 1987 – John Silkin, English politician (b. 1923)
• 1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and producer (b. 1911)
• 1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
• 1991 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American author and screenwriter (b. 1901)
• 1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1931)
• 1991 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
• 1994 – Mas Oyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin kaikan (b. 1927)
• 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Sound and The Outsiders) (b. 1957)
• 1999 – Jill Dando, English journalist (b. 1961)
• 2003 – Rosemary Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (b. 1984)
• 2003 – Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (b. 1904)
• 2003 – Peter Stone, American screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2004 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
• 2005 – Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926)
• 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan author (b. 1917)
• 2007 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
• 2009 – Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian artist (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Urs Felber, Swiss businessman (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sisters of Glory) (b. 1950)
• 2012 – Pete Fornatale, American radio host (b. 1945)
• 2012 – Ardian Klosi, Albanian publicist (b. 1957)
• 2012 – Ted Newall, Canadian businessman (b. 1935)
• 2012 – Terence Spinks, English boxer (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Margie Stewart, American model and actress (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (b. 1930)
• 2013 – William L. Guy, American politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (b. 1919)
• 2013 – George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Marion Rushing, American football player (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Mary Thom, American journalist (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Jim Tucker, American journalist and author (b. 1934)
• 2014 – William Ash, American-English pilot and author (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Michael Heisley, American businessman (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Lee Marshall, American wrestling announcer and actor (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Antonio Pica, Spanish actor (b. 1933)
• 2014 – DJ Rashad, American DJ and producer (b. 1979)
• 2014 – Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (b. 1927)
• 2014 – W. E. "Pete" Snelson, American soldier, journalist, and politician (b. 1923)

 

 

Superyacht με δικό του ελικοδρόμιο, πισίνα και παρκινγκ αυτοκινήτου 

Αν αποφασίσεις να αγοράσεις ένα superyacht θα το πάρεις… με όλα τα κομφόρ!

Τι πάει να πει αυτό στη «γλώσσα των πολυεκατομμυριούχων»;

Καταρχήν ότι μπορούν να βγάλουν το μπλοκάκι και να γράψουν απ’ ευθείας μια επιταγή των 43 εκατομμυρίων δολαρίων για να το αποκτήσουν.

Και τι θα πάρουν με 43 εκατομμύρια;

Το «Range Rover» των θαλασσών: το superyacht Explorer!
Ένα γιοτ υπερπολυτελείας 68 μέτρων που έχει το δικό του ελικοδρόμιο, μια μεγάλη πισίνα, χώρο πάρκινγκ για ένα supercar και αποθηκευτικό χώρο για jetski!

Το Explorer μπορεί να φιλοξενήσει έως και 12 άτομα (πέραν των 15 μελών του πληρώματος) και αποτελεί το δημιούργημα του βρετανού σχεδιαστή σκαφών πολυτελείας Tony Castro.