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This page tells you about important things that happened on April 14 throughout history. It also lists famous people born and who passed away on this day, plus special holidays and celebrations.

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April 14 in recent years

April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 261 days remain until the end of the year.

Exciting Events on April 14
People Born on April 14
People Who Passed Away on April 14
Special Days and Celebrations
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Exciting Events on April 14

Important Moments Before 1600

43 BC – In ancient Rome, armies loyal to the Roman Senate won a battle against the forces of Mark Antony at Forum Gallorum.
69 – Vitellius, a Roman general, defeated Emperor Otho in the First Battle of Bedriacum. This win helped Vitellius become the new ruler of Rome.
966 – Mieszko I, the leader of the Polans, became a Christian after marrying Doubravka of Bohemia. This event is seen as the start of the Polish state.
972 – Otto II, a co-Emperor, married a Byzantine princess named Theophanu. She was crowned empress on the same day.
1395 – In the Tokhtamysh–Timur war, Timur defeated the army of the Golden Horde at the Battle of the Terek River. This battle greatly weakened the Golden Horde's military power.
1471 – In England, the Yorkist army, led by Edward IV, defeated the Lancastrians at the Battle of Barnet. The Lancastrian leader, the Earl of Warwick, was killed, and Edward became king again.
1561 – People in Nuremberg reported seeing strange things in the sky, which they described as an aerial battle.

Events from 1601 to 1900

1639 – During the Thirty Years' War, Swedish forces defeated the armies of the Holy Roman Empire and Electorate of Saxony at the Battle of Chemnitz. This victory allowed the Swedes to move into Bohemia.
1775 – The first group in North America to work against slavery, called the "Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage," was started in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1793 – French troops, led by Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, won against slave settlers in the Siege of Port-au-Prince.
1816 – Bussa, a slave in Barbados, led a slave rebellion. He is remembered as a national hero for this brave act.
1849 – Hungary declared itself independent from Austria, with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1858 – A large fire in Christiania, Norway, destroyed many city blocks. About 1000 people lost their homes.
1865 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth. President Lincoln passed away the next day.
1865 – On the same day, William H. Seward, the U.S. Secretary of State, and his family were attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
1881 – The famous Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight happened in El Paso, Texas.
1890 – The Pan-American Union was created at a meeting in Washington, D.C. This group helps countries in the Americas work together.
1894 – The first movie theater opened in New York City. It had ten Kinetoscopes, which were machines where people could watch short films.
1895 – The 1895 Ljubljana earthquake, the strongest and last major earthquake in that area, occurred.
1900 – The world's fair, Exposition Universelle, opened in Paris.

Modern Events (1901-Present)

1906 – The first meeting of the Azusa Street Revival took place in Los Angeles. This event helped start the worldwide movement of Pentecostalism.
1908 – Hauser Dam, a large dam on the Missouri River in Montana, broke. This sent a huge wave of water downstream.
1909 – In the Ottoman Empire, a terrible event called the Adana massacre began, where many Armenians were killed in Adana.
1912 – The British passenger ship RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean and started to sink.
1928 – The Bremen, a German airplane, successfully completed the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west, landing on Greenly Island, Canada.
1929 – The very first Monaco Grand Prix car race was held in Monaco. William Grover-Williams won the race.
1931 – The Spanish Cortes (parliament) removed King Alfonso XIII from power and created the Second Spanish Republic.
1935 – The Black Sunday dust storm, one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl era, swept across parts of Oklahoma and Texas.
1940 – World War II: Royal Marines landed in Namsos, Norway, before a larger group of soldiers arrived two days later.
1941 – World War II: German and Italian forces attacked Tobruk, Libya.
1944 – The Bombay explosion: A huge explosion in Bombay harbor killed 300 people and caused a lot of damage.
1945 – Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division intentionally destroyed the German town of Friesoythe under orders from Major General Christopher Vokes.
1958 – The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 fell out of orbit. This spacecraft was the first to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika, who sadly only lived for a few hours.
1967 – Gnassingbé Eyadéma took over as the new President of Togo, a position he held for 38 years.
1978 – Tbilisi demonstrations: Thousands of people in Georgia protested against Soviet attempts to change the official status of the Georgian language.
1979 – A protest against higher rice prices in Liberia led to clashes between protestors and police, resulting in over 70 deaths.
1981 – STS-1: The first working Space Shuttle, Columbia, finished its first test flight.
1986 – The heaviest hailstones ever recorded, each weighing about 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds), fell in Bangladesh, killing 92 people.
1988 – The USS Samuel B. Roberts hit a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 – In Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signed an agreement to remove its troops from Afghanistan.
1991 – The Republic of Georgia created the position of President after declaring its independence from the Soviet Union.
1999 – NATO accidentally bombed a group of Albanian refugees.
1999 – A severe hailstorm hit Sydney, Australia, causing a lot of damage, making it the most expensive natural disaster in Australian history at the time.
2002 – Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez returned to office two days after being removed and arrested by the military.
2003 – The Human Genome Project was completed. Scientists had sequenced 99% of the human genome with very high accuracy.
2005 – The Oregon Supreme Court canceled marriage licenses that had been given to same-sex couples a year earlier in Multnomah County.
2006 – Two bombs exploded at the Jama Masjid mosque in Delhi, injuring 13 people.
2014 – Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria.
2016 – A strong foreshock happened before a major earthquake in Kumamoto, Japan.
2022 – During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian warship Moskva sank.
2023 – The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft was launched by the European Space Agency.

People Born on April 14

Births Before 1600

1126 – Averroes, a doctor and thinker from Spain.
1204 – Henry I, who was a king of Castile.
1331 – Jeanne-Marie de Maille, a French Roman Catholic saint.
1527 – Abraham Ortelius, a mapmaker and geographer from Flanders.
1572 – Adam Tanner, an Austrian mathematician and philosopher.
1578 – Philip III of Spain, a king of Spain.

Births from 1601 to 1900

1629 – Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
1669 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, a Swedish general and politician.
1678 – Abraham Darby I, an English iron master.
1709 – Charles Collé, a French playwright and songwriter.
1714 – Adam Gib, a Scottish minister and author.
1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, an English politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1769 – Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, a French general.
1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, a French politician and Prime Minister of France.
1788 – David G. Burnet, an American politician and the second Vice-President of Texas.
1800 – John Appold, an English engineer.
1812 – George Grey, a soldier, explorer, and politician who became the 11th Prime Minister of New Zealand.
1814 – Dimitri Kipiani, a Georgian writer.
1819 – Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey, an American educator and author.
1827 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, an English general and archaeologist.
1852 – Alexander Greenlaw Hamilton, an Australian biologist.
1854 – Martin Lipp, an Estonian pastor and poet.
1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom.
1865 – Alfred Hoare Powell, an English architect and pottery designer.
1866 – Anne Sullivan, an American educator, famous for teaching Helen Keller.
1868 – Peter Behrens, a German architect.
1870 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, a Russian painter.
1870 – Syd Gregory, an Australian cricketer.
1872 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, an Indian-English scholar.
1874 – Matti Lonkainen, a Finnish politician.
1876 – Cecil Chubb, an English lawyer who once owned Stonehenge.
1881 – Husain Salaahuddin, a Maldivian poet and scholar.
1882 – Moritz Schlick, a German-Austrian physicist and philosopher.
1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius, a German scholar.
1886 – Árpád Tóth, a Hungarian poet.
1889 – Arnold J. Toynbee, an English historian.
1891 – B. R. Ambedkar, an Indian economist and politician, the first Indian Minister of Law and Justice.
1891 – Otto Lasanen, a Finnish wrestler.
1892 – Juan Belmonte, a Spanish bullfighter.
1892 – V. Gordon Childe, an Australian archaeologist.
1892 – Claire Windsor, an American actress.
1900 – Shivrampant Damle, an Indian educationist.

Births from 1901 to Present

1902 – Sylvio Mantha, a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
1903 – Henry Corbin, a French philosopher.
1903 – Ruth Svedberg, a Swedish discus thrower.
1904 – John Gielgud, a famous English actor and director.
1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, an American author and educator.
1905 – Georg Lammers, a German sprinter.
1905 – Jean Pierre-Bloch, a French author and activist.
1906 – Faisal of Saudi Arabia, a Saudi Arabian king.
1907 – François Duvalier, a Haitian physician and politician, the 40th President of Haiti.
1912 – Robert Doisneau, a French photographer.
1912 – Georg Siimenson, an Estonian footballer.
1913 – Jean Fournet, a French conductor.
1916 – Don Willesee, an Australian politician.
1917 – Valerie Hobson, an English actress.
1917 – Marvin Miller, an American baseball executive.
1918 – Mary Healy, an American actress and singer.
1919 – Shamshad Begum, a Pakistani-Indian singer.
1919 – K. Saraswathi Amma, an Indian author.
1920 – Ivor Forbes Guest, an English historian and author.
1921 – Thomas Schelling, an American economist and Nobel Prize winner.
1922 – Audrey Long, an American actress.
1923 – Roberto De Vicenzo, an Argentinian golfer.
1924 – Shorty Rogers, an American trumpet player and composer.
1924 – Joseph Ruskin, an American actor.
1924 – Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, an English philosopher.
1925 – Abel Muzorewa, a Zimbabwean minister and politician.
1925 – Rod Steiger, an American actor.
1926 – Barbara Anderson, a New Zealand author.
1926 – Frank Daniel, a Czech director.
1926 – Gloria Jean, an American actress and singer.
1926 – Liz Renay, an American actress.
1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, a New Zealand chemist and Nobel Prize winner.
1927 – Dany Robin, a French actress.
1929 – Gerry Anderson, an English director and producer, known for puppet shows.
1929 – Inez Andrews, an African-American singer.
1930 – Martin Adolf Bormann, a German priest.
1930 – Arnold Burns, an American lawyer and politician.
1930 – René Desmaison, a French mountaineer.
1930 – Bradford Dillman, an American actor.
1931 – Geoffrey Dalton, an English admiral.
1931 – Paul Masnick, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1932 – Bill Bennett, a Canadian lawyer and politician.
1932 – Atef Ebeid, an Egyptian politician.
1932 – Loretta Lynn, a famous American country singer-songwriter.
1932 – Cameron Parker, a Scottish businessman.
1933 – Paddy Hopkirk, a Northern Irish racing driver.
1933 – Boris Strugatsky, a Russian author.
1933 – Yuri Oganessian, an Armenian-Russian nuclear physicist.
1934 – Fredric Jameson, an American philosopher.
1935 – Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton, an English athlete and politician.
1935 – John Oliver, an English bishop.
1935 – Erich von Däniken, a Swiss author.
1936 – Arlene Martel, an American actress.
1936 – Bobby Nichols, an American golfer.
1936 – Frank Serpico, an American police officer.
1937 – Efi Arazi, an Israeli businessman.
1937 – Sepp Mayerl, an Austrian mountaineer.
1938 – Mahmud Esad Coşan, a Turkish author.
1938 – Ralph Willis, an Australian politician.
1940 – Julie Christie, an Indian-English actress.
1940 – David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, an English archbishop.
1940 – Richard Thompson, an English physician.
1941 – Pete Rose, an American baseball player and manager.
1942 – Valeriy Brumel, a Soviet high jumper.
1942 – Valentin Lebedev, a Russian astronaut.
1942 – Björn Rosengren, a Swedish politician.
1944 – John Sergeant, an English journalist.
1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, a Samoan politician and the 8th Prime Minister of Samoa.
1945 – Ritchie Blackmore, an English guitarist and songwriter.
1945 – Roger Frappier, a Canadian producer and director.
1946 – Mireille Guiliano, a French-American author.
1946 – Michael Sarris, a Cypriot economist and politician.
1946 – Knut Kristiansen, a Norwegian pianist.
1947 – Dominique Baudis, a French journalist and politician.
1947 – Bob Massie, an Australian cricketer.
1948 – Berry Berenson, an American model and actress.
1948 – Anastasios Papaligouras, a Greek lawyer and politician.
1949 – Dave Gibbons, an English author and illustrator.
1949 – DeAnne Julius, an American-British economist.
1949 – Chris Langham, an English actor.
1949 – Chas Mortimer, an English motorcycle racer.
1949 – John Shea, an American actor.
1950 – Francis Collins, an American physician and geneticist.
1950 – Péter Esterházy, a Hungarian author.
1951 – Milija Aleksic, an English footballer.
1951 – José Eduardo González Navas, a Spanish politician.
1951 – Julian Lloyd Webber, an English cellist.
1951 – Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, an English politician.
1952 – Kenny Aaronson, an American bass player.
1952 – Mickey O'Sullivan, an Irish footballer.
1952 – David Urquhart, a Scottish bishop.
1954 – Katsuhiro Otomo, a Japanese director and illustrator.
1956 – Boris Šprem, a Croatian lawyer and politician.
1957 – Lothaire Bluteau, a Canadian actor.
1957 – Bobbi Brown, an American make-up artist.
1957 – Mikhail Pletnev, a Russian pianist and conductor.
1958 – Peter Capaldi, a Scottish actor.
1958 – Jim Smith, an English musician.
1959 – Steve Byrnes, an American sportscaster.
1959 – Marie-Thérèse Fortin, a Canadian actress.
1960 – Brad Garrett, an American actor and comedian.
1960 – Myoma Myint Kywe, a Burmese historian.
1960 – Osamu Sato, a Japanese graphic artist and composer.
1960 – Tina Rosenberg, an American journalist.
1960 – Pat Symcox, a South African cricketer.
1961 – Robert Carlyle, a Scottish actor and director.
1962 – Guillaume Leblanc, a Canadian athlete.
1964 – Brian Adams, an American wrestler.
1964 – Jeff Andretti, an American race car driver.
1964 – Jim Grabb, an American tennis player.
1964 – Jeff Hopkins, a Welsh footballer.
1964 – Gina McKee, an English actress.
1965 – Tom Dey, an American director.
1965 – Alexandre Jardin, a French author.
1965 – Craig McDermott, an Australian cricketer.
1966 – André Boisclair, a Canadian lawyer and politician.
1966 – Jan Boklöv, a Swedish ski jumper.
1966 – David Justice, an American baseball player.
1966 – Greg Maddux, an American baseball player.
1967 – Nicola Berti, an Italian footballer.
1967 – Barrett Martin, an American drummer.
1967 – Julia Zemiro, a French-Australian actress and comedian.
1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, an American actor.
1969 – Brad Ausmus, an American baseball player and manager.
1969 – Martyn LeNoble, a Dutch-American bass player.
1969 – Vebjørn Selbekk, a Norwegian journalist.
1970 – Shizuka Kudo, a Japanese singer and actress.
1971 – Miguel Calero, a Colombian footballer.
1971 – Carlos Pérez, a Dominican-American baseball player.
1971 – Gregg Zaun, an American baseball player.
1972 – Paul Devlin, an English-Scottish footballer.
1972 – Roberto Mejía, a Dominican baseball player.
1972 – Dean Potter, an American rock climber.
1973 – Roberto Ayala, an Argentinian footballer.
1973 – Adrien Brody, an American actor.
1973 – Hidetaka Suehiro, a Japanese video game director.
1973 – David Miller, an American tenor.
1974 – Da Brat, an American rapper.
1975 – Lita, an American wrestler.
1975 – Luciano Almeida, a Brazilian footballer.
1975 – Avner Dorman, an Israeli-American composer.
1975 – Anderson Silva, a Brazilian mixed martial artist.
1976 – Christian Älvestam, a Swedish singer.
1976 – Georgina Chapman, an English fashion designer.
1976 – Anna DeForge, an American basketball player.
1976 – Kyle Farnsworth, an American baseball player.
1976 – Nadine Faustin-Parker, a Haitian hurdler.
1976 – Jason Wiemer, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1977 – Nate Fox, an American basketball player.
1977 – Martin Kaalma, an Estonian footballer.
1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, an American actress.
1977 – Rob McElhenney, an American actor and producer.
1977 – Luke Priddis, an Australian rugby league player.
1978 – Roland Lessing, an Estonian biathlete.
1979 – Rebecca DiPietro, an American wrestler and model.
1979 – Marios Elia, a Cypriot footballer.
1979 – Ross Filipo, a New Zealand rugby player.
1979 – Noé Pamarot, a French footballer.
1979 – Kerem Tunçeri, a Turkish basketball player.
1980 – Win Butler, an American-Canadian singer.
1980 – Jeremy Smith, a New Zealand rugby league player.
1981 – Mustafa Güngör, a German rugby player.
1981 – Amy Leach, an English director.
1982 – Uğur Boral, a Turkish footballer.
1982 – Larissa França, a Brazilian volleyball player.
1983 – Simona La Mantia, an Italian triple jumper.
1983 – James McFadden, a Scottish footballer.
1983 – William Obeng, a Ghanaian-American football player.
1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili, a Georgian basketball player.
1984 – Blake Costanzo, an American football player.
1984 – Charles Hamelin, a Canadian speed skater.
1984 – Harumafuji Kōhei, a Mongolian sumo wrestler.
1984 – Tyler Thigpen, an American football player.
1986 – Matt Derbyshire, an English footballer.
1987 – Michael Baze, an American jockey.
1987 – Erwin Hoffer, an Austrian footballer.
1987 – Wilson Kiprop, a Kenyan runner.
1988 – Eric Gryba, a Canadian ice hockey player.
1988 – Eliška Klučinová, a Czech heptathlete.
1988 – Brad Sinopoli, a Canadian football player.
1988 – Anthony Modeste, a French footballer.
1989 – Joe Haden, an American football player.
1995 – Baker Mayfield, an American football player.
1995 – Georgie Friedrichs, an Australian rugby sevens player.
1996 – Abigail Breslin, an American actress.
1997 – D. J. Moore, an American football player.
1999 – Chase Young, an American football player.
2000 – Patrick Surtain II, an American football player.

People Who Passed Away on April 14

Deaths Before 1600

911 – Pope Sergius III, a pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1070 – Gerard, Duke of Lorraine.
1099 – Conrad, Bishop of Utrecht.
1132 – Mstislav I of Kiev.
1279 – Bolesław the Pious, a Duke of Greater Poland.
1322 – Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, an English soldier and politician.
1345 – Richard de Bury, an English bishop and politician.
1424 – Lucia Visconti, an English countess.
1433 – Lidwina, a Dutch saint.
1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, an English nobleman known as "the Kingmaker."
1471 – John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu.
1480 – Thomas de Spens, a Scottish statesman.
1488 – Girolamo Riario, a Lord of Imola and Forli.
1574 – Louis of Nassau.
1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, husband of Mary, Queen of Scots.
1587 – Edward Manners, 3rd Earl of Rutland.
1599 – Henry Wallop, an English politician.

Deaths from 1601 to 1900

1609 – Gasparo da Salò, an Italian violin maker.
1662 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, an English politician.
1682 – Avvakum, a Russian priest.
1721 – Michel Chamillart, a French politician.
1740 – Lady Catherine Jones, an English helper of others.
1759 – George Frideric Handel, a famous German-English composer.
1785 – William Whitehead, an English poet.
1792 – Maximilian Hell, a Slovak-Hungarian astronomer.
1843 – Joseph Lanner, an Austrian violinist and composer.
1864 – Charles Lot Church, an American-Canadian politician.
1886 – Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint, a Dutch novelist.
1888 – Emil Czyrniański, a Polish chemist.

Deaths from 1901 to Present

1910 – Mikhail Vrubel, a Russian painter.
1911 – Addie Joss, an American baseball player.
1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, a Canadian lawyer and the 4th Chief Justice of Canada.
1912 – Henri Brisson, a French politician and the 50th Prime Minister of France.
1914 – Hubert Bland, an English activist who helped start the Fabian Society.
1916 – Gina Krog, a Norwegian activist for women's rights.
1917 – L. L. Zamenhof, a Polish doctor who created the Esperanto language.
1919 – Auguste-Réal Angers, a Canadian judge and politician.
1925 – John Singer Sargent, a famous American painter.
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, a Georgian-Russian poet.
1931 – Richard Armstedt, a German historian.
1935 – Emmy Noether, a German-American mathematician.
1938 – Gillis Grafström, a Swedish figure skater.
1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili, a Georgian-Russian lieutenant.
1950 – Ramana Maharshi, an Indian spiritual teacher.
1951 – Al Christie, a Canadian-American director.
1962 – M. Visvesvaraya, an Indian engineer.
1963 – Rahul Sankrityayan, an Indian historian.
1964 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, a Russian-Dutch mathematician.
1964 – Rachel Carson, a famous American biologist and author.
1968 – Al Benton, an American baseball player.
1969 – Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, a Spanish actress.
1975 – Günter Dyhrenfurth, a German-Swiss mountaineer.
1975 – Fredric March, an American actor.
1976 – José Revueltas, a Mexican author.
1978 – Joe Gordon, an American baseball player.
1978 – F. R. Leavis, an English educator.
1983 – Pete Farndon, an English bass player for the band The Pretenders.
1983 – Gianni Rodari, an Italian author.
1983 – Ben Dunne, who founded Dunnes Stores.
1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, a French novelist and philosopher.
1990 – Thurston Harris, an American singer.
1990 – Olabisi Onabanjo, a Nigerian politician.
1991 – Randolfo Pacciardi, an Italian politician.
1992 – Irene Greenwood, an Australian radio broadcaster and activist.
1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, a Pakistani chemist.
1995 – Burl Ives, an American actor and folk singer.
1999 – Ellen Corby, an American actress.
1999 – Anthony Newley, an English singer-songwriter and actor.
1999 – Bill Wendell, an American television announcer.
2000 – Phil Katz, an American computer programmer who helped create the zip file format.
2000 – August R. Lindt, a Swiss lawyer.
2000 – Wilf Mannion, an English footballer.
2001 – Jim Baxter, a Scottish footballer.
2001 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, a Japanese director.
2003 – Jyrki Otila, a Finnish politician.
2004 – Micheline Charest, an English-Canadian television producer.
2006 – Mahmut Bakalli, a Kosovo politician.
2007 – June Callwood, a Canadian journalist and activist.
2007 – Don Ho, an American singer.
2007 – René Rémond, a French historian.
2008 – Tommy Holmes, an American baseball player.
2008 – Ollie Johnston, an American animator.
2009 – Maurice Druon, a French author.
2010 – Israr Ahmed, a Pakistani theologian.
2010 – Alice Miller, a Polish-French psychologist.
2010 – Peter Steele, an American singer and bass player.
2011 – Jean Gratton, a Canadian Roman Catholic bishop.
2012 – Émile Bouchard, a Canadian ice hockey player.
2012 – Jonathan Frid, a Canadian actor.
2012 – Piermario Morosini, an Italian footballer.
2013 – Efi Arazi, an Israeli businessman.
2013 – Colin Davis, an English conductor.
2013 – R. P. Goenka, an Indian businessman.
2013 – George Jackson, an American singer-songwriter.
2013 – Armando Villanueva, a Peruvian politician.
2013 – Charlie Wilson, an American politician.
2014 – Nina Cassian, a Romanian poet.
2014 – Crad Kilodney, an American-Canadian author.
2014 – Wally Olins, an English businessman.
2014 – Mick Staton, an American politician.
2015 – Klaus Bednarz, a German journalist.
2015 – Mark Reeds, a Canadian-American ice hockey player.
2015 – Percy Sledge, an American singer.
2015 – Roberto Tucci, an Italian cardinal.
2019 – Bibi Andersson, a Swedish actress.
2020 – Carol D'Onofrio, an American public health researcher.
2021 – Bernie Madoff, an American who ran a very large Ponzi scheme.
2022 – Mike Bossy, a Canadian ice hockey player.
2022 – Ilkka Kanerva, a Finnish politician.
2022 – Orlando Julius, a Nigerian saxophonist and singer.
2023 – Mark Sheehan, an Irish guitarist from the band The Script.

Special Days and Celebrations

Ambedkar Jayanti (India)
Bengali New Year (Bangladesh)
Black Day (South Korea)
Christian feast day:
- Anthony, John, and Eustathius
- Bénézet
- Henry Beard Delany (U.S. Episcopal Church)
- Domnina of Terni
- Lidwina
- Peter González
- Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus
- April 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Commemoration of Anfal Genocide Against the Kurds (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Day of Mologa (Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia)
Day of the Georgian language (Georgia)
Dhivehi Language Day (Maldives)
N'Ko Alphabet Day (Mande speakers)
Pan American Day (several countries in the Americas)
Takayama Spring Festival begins (Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan)
Vaisakhi (Since 2011)
Youth Day (Angola)
World Quantum Day