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April 26 in history

189 sourced entries recorded on April 26, from 121 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 1220King Frederick II confirms rights of independence to the German bishops (the Confoederatio cum principibus ecclesiasticis) in an attempt to secure the election of his 9-year-old son, Henry VII as King of Germany.source
  • 1248The Gothic chapel Sainte-Chapelle (Holy Chapel) is completed and consecrated in Paris. Louis IX moves the relics of the True Cross and Holy Lance to the chapel with great ceremony.source
  • 1289Siege of Tripoli: Mamluk forces under Qalawun (the Victorious) capture Tripoli after a month-long siege, thus extinguishing the County of Tripoli. Qalawun orders the city to be razed to the ground, a widespread massacre kills every man found by the Mamluks, while the women and children are taken as slaves.source
  • 1306French knight Amalric, Lord of Tyre, with the aid of the Knights Templar, stages a Coup d'état against his older brother Henry II, King of Cyprus. Although Henry remains the nominal king, he is confined at the Cypriot city of Strovolos, and Amalric assumes all of the King's powers. Amalric will be assassinated in 1310.source
  • 1311King Henry VII of Italy razes the city walls of Cremona after suppressing the rebellion of the Torriani family against his rule.source
  • 1315Scottish Parliament, meeting at Ayr, proclaims Edward as legal heir to King Robert as King Robert had no legal heir at that point.source
  • 1336The Ascent of Mount Ventoux is made by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.source
  • 1394Martín Yáñez de la Barbudo of the Kingdom of Castile, master of the Order of Alcántara military group and leader of a crusade against the Muslim Emirate of Granada, leads an army across the border into the Emirate and marches toward the capital. Granadan Emir Muhammad VII sends emissaries to King Enrique III of Castile to complain about the violation of the truce between them, and then mobilizes the Granadan Army to repel the invasion by Barbuda, who is killed in the battle along with hundreds of other Castilians.source
  • 1441Pope Eugene IV orders the transfer of the Council of Florence to Romesource
  • 1478On Easter Sunday, the Pazzi family attacks Lorenzo de' Medici, the ruler of the Republic of Florence, and kills his brother Giuliano, during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. A total of 80 accused conspirators are executed. With the death of his brother and co-ruler Giuliano, Lorenzo becomes the sole ruler of Florence.source
  • 1496King Jan I Olbracht of Poland issues the Piotrków Privilege as a reward to members of nobility who financially supported his invasion of Moldavia. The Privilege prohibits the enslaved serfs from leaving their owners' land without permission, and bans city dwellers from buying land.source
  • 1518Martin Luther makes the first public defense of his views at a gathering of the Roman Catholic order of Augustinians, at what becomes known as the Heidelberg Disputation at a lecture hall at Heidelberg in the Electoral Palatinate in Germany. While there, he is challenged to a theological debate by Johann Eck, the German leader of the anti-Reformation movement.source
  • 1521Martin Luther leaves Worms and disappears for around a year – he is rumored to be murdered, but is actually in hiding at the Wartburg castle.source
  • 1538Battle of Las Salinas: In Peru, Almagro is defeated by Francisco Pizarro, who then seizes Cusco.source
  • 158526 April – 25 May – Parliament of Ireland meets in Dublin with Sir Nicholas Walsh as Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, is permitted to take his seat.source
  • 1607English colonists make landfall at Cape Henry, Virginia, later moving up the James River.source
  • 1621Treaty of Madrid signed by courtier François de Bassompierre: Valtelline restored to the Grisons and Spain allowed to reoccupy Chiavenna.source
  • 1628Cardinal Girolamo Grimaldi-Cavalleroni is appointed as the Governor of Rome by Pope Urban VIII.source
  • 1655The Dutch West India Company denies Peter Stuyvesant's request to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam (Manhattan).source
  • 1674In the Netherlands, the jurisdiction of Willem, Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland (on the west coast, including Amsterdam and Rotterdam) and Zeeland (southwest coast, including Middelburg, Zeeland), increases in the Dutch Republic as his followers in the inland States of Utrecht (Utrecht, Gelderland and Overijssel) designate him as the hereditary stadtholder. In 1689, he becomes the King of England in addition to his role as the Stadtholder of the Netherlands.source
  • 1687The Spanish city of Guayaquil (now part of Ecuador) is attacked and looted by English and French pirates under the command of George Hout (English), Pierre Le Picard and Francois Groniet (French). Of more than 260 pirates, 35 are killed and 46 were wounded; 75 defenders of the city died and more than 100 are wounded.source
  • 1701Commodore C. T. Sehested adjourns as the first chief of the new Royal Danish Naval Academy. The institution is created with inspiration from similar institutions in the Netherlands and France.source
  • 1709Act of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for the provision of public libraries in presbyteries.source
  • 1717The Whydah Gally, flagship of English pirate Samuel Bellamy, is wrecked in a storm off Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The Whydah sinks with a reputed 4 1/2 tons of treasure on board, and all but two of her crew are lost, including Bellamy.source
  • 1719King Philip V of Spain departs Madrid and leads 15,000 men of the Spanish Army into Navare to fight the French under Berwick.source
  • 1721Pirates John Taylor and Olivier Levasseur capture the 700-ton Portuguese galleon Nossa Senhora do Cabo at Réunion. The total value of treasure on board (from Goa) is estimated as between £100,000 and £875,000, one of the largest pirate hauls ever.source
  • 1729For the first time in its history, the British House of Commons is adjourned for lack of a quorum. On January 5, 1640, it had first fixed the number of members necessary — 40 — for parliamentary business to be transacted.source
  • 1729the House of Commons is adjourned for lack of a quorum for the first time since one of 40 was fixed in 1640.source
  • 1760Marshal Lévis and his troops land at Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures, adjacent to Quebec City, and prepares to lay siege to the British occupying force.source
  • 1765At Saint Petersburg, German engineer Christian Kratzenstein presents to the Russian Academy of Sciences a perfected version of the arithmetical machine originally invented by Gottfried Leibniz. Kratzenstein claims that his machine solves the problem with the Leibniz machine has with calculations above four digits, perfecting the flaw where the machine is "prone to err whenever it is necessary to make a number of 9999 move to 10000", but the machine is not developed further.source
  • 1777American Revolutionary War: 16-year-old Sybil Ludington is said to have ridden 40 mi through the night to warn militiamen under the control of her father Henry that British troops had raided Danbury, Connecticut.source
  • 1785John Adams is appointed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, and Thomas Jefferson as ambassador to France.source
  • 1787States of Brabant refuse to vote taxes until their grievances are addressed.source
  • 1796The French proclaim the Republic of Alba on the occupied territories. Two days later, King Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia signs the Armistice of Cherasco, in the headquarters of Napoleon. The fortresses of Coni, Tortoni and Alessandria, with all their guns, are given up.source
  • 1802A general amnesty signed by Napoleon allows all but about 1,000 of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France as part of a conciliatory gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Régime that ultimately consolidates his own rule.source
  • 1803The L'Aigle meteorite falls in Normandy, causing a shift in scientific opinion on the origin of meteorites.source
  • 1804Henry Addington resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1804Henry Addington resigns as Prime Minister.source
  • 1827The Royal Netherlands Navy's British-built paddle steamer Curaçao sets off on the first transatlantic crossing by steam, departing from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to Paramaribo in the Netherlands South American colony of Dutch Guiana. The ship arrives after a voyage of four weeks.source
  • 1828The Treaty of Commerce and Navigation is signed between Brazil and Denmark, establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries.source
  • 1828Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire, beginning the Russo-Turkish War.source
  • 1849Hungarian Revolution of 1848 – Battle of Komárom: Hungarian forces relieve the city and castle with the same name from a long Austrian siege. The Austrian imperial forces and their Croatian, Romanian and Serbian allies are chased out from Hungary, or near the borders of the country.source
  • 1861Giovanni Schiaparelli discovers the asteroid 69 Hesperia.source
  • 1865American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders to Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, at Durham Station, North Carolina.source
  • 1865Union cavalry corner John Wilkes Booth in a Virginia barn, and cavalryman Boston Corbett fatally shoots the assassin.source
  • 1879Seventy square kilometres of land in Sydney's Sutherland Shire is proclaimed The National Park (later the Royal National Park).source
  • 1879The National Park, later renamed the Royal National Park, is declared in New South Wales, Australia, the world's second-oldest purposed national park.source
  • 1882A telephone exchange is opened in Dunedin (the third in New Zealand).source
  • 1884The start of the 1884 Italian General Exhibition in Turin. The exhibition closed on 20 November 1884.source
  • 1898An explosion in Santa Cruz, California, kills 13 workers, at the California Powder Works.source
  • 1899Jean Sibelius conducts the world première of his Symphony No. 1 in Helsinki.source
  • 1900Two-thirds of Hull, Quebec, is destroyed in a fire.source
  • 1903Atlético Madrid is founded as a professional association football club in Spain.source
  • 1907Opening of the Jamestown Exposition at Sewell's Point, Virginia by President Theodore Roosevelt, exactly 300 years to the day of the landing of Captain Christopher Newport and the English colonists at Cape Henry. The exposition is held until December 1st, and celebrates the 300th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown.source
  • 1910Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer and the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate (born 1832).source
  • 1911A federal referendum is held containing two questions: one on Trade and Commerce and the other on Nationalisation of Monopolies. Neither is carried.source
  • 1911HŠK Građanski Zagreb (predecessor of GNK Dinamo Zagreb), a Croatian Association football club, is founded in Zagreb.source
  • 1913King Albert formally opens Exposition universelle et internationale (world's fair) held in Ghent.source
  • 1913Mary Phagan is raped and strangled on the premises of the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. Leo Frank is tried and convicted for the crime.source
  • 1915Treaty of London: Italy secretly agrees to leave the Triple Alliance with Germany and Austria-Hungary, and join with the Entente Powers, in exchange for certain territories of Austria-Hungary on its borders.source
  • 1915A secret pact, the Treaty of London or London Pact (Patto di Londra), is signed between the Triple Entente (the United Kingdom, France, and the Russian Empire) and the Kingdom of Italy. According to the pact, Italy was to leave the Triple Alliance and join the Triple Entente. Italy was to declare war against Germany and Austria-Hungary within a month in return for territorial concessions at the end of the war to fulfil Italy’s irredentist claims.source
  • 1916April 24–30 – The Easter Rising occurs in Ireland. Members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood proclaim an Irish Republic, and the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army occupy the General Post Office and other buildings in Dublin, before surrendering to the British Army. A total of 485 Irish Volunteers, British soldiers and Irish civilians were killed as well as 2,200 wounded and 16 rebel leaders would be executed.source
  • 1917Agreement of St.-Jean-de-Maurienne between France, Italy and the United Kingdom, signed at Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. Drafted by the Italian Foreign Minister Sidney Sonnino, as a tentative agreement to settle its Middle Eastern interest, the agreement was needed by the allies to secure the position of Italian forces in the Middle East and to balance the military power drops at the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I as Russian (Tsarist) forces were pulling out of the Caucasus Campaign. Italy would receive a part of southwestern Anatolia, including İzmir (Smyrna).source
  • 1920April 19–26 – San Remo conference: Representatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan meet to determine the League of Nations mandates for administration of territories, following the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1920The Khorezm People's Soviet Republic is officially created by Soviet Russia, as the successor to the Khanate of Khiva.source
  • 1920The San Remo conference ends, during which the Allied Supreme Council agree to allocate the mandate of Palestine to the United Kingdom, incorporating the terms set forth in the Balfour Declaration.source
  • 1920April 19–26 – San Remo conference held at Castle Devachan in Sanremo, Italy. Representatives of Italy, France, the United Kingdom and Japan meet to determine the League of Nations mandates for administration of territories following partitioning of the Ottoman Empire. The conference was attended by the four Principal Allied Powers of World War I who were represented by the prime ministers of Britain (David Lloyd George), France (Alexandre Millerand), Italy (Francesco Nitti) and by Japan's Ambassador Keishirō Matsui.source
  • 1920The Winnipeg Falcons representing Canada beat Sweden 12–1 to win the gold medal for ice hockey at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp.source
  • 1923Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: The future King George VI of the United Kingdom marries the future Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in Westminster Abbey.source
  • 1927April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.source
  • 1931Axel Holst, professor of hygiene and bacteriology (born 1860)source
  • 1931Ola Mikal Heide, botanistsource
  • 1933The Gestapo secret police is established in Nazi Germany by Hermann Göring.source
  • 1937Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica is carried out in Spain, by the Condor Legion of the Nazi German Luftwaffe, in support of the Francoists. Three-quarters of the town is destroyed and hundreds killed.source
  • 1942WWII: The Reichstag meets for the last time, dissolving itself and proclaiming Adolf Hitler the "Supreme Judge of the German People", granting him the power of life and death over every German citizen.source
  • 1942A gas and coal dust explosion at Benxihu Colliery in Manchukuo kills as many as 1,549 workers, the world's all-time worst mining disaster.source
  • 1942a gas and coal dust explosion in the Benxihu Colliery killed 1,549 miners.source
  • 1944German General Kreipe is kidnapped on Crete, Greece.source
  • 1948King George VI and Queen Elizabeth celebrate their silver wedding anniversary with a service at St Paul's Cathedral followed by a 22-mile motor procession around London.source
  • 19491949 Tangail South by-election in East Bengal.source
  • 1949Austerity is introduced to cope with a lack of foreign currency reserves and a mass influx of Jewish immigrants.source
  • 1952United States Navy aircraft carrier Wasp collides with destroyer Hobson while on exercises in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 175 men.source
  • 1954An international conference on Korea and Indo-China opens in Geneva.source
  • 1954Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is released in Japan.source
  • 1962The U.S. Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the far side of the Moon without returning any scientific data.source
  • 1964Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania.source
  • 1965Rede Globo is founded in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.source
  • 1966A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.source
  • 1966The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.source
  • 1968The nuclear weapon "Boxcar" is tested at the Nevada Test Site in the biggest detonation of Operation Crosstie.source
  • 1970The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is founded.source
  • 1971The government of Turkey declares a state of siege in 11 provinces, including Ankara, in response to violent demonstrations.source
  • 1972The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar enters service with Eastern Airlines.source
  • 1974In the evening, all prisoners from the Tarrafal Camp were releasedsource
  • 1978April 18– 30 – The Khmer Rouge massacres 3,157 civilians in Ba Chúc, Vietnam.source
  • 1980Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappear from outside their flat in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.source
  • 1981French presidential election: A first-round runoff results between Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand.source
  • 1982Falklands War: British troops retake South Georgia Island during Operation Paraquet.source
  • 1982From 26 to 27 April, policeman Woo Bum-kon goes on a killing spree in Uiryeong County, South Korea. By the early morning of April 27, after killing at least 56 people with several firearms and grenades, he kills himself via grenade. It becomes the deadliest spree shooting in recorded history up until the 2011 Norway attacks.source
  • 1984Sultan Iskandar of Johor becomes Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, in succession to Sultan Ahmad Shah, whose term ended the previous day.source
  • 1984Sultan Iskandar of Johor was elected as the eighth Yang di-Pertuan Agong, replacing Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang.source
  • 1986Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4,056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property". Radioactive fallout from the accident is concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people are forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".source
  • 1989Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, Sultan of Perak, becomes the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, succeeding Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail.source
  • 1989The Dragon Ball Z anime series starts on Fuji TV.source
  • 1989The Daulatpur–Saturia tornado, the deadliest tornado ever recorded, kills an estimated 1,300 people in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh.source
  • 1989A tornado struck Manikganj District destroying around 90 percent of homes in 153 villages. The death-count was almost 600.source
  • 1990Israel's Supreme Court ordered the evacuation of 20 Jewish settlers, which provoked an international outcry when they moved to a building in the Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.source
  • 1990A 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Qinghai leaving 126 dead.source
  • 1991Sadou Hayatou becomes Prime Minister.source
  • 1991A series of 55 tornadoes break out in the central U.S., killing 21. The most notable tornado strikes Andover, Kansas.source
  • 1992Pakistan's Alam Channa enters Guinness Book of World Records as the tallest man in the world.source
  • 1994Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.source
  • 1994China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at Nagoya, Japan, killing 264 people.source
  • 1996Shanghai Five group, predecessor of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, is created with the signing of the Treaty on Deepening Military Trust in Border Regions in Shanghai by the heads of states of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.source
  • 199817th Hong Kong Film Awardssource
  • 1999Sultan Salahuddin of Selangor becomes the 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.source
  • 1999British TV presenter Jill Dando, 37, is shot dead on the doorstep of her home in Fulham, London.source
  • 2001Junichiro Koizumi becomes the 86th Prime Minister of Japan.source
  • 2001The Parliament of Ukraine votes to dismiss Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko.source
  • 2002April 26-28 - 2002 Asian Taekwondo Championshipssource
  • 2004Deir al-Balah suicide attacksource
  • 2005Cedar Revolution: Syria withdraws the last of its military garrison from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military occupation of the country.source
  • 2007April 26–27 – "Bronze Night": Ethnic Russian riot in Tallinn and other cities in Estonia against the moving of the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, a Soviet World War II memorial statue. 2007 cyberattacks on Estonia begin.source
  • 2011April 25–28 – The 2011 Super Outbreak forms in the Southern, Midwest and Eastern United States with a tornado count of 362; killing 324 and injuring over 2,200.source
  • 2016Miss Panama 2016 occurs.source
  • 2020King Salman issues a royal decree, declaring that people will no longer be executed in Saudi Arabia for crimes they were convicted of when they were minors.source
  • 2025The funeral of Pope Francis is attended by delegations from 164 countries, including 82 leaders, and 250,000 members of the public.source
  • 2025An explosion in the Port of Shahid Rajaee, Bandar Abbas, Iran, kills at least 70 people and injures more than 1,000.source

Births

  • 121Marcus Annius Verus, later Emperor Marcus Aurelius (died 180)source
  • 757Hisham I, Muslim emir (died 796)source
  • 1284Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick, English noblewoman (died 1325)source
  • 1319John the Good, king of France (died 1364)source
  • 1485Sibylle of Baden, Countess consort of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1518)source
  • 1538Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (died 1600)source
  • 1564April 26 (baptized) – William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet (died 1616)source
  • 1575Marie de' Medici, queen of Henry IV of France (died 1642)source
  • 1647William Ashhurst, Lord Mayor of London (1693–1694) (died 1720)source
  • 1648King Peter II of Portugal (died 1706)source
  • 1655Ofspring Blackall, Bishop of Exeter (died 1716)source
  • 1662Marie Louise d'Orléans, queen consort of Spain (died 1689)source
  • 1710Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (died 1796)source
  • 1711David Hume, Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (died 1776)source
  • 1711Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, French writer (died 1780)source
  • 1718Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (died 1802)source
  • 1765Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (died 1815)source
  • 1783Peter Boyle de Blaquière, political figure and first chancellor of the University of Toronto (d.1860)source
  • 1785John James Audubon, French-American naturalist, illustrator (died 1851)source
  • 1785John James Audubon, ornithologist, naturalist and painter, born in Saint-Domingue (died 1851)source
  • 1798Eugène Delacroix, French painter (died 1863)source
  • 1822Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect (died 1903)source
  • 1865Luis Dellepiane, civil engineer, militarist and politiciansource
  • 1889Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born philosopher (died 1951)source
  • 1894Rudolf Hess, German Nazi official (died 1987)source

Deaths

  • 499Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei dies of starvation in his capital at Luoyang, after a 27-year reign in which he has Sinicized his tribal relatives (Tuoba clan), created a Chinese-style government and instituted a land-reform program.source
  • 499Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei, emperor of Northern Wei (born 467)source
  • 645Richarius, Frankish hermit and monksource
  • 757Stephen II, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
  • 757Pope Stephen II dies at Rome after a 5-year reign, in which he has freed the papacy from Byzantine rule. Stephen allies with Pepin III against the Lombards, and becomes the first temporal sovereign of the Papal States. He is succeeded by his brother Paul I, as the 93rd pope of the Catholic Church.source
  • 893Chen Jingxuan, general of the Tang dynastysource
  • 896Boniface VI dies (probably murdered), after a pontificate of 15 days. He is succeeded by Stephen VI, as the 113th pope of Rome.source
  • 962Adalbero I, bishop of Metzsource
  • 1158Martirius, archbishop of Esztergomsource
  • 1192Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (born 1127)source
  • 1257Euphemia de Walliers, English nun and abbesssource
  • 1282Möngke Temür, Mongol ruler of Shiraz (born 1256)source
  • 1310Constance of Montcada, French noblewomansource
  • 1315The Scottish parliament is convened at Ayr, and proclaims Edward Bruce as the legal heir to the throne to succeed if his brother, King Robert the Bruce, dies.source
  • 1318Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg, German co-ruler (born 1276)source
  • 1366Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterburysource
  • 1392Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (born 1338)source
  • 1444Robert Campin, Flemish painter (born 1378)source
  • 1462William Percy, medieval Bishop of Carlisle (born 1428)source
  • 1478Giuliano de' Medici, son of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici (assassinated) (born 1453)source
  • 1489Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (born 1465)source
  • 1558Jean Fernel, physician (born 1497)source
  • 1589Tansen, Indian musician (born c.1493/1500)source
  • 1589Benedict the Moor, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (born 1526)source
  • 1638Margareta Brahe, courtier (born 1559)source
  • 1686Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (born 1622)source
  • 1716John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1651)source
  • 1717Samuel Bellamy English-born pirate (born 1689)source
  • 1726Jeremy Collier, English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (born 1650)source
  • 1784Nano Nagle, Irish convent founder (born 1718)source
  • 1802Edmund Nelson (clergyman), English priest (born 1722)source
  • 1865John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838)source
  • 1920Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician (born 1887)source
  • 1999Man Mohan Adhikari, former Prime Ministersource
  • 2001Six members of the International Red Cross were killed in the Ituri Province.source
  • 2002Erfurt school massacre: An expelled student kills 16 people and commits suicide at a school in Erfurt, Germany.source