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April 3 in history

199 sourced entries recorded on April 3, from 801 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 801King Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, captures Barcelona after a siege of several months. Bera is appointed first count of Barcelona.source
  • 1043Edward the Confessor is crowned king of England at Winchester Cathedral. He learns that his mother, Queen Emma of Normandy is plotting with Magnus the Good to take control of the English throne. Edward strips her land and treasure, but she is allowed to stay in England.source
  • 1077Henry IV grants the County of Friuli (with ducal status) to Sigaerd of Beilstein, patriarch of Aquileia. He creates the first Parliament, representing the communes as well the nobility and clergy.source
  • 1367Battle of Nájera: Pedro of Castile is restored as King of Castile (in modern-day Spain) after defeating his half-brother, King Enrique the Fratricidal. Pedro is aided in the battle by the English under Edward the Black Prince, and Henry by the French.source
  • 1393Philippe III de Thurey, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Lyon issues warrants approved by the Avignon Pope Clement VII to expel the officers of France's King Charles VI from Lyon, and drives the King's Sénéchal and deputies out of town.source
  • 1402King Henry IV of England is married by proxy to Joan of Navarre in a ceremony at the Eltham Palace near London.source
  • 1403Jean II Le Maingre of France, also known as Boucicaut, the French Governor of Genoa, leads a fleet of 18 ships, 600 horses and 700 infantry to stop an attack by Muslims on the island of Cyprus and the city of Famagusta. Boucicaut besieges the Muslim city of Candelore on June 24.source
  • 1462Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, and Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor, come to an agreement to return the Crown of St. Stephen to Hungary in return for payment of 80,000 florins, and recognizing Matthias as King.source
  • 1463The Ottoman Army under the command of Isa Bey Ishaković captures the town of Argos, located in Greece but territory of the Republic of Venice, prompting concerns that the Ottoman Empire intends to spread their conquests to the Italian peninsula.source
  • 1475While in Valladolid, capital of the Kingdom of Castile and León, to celebrate a tournament in their honor, the joint rulers of Castile, Queen Isabella and King Fernando II are interrupted by a messenger sent by King Afonso V of Portugal. King Afonso announces a declaration of war against the crown of Castile and León.source
  • 1482Symeon I succeeds Maximus III as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.source
  • 1505Italian explorer Sebastiano Caboto is granted a lifetime annuity of £10 per year by England's King Henry VII for services "in and aboute the fyndynge of the new founde landes" in North America.source
  • 1507At Erfurt, German monk Martin Luther is ordained by the suffragan bishop Johann Bonemilch as a priest of the Catholic Church.source
  • 1520The crew of the San Antonio surrenders to Magellan after being unable to stop drifting in strong winds and being fired at by a cannon, and Gaspar de Quesada surrenders the Concepcion. Four days later, Quesada is beheaded along with other mutineers, while Cartagena is left on an island by Magellan in August.source
  • 1540Estêvão da Gama becomes the new Governor of Portuguese India.source
  • 1556In Qazvin, the Shah of Iran Tahmasp I, becomes enraged with the sexual orientation of his son Ismail II, and sends Ismail to Afghanistan to serve as the Iranian governor of Herat province.source
  • 1559Peace of Cateau Cambrésis: After two days of negotiations, France makes peace with England and Spain, ending the Italian War of 1551–59. France gives up most of its gains in Italy (including Savoy), retaining only Saluzzo, but keeps the three Lorraine bishoprics of Metz, Toul, and Verdun, and the formerly English town of Calais.source
  • 1591Brian O'Rourke is arrested in Glasgow and delivered to the English.source
  • 1601At an assembly of nobles at Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca in Romania), Sigismund Báthory is again proclaimed Prince of Transylvania.source
  • 1638Preacher John Wheelwright is banished from Boston and founds Exeter, New Hampshire.source
  • 1645The House of Lords passes the Self-denying Ordinance, requiring members of the Parliament of England to resign commissions in the armed services.source
  • 1645the House of Lords passes the Self-denying ordinance, requiring members of the Parliament of England to resign commissions in the armed services.source
  • 1647In England, a letter from the Agitators of the New Model Army, protesting delay of pay, is read in the House of Commons.source
  • 1679Aurangazeb, the Muslim ruler of the Mughal Empire in India, decrees the imposition of the jizya, an annual tax upon non-Muslims under Mughal jurisdiction, primarily Hindus. The tax had been abolished by Aurangazeb's great grandfather, Akbar.source
  • 1688Francesco Morosini becomes Doge of Venice.source
  • 1702The Dutch East India Company ship Merestein strikes rocks and sinks in Saldanha Bay off Jutten Island, Africa with the loss of 101 of the 200 people on board.source
  • 1706April 3–27 - Siege of Barcelonasource
  • 1711Clipperton Island is rediscovered by Frenchmen Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who draws up the first map and claims the island for France. The island had been discovered by Alvaro Saavedra Cedrón in 1528.source
  • 1711Clipperton Island in the Pacific is rediscovered by Martin de Chassiron and Michel Du Bocage, who claim it for France and map it.source
  • 1721The funeral of Queen Louise takes place at Roskilde Cathedral.source
  • 1729Benjamin Franklin, aged 23, writes the essay "A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature and Necessity of Paper Currency" and later applies the economic principles to backing of paper money used in the United States.source
  • 1743Prithvi Narayan Shah becomes the new King of the Gorkha Kingdom and begins a campaign to unify the 54 different principalities in the Himalayas under his rule as part of the unification of Nepalsource
  • 1760Great Britain and Prussia agree to begin peace negotiations to end the Seven Years' War.source
  • 1766Seventeen days after the Stamp Act's repeal in London, news reaches America of the decision.source
  • 1783A Peace and Commercial Treaty is signed between the newly-formed United States and Sweden in Paris, among the first acts of state concluded between the U.S. and a foreign power.source
  • 1800The first voting, albeit indirect, begins in the 1800 United States presidential election as voters in the state of New York make their selections for the New York state legislature, which in turn will vote on October 31 for the state's 12 presidential electors. A majority of state legislature members are from the Democratic-Republican Party, rather than the Federalist Party. At the time, only 4 of the 16 U.S. states (Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia) have a popular vote for the presidential electors and the President. The other 12, including New York, have a popular vote for the state legislature, but not for the president. At the time, neither of the major parties have picked their nominees for president and vice president. The result will not be certified until February, 1801.source
  • 1807April 1–3 – Great Sortie of Stralsundsource
  • 1816March 29–April 10 – The Second Bank of the United States obtains its charter.source
  • 1816March 30–April 11 – In Philadelphia, the African Methodist Episcopal Church is established by Richard Allen and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination in the U.S. completely independent of White churches.source
  • 1817"Princess Caraboo" appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire in England, and convinces the local residents that she had come to their town from a far-off island kingdom of "Javasu" in the Indian Ocean. A Portuguese sailor named Manuel Enes soon arrives and says that he speaks her mysterious language, and translates her story of an escape from pirates. After publicity, Princess Caraboo is discovered to be a servant girl from the village of Witheridge in Devon.source
  • 1824George Clarke arrives in the Bay of Islands having taken passage from Sydney on board the French corvette La Coquille. La Coquille is commanded by Louis Isidore Duperrey, with Jules Dumont d'Urville as second-in-command, and will go on to complete a global circumnavigation.source
  • 1837the Paisley and Renfrew Railway is opened, a 4 ft 6 in gauge railway providing passenger services hauled by steam locomotives.source
  • 1839William Light is replaced by Charles Sturt as Surveyor-General of South Australiasource
  • 1840Johnny Appleseed meets Abraham Lincoln, and plants apple trees in New York City.source
  • 1846Last London-based mail coach runs to Norwich.source
  • 1848Explorer Ludwig Leichhardt was last seen on the Darling Downs. On that date he wrote a letter from MacPherson's Station, Cogoon. Leichhardt had set off for Swan River.source
  • 1848The Chicago Board of Trade is founded by 82 Chicago merchants and business leaders.source
  • 1852Henrik Reuterdahl is appointed the Minister of Education and Ecclesiastical Affairs.source
  • 1855The Nepalese invasion of Tibet (west of China) to the north across the Himalaya Mountains (tallest and most rugged in the world) starts the Nepalese–Tibetan War (1855–1856).source
  • 1857April 1–8 – Reform War: Crabb Massacresource
  • 1860In the U.S., the Pony Express begins its first run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, with riders carrying a small Bible.source
  • 1880German company Munich Re is founded.source
  • 1882Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by Robert Ford in St. Joseph, Missouri.source
  • 1882Old West outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back of the head and killed by fellow outlaw Robert Ford in his home at St. Joseph, Missouri for reward.source
  • 1882The National Archives of Iceland is established.source
  • 1885Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent, for his single-cylinder, water-cooled engine design.source
  • 1885Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his 1-cylinder water-cooled engine design.source
  • 1886President Julio Argentino Roca, with the support of the agricultural elites – as well as of the London financial powerhouse, Barings Bank – fields his son-in-law, Córdoba Province Governor Miguel Juárez Celman, as the PAN candidate for president; he is elected almost unanimously.source
  • 1888The Brighton Beach Hotel in Coney Island (New York) is moved 520 ft, using six steam locomotives, by civil engineer B. C. Miller, to save it from ocean storms.source
  • 1888London prostitute Emma Elizabeth Smith is brutally attacked by two or three men, dying of her injuries the following day, first of the Whitechapel murders, but probably not a victim of Jack the Ripper.source
  • 1896The first European sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport was first published allowing it to cover the first modern 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.source
  • 1905A coal mine explosion at Zeigler, Illinois, kills 50 miners.source
  • 1910The French rider Eugène Christophe wins the 4th Milan–San Remo bicycle race.source
  • 19111911 Australian census was the first national population census. The day used for the census, was taken for the night between 2 and 3 April 1911. The total population of the Commonwealth of Australia was counted as 4,455,005.source
  • 1911Jean Sibelius conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 4, in Helsinki.source
  • 1914Cape – Gamtoos to Patensie (Narrow gauge), 18 mi 79 ch.source
  • 1918League of the People (Liga Poporulu), later renamed People's Party (Partidul Poporului), is founded by Alexandru Averescu.source
  • 1920Failed assassination attempts on General Mannerheim, retired leader of the victorious White Guard in the Finnish Civil War, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during a White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland.source
  • 1924The Italian government issues Romania with an ultimatum requiring a payment of 80 million Italian lira for outstanding debts. Several Regia Marina warships are stationed off the port of Constanța to back up the demand.source
  • 1929Persia signs the Litvinov Protocol.source
  • 1931persistent rainfall causes the banks of the River Lee to burst. Half the houses in Cork are flooded.source
  • 1933An anti-monarchist rebellion occurs in Siam (Thailand).source
  • 1933The first flight over Mount Everest is made by the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.source
  • 1939Refik Saydam forms the new government in Turkey (12th government; Refik Saydam has served twice as a prime minister).source
  • 1942WWII: Japanese forces begin the last phase of the Battle of Bataan, an all-out assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.source
  • 1943Shipwrecked steward Poon Lim, BEM, is rescued by Brazilian fishermen after being adrift for 133 days.source
  • 1944Smith v. Allwright decided in the Supreme Court prohibits white primaries.source
  • 1948United States President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, which authorizes $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.source
  • 1948Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is played on television in its entirety for the first time, in a series of concerts featuring Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the United States. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw.source
  • 1954Petrov Affair: Diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects from the Soviet Union and asks for political asylum in Australia.source
  • 1958In Cuba, Castro's revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana.source
  • 1958Bill Haley & His Comets play the first of a series of concerts in Buenos Aires.source
  • 1958A cyclone destroys most of the town of Bowen in Queensland.source
  • 1961LAN Chile Flight 210 crashes in the Andes The plane carrying the Club de Deportes Green Cross soccer team crashes in the Nevado de Longaví, Maule Region, killing all 24 people on board.source
  • 1962Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India, for the fourth time.source
  • 1963Pakistan Shell Oil Company starts work on the Habiganj-I exploratory well.source
  • 1965The world's first space nuclear power reactor, SNAP-10A, is launched by the United States from Vandenberg AFB, California. The reactor operates for 43 days and remains in low Earth orbit.source
  • 1966Luna 10 is the first manmade object to enter lunar orbit.source
  • 1969The Mass of Paul VI is promulgated in the Catholic Church by the Pope.source
  • 1969According to JFDMA official confirmed report, a gas explosion hit Moshiri coal mine in Akabira, Hokkaido, official resulting death toll is 19 persons, with 24 persons hurt. This mine officially shut down on April 30.source
  • 1970Avigdor Hameiri (born 1890), Austro-Hungarian (Carpathian Ruthenia)-born Israeli author.source
  • 1971Malaysia Airlines Systems (MAS) was founded.source
  • 1971Representing Luxembourg, Monique Melsen finishes thirteenth in the Eurovision Song Contest 1971 with the song Pomme, pomme, pomme.source
  • 1973The first handheld mobile phone call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City.source
  • 1974The 1974 Super Outbreak, at the time the largest series of tornadoes in history, occurs in 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province, leaving over 300 people dead, over 5,000 people injured, and hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.source
  • 1974April 3–4 – An enormous tornado outbreak strikes the central parts of the United States, killing around 319 and injuring about 5,484.source
  • 1974A tornado strikes Windsor, Ontario, killing 9 people. The tornado was part of the 1974 Super Outbreak.source
  • 1976The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.source
  • 1976Representing Luxembourg, Juergen Marcus finishes fourteenth in the Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with the song Chansons Pour Ceux Qui S'aiment.source
  • 1976Eurovision Song Contest, held in The Haguesource
  • 1978The 50th Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Annie Hall winning Best Picture.source
  • 1981After two days, the attempted coup d'état was put down as thousands of troops took back control of Bangkok without a fight. Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda had taken King Bhumibol Adulyadej and the royal family with him to the city of Korat after General Sant Chipatima had seized control on Wednesday.source
  • 1981April 2–6. First council of Independent Students’ Association takes place in Kraków.source
  • 1982Invasion of the Falkland Islands: Argentine forces begin the invasion of South Georgia.source
  • 1987The Housing and Development Board (HDB) introduces a new scheme for families with third children to upgrade to bigger flats. This comes after the new 'Have Three or More (if you can afford it)' policy is announced a month ago.source
  • 1990The Israeli reconnaissance satellite Ofek-2 is launched.source
  • 1991Iraq disarmament crisis: The UN Security Council passes Resolution 687, which calls for the destruction or removal of all of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons and a complete ban of ballistic missiles with a range greater than 150 km. It also calls for an end to Iraq's support for international terrorism; it is accepted by Iraq three days later.source
  • 1993Hungary's first attempt to enter the Eurovision Song Contest ends in failure, as Andrea Szulák fails to win a place in the final rounds.source
  • 1996Burundian Civil War: massacres of Hutus by Tutsis in Burundi take place with more than 450 killed within a few days.source
  • 1996About 1,000 Muslim clergymen elect Taliban leader Mohammed Omar as amir al-momineen (commander of the faithful), denouncing Rabbani as unfit to lead the Islamic nation.source
  • 1996A Boeing 737 military jet crashes into a mountain north of Dubrovnik, Croatia. All 35 people on board are killed, including United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.source
  • 2008Greek and Turkish Cypriots open a crossing at Ledra Street, a main shopping street in Cyprus' divided capital Nicosia that had come to symbolize the island's ethnic partition.source
  • 2010The African Renaissance Monument is inaugurated in the capital of Dakar.source
  • 2010The first iPad is released.source
  • 2011Air bridge from Abidjan established to evacuate Togolese nationals from Ivory Coastsource
  • 2012Tajikistan accuses Uzbekistan of imposing an economic blockade.source
  • 2014A Mongolian-flagged cargo ship sinks off the coast of South Korea, with most of the 16 North Korean crew members reported missing.source
  • 2016April 1–5 – 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: Clashes occur along the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact with the Artsakh Defense Army, backed by the Armenian Armed Forces, on one side and the Azerbaijani Armed Forces on the other. The US State Department estimates that a total of 350 people have been killed in the clashes, which have been defined as "the worst" since the 1994 ceasefire.source
  • 2016The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung publish the "Panama Papers", a set of 11.5 million confidential documents from the Panamanian corporate Mossack Fonseca that provides detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors including noted personalities and heads of state.source
  • 2017An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 occurred in the Central District of Botswana.source
  • 2019General elections were held in the Solomon Islands. They were the first general elections since the RAMSI mission concluded in 2017. On 24 April 2019, Manasseh Sogavare was elected by the 11th National Parliament as Prime Minister of Solomon Islands.source
  • 20222022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: As Russia's forces retreat from areas near Kyiv, it is accused by Ukraine of war crimes, amid mounting evidence of indiscriminate civilian killings, including the Bucha massacre.source
  • 20232023 Papua New Guinea earthquake: A 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, killing eight people, injuring several others, and causing damage.source
  • 2024A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 strikes off the eastern coast of Taiwan, with small tsunamis reaching heights of 20 – 30 cm hitting Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.source
  • 2025April 2-3 – The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)-Olympic Solidarity (OS) Regional Forum is held in Thimphu.source
  • 2025The FTSE 100 falls sharply in response to major, worldwide tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump, including a 10% charge on UK imports. The UK government announces it is planning a list of US products it could hit with retaliatory tariffs.source
  • 2025Nonstop flights from Bermuda to Bradley International Airport commence.source
  • 2025Hungary withdraws from the International Criminal Court after Israeli Prime Minister and accused war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest for a state visit, in defiance of the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against him.source

Births

  • 1016Xing Zong, emperor of the Liao dynasty (died 1055)source
  • 1151Igor Svyatoslavich, Russian prince (died 1202)source
  • 1311Margaret de Bohun, English noblewoman (died 1391)source
  • 1438John III of Egmont, Dutch noble (died 1516)source
  • 1439Ludwig II, Count of Württemberg-Urach, German noble (died 1457)source
  • 1461Anne of France, French princess regent, eldest daughter of Louis XI of France and Charlotte of Savoy (died 1522)source
  • 1461Anne of France (died 14 November 1522)source
  • 1508Jean Daurat, French writer and scholar (died 1588)source
  • 1593George Herbert, Welsh-born English poet (died 1633)source
  • 1639Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (k. 1682)source
  • 1643Charles V, Duke of Lorraine (died 1690)source
  • 1669Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, French musician (died 1722)source
  • 1693John Harrison, English clockmaker, horologist and inventor of the marine chronometer (died 1776)source
  • 1693George Edwards, English naturalist (died 1773)source
  • 1694George Edwards, English naturalist and ornithologist (died 1773)source
  • 1753Simon Willard, American horologist (died 1848)source
  • 1770Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (died 1843)source
  • 1781Swaminarayan, Indian Hindu reformer and deity (died 1830)source
  • 1783Washington Irving, American author (died 1859)source
  • 1783Washington Irving, author (died 1859)source
  • 1791Anne Lister, English landowner, diarist, mountaineer and traveller, "the first modern lesbian" (died 1840)source
  • 1814Lorenzo Snow, 5th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1901)source
  • 1823William M. Tweed, American political boss (died 1878)source
  • 1826Reginald Heber, English priest (born 1783)source
  • 1852Talbot Baines Reed, English author (died 1893)source
  • 1889Grigoraș Dinicu, composer (died 1949).source
  • 1893Leslie Howard, English actor (died 1943)source
  • 1901Khalil Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Persian ambassador.source
  • 1914Sam Manekshaw, Field Marshal of the Indian Army (died 2008)source
  • 1924Marlon Brando, American actor (died 2004)source
  • 1925Tony Benn, British politician (died 2014)source
  • 1930Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (died 2017)source
  • 1964Nigel Farage, British politiciansource
  • 1965Nazia Hassan, singer (died 2000)source

Deaths

  • 963William III, duke of Aquitaine (born 915)source
  • 1154Al-Adil ibn al-Sallar, Fatimid viziersource
  • 1160William FitzAlan, Breton nobleman (born 1105)source
  • 1171Philip of Milly, French nobleman and knight (born 1120)source
  • 1194Sigurd Magnusson, Norwegian noblemansource
  • 1194Bård Guttormsson, Norwegian noblemansource
  • 1253Richard of Chichester, English bishop (born 1197)source
  • 1287Pope Honorius IV dies after a 2-year pontificate at Rome. During his reign, he tries to restore Sicily to papal vassalage, but Honorius clashes with King Peter III (the Great), who supports Sicilian independence.source
  • 1287Honorius IV, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1210)source
  • 1325Nizamuddin Auliya, Indian scholar (born 1238)source
  • 1349Eudes IV, Duke of Burgundy (born 1295)source
  • 1473Alessandro Sforza, Italian condottiero (born 1409)source
  • 1477William Hugonet, former chancellor of Burgundy (executed)source
  • 1477William Hugonet, formerly the Chancellor of the Duchy of Burgundy during the reign of Charles the Bold, is beheaded in Ghent by citizens who had blamed him for having reduced their independence. Hugonet is executed along with the Marshal of Brabant, Guy of Brimeu (Lord Humbercourt) and the Burgundian treasurer Jan van Melle.source
  • 1538Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (born 1480)source
  • 1545Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born 1481)source
  • 1549Matsudaira Hirotada, Japanese daimyo (born 1526)source
  • 1582Takeda Katsuyori, Japanese daimyō of Takeda Clan (born 1546)source
  • 1582Battle of Temmokuzan: Unable to reverse the collapse of Takeda clan, Takeda Katsuyori and his household commit suicide.source
  • 1606Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (born 1563)source
  • 1680Chhatrapati Shivaji Bhosale, founder of the Maratha Empire (born 1630)source
  • 1682Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (born 1618)source
  • 1691Jean Petitot, painter (born 1607)source
  • 1723George Watson, accountant and benefactor (born 1654)source
  • 1728James Anderson, Scottish lawyer, antiquary and historian (born 1662)source
  • 1747Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (born 1657)source
  • 1760John Rous, Royal Navy officer during King George's War and the Seven Years' War (born 1702)source
  • 1838François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician (born 1780)source
  • 1882Jesse James, American Western outlaw (born 1847)source
  • 1897Johannes Brahms, German composer (born 1833)source
  • 1901Richard D'Oyly Carte, English impresario (born 1844)source
  • 1946Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed outside Manila in the Philippines, for leading the Bataan Death March.source
  • 1948Jeju Uprising: Residents revolt on Jeju Island, South Korea, eventually leading to the deaths of between 14,000 and 30,000.source
  • 1954Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese diplomat and humanitarian (born 1885)source
  • 1979Syed Mahbub Murshed, lawyer and jurist (born 1911)source
  • 2000Terence McKenna, 53, American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut and author, brain cancer.source
  • 2000Milko Bobotsov, chess grandmastersource