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April 8 in history

209 sourced entries recorded on April 8, from 217 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 876Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul: Abbasid forces, led by Al-Muwaffaq, halt a Saffarid invasion on the River Tigris. Emir Ya'qub ibn al-Layth tries to capture the Abbasid Caliphate's capital of Baghdad, but he is forced, with his army, to retreat.source
  • 954April 6–10 – The Hungarians besiege Cambrai and burn its suburbs, but they are unable to conquer the city. One of Bulcsú's relatives is killed by the defenders, who refuse to pass his body over to the Hungarians. As a revenge, they kill all their captives.source
  • 1000Fujiwara no Shoshi is promoted to Empress (Chugu), while there is another empress, Fujiwara no Teishi (kogo) - this is the first time that there are two empressessource
  • 1093Monks move into the new Winchester Cathedral in England, constructed by the Norman bishop Walkelin.source
  • 1139Second Council of the Lateran: Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Pope Innocent II.source
  • 1149Pope Eugene III takes refuge in the castle of Tusculum where he meets Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He attempts to reunite the couple by insisting to restore the love between them.source
  • 1203Congress of Bilino Polje: Ban Kulin, ruler of Bosnia, officially declares his allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church and denounces heresy.source
  • 1232Mongol–Jin War: The Mongol army led by Ögedei Khan and his brother Tolui begins the Siege of Kaifeng (1232), capital of the Chinese Jin dynasty. During the summer, the Jurchens try to end the siege by negotiating a peace treaty, but the assassination of a Mongol embassy makes further talks impossible. While the negotiations are going on, a plague is devastating the population of the city. In the meantime, supplies stored at Kaifeng are running out, and several residents of the city are executed on the suspicion that they are traitors.source
  • 1250Battle of Fariskur: Louis IX (the Saint) is captured by Baibars' Egyptian Mamluk army while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.source
  • 1271Siege of Krak des Chevaliers: Mamluk forces under Baibars capture the strategically important castle Krak des Chevaliers from the Knights Hospitaller. During the siege the defenders receive a letter, supposedly from Grand Master Hugues de Revel, to surrender the castle. Under safe-conduct the Hospitallers retreat to Tripoli.source
  • 1301Second Mongol invasion of Burma: The three Bagan brothers (Athinkhaya, Yazathingyan and Thihathu) who rule the Burmese Kingdom of Myinsaing reach an agreement for Mongol leader Temür Khan and his officers to be paid 800 taels (30 kg) of gold and 2200 taels (83 kg) of silver in return for ending the invasion and returning to Mongolia.source
  • 1310The return of the Kingdom of Hungary's Crown of Saint Stephen is successfully negotiated at Szeged by Thomas II, Archbishop of Esztergom, along with Amadeus Aba and Dominic II Rátót to secure its return from Ladislaus III Kán, the Voivode of Transylvania.source
  • 1317Fakhr al-Din al-Qibti is appointed Emir of Egypt.source
  • 1340Marinid galleys, under the command of Muhammad ibn Ali al-Azafi, rout the Castellan fleet, off the coast of Algeciras.source
  • 1341Petrarch is crowned poet laureate in Rome, the first man since antiquity to be given this honor.source
  • 1351Hundred Years' War: Battle of Taillebourg. – The French are defeated by the English.source
  • 1364Charles V becomes King of France.source
  • 1372King Robert II of Scotland issues a Royal Charter granting royal burgh status to the town of Irvine, North Ayrshire, a status that lasts for 603 years until royal burghs are abolished in 1975.source
  • 1374Pope Gregory XI issues the papal bull Salvator humani generis, condemning 14 articles of the Sachsenspiegel, challenging canon law.source
  • 1421Maredudd ab Owain Glyndŵr, son of the Welsh rebel Owain Glyndŵr, accepts a pardon from, and swears loyalty to England's King Henry V, formally bringing an end to the Glyndŵr rebellion.source
  • 1445At West Java in what is now Indonesia, the Sultanate of Cirebon establishes its capital at Dukuh Alang-alang and Ki Gedeng Alang-Alang is designated as the Sultan.source
  • 1450At the Korean capital of Hanseong, Munjong of Joseon becomes the new King of Korea upon the death of his father, Sejong the Great.source
  • 1455Cardinal Alfons de Borja is elected as the 209th Roman Catholic pontiff and takes the name Pope Calixtus III.source
  • 1459Stefan Branković, despot of Serbia, is overthrown by King Stefan Tomaš of Bosnia, who installs his son, Stephen Tomašević as the new despot.source
  • 1481Pope Sixtus IV issues the papal bull Cogimur jubente altissimo, calling for Roman Catholics to participate in a crusade against the Ottoman Empire, starting with the Turkish-occupied southern Italian area in and around Otranto, with the liberation of Valona (now in Albania) to follow.source
  • 1500April 8–10 – Battle of Novara takes place during the Second Italian War. French victory over Ludovico Sforza.source
  • 1518Spanish conquistador Juan de Grijalva embarks from Cuba on a mission to explore and conquer Mexico, departing from Matanzas with four ships and 170 people.source
  • 1529The Flensburg Disputation is held, a debate attended by Stadtholder Christian of Schleswig-Holstein (later King Christian III of Denmark), between Lutherans (led by Hermann Fast) and the more radical Anabaptists (led by Melchior Hoffman). Johannes Bugenhagen, a close associate of Martin Luther, presides. The Disputation marks the rejection of radical ideas by the Danish Reformation.source
  • 1530At the invitation of the Holy Roman Emperor, the members of the Imperial Diet open their session at Augsburg in Germany to prepare the Augsburg Confession, an official imperial set of rules for Protestantism.source
  • 1546The Council of Trent, by a vote of 24 to 15, with 16 abstentions, issues the Decretum de Canonicis Scripturis for the scripture considered to be canon by the Roman Catholic Church. The decree recites that if anyone declines to receive all parts of the Vulgate edition of the Bible, they are in contempt of the Church and should be excommunicated. and approves the 4th century Vulgate of Jerome as its official Biblesource
  • 1549Giovanni Angelo Medici is appointed as a Roman Catholic cardinal by Pope Paul III, effective May 10. In 1559, Medici is elected as Pope Pius IV.source
  • 1552Maurice, Elector of Saxony, liberates Augsburg and sets about to capture Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • 1595April 8 (March 29 O.S.) – Combined Taungoo–Lan Na armies break the rebel Thado Dhamma Yaza's siege of Taungoo, in modern-day Myanmar.source
  • 1605The city of Oulu (Uleåborg) is founded by King Charles IX of Sweden.source
  • 1628A decree of the Sacred Congregation of Rites of the Roman Catholic Church is made to prohibit the veneration of saints whose sanctity has not been declared by the Holy See.source
  • 1630Puritan migration to New England (1620-1640): Winthrop Fleet – The ship Arbella and three others set sail from the Solent in England, with 400 passengers under the leadership of John Winthrop, headed for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America; seven more, with another 300 aboard, follow in the next few weeks.source
  • 1642Execution of George Spencer: the first hanging of a settler in the New Haven Colony takes place, on a wrongful conviction of bestiality.source
  • 1663Barbra Olsdatter from Vadsø and four other women were burned to death, the last to be burned in the Vardø witch trials.source
  • 1672France declares war on the Dutch Republic, invading the country on April 29.source
  • 1679In the Italian region of Piedmont, a landslide causes the village of Bosia to sink into the ground and then get buried, killing 200 inhabitants. The village is then rebuilt at another site and continues to exist.source
  • 1706George Farquhar's play The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.source
  • 1706George Farquhar's Restoration comedy The Recruiting Officer first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London.source
  • 1708Easter Sunday: The first performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio La resurrezione takes place in Rome.source
  • 1712The Danish frigate Heyeren sinks in Præstø Ghord after being shot upon by the Swedish frigate Hvita Örn.source
  • 1716Swedish Wismar is taken.source
  • 1730Congregation Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.source
  • 1731Maglekilde Watermill is the first of a number of buildings which are destroyed in a series of devastating fires that hits Roskilde in 1731.source
  • 17346 August: Siege of Gaeta in the Kingdom of Naples (War of the Polish Succession) at which Charles Edward Stuart is present, his only military experience prior to the Jacobite rising of 1745.source
  • 1740War of the Austrian Succession: The Royal Navy captures the Spanish ship of the line Princesa off Cape Finisterre and takes her into British service.source
  • 1740War of the Austrian Succession: Three Royal Navy ships capture the Spanish ship of the line Princesa off Cape Finisterre and takes her into British service as HMS Princess.source
  • 1749Charles Wesley marries Sarah Gwynne of Garth.source
  • 1769the Theatre Royal, York, reopens under this title having been granted a Royal Patent. (The manager, Tate Wilkinson, also obtains a patent for his theatre in Hull.)source
  • 1772Massachusetts legislator Samuel Adams persuades his colleagues to approve his plan for creating a Committee of Correspondence to begin a dialogue with the other American colonies concerning mutual problems with England.source
  • 1783The Crimean Khanate, which has existed since 1441 and is a late remnant of the Mongol Golden Horde, is annexed by the Russian Empire of Catherine the Great.source
  • 1795George, Prince of Wales, marries Caroline of Brunswick.source
  • 1795marriage of George, Prince of Wales, to his cousin Caroline of Brunswick at St James's Palace on the promise of being relieved of his debts; the couple separate after a year.source
  • 1795George, Prince of Wales, marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick.source
  • 1802Matthew Flinders meets the French explorer Nicolas Baudin at Encounter Bay.source
  • 1802Organic Articles presented by Napoleon.source
  • 1806Proceedings for the impeachment of Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville (on the initiative of Samuel Whitbread) for the misappropriation of public money at the Admiralty begin; he will be acquitted in the last impeachment trial ever held in the House of Lords.source
  • 1806Stéphanie de Beauharnais, adopted daughter of Emperor Napoleon I, marries Prince Karl Ludwig Friedrich of Baden.source
  • 1807April 4–12 – Froberg mutiny: The British suppress a mutiny at Fort Ricasoli, Malta, by men of the irregularly-recruited Froberg Regiment.source
  • 1809September 4 - Campaign of Dobrujasource
  • 1812The capital of Finland is moved from Turku to Helsinki, when Russia's Tsar Alexander I signs an edict moving the Government Council of the Grand Duchy of Finland.source
  • 1813War of 1812: Colonel James Ball arrives at Fort Meigs with 200 dragoons.source
  • 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
  • 1817Australia's first bank, the Bank of New South Wales is established.source
  • 1818Homathlemico and Hillis Hadjo are hanged near St. Marks, Florida by order of Andrew Jackson.source
  • 1820The statue of the Venus de Milo (Aphrodite of Milos, c. 150 BC-125 BC) is discovered on the Greek island of Milos, by a peasant named Yorgos Kentrotas.source
  • 1827Battle of Monte Santiago: A squadron of the Brazilian Imperial Navy defeats Argentine vessels after a two-day naval battle.source
  • 1830José María Estudillo an early settler and leader of San Diegosource
  • 1832Engelbert Sterckx consecrated as Archbishop of Mechelensource
  • 1837Low-water mark datum measured at Poolbeg Lighthouse by the Ordnance Survey.source
  • 1838April 8–23 – Isambard Kingdom Brunel's paddle steamer SS Great Western (1838) makes the transatlantic crossing to New York from Avonmouth, England, in 15 days, inaugurating a regular steamship service.source
  • 1847John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is transferred from Norfolk Island to Tasmania.source
  • 1851Western Union is founded, as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company.source
  • 1857April 1–8 – Reform War: Crabb Massacresource
  • 1857Mangal Pandey is hanged for mutiny against the British East India Company army; the execution is a precursor event to the Indian Rebellion of 1857.source
  • 1864Gallaudet University is founded in Washington, D.C., as the first university for the deaf and hard of hearing.source
  • 1865Bushranger Dan Morgan is shot dead by a stockman during a police siege at Wangaratta, Victoria.source
  • 1866The kingdoms of Italy and Prussia form an alliance against the Austrian Empire.source
  • 1893The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.source
  • 1899A flood caused by the collapse of an ice gorge in the Yellowstone River drowns 12 people near Glendive, Montana.source
  • 1904The Entente Cordiale is signed between the UK and France.source
  • 1904The Convention of Istanbul, signed by a number of powers including Germany in 1888, came into force.source
  • 1904April 8–10 – Aleister Crowley writes The Book of the Law, a text central to Thelema, in Cairo.source
  • 1904Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square, after The New York Times.source
  • 1904April 8–11 – At the Eighth Congress of the Italian Socialist Party in Bologna the revolutionary syndicalists led by Arturo Labriola and Enrico Ferri's left centre together win a clear majority, ending the cautious rapprochement of the reformist leader Filippo Turati with Giolitti to advance social reforms.source
  • 1908H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.source
  • 1908David Lloyd George becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer, while Winston Churchill enters the Cabinet for the first time, as President of the Board of Trade.source
  • 1908The Invercargill Tragedy occurs, in which James Reid Baxter kills his family and then himself.source
  • 1911Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity; he presents his findings on April 28.source
  • 1913The Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, dictating the direct election of senators.source
  • 19148 April–9 May - St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournamentsource
  • 1914María Félix, actress and singer (died 2002)source
  • 1917April 8 (N.S.) (March 26, O.S.) – In Petrograd, 40,000 ethnic Estonians demand national autonomy within Russia.source
  • 1921Permanent Advisory Council of Princes inaugurated; Council of State and Legislative Assembly inaugurated.source
  • 1952Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer: The U.S. Supreme Court limits the power of the President to seize private business, after President Harry S. Truman nationalizes all steel mills in the United States, just before the 1952 steel strike begins.source
  • 1953Jomo Kenyatta is sentenced to 7 years in prison for the alleged organization of the Mau Mau Uprising in the British Kenya Colony.source
  • 1954A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Air Lines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.source
  • 1957Dr. Moshe Wallach (born 1866), German-born physician, founder of Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem.source
  • 1959The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) is established.source
  • 1962In France, the Évian Accords are adopted in a referendum, with a majority of 90%.source
  • 1963The 35th Academy Awards ceremony is held. Lawrence of Arabia wins Best Picture.source
  • 19641963–64 Balkans Cup: Albania ties with Bulgaria 1-1 at Selman Stërmasi Stadium, Tiranasource
  • 1964The U.S. Gemini 1 is launched, the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft.source
  • 1966Buddhists in South Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for free elections.source
  • 1967Puppet on a String by Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for the United Kingdom.source
  • 1968Tuanku Jaafar was installed as the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan.source
  • 1969The Montreal Expos become Major League Baseball's first team outside the United States.source
  • 1970Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom II fighter bombers kill 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as Bahr el-Baqar massacre. The single-floor school is hit by five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles.source
  • 1970A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan, kills 79 and injures over 400.source
  • 1971A right-wing coup attempt is exposed in Laos.source
  • 1974In Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run, surpassing Babe Ruth as the all-time home run king.source
  • 1976The 20-storey Campbell Shopping Complex, Kuala Lumpur's very first high-rise shopping complex was completely destroyed in a fire. It was Malaysia's first towering inferno and the worst fire disaster involving a high-rise building to date.source
  • 1982A law is passed to restrict the indexing of wage settlements in an attempt to stem inflation, which peaks at 9.4% over 1982.source
  • 1993The Republic of Macedonia is admitted to the United Nations under a provisional reference "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia".source
  • 1996SES launches its sixth satellite, Astra 1F.source
  • 1998the headquarters of BALTRON minesweeping squadron was opened in Tallinn.source
  • 2004The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government and two rebel groups to create a ceasefire in the War in Darfur.source
  • 2005The first solar eclipse of the year was a rare hybrid event, occurring at ascending node in Aries. This was 4.4 days after the Moon reached perigee. Gamma had a value of -0.34733. A hybrid solar eclipse was visible from south Pacific, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela, and was the 51st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 129.source
  • 2005Solar eclipse of April 8, 2005: An annular version of a total solar eclipse is visible in areas of Colombia.source
  • 2006Bloc 8406 was established.source
  • 2008Senator George Voinovich, a Republican, broke with his party line, saying the country is, "kind of bankrupted ... in a recession."source
  • 2009April 8 - April 12 – Maersk Alabama Hijacking occurs, the ship being taken over by Somalian pirates off the coast of Somalia.source
  • 2016Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia (dated March 19) is published in the Vatican; it appears to amend the Roman Catholic Church's position on the availability of sacraments to Catholics who have divorced and contracted a civil remarriage.source
  • 2018April 4–15 – The 2018 Commonwealth Games are held in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.source
  • 20182018 Bahrain Grand Prix.source
  • 2020COVID-19 pandemic: The Saudi–led coalition declares a unilateral ceasefire in its operations against Houthi forces in Yemen in accordance with United Nations-led efforts.source
  • 2020A Spanish-Eritrean group has discovered the remains of million-year-old fossil remains of large animals and plants along with tools that will help us better understand the climate and ecology of the Engel Ela-Ramud area during the Pleistocene Epoch.source
  • 20222022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: Russia is condemned by world leaders following a missile attack on Kramatorsk train station, which kills 59 civilians trying to evacuate, including seven children.source
  • 2022Global food prices increase to their highest level since the UN's Food Price Index began in 1990, with commodities such as wheat rising by nearly 20% as a result of the Ukraine crisis.source
  • 2024A total solar eclipse is visible across North America.source
  • 2025During a concert performance by Rubby Pérez in Santo Domingo, a nightclub roof collapses, killing at least 231 people, including Pérez, and injures more than 200 others.source

Births

  • 1250John Tristan, son of Louis IX (died 1270)source
  • 1320Peter I the Cruel, king of Portugal (died 1367)source
  • 1408Jadwiga of Lithuania, Polish princess (died 1431)source
  • 1435John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, English noble (died 1461)source
  • 1533Claudio Merulo, Italian composer and organist (died 1604)source
  • 1541Michele Mercati, Italian physician and gardener (died 1593)source
  • 1561Dominicus Baudius, poet, scholar and historian (died 1613)source
  • 1580William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, English noble, courtier and patron of the arts (died 1630)source
  • 1605King Philip IV of Spain (died 1665)source
  • 1605Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess (died 1607)source
  • 1641(bapt.) – William Wycherley, English playwright (died 1716)source
  • 1641Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English politician and army officer (died 1704)source
  • 1648Charles, Count of Marsan, French noble (died 1708)source
  • 1655Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Germany (died 1707)source
  • 1692Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer and violinist (died 1770)source
  • 1726Lewis Morris, American landowner and developer, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (died 1798)source
  • 1731William Williams, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (died 1811)source
  • 1798Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet (died 1857)source
  • 1813Leah Fox, American hoax medium (died 1890)source
  • 1818King Christian IX of Denmark (died 1906)source
  • 1827Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (died 1898)source
  • 1832Howell Edmunds Jackson, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1895)source
  • 1859Edmund Husserl, Austrian philosopher (died 1938)source
  • 1892Mary Pickford, Canadian actress, studio founder (died 1979)source
  • 1915Ivan Supek, physicist (died 2007)source
  • 1918Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (died 2011)source
  • 1919Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (1967–79) (died 2007)source
  • 1927Deborah Brown, sculptor (died 2023).source
  • 1932Sultan Iskandar of Johor, 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (died 2010)source
  • 1937Maila Rästas, actress (died 2008)source
  • 1938Kofi Annan, Ghanaian Secretary-General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 2018)source

Deaths

  • 217Caracalla is assassinated by his soldiers near Edessa. Marcus Opellius Macrinus, head of the Praetorian Guard, declares himself Roman emperor.source
  • 217Caracalla, Roman emperor (born 188)source
  • 622Shōtoku, prince and regent of Japan (born 574)source
  • 632Charibert II, king of Aquitainesource
  • 632King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde), (possibly on orders of his half-brother Dagobert I), along with his infant son. Dagobert I claims Aquitaine and Gascony, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in the West.source
  • 894Adalelm, Frankish noblemansource
  • 944Wang Yanxi, emperor of Min (Ten Kingdoms)source
  • 967Mu'izz al-Dawla, Buyid emir (born 915)source
  • 1143John II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (born 1087)source
  • 1143Emperor John II Komnenos Komnenos dies of a poisoned arrow wound while hunting wild boar on Mount Taurus in Cilicia. He is succeeded by his 24-year-old son Manuel I, who is chosen as his successor, in preference to his elder surviving brother Isaac. Manuel dispatches John Axouchos, his commander-in-chief (megas domestikos), to Constantinople ahead of him – with orders to arrest Isaac in the Great Palace.source
  • 1150Gertrude of Babenberg, German duchess (born 1118)source
  • 1302Muhammad II ("al-Faqih"), Nasrid ruler of Granada (born 1235)source
  • 1302April 8 (8 Shaban 701 AH) – Sultan Muhammad II dies after a 29-year reign and is succeeded by his son Muhammad III as ruler of Granada. Within two weeks of his accession, he sends a Nasrid army under Hammu ibn Abd al-Haqq to seize Bedmar and other neighboring strongholds from Castile. Nasrid forces also attack Jódar, northeast of Bedmar, and recapture Quesada. Meanwhile, Muhammad contains friendly relations with King James II ("James the Just").source
  • 1321In the Delhi Sultanate of India, European Dominican missionaries who have accompanied Jordan Catala are killed while stranded on Salsette Island. Jordan escapes and continues his ministry.source
  • 1338Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of Londonsource
  • 1364King John II of France (born 1319)source
  • 1401April 8 or August 8 – Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (born 1338)source
  • 1450Sejong the Great of Joseon, ruler of Korea (born 1397)source
  • 1461Georg von Peuerbach, Austrian astronomer (born 1423)source
  • 1492Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (born 1449)source
  • 1551Oda Nobuhide, Japanese warlord (born 1510)source
  • 1586Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer (born 1522)source
  • 1587John Foxe, English author (born 1516)source
  • 1602Ludvig Munk, Stadtholder of Norway (b.1537)source
  • 1604Daniyal, Imperial Prince of the Timurid Dynasty, Viceroy of Deccan (born 1572)source
  • 1612Anne Catherine of Brandenburg, Queen consort of Denmark and Norway (Born 1575 in the Holy Roman Empire)source
  • 1620Angelo Rocca, Italian humanist (born 1545)source
  • 1662Birgitte Thott, translator, writer and feminist (born 1610)source
  • 1697Niels Juel, Danish admiral (born 1629)source
  • 1697Niels Juel, admiral (born 1629 in Norway).source
  • 1704Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English politician and army officer (born 1641)source
  • 1735Francis II Rákóczi, Hungarian rebel against the Habsburgs (born 1676)source
  • 1748Empress Xiaoxianchun of Qing dynasty (born 1712)source
  • 1835Wilhelm von Humboldt, German linguist, philosopher (born 1767)source
  • 1848Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer (born 1797)source
  • 1885Constantin Alexandru Rosetti, literary and political leader (born 1816).source
  • 1898León Kilat, Filipino revolutionary leader (born 1873)source
  • 1909Helena Modjeska, Polish actress (born 1840)source
  • 1950Vaslav Nijinsky, Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer (born 1889)source
  • 1973Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (born 1881)source
  • 1981Omar Bradley, 88, American military officer,in 1950, Bradley was serving as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the early phase of the Korean War, he had to deploy a force that was a shadow of its World War II counterpart, in his second memoir, Bradley stated that not arguing more forcefully in 1948 and 1949 for a sufficient defense budget "was a mistake... perhaps the greatest mistake I made in my postwar years in Washington."source
  • 2013Death of Former United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.source
  • 2018Syrian Civil War: At least 70 people are reported to have died and hundreds suffering injuries after a chlorine chemical attack in Douma, the last rebel-held town in Syria's Eastern Ghouta.source