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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1st of April 0286 | EVENT | Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire. |
| 1st of April 0325 | EVENT | Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, age 4, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. |
| 1st of April 0527 | EVENT | Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. |
| 1st of April 1293 | EVENT | Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury. |
| 1st of April 1318 | EVENT | Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from England. |
| 1st of April 1340 | EVENT | Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark. |
| 1st of April 1572 | EVENT | In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Spaniards, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic. |
| 1st of April 1789 | EVENT | In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first House Speaker. |
| 1st of April 1826 | EVENT | Samuel Morey patents the internal combustion engine. |
| 1st of April 1833 | EVENT | The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin |
| 1st of April 1854 | EVENT | Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens' magazine, Household Words. |
| 1st of April 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Five Forks : In Siege of Petersburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins his final offensive. |
| 1st of April 1867 | EVENT | Singapore becomes a British crown colony. |
| 1st of April 1871 | EVENT | The first stage of the Brill Tramway opened. |
| 1st of April 1873 | EVENT | The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547. |
| 1st of April 1887 | EVENT | Mumbai Fire Brigade is established. |
| 1st of April 1891 | EVENT | The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1st of April 1893 | EVENT | The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established. |
| 1st of April 1908 | EVENT | The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army. |
| 1st of April 1918 | EVENT | The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service. |
| 1st of April 1922 | EVENT | Six Irish Catholic civilians are shot and beaten-to-death by a gang of policemen in Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
| 1st of April 1924 | EVENT | The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed. |
| 1st of April 1924 | EVENT | Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years in jail for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch". However, he spends only nine months in jail, during which he writes Mein Kampf. |
| 1st of April 1933 | EVENT | English cricketer Wally Hammond set a record for the highest individual Test innings of 336 not out, during a Test match against New Zealand. |
| 1st of April 1933 | EVENT | The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts. |
| 1st of April 1936 | EVENT | Orissa formerly known as Kalinga or Utkal becomes a state in India. |
| 1st of April 1937 | EVENT | Aden becomes a British crown colony. |
| 1st of April 1939 | EVENT | Generalisimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender. |
| 1st of April 1941 | EVENT | A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali as Prime Minister. |
| 1st of April 1941 | EVENT | The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted. |
| 1st of April 1944 | EVENT | Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen. |
| 1st of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Iceberg : United States troops land on Okinawa in the last campaign of the war. |
| 1st of April 1946 | EVENT | Aleutian Island earthquake: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake near the Aleutian Islands creates a tsunami that strikes the Hawaiian Islands killing 159, mostly in Hilo. |
| 1st of April 1946 | EVENT | Formation of the Malayan Union. |
| 1st of April 1947 | EVENT | Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II. |
| 1st of April 1948 | EVENT | Cold War: Berlin Airlift : Military forces, under direction of the Russian-controlled government in East Germany, set-up a land blockade of West Berlin. |
| 1st of April 1948 | EVENT | Faroe Islands receive autonomy from Denmark. |
| 1st of April 1949 | EVENT | Chinese Civil War: The Communist Party of China holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Kuomintang in Beijing, after three years of fighting. |
| 1st of April 1949 | EVENT | The 26 counties of the Irish Free State become the Republic of Ireland. |
| 1st of April 1949 | EVENT | The Canadian government repeals Japanese Canadian internment after seven years. |
| 1st of April 1954 | EVENT | President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado. |
| 1st of April 1955 | EVENT | The EOKA rebellion against The British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification ("enosis") with Greece. |
| 1st of April 1957 | EVENT | The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme Panorama. |
| 1st of April 1959 | EVENT | Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America. |
| 1st of April 1967 | EVENT | The United States Department of Transportation begins operation. |
| 1st of April 1969 | EVENT | The Hawker Siddeley Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force. |
| 1st of April 1970 | EVENT | President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertisements on television and radio in the United States, starting on January 1, 1971. |
| 1st of April 1971 | EVENT | Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacred over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh. |
| 1st of April 1973 | EVENT | Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Corbett National Park, India. |
| 1st of April 1974 | EVENT | In the United Kingdom, the Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties come into being. |
| 1st of April 1976 | EVENT | Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. |
| 1st of April 1976 | EVENT | The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect hoax is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore. |
| 1st of April 1976 | EVENT | Conrail takes over operations from six bankrupt railroads in the Northeastern U.S.. |
| 1st of April 1978 | EVENT | The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. |
| 1st of April 1979 | EVENT | Iran becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah. |
| 1st of April 1989 | EVENT | Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland. |
| 1st of April 1992 | EVENT | Start of the Bosnian war. |
| 1st of April 1996 | EVENT | The Halifax Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia is created. |
| 1st of April 1997 | EVENT | Comet Hale-Bopp is seen passing over perihelion. |
| 1st of April 1999 | EVENT | Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories. |
| 1st of April 2001 | EVENT | An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, People's Republic of China and is detained. |
| 1st of April 2001 | EVENT | Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges. |
| 1st of April 2001 | EVENT | Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first country to allow it. |
| 1st of April 2006 | EVENT | The Serious Organised Crime Agency, dubbed the "British FBI", is created in the United Kingdom. |
| 1st of April 2009 | EVENT | Croatia and Albania join NATO |
| 1st of April 2011 | EVENT | After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers. |
| 1st of April 1220 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272) |
| 1st of April 1543 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguieres, Constable of France (d. 1626) |
| 1st of April 1578 | BIRTHDAY | William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657) |
| 1st of April 1610 | BIRTHDAY | Charles de Saint-Evremond, French soldier (d. 1703) |
| 1st of April 1640 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (d. 1697) |
| 1st of April 1647 | BIRTHDAY | John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680) |
| 1st of April 1697 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Francois Prevost, French author and novelist (d. 1763) |
| 1st of April 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821) |
| 1st of April 1765 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (d. 1810) |
| 1st of April 1776 | BIRTHDAY | Sophie Germain, French mathematician (d. 1831) |
| 1st of April 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (d. 1898) |
| 1st of April 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Clark, American politician (d. 1880) |
| 1st of April 1834 | BIRTHDAY | James "Big Jim" Fisk, American entrepreneur (d. 1872) |
| 1st of April 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Traylor, American artist (d. 1949) |
| 1st of April 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Acacio Gabriel Viegas, Indian physician (d. 1933) |
| 1st of April 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929) |
| 1st of April 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1924) |
| 1st of April 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Edmond Rostand, French dramatist (d. 1918) |
| 1st of April 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943) |
| 1st of April 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest William Barnes, English mathematician and theologian (d. 1953) |
| 1st of April 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Wallace, English writer (d. 1932) |
| 1st of April 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Agha Petros, Assyrian general (d. 1932) |
| 1st of April 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Anspach, Belgian fencer (d. 1991) |
| 1st of April 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Lon Chaney, Sr., American actor (d. 1930) |
| 1st of April 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Laurette Taylor, American stage actress (d. 1946) |
| 1st of April 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949) |
| 1st of April 1887 | BIRTHDAY | H. S. Lloyd, British dog breeder (d. 1963) |
| 1st of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and Hindu nationalism advocate (d. 1940) |
| 1st of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Cicely Courtneidge, English actress and comedian (d. 1980) |
| 1st of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Alberta Hunter, American singer (d. 1984) |
| 1st of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Nita Naldi, American actress (d. 1961) |
| 1st of April 1898 | BIRTHDAY | William James Sidis, American mathematician and child prodigy (d. 1944) |
| 1st of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavs Celmins, Latvian politician (d. 1968) |
| 1st of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Whittaker Chambers, American writer, editor, and defector (d. 1961) |
| 1st of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930) |
| 1st of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksandr Yakovlev, Russian engineer and aeroplane designer (d. 1989) |
| 1st of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970) |
| 1st of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1951) |
| 1st of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Fauja Singh, Indian athlete |
| 1st of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Nyrop, American airline executive (d. 2010) |
| 1st of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Memos Makris, Greek sculptor (d. 1993) |
| 1st of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Lor Tok, Thai comedian and actor (d. 2002) |
| 1st of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Wilhelm Fischer, Austrian actor (d. 2004) |
| 1st of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Melville Shavelson, American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2007) |
| 1st of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate |
| 1st of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997) |
| 1st of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008) |
| 1st of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | William Manchester, American historian (d. 2004) |
| 1st of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Byrne, American politician |
| 1st of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Miodrag Petrovic, Serbian actor (d. 2003) |
| 1st of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Bressler, American tenor |
| 1st of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Anne McCaffrey, American author |
| 1st of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | John Scott Martin, English actor (d. 2009) |
| 1st of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Bahr, American footballer |
| 1st of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Cundall, Australian horticulturist |
| 1st of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Amos Milburn, American pianist (d. 1980) |
| 1st of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | George Grizzard, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 1st of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator (d. 2010) |
| 1st of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Kundera, Czech writer |
| 1st of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Schembechler, American football coach (d. 2006) |
| 1st of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Powell, American dancer, actress, and singer |
| 1st of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Lee Whitney, American actress |
| 1st of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Rolf Hochhuth, German writer |
| 1st of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Ita Ever, Estonian actress |
| 1st of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Jump, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 1st of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Debbie Reynolds, American actress |
| 1st of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, French physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 1st of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Flavin, American artist (d. 1996) |
| 1st of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Don Hastings, American actor |
| 1st of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (d. 2004) |
| 1st of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist |
| 1st of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Larry McDonald, American politician (d. 1983) |
| 1st of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician (d. 1998) |
| 1st of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Abdul Qadeer Khan , Pakistani nuclear scientist |
| 1st of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John Quade, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 1st of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Niekro, American baseball player |
| 1st of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ali MacGraw, American actress |
| 1st of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolph Isley, American singer |
| 1st of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1st of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Ajit Wadekar, Indian cricketer |
| 1st of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Annie Nightingale, British disc jockey |
| 1st of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel R. Delany, American author |
| 1st of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Rusty Staub, American baseball player |
| 1st of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | John Barbata, American drummer |
| 1st of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Lane, English musician (d. 1997) |
| 1st of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Arrigo Sacchi, Italian football coach |
| 1st of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Polttila, Finnish news broadcaster |
| 1st of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Nikitas Kaklamanis, Greek politician |
| 1st of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Connes, French mathematician |
| 1st of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Van Lier, American basketball player (d. 2009) |
| 1st of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Scott, English singer |
| 1st of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican musician |
| 1st of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Mestrallet, French businessman |
| 1st of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer |
| 1st of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Scott-Heron, American musician and composer |
| 1st of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Alito, American lawyer and jurist |
| 1st of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver (d. 2010) |
| 1st of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John Philip Abizaid, American army general |
| 1st of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Annette O'Toole, American actress |
| 1st of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher |
| 1st of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Sonnenfeld, producer and director |
| 1st of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Porcaro, American drummer (d. 1992) |
| 1st of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani statesman |
| 1st of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Nichols, American mass murderer |
| 1st of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Denise Nickerson, American actress |
| 1st of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | David Gower, English cricketer |
| 1st of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | D. Boon, American musician (d. 1985) |
| 1st of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Praed, British actor |
| 1st of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Boyle, Scottish singer and Britain's Got Talent contestant |
| 1st of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Phillip Schofield, British television presenter |
| 1st of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Samboy Lim, Filipino basketball player |
| 1st of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Diaz, Filipino rock guitarist (The Dawn) (d.1988) |
| 1st of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager |
| 1st of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Stevens, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (d. 2008) |
| 1st of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Alfredson, Swedish film director |
| 1st of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Steadman, English composer |
| 1st of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Jackson, American basketball player |
| 1st of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Evans, English disc jockey |
| 1st of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Demmel, American musician |
| 1st of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer |
| 1st of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Traci Lind, American actress |
| 1st of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Schnaas, German horror film director |
| 1st of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Windass, English football player |
| 1st of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer |
| 1st of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sung Hi Lee, Korean-born model |
| 1st of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Collins, American actress |
| 1st of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lachy Hulme, Australian actor and screenwriter |
| 1st of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Sonia Bisset, Cuban javelin thrower |
| 1st of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Shinji Nakano, Japanese race car driver |
| 1st of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Method Man, American rapper |
| 1st of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Hughes, American film director |
| 1st of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Hughes, American film director |
| 1st of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Tobias, American musician |
| 1st of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Finnegan, American comedian |
| 1st of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer |
| 1st of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Francis, American adult video producer |
| 1st of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Kris Marshall, British actor |
| 1st of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Maddow, American radio personality and political analyst |
| 1st of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | China Chow, British actress |
| 1st of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Beatriz Batarda, Portuguese actress |
| 1st of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Christy, American drummer |
| 1st of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Benjamin Ibarra, Argentine footballer |
| 1st of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Volker, German swimmer |
| 1st of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | George Bastl, Swiss tennis player |
| 1st of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | John Butler, Australian singer and musician |
| 1st of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | David Oyelowo, English-Nigerian actor |
| 1st of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer |
| 1st of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Gosselin, American TV personality |
| 1st of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Haimar Zubeldia, Spanish cyclist |
| 1st of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (d. 2009) |
| 1st of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Dumont, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 1st of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Anamaria Marinca, Romanian actress |
| 1st of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslava Vavrinec, Swiss tennis player |
| 1st of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Etan Thomas, American basketball player |
| 1st of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ivano Balic, Croatian handballer |
| 1st of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bijou Phillips, American actress |
| 1st of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Randy Orton, American professional wrestler |
| 1st of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Yuko Takeuchi, Japanese actress |
| 1st of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Hannah Spearritt, British singer and actor |
| 1st of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Asli Bayram, Turkish-born German model and actress |
| 1st of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player |
| 1st of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Bjoern Einar Romoeren, Norwegian skijumper |
| 1st of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Aimee Chan, Miss Hong Kong 2006 |
| 1st of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Huntington, American actor |
| 1st of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Taran Killam, American comedian and actor |
| 1st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | John Axford, Canadian baseball pitcher |
| 1st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Tamati Ellison, New Zealand rugby player |
| 1st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Hohaia, New Zealand rugby player |
| 1st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jussi Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player |
| 1st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Lanter, American actor and model |
| 1st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sergey Lazarev, Russian singer |
| 1st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Olafur Ingi Skulason, Icelandic footballer |
| 1st of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007) |
| 1st of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gilberto Macena, Brazilian footballer |
| 1st of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Zuckerman, American actor |
| 1st of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Murphy, American baseball player |
| 1st of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ireen Wust, Dutch speed skater |
| 1st of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Shunichi Miyamoto, Japanese musician |
| 1st of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Turvey, British racing driver |
| 1st of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player |
| 1st of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Li Ting, Chinese diver |
| 1st of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Brook Lopez, American basketball player |
| 1st of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Lopez, American basketball player |
| 1st of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney McCool, American gymnast |
| 1st of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Blokhuijsen, Dutch speed skater |
| 1st of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | David N'Gog, French footballer |
| 1st of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Vietoris Krisztian, German racing driver |
| 1st of April 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Keito Okamoto, Japanese singer |
| 1st of April 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Asa Butterfield, English actor |
| 1st of April 1085 | DEATH | Emperor Shenzong of China (Born 1048) |
| 1st of April 1132 | DEATH | St. Hugues, Bishop of Grenoble (Born 1053) |
| 1st of April 1204 | DEATH | Eleanor of Aquitaine, mother of Richard I of England and John of England (Born 1122) |
| 1st of April 1205 | DEATH | King Amalric II of Jerusalem (Born 1145) |
| 1st of April 1528 | DEATH | Francisco de Penalosa, Spanish composer |
| 1st of April 1580 | DEATH | Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer |
| 1st of April 1621 | DEATH | Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (Born 1577) |
| 1st of April 1637 | DEATH | Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (Born 1571) |
| 1st of April 1682 | DEATH | Franz Egon of Furstenberg, Bavarian Catholic archbishop (Born 1625) |
| 1st of April 1787 | DEATH | Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (Born 1710) |
| 1st of April 1839 | DEATH | Benjamin Pierce, American politician (Born 1757) |
| 1st of April 1865 | DEATH | Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (Born 1797) |
| 1st of April 1872 | DEATH | Frederick Maurice, English theologian (Born 1805) |
| 1st of April 1872 | DEATH | William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer (Born 1843) |
| 1st of April 1878 | DEATH | John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (Born 1796) |
| 1st of April 1890 | DEATH | David Wilber, American politician (Born 1820) |
| 1st of April 1890 | DEATH | Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (Born 1825) |
| 1st of April 1897 | DEATH | Jandamarra, Indigenous Australian resistance leader (Born c. 1873) |
| 1st of April 1914 | DEATH | Rube Waddell, American baseball player (Born 1876) |
| 1st of April 1917 | DEATH | Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (Born 1868) |
| 1st of April 1922 | DEATH | Emperor Karl I of Austria (Born 1887) |
| 1st of April 1930 | DEATH | Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and widow of Richard Wagner (Born 1837) |
| 1st of April 1946 | DEATH | Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (Born 1882) |
| 1st of April 1947 | DEATH | King George II of Greece (Born 1890) |
| 1st of April 1950 | DEATH | Charles R. Drew, American physician (Born 1904) |
| 1st of April 1962 | DEATH | Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (Born 1910) |
| 1st of April 1965 | DEATH | Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer (Born 1870) |
| 1st of April 1966 | DEATH | Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (Born 1911) |
| 1st of April 1968 | DEATH | Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1908) |
| 1st of April 1976 | DEATH | Max Ernst, German artist (Born 1891) |
| 1st of April 1979 | DEATH | Bruno Coquatrix, French music impresario (Born 1910) |
| 1st of April 1979 | DEATH | Barbara Luddy, American actress (Born 1908) |
| 1st of April 1981 | DEATH | Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (Born 1910) |
| 1st of April 1984 | DEATH | Marvin Gaye, American singer (Born 1939) |
| 1st of April 1985 | DEATH | Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (Born 1920) |
| 1st of April 1986 | DEATH | Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer (Born 1928) |
| 1st of April 1988 | DEATH | Jim Jordan, American actor (Fibber McGee) (Born 1896) |
| 1st of April 1991 | DEATH | Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (Born 1894) |
| 1st of April 1991 | DEATH | Jaime Guzman, Chilean politician (Born 1946) |
| 1st of April 1992 | DEATH | Nigel Preston, English drummer (Born 1959) |
| 1st of April 1992 | DEATH | Michael Havers, British barrister and politician (Born 1923) |
| 1st of April 1993 | DEATH | Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (Born 1954) |
| 1st of April 1994 | DEATH | Robert Doisneau, French photographer (Born 1912) |
| 1st of April 1995 | DEATH | H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer (Born 1914) |
| 1st of April 1995 | DEATH | Lucy Rie, American potter (Born 1902) |
| 1st of April 1996 | DEATH | John McSherry, American baseball umpire (Born 1944) |
| 1st of April 1997 | DEATH | Norman Carr, British conservationist (Born 1912) |
| 1st of April 1998 | DEATH | Gene Evans, American actor (Born 1922) |
| 1st of April 1998 | DEATH | Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (Born 1963) |
| 1st of April 1999 | DEATH | Jesse Stone, American record producer (Born 1901) |
| 1st of April 2000 | DEATH | Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist (Born 1924) |
| 1st of April 2001 | DEATH | Olivia Barclay, British astrologer (Born 1919) |
| 1st of April 2001 | DEATH | Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (Born 1908) |
| 1st of April 2001 | DEATH | Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer (Born 1939) |
| 1st of April 2002 | DEATH | Gavin Pfuhl, South African cricketer (Born 1947) |
| 1st of April 2002 | DEATH | Simo Hayha, Finnish marksman (Born 1905) |
| 1st of April 2003 | DEATH | Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Born 1956) |
| 1st of April 2004 | DEATH | Aaron Bank, American Office of Strategic Services officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (Born 1902) |
| 1st of April 2004 | DEATH | Carrie Snodgress, American actress (Born 1946) |
| 1st of April 2004 | DEATH | Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (Born 1927) |
| 1st of April 2004 | DEATH | Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (Born 1952) |
| 1st of April 2005 | DEATH | Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (Born 1929) |
| 1st of April 2005 | DEATH | Jack Keller, American songwriter (Born 1936) |
| 1st of April 2005 | DEATH | Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and ambassador (b 1925) |
| 1st of April 2005 | DEATH | Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer (Born 1915) |
| 1st of April 2005 | DEATH | Robert Coldwell Wood, American educator (Born 1923) |
| 1st of April 2006 | DEATH | In Tam, Cambodian politician (Born 1916) |
| 1st of April 2007 | DEATH | Herb Carneal, American sports broadcaster (Born 1923) |
| 1st of April 2010 | DEATH | John Forsythe, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 1st of April 2010 | DEATH | Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1927) |