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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of April 0238 | EVENT | Gordian II lost the Battle of Carthage against the Numidian forces loyal to Maximinus Thrax and is killed. Gordian I, his father, commits suicide. |
| 12th of April 0467 | EVENT | Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. |
| 12th of April 1204 | EVENT | The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day. |
| 12th of April 1557 | EVENT | Cuenca is founded in Ecuador. |
| 12th of April 1606 | EVENT | The Union Flag is adopted as the flag of Great Britain. |
| 12th of April 1633 | EVENT | The formal inquest of Galileo Galilei by the Inquisition begins. |
| 12th of April 1776 | EVENT | American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain. |
| 12th of April 1820 | EVENT | Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece. |
| 12th of April 1831 | EVENT | Soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse. |
| 12th of April 1861 | EVENT | American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. |
| 12th of April 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Andrews Raid (the Great Locomotive Chase) occurred, starting from Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), Georgia. |
| 12th of April 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee. |
| 12th of April 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army. |
| 12th of April 1877 | EVENT | The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal. |
| 12th of April 1910 | EVENT | The SMS Zrinyi, one of the last pre-dreadnoughts built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched. |
| 12th of April 1917 | EVENT | World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. |
| 12th of April 1927 | EVENT | April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. |
| 12th of April 1934 | EVENT | The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. |
| 12th of April 1934 | EVENT | The U.S. Auto-Lite Strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers. |
| 12th of April 1935 | EVENT | First flight of the Bristol Blenheim. |
| 12th of April 1937 | EVENT | Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England. |
| 12th of April 1945 | EVENT | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President. |
| 12th of April 1954 | EVENT | Bill Haley & His Comets record "Rock Around the Clock" in New York City. |
| 12th of April 1955 | EVENT | The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective. |
| 12th of April 1961 | EVENT | The Russian (Soviet) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1). |
| 12th of April 0812 | BIRTHDAY | Muhammad at-Taqi, Muslim Shia Imam (d. 835) |
| 12th of April 1484 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect (d. 1546) |
| 12th of April 1500 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Camerarius, German classical scholar (d. 1574) |
| 12th of April 1526 | BIRTHDAY | Muretus, French humanist (d. 1585) |
| 12th of April 1550 | BIRTHDAY | Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604) |
| 12th of April 1577 | BIRTHDAY | King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (d. 1648) |
| 12th of April 1705 | BIRTHDAY | William Cookworthy, English chemist (d. 1780) |
| 12th of April 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal, French writer (d. 1796) |
| 12th of April 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Nardini, Italian composer (d. 1793) |
| 12th of April 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1790) |
| 12th of April 1748 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836) |
| 12th of April 1777 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Clay, American statesman (d. 1852) |
| 12th of April 1792 | BIRTHDAY | John George Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, Governor General of British North America (d. 1840) |
| 12th of April 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (d. 1847) |
| 12th of April 1796 | BIRTHDAY | George N. Briggs, 19th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1861) |
| 12th of April 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (d. 1855) |
| 12th of April 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian dramatist (d. 1886) |
| 12th of April 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer (d. 1888) |
| 12th of April 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Gautier Benitez, Puerto Rican poet (d. 1880) |
| 12th of April 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer (d. 1928) |
| 12th of April 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (d. 1939) |
| 12th of April 1856 | BIRTHDAY | William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer (d. 1937) |
| 12th of April 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929) |
| 12th of April 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander (d. 1918) |
| 12th of April 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Desire Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922) |
| 12th of April 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (d. 1941) |
| 12th of April 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Dally Messenger, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1959) |
| 12th of April 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Meyerhof, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1951) |
| 12th of April 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (d. 1932) |
| 12th of April 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Lockwood, American actor (d. 1918) |
| 12th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet musician (d. 1964) |
| 12th of April 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Dodds, American musician (d. 1940) |
| 12th of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920) |
| 12th of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 13th President of Portugal (d. 1964) |
| 12th of April 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Lily Pons, American soprano (d. 1976) |
| 12th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Lowell Stockman, American representative (d. 1962) |
| 12th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977) |
| 12th of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994) |
| 12th of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Hardie Gramatky, American author and animator (d. 1979) |
| 12th of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Felix de Weldon, Austrian-born sculptor (d. 2003) |
| 12th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot (d. 2006) |
| 12th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer |
| 12th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Mahmoud Younis, Suez Canal engineer (d. 1976) |
| 12th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX, Second Vice President of Indonesia (d. 1988) |
| 12th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004) |
| 12th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-born American martial artist |
| 12th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Armen Alchian, American economist |
| 12th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Libet, American scientist (d. 2007) |
| 12th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Beverly Cleary, American writer |
| 12th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Forrest, American singer (d. 1999) |
| 12th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Vaughn, American musician and bandleader (d. 1991) |
| 12th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Cliche, Quebec politician and magistrate (d. 1978) |
| 12th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Miller, American actor and dancer (d. 2004) |
| 12th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Safar, Austrian physician (d. 2003) |
| 12th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Barre, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007) |
| 12th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Bowman, American sharpshooter, Hollywood consultant, bootmaker & master showman (d. 2009) |
| 12th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Hardy Kruger, German actor |
| 12th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Francois Paillard, French conductor |
| 12th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Mukhran Machavariani, Georgian poet (d. 2010) |
| 12th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Micha? Zyczkowski, Polish technician (d. 2006) |
| 12th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Neri, American artist |
| 12th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (d. 1995) |
| 12th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Lakshman Kadirgamar, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2005) |
| 12th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Banks, American Indian activist |
| 12th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Tiny Tim, American musician (d. 1996) |
| 12th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Montserrat Caballe, Spanish soprano |
| 12th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer |
| 12th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Makulis, Greek singer (d. 2007) |
| 12th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Volk, Soviet astronaut |
| 12th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Ayckbourn, English writer |
| 12th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 12th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Herbie Hancock, American musician and composer |
| 12th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | John Hagee, American pastor and televangelist |
| 12th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Moore, English footballer (d. 1993) |
| 12th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Reutemann, Argentine racing driver and politician |
| 12th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa |
| 12th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Kay, German-born musician |
| 12th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Balanos, Greek translator, author and publisher |
| 12th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the WHO (d. 2006) |
| 12th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ed O'Neill, American actor |
| 12th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Clancy, American author |
| 12th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Antonin Kratochvil, Czech-born American photographer |
| 12th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Woody Johnson, sports team owner |
| 12th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | David Letterman, American talk show host |
| 12th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Lauria, American actor |
| 12th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Marcello Lippi, Italian football coach |
| 12th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Beadle, English television presenter (d. 2008) |
| 12th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Joschka Fischer, Foreign Minister of Germany 1998-2005 |
| 12th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra "Lois" Reeves, American singer |
| 12th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Turow, American writer |
| 12th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman and F1 team principal (Renault F1) |
| 12th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David Cassidy, American singer and actor |
| 12th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Noonan, American actor |
| 12th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Reuben Gant, American professional football player |
| 12th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Wiley, American sports journalist (d. 2004) |
| 12th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Krakauer, American author |
| 12th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Travers, Canadian musician |
| 12th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Garcia, Cuban-born actor |
| 12th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Gronemeyer, German singer |
| 12th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Vince Gill, American musician |
| 12th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Child, Australian mountaineer |
| 12th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Will Sergeant, English musician |
| 12th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Stableford, English actor and host |
| 12th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ron MacLean, Canadian sportscaster |
| 12th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Magda Szubanski, Australian actress |
| 12th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician |
| 12th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Art Alexakis, American musician |
| 12th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Takada Nobuhiko, Japanese wrestler |
| 12th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Ray, American musician |
| 12th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Bodnia, Danish actor |
| 12th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tom O'Brien, American actor-producer |
| 12th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Cracknell, English singer |
| 12th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mellow Man Ace, Afro-Cuban rapper |
| 12th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Coppola, American actress |
| 12th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Graves, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 12th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Lucas Radebe, South African footballer |
| 12th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Hexum, American musician |
| 12th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Shannen Doherty, American actor |
| 12th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Brendon, American actor |
| 12th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sebnem Ferah, Turkish singer |
| 12th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitrios Kokotis, Greek high jumper |
| 12th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Lo Duca, American baseball player |
| 12th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Jordan, American model |
| 12th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Osuna, Mexican baseball player |
| 12th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | J. Scott Campbell, American comic book artist |
| 12th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Belinda Emmett, Australian actor (d. 2006) |
| 12th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Hamrlik, Czech ice hockey player |
| 12th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marley Shelton, American actor |
| 12th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer |
| 12th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Miller, American basketball player |
| 12th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 12th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Jane Morris, American actor |
| 12th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jordana Spiro, American actor |
| 12th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Price, Welsh footballer |
| 12th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Rogers, Scottish cricketer |
| 12th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Berryman, British musician (Coldplay) |
| 12th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Riley Smith, American actor |
| 12th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan De Jong, American baseball player |
| 12th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Claire Danes, American actress |
| 12th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast |
| 12th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mateja Kezman, Serbian footballer |
| 12th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Morrison, American actress and model |
| 12th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Cristian Ranalli, Italian footballer |
| 12th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Nicholls, English actor |
| 12th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Mongrain, Canadian musician |
| 12th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Brian McFadden, Irish singer |
| 12th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Holt, English footballer |
| 12th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Burdisso, Argentine footballer |
| 12th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist |
| 12th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Deen, Bosnian singer |
| 12th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jelena Dokic, Serbian/Australian tennis player |
| 12th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dwayne Smith, West Indian cricketer |
| 12th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jeisa Chiminazzo, Brazilian model |
| 12th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress |
| 12th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Ginn, Jr., American football player |
| 12th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer |
| 12th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer |
| 12th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Granollers, Spanish tennis player |
| 12th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Blerim Dzemaili, Swiss footballer |
| 12th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Brooklyn Decker, American model and actress |
| 12th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Brendon Urie, American musician (Panic at the Disco) |
| 12th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Amedeo Calliari, Italian footballer |
| 12th of April 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Airi Suzuki, Japanese singer |
| 12th of April 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Saoirse Ronan, Irish actress |
| 12th of April 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress |
| 12th of April 0065 | DEATH | Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, statesman, and dramatist |
| 12th of April 0238 | DEATH | Gordian I, Roman Emperor |
| 12th of April 0238 | DEATH | Gordian II, heir to the Roman Empire |
| 12th of April 0352 | DEATH | St. Julius I, 35th Pope |
| 12th of April 0434 | DEATH | Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople |
| 12th of April 1125 | DEATH | Vladislaus I of Bohemia (Born 1065) |
| 12th of April 1443 | DEATH | Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 12th of April 1550 | DEATH | Claude, Duke of Guise, French soldier (Born 1496) |
| 12th of April 1555 | DEATH | Juana of Castile, wife of Philip I of Castile (Born 1479) |
| 12th of April 1675 | DEATH | Richard Bennett, British Colonial Governor of Virginia (Born 1609) |
| 12th of April 1684 | DEATH | Nicolo Amati, Italian luthier and member of the Amati family (Born 1596) |
| 12th of April 1687 | DEATH | Ambrose Dixon, British-born American settler (Born c. 1619) |
| 12th of April 1704 | DEATH | Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, French bishop and writer (Born 1627) |
| 12th of April 1748 | DEATH | William Kent, English architect (Born c. 1685) |
| 12th of April 1782 | DEATH | Metastasio, Italian poet and librettist (Born 1698) |
| 12th of April 1788 | DEATH | Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-born composer (Born 1719) |
| 12th of April 1795 | DEATH | Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosee, Bavarian general (Born 1710) |
| 12th of April 1814 | DEATH | Charles Burney, English music historian (Born 1726) |
| 12th of April 1817 | DEATH | Charles Messier, French astronomer (Born 1730) |
| 12th of April 1850 | DEATH | Adoniram Judson, American missionary (Born 1788) |
| 12th of April 1866 | DEATH | Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English Member of Parliament and developer (Born 1801) |
| 12th of April 1872 | DEATH | Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer (Born 1795) |
| 12th of April 1878 | DEATH | William Magear "Boss" Tweed, American politician (Born 1823) |
| 12th of April 1898 | DEATH | Elzear-Alexandre Taschereau, Roman Catholic archbishop of Quebec (Born 1820) |
| 12th of April 1902 | DEATH | Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist (Born 1842) |
| 12th of April 1912 | DEATH | Clara Barton, American nurse and Red Cross advocate (Born 1821) |
| 12th of April 1933 | DEATH | Adelbert Ames, American general and politician (Born 1835) |
| 12th of April 1938 | DEATH | Feodor Chaliapin, Russian bass (Born 1873) |
| 12th of April 1945 | DEATH | Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States (Born 1882) |
| 12th of April 1953 | DEATH | Lionel Logue, speech therapist who worked with King George VI of the United Kingdom (Born 1880) |
| 12th of April 1962 | DEATH | Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya, Indian politician and engineer (Born 1861) |
| 12th of April 1962 | DEATH | Ron Flockhart, Scottish racing driver (Born 1923) |
| 12th of April 1968 | DEATH | Heinrich Nordhoff, German automobile engineer (Born 1899) |
| 12th of April 1971 | DEATH | Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (Born 1871) |
| 12th of April 1971 | DEATH | Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (Born 1931) |
| 12th of April 1975 | DEATH | Josephine Baker, American dancer (Born 1906) |
| 12th of April 1977 | DEATH | Phil Wrigley, American manufacturer and baseball executive (Born 1894) |
| 12th of April 1980 | DEATH | Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards and snooker player (Born 1895) |
| 12th of April 1980 | DEATH | William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician (Born 1913) |
| 12th of April 1981 | DEATH | Joe Louis, American boxer (Born 1914) |
| 12th of April 1983 | DEATH | Carl Morton, American baseball player (Born 1944) |
| 12th of April 1984 | DEATH | Edwin T. Layton, American naval officer (Born 1903) |
| 12th of April 1986 | DEATH | Valentin Kataev, Russian writer (Born 1897) |
| 12th of April 1987 | DEATH | Mike Von Erich, American wrestler (Born 1964) |
| 12th of April 1988 | DEATH | Alan Paton, South African writer (Born 1903) |
| 12th of April 1989 | DEATH | Abbie Hoffman, American political activist (Born 1936) |
| 12th of April 1989 | DEATH | Gerald Flood, British actor (Born 1927) |
| 12th of April 1989 | DEATH | Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (Born 1921) |
| 12th of April 1999 | DEATH | Marion Pruett, American spree killer (Born 1949) |
| 12th of April 1999 | DEATH | Boxcar Willie, American singer (Born 1931) |
| 12th of April 2001 | DEATH | Harvey Ball, American inventor (Born 1921) |
| 12th of April 2002 | DEATH | George Shevelov, Ukrainian-born American linguist and academic (Born 1908) |
| 12th of April 2003 | DEATH | Sydney Lassick, American actor (Born 1922) |
| 12th of April 2006 | DEATH | Dr. Rajkumar, Indian film actor/singer (Born 1929) |
| 12th of April 2006 | DEATH | Puggy Pearson, American poker player (Born 1929) |
| 12th of April 2006 | DEATH | William Sloane Coffin, American clergyman (Born 1924) |
| 12th of April 2007 | DEATH | Kevin Crease, Australian TV anchor (Born 1936) |
| 12th of April 2008 | DEATH | Jerry Zucker, Israeli-born American businessman (Born 1949) |
| 12th of April 2008 | DEATH | Patrick Hillery, Irish politician (Born 1923) |
| 12th of April 2008 | DEATH | Cecilia Colledge, British ice skater (Born 1920) |
| 12th of April 2009 | DEATH | Marilyn Chambers, American pornographic actress (Born 1952) |
| 12th of April 2010 | DEATH | Palito, Filipino comedian (Born 1934) |