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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15th of April 1071 | EVENT | Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard. |
| 15th of April 1450 | EVENT | Battle of Formigny: Toward the end of the Hundred Years' War, the French attack and nearly annihilate English forces, ending English domination in Northern France. |
| 15th of April 1632 | EVENT | Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. |
| 15th of April 1715 | EVENT | Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina. |
| 15th of April 1738 | EVENT | Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel. |
| 15th of April 1755 | EVENT | Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London. |
| 15th of April 1783 | EVENT | Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified. |
| 15th of April 1802 | EVENT | William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. |
| 15th of April 1817 | EVENT | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc founded the American School for the Deaf, the first American school for deaf students, in Hartford, Connecticut. |
| 15th of April 1865 | EVENT | Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. |
| 15th of April 1892 | EVENT | The General Electric Company is formed. Titanic disaster. |
| 15th of April 1896 | EVENT | Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece. |
| 15th of April 1900 | EVENT | Philippine : American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines. |
| 15th of April 1912 | EVENT | The British passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two and a half hours after hitting an iceberg. 1,517 people are killed. |
| 15th of April 1920 | EVENT | Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy. |
| 15th of April 1921 | EVENT | Black Friday: mine owners announce more wage and price cuts, leading to the threat of a strike all across England. |
| 15th of April 1923 | EVENT | Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes. |
| 15th of April 1924 | EVENT | Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas. |
| 15th of April 1927 | EVENT | The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins. |
| 15th of April 1935 | EVENT | Roerich Pact signed in Washington, D.C. |
| 15th of April 1936 | EVENT | First day of the Arab revolt in Palestine. |
| 15th of April 1940 | EVENT | The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany. |
| 15th of April 1941 | EVENT | In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) attack Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom killing one thousand people. |
| 15th of April 1942 | EVENT | The George Cross is awarded to "to the island fortress of Malta : its people and defenders" by King George VI. |
| 15th of April 1945 | EVENT | The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. |
| 15th of April 1947 | EVENT | Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line. |
| 15th of April 1952 | EVENT | The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress |
| 15th of April 1955 | EVENT | McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois |
| 15th of April 1957 | EVENT | White Rock, British Columbia officially separates from Surrey, British Columbia and is incorporated as a new city. |
| 15th of April 1958 | EVENT | Walter O'Malley's Los Angeles Dodgers host the first Major League Baseball game played on the West Coast of the United States. |
| 15th of April 1960 | EVENT | At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. |
| 15th of April 1969 | EVENT | The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board. |
| 15th of April 1970 | EVENT | During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam. |
| 15th of April 1979 | EVENT | A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast. |
| 15th of April 1983 | EVENT | Tokyo Disney Resort (and the Tokyo Disneyland park) opens in Tokyo Bay (Japan) |
| 15th of April 1986 | EVENT | The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen. |
| 15th of April 1989 | EVENT | Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi Final, resulting in the deaths of 96 Liverpool F.C. fans. |
| 15th of April 1989 | EVENT | Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China. |
| 15th of April 1992 | EVENT | The National Assembly of Vietnam adopts the 1992 Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. |
| 15th of April 1994 | EVENT | Representatives of 124 countries and the European Communities sign the Marrakesh Agreements revising the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and initiating the World Trade Organization (effective January 1, 1995). |
| 15th of April 2002 | EVENT | An Air China Boeing 767-200, flight CA129 crashes into a hillside during heavy rain and fog near Busan, South Korea, killing 128. |
| 15th of April 2010 | EVENT | Heather Knight was inaugurated as President of Pacific Union College, becoming the first African-American women to lead an Adventist College in North America. |
| 15th of April 2010 | EVENT | Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe. |
| 15th of April 2011 | EVENT | 2011 Cirebon bombing : a suicide bomber attacked a mosque in an Indonesian Police compound in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia. |
| 15th of April 1452 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519) |
| 15th of April 1469 | BIRTHDAY | Guru Nanak Dev, the first of the ten Sikh Gurus (d. 1539) |
| 15th of April 1489 | BIRTHDAY | Mimar Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588) |
| 15th of April 1552 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626) |
| 15th of April 1588 | BIRTHDAY | Claudius Salmasius, French classical scholar (d. 1653) |
| 15th of April 1641 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722) |
| 15th of April 1642 | BIRTHDAY | Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691) |
| 15th of April 1646 | BIRTHDAY | King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699) |
| 15th of April 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719) |
| 15th of April 1684 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine I of Russia (d. 1727) |
| 15th of April 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer (d. 1758) |
| 15th of April 1707 | BIRTHDAY | Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (d. 1783) |
| 15th of April 1710 | BIRTHDAY | William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790) |
| 15th of April 1721 | BIRTHDAY | Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader (d. 1765) |
| 15th of April 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827) |
| 15th of April 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844) |
| 15th of April 1793 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1864) |
| 15th of April 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867) |
| 15th of April 1800 | BIRTHDAY | James Clark Ross, English explorer (d. 1862) |
| 15th of April 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician (d. 1877) |
| 15th of April 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Danjou, French Foreign Legion officer (d. 1863) |
| 15th of April 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908) |
| 15th of April 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919) |
| 15th of April 1843 | BIRTHDAY | Henry James, American author (d. 1916) |
| 15th of April 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Moreas, Greek poet (d. 1910) |
| 15th of April 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917) |
| 15th of April 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Bliss Carman, Canadian poet (d. 1929) |
| 15th of April 1874 | BIRTHDAY | George Harrison Shull, American plant geneticist (d. 1954) |
| 15th of April 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Stark, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1957) |
| 15th of April 1875 | BIRTHDAY | James J. Jeffries, American heavyweight boxer (d. 1953) |
| 15th of April 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956) |
| 15th of April 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980) |
| 15th of April 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967) |
| 15th of April 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general (d. 1947) |
| 15th of April 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (d. 1921) |
| 15th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (d. 1904) |
| 15th of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | A. Philip Randolph, American activist (d. 1979) |
| 15th of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975) |
| 15th of April 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975) |
| 15th of April 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (d. 1983) |
| 15th of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1971) |
| 15th of April 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937) |
| 15th of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Clark McConachy, New Zealand billiards player (d. 1980) |
| 15th of April 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1986) |
| 15th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Davis, English snooker player (d. 1978) |
| 15th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Pessa, Portuguese journalist (d. 2002) |
| 15th of April 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Arshile Gorky, Armenian artist (d. 1948) |
| 15th of April 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988) |
| 15th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Eden Ahbez, American songwriter (d. 1995) |
| 15th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Lita Grey, American actress (d. 1995) |
| 15th of April 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Najdorf, Argentine chess grandmaster (d. 1997) |
| 15th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea (d. 1994) |
| 15th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982) |
| 15th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Conried, American actor (d. 1982) |
| 15th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | James Kee, American politician (d. 1989) |
| 15th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist |
| 15th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Richard von Weizsacker, President of Germany |
| 15th of April 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Georgi Beregovoi, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1995) |
| 15th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Ansara, Syrian-American actor |
| 15th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Washington, American politician (d. 1987) |
| 15th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Robert DePugh, American anti-Communist activist (d. 2009) |
| 15th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Neville Marriner, English conductor |
| 15th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Mills, American physicist (d. 1999) |
| 15th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Vigdis Finnbogadottir, President of Iceland |
| 15th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | David Hamilton, British photographer, film director and producer |
| 15th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Clark, American musician |
| 15th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (d. 1995) |
| 15th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Strugatsky, Russian author |
| 15th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Towers, English footballer (d. 2010) |
| 15th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Stavros Paravas, Greek actor |
| 15th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Raymond Poulidor, French cyclist |
| 15th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Luman, American country singer (d. 1978) |
| 15th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Hso Khan Pha, Burmese politician |
| 15th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress |
| 15th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Wilde, British singer |
| 15th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Davis, American baseball player |
| 15th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Woodie Fryman, American baseball player |
| 15th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Archer, British author |
| 15th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Lacroix, French Canadian professor of economics |
| 15th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Walker Jr., American actor |
| 15th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Berman, American politician |
| 15th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Hazzard, American basketball player |
| 15th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Lay, American businessman (d. 2006) |
| 15th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Francis X. DiLorenzo, American Catholic prelate |
| 15th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Edmunds, Welsh musician |
| 15th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Dzhokhar Dudaev, Chechen leader (d. 1996) |
| 15th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Rouse, American White House Chief of Staff to President Obama |
| 15th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American writer and television producer |
| 15th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Cristina Husmark Pehrsson, Swedish politician |
| 15th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Chapman, British songwriter |
| 15th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Lois Chiles, American actress |
| 15th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Woolly Wolstenholme, British musician |
| 15th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Kamen, American composer (d. 2003) |
| 15th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tonio K, American singer |
| 15th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Zadan, American film producer |
| 15th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Alla Pugacheva, Russian singer |
| 15th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Josiane Balasko, French actress, director and screenwriter |
| 15th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Wright, American actress |
| 15th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Heloise, American newspaper columnist |
| 15th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Kym Gyngell, Australian comedian |
| 15th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Bengt Gingsjo, Swedish swimmer |
| 15th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Glenn Shadix, American actor |
| 15th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Muir, British sculptor and creator of Darth Vader |
| 15th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Sam McMurray, American actor |
| 15th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Greek politician |
| 15th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Seka, American pornographic actress |
| 15th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (d. 1997) |
| 15th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Cooper, American basketball player |
| 15th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Evelyn Ashford, American athlete |
| 15th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Acton, Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
| 15th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Dolores Gordon-Smith, British writer |
| 15th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Noni ?oannidou, Greek fashion model and actress |
| 15th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Memos Ioannou, Greek basketball player |
| 15th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Zephaniah, British writer |
| 15th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director |
| 15th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas F. Wilson, American actor |
| 15th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Thompson, English actress |
| 15th of April 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Lowe, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager |
| 15th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Delgado, Spanish cyclist |
| 15th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Susanne Bier, Danish film director |
| 15th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Jones, English snooker player |
| 15th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | HRH Prince Philippe, Duke of Brabant, heir to the Belgian throne |
| 15th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Nawal El Moutawakel, Morrocan hurdler |
| 15th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Kane, American voice actor |
| 15th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Surjit Bindrakhia, Punjabi Bhangra singer |
| 15th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Pepper, American journalist |
| 15th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Linda Perry, American musician |
| 15th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Fox, English singer |
| 15th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Poullain, British musician (The Darkness) |
| 15th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Dara Torres, American swimmer |
| 15th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Ed O'Brien, British musician (Radiohead) |
| 15th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Stacey Williams, American model |
| 15th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player |
| 15th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Waite, Canadian ice hockey goaltender |
| 15th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Flex Alexander, American actor |
| 15th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Harbour, English voice actress |
| 15th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Sehorn, American football player |
| 15th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Katy Hill, British television presenter |
| 15th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (d. 2009) |
| 15th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Romano, American voice actor |
| 15th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Malley, American comedian and podcaster (Keith and The Girl) |
| 15th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Quinn, American football player |
| 15th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Pino, American actor |
| 15th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Spain, American actor |
| 15th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Dana, American race car driver (d. 2006) |
| 15th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Labonte, American vocalist (All That Remains) |
| 15th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Ward, American actress |
| 15th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 15th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Pothier, American ice hockey player |
| 15th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Austin Aries, American wrestler |
| 15th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Torv, Australian actress |
| 15th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Milton Bradley, American baseball player |
| 15th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Corcoran, American baseball player |
| 15th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Natalie Casey, British actress |
| 15th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | James Foster, English cricketer |
| 15th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Lopez, Spanish basketball player |
| 15th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Mason, Australian rugby league player |
| 15th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Nunez, Costa Rican footballer |
| 15th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Yates, American football player |
| 15th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Schleck, Luxembourgish professional cyclist |
| 15th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andres D'Alessandro, Argentine football player |
| 15th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Wulsin, American artist |
| 15th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Aubrey, American baseball player |
| 15th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Green, American musician |
| 15th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer |
| 15th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Riera, Spanish footballer |
| 15th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Cardle, British singer/songwriter |
| 15th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Braga, Brazilian actress |
| 15th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dudu Cearense, Brazilian footballer |
| 15th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Pedersen, Danish professional cyclist |
| 15th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player |
| 15th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Bronson La'Cassie, Australian professional golfer |
| 15th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Cam Janssen, American ice hockey player |
| 15th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Kasica, guitarist (Skillet) |
| 15th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Cates, American baseball player |
| 15th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Reid, German pornographic actress |
| 15th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | John Danks, American baseball player |
| 15th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Laffey, American baseball player |
| 15th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Heaton, English footballer |
| 15th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Ghanaian footballer |
| 15th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sapphire Elia, English actres |
| 15th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Albanese, Italian footballer |
| 15th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Eliza Doolittle, English singer |
| 15th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Watson, English actress |
| 15th of April 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Daiki Arioka, Japanese actor & singer |
| 15th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Diamond, Swedish singer |
| 15th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Sandrak, American bodybuilder |
| 15th of April 1053 | DEATH | Godwin, Earl of Wessex (Born 1001) |
| 15th of April 1220 | DEATH | Adolf of Altena, Archbishop of Cologne (Born 1157) |
| 15th of April 1415 | DEATH | Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian (Born 1355) |
| 15th of April 1446 | DEATH | Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (Born 1377) |
| 15th of April 1610 | DEATH | Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (Born 1546) |
| 15th of April 1621 | DEATH | John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (Born 1576) |
| 15th of April 1632 | DEATH | George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony (Born 1580) |
| 15th of April 1641 | DEATH | Domenico Zampieri, Italian painter (Born 1581) |
| 15th of April 1652 | DEATH | Patriarch Joseph, head of the Russian Orthodox Church |
| 15th of April 1659 | DEATH | Simon Dach, German poet (Born 1605) |
| 15th of April 1704 | DEATH | Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (Born 1628) |
| 15th of April 1719 | DEATH | Francoise d'Aubigne, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (Born 1635) |
| 15th of April 1754 | DEATH | Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (Born 1676) |
| 15th of April 1761 | DEATH | Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician (Born 1682) |
| 15th of April 1761 | DEATH | William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (Born 1696) |
| 15th of April 1764 | DEATH | Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (Born 1721) |
| 15th of April 1764 | DEATH | Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer (Born 1679) |
| 15th of April 1765 | DEATH | Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and writer (Born 1711) |
| 15th of April 1788 | DEATH | Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (Born 1711) |
| 15th of April 1793 | DEATH | Ignacije Szentmartony, Croatian Jesuit missionary and geographer (Born 1718) |
| 15th of April 1804 | DEATH | Charles Pichegru, French general (strangled in prison) (Born 1761) |
| 15th of April 1854 | DEATH | Arthur Aikin, English chemist, mineralogist, and writer (Born 1773) |
| 15th of April 1865 | DEATH | Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (Born 1809) |
| 15th of April 1888 | DEATH | Matthew Arnold, English poet (Born 1822) |
| 15th of April 1889 | DEATH | Father Damien, Flemish missionary (Born 1840) |
| 15th of April 1898 | DEATH | Kepa Te Rangihiwinui, Maori military leader |
| 15th of April 1912 | DEATH | Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster Edward Smith, captain of the RMS Titanic (Born 1850) Henry Tingle Wilde, Chief Officer (b. 1872) William McMaster Murdoch, First Officer (b. 1873) James Paul Moody, Sixth Officer (b. 1887) Jack Phillips, British wireless telegraphist. (b. 1887) John Jacob Astor IV, billionaire (b. 1864) Thomas Andrews, Irish-born businessman and shipbuilder (b. 1873) William T. Stead American author and journalist (b. 1849) |
| 15th of April 1927 | DEATH | Gaston Leroux, French writer (Born 1868) |
| 15th of April 1938 | DEATH | Cesar Vallejo, Peruvian poet (Born 1892) |
| 15th of April 1942 | DEATH | Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (Born 1880) |
| 15th of April 1943 | DEATH | Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (Born 1882) |
| 15th of April 1944 | DEATH | Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, Soviet general (Born 1901) |
| 15th of April 1945 | DEATH | Hermann Florstedt, Nazi leader (Born 1895) |
| 15th of April 1948 | DEATH | Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (Born 1892) |
| 15th of April 1949 | DEATH | Wallace Beery, American actor (Born 1885) |
| 15th of April 1957 | DEATH | Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (Born 1917) |
| 15th of April 1962 | DEATH | Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter (Born 1911) |
| 15th of April 1962 | DEATH | Clara Blandick, American actress (Born 1880) |
| 15th of April 1963 | DEATH | Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian rules footballer (Born 1903) |
| 15th of April 1969 | DEATH | Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen of Spain (Born 1887) |
| 15th of April 1970 | DEATH | Ripper Collins, American baseball player (Born 1904) |
| 15th of April 1971 | DEATH | Gurgen Boryan, Armenian poet and playwright (Born 1915) |
| 15th of April 1971 | DEATH | Dan Reeves, American football team owner (Born 1912) |
| 15th of April 1974 | DEATH | Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (Born 1906) |
| 15th of April 1975 | DEATH | Richard Conte, American actor (Born 1910) |
| 15th of April 1980 | DEATH | Raymond Bailey, American actor (Born 1904) |
| 15th of April 1980 | DEATH | Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1905) |
| 15th of April 1982 | DEATH | Arthur Lowe, British actor (Born 1915) |
| 15th of April 1983 | DEATH | John Engstead, American photographer (Born 1909) |
| 15th of April 1983 | DEATH | Corrie ten Boom, Dutch author and Holocaust survivor (Born 1892) |
| 15th of April 1984 | DEATH | Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (Born 1925) |
| 15th of April 1984 | DEATH | Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (Born 1921) |
| 15th of April 1986 | DEATH | Jean Genet, French author (Born 1910) |
| 15th of April 1988 | DEATH | Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (Born 1954) |
| 15th of April 1988 | DEATH | Kenneth Williams, English actor and comedian (Born 1926) |
| 15th of April 1989 | DEATH | Nesuhi Ertegun, American record executive (Born 1917) |
| 15th of April 1989 | DEATH | Hu Yaobang, Chinese politician (Born 1915) |
| 15th of April 1990 | DEATH | Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (Born 1905) |
| 15th of April 1992 | DEATH | Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver (Born 1899) |
| 15th of April 1993 | DEATH | John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geologist (Born 1908) |
| 15th of April 1993 | DEATH | Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (Born 1907) |
| 15th of April 1994 | DEATH | John Curry, English figure skater (Born 1949) |
| 15th of April 1995 | DEATH | Harry Shoulberg, American painter, serigrapher (Born 1903) |
| 15th of April 1998 | DEATH | Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (Born 1925) |
| 15th of April 1999 | DEATH | Harvey Postlethwaite, British engineer and racing car designer (Born 1944) |
| 15th of April 2000 | DEATH | Edward Gorey, American illustrator (Born 1925) |
| 15th of April 2001 | DEATH | Joey Ramone, American musician and singer (The Ramones) (Born 1951) |
| 15th of April 2002 | DEATH | Damon Knight, American author (Born 1922) |
| 15th of April 2002 | DEATH | Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and United States Supreme Court Justice (Born 1917) |
| 15th of April 2003 | DEATH | Erin Fleming, Canadian actress (Born 1941) |
| 15th of April 2003 | DEATH | Reg Bundy, British performer (Born 1941) |
| 15th of April 2004 | DEATH | Ray Condo, Canadian musician (Born 1950) |
| 15th of April 2004 | DEATH | Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (Born 1934) |
| 15th of April 2005 | DEATH | John Fred, American singer (Born 1941) |
| 15th of April 2007 | DEATH | Brant Parker, American cartoonist (Born 1920) |
| 15th of April 2008 | DEATH | Benoit Lamy, Belgian movie director (Born 1945) |
| 15th of April 2008 | DEATH | Sean Costello, American blues musician (Born 1979) |
| 15th of April 2008 | DEATH | Krister Stendahl, Swedish theologian and bishop (Born 1921) |
| 15th of April 2009 | DEATH | Ed Blake, American baseball player (Born 1925) |
| 15th of April 2009 | DEATH | Sir Clement Freud, British writer, broadcaster, and MP (Born 1924) |
| 15th of April 2009 | DEATH | Laszlo Tisza, Hungarian-born American physicist (Born 1907) |
| 15th of April 2010 | DEATH | Jack Herer, American author and cannabis activist (Born 1939) |
| 15th of April 2011 | DEATH | Vittorio Arrigoni, Italian peace activist (Born 1975) |