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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 7th of April 0529 | EVENT | First draft of the Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I. |
| 7th of April 1348 | EVENT | Charles University is founded in Prague. |
| 7th of April 1521 | EVENT | Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Cebu. |
| 7th of April 1541 | EVENT | Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies. |
| 7th of April 1724 | EVENT | Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion BWV 245 at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. |
| 7th of April 1776 | EVENT | Captain John Barry and the USS Lexington captures the Edward. |
| 7th of April 1788 | EVENT | American Pioneers to the Northwest Territory arrive at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, establishing Marietta, Ohio as the first permanent American settlement of the new United States in the Northwest Territory, and opening the westward expansion of the new country. |
| 7th of April 1798 | EVENT | The Mississippi Territory is organized from disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. It is expanded in 1804 and again in 1812. |
| 7th of April 1805 | EVENT | Lewis and Clark Expedition: The Corps of Discovery breaks camp among the Mandan tribe and resumes its journey West along the Missouri River. |
| 7th of April 1827 | EVENT | John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year. |
| 7th of April 1829 | EVENT | Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, commences translation of the Book of Mormon, with Oliver Cowdery as his scribe. |
| 7th of April 1831 | EVENT | D. Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil, resigns. He goes to his native Portugal to become King D. Pedro IV. |
| 7th of April 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Shiloh ends : the Union Army under General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederates near Shiloh, Tennessee. |
| 7th of April 1868 | EVENT | Thomas D'Arcy McGee, one of the Canadian Fathers of Confederation is assassinated by the Irish, in one of the few Canadian political assassinations, and the only one of a federal politician. |
| 7th of April 1890 | EVENT | Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal. |
| 7th of April 1906 | EVENT | The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco. |
| 7th of April 1906 | EVENT | Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. |
| 7th of April 1908 | EVENT | H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman |
| 7th of April 1922 | EVENT | Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior leases Teapot Dome petroleum reserves in Wyoming. |
| 7th of April 1927 | EVENT | First distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C. to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover). |
| 7th of April 1933 | EVENT | Prohibition is repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the XXI amendment. |
| 7th of April 1939 | EVENT | World War II: Italy invades Albania. |
| 7th of April 1940 | EVENT | Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp. |
| 7th of April 1943 | EVENT | Holocaust: In Terebovlia, Ukraine, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress to their underwear and march through the city of Terebovlia to the nearby village of Plebanivka where they are shot dead and buried in ditches. |
| 7th of April 1943 | EVENT | Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the WWII Axis Occupation. |
| 7th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Visoko is liberated by the 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces. |
| 7th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk by American planes 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go. |
| 7th of April 1946 | EVENT | Syria's independence from France is officially recognised. |
| 7th of April 1948 | EVENT | The World Health Organization is established by the United Nations. |
| 7th of April 1948 | EVENT | A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead. |
| 7th of April 1954 | EVENT | President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference. |
| 7th of April 1956 | EVENT | Spain relinquishes its protectorate in Morocco. |
| 7th of April 1964 | EVENT | IBM announces the System/360. |
| 7th of April 1969 | EVENT | The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. |
| 7th of April 1971 | EVENT | President Richard Nixon announces his decision to increase the rate of American troop withdrawals from Vietnam. |
| 7th of April 1976 | EVENT | Former British Cabinet Minister John Stonehouse resigns from the Labour Party. |
| 7th of April 1977 | EVENT | German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light. |
| 7th of April 1978 | EVENT | Development of the neutron bomb is canceled by President Jimmy Carter. |
| 7th of April 1983 | EVENT | During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk. |
| 7th of April 1985 | EVENT | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe. |
| 7th of April 1989 | EVENT | Soviet submarine Komsomolets sinks in the Barents Sea off the coast of Norway killing 42 sailors. |
| 7th of April 1990 | EVENT | Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction is later reversed on appeal). |
| 7th of April 1992 | EVENT | Republika Srpska announces its independence. |
| 7th of April 1994 | EVENT | Rwandan Genocide: Massacres of Tutsis begin in Kigali, Rwanda. |
| 7th of April 1994 | EVENT | Auburn Calloway attempts to hijack FedEx Express Flight 705 and crash it to insure his family with his life insurance policy. The crew subdues him and lands the aircraft safely. |
| 7th of April 1995 | EVENT | First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya. |
| 7th of April 1999 | EVENT | The World Trade Organization rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas. |
| 7th of April 2001 | EVENT | Mars Odyssey is launched. |
| 7th of April 2003 | EVENT | U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later. |
| 7th of April 2009 | EVENT | Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. |
| 7th of April 2009 | EVENT | Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent. |
| 7th of April 1506 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Francis Xavier, Spanish co-founder of the Society of Jesus (d. 1552) |
| 7th of April 1539 | BIRTHDAY | Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter (d. 1584) |
| 7th of April 1613 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (d. 1675) |
| 7th of April 1644 | BIRTHDAY | Francois de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (d. 1730) |
| 7th of April 1648 | BIRTHDAY | John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (d. 1721) |
| 7th of April 1652 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Clement XII (d. 1740) |
| 7th of April 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800) |
| 7th of April 1727 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Adanson, French botanist (d. 1806) |
| 7th of April 1770 | BIRTHDAY | William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850) |
| 7th of April 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837) |
| 7th of April 1780 | BIRTHDAY | William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian (d. 1842) |
| 7th of April 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Flora Tristan, French feminist and socialist philosopher (d. 1844) |
| 7th of April 1803 | BIRTHDAY | James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1859) |
| 7th of April 1848 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1930) |
| 7th of April 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria (d. 1884) |
| 7th of April 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Camp, sports authority known as the "Father of American Football" (d. 1925) |
| 7th of April 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (d. 1951) |
| 7th of April 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Holger Pedersen, Danish linguist (d. 1953) |
| 7th of April 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Landauer, German anarchist and revolutionary (d. 1919) |
| 7th of April 1873 | BIRTHDAY | John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (d. 1934) |
| 7th of April 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Gino Severini, Italian painter (d. 1966) |
| 7th of April 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Lafitte, American baseball player (d. 1971) |
| 7th of April 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1957) |
| 7th of April 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (d. 1998) |
| 7th of April 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor (d. 1958) |
| 7th of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Allen Dulles, American Central Intelligence Agency director (d. 1969) |
| 7th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Winchell, American broadcaster and journalist (d. 1972) |
| 7th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Loewenhardt, German flying ace of World War I (d. 1918) |
| 7th of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Casadesus, French pianist (d. 1972) |
| 7th of April 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin T. Layton, American Naval officer (d. 1984) |
| 7th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Percy Faith, Canadian composer and musician (d. 1976) |
| 7th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Charroux, French writer (d. 1978) |
| 7th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Herve Bazin, French writer (d. 1996) |
| 7th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Vanik, American politician (d. 2007) |
| 7th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ralph Flanagan, American big band leader (d. 1995) |
| 7th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Adams, American actor (d. 1977) |
| 7th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Billie Holiday, American singer (d. 1959) |
| 7th of April 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Kuttner, American writer (d. 1958) |
| 7th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 7th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | R.G. Armstrong, American actor |
| 7th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Doerr, American baseball player |
| 7th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (d. 1992) |
| 7th of April 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer |
| 7th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player |
| 7th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Mongo Santamaria, Cuban musician (d. 2003) |
| 7th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Johannes Mario Simmel, Austrian writer (d. 2009) |
| 7th of April 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (d. 2003) |
| 7th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | James Garner, American actor |
| 7th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | James White, Northern Irish science fiction writer (d. 1999) |
| 7th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Alan J. Pakula, American film producer and director (d. 1998) |
| 7th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Gallo, American gangster (d. 1972) |
| 7th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Denard, French mercenary (d. 2007) |
| 7th of April 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Sachs, English actor |
| 7th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Barthelme, American author (d. 1989) |
| 7th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Ellsberg, American military analyst |
| 7th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Rogers, American actor |
| 7th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (d. 2007) |
| 7th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Hodding Carter III, American journalist and politician |
| 7th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Bare, American musician |
| 7th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Pierre Changeux, French neuroscientist |
| 7th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Brown, American politician |
| 7th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane) (d. 2005) |
| 7th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2008) |
| 7th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Ford Coppola, American film director |
| 7th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Sir David Frost, English broadcaster and TV host |
| 7th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Cornelia Frances, Australian actress |
| 7th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Gorden Kaye, British actor |
| 7th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | James Di Pasquale, American composer |
| 7th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Nam Gi-nam, South Korean director of movies |
| 7th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jeetendra, Indian actor |
| 7th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Phillips, American film producer and writer (d. 2002) |
| 7th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Gerhard Schroder, German politician |
| 7th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Stoneman, American baseball player and manager |
| 7th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Megas, Icelandic singer, songwriter and writer |
| 7th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Martyn Lewis, British newsreader |
| 7th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Schroeter, German film director |
| 7th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Robuchon, French chef |
| 7th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Colette Besson, French runner (d. 2005) |
| 7th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Winston, American special effects, makeup artist and film director (d. 2008) |
| 7th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Florian Schneider, German musician (Kraftwerk) |
| 7th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Bennett, American singer (The Chiffons) |
| 7th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Eliseo Soriano, Philippine evangelist |
| 7th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Douglas, American singer |
| 7th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Daniels, American politician, governor of Indiana |
| 7th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Oates, American rock guitarist and lyricst (Hall & Oates) |
| 7th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Brian J. Doyle, former Deputy Press Secretary in the United States Department of Homeland Security and convicted sex offender |
| 7th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter |
| 7th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Clarke Peters, American actor |
| 7th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Jackie Chan, Chinese actor, director, producer, and martial artist |
| 7th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Dorsett, American football player |
| 7th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Stocker, German actor (d. 1993) |
| 7th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Jarrett, American lawyer and television news journalist |
| 7th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Annika Billstrom, Swedish politician |
| 7th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Darden, prosecutor of O.J. Simpson |
| 7th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Kap-su, South Korean actor |
| 7th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | James "Buster" Douglas, American boxer |
| 7th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Olmeta, French footballer |
| 7th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Thurl Bailey, American basketball player |
| 7th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew "Andy" Hampsten, American cyclist |
| 7th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Robert, French rock and urban climber |
| 7th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh O'Connor, American actor (d. 1995) |
| 7th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Ram Gopal Varma, Indian film director & producer |
| 7th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime de Marichalar, Duke of Lugo, Spanish royalty |
| 7th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Michael Robinson, American actor and erotic actor |
| 7th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jace Alexander, American television director |
| 7th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Crowe, New Zealand-Australian actor |
| 7th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian |
| 7th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Alison Lapper, British artist |
| 7th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Wilkinson, English snooker player |
| 7th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Artemis Gounaki, composer, writer and music producer |
| 7th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Armstrong, Australian swimmer |
| 7th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Lynch, American director |
| 7th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Watters, American football player |
| 7th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Leif Ove Andsnes, Norwegian pianist |
| 7th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (d. 2008) |
| 7th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Kraatz, Canadian figure skater |
| 7th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Schwalbach Smith, American actress |
| 7th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brett Tomko, American baseball player |
| 7th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eve Salvail, Canadian model |
| 7th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Carole Montillet, French skier |
| 7th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ronde Barber, American football player |
| 7th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tiki Barber, American football player |
| 7th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Belliard, American baseball player |
| 7th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Karin Dreijer Andersson, Swedish singer |
| 7th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Alejandro, American actor |
| 7th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Silvana Arias, Peruvian actress |
| 7th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Beltre, Dominican baseball player |
| 7th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player |
| 7th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Crayton, American football player |
| 7th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pascal Dupuis, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer |
| 7th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Sonjay Dutt, American professional wrestler |
| 7th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Franck Ribery, French footballer |
| 7th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Stead, British footballer |
| 7th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Brodack, American internet celebrity |
| 7th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Antonio Piccolo, Italian footballer |
| 7th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Speleers, British model and actor |
| 7th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Alexa Demara, American model |
| 7th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Di Santo, Argentine footballer |
| 7th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Trent Cotchin, Australian footballer |
| 7th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Jordan, American singer |
| 7th of April 1498 | DEATH | King Charles VIII of France (Born 1470) |
| 7th of April 1614 | DEATH | El Greco, Greek-born artist (Born 1541) |
| 7th of April 1638 | DEATH | Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (Born 1576) |
| 7th of April 1651 | DEATH | Lennart Torstenson, Swedish soldier and engineer (Born 1603) |
| 7th of April 1658 | DEATH | Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Spanish mystic (Born 1595) |
| 7th of April 1661 | DEATH | Sir William Brereton, 1st Baronet, English soldier and politician (Born 1604) |
| 7th of April 1663 | DEATH | Francis Cooke, Mayflower pilgrim (Born c.1583) |
| 7th of April 1668 | DEATH | William Davenant, English poet (Born 1606) |
| 7th of April 1719 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French saint (Born 1651) |
| 7th of April 1739 | DEATH | Dick Turpin, English highwayman (Born 1705) |
| 7th of April 1747 | DEATH | Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (Born 1676) |
| 7th of April 1766 | DEATH | Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic (Born 1685) |
| 7th of April 1767 | DEATH | Franz Sparry, composer (Born 1715) |
| 7th of April 1782 | DEATH | Taksin, King of Thailand (Born 1734) |
| 7th of April 1789 | DEATH | Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (Born 1722) |
| 7th of April 1789 | DEATH | Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1725) |
| 7th of April 1801 | DEATH | Noel Francois de Wailly, French lexicographer (Born 1724) |
| 7th of April 1804 | DEATH | Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary (Born 1743) |
| 7th of April 1811 | DEATH | Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (Born 1757) |
| 7th of April 1823 | DEATH | Jacques Charles, French chemist (Born 1746) |
| 7th of April 1833 | DEATH | Antoni Radziwi??, Polish politician (Born 1775) |
| 7th of April 1836 | DEATH | William Godwin, English political writer (Born 1756) |
| 7th of April 1850 | DEATH | William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic (Born 1762) |
| 7th of April 1858 | DEATH | Anton Diabelli, Austrian music publisher, editor, and composer (Born 1781) |
| 7th of April 1868 | DEATH | Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and Father of Confederation (Born 1825) |
| 7th of April 1871 | DEATH | Alexander Lloyd, Mayor of Chicago (Born 1805) |
| 7th of April 1871 | DEATH | Prince Alexander John of Wales (Born 1871) |
| 7th of April 1885 | DEATH | Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (Born 1804) |
| 7th of April 1891 | DEATH | P. T. Barnum, American circus impresario (Born 1810) |
| 7th of April 1920 | DEATH | Karl Binding, German jurist (Born 1841) |
| 7th of April 1928 | DEATH | Alexander Bogdanov, Russian physician and philosopher (Born 1873) |
| 7th of April 1939 | DEATH | Joseph Lyons, tenth Prime Minister of Australia (Born 1879) |
| 7th of April 1943 | DEATH | Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Born 1871) |
| 7th of April 1943 | DEATH | Alexandre Millerand, President of France (Born 1859) |
| 7th of April 1947 | DEATH | Henry Ford, American automobile manufacturer and industrialist (Born 1863) |
| 7th of April 1950 | DEATH | Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (Born 1884) |
| 7th of April 1955 | DEATH | Theda Bara, American film actress (Born 1885) |
| 7th of April 1960 | DEATH | Henri Guisan, General of the Swiss Army during World War II (Born 1874) |
| 7th of April 1968 | DEATH | Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish race car driver and two-time F1 world champion (Born 1936) |
| 7th of April 1972 | DEATH | Joe Gallo, American gangster (Born 1929) |
| 7th of April 1972 | DEATH | Abeid Karume, The first president of Zanzibar (Born 1905) |
| 7th of April 1981 | DEATH | Norman Taurog, American film director (Born 1899) |
| 7th of April 1981 | DEATH | Kit Lambert, British record producer and manager (The Who) (Born 1935) |
| 7th of April 1982 | DEATH | Harald Ertl, Austrian racing driver (Born 1948) |
| 7th of April 1982 | DEATH | Brenda Benet, American actress (Born 1945) |
| 7th of April 1984 | DEATH | Frank Church, U.S. Senator from Idaho (Born 1924) |
| 7th of April 1985 | DEATH | Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and political theorist (Born 1888) |
| 7th of April 1990 | DEATH | Ronald Evans, American astronaut (Born 1933) |
| 7th of April 1992 | DEATH | Ace Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1903) |
| 7th of April 1992 | DEATH | Antonis Tritsis, Greek politician (Born 1937) |
| 7th of April 1994 | DEATH | Albert Gu?mundsson, Icelandic footballer and politician (Born 1923) |
| 7th of April 1994 | DEATH | Golo Mann, German historian (Born 1909) |
| 7th of April 1994 | DEATH | Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (Born 1953) |
| 7th of April 1997 | DEATH | Luis Aloma, Cuban baseball player (Born 1923) |
| 7th of April 1997 | DEATH | Georgi Shonin, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1935) |
| 7th of April 1997 | DEATH | Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese film producer (Godzilla) (Born 1910) |
| 7th of April 2000 | DEATH | Broery Marantika, Indonesian singer (Born 1944) |
| 7th of April 2001 | DEATH | David Graf, American actor (Born 1950) |
| 7th of April 2001 | DEATH | Beatrice Straight, American actress (Born 1914) |
| 7th of April 2002 | DEATH | John Agar, American actor (Born 1921) |
| 7th of April 2003 | DEATH | Cecile de Brunhoff, French storyteller (Born 1903) |
| 7th of April 2003 | DEATH | David Greene, British television director (Born 1921) |
| 7th of April 2004 | DEATH | Victor Argo, American actor (Born 1934) |
| 7th of April 2004 | DEATH | Konstantinos Kallias, Greek politician (Born 1901) |
| 7th of April 2005 | DEATH | Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer (Born 1922) |
| 7th of April 2005 | DEATH | Bob Kennedy, American baseball player and manager (Born 1920) |
| 7th of April 2005 | DEATH | Cliff Allison, British racing driver (Born 1932) |
| 7th of April 2007 | DEATH | Barry Nelson, American actor (Born 1917) |
| 7th of April 2007 | DEATH | Johnny Hart, American cartoonist (Born 1931) |
| 7th of April 2008 | DEATH | Mark Speight, English television presenter (Born 1965) |
| 7th of April 2009 | DEATH | Dave Arneson, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons (Born 1947) |
| 7th of April 2010 | DEATH | Jean-Paul Proust, French-born Minister of State of Monaco (Born 1940) |