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April 30 is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 245 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 311 – The Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends.
  • 313Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeats Maximinus II and unifies the Eastern Roman Empire.
  • 642Chindasuinth is proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops.
  • 1315Enguerrand de Marigny is hanged at the instigation of Charles, Count of Valois.
  • 1492 – Spain gives Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration.
  • 1513Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is executed on the orders of Henry VIII.
  • 1557Mapuche leader Lautaro is killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile.
  • 1598Juan de Oñate begins the conquest of Santa Fe de Nuevo México.
  • 1598 – Henry IV of France issues the Edict of Nantes, allowing freedom of religion to the Huguenots.
  • 1636Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recapture a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege.
  • 1671Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
  • 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
  • 1803Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
  • 1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
  • 1838Nicaragua declares independence from the Central American Federation.
  • 1863 – A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
  • 1871 – The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
  • 1885Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
  • 1897J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.[1]
  • 1900 – Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
  • 1904 – The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 1905Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
  • 1925 – Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity.
  • 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.
  • 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood.
  • 1937 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
  • 1938 – The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
  • 1939 – The 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens.
  • 1939 – NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
  • 1943World War II: The British submarine HMS Seraph surfaces near Huelva to cast adrift a dead man dressed as a courier and carrying false invasion plans.
  • 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for less than 40 hours. Soviet soldiers raise the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building.
  • 1945 – World War II: Stalag Luft I prisoner-of-war camp near Barth, Germany is liberated by Soviet soldiers, freeing nearly 9000 American and British airmen.
  • 1947 – In Nevada, Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam.
  • 1948 – In Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States is established.
  • 1956 – Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
  • 1957Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
  • 1961K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
  • 1963 – The Bristol Bus Boycott is held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom.
  • 1966 – The Church of Satan is formed in The Black House, San Francisco.
  • 1973Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
  • 1975Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
  • 1980Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
  • 1980 – The Iranian Embassy siege begins in London.
  • 1982 – The Bijon Setu massacre occurs in Calcutta, India.
  • 1993CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
  • 1994Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy.
  • 2000Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
  • 2004 – U.S. media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
  • 2008 – Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.
  • 2009Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
  • 2009 – Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
  • 2012 – An overloaded ferry capsizes on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people.
  • 2013Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
  • 2014 – A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.

Births[]

  • 1245Philip III of France (d. 1285)
  • 1310 – King Casimir III of Poland (d. 1368)
  • 1331Gaston III, Count of Foix (d. 1391)
  • 1383Anne of Gloucester, English countess, granddaughter of King Edward III of England (d. 1438)[2]
  • 1425William III, Landgrave of Thuringia (d. 1482)
  • 1504Francesco Primaticcio, Italian painter (d. 1570)
  • 1553Louise of Lorraine (d. 1601)
  • 1623François de Laval, French-Canadian bishop and saint (d. 1708)
  • 1651Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French priest and saint (d. 1719)
  • 1662Mary II of England (d. 1694)
  • 1664François Louis, Prince of Conti (d. 1709)
  • 1710Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (d. 1795)
  • 1723Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and philosopher (d. 1806)
  • 1758Emmanuel Vitale, Maltese commander and politician (d. 1802)
  • 1770David Thompson, English-Canadian cartographer and explorer (d. 1857)
  • 1777Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1855)
  • 1803Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and politician, 10th Minister President of Prussia (d. 1879)
  • 1829Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist and academic (d. 1884)
  • 1857Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist (d. 1940)
  • 1857 – Walter Simon, German banker and philanthropist (d. 1920)
  • 1865Max Nettlau, German historian and academic (d. 1944)
  • 1866Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, American pioneer dentist (d. 1936)
  • 1869Hans Poelzig, German architect, designed the IG Farben Building and Großes Schauspielhaus (d. 1936)
  • 1870Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer (d. 1948)
  • 1870 – Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1944)
  • 1874Cyriel Verschaeve, Flemish priest and author (d. 1949)
  • 1876Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist and politician (d. 1937)
  • 1877Léon Flameng, French cyclist (d. 1917)
  • 1877 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist (d. 1967)
  • 1878Władysław Witwicki, Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (d. 1948)[3]
  • 1880Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, Scottish cartoonist (d. 1967)
  • 1883Jaroslav Hašek, Czech soldier and author (d. 1923)
  • 1883 – Luigi Russolo, Italian painter and composer (d. 1947)
  • 1884Olof Sandborg, Swedish actor (d. 1965)
  • 1888John Crowe Ransom, American poet, critic, and academic (d. 1974)
  • 1893Harold Breen, Australian public servant (d. 1966)
  • 1893 – Joachim von Ribbentrop, German soldier and politician, 14th German Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1946)
  • 1895Philippe Panneton, Canadian physician, academic, and diplomat (d. 1960)
  • 1896Reverend Gary Davis, American singer and guitarist (d. 1972)
  • 1896 – Hans List, Austrian scientist and businessman, founded the AVL Engineering Company (d. 1996)
  • 1897Humberto Mauro, Brazilian director and screenwriter (d. 1983)
  • 1900Erni Krusten, Estonian author and poet (d. 1984)
  • 1901Simon Kuznets, Belarusian-American economist, statistician, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)
  • 1902Theodore Schultz, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
  • 1905Sergey Nikolsky, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2012)
  • 1908Eve Arden, American actress (d. 1990)
  • 1908 – Bjarni Benediktsson, Icelandic professor of law and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1970)
  • 1908 – Frank Robert Miller, Canadian air marshal and politician (d. 1997)
  • 1909F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor and educator (d. 1992)
  • 1909 – Juliana of the Netherlands (d. 2004)
  • 1910Levi Celerio, Filipino pianist, violinist, and composer (d. 2002)
  • 1914Charles Beetham, American middle-distance runner (d. 1997)
  • 1914 – Dorival Caymmi, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and painter (d. 2008)
  • 1916Paul Kuusberg, Estonian journalist and author (d. 2003)
  • 1916 – Claude Shannon, American mathematician and engineer (d. 2001)
  • 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)
  • 1917Bea Wain, American singer (d. 2017)
  • 1920Duncan Hamilton, Irish-English race car driver and pilot (d. 1994)
  • 1920 – Tom Moore, British army officer and fundraiser[4]
  • 1921Roger L. Easton, American scientist, co-invented the GPS (d. 2014)
  • 1922Anton Murray, South African cricketer (d. 1995)
  • 1923Percy Heath, American bassist (d. 2005)
  • 1923 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (d. 2004)
  • 1924Uno Laht, Estonian KGB officer and author (d. 2008)
  • 1925Corinne Calvet, French actress (d. 2001)
  • 1925 – Johnny Horton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1960)
  • 1926Shrinivas Khale, Indian composer (d. 2011)
  • 1926 – Cloris Leachman, American actress and comedian
  • 1928Hugh Hood, Canadian author and academic (d. 2000)
  • 1928 – Orlando Sirola, Italian tennis player (d. 1995)
  • 1930Félix Guattari, French psychotherapist and philosopher (d. 1992)
  • 1933Charles Sanderson, Baron Sanderson of Bowden, English politician
  • 1934Jerry Lordan, English singer-songwriter (d. 1995)
  • 1934 – Don McKenney, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1937Tony Harrison, English poet and playwright
  • 1938Gary Collins, American actor and talk show host (d. 2012)
  • 1938 – Juraj Jakubisko, Slovak director and screenwriter
  • 1938 – Larry Niven, American author and screenwriter
  • 1940Jeroen Brouwers, Dutch journalist and writer
  • 1940 – Michael Cleary, Australian rugby player and politician
  • 1941Stavros Dimas, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • 1941 – Max Merritt, New Zealand-Australian singer-songwriter
  • 1942Sallehuddin of Kedah, Sultan of Kedah
  • 1943Frederick Chiluba, Zambian politician, 2nd President of Zambia (d. 2011)
  • 1943 – Bobby Vee, American pop singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
  • 1944Jon Bing, Norwegian author, scholar, and academic (d. 2014)
  • 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d. 2010)
  • 1945J. Michael Brady, British radiologist
  • 1945 – Annie Dillard, American novelist, essayist, and poet
  • 1945 – Mimi Fariña, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist (d. 2001)
  • 1945 – Michael J. Smith, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1986)
  • 1946 – King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
  • 1946 – Bill Plympton, American animator, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1946 – Don Schollander, American swimmer
  • 1947Paul Fiddes, English theologian and academic
  • 1947 – Finn Kalvik, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1947 – Tom Køhlert, Danish footballer and manager
  • 1947 – Mats Odell, Swedish economist and politician, Swedish Minister for Financial Markets
  • 1948Wayne Kramer, American guitarist and singer-songwriter
  • 1948 – Pierre Pagé, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1948 – Margit Papp, Hungarian athlete
  • 1949Phil Garner, American baseball player and manager
  • 1949 – António Guterres, Portuguese academic and politician, 114th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • 1949 – Karl Meiler, German tennis player (d. 2014)
  • 1952Jacques Audiard, French director and screenwriter
  • 1952 – Jack Middelburg, Dutch motorcycle racer (d. 1984)
  • 1953Merrill Osmond, American singer and bass player
  • 1954Jane Campion, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1954 – Kim Darroch, English diplomat, UK Permanent Representative to the European Union
  • 1954 – Frank-Michael Marczewski, German footballer
  • 1955Nicolas Hulot, French journalist and environmentalist
  • 1955 – David Kitchin, English lawyer and judge
  • 1955 – Zlatko Topčić, Bosnian writer and screenwriter
  • 1956Lars von Trier, Danish director and screenwriter
  • 1957Wonder Mike, American rapper and songwriter
  • 1958Charles Berling, French actor, director, and screenwriter
  • 1959Stephen Harper, Canadian economist and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
  • 1960Geoffrey Cox, English lawyer and politician
  • 1960 – Kerry Healey, American academic and politician, 70th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
  • 1961Arnór Guðjohnsen, Icelandic footballer
  • 1961 – Isiah Thomas, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1963Andrew Carwood, English tenor and conductor
  • 1963 – Michael Waltrip, American race car driver and sportscaster
  • 1964Tony Fernandes, Malaysian-Indian businessman, co-founded Tune Group
  • 1964 – Ian Healy, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1964 – Lorenzo Staelens, Belgian footballer and manager
  • 1964 – Abhishek Chatterjee, Indian actor
  • 1965Daniela Costian, Romanian-Australian discus thrower
  • 1965 – Adrian Pasdar, American actor
  • 1966Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1966 – Dave Meggett, American football player and coach
  • 1967Phil Chang, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor[5]
  • 1969Warren Defever, American bass player and producer
  • 1969 – Justine Greening, English accountant and politician, Secretary of State for International Development
  • 1969 – Paulo Jr., Brazilian bass player
  • 1972Takako Tokiwa, Japanese actress[6]
  • 1973Leigh Francis, English comedian and actor
  • 1974Christian Tamminga, Dutch athlete
  • 1975Johnny Galecki, American actor
  • 1976Davian Clarke, Jamaican sprinter
  • 1976 – Amanda Palmer, American singer-songwriter and pianist
  • 1976 – Daniel Wagon, Australian rugby league player
  • 1977Jeannie Haddaway, American politician
  • 1977 – Meredith L. Patterson, American technologist, journalist, and author
  • 1978Liljay, Taiwanese singer[7]
  • 1979Gerardo Torrado, Mexican footballer
  • 1980Luis Scola, Argentinian basketball player
  • 1980 – Jeroen Verhoeven, Dutch footballer
  • 1981Nicole Kaczmarski, American basketball player
  • 1981 – John O'Shea, Irish footballer
  • 1981 – Kunal Nayyar, British-Indian actor
  • 1981 – Justin Vernon, American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer
  • 1982Kirsten Dunst, American actress
  • 1982 – Drew Seeley, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
  • 1983Chris Carr, American football player
  • 1983 – Tatjana Hüfner, German luger
  • 1983 – Marina Tomić, Slovenian hurdler
  • 1983 – Troy Williamson, American football player
  • 1984Seimone Augustus, American basketball player[8]
  • 1984 – Shawn Daivari, American wrestler and manager
  • 1984 – Risto Mätas, Estonian javelin thrower
  • 1984 – Lee Roache, English footballer
  • 1985Brandon Bass, American basketball player
  • 1985 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model
  • 1985 – Ashley Alexandra Dupré, American journalist, singer, and prostitute
  • 1986Dianna Agron, American actress and singer
  • 1986 – Martten Kaldvee, Estonian biathlete
  • 1987Alipate Carlile, Australian footballer
  • 1987 – Chris Morris, South African cricketer
  • 1987 – Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer
  • 1988Andy Allen, Australian chef
  • 1988 – Sander Baart, Dutch field hockey player
  • 1988 – Liu Xijun, Chinese singer[9]
  • 1988 – Oh Hye-ri, South Korean taekwondo athlete
  • 1989Jang Wooyoung, South Korean singer and actor
  • 1990Jonny Brownlee, English triathlete
  • 1990 – Mac DeMarco, Canadian singer-songwriter
  • 1990 – Kaarel Kiidron, Estonian footballer
  • 1991Chris Kreider, American ice hockey player
  • 1992Travis Scott, American rapper and producer
  • 1992 – Marc-André ter Stegen, German footballer
  • 1993Dion Dreesens, Dutch swimmer
  • 1993 – Martin Fuksa, Czech canoeist[10]
  • 1994Chae Seo-jin, South Korean actress[11]
  • 1994 – Wang Yafan, Chinese tennis player
  • 1996Luke Friend, English singer
  • 1997Adam Ryczkowski, Polish footballer
  • 1999Jorden van Foreest, Dutch chess grandmaster
  • 2000Yui Hiwatashi, Japanese singer
  • 2001Lil Tjay, American rapper
  • 2003Jung Yun-seok, South Korean actor[12]

Deaths[]

  • AD 65Lucan, Roman poet (b. 39)
  • 125An, Chinese emperor (b. 94)
  • 535Amalasuntha, Ostrogothic queen and regent
  • 783Hildegard of the Vinzgau, Frankish queen
  • 1002Eckard I, German nobleman
  • 1030Mahmud of Ghazni, Ghaznavid emir (b. 971)
  • 1063Ren Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1010)
  • 1131Adjutor, French knight and saint
  • 1305Roger de Flor, Italian military adventurer (b. 1267)
  • 1341John III, duke of Brittany (b. 1286)
  • 1439Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English commander (b. 1382)
  • 1524Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard, French soldier (b. 1473)
  • 1544Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, English lawyer and judge, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1488)
  • 1550Tabinshwehti, Burmese king (b. 1516)
  • 1632Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general (b. 1559)
  • 1632 – Sigismund III Vasa, Swedish-Polish son of John III of Sweden (b. 1566)
  • 1637Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyō (b. 1571)
  • 1655Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (b. 1617)
  • 1660Petrus Scriverius, Dutch historian and scholar (b. 1576)
  • 1672Marie of the Incarnation, French-Canadian nun and saint, founded the Ursulines of Quebec (b. 1599)
  • 1696Robert Plot, English chemist and academic (b. 1640)
  • 1712Philipp van Limborch, Dutch theologian and author (b. 1633)
  • 1736Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and author (b. 1668)
  • 1758François d'Agincourt, French organist and composer (b. 1684)
  • 1792John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (b. 1718)
  • 1795Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, French archaeologist and author (b. 1716)
  • 1806Onogawa Kisaburō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 5th Yokozuna (b. 1758)
  • 1841Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish philologist and author (b. 1758)
  • 1847Charles, Austrian commander and duke of Teschen (b. 1771)
  • 1863Jean Danjou, French captain (b. 1828)
  • 1865Robert FitzRoy, English admiral, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand (b. 1805)
  • 1870Thomas Cooke, Canadian bishop and missionary (b. 1792)
  • 1875Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French explorer, lithographer, and cartographer (b. 1766)
  • 1879Emma Smith, American religious leader (b. 1804)
  • 1883Édouard Manet, French painter (b. 1832)
  • 1891Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and author (b. 1823)
  • 1900Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (b. 1863)
  • 1903Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and activist (b. 1831)
  • 1910Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic (b. 1856)
  • 1936A. E. Housman, English poet and scholar (b. 1859)
  • 1939Frank Haller, American boxer (b. 1883)
  • 1943Otto Jespersen, Danish linguist and academic (b. 1860)
  • 1943 – Beatrice Webb, English sociologist and economist (b. 1858)
  • 1953Jacob Linzbach, Estonian linguist and author (b. 1874)
  • 1956Alben W. Barkley, American lawyer and politician, 35th Vice President of the United States (b. 1877)
  • 1970Jacques Presser, Dutch historian, writer and poet (b. 1899)
  • 1970 – Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (b. 1934)
  • 1972Gia Scala, English-American model and actress (b. 1934)
  • 1973Václav Renč, Czech poet and playwright (b. 1911)
  • 1974Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
  • 1980Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican journalist and politician, 1st Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1898)
  • 1982Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (b. 1949)
  • 1983George Balanchine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
  • 1983 – Muddy Waters, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader (b. 1913)
  • 1983 – Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer (b. 1897)
  • 1986Robert Stevenson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1905)
  • 1989Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
  • 1993Tommy Caton, English footballer (b. 1962)
  • 1994Roland Ratzenberger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1960)
  • 1994 – Richard Scarry, American author and illustrator (b. 1919)
  • 1995Maung Maung Kha, Burmese colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1920)
  • 1998Nizar Qabbani, Syrian-English poet, publisher, and diplomat (b. 1926)
  • 2000Poul Hartling, Danish politician, 36th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914)
  • 2002Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, German philanthropist, founded the Gründerzeit Museum (b. 1928)
  • 2003Mark Berger, American economist and academic (b. 1955)
  • 2003 – Possum Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (b. 1956)
  • 2005Phil Rasmussen, American lieutenant and pilot (b. 1918)
  • 2006Jean-François Revel, French philosopher (b. 1924)
  • 2006 – Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author and academic (b. 1925)
  • 2007Kevin Mitchell, American football player (b. 1971)
  • 2007 – Tom Poston, American actor, comedian, and game show panelist (b. 1921)
  • 2007 – Gordon Scott, American film and television actor (b. 1926)
  • 2008John Cargher, English-Australian journalist and author (b. 1919)
  • 2008 – Juancho Evertsz, Dutch Antillean politician (b. 1923)
  • 2009Henk Nijdam, Dutch cyclist (b. 1935)
  • 2011Dorjee Khandu, Indian politician, 6th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (b. 1955)
  • 2011 – Evald Okas, Estonian painter (b. 1915)
  • 2011 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentinian physicist, author, and painter (b. 1911)
  • 2012Tomás Borge, Nicaraguan poet and politician, co-founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – Alexander Dale Oen, Norwegian swimmer (b. 1985)
  • 2012 – Giannis Gravanis, Greek footballer (b. 1958)
  • 2012 – Benzion Netanyahu, Russian-Israeli historian and academic (b. 1910)
  • 2012 – Sicelo Shiceka, South African politician (b. 1966)
  • 2013Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1937)
  • 2013 – Shirley Firth, Canadian skier (b. 1953)
  • 2013 – Viviane Forrester, French author and critic (b. 1925)
  • 2013 – Mike Gray, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1935)
  • 2014Khaled Choudhury, Indian painter and set designer (b. 1919)
  • 2014 – Julian Lewis, English biologist and academic (b. 1946)
  • 2014 – Carl E. Moses, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
  • 2014 – Ian Ross, Australian journalist (b. 1940)
  • 2015Lennart Bodström, Swedish politician (b. 1928)
  • 2015 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1938)
  • 2015 – Steven Goldmann, Canadian director and producer (b. 1961)
  • 2016Daniel Berrigan, American priest and activist (b. 1921)
  • 2016 – Harry Kroto, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1939)
  • 2019Peter Mayhew, English-American actor (b. 1944)[13]
  • 2020Tony Allen, Nigerian drummer and composer (b. 1940)[14]

Holidays and observances[]

  • Armed Forces Day (Georgia)
  • Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustaf, one of the official flag days of Sweden.
  • Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion)
  • Children's Day (Mexico)
  • Christian feast day:
    • Adjutor
    • Aimo
    • Amator, Peter and Louis
    • Donatus of Evorea
    • Eutropius of Saintes
    • Marie Guyart (Anglican Church of Canada)
    • Marie of the Incarnation (Ursuline)
    • Maximus of Rome
    • Blessed Miles Gerard
    • Pomponius of Naples
    • Pope Pius V
    • Quirinus of Neuss
    • Sarah Josepha Hale (Episcopal Church)
    • Suitbert the Younger
    • April 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Consumer Protection Day (Thailand)
  • Earliest day on which Ascension Day can fall, while June 3 is the latest; celebrated 40 days after Easter (Christianity), and its related observances:
    • Festa della Sensa (Venice)
    • Global Day of Prayer (Western Christianity)
    • Sheep Festival (Cameroon)
  • Honesty Day (United States)
  • International Jazz Day (UNESCO)
  • Martyrs' Day (Pakistan)
  • May Eve, the eve of the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere (see May 1):
    • Beltane begins at sunset in the Northern hemisphere, Samhain begins at sunset in the Southern hemisphere. (Neo-Druidic Wheel of the Year)
    • Carodejnice (Czech Republic and Slovakia)
    • Walpurgis Night (Central and Northern Europe)
  • National Persian Gulf Day (Iran)
  • Reunification Day (Vietnam)
  • Russian State Fire Service Day (Russia)
  • Teachers' Day (Paraguay)

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