title: April 1
text: 
  
  Events
  
  Pre-1600
   527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
  1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4.
  1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
  
  1601–1900
  1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
  1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin.
  1865 – American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line during the Siege of Petersburg.
  1867 – Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  1873 – The White Star steamer SS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
  1900 – Prince George becomes absolute monarch of the Cretan State.
  
  1901–present
  1908 – The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
  1918 – The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
  1924 – Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
    1924   – The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
  1933 – The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
  1935 – India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
  1937 – Aden becomes a British crown colony.
    1937   – The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
  1939 – Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
  1941 – Fântâna Albă massacre: Between two hundred and two thousand Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
    1941   – A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
  1944 – World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
  1945 – World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
  1946 – The 8.6  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
    1946   – The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
  1947 – The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
  1948 – Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
    1948   – Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
  1949 – Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
    1949   – The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
  1954 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  1955 – The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
  1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
  1964 – The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
  1969 – The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
  1970 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.
  1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre more than a thousand people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
  1973 – Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
  1974 – The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
  1976 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc. 
  1979 – Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
  1984 – Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California.
  1986 – Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
  1989 – Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
  1993 – NASCAR racer Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash near the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville, Tennessee.
  1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
  1999 – Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
  2001 – An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Chinese pilot ejected but is subsequently lost. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
    2001   – Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
    2001   – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
  2004 – Google launches its Email service Gmail.
  2006 – Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) of the Government of the United Kingdom is enforced, but later merged into National Crime Agency on 7 October 2013.
  2011 – After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
  2016 – The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact.
  
  Births
  
  Pre-1600
  1220 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (d. 1272)
  1282 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1347)
  1328 – Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (d. 1382)
  1543 – François de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguières (d. 1626)
  1578 – William Harvey, English physician and academic (d. 1657)
  
  1601–1900
  1610 – Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and critic (d. 1703)
  1629 – Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, French organist and composer (d. 1691)
  1640 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1697)
  1647 – John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet and courtier (d. 1680)
  1697 – Antoine François Prévost, French novelist and translator (d. 1763)
  1721 – Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch-English organist, violinist, and composer (d. 1799)
  1741 – George Dance the Younger, English architect and surveyor (d. 1825)
  1753 – Joseph de Maistre, French philosopher, lawyer, and diplomat (d. 1821)
  1755 – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer and politician (d. 1826)
  1765 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher (d. 1810)
  1776 – Sophie Germain, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (d. 1831)
  1786 – William Mulready, Irish genre painter (d. 1863)
  1815 – Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)
    1815   – Edward Clark, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Texas (d. 1880)
  1823 – Simon Bolivar Buckner, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Kentucky (d. 1891)
  1824 – Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (d. 1901)
  1834 – James Fisk, American businessman (d. 1872)
  1852 – Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator (d. 1911)
  1865 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)
  1866 – William Blomfield, New Zealand cartoonist and politician (d. 1938)
    1866   – Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1924)
    1866   – Ève Lavallière, French actress (d. 1929)
  1868 – Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright (d. 1918)
    1868   – Walter Mead, English cricketer (d. 1954)
  1871 – F. Melius Christiansen, Norwegian-American violinist and conductor (d. 1955)
  1873 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1943)
  1874 – Ernest Barnes, English mathematician and theologian (d. 1953)
    1874   – Prince Karl of Bavaria (d. 1927)
  1875 – Edgar Wallace, English journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1932)
  1878 – C. Ganesha Iyer, Ceylon Tamil philologist (d. 1958)
  1879 – Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman (d. 1967)
  1881 – Octavian Goga, Romanian Prime Minister (d. 1938)
  1883 – Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1930)
    1883   – Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director (d. 1976) 
    1883   – Laurette Taylor, Irish-American actress (d. 1946)
  1885 – Wallace Beery, American actor (d. 1949)
    1885   – Clementine Churchill, English wife of Winston Churchill (d. 1977)
  1889 – K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and activist (d. 1940)
  1893 – Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress (d. 1980)
  1895 – Alberta Hunter, African-American singer-songwriter and nurse (d. 1984)
  1898 – William James Sidis, Ukrainian-Russian Jewish American mathematician, anthropologist, and historian (d. 1944)
  1899 – Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian academic and politician (d. 1968)
  1900 – Stefanie Clausen, Danish Olympic diver (d. 1981)
  
  1901–present
  1901 – Whittaker Chambers, American journalist and spy (d. 1961)
  1902 – Maria Polydouri, Greek poet (d. 1930)
  1905 – Gaston Eyskens, Belgian economist and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1988)
    1905   – Paul Hasluck, Australian historian, poet, and politician, 17th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1993)
  1906 – Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer, founded the Yakovlev Design Bureau (d. 1989)
  1907 – Shivakumara Swami, Indian religious leader and philanthropist (d. 2019)
  1908 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic (d. 1970)
    1908   – Harlow Rothert, American shot putter, lawyer, and academic (d. 1997)
  1909 – Abner Biberman, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
    1909   – Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (d. 1951)
  1910 – Harry Carney, American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1974)
    1910   – Bob Van Osdel, American high jumper and soldier (d. 1987)
  1911 – Augusta Braxton Baker, African American librarian (d. 1998)
  1913 – Memos Makris, Greek sculptor (d. 1993)
  1915 – O. W. Fischer, Austrian-Swiss actor and director (d. 2004)
  1916 – Sheila May Edmonds, British mathematician (d. 2002)
  1917 – Sydney Newman, Canadian screenwriter and producer, co-created Doctor Who (d. 1997)
    1917   – Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
  1919 – Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)
  1920 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
  1921 – William Bergsma, American composer and educator (d. 1994)
    1921   – Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (d. 2014)
  1922 – Duke Jordan, American pianist and composer (d. 2006)
    1922   – William Manchester, American historian and author (d. 2004)
  1924 – Brendan Byrne, American lieutenant, judge, and politician, 47th Governor of New Jersey (d. 2018)
  1926 – Anne McCaffrey, American-Irish author (d. 2011)
  1927 – Walter Bahr, American soccer player, coach, and manager (d. 2018)
    1927   – Amos Milburn, American R&B singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1980)
    1927   – Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2006)
  1929 – Jonathan Haze, American actor, producer, screenwriter, and production manager
    1929   – Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist, poet, and playwright (d. 2023)
    1929   – Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director (d. 2010)
    1929   – Jane Powell, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2021)
  1930 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
  1931 – George Baker, Bulgarian-English actor and screenwriter (d. 2011)
    1931   – Rolf Hochhuth, German author and playwright (d. 2020)
  1932 – Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2016)
  1933 – Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Algerian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
    1933   – Dan Flavin, American sculptor and educator (d. 1996)
    1933   – Bengt Holbek, Danish folklorist (d. 1992)
  1934 – Vladimir Posner, French-American journalist and radio host
  1935 – Larry McDonald, American physician and politician (d. 1983)
  1936 – Peter Collinson, English-American director and producer (d. 1980)
    1936   – Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician, 80th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1998)
    1936   – Tarun Gogoi, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Assam (d. 2020)
    1936   – Abdul Qadeer Khan, Indian-Pakistani physicist, chemist, and engineer (d. 2021)
  1937 – Jordan Charney, American actor
  1939 – Ali MacGraw, American model and actress
    1939   – Phil Niekro, American baseball player and manager (d. 2020)
  1940 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011)
  1941 – Gideon Gadot, Israeli journalist and politician (d. 2012)
    1941   – Ajit Wadekar, Indian cricketer, coach, and manager (d. 2018)
  1942 – Samuel R. Delany, American author and critic
    1942   – Richard D. Wolff, American economist and academic
  1943 – Dafydd Wigley, Welsh academic and politician
    1943   – Titina Silá, Bissau-Guinean revolutionary (d. 1973)
  1946 – Nikitas Kaklamanis, Greek academic and politician, Greek Minister of Health and Social Security
    1946   – Ronnie Lane, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 1997)
    1946   – Arrigo Sacchi, Italian footballer, coach, and manager
  1947 – Alain Connes, French mathematician and academic
    1948   – Javier Irureta, Spanish footballer and manager
    1948   – Peter Law, Welsh politician and independent Member of Parliament (d. 2006)
  1949 – Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
    1949   – Paul Manafort, American lobbyist, political consultant, and convicted felon
    1949   – Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer and coach
    1949   – Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and author (d. 2011)
  1950 – Samuel Alito, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
    1950   – Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver (d. 2010)
    1950   – Daniel Paillé, Canadian academic and politician
  1951 – John Abizaid, American general
  1952 – Annette O'Toole, American actress 
    1952   – Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher and academic (d. 2020)
  1953 – Barry Sonnenfeld, American cinematographer, director, and producer
    1953   – Alberto Zaccheroni, Italian footballer and manager
  1954 – Jeff Porcaro, American drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 1992)
  1955 – Don Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster
    1955   – Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani politician, 5th Commerce Minister of Pakistan
  1957 – David Gower, English cricketer and sportscaster 
    1957   – Denise Nickerson, American actress (d. 2019)
  1958 – D. Boon, American singer and musician (d. 1985)
  1959 – Helmuth Duckadam, Romanian footballer
  1961 – Susan Boyle, Scottish singer 
    1961   – Sergio Scariolo, Italian professional basketball head coach
    1961   – Mark White, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 
    1962   – Mark Shulman, American author
  1962 – Chris Grayling, English journalist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
    1962   – Samboy Lim, Filipino basketball player and manager
    1962   – Phillip Schofield, English television host
  1963 – Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter (d. 1988)
    1963   – Aprille Ericsson-Jackson, American aerospace engineer
  1964 – Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager
    1964   – Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player (d. 2008)
    1964   – John Morris, English cricketer
    1964   – José Rodrigues dos Santos, Portuguese journalist, author, and educator
  1965 – Jane Adams, American film, television, and stage actress
    1965   – Mark Jackson, American basketball player and coach
  1966 – Chris Evans, English radio and television host
    1966   – Mehmet Özdilek, Turkish footballer and manager
  1967 – Nicola Roxon, Australian lawyer and politician, 34th Attorney-General for Australia
  1968 – Mike Baird, Australian politician, 44th Premier of New South Wales
    1968   – Andreas Schnaas, German actor and director
    1968   – Alexander Stubb, Finnish academic and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Finland
  1969 – Lev Lobodin, Ukrainian-Russian decathlete
    1969   – Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball player 
    1969   – Dean Windass, English footballer and manager
  1970 – Brad Meltzer, American author, screenwriter, and producer
  1971 – Sonia Bisset, Cuban javelin thrower
    1971   – Shinji Nakano, Japanese racing driver
  1972 – Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
    1972   – Jesse Tobias, American guitarist and songwriter 
  1973 – Christian Finnegan, American comedian and actor
    1973   – Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer and coach
    1973   – Rachel Maddow, American journalist and author
  1974 – Hugo Ibarra, Argentinian footballer and manager
  1975 – John Butler, American-Australian singer-songwriter and producer 
    1975   – Magdalena Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
  1976 – Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and educator
    1976   – David Gilliland, American race car driver
    1976   – David Oyelowo, English actor 
    1976   – Clarence Seedorf, Dutch-Brazilian footballer and manager
    1976   – Yuka Yoshida, Japanese tennis player
  1977 – Vitor Belfort, Brazilian-American boxer and mixed martial artist
    1977   – Haimar Zubeldia, Spanish cyclist
  1978 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (d. 2009)
    1978   – Mirka Federer, Slovak-Swiss tennis player
    1978   – Anamaria Marinca, Romanian-English actress
    1978   – Etan Thomas, American basketball player
  1979 – Ruth Beitia, Spanish high jumper
  1980 – Dennis Kruppke, German footballer
    1980   – Randy Orton, American wrestler 
    1980   – Bijou Phillips, American actress and model
  1981 – Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player
    1981   – Bjørn Einar Romøren, Norwegian ski jumper
  1982 – Taran Killam, American actor, voice artist, comedian, and writer
    1982   – Andreas Thorkildsen, Norwegian javelin thrower
  1983 – Ólafur Ingi Skúlason, Icelandic footballer
    1983   – Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
  1984 – Gilberto Macena, Brazilian footballer
  1985 – Daniel Murphy, American baseball player
    1985   – Beth Tweddle, English gymnast
  1986 – Nikolaos Kourtidis, Greek weightlifter
    1986   – Hillary Scott, American country singer-songwriter 
  1987 – Ding Junhui, Chinese professional snooker player
    1987   – Gianluca Musacci, Italian footballer
    1987   – Oliver Turvey, English racing driver
  1988 – Brook Lopez, American basketball player
    1988   – Robin Lopez, American basketball player
  1989 – Jan Blokhuijsen, Dutch speed skater
    1989   – David N'Gog, French footballer
    1989   – Christian Vietoris, German racing driver
  1990 – Julia Fischer, German discus thrower
  1992 – Deng Linlin, Chinese gymnast
  1995 – Jofra Archer, Barbadian-English cricketer
    1995   – Logan Paul, American Youtuber, actor and wrestler
  1997 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
    1997   – Álex Palou, Spanish racing driver
  
  Deaths
  
  Pre-1600
   996 – John XV, pope of the Catholic Church
  1085 – Shen Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 1048)
  1132 – Hugh of Châteauneuf, French bishop (b. 1053)
  1204 – Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and England (b. 1122)
  1205 – Amalric II, king of Cyprus and Jerusalem
  1282 – Abaqa Khan, ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate (b. 1234)
  1431 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general (b. 1360)
  1441 – Blanche I, queen of Navarre and Sicily (b. 1387)
  1455 – Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Polish cardinal and statesman (b. 1389).
  1528 – Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer (b. 1470)
  1548 – Sigismund I, king of Poland (b. 1467)
  1580 – Alonso Mudarra, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1510)
  
  1601–1900
  1621 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter and educator (b. 1577)
  1682 – Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bavarian bishop (b. 1625)
  1787 – Floyer Sydenham, English scholar and academic (b. 1710)
  1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American soldier and politician, 11th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1757)
  1865 – Antonios Kriezis, Greek Navy officer and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1796)
    1865   – Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
  1872 – Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian and academic (b. 1805)
  1878 – John C.W. Daly, English-Canadian soldier and politician (b. 1796)
  1890 – David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
    1890   – Alexander Mozhaysky, Russian soldier, pilot, and engineer (b. 1825)
  
  1901–present
  1914 – Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1876)
    1914   – Charles Wells, English founder of Charles Wells Ltd (b. 1842)
  1917 – Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer (b. 1868)
  1920 – Walter Simon, German banker and philanthropist (b. 1857)
  1922 – Charles I, emperor of Austria (b. 1887)
  1924 – Jacob Bolotin, American physician (b. 1888)
  1924 – Lloyd Hildebrand, English cyclist (b. 1870)
    1924   – Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter (b. 1876)
  1946 – Noah Beery, Sr., American actor (b. 1882)
  1947 – George II, king of Greece (b. 1890)
  1950 – Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon (b. 1904)
    1950   – Recep Peker, Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1889)
  1962 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain and businessman (b. 1910)
  1965 – Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman (b. 1870)
  1966 – Brian O'Nolan, Irish author (b. 1911)
  1968 – Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
  1971 – Kathleen Lonsdale, Irish crystallographer and prison reformer (b. 1903)
  1976 – Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor (b. 1891)
  1981 – Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai singer-songwriter and bandleader (b. 1910)
  1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
    1984   – Elizabeth Goudge, English author (b. 1900)
  1986 – Erik Bruhn, Danish actor, director, and choreographer (b. 1928)
    1986   – Edwin Boston, English clergyman, author, and railway preservationist
  1987 – Henri Cochet, French tennis player (b. 1901)
  1991 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
    1991   – Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
  1992 – Michael Havers, Baron Havers, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1923)
  1993 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (b. 1954)
  1994 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
  1995 – H. Adams Carter, American mountaineer, journalist, and educator (b. 1914)
    1995   – Francisco Moncion, Dominican American ballet dancer, choreographer, charter member of the New York City Ballet (b. 1918)
    1995   – Lucie Rie, Austrian-English potter (b. 1902)
  1997 – Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1912)
  1998 – Rozz Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1963)
  1999 – Jesse Stone, American pianist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1901)
  2001 – Trịnh Công Sơn, Vietnamese guitarist and composer (b. 1939)
  2002 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish soldier and sniper (b. 1905)
  2003 – Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1956)
  2004 – Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1952)
    2004   – Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1945)
  2005 – Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, 1st Tanzanian Minister of Finance (b 1925)
    2005   – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and academic (b. 1923)
  2006 – In Tam, Cambodian general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1916)
  2010 – John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918)
    2010   – Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek soldier and politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1927)
  2012 – Lionel Bowen, Australian soldier, lawyer, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1922)
    2012   – Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian-American soccer player and radio host (b. 1947)
    2012   – Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican banker, academic, and politician, 52nd President of Mexico (b. 1934)
  2013 – Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (b. 1947)
    2013   – Karen Muir, South African swimmer and physician (b. 1952)
  2014 – King Fleming, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1922)
    2014   – Jacques Le Goff, French historian and author (b. 1924)
    2014   – Rolf Rendtorff, German theologian and academic (b. 1925)
  2015 – Nicolae Rainea, Romanian footballer and referee (b. 1933)
  2017 – Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1933)
    2017   – Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet and Russian poet and writer (b. 1932)
  2018 – Steven Bochco, American television writer and producer (b. 1943)
  2019 – Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author (b. 1948)
  
  Holidays and observances
  Christian feast day:
  Cellach of Armagh
  Hugh of Grenoble
  Frederick Denison Maurice (Church of England)
  Mary of Egypt
  Melito of Sardis
  Tewdrig
  Theodora
  Walric, abbot of Leuconay
  April 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  April Fools' Day
  Odisha Day (Odisha, India)
  Arbor Day (Tanzania)
  Civil Service Day (Thailand)
  Cyprus National Day (Cyprus) 
  Edible Book Day
  Fossil Fools Day
  Kha b-Nisan, the Assyrian New Year (Assyrian people)
  
  References
  
  External links
  
   BBC: On This Day
   
   Historical Events on April 1
  
  Days of the year
  April