1 April
Notable Births
Rhian Brewster
b. 2000
English footballer (born 2000)
Gabe Davis
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
King Combs
b. 1998
American rapper (born 1998)
Mitchell Robinson
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Asa Butterfield
b. 1997
English actor (born 1997)
Álex Palou
b. 1997
Spanish racing driver (born 1997)
Logan Paul
b. 1995
American influencer and professional wrestler (born 1995)
Jofra Archer
b. 1995
Barbadian and English cricketer (born 1995)
Deng Linlin
b. 1992
Chinese artistic gymnast
Duván Zapata
b. 1991
Colombian footballer (born 1991)
Julia Harting
b. 1990
German discus thrower
Jan Blokhuijsen
b. 1989
Dutch speed skater
Ali MacGraw
b. 1939
American actress (born 1939)
Debbie Reynolds
b. 1932
American actress and singer (1932–2016)
Milan Kundera
b. 1929
Czech and French novelist (1929–2023)
Ferenc Puskás
b. 1927
Hungarian footballer (1927–2006)
Abraham Maslow
b. 1908
American psychologist (1908–1970)
Sergei Rachmaninoff
b. 1873
Russian composer and pianist (1873–1943)
Otto von Bismarck
b. 1815
Chancellor of Germany from 1871 to 1890
Sophie Germain
b. 1776
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
Notable Deaths
Val Kilmer
d. 2025
American actor (1959–2025)
Johnny Tillotson
d. 2025
American singer-songwriter (1938–2025)
Lou Conter
d. 2024
American Navy lieutenant commander (1921–2024)
Vontae Davis
d. 2024
American football player (1988–2024)
Joe Flaherty
d. 2024
American actor (1941–2024)
Sami Michael
d. 2024
Iraqi-born Israeli author and human rights activist (1926–2024)
Ed Piskor
d. 2024
American alternative comics artist (1982–2024)
Mohammad Reza Zahedi
d. 2024
Iranian military officer (1960–2024)
Steven Bochco
d. 2018
American television writer and producer (1943–2018)
Lonnie Brooks
d. 2017
American blues singer and guitarist (1933–2017)
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
d. 2017
Soviet and Russian poet (1933–2017)
Nicolae Rainea
d. 2015
Romanian football referee (1933–2015)
Jacques Le Goff
d. 2014
French historian
Rolf Rendtorff
d. 2014
German Old Testament scholar and theologian (1925–2014)
Moses Blah
d. 2013
President of Liberia in 2003
Karen Muir
d. 2013
South African swimmer
Martha Graham
d. 1991
American dancer and choreographer (1894–1991)
Marvin Gaye
d. 1984
American singer and songwriter (1939–1984)
Max Ernst
d. 1976
German artist (1891–1976)
Scott Joplin
d. 1917
American composer and pianist (1868–1917)
On This Day in History
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2026
The Artemis II lunar flyby mission launches, marking the first crewed flight above low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
Artemis II
2016
The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact.
2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
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 fourteen people, including seven UN workers.
Dove World Outreach Center Quran-burning controversy
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.
Serious Organised Crime Agency
2004
Google launches its Email service Gmail.
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.
Lockheed EP-3
2001
Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
President of Yugoslavia
2001
Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
Same-sex marriage in the Netherlands
1999
Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
Nunavut
1997
Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
Comet Hale–Bopp
1993
NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash near the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville, Tennessee.
NASCAR
1989
Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
Margaret Thatcher
1986
Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal)
1984
Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California.
Marvin Gaye
1979
Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
Iran
1976
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
Steve Jobs
1974
The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
Local Government Act 1972
1973
Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
Project Tiger
1971
Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre more than a thousand people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Liberation War
1970
President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.
Richard Nixon