15 April

Notable Births

Matías Soulé

b. 2003

Argentine footballer (born 2003)

Denis Shapovalov

b. 1999

Canadian tennis player (born 1999)

Sexyy Red

b. 1998

American rapper (born 1998)

Maisie Williams

b. 1997

British actress (born 1997)

Ashleigh Gardner

b. 1997

Australian cricketer

Sam Hughes (footballer)

b. 1997

English footballer (born 1997)

Leander Dendoncker

b. 1995

Belgian footballer (born 1995)

Brodie Grundy

b. 1994

Australian rules footballer

Shaunae Miller-Uibo

b. 1994

Bahamian sprinter (born 1994)

Felipe Anderson

b. 1993

Brazilian footballer (born 1993)

Remo Freuler

b. 1992

Swiss footballer (born 1992)

John Guidetti

b. 1992

Swedish footballer (born 1992)

Jeremy McGovern

b. 1992

Former Australian rules footballer (born 1992)

Javier Fernández (figure skater)

b. 1991

Spanish figure skater

Emma Watson

b. 1990

English actress (born 1990)

Darren Nicholls

b. 1989

Australian rugby league footballer

Linda Perry

b. 1965

American singer and songwriter (born 1965)

Corrie ten Boom

b. 1892

Dutch resistance hero and writer

A. Philip Randolph

b. 1889

American civil rights activist (1889–1979)

Leonardo da Vinci

b. 1452

Italian polymath (1452–1519)

Notable Deaths

Wink Martindale

d. 2025

American DJ and television personality (1933–2025)

Whitey Herzog

d. 2024

American baseball player and manager (1931–2024)

Josip Manolić

d. 2024

Croatian politician (1920–2024)

Bilquis Edhi

d. 2022

Pakistani nurse and philanthropist (1947–2022)

Henry Plumb, Baron Plumb

d. 2022

British politician and farmer (1925–2022)

Liz Sheridan

d. 2022

American actress (1929–2022)

R. Lee Ermey

d. 2018

US Marine sergeant and actor (1944–2018)

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani

d. 2018

Italian film directors and screenwriters

Clifton James

d. 2017

American actor (1920–2017)

Emma Morano

d. 2017

Italian supercentenarian (1899–2017)

Jonathan Crombie

d. 2015

Canadian actor and voice actor

Surya Bahadur Thapa

d. 2015

Five-time Prime Minister of Nepal

John Houbolt

d. 2014

American aerospace engineer

Eliseo Verón

d. 2014

Argentine scientist (1935–2014)

Benjamin Fain

d. 2013

Israeli physicist (1930–2013)

Richard LeParmentier

d. 2013

American actor (1946–2013)

Jean-François Paillard

d. 2013

French conductor (1928–2013)

Dwayne Schintzius

d. 2012

American basketball player (1968–2012)

Pol Pot

d. 1998

Cambodian communist leader (1925–1998)

Abraham Lincoln

d. 1865

President of the United States from 1861 to 1865

On This Day in History

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2026

Ten people and the perpetrator are killed and twelve others injured in a mass shooting at a school in Onikişubat, Turkey.

2026 Onikişubat school shooting

2021

A mass shooting occurs at a FedEx Ground facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, killing nine and injuring seven.

Indianapolis FedEx shooting

2019

The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.

Notre-Dame de Paris

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2014

In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, more than 400 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.

Bentiu massacre

2013

Two bombs explode near the finish line at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring over 500 others.

Boston Marathon bombing

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2013

A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.

15 April 2013 Iraq attacks

2002

Air China Flight 129 crashes on approach to Gimhae International Airport in Busan, South Korea, killing 129 people.

Air China Flight 129

1994

Marrakesh Agreement relating to foundation of World Trade Organization is adopted.

Marrakesh Agreement

1989

Hillsborough disaster: A human crush occurs at Hillsborough Stadium, home of Sheffield Wednesday, in the FA Cup Semi-final, resulting in the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans.

Hillsborough disaster

1989

Upon Hu Yaobang's death, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in China.

Hu Yaobang

1986

The United States launches Operation El Dorado Canyon, its bombing raids against Libyan targets in response to a discotheque bombing in West Germany that killed two U.S. servicemen.

1986 United States bombing of Libya

1970

During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.

Cambodian Civil War

1969

The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a United States Navy aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.

1969 EC-121 shootdown incident

1960

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 civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Shaw University