4 April

Notable Births

Harvey Elliott

b. 2003

English footballer (born 2003)

Anzor Alem

b. 2001

Congolese actor and singer (born 2001)

Jalen Carter

b. 2001

American football player (born 2001)

Angelo Stiller

b. 2001

German footballer (born 2001)

Austin Mahone

b. 1996

American singer (born 1996)

Risako Sugaya

b. 1994

Japanese singer and actress

David Soria

b. 1993

Spanish footballer

Frank Kaminsky

b. 1993

American basketball player (born 1993)

Lucy May Barker

b. 1992

British actress

Ricky Dillon

b. 1992

American YouTuber

Asia Muhammad

b. 1991

American tennis player (born 1991)

Justin O'Neill

b. 1991

Australia international rugby league footballer

Martín Pérez (baseball)

b. 1991

Venezuelan baseball player (born 1991)

Jamie Lynn Spears

b. 1991

American actress and singer (born 1991)

Marlon Stöckinger

b. 1991

Filipino racing driver (born 1991)

Robert Downey Jr.

b. 1965

American actor (born 1965)

Graham Norton

b. 1963

Irish comedian, actor, and television host (born 1963)

Anthony Perkins

b. 1932

American actor (1932–1992)

Maya Angelou

b. 1928

American writer and activist (1928–2014)

Muddy Waters

b. 1913

American blues musician (1913–1983)

Notable Deaths

Manoj Kumar

d. 2025

Indian film actor and filmmaker (1937–2025)

Tony Rundle

d. 2025

Australian politician (1939–2025)

Thomas Gumbleton

d. 2024

American Catholic prelate and activist (1930–2024)

Pat Zachry

d. 2024

American baseball player (1952–2024)

Chus Lampreave

d. 2016

Spanish actress

Jamaluddin Jarjis

d. 2015

Malaysian politician

Elmer Lach

d. 2015

Canadian ice hockey player (1918–2015)

Donald N. Levine

d. 2015

American sociologist (1931–2015)

Klaus Rifbjerg

d. 2015

Danish writer (1931–2015)

Wayne Henderson (musician)

d. 2014

American jazz trombonist (1939–2014)

Kumba Yala

d. 2014

President of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2003

Margo MacDonald

d. 2014

Scottish politician (1943–2014)

Curtis Bill Pepper

d. 2014

American journalist

Roger Ebert

d. 2013

American film critic and author (1942–2013)

Bengt Blomgren

d. 2013

Swedish actor, film director and screenwriter

Carmine Infantino

d. 2013

American comic book artist (1925–2013)

A. Dean Byrd

d. 2012

Anne Karin Elstad

d. 2012

Norwegian author (1938–2012)

Claude Miller

d. 2012

French film director, producer and screenwriter (1942–2012)

Martin Luther King Jr.

d. 1968

American minister and civil rights activist (1929–1968)

On This Day in History

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2025

The impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea in response to his declaration of martial law is unanimously upheld by the country's Constitutional Court, ending his presidency.

Impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol

2024

Russo-Ukrainian war: The Battle of Chasiv Yar begins.

Russo-Ukrainian war

2023

Finland becomes a member of NATO after Turkey accepts its membership request.

Finland

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2020

China holds a national day of mourning for martyrs who died in the fight against the novel coronavirus disease outbreak.

National day of mourning

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2017

Syria conducts an air strike on Khan Shaykhun using chemical weapons, killing 89 civilians.

Khan Shaykhun chemical attack

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2013

Seventy-four people are killed in a building collapse in Thane, India.

2013 Thane building collapse

2011

Georgian Airways Flight 834 crashes at N'djili Airport in Kinshasa, killing 32.

Georgian Airways Flight 834

2010

A magnitude 7.2 earthquake hits south of the Mexico-USA border, killing at least two and damaging buildings across the two countries.

2010 Baja California earthquake

2009

France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.

France

2002

The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.

MPLA

1997

Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-83. However, the mission is later cut short due to a fuel cell problem.

Space Shuttle Columbia

1996

Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.

Comet Hyakutake

1994

Three people are killed when KLM Cityhopper Flight 433 crashes at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

KLM Cityhopper Flight 433

1991

Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.

John Heinz

1991

Forty-one people are taken hostage inside a Good Guys! Electronics store in Sacramento, California. Three of the hostage takers and three hostages are killed.

1991 Sacramento hostage crisis