5 April
Notable Births
John Beecher (ice hockey)
b. 2001
American ice hockey player (born 2001)
Bobby Miller (baseball)
b. 1999
American baseball player (born 1999)
Nathan Broadhead
b. 1998
Welsh footballer (born 1998)
Borja Mayoral
b. 1997
Spanish footballer (born 1997)
Dominik Mysterio
b. 1997
American professional wrestler (born 1997)
Viliame Kikau
b. 1995
Fiji international rugby league footballer
Sei Muroya
b. 1995
Japanese footballer
Sebastian Starke Hedlund
b. 1995
Swedish footballer
Mateusz Bieniek
b. 1994
Polish volleyball player (born 1994)
Edem Rjaïbi
b. 1994
Tunisian footballer
Richard Sánchez (footballer, born 1994)
b. 1994
Professional footballer
Andreas Bouchalakis
b. 1993
Greek footballer (born 1993)
Pharrell Williams
b. 1973
American musician (born 1973)
Colin Powell
b. 1937
American general, diplomat and statesman (1937–2021)
Roger Corman
b. 1926
American film director, producer, and actor (1926–2024)
Gregory Peck
b. 1916
American actor (1916–2003)
Bette Davis
b. 1908
American actress (1908–1989)
Herbert von Karajan
b. 1908
Austrian conductor (1908–1989)
Spencer Tracy
b. 1900
American actor (1900–1967)
Booker T. Washington
b. 1856
American educator, author, orator and adviser
Notable Deaths
C. J. Snare
d. 2024
American rock singer (1959–2024)
Nehemiah Persoff
d. 2022
American actor and painter (1919–2022)
Jimmy Wang Yu
d. 2022
Taiwanese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (1943–2022)
Paul Ritter
d. 2021
English actor (1966–2021)
Sydney Brenner
d. 2019
South African biologist and Nobel prize winner (1927–2019)
Isao Takahata
d. 2018
Japanese film director, screenwriter and film producer (1935–2018)
Arthur Bisguier
d. 2017
American chess grandmaster (1929–2017)
Makoto Ōoka
d. 2017
Japanese poet and literary critic (1931–2017)
Paul O'Neill (producer)
d. 2017
American composer, musician, and record producer (1956–2017)
Atanase Sciotnic
d. 2017
Romanian canoeist
Fredric Brandt
d. 2015
American physician (1949–2015)
Juan Carlos Cáceres
d. 2015
Musical artist
Peter Matthiessen
d. 2014
American novelist
John Pinette
d. 2014
American comedian and actor (1964–2014)
José Wilker
d. 2014
Brazilian actor and director
Regina Bianchi
d. 2013
Italian actress (1921–2013)
Kurt Cobain
d. 1994
American rock musician (1967–1994)
Sam Walton
d. 1992
American business magnate (1918–1992)
Howard Hughes
d. 1976
American aviator, aerospace engineer and business magnate (1905–1976)
Douglas MacArthur
d. 1964
American general (1880–1964)