April 26

Pre-1600 • 1289 – Following weeks of bombardment, the city of Tripoli falls to the Mamluks under Qalawun. The Mamluks massacre all men they find and enslave the women and children. • 1326 – The kingdom of France and the kingdom of Scotland agree on a treaty of mutual aid at Corbeil. • 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. • 1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici in order to displace the ruling Medici family kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. • 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown). 1601–1900 • 1607 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry. • 1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. • 1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, allegedly rides to alert American colonial forces to the approach of British regular forces. • 1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. • 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France. • 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist. • 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines capture Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O'Bannon. • 1865 – Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia. • 1900 – Fires destroy Canadian cities Ottawa and Hull, reducing them to ashes in 12 hours. Twelve thousand people are left without a home. 1901–present • 1903 – Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded. • 1915 – World War I: Italy secretly signs the Treaty of London pledging to join the Allied Powers. • 1916 – Easter Rising: Battle of Mount Street Bridge. • 1920 – Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada's 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match. • 1923 – The Duke of York (the future King George VI) weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey. • 1925 – Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic. • 1933 – The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring. • 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria. • 1942 – Benxihu Colliery accident in Manchukuo leaves 1,549 Chinese miners dead. • 1943 – The Easter Riots break out in Uppsala, Sweden. • 1944 – Georgios Papandreou becomes head of the Greek government-in-exile based in Egypt. • 1944 – World War II: Heinrich Kreipe is captured by Allied commandos in occupied Crete. • 1945 – World War II: Battle of Bautzen: Last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht. • 1945 – World War II: Filipino troops of the 66th Infantry Regiment, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFIP-NL and the American troops of the 33rd and 37th Infantry Division, United States Army liberate Baguio as they fight against the Japanese forces under General Tomoyuki Yamashita. • 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins. • 1954 – The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk's polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia. • 1956 – , the world's first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas. • 1958 – Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. • 1960 – Forced out by the April Revolution, President of South Korea Syngman Rhee resigns after 12 years of dictatorial rule. • 1962 – NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon. • 1962 – The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1. • 1963 – In Libya, amendments to the constitution transform Libya (United Kingdom of Libya) into one national unity (Kingdom of Libya) and allow for female participation in elections. • 1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania. • 1966 – The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed. • 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. • 1970 – The Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization enters into force. • 1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery. • 1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. • 1989 – The deadliest known tornado strikes Central Bangladesh, killing upwards of 1,300, injuring 12,000, and leaving as many as 80,000 homeless. • 1989 – ''People's Daily'' publishes the April 26 Editorial which inflames the nascent Tiananmen Square protests. • 1991 – Fifty-five tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado. • 1993 – The Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module. • 1994 – China Airlines Flight 140 crashes at Nagoya Airport in Japan, killing 264 of the 271 people on board. • 1994 – South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela's African National Congress. • 1999 – Outbreak of CIH computer virus. • 2002 – Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany, before committing suicide. • 2005 – Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon). • 2015 – Nursultan Nazarbayev is re-elected President of Kazakhstan with 97.7% of the vote, one of the biggest vote shares in Kazakhstan's history. • 2025 – A car ramming attack at a Lapu-Lapu Day festival kills 11 people and injures at least 30 in Vancouver, Canada. ==Births==

Pre-1600 • 121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (died 180) • 757 – Hisham I of Córdoba (died 796) • 764 – Al-Hadi, Abbasid caliph (died 786) • 1284 – Alice de Toeni, Countess of Warwick (died 1324) • 1319 – John II of France (died 1364) • 1538 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter and academic (died 1600) • 1575 – Marie de' Medici, wife of Henry IV of France (died 1642) 1601–1900 • 1647 – William Ashhurst, English banker, Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London and politician (died 1720) • 1648 – Peter II of Portugal (died 1706) • 1697 – Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer (died 1754) • 1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic (died 1796) • 1718 – Esek Hopkins, American commander (died 1802) • 1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (died 1853) • 1782 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (died 1866) • 1785 – John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (died 1851) • 1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (died 1862) • 1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (died 1863) • 1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1889) • 1804 – Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician (died 1876) • 1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park (died 1903) • 1834 – Charles Farrar Browne, American author (died 1867) • 1856 – Joseph Ward, Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1930) • 1862 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator (died 1938) • 1865 – Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (died 1931) • 1876 – Ernst Felle, German rower (died 1959) • 1877 – James Dooley, Irish-Australian politician, 21st Premier of New South Wales (died 1950) • 1878 – Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (died 1938) • 1879 – Eric Campbell, British actor (died 1917) • 1879 – Owen Willans Richardson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1959) • 1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer-songwriter (died 1939) • 1886 – Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist (died 1913) • 1889 – Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 1981) • 1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (died 1951) • 1894 – Rudolf Hess, German politician and Deputy Führer in Nazi regime until 1941 (died 1987) • 1896 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (died 1967) • 1896 – Ernst Udet, leading German fighter pilot in World War I and Chief of Procurement and Supply in the Luftwaffe (died 1941) • 1897 – Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (died 1967) • 1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (died 1987) • 1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984) • 1898 – John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (died 1972) • 1899 – Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (died 1958) • 1900 – Eva Aschoff, German bookbinder and calligrapher (died 1969) • 1900 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (died 1985) • 1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (died 1948) 1901–present • 1904 – Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (died 1991) • 1904 – Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (died 2004) • 1905 – Jean Vigo, French director and screenwriter (died 1934) • 1907 – Ilias Tsirimokos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1968) • 1909 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (died 2002) • 1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer (died 1997) • 1911 – Paul Verner, German soldier and politician (died 1986) • 1912 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (died 2000) • 1914 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (died 1986) • 1914 – James Rouse, American real estate developer (died 1996) • 1916 – Eyvind Earle, American artist, author, and illustrator (died 2000) • 1916 – Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot (died 2013) • 1916 – Morris West, Australian author and playwright (died 1999) • 1917 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (died 1992) • 1917 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect, designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower (died 2019) • 1917 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (died 2013) • 1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper (died 2004) • 1921 – Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (died 2008) • 1922 – J. C. Holt, English historian and academic (died 2014) • 1922 – Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian journalist and politician, Governor General of Canada (died 1993) • 1922 – Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer (died 2019) • 1924 – Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (died 1998) • 1925 – Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author (died 2019) • 1925 – Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013) • 1925 – Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (died 2015) • 1925 – Frank Hahn, British economist (died 2013) • 1926 – David Coleman, British sports commentator and television presenter (died 2013) • 1926 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (died 2003) • 1927 – Jack Douglas, English actor (died 2008) • 1927 – Anne McLaren, British scientist (died 2007) • 1927 – Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (died 2015) • 1927 – Granny Hamner, American baseball player (died 1993) • 1929 – Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (died 2002) • 1930 – Roger Moens, Belgian runner and sportscaster • 1931 – Paul Almond, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015) • 1931 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (died 2008) • 1931 – John Cain Jr., Australian politician, 41st Premier of Victoria (died 2019) • 1932 – Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (died 2010) • 1932 – Shirley Cawley, English long jumper • 1932 – Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (died 2013) • 1932 – Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer (died 2018) • 1932 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000) • 1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer • 1933 – Al McCoy, American sports announcer (died 2024) • 1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (died 2005) • 1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2024) • 1937 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French racing driver and motorcycle racer (died 2015) • 1938 – Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2024) • 1938 – Maurice Williams, American doo-wop/R&B singer-songwriter • 1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer-songwriter and producer • 1940 – Cliff Watson, English rugby league player (died 2018) • 1940 – Tan Cheng Bock, Singaporean doctor and politician • 1941 – Claudine Auger, French model and actress (died 2019) • 1942 – Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (died 2014) • 1942 – Sharon Carstairs, Canadian lawyer and politician, Leader of the Government in the Senate • 1942 – Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States • 1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor (died 2022) • 1942 – Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist, political scientist, and academic (died 2024) • 1943 – Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (died 2023) • 1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals • 1944 – Richard Bradshaw, English conductor (died 2007) • 1945 – Richard Armitage, American diplomat and government official (died 2025) • 1945 – Howard Davies, English director and producer (died 2016) • 1945 – Dick Johnson, Australian racing driver • 1945 – Sylvain Simard, Canadian academic and politician • 1946 – Ralph Coates, English international footballer (died 2010) • 1946 – Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author • 1946 – Alberto Quintano, Chilean footballer • 1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer and manager • 1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (died 1995) • 1950 – Junko Ohashi, Japanese singer (died 2023) • 1951 – John Battle, English politician • 1954 – Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player • 1954 – Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer • 1955 – Kurt Bodewig, German politician • 1956 – Koo Stark, American actress and photographer • 1958 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish racing driver (died 2021) • 1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director, and producer • 1958 – Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer, coach, and manager • 1959 – John Corabi, American singer-songwriter and guitarist • 1959 – Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rican politician • 1960 – H. G. Carrillo, American writer and academic (died 2020) • 1960 – Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player and coach • 1960 – Roger Taylor, English drummer • 1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter • 1970 – Melania Trump, Slovene-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States • 1973 – Óscar, Spanish footballer and coach • 1975 – Joey Jordison, American musician and songwriter (died 2021) • 1975 – Rahul Verma, Indian social worker and activist • 1976 – Václav Varaďa, Czech ice hockey player • 1977 – Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut • 1977 – Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player • 1978 – Stana Katic, Canadian actress • 1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish footballer • 1980 – Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress • 1980 – Marlon King, English footballer • 1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress and journalist • 1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor and producer • 1981 – Caro Emerald, Dutch pop and jazz singer • 1981 – Ms. Dynamite, English rapper and producer • 1981 – Sandra Schmitt, German skier (died 2000) • 1982 – Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter • 1983 – José María López, Argentinian racing driver • 1983 – Jessica Lynch, American soldier • 1985 – John Isner, American tennis player • 1986 – Lior Refaelov, Israeli footballer • 1986 – Yuliya Zaripova, Russian runner • 1987 – Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer • 1989 – Melvin Ingram, American football player • 1989 – Kang Daesung, South Korean singer • 1990 – Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer • 1990 – Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player • 1990 – Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (died 2012) • 1990 – Joey Wendle, American baseball player • 1991 – Peter Handscomb, Australian cricketer • 1991 – Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player • 1992 – Aaron Judge, American baseball player • 1992 – Delon Wright, American basketball player • 1994 – Daniil Kvyat, Russian racing driver • 1994 – Odysseas Vlachodimos, Greek international footballer • 1996 – Jordan Pefok, American footballer • 1997 – Kirill Kaprizov, Russian ice hockey player • 1997 – Amber Midthunder, American actress • 1997 – Calvin Verdonk, Indonesian footballer • 2001 – Thiago Almada, Argentine footballer • 2005 – Alex Sarr, French basketball player ==Deaths==

Pre-1600 • 499 – Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (born 467) • 645 – Richarius, Frankish monk and saint (born 560) • 680 – Mu'awiya I, Umayyad caliph (born 602) • 757 – Pope Stephen II (born 715) • 893 – Chen Jingxuan, general of the Tang Dynasty • 962 – Adalbero I, bishop of Metz • 1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (born 1127) • 1366 – Simon Islip, Archbishop of Canterbury • 1392 – Chŏng Mong-ju, Korean civil minister, diplomat and scholar (born 1338) • 1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (born 1378) • 1478 – Giuliano de' Medici, Italian ruler (born 1453) • 1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shōgun (born 1465) • 1558 – Jean Fernel, French physician (born 1497) 1601–1900 • 1686 – Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, Swedish statesman and military man (born 1622) • 1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain (born 1651) • 1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (born 1718) • 1789 – Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (born 1721) • 1809 – Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (born 1748) • 1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (born 1838) • 1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (born 1815) • 1895 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (born 1860) 1901–present • 1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1832) • 1915 – John Bunny, American actor (born 1863) • 1915 – Ida Hunt Udall, American diarist (born 1858) • 1916 – Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Portuguese poet and writer (born 1890) • 1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (born 1887) • 1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (born 1868) • 1934 – Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (born 1876) • 1934 – Konstantin Vaginov, Russian poet and novelist (born 1899) • 1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1874) • 1944 – Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (born 1893) • 1945 – Sigmund Rascher, German physician and SS member, conductor of human experiments in the concentration camps (born 1909) • 1945 – Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (born 1871) • 1946 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (born 1882) • 1950 – George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1881) • 1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (born 1868) • 1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (born 1890) • 1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (born 1868) • 1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (born 1882) • 1968 – John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (born 1891) • 1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (born 1883) • 1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (born 1886) • 1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, striptease dancer, and writer (born 1911) • 1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (born 1902) • 1976 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (born 1903) • 1976 – Sid James, South African-English actor (born 1913) • 1976 – Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (born 1897) • 1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-born British actress, comedian and singer (born 1893) • 1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (born 1909) • 1984 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (born 1904) • 1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor (born 1911) • 1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (born 1898) • 1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (born 1899) • 1987 – Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (born 1922) • 1987 – John Silkin, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons (born 1923) • 1989 – Lucille Ball, American model, actress, comedian, and producer (born 1911) • 1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (born 1904) • 1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (born 1910) • 1991 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian, (born 1901) • 1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (born 1931) • 1994 – Masutatsu Ōyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin kaikan (born 1923) • 1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (born 1918) • 1999 – Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1957) • 1999 – Jill Dando, English journalist and television personality (born 1961) • 2003 – Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (born 1930) • 2003 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (born 1984) • 2003 – Edward Max Nicholson, Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature (born 1904) • 2004 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (born 1928) • 2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (born 1919) • 2005 – Elisabeth Domitien, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1925) • 2005 – Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (born 1926) • 2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (born 1917) • 2007 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (born 1921) • 2008 – Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (born 1938) • 2009 – Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (born 1920) • 2010 – Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (born 1930) • 2010 – Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (born 1942) • 2011 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950) • 2012 – Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (born 1938) • 2013 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (born 1930) • 2013 – George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1931) • 2013 – Earl Silverman, Canadian men's rights advocate (born 1948) • 2014 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (born 1936) • 2014 – Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (born 1927) • 2014 – DJ Rashad, American electronic musician, producer and DJ (born 1979) • 2015 – Jayne Meadows, American actress (born 1919) • 2015 – Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1930) • 2016 – Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (born 1937) • 2017 – Jonathan Demme, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (born 1944) • 2022 – Klaus Schulze, German composer and musician (born 1947) • 2023 – Jerry Apodaca, American politician, 24th Governor of New Mexico (born 1934) ==Holidays and observances==

• Chernobyl disaster related observances: • Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus) • Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia) • Christian feast day: • Aldobrandesca (or Alda) • Lucidius of Verona • Our Lady of Good Counsel • Pope Anacletus and Marcellinus • Rafael Arnáiz Barón ==References==