April 11

Events

491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

1079 – Bishop Stanislaus of Kraków is executed by order of Bolesław II of Poland.

1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.

1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: French forces led by Gaston de Foix win the Battle of Ravenna.

1544 – French forces defeat a Spanish army at the Battle of Ceresole.

1689 – William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.

1713 – War of the Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War): Treaty of Utrecht.

1727 – Premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion BWV 244b at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig

1809 – Battle of the Basque Roads Naval battle fought between France and the United Kingdom

1814 – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends the War of the Sixth Coalition against Napoleon Bonaparte, and forces him to abdicate unconditionally for the first time.

1856 – Battle of Rivas: Juan Santamaría burns down the hostel where William Walker's filibusters are holed up.

1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.

1881 – Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.

1888 – The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is inaugurated.

1908 – SMS Blücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, launches.

1909 – The city of Tel Aviv is founded.

1913 – The Nevill Ground's pavilion is destroyed in a suffragette arson attack becoming the only cricket ground to be attacked by suffragettes.

1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.

1921 – Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.

1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.

1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.

1951 – The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey.

1952 – The Battle of Nanri Island takes place.

1955 – The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.

1957 – United Kingdom agrees to Singaporean self-rule.

1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

1963 – Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all instead of to Catholics alone.

1965 – The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.

1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.

1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.

1976 – The Apple I is created.

1977 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.

1979 – Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.

1981 – A massive riot in Brixton, south London results in almost 300 police injuries and 65 serious civilian injuries.

1986 – FBI Miami Shootout: A gun battle in broad daylight in Dade County, Florida between two bank/armored car robbers and pursuing FBI agents. During the firefight, FBI agents Jerry L. Dove and Benjamin P. Grogan were killed, while five other agents were wounded. As a result, the popular .40 S&W cartridge was developed.

1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.

1990 – Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, say they have seized what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.

1993 – Four hundred fifty prisoners rioted at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continued to do so for ten days, citing grievances related to prison conditions, as well as the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis) against their religious beliefs.

2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter, is released.

2002 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing by al-Qaeda kills 21 in Tunisia.

2002 – Over two hundred thousand people march in Caracas towards the Presidential palace to demand the resignation of president Hugo Chávez. 19 protesters are killed.

2006 – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces Iran's claim to have successfully enriched uranium.

2007 – Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.

2011 – An explosion in the Minsk Metro, Belarus kills 15 people and injures 204 others.

2011 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 1976 relating to Somalia is adopted.

2012 – A pair of great earthquakes occur in the Wharton Basin west of Sumatra in Indonesia. The maximum Mercalli intensity of this strike-slip doublet earthquake was VII (Very strong). Ten were killed, twelve were injured, and a non-desctructive tsunami was observed on the island of Nias.

Births

145 – Septimius Severus, Roman emperor (d. 211)

1184 – William of Winchester, Lord of Lüneburg (d. 1213)

1357 – John I of Portugal (d. 1433)

1370 – Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1428)

1374 – Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (d. 1398)

1592 – John Eliot, English lawyer and politician (d. 1632)

1683 – Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer and conductor (d. 1738)

1715 – John Alcock, English organist and composer (d. 1806)

1721 – David Zeisberger, Czech-American clergyman and missionary (d. 1808)

1722 – Christopher Smart, English actor, playwright, and poet (d. 1771)

1755 – James Parkinson, English surgeon, geologist, and paleontologist (d. 1824)

1770 – George Canning, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1827)

1794 – Edward Everett, American educator and politician, 15th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1865)

1798 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1854)

1819 – Charles Hallé, German-English pianist and conductor (d. 1895)

1825 – Ferdinand Lassalle, German philosopher and jurist (d. 1864)

1827 – Jyotirao Phule, Indian scholar, philosopher, and activist (d. 1890)

1854 – Hugh Massie, Australian cricketer (d. 1938)

1856 – Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer and rugby player (d. 1903)

1859 – Stefanos Thomopoulos, Greek historian and author (d. 1939)

1862 – William Wallace Campbell, American astronomer and academic (d. 1938)

1862 – Charles Evans Hughes, American lawyer and politician, 44th United States Secretary of State (d. 1948)

1864 – Johanna Elberskirchen, German author and activist (d. 1943)

1866 – Bernard O'Dowd, Australian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1953)

1867 – Mark Keppel, American educator (d. 1928)

1869 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor, designed the Nobel Peace Prize medal (d. 1943)

1871 – Gyula Kellner, Hungarian runner (d. 1940)

1873 – Edward Lawson, English soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1955)

1876 – Ivane Javakhishvili, Georgian historian and academic (d. 1940)

1877 – Paul Henry, Irish painter (d. 1958)

1879 – Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German astronomer and optician (d. 1935)

1889 – Nick LaRocca, American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1961)

1893 – Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State (d. 1971)

1896 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author (d. 1967)

1899 – Percy Lavon Julian, American chemist and academic (d. 1975)

1900 – Sándor Márai, Hungarian journalist and author (d. 1989)

1905 – Attila József, Hungarian poet and educator (d. 1937)

1906 – Dale Messick, American author and illustrator (d. 2005)

1907 – Paul Douglas, American actor (d. 1959)

1907 – Ivor Spencer-Thomas, Welsh farmer and businessman (d. 2001)

1908 – Jane Bolin, American lawyer and judge (d. 2007)

1908 – Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (d. 1997)

1908 – Dan Maskell, English tennis player and sportscaster (d. 1992)

1908 – Leo Rosten, Polish-American author and academic (d. 1997)

1910 – António de Spínola, Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1996)

1912 – John Levy, American bassist and businessman (d. 2012)

1913 – Oleg Cassini, French-American fashion designer (d. 2006)

1914 – Norman McLaren, Scottish-Canadian animator, director, and producer (d. 1987)

1914 – Robert Stanfield, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 2003)

1914 – Dorothy Lewis Bernstein, American mathematician (d. 1988)

1916 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentinian-Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1983)

1916 – Howard W. Koch, American director and producer (d. 2001)

1917 – David Westheimer, American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2005)

1918 – Richard Wainwright, English soldier and politician (d. 2003)

1919 – Raymond Carr, English historian and academic (d. 2015)

1920 – Emilio Colombo, Italian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (d. 2013)

1920 – Peter O'Donnell, English soldier and author (d. 2010)

1920 – William Royer, American soldier and politician (d. 2013)

1921 – Jim Hearn, American baseball player (d. 1998)

1922 – Arved Viirlaid, Estonian-Canadian soldier and author (d. 2015)

1923 – George J. Maloof, Sr., American businessman (d. 1980)

1924 – Mohammad Naseem, Pakistani-English activist and politician (d. 2014)

1925 – Yuriy Lituyev, Russian hurdler and commander (d. 2000)

1925 – Viktor Masing, Estonian botanist and ecologist (d. 2001)

1925 – Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman, founded Quebecor (d. 1997)

1926 – David Manker Abshire, American commander and diplomat, United States Permanent Representative to NATO (d. 2014)

1926 – Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (d. 2011)

1926 – Ernest Chapman, Australian rower (d. 2013)

1926 – Gervase de Peyer, English clarinet player and conductor (d. 2017)

1926 – Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (d. 2007)

1928 – Ethel Kennedy, American philanthropist

1928 – Edwin Pope, American journalist and author

1928 – Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2013)

1930 – Nicholas F. Brady, American businessman and politician, 68th United States Secretary of the Treasury

1930 – Walter Krüger, German javelin thrower

1930 – Anton LaVey, American occultist, founded the Church of Satan (d. 1997)

1931 – Lewis Jones, Welsh rugby player and coach

1932 – Joel Grey, American actor, singer, and dancer

1933 – Tony Brown, American journalist and academic

1934 – Mark Strand, Canadian-born American poet, essayist, and translator (d. 2014)

1934 – Ron Pember, English actor, director and playwright

1935 – Richard Berry, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)

1936 – Brian Noble, English bishop

1937 – Jill Gascoine, English actress and author

1938 – Gerry Baker, American soccer player and manager (d. 2013)

1938 – Michael Deaver, American politician, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (d. 2007)

1938 – Reatha King, American chemist and businesswoman

1939 – Luther Johnson, American singer and guitarist

1939 – Louise Lasser, American actress

1940 – Col Firmin, Australian politician (d. 2013)

1940 – Thomas Harris, American author and screenwriter

1940 – Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (d. 1998)

1941 – Ellen Goodman, American journalist and author

1941 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress (d. 2015)

1942 – Anatoly Berezovoy, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2014)

1942 – James Underwood, English pathologist and academic

1943 – John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich, English businessman and politician

1943 – Harley Race, American wrestler and trainer

1944 – Peter Barfuß, German footballer

1944 – John Milius, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1945 – John Krebs, Baron Krebs, English zoologist and academic

1946 – Chris Burden, American sculptor, illustrator, and academic (d. 2015)

1946 – Bob Harris, English journalist and radio host

1947 – Lev Bulat, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (d. 2016)

1947 – Uli Edel, German director and screenwriter

1947 – Frank Mantooth, American pianist and composer (d. 2004)

1947 – Michael T. Wright, English engineer and academic (d. 2015)

1949 – Bernd Eichinger, German director and producer (d. 2011)

1950 – Bill Irwin, American actor and clown

1951 – Paul Fox, English singer and guitarist (d. 2007)

1951 – James Patrick Kelly, American author and academic

1952 – Nancy Honeytree, American singer and guitarist

1952 – Indira Samarasekera, Sri Lankan engineer and academic

1952 – Peter Windsor, English-Australian journalist and sportscaster

1953 – Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium

1953 – Andrew Wiles, English mathematician and academic

1954 – Abdullah Atalar, Turkish engineer and academic

1954 – Aleksandr Averin Azerbaijani cyclist and coach

1954 – Francis Lickerish, English guitarist and composer

1954 – David Perrett, Scottish psychologist and academic

1954 – Ian Redmond, English biologist and conservationist

1954 – Willie Royster, American baseball player (d. 2015)

1955 – Kevin Brady, American lawyer and politician

1955 – Michael Callen, American singer-songwriter and AIDS activist (d. 1993)

1955 – Micheal Ray Richardson, American basketball player and coach

1955 – Neville Staple, Jamaican-English singer-songwriter

1957 – Michael Card, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and radio host

1957 – Richard Sévigny, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1958 – Stuart Adamson, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)

1958 – Lyudmila Kondratyeva, Russian sprinter

1959 – Pierre Lacroix, Canadian ice hockey player

1959 – Ana María Polo, Cuban-American lawyer and judge

1960 – Jeremy Clarkson, English journalist and television presenter

1961 – Vincent Gallo, American actor, director, producer, and musician

1961 – Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1993)

1961 – Nobuaki Kakuda, Japanese martial artist

1962 – Franck Ducheix, French fencer

1962 – Mark Lawson, English journalist and author

1963 – Billy Bowden, New Zealand cricketer and umpire

1963 – Waldemar Fornalik, Polish footballer and manager

1964 – Steve Azar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1964 – John Cryer, English journalist and politician

1964 – Johann Sebastian Paetsch, American cellist

1964 – Bret Saberhagen, American baseball player and coach

1964 – Patrick Sang, Kenyan runner

1965 – Lynn Ferguson, Scottish actress, comedian and presenter

1965 – Tom Hunting, American drummer

1966 – Steve Scarsone, American baseball player and manager

1966 – Lisa Stansfield, English singer-songwriter and actress

1968 – Sergei Lukyanenko, Kazakh-Russian journalist and author

1969 – Barnaby Kay, British actor

1969 – Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer-songwriter

1969 – Goldust, American wrestler

1969 – Michael von Grünigen, Swiss skier

1970 – Whigfield, Danish-Italian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress

1970 – Dylan Keefe, American bass player

1970 – Trevor Linden, Canadian ice hockey player and manager

1970 – Delroy Pearson, English singer-songwriter and producer

1971 – John Leech, English politician

1971 – Oliver Riedel, German bass player

1972 – Balls Mahoney, American wrestler (d. 2016)

1972 – Jason Varitek, American baseball player and manager

1973 – Jennifer Esposito, American actress

1973 – Olivier Magne, French rugby player

1974 – Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player and coach

1974 – Ashot Danielyan, Armenian weightlifter

1974 – David Jassy, Swedish singer-songwriter and producer

1974 – Zöe Lucker, English actress

1974 – Trot Nixon, American baseball player and sportscaster

1975 – Olga Hostáková, Czech tennis player

1975 – Walid Soliman, Tunisian author and translator

1976 – Kelvim Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player

1977 – Ivonne Teichmann, German runner

1978 – Josh Hancock, American baseball player (d. 2007)

1978 – Tom Thacker, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

1979 – Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Iranian-Canadian model, singer, and activist, Miss World Canada 2003

1979 – Malcolm Christie, English footballer

1979 – Sebastien Grainger, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

1979 – Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player

1980 – Festus Baise, Nigerian-Hong Kong footballer

1980 – Keiji Tamada, Japanese footballer

1980 – Mark Teixeira, American baseball player

1981 – Alexandre Burrows, Canadian ice hockey player

1982 – Ian Bell, English cricketer

1982 – Peeter Kümmel, Estonian skier

1983 – Jennifer Heil, Canadian skier

1983 – Rubén Palazuelos, Spanish footballer

1983 – Nicky Pastorelli, Dutch race car driver

1984 – Kelli Garner, American actress

1984 – Nikola Karabatić, French handball player

1985 – Pablo Hernández Domínguez, Spanish footballer

1985 – Will Minson, Australian footballer

1986 – Dai Greene, Welsh hurdler

1986 – Lena Schöneborn, German pentathlete

1987 – Lights, Canadian singer-songwriter

1987 – Giuseppe Caccavallo, Italian footballer

1987 – Michelle Phan, American make-up artist and blogger

1987 – Joss Stone, English singer-songwriter, and actress

1988 – Leland Irving, Canadian ice hockey player

1988 – Oleh Kovalenko, Ukrainian footballer

1989 – Zola Jesus, American singer-songwriter

1989 – Torrin Lawrence, American sprinter (d. 2014)

1990 – Dimitrios Anastasopoulos, Greek footballer

1990 – Thulani Serero, South African footballer

1991 – Thiago Alcântara, Spanish footballer

1997 – Georgia Bohl, Australian swimmer

1997 – Miriam Kolodziejová, Czech tennis player

Deaths

618 – Emperor Yang of Sui, emperor of the Sui Dynasty (b. 569)

678 – Pope Donus

1034 – Romanos III Argyros, Byzantine emperor (b. 968)

1079 – Stanislaus of Szczepanów, bishop of Kraków (b. 1030)

1165 – Stephen IV of Hungary (b. 1133)

1240 – Llywelyn the Great, Welsh prince (b. 1172)

1447 – Henry Beaufort, Cardinal, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1377)

1554 – Thomas Wyatt the Younger, English rebel leader (b. 1521)

1612 – Emanuel van Meteren, Flemish historian and author (b. 1535)

1612 – Edward Wightman, English minister and martyr (b. 1566)

1626 – Marino Ghetaldi, Ragusan mathematician and physicist (b. 1568)

1712 – Richard Simon, French priest and critic (b. 1638)

1723 – John Robinson, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1650)

1783 – Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Polish-Russian politician, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1718)

1798 – Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet and academic (b. 1725)

1856 – Juan Santamaría, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1831)

1861 – Francisco González Bocanegra, Mexican poet and composer (b. 1824)

1873 – Edward Canby, American general (b. 1817)

1890 – David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo, Dutch Talmudist (b. 1808)

1890 – Joseph Merrick, English man with severe deformities (b. 1862)

1894 – Constantin Lipsius, German architect and theorist (b. 1832)

1902 – Wade Hampton III, American general and politician, 77th Governor of South Carolina (b. 1818)

1903 – Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (b. 1878)

1906 – James Anthony Bailey, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (b. 1847)

1906 – Francis Pharcellus Church, American journalist and publisher, co-founded Armed Forces Journal and The Galaxy Magazine (b. 1839)

1908 – Henry Bird, English chess player and author (b. 1829)

1916 – Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (b. 1864)

1926 – Luther Burbank, American botanist and academic (b. 1849)

1938 – Eddie Morton, American singer (b. 1870)

1939 – Kurtdereli Mehmet, Turkish wrestler (b. 1864)

1953 – Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)

1954 – Paul Specht, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1895)

1958 – Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter and educator (b. 1875)

1960 – Rosa Grünberg, Swedish actress (b. 1878)

1962 – Ukichiro Nakaya, Japanese physicist and academic (b. 1900)

1962 – George Poage, American hurdler and educator (b. 1880)

1967 – Thomas Farrell, American general (b. 1891)

1967 – Donald Sangster, Jamaican lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1911)

1970 – Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)

1970 – John O'Hara, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1905)

1974 – Ernst Ziegler, German actor (b. 1894)

1977 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)

1977 – Phanishwar Nath 'Renu', Indian author and activist (b. 1921)

1980 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish journalist and producer (b. 1935)

1981 – Caroline Gordon, American author and critic (b. 1895)

1983 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)

1984 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1910)

1985 – Bunny Ahearne, Irish-born English businessman (b. 1900)

1985 – John Gilroy, English artist and illustrator (b. 1898)

1985 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian educator and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)

1987 – Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1903)

1987 – Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (b. 1919)

1990 – Harold Ballard, Canadian businessman (b. 1903)

1991 – Walker Cooper, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)

1991 – Bruno Hoffmann. German glass harp player (b. 1913)

1992 – James Brown, American actor and singer (b. 1920)

1992 – Eve Merriam, American author and poet (b. 1916)

1992 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, sculptor, and engraver (b. 1920)

1996 – Jessica Dubroff, American pilot (b. 1988)

1997 – Muriel McQueen Fergusson, Canadian lawyer and politician, Canadian Speaker of the Senate (b. 1899)

1997 – Wang Xiaobo, contemporary Chinese novelist and essayist (b. 1952)

1999 – William H. Armstrong, American author and educator (b. 1911)

2001 – Harry Secombe, Welsh-English actor (b. 1921)

2003 – Cecil Howard Green, English-American geophysicist and businessman, founded Texas Instruments (b. 1900)

2005 – André François, Romanian-French cartoonist, painter, and sculptor (b. 1915)

2005 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach (b. 1907)

2006 – June Pointer, American singer (b. 1953)

2007 – Roscoe Lee Browne, American actor and director (b. 1922)

2007 – Loïc Leferme, French diver (b. 1970)

2007 – Janet McDonald, American lawyer and author (b. 1954)

2007 – Ronald Speirs, Scottish-American colonel (b. 1920)

2007 – Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright (b. 1922)

2008 – Merlin German, American sergeant (b. 1985)

2009 – Gerda Gilboe, Danish actress and singer (b. 1914)

2009 – Vishnu Prabhakar, Indian author and playwright (b. 1912)

2009 – Corín Tellado, Spanish author (b. 1927)

2010 – Julia Tsenova, Bulgarian pianist and composer (b. 1948)

2011 – Larry Sweeney, American wrestler and manager (b. 1981)

2012 – Julio Alemán, Mexican actor and producer (b. 1933)

2012 – Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (b. 1916)

2012 – Roger Caron, Canadian criminal and author (b. 1938)

2012 – Tippy Dye, American basketball player and coach (b. 1915)

2012 – Hal McKusick, American saxophonist, clarinet player, and flute player (b. 1924)

2012 – Agustin Roman, American bishop (b. 1928)

2013 – Don Blackman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1953)

2013 – Grady Hatton, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1922)

2013 – Thomas Hemsley, English actor and singer (b. 1927)

2013 – Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist (b. 1916)

2013 – Gilles Marchal, French singer-songwriter (b. 1944)

2013 – Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (b. 1925)

2013 – Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect (b. 1923)

2013 – Jonathan Winters, American comedian, actor and screenwriter (b. 1925)

2014 – Rolf Brem, Swiss sculptor and illustrator (b. 1926)

2014 – Edna Doré, English actress (b. 1921)

2014 – Bill Henry, American baseball player (b. 1927)

2014 – Lou Hudson, American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1944)

2014 – Myer S. Kripke, American rabbi and scholar (b. 1914)

2014 – Sergey Nepobedimy, Russian engineer (b. 1921)

2014 – Jesse Winchester, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1944)

2015 – Jimmy Gunn, American football player (b. 1948)

2015 – Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi journalist and politician (b. 1952)

2015 – François Maspero, French journalist and author (b. 1932)

2015 – Hanut Singh Rathore, Indian general (b. 1933)

2015 – Tekena Tamuno, Nigerian historian and academic (b. 1932)

2016 – Ed Snider, American businessman (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Antipas of Pergamum (Greek Orthodox Church)

Gemma Galgani

Godeberta

Guthlac of Crowland

George Selwyn (Anglicanism)

Stanislaus of Szczepanów

April 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Juan Santamaría Day, anniversary of his death in the Second Battle of Rivas. (Costa Rica)

International Louie Louie Day

World Parkinson's Day