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أحداث


مواليد

  • 702 - الإمام جعفر الصادق، الإمام السادس لدى الشيعة الإثنا عشرية.
  • 1808 - نابليون الثالث، أول رئيس للجمهورية الفرنسية وثاني إمبراطور لفرنسا.
  • 1889 - أدولف هتلر، زعيم ألماني.
  • 1894 - هارولد لويد، ممثل أمريكي.
  • 1918 - كاي سيغبان، عالم فيزياء سويدي حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الفيزياء عام 1981.
  • 1927 - كارل مولر، عالم فيزياء سويسري حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الفيزياء عام 1987.
  • 1934 - حسين كمال، مخرج مصري.
  • 1942 - أرتو بآسيلينا، كاتب فنلندي.
  • 1946 - سابين بيرغمان بول، سياسية ألمانية.
  • 1949 -

    • خالد زكي، ممثل مصري.
    • جيسيكا لانغ، ممثلة أمريكية.
    • فيرونيكا كارترايت، ممثلة إنجليزية.
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  • 1952 - هالة سرحان، إعلامية مصرية.
  • 1961 - كونستانتين لافرونينكو، ممثل روسي.
  • 1964 - كريسبين غلوفير، ممثل أمريكي.
  • 1970 - أبو مصعب عبد الودود، أمير تنظيم القاعدة في بلاد المغرب الإسلامي.
  • 1972 - كارمن إلكترا، ممثلة أمريكية.
  • 1973 - رامز جلال، ممثل مصري.
  • 1975 - عاطفة يحيى آغا، رئيسة كوسوفو.
  • 1976 - شاي غيفن، حارس مرمى كرة قدم أيرلندي.
  • 1980 - مي العيدان، إعلامية كويتية.
  • 1987 - خالد الرشيدي، لاعب كرة قدم كويتي.


وفيات

  • 1472 - ليون باتيستا ألبيرتي، مهندس معماري وعالم رياضيات وشاعر إيطالي.
  • 1887 - محمد شريف باشا، رئيس وزراء مصر.
  • 1918 - كارل فرديناند براون، عالم فيزياء ألماني حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الفيزياء عام 1909.
  • 1951 - إيفانو بونومي، رئيس وزراء إيطاليا.
  • 1977 - سيب هيربرجر، لاعب ومدرب كرة قدم ألماني.
  • 1992 - بيتر ميتشل، عالم كيمياء بريطاني حاصل على جائزة نوبل في الكيمياء عام 1978.
  • 2011 - مصطفى الشكعة، مفكر وأستاذ جامعي مصري.


أعياد ومناسبات

  • عيد رضوان عند البهائية.


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Events

  • 1323 – The University of Rome La Sapienza is instituted by Pope Boniface VIII.
  • 1453
    – The last naval battle in Byzantine history occurs, as three Genoese
    galleys escorting a Byzantine transport fight their way through the huge
    Ottoman blockade fleet and into the Golden Horn.
  • 1526 – The last ruler of the Lodi Dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.
  • 1534 – Jacques Cartier begins the voyage during which he discovers Canada and Labrador.
  • 1535 – The Sun dog phenomenon observed over Stockholm and depicted in the famous painting "Vädersolstavlan".
  • 1653 – Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
  • 1657 – Admiral Robert Blake destroys a Spanish silver fleet under heavy fire at Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
  • 1657 – Freedom of religion is granted to the Jews of New Amsterdam (later New York City).
  • 1689 – The former King James II of England, now deposed, lays siege to Derry.
  • 1770
    – The Georgian king Erekle II, abandoned by his Russian ally Count
    Totleben, wins a victory over Ottoman forces at Aspindza.
  • 1775 – American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Boston begins, following the battles at Lexington and Concord.
  • 1792 – France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia", the beginning of French Revolutionary Wars.
  • 1809
    – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French
    Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on
    the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.
  • 1810 – The Governor of Caracas declares independence from Spain.
  • 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton
    ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a
    retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.
  • 1828 – René Caillié becomes the first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
  • 1836 – U.S. Congress passes an act creating the Wisconsin Territory.
  • 1861
    – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee resigns his commission in the
    United States Army in order to command the forces of the state of
    Virginia.
  • 1862 – Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard complete the first pasteurization tests.
  • 1865
    – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which
    measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L’Immaculata Concezion.
  • 1871 – The Civil Rights Act of 1871 becomes law.
  • 1876 – The april
    Uprising, a key point in modern Bulgarian history, leading to the
    Russo-Turkish War and the liberation of Bulgaria from domination as an
    independent part of the Ottoman Empire.
  • 1884 – Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum Genus.
  • 1902 – Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
  • 1908 – Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
  • 1912 – Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Michigan, and Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • 1914 – 19 men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miner's strike.
  • 1916
    – The Chicago Cubs play their first game at Weeghman Park (currently
    Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings.
  • 1918
    – Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and
    80th victims, his final victories before his death the following day.
  • 1922 – The Soviet government creates South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within Georgian SSR.
  • 1926 – Western Electric and Warner Bros. announce Vitaphone, a process to add sound to film.
  • 1939 – Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday is celebrated as a national holiday in Nazi Germany.
  • 1939 – Billie Holiday records the first Civil Rights song "Strange Fruit".
  • 1945 – World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
  • 1945
    – World War II: Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler makes his last trip to the
    surface to award Iron Crosses to boy soldiers of the Hitler Youth.
  • 1946 – The League of Nations officially dissolves, giving most of its power to the United Nations.
  • 1961 – Failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of US-backed troops against Cuba.
  • 1964 – BBC Two launches with a power cut because of the fire at Battersea Power Station.
  • 1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech.
  • 1972 – Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
  • 1978 – Korean Air Flight 902 is shot down by the Soviet Union.
  • 1980 – Climax of Berber Spring in Algeria as hundreds of Berber political activists are arrested.
  • 1984 – The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.
  • 1985 – The ATF raids The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas.
  • 1986 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz performs in his native Russia for the first time in 61 years.
  • 1998 – German terrorist group the Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
  • 1999
    – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13
    people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High
    School in Jefferson County, Colorado.
  • 2007
    – Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades
    himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a
    male hostage and himself.
  • 2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
  • 2010
    – The Deepwater Horizon oil well explodes in the Gulf of Mexico,
    killing twelve workers and beginning an oil spill that would last six
    months.


Births

  • 702 – Jafar Sadiq, Shi'a Imam and Muslim scholar (d. 765)
  • 1492 – Pietro Aretino, Italian writer of Erotic prose and poems(d.1556)
  • 1494 – Johannes Agricola, German Protestant reformer (d. 1566)
  • 1586 – Saint Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (d. 1617)
  • 1633 – Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (d. 1654)
  • 1646 – Charles Plumier, French botanist (d. 1704)
  • 1650 – William Bedloe, English informer (d. 1680)
  • 1668 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (d. 1739)
  • 1718 – David Brainerd, American missionary (d. 1747)
  • 1723 – Cornelius Harnett, American Continental Congress delegate (d. 1781)
  • 1727 – Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-born Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
  • 1745 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)
  • 1748 – Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian (d. 1831)
  • 1808 – Emperor Napoleon III of France (d. 1873)
  • 1816 – Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian and lexicographer (d. 1895)
  • 1818 – Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
  • 1826 – Dinah Craik, English author (d. 1887)
  • 1850 – Daniel Chester French, American sculptor (d. 1931)
  • 1851 – Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (d. 1875)
  • 1870 – Maulvi Abdul Haq, Pakistani scholar (d. 1961)
  • 1871 – Sydney Chapman, British economist and civil servant (d. 1951)
  • 1875 – Vladimir Vidrić, Croatian poet (d. 1909)
  • 1879 – Paul Poiret, French couturier (d. 1944)
  • 1882 – Holland Smith, U.S. General (d. 1967)
  • 1884 – Daniel Varujan, Armenian poet (d. 1915)
  • 1884 – Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1966)
  • 1889 – Albert Jean Amateau, Turkish-born businessman and activist (d. 1996)
  • 1889 – Adolf Hitler, Idealist, Dictator of Nazi Germany (d. 1945)
  • 1890 – Maurice Duplessis, premier of Quebec (d. 1959)
  • 1893 – Harold Lloyd, American actor (d. 1971)
  • 1893 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (d. 1983)
  • 1893 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (d. 2008)
  • 1895 – Emile Christian, American musician (d. 1973)
  • 1895 – Henry de Montherlant, French writer (d. 1972)
  • 1896 – Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, Canadian aviator (d. 1952)
  • 1904 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (d. 1972)
  • 1904 – George Stibitz, American scientist (d. 1995)
  • 1907 – Augoustinos Kantiotes, Greek Orthodox bishop of Florina (d. 2010)
  • 1908 – Lionel Hampton, American musician (d. 2002)
  • 1913 – Mimis Fotopoulos, Greek actor (d. 1986)
  • 1914 – Betty Lou Gerson, American actress (d. 1999)
  • 1915 – Joseph Wolpe, South African–born psychotherapist (d. 1997)
  • 1918 – Edward L. Beach, Jr., American naval officer, author (d. 2002)
  • 1918 – Kai Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
  • 1919 – Richard Hillary, Australian pilot and author (d. 1943)
  • 1920 – Ratko Zvrko, Croatian author, journalist and boxer (d. 1998)
  • 1920 – Ronald Speirs, WWII Veteran (d. 2007)
  • 1920 – John Paul Stevens, American jurist
  • 1920 – Clement Isong, Nigerian politician (d. 2000)
  • 1921 – Janine Sutto, French-Canadian actress
  • 1923 – Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster
  • 1923 – Irene Lieblich, Polish-born painter (d. 2008)
  • 1923 – Tito Puente, American musician (d. 2000)
  • 1924 – Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (d. 2008)
  • 1924 – Leslie Phillips, English actor
  • 1924 – Guy Rocher, Canadian academic and sociologist
  • 1925 – Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (d. 2006)
  • 1927 – Bud Cullen, Canadian politician and judge (d. 2005)
  • 1927 – Phil Hill, American race car driver (d. 2008)
  • 1927 – Karl Alexander Müller, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1928 – Johnny Gavin, Irish footballer (d. 2007)
  • 1928 – Gerald S. Hawkins, English astronomer (d. 2003)
  • 1929 – Harry Agganis, Greek-American baseball and football player (d. 1955)
  • 1931 – John Eccles, 2nd Viscount Eccles, British businessman and peer
  • 1936 – Pat Roberts, American politician
  • 1937 – Antonios Kounadis, Greek discus thrower
  • 1937 – George Takei, American actor
  • 1937 – Jiří Dienstbier, Czech journalist and politician (d. 2011)
  • 1938 – Johnny Tillotson, American singer and songwriter
  • 1938 – Tamási Eszter, Hungarian TV announcer and actress (d. 1991)
  • 1939 – Peter S. Beagle, American author
  • 1939 – Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway
  • 1940 – James Gammon, American actor (d. 2010)
  • 1941 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor
  • 1942 – Arto Paasilinna, Finnish writer
  • 1943 – John Eliot Gardiner, English conductor
  • 1943 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (d. 1971)
  • 1945 – Michael Brandon, American actor
  • 1945 – Judith O'Dea, American actress
  • 1945 – Steve Spurrier, American football player and coach
  • 1945 – Thein Sein, Burmese president
  • 1946 – Tommy Hutton, American baseball player and analyst
  • 1946 – Julien Poulin, French Canadian actor
  • 1946 – Gordon Smiley, American racecar driver (d. 1982)
  • 1947 – Rita Dionne-Marsolais, Canadian politician
  • 1947 – David Leland, British actor, director and screenwriter
  • 1947 – Ken Scott, English record producer and recording engineer
  • 1947 – Björn Skifs, Swedish singer (Blue Swede)
  • 1947 – Andrew Tobias, American journalist and author
  • 1948 – Craig Frost, American musician (Grand Funk & Bob Seger)
  • 1948 – Gregory Itzin, American actor
  • 1948 – Rémy Trudel, French Canadian politician
  • 1949 – Veronica Cartwright, American actress
  • 1949 – Toller Cranston, Canadian figure skater and artist
  • 1949 – Massimo D'Alema, 76th Prime Minister of Italy
  • 1949 – Jessica Lange, American actress
  • 1950 – Steve Erickson, American novelist
  • 1950 – Alexander Lebed, Russian general and politician (d. 2002)
  • 1950 – Chandra Babu Naidu, Indian politician
  • 1951 – Luther Vandross, American singer (d. 2005)
  • 1952 – Louka Katseli, Greek Minister for Labour and Social Security
  • 1952 – Božidar Maljković, Serbian basketball coach
  • 1953 – Robert Crais, American author
  • 1953 – Sebastian Faulks, British novelist
  • 1954 – Gilles Lupien, French-Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1955 – Don Pettit, American astronaut and inventor
  • 1956 – Beatrice Ask, Swedish politician
  • 1957 – Geraint Wyn Davies, Welsh-born Canadian actor
  • 1958 – Viacheslav Fetisov, Russian ice hockey player
  • 1959 – Clint Howard, American actor
  • 1961 – Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
  • 1961 – Don Mattingly, American baseball player
  • 1961 – Corrado Micalef, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1961 – Barry Smolin, American radio host, writer, and musician
  • 1961 – Nicholas Lyndhurst, British actor
  • 1962 – Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr. (AKA: Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf), American radio personality (d. 2001)
  • 1963 – Aubrey de Grey, British biomedical gerontologist
  • 1963 – Maurício Gugelmin, Brazilian racing driver
  • 1964 – Crispin Glover, American actor
  • 1964 – Andy Serkis, English actor
  • 1964 – Rosalynn Sumners, American figure skater
  • 1965 – Adrian Fernández, Mexican racing driver
  • 1965 – Kostas Hatzidakis, Greek politician
  • 1965 – april March, American musician
  • 1966 – David Chalmers, Australian philosopher
  • 1966 – Vincent Riendeau, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1967 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
  • 1967 – Lara Jill Miller, American actress
  • 1967 – Mike Portnoy, American drummer (Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold)
  • 1968 – J. D. Roth, American game show host and television personality
  • 1968 – Yelena Välbe, Russian cross-country skier
  • 1968 – Julia Morris, Australian comedian and television presenter
  • 1970 – Shemar Moore, American actor
  • 1970 – Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer
  • 1970 – Saraa, Mongolian singer
  • 1971 – Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
  • 1971 – Allan Houston, American basketball player
  • 1971 – Nikos Kyzeridis, Greek footballer
  • 1972 – Le Huynh Đuc, Vietnamese footballer
  • 1972 – Carmen Electra, American actress
  • 1972 – Željko Joksimović, Serbian singer, songwriter and producer
  • 1972 – Marko Kon, Serbian singer, composer, songwriter and producer
  • 1972 – Stephen Marley, Jamaican musician
  • 1973 – Geoff Lloyd, British radio presenter
  • 1973 – Lamond Murray, American basketball player
  • 1974 – Tina Cousins, English singer
  • 1975 – Benjamin Butler (artist), painter
  • 1976 – Aldo Bobadilla, Paraguayan football player
  • 1976 – Shay Given, Irish footballer
  • 1976 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
  • 1976 – Chris Mason, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
  • 1976 – Lenka Němečková, Czech tennis player
  • 1977 – Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli, professional wrestler
  • 1978 – Mirei Kuroda, Japanese gravure idol
  • 1978 – Clayne Crawford, American actor
  • 1979 – Ludovic Magnin, Swiss football player
  • 1979 – Nathan Marquardt, American mixed martial artist
  • 1979 – Quinn Weng, Taiwanese singer (Seraphim)
  • 1980 – Chris Duffy, American baseball player
  • 1980 – Arin Paul, Indian film director
  • 1980 – Jasmin Wagner, German singer
  • 1982 – Dario Knežević, Croatian football player
  • 1983 – Danny Granger, American basketball player
  • 1983 – Miranda Kerr, Australian supermodel
  • 1983 – Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish DJ and producer
  • 1983 – Joanne King, Irish/English actress
  • 1983 – Patrice M'Bock, Cameroonian footballer
  • 1983 – Fabio Staibano, Italian rugby player
  • 1984 – Tyson Griffin, American mixed martial artist
  • 1984 – Edixon Perea Valencia, Colombian football player
  • 1985 – Ehsan Jami, Dutch-Iranian politician and activist
  • 1985 – Brent Seabrook, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1986 – Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director (d. 2003)
  • 1987 – John Patrick Amedori, American actor
  • 1987 – Thorsten Kirschbaum, German footballer
  • 1987 – Michael Klauß, German footballer
  • 1991 – Ondřej Kraják, Czech footballer
Deaths


  • 1176 – Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English military leader (b. 1130)
  • 1314 – Pope Clement V (b. 1264)
  • 1521 – Zhengde Emperor of China (b. 1491)
  • 1534 – Elizabeth Barton, English nun (executed)
  • 1558 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
  • 1643 – Christoph Demantius, German composer (b. 1567)
  • 1703 – Lancelot Addison, English royal chaplain (b. 1632)
  • 1769 – Pontiac, Chief of the Ottawa (b. 1720)
  • 1831 – John Abernethy, English surgeon (b. 1764)
  • 1873 – William Tite, English architect (b. 1798)
  • 1874 – Alexander H. Bailey, American politician (b. 1817)
  • 1887 – Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Egyptian statesman (b. 1826)
  • 1899 – Joseph Wolf, German artist (b. 1820)
  • 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet who designed the flag of the State of Maranhão (b. 1833)
  • 1912 – Bram Stoker, Irish author (b. 1847)
  • 1918 – Karl Ferdinand Braun, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1850)
  • 1929 – Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia (b. 1862)
  • 1932 – Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician (b. 1858)
  • 1944 – Elmer Gedeon, one of two Major League Baseball fatal casualties during World War II.
  • 1945 – Erwin Bumke, German jurist (b. 1874)
  • 1947 – King Christian X of Denmark (b. 1870)
  • 1951 – Ivanoe Bonomi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1873)
  • 1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player (b. 1899)
  • 1967 – Léo-Paul Desrosiers, French Canadian journalist and novelist (b. 1896)
  • 1969 – Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian war criminal (b. 1911)
  • 1977 – Sepp Herberger, German football coach (b. 1897)
  • 1982 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet and Librarian of Congress (b. 1892)
  • 1986 – Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer (b. 1916)
  • 1989 – Doru Davidovici, Romanian writer and fighter pilot (b. 1945)
  • 1991 – Steve Marriott, British singer and songwriter (The Small Faces) (Humble Pie) (b. 1947)
  • 1991 – Don Siegel, American film director (b. 1912)
  • 1992 – Benny Hill, British comedian (b. 1924)
  • 1993 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian and actor (b. 1911)
  • 1994 – Jean Carmet, French actor (b. 1920)
  • 1996 – Tran Van Tra, Vietnamese general and politician (b. 1918)
  • 1996 – Christopher Robin Milne, son of A. A. Milne (b. 1920)
  • 1999 – Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
  • 1999 – Señor Wences, Spanish ventriloquist and comedian (b. 1896)
  • 1999 – Eric David Harris, perpetrator of the Columbine High massacre (b. 1981)
  • 1999 – Dylan Klebold, perpetrator of the Columbine High massacre (b. 1981)
  • 1999 – Cassie Bernall, Columbine High School massacre victim (b. 1981)
  • 1999 – Rachel Joy Scott, Columbine High School massacre victim (b. 1981)
  • 2001 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1946)
  • 2002 – Alan Dale, American singer (b. 1925)
  • 2002 – Pierre Rapsat, Belgian singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
  • 2003 – Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (b. 1908)
  • 2003 – Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
  • 2003 – Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
  • 2005 – Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
  • 2005 – Zygfryd Blaut, Polish football player (b. 1943)
  • 2007 – Andrew Hill, American jazz composer and pianist (b. 1931)
  • 2007 – Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (b. 1931).
  • 2007 – Fred Fish, a computer programmer on the GNU Debugger and "Fish disks" (b. 1952)
  • 2008 – VL Mike, American rapper (b. 1976)
  • 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, literary critic and journalist (b. 1923)
  • 2009 – Beata Asimakopoulou, Greek actress (b. 1932)
  • 2010 – Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist (b. 1912)
  • 2011 – Tim Hetherington, British-American photojournalist (b. 1970)
  • 2011 – Chris Hondros, American photographer (b. 1970)
Holidays and observances


  • 4/20 (US counterculture holiday)
  • Christian Feast Day:

    • Agnes of Montepulciano
    • Blessed Oda of Brabant
    • Theotimos
    • April 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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  • Ridván begins at sunset (Bahá'í Faith)