972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1950 - Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1554 - Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
1950 - Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1665 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1915 - Richard Sharp, civil servant
1917 - Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
1919 - Julian Amery, conservative minister
1953 - Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1956 - Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1746 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1957 - Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
1922 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1760 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician
1923 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1958 - Shaun Cassidy, rocker/actor (Hardy Boys, Texas Guns)
1780 - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1925 - Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 - R P Cohan, choreographer
1809 - Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
1960 - Hans Pflgler, German footballer
1810 - William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1816 - George Elvey, composer
1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Ngeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
1818 - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
1930 - David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
1844 - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
1931 - Burt Collins, trumpeter
1931 - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1931 - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1932 - Wes Covington, baseball player (Phila Phillies)
1933 - DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
1967 - Jaime Navarro, Bayamon Puerto Rico, pitcher (Chic Cubs)
1967 - Talisa Soto, [Miriam], Brooklyn NY, actress (License to Kill)
1934 - Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 - David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
1863 - Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
1935 - Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
1969 - Kevin Corrigan, American actor
1969 - Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1871 - Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
1871 - Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
1937 - Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
1879 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1883 - Jan Kunc, composer
1938 - Jock Slater, admiral
1938 - P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Assn)
1971 - Thom Barron, German porn star
1971 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1939 - Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
1892 - Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
1939 - Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1894 - William Harrigan, NYC
1940 - Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1974 - Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Ill, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) [NS]
1975 - Gregory DuBois, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1975 - Stacy Ferguson, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1942 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1901 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1976 - Roberta Alma Anastase, Miss Universe-Romania (1996)
1976 - Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1977 - Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
1979 - Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
1981 - Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
1981 - Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1947 - Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
1910 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1947 - Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
1947 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1985 - Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1306 - Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1329 - Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1613 - The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1809 - Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
1814 - War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1851 - First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1854 - Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 - The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
1884 - A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
1886 - Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1910 - A fire during a barn-dance in kritflps, Hungary, kills 312.
1915 - Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1941 - World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 - World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1948 - The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1963 - Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1977 - Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 - Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 - The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 - A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 - The United States begins broadcasting TV Mart to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 - Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
1994 - The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
2000 - A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
2002 - Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2004 - HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 - Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 - A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
1950 - Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1554 - Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
1950 - Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1665 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1915 - Richard Sharp, civil servant
1917 - Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
1919 - Julian Amery, conservative minister
1953 - Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1956 - Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1746 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1957 - Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
1922 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1760 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician
1923 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1958 - Shaun Cassidy, rocker/actor (Hardy Boys, Texas Guns)
1780 - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1925 - Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 - R P Cohan, choreographer
1809 - Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
1960 - Hans Pflgler, German footballer
1810 - William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1816 - George Elvey, composer
1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Ngeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
1818 - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
1930 - David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
1844 - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
1931 - Burt Collins, trumpeter
1931 - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1931 - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1932 - Wes Covington, baseball player (Phila Phillies)
1933 - DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
1967 - Jaime Navarro, Bayamon Puerto Rico, pitcher (Chic Cubs)
1967 - Talisa Soto, [Miriam], Brooklyn NY, actress (License to Kill)
1934 - Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 - David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
1863 - Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
1935 - Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
1969 - Kevin Corrigan, American actor
1969 - Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1871 - Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
1871 - Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
1937 - Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
1879 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1883 - Jan Kunc, composer
1938 - Jock Slater, admiral
1938 - P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Assn)
1971 - Thom Barron, German porn star
1971 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1939 - Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
1892 - Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
1939 - Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1894 - William Harrigan, NYC
1940 - Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1974 - Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Ill, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) [NS]
1975 - Gregory DuBois, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1975 - Stacy Ferguson, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1942 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1901 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1976 - Roberta Alma Anastase, Miss Universe-Romania (1996)
1976 - Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1977 - Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
1979 - Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
1981 - Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
1981 - Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1947 - Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
1910 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1947 - Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
1947 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1985 - Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1306 - Robert the Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1329 - Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1613 - The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 - Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1794 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1809 - Peninsular War: A combined Franco-Polish force defeats the Spanish in the Battle of Ciudad-Real.
1814 - War of 1812: In central Alabama, U.S. forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat the Creek at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend.
1836 - Texas Revolution: Goliad massacre - Antonio Lpez de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POWs at Goliad, Texas.
1846 - Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1851 - First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1854 - Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1871 - The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
1884 - A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, US, attacks members of a jury who had returned a verdict of manslaughter in a clear case of murder, and then over the next few days would riot and destroy the courthouse.
1886 - Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1910 - A fire during a barn-dance in kritflps, Hungary, kills 312.
1915 - Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1938 - Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1941 - World War II: Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup.
1943 - World War II: Battle of the Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1948 - The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.
1963 - Beeching Axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
1964 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1975 - Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
1977 - Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1980 - Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1981 - The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
1986 - A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
1990 - The United States begins broadcasting TV Mart to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1993 - Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1994 - One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
1994 - The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
1998 - The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
2000 - A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
2002 - Passover Massacre: A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2004 - HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2009 - Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
2009 - A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
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