April 3

Events

Pre-1600

* 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
* 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
* 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
* 1559 – The second of two treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars.
* 1589 – The janissaries revolt in response to the debasement of coins.

1601–1900

* 1721 – Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title.
* 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III.
* 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins.
* 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
* 1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
* 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen.
* 1888 – Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
* 1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

1901–present

* 1905 – Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina
* 1920 – Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland.
* 1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
*1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston.
*1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
*1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula.
*1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
*1948 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries.
* 1948 – In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses known as the Jeju uprising begins.
* 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book '' Howl'' against obscenity charges.
*1956 – Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado.
* 1961 – LAN-Chile Flight 621 crashes in the Andes mountains, killing 21 people, including Argentinian football player Eliseo Mouriño.
* 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his " I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day.
* 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to " Vietnamize" the war effort.
*1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
* 1974 – The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
*1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins.
* 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.
*1980 – US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.
* 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco.
* 1989 – The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.
* 1993 – The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time.
* 1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
* 1996 – A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown.
*1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
*2000 – '' United States v. Microsoft Corp.'': Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
*2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
* 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record of 574.8 km/h (159.6 m/s, 357.2 mph).
* 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations.
* 2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody.
*2009 – Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
*2010 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer.
*2013 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
*2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies.
* 2017 – A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people.
*2018 – YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.

Births

Pre-1600

* 1016 – Xing Zong, Chinese emperor (died 1055)
* 1151 – Igor Svyatoslavich, Kievan Rus' prince (died 1202)
* 1395 – George of Trebizond, Greek philosopher, scholar and humanist (died 1486)
* 1438 – John III of Egmont, Dutch nobleman (died 1516)
* 1529 – Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1581)
* 1540 – Maria de' Medici, Italian noblewoman, the eldest daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo. (died 1557)
* 1593 – George Herbert, English poet (died 1633)

1601–1900

* 1643 – Charles V, duke of Lorraine (died 1690)
* 1682 – Valentin Rathgeber, German organist and composer (died 1750)
* 1693 – George Edwards, English ornithologist and entomologist (died 1773)
* 1715 – William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (died 1787)
* 1764 – John Abernethy, English surgeon and anatomist (died 1831)
* 1769 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (died 1835)
* 1770 – Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general (died 1843)
*1778 – Pierre Bretonneau, French doctor who performed the first successful tracheotomy (died 1862)
*1781 – Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader (died 1830)
* 1782 – Alexander Macomb, American general (died 1841)
* 1783 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian (died 1859)
* 1791 – Anne Lister, English diarist, mountaineer, and traveller (died 1840)
* 1798 – Charles Wilkes, American admiral, geographer, and explorer (died 1877)
* 1807 – Mary Carpenter, English educational and social reformer (died 1877)
* 1814 – Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1901)
* 1822 – Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (died 1909)
* 1823 – George Derby, American lieutenant and journalist (died 1861)
* 1823 – William M. Tweed, American politician (died 1878)
* 1826 – Cyrus K. Holliday, American businessman (died 1900)
* 1837 – John Burroughs, American botanist and author (died 1921)
* 1842 – Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (died 1864)
* 1848 – Arturo Prat, Chilean lawyer and captain (died 1879)
* 1852 – Talbot Baines Reed, English author (died 1893)
* 1858 – Jacob Gaudaur, Canadian rower (died 1937)
* 1860 – Frederik van Eeden, Dutch psychiatrist and author (died 1932)
* 1864 – Emil Kellenberger, Swiss target shooter (died 1943)
* 1875 – Mistinguett, French actress and singer (died 1956)
*1876 – Margaret Anglin, Canadian actress, director, and producer (died 1958)
* 1876 – Tomáš Baťa, Czech businessman, founded Bata Shoes (died 1932)
*1880 – Otto Weininger, Jewish-Austrian philosopher and author (died 1903)
* 1881 – Alcide De Gasperi, Italian journalist and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Italy (died 1954)
* 1882 – Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop (died 1952)
* 1883 – Ikki Kita, Japanese philosopher and author (died 1937)
* 1885 – Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1981)
* 1885 – Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (died 1954)
* 1885 – Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic (died 1944)
* 1885 – St John Philby, English colonial and explorer (died 1960)
*1886 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (died 1953)
* 1887 – Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (died 1956)
* 1887 – Nishizō Tsukahara, Japanese admiral (died 1966)
* 1888 – Thomas C. Kinkaid, American admiral (died 1972)
* 1889 – Grigoraș Dinicu, Romanian violinist and composer (died 1949)
* 1893 – Leslie Howard, English actor (died 1943)
* 1895 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American composer and educator (died 1968)
* 1895 – Zez Confrey, American pianist and composer (died 1971)
* 1897 – Joe Kirkwood Sr., Australian golfer (died 1970)
* 1897 – Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Greek general (died 1989)
* 1898 – David Jack, English footballer and manager (died 1958)
* 1898 – George Jessel, American actor, singer, and producer (died 1981)
* 1898 – Henry Luce, American publisher, co-founded ''Time'' magazine (died 1967)
*1900 – Camille Chamoun, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 7th President of Lebanon (died 1987)
* 1900 – Albert Walsh, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (died 1958)

1901–present

* 1903 – Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Indian social reformer and freedom fighter (died 1988)
* 1904 – Iron Eyes Cody, American actor and stuntman (died 1999)
* 1904 – Sally Rand, American dancer (died 1979)
* 1904 – Russel Wright, American furniture designer (died 1976)
* 1905 – Robert Sink, American general (died 1965)
* 1910 – Ted Hook, Australian public servant (died 1990)
*1911 – Nanette Bordeaux, Canadian-American actress (died 1956)
* 1911 – Michael Woodruff, English-Scottish surgeon and academic (died 2001)
* 1911 – Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (died 1980)
*1912 – Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author (died 1982)
* 1912 – Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (died 1963)
* 1913 – Per Borten, Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway (died 2005)
* 1914 – Ray Getliffe, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2008)
* 1914 – Sam Manekshaw, Indian field marshal (died 2008)
* 1915 – Piet de Jong, Dutch politician and naval officer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (died 2016)
* 1915 – İhsan Doğramacı, Turkish physician and academic (died 2010)
* 1916 – Herb Caen, American journalist and author (died 1997)
* 1916 – Cliff Gladwin, English cricketer (died 1988)
* 1916 – Louis Guglielmi, Catalan composer (died 1991)
*1918 – Mary Anderson, American actress (died 2014)
* 1918 – Louis Applebaum, Canadian composer and conductor (died 2000)
* 1919 – Ervin Drake, American songwriter and composer (died 2015)
* 1919 – Clairette Oddera, French-Canadian actress and singer (died 2008)
* 1920 – Stan Freeman, American composer and conductor (died 2001)
* 1920 – Yoshibayama Junnosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 43rd Yokozuna (died 1977)
* 1921 – Robert Karvelas, American actor (died 1991)
* 1921 – Jan Sterling, American actress (died 2004)
* 1922 – Yevhen Bulanchyk, Ukrainian hurdler (died 1996)
* 1922 – Doris Day, American singer and actress (died 2019)
* 1923 – Daniel Hoffman, American poet and academic (died 2013)
* 1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor and director (died 2004)
* 1924 – Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant and sniper (died 1945)
* 1925 – Tony Benn, English pilot and politician, Secretary of State for Industry (died 2014)
* 1926 – Alex Grammas, American baseball player, manager, and coach (died 2019)
* 1926 – Gus Grissom, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (died 1967)
* 1927 – Wesley A. Brown, American general and engineer (died 2012)
* 1928 – Don Gibson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2003)
* 1928 – Emmett Johns, Canadian priest, founded Dans la Rue (died 2018)
* 1928 – Earl Lloyd, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)
* 1928 – Jennifer Paterson, English chef and television personality (died 1999)
* 1929 – Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi engineer and architect, co-designed the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center (died 1982)
* 1929 – Poul Schlüter, Danish lawyer and politician, 37th Prime Minister of Denmark (died 2021)
* 1930 – Lawton Chiles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Governor of Florida (died 1998)
* 1930 – Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 2017)
* 1930 – Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and politician (died 2015)
* 1930 – Wally Moon, American baseball player and coach (died 2018)
* 1931 – William Bast, American screenwriter and author (died 2015)
*1933 – Bob Dornan, American politician
* 1933 – Rod Funseth, American golfer (died 1985)
* 1934 – Pamela Allen, New Zealand children's writer and illustrator
* 1934 – Jane Goodall, English primatologist and anthropologist
* 1934 – Jim Parker, American football player (died 2005)
*1935 – Harold Kushner, American rabbi and author (died 2023)
*1936 – Jimmy McGriff, American organist and bandleader (died 2008)
* 1936 – Harold Vick, American saxophonist and flute player (died 1987)
*1938 – Jeff Barry, American singer-songwriter, and producer
* 1938 – Phil Rodgers, American golfer (died 2018)
* 1939 – François de Roubaix, French composer (died 1975)
* 1939 – Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (died 2012)
* 1939 – Paul Craig Roberts, American economist and politician
* 1941 – Jan Berry, American singer-songwriter (died 2004)
* 1941 – Philippé Wynne, American soul singer (died 1984)
*1942 – Marsha Mason, American actress
* 1942 – Wayne Newton, American singer
* 1942 – Billy Joe Royal, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
*1943 – Mario Lavista, Mexican composer (died 2021)
* 1943 – Jonathan Lynn, English actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1943 – Richard Manuel, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1986)
* 1943 – Hikaru Saeki, Japanese admiral, the first female star officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
*1944 – Peter Colman, Australian biologist and academic
* 1944 – Tony Orlando, American singer
* 1945 – Doon Arbus, American author and journalist
* 1945 – Bernie Parent, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
* 1945 – Catherine Spaak, French actress (died 2022)
*1946 – Nicholas Jones, English actor
* 1946 – Dee Murray, English bass player (died 1992)
* 1946 – Marisa Paredes, Spanish film actress (died 2024)
* 1946 – Hanna Suchocka, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland
*1947 – Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (died 2013)
*1948 – Arlette Cousture, Canadian author and screenwriter
* 1948 – Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Dutch academic, politician, and diplomat, 11th Secretary General of NATO
* 1948 – Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck, German footballer
* 1948 – Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexican economist and politician, 53rd President of Mexico
*1949 – Lyle Alzado, American football player and actor (died 1992)
* 1949 – A. C. Grayling, English philosopher and academic
* 1949 – Richard Thompson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
*1950 – Indrajit Coomaraswamy, Sri Lankan cricketer and economist
*1951 – Brendan Barber, English trade union leader
* 1951 – Annette Dolphin, British academician and educator
* 1951 – Mitch Woods, American singer-songwriter and pianist
* 1952 – Mike Moore, American lawyer and politician
*1953 – Sandra Boynton, American author and illustrator
* 1953 – Wakanohana Kanji II, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 56th Yokozuna (died 2022)
* 1953 – James Smith, American boxer
*1954 – Elisabetta Brusa, Italian composer
* 1954 – K. Krishnasamy, Indian physician and politician
*1956 – Kalle Kulbok, Estonian politician
* 1956 – Boris Miljković, Serbian director and producer
* 1956 – Miguel Bosé, Spanish musician and actor
* 1956 – Ray Combs, American game show host (died 1996)
* 1958 – Alec Baldwin, American actor, comedian, producer and television host
* 1958 – Adam Gussow, American scholar, musician, and memoirist
* 1958 – Francesca Woodman, American photographer (died 1981)
* 1959 – David Hyde Pierce, American actor and activist
* 1960 – Arjen Anthony Lucassen, Dutch singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1961 – Tim Crews, American baseball player (died 1993)
* 1961 – Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
*1962 – Dave Miley, American baseball player and manager
* 1962 – Mike Ness, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1962 – Jaya Prada, Indian actress and politician
*1963 – Les Davidson, Australian rugby league player
* 1963 – Ricky Nixon, Australian footballer and manager
* 1963 – Criss Oliva, American guitarist and songwriter (died 1993)
* 1964 – Marco Ballotta, Italian footballer and manager
* 1964 – Nigel Farage, English politician
* 1964 – Claire Perry, English banker and politician
* 1964 – Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist and manager
* 1964 – Andy Robinson, English rugby player and coach
* 1964 – Jay Weatherill, Australian politician, 45th Premier of South Australia
*1965 – Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist (died 2000)
*1966 – John de Vries, Australian race car driver
*1967 – Cat Cora, American chef and author
* 1967 – Pervis Ellison, American basketball player
* 1967 – Brent Gilchrist, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1967 – Cristi Puiu, Romanian director and screenwriter
* 1967 – Mark Skaife, Australian race car driver and sportscaster
* 1968 – Sebastian Bach, Bahamian-Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
* 1968 – Charlotte Coleman, English actress (died 2001)
* 1968 – Jamie Hewlett, English director and performer
* 1968 – Tomoaki Kanemoto, Japanese baseball player
* 1969 – Rodney Hampton, American football player
* 1969 – Peter Matera, Australian footballer and coach
* 1969 – Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
* 1969 – Lance Storm, Canadian wrestler and trainer
*1971 – Vitālijs Astafjevs, Latvian footballer and manager
* 1971 – Emmanuel Collard, French race car driver
* 1971 – Picabo Street, American skier
*1972 – Jennie Garth, American actress and director
* 1972 – Catherine McCormack, English actress
* 1972 – Sandrine Testud, French tennis player
*1973 – Nilesh Kulkarni, Indian cricketer
* 1973 – Adam Scott, American actor
* 1974 – Marcus Brown, American basketball player
* 1974 – Lee Williams, Welsh model and actor
*1975 – Shawn Bates, American ice hockey player
* 1975 – Michael Olowokandi, Nigerian-American basketball player
* 1975 – Aries Spears, American comedian and actor
* 1975 – Yoshinobu Takahashi, Japanese baseball player
* 1975 – Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball player
*1976 – Nicolas Escudé, French tennis player
*1978 – Matthew Goode, English actor
* 1978 – Tommy Haas, German-American tennis player
* 1978 – John Smit, South African rugby player
*1979 – Simon Black, Australian footballer and coach
*1980 – Andrei Lodis, Belarusian footballer
* 1980 – Megan Rohrer, American pastor and transgender activist
* 1981 – Aaron Bertram, American trumpet player
* 1981 – DeShawn Stevenson, American basketball player
* 1982 – Jared Allen, American football player
* 1982 – Iain Fyfe, Australian footballer
* 1982 – Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
*1983 – Ben Foster, English footballer
* 1983 – Stephen Weiss, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1984 – Jonathan Blondel, Belgian footballer
* 1984 – Maxi López, Argentinian footballer
* 1985 – Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver
* 1985 – Leona Lewis, English singer-songwriter and producer
* 1986 – Amanda Bynes, American actress
* 1986 – Stephanie Cox, American soccer player
* 1986 – Annalisa Cucinotta, Italian cyclist
* 1986 – Sergio Sánchez Ortega, Spanish footballer
*1987 – Rachel Bloom, American actress, writer, and producer
* 1987 – Jay Bruce, American baseball player
* 1987 – Yileen Gordon, Australian rugby league player
* 1987 – Jason Kipnis, American baseball player
* 1987 – Martyn Rooney, English sprinter
* 1987 – Julie Sokolow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
* 1987 – Yuval Spungin, Israeli footballer
* 1988 – Kam Chancellor, American football player
* 1988 – Brandon Graham, American football player
* 1988 – Peter Hartley, English footballer
* 1988 – Tim Krul, Dutch footballer
* 1989 – Romain Alessandrini, French footballer
* 1989 – Israel Folau, Australian rugby player and footballer
* 1989 – Joel Romelo, Australian rugby league player
* 1989 – Thisara Perera, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1990 – Karim Ansarifard, Iranian footballer
* 1990 – Madison Brengle, American tennis player
* 1990 – Sotiris Ninis, Greek footballer
* 1990 – Natasha Negovanlis, Canadian actress and singer
* 1991 – Hayley Kiyoko, American actress and singer
*1992 – Simone Benedetti, Italian footballer
* 1992 – Yuliya Yefimova, Russian swimmer
* 1993 – Pape Moussa Konaté, Senegalese footballer
*1994 – Kodi Nikorima, New Zealand rugby league player
* 1994 – Dylann Roof, American mass murderer
* 1996 – Mayo Hibi, Japanese tennis player
*1997 – Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer
*1998 – Paris Jackson, American actress, model and singer
*1999 – Chanel Harris-Tavita, New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player

Deaths

Pre-1600

* 33 – Jesus of NazarethBlinzler, J. ''Der Prozess Jesu'', fourth edition, Regensburg, Pustet, 1969, pp101-126
* 963 – William III, Duke of Aquitaine (born 915)
* 1153 – al-Adil ibn al-Sallar, vizier of the Fatimid Caliphate
* 1171 – Philip of Milly, seventh Grand Master of the Knights Templar (born )
* 1203 – Arthur I, Duke of Brittany (born 1187)
* 1253 – Saint Richard of Chichester
* 1287 – Pope Honorius IV (born 1210)
* 1325 – Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi saint (born 1238)
* 1350 – Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy (born 1295)
* 1538 – Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (born 1480)
* 1545 – Antonio de Guevara, Spanish chronicler and moralist (born 1481)

1601–1900

* 1606 – Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1563)
* 1630 – Christopher Villiers, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English noble (born c.  1593)
* 1637 – Joseph Yuspa Nördlinger Hahn, German rabbi
* 1680 – Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Indian emperor, founded the Maratha Empire (born 1630)
* 1682 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter and educator (born 1618)
* 1691 – Jean Petitot, French-Swiss painter (born 1608)
* 1695 – Melchior d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter (born 1636)
* 1717 – Jacques Ozanam, French mathematician and academic (born 1640)
* 1728 – James Anderson, Scottish lawyer and historian (born 1662)
*1792 – George Pocock, English admiral (born 1706)
*1804 – Jędrzej Kitowicz, Polish priest, historian, and author (born 1727)
* 1826 – Reginald Heber, English priest (born 1783)
* 1827 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist and academic (born 1756)
* 1838 – François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician and author (born 1780)
* 1844 – Edward Bigge, English cleric, 1st Archdeacon of Lindisfarne (born 1807)
* 1846 – William Braine, English soldier and explorer (born 1814)
* 1849 – Juliusz Słowacki, Polish-French poet and playwright (born 1809)
* 1868 – Franz Berwald, Swedish composer and surgeon (born 1796)
*1880 – Felicita Vestvali, German actress and opera singer (born 1831)
* 1882 – Jesse James, American criminal and outlaw (born 1847)
* 1897 – Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer (born 1833)

1901–present

* 1901 – Richard D'Oyly Carte, English composer and talent agent (born 1844)
* 1902 – Esther Hobart Morris, American lawyer and judge (born 1814)
* 1930 – Emma Albani, Canadian-English operatic soprano (born 1847)
*1936 – Richard Hauptmann, German-American murderer (born 1899)
* 1941 – Tachiyama Mineemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna (born 1877)
* 1941 – Pál Teleki, Hungarian academic and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1879)
*1943 – Conrad Veidt, German actor, director, and producer (born 1893)
*1946 – Masaharu Homma, Japanese general (born 1887)
*1950 – Kurt Weill, German-American composer and pianist (born 1900)
* 1950 – Carter G. Woodson, American historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month (born 1875)
*1951 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and playwright (born 1890)
* 1952 – Miina Sillanpää, Finnish minister and politician (born 1866)
* 1957 – Ned Sparks, Canadian-American actor (born 1883)
* 1958 – Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (born 1891)
*1962 – Manolis Kalomiris, Greek composer and educator (born 1883)
*1970 – Avigdor Hameiri, Israeli author (born 1890)
*1971 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (born 1904)
*1972 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer (born 1892)
*1975 – Mary Ure, Scottish-English actress (born 1933)
*1976 – David M. Dennison, American physicist and academic (born 1900)
* 1976 – Claude-Henri Grignon, Canadian journalist and politician (born 1894)
*1978 – Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and actor (born 1903)
* 1978 – Winston Sharples, American composer (born 1909)
* 1981 – Juan Trippe, American businessman, founded Pan American World Airways (born 1899)
* 1982 – Warren Oates, American actor (born 1928)
*1983 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English footballer and manager (born 1934)
* 1986 – Peter Pears, English tenor and educator (born 1910)
*1987 – Tom Sestak, American football player (born 1936)
* 1988 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (born 1907)
* 1990 – Sarah Vaughan, American singer (born 1924)
* 1991 – Charles Goren, American bridge player and author (born 1901)
* 1991 – Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (born 1904)
* 1993 – Pinky Lee, American television host (born 1907)
*1994 – Frank Wells, American businessman (born 1932)
* 1995 – Alfred J. Billes, Canadian businessman, co-founded Canadian Tire (born 1902)
* 1996 – Ron Brown, American captain and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Commerce (born 1941)
*1997 – John Ugelstad, Norwegian chemical engineer and inventor (born 1921)
*1998 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and academic (born 1900)
*1999 – Lionel Bart, English composer (born 1930)
* 1999 – Geoffrey Walsh, Canadian general (born 1909)
*2000 – Terence McKenna, American botanist and philosopher (born 1946)
* 2000 – Dina Abramowicz, Librarian and YIVO and Yiddish language expert (born 1909)
*2005 – François Gérin, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1944)
* 2007 – Nina Wang, Chinese businesswoman (born 1937)
* 2008 – Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (born 1983)
*2012 – Mingote, Spanish cartoonist and journalist (born 1919)
* 2012 – Richard Descoings, French civil servant (born 1958)
* 2012 – Govind Narain, Indian politician, 8th Governor of Karnataka (born 1917)
* 2012 – Chief Jay Strongbow, American wrestler (born 1928)
* 2012 – José María Zárraga, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1930)
*2013 – Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (born 1930)
* 2013 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (born 1927)
*2014 – Régine Deforges, French author, playwright, and director (born 1935)
* 2014 – Fred Kida, American illustrator (born 1920)
* 2014 – Prince Michael of Prussia (born 1940)
* 2014 – Jovan Pavlović, Serbian metropolitan (born 1936)
* 2014 – Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer (born 1921)
*2015 – Sarah Brady, American activist and author (born 1942)
* 2015 – Bob Burns, American drummer and songwriter (born 1950)
* 2015 – Shmuel Wosner, Austrian-Israeli rabbi and author (born 1913)
*2016 – Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager (born 1932)
* 2016 – Joe Medicine Crow, American anthropologist, historian, and author (born 1913)
* 2016 – Koji Wada, Japanese singer and songwriter (born 1974)
* 2017 – Kishori Amonkar, Indian classical vocalist (born 1931)
* 2021 – Stan Stephens, Canadian-American politician, 20th Governor of Montana (born 1929)
*2022 – June Brown, English actress (born 1927)
*2024 – Bob Lanigan, Australian rugby league player (born 1942)
* 2024 – Gaetano Pesce, Italian architect and designer (born 1939)
* 2025 – Theodore McCarrick, American former cardinal (born 1930)
* 2025 – Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager (born 1936)

Holidays and observances

* Christian feast day:
** Agape, Chionia, and Irene
** Burgundofara
** Luigi Scrosoppi
** Richard of Chichester
** April 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

References

External links

BBC: On This Day
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Historical Events on April 3

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Days of April