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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 4th of April 1081 | EVENT | Alexios I Komnenos is crowned Byzantine emperor at Constantinople, bringing the Komnenian dynasty to full power. |
| 4th of April 1147 | EVENT | First historical record of Moscow. |
| 4th of April 1581 | EVENT | Francis Drake is knighted for completing a circumnavigation of the world. |
| 4th of April 1660 | EVENT | Declaration of Breda by King Charles II of England. |
| 4th of April 1721 | EVENT | Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I. |
| 4th of April 1812 | EVENT | U.S. President James Madison enacted a ninety-day embargo on trade with the United Kingdom. |
| 4th of April 1814 | EVENT | Napoleon abdicates for the first time. |
| 4th of April 1818 | EVENT | The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20). |
| 4th of April 1841 | EVENT | William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia becoming the first President of the United States to die in office and the one with the shortest term served. |
| 4th of April 1850 | EVENT | Los Angeles, California is incorporated as a city. |
| 4th of April 1850 | EVENT | The Great Fire of Cottenham, a large part of the Cambridgeshire village (England) is burnt to the ground under suspicious circumstances. |
| 4th of April 1859 | EVENT | Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show. |
| 4th of April 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital. |
| 4th of April 1866 | EVENT | Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt in the city of Kiev. |
| 4th of April 1873 | EVENT | The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world. |
| 4th of April 1887 | EVENT | Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States. |
| 4th of April 1905 | EVENT | In India, the 1905 Kangra earthquake hits the Kangra valley, kills 20,000, and destroys most buildings in Kangra, Mcleodganj and Dharamshala |
| 4th of April 1913 | EVENT | The Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes. |
| 4th of April 1930 | EVENT | The Communist Party of Panama is founded. |
| 4th of April 1939 | EVENT | Faisal II becomes King of Iraq. |
| 4th of April 1944 | EVENT | World War II: First bombardment of Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians. |
| 4th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany. |
| 4th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: American troops capture Kassel. |
| 4th of April 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Soviet Army takes control of Hungary. |
| 4th of April 1949 | EVENT | Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. |
| 4th of April 1958 | EVENT | The CND Peace Symbol displayed in public for the first time in London. |
| 4th of April 1960 | EVENT | France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan. |
| 4th of April 1964 | EVENT | The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. |
| 4th of April 1965 | EVENT | The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft plane is unveiled. |
| 4th of April 1967 | EVENT | Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" speech in New York City's Riverside Church. |
| 4th of April 1968 | EVENT | Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| 4th of April 1968 | EVENT | Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6. |
| 4th of April 1968 | EVENT | AEK Athens BC becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup. |
| 4th of April 1969 | EVENT | Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart. |
| 4th of April 1973 | EVENT | The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated. |
| 4th of April 1975 | EVENT | Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 4th of April 1976 | EVENT | Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest. |
| 4th of April 1979 | EVENT | President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed. |
| 4th of April 1979 | EVENT | The 2nd Congress of the Communist Youth of Greece starts. |
| 4th of April 1983 | EVENT | Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space (STS-6). |
| 4th of April 1984 | EVENT | President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons. |
| 4th of April 1988 | EVENT | Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office. |
| 4th of April 1991 | EVENT | Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania. |
| 4th of April 1994 | EVENT | Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark found Netscape Communications Corporation under the name "Mosaic Communications Corporation". |
| 4th of April 1996 | EVENT | Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous. |
| 4th of April 2002 | EVENT | The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War. |
| 4th of April 2002 | EVENT | In what is known as the Society Murders, Matthew Wales kills his parents in Melbourne, Australia. |
| 4th of April 2007 | EVENT | 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President. |
| 4th of April 0188 | BIRTHDAY | Caracalla, Roman emperor (d. 217) |
| 4th of April 1492 | BIRTHDAY | Ambrosius Blarer, German reformer (d. 1564) |
| 4th of April 1572 | BIRTHDAY | William Strachey, English writer (d. 1621) |
| 4th of April 1593 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Nicholas, English statesman (d. 1669) |
| 4th of April 1646 | BIRTHDAY | Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (d. 1715) |
| 4th of April 1648 | BIRTHDAY | Grinling Gibbons Dutch woodcarver (d. 1721) |
| 4th of April 1688 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer (d. 1768) |
| 4th of April 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and Hebrew scholar (d. 1783) |
| 4th of April 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov Hasidut (d. 1810) |
| 4th of April 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Bettina von Arnim, German writer (d. 1859) |
| 4th of April 1802 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea Dix, American social activist (d. 1887) |
| 4th of April 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist (d. 1883) |
| 4th of April 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Queen Maria II of Portugal (d. 1853) |
| 4th of April 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Linus Yale, Jr., American inventor and manufacturer (d. 1868) |
| 4th of April 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Zenobe Gramme, Belgian engineer (d. 1901) |
| 4th of April 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (d. 1891) |
| 4th of April 1843 | BIRTHDAY | William Henry Jackson, American photographer (d. 1942) |
| 4th of April 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Comte de Lautreamont, French writer (d. 1870) |
| 4th of April 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871) |
| 4th of April 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Remy de Gourmont, French poet (d. 1915) |
| 4th of April 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Monteux, French conductor (d. 1964) |
| 4th of April 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (d. 1958) |
| 4th of April 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt von Schleicher, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1934) |
| 4th of April 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Giacomo Alberione, Italian priest and publisher (d. 1971) |
| 4th of April 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander (d. 1943) |
| 4th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Zdzis?aw Zygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (d. 1975) |
| 4th of April 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Tris Speaker, American baseball player (d. 1958) |
| 4th of April 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Murray, American dance teacher (d. 1991) |
| 4th of April 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Robert E. Sherwood, American playwright (d. 1955) |
| 4th of April 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Fresnay, French stage and film actor (d. 1975) |
| 4th of April 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Agnes Ayres, American actress (d. 1940) |
| 4th of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Hillel Oppenheimer, German-born Israeli botanist (d. 1971) |
| 4th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French writer (d. 1969) |
| 4th of April 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley G. Weinbaum, American science-fiction author (d. 1935) |
| 4th of April 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Bozza, French modern composer (d. 1991) |
| 4th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Bea Benaderet, American actress (d. 1968) |
| 4th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | John Cameron Swayze, American journalist (d. 1995) |
| 4th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (d. 2006) |
| 4th of April 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Max Dupain, Australian photographer (d. 1992) |
| 4th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Frances Langford, American actress (d. 2005) |
| 4th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Muddy Waters, American musician (d. 1983) |
| 4th of April 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Leger, Quebec diplomat and Governor general of Canada (d. 1980) |
| 4th of April 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Marguerite Duras, French writer (d. 1996) |
| 4th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Owen, American baseball player (d. 2005) |
| 4th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | David White, American actor (d. 1990) |
| 4th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslav general, Serbian communist politician (d. 2005) |
| 4th of April 1918 | BIRTHDAY | George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (d. 2007) |
| 4th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Rohmer, French film director (d. 2010) |
| 4th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Elmer Bernstein, American composer (d. 2004) |
| 4th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Vaughan, English actor |
| 4th of April 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Gil Hodges, American baseball player and manager (d. 1972) |
| 4th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Wagner, French-Canadian politician and judge (d. 1979) |
| 4th of April 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Emmett Williams, American poet (d. 2007) |
| 4th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Mildred Fay Jefferson, American physician and pro-life activist (d. 2010) |
| 4th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Maya Angelou, American writer |
| 4th of April 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence director |
| 4th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Clive Davis, American record producer |
| 4th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Estelle Harris, American actress |
| 4th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Perkins, American actor (d. 1992) |
| 4th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Lugar, American politician |
| 4th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Tarkovsky, Soviet film director (d. 1986) |
| 4th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bill France, Jr., NASCAR pioneer (d. 2007) |
| 4th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | A. Bartlett Giamatti, American university president and Commissioner of Baseball (d. 1989) |
| 4th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | JoAnne Carner, American golfer |
| 4th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Major Lance, American singer (d. 1994) |
| 4th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Masekela, South African musician |
| 4th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Attwood, British racing driver |
| 4th of April 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Sheeley, American songwriter (d. 2002) |
| 4th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Fregosi, American baseball player and manager |
| 4th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kitty Kelley, American writer |
| 4th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Craig T. Nelson, American actor |
| 4th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Magda Aelvoet, Belgian politician |
| 4th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Cohn-Bendit, French political activist |
| 4th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline McWilliams, American actress (d. 2010) |
| 4th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Hill, English guitarist (Slade) |
| 4th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Coates, Australian speed skater |
| 4th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Katsuaki Sato, Japanese martial artist |
| 4th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gyorgy Spiro, Hungarian novelist and playwright |
| 4th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Fosse, American baseball player and broadcaster |
| 4th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Halpin, American actor |
| 4th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Wiranto, Indonesian general |
| 4th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Blassie, American military officer (d. 1972) |
| 4th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Berry Oakley, American bassist (The Allman Brothers Band) (d. 1972) |
| 4th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Simmons, American writer |
| 4th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Thompson, Northern Irish actor |
| 4th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican singer (The Wailers) (d. 1999) |
| 4th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Shing-Tung Yau, Chinese mathematician |
| 4th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Christine Lahti, American actress |
| 4th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | John Hannah, American football player |
| 4th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Hun Sen, Prime Minister of Cambodia |
| 4th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Rosemarie Ackermann, German athlete |
| 4th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2010) |
| 4th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and car racer (d. 1995) |
| 4th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Moore, Irish guitarist (Thin Lizzy) (d. 2011) |
| 4th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Villy S?vndal, Danish politician |
| 4th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Fotheringham, former South African cricketer |
| 4th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Wilson, Northern Irish politician |
| 4th of April 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bertrand, Canadian politician |
| 4th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Carmen, American Actress |
| 4th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Herr, American baseball player |
| 4th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | David E. Kelley, American writer and TV producer |
| 4th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Ali El Haggar, Egyptian singer and actor |
| 4th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Aki Kaurismaki, Finnish film director |
| 4th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Graeme Kelling, Scottish musician (Deacon Blue) (d. 2004) |
| 4th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kelso, American racehorse (d. 1983) |
| 4th of April 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Japanese musician (Rats & Star) |
| 4th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Mary-Margaret Humes, American actress |
| 4th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (d. 1990) |
| 4th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Eaglin, English soprano |
| 4th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Weaving, Nigerian-born English-Australian actor |
| 4th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Giovannetti, Italian cyclist |
| 4th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Adams, English musician (The Sisters of Mercy, Mission UK) |
| 4th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jane McDonald, British singer, actress and media personality |
| 4th of April 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Norton, Irish talk show host |
| 4th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Branco, Brazilian footballer and coach |
| 4th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | David Cross, American actor and comedian |
| 4th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Chud, American musician (Misfits, Dr. Chud's X-Ward) |
| 4th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie Rist, American actor |
| 4th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dang Than, Vietnamese poet and writer |
| 4th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Downey, Jr., American actor |
| 4th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Starr, American musician (Alice In Chains) (d. 2011) |
| 4th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Riduan Isamuddin, Indonesian terrorist |
| 4th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy McKeon, American actor |
| 4th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Christos Tsekos Greek basketball player |
| 4th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | George Mavrotas, Greek water polo player |
| 4th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jesus Miguel Rollan Prada, Spanish water polo player (d. 2006) |
| 4th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Xenia Seeberg, German actress |
| 4th of April 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Karren Brady, British sports executive and broadcaster |
| 4th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Amanatidis, Greek footballer |
| 4th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Wendy Bell, American television news reporter |
| 4th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Pepper, Canadian actor |
| 4th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Mix Master Mike, American turntablist (Beastie Boys) |
| 4th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Chapman, English radio sports newsreader and DJ |
| 4th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Yanic Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | John Zandig, American professional wrestler |
| 4th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Todd, American singer (Buckcherry) |
| 4th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Scott, American soul singer |
| 4th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Magnus Sveningsson, Swedish musician (The Cardigans) |
| 4th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Ray, Canadian actress |
| 4th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | David Blaine, American illusionist |
| 4th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Hoekstra, Dutch footballer |
| 4th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer |
| 4th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chris McCormack, Australian triathlete |
| 4th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Mirra, American athlete |
| 4th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Thobias Fredriksson, Swedish cross-country skier |
| 4th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Padrick, American journalist |
| 4th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman |
| 4th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Ribon, American author and actress |
| 4th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Rolen, American baseball player |
| 4th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Weekes, Canadian ice-hockey player |
| 4th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Enjolras, French racing driver (d. 1997) |
| 4th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Emerson, Brazilian footballer |
| 4th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | James Roday, American actor |
| 4th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Dutkiewicz, American guitarist and producer (Killswitch Engage) |
| 4th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Omarr Smith, American football player |
| 4th of April 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Mulhern, British magician and TV presenter |
| 4th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Ellison, American baseball player |
| 4th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Lemar, English singer |
| 4th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Moran, Australian entertainer |
| 4th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Mahon, Irish footballer |
| 4th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Aska Yang, Taiwanese singer |
| 4th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Skliva, Greek pagent contestant |
| 4th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008) |
| 4th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Andy McKee, American musician |
| 4th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Natasha Lyonne, American actress |
| 4th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Roberto Luongo, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 4th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Napier, New Zealand actress |
| 4th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Trevor Moore, American comedian |
| 4th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Borrell, English singer (Razorlight) |
| 4th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver |
| 4th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Steinbach, American football player |
| 4th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Eduardo Luis Carloto, Brazilian footballer |
| 4th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Vizzini, American author |
| 4th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Fabian Geiser, Swiss footballer |
| 4th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Gordon, American basketball player |
| 4th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Lynch, Canadian ice-hockey player |
| 4th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Angelle Tymon, American journalist and TV game-show host |
| 4th of April 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Righetti, American actress and producer |
| 4th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Arkady Vyatchanin, Russian swimmer |
| 4th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Rudy Fernandez, Spanish basketball player |
| 4th of April 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer |
| 4th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Barker, Canadian ice-hockey player |
| 4th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Eunhyuk, Korean singer (Super Junior) |
| 4th of April 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Aiden McGeady, Irish footballer |
| 4th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Devon Anderson, English actor |
| 4th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress |
| 4th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sami Khedira, German footballer |
| 4th of April 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Maybin, American baseball player |
| 4th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Fielding, English footballer |
| 4th of April 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Vurnon Anita, Dutch footballer |
| 4th of April 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Lynn Spears, American actress and singer |
| 4th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Christina Metaxa, Cypriot singer |
| 4th of April 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Alexa Nikolas, American actress |
| 4th of April 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Risako Sugaya, Japanese singer |
| 4th of April 0397 | DEATH | St. Ambrose, Bishop of Milan (Born c. 338) |
| 4th of April 0636 | DEATH | Saint Isidore of Seville, Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet (Born c. 560) |
| 4th of April 0896 | DEATH | Pope Formosus (Born 816) |
| 4th of April 1284 | DEATH | King Alfonso X of Castile (Born 1221) |
| 4th of April 1292 | DEATH | Pope Nicholas IV (Born 1227) |
| 4th of April 1305 | DEATH | Jeanne of Navarre, wife of Philip IV of France (Born c. 1217) |
| 4th of April 1536 | DEATH | Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (Born 1460) |
| 4th of April 1588 | DEATH | King Frederick II of Denmark (Born 1534) |
| 4th of April 1609 | DEATH | Charles de L'Ecluse, Flemish botanist (Born 1526) |
| 4th of April 1617 | DEATH | John Napier, Scottish mathematician (Born 1550) |
| 4th of April 1643 | DEATH | Simon Episcopius, Dutch theologian (Born 1583) |
| 4th of April 1661 | DEATH | Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (Born c. 1580) |
| 4th of April 1701 | DEATH | Joseph Haines, entertainer and author |
| 4th of April 1743 | DEATH | Daniel Neal, English historian (Born 1678) |
| 4th of April 1761 | DEATH | Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (Born 1722) |
| 4th of April 1766 | DEATH | John Taylor, English classical scholar (Born 1704) |
| 4th of April 1774 | DEATH | Oliver Goldsmith, English writer (Born 1728) |
| 4th of April 1792 | DEATH | James Sykes, American politician (Born 1725) |
| 4th of April 1807 | DEATH | Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande, French astronomer (Born 1732) |
| 4th of April 1817 | DEATH | Andre Massena, Duke of Rivoli, Prince of Essling and Marshal of France (Born 1758) |
| 4th of April 1841 | DEATH | William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (Born 1773) |
| 4th of April 1846 | DEATH | Solomon Sibley, American senator from Michigan Territory (Born 1769) |
| 4th of April 1861 | DEATH | John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Born 1785) |
| 4th of April 1863 | DEATH | Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (Born 1790) |
| 4th of April 1864 | DEATH | Joseph Pitty Couthouy, American naval officer (Born 1808) |
| 4th of April 1870 | DEATH | Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (Born 1802) |
| 4th of April 1874 | DEATH | Charles Ernest Beule, French archaeologist and politician (Born 1826) |
| 4th of April 1878 | DEATH | Richard Brewer, American gunslinger/cowboy (Born 1850) |
| 4th of April 1879 | DEATH | Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (Born 1803) |
| 4th of April 1883 | DEATH | Peter Cooper, American industrialist, inventor and philanthropist (Born 1791) |
| 4th of April 1884 | DEATH | Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian artist and diarist (Born 1860) |
| 4th of April 1890 | DEATH | Edmond Hebert, French geologist (Born 1812) |
| 4th of April 1890 | DEATH | Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, Quebec politician (Born 1820) |
| 4th of April 1919 | DEATH | William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (Born 1832) |
| 4th of April 1923 | DEATH | John Venn, British mathematician (Born 1834) |
| 4th of April 1929 | DEATH | Karl Benz, German engine designer, inventor, and automobile engineer (Born 1844) |
| 4th of April 1931 | DEATH | Andre Michelin, French industrialist (Born 1853) |
| 4th of April 1932 | DEATH | Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1853) |
| 4th of April 1947 | DEATH | William O'Donnell, Irish politician (Born ?) |
| 4th of April 1951 | DEATH | Al Christie, Canadian film director and producer (Born 1881) |
| 4th of April 1951 | DEATH | George Albert Smith, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) (Born 1870) |
| 4th of April 1953 | DEATH | King Carol II of Romania (Born 1893) |
| 4th of April 1957 | DEATH | E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (Born 1909) |
| 4th of April 1958 | DEATH | Johnny Stompanato, American organized crime figure (Born 1925) |
| 4th of April 1961 | DEATH | Simion Stoilow, Romanian mathematician (Born 1873) |
| 4th of April 1962 | DEATH | James Hanratty, British rapist and murderer (Born 1936) |
| 4th of April 1967 | DEATH | Hector Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (Born 1898) |
| 4th of April 1967 | DEATH | Al Lewis, American songwriter (Born 1901) |
| 4th of April 1968 | DEATH | Martin Luther King, Jr., American civil rights activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1929) |
| 4th of April 1970 | DEATH | Byron Foulger, American actor (Born 1899) |
| 4th of April 1972 | DEATH | Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American politician (Born 1908) |
| 4th of April 1972 | DEATH | Stefan Wolpe, German composer (Born 1902) |
| 4th of April 1976 | DEATH | Harry Nyquist, Swedish contributor to information theory (Born 1889) |
| 4th of April 1979 | DEATH | Edgar Buchanan, American actor (Born 1903) |
| 4th of April 1980 | DEATH | Red Sovine, American country music singer (Born 1917) |
| 4th of April 1983 | DEATH | Gloria Swanson, American actress (Born 1899) |
| 4th of April 1984 | DEATH | Oleg Antonov, Soviet airplane engineer (Born 1906) |
| 4th of April 1985 | DEATH | Kate Roberts, Welsh nationalist and writer (Born 1891) |
| 4th of April 1987 | DEATH | Chogyam Trungpa, Tibetan Buddhist meditation master (Born 1939) |
| 4th of April 1987 | DEATH | C.L. Moore, American writer (Born 1911) |
| 4th of April 1991 | DEATH | Edmund Adamkiewicz, German footballer (Born 1920) |
| 4th of April 1991 | DEATH | H. John Heinz III, U.S. Senator (Born 1938) |
| 4th of April 1991 | DEATH | Forrest Towns, American hurdler (Born 1914) |
| 4th of April 1991 | DEATH | Max Frisch, Swiss writer (Born 1911) |
| 4th of April 1992 | DEATH | Yvette Brind'Amour, French Canadian stage actress and artistic director (Born 1918) |
| 4th of April 1992 | DEATH | Arthur Russell, American cellist (Born 1951) |
| 4th of April 1992 | DEATH | Jack Hamilton, Australian football player (Born 1928) |
| 4th of April 1993 | DEATH | Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and inventor of Scrabble (Born 1899) |
| 4th of April 1995 | DEATH | Kenny Everett, British radio DJ and television entertainer (Born 1944) |
| 4th of April 1995 | DEATH | Priscilla Lane, American singer and actress (Born 1915) |
| 4th of April 1996 | DEATH | Barney Ewell, American athlete (Born 1918) |
| 4th of April 1996 | DEATH | Boone Guyton, American test pilot (Born 1913) |
| 4th of April 1996 | DEATH | Larry LaPrise, American songwriter (Born 1913) |
| 4th of April 1997 | DEATH | Leo Picard, Israeli geologist (Born 1900) |
| 4th of April 1999 | DEATH | Faith Domergue, American actor (Born 1924) |
| 4th of April 1999 | DEATH | Early Wynn, American baseball player (Born 1920) |
| 4th of April 2001 | DEATH | Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American custom car designer (Born 1932) |
| 4th of April 2002 | DEATH | Harry L. O'Connor, Czech film stuntman |
| 4th of April 2003 | DEATH | Anthony Caruso, American actor (Born 1916) |
| 4th of April 2003 | DEATH | Resortes, Mexican comedian (Born 1916) |
| 4th of April 2004 | DEATH | Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (Born 1919) |
| 4th of April 2004 | DEATH | Casey Sheehan, American soldier, son of Cindy Sheehan (Born 1979) |
| 4th of April 2005 | DEATH | Edward Bronfman, Canadian businessman (Born 1924) |
| 4th of April 2007 | DEATH | Terry Hall, English ventriloquist (Born 1927) |
| 4th of April 2007 | DEATH | Bob Clark, American film director (Born 1941) |
| 4th of April 2008 | DEATH | Francis Tucker, South African rally driver (Born 1923) |
| 4th of April 2009 | DEATH | Gonzalo Olave, Chilean television actor (Born 1983) |
| 4th of April 2011 | DEATH | Scott Columbus, American drummer (Manowar) (Born 1956) |
| 4th of April 2011 | DEATH | Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, filmmaker and political activist (Born 1958) |