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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 5th of April 1242 | EVENT | During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights. |
| 5th of April 1566 | EVENT | Two-hundred Dutch noblemen, led by Hendrik van Brederode, force themselves into the presence of Margaret of Parma and present the Petition of Compromise, denouncing the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands. The Inquisition is suspended and a delegation is sent to Spain to petition Philip II. |
| 5th of April 1609 | EVENT | Daimyo (Lord) of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyushu, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryukyu Kingdom in Okinawa. |
| 5th of April 1614 | EVENT | In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. |
| 5th of April 1621 | EVENT | The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to Great Britain. |
| 5th of April 1722 | EVENT | The Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island. |
| 5th of April 1792 | EVENT | U.S. President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States. |
| 5th of April 1804 | EVENT | High Possil Meteorite: The first recorded meteorite in Scotland falls in Possil. |
| 5th of April 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins. |
| 5th of April 1874 | EVENT | Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, is opened in Birkenhead. |
| 5th of April 1879 | EVENT | Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific. |
| 5th of April 1900 | EVENT | Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B. |
| 5th of April 1904 | EVENT | The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team (Welsh & Scottish players) in Central Park, Wigan, England. |
| 5th of April 1923 | EVENT | Firestone Tire and Rubber Company begins production of balloon-tires. |
| 5th of April 1932 | EVENT | Alcohol prohibition in Finland ends. Alcohol sales begin in Alko liquor stores. |
| 5th of April 1932 | EVENT | Dominion of Newfoundland: 10,000 rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government. |
| 5th of April 1933 | EVENT | U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens. |
| 5th of April 1936 | EVENT | Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: An F5 tornado kills 233 in Tupelo, Mississippi. |
| 5th of April 1942 | EVENT | World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a carrier-based air attack on Colombo, Ceylon during the Indian Ocean Raid. Port and civilian facilities are damaged and the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire are sunk southwest of the island. |
| 5th of April 1943 | EVENT | World War II: American bomber aircraft accidentally cause more than 900 civilian deaths, including 209 children, and 1300 wounded among the civilian population of the Belgian town of Mortsel. The target is the Erla factory one kilometer from the residential area hit. |
| 5th of April 1944 | EVENT | World War II: 270 inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans. |
| 5th of April 1945 | EVENT | Cold War: Yugoslav leader Josip "Tito" Broz signs an agreement with the Soviet Union to allow "temporary entry of Soviet troops into Yugoslav territory". |
| 5th of April 1946 | EVENT | Soviet troops leave the island of Bornholm, Denmark after an 11 month occupation. |
| 5th of April 1949 | EVENT | Fireside Theater debuts on television. |
| 5th of April 1949 | EVENT | A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States. |
| 5th of April 1951 | EVENT | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for performing espionage for the Soviet Union. |
| 5th of April 1955 | EVENT | Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health. |
| 5th of April 1956 | EVENT | Fidel Castro declares himself at war with the President of Cuba. |
| 5th of April 1956 | EVENT | In Sri Lanka, the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna win the general elections in a landslide and S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike is sworn in as the Prime Minister. |
| 5th of April 1957 | EVENT | In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E.M.S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first chief minister. |
| 5th of April 1958 | EVENT | Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time. |
| 5th of April 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. |
| 5th of April 1971 | EVENT | In Sri Lanka, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna launches insurrection against the United Front government of Sirimavo Bandaranaike. |
| 5th of April 1976 | EVENT | In the People's Republic of China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen incident. |
| 5th of April 1986 | EVENT | Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discotheque in West Berlin, Germany. |
| 5th of April 1991 | EVENT | An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard. |
| 5th of April 1992 | EVENT | Alberto Fujimori, president of Peru, dissolves the Peruvian congress by military force. |
| 5th of April 1992 | EVENT | The Siege of Sarajevo begins when Serb paramilitaries murder peace protesters Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic on the Vrbanja Bridge. |
| 5th of April 1998 | EVENT | In Japan, the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshu and costing about $3.8 billion USD, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world. |
| 5th of April 1999 | EVENT | Two Libyans suspected of bringing down Pan Am flight 103 in 1988 are handed over for eventual trial in the Netherlands. |
| 5th of April 2007 | EVENT | Georgia establishes a Provisional Administrative Entity in the disputed region of South Ossetia. |
| 5th of April 2009 | EVENT | North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyongsong-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks. |
| 5th of April 2010 | EVENT | Twenty-nine coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in West Virginia. |
| 5th of April 1288 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336) |
| 5th of April 1472 | BIRTHDAY | Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510) |
| 5th of April 1523 | BIRTHDAY | Blaise de Vigenere, French cryptographer (d. 1596) |
| 5th of April 1588 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679) |
| 5th of April 1604 | BIRTHDAY | Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675) |
| 5th of April 1622 | BIRTHDAY | Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703) |
| 5th of April 1649 | BIRTHDAY | Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721) |
| 5th of April 1692 | BIRTHDAY | Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730) |
| 5th of April 1719 | BIRTHDAY | Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger (d. 1794) |
| 5th of April 1732 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Honore Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806) |
| 5th of April 1752 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastien Erard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831) |
| 5th of April 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet Royal Navy Vice-Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty (d. 1839) |
| 5th of April 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Spohr, German composer and violinist (d. 1859) |
| 5th of April 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890) |
| 5th of April 1827 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Lister, English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery (d. 1912) |
| 5th of April 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Ferry, French statesman (d. 1893) |
| 5th of April 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909) |
| 5th of April 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Ghazaros Aghayan, Armenian writer, educator, folklorist, historian, linguist and public figure (d. 1911) |
| 5th of April 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915) |
| 5th of April 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950) |
| 5th of April 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942) |
| 5th of April 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Roussel, French composer (d. 1937) |
| 5th of April 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1912) |
| 5th of April 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962) |
| 5th of April 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Norman Angell, Nobel Peace prize winner in 1933 (d. 1967) |
| 5th of April 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956) |
| 5th of April 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973) |
| 5th of April 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Blalock, American surgeon (d. 1964) |
| 5th of April 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967) |
| 5th of April 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981) |
| 5th of April 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960) |
| 5th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989) |
| 5th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989) |
| 5th of April 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986) |
| 5th of April 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (d. 1996) |
| 5th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | John Le Mesurier, British actor (d. 1983) |
| 5th of April 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Istvan Orkeny, Hungarian author (d. 1979) |
| 5th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003) |
| 5th of April 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Henry Ottenweller, American bishop |
| 5th of April 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994) |
| 5th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Hailey, Anglo-Canadian author (d. 2004) |
| 5th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Barend Biesheuvel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1971 until 1973 (d. 2001) |
| 5th of April 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005) |
| 5th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Gale Storm, American singer and actress (My Little Margie) (d. 2009) |
| 5th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Hewett, British actor (d. 2001) |
| 5th of April 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Finney, English footballer |
| 5th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (d. 1995) |
| 5th of April 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (d. 2001) |
| 5th of April 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Corman, American film director |
| 5th of April 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (d. 1992) |
| 5th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 5th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (d. 2001) |
| 5th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (d. 2008) |
| 5th of April 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Meek, English record producer (d. 1967) |
| 5th of April 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Bland, American singer and songwriter |
| 5th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Felser, American sports columnist |
| 5th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 5th of April 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Holland, American writer (d. 2010) |
| 5th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Herzog, German politician |
| 5th of April 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2000) |
| 5th of April 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Grant, British music manager (d. 1995) |
| 5th of April 1936 | BIRTHDAY | John Kelly, Irish republican politician (d. 2007) |
| 5th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Powell, U.S. Army General, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and 65th Secretary of State |
| 5th of April 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Allan R. Thieme, American inventor |
| 5th of April 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Bland, South African cricketer |
| 5th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald White, American singer and songwriter (d. 1995) |
| 5th of April 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Crispian St. Peters, English singer (d. 2010) |
| 5th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Moriarty, American actor |
| 5th of April 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Swarbrick, English folk musician |
| 5th of April 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director |
| 5th of April 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Max Gail, American actor |
| 5th of April 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician |
| 5th of April 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Smith, English footballer |
| 5th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Asher, British actress |
| 5th of April 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bjorn Granath, Swedish actor |
| 5th of April 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 14th President of the Philippines |
| 5th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Les Binks, British musician, former drummer for Judas Priest |
| 5th of April 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Holland, British musician (Judas Priest) |
| 5th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Berg, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 5th of April 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Resnik, American astronaut (d. 1986) |
| 5th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Agnetha Faltskog, Swedish singer (ABBA) |
| 5th of April 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Miki Manojlovic, Serbian actor |
| 5th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Kamen, American inventor |
| 5th of April 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Bernie Ward, former American radio personality and convicted sex offender |
| 5th of April 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Pileggi, American actor |
| 5th of April 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Ridgway, American musician (Wall of Voodoo) |
| 5th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist |
| 5th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress |
| 5th of April 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Janice Long, English broadcaster |
| 5th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler |
| 5th of April 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony Horowitz, English Author |
| 5th of April 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Kriek, South African/American tennis player |
| 5th of April 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Asteris Koutoulas, Greek/German event and music producer, filmmaker and author |
| 5th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jim LeRoy, American airshow pilot (d. 2007) |
| 5th of April 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Zane, American actress |
| 5th of April 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003) |
| 5th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Beaton, English darts player |
| 5th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Marius Lacatus, Romanian footballer |
| 5th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Erika, French singer |
| 5th of April 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher "Kid" Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play) |
| 5th of April 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Cris Carpenter, American baseball player |
| 5th of April 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam) |
| 5th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Anu Garg, Indian/American author and speaker |
| 5th of April 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Gait, Canadian lacrosse player |
| 5th of April 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Cole, American musician |
| 5th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto) |
| 5th of April 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Thea Gill, Canadian actress |
| 5th of April 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dong Abay, Filipino musician and singer-songwriter |
| 5th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Krista Allen, American actress |
| 5th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Coronel, Dutch racing driver |
| 5th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Okon, Australian footballer |
| 5th of April 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Green, American singer and songwriter |
| 5th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Banks, American football player |
| 5th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Pharrell, American music producer (The Neptunes) |
| 5th of April 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Elodie Bouchez, French actress |
| 5th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sahaj Ticotin, American musician/producer (Ra) |
| 5th of April 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor |
| 5th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | John Hartson, Welsh footballer |
| 5th of April 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Shammond Williams, American basketball player |
| 5th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Collins, Nevisian sprinter |
| 5th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Drese, American baseball player |
| 5th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ross Gload, American baseball player |
| 5th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer |
| 5th of April 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer |
| 5th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer |
| 5th of April 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Jackson, American basketball player |
| 5th of April 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Timo Hildebrand, German footballer |
| 5th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Bonner, American basketball player |
| 5th of April 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper |
| 5th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier (d. 2006) |
| 5th of April 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge de la Rosa, Mexican baseball player |
| 5th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer |
| 5th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Pickens, American footballer |
| 5th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Premat, French racing driver |
| 5th of April 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kelly Pavlik, American boxer |
| 5th of April 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress |
| 5th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Papamichalopoulos, Cypriot skier |
| 5th of April 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Valentini, Italian footballer |
| 5th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Papamichalopoulou, Cypriot skier |
| 5th of April 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Haruma Miura, Japanese actor |
| 5th of April 0582 | DEATH | Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (Born c. 512) |
| 5th of April 1168 | DEATH | Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (Born 1104) |
| 5th of April 1419 | DEATH | Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (Born 1350) |
| 5th of April 1605 | DEATH | Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (Born c. 1513) |
| 5th of April 1617 | DEATH | Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (Born 1555) |
| 5th of April 1673 | DEATH | Francois Caron, French explorer (Born 1600) |
| 5th of April 1676 | DEATH | John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (Born 1606) |
| 5th of April 1693 | DEATH | Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (Born 1627) |
| 5th of April 1695 | DEATH | George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer (Born 1633) |
| 5th of April 1697 | DEATH | King Charles XI of Sweden (Born 1655) |
| 5th of April 1717 | DEATH | Jean Jouvenet, French painter (Born 1647) |
| 5th of April 1735 | DEATH | Samuel Wesley, English poet (Born 1662) |
| 5th of April 1735 | DEATH | William Derham, English minister and writer (Born 1657) |
| 5th of April 1765 | DEATH | Edward Young, English poet (Born 1683) |
| 5th of April 1794 | DEATH | Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (Born 1759) |
| 5th of April 1794 | DEATH | Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (Born 1760) |
| 5th of April 1834 | DEATH | Richard Goodwin Keats, Royal Navy admiral (Born 1757) |
| 5th of April 1864 | DEATH | Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (Born 1797) |
| 5th of April 1900 | DEATH | Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand, French mathematician (Born 1822) |
| 5th of April 1923 | DEATH | George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (Born 1866) |
| 5th of April 1928 | DEATH | Roy Kilner, English cricketer (Born 1890) |
| 5th of April 1932 | DEATH | Phar Lap, Australian Racehorse (Born 1926) |
| 5th of April 1941 | DEATH | Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (Born 1876) |
| 5th of April 1943 | DEATH | Ales Hrdlicka, Czech anthropologist (Born 1869) |
| 5th of April 1945 | DEATH | Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (Born 1897) |
| 5th of April 1945 | DEATH | Huldreich Georg Fruh, Swiss composer (Born 1903) |
| 5th of April 1946 | DEATH | Vincent Youmans, American songwriter (Born 1898) |
| 5th of April 1952 | DEATH | Charles Collett, GWR chief mechanical engineer (Born 1871) |
| 5th of April 1964 | DEATH | Douglas MacArthur, American general (Born 1880) |
| 5th of April 1967 | DEATH | Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (Born 1890) |
| 5th of April 1967 | DEATH | Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist (Born 1891) |
| 5th of April 1969 | DEATH | Shelby Storck, American television producer (Born 1917) |
| 5th of April 1969 | DEATH | Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (Born 1903) |
| 5th of April 1970 | DEATH | Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (Born 1891) |
| 5th of April 1972 | DEATH | Isabel Jewell, American actress (Born 1907) |
| 5th of April 1972 | DEATH | Brian Donlevy, American actor (Born 1901) |
| 5th of April 1973 | DEATH | John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (Born 1928) |
| 5th of April 1974 | DEATH | A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (Born 1882) |
| 5th of April 1975 | DEATH | Chiang Kai-shek, 1st President of the Republic of China (Born 1887) |
| 5th of April 1976 | DEATH | Howard Hughes, American aviator (Born 1905) |
| 5th of April 1976 | DEATH | Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (Born 1891) |
| 5th of April 1979 | DEATH | Eugene Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (Born 1893) |
| 5th of April 1981 | DEATH | Bob Hite, American singer (Canned Heat) (Born 1945) |
| 5th of April 1982 | DEATH | Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (Born 1910) |
| 5th of April 1983 | DEATH | Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (Born 1941) |
| 5th of April 1987 | DEATH | Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer, photographer (Born 1932) |
| 5th of April 1989 | DEATH | Maria Cristina Gomez, Salvadoran Teacher (Born 1938) |
| 5th of April 1991 | DEATH | John Tower, American politician (Born 1925) |
| 5th of April 1991 | DEATH | Sonny Carter, American astronaut (Born 1947) |
| 5th of April 1992 | DEATH | Molly Picon, American actress (Born 1898) |
| 5th of April 1992 | DEATH | Sam Walton, American retailer (Born 1918) |
| 5th of April 1993 | DEATH | Divya Bharti, Indian Bollywood actress (Born 1974) |
| 5th of April 1994 | DEATH | Kurt Cobain, musician (Nirvana) (Born 1967) |
| 5th of April 1997 | DEATH | Allen Ginsberg, American poet (Born 1926) |
| 5th of April 1998 | DEATH | Cozy Powell, British musician (Born 1947) |
| 5th of April 1999 | DEATH | Paul David, French-Canadian cardiologist (Born 1919) |
| 5th of April 2000 | DEATH | Lee Petty, American race car driver (Born 1914) |
| 5th of April 2001 | DEATH | Brother Theodore, German comedian (Born 1906) |
| 5th of April 2002 | DEATH | Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (Born 1967) |
| 5th of April 2004 | DEATH | S?awomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (Born 1915) |
| 5th of April 2004 | DEATH | Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (Born 1936) |
| 5th of April 2005 | DEATH | Saul Bellow, Canadian born writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1915) |
| 5th of April 2005 | DEATH | Debralee Scott, American actress (Born 1953) |
| 5th of April 2005 | DEATH | John Sichel, British film and television director (Born 1937) |
| 5th of April 2005 | DEATH | Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (Born 1906) |
| 5th of April 2006 | DEATH | Gene Pitney, American singer (Born 1941) |
| 5th of April 2007 | DEATH | Darryl Stingley, American football player (Born 1951) |
| 5th of April 2007 | DEATH | Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss) (Born 1956) |
| 5th of April 2007 | DEATH | Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (Born 1923) |
| 5th of April 2007 | DEATH | Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (Born 1938) |
| 5th of April 2007 | DEATH | Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (Born 1908) |
| 5th of April 2008 | DEATH | Charlton Heston, American actor (Born 1923) |
| 5th of April 2009 | DEATH | Constantine Papadakis, Greek-American businessman (Born 1946) |