April 21

April 21 is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 254 days remain until the end of the year.

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Events

Pre-1600

  • 753 BC Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
  • 43 BC Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered shortly after.
  • 900 The Laguna Copperplate Inscription (the earliest known written document found in what is now the Philippines): the Commander-in-Chief of the Kingdom of Tondo, as represented by the Honourable Jayadewa, Lord Minister of Pailah, pardons from all debt the Honourable Namwaran and his relations.
  • 1092 The Diocese of Pisa is elevated to the rank of metropolitan archdiocese by Pope Urban II
  • 1506 The three-day Lisbon Massacre comes to an end with the slaughter of over 1,900 suspected Jews by Portuguese Catholics.
  • 1509 Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
  • 1526 The last ruler of the Lodi dynasty, Ibrahim Lodi is defeated and killed by Babur in the First Battle of Panipat.

1601–1900

  • 1615 The Wignacourt Aqueduct is inaugurated in Malta.
  • 1782 The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.
  • 1789 John Adams sworn in as 1st US Vice President (nine days before George Washington)[1]
  • 1789 George Washington's reception at Trenton is hosted by the Ladies of Trenton as he journeys to New York City for his first inauguration.[2]
  • 1792 Tiradentes, a revolutionary leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered.
  • 1802 Twelve thousand Wahhabis sack Karbala, killing over three thousand inhabitants.
  • 1806 Action of 21 April 1806: A French frigate escapes British forces off the coast of South Africa.
  • 1809 Two Austrian army corps are driven from Landshut by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon as two French corps to the north hold off the main Austrian army on the first day of the Battle of Eckmühl.
  • 1821 Benderli Ali Pasha arrives in Constantinople as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire; he remains in power for only nine days before being sent into exile.
  • 1836 Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto: Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
  • 1856 Australian labour movement: Stonemasons and building workers on building sites around Melbourne march from the University of Melbourne to Parliament House to achieve an eight-hour day.
  • 1894 Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
  • 1898 Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.

1901–present

Births

Pre-1600

  • 1132 Sancho VI, king of Navarre (d. 1194)
  • 1488 Ulrich von Hutten, German religious reformer (d. 1523)
  • 1523 Marco Antonio Bragadin, Venetian lawyer and military officer (d. 1571)
  • 1555 Ludovico Carracci, Italian painter and etcher (d. 1619)

1601–1900

  • 1619 Jan van Riebeeck, Dutch founder of Cape Town (d. 1677)
  • 1630 Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten, Dutch-English painter (d. 1700)
  • 1631 Francesco Maidalchini, Catholic cardinal (d. 1700)
  • 1642 Simon de la Loubère, French mathematician, poet, and diplomat (d. 1729)
  • 1651 Joseph Vaz, Sri Lankan priest, missionary, and saint (d. 1711)
  • 1652 Michel Rolle, French mathematician and academic (d. 1719)
  • 1671 John Law, Scottish economist (d. 1729)
  • 1673 Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1742)
  • 1713 Louis de Noailles, French general (d. 1793)
  • 1730 Antonín Kammel, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1788)
  • 1752 Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait, French engineer, hydrographer, and politician, French Minister of Marine and the Colonies (d. 1807)
  • 1752 Humphry Repton, English gardener and author (d. 1818)
  • 1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (d. 1862)
  • 1775 Alexander Anderson, Scottish-American illustrator and engraver (d. 1870)
  • 1783 Reginald Heber, English priest (d. 1821)[8]
  • 1790 Manuel Blanco Encalada, Spanish-Chilean admiral and politician, 1st President of Chile (d. 1876)
  • 1810 John Putnam Chapin, American politician, 10th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1864)
  • 1811 Alson Sherman, American merchant and politician, 8th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1903)
  • 1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts, English art collector and philanthropist (d. 1906)
  • 1816 Charlotte Brontë, English novelist and poet (d. 1855)
  • 1837 Fredrik Bajer, Danish lieutenant and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1922)
  • 1838 John Muir, Scottish-American environmentalist and author (d. 1914)
  • 1854 William Stang, German-American bishop (d. 1907)
  • 1864 Max Weber, German economist and sociologist (d. 1920)
  • 1868 Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter (d. 1932)
  • 1868 Mary Rogers Miller, American author and educator (d. 1971)[9]
  • 1870 Edwin Stanton Porter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1941)
  • 1874 Vincent Scotto, French composer and actor (d. 1952)
  • 1882 Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1961)
  • 1885 Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (d. 1967)
  • 1887 Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager (d. 1978)
  • 1889 Marcel Boussac, French businessman (d. 1980)
  • 1889 Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
  • 1889 Efrem Zimbalist, Sr., Russian-American violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1985)
  • 1892 Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and racing driver (d. 1956)
  • 1893 Romeo Bertini, Italian runner (d. 1973)
  • 1898 Maurice Wilson, English soldier, pilot, and mountaineer (d. 1934)
  • 1899 Randall Thompson, American composer and academic (d. 1984)

1901–present

  • 1903 Luis Saslavsky, Argentinian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1995)
  • 1904 Jean Hélion, French painter (d. 1987)
  • 1904 Odilo Globocnik, Italian-Austrian SS officer (d. 1945)
  • 1905 Pat Brown, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California (d. 1996)
  • 1911 Ivan Combe, American businessman, developed Clearasil (d. 2000)
  • 1911 Kemal Satır, Turkish physician and politician (d. 1991)
  • 1912 Eve Arnold, Russian-American photojournalist (d. 2012)
  • 1912 Marcel Camus, French director and screenwriter (d. 1982)
  • 1913 Norman Parkinson, English photographer (d. 1990)
  • 1914 Angelo Savoldi, Italian-American wrestler and promoter, co-founded International World Class Championship Wrestling (d. 2013)
  • 1915 Garrett Hardin, American ecologist, author, and academic (d. 2003)
  • 1915 Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (d. 2001)
  • 1916 Estella B. Diggs, American businesswoman and politician (d. 2013)
  • 1918 Eddy Christiani, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
  • 1919 Don Cornell, American singer (d. 2004)
  • 1919 Roger Doucet, Canadian tenor (d. 1981)
  • 1919 Licio Gelli, Italian financer (d. 2015)
  • 1922 Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist and screenwriter (d. 1987)
  • 1922 Allan Watkins, Welsh-English cricketer (d. 2011)
  • 1923 John Mortimer, English lawyer and author (d. 2009)
  • 1924 Ira Louvin, American singer-songwriter and mandolin player (d. 1965)
  • 1925 Anthony Mason, Australian soldier and judge, 9th Chief Justice of Australia
  • 1925 John Swinton of Kimmerghame, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire (d. 2018)
  • 1926 Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and her other realms (d. 2022)[10]
  • 1926 Arthur Rowley, English footballer, manager and cricketer (d. 2002)[11]
  • 1927 Ahmed Arif, Turkish poet and author (d. 1991)
  • 1928 Jack Evans, Welsh-Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1996)
  • 1930 Hilda Hilst, Brazilian author, poet, and playwright (d. 2004)
  • 1930 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (d. 1989)
  • 1930 Dieter Roth, German-Swiss illustrator and sculptor (d. 1998)
  • 1930 Jack Taylor, English footballer and referee (d. 2012)
  • 1931 Morgan Wootten, American high school basketball coach (d. 2020)[12]
  • 1932 Slide Hampton, African-American trombonist and composer
  • 1932 Elaine May, American actress, comedian, director, and screenwriter
  • 1932 Angela Mortimer, English tennis player
  • 1933 Edelmiro Amante, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
  • 1933 Easley Blackwood, Jr., American pianist, composer, and educator
  • 1933 Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Iraqi patriarch (d. 2014)
  • 1935 Charles Grodin, American actor and talk show host (d. 2021) [13]
  • 1935 Thomas Kean, American academic and politician, 48th Governor of New Jersey
  • 1936 James Dobson, American evangelist, psychologist, and author, founded Focus on the Family
  • 1936 Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2009)
  • 1937 Gary Peters, American baseball player
  • 1937 Ben Zinn, Israeli-born American academic and former international soccer player
  • 1939 John McCabe, English pianist and composer (d. 2015)
  • 1939 Sister Helen Prejean, American nun, activist, and author
  • 1939 Reni Santoni, American actor (d. 2020)
  • 1940 Jacques Caron, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1940 Souleymane Cissé, Malian director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1941 David L. Boren, American lawyer and politician, 21st Governor of Oklahoma
  • 1942 Geoffrey Palmer, New Zealand politician, 33rd Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • 1945 Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan, Indian cricketer and umpire
  • 1945 Mark Wainberg, Canadian researcher and HIV/AIDS activist (d. 2017)
  • 1945 Diana Darvey, English actress, singer and dancer (d. 2000)
  • 1947 Al Bumbry, American baseball player
  • 1947 Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
  • 1947 John Weider, English bass player
  • 1948 Gary Condit, American businessman and politician
  • 1948 Paul Davis, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2008)
  • 1948 Josef Flammer, Swiss ophthalmologist
  • 1948 Dieter Fromm, German runner
  • 1949 Patti LuPone, American actress and singer
  • 1950 Shivaji Satam, Indian actor
  • 1951 Tony Danza, American actor and producer
  • 1951 Michael Freedman, American mathematician and academic
  • 1951 Bob Varsha, American sportscaster
  • 1951 Steve Vickers, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1952 Gerald Early, American author and academic
  • 1952 Cheryl Gillan, British businesswoman and politician, Secretary of State for Wales (d. 2021)
  • 1953 John Brumby, Australian politician, 45th Premier of Victoria
  • 1954 Ebiet G. Ade, Indonesian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1954 James Morrison, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1955 Murathan Mungan, Turkish author, poet, and playwright
  • 1956 Peter Kosminsky, English director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1956 Phillip Longman, German-American demographer and journalist
  • 1957 Hervé Le Tellier, French linguist and author
  • 1957 Herbert Wetterauer, German painter, sculptor, and author
  • 1958 Andie MacDowell, American model, actress, and producer
  • 1958 Yoshito Usui, Japanese illustrator (d. 2009)
  • 1958 Michael Zarnock, American author
  • 1959 Tim Jacobus, American illustrator and painter
  • 1959 Robert Smith, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1961 David Servan-Schreiber, French physician, neuroscientist, and author (d. 2011)
  • 1965 Fiona Kelleghan, American academic, critic and librarian
  • 1969 Toby Stephens, English actor
  • 1971 Michael Turner, American author and illustrator (d. 2008)
  • 1973 Steve Backshall, English naturalist, writer, and television presenter
  • 1977 Gyula Koi, Hungarian scholar and educator
  • 1979 Virginie Basselot, French chef
  • 1979 James McAvoy, Scottish actor[14]
  • 1980 Tony Romo, American football player and announcer[15]
  • 1983 Tarvaris Jackson, American football player (d. 2020)[16]
  • 1988 Ricky Berens, American swimmer[17]
  • 1988 Jencarlos Canela, American singer-songwriter and actor
  • 1996 Arianne Hartono, Dutch tennis player[18][19]

Deaths

Pre-1600

1601–1900

  • 1650 Yagyū Jūbei Mitsuyoshi, Japanese samurai (b. 1607)
  • 1668 Jan Boeckhorst, Flemish painter (b. c. 1604)
  • 1699 Jean Racine, French playwright and poet (b. 1639)
  • 1719 Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1640)
  • 1720 Antoine Hamilton, Irish-French soldier and author (b. 1646)
  • 1722 Robert Beverley, Jr., English historian and author (b. 1673)
  • 1736 Prince Eugene of Savoy (b. 1663)
  • 1740 Thomas Tickell, English poet and author (b. 1685)
  • 1758 Francesco Zerafa, Maltese architect (b. 1679)
  • 1815 Joseph Winston, American soldier and politician (b. 1746)
  • 1825 Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
  • 1852 Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (b. 1787)
  • 1863 Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish politician (b. 1782)
  • 1900 Vikramatji Khimojiraj, Indian ruler (b. 1819)

1901–present

  • 1910 Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (b. 1835)[22]
  • 1918 Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (b. 1892)
  • 1924 Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (b. 1858)[23]
  • 1930 Robert Bridges, English poet and author (b. 1844)
  • 1932 Friedrich Gustav Piffl, Bohemian cardinal (b. 1864)
  • 1938 Allama Muhammad Iqbal, Pakistani National philosopher and poet (b. 1877)
  • 1941 Fritz Manteuffel, German gymnast (b. 1875)
  • 1945 Walter Model, German field marshal (b. 1891)
  • 1946 John Maynard Keynes, English economist and philosopher (b. 1883)
  • 1948 Aldo Leopold, American ecologist and author (b. 1887)
  • 1952 Leslie Banks, American actor, director and producer (b. 1890)
  • 1954 Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (b. 1897)
  • 1956 Charles MacArthur, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1895)
  • 1965 Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
  • 1971 François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (b. 1907)
  • 1973 Arthur Fadden, Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
  • 1973 Kemal Tahir, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1910)
  • 1977 Gummo Marx, American vaudevillian and talent agent (b. 1893)
  • 1978 Sandy Denny, English singer-songwriter (b. 1947)[24]
  • 1978 Thomas Wyatt Turner, American biologist and academic (b. 1877)
  • 1980 Alexander Oparin, Russian biochemist and academic (b. 1894)
  • 1980 Sohrab Sepehri, Iranian poet and painter (b. 1928)
  • 1983 Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor and singer (b. 1902)
  • 1984 Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (b. 1895)
  • 1984 Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian engineer and mountaineer (b. 1943)
  • 1985 Rudi Gernreich, Austrian-American fashion designer, created the monokini (b. 1922)
  • 1985 Tancredo Neves, Brazilian banker and politician, Prime Minister of Brazil (b. 1910)
  • 1986 Marjorie Eaton, American painter and actress (b. 1901)
  • 1986 Salah Jahin, Egyptian poet, playwright, and composer (b. 1930)
  • 1987 Gustav Bergmann, Austrian-American philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1906)
  • 1990 Erté, Russian-French illustrator (b. 1892)
  • 1991 Willi Boskovsky, Austrian violinist and conductor (b. 1909)
  • 1992 Väinö Linna, Finnish author (b. 1920)[25]
  • 1996 Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1925)
  • 1996 Jimmy Snyder, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
  • 1998 Jean-François Lyotard, French sociologist and philosopher (b. 1924)
  • 1999 Buddy Rogers, American actor (b. 1904)
  • 2003 Nina Simone, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and activist (b. 1933)
  • 2010 Gustav Lorentzen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
  • 2010 Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish businessman, seventh President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1920)
  • 2010 Kanagaratnam Sriskandan, Sri Lankan-English engineer and civil servant (b. 1930)
  • 2011 Catharina Halkes, Dutch theologian and academic (b. 1920)
  • 2012 Doris Betts, American author and academic (b. 1932)
  • 2013 Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (b. 1929)
  • 2013 Leopold Engleitner, Austrian Holocaust survivor, author, and educator (b. 1905)
  • 2014 George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (b. 1936)
  • 2014 Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (b. 1930)
  • 2016 Prince, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (b. 1958)
  • 2017 Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer (b. 1972)
  • 2018 Nabi Tajima, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1900)[26]
  • 2019 Polly Higgins, Scottish barrister, author and environmental lobbyist (b. 1968)[27]

Holidays and observances

  • Christian feast day:
    • Abdecalas
    • Anastasius Sinaita
    • Anselm of Canterbury
    • Beuno
    • Conrad of Parzham
    • Holy Infant of Good Health
    • Shemon Bar Sabbae
    • Wolbodo
    • April 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Civil Service Day (India)
  • Grounation Day (Rastafari)
  • Heroic Defense of Veracruz (Mexico)
  • Kang Pan-sok's Birthday (North Korea)
  • Kartini Day (Indonesia)
  • Local Self Government Day (Russia)
  • National Tea Day (United Kingdom)
  • National Tree Planting Day (Kenya)
  • San Jacinto Day (Texas)
  • Queen or King's Official Birthday (Falkland Islands)
  • Tiradentes' Day (Brazil)
  • Vietnam Book Day (Vietnam)

References

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Sources

  • McCullough, David (2001). John Adams. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-7588-7.
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