Anniversaries 5 April

Birth

Catherine of Genoa29

Italian author and nurse 1447–1510

Pope Urban VIII1

Pope 1568–1644

Thomas Hobbes97

English philosopher, born 1588 1588–1679

Jules Dupré4

French painter 1811–1889

Algernon Charles Swinburne87

English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic 1837–1909

Booker T. Washington48

African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor 1856–1915

Basil Hood1

British dramatist and army officer 1864–1917

Роземонд Жерар1

1871–1953

Spencer Tracy1

American actor 1900–1967

Chester Bowles4

American politician 1901–1986

Menachem Mendel Schneerson5

Hasidic rabbi 1902–1994

Richard Eberhart6

American poet 1904–2005

Lord Buckley1

American actor and comedian 1906–1960

Bette Davis36

film and television actress from the United States 1908–1989

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey1

Author, memoirist 1908–2006

Herbert von Karajan3

Austrian conductor 1908–1989

Gregory Peck14

American actor 1916–2003

Mu Dan1

Chinese poet 1918–1977

Arthur Hailey1

British writer 1920–2004

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu4

president of South Vietnam from 1965–75 1923–2001

Ernest Mandel11

Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher 1923–1995

Roger Corman2

American film director and film producer 1926

Ivar Giaever5

Norwegian physicist 1929

Hugo Claus1

Belgian author 1929–2008

Colin Powell63

Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general 1937

Marilyn Ferguson128

American writer 1938–2008

David Goodstein1

American physicist 1939

Paul Tan Chee Ing1

Malaysian bishop 1940

Bas van Fraassen1

American philosopher 1941

Peter Greenaway266

British film director 1942

Lurlene McDaniel16

American writer 1944

Peter T. King3

American politician 1944

Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945)3

Former English professional association footballer 1945–2019

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo3

The 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010 1947

Agnetha Fältskog6

Swedish recording artist and entertainer 1950

Dean Kamen2

American businessman 1951

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan29

Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologi… 1952

John C. Dvorak23

US journalist and radio broadcaster 1952

Arthur Uther Pendragon2

British activist 1954

Anthony Horowitz55

English novelist and screenwriter 1955

Akira Toriyama9

manga artist and video game character designer 1955

Lazarus Chakwera1

Malawi religious figure and politician 1955

Katherine Harris5

U.S. politician 1957

Anu Garg24

Indian author 1967

Stewart Lee9

English stand-up comedian, writer, director and musician 1968

Ravindra Prabhat6

Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, novelist and short story w… 1969

Nima Arkani-Hamed4

American-Canadian physicist 1972

Фаррелл Уильямс1

American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer 1973

David Richmond-Peck1

Canadian actor 1974

Juicy J5

American rapper and record producer from Tennessee; co-foun… 1975

James Wilks2

English martial artist 1978

Tim White2

American musician 1991

Death

Christian Scriver10

German hymnwriter 1629–1693

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax65

English politician 1633–1695

Edward Young110

English poet 1683–1765

Georges Danton3

French revolutionary 1759–1794

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek11

painter from the Northern Netherlands 1803–1862

Frances Power Cobbe12

Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist an… 1822–1904

Chauncey Depew10

American politician 1834–1928

Johan Falkberget2

Norwegian politician 1879–1967

Douglas MacArthur50

U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of… 1880–1964

Chiang Kai-shek9

Chinese politician and military leader 1887–1975

Arthur Travers Harris7

Royal Air Force air marshal 1892–1984

Brother Theodore15

German-American monologuist and comedian 1906–2001

Richard Crossman6

British Member of Parliament 1907–1974

Karel Zeman6

Czech film director, artist and animator 1910–1989

August Heckscher II2

American writer 1913–1997

Saul Bellow103

Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

I. J. Good2

British statistician, cryptographer 1916–2009

Sam Walton3

Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club 1918–1992

Charlton Heston29

American actor 1923–2008

Baruch Samuel Blumberg1

American doctor 1925–2011

Allen Ginsberg76

American poet 1926–1997

Robert S. Mendelsohn1

American pediatrician 1926–1988

Allan Kaprow9

American artist 1927–2006

Sydney Brenner5

South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medic… 1927–2019

Peter Matthiessen10

American novelist 1927–2014

Cecil Taylor3

American pianist and poet 1929–2018

Donald N. Levine2

sociologist 1931–2015

Bingu wa Mutharika1

politician and economist (1934-2012) 1934–2012

Herb Goldberg22

American psychologist 1937–2019

Layne Staley5

American singer 1967–2002

Kurt Cobain158

American musician and artist 1967–1994