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RAF founded
Hitler sent to Landsberg jail
The Polish Prince killed in plane crash
April Fools’ tradition popularized
U.S. troops land on Okinawa
Ludwig IV of Baveria Roman Catholic Bavarian emperor (1314-47)
Franois de Bonne duc de Lesdiguires Constable of France (d. 1626)
William Harvey English physician (discovered blood circulation) born in Folkestone Kent (d. 1657)
Thomas Simpson English composer who worked in Germany born in Kent (d. 1628)
Charles de Saint-vremond French soldier (d. 1703)
Guru Teg Bahadur Ji ninth Nanak 9th of 10 Guru of the Sikhs born in Amritsar India (d. 1675)
John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester English poet (d. 1680)
Antoine Franois Prvost French author and novelist (d. 1763)
Pieter Hellendaal Dutch violinistorganistcomposer (Glees)
Joseph de Maistre French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin French lawyer (Fisiologia del Gusto)
Luigi Schiavonetti Italian engraver (d. 1810)
Ignaz Franz von Mosel Austrian composer born in Vienna (d. 1844)
Hubert Reis German composer and violinist born in Bonn (d. 1886)
Fredrik Cygnaeus Finnish poetliterature critic
Simn Bolvar Buckner Lt Gen (Confederate Army) (d. 1914)
Jules-Nicolas Crevaux French explorer (South America)
Edward Austin Abbey American painter (Quest of the Holy Grail)
Acacio Gabriel Viegas Indian physician (d. 1933)
Arnold Aletrino Dutch physician-criminologistauthor (From Life)
Gaetano Mosca Italian sociologist (Circulation of Elite)
Richard Zsigmondy German chemist (Nobel-1925)
Ferruccio Busoni Italian pianistcomposerconductor (Arlecchino) born in Empoli (d. 1924)
Sophonisba Breckenridge scholarteachersocial activist
Edmond Rostand French poetplaywright (Cyrano de Bergerac)
Sergei Rachmaninoff Novgorod Russia composer (Prelude in C Minor)
Carl Sternheim German playwright (HyperionTabula Rasa)
Paul Anspach Belgian Olympic champion fencer (d. 1991)
Aleksander V Aleksandrov Russian composerconductor
Leonidas Lon Chaney American actor nicknamed the man of a 1000 faces (High Noon Phantom of the Opera) born in Colorado Springs Colorado (d. 1930)
Laurette Taylor [Helen Loretta Cooney] American actress (Peg o My Heart) born in NYC New York (d. 1946)
Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier) British barones
Cicely Courtneidge Australian actress (Double Exposure) born in Sydney New South Wales (d. 1980)
Apr 01 1064 Body of bishop Eleutherius of Blandain moved to Doornik
Apr 01 1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scottish from the English.
Apr 01 1340 Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III of Holstein in his bedroom ending the 1332- interregnum in Denmark.