April 1
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1901–present
- 1908 - The Territorial Force is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
- 1918 - The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
- 1922 - In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.
- 1924 - Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years fortress confinement for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
- 1924 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
- 1933 - The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
- 1935 - India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
- 1937 - Aden becomes a British crown colony.
- 1937 - The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
- 1939 - Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
- 1941 - Fântâna Albă massacre: Between two hundred and two thousand Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
- 1941 - A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
- 1944 - World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
- 1945 - World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
- 1946 - The 8.6 Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI. A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
- 1946 - The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
- 1947 - The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
- 1948 - Cold War: Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
- 1948 - Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
- 1949 - Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
- 1949 - The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
- 1954 - United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1955 - The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
- 1960 - The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
- 1964 - The British Admiralty, War Office and Air Ministry are replaced by a unified Defence Council of the United Kingdom.
- 1969 - The Hawker Siddeley Harrier, the first operational fighter aircraft with Vertical/Short Takeoff and Landing capabilities, enters service with the Royal Air Force.
- 1970 - President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law.
- 1970 - A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes near Berrechid, Morocco, killing 61.
- 1971 - Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre more than a thousand people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
- 1973 - Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
- 1974 - The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
- 1976 - Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computer, Inc.
- 1979 - Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
- 1984 - Singer Marvin Gaye is shot to death by his father in his home in Arlington Heights, Los Angeles, California.
- 1986 - Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
- 1989 - Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge, is introduced in Scotland.
- 1993 - NASCAR champion Alan Kulwicki is killed in a plane crash near the Tri-Cities Regional Airport in Blountville, Tennessee.
- 1997 - Comet Hale–Bopp is seen passing at perihelion.
- 1999 - Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
- 2001 - An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Chinese pilot ejected but is subsequently lost. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
- 2001 - Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
- 2001 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
- 2004 - Google launches its Email service Gmail.
- 2006 - Serious Organised Crime Agency of the Government of the United Kingdom is enforced, but later merged into National Crime Agency on 7 October 2013.
- 2011 - After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of fourteen people, including seven UN workers.
- 2016 - The 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict begins along the Nagorno-Karabakh Line of Contact.
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
- 1610 - Charles de Saint-Évremond, French soldier and critic
- 1629 - Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, French organist and composer
- 1640 - Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician and academic
- 1647 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet and courtier
- 1697 - Antoine François Prévost, French novelist and translator
- 1721 - Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch-English organist, violinist, and composer
- 1741 - George Dance the Younger, English architect and surveyor
- 1753 - Joseph de Maistre, French philosopher, lawyer, and diplomat
- 1765 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver and etcher
- 1776 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
- 1786 - William Mulready, Irish genre painter
- 1815 - Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire
- 1815 - Edward Clark, American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of Texas
- 1823 - Simon Bolivar Buckner, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Kentucky
- 1824 - Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop
- 1834 - James Fisk, American businessman
- 1852 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator
- 1858 - Columba Marmion, Irish Benedictine abbot
- 1865 - Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1866 - William Blomfield, New Zealand cartoonist and politician
- 1866 - Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1866 - Ève Lavallière, French actress
- 1868 - Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright
- 1868 - Walter Mead, English cricketer
- 1871 - F. Melius Christiansen, Norwegian-American violinist and conductor
- 1873 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1874 - Ernest Barnes, English mathematician and theologian
- 1874 - Prince Karl of Bavaria
- 1875 - Edgar Wallace, English journalist, author, and playwright
- 1878 - C. Ganesha Iyer, Ceylon Tamil philologist
- 1879 - Stanislaus Zbyszko, Polish wrestler and strongman
- 1881 - Octavian Goga, Romanian Prime Minister
- 1883 - Lon Chaney, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1883 - Edvard Drabløs, Norwegian actor and director
- 1883 - Laurette Taylor, Irish-American actress
- 1885 - Wallace Beery, American actor
- 1885 - Clementine Churchill, English wife of Winston Churchill
- 1889 - K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and activist
- 1893 - Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress
- 1895 - Alberta Hunter, African-American singer-songwriter and nurse
- 1898 - William James Sidis, Ukrainian-Russian Jewish American mathematician, anthropologist, and historian
- 1899 - Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian academic and politician
- 1900 - Stefanie Clausen, Danish Olympic diver
1901–present
- 1901 - Whittaker Chambers, American journalist and spy
- 1902 - Maria Polydouri, Greek poet
- 1905 - Gaston Eyskens, Belgian economist and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Belgium
- 1905 - Paul Hasluck, Australian historian, poet, and politician, 17th Governor-General of Australia
- 1906 - Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Russian engineer, founded the Yakovlev Design Bureau
- 1907 - Shivakumara Swami, Indian religious leader and philanthropist
- 1908 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist and academic
- 1908 - Harlow Rothert, American shot putter, lawyer, and academic
- 1909 - Abner Biberman, American actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1909 - Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader
- 1910 - Harry Carney, American saxophonist and clarinet player
- 1910 - Bob Van Osdel, American high jumper and soldier
- 1911 - Augusta Braxton Baker, African American librarian
- 1913 - Memos Makris, Greek sculptor
- 1915 - O. W. Fischer, Austrian-Swiss actor and director
- 1916 - Sheila May Edmonds, British mathematician
- 1917 - Sydney Newman, Canadian screenwriter and producer, co-created Doctor Who
- 1917 - Melville Shavelson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1919 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920 - Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor
- 1921 - William Bergsma, American composer and educator
- 1921 - Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith, American guitarist, fiddler, and composer
- 1922 - Duke Jordan, American pianist and composer
- 1922 - William Manchester, American historian and author
- 1924 - Brendan Byrne, American lieutenant, judge, and politician, 47th Governor of New Jersey
- 1926 - Anne McCaffrey, American-Irish author
- 1927 - Walter Bahr, American soccer player, coach, and manager
- 1927 - Amos Milburn, American R&B singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1927 - Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer and manager
- 1929 - Jonathan Haze, American actor, producer, screenwriter, and production manager
- 1929 - Milan Kundera, Czech-French novelist, poet, and playwright
- 1929 - Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director
- 1929 - Jane Powell, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1930 - Grace Lee Whitney, American actress and singer
- 1930 - Ásta Sigurðardóttir, Icelandic writer and visual artist
- 1931 - George Baker, Bulgarian-English actor and screenwriter
- 1931 - Rolf Hochhuth, German author and playwright
- 1932 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1933 - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Algerian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933 - Dan Flavin, American sculptor and educator
- 1933 - Bengt Holbek, Danish folklorist
- 1934 - Vladimir Posner, French-American journalist and radio host
- 1935 - Cyril Karabus, South African paediatric oncologist
- 1935 - Larry McDonald, American physician and politician
- 1936 - Peter Collinson, English-American director and producer
- 1936 - Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, Swiss politician, 80th President of the Swiss Confederation
- 1936 - Tarun Gogoi, Indian politician, 14th Chief Minister of Assam
- 1936 - Abdul Qadeer Khan, Indian-Pakistani physicist, chemist, and engineer
- 1937 - Jordan Charney, American actor
- 1937 - Yılmaz Güney, Palme d'Or award-winning Kurdish film director, scenarist, actor, novelist and activist
- 1937 - Lynn Garrison, Canadian aviator, political advisor, and mercenary
- 1939 - Ali MacGraw, American model and actress
- 1939 - Phil Niekro, American baseball player and manager
- 1940 - Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 - Gideon Gadot, Israeli journalist and politician
- 1941 - Ajit Wadekar, Indian cricketer, coach, and manager
- 1942 - Samuel R. Delany, American author and critic
- 1942 - Richard D. Wolff, American economist and academic
- 1943 - Dafydd Wigley, Welsh academic and politician
- 1943 - Titina Silá, Bissau-Guinean revolutionary
- 1946 - Nikitas Kaklamanis, Greek academic and politician, Greek Minister of Health and Social Security
- 1946 - Ronnie Lane, English bass player, songwriter, and producer
- 1946 - Arrigo Sacchi, Italian footballer, coach, and manager
- 1947 - Alain Connes, French mathematician and academic
- 1948 - Javier Irureta, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1948 - Peter Law, Welsh politician and independent Member of Parliament
- 1949 - Gérard Mestrallet, French businessman
- 1949 - Paul Manafort, American lobbyist, political consultant, and convicted felon
- 1949 - Sammy Nelson, Northern Irish footballer and coach
- 1949 - Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and author
- 1950 - Samuel Alito, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1950 - Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver
- 1950 - Daniel Paillé, Canadian academic and politician
- 1951 - John Abizaid, American general
- 1952 - Annette O'Toole, American actress
- 1952 - Bernard Stiegler, French philosopher and academic
- 1953 - Barry Sonnenfeld, American cinematographer, director, and producer
- 1953 - Alberto Zaccheroni, Italian footballer and manager
- 1954 - Jeff Porcaro, American drummer, songwriter, and producer
- 1955 - Don Hasselbeck, American football player and sportscaster
- 1955 - Humayun Akhtar Khan, Pakistani politician, 5th Commerce Minister of Pakistan
- 1957 - John Farragher, Australian rugby league player
- 1957 - David Gower, English cricketer and sportscaster
- 1957 - Denise Nickerson, American actress
- 1958 - D. Boon, American singer and musician
- 1959 - Helmut Duckadam, Romanian footballer
- 1961 - Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
- 1961 - Sergio Scariolo, Italian professional basketball head coach
- 1961 - Mark White, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1962 - Mark Shulman, American author
- 1962 - Chris Grayling, English journalist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
- 1962 - Samboy Lim, Filipino basketball player and manager
- 1962 - Phillip Schofield, English television host
- 1963 - Teodoro de Villa Diaz, Filipino guitarist and songwriter
- 1963 - Aprille Ericsson-Jackson, American aerospace engineer
- 1964 - Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager
- 1964 - Kevin Duckworth, American basketball player
- 1964 - John Morris, English cricketer
- 1964 - José Rodrigues dos Santos, Portuguese journalist, author, and educator
- 1965 - Jane Adams, American film, television, and stage actress
- 1965 - Mark Jackson, American basketball player and coach
- 1966 - Chris Evans, English radio and television host
- 1966 - Mehmet Özdilek, Turkish footballer and manager
- 1967 - Nicola Roxon, Australian lawyer and politician, 34th Attorney-General for Australia
- 1968 - Mike Baird, Australian politician, 44th Premier of New South Wales
- 1968 - Andreas Schnaas, German actor and director
- 1968 - Alexander Stubb, Finnish academic and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Finland and 13th President of Finland
- 1969 - Lev Lobodin, Ukrainian-Russian decathlete
- 1969 - Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball player
- 1969 - Dean Windass, English footballer and manager
- 1970 - Brad Meltzer, American author, screenwriter, and producer
- 1971 - Sonia Bisset, Cuban javelin thrower
- 1971 - Shinji Nakano, Japanese racing driver
- 1972 - Darren McCarty, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
- 1972 - Jesse Tobias, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1973 - Christian Finnegan, American comedian and actor
- 1973 - Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricketer and coach
- 1973 - Rachel Maddow, American journalist and author
- 1974 - Hugo Ibarra, Argentinian footballer and manager
- 1975 - John Butler, American-Australian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1975 - Magdalena Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
- 1976 - Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player and educator
- 1976 - David Gilliland, American race car driver
- 1976 - Gábor Király, Hungarian footballer
- 1976 - David Oyelowo, English actor
- 1976 - Clarence Seedorf, Dutch-Brazilian footballer and manager
- 1976 - Yuka Yoshida, Japanese tennis player
- 1977 - Vitor Belfort, Brazilian-American boxer and mixed martial artist
- 1977 - Haimar Zubeldia, Spanish cyclist
- 1978 - Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer
- 1978 - Mirka Federer, Slovak-Swiss tennis player
- 1978 - Anamaria Marinca, Romanian-English actress
- 1978 - Etan Thomas, American basketball player
- 1979 - Ruth Beitia, Spanish high jumper
- 1980 - Dennis Kruppke, German footballer
- 1980 - Randy Orton, American wrestler
- 1980 - Bijou Phillips, American actress and model
- 1981 - Antonis Fotsis, Greek basketball player
- 1981 - Bjørn Einar Romøren, Norwegian ski jumper
- 1982 - Taran Killam, American actor, voice artist, comedian, and writer
- 1982 - Andreas Thorkildsen, Norwegian javelin thrower
- 1983 - Ólafur Ingi Skúlason, Icelandic footballer
- 1983 - Sean Taylor, American football player
- 1984 - Gilberto Macena, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 - Daniel Murphy, American baseball player
- 1985 - Beth Tweddle, English gymnast
- 1986 - Nikolaos Kourtidis, Greek weightlifter
- 1986 - Hillary Scott, American country singer-songwriter
- 1987 - Vitorino Antunes, Portuguese footballer
- 1987 - Ding Junhui, Chinese professional snooker player
- 1987 - Gianluca Musacci, Italian footballer
- 1987 - Oliver Turvey, English racing driver
- 1988 - Brook Lopez, American basketball player
- 1988 - Robin Lopez, American basketball player
- 1989 - Jan Blokhuijsen, Dutch speed skater
- 1989 - David Ngog, French footballer
- 1989 - Christian Vietoris, German racing driver
- 1990 - Julia Fischer, German discus thrower
- 1991 - Duván Zapata, Colombian footballer
- 1992 - Deng Linlin, Chinese gymnast
- 1995 - Jofra Archer, Barbadian-English cricketer
- 1995 - Logan Paul, American YouTuber, actor and wrestler
- 1996 - Sophia Hutchins, American socialite
- 1997 - Asa Butterfield, English actor
- 1997 - Álex Palou, Spanish racing driver
- 1998 - King Combs, American rapper
- 1998 - Mitchell Robinson, American basketball player
- 1999 - Gabe Davis, American football player
- 2000 - Rhian Brewster, English footballer
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 996 - John XV, pope of the Catholic Church
- 1085 - Shen Zong, Chinese emperor
- 1132 - Hugh of Châteauneuf, French bishop
- 1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and England
- 1205 - Amalric II, king of Cyprus and Jerusalem
- 1282 - Abaqa Khan, ruler of the Mongol Ilkhanate
- 1431 - Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general
- 1441 - Blanche I, queen of Navarre and Sicily
- 1455 - Zbigniew Oleśnicki, Polish cardinal and statesman
- 1528 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer
- 1548 - Sigismund I, king of Poland
- 1580 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish guitarist and composer
1601–1900
- 1621 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter and educator
- 1682 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bavarian bishop
- 1787 - Floyer Sydenham, English scholar and academic
- 1839 - Benjamin Pierce, American soldier and politician, 11th Governor of New Hampshire
- 1865 - Antonios Kriezis, Greek Navy officer and Prime Minister of Greece
- 1865 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano
- 1872 - Frederick Denison Maurice, English theologian and academic
- 1878 - John C.W. Daly, English-Canadian soldier and politician
- 1890 - David Wilber, American politician
- 1890 - Alexander Mozhaysky, Russian soldier, pilot, and engineer
1901–present
- 1914 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player
- 1914 - Charles Wells, English founder of Charles Wells Ltd
- 1917 - Scott Joplin, American pianist and composer
- 1920 - Walter Simon, German banker and philanthropist
- 1922 - Charles I, emperor of Austria
- 1924 - Jacob Bolotin, American physician
- 1924 - Lloyd Hildebrand, English cyclist
- 1924 - Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter
- 1946 - Noah Beery, Sr., American actor
- 1947 - George II, king of Greece
- 1950 - Charles R. Drew, American physician and surgeon
- 1950 - Recep Peker, Turkish soldier and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Turkey
- 1962 - Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish captain and businessman
- 1963 - Agnes Mowinckel, Norwegian actress
- 1965 - Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman
- 1966 - Brian O'Nolan, Irish author
- 1968 - Lev Landau, Azerbaijani-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1971 - Kathleen Lonsdale, Irish crystallographer and prison reformer
- 1976 - Max Ernst, German painter and sculptor
- 1981 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai singer-songwriter and bandleader
- 1984 - Marvin Gaye, American singer-songwriter
- 1984 - Elizabeth Goudge, English author
- 1986 - Erik Bruhn, Danish actor, director, and choreographer
- 1986 - Edwin Boston, English clergyman, author, and railway preservationist
- 1987 - Henri Cochet, French tennis player
- 1991 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer
- 1991 - Jaime Guzmán, Chilean lawyer and politician
- 1992 - Michael Havers, Baron Havers, English lawyer and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
- 1993 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver
- 1994 - Robert Doisneau, French photographer
- 1995 - H. Adams Carter, American mountaineer, journalist, and educator
- 1995 - Francisco Moncion, Dominican American ballet dancer, choreographer, charter member of the New York City Ballet
- 1995 - Lucie Rie, Austrian-English potter
- 1996 - Mário Viegas, Portuguese actor and poetry reciter
- 1997 - Makar Honcharenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager
- 1998 - Rozz Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1999 - Jesse Stone, American pianist, songwriter, and producer
- 2001 - Trịnh Công Sơn, Vietnamese guitarist and composer
- 2002 - Simo Häyhä, Finnish soldier and sniper
- 2003 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
- 2004 - Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager
- 2004 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress
- 2005 - Paul Bomani, Tanzanian politician and diplomat, 1st Tanzanian Minister of Finance
- 2005 - Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and academic
- 2006 - In Tam, Cambodian general and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Cambodia
- 2010 - John Forsythe, American actor
- 2010 - Tzannis Tzannetakis, Greek soldier and politician, 175th Prime Minister of Greece
- 2012 - Lionel Bowen, Australian soldier, lawyer, and politician, Prime Minister of Australia">Prime Minister of Iraq">Prime Minister of Australia
- 2012 - Giorgio Chinaglia, Italian-American soccer player and radio host
- 2012 - Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican banker, academic, and politician, 52nd President of Mexico
- 2013 - Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia
- 2013 - Karen Muir, South African swimmer and physician
- 2014 - King Fleming, American pianist and bandleader
- 2014 - Jacques Le Goff, French historian and author
- 2014 - Rolf Rendtorff, German theologian and academic
- 2015 - Nicolae Rainea, Romanian footballer and referee
- 2017 - Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist
- 2017 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Soviet and Russian poet and writer
- 2018 - Steven Bochco, American television writer and producer
- 2019 - Vonda N. McIntyre, American science fiction author
- 2024 - Lou Conter, American naval commander
- 2024 - Vontae Davis, American football player
- 2024 - Joe Flaherty, American actor, writer, and comedian
- 2024 - Sami Michael, Iraqi-born Israeli writer and human rights activist
- 2024 - Ed Piskor, American comic book artist
- 2024 - Mohammad Reza Zahedi, Iranian senior military officer
- 2025 - Val Kilmer, American actor
- 2025 - Johnny Tillotson, American singer-songwriter
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