Historical Events
- Apr 5 11 strikers killed in riot at Connellsville, Penn
- Apr 9 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 5th Symphony in B in Graz
- Apr 12 British & Belgian secret accord on dividing Central Africa
Event of Interest
Apr 14 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
Thomas Edison
Event of Interest
Apr 21 George Bernard Shaw's "Arms & the Man" premieres in London
George Bernard Shaw
Famous Birthdays
- Apr 2 Rudolph Cleveringa, Dutch anti-nazi lawyer and professor of Law at Leiden University, born in Appingedam, Netherlands (d. 1980)
- Apr 2 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer (Swiss Air), born in St. Gallen, Switzerland (d. 1937)
- Apr 6 Gertrude Baines, American Supercentarian
- Apr 7 Gerald Brenan, English writer
- Apr 9 Ernest Kanitz, Austrian-American composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1978)
- Apr 10 Ben Nicholson, English painter and sculptor (Circle), born in Denham, Buckinghamshire, England (d. 1982)
- Apr 10 Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator, born in Pilani, Rajputana, India (d. 1983)
- Apr 12 Francisco Craveiro Lopes, 12th President of Portugal (1951-58), born in Lisbon, Portugal (d. 1964)
- Apr 13 Ludvig Irgens-Jensen, Norwegian composer, born in Oslo, Norway (d. 1969)
- Apr 15 Bessie Smith, American blues singer nicknamed the "Empress of Blues" (over 200 songs), born in Chattanooga, Tennessee (d. 1937)
Nikita Khrushchev
Apr 15 Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64), born in Kalinovka, Russia (d. 1971)
Nikita Khrushchev
- Apr 20 Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet and linguistic (spelling), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1953)
- Apr 23 Basil Sydney, British actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife), born in St. Osyth, Essex, England (d. 1968)
- Apr 23 George Renevant [Georges de Cheux], French actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X), born in Paris, France (d. 1969)
- Apr 23 Charles "Cow Cow" Davenport, American boogie-woogie and blues musician, born in Anniston, Alabama (d. 1955)
Rudolf Hess
Apr 26 Rudolf Hess, German Nazi official (Deputy Fuhrer who dramatically escaped to Britain in 1941), born in Alexandria, Egypt (d. 1987)
Rudolf Hess