April 15
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- 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London.
- 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
- 1912 - The British passenger ship RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg causing the deaths of about 1,503 people.
- 1920 – Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti allegedly murder two security guards while robbing a shoe store.
- 1966 - Swinging London Time magazine cover.
- 1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
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Births
- 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)
- 1741 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)
- 1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
- 1832 – Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
- 1843 – Henry James, American author (d. 1916)
- 1856 – Jean Moréas, French writer (d. 1910)
- 1858 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)
- 1878 – Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956)
- 1889 – Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)
- 1894 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
- 1904 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
- 1920 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist
- 1927 – Albert Goldman, American journalist(d. 1994)
- 1933 – David Hamilton, British photographer, film director and producer
- 1939 – Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress
- 1959 – Emma Thompson, English actress
- 1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
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Deaths
- 1925 – August Endell, German artist (b. 1871 )
- 1446 – Filippo Brunelleschi, Italian architect (b. 1377)
- 1764 – Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1721)
- 1888 – Matthew Arnold, English poet (b. 1822)
- 1927 – Gaston Leroux, French writer (b. 1868)
- 1942 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (b. 1880)
- 1980 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1905)
- 1982 – Arthur Lowe, British actor (b. 1915)
- 1984 – Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
- 1986 – Jean Genet, French author (b. 1910)
- 1990 – Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
- 1993 – Leslie Charteris, Singapore-born author (b. 1907)
- 1998 – Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (b. 1925)
- 2000 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator (b. 1925)
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