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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

161 years ago

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1891

B. R. Ambedkar

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AD 216 · 1810 yrs

Mani

Mani (c. April AD 216 – 2 March AD 274 or 26 February AD 277) was an Iranian prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a religion most prevalent in late antiquity. Mani was born in or near Ctesiphon (south of modern Baghdad) in Mesopotamia, at the time part of the Parthian Empire.

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ReligionDied aged 57

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1126 · 900 yrs

Averroes

Ibn Rushd (14 April 1126 – 11 December 1198), Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, Islamic jurisprudence, law, and linguistics.

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LiteratureDied aged 72

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1578 · 448 yrs

Philip III of Spain

Philip III (Spanish: Felipe III, Portuguese: Filipe II; 14 April 1578 – 31 March 1621) was King of Spain and Portugal (as Philip II) during the period known as the Iberian Union, reigning from 1598 until his death in 1621. He was also King of Naples and Sicily, Duke of Milan, and Lord of the Seventeen Provinces.

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RoyaltyDied aged 42

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1629 · 397 yrs

Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1745 · 281 yrs

Denis Fonvizin

Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (Russian: Денис Иванович Фонвизин, IPA:; 14 April 1745 – 12 December 1792) was a Russian playwright during the Age of Enlightenment. He was one of the founders of literary comedy in Russia.

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LiteratureDied aged 47

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1797 · 229 yrs

Adolphe Thiers

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers ( tee-AIR; French:; 15 April 1797 – 3 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian who served as President of France from 1871 to 1873. He was the second elected president and the first of the Third French Republic.

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PoliticsDied aged 80

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1862 · 164 yrs

Pyotr Stolypin

Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (Russian: Пётр Арка́дьевич Столы́пин, IPA:; 14 April 1862 – 18 September 1911) was a Russian statesman who served as the third prime minister and the interior minister of the Russian Empire from 1906 until his assassination in 1911.

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PoliticsDied aged 49

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1868 · 158 yrs

Peter Behrens

Peter Behrens (14 April 1868 – 27 February 1940) was a leading German architect, graphic and industrial designer, best known for his early pioneering AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin in 1909. He had a long career, designing objects, typefaces, and important buildings in a range of styles from the 1900s to the 1930s.

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ArtDied aged 71

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1882 · 144 yrs

Moritz Schlick

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (German:; 14 April 1882 – 22 June 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936.

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1889 · 137 yrs

Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London.

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ScholarshipWould be 137

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1891 · 135 yrs

B. R. Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956) was an Indian jurist, economist, social reformer and politician who chaired the committee that drafted the Constitution of India based on the debates of the Constituent Assembly of India and the first draft of Sir Benegal Narsing Rau.

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ScienceWould be 135

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1904 · 122 yrs

John Gielgud

Sir Arthur John Gielgud ( GHEEL-guud; 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000) was an English actor and theatre director. With his contemporaries Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave and Ralph Richardson, he made up a quartet of male actors who dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century.

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Famous deaths17

1759 · 267 yrs

George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel ( HAN-dəl; baptised Georg Friedrich Händel, German:; 5 March 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concerti.

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MusicDied aged 74

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1800 · 226 yrs

William Cowper

William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and Anglican hymnwriter. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside.

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LiteratureDied aged 68

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1915 · 111 yrs

Alexander Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 – 27 April 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Initially influenced by Frédéric Chopin, he composed in a relatively tonal, late-Romantic idiom.

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MusicDied aged 43

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1917 · 109 yrs

L. L. Zamenhof

L. L. Zamenhof (15 December 1859 – 14 April 1917) was the creator of Esperanto, the most widely used constructed international auxiliary language. Zamenhof published Esperanto in 1887, although his initial ideas date back as far as 1873.

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ScienceDied aged 57

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1924 · 102 yrs

Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism".

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ArtDied aged 67

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1930 · 96 yrs

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (19 July 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement.

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LiteratureWould be 133

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1935 · 91 yrs

Emmy Noether

Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra and mathematical physics.

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ScienceWould be 144

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1950 · 76 yrs

Ramana Maharshi

Ramana Maharshi (pronounced; 30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was an Indian Hindu sage widely regarded by his followers and by "most advocates of Advaita" as a jivanmukta (liberated being). He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.

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LiteratureWould be 146

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1964 · 62 yrs

Rachel Carson

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose sea trilogy (1941–1955) and book Silent Spring (1962) are credited with advancing marine conservation and the global environmental movement.

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1975 · 51 yrs

Fredric March

Fredric March (born Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel; August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American actor, regarded as one of Hollywood's most celebrated stars of the 1930s and 1940s. As a performer he was known for his versatility.

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1980 · 46 yrs

Gianni Rodari

Giovanni Francesco "Gianni" Rodari (Italian pronunciation:; 23 October 1920 – 14 April 1980) was an Italian writer and journalist, most famous for his works of children's literature, notably Il romanzo di Cipollino.

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LiteratureWould be 106

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1986 · 40 yrs

Jean Genet

Jean Genet (French:; (1910-12-19)19 December 1910 – (1986-04-15)15 April 1986) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. In his early life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but he later became a writer and playwright, often creating works inspired by his experience.

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Events5

1865 · 161 yrs

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

President Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth and dies the following morning.

Politics

1912 · 114 yrs

Sinking of the RMS Titanic

RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912. The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, United States, with over 2,200 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) on 14 April.

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Disaster

1969 · 57 yrs

41st Academy Awards

The 41st Academy Awards were presented on April 14, 1969, to honor the films of 1968. They were the first Oscars to be staged at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, and the first with no host since the 20th Academy Awards.

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Culture

1980 · 46 yrs

52nd Academy Awards

The 52nd Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored films released in 1979 and took place on April 14, 1980, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m.

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Culture

2016 · 10 yrs

2016 Kumamoto earthquakes

The 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes (Japanese: 平成28年熊本地震, Hepburn: Heisei 28-nen Kumamoto jishin) were a series of earthquakes, including a magnitude 7.0 mainshock which struck at 01:25 JST on April 16, 2016 (16:25 UTC on April 15) beneath Kumamoto City of Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu Region, Japan, at a depth of about 10…

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