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1896 Summer Olympics

130 years ago

Born this day

1963

Rafael Correa

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1424th

Xuanzang

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AD 602 · 1424 yrs

Xuanzang

Xuanzang (Chinese: 玄奘; Wade–Giles: Hsüen Tsang;; 6 April 602 – 5 February 664), born Chen Hui or Chen Yi (陳褘 / 陳禕), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator.

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LiteratureDied aged 61

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1740 · 286 yrs

Nicolas Chamfort

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas, known in his adult life as Nicolas Chamfort and as Sébastien Nicolas de Chamfort (French:; 6 April 1741 – 13 April 1794), was a French writer, best known for his epigrams and aphorisms. He was secretary to Louis XVI's sister Madame Élisabeth, and of the Jacobin club.

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LiteratureDied aged 54

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1773 · 253 yrs

James Mill

James Mill (born James Milne; 6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, and political theorist, who was a founder of the Ricardian school of economics. He wrote the influential The History of British India (1817) which divided Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British..

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ScholarshipDied aged 63

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1820 · 206 yrs

Nadar

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (French:; 5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar (French:) or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs.

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ArtDied aged 89

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1826 · 200 yrs

Gustave Moreau

Gustave Moreau (French:; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".

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ArtDied aged 72

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1849 · 177 yrs

John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse (baptised 6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.

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ArtDied aged 67

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1904 · 122 yrs

Kurt Georg Kiesinger

Kurt Georg Kiesinger (German:; 6 April 1904 – 9 March 1988) was a German politician and lawyer who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1 December 1966 to 21 October 1969.

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1911 · 115 yrs

Feodor Lynen

Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen (German pronunciation:; 6 April 1911 – 6 August 1979) was a German biochemist.

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1920 · 106 yrs100 Club

Edmond H. Fischer

Edmond Henri Fischer (April 6, 1920 – August 27, 2021) was a Swiss-American biochemist. He and his collaborator Edwin G. Krebs were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes.

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1926 · 100 yrs

Ian Paisley

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) was a loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader from Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.

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1928 · 98 yrs

James Watson

James Dewey Watson (April 6, 1928 – November 6, 2025) was an American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist. In 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick co-authored an academic paper on DNA entitled, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid".

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1942 · 84 yrs

Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American filmmaker. He has received numerous accolades including the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988), as well as four Primetime Emmy Awards and nominations for three Golden Globe Awards.

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1199 · 827 yrs

Richard I of England

Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199), known as Richard the Lionheart or Richard Cœur de Lion (Old Norman French: Quor de Lion) because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199.

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RoyaltyDied aged 41

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1490 · 536 yrs

Matthias Corvinus

Matthias Corvinus (Hungarian: Hunyadi Mátyás; Romanian: Matia/Matei Corvin; Croatian: Matija/Matijaš Korvin; Slovene: Matija Korvin/Kralj Matjaž; Slovak: Matej Korvín; Czech: Matyáš Korvín; 23 February 1443 – 6 April 1490) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I.

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RoyaltyDied aged 47

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1520 · 506 yrs

Raphael

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian:; March 28 or 6 April 1483 – 6 April 1520), now generally known in English as Raphael (UK: RAF-ay-əl, US: RAF-ee-əl, RAY-fee-, RAH-fy-EL), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance.

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ArtDied aged 37

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1528 · 498 yrs

Albrecht Dürer

Albrecht Dürer ( DURE-ər, German:; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528), sometimes spelled in English as Durer or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance.

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ArtDied aged 56

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1829 · 197 yrs

Niels Henrik Abel

Niels Henrik Abel ( AH-bəl, Norwegian:; 5 August 1802 – 6 April 1829) was a Norwegian mathematician who made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields. His most famous single result is the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.

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ScienceDied aged 26

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1943 · 83 yrs

Alexandre Millerand

Alexandre Millerand (French:; (1859-02-10)10 February 1859 – (1943-04-06)6 April 1943) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1920 to 1924, having previously served as Prime Minister of France earlier in 1920.

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LawDied aged 84

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1961 · 65 yrs

Jules Bordet

Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet ( bor-DAY, French:; 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus Bordetella is named after him.

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ScienceDied aged 90

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1971 · 55 yrs

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (17 June 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music.

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1972 · 54 yrs

Heinrich Lübke

Karl Heinrich Lübke (German:; 14 October 1894 – 6 April 1972) was a German politician, who served as president of West Germany from 1959 to 1969. He suffered from deteriorating health towards the end of his career and is known for a series of embarrassing incidents that may have resulted from his health issues.

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1992 · 34 yrs

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov ( AZ-im-ov; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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1994 · 32 yrs

Juvénal Habyarimana

Juvénal Habyarimana (Kinyarwanda:; French:; 8 March 1937 – 6 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician and military dictator who was the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination in 1994.

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1996 · 30 yrs

Greer Garson

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was a British and American actress and singer. Known for playing graceful, noble, and dignified women in period and war dramas, she quickly rose to popularity during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Events5

1453 · 573 yrs

Fall of Constantinople

Constantinople, the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, was captured by the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 53-day siege which had begun on 6 April.

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War

1672 · 354 yrs

Franco-Dutch War

The Franco-Dutch War, 1672 to 1678, was primarily fought by France and the Dutch Republic, with both sides backed at different times by a variety of allies. Related conflicts include the Third Anglo-Dutch War of 1672 to 1674 and the Scanian War of 1675 to 1679.

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War

1896 · 130 yrs

1896 Summer Olympics

The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, and commonly known as Athens 1896 (Greek: Αθήνα 1896), were the first international Olympic Games held in modern history.

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Sports

1968 · 58 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 1968

The Eurovision Song Contest 1968 was the 13th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 6 April 1968 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom, and presented by Katie Boyle.

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Culture

1992 · 34 yrs

War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Bosnian War (Serbo-Croatian: Rat u Bosni i Hercegovini / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 1992 until 1995.

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