On This Day
Tuesday · events, births, deaths, and who was alive.
April 2 1968
Born on This Day
Alec Guinness
deceasedOscar Winners · 1914–2000
Days lived
31,537
Alexandra Kluge🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress and physician (1937–2017) · 1937–2017
Days lived
29,290
Ángel Daniel Vassallo🇺🇸
Puerto Rican basketball player · b. 1986
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Annett Louisan🇩🇪
German singer · b. 1977
Arnold Schering🇵🇱
deceasedwriter · 1877–1941
Days lived
23,349
Arnold Schottländer
deceasedGerman chess player (1854-1909) · 1854–1909
Days lived
20,248
Barbara Jordan🇺🇸
American tennis player · b. 1957
Days alive
4,018
Brice Mach🇫🇷
French rugby union player · b. 1986
Bryan Houghton🇬🇧
deceasedBritish catholic priest (1911-1992) · 1911–1992
Days lived
29,817
Carlos Salcido🇲🇽
football player · b. 1980
Carola Toelle🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actress (1893–1958) · 1892–1958
Days lived
24,041
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Charles Urbanus jr.
Dutch baseball player · b. 1955
Days alive
4,749
Clark Gregg🇺🇸
American actor, screenwriter and director (born 1962) · b. 1962
Days alive
2,192
Derick Armstrong🇺🇸
American football player · b. 1979
Deva Premal🇩🇪
German singer · b. 1970
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Emmylou Harris🇬🇧
country singer · b. 1947
Days alive
7,671
Garrelt Duin🇩🇪
German politician (SPD) · b. 1968
Days alive
0
Greg Nicol🇿🇦
Olympic field hockey player · b. 1975
Hans Rosenthal🇩🇪
deceasedGerman radio and television host of the 1970s and 80s (1925–1987) · 1925–1987
Days lived
22,594
Harald Andersson🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish discus thrower (1907–1985) · 1907–1985
Days lived
28,536
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Hendrik Herzog🇩🇪
German footballer · b. 1969
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Hughie Jennings🇺🇸
deceasedMajor League Baseball player and manager (1869-1928) · 1869–1928
Days lived
21,488
Ibrahim Afellay🇳🇱
Dutch footballer (born 1991 · b. 1986
James Haskell🇬🇧
English rugby union player · b. 1985
Jesko Friedrich🇩🇪
German actor · b. 1974
Julia Dahmen🇩🇪
German actress · b. 1978
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Julian Reister🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1986
Karl-Siegbert Rehberg🇩🇪
German sociologist · b. 1943
Days alive
9,132
Keshorn Walcott
Trinidadian javelin thrower · b. 1993
Lee DeWyze🇺🇸
singer · b. 1986
Mariella Ahrens🇩🇪
actress and model from Germany · b. 1969
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Marvin Gaye🇺🇸
deceasedsinger-songwriter · 1939–1984
Days lived
16,436
Masahiro Sukigara🇯🇵
Japanese association football player · b. 1966
Days alive
731
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Matthias Bachinger🇩🇪
German tennis player · b. 1987
Max Ernst🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1891–1976
Days lived
31,045
Michael Fassbender🇮🇪
German-Irish actor (born 1979) · b. 1977
Nana Spier🇩🇪
German actress and voice actress · b. 1971
Piet Besanger🇳🇱
deceasedDutch baseball player · 1898–1962
Days lived
23,358
Prince Paul🇺🇸
rapper · b. 1967
Days alive
366
Rolf Buch🇩🇪
German manager, Chief Executive Officer of Vonovia · b. 1965
Days alive
1,096
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Roselyn Sánchez🇺🇸
Puerto Rican actress, producer, writer, singer-songwriter, and model (born 1973) · b. 1973
Roshan Seth🇬🇧
actor · b. 1942
Days alive
9,497
Serge Gainsbourg🇫🇷
deceasedactor · 1928–1991
Days lived
22,979
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Sonja Gerhardt🇩🇪
German film and television actress · b. 1989
Tang Deshang🇨🇳
Olympic weightlifter · b. 1991
Thomas Glavinic🇦🇹
Austrian writer · b. 1972
Tine Wittler🇩🇪
German writer, television presenter, actor and businesswoman · b. 1973
Ulrich Schumacher🇩🇪
German chief executive officer · b. 1958
Days alive
3,653
Walter Chaffe
deceasedathlete · 1870–1918
Days lived
17,551
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Zhang Yimou🇨🇳
Chinese filmmaker · b. 1950
Days alive
6,575
Died on This Day
Albert Pike
deceasedlawyer · 1809–1891
Days lived
29,679
Aldo Fabrizi🇮🇹
deceasedItalian actor and cinema and theatre director (1905-1990) · 1905–1990
Days lived
30,833
Antoni Naumczyk🇵🇱
deceasedPolish priest (1925–1969) · 1925–1969
Days lived
16,162
Antonio Livi🇮🇹
deceasedItalian philosopher, priest and editor (1938–2020) · 1938–2020
Days lived
29,806
Buddy Rich🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican jazz drummer and bandleader (1917–1987) · 1917–1987
Days lived
25,386
Estelle Harris🇺🇸
deceasedActor · 1928–2022
Days lived
34,313
Franz Halder🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1884–1972
Days lived
32,052
Franz von Bayros🇦🇹
deceasedAustrian artist, illustrator, and painter (1866–1924) · 1866–1924
Days lived
21,138
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Georges Pompidou🇫🇷
deceasedpolitician · 1911–1974
Days lived
22,917
Gil Hodges🇺🇸
deceasedfilm director · 1924–1972
Days lived
17,530
Hannes Alfvén🇸🇪
deceasedSwedish electrical engineer, plasma physicist and science fiction author (1908–1995), winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for Physics · 1908–1995
Days lived
31,718
Hans Wilhelm Hagen🇩🇪
deceasedGerman art historian and journalist (1907–1969) · 1907–1969
Days lived
22,609
John Paul II🇵🇱
deceasedwriter · 1920–2005
Days lived
31,000
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Manoel de Oliveira🇵🇹
deceasedactor · 1908–2015
Days lived
38,828
Maud Barger-Wallach🇺🇸
deceasedUS tennis player (1870-1959) · 1870–1959
Days lived
32,432
Notker Wolf🇩🇪
deceasedmusician · 1940–2024
Days lived
30,601
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
deceasedNotable Trials · 1936–2018
Days lived
29,773
Who Was Alive
Notable people alive on this date, sorted by most days lived (top 20).
Sándor Farkas
Catholic priest, born 1853 · b. 1853
Days alive
42,094
Bertrand Russell🇬🇧
deceasedYouTube personality · 1872–1970
Days lived
35,688
Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin🇩🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1873–1969
Days lived
34,997
Charles Foulkes🇬🇧
deceasedBritish general and field hockey player (1875–1969) · 1875–1969
Days lived
34,427
Henry Hallett Dale🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate · 1875–1968
Days lived
34,012
Gertrud von Le Fort🇩🇪
deceasedwriter · 1876–1971
Days lived
34,718
Natalie Clifford Barney🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican writer who hosted a literary salon at her home in Paris (1876-1972) · 1876–1972
Days lived
34,791
Rudolph Dirks🇺🇸
deceasedartist · 1877–1968
Days lived
33,290
Lillian Moller Gilbreth🇺🇸
deceasedAmerican psychologist and industrial engineer (1878–1972) · 1878–1972
Days lived
34,190
E. M. Forster🇬🇧
deceasedEnglish novelist (1879-1970) · 1879–1970
Days lived
33,394
Margarete Bieber🇺🇸
deceasedGerman-American art historian (1879–1978) · 1879–1978
Days lived
36,003
Adolf Strauss🇩🇪
deceasedGerman Wehrmacht general (1879–1973) · 1879–1973
Days lived
34,163
Kenneth Edgeworth🇮🇪
deceasedIrish astronomer, economist and engineer (1880-1972) · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,829
Arthur Mallwitz🇩🇪
deceasedathlete · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
Helen Keller🇺🇸
deceasedYouTube personality · 1880–1968
Days lived
32,115
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Emma P. Carr🇺🇸
deceasedscientist · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,404
Paul Hausser🇩🇪
deceasedmilitary person · 1880–1972
Days lived
33,677
Fritz Achterberg🇩🇪
deceasedGerman actor (1880-1971) · 1880–1971
Days lived
33,215
Luis Miró Quesada de la Guerra🇵🇪
deceasedpolitician · 1880–1976
Days lived
34,807
Vladimir Zelenin
deceasedscientist · 1881–1968
Days lived
32,067
Animals Alive
Notable animals alive on this date.
Harriet🇦🇺
deceasedGalápagos tortoise · 1830–2006
Days lived
64,138
Jonathan🇸🇭
Seychelles giant tortoise · b. 1832
Days alive
49,765
Lonesome George🇪🇨
deceasedPinta Island tortoise · 1910–2012
Days lived
37,430
Lin Wang🇹🇼
deceasedAsian elephant · 1917–2003
Days lived
31,467
Sergeant Reckless🇺🇸
deceasedMongolian mare · 1948–1968
Days lived
7,438
Ham🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1957–1983
Days lived
9,333
Shamu🇺🇸
deceasedOrca · 1962–1971
Days lived
3,521
Washoe🇺🇸
deceasedChimpanzee · 1965–2007
Days lived
15,399
Companies That Existed
Brands and companies already founded by this date.
Hermes🇫🇷
Luxury Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,938
Procter & Gamble🇺🇸
Consumer Goods · b. 1837
Days since founding
47,635
Berkshire Hathaway🇺🇸
Conglomerate / Investments · b. 1839
Days since founding
47,208
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HSBC🇬🇧
Banking · b. 1865
Days since founding
37,650
Tata Group🇮🇳
Conglomerate · b. 1868
Days since founding
36,616
Goldman Sachs🇺🇸
Investment Banking · b. 1869
Days since founding
36,250
Eli Lilly🇺🇸
Pharmaceuticals · b. 1876
Days since founding
33,694
Chevron🇺🇸
Oil & Gas · b. 1879
Days since founding
32,346
Already Published
Notable books already in print.
Meditations🇮🇹
Philosophy/Stoicism Book · b. 180
Days in print
653,145
Don Quixote🇪🇸
Satire/Adventure Book · b. 1605
Days in print
132,659
Pride and Prejudice🇬🇧
Romance/Satire Book · b. 1813
Days in print
56,677
Crime and Punishment🇷🇺
Psychological Fiction Book · b. 1866
Days in print
37,346
The Great Gatsby🇺🇸
Tragedy/Modernist Book · b. 1925
Days in print
15,698
Brave New World🇬🇧
Dystopian/Sci-Fi Book · b. 1932
Days in print
13,241
The Hobbit🇬🇧
Fantasy/Adventure Book · b. 1937
Days in print
11,151
The Little Prince🇫🇷
Novella/Fantasy Book · b. 1943
Days in print
9,128
Already Released
Films already out by this date.
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