Friday 1st of April 1763

Robber Joseph Hugues Nicolas Lesurques known for the ‘Courrier de Lyon’ case is born in Douai, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

Saturday 1st of April 1815

1st Reichskanzler of Germany Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck is born in Schönhausen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.

Saturday 1st of April 1826

Victim of Jean-Baptiste Troppmann aka Le Massacreur de Pantin Jean Kinck is born in Guebwiller, Haut-Rhin, France.

Tuesday 1st of April 1873

535 die in RMS Atlantic transatlantic ocean liner shipwreck in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Tuesday 1st of April 1873

Romantic composer Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff is born in Veliky Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia.

Tuesday 1st of April 1902

Black Walter Allen is lynched and riddled with bullets in Rome, Georgia, United States.

Allen was taken from the city jail by a mob of 4000 and hung from an electric light pole. A volley was fired and 1000 bullets entered Allen's body.

Wednesday 1st of April 1908

Psychologist Abraham Harold Elijah Maslow is born in New York, Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Saturday 1st of April 1922

Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Hermann Rorschach known for the Rorschach inkblot test dies of peritonitis, probably brought on by a ruptured appendix at the age of 38 in Herisau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland.

Tuesday 1st of April 1924

35-year-old Führer and Reichskanzler of Germany Adolf Hitler is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for conspiracy and high-treason in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Sunday 1st of April 1928

Murderer John B. Nixon is born in Midnight, Mississippi, United States.

Saturday 1st of April 1933

Minimal artist Dan Daniel Nicholas Flavin is born in Jamaica, New York, United States.

Thursday 1st of April 1937

Film director and murderer Yılmaz Güney is born in Yenice, Adana, Turkey.

Saturday 1st of April 1939

Actress Ali Elizabeth Alice MacGraw is born in Pound Ridge, New York, United States.

Monday 1st of April 1940

Murderer Gwynne Owen Evans is born as John Robson Walby in Maryport, Cumberland, United Kingdom.

Tuesday 1st of April 1947

King of the Hellenes Geórgios II dies of arteriosclerosis at the age of 57 in Athens, Attica, Greece.

When the news of Geórgios' death was announced some thought it to be an April Fool's Day joke.

Thursday 1st of April 1948

Andy Warhol Superstar Andrea Feldman aka Whips is born in New York City, New York, United States.

Sunday 1st of April 1951

Double murderer Earl Carl Heiselbetz is born in Beaumont, Texas, United States.

Thursday 1st of April 1965

Cosmetics entrepreneur Helena Chaja Rubinstein dies of natural causes at the age of 93 in New York City, New York, United States.

Thursday 1st of April 1965

Victim of Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer Marie Mary-Jane Annette Malvar is born in Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Monday 1st of April 1974

20-year-old Thomas Rainwater is shot dead by murder gang The Black Zebra Killers aka The Death Angels in Salvation Army School for Officers' Training Center, 1450 Laguna Street, San Francisco, California, United States.

Rainwater's 21-year old companion Linda Story was also shot but survived.

Monday 1st of April 1974

32-year-old Serial killer Myra Hindley aka The Moors Murderers (with Ian Brady) appears in the dock of the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, charged with 'conspiracy to effect the escape of a prisoner from lawful custody' along Patricia Cairns and Maxine Croft in Old Bailey Criminal Court, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.

Hindley pleaded guilty.

Sunday 1st of April 1979

77-year-old Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ruhollah Moosavi Khomeini calls out the Islamitic Republic in Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Sunday 1st of April 1984

17-year-old Michelle Korfman is abducted, sexually assaulted and tortured by serial killer Christopher Wilder aka The Beauty Queen Killer in Meadows Mall, 4300 Meadows Ln, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.

Korfman remained undiscovered near a southern California roadside rest stop until 11 May, although she lay unclaimed until mid-June in a Los Angeles morgue as Jane Doe #39 until being identified via dental X-rays.

Sunday 1st of April 1984

Singer-songwriter and musician Marvin Gaye aka The Prince of Motown is shot in the heart and on his left shoulder by his 70-year old father Marvin Gaye Sr. at the age of 45 in 2101 South Gramercy Place, Los Angeles, West Adams, California, United States.

The bullet penetrated Marvin's vital organs, including his heart.

Monday 1st of April 1991

Präsident der Treuhandanstalt Detlev Karsten Rohwedder is shot and killed through a window on the first floor of his house by the Rote Armee Fraktion Kommando Ulrich Wessel at the age of 59 in Kaiser-Friedrich-Ring 71, Düsseldorf, Niederkassel, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

In 2001 a DNA analysis found that hair strands from the crime scene belonged to RAF member Wolfgang Grams.

Friday 1st of April 1994

Rexist and Belgian Waffen SS leader Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle dies of cardiac arrest at the age of 88 in Málaga, Andalucía, Spain.

Thursday 1st of April 1999

40-year-old Serial killer Anatoly Yuriyovych Onoprienko aka The Terminator aka Citizen O is sentenced to death in Kiev, Ukraine, Russia.

Tuesday 1st of April 2003

Singer-songwriter Leslie Cheung aka Gor-Gor (Elder Brother) commits suicide by leaping from the 24th floor of a hotel at the age of 47 in Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, Central, China.

Cheung's suicide note read "In my life I did nothing bad. Why does it have to be like this?"

Saturday 1st of April 2006

Our cat Harry sunbathing on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Sunday 1st of April 2012

Rietveld furniture and tulips on our rooftop terrace in Oudstrijdersstraat 35, Antwerpen, Borgerhout, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Wednesday 1st of April 2015

A ruin church in Híjar, Teruel, Spain.

Monday 1st of April 2019

A front door in Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland.

Tuesday 1st of April 2025

Actor Val Edward Kilmer dies of pneumonia at the age of 66 in Los Angeles, California, United States.