April 6 is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 269 days remaining until the end of the year.
[edit] Events
- 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in the battle of Thapsus.
- 402 – Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
- 1199 – King Richard I of England dies from an infection following the removal of an arrow from his shoulder.
- 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Ayyubids of Egypt capture King Louis IX of France in the Battle of Fariskur.
- 1320 – The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath.
- 1327 – The poet Petrarch first sees his idealized love, Laura, in the church of Saint Clare in Avignon.
- 1385 – John, Master of the Order of Aviz, is made king John I of Portugal.
- 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople (Istanbul), which falls on May 29.
- 1580 – One of the largest earthquakes recorded in the history of England, Flanders, or Northern France, takes place.
- 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
- 1667 – An earthquake devastates Dubrovnik, then an independent city-state.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Ships of the Continental Navy fail in their attempt to capture a Royal Navy dispatch boat.
- 1782 – Rama I of Siam (modern day Thailand) founds the Chakri dynasty.
- 1793 – During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
- 1808 – John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company, that would eventually make him America's first millionaire.
- 1812 – British forces under the command of the Duke of Wellington assault the fortress of Badajoz. This would be the turning point in the Peninsular War against Napoleon-led France.
- 1814 – Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration — anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. (Rule by the Bourbons is delayed a few weeks, though allies held most key locales of France.)
- 1830 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.
- 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—later renamed Community of Christ—is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois
- 1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
- 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Shiloh begins – in Tennessee, forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant meet Confederate troops led by General Albert Sidney Johnston.
- 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
- 1866 – The Grand Army of the Republic, an American patriotic organization composed of Union veterans of the American Civil War, is founded. It lasts until 1956.
- 1869 – Celluloid is patented.
- 1888 – Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
- 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
- 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
- 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
- 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.
- 1909 – Robert Peary and Matthew Henson reach the North Pole.
- 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skenderbeg).
- 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
- 1919 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi orders a general strike.
- 1923 – The first Prefects Board in Southeast Asia is formed in Victoria Institution, Malaysia.
- 1926 – Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
- 1929 – Huey P. Long Governor of Louisiana is impeached by the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- 1930 – Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire." beginning the Salt Satyagraha.
- 1936 – Tupelo-Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
- 1941 – World War II: Nazi Germany launches Operation 25 (the invasion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia) and Operation Marita (the invasion of Greece).
- 1945 – World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from German and Croatian forces by the Yugoslav Partisans.
- 1945 – World War II: the Battle of Slater's Knoll on Bougainville comes to an end.
- 1947 – The first Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievement.
- 1957 – Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
- 1962 – Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks from the podium during a New York Philharmonic concert featuring Glenn Gould performing Brahms' First Piano Concerto.
- 1965 – Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
- 1965 – The British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project.
- 1968 – In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150.
- 1970 – Newhall Incident: Four California Highway Patrol officers are killed in a shootout.
- 1972 – Vietnam War: Easter Offensive – American forces begin sustained air strikes and naval bombardments.
- 1973 – Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
- 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
- 1974 – ABBA win the 19th annual Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton with Waterloo.
- 1982 – Estonian Communist Party bureau declares "fight against bourgeois TV" — meaning Finnish TV — a top priority of the propagandists of Estonian SSR
- 1984 – Members of Cameroon's Republican Guard unsuccessfully attempt to overthrow the government headed by Paul Biya.
- 1994 – The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
- 1998 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of reaching India.
- 1998 – Travelers Group announces an agreement to undertake the $76 billion merger between Travelers and Citicorp, and the merger is completed on October 8, of that year, forming Citibank.
- 2004 – Rolandas Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from office by impeachment.
- 2005 – Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani becomes Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari is named premier the next day.
- 2008 – 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers.
- 2009 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
- 2010 – Maoist rebels kill 76 CRPF officers in Dantewada district, India.
- 2011 – In San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, over 193 bodies were exhumed from several mass graves made by Los Zetas.
[edit] Births
- 1483 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
- 1613 – Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
- 1632 – Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
- 1651 – André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
- 1660 – Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist and harpsichordist (d. 1722)
- 1664 – Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
- 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
- 1672 – André Cardinal Destouches, French composer (d. 1749)
- 1706 – Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason (d. 1759)
- 1708 – Georg Reutter II, Austrian composer (d. 1772)
- 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807)
- 1741 – Nicolas Chamfort, French writer (d. 1794)
- 1766 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker (d. 1853)
- 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1836)
- 1810 – Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist (d. 1888)
- 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
- 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
- 1818 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
- 1820 – Nadar, French photography pioneer (d. 1910)
- 1823 – Joseph Medill, journalist and mayor of Chicago (d. 1899)
- 1826 – Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
- 1841 – Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
- 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
- 1851 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
- 1861 – Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist (d. 1897)
- 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist (d. 1934)
- 1866 – Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, Canadian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (d. 1931)
- 1869 – Levon Shant, Armenian playwright, novelist and poet (d. 1951)
- 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales (d. 1871)
- 1878 – Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
- 1884 – Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (d. 1950)
- 1886 – Athenagoras I, Greek religious leader, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
- 1886 – Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967)
- 1886 – Walter Edward Dandy, American neurosurgery pioneer (d. 1946)
- 1888 – Hans Richter, Swiss painter, film maker, graphic artist and avant-gardist (d. 1976)
- 1888 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (d. 1967)
- 1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation engineering pioneer (d. 1939)
- 1892 – Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American aviation industrialist (d. 1981)
- 1892 – Lowell Thomas, American travel writer (d. 1981)
- 1894 – Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1895 – Dudley Nichols, American screenwriter (d. 1960)
- 1898 – Jeanne Hébuterne, French artist, the wife of Amedeo Modigliani (d. 1920)
- 1900 – Leo Robin, American songwriter (d. 1984)
- 1901 – Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
- 1902 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
- 1902 – Julien Torma, French writer, playwright and poet (d. 1933)
- 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
- 1903 – Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
- 1904 – Kurt Kiesinger, German politician (d. 1988)
- 1908 – Marcel-Marie Desmarais, Quebec writer, preacher and broadcaster (d. 1994)
- 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
- 1909 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
- 1911 – Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
- 1913 – Shannon Boyd-Bailey McCune, American geographer (d. 1993)
- 1915 – Tadeusz Kantor, Polish painter, set designer and theater director (d. 1990)
- 1916 – Phil Leeds, American actor d.1998
- 1916 – Vincent Ellis McKelvey, American geologist (d. 1987)
- 1917 – Leonora Carrington, British-born surrealist painter
- 1918 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
- 1919 – Georgios Mylonas, Greek politician (d. 1998)
- 1920 – Jack Cover, American inventor of the Taser gun (d. 2009)
- 1920 – Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, Nobel laureate
- 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1990)
- 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
- 1926 – Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician
- 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
- 1928 – James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
- 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and radio and television writer (d. 2005)
- 1929 – Joi Lansing, American model and actress (d. 1972)
- 1929 – André Previn, German-born composer and conductor
- 1931 – Baba Ram Dass, American Hindu spiritual teacher
- 1931 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director (d. 2008)
- 1932 – Helmut Griem, German actor (d. 2004)
- 1933 – Roy Goode, British lawyer
- 1933 – Eduardo Malapit, American politician (d. 2007)
- 1934 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor (d. 1996)
- 1934 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (d. 2010)
- 1934 – Guy Peellaert, Belgian visual artist (d. 2008)
- 1935 – Douglas Hill, Canadian-born science fiction writer (d. 2007)
- 1936 – Helen Berman, Dutch-Israeli visual artist
- 1937 – Merle Haggard, American musician
- 1937 – Peter Maivia, Samoan professional wrestler (d. 1982)
- 1937 – Billy Dee Williams, American actor
- 1938 – Paul Daniels, English magician
- 1938 – Roy Thinnes, American actor
- 1939 – André Ouellet, French Canadian politician
- 1940 – Homero Aridjis, Mexican writer and diplomat
- 1940 – Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor
- 1941 – Phil Austin, American comedian
- 1941 – Hans W. Geissendörfer, German filmmaker
- 1941 – Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, American drag racer
- 1941 – Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician
- 1942 – Barry Levinson, American film producer/director
- 1944 – Felicity Palmer, English soprano
- 1945 – Neal Boortz, American radio personality
- 1947 – John Ratzenberger, American actor
- 1947 – Mike Worboys, British mathematician
- 1948 – Patrika Darbo, American actress
- 1949 – Patrick Hernandez, French singer and songwriter
- 1949 – Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1950 – Cleo Odzer, American writer
- 1951 – Bert Blyleven, Dutch-born baseball player
- 1952 – Udo Dirkschneider, German singer
- 1952 – Marilu Henner, American actress
- 1952 – Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
- 1953 – Christopher Franke, German musician and composer
- 1955 – Rob Epstein, American filmmaker and journalist
- 1955 – Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian serial killer
- 1955 – Cathy Jones, Canadian comedian
- 1955 – Blind Mississippi Morris, American delta blues musician
- 1955 – Michael Rooker, American actor
- 1956 – Sebastian Spreng, Argentinean visual artist
- 1956 – Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer and administrator
- 1957 – Jaroslava Maxova, Czech opera singer
- 1957 – Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
- 1959 – Gail Shea, Canadian politician
- 1960 – Batem, French comic book artist
- 1960 – Warren Haynes, American guitarist and song writer
- 1960 – John Pizzarelli, American jazz guitarist, song writer, singer and bandleader
- 1961 – Rory Bremner, Scottish comedian and impressionist
- 1962 – Iris Häussler, German installation artist
- 1963 – Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador
- 1964 – Phil Gayle, English news presenter
- 1965 – Frank Black, American singer/songwriter (Pixies and Frank Black and the Catholics)
- 1965 – Sterling Sharpe, American football player
- 1965 – Lieve Slegers, Belgian athlete
- 1966 – Young Man Kang, South Korean film director
- 1967 – Jonathan Firth, British actor
- 1967 – Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
- 1968 – Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
- 1968 – Vanessa Lann, American composer
- 1969 – Bret Boone, American baseball player
- 1969 – Jack Canfora, American playwright
- 1969 – Bison Dele, American basketball player (disappeared 2002)
- 1969 – Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican/American actress
- 1969 – Philipp Peter, Austrian racing driver
- 1969 – Paul Rudd, American actor
- 1969 – Louie Spence, English dancer/choreographer and TV personality
- 1969 – Spencer Wells, American geneticist
- 1970 – Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
- 1970 – Olaf Kölzig, South African/German ice hockey player
- 1971 – Lou Merloni, American baseball player
- 1972 – Jason Hervey, American actor
- 1972 – Ami James, Israeli/American tattoo artist
- 1972 – Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower
- 1973 – Donnie Edwards, American football player
- 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer
- 1973 – Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress/singer
- 1973 – Sun Wen, Chinese footballer
- 1973 – Gina Yashere, English comedian
- 1974 – Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer
- 1975 – Zach Braff, American actor
- 1975 – Hal Gill, American ice hockey player
- 1976 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress
- 1976 – Georg Hólm, Icelandic musician (Sigur Rós)
- 1976 – Hirotada Ototake, Japanese sports writer
- 1977 – Ville Nieminen, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1977 – Andy Phillips, American baseball player
- 1978 – Tim Hasselbeck, American football player
- 1978 – Myleene Klass, British singer
- 1978 – Martin Mendez, Uruguayan bassist (Opeth)
- 1978 – Blaine Neal, American baseball player
- 1981 – Robert Earnshaw, Zambian/Welsh footballer
- 1981 – Kari Jobe, American singer-songwriter
- 1981 – Alex Suarez, American bassist (Cobra Starship)
- 1982 – Michael Guy Chislett, Australian guitarist (The Academy Is...)
- 1982 – Herculez Gomez, American soccer player
- 1982 – Ilan Hall, American chef
- 1982 – Bret Harrison, American actor
- 1982 – Travis Moen, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Diora Baird, American actress and model
- 1983 – Mehdi Ballouchy, Moroccan footballer
- 1983 – Jerome Kaino, New Zealand rugby player
- 1983 – Mitsuru Nagata, Japanese footballer
- 1983 – Jade Seah, Singaporean model, host and actress
- 1983 – Dash Shaw, American comic book writer and artist
- 1983 – Bobbi Starr, American pornographic actress
- 1983 – James Wade, English darts player
- 1984 – Max Bemis, American musician and songwriter
- 1984 – Siboniso Gaxa, South African footballer
- 1985 – Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Frank Ongfiang, Italian footballer
- 1986 – Nikolas Asprogenis, Cypriot footballer
- 1986 – Aaron Curry, American football player
- 1986 – Ryota Moriwaki, Japanese footballer
- 1987 – Levi Porter, English footballer
- 1987 – Hilary Rhoda, American model
- 1988 – Leigh Adams, Australian footballer
- 1988 – Mike Bailey, English actor
- 1988 – Daniele Gasparetto, Italian footballer
- 1988 – Carlton Mitchell, American football player
- 1988 – Fabrice Muamba, Congolese/English footballer
- 1988 – Jucilei da Silva, Brazilian footballer
- 1995 – Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer
- 1998 – Peyton Roi List, American actress
[edit] Deaths
- 885 – Saint Methodius (b. c. 815)
- 1147 – Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
- 1199 – King Richard I of England (b. 1157)
- 1199 – Pierre Basile, French soldier
- 1362 – James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)
- 1490 – Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1443)
- 1520 – Raphael, Italian painter and architect (b. 1483)
- 1528 – Albrecht Dürer, German artist (b. 1471)
- 1551 – Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
- 1571 – John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician
- 1590 – Francis Walsingham, English spymaster
- 1605 – John Stow, English historian
- 1655 – David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
- 1686 – Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
- 1707 – Willem van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
- 1755 – Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
- 1825 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
- 1829 – Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
- 1833 – Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (b. 1748)
- 1838 – José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist (b. 1763)
- 1862 – Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803)
- 1883 – Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
- 1899 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (b. 1809)
- 1906 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
- 1933 – Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
- 1935 – Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)
- 1947 – Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
- 1953 – Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
- 1959 – Leo Aryeh Mayer, Israeli professor and scholar of Islamic art (b. 1895)
- 1961 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
- 1963 – Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
- 1970 – Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
- 1970 – Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
- 1971 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
- 1974 – Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
- 1974 – Sir Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b. 1895)
- 1976 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
- 1979 – Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1893)
- 1984 – Ral Donner, chanteur américain (b. 1943)
- 1992 – Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
- 1994 – Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician (b. 1937)
- 1994 – Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
- 1995 – Ioannis Alevras, Greek politician (b. 1912)
- 1996 – Greer Garson, Irish actress (b. 1904)
- 1998 – Norbert Schmitz, German footballer (b. 1958)
- 1998 – Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
- 1998 – Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
- 1999 – Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
- 2000 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
- 2001 – Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
- 2003 – David Bloom, American reporter (b. 1963)
- 2003 – Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)
- 2003 – Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (b. 1912)
- 2004 – Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
- 2004 – Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)
- 2005 – Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
- 2006 – Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)
- 2006 – Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
- 2006 – Stefanos Stratigos, Greek actor (b. 1926)
- 2007 – Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916)
- 2009 – J.M.S. Careless, Canadian historian (b. 1919)
- 2009 – Shawn Mackay, Australian rugby player (b. 1982)
- 2010 – Wilma Mankiller, Native-American activist, chief of the Cherokee Nation (b. 1945)
- 2010 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939)
[edit] Holidays and observances
