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What Happened In April 2013 In History

Historical Events for April, 2013

  • 3rd » More than 50 people die in 2013 Argentina floods or floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • 4th » More than 70 people are killed in a 2013 Thane building collapse known as building collapse in Thane, India.
  • 15th » Boston Marathon bombings or Two bombs explode near the finish line at the 2013 Boston Marathon or Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
  • 16th » A 7.8-Moment magnitude scale e.g magnitude 2013 Sistan and Baluchestan earthquake known as earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
  • 17th » West Fertilizer Company explosion called An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
  • 18th » A 18 April 2013 Baghdad bombing e.g suicide bombing in a Baghdad cafe kills 27 people and injures another 65.
  • 19th » Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.
  • 22nd » 6 people die in a 2013 Belgorod shooting known as shooting in Belgorod, Russia.
  • 22nd » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrest and charge two men with 2013 VIA Rail Canada terrorism plot or plotting to disrupt a Toronto area train service in a plot claimed to be backed by Al-Qaeda elements.
  • 24th » A 2013 Savar building collapse called building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
  • 29th » A powerful 2013 Prague explosion e.g explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, Czech Republic, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
  • 30th » Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdication abdicates and Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander becomes Monarchy of the Netherlands King of the Netherlands.

Famous Deaths for April 2013

  • 1st » Pavel 183, Russian painter (b. 1983)
  • 1st » Badr bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi Arabian commander (b. 1932)
  • 1st » Asal Badiee, Iranian actress (b. 1977)
  • 1st » Moses Blah, Liberian politician, 23rd President of Liberia (b. 1947)
  • 1st » David Burge, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1930)
  • 1st » Kildare Dobbs, Canadian author (b. 1923)
  • 1st » William H. Ginsburg, American lawyer (b. 1943)
  • 1st » Karen Muir, South African swimmer and physician (b. 1952)
  • 1st » Jack Pardee, American football player and coach (b. 1936)
  • 1st » Greg Willard, American basketball player and referee (b. 1958)
  • 2nd » Fred (comics) named Fred, French illustrator (b. 1931)
  • 2nd » Chuck Fairbanks, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
  • 2nd » Jesús Franco, Spanish director, screenwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1930)
  • 2nd » Jane Henson, American puppeteer and voice actress (b. 1934)
  • 2nd » Duke Kimbrough McCall, American pastor and activist (b. 1914)
  • 2nd » Benjamin Purcell, American colonel and politician (b. 1928)
  • 2nd » Maria Redaelli, Italian super-centenarian (b. 1899)
  • 2nd » Robert Ward (composer) known as Robert Ward, American composer (b. 1917)
  • 3rd » Mariví Bilbao, Spanish actress (b. 1930)
  • 3rd » Robert Elgie, Canadian neurosurgeon and politician (b. 1929)
  • 3rd » George Gladir, American author (b. 1925)
  • 3rd » Mazharul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1980)
  • 3rd » Harry J, Jamaican record producer (b. 1945)
  • 3rd » Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1927)
  • 3rd » Jean Sincere, American actress (b. 1919)
  • 3rd » Dorothy Taubman, American educator (b. 1917)
  • 4th » Bengt Blomgren, Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
  • 4th » Roger Ebert, American journalist, critic, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
  • 4th » Carmine Infantino, American illustrator (b. 1925)
  • 4th » Eldred G. Smith, American patriarch (b. 1907)
  • 4th » Tommy Tycho, Hungarian-Australian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928)
  • 4th » Ian Walsh (rugby league) known as Ian Walsh, Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1933)
  • 4th » Noboru Yamaguchi (author) known as Noboru Yamaguchi, Japanese author (b. 1972)
  • 5th » Regina Bianchi, Italian actress (b. 1921)
  • 5th » Amnon Dankner, Israeli journalist and author (b. 1946)
  • 5th » Piero de Palma, Italian tenor (b. 1924)
  • 5th » James Dickens, English politician (b. 1931)
  • 5th » Dave Hunt (Christian apologist) e.g Dave Hunt, American radio host and author (b. 1926)
  • 5th » Mohammad Ishaq Khan, Indian historian and academic (b. 1946)
  • 5th » David Kuo (author) named David Kuo, American author (b. 1968)
  • 5th » Nikolaos Pappas, Greek admiral (b. 1930)
  • 6th » Hilda Bynoe, Grenadian politician, 2nd Governor of Grenada (b. 1921)
  • 6th » Johnny Esaw, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1925)
  • 6th » Bill Guttridge, English footballer and manager (b. 1931)
  • 6th » Bigas Luna, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1946)
  • 6th » Michael Norgrove, Zambian-English boxer (b. 1981)
  • 6th » Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (b. 1928)
  • 6th » Ottmar Schreiner, German lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
  • 7th » Marty Blake, American businessman (b. 1927)
  • 7th » Les Blank, American director and producer (b. 1935)
  • 7th » Andy Johns, English-American record producer (b. 1950)
  • 7th » Lilly Pulitzer, American fashion designer (b. 1931)
  • 7th » Irma Ravinale, Italian composer and educator (b. 1937)
  • 7th » Mickey Rose, American screenwriter (b. 1935)
  • 7th » Carl Williams (boxer) named Carl Williams, American boxer (b. 1959)
  • 8th » Mikhail Beketov, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
  • 8th » Richard Brooker, English actor and stuntman (b. 1954)
  • 8th » Anne Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (b. 1927)
  • 8th » Annette Funicello, American actress and singer (b. 1942)
  • 8th » Greg Kramer, English-Canadian actor and author (b. 1961)
  • 8th » Sara Montiel, Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1928)
  • 8th » José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (b. 1917)
  • 8th » Margaret Thatcher, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925)
  • 9th » David Hayes (sculptor) e.g David Hayes, American sculptor (b. 1931)
  • 9th » Lynn Lundquist, American politician (b. 1934)
  • 9th » Greg McCrary, American football player (b. 1952)
  • 9th » Mordechai Mishani, Israeli politician (b. 1945)
  • 9th » Emilio Pericoli, Italian singer (b. 1928)
  • 9th » McCandlish Phillips, American journalist and author (b. 1927)
  • 9th » Paolo Soleri, Italian-American architect, designed the Cosanti (b. 1919)
  • 9th » Zao Wou-Ki, Chinese-French painter (b. 1920)
  • 10th » Lorenzo Antonetti, Italian cardinal (b. 1922)
  • 10th » Raymond Boudon, French sociologist and academic (b. 1934)
  • 10th » Karol Castillo, Peruvian model (b. 1989)
  • 10th » Binod Bihari Chowdhury, Bangladeshi activist (b. 1911)
  • 10th » Jimmy Dawkins, American singer and guitarist (b. 1936)
  • 10th » Robert Edwards (physiologist) called Robert Edwards, English physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
  • 10th » Dick Hart (golfer) called Dick Hart, American golfer (b. 1935)
  • 10th » Olive Lewin, Jamaican anthropologist, musicologist, and author (b. 1927)
  • 10th » Robert Hugh McWilliams, Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
  • 10th » Gordon Thomas (cyclist) known as Gordon Thomas, English cyclist (b. 1921)
  • 10th » Angela Voigt, German long jumper (b. 1951)
  • 11th » Don Blackman, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (b. 1953)
  • 11th » Grady Hatton, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
  • 11th » Thomas Hemsley, English opera singer (b. 1927)
  • 11th » Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist (b. 1916)
  • 11th » Gilles Marchal, French singer-songwriter (b. 1944)
  • 11th » Maria Tallchief, American ballerina (b. 1925)
  • 11th » Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel, Buenos Aires known as Marriott Plaza Hotel (b. 1923)
  • 11th » Jonathan Winters, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1925)
  • 12th » Robert Byrne (chess player) called Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (b. 1928)
  • 12th » Johnny DuPlooy, South African boxer (b. 1964)
  • 12th » Michael France, American screenwriter (b. 1962)
  • 12th » Brennan Manning, American priest and author (b. 1934)
  • 12th » Annamária Szalai, Hungarian journalist and politician (b. 1961)
  • 12th » William Y. Thompson, American historian and author (b. 1922)
  • 13th » Frank Bank, American actor (b. 1942)
  • 13th » Chi Cheng (musician) called Chi Cheng, American bass player (Deftones) (b. 1970)
  • 13th » Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (b. 1924)
  • 13th » Dean Drummond, American composer and conductor (b. 1949)
  • 13th » Ian Henderson (police officer) known as Ian Henderson, Scottish-Kenyan police officer (b. 1927)
  • 13th » Vincent Montana, Jr., American drummer and composer (MFSB and Salsoul Orchestra) (b. 1928)
  • 13th » Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician, 29th List of vice premiers of the Republic of China or Vice Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1927)
  • 14th » Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (b. 1937)
  • 14th » Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (b. 1927)
  • 14th » R. P. Goenka, Indian businessman, founded RPG Group (b. 1930)
  • 14th » George Jackson (songwriter) named George Jackson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
  • 14th » Rentarō Mikuni, Japanese actor and director (b. 1923)
  • 14th » Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1915)
  • 14th » Charlie Wilson (Ohio politician) known as Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1943)
  • 15th » Sal Castro, American educator and activist (b. 1933)
  • 15th » Benny Frankie Cerezo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (b. 1943)
  • 15th » Richard Collins (actor) named Richard Collins, Canadian actor (b. 1947)
  • 15th » Benjamin Fain, Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic (b. 1930)
  • 15th » Joe Francis (American football) known as Joe Francis, American football player and coach (b. 1936)
  • 15th » Richard LeParmentier, American-English actor and screenwriter (b. 1946)
  • 15th » Dave McArtney, New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hello Sailor (band) known as Hello Sailor) (b. 1951)
  • 15th » Scott Miller (pop musician) e.g Scott Miller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Game Theory (band) known as Game Theory and The Loud Family) (b. 1960)
  • 15th » Cleyde Yáconis, Brazilian actress (b. 1923)
  • 16th » Charles Bruzon, Gibraltarian politician (b. 1938)
  • 16th » Jack Daniels (baseball) called Jack Daniels, American baseball player (b. 1927)
  • 16th » George Horse-Capture, American anthropologist and author (b. 1937)
  • 16th » Ali Kafi, Algerian colonel and politician (b. 1928)
  • 16th » Francis Leo Lawrence, American academic and scholar (b. 1937)
  • 16th » Siegfried Ludwig, Austrian politician, 18th List of governors of Lower Austria or Governor of Lower Austria (b. 1926)
  • 16th » Pentti Lund, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
  • 16th » Rita MacNeil, Canadian singer and actress (b. 1944)
  • 16th » George Beverly Shea, Canadian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1909)
  • 16th » Edwin Shirley, English businessman (b. 1948)
  • 16th » Pat Summerall, American football player and sportscaster (b. 1930)
  • 16th » Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Mexican architect, designed the Tijuana Cultural Center and Museo Nacional de Antropología (b. 1919)
  • 17th » Sita Chan, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1987)
  • 17th » Carlos Graça, São Toméan politician, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe (b. 1931)
  • 17th » Bi Kidude, Zanzibari-Tanzanian singer (b. 1910)
  • 17th » Yngve Moe, Norwegian bass player and songwriter (Dance with a Stranger (band) called Dance with a Stranger) (b. 1957)
  • 17th » V. S. Ramadevi, Indian politician, 13th Governor of Karnataka (b. 1934)
  • 17th » T. K. Ramamoorthy, Indian composer (b. 1922)
  • 17th » Paul Ware, English footballer (b. 1970)
  • 18th » Ilona Edelsheim-Gyulai, Hungarian-English wife of István Horthy (b. 1918)
  • 18th » Cordell Mosson, American bass player (Parliament-Funkadelic) (b. 1952)
  • 18th » Steuart Pringle, English general (b. 1928)
  • 18th » Goran Švob, Croatian philosopher and author (b. 1947)
  • 18th » Storm Thorgerson, English illustrator (b. 1944)
  • 18th » Anne Williams (activist) called Anne Williams, English activist (b. 1951)
  • 19th » Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman (b. 1936)
  • 19th » Allan Arbus, American actor (b. 1918)
  • 19th » Günseli Başar, Turkish model, Miss Europe e.g Miss Europe 1952 (b. 1932)
  • 19th » Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (b. 1940)
  • 19th » Patrick Garland, English actor and director (b. 1935)
  • 19th » François Jacob, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
  • 19th » E. L. Konigsburg, American author and illustrator (b. 1930)
  • 19th » Al Neuharth, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded 'USA Today' (b. 1924)
  • 19th » Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russian-American terrorist (b. 1986)
  • 20th » Glenn Cannon, American actor and director (b. 1932)
  • 20th » Peter Kane Dufault, American poet (b. 1923)
  • 20th » Huang Wenyong, Malaysian-Singaporean actor (b. 1952)
  • 20th » Jocasta Innes, Chinese-English journalist and author (b. 1934)
  • 20th » Rick Mather, American-English architect (b. 1937)
  • 20th » Howard Phillips (politician) or Howard Phillips, American politician (b. 1941)
  • 20th » Nosher Powell, English actor and boxer (b. 1928)
  • 21st » Kriyananda, Romanian-American spiritual leader (b. 1926)
  • 21st » Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Divinyls) (b. 1959)
  • 21st » Jean-Michel Damase, French pianist and composer (b. 1928)
  • 21st » Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (b. 1929)
  • 21st » Leopold Engleitner, Austrian holocaust survivor, author, and educator (b. 1905)
  • 21st » Gordon D. Gayle, American general and historian (b. 1917)
  • 21st » Captain Steve, American race horse (b. 1997)
  • 22nd » Dave Gold, American businessman, founded 99 Cents Only Stores (b. 1932)
  • 22nd » Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
  • 22nd » Lalgudi Jayaraman, Indian violinist and composer (b. 1930)
  • 22nd » Mike Smith (footballer born 1935) known as Mike Smith, English footballer (b. 1935)
  • 22nd » Robert Suderburg, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936)
  • 22nd » J. S. Verma, Indian judge and politician, 27th Chief Justice of India (b. 1933)
  • 23rd » Colonial Affair, American race horse (b. 1990)
  • 23rd » Shamshad Begum, Indian singer (b. 1919)
  • 23rd » Bob Brozman, American guitarist (R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders) (b. 1954)
  • 23rd » Robert W. Edgar, American politician (b. 1943)
  • 23rd » Tony Grealish, English footballer (b. 1956)
  • 23rd » Norman Jones (actor) named Norman Jones, English actor (b. 1932)
  • 23rd » Antonio Maccanico, Italian politician (b. 1924)
  • 23rd » Frank W. J. Olver, English-American mathematician and educator (b. 1924)
  • 23rd » Kathryn Wasserman Davis, American philanthropist and scholar (b. 1907)
  • 24th » Storm Cat, American race horse (b. 1983)
  • 24th » Richard Everett Dorr, American judge (b. 1943)
  • 24th » Larry Felser, American journalist (b. 1933)
  • 24th » Dave Kocourek, American football player (b. 1937)
  • 24th » Gary L. Lancaster, American lawyer and judge (b. 1949)
  • 24th » Pedro Romualdo, Filipino politician (b. 1935)
  • 25th » Brian Adam, Scottish politician (b. 1948)
  • 25th » Jacob Avshalomov, American composer and conductor (b. 1919)
  • 25th » György Berencsi, Hungarian virologist and educator (b. 1941)
  • 25th » Rick Camp, American baseball player (b. 1953)
  • 25th » Virginia Gibson, American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1925)
  • 25th » Johnny Lockwood, English-Australian actor (b. 1920)
  • 25th » Anna Proclemer, Italian actress (b. 1923)
  • 25th » Yoshio Tabata, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1919)
  • 26th » Jacqueline Brookes, American actress (b. 1930)
  • 26th » William L. Guy, American politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (b. 1919)
  • 26th » George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
  • 26th » Marion Rushing, American football player (b. 1936)
  • 26th » Mary Thom, American journalist (b. 1944)
  • 26th » Jim Tucker (journalist) named Jim Tucker, American journalist and author (b. 1934)
  • 27th » Aída Bortnik, Argentinian screenwriter (b. 1938)
  • 27th » Tony Byrne (boxer) named Tony Byrne, Irish boxer (b. 1930)
  • 27th » Antonio Díaz Jurado, Spanish footballer (b. 1969)
  • 27th » Jérôme Louis Heldring, Dutch journalist (b. 1917)
  • 27th » Aloysius Jin Luxian, Chinese bishop (b. 1916)
  • 27th » Mutula Kilonzo, Kenyan lawyer and politician (b. 1948)
  • 28th » Brad Lesley, American baseball player and actor (b. 1958)
  • 28th » Fredrick McKissack, American author (b. 1939)
  • 28th » John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist (b. 1935)
  • 28th » Jack Shea (director) known as Jack Shea, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
  • 28th » János Starker, Hungarian-American cellist (b. 1924)
  • 28th » Paulo Vanzolini, Brazilian singer-songwriter and zoologist (b. 1924)
  • 28th » Bernie Wood, New Zealand journalist and author (b. 1939)
  • 29th » Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (b. 1992)
  • 29th » Pesah Grupper, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
  • 29th » Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (b. 1950)
  • 29th » John La Montaine, American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
  • 29th » Ernest Michael, American mathematician and scholar (b. 1925)
  • 29th » Kevin Moore (footballer born 1958) known as Kevin Moore, English footballer (b. 1958)
  • 29th » Marianna Zachariadi, Greek pole vaulter (b. 1990)
  • 30th » Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1937)
  • 30th » Shirley Firth, Canadian skier (b. 1953)
  • 30th » Viviane Forrester, French author and critic (b. 1925)
  • 30th » Emil Frei, American physician and oncologist (b. 1924)
  • 30th » Mike Gray, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1935)
  • 30th » Andrew J. Offutt, American author (b. 1934)

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