April 15
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Art and culture
- 1912 - The British passenger ship RMS Titanic sinks after hitting an iceberg causing the deaths of about 1,503 people.
- 1966 - Swinging London Time magazine cover.
- 1969 - Woodstock Festival started its 3 day rally today at 5:08p.m.
- 1989 - The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 begin in the People's Republic of China.
Births
Births
- 1452 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance polymath (d. 1519)
- 1741 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)
- 1772 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)
- 1832 – Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
- 1843 – Henry James, American author (d. 1916)
- 1856 – Jean Moréas, French writer (d. 1910)
- 1858 – Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (d. 1917)
- 1878 – Robert Walser, Swiss writer (d. 1956)
- 1889 – Thomas Hart Benton, American muralist (d. 1975)
- 1894 – Bessie Smith, American blues singer (d. 1937)
- 1904 – Arshile Gorky, Armenian Artist (d. 1948)
- 1920 – Thomas Szasz, Hungarian-American psychiatrist
- 1927 – Albert Goldman, American journalist(d. 1994)
- 1933 – David Hamilton, British photographer, film director and producer
- 1939 – Claudia Cardinale, Tunisian-born actress
- 1959 – Emma Thompson, English actress
- 1982 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
Deaths
- Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927)
- August Endell (1871 - 1925)
- Robert Musil (1880 - 1942)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- Jean Genet (1910 - 1986)
- Alexander Trocchi (1925 -1984)
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