* April 3 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut ( d. 1967 )

Virgil Ivan Grissom ( April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967 ), ( Lt Col, USAF ), better known as Gus Grissom, was one of the original NASA Project Mercury astronauts and a United States Air Force pilot.

Grissom was born in Mitchell, Indiana on April 3, 1926, the second child of Dennis and Cecile King Grissom.

Captain Grissom then underwent a series of physical and psychological tests and on April 13, 1959, was notified that he had been chosen as one of the seven Mercury astronauts.

On April 6, 1972, the sheriff and two sheriff's deputies were killed in a shootout while attempting to serve a warrant on Bert Grissom ; Sheriff Douglas Batey and Deputies Glen Ray Archer and Troy Key were killed ; Sheriff Batey was replaced by William Thomas Pond as Sheriff, but Sheriff Pond was killed also on June 8, 1973, in an automobile accident.

In April 1969 the Colonels were bought by a group of Louisville investors that included H. Wendell Cherry, Bill DeWitt, J. David Grissom, Stuart P. Jay, David A. Jones, John Y.

Marquis Deon Grissom (; born April 17, 1967 ) is a former American Major League Baseball player.

In April 1995, the Expos traded Grissom to the Atlanta Braves, in exchange for pitcher Esteban Yan and outfielders Roberto Kelly and Tony Tarasco.

# April 1974-August 1978, 305th Field Maintenance Squadron, Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.

Soon after acquiring the undisputed possession of the Roman empire, Theodosius died at Milan in 395, and two years later ( April 4, 397 ) Ambrose also died.

Hasan Ali Shah died after an imamate of sixty-four years in April 1881.

Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.

In April 871, King Æthelred died, and Alfred succeeded to the throne of Wessex and the burden of its defence, despite the fact that Æthelred left two under-age sons, Æthelhelm and Æthelwold.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

On 23 April 1196, King Béla III died and he left the Kingdom of Hungary unportioned to his eldest son, Emeric, while Andrew inherited a large amount of money in order to fulfill his father's Crusader oath.

Amalric died of dysentery ( allegedly brought on by " a surfeit of white mullet ") or even poisoned at Saint Jean d ' Acre on 1 April 1205, just after his son Amalric and four days before his wife, and was buried at Saint Sophia, Nicosia.

After Sarah's death, Fleming married Dr. Amalia Koutsouri-Vourekas, a Greek colleague at St. Mary's, on 9 April 1953 ; she died in 1986.

In April 1906, Mrs Deter died and Alzheimer had the patient records and the brain brought to Munich where he was working at Kraepelin's lab.

Charles died at Vienna on 30 April 1847.

Ahmad Shah retired to his home in the mountains east of Kandahar, where he died on April 14, 1773.

Disraeli died in April 1881.

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

The disease has also been shown to result from use of Human Growth Hormone obtained from the pituitary glands of persons who died from Creutzfeldt – Jakob Disease, though the known incidence of this cause is ( as of April 2004 ) quite small.

The name " Pluto " was reportedly suggested by Venetia Burney, then an 11-year-old English school girl, who died in April 2009, having lived to see the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.

In the year after April 1927, over 300, 000 people died across China in anti-Communist suppression campaigns executed by the KMT .< ref name =" Barnouin38 "> Barnouin, Barbara and Yu Changgen.

He had suffered a major heart attack and pneumonia in the months before and died from renal failure aggravated with advanced cardiac malfunction at 23: 50 on April 5.

Months later on April 27, 1977, Charles Spinky Alston died after a long bout with cancer.

Arthur died on 2 April 1502 ; Catherine recovered to find herself a widow.

St Catherine died in Rome, on 29 April 1380, at the age of thirty-three, having suffered a stroke eight days earlier.

C. L. Moore died on April 4, 1987 at her home in Hollywood, California after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Daniel Defoe died on 24 April 1731, probably while in hiding from his creditors.

* Arcadio Larraona Saralegui, CMF ( 26 June 1967 – 28 April 1969 )

Severe weather is uncommon in the Chicago area, though there have been some exceptions such as the F4 tornado that devastated the south side of the city on April 21, 1967.

His April 1967 solo single, " The Laughing Gnome ", utilising sped-up thus high-pitched vocals, failed to chart.

Howard had a wooden statue of Atho's head which he claimed was 2200 years old, but the statue was stolen in April 1967.

Berry returned to the studio in April 1967, one year almost to the day after his accident.

A one-act television play, it was completed by June 1964 but first broadcast by Associated-Rediffusion on 6 April 1967.

Two archive recordings of Orton are known to survive: a short BBC radio interview first transmitted in August 1967 and a video recording, held by the British Film Institute, of his appearance on Eamonn Andrews ' ITV chat show transmitted 23 April 1967.

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967 ) was a German statesman.

Adenauer died on 19 April 1967 in his family home at Rhöndorf.

The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.

They married April 1967 and divorced June 1970.

* 1987 – Odysseas Angelis, Greek officer involved in the coup of April 1967 ( b. 1912 )

The ballad " Somethin ' Stupid " — a duet with her father — hit # 1 in the US and the UK in April 1967 and spent nine weeks at the top of Billboard's easy listening chart.

Paul Huston, ( born April 2, 1967 ) better known by the stage name Prince Paul, is an American disc jockey and hip-hop record producer.

In April 1967, the Porsche factory's Christophorus Magazine noted: " On 21 December 1966, Porsche celebrated a particularly proud anniversary.

It premiered on April 11, 1967, with John Stride as Rosencrantz, Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Graham Crowden as the Player, and John McEnery as Hamlet.

The APC, with its leader Siaka Stevens, narrowly won a small majority seats in Parliament over the SLPP in a closely contested 1967 Sierra Leone general election and Stevens was sworn in as Prime Minister of April 26, 1968.

' Talkback ' radio, using a seven-second time lapse mechanism, began in Australia in April 1967, simultaneously on 2SM, Sydney ( with Mike Walsh ) and 3DB, Melbourne ( with Barry Jones ).

* On April 21, 1967, in Greece a group of colonels established a military dictatorship for seven years.

* In India, Naxalite-Maoist insurgency ( 1967 – present ) has grown alarmingly with attacks such as April 2010 Maoist attack in Dantewada, Jnaneswari Express train derailment, and Rafiganj train disaster.

* April 18 – Al Lewis, American songwriter ( died 1967 )

* April 11 – Rodney Harvey, American actor and model ( b. 1967 )