| Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, poet, playwright (Fathers & Sons | |
| Charles Baudelaire, Poet | |
| Eadweard Muybridge Pioneer Photographer | |
| Edward VII, king of England (1901-10) | |
| Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist, father of psychopharmacology | |
| Paul Robeson actor and Singer | |
| Gregory Pincus birth control pill inventor | |
| Hedy Lamarr, sexy actress | |
| Hugh Hefner, Publisher | |
| Carl Sagan, cosmology spokesman | |
| Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France | |
| Lee surrenders to Grant at Appomattox ending the US Civil War. | |
| Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union | |
| at 5:16pm, a massive power failure blacks out New Engl. & Ontario | |
| first unmanned Saturn V flight to test Apollo 4 reentry module | |
By Scott Labrecque version 9.4.0.0