Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/April 1

Births

 * 1578 - William Harvey, English physician (d. 1657)
 * 1815 - Otto von Bismarck, 1st Chancellor of Germany (d. 1898) (pictured)
 * 1873 (N.S.) - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor (d. 1943)
 * 1932 - Debbie Reynolds, American actress (d. 2016)

Deaths

 * 1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II of England
 * 1917 - Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868)
 * 1984 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)