I noticed on Wikipedia’s Deaths in 2025 site, that two notable persons named Jonn had been added, one under April 2 and the other April 3. I didn’t think much of it, as it’s a fairly popular name, until I checked out their birthdays:
- John Vella ( (April 21, 1950 – April 2, 2025) 74, football player
- Johnny King (born 9 August 1932 - 3 April 2025 ) 92, English footballer
- Johnny Tillotson (April 20, 1938 – April 1, 2025) 86, singer-songwriter ("Poetry in Motion", "It Keeps Right On a-Hurtin'", "Without You")
- John Bennett Johnston (June 10, 1932 – March 25, 2025) 92, member of U.S. Senate
- 1999 – Hermine Braunsteiner (July 16, 1919 – April 19, 1999) SS officer
- 2000 – Louis Applebaum (April 3, 1918 – April 19, 2000) composer and conductor
- 1998 – Octavio Paz (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) poet Nobel Prize laureate
- 2002 – Reginald Rose (December 10, 1920 – April 19, 2002) writer
- 1593 – Sir John Hobart, 2nd Baronet (19 April 1593 – 20 April 1647)
- 1658 – Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (19 April 1658 – 8 June 1716)
- 1925 – John Kraaijkamp (19 April 1925 – 17 July 2011) actor
- 1928 – John Horlock (19 April 1928 – 22 May 2015) engineer
- 1951 – Jóannes Eidesgaard (born 19 April 1951) Prime Minister of Faroe Islands
- 1831 – Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (5 June 1765 – 19 April 1831)
- 1941 – Johanna Müller-Hermann (15 January 1868 – 19 April 1941) composer
- 2004 – John Maynard Smith (6 January 1920 – 19 April 2004) geneticist
- 1782 – John Adams secures Dutch recognition of the United States as an independent government. The house which he had purchased in The Hague becomes the first American embassy.
John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826)
Note that he is one of the Presidents who died on July 4 that are mentioned in this blogs harder:
Of the first "5" US Presidents, 3 died on July 4th: Jefferson "5" hours before Adams, and Monroe "5" years later on the "55th" Independence Day.
While I was perusing the notable events occurring on April 19, I came across:
2020 – A killing spree in Nova Scotia, Canada, leaves 22 people and the perpetrator dead, making it the deadliest rampage in the country's history.
I live in Nova Scotia and so am more than aware of this tragic event!! This is also no coincidence. On perusing the Killing spree’s wiki page, looking for a John, there was none, butt maybe:
The federal and provincial governments jointly selected three commissioners to conduct the inquiry: J. Michael MacDonald (former chief justice of Nova Scotia). I couldn’t locate either his first name that begins with “J”, or his date of birth, butt I did note:
22nd Chief Justice of Nova Scotia from 2004 until 2019.
22 is a particular inner twin signature,… and do note that 22 people were killed by Wortman. On reading the killing Spree’s wiki page, I noted the following:
Citing eyewitness reports of Wortman's behaviour and ways of controlling his partner, domestic violence experts called for the passage of a coercive control law in Canada, similar to one that had been passed by the United Kingdom in 2015, which they say may "help prevent other abusers from escaping detection"