Famous Birthdays In April - 05

1288  On April - 05 birth of emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)  

1472  On this day in history birth of bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)  

1523  On this day in history birth of blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)  

1588  On April - 05 birth of thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan)  

1595  On April - 05 birth of john Wilson, composer  

1598  On April - 05 birth of laurentius Erhard, composer  

1604  Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675) was born on April - 05.  

1622  On April - 05 birth of vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)  

1626  Jan van Kessel, Flemish painter was born on April - 05.  

1643  On April - 05 birth of charles V Leopold, Duke of Lorraine/fieldmarshal in Austria  

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1649  Elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale was born on April - 05.  

1692  On this day in history birth of adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)  

1698  On April - 05 birth of georg Gottfried Wagner, composer  

1725  On April - 05 birth of giacomo Casanova, Italian writer/philanderer/adventurer (uncertain)  

1727  On April - 05 birth of pasquale Ankossi, composer  

1732  Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806) was born on this day in history.  

1752  On April - 05 birth of sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831)  

1784  On April - 05 birth of louis [Ludwig] Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)  

1784  On this day in history birth of ludwig Spohr, composer  

1788  On April - 05 birth of franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)  

1795  On this day in history birth of henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39)  

1799  On this day in history birth of vincenzo Fioravanti, composer  

1816  On April - 05 birth of samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)  

1818  On April - 05 birth of lewis Baldwin Parsons, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)  

1820  On this day in history birth of nadar, [Félix Tournachon], French painter/cartoonist/author/ballonist  

1822  On April - 05 birth of james Nagle, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1866  

1824  On April - 05 birth of sydney Thompson Dobell, poet (Roman)  

1825  On this day in history birth of david Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General (Confederate Army)  

1827  On this day in history birth of joseph Lister, England, physician (founded aseptic surgery)  

1828  Pietro Plantania, composer was born on April - 05.  

1830  Alexander Muir, Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (Maple Leaf Forever) was born on April - 05.  

1832  Jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman was born on this day in history.  

1837  On this day in history birth of algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon)  

1838  On this day in history birth of alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist  

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0582  On this day in history death of eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 512)  

0828  Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77 on April - 05.  

1168  On April - 05 death of robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)  

1258  Julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies on this day in history.  

1270  On April - 05 ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies  

1419  On this day in history death of vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)  

1531  Death of Richard Roose, boiled to death for trying to poison an archbishop on this day in history.  

1605  Death of Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513) on this day in history.