Famous Birthdays In April - 05

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

1472  On April - 05 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  Thomas Hobbes, England, philosopher (Leviathan) was born on April - 05.  

1595  John Wilson, composer was born on this day in history.  

1598  On this day in history birth of laurentius Erhard, composer  

1604  Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675) was born on this day in history.  

1622  On this day in history birth of vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)  

1626  On this day in history birth of jan van Kessel, Flemish painter  

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

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1649  On April - 05 birth of elihu Yale, England, philanthropist founded Yale  

1692  On April - 05 birth of adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)  

1698  Georg Gottfried Wagner, composer was born on April - 05.  

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

1727  Pasquale Ankossi, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

1752  Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831) was born on April - 05.  

1784  On this day in history birth of louis [Ludwig] Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)  

1784  Ludwig Spohr, composer was born on April - 05.  

1788  Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund) was born on April - 05.  

1795  Henry Havelock, British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39) was born on April - 05.  

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

1816  Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890) was born on April - 05.  

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  David Rumph "Neighbor" Jones, Major General (Confederate Army) was born on this day in history.  

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

1828  On this day in history birth of pietro Plantania, composer  

1830  On April - 05 birth of alexander Muir, Lesmahagow Scotland, poet (Maple Leaf Forever)  

1832  On this day in history birth of jules-Francois Camille Ferry, French statesman  

1837  Algernon Charles Swinburne, England, poet (Atalanta in Calydon) was born on April - 05.  

1838  On April - 05 birth of alpheus Hyatt, US, invertebrate paleontologist  

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0582  Death of Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (c. 512) on this day in history.  

0828  On this day in history nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77  

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

1258  On this day in history julian of Cornillon/Liege, Flemish visionary/saint, dies  

1270  On this day in history ramban Nachmanides, Talmudic scholar (Hiddushei Ha-Ramden), dies  

1419  Death of Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350) on April - 05.  

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

1605  On this day in history death of adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (c.1513)