Famous Birthdays In April - 15

1452  On April - 15 birth of leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary  

1469  On this day in history birth of nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs  

1489  Sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588) was born on April - 15.  

1552  Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626) was born on this day in history.  

1588  On this day in history birth of claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist  

1637  Valentin Molitor, composer was born on April - 15.  

1641  Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722) was born on this day in history.  

1646  King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699) was born on April - 15.  

1646  On April - 15 birth of pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719)  

1651  On April - 15 birth of domenico Gabrielli, composer  

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1682  On this day in history birth of john van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)  

1684  On April - 15 birth of catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)  

1688  Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer was born on this day in history.  

1689  On April - 15 birth of ferdinand Zellbell, composer  

1707  Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant) was born on April - 15.  

1710  William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790) was born on April - 15.  

1741  Charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington) was born on April - 15.  

1757  George Knowil Jackson, composer was born on April - 15.  

1766  On this day in history birth of friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic  

1772  Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844) was born on April - 15.  

1793  On April - 15 birth of friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers  

1794  On April - 15 birth of jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867)  

1800  James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic) was born on April - 15.  

1809  On this day in history birth of hermann Gunther Grassmann, mathematician  

1812  Pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter was born on this day in history.  

1814  On this day in history birth of john Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep)  

1820  On April - 15 birth of evander McNair, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902  

1821  On April - 15 birth of emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894  

1822  On this day in history birth of napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers)  

1827  On April - 15 birth of julius Tausch, composer  

1829  Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon was born on this day in history.  

1832  Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908) was born on April - 15.  

1837  On this day in history birth of horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921  

1841  Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919) was born on April - 15.  

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1053  Death of Godwin, Earl of Wessex on this day in history.  

1220  Adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies on this day in history.  

1415  Death of Manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian on April - 15.  

1472  Leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68 on April - 15.  

1502  Jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies on April - 15.  

1605  On April - 15 boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies  

1607  Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78 on this day in history.  

1610  On April - 15 johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62