Famous Birthdays In April - 15

1452  Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary was born on April - 15.  

1469  On April - 15 birth of nanak, 1st guru of Sikhs  

1489  On this day in history birth of sinan, Ottoman architect (d. 1588)  

1552  On April - 15 birth of pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)  

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

1637  On this day in history birth of valentin Molitor, composer  

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

1646  On this day in history birth of king Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699)  

1646  Pierre Poiret, French mystic (d. 1719) was born on April - 15.  

1651  Domenico Gabrielli, composer was born on April - 15.  

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1682  John van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit) was born on April - 15.  

1684  Catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27) was born on April - 15.  

1688  Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer was born on April - 15.  

1689  Ferdinand Zellbell, composer was born on this day in history.  

1707  On April - 15 birth of leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant)  

1710  William Cullen, Scottish physician (d. 1790) was born on this day in history.  

1741  On this day in history birth of charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington)  

1757  On this day in history birth of george Knowil Jackson, composer  

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

1772  On April - 15 birth of Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (d. 1844)  

1793  Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers was born on April - 15.  

1794  Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867) was born on April - 15.  

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  On April - 15 birth of pierre-Etienne-Theodore Rousseau, painter  

1814  John Lothrop Motley, US, historian/author (Rise of Dutch Rep) was born on April - 15.  

1820  Evander McNair, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902 was born on this day in history.  

1821  On this day in history birth of emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894  

1822  On April - 15 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 April - 15.  

1832  On this day in history birth of wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)  

1837  Horace Porter, Bvt Brig General (Union Army), died in 1921 was born on this day in history.  

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

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1053  On this day in history death of godwin, Earl of Wessex  

1220  On April - 15 adolf I, archbishop of Cologne, dies  

1415  On this day in history death of manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian  

1472  On this day in history leon B Alberti, Italian humanist/architect (Philodoxis), dies at 68  

1502  On this day in history jan IV Chalon, prince of Orange, dies  

1605  Boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies on April - 15.  

1607  On this day in history cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78  

1610  Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62 on this day in history.