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  On this day in history birth of pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1626)  

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

1637  Valentin Molitor, composer was born on this day in history.  

1641  On this day in history birth of robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)  

1646  King Christian V of Denmark (d. 1699) was born on this day in history.  

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  On April - 15 birth of john van Huysum, Dutch painter (flowers/fruit)  

1684  On this day in history birth of catherine I, empress of Russia (1725-27)  

1688  On April - 15 birth of johann Friedrich Fasch, composer  

1689  On April - 15 birth of ferdinand Zellbell, composer  

1707  Leonhard Euler, Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant) was born on this day in history.  

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

1741  Charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington) was born on this day in history.  

1757  On April - 15 birth of george Knowil Jackson, composer  

1766  Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic was born on this day in history.  

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

1793  On this day in history birth of friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers  

1794  Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist (d. 1867) was born on this day in history.  

1800  On April - 15 birth of james Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic)  

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  Emerson Brown Joseph, (Confederacy), died in 1894 was born on April - 15.  

1822  Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana, Major General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history.  

1827  Julius Tausch, composer was born on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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

1841  On this day in history birth of joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)  

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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 April - 15 death of manuel Chrysoloras, Greek humanist and grammarian  

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 this day in history boris Godunov, tsar of Russia (1598-1605), dies  

1607  Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78 on April - 15.  

1610  Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62 on April - 15.