Famous Birthdays In April - 23

1170  Isabelle of Hainaut, queen of France (d. 1190) was born on April - 23.  

1185  On this day in history birth of king Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1223)  

1464  On this day in history birth of johanna van Valois, Queen of France  

1464  Robert Fayrfax, composer was born on this day in history.  

1484  Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things) was born on April - 23.  

1500  On April - 23 birth of alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician  

1500  Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (d. 1565) was born on April - 23.  

1516  Georg Fabricius, German poet, historian, and archaeologist (d. 1571) was born on this day in history.  

1598  On April - 23 birth of maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander  

1621  William Penn, English admiral (d. 1670) was born on this day in history.  

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1623  Jan Adam Reincken, composer was born on this day in history.  

1628  Johann van Waveren Hudde, Dutch mathematician (d. 1704) was born on April - 23.  

1629  John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam) was born on April - 23.  

1649  Andreas Kneller, composer was born on April - 23.  

1676  On April - 23 birth of king Frederick I of Sweden (d. 1751)  

1697  On this day in history birth of george Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer  

1708  Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem) was born on April - 23.  

1715  On April - 23 birth of johann Friedrich Doles, composer  

1720  On this day in history birth of vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi (d. 1797)  

1725  On this day in history birth of saint Gerard Majella, Catholic saint (d. 1755)  

1728  Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island) was born on this day in history.  

1735  On this day in history birth of ildephons Haas, composer  

1746  Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist (d. 1794) was born on April - 23.  

1747  On this day in history birth of alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer  

1756  On this day in history birth of alexander Reinagle, composer  

1775  Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck) was born on April - 23.  

1791  James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61) was born on April - 23.  

1791  On April - 23 birth of w Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist  

1792  John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist (d. 1882) was born on this day in history.  

1794  Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar (d. 1856) was born on this day in history.  

1803  On this day in history birth of jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice  

1804  Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium) was born on this day in history.  

1809  Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer was born on April - 23.  

1810  Thomas Wright, historian was born on April - 23.  

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0034  On this day in history death of christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton  

0303  On this day in history death of george, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded  

0725  Death of Wihtred, King of Kent on this day in history.  

0871  Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies on this day in history.  

0990  On April - 23 ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies  

0997  Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40 on this day in history.  

1014  Brian Boru, king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87 on this day in history.  

1016  Aethelbred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016), dies on April - 23.