Famous Birthdays In April - 24

1533  On April - 24 birth of william I of Orange (d. 1584)   

1538  Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer was born on this day in history.   

1581  On April - 24 birth of vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)   

1594  Benedikt Lechler, composer was born on this day in history.   

1620  On April - 24 birth of john Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography   

1660  Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver was born on April - 24.   

1670  Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer was born on April - 24.   

1706  Giovanni Battista Martini, composer was born on April - 24.   

1718  On this day in history birth of nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)   

1721  Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised was born on this day in history.   

1742  Roman Hoffstetter, composer was born on April - 24.   

1743  Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom) was born on this day in history.   

1750  On April - 24 birth of simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician   

1766  On this day in history birth of robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)   

1769  On this day in history birth of arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington   

1773  On this day in history birth of harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director   

1784  On April - 24 birth of peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)   

1791  On April - 24 birth of nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)   

1796  On April - 24 birth of k L Immermann, writer   

1804  Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) was born on this day in history.   

1807  Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 was born on April - 24.   

1814  On this day in history birth of angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire   

1814  Vincente F Lopez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje) was born on April - 24.   

1815  On this day in history birth of anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)   

1815  James Edward Harrison, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875 was born on this day in history.   

1822  On this day in history birth of erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1824  On April - 24 birth of fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger   

1828  On April - 24 birth of robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899   

1829  George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 was born on this day in history.   

1836  Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist was born on this day in history.   

1837  Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) was born on this day in history.   

1845  On this day in history birth of carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)   

1849  On this day in history birth of joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)   

1851  On April - 24 birth of eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)   

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0624  On this day in history death of mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury   

0709  Wilfried, bishop of York, dies at about 76 on April - 24.   

0729  On April - 24 egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89   

1077  Geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies on April - 24.   

1185  Death of Antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns on April - 24.   

1338  On this day in history death of marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)   

1530  Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies on April - 24.   

1617  On April - 24 death of carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered