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  Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660) was born on this day in history.  

1594  Benedikt Lechler, composer was born on April - 24.  

1620  John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography was born on this day in history.  

1660  Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver was born on this day in history.  

1670  Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer was born on this day in history.  

1706  Giovanni Battista Martini, composer was born on this day in history.  

1718  Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784) was born on April - 24.  

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

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1742  On April - 24 birth of roman Hoffstetter, composer  

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

1750  On this day in history birth of simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician  

1766  Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac) was born on this day in history.  

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

1773  Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director was born on April - 24.  

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

1791  Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland) was born on this day in history.  

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

1804  On April - 24 birth of thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)  

1807  On April - 24 birth of charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862  

1814  On April - 24 birth of angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire  

1814  On April - 24 birth of vincente F Lopez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje)  

1815  Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) was born on April - 24.  

1815  On this day in history birth of james Edward Harrison, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875  

1822  Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) was born on April - 24.  

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

1828  Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 was born on April - 24.  

1829  On April - 24 birth of george Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881  

1836  Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist was born on April - 24.  

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

1845  Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919) was born on April - 24.  

1849  Joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris) was born on April - 24.  

1851  Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria) was born on April - 24.  

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0624  Death of Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury on April - 24.  

0709  On this day in history wilfried, bishop of York, dies at about 76  

0729  On this day in history egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89  

1077  On this day in history geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies  

1185  Death of Antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns on this day in history.  

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

1530  On this day in history jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies  

1617  Death of Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered on this day in history.