Famous Birthdays In April - 24

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

1538  Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer was born on April - 24.  

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 April - 24.  

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

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

1706  On this day in history birth of giovanni Battista Martini, composer  

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.  

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

1743  Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom) was born on April - 24.  

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

1766  Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac) was born on April - 24.  

1769  Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington was born on April - 24.  

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

1796  K L Immermann, writer was born on April - 24.  

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

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

1814  Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire was born on April - 24.  

1814  Vincente F Lopez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje) was born on this day in history.  

1815  On April - 24 birth of anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)  

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 this day in history.  

1824  Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger was born on this day in history.  

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  On April - 24 birth of jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist  

1837  On April - 24 birth of friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)  

1845  Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919) was born on this day in history.  

1849  On April - 24 birth of joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)  

1851  Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria) was born on this day in history.  

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

0709  On April - 24 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  On April - 24 death of antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns  

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

1530  On April - 24 jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies  

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