Famous Birthdays In April - 24

1533  On this day in history birth of william I of Orange (d. 1584)  

1538  On April - 24 birth of gugliemo Gonzaga, composer  

1581  Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660) was born on April - 24.  

1594  On April - 24 birth of benedikt Lechler, composer  

1620  John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography was born on April - 24.  

1660  On this day in history birth of cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver  

1670  On April - 24 birth of christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer  

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  On April - 24 birth of johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised  

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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  Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician was born on April - 24.  

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

1769  Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington was born on this day in history.  

1773  Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director was born on this day in history.  

1784  On this day in history 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  Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) was born on April - 24.  

1807  Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 was born on this day in history.  

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

1814  On this day in history birth of vincente F Lopez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje)  

1815  Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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

1849  Joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris) was born on this day in history.  

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

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

1338  On April - 24 death of marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)  

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

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