Famous Birthdays In April - 24

1533  William I of Orange (d. 1584) was born on April - 24.  

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

1581  On this day in history birth of vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)  

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

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

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

1670  On this day in history birth of christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer  

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

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  On this day in history birth of roman Hoffstetter, composer  

1743  On April - 24 birth of edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)  

1750  Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician was born on this day in history.  

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

1784  On this day in history birth of peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)  

1791  On this day in history birth of nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)  

1796  On this day in history birth of k L Immermann, writer  

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

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

1814  On April - 24 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  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  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 April - 24.  

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

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 April - 24.  

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 this day in history.  

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  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 April - 24 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.