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

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

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

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  Roman Hoffstetter, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

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

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

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 April - 24.  

1784  On April - 24 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  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  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  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 April - 24.  

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  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 April - 24.  

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

1851  On this day in history birth of eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)  

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0624  Death of Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury on this day in history.  

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

0729  Egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89 on this day in history.  

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

1185  On April - 24 death of antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns  

1338  Death of Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291) on April - 24.  

1530  Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies on this day in history.  

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