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 this day in history.  

1594  On April - 24 birth of benedikt Lechler, composer  

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 April - 24.  

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

1718  Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784) was born on this day in history.  

1721  On April - 24 birth of johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised  

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1742  Roman Hoffstetter, composer was born on this day in history.  

1743  On this day in history birth of edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)  

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

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  Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860) was born on April - 24.  

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

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

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

1807  On this day in history 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 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 this day in history.  

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

1824  On this day in history 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  Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) was born on this day in history.  

1845  On this day in history birth of carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)  

1849  On this day in history birth of joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)  

1851  On April - 24 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 this day in history death of antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns  

1338  Death of Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291) on this day in history.  

1530  Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies on April - 24.  

1617  On this day in history death of carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered