Famous Personalities Born In April - 24
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
1533 William i of orange: William i of orange (d. 1584) 

1538 Gugliemo gonzaga: Composer 

1581 Vincent de paul: French saint 

1594 Benedikt lechler: Composer 

1620 John graunt: Statistician, founder of science of demography 

1660 Cornelis dusart: Dutch painter/engraver 

1670 Christian ludwig boxberg: Composer 

1706 Giovanni battista martini: Composer 

1718 Nathaniel hone: Irish-born painter 

1721 Johann philipp kirnberger: German composer, baptised 

1742 Roman hoffstetter: Composer 

1743 Edmund cartwright: England, cleric, inventor (power loom) 

1750 Simon-antoine-jean lhuillier: Swiss mathematician 

1766 Robert bailey thomas: Founder (farmer's almanac) 

1769 Arthur wellesley: General/duke of wellington 

1773 Harman w muntinghe: Lawyer/dutch colonial director 

1784 Peter vivian daniel: Justice of the u.s. supreme court 

1791 Nikolaj a bestuzhev: Russia, writer/painter (account about holland) 

1796 K l immermann: Writer 

1804 Thomas oliver selfridge: Comm (union navy) 

1807 Charles ferguson smith: Major general (union volunteers), died in 1862 

1814 Angela burdett-coutts: Philanthropist extrordinaire 

1814 Vincente f lopez: Argentina historian (la novia del hereje) 

1815 Anthony trollope: England, novelist/poet (barchester towers) 

1815 James edward harrison: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1875 

1822 Erastus barnard tyler: Bvt major general (union volunteers) 

1824 Fournier: Swiss/french postage stamp forger 

1828 Robert brank vance: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1899 

1829 George peabody estey: Brig general (union volunteers), died in 1881 

1836 Jeltje de bosch kemper: Dutch feminist 

1837 Friedrich von holstein: German diplomat (die graue eminenz) 

1845 Carl spitteler: Switz, poet (prometheus & epimetheus; nobel 1919) 

1849 Joseph s gallieni: General (battle of marne)/milt governor (paris) 

1851 Eduardo acevedo diaz: Uruguaian writer (ismael, grito de gloria) 

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