Famous Births, Deaths and Notable Dates in April |
1st - First All Fools' Day. William Harvey 1578. Prince von Bismarck 1815. Edwin A. Abbey 1852. Agnes Repplier 1858.
| 11th - Eleventh George Canning 1770. Edward Everett 1794. Donald G. Mitchell 1822.
| 21 - Twenty-first Peter F. Abelard 1142. Friedrich Frφbel 1782. Reginald Heber 1783. James Martineau 1805. Charlotte Brontλ 1816. Henry Shaw (Josh Billings) 1818.
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2nd - Second Charlemagne 742. Thomas Jefferson, Virginia, third President United States, 1743. Hans Andersen 1805. Frederic A. Bartholdi 1834. Emile Zola 1840.
| 12th - Twelfth Edward Young 1765. Edward Bird 1772. Henry Clay 1777.
| 22 - Twenty-second Henry Fielding 1707. Immanuel Kant 1724. Philip James Bailey 1816.
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3rd - Third George Herbert 1593. Washington Irving 1783. Edward Everett Hale 1822. John Burroughs 1837.
| 13th - Thirteenth Madame Jeanne Guyon 1648. Dr. Thomas Beddoes 1760. James Harper 1795. | 23 - Twenty-third William Shakespeare 1564, 1616. Cervantes 1616. J. M. W. Turner 1775. James Buchanan, Pennsylvania, fifteenth President United States, 1791. James Anthony Froude 1818. Thomas Nelson Page 1853. Edwin Markham 1852.
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4th - Fourth Oliver Goldsmith 1774. Dorothea Dix 1802. James Freeman Clarke 1810.
| 14th - Fourteenth Dr. George Gregory 1754. George Frederic Handel 1759. Horace Bushnell 1802.
| 24 - Twenty-fourth Edmund Cartwright 1743. Anthony Trollope 1815. Arthur Christopher Benson 1862. |
5th - Fifth Elihu Yale 1648. Sir Henry Havelock 1795. Frank Stockton (Francis) 1834. Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837.
| 15th - Fifteenth Emile Souvestre 1806. John Lothrop Motley 1814. Henry James 1843. Abraham Lincoln 1865.
| 25 - Twenty-fifth Oliver Cromwell 1599. John Keble 1792. Alexander Duff 1806. Guglielmo Marconi 1874. Samuel Wesley 1735.
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6th - Sixth Albert Dόrer 1528. James Mill 1773. Jean Baptiste Rousseau 1669.
| 16th - Sixteenth Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, 1661. Charles W. Peale 1741. Sir John Franklin 1786.
| 26 - Twenty-sixth David Hume 1711. Daniel Defoe 1791. Charles F. Browne (Artemus Ward) 1834.
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7th - Seventh Saint Francis Xavier 1506. William Wordsworth 1770. William Ellery Channing 1780.
| 17th - Seventeenth Bishop Benjamin Hoadley 1761. Benjamin Franklin 1790. William G. Simms 1806.
| 27 - Twenty-seventh Samuel Morse 1791. Lajos Kossuth 1802. Herbert Spencer 1820. Ulysses S. Grant, Ohio, eighteenth President United States, 1822. Ralph Waldo Emerson 1882.
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8th - Eighth Petrarch crowned 1341. William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, 1580. David Rittenhouse 1732.
| 18th - Eighteenth Lord Jeffreys 1689. George Henry Lewes 1817. Sir Francis Baring 1740.
| 28 - Twenty-eighth Charles Cotton 1630. James Monroe, Virginia, fifth President United States, 1758. Anthony Ashley, Earl of Shaftesbury, 1801.
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9th - Ninth Fisher Ames 1758. John Opie 1807. Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1882.
| 19th - Nineteenth Roger Sherman 1721. Lord Byron 1824. Lord Beaconsfield (Disraeli) 1881. Charles Darwin 1882. | 29 - Twenty-ninth Michel Ruyter 1676. Abbe Charles de St. Pierre 1743. Matthew Vassar 1792. Edward Rowland Sill 1841.
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10th - Tenth Hugo Grotius 1583. William Hazlitt 1778. General Lew Wallace 1827. General William Booth 1829.
| 20th - Twentieth Marcus Aurelius 121. Elizabeth Barton (Maid of Kent) executed 1534 Sir Francis T. Baring 1796. Alice Cary 1820.
| 30 - Thirtieth Chevalier de Bayard killed 1524. Sir John Lubbock 1834. James Montgomery 1854. David Livingstone 1873.
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Famous Births, Deaths and Notable Dates in April |