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Apr 24 1533

William I Prince of Orange (1544-84) born in Dillenburg County of Nassau Holy Roman Empire (d. 1584)

Apr 24 1538

Gugliemo Gonzaga Duke of Mantua and Montferrat (1550-87) born in Mantua Italy (d. 1587)

Apr 24 1581

Vincent de Paul French Roman Catholic Saint born in Pouy Gascony France (d. 1660)

Apr 24 1620

John Graunt English statistician founder of science of demography born in London (d. 1674)

Apr 24 1660

Cornelis Dusart Dutch painter and engraver born in Haarlem Netherlands (d. 1704)

Apr 24 1670

Christian Ludwig Boxberg German composer born in Sondershausen Thuringia Germany (d. 1729)

Apr 24 1706

Giovanni Battista Martini Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and composer born in Bologna Italy (d. 1784)

Apr 24 1718

Nathaniel Hone Irish-born portrait and miniature painter born in Dublin (d. 1784)

Apr 24 1721

Johann Philipp Kirnberger German music theorist and violist baptised in Saalfeld Germany (d. 1783

Apr 24 1742

Roman Hoffstetter German classical composer born in Weikersheim Germany (d. 1815)

Apr 24 1743

Edmund Cartwright English inventor (power loom) born in Marnham Nottinghamshire England (d. 1823)

Apr 24 1750

Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier Swiss mathematician born in Geneva Switzerland (d. 1840)

Apr 24 1594

Benedikt Lechler German composer born in Fssen Germany (d. 1659)

Apr 24 1766

Robert Bailey Thomas American journalist and founder (The Farmers Almanac) born in Grafton Massachusetts (d. 1846)

Apr 24 1773

Harman W. Muntinghe Dutch lawyer and colonial director born in Amsterdam (d. 1827)

Apr 24 1784

Peter Vivian Daniel American jurist Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1841-60) born in Stafford County Virginia (d. 1860)

Apr 24 1791

Nikolaj Bestuzhev Russian Navy officer writer and painter (Decembrist revolt) born in Saint Petersburg (d. 1855)

Apr 24 1796

Karl Leberecht Immermann German writer born in Magdeburg (d. 1840)

Apr 24 1804

Thomas Oliver Selfridge American Navy Officer (d. 1902)

Apr 24 1807

Charles Ferguson Smith American Major General (Union Army) born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1862)

Apr 24 1814

Vicente Fidel Lpez Argentine historian (La Novia del Hereje) born in Buenos Aires Argentina (d. 1903)

Apr 24 1815

Anthony Trollope English novelist and poet (Barchester Towers) born in London (d. 1882)

Apr 24 1815

James E. Harrison Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Greenville District South Carolina (d. 1875)

Apr 24 1822

Erastus Barnard Tyler American businessman merchant and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in West Bloomfield New York (d. 1891)

Apr 24 1824

Franois Fournier Swiss-French postage stamp forger born in Croix-de-Rozon Switzerland (d. 1917)

Apr 24 1828

Robert Brank Vance American politician U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina (1873-85) born in Buncombe North Carolina (d. 1899)

Apr 24 1829

George Peabody Estey American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Hillsborough County New Hampshire (d. 1881)

Apr 24 1836

Jeltje de Bosch Kemper Dutch feminist born in Amsterdam (d. 1916)

Apr 24 1837

Friedrich von Holstein German civil servant (head of the political department of the German Foreign Office) born in Schwedt Brandenburg Germany (d. 1909)

Apr 24 1845

Carl Spitteler Swiss poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus Nobel 1919) born in Liestal Switzerland (d. 1924)

Apr 24 1849

Joseph Gallieni French general (Battle of Marne) and military governor of Paris born in Saint-Bat France (d. 1916)

Apr 24 1851

Eduardo Acevedo Daz Uruguayan writer (Ismael Grito de Gloria) born in Uruguay Montevideo (d. 1921)

Apr 24 1864

George August Alexander Alting von Geusau Dutch Minister of War (1918-20) born in Arnhem Netherlands (d. 1937)

Apr 24 1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)

Apr 24 1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)

Apr 24 1066 Halleys Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed

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