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Apr 15 1552

Pietro Cataldi Italian mathematician (d. 1626)

Apr 15 1588

Claudius Salmasius [Claude Saumaise] French linguist

Apr 15 1682

John van Huysum Dutch painter (flowersfruit)

Apr 15 1689

Ferdinand Zellbell the elder Swedish composer (d. 1765)

Apr 15 1710

Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo French dancer born in Brussels Spanish Netherlands (d. 1770)

Apr 15 1733

Johann Heinrich Zang German composer and organist born in Zella St Blasii Germany (d. 1811)

Apr 15 1741

Charles Willson Peale American painter remembered for his portraits of leading figures of the American Revolution (George Washington) born in Chester Province of Maryland (d. 1827)

Apr 15 1766

Friedrich Bouterwek German philosophercritic

Apr 15 1772

tienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire French naturalist (d. 1844)

Apr 15 1786

Walter Channing American physician who was the first to use anesthesia during childbirth born in Newport Rhode Island (d. 1876)

Apr 15 1793

Friedrich Struve German founded dynasty of astronomers

Apr 15 1794

Jean Pierre Flourens French physiologist (d. 1867)

Apr 15 1800

James Clark Ross explorer (British Antarctic)

Apr 15 1814

John Lothrop Motley American historianauthor (Rise of Dutch Rep)

Apr 15 1820

Evander McNair Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1902)

Apr 15 1821

Emerson Brown Joseph (Confederacy) (d. 1894)

Apr 15 1822

Napoleon Jackson Tecumseh Dana American Major General (Union Army) born in Eastport Maine (d. 1905)

Apr 15 1843

Henry James AmericanBritish author (Turn of the Screw Bostonians) (d. 1916)

Apr 15 1845

Dave Gregory cricketer (Australias 1st Test captain)

Apr 15 1850

John Munroe Longyear American capitalistbank president

Apr 15 1858

Anton G O Ridder Van Rappard Dutch painterlithographeretcher

Apr 15 1858

Emile Durkheim French sociologist (Division du travail social)

Apr 15 1874

Johannes Stark German physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919)

Apr 15 1874

George Harrison Shull American plant geneticist (d. 1954)

Apr 15 1875

Klaziena Ina Boudier-Bakker Dutch playwrightnovelist (Poverty)

Apr 15 1829

Mary Harris Thompson 1st American woman surgeon

Apr 15 1837

Horace Porter Bvt Brigadier General (Union Army) (d. 1921)

Apr 15 1841

Joseph E. Seagram Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)

Apr 15 1878

Robert Walser Swiss writer born in Biel (d. 1956)

Apr 15 1879

Melville Henry Cane American lawyer (d. 1980)

Apr 15 1882

Giovanni Amendola Italian antifascisteditor-in-chief (Il Mondo)

Apr 15 1883

Stanley Bruce eighth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1967)

Apr 15 1888

Florence Bates American actress (Moon & Sixpence Love Crazy San Antonio) born in San Antonio Texas (d. 1954)

Apr 15 1205 Battle at Adrianople Bulgaria beats Emp Boudouin of Constantinople

Apr 15 1250 Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain request to build a synagogue

Apr 15 1250 Kublai is acclaimed the Great Khan by a Mongol Great Council

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