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This Is HISTORY | Birthdays
Apr 22 1451
Isabella I of Castile Queen of Spain (1479-1504) patron of Christopher Columbus who initiated the Spanish Inquisition with husband Ferdinand II of Aragon born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres Spain (d. 1504)
Apr 22 1610
Alexander VIII [Pietro Ottoboni] Italian Pope (1689-91) born in Venice Italy (d. 1691)
Apr 22 1640
Mariana Alcoforado Portuguese nun born in Beja Portugal (d. 1723)
Apr 22 1658
Giuseppe Torelli italian composer (Concerti Grossi) born in Verona Italy (d. 1709)
Apr 22 1682
Willem I Kerricx the Young Flemish architectsculptorpainter
Apr 22 1690
John Carteret Earl Granville (C) English chief minister (1722-42)
Apr 22 1707
Henry Fielding English novelist (Joseph Andrews Tom Jones)
Apr 22 1711
Eleazar Wheelock American founder of Dartmouth College (d. 1779)
Apr 22 1744
James Sullivan 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
Apr 22 1773
Jean V baron de Rebecque SwissDutch army leader
Apr 22 1775
Georg Hermes German philosophertheologist (Hermenianen)
Apr 22 1781
Friedrich Christian Hermann Uber German composer born in Breslau
Apr 22 1799
Jean Lonard Marie Poiseuille French physician and physiologist (blood pressure) born in Paris (d. 1869)
Apr 22 1812
Solomon Caesar Malan British orientalist (d. 1894)
Apr 22 1818
Cadwallader Colden Washburn American Major General (Union Army) born in Livermore Maine (d. 1882)
Apr 22 1823
Alfred Gibbs American Major General (Union Army) born in Long Island New York (d. 1868)
Apr 22 1827
William Hopkins Morris American author editor inventor and Major General (Union Army) born in (d. 1900)
Apr 22 1831
Alexander McDowell McCook American Major General (Union Army) born in Columbiana County Ohio (d. 1903)
Apr 22 1832
Julius Sterling Morton Nebraska (Gov-Neb) started Arbor Day
Apr 22 1844
Lewis Thornton Powell would-be assassin of Secretary of State William H. Seward (d. 1865)
Apr 22 1852
Guillaume IV Grand Duke of Luxembourg (d. 1912)
Apr 22 1853
Alphonse Bertillon French anthropologist devised crime ID system
Apr 22 1854
Henri-Marie Lafontaine Belgian international lawyer (Nobel 1913)
Apr 22 1856
[Marie] Louise Hens Flemish actress (Two Orphans) born (d. 1939)
Apr 22 1860
Ada Rehan Irish-American stage actress and comedian (Dalys Fifth Avenue Theatre) born in County Limerick Ireland (d. 1916)
Apr 22 1866
Hans von Seeckt German general (Future of the Reich)
Apr 22 1868
Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (d. 1924)
Apr 22 1872
Princess Margaret of Prussia queen of Finland (d. 1954)
Apr 22 1873
Ellen Anderson Glasgow American novelist (Ancient Law Pulitzer-1942)
Apr 22 1881
Alexander Kerensky Simbirsk Russian PM (1917)
Apr 22 1884
John van Capel oldest man in Netherlands (Died Sept 3 1992)
Apr 22 1889
Ludwig Renn German writer born in Dresden (d. 1979)
Apr 22 1889
Richard Glcks German SS officer and concentration camp administrator (d. 1945 by suicide)
HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY
Apr 22 1056 Supernova Crab nebula last seen by the naked eye
Apr 22 1073 Pope Alexander II buried and Ildebrando chosen as Pope Gregory VII
Apr 22 1145 19th recorded perihelion passage of Halleys Comet
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