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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    Apr 26 1538

    Gian Paolo Lomazzo Italian painter and poet (Trattato) born in Milan (d. 1592)

    Apr 26 1567

    Nicolas Form French composer born in Paris (d. 1638)

    Apr 26 1573

    Marie de Medici Queen of France born in Palazzo Pitti Florence (d. 1642)

    Apr 26 1603

    Francesco Nigetti Italian composer born in Florence Italy (d. 1681)

    Apr 26 1637

    Philip Julius van Lichtenbergh Governor of Suriname born in Heusden Noord-Brabant Netherlands (d. 1674)

    Apr 26 1648

    Pedro II King of Portugal (1683-1706) born in Ribeira Palace Lisbon (d. 1706)

    Apr 26 1662

    Marie Louise DOrleans Queen consort of Spain as the first wife of King Charles II of Spain born in Palais-Royal Paris Kingdom of France (d. 1689)

    Apr 26 1707

    Johannes Burman Dutch botanist plant author and physician born in Amsterdam (d. 1779)

    Apr 26 1710

    Thomas Reid Scottish philosopher and founder of Scottish School of Common Sense born in Strachan Scotland (d. 1796)

    Apr 26 1718

    Esek Hopkins American Revolutionary War admiral and Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy born in Scituate Rhode Island (d. 1802)

    Apr 26 1726

    Pasquale Paoli Corsican freedom fighter born in Stretta di Morosaglia France (d. 1807)

    Apr 26 1774

    Christian Leopold von Buch German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder Margraviate of Brandenburg Prussia (d. 1853)

    Apr 26 1776

    Joan Melchior Kemper Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book) born in Amsterdam (d. 1824)

    Apr 26 1782

    Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily French queen as wife of Louis Phillip of Austria born in Caserta Palace Naples (d. 1866)

    Apr 26 1787

    Ludwig Uhland German writer born in Tbingen Wrttemberg (d. 1862)

    Apr 26 1796

    Auguste Mathieu Panseron French composer born in Paris (d. 1859)

    Apr 26 1798

    Eugne Delacroix French painter and etcher (Journal) born in Charenton-Saint-Maurice le-de-France France (d. 1863)

    Apr 26 1798

    James Beckwourth American fur trader and explorer born in Frederick County Virginia (d. 1867)

    Apr 26 1801

    Ambrose Dudley Mann American diplomat born in Hanover Courthouse Virginia (d. 1889)

    Apr 26 1804

    Charles Goodyear American politician (D-NY) born in Cobleskill New York (d. 1876)

    Apr 26 1806

    Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch German composer born in Stuttgart Germany (d. 1872)

    Apr 26 1808

    Martha Finley American childrens book author (Elsie Dinsmore series) born in Chillicothe Ohio (d. 1909)

    Apr 26 1812

    Alfred Krupp German arms merchant born in Essen Germany (d. 1887)

    Apr 26 1820

    Alice Cary American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel) born in Cincinnati Ohio (d. 1871)

    Apr 26 1822

    Jan Albert van Eijken Dutch composer and organist born in Amersfoort Netherlands (d. 1868)

    Apr 26 1826

    George Hull Ward American general and Union officer in the American Civil War born in Worcester Massachusetts (d. 1863)

    Apr 26 1826

    Ambrose R. Wright American Civil War General born in Louisville Georgia (d. 1872)

    Apr 26 1827

    Charles Edward Hovey American lobbyist and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Thetford Vermont (d. 1897)

    Apr 26 1834

    Artemus Ward [Charles Farrar Browne] American humorist (considered to be Americas first stand-up comedian) born in Waterford Maine (d. 1867)

    Apr 26 1834

    Horatio Richmond Palmer American composer and choir director born in Sherburne New York (d. 1907)

    Apr 26 1836

    Erminnie Adelle Platt American anthropologist (first woman to specialize in ethnographic field work) born in Marcellus shale New York (d. 1886)

    Apr 26 1839

    Cyrus Hamblin American attorney politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Hampden Maine (d. 1867)

    Apr 26 1841

    Wilhelm Scherer German literature historian born in Schnborn Austrian Empire (d. 1886)

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    Apr 26 1220 German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights

    Apr 26 1336 Italian Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch famously climbs Mont Ventoux

    Apr 26 1467 The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano Italy

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