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Apr 05 1170

Isabella of Hainault Queen of France (1180-90) born in Valenciennes France (d. 1190)

Apr 05 1288

Emperor Go-Fushimi 93rd Emperor of Japan (1298-1301) (d. 1336)

Apr 05 1472

Bianca Maria Sforza wife of Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor born in Pavia Italy (d. 1510)

Apr 05 1523

Blaise de Vigenre French cryptographer born in Saint-Pourain France (d. 1596)

Apr 05 1595

John Wilson English composer born in Faversham Kent (d. 1674)

Apr 05 1598

Laurentius Erhard German composer born in Haguenau Alsace (d. 1669)

Apr 05 1604

Charles IV Duke of Lorraine (1624-75) born in Nancy France (d. 1675)

Apr 05 1622

Vincenzo Viviani Italian mathematician (Vivianis theorem) born in Florence Italy (d. 1703)

Apr 05 1626

Jan van Kessel Flemish painter born in Antwerp (d. 1679)

Apr 05 1643

Charles V Leopold Duke of Lorraine and Austrian fieldmarshal born in Vienna Austria (d. 1690)

Apr 05 1649

Elihu Yale English merchant and philanthropist (benefactor of Yale University) born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 1721)

Apr 05 1692

Adrienne Lecouvreur French actress (Comdie-Franaise) inspiration for 1849 drama Adrienne Lecouvreur born in Damery Marne (d. 1730)

Apr 05 1698

Georg Gottfried Wagner German composer born in Mhlberg Saxony Germany (d. 1756)

Apr 05 1732

Jean-Honor Fragonard French painter (The Swing) born in Paris (d. 1806)

Apr 05 1752

Sbastien rard French musical instruments maker born in Strasbourg France (d. 1831)

Apr 05 1761

Sybil Ludington American revolutionary heroine (rode to alert militia) born in Kent New York (d. 1839)

Apr 05 1784

Louis Spohr German violin virtuoso and composer (Faust) born in Braunschweig Germany (d. 1859)

Apr 05 1788

Franz Pforr German painter and cartoonist (Lukasbund) born in Frankfurt Germany (d. 1812)

Apr 05 1795

Henry Havelock British soldier (War in Afghanistan 1838-39) born in Bishopwearmouth County Durham (d. 1857)

Apr 05 1799

Vincenzo Fioravanti Italian composer born in Rome (d. 1977)

Apr 05 1816

Samuel Freeman Miller U.S. Supreme Court Justice born in Richmond Kentucky (d. 1890)

Apr 05 1818

Lewis Baldwin Parsons American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Perry New York (d. 1907)

Apr 05 1820

Nadar [Flix Tournachon] French photographer born in Paris (d. 1910)

Apr 05 1822

James Nagle American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Reading Pennsylvania (d. 1866)

Apr 05 1824

Sydney Thompson Dobell English poet born in Cranbrook Kent (d. 1874)

Apr 05 1825

David Rumph Jones American Major General (Confederate Army) born in Orangeburg South Carolina (d. 1863)

Apr 05 1827

Joseph Lister British surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic surgery) born in Upton House West Ham England (d. 1912)

Apr 05 1828

Pietro Platania Italian composer born in Catania Italy (d. 1907)

Apr 05 1830

Alexander Muir Canadian composer (The Maple Leaf Forever) born in Lesmahagow Scotland (d. 1906)

Apr 05 1832

Jules Ferry French statesman born in Saint-Di France (d. 1893)

Apr 05 1837

Algernon Charles Swinburne English poet (Atalanta in Calydon) born in London (d. 1909)

Apr 05 1838

Alpheus Hyatt American zoologist and paleontologist born in Washington D.C. (d. 1902)

Apr 05 1839

Robert Smalls African-American congressman (1875-87) born in Beaufort South Carolina (d. 1915)

Apr 05 1058 Bishop Giovanni Minchus [the thin] elected as Anti-Pope Benedict X

Apr 05 1566 200 Brussel nobles offer Margaretha of Parma a petition

Apr 05 1585 Clemens Crabbeels becomes bishop of Hertogenbosch

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