Here are the famous people who were born in April. Look down the list and see if the person born on the day of the month matches yours if you were born in April.

 

1

• 1697 - Antoine François Prévost, French author and novelist
• 1721 - Pieter Hellendaal, Dutch organist and violinist, and composer
• 1732 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
• 1753 - Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer
• 1765 - Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver
• 1776 - Sophie Germain, French mathematician
• 1815 - Otto von Bismarck, German statesman
• 1815 - Edward Clark (governor)|Edward Clark, American politician
• 1834 - James Fisk (financier)|James Fisk, American stock broker and corporate executive

 

2

• 1653 - Prince George of Denmark, prince consort of Anne of England
• 1719 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet
• 1725 - Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer and writer
• 1781 - Bhagwan Swaminarayan, Indian religious leader
• 1788 - Francisco Balagtas, Filipino poet
• 1788   - Wilhelmine Reichard, German balloonist
• 1789 - Lucio Norberto Mansilla, Argentine military
• 1798 - August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German poet
• 1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer
• 1814 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor
• 1827 - William Holman Hunt, English painter
• 1838 - Léon Gambetta, French statesman
• 1840 - Émile Zola, French novelist and critic

 

3

• 1682 - Valentin Rathgeber, German composer, organist and choirmaster
• 1683 - Mark Catesby, English naturalist
• 1693 - George Edwards English naturalist
• 1715 - William Watson, English physician and scientist
• 1764 - John Abernethy, English surgeon
• 1769 - Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat
• 1770 - Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general
• 1783 - Washington Irving, American author
• 1806 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian critic and philosopher
• 1807 - Jane Digby, English aristocrat and adventuress
• 1814 - Lorenzo Snow, American religious leader, 5th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• 1821 - T. Pelham Dale, English clergyman
• 1822 - Edward Everett Hale, American writer
• 1823 - William Magear "Boss" Tweed, American political boss
• 1823 - George Horatio Derby, American humorist

 

4

• 1676 - Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Italian baroque composer
• 1688 - Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, French astronomer
• 1718 - Benjamin Kennicott, English churchman and scholar
• 1752 - Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer
• 1762 - Stephen Storace, English composer
• 1772 - Nachman of Breslov, Ukrainian founder of Breslov (Hasidic dynasty)|Breslov Hasidut
• 1785 - Bettina von Arnim, German writer
• 1802 - Dorothea Dix, American social activist
• 1818 - Thomas Mayne Reid, Irish-American novelist
• 1819 - Maria II of Portugal
• 1821 - Linus Yale, Jr., American inventor and manufacturer
• 1826 - Zénobe Gramme, Belgian engineer
• 1835 - John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist

 

5

•   (1648) Elihu Yale
• 1692 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress 
• 1719 - Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger 
• 1727 - Pasquale Anfossi, Italian opera composer 
• 1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist 
• 1752 - Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker 
• 1769 - Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet, English Royal Navy Vice-Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty 
• 1784 - Louis Spohr, German composer and violinist 
• 1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller, American Supreme Court Justice 
• 1827 - Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister|Joseph Lister, English surgeon and pioneer of antiseptic surgery 
• 1832 - Jules Ferry, French statesman 
• 1835 - Carl Theodor Schulz, Norwegian gardener 
• 1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet

 

6

•  1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet
• 1672 - André Cardinal Destouches, French composer
• 1706 - Louis de Cahusac, French playwright and librettist, and Freemason
• 1708 - Georg Reutter II, Austrian composer
• 1725 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader
• 1741 - Nicolas Chamfort, French writer
• 1766 - Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter and printmaker
• 1773 - James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian
• 1810 - Philip Henry Gosse, English naturalist
• 1812 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer
• 1815 - Robert Volkmann, German composer
• 1818 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet
• 1820 - Nadar, French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist
• 1823 - Joseph Medill, American editor, publisher, and politician
• 1826 - Gustave Moreau, French painter
• 1841 - Karl Binding, German jurist

 

7

• 1652 - Pope Clement XII
• 1713 - Nicola Sala, Italian composer and music theorist
• 1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher, author, and rhetorician
• 1727 - Michel Adanson, French botanist
• 1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian double bass virtuoso and composer
• 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet
• 1772 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher
• 1780 - William Ellery Channing, Unitarian theologian
• 1803 - James Curtiss, American politician, Mayor of Chicago
• 1803   - Flora Tristan, French philosopher

 

8

•  1692 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer
• 1732 - David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician
• 1761 - Beatification|Blessed William Joseph Chaminade, French priest, founder of the Society of Mary (Marianists)|Society of Mary
• 1770 - John Thomas Campbell|John Campbell, Australian public servant and politician
• 1818 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist
• 1818   - Christian IX of Denmark
• 1826 - Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier, first woman in the military
• 1827 - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, doctor and diplomat

 

9

• 1680 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist
• 1686 - James Craggs the Younger, British politician
• 1691 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar
• 1717 - Georg Matthias Monn, Austrian composer and music teacher
• 1757 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral
• 1770 - Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist
• 1773 - Étienne Aignan, French writer
• 1794 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor and musician
• 1802 - Elias Lönnrot, Finnish folklorist
• 1806 - Isambard Kingdom Brunel, British engineer
• 1821 - Charles Baudelaire, French poet
• 1830 - Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer
• 1835 - Leopold II of Belgium|King Leopold II of Belgium

 

10  

• 1704 - Benjamin Heath, English scholar
• 1707 - Michel Corrette, French organist, composer, and author
• 1713 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist
• 1735 - Button Gwinnett, English-American political leader,  Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence
• 1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
• 1756 - William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk, English Royal Navy admiral
• 1762 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist
• 1778 - William Hazlitt, English writer
• 1783 - Hortense de Beauharnais|Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen Consort of Holland
• 1794 - Matthew C. Perry, American commodore
• 1796 - James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier
• 1806 - Juliette Drouet, French actress
• 1827 - Lew Wallace, American Civil War figure and novelist
• 1829 - William Booth, British preacher, founder of The Salvation Army
• 1837 - Forceythe Wilson, American poet

 

11

• 1715 - John Alcock, English organist and composer
• 1721 - David Zeisberger, Moravian missionary
• 1722 - Christopher Smart, English poet
• 1755 - James Parkinson, English physician
• 1770 - George Canning, British statesman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1794 - Edward Everett, American politician and educator, 15th Governor of Massachusetts
• 1798 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist
• 1810 - Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English army officer, politician, and Orientalist
• 1819 - Charles Hallé, German pianist and conductor
• 1825 - Ferdinand Lassalle, German politician
• 1827 - Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, Indian social reformer

 

12

• 1705 - William Cookworthy, English chemist 
• 1710 - Caffarelli (castrato)|Caffarelli, Italian castrato and opera singer 
• 1713 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer 
• 1716 - Felice Giardini, Italian composer and violinist 
• 1722 - Pietro Nardini, Italian composer 
• 1724 - Lyman Hall, American physician, clergyman, and statesman, signer of United States Declaration of Independence 
• 1726 - Charles Burney, English historian 
• 1748 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist 
• 1760 - Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer 
• 1777 - Henry Clay, American statesman 
• 1792 - John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham, English statesman 
• 1794 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician 
• 1796 - George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts 
• 1799 - Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor 
• 1801 - Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer and conductor 
• 1823 - Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright 
• 1839 - Nikolai Przhevalsky, Russian explorer 

 

13

• 1713 - Pierre Jélyotte, French operatic tenor 
• 1715 - John Hanson, American politician, 9th President of the Continental Congress 
• 1729 - Thomas Percy (Bishop of Dromore)|Thomas Percy, Bishop and magazine editor 
• 1732 - Frederick North, Lord North, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 
• 1735 - Isaac Low, American merchan, founder and the first president of the New York Chamber of Commerce  
• 1743 - Thomas Jefferson, American politician, 3rd President of the United States 
• 1747 - Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans 
• 1762 - Charles Frederick Horn, English musician and composer 
• 1764 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal 
• 1769 - Thomas Lawrence (painter)|Thomas Lawrence, English painter 
• 1771 - Richard Trevithick, English engineer and inventor 
• 1780 - Alexander Mitchell (engineer)|Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer 
• 1784 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal 
• 1787 - John Robertson (U.S. congressman)|John Robertson, American politician 
• 1802 - Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist 
• 1808 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor 
• 1824 - William Alexander (bishop)|William Alexander, Irish bishop 
• 1825 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician 
• 1828 - Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop 
• 1832 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author 

 

14

• 1668 - Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general
• 1709 - Charles Collé, French dramatist and songwriter
• 1714 - Adam Gib, Scottish religious leader
• 1738 - William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, English statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1741 - Emperor Momozono of Japan
• 1773 - Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman
• 1788 - David G. Burnet, American politician, president of the Republic of Texas
• 1800 - John Appold, British fur dyer and engineer
• 1814 - Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian politician and writer
• 1818 - Marie of Saxe-Altenburg
• 1827 - Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist

 

15

•  1646 - Pierre Poiret, French mystic
• 1684 - Catherine I of Russia
• 1688 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, German composer
• 1707 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician
• 1710 - William Cullen, Scottish physician
• 1721 - Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, English military leader
• 1741 - Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist
• 1772 - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist
• 1793 - Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer
• 1794 - Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist
• 1800 - James Clark Ross, English explorer
• 1809 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician
• 1828 - Jean Danjou, French Foreign Legion officer
• 1832 - Wilhelm Busch, German poet

 

16

•  1661 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman
• 1682 - John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant (instrument)
• 1683 - Jean-Joseph Mouret, French composer
• 1693 - Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway
• 1697 - Johann Gottlieb Görner, German composer and organist
• 1728 - Joseph Black, Scottish chemist
• 1730 - Henry Clinton, English general (American War of Independence)
• 1755 - Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter
• 1786 - John Franklin, English navy officer and explorer
• 1800 - George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, English soldier
• 1821 - Ford Madox Brown, English painter
• 1823 - Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician
• 1827 - Octave Crémazie, Canadian poet
• 1834 - Charles Lennox Richardson, English merchant

17

•  1683 - Johann David Heinichen, German composer and theorist
• 1710 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan
• 1734 - Taksin, King of Thailand
• 1741 - Samuel Chase, American justice of the Supreme Court
• 1750 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman
• 1756 - Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter, Tamil Revolutionist
• 1766 - Collin McKinney, American surveyor, merchant, politician, and preacher, helped draft the Texas Declaration of Independence
• 1794 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist
• 1798 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician
• 1814 - Josif Pancic, Serbian botanist
• 1816 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English chapel builder
• 1820 - Alexander Cartwright, American inventor of Baseball
• 1833 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer
• 1837 - J. P. Morgan, American financier

 

 

18

• 1740 - Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker
• 1759 - Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer and cellist 
• 1771 - Karl Philipp Fürst zu Schwarzenberg, Austrian field marshal 
• 1772 - David Ricardo, English political economist 
• 1797 - Adolphe Thiers, French statesman 
• 1813 - James McCune Smith, African-American doctor and abolitionist 
• 1819 - Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban Revolutionary 
• 1819 - Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer 
• 1838 - Paul Emile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French scientist 

 

19

• 1715 - James Nares, English composer of mostly sacred vocal works 
• 1721 - Roger Sherman, American statesman and signer of the U.S. Declaration of Independence 
• 1734 - Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian composer 
• 1785 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, French composer 
• 1787 - Deaf Smith, American frontiersman and revolutionary 
• 1793 - Ferdinand I of Austria 
• 1814 - Louis Amédée Achard, French novelist 
• 1832 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize laureate

 

20

• 1718 - David Brainerd, American missionary 
• 1723 - Cornelius Harnett, American merchant, farmer, and statesman 
• 1727 - Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau, Belgian-Austrian diplomat 
• 1745 - Philippe Pinel, French physician 
• 1748 - Georg Michael Telemann, German composer and theologian 
• 1808 - Napoleon III of France 
• 1816 - Bogoslav Šulek, Croatian philologist, historian, and lexicographer 
• 1818 - Heinrich Göbel, German mechanic and inventor 
• 1826 - Dinah Craik, English author 
• 1836 - Eli Whitney Blake, Jr., American scientist 

 

21

• 1775 - Alexander Anderson (illustrator)|Alexander Anderson, American illustrator 
• 1671 - John Law, Scottish economist
• 1673 - Wilhelmina Amalia of Brunswick, Holy Roman Empire Empress 
• 1713 - Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, French peer and Marshal of France 
• 1730 - Antonín Kammel, Czech composer and violinist 
• 1767 - Duchess Elisabeth of Württemberg 
• 1774 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist 
• 1782 Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel 
• 1810 - John Putnam Chapin, American politician 
• 1811 - Alson Sherman, American politician 
• 1814 - Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts, English philanthropist 
• 1816 - Charlotte Brontë, English author 
• 1837 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician, Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel laureate 
• 1838 - John Muir, Scottish-American environmentalist 

 

22

• 1690 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman 
• 1707 - Henry Fielding, English author 
• 1711 - Paul II Anton Esterházy, Austrian soldier and music patron 
• 1724 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher 
• 1744 - James Sullivan (governor)|James Sullivan, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Massachusetts 
• 1757 - Alessandro Rolla, Italian composer, musician, and teacher 
• 1766 - Madame de Staël, French author 
• 1812 - Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist 
• 1816 - Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general 
• 1832 - Julius Sterling Morton, American politician, founder of Arbor Day 
• 1844 - Lewis Thornton Powell, attempted assassin of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward

 

23

• 1676 - Frederick I of Sweden 
• 1715 - Johann Friedrich Doles, German composer 
• 1720 - Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi 
• 1725 - Saint Gerard Majella, Roman Catholic saint 
• 1746 - Félix Vicq-d'Azyr, French physician and anatomist 
• 1775 - J. M. W. Turner, English painter 
• 1791 - James Buchanan, American politician, 15th President of the United States 
• 1792 - John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer and physicist 
• 1794 - Wei Yuan, Chinese scholar 
• 1805 - Johann Karl Friedrich Rosenkranz, German philosopher 
• 1813 - Stephen A. Douglas, American senator 
• 1813 - Frédéric Ozanam, French scholar 
• 1823 - Abd-ul-Mejid I, Ottoman Sultan 

 

24

• 1706 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician
• 1718 - Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish painter
• 1743 - Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and inventor of the power loom
• 1784 - Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
• 1815 - Anthony Trollope, English novelist

 

25

•  1666 - Johann Heinrich Buttstett, German organist and composer 
• 1694 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect 
• 1710 - James Ferguson (1710-1776)|James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer 
• 1723 - Giovanni Marco Rutini, Italian composer 
• 1725 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral 
• 1767 - Nicolas Oudinot, French marshal 
• 1770 - Georg Sverdrup, Norwegian philologist 
• 1775 - Charlotte of Spain 
• 1776 - Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh 

 

26

• 1648 - Peter II of Portugal 
• 1697 - Adam Falckenhagen, German lutenist and composer 
• 1710 - Thomas Reid, English philosopher 
• 1711 - David Hume
• 1718 - Esek Hopkins, American navy commander 
• 1774 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist 
• 1782 - Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily 
• 1785 - John James Audubon, French-American naturalist and illustrator 
• 1787 - Ludwig Uhland, German poet 
• 1798 - Eugène Delacroix, French painter 
• 1801 - Ambrose Dudley Mann, American diplomat 
• 1804 - Charles Goodyear, American politician 
• 1812 - Alfred Krupp, German industrialist 
• 1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer 
• 1826 - George Hull Ward, American general 
• 1826 - Ambrose R. Wright, American General 
• 1834 - Charles Farrar Browne, American writer 

 

27

• 1623 - Johann Adam Reinken, German organist and composer 
• 1650 - Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel 
• 1701 - Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia 
• 1718 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-American surveyor and lawyer 
• 1724 - Thomas Gardner, American politician and soldier 
• 1737 - Edward Gibbon, English historian 
• 1748 - Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar 
• 1755 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician 
• 1759 - Mary Wollstonecraft, English author and philosopher 
• 1791 - Samuel Morse, American inventor and painter, co-inventor of the Morse code 
• 1806 - Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies 
• 1812 - Friedrich von Flotow, German composer 
• 1812 - William W. Snow, American politician 
• 1820 - Herbert Spencer, English philosopher 
• 1822 - Ulysses S. Grant, American general and politician, 18th President of the United States 
• 1840 - Edward Whymper, English mountaineer 

 

28

• 1686 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor 
• 1715 - Franz Sparry, Austrian composer 
• 1758 - James Monroe, American politician, 5th President of the United States 
• 1765 - Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician 
• 1819 - Ezra Abbot, American scholar 
• 1827 - William Nelson Hall, Canadian sailor 
• 1838 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser, Dutch jurist, Nobel laureate

 

29

• 1667 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and satirist 
• 1686 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman 
• 1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer, founder of modern ballet 
• 1745 - Oliver Ellsworth, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Chief Justice of the United States 
• 1758 - Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish lieutenant general 
• 1762 - Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, French marshal 
• 1769 - Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Anglo-Irish statesman 
• 1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer 
• 1784 - Samuel Turell Armstrong, American politician, Governor of Massachusetts 
• 1810 - Thomas Adolphus Trollope, English author and journalist 
• 1818 - Alexander II of Russia 
• 1837 - Georges Boulanger, French general and politician 
• 1842 - Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer

 

30

•  1662 - Mary II of England 
• 1664 - Francois Louis, Prince of Conti, French general 
• 1710 - Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosee, Bavarian general 
• 1723 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French naturalist 
• 1770 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer 
• 1777 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician 
• 1803 - Albrecht von Roon, Prussian soldier and statesman, 10th Prime Minister of Prussia 
• 1812 - Kaspar Hauser, German mystery boy 
• 1829 - Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Austrian geologist