Today in History for April 1827
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Months in 1827: January February March May June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Events 1 - 3 of 3
2nd - Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
7th - English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
23rd - William Rowan Hamilton presents his Theory of systems of rays.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 13 of 13
2nd - William Holman Hunt, Cheapside London, English painter (Light of the World), (d. 1910)
5th - Joseph Lister, England, physician (founded aseptic surgery)
8th - Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898)
10th - Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)
12th - Edward Mollenhauer, composer
14th - Augustus Pitt Rivers, English archaeologist (d. 1900)
15th - Julius Tausch, composer
16th - Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879)
17th - French C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (St Amanduskerk, Antwerp)
20th - John Gibbon, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
22nd - William Hopkins Morris, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
23rd - Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer
26th - Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 6 of 6
2nd - Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
3rd - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756)
22nd - Thomas Rowlandson, caricaturist, dies
23rd - Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at 65
24th - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82
26th - Bernardo Ottani, composer, dies at 90
