Events in History
- Apr 5 British storm Badajoz fortress in Extremadura, Spain, held by French & Spanish
- Apr 30 (Eastern) Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
Birthdays in History
- Apr 3 Louisa Maria, Queen of Belgium (1832-50), Wife of Leopold I), born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (d. 1850)
- Apr 6 Aaron Bernstein, writer
- Apr 6 Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
- Apr 9 Randolph Barnes Marcy, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Greenwich, Massachusetts (d. 1887)
- Apr 15 Théodore Rousseau, French painter, born in Paris (d. 1867)
- Apr 22 Solomon Caesar Malan, British orientalist, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1894)
- Apr 26 Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant, born in Essen, Germany (d. 1887)
- Apr 27 William W. Snow, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (1851-53), born in Heath, Massachusetts (d. 1886)
- Apr 28 Daniel Henry Rucker, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Belleville, New Jersey (d. 1910)
- Apr 30 Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe (who claimed to have grown up in the total isolation of a darkened cell) (d. 1833)
Deaths in History
- Apr 11 Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35
George Clinton
Apr 20 George Clinton, American soldier and 4th Vice President (1805-12), dies at 73 and 1st Vice President to die in office

George Clinton