Birthdays in History
- Apr 1 Clementine Churchill, British life peer and wife of Winston Churchill, born in London, England (d. 1977)
- Apr 3 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1954)
- Apr 3 St John Philby, British explorer and Arabist, born in Badulla, British Ceylon (d. 1960)
- Apr 12 R. D. Banerji, Indian archaeologist and historian (discovered ancient Indus city of Mohenjo-daro), born in Berhampore, British India (d. 1930) [1]
- Apr 12 Robert Delaunay, French artist, born in Paris, France (d. 1941)
- Apr 13 Georg Lukács, Hungarian philosopher and literary critic, born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1971)
- Apr 13 Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, Dutch lawyer and Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1940-45), born in Goënga, Netherlands (d. 1961)
- Apr 15 Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general during the Second Polish Republic, born in Kraków, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1947)
- Apr 17 Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen-Finecke], Danish baroness and writer (Out of Africa), born in Rungsted, Zealand, Denmark (d. 1962)
- Apr 29 Egon Kisch, Austrian-Czech writer and journalist (Rasende Reporter), born in Prague (d. 1948)
Weddings in History
Edith Wharton
Apr 29 Novelist Edith Wharton (23) weds Edward Robbins Wharton (35)
Deaths in History
- Apr 7 Carl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (b. 1804)
- Apr 10 Jan Hendrik Scholten, Dutch radical theologist (Free Will), dies at 73
- Apr 20 Gustav Nachtigal, German physician and explorer (consul in Tunis, secured protectorates for Germany in central Africa), dies at sea at 51
- Apr 30 J. P. [Jens Peter] Jacobsen, Danish writer (Niels Lyhne), dies of tuberculosis at 38
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