April 1890 in History

Events in History

Apr 6 Andre L Danjon, French astronomer
Apr 6 Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation pioneer and an aircraft manufacturer (Eindecker monoplanes, Fokker Triplane)
Apr 7 Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades)
Apr 11 Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, born in Predappio, Romagna, Kingdom of Italy (d. 1979)
Apr 13 Frank Murphy, American politician and 56th United States Attorney General, born in Harbor Beach, Michigan (d. 1949)
Apr 19 Lou Bandy [Lodewijk Ferdinand Dieben], Dutch revue-artist (Look for the Sun), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1959)
Apr 20 Maurice Duplessis, 16th Premier of Quebec, born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada (d. 1959)

Apr 14 Painter Pierre Auguste Renoir (49) weds Aline Victorine Charigot

Apr 1 David Wilber, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York), dies at 69
Apr 2 Marinus Frederik Andries Gerardus Campbell, Dutch bibliographer, dies at 70
Apr 4 Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (1st Premier of Quebec), dies at 69
Apr 4 Edmond Hébert, French geologist, dies at 77
Apr 8 Junius Spencer Morgan, American merchant and philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art), dies at 76
Apr 11 Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man", dies of asphyxia at 27
Apr 13 Samuel J. Randall, American politician (Speaker of the United States House of Representatives), dies at 61
Apr 22 Magnus Huss, Swedish physician who coined the word alcoholism and was the first to define it as a disease, dies at 82