Historical Events Apr 10 Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon Famous Birthdays Apr 10 René Lepage de Ste-Claire, lord-founder of the town of Rimouski, in New France, born in Ouanne, Burgundy, France (d. 1718) Born in 1656 Famous Deaths Apr 24 Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561) Apr 27 Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter, dies at 65 Apr 27 Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 60 Mar 1656 History by Year May 1656 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide
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