Famous Birthdays Apr 3 Elia van Vilnius [Elijahu ben Salomo Zalman], Latvian rabbi, born in Sialiec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1797) Apr 23 Vilna Gaon, Lithuanian rabbi, born in Sialiec, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (d. 1797) Born in 1720 Famous Deaths Apr 2 Joseph Dudley, colonial Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1647) Apr 21 Antoine Hamilton, French writer (b. 1646) Mar 1720 History by Year May 1720 Famous People by Cause of Death Assassination Drug Overdose Gunshot Wound Murder Plane Crash Suicide