Famous Birthdays
- Apr 3 Anne Lister, English diarist 'the 1st modern lesbian', born in Halifax, England (d. 1840)
- Apr 9 George Peacock, English mathematician (algebraic theory), born in County Durham, England (d. 1858)
- Apr 12 Francis Preston Blair, American journalist and newspaper editor (Washington Globe), born in Abingdon, Virginia (d. 1876)
- Apr 13 Félix de Mérode, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War and Finance, born in Maastricht, Belgium (d. 1857)
- Apr 23 Friedrich von Olivier, German landscape painter, born in Dessau, Germany (d. 1859)
James Buchanan (1791-1868)
Apr 23 15th US President (1857-61), born in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania
- Apr 24 Nikolaj Bestuzhev, Russian Navy officer, writer and painter (Decembrist revolt), born in Saint Petersburg (d. 1855)
Samuel Morse (1791-1872)
Apr 27 American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter, born in Charlestown, Massachusetts
Famous Deaths
Comte de Mirabeau (1749-1791)
Apr 2 comte de Mirabeau, French revolutionary (influential member of the National Constituent Assembly), dies of natural causes at 42
- Apr 19 Richard Price, nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), dies
