Famous Personalities Born In April - 08

1320  On April - 08 birth of king Peter I of Portugal (d. 1367)   

1460  Ponce de Leon, Spain, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida was born on April - 08.   

1533  On April - 08 birth of claudio Merulo, organist/composer   

1541  Michele Mercati, Italian physician (d. 1593) was born on April - 08.   

1582  Phienas Fletcher, poet was born on April - 08.   

1605  On April - 08 birth of louis de Vadder, Flemish painter   

1605  On April - 08 birth of philip IV, King of Spain & Portugal (1621-65)   

1631  Cornelis de Heem, painter was born on this day in history.   

1641  On April - 08 birth of henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)   

1642  On April - 08 birth of gerard Callenbach, Dutch admiral   

1655  Louis Willem I, Margrave (Baden-Baden) was born on April - 08.   

1692  On this day in history birth of giuseppe Tartini, Italy, violinist/composer (Trillo del Diavolo)   

1695  On April - 08 birth of johann C Gunther, writer   

1697  On April - 08 birth of pierre Prowo, composer   

1708  Georg Zarth, composer was born on this day in history.   

1726  On April - 08 birth of lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence)   

1731  On this day in history birth of william Williams, US merchant (signed Decl of Independence)   

1732  David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, and mathematician (d. 1796) was born on April - 08.   

1741  On April - 08 birth of jose B da Gama, Portuguese poet (O Uraguai)   

1756  On this day in history birth of joseph Gehot, composer   

1775  On April - 08 birth of adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general/Napoleon's wife Marie lover   

1776  Thaddaus Weigl, composer was born on April - 08.   

1783  John Claudius, London England, horticulturist was born on April - 08.   

1798  Dionysios Solomos, poet was born on April - 08.   

1816  On April - 08 birth of frederick William Burton, painter   

1818  Christaan IX, king of Denmark (1863-1906) was born on April - 08.   

1826  On April - 08 birth of pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (d. 1890)   

1827  On April - 08 birth of ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (d. 1898)   

1828  George Baird Hodge, Brig General (Confederate Army) was born on April - 08.   

1831  On April - 08 birth of allard Pierson, Dutch theologiost/philosopher/art historian/poet   

1832  Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal was born on this day in history.   

1842  On this day in history birth of elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (d. 1933)   

1843  On April - 08 birth of asger Hamerik, [Hammerich], composer   

1850  William Henry Welch, US, pathologist (founded John Hopkins) was born on April - 08.   

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0217  On April - 08 death of caracalla, [Marcus Antoniius], Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29   

0956  On this day in history death of gilbert of Chalon, Duke of Burgundy   

1143  John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident on this day in history.   

1364  On April - 08 jan II, the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44   

1461  Death of Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423) on this day in history.   

1492  On April - 08 lorenzo I de' Medici"il Magnifico", ruler of Florence (1469-92), dies   

1498  Death of Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27 on this day in history.   

1537  Willem Aerts, Flemish architect, dies on this day in history.