April

William Harvey

(1578) English doctor; discovered blood circulation

Sergei Rachmaninoff

(1873) Russian composer

Hans Christian Andersen (1805) Danish writer of fairy tales

Frederic Bartholdi (1834) French sculptor who designed the Statue of
Liberty

Who shares my birthday?

Is your birthday in April? The names of some of the famous people born
in April are shown on the calendar on this page and the next. What do
you know about the person who shares your birthday?

Washington Irving

(1783) American author who wrote “Rip Van Winkle”

Jane Goodall (1934)

British ethologist noted for her study of chimpanzees ^T^*\’x.

Dorothea Dix (1802) American who worked to help the mentally ill and
to improve prisons

Linus Yale, Jr.

(1821) American inventor of locks

Booker T.

Washington (1856)

American black leader and educator

W. Atlee Burpee (1858) started first mail-order seed company in
Canada

Lowell Thomas (1892) American radio and TV reporter

James Dewey Watson (1928) American biologist; one of the builders of
DNA model

William

Wordsworth (1770)

English poet

Gabriela Mistral

(1889) Chilean poet (real name Lucila Alcayaga)

Mary Pickford

(1893) Canadian-born actress known as “America’s Sweetheart”

Sonja Henie (1912) Norwegian champion Olympic figure skater

Charles Steinmetz

(1865) German-born electrical engineer

Paul Robeson

(1898) American actor and singer

William Booth

(1829) English founder of the Salvation Army

Clare Boothe Luce

(1903) American writer and diplomat

Percy Julian (1899;

American research chemist

Stella Walsh (1911)

Polish-born athlete who set many world records

Henry Clay (1777) American statesman

Frederic Melcher (1879) American publisher; founder of Children’s
Book Week

Thomas Jefferson

(1743) 3rd President of the United States

Marguerite Henry (1902) American author of children’s books

Christian Huygens

(1629) Dutch physicist

Anne Sullivan

(1866) American teacher of Helen Keller; writer and champion of the
blind

Leonardo da Vinci

(1452) Italian painter, sculptor, and scientist

Harold

Washington (1922) first black mayor of Chicago

Wilbur Wright (1867) American who, with brother Orville, invented
the airplane

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

(1947) American basketball star

J. P. Morgan (1837) American banker

Nikita Khrushchev

(1894) Soviet premier

Clarence S.

Darrow (1857)

American criminal lawyer

Leopold Stokowski

(1882) English-born orchestra conductor

Roger Sherman (1721) only person to sign four documents of American
independence

Jean Lee Latham (1902) American author

Daniel C. French

(1850) American sculptor of The Minute Man

Joan Miro (1893)

Spanish painter

Friedrich Froebel

(1782) German founder of kindergarten system

Elizabeth II (1926) queen of Great Britain

Isabella I (1451) Spanish queen who helped Columbus

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904) American developer of the atomic bomb

James Buchanan (1791) 15th President of the United States

Lester B. Pearson

(1897) a Canadian prime minister

Barbra Streisand

(1942) American singer and actress

Guglielmo Marconi

(1874) Italian who developed wireless telegraphy

Ella Fitzgerald

(1918) American jazz singer

John James Audubon (1785) American naturalist and painter

Carol Burnett (1934) American entertainer

Ulysses S. Grant

(1822) 18th President of the United States

Coretta Scott King (1927) American civil rights leader; wife of
Martin Luther King

James Monroe

(1758) 5th President of the United States

Harper Lee (1926)

American author who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird

Duke Ellington (1899) American jazz composer, pianist, and
bandleader

Oliver Ellsworth (1745) Chief justice, U.S. Supreme Court.

Mary II (1662) queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Juliana (1909) queen of the Netherlands from 1948 until 1980