Famous People: April
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All Figures for April (32 results)
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Prussian Field Marshal, Chief of the Prussian and German Great General Staff & Modern Military Strategist
John Tuzo Wilson
World-Renowned Canadian Geophysicist, Pioneer of Plate Tectonics & Transform Faults
Kingsley Amis
Booker Prize-Winning English Novelist, Poet, Satirist & Critic (Author of "Lucky Jim")
Leonardo da Vinci
High Renaissance Polymath, Painter & Engineer
Margaret Thatcher
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Stateswoman
Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights Leader, Baptist Minister & Nobel Laureate
Oliver Tambo
Historic South African Anti-Apartheid Leader, Longest-Serving ANC President & Statesman
Oscar Yanes
Celebrated Venezuelan Journalist, Chronicler, Author & Pioneer of Television Journalism
Pablo Picasso
Towering Spanish Visual Artist, Sculptor, Printmaker, Co-Founder of Cubism & 20th-Century Cultural Giant
Robert Mundell
Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences & "The Father of the Euro"
Sarah Josepha Hale
Pioneering American Editor, Author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb" & "The Mother of Thanksgiving"
Satyajit Ray
Filmmaker, Screenwriter, Author & Graphic Artist
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet & Actor (The Bard of Avon)
Ye Jianying
Marshal of the People’s Republic of China, Head of State & Key Architect of the Reform Era
Zhu Xi
Supreme Song Dynasty Neo-Confucian Philosopher Whose Synthesis of Confucianism Shaped East Asian Thought for 700 Years