Famous People: April
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All Figures for April (49 results)
Colin Powell
Four-Star General, 65th U.S. Secretary of State & First African American Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Dhirendranath Datta
Statesman, Lawyer, Pioneer of the 1948 Bengali Language Movement & Martyr of 1971
Evelyn Waugh
English Satirist, Novelist, Travel Writer & Literary Master
Georges Danton
Titan of the French Revolution, First President of the Committee of Public Safety & Master Orator of the Cordeliers Club
Gerard van Honthorst
Dutch Golden Age Master Painter & Leader of the Utrecht Caravaggisti ("Gherardo delle Notti")
Giuditta Pasta
Legendary 19th-Century Italian Operatic Soprano / Mezzo-Soprano & Muse of Bellini and Donizetti
Godfrey Chitalu
Greatest Zambian Footballer of All Time ("Ucar"), Scored a Record 107 Goals in a Single Year
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
Prussian Field Marshal, Chief of the Prussian and German Great General Staff & Modern Military Strategist
Hermann Rorschach
Swiss Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst & Creator of the Rorschach Inkblot Test
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
First Lord of the Admiralty, Patron of Captain James Cook & Namesake of the Sandwich
John Tuzo Wilson
World-Renowned Canadian Geophysicist, Pioneer of Plate Tectonics & Transform Faults
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Novelist, Dandy & Literary Critic
Kingsley Amis
Booker Prize-Winning English Novelist, Poet, Satirist & Critic (Author of "Lucky Jim")
Leonardo da Vinci
High Renaissance Polymath, Painter & Engineer
Lucan
Eminent Roman Epic Poet of Pharsalia (De Bello Civili) & Imperial Intellectual
Mahmud of Ghazni
First Sultan of History, Ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire & Medieval Military Strategist