This Week's Birthdays - Week of April 4

April 4, 1876 – Maurice de Vlaminck, French painter (d. 1958)

April 5, 1769 – Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet Royal Navy Vice-Admiral and First Lord of the Admiralty (d. 1839)

April 6, 1890 – Anthony Fokker, Dutch aviation engineering pioneer (d. 1939)

April 7, 1770 – William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850)

April 8, 1892 – Mary Pickford, Canadian actress (d. 1979)

April 9, 1757 – Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)

April 10, 1735 – Button Gwinnett, Signer of the US Declaration of Independence (d. 1777)