April 23, 1858 – Max Planck, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
April 24, 1964 – Djimon Gaston Hounsou is a two-time Academy Award-nominated Beninois actor and model.
April 25, 1599 – Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
April 26, 1564 – William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s pre-eminent dramatist.
April 27, 1822 – Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant) was the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877) as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods.
April 28, 1402 – Nezahualcóyotl (Classical Nahuatl: “Coyote in fast” or “Coyote who Fasts”) was a philosopher, warrior, architect, poet and ruler (tlatoani) of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian Mexico.
April 29, 1899 – Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and big band leader.
