* April 28 – Charles Cotton, English poet ( d. 1687 )

* April 10 – Jean Lebeuf, French historian ( b. 1687 )

Christiaan Huygens was born in April 1629 at The Hague, the second son of Constantijn Huygens, ( 1596 – 1687 ), friend of mathematician, philosopher and minor physicist René Descartes, and of Suzanna van Baerle ( deceased 1637 ), whom Constantijn had married on 6 April 1627.

Krystyna Skowrońska, renamed Christina Samuilovna Skavronskaya ( 1687 – 14 April 1729 ), had married Simon-Heinrich N ( 1672 – 1728 ) and their descendants became the Counts Guendrikov.

# George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, ( 30 January 1628-16 April 1687 )

George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, 20th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG, PC, FRS ( 10 January 1628 – 16 April 1687 ) was an English statesman and poet.

He died on 16 April 1687, from a chill caught while hunting, in the house of a tenant in Kirkbymoorside in Yorkshire ( it is known as Buckingham House and it is located in the town centre ), expressing great repentance and feeling himself " despised by my country and I fear forsaken by my God ".

Suleiman II ( April 15, 1642 – June 22 / 23 1691 ) ( Ottoman Turkish: سليمان ثانى Süleymān-i < u > s </ u > ānī ) was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1687 to 1691.

* April 10-Jean Lebeuf, historian ( born 1687 )

The Huguenots brought with them little, apart from their skills, and an Order in Council of 16 April 1687 raised £ 200, 000 for the relief of their poverty.

The Indulgence was first issued for Scotland on 12 February, and then for England on 4 April 1687.

* April 2-Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist, botanical artist, and physician who studied and produced several papers on cryptogams ( lower plants that do not have seeds or flowers ), such as mosses and algae ( born 1687 )

In April 1687 the East India Company demanded £ 65, 000 compensation from Narai and blockaded Mergui.

Ambrose Dixon ( c. 1619 – April 12, 1687 ) was an early American Quaker pioneer who was born in England and emigrated to the America at an early age where he lived in the Virginia Colony before moving to Maryland.

The third book was presented to the Society, on April 6, and the whole work published about midsummer in that year, July 5, 1687.

* Robert Johannson Lichton ( April 1681 – 1687 )

* Nils Turesson Bielke ( January 20, 1687 – April 19, 1687 )

In the letter to Innocent XI from April 29, 1687 he vowed to be a Catholic King and declared the readiness and willingness of him and his troops to obey any order of the Roman Pope.

The Declaration of Indulgence had originally been given out on April 4, 1687.

Having, however, refused to abet the king's design of introducing martial law by declining to order the execution of a deserter from the army, he was transferred to the chief-justiceship of the common pleas in April 1687, being succeeded in the king's bench by the more compliant Robert Wright.

Jean Lebeuf ( 7 March 1687 – 10 April 1760 ) was a French historian.

* James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon 1 April 1674 – 5 December 1687

The lyrics were written in honor of Green Beret James Gabriel, Jr., the first Native Hawaiian who died in Vietnam, who was executed by the Viet Cong while on a training mission on April 8, 1962.

On 20 April 1899 Beatty was appointed executive officer of the small battleship HMS Barfleur, flagship of the China Station, Captain Stanley Colville under Rear-Admiral James Bruce.

The duke then set out for the Shrine of Saint James of Compostela, in the company of other pilgrims ; however, he died on Good Friday 9 April 1137.

* 1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA ; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature ( pub.

In April 1772, when James Northcote saw her Miss Notable in Cibber's The Lady's Last Stake, he remarked to his brother " I never saw a part done so excellent in all my life, for in her acting she has all the simplicity of nature and not the least tincture of the theatrical ".

In April 1962 Grenada's Administrator, the Queens representative on the island, James Lloyd suspended the constitution, dissolved the Legislative Council, and removed Eric Gairy as Chief Minister, following allegations concerning the Gairy's financial impropriety.

In April 1688, James re-issued the Declaration of Indulgence and ordered all clergymen to read it in their churches.

American chemist and inventor James Bert Garner is credited by American sources with the invention of the gas mask in April 1915.

Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.

In April, the ABC's new nightly current affairs program This Day Tonight ran a story which criticised the government's decision not to reappoint the Chair of the ABC Board, Sir James Darling.

The newly hailed " James Brown Band " debuted at the Apollo Theater on April 24, 1959, opening for Little Willie John.

On April 2, 2010, James Gosling resigned from Oracle.

James Monroe ( April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831 ) was the fifth President of the United States ( 1817 – 1825 ).

James Monroe was born on April 28, 1758, in his parents ' house located in a wooded area of Westmoreland County, Virginia.

John James Audubon ( Jean-Jacques Audubon ) ( April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851 ) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.

James Scarlett, 1st Baron Abinger ( 13 December 1769 – 17 April 1844 ) was an English lawyer, politician and judge.

On Saturday, April 30, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed by Robert Livingston, James Monroe, and Barbé Marbois in Paris.

James Fergason, while working with Sardari Arora and Alfred Saupe at Kent State University Liquid Crystal Institute, filed an identical patent in the United States on April 22, 1971.

Mary, born at St. James's Palace in London on 30 April 1662, was the eldest daughter of James, Duke of York ( the future James II & VII ), and his first wife, Lady Anne Hyde.

On April 25, 1995, James Nichols was also arrested, but he was released after 32 days due to lack of evidence.

Occidental College was founded on April 20, 1887, by a group of Presbyterian clergy and laymen, including James George Bell.

Honorius IV acknowledged neither the one nor the other: on 11 April 1286, he solemnly excommunicated King James II of Sicily and the bishops who had taken part in his coronation at Palermo on 2 February.

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