Benjamin Lee Whorf ( April 24, 1897 – July 26, 1941 ) was an American linguist and fire prevention engineer.

The son of Harry and Sarah ( Lee ) Whorf, Benjamin Lee Whorf was born on April 24, 1897 in Winthrop, Massachusetts.

Lady Aberdare, born 1827, died in April 1897 and was a proponent of women's education and active in the establishment of Aberdare Hall in Cardiff.

Johannes Brahms (; 7 May 1833 – 3 April 1897 ) was a German composer and pianist.

His condition gradually worsened and he died on 3 April 1897, aged 63.

The flight of the Greek army from here to Farsala took place on April 23, 1897.

Because of scepticism surrounding the will, it was not until 26 April 1897 that it was approved by the Storting in Norway.

Nobel's instructions named a Norwegian Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize, the members of whom were appointed shortly after the will was approved in April 1897.

The Venice convention of 30 January 1892 was on cholera by the Suez Canal route ; that of Dresden of 15 April 1893, on cholera within European countries ; that of Paris of 3 April 1894, on cholera by the pilgrim traffic ; and that of Venice, on 19 March 1897, was in connection with the outbreak of plague in the East, and the conference met to settle on an international basis the steps to be taken to prevent, if possible, its spread into Europe.

On April 19, 1897 Taxil called a press conference at which he claimed he would introduce Diana Vaughan to the press.

* April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto ( b. 1897 )

* April 7 – Elizabeth Bibesco, writer ( b. 1897 ) ( pneumonia )

* April 28 – Hilde Hildebrand, German actress ( b. 1897 )

* April 4 – Dina Manfredini, Italian Supercenterian ; Oldest Italian Person Ever ; Last surviving woman born in 1897

* April 24 – Milt Franklyn, American musician ( b. 1897 )

* April 20 – Cecil Parker, English actor ( b. 1897 )

* April 16 – Lucius D. Clay, American military governor of Germany after World War II ( b. 1897 )

* April 27 – Major Charles Bendire, U. S. Army captain and ornithologist ( d. 1897 )

* April 22 – Charles Denis Bourbaki, French general ( d. 1897 )

The United Kingdom premiere took place at the Theatre Royal in Manchester, on 22 April 1897, in a presentation by the Carl Rosa Opera Company supervised by Puccini.

Carter Henry Harrison, Jr. ( April 23, 1860, Chicago, Illinois-December 25, 1953 ; buried in Graceland Cemetery ) served as Mayor of Chicago ( 1897 – 1905 and 1911 – 1915 ).

The first American Arts and Crafts Exhibition began on April 5, 1897, at Copley Hall, Boston featuring more than 1000 objects made by 160 craftsmen, half of whom were women.

Thornton Niven Wilder ( April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975 ) was an American playwright and novelist.

Due to the level of skepticism surrounding the will it was not until April 26, 1897 that it was approved by the Storting ( the Norwegian Parliament ).

Starting with President Carter in 1978, the U. S. Congress and President have issued proclamations each year, declaring that Rabbi Schneerson's birthday — usually a day in March or April that coincides with his recognized Hebrew calendar birthdate of 11 Nissan — be observed as Education and Sharing Day in the United States.

HA ' OROT-THE LIGHTS OF RAV KOOK by Greg Wall's Later Prophets Featuring Rabbi Itzchak Marmorstein – released on Tzadik Records, April 2009 Myspace ; Haorot. org ; Youtube. com

# Grand Rabbi Simchah Bunim Alter ( April 6, 1898 – August 6, 1992 ), also known as the Lev Simcha.

In April 1810, Rebbe Nachman called two of his closest disciples, Rabbi Aharon of Breslov and Rabbi Naftali of Nemirov, to act as witnesses for an unprecedented vow:

On April 22, 1856, the cornerstone was laid in the presence of Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, Shmuel Salant.

In April 1971, she was the subject of an article in the New York Times, titled “ Her Ambition Is to Become a Rabbi – And a Housewife ”, in which she stated:

Watercolors of the First Woman Rabbi in America on view at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, Manhattan, April 22-June 28, 2002

* April 8-All political parties and Church leaders gather at the Mansion House, Dublin to pay tribute to the Chief Rabbi, Dr. Herzog, who is leaving to take up the new post of Chief Rabbi of the British Mandate of Palestine.

The yeshiva was headed for the following sixty-seven years by his only son, Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz who died on April 15, 2008 of natural causes.

After its founder's death in December 1941, the yeshivah was headed and developed by his son, Rabbi Henoch Leibowitz ( d. April 15, 2008 ).

Alter Chanoch Henoch Leibowitz ( c. 1918 – April 15, 2008 ) was an Orthodox rabbi who was rosh yeshiva of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yisrael Meir HaKohen, which was founded by his father Rabbi Dovid Leibowitz in 1933.

Rabbi Arnold Josiah Ford ( 23 April 1877 – 16 September 1935 ) was the first black rabbi in America, and a prominent member of Harlem's Black Jews.

* SocialAction. com " Torah Teachings for the Week Ending April 9, 2004 ( Passover 5762 )" by Rabbi Toba Spitzer

At the Agudath Israel of America convention following the 8th Siyum HaShas in New York, Agudah chairman Rabbi Moshe Sherer announced that he wished to book Madison Square Garden for the next Siyum HaShas, to be held on 26 April 1990.

Elio Toaff ( born 30 April 1915 in Livorno ) is the former Chief Rabbi of Rome.

* Maya Balakirsky Katz, “ An Occupational Neurosis: A Psychoanalytic Case History of a Rabbi ,” AJS Review 34. 1 ( April 2010 ): 1-31.

* Rabbi Michael Lerner, " Israel's Jewish Critics Aren't ' Self-Hating '", Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2002.