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Famous People Born in April 1780

  • Apr 7 William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian preacher and clergyman, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1842)
  • Apr 13 Alexander Mitchell, Irish engineer (inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse), born in Dublin (d. 1868)
  • Apr 29 Charles Nodier, French writer (History du chien the Brisquet), born in Besançon, France (d. 1844)