Author Birthdays for April
Lachy Hulme 53
Screenwriter
Thursday, April 1st 1971Gil Scott-Heron 75
Poet
Friday, April 1st 1949Samuel R. Delany 82
Novelist
Wednesday, April 1st 1942Vladimir Posner 90
Journalist
Sunday, April 1st 1934Rolf Hochhuth 93
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, April 1st 1931Milan Kundera 95
Monday, April 1st 1929Anne McCaffrey 98
Thursday, April 1st 1926Maria Polydouri 122
Poet
Tuesday, April 1st 1902Whittaker Chambers 123
Journalist
Monday, April 1st 1901Edgar Wallace 149
Thursday, April 1st 1875Edmond Rostand 156
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, April 1st 1868Joseph de Maistre 271
Non-Fiction
Sunday, April 1st 1753Antoine François Prévost 327
Novelist
Monday, April 1st 1697John Wilmot 377
Poet
Monday, April 1st 1647James Vance 71
Comic Book Writer, Playwright
Thursday, April 2nd 1953Emile Zola 184
Thursday, April 2nd 1840Hans Christian Andersen 219
Tuesday, April 2nd 1805Sandra Boynton 71
Children's Literature
Friday, April 3rd 1953Arlette Cousture 76
Novelist
Saturday, April 3rd 1948Jonathan Lynn 81
Screenwriter
Saturday, April 3rd 1943Herb Caen 108
Columnist
Monday, April 3rd 1916George Derby 201
Humorist
Thursday, April 3rd 1823Edward Everett Hale 202
Novelist
Wednesday, April 3rd 1822Washington Irving 241
Short Stories
Thursday, April 3rd 1783George Herbert 431
Poet
Saturday, April 3rd 1593Ned Vizzini 43
Children's Literature
Saturday, April 4th 1981Pamela Ribon 49
Screenwriter
Friday, April 4th 1975Roy Padrick 49
Journalist
Friday, April 4th 1975David E. Kelley 68
Screenwriter
Wednesday, April 4th 1956Dan Simmons 76
Novelist
Sunday, April 4th 1948Kitty Kelley 82
Journalist
Saturday, April 4th 1942Maya Angelou 96
Novelist
Wednesday, April 4th 1928Emmett Williams 99
Poet
Saturday, April 4th 1925Marguerite Duras 110
Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 4th 1914Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 116
Memoirist
Saturday, April 4th 1908Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin 122
Novelist, Journalist, Poet
Friday, April 4th 1902Stanley G. Weinbaum 122
Novelist
Friday, April 4th 1902Robert E. Sherwood 128
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 4th 1896Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr. 136
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, April 4th 1888Remy de Gourmont 166
Poet, Novelist
Sunday, April 4th 1858Comte de Lautréamont 178
Poet
Saturday, April 4th 1846Thomas Mayne Reid 206
Novelist
Saturday, April 4th 1818Bettina von Arnim 239
Novelist
Monday, April 4th 1785William Strachey 452
Non-Fiction, Essayist
Tuesday, April 4th 1572Charles Cumming 53
Novelist
Monday, April 5th 1971Jeff Gomez 54
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 5th 1970Anu Garg 57
Non-Fiction, Columnist
Wednesday, April 5th 1967Larry Felser 91
Columnist
Wednesday, April 5th 1933Barbara Holland 91
Children's Literature, Short Stories
Wednesday, April 5th 1933Hugo Claus 95
Novelist, Poet
Friday, April 5th 1929Arthur Hailey 104
Novelist
Monday, April 5th 1920Rafiq Zakaria 104
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 5th 1920Robert Bloch 107
Novelist
Thursday, April 5th 1917Algernon Charles Swinburne 187
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Wednesday, April 5th 1837Sir Henry Rawlinson 214
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 5th 1810Dash Shaw 41
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, April 6th 1983Hirotada Ototake 48
Columnist
Tuesday, April 6th 1976Joe Machine 51
Poet
Friday, April 6th 1973Jack Canfora 55
Playwright
Sunday, April 6th 1969Rob Epstein 69
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, April 6th 1955Cleo Odzer 74
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 6th 1950Homero Aridjis 84
Poet, Novelist
Saturday, April 6th 1940Douglas Hill 89
Novelist
Saturday, April 6th 1935Willis Hall 95
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 6th 1929Julien Torma 122
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, April 6th 1902Veniamin Kaverin 122
Novelist
Sunday, April 6th 1902Dudley Nichols 129
Screenwriter
Saturday, April 6th 1895Elinor Brent-Dyer 130
Children's Literature
Friday, April 6th 1894Lowell Thomas 132
Journalist, Travel Writer
Wednesday, April 6th 1892Erich Mühsam 146
Essayist, Poet, Playwright
Saturday, April 6th 1878Aasmund Olavsson Vinje 206
Poet, Journalist
Monday, April 6th 1818Alexander Herzen 212
Novelist, Essayist
Monday, April 6th 1812Nicolas Chamfort 283
Novelist
Thursday, April 6th 1741Jean-Baptiste Rousseau 353
Poet
Monday, April 6th 1671Julia Phillips 80
Memoirist
Friday, April 7th 1944Hodding Carter III 89
Journalist
Sunday, April 7th 1935Donald Barthelme 93
Short Stories, Novelist
Tuesday, April 7th 1931James White 96
Novelist
Saturday, April 7th 1928Johannes Mario Simmel 100
Novelist, Screenwriter
Monday, April 7th 1924Roger Lemelin 105
Novelist, Screenwriter
Monday, April 7th 1919Henry Kuttner 109
Novelist
Wednesday, April 7th 1915Robert Charroux 115
Novelist
Wednesday, April 7th 1909Walter Winchell 127
Journalist, Columnist
Wednesday, April 7th 1897Marjory Stoneman Douglas 134
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, April 7th 1890Gabriela Mistral 135
Poet
Sunday, April 7th 1889William Wordsworth 254
Poet
Saturday, April 7th 1770Hugh Blair 306
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 7th 1718Mehran Ghassemi 47
Journalist
Friday, April 8th 1977Nnedi Okorafor 50
Novelist
Monday, April 8th 1974Evan Davis 62
Journalist
Sunday, April 8th 1962Jim Piddock 68
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 8th 1956Barbara Kingsolver 69
Novelist
Friday, April 8th 1955Seymour Hersh 87
Journalist
Thursday, April 8th 1937Renzo De Felice 95
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 8th 1929Glendon Swarthout 106
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, April 8th 1918Emil Cioran 113
Essayist
Saturday, April 8th 1911John Fante 115
Novelist
Thursday, April 8th 1909Kate Heyhoe 69
Non-Fiction
Saturday, April 9th 1955Joolz Denby 69
Poet, Novelist
Saturday, April 9th 1955Peter Gammons 79
Journalist
Monday, April 9th 1945Carl Amery 102
Novelist
Sunday, April 9th 1922Johannes Bobrowski 107
Poet, Novelist
Monday, April 9th 1917Lev Kopelev 112
Non-Fiction, Memorist
Tuesday, April 9th 1912Rahul Sankrityayan 131
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Sunday, April 9th 1893Charles Baudelaire 203
Poet
Monday, April 9th 1821Étienne Aignan 251
Playwright
Friday, April 9th 1773Johann Matthias Gesner 333
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 9th 1691Philippe Néricault Destouches 344
Playwright
Tuesday, April 9th 1680John M. Ford 67
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, April 10th 1957David Helvarg 73
Journalist
Tuesday, April 10th 1951Nick Auf der Maur 82
Journalist
Friday, April 10th 1942Paul Theroux 83
Novelist
Thursday, April 10th 1941Claudio Magris 85
Essayist, Columnist
Monday, April 10th 1939Bella Akhmadulina 87
Poet
Saturday, April 10th 1937David Halberstam 90
Journalist
Tuesday, April 10th 1934Rokusuke Ei 91
Essayist
Monday, April 10th 1933Roger Gaillard 101
Novelist
Tuesday, April 10th 1923Stefan Heym 111
Novelist, Journalist
Thursday, April 10th 1913Montague Summers 144
Novelist, Non-Fiction, Poet
Saturday, April 10th 1880Joseph Pulitzer 177
Journalist
Saturday, April 10th 1847Forceythe Willson 187
Poet
Monday, April 10th 1837Lew Wallace 197
Novelist
Tuesday, April 10th 1827William Hazlitt 246
Essayist
Friday, April 10th 1778Hugo Grotius 441
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, April 10th 1583Benjamin Heath 1854
Essayist
Tuesday, April 10th 0170Walid Soliman 49
Non-Fiction
Friday, April 11th 1975Sergey Lukyanenko 56
Novelist
Thursday, April 11th 1968Jeremy Clarkson 64
Journalist, Columnist
Monday, April 11th 1960Peter Windsor 72
Journalist
Friday, April 11th 1952James Patrick Kelly 73
Novelist
Wednesday, April 11th 1951Dorothy Allison 75
Novelist
Monday, April 11th 1949John Milius 80
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 11th 1944Ellen Goodman 83
Columnist
Friday, April 11th 1941Mark Strand 90
Poet
Wednesday, April 11th 1934Tony Brown 91
Journalist
Tuesday, April 11th 1933David Westheimer 107
Novelist
Wednesday, April 11th 1917Leo Rosten 116
Humorist, Short Stories, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 11th 1908Attila József 119
Poet
Tuesday, April 11th 1905Sándor Márai 124
Novelist, Journalist
Wednesday, April 11th 1900Léo-Paul Desrosiers 128
Novelist, Journalist
Saturday, April 11th 1896Bernard O'Dowd 158
Poet, Journalist
Wednesday, April 11th 1866Stefanos Thomopoulos 165
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 11th 1859Christopher Smart 302
Poet
Saturday, April 11th 1722Tama Janowitz 67
Novelist
Friday, April 12th 1957Jon Krakauer 70
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 12th 1954Ralph Wiley 72
Journalist
Saturday, April 12th 1952Scott Turow 75
Novelist
Tuesday, April 12th 1949Tom Clancy 77
Novelist
Saturday, April 12th 1947Georgios Balanos 80
Journalist
Wednesday, April 12th 1944Alan Ayckbourn 85
Playwright
Wednesday, April 12th 1939Leonid Derbenyov 93
Poet
Sunday, April 12th 1931Beverly Cleary 108
Children's Literature
Wednesday, April 12th 1916Ida Pollock 116
Novelist
Sunday, April 12th 1908Hardie Gramatky 117
Children's Literature
Friday, April 12th 1907José Gautier Benítez 173
Poet
Saturday, April 12th 1851Alexander Ostrovsky 201
Playwright
Saturday, April 12th 1823Guillaume Thomas François Raynal 311
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, April 12th 1713Joachim Camerarius 524
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 12th 1500Bill Pronzini 81
Tuesday, April 13th 1943J. M. G. Le Clezio 84
Saturday, April 13th 1940Seamus Heaney 85
Thursday, April 13th 1939Eudora Welty 115
Tuesday, April 13th 1909Samuel Beckett 118
Friday, April 13th 1906Nella Larsen 133
Monday, April 13th 1891Tina Rosenberg 64
Journalist
Thursday, April 14th 1960Bruce Sterling 70
Novelist
Wednesday, April 14th 1954Anne Michaels 66
Tuesday, April 15th 1958Henry James 181
Saturday, April 15th 1843Mark Baker 39
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 16th 1985Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 40
Novelist
Monday, April 16th 1984J. Neil Schulman 71
Novelist
Thursday, April 16th 1953Ioan Mihai Cochinescu 73
Novelist
Monday, April 16th 1951Margot Adler 78
Journalist
Tuesday, April 16th 1946Sarah Kirsch 89
Poet
Tuesday, April 16th 1935Kingsley Amis 102
Sunday, April 16th 1922Gerard McLarnon 109
Playwright
Friday, April 16th 1915Berton Roueché 114
Medical Writer
Saturday, April 16th 1910Tristan Tzara 128
Poet, Essayist
Thursday, April 16th 1896Germaine Guèvremont 131
Novelist
Sunday, April 16th 1893John Millington Synge 153
Poet, Playwright
Sunday, April 16th 1871José de Diego 158
Journalist, Poet
Monday, April 16th 1866Anatole France 180
Poet, Journalist, Novelist
Tuesday, April 16th 1844Octave Crémazie 197
Poet
Monday, April 16th 1827Charles Montagu 363
Poet
Saturday, April 16th 1661Nick Hornby 67
Wednesday, April 17th 1957Hervé Bazin 113
Novelist
Monday, April 17th 1911Thornton Wilder 127
Saturday, April 17th 1897Robert Dean Frisbie 128
Travel Writer
Friday, April 17th 1896Isak Dinesen 139
Friday, April 17th 1885Keith R. A. DeCandido 55
Novelist
Friday, April 18th 1969John Podhoretz 63
Columnist
Tuesday, April 18th 1961Régis Wargnier 76
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 18th 1948Kathy Acker 77
Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Playwright
Friday, April 18th 1947Jerzy Stuhr 77
Screenwriter
Friday, April 18th 1947Robert Christgau 82
Journalist, Essayist
Saturday, April 18th 1942Nigel Kneale 102
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 18th 1922Shinobu Hashimoto 106
Screenwriter
Thursday, April 18th 1918Joy Davidman 109
Poet
Sunday, April 18th 1915Claire Martin 110
Novelist
Saturday, April 18th 1914Norbert Davis 115
Novelist
Sunday, April 18th 1909László Németh 123
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Thursday, April 18th 1901Vicente Sotto 142
Journalist
Tuesday, April 18th 1882Abd-ru-shin 149
Essayist
Sunday, April 18th 1875Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 150
Children's Literature
Saturday, April 18th 1874Richard Harding Davis 160
Novelist, Playwright, Journalist
Monday, April 18th 1864Alexander Shirvanzade 166
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, April 18th 1858Thomas Middleton 444
Poet, Playwright
Friday, April 18th 1580Barry Brown 73
Playwright
Thursday, April 19th 1951Walter Stewart 93
Journalist
Sunday, April 19th 1931José Echegaray 108
Playwright
Wednesday, April 19th 1916Richard Hughes 124
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Thursday, April 19th 1900Elizabeth Dilling 130
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 19th 1894Louis Amédée Achard 210
Novelist
Tuesday, April 19th 1814Harris Wittels 40
Screenwriter
Friday, April 20th 1984Robert Crais 71
Novelist
Monday, April 20th 1953Sebastian Faulks 71
Novelist
Monday, April 20th 1953Steve Erickson 74
Novelist
Thursday, April 20th 1950Andrew Tobias 77
Journalist, Columnist
Sunday, April 20th 1947David Leland 77
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 20th 1947Arto Paasilinna 82
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, April 20th 1942Peter S. Beagle 85
Novelist
Thursday, April 20th 1939Jiří Dienstbier 87
Journalist
Tuesday, April 20th 1937Richard Hillary 105
Novelist
Sunday, April 20th 1919Edward L. Beach, Jr. 106
Novelist
Saturday, April 20th 1918Henry de Montherlant 129
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Saturday, April 20th 1895Daniel Varujan 140
Poet
Sunday, April 20th 1884Vladimir Vidrić 149
Poet
Tuesday, April 20th 1875Dinah Craik 198
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, April 20th 1826Pietro Aretino 532
Playwright, Poet, Satirist
Wednesday, April 20th 1492Michael Zarnock 66
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 21st 1958Barbara Park 77
Children's Literature
Monday, April 21st 1947Helen Prejean 85
Memoirest
Friday, April 21st 1939John Clifford Mortimer 101
Saturday, April 21st 1923Norman Panama 110
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 21st 1914Charlotte Bronte 208
Sunday, April 21st 1816Blake Fitzpatrick 39
Screenwriter
Monday, April 22nd 1985Ana María Shua 73
Novelist, Poet
Sunday, April 22nd 1951Paul Davies 78
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 22nd 1946Janet Evanovich 81
Novelist
Thursday, April 22nd 1943Louise Glück 81
Poet
Thursday, April 22nd 1943Adam Raphael 86
Journalist
Friday, April 22nd 1938Jason Miller 94
Playwright
Tuesday, April 22nd 1930Paula Fox 101
Novelist
Sunday, April 22nd 1923William Jay Smith 106
Poet
Monday, April 22nd 1918Jan de Hartog 110
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, April 22nd 1914Indro Montanelli 115
Journalist
Thursday, April 22nd 1909Ivan Yefremov 116
Novelist
Wednesday, April 22nd 1908Robert Choquette 119
Novelist, Poet
Saturday, April 22nd 1905Vladimir Nabokov 125
Novelist, Poet
Saturday, April 22nd 1899Ellen Glasgow 151
Novelist
Tuesday, April 22nd 1873Germaine de Staël 258
Novelist
Tuesday, April 22nd 1766Henry Fielding 317
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, April 22nd 1707Pierre Labrie 52
Poet
Sunday, April 23rd 1972Arthur Phillips 55
Novelist
Wednesday, April 23rd 1969Michael Moore 70
Non-Fiction
Friday, April 23rd 1954Pascal Quignard 76
Novelist
Friday, April 23rd 1948Barry Hannah 82
Novelist
Thursday, April 23rd 1942Jim Fixx 92
Non-Fiction
Saturday, April 23rd 1932J.P. Donleavy 98
Novelist
Friday, April 23rd 1926Avram Davidson 101
Novelist
Monday, April 23rd 1923Maurice Druon 106
Novelist
Tuesday, April 23rd 1918Halldor Laxness 122
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, April 23rd 1902Ngaio March 125
Novelist
Sunday, April 23rd 1899William Shakespeare 460
Playwright
Thursday, April 23rd 1564Georg Fabricius 508
Poet
Sunday, April 23rd 1516Siarhey Balakhonau 47
Poet
Sunday, April 24th 1977Eric Kripke 50
Screenwriter
Wednesday, April 24th 1974Damon Lindelof 51
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 24th 1973Eric Bogosian 71
Novelist
Friday, April 24th 1953Christian Bobin 73
Poet
Tuesday, April 24th 1951David Morrell 81
Novelist
Saturday, April 24th 1943Sue Grafton 84
Novelist
Wednesday, April 24th 1940Shirley MacLaine 90
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 24th 1934Patricia Bosworth 91
Journalist
Monday, April 24th 1933Clement Freud 100
Journalist
Thursday, April 24th 1924Doris Burn 101
Children's Literature
Tuesday, April 24th 1923Robert Penn Warren 119
Poet
Monday, April 24th 1905Elizabeth Goudge 124
Novelist
Tuesday, April 24th 1900Anthony Trollope 209
Novelist
Monday, April 24th 1815Darcey Steinke 62
Novelist, Journalist
Wednesday, April 25th 1962Dinesh D'Souza 63
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 25th 1961James Fenton 75
Poet, Journalist
Monday, April 25th 1949Bertrand Tavernier 83
Screenwriter
Friday, April 25th 1941Ted Kooser 85
Poet
Tuesday, April 25th 1939Paul Mazursky 94
Screenwriter
Friday, April 25th 1930Corín Tellado 97
Novelist
Monday, April 25th 1927Sammy Drechsel 99
Journalist
Saturday, April 25th 1925Ross Lockridge, Jr. 110
Novelist
Saturday, April 25th 1914Edward R. Murrow 116
Journalist
Saturday, April 25th 1908Walter de la Mare 151
Poet, Novelist
Friday, April 25th 1873Leopoldo Alas 172
Novelist
Sunday, April 25th 1852Roger Boyle 403
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, April 25th 1621Joanne Gobure 42
Poet
Monday, April 26th 1982Roxana Saberi 47
Journalist
Tuesday, April 26th 1977Richard Mitchell 95
Non-Fiction
Friday, April 26th 1929Morris West 108
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, April 26th 1916Bernard Malamud 110
Novelist
Sunday, April 26th 1914A. E. van Vogt 112
Novelist
Friday, April 26th 1912Vicente Aleixandre 126
Poet
Tuesday, April 26th 1898Anita Loos 136
Screenwriter, Playwright, Novelist
Thursday, April 26th 1888Ğabdulla Tuqay 138
Poet
Monday, April 26th 1886Artemus Ward 190
Humor Writer
Saturday, April 26th 1834Ludwig Uhland 237
Poet
Thursday, April 26th 1787Dana Milbank 56
Columnist
Saturday, April 27th 1968Jason Whitlock 57
Journalist
Thursday, April 27th 1967Russell T Davies 61
Screenwriter
Saturday, April 27th 1963August Wilson 79
Playwright
Friday, April 27th 1945Helen Hodgman 79
Novelist
Friday, April 27th 1945Ruth Glick 82
Novelist
Monday, April 27th 1942Jennings Michael Burch 83
Memoirest
Sunday, April 27th 1941Gilbert Sorrentino 95
Novelist
Saturday, April 27th 1929Martin Gray 102
Novelist
Thursday, April 27th 1922Edwin Morgan 104
Poet
Tuesday, April 27th 1920Jacques de Bourbon-Busset 112
Novelist, Essayist
Saturday, April 27th 1912Yórgos Theotokás 118
Novelist
Friday, April 27th 1906Cecil Day-Lewis 120
Poet
Wednesday, April 27th 1904Jules Lemaître 171
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, April 27th 1853Mary Wollstonecraft 265
Novelist
Friday, April 27th 1759Diane Johnson 90
Saturday, April 28th 1934Michael H. Hart 92
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 28th 1932Harper Lee 98
Novelist
Wednesday, April 28th 1926Alistair MacLean 102
Friday, April 28th 1922Robert J. Sawyer 64
Novelist
Friday, April 29th 1960David Icke 72
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 29th 1952Jill Paton Walsh 87
Novelist, Children's Literature
Thursday, April 29th 1937Rod McKuen 91
Poet
Saturday, April 29th 1933Walter Kempowski 95
Novelist
Monday, April 29th 1929Elmer Kelton 98
Novelist
Thursday, April 29th 1926Edward Blishen 104
Novelist
Thursday, April 29th 1920Jack Williamson 116
Novelist
Wednesday, April 29th 1908Egon Erwin Kisch 139
Journalist
Wednesday, April 29th 1885Rafael Sabatini 149
Novelist
Thursday, April 29th 1875Constantine P. Cavafy 161
Poet
Wednesday, April 29th 1863Thomas Adolphus Trollope 214
Travel Writer
Sunday, April 29th 1810Charles Nodier 244
Short Stories
Saturday, April 29th 1780John Arbuthnot 357
Satirist
Friday, April 29th 1667John Boyne 53
Novelist
Friday, April 30th 1971Stefan Kisyov 61
Novelist
Tuesday, April 30th 1963W. Thomas Smith, Jr. 65
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 30th 1959Annie Dillard 79
Monday, April 30th 1945Larry Niven 86
Novelist
Saturday, April 30th 1938Hugh Hood 96
Novelist
Monday, April 30th 1928Sri Sri 114
Poet
Saturday, April 30th 1910Humberto Mauro 127
Screenwriter
Friday, April 30th 1897Jaroslav Hašek 141
Novelist
Monday, April 30th 1883Alice B. Toklas 147
Monday, April 30th 1877Juhan Liiv 160
Poet
Saturday, April 30th 1864