Author Birthdays for April
Lachy Hulme 52
Screenwriter
Thursday, April 1st 1971Gil Scott-Heron 74
Poet
Friday, April 1st 1949Samuel R. Delany 81
Novelist
Wednesday, April 1st 1942Vladimir Posner 89
Journalist
Sunday, April 1st 1934Rolf Hochhuth 92
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, April 1st 1931Milan Kundera 94
Monday, April 1st 1929Anne McCaffrey 97
Thursday, April 1st 1926Maria Polydouri 121
Poet
Tuesday, April 1st 1902Whittaker Chambers 122
Journalist
Monday, April 1st 1901Edgar Wallace 148
Thursday, April 1st 1875Edmond Rostand 155
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, April 1st 1868Joseph de Maistre 270
Non-Fiction
Sunday, April 1st 1753Antoine François Prévost 326
Novelist
Monday, April 1st 1697John Wilmot 376
Poet
Monday, April 1st 1647James Vance 70
Comic Book Writer, Playwright
Thursday, April 2nd 1953Emile Zola 183
Thursday, April 2nd 1840Hans Christian Andersen 218
Tuesday, April 2nd 1805Sandra Boynton 70
Children's Literature
Friday, April 3rd 1953Arlette Cousture 75
Novelist
Saturday, April 3rd 1948Jonathan Lynn 80
Screenwriter
Saturday, April 3rd 1943Herb Caen 107
Columnist
Monday, April 3rd 1916George Derby 200
Humorist
Thursday, April 3rd 1823Edward Everett Hale 201
Novelist
Wednesday, April 3rd 1822Washington Irving 240
Short Stories
Thursday, April 3rd 1783George Herbert 430
Poet
Saturday, April 3rd 1593Ned Vizzini 42
Children's Literature
Saturday, April 4th 1981Pamela Ribon 48
Screenwriter
Friday, April 4th 1975Roy Padrick 48
Journalist
Friday, April 4th 1975David E. Kelley 67
Screenwriter
Wednesday, April 4th 1956Dan Simmons 75
Novelist
Sunday, April 4th 1948Kitty Kelley 81
Journalist
Saturday, April 4th 1942Maya Angelou 95
Novelist
Wednesday, April 4th 1928Emmett Williams 98
Poet
Saturday, April 4th 1925Marguerite Duras 109
Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 4th 1914Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 115
Memoirist
Saturday, April 4th 1908Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin 121
Novelist, Journalist, Poet
Friday, April 4th 1902Stanley G. Weinbaum 121
Novelist
Friday, April 4th 1902Robert E. Sherwood 127
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 4th 1896Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr. 135
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, April 4th 1888Remy de Gourmont 165
Poet, Novelist
Sunday, April 4th 1858Comte de Lautréamont 177
Poet
Saturday, April 4th 1846Thomas Mayne Reid 205
Novelist
Saturday, April 4th 1818Bettina von Arnim 238
Novelist
Monday, April 4th 1785William Strachey 451
Non-Fiction, Essayist
Tuesday, April 4th 1572Charles Cumming 52
Novelist
Monday, April 5th 1971Jeff Gomez 53
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 5th 1970Anu Garg 56
Non-Fiction, Columnist
Wednesday, April 5th 1967Larry Felser 90
Columnist
Wednesday, April 5th 1933Barbara Holland 90
Children's Literature, Short Stories
Wednesday, April 5th 1933Hugo Claus 94
Novelist, Poet
Friday, April 5th 1929Arthur Hailey 103
Novelist
Monday, April 5th 1920Rafiq Zakaria 103
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 5th 1920Robert Bloch 106
Novelist
Thursday, April 5th 1917Algernon Charles Swinburne 186
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Wednesday, April 5th 1837Sir Henry Rawlinson 213
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 5th 1810Dash Shaw 40
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, April 6th 1983Hirotada Ototake 47
Columnist
Tuesday, April 6th 1976Joe Machine 50
Poet
Friday, April 6th 1973Jack Canfora 54
Playwright
Sunday, April 6th 1969Rob Epstein 68
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, April 6th 1955Cleo Odzer 73
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 6th 1950Homero Aridjis 83
Poet, Novelist
Saturday, April 6th 1940Douglas Hill 88
Novelist
Saturday, April 6th 1935Willis Hall 94
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 6th 1929Julien Torma 121
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, April 6th 1902Veniamin Kaverin 121
Novelist
Sunday, April 6th 1902Dudley Nichols 128
Screenwriter
Saturday, April 6th 1895Elinor Brent-Dyer 129
Children's Literature
Friday, April 6th 1894Lowell Thomas 131
Journalist, Travel Writer
Wednesday, April 6th 1892Erich Mühsam 145
Essayist, Poet, Playwright
Saturday, April 6th 1878Aasmund Olavsson Vinje 205
Poet, Journalist
Monday, April 6th 1818Alexander Herzen 211
Novelist, Essayist
Monday, April 6th 1812Nicolas Chamfort 282
Novelist
Thursday, April 6th 1741Jean-Baptiste Rousseau 352
Poet
Monday, April 6th 1671Julia Phillips 79
Memoirist
Friday, April 7th 1944Hodding Carter III 88
Journalist
Sunday, April 7th 1935Donald Barthelme 92
Short Stories, Novelist
Tuesday, April 7th 1931James White 95
Novelist
Saturday, April 7th 1928Johannes Mario Simmel 99
Novelist, Screenwriter
Monday, April 7th 1924Roger Lemelin 104
Novelist, Screenwriter
Monday, April 7th 1919Henry Kuttner 108
Novelist
Wednesday, April 7th 1915Robert Charroux 114
Novelist
Wednesday, April 7th 1909Walter Winchell 126
Journalist, Columnist
Wednesday, April 7th 1897Marjory Stoneman Douglas 133
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, April 7th 1890Gabriela Mistral 134
Poet
Sunday, April 7th 1889William Wordsworth 253
Poet
Saturday, April 7th 1770Hugh Blair 305
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 7th 1718Mehran Ghassemi 46
Journalist
Friday, April 8th 1977Nnedi Okorafor 49
Novelist
Monday, April 8th 1974Evan Davis 61
Journalist
Sunday, April 8th 1962Jim Piddock 67
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 8th 1956Barbara Kingsolver 68
Novelist
Friday, April 8th 1955Seymour Hersh 86
Journalist
Thursday, April 8th 1937Renzo De Felice 94
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 8th 1929Glendon Swarthout 105
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, April 8th 1918Emil Cioran 112
Essayist
Saturday, April 8th 1911John Fante 114
Novelist
Thursday, April 8th 1909Kate Heyhoe 68
Non-Fiction
Saturday, April 9th 1955Joolz Denby 68
Poet, Novelist
Saturday, April 9th 1955Peter Gammons 78
Journalist
Monday, April 9th 1945Carl Amery 101
Novelist
Sunday, April 9th 1922Johannes Bobrowski 106
Poet, Novelist
Monday, April 9th 1917Lev Kopelev 111
Non-Fiction, Memorist
Tuesday, April 9th 1912Rahul Sankrityayan 130
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Sunday, April 9th 1893Charles Baudelaire 202
Poet
Monday, April 9th 1821Étienne Aignan 250
Playwright
Friday, April 9th 1773Johann Matthias Gesner 332
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 9th 1691Philippe Néricault Destouches 343
Playwright
Tuesday, April 9th 1680John M. Ford 66
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, April 10th 1957David Helvarg 72
Journalist
Tuesday, April 10th 1951Nick Auf der Maur 81
Journalist
Friday, April 10th 1942Paul Theroux 82
Novelist
Thursday, April 10th 1941Claudio Magris 84
Essayist, Columnist
Monday, April 10th 1939Bella Akhmadulina 86
Poet
Saturday, April 10th 1937David Halberstam 89
Journalist
Tuesday, April 10th 1934Rokusuke Ei 90
Essayist
Monday, April 10th 1933Roger Gaillard 100
Novelist
Tuesday, April 10th 1923Stefan Heym 110
Novelist, Journalist
Thursday, April 10th 1913Montague Summers 143
Novelist, Non-Fiction, Poet
Saturday, April 10th 1880Joseph Pulitzer 176
Journalist
Saturday, April 10th 1847Forceythe Willson 186
Poet
Monday, April 10th 1837Lew Wallace 196
Novelist
Tuesday, April 10th 1827William Hazlitt 245
Essayist
Friday, April 10th 1778Hugo Grotius 440
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, April 10th 1583Benjamin Heath 1853
Essayist
Tuesday, April 10th 0170Walid Soliman 48
Non-Fiction
Friday, April 11th 1975Sergey Lukyanenko 55
Novelist
Thursday, April 11th 1968Jeremy Clarkson 63
Journalist, Columnist
Monday, April 11th 1960Peter Windsor 71
Journalist
Friday, April 11th 1952James Patrick Kelly 72
Novelist
Wednesday, April 11th 1951Dorothy Allison 74
Novelist
Monday, April 11th 1949John Milius 79
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 11th 1944Ellen Goodman 82
Columnist
Friday, April 11th 1941Mark Strand 89
Poet
Wednesday, April 11th 1934Tony Brown 90
Journalist
Tuesday, April 11th 1933David Westheimer 106
Novelist
Wednesday, April 11th 1917Leo Rosten 115
Humorist, Short Stories, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 11th 1908Attila József 118
Poet
Tuesday, April 11th 1905Sándor Márai 123
Novelist, Journalist
Wednesday, April 11th 1900Léo-Paul Desrosiers 127
Novelist, Journalist
Saturday, April 11th 1896Bernard O'Dowd 157
Poet, Journalist
Wednesday, April 11th 1866Stefanos Thomopoulos 164
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 11th 1859Christopher Smart 301
Poet
Saturday, April 11th 1722Tama Janowitz 66
Novelist
Friday, April 12th 1957Jon Krakauer 69
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 12th 1954Ralph Wiley 71
Journalist
Saturday, April 12th 1952Scott Turow 74
Novelist
Tuesday, April 12th 1949Tom Clancy 76
Novelist
Saturday, April 12th 1947Georgios Balanos 79
Journalist
Wednesday, April 12th 1944Alan Ayckbourn 84
Playwright
Wednesday, April 12th 1939Leonid Derbenyov 92
Poet
Sunday, April 12th 1931Beverly Cleary 107
Children's Literature
Wednesday, April 12th 1916Ida Pollock 115
Novelist
Sunday, April 12th 1908Hardie Gramatky 116
Children's Literature
Friday, April 12th 1907José Gautier Benítez 172
Poet
Saturday, April 12th 1851Alexander Ostrovsky 200
Playwright
Saturday, April 12th 1823Guillaume Thomas François Raynal 310
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, April 12th 1713Joachim Camerarius 523
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 12th 1500Bill Pronzini 80
Tuesday, April 13th 1943J. M. G. Le Clezio 83
Saturday, April 13th 1940Seamus Heaney 84
Thursday, April 13th 1939Eudora Welty 114
Tuesday, April 13th 1909Samuel Beckett 117
Friday, April 13th 1906Nella Larsen 132
Monday, April 13th 1891Tina Rosenberg 63
Journalist
Thursday, April 14th 1960Bruce Sterling 69
Novelist
Wednesday, April 14th 1954Anne Michaels 65
Tuesday, April 15th 1958Henry James 180
Saturday, April 15th 1843Mark Baker 38
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 16th 1985Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 39
Novelist
Monday, April 16th 1984J. Neil Schulman 70
Novelist
Thursday, April 16th 1953Ioan Mihai Cochinescu 72
Novelist
Monday, April 16th 1951Margot Adler 77
Journalist
Tuesday, April 16th 1946Sarah Kirsch 88
Poet
Tuesday, April 16th 1935Kingsley Amis 101
Sunday, April 16th 1922Gerard McLarnon 108
Playwright
Friday, April 16th 1915Berton Roueché 113
Medical Writer
Saturday, April 16th 1910Tristan Tzara 127
Poet, Essayist
Thursday, April 16th 1896Germaine Guèvremont 130
Novelist
Sunday, April 16th 1893John Millington Synge 152
Poet, Playwright
Sunday, April 16th 1871José de Diego 157
Journalist, Poet
Monday, April 16th 1866Anatole France 179
Poet, Journalist, Novelist
Tuesday, April 16th 1844Octave Crémazie 196
Poet
Monday, April 16th 1827Charles Montagu 362
Poet
Saturday, April 16th 1661Nick Hornby 66
Wednesday, April 17th 1957Hervé Bazin 112
Novelist
Monday, April 17th 1911Thornton Wilder 126
Saturday, April 17th 1897Robert Dean Frisbie 127
Travel Writer
Friday, April 17th 1896Isak Dinesen 138
Friday, April 17th 1885Keith R. A. DeCandido 54
Novelist
Friday, April 18th 1969John Podhoretz 62
Columnist
Tuesday, April 18th 1961Régis Wargnier 75
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 18th 1948Kathy Acker 76
Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Playwright
Friday, April 18th 1947Jerzy Stuhr 76
Screenwriter
Friday, April 18th 1947Robert Christgau 81
Journalist, Essayist
Saturday, April 18th 1942Nigel Kneale 101
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 18th 1922Shinobu Hashimoto 105
Screenwriter
Thursday, April 18th 1918Joy Davidman 108
Poet
Sunday, April 18th 1915Claire Martin 109
Novelist
Saturday, April 18th 1914Norbert Davis 114
Novelist
Sunday, April 18th 1909László Németh 122
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Thursday, April 18th 1901Vicente Sotto 141
Journalist
Tuesday, April 18th 1882Abd-ru-shin 148
Essayist
Sunday, April 18th 1875Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 149
Children's Literature
Saturday, April 18th 1874Richard Harding Davis 159
Novelist, Playwright, Journalist
Monday, April 18th 1864Alexander Shirvanzade 165
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, April 18th 1858Thomas Middleton 443
Poet, Playwright
Friday, April 18th 1580Barry Brown 72
Playwright
Thursday, April 19th 1951Walter Stewart 92
Journalist
Sunday, April 19th 1931José Echegaray 107
Playwright
Wednesday, April 19th 1916Richard Hughes 123
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Thursday, April 19th 1900Elizabeth Dilling 129
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 19th 1894Louis Amédée Achard 209
Novelist
Tuesday, April 19th 1814Harris Wittels 39
Screenwriter
Friday, April 20th 1984Robert Crais 70
Novelist
Monday, April 20th 1953Sebastian Faulks 70
Novelist
Monday, April 20th 1953Steve Erickson 73
Novelist
Thursday, April 20th 1950Andrew Tobias 76
Journalist, Columnist
Sunday, April 20th 1947David Leland 76
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 20th 1947Arto Paasilinna 81
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, April 20th 1942Peter S. Beagle 84
Novelist
Thursday, April 20th 1939Jiří Dienstbier 86
Journalist
Tuesday, April 20th 1937Richard Hillary 104
Novelist
Sunday, April 20th 1919Edward L. Beach, Jr. 105
Novelist
Saturday, April 20th 1918Henry de Montherlant 128
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Saturday, April 20th 1895Daniel Varujan 139
Poet
Sunday, April 20th 1884Vladimir Vidrić 148
Poet
Tuesday, April 20th 1875Dinah Craik 197
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, April 20th 1826Pietro Aretino 531
Playwright, Poet, Satirist
Wednesday, April 20th 1492Michael Zarnock 65
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 21st 1958Barbara Park 76
Children's Literature
Monday, April 21st 1947Helen Prejean 84
Memoirest
Friday, April 21st 1939John Clifford Mortimer 100
Saturday, April 21st 1923Norman Panama 109
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 21st 1914Charlotte Bronte 207
Sunday, April 21st 1816Blake Fitzpatrick 38
Screenwriter
Monday, April 22nd 1985Ana María Shua 72
Novelist, Poet
Sunday, April 22nd 1951Paul Davies 77
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 22nd 1946Janet Evanovich 80
Novelist
Thursday, April 22nd 1943Louise Glück 80
Poet
Thursday, April 22nd 1943Adam Raphael 85
Journalist
Friday, April 22nd 1938Jason Miller 93
Playwright
Tuesday, April 22nd 1930Paula Fox 100
Novelist
Sunday, April 22nd 1923William Jay Smith 105
Poet
Monday, April 22nd 1918Jan de Hartog 109
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, April 22nd 1914Indro Montanelli 114
Journalist
Thursday, April 22nd 1909Ivan Yefremov 115
Novelist
Wednesday, April 22nd 1908Robert Choquette 118
Novelist, Poet
Saturday, April 22nd 1905Vladimir Nabokov 124
Novelist, Poet
Saturday, April 22nd 1899Ellen Glasgow 150
Novelist
Tuesday, April 22nd 1873Germaine de Staël 257
Novelist
Tuesday, April 22nd 1766Henry Fielding 316
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, April 22nd 1707Pierre Labrie 51
Poet
Sunday, April 23rd 1972Arthur Phillips 54
Novelist
Wednesday, April 23rd 1969Michael Moore 69
Non-Fiction
Friday, April 23rd 1954Pascal Quignard 75
Novelist
Friday, April 23rd 1948Barry Hannah 81
Novelist
Thursday, April 23rd 1942Jim Fixx 91
Non-Fiction
Saturday, April 23rd 1932J.P. Donleavy 97
Novelist
Friday, April 23rd 1926Avram Davidson 100
Novelist
Monday, April 23rd 1923Maurice Druon 105
Novelist
Tuesday, April 23rd 1918Halldor Laxness 121
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, April 23rd 1902Ngaio March 124
Novelist
Sunday, April 23rd 1899William Shakespeare 459
Playwright
Thursday, April 23rd 1564Georg Fabricius 507
Poet
Sunday, April 23rd 1516Siarhey Balakhonau 46
Poet
Sunday, April 24th 1977Eric Kripke 49
Screenwriter
Wednesday, April 24th 1974Damon Lindelof 50
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 24th 1973Eric Bogosian 70
Novelist
Friday, April 24th 1953Christian Bobin 72
Poet
Tuesday, April 24th 1951David Morrell 80
Novelist
Saturday, April 24th 1943Sue Grafton 83
Novelist
Wednesday, April 24th 1940Shirley MacLaine 89
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 24th 1934Patricia Bosworth 90
Journalist
Monday, April 24th 1933Clement Freud 99
Journalist
Thursday, April 24th 1924Doris Burn 100
Children's Literature
Tuesday, April 24th 1923Robert Penn Warren 118
Poet
Monday, April 24th 1905Elizabeth Goudge 123
Novelist
Tuesday, April 24th 1900Anthony Trollope 208
Novelist
Monday, April 24th 1815Darcey Steinke 61
Novelist, Journalist
Wednesday, April 25th 1962Dinesh D'Souza 62
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 25th 1961James Fenton 74
Poet, Journalist
Monday, April 25th 1949Bertrand Tavernier 82
Screenwriter
Friday, April 25th 1941Ted Kooser 84
Poet
Tuesday, April 25th 1939Paul Mazursky 93
Screenwriter
Friday, April 25th 1930Corín Tellado 96
Novelist
Monday, April 25th 1927Sammy Drechsel 98
Journalist
Saturday, April 25th 1925Ross Lockridge, Jr. 109
Novelist
Saturday, April 25th 1914Edward R. Murrow 115
Journalist
Saturday, April 25th 1908Walter de la Mare 150
Poet, Novelist
Friday, April 25th 1873Leopoldo Alas 171
Novelist
Sunday, April 25th 1852Roger Boyle 402
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, April 25th 1621Joanne Gobure 41
Poet
Monday, April 26th 1982Roxana Saberi 46
Journalist
Tuesday, April 26th 1977Richard Mitchell 94
Non-Fiction
Friday, April 26th 1929Morris West 107
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, April 26th 1916Bernard Malamud 109
Novelist
Sunday, April 26th 1914A. E. van Vogt 111
Novelist
Friday, April 26th 1912Vicente Aleixandre 125
Poet
Tuesday, April 26th 1898Anita Loos 135
Screenwriter, Playwright, Novelist
Thursday, April 26th 1888Ğabdulla Tuqay 137
Poet
Monday, April 26th 1886Artemus Ward 189
Humor Writer
Saturday, April 26th 1834Ludwig Uhland 236
Poet
Thursday, April 26th 1787Dana Milbank 55
Columnist
Saturday, April 27th 1968Jason Whitlock 56
Journalist
Thursday, April 27th 1967Russell T Davies 60
Screenwriter
Saturday, April 27th 1963August Wilson 78
Playwright
Friday, April 27th 1945Helen Hodgman 78
Novelist
Friday, April 27th 1945Ruth Glick 81
Novelist
Monday, April 27th 1942Jennings Michael Burch 82
Memoirest
Sunday, April 27th 1941Gilbert Sorrentino 94
Novelist
Saturday, April 27th 1929Martin Gray 101
Novelist
Thursday, April 27th 1922Edwin Morgan 103
Poet
Tuesday, April 27th 1920Jacques de Bourbon-Busset 111
Novelist, Essayist
Saturday, April 27th 1912Yórgos Theotokás 117
Novelist
Friday, April 27th 1906Cecil Day-Lewis 119
Poet
Wednesday, April 27th 1904Jules Lemaître 170
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, April 27th 1853Mary Wollstonecraft 264
Novelist
Friday, April 27th 1759Diane Johnson 89
Saturday, April 28th 1934Michael H. Hart 91
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 28th 1932Harper Lee 97
Novelist
Wednesday, April 28th 1926Alistair MacLean 101
Friday, April 28th 1922Robert J. Sawyer 63
Novelist
Friday, April 29th 1960David Icke 71
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 29th 1952Jill Paton Walsh 86
Novelist, Children's Literature
Thursday, April 29th 1937Rod McKuen 90
Poet
Saturday, April 29th 1933Walter Kempowski 94
Novelist
Monday, April 29th 1929Elmer Kelton 97
Novelist
Thursday, April 29th 1926Edward Blishen 103
Novelist
Thursday, April 29th 1920Jack Williamson 115
Novelist
Wednesday, April 29th 1908Egon Erwin Kisch 138
Journalist
Wednesday, April 29th 1885Rafael Sabatini 148
Novelist
Thursday, April 29th 1875Constantine P. Cavafy 160
Poet
Wednesday, April 29th 1863Thomas Adolphus Trollope 213
Travel Writer
Sunday, April 29th 1810Charles Nodier 243
Short Stories
Saturday, April 29th 1780John Arbuthnot 356
Satirist
Friday, April 29th 1667John Boyne 52
Novelist
Friday, April 30th 1971Stefan Kisyov 60
Novelist
Tuesday, April 30th 1963W. Thomas Smith, Jr. 64
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 30th 1959Annie Dillard 78
Monday, April 30th 1945Larry Niven 85
Novelist
Saturday, April 30th 1938Hugh Hood 95
Novelist
Monday, April 30th 1928Sri Sri 113
Poet
Saturday, April 30th 1910Humberto Mauro 126
Screenwriter
Friday, April 30th 1897Jaroslav Hašek 140
Novelist
Monday, April 30th 1883Alice B. Toklas 146
Monday, April 30th 1877Juhan Liiv 159
Poet
Saturday, April 30th 1864