Author Birthdays for April
Lachy Hulme 51
Screenwriter
Thursday, April 1st 1971Gil Scott-Heron 73
Poet
Friday, April 1st 1949Samuel R. Delany 80
Novelist
Wednesday, April 1st 1942Vladimir Posner 88
Journalist
Sunday, April 1st 1934Rolf Hochhuth 91
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, April 1st 1931Milan Kundera 93
Monday, April 1st 1929Anne McCaffrey 96
Thursday, April 1st 1926Maria Polydouri 120
Poet
Tuesday, April 1st 1902Whittaker Chambers 121
Journalist
Monday, April 1st 1901Edgar Wallace 147
Thursday, April 1st 1875Edmond Rostand 154
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, April 1st 1868Joseph de Maistre 269
Non-Fiction
Sunday, April 1st 1753Antoine François Prévost 325
Novelist
Monday, April 1st 1697John Wilmot 375
Poet
Monday, April 1st 1647James Vance 69
Comic Book Writer, Playwright
Thursday, April 2nd 1953Emile Zola 182
Thursday, April 2nd 1840Hans Christian Andersen 217
Tuesday, April 2nd 1805Sandra Boynton 69
Children's Literature
Friday, April 3rd 1953Arlette Cousture 74
Novelist
Saturday, April 3rd 1948Jonathan Lynn 79
Screenwriter
Saturday, April 3rd 1943Herb Caen 106
Columnist
Monday, April 3rd 1916George Derby 199
Humorist
Thursday, April 3rd 1823Edward Everett Hale 200
Novelist
Wednesday, April 3rd 1822Washington Irving 239
Short Stories
Thursday, April 3rd 1783George Herbert 429
Poet
Saturday, April 3rd 1593Ned Vizzini 41
Children's Literature
Saturday, April 4th 1981Pamela Ribon 47
Screenwriter
Friday, April 4th 1975Roy Padrick 47
Journalist
Friday, April 4th 1975David E. Kelley 66
Screenwriter
Wednesday, April 4th 1956Dan Simmons 74
Novelist
Sunday, April 4th 1948Kitty Kelley 80
Journalist
Saturday, April 4th 1942Maya Angelou 94
Novelist
Wednesday, April 4th 1928Emmett Williams 97
Poet
Saturday, April 4th 1925Marguerite Duras 108
Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 4th 1914Ernestine Gilbreth Carey 114
Memoirist
Saturday, April 4th 1908Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin 120
Novelist, Journalist, Poet
Friday, April 4th 1902Stanley G. Weinbaum 120
Novelist
Friday, April 4th 1902Robert E. Sherwood 126
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 4th 1896Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr. 134
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, April 4th 1888Remy de Gourmont 164
Poet, Novelist
Sunday, April 4th 1858Comte de Lautréamont 176
Poet
Saturday, April 4th 1846Thomas Mayne Reid 204
Novelist
Saturday, April 4th 1818Bettina von Arnim 237
Novelist
Monday, April 4th 1785William Strachey 450
Non-Fiction, Essayist
Tuesday, April 4th 1572Charles Cumming 51
Novelist
Monday, April 5th 1971Jeff Gomez 52
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 5th 1970Anu Garg 55
Non-Fiction, Columnist
Wednesday, April 5th 1967Larry Felser 89
Columnist
Wednesday, April 5th 1933Barbara Holland 89
Children's Literature, Short Stories
Wednesday, April 5th 1933Hugo Claus 93
Novelist, Poet
Friday, April 5th 1929Arthur Hailey 102
Novelist
Monday, April 5th 1920Rafiq Zakaria 102
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 5th 1920Robert Bloch 105
Novelist
Thursday, April 5th 1917Algernon Charles Swinburne 185
Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Wednesday, April 5th 1837Sir Henry Rawlinson 212
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 5th 1810Dash Shaw 39
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, April 6th 1983Hirotada Ototake 46
Columnist
Tuesday, April 6th 1976Joe Machine 49
Poet
Friday, April 6th 1973Jack Canfora 53
Playwright
Sunday, April 6th 1969Rob Epstein 67
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, April 6th 1955Cleo Odzer 72
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 6th 1950Homero Aridjis 82
Poet, Novelist
Saturday, April 6th 1940Douglas Hill 87
Novelist
Saturday, April 6th 1935Willis Hall 93
Playwright, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 6th 1929Julien Torma 120
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, April 6th 1902Veniamin Kaverin 120
Novelist
Sunday, April 6th 1902Dudley Nichols 127
Screenwriter
Saturday, April 6th 1895Elinor Brent-Dyer 128
Children's Literature
Friday, April 6th 1894Lowell Thomas 130
Journalist, Travel Writer
Wednesday, April 6th 1892Erich Mühsam 144
Essayist, Poet, Playwright
Saturday, April 6th 1878Aasmund Olavsson Vinje 204
Poet, Journalist
Monday, April 6th 1818Alexander Herzen 210
Novelist, Essayist
Monday, April 6th 1812Nicolas Chamfort 281
Novelist
Thursday, April 6th 1741Jean-Baptiste Rousseau 351
Poet
Monday, April 6th 1671Julia Phillips 78
Memoirist
Friday, April 7th 1944Hodding Carter III 87
Journalist
Sunday, April 7th 1935Donald Barthelme 91
Short Stories, Novelist
Tuesday, April 7th 1931James White 94
Novelist
Saturday, April 7th 1928Johannes Mario Simmel 98
Novelist, Screenwriter
Monday, April 7th 1924Roger Lemelin 103
Novelist, Screenwriter
Monday, April 7th 1919Henry Kuttner 107
Novelist
Wednesday, April 7th 1915Robert Charroux 113
Novelist
Wednesday, April 7th 1909Walter Winchell 125
Journalist, Columnist
Wednesday, April 7th 1897Marjory Stoneman Douglas 132
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, April 7th 1890Gabriela Mistral 133
Poet
Sunday, April 7th 1889William Wordsworth 252
Poet
Saturday, April 7th 1770Hugh Blair 304
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 7th 1718Mehran Ghassemi 45
Journalist
Friday, April 8th 1977Nnedi Okorafor 48
Novelist
Monday, April 8th 1974Evan Davis 60
Journalist
Sunday, April 8th 1962Jim Piddock 66
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 8th 1956Barbara Kingsolver 67
Novelist
Friday, April 8th 1955Seymour Hersh 85
Journalist
Thursday, April 8th 1937Renzo De Felice 93
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 8th 1929Glendon Swarthout 104
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, April 8th 1918Emil Cioran 111
Essayist
Saturday, April 8th 1911John Fante 113
Novelist
Thursday, April 8th 1909Kate Heyhoe 67
Non-Fiction
Saturday, April 9th 1955Joolz Denby 67
Poet, Novelist
Saturday, April 9th 1955Peter Gammons 77
Journalist
Monday, April 9th 1945Carl Amery 100
Novelist
Sunday, April 9th 1922Johannes Bobrowski 105
Poet, Novelist
Monday, April 9th 1917Lev Kopelev 110
Non-Fiction, Memorist
Tuesday, April 9th 1912Rahul Sankrityayan 129
Novelist, Non-Fiction
Sunday, April 9th 1893Charles Baudelaire 201
Poet
Monday, April 9th 1821Étienne Aignan 249
Playwright
Friday, April 9th 1773Johann Matthias Gesner 331
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 9th 1691Philippe Néricault Destouches 342
Playwright
Tuesday, April 9th 1680John M. Ford 65
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, April 10th 1957David Helvarg 71
Journalist
Tuesday, April 10th 1951Nick Auf der Maur 80
Journalist
Friday, April 10th 1942Paul Theroux 81
Novelist
Thursday, April 10th 1941Claudio Magris 83
Essayist, Columnist
Monday, April 10th 1939Bella Akhmadulina 85
Poet
Saturday, April 10th 1937David Halberstam 88
Journalist
Tuesday, April 10th 1934Rokusuke Ei 89
Essayist
Monday, April 10th 1933Roger Gaillard 99
Novelist
Tuesday, April 10th 1923Stefan Heym 109
Novelist, Journalist
Thursday, April 10th 1913Montague Summers 142
Novelist, Non-Fiction, Poet
Saturday, April 10th 1880Joseph Pulitzer 175
Journalist
Saturday, April 10th 1847Forceythe Willson 185
Poet
Monday, April 10th 1837Lew Wallace 195
Novelist
Tuesday, April 10th 1827William Hazlitt 244
Essayist
Friday, April 10th 1778Hugo Grotius 439
Playwright, Poet
Sunday, April 10th 1583Benjamin Heath 1852
Essayist
Tuesday, April 10th 0170Walid Soliman 47
Non-Fiction
Friday, April 11th 1975Sergey Lukyanenko 54
Novelist
Thursday, April 11th 1968Jeremy Clarkson 62
Journalist, Columnist
Monday, April 11th 1960Peter Windsor 70
Journalist
Friday, April 11th 1952James Patrick Kelly 71
Novelist
Wednesday, April 11th 1951Dorothy Allison 73
Novelist
Monday, April 11th 1949John Milius 78
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 11th 1944Ellen Goodman 81
Columnist
Friday, April 11th 1941Mark Strand 88
Poet
Wednesday, April 11th 1934Tony Brown 89
Journalist
Tuesday, April 11th 1933David Westheimer 105
Novelist
Wednesday, April 11th 1917Leo Rosten 114
Humorist, Short Stories, Screenwriter
Saturday, April 11th 1908Attila József 117
Poet
Tuesday, April 11th 1905Sándor Márai 122
Novelist, Journalist
Wednesday, April 11th 1900Léo-Paul Desrosiers 126
Novelist, Journalist
Saturday, April 11th 1896Bernard O'Dowd 156
Poet, Journalist
Wednesday, April 11th 1866Stefanos Thomopoulos 163
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 11th 1859Christopher Smart 300
Poet
Saturday, April 11th 1722Tama Janowitz 65
Novelist
Friday, April 12th 1957Jon Krakauer 68
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 12th 1954Ralph Wiley 70
Journalist
Saturday, April 12th 1952Scott Turow 73
Novelist
Tuesday, April 12th 1949Tom Clancy 75
Novelist
Saturday, April 12th 1947Georgios Balanos 78
Journalist
Wednesday, April 12th 1944Alan Ayckbourn 83
Playwright
Wednesday, April 12th 1939Leonid Derbenyov 91
Poet
Sunday, April 12th 1931Beverly Cleary 106
Children's Literature
Wednesday, April 12th 1916Ida Pollock 114
Novelist
Sunday, April 12th 1908Hardie Gramatky 115
Children's Literature
Friday, April 12th 1907José Gautier Benítez 171
Poet
Saturday, April 12th 1851Alexander Ostrovsky 199
Playwright
Saturday, April 12th 1823Guillaume Thomas François Raynal 309
Non-Fiction
Wednesday, April 12th 1713Joachim Camerarius 522
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 12th 1500Bill Pronzini 79
Tuesday, April 13th 1943J. M. G. Le Clezio 82
Saturday, April 13th 1940Seamus Heaney 83
Thursday, April 13th 1939Eudora Welty 113
Tuesday, April 13th 1909Samuel Beckett 116
Friday, April 13th 1906Nella Larsen 131
Monday, April 13th 1891Tina Rosenberg 62
Journalist
Thursday, April 14th 1960Bruce Sterling 68
Novelist
Wednesday, April 14th 1954Anne Michaels 64
Tuesday, April 15th 1958Henry James 179
Saturday, April 15th 1843Mark Baker 37
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 16th 1985Amelia Atwater-Rhodes 38
Novelist
Monday, April 16th 1984J. Neil Schulman 69
Novelist
Thursday, April 16th 1953Ioan Mihai Cochinescu 71
Novelist
Monday, April 16th 1951Margot Adler 76
Journalist
Tuesday, April 16th 1946Sarah Kirsch 87
Poet
Tuesday, April 16th 1935Kingsley Amis 100
Sunday, April 16th 1922Gerard McLarnon 107
Playwright
Friday, April 16th 1915Berton Roueché 112
Medical Writer
Saturday, April 16th 1910Tristan Tzara 126
Poet, Essayist
Thursday, April 16th 1896Germaine Guèvremont 129
Novelist
Sunday, April 16th 1893John Millington Synge 151
Poet, Playwright
Sunday, April 16th 1871José de Diego 156
Journalist, Poet
Monday, April 16th 1866Anatole France 178
Poet, Journalist, Novelist
Tuesday, April 16th 1844Octave Crémazie 195
Poet
Monday, April 16th 1827Charles Montagu 361
Poet
Saturday, April 16th 1661Nick Hornby 65
Wednesday, April 17th 1957Hervé Bazin 111
Novelist
Monday, April 17th 1911Thornton Wilder 125
Saturday, April 17th 1897Robert Dean Frisbie 126
Travel Writer
Friday, April 17th 1896Isak Dinesen 137
Friday, April 17th 1885Keith R. A. DeCandido 53
Novelist
Friday, April 18th 1969John Podhoretz 61
Columnist
Tuesday, April 18th 1961Régis Wargnier 74
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 18th 1948Kathy Acker 75
Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Playwright
Friday, April 18th 1947Jerzy Stuhr 75
Screenwriter
Friday, April 18th 1947Robert Christgau 80
Journalist, Essayist
Saturday, April 18th 1942Nigel Kneale 100
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 18th 1922Shinobu Hashimoto 104
Screenwriter
Thursday, April 18th 1918Joy Davidman 107
Poet
Sunday, April 18th 1915Claire Martin 108
Novelist
Saturday, April 18th 1914Norbert Davis 113
Novelist
Sunday, April 18th 1909László Németh 121
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Thursday, April 18th 1901Vicente Sotto 140
Journalist
Tuesday, April 18th 1882Abd-ru-shin 147
Essayist
Sunday, April 18th 1875Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić 148
Children's Literature
Saturday, April 18th 1874Richard Harding Davis 158
Novelist, Playwright, Journalist
Monday, April 18th 1864Alexander Shirvanzade 164
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, April 18th 1858Thomas Middleton 442
Poet, Playwright
Friday, April 18th 1580Barry Brown 71
Playwright
Thursday, April 19th 1951Walter Stewart 91
Journalist
Sunday, April 19th 1931José Echegaray 106
Playwright
Wednesday, April 19th 1916Richard Hughes 122
Novelist, Playwright, Poet
Thursday, April 19th 1900Elizabeth Dilling 128
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 19th 1894Louis Amédée Achard 208
Novelist
Tuesday, April 19th 1814Harris Wittels 38
Screenwriter
Friday, April 20th 1984Robert Crais 69
Novelist
Monday, April 20th 1953Sebastian Faulks 69
Novelist
Monday, April 20th 1953Steve Erickson 72
Novelist
Thursday, April 20th 1950Andrew Tobias 75
Journalist, Columnist
Sunday, April 20th 1947David Leland 75
Screenwriter
Sunday, April 20th 1947Arto Paasilinna 80
Novelist, Journalist
Monday, April 20th 1942Peter S. Beagle 83
Novelist
Thursday, April 20th 1939Jiří Dienstbier 85
Journalist
Tuesday, April 20th 1937Richard Hillary 103
Novelist
Sunday, April 20th 1919Edward L. Beach, Jr. 104
Novelist
Saturday, April 20th 1918Henry de Montherlant 127
Novelist, Playwright, Essayist
Saturday, April 20th 1895Daniel Varujan 138
Poet
Sunday, April 20th 1884Vladimir Vidrić 147
Poet
Tuesday, April 20th 1875Dinah Craik 196
Novelist, Poet
Thursday, April 20th 1826Pietro Aretino 530
Playwright, Poet, Satirist
Wednesday, April 20th 1492Michael Zarnock 64
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 21st 1958Barbara Park 75
Children's Literature
Monday, April 21st 1947Helen Prejean 83
Memoirest
Friday, April 21st 1939John Clifford Mortimer 99
Saturday, April 21st 1923Norman Panama 108
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 21st 1914Charlotte Bronte 206
Sunday, April 21st 1816Blake Fitzpatrick 37
Screenwriter
Monday, April 22nd 1985Ana María Shua 71
Novelist, Poet
Sunday, April 22nd 1951Paul Davies 76
Non-Fiction
Monday, April 22nd 1946Janet Evanovich 79
Novelist
Thursday, April 22nd 1943Louise Glück 79
Poet
Thursday, April 22nd 1943Adam Raphael 84
Journalist
Friday, April 22nd 1938Jason Miller 92
Playwright
Tuesday, April 22nd 1930Paula Fox 99
Novelist
Sunday, April 22nd 1923William Jay Smith 104
Poet
Monday, April 22nd 1918Jan de Hartog 108
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, April 22nd 1914Indro Montanelli 113
Journalist
Thursday, April 22nd 1909Ivan Yefremov 114
Novelist
Wednesday, April 22nd 1908Robert Choquette 117
Novelist, Poet
Saturday, April 22nd 1905Vladimir Nabokov 123
Novelist, Poet
Saturday, April 22nd 1899Ellen Glasgow 149
Novelist
Tuesday, April 22nd 1873Germaine de Staël 256
Novelist
Tuesday, April 22nd 1766Henry Fielding 315
Novelist, Playwright
Friday, April 22nd 1707Pierre Labrie 50
Poet
Sunday, April 23rd 1972Arthur Phillips 53
Novelist
Wednesday, April 23rd 1969Michael Moore 68
Non-Fiction
Friday, April 23rd 1954Pascal Quignard 74
Novelist
Friday, April 23rd 1948Barry Hannah 80
Novelist
Thursday, April 23rd 1942Jim Fixx 90
Non-Fiction
Saturday, April 23rd 1932J.P. Donleavy 96
Novelist
Friday, April 23rd 1926Avram Davidson 99
Novelist
Monday, April 23rd 1923Maurice Druon 104
Novelist
Tuesday, April 23rd 1918Halldor Laxness 120
Novelist, Poet
Wednesday, April 23rd 1902Ngaio March 123
Novelist
Sunday, April 23rd 1899William Shakespeare 458
Playwright
Thursday, April 23rd 1564Georg Fabricius 506
Poet
Sunday, April 23rd 1516Siarhey Balakhonau 45
Poet
Sunday, April 24th 1977Eric Kripke 48
Screenwriter
Wednesday, April 24th 1974Damon Lindelof 49
Screenwriter
Tuesday, April 24th 1973Eric Bogosian 69
Novelist
Friday, April 24th 1953Christian Bobin 71
Poet
Tuesday, April 24th 1951David Morrell 79
Novelist
Saturday, April 24th 1943Sue Grafton 82
Novelist
Wednesday, April 24th 1940Shirley MacLaine 88
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 24th 1934Patricia Bosworth 89
Journalist
Monday, April 24th 1933Clement Freud 98
Journalist
Thursday, April 24th 1924Doris Burn 99
Children's Literature
Tuesday, April 24th 1923Robert Penn Warren 117
Poet
Monday, April 24th 1905Elizabeth Goudge 122
Novelist
Tuesday, April 24th 1900Anthony Trollope 207
Novelist
Monday, April 24th 1815Darcey Steinke 60
Novelist, Journalist
Wednesday, April 25th 1962Dinesh D'Souza 61
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 25th 1961James Fenton 73
Poet, Journalist
Monday, April 25th 1949Bertrand Tavernier 81
Screenwriter
Friday, April 25th 1941Ted Kooser 83
Poet
Tuesday, April 25th 1939Paul Mazursky 92
Screenwriter
Friday, April 25th 1930Corín Tellado 95
Novelist
Monday, April 25th 1927Sammy Drechsel 97
Journalist
Saturday, April 25th 1925Ross Lockridge, Jr. 108
Novelist
Saturday, April 25th 1914Edward R. Murrow 114
Journalist
Saturday, April 25th 1908Walter de la Mare 149
Poet, Novelist
Friday, April 25th 1873Leopoldo Alas 170
Novelist
Sunday, April 25th 1852Roger Boyle 401
Novelist, Playwright
Sunday, April 25th 1621Joanne Gobure 40
Poet
Monday, April 26th 1982Roxana Saberi 45
Journalist
Tuesday, April 26th 1977Richard Mitchell 93
Non-Fiction
Friday, April 26th 1929Morris West 106
Novelist, Playwright
Wednesday, April 26th 1916Bernard Malamud 108
Novelist
Sunday, April 26th 1914A. E. van Vogt 110
Novelist
Friday, April 26th 1912Vicente Aleixandre 124
Poet
Tuesday, April 26th 1898Anita Loos 134
Screenwriter, Playwright, Novelist
Thursday, April 26th 1888Ğabdulla Tuqay 136
Poet
Monday, April 26th 1886Artemus Ward 188
Humor Writer
Saturday, April 26th 1834Ludwig Uhland 235
Poet
Thursday, April 26th 1787Dana Milbank 54
Columnist
Saturday, April 27th 1968Jason Whitlock 55
Journalist
Thursday, April 27th 1967Russell T Davies 59
Screenwriter
Saturday, April 27th 1963August Wilson 77
Playwright
Friday, April 27th 1945Helen Hodgman 77
Novelist
Friday, April 27th 1945Ruth Glick 80
Novelist
Monday, April 27th 1942Jennings Michael Burch 81
Memoirest
Sunday, April 27th 1941Gilbert Sorrentino 93
Novelist
Saturday, April 27th 1929Martin Gray 100
Novelist
Thursday, April 27th 1922Edwin Morgan 102
Poet
Tuesday, April 27th 1920Jacques de Bourbon-Busset 110
Novelist, Essayist
Saturday, April 27th 1912Yórgos Theotokás 116
Novelist
Friday, April 27th 1906Cecil Day-Lewis 118
Poet
Wednesday, April 27th 1904Jules Lemaître 169
Poet, Playwright
Wednesday, April 27th 1853Mary Wollstonecraft 263
Novelist
Friday, April 27th 1759Diane Johnson 88
Saturday, April 28th 1934Michael H. Hart 90
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 28th 1932Harper Lee 96
Novelist
Wednesday, April 28th 1926Alistair MacLean 100
Friday, April 28th 1922Robert J. Sawyer 62
Novelist
Friday, April 29th 1960David Icke 70
Non-Fiction
Tuesday, April 29th 1952Jill Paton Walsh 85
Novelist, Children's Literature
Thursday, April 29th 1937Rod McKuen 89
Poet
Saturday, April 29th 1933Walter Kempowski 93
Novelist
Monday, April 29th 1929Elmer Kelton 96
Novelist
Thursday, April 29th 1926Edward Blishen 102
Novelist
Thursday, April 29th 1920Jack Williamson 114
Novelist
Wednesday, April 29th 1908Egon Erwin Kisch 137
Journalist
Wednesday, April 29th 1885Rafael Sabatini 147
Novelist
Thursday, April 29th 1875Constantine P. Cavafy 159
Poet
Wednesday, April 29th 1863Thomas Adolphus Trollope 212
Travel Writer
Sunday, April 29th 1810Charles Nodier 242
Short Stories
Saturday, April 29th 1780John Arbuthnot 355
Satirist
Friday, April 29th 1667John Boyne 51
Novelist
Friday, April 30th 1971Stefan Kisyov 59
Novelist
Tuesday, April 30th 1963W. Thomas Smith, Jr. 63
Non-Fiction
Thursday, April 30th 1959Annie Dillard 77
Monday, April 30th 1945Larry Niven 84
Novelist
Saturday, April 30th 1938Hugh Hood 94
Novelist
Monday, April 30th 1928Sri Sri 112
Poet
Saturday, April 30th 1910Humberto Mauro 125
Screenwriter
Friday, April 30th 1897Jaroslav Hašek 139
Novelist
Monday, April 30th 1883Alice B. Toklas 145
Monday, April 30th 1877Juhan Liiv 158
Poet
Saturday, April 30th 1864