April

Apr 7 Elihu Palmer, dies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
     in 1806

Apr 9 Francis Bacon, Viscount Saint Alban, Baron of
     Verulam aka: Sir Francis Bacon died at Highgate
     in Gorhambury, England in 1626

Apr 10 Matthew Tindal believed to have been born in
      Devonshire, England in 1657

Apr 13 Thomas Jefferson is born in Albermarle County,
      Virginia in 1743.

Apr 15 Abraham Lincoln is assassinated at Ford’s
      Theater, in Washington D.C. in 1865

Apr 17 Benjamin Franklin dies in Philadelphia,
      Pennsylvania 1790.

Apr 19 Charles Darwin dies in Downe, Kent, England
       in 1882

Apr 21 Samuel Langhorne Clemens (aka: Mark Twain)
      dies in Redding, Connecticut in 1910.

Apr 22 Immanuel Kant born in 1724 in Konigsberg,
      Prussia, (now Kaliningrad, Russia)

Apr 27 David Hume is born in Edinburgh, Scotland in
      1711 (old calendar)
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May

May 7 David Hume is born in Edinburgh, Scotland in
      1711 (new calendar)

May 30 Voltaire (aka: Francois Marie Arouet), died in
       Paris, France in 1778
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June

Jun 8 Thomas Paine dies in New York City in 1809

Jun 21 Anthony Collins born in 1676 in Heston,
       Middlesex, England

Jun 20 Summer Solstice at 23:59 UT 2008

Jun 21 Litha - Summer Solstice, Pagan celebration

Jun 28 James Madison died in 1836 in Montpelier,
       Virginia

Jun 28 Jean Jacques Rousseau is born in Geneva,
      Switzerland in 1712