7th » John Walker (inventor) John Walker, an English people English pharmacist chemist, sells the first match friction match that he had invented the previous year.
Famous Birthdays on April in 1827
2nd » William Holman Hunt, English painter (d. 1910)
5th » Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon (d. 1912)
8th » Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican ophthalmologist and politician (d. 1898)
10th » Lew Wallace, American general, lawyer, and politician, 11th Governor of New Mexico Territory (d. 1905)
11th » Jyotirao Phule, Indian scholar, philosopher, and activist (d. 1890)
14th » Augustus Pitt Rivers, English general, ethnologist, and archaeologist (d. 1900)