Born on April 14

1578		Philip III, king of Spain and Portugal (1598-1621).
1629		Christian Huygens, Dutch astronomer.
1866		Anne Mansfield Sullivan, teacher who educated Helen Keller.
1889		Arnold Toynbee, English historian.
1904		Sir John Gielgud, British actor. April 13 1598 The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots.

Born on April 13
1721		John Hanson, first U.S. President under the Articles of Confederation.
1743		Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States (1801-09)
1852		Frank W. Woolworth, American retailer.
1866		Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch.
1899		Alfred Butts, inventor of the board game Scrabble.
1906		Samuel Beckett, playwright, Nobel Prize winner (Waiting for Godot).
1909		Eudora Welty, Southern writer (Delta Wedding, The Optimist’s Daughter).
1922		John Gerard Braine, British novelist (Room at the Top).
1939		Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel laureate. We don’t wanna be like you: how Soviet Russia made its own, darker Jungle Book | via @TelegraphFilm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-jungle-book/soviet-russian-1967/