April 1, 1898 Roger Bastide, French sociologist April 1, 1897 Willem H van de Pol, Dutch theologist (Christian Dilemma) April 1, 1895 Alberta Hunter, blues singer/composer (Downhearted Blues) April 1, 1893 Cicely Courtneidge, Sydney Australia, actress (Double Exposure) April 1, 1891 London-Paris telephone connection opens April 1, 1891 Painter Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti April 1, 1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago) April 1, 1888 Soccer team Sparta forms in Rotterdam April 1, 1887 Leonard Bloomfield, U.S. linguist April 1, 1886 Casimir von Paszthory, composer April 1, 1886 Wallace Beery, KC MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8) April 1, 1885 Clementine Ogilvy Spencer-Churchill (Hozier), British barones April 1, 1884 Laurette Taylor, [Helen LM Cooney], U.S. actress (Broadway) April 1, 1883 Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer/conductor April 1, 1883 Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera) April 1, 1881 Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem April 1, 1881 Kingdom post office in Netherlands opens April 1, 1878 Carl Sternheim, German playwright (Hyperion/Tabula Rasa) April 1, 1878 Eugene Gautier, composer, dies at 56 April 1, 1876 1st official NL baseball game (Boston-6, Phila-5)