List of Famous people born on April 2nd
Ginevra d'Este
Ginevra d'Este was an Italian noblewoman. She and her twin sister Lucia were daughters of Niccolò III d'Este and his second wife Parisina Malatesta - they also had a younger brother, who died aged a few months. She was the first of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta's three wives.
Thomas Cochrane, 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults
Thomas Horatio Arthur Ernest Cochrane, 1st Baron Cochrane of Cults, was a Scottish soldier and Liberal Unionist politician. He was Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department under Arthur Balfour between 1902 and 1905.
Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino
Guidobaldo II della Rovere was an Italian condottiero, who succeeded his father Francesco Maria I della Rovere as Duke of Urbino from 1538 until his death in 1574. He was a member of the House of La Rovere. Guidobaldo was an important patron of the arts in general, and of Titian in particular, commissioning his own portrait, and buying Titian's Venus of Urbino.
Raymond J. Bowman
Raymond Jerold "Robert" Bowman was an American infantryman who fought in World War II.
Ryō Shuhama
Ryo Shuhama is a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan, a member of the House of Councillors in the Diet. A native of Takizawa, Iwate and graduate of Hokkaido University, he worked at the government of Iwate Prefecture from 1973 until 2003. He was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 2004.
Percival William Singleton
Charles Ying
Charles Ying is a Cantopop singer and actor from Hong Kong. After singing the theme song Do I Still Love You of the film Leaving me, Loving you, he was signed by Leon Lai of East Asia Record Production and became one of the new hotly promoted new artists in 2005.
Edward Grimston
The Honourable Edward Harbottle Grimston was an English amateur cricketer and a Conservative Party politician who held a seat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1841.
Edward Raczyński
Count Edward Raczyński, of the Nałęcz coat-of-arms was a Polish conservative politician, protector of arts, founder of the Raczyński Library in Poznań.
John Corvinus
John Corvinus was the illegitimate son of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, and his mistress, Barbara Edelpöck.