Today in History: Born on April 4

Edward Hicks, Quaker preacher and painter (The Peaceable Kingdom).

Thaddeus Stevens, U.S. Republican congressional leader.

Dorothea Dix, American social reformer.

Linus Yale, inventor of the Yale lock.

Isoroku Yamamoto, Japanese naval commander during WWII.

Robert Sherwood, playwright.

Arthur Murray, ballroom dance instructor.

Marguerite Duras, French author (The Lover).

Muddy Waters, American blues musician.

Maya Angelou, American poet and author.

Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho).

Bart Giamatti, baseball commissioner, president of Yale.

Frederick Douglass appealing to President Lincoln and his cabinet to enlist Negroes. Image shot 1863. Exact date unknown.