Henry L. Benning

Henry Lewis Benning was a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War. He also was a lawyer, legislator, and judge on the Georgia Supreme Court. Following the Confederacy's defeat at the end of the war, he returned to his native Georgia, where he lived out the rest of his life. Fort Benning was named in his honor until 2023, when it was redesignated Fort Moore.

2 April 1814

Born on the same birth date (2 April 1814): Erastus Brigham Bigelow

Born on the same birth day (2 April): Anne Waldman • August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben • Chico Xavier • David Ferrer • Francisco Balagtas • Giacomo Casanova • Karl Beattie • Larry Coryell • Maria Sibylla Merian • Max Ernst • Miralem Pjanić • Pietro Della Valle • Rudra Rajasingham • Shaul Ladany

Born in the same month (April 1814): Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1st Baroness Burdett-Coutts • Dimitri Kipiani • Erastus Brigham Bigelow • Felix Lichnowsky • Josif Pančić • Lorenzo Snow • Louis Amédée Achard