Famous Birthdays In November - 01
1500 Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor/goldsmith/author (Perseus)
1526 Catherine Jagellonica of Poland, queen of Sweden and duchess of Finland (d. 1583)
1530 Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer (d. 1563)
1539 Pierre Pithou, French lawyer and scholar (d. 1596)
1549 Anna of Austria, fourth wife of Philip II of Spain (d. 1580)
1567 Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (d. 1626)
1578 Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince (d. 1642)
1585 Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (d. 1652)
1607 Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
1611 François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (d. 1656)
1618 Johannes Flittner, composer
1629 St. Oliver Plunkett, last Catholic martyr to die in England. (d. 1681)
1636 Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (d. 1711)
1643 John Strype, English historian and biographer (d. 1737)
1661 Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (d. 1725)
1666 James Sherard, composer
1704 Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (d. 1779)
1720 Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (d. 1791)
1727 Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov, founder of the Moscow University (d. 1797)
1731 Theodore-Jean Tarade, composer
1748 Christoph Rheineck, composer
1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor
1761 Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer
1762 Spencer Perceval, (Tory), British PM (1809-12)
1778 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1837)
1782 Viscount Goderich, (Tory), British PM (1827-28)
1798 Benjamin Lee, Baronet Guinness, Irish brewer/Dublin mayor
1805 Alessandro Nini, composer
1808 John Taylor, American religious leader (d. 1887)
1815 Crawford Williamson Long, surgeon/pioneer (use of ether)
1815 Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1847 Emma Albani, Canadian soprano (d. 1930)
1853 Jose Santos Zelaya, (L), ruler of Nicaragua (1893-1910)
1855 Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music)
1859 Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
