1560 Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)

1587 Samuel Scheidt, composer

1604 Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22)

1611 Henry Ireton, English general/MP (Edgehill)

1618 Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], Emperor of India (1658-1707)

1619 Willem Kalf, Rotterdam Neth, painter (still lifes)

1621 Renatus Rapinus, [René Rapin], French jesuit/poet (Hortorum libri IV)

1633 Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)

1656 Georg Reuter, composer

1689 Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer

1718 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)

1736 Christian Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer

1749 Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)

1753 August G Meissner, German author

1753 Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz, composer

1780 Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer

1781 Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer

1793 Stephen Fuller Austin, colonized Texas

1794 William Cullen Bryant, poet (Thanatopsis)

1798 Mason James Murray, (Confederacy), died in 1871

1799 William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (d. 1856)

1801 Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books

1801 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma)

1815 Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer

1815 John Mitchel, Fenian

1816 Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General (Confederate Army), died in 1894

1844 Mehmed V Reshad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18)

1845 Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)

1852 Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912)

1856 Jim McCormick, baseball player (d. 1918)

1857 Michail V Aleksejev, Russian general (WW I-chief of staff)

1857 Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (d. 1918)

1861 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist

1863 Eugene Samuel-Holeman, composer

1867 Siegfried Garibaldi Kallenberg, composer

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