1575 Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)

1587 Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised

1590 Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter

1640 Carlo Mannelli, composer

1650 William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702)

1656 Leonard Sailer, composer

1661 Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)

1674 Anton Englert, composer

1708 Robert Praelisauer, composer

1740 Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)

1756 Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner

1765 Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)

1779 John W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo)

1787 Edmund Kean, England, actor (Edmund Kean's Masonic Career)

1790 Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62)

1797 Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author

1800 Eduard Brendler, composer

1809 Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)

1812 Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet (Lettere a Maria)

1816 William Polk Hardeman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1898

1816 Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)

1841 Carl Tausig, composer

1842 William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), died in 1874

1845 Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, The First Indian Revolutionary (d. 1883)

1846 Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer

1859 Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer

1862 Eden Phillpotts, England, novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)

1867 Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish PM (1944-47)

1868 Carolina Otero, a.k.a La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965)

1872 Herman Finck, composer

1873 G E Moore, English philosopher (Ethics)

1874 Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)

1876 James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel

1879 Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Okla), humorist

1881 Gena Branscombe, composer

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