1391 Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)

1494 Sulayman I, the Great, sultan of Turkey (1520-66)

1494 Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566)

1550 Karin MÃ¥nsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)

1558 Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)

1566 Julien Perrichon, composer

1607 Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer

1613 Luis de Garay, composer

1659 Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer

1661 Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (1665-1700)

1671 Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)

1692 Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)

1746 Absalom Jones, Delaware, born into slavery

1753 Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer

1753 Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)

1757 Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer

1771 Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography)

1779 Michal Bogdanowicz, composer

1796 George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada)

1800 Eduard Grell, composer

1814 Adolphe Sax, Belgium, musician/inventor (saxophone)

1838 John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1894

1841 Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)

1841 Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)

1851 Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal) (d.1902)

1854 John Phillip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever)

1855 Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer

1855 Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)

1856 Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia

1861 James A Naismith, inventor (basketball)

1867 Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (Holger Hauge og hans Hustru)

1875 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator

1878 Ernest Irving, composer

1879 Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician

1880 Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)

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