1431 Vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476)

1572 Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia

1590 Francesco Gonzaga, composer

1622 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War)

1622 Karl X Gustaf, King of Sweden (1654-60)

1647 Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer

1656 Edmund Halley, English astronomer (comet of Halley) [OS=Oct 29]

1657 Thomas Bullis, composer

1693 Leonhard Trautsch, composer

1706 Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)

1710 Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)

1715 Elisabeth C van Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederik II "the Great"

1723 John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)

1760 Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Neth earl/general

1768 Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)

1770 Friedrich Witt, composer

1777 Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)

1785 Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer

1814 Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku)

1847 Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)

1848 Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)

1849 Edward Julius Biedermann, composer

1850 Karel Komzak, composer

1854 Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)

1863 René [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15)

1866 Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)

1867 Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer

1868 Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)

1876 Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company

1878 Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, world champion cyclist (1899)

1879 King Baggot I, St Louis MO, director (Tumbleweeds)

1882 Lazare Saminsky, composer

1883 Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, London England, composer (Farewell My Youth)

1883 Ethel Clayton, MO, actress (Hotel Continental)

1883 Arnold Bax, English composer (d. 1953)

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