1154 Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212)

1493 Bernardo Tasso, Italian poet (d. 1569)

1493 Paracelsus, doctor (d. 1541)

1523 Joachim Hopperus, [Hoppers], Frisian lawyer/politician

1569 Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)

1579 Frans Snyders, Flemish animal painter

1599 Ottavio Piccolomini, Italian/Spanish marshal

1633 George Savile, 1st marquis of Halifax/author (Character of a Trimmer)

1636 Yen Jo-chu, Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty

1657 Guido Starhemberg, Austria earl/fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)

1668 Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)

1675 Guru Teg Bahadur Ji, 9th sikh guru

1679 Firmin Abauzit, French huguenot/scientist

1688 Lorenzo Somis, composer

1690 Gerhard Hoffmann, composer

1696 Andrea Zani, composer

1722 Johann Philipp Sack, composer

1724 Willem A Alting, governor-general of Neth-Indies (1780-97)

1731 Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer

1736 Johann H Schepp, German/Neth engraver

1743 Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)

1744 Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd 1st lady (1797-1801)

1748 Carlos IV, king of Spain (1788-1808)

1748 King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)

1767 Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer/royal chaplain bandmaster

1771 Ephraim McDowell, surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)

1788 Michal Wielhorski, composer

1791 Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councillor (d. 1855)

1792 Mary Anne Evans, English wife of Benjamin Disraeli (d. 1872)

1811 Ben McCulloch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862

1852 Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Austro-Hungarian field marshal (d. 1925)

1858 Marie Bashkirtseff, Russian painter (d. 1884)

1863 Paul Signac, French painter (d. 1935)

1864 Alfred Hermann Fried, Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911)

1868 Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist

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