1493 Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560)

1528 Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (d. 1588)

1547 Claude of Valois, French princess (d. 1575)

1606 Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler (d. 1673)

1615 Richard Baxter, English clergyman (d. 1691)

1651 Juana Ines de La Cruz, Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (Primero Sueno)

1676 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer

1729 Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (d. 1811)

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

1755 Gerhard JD von Scharnhorst, Prussia milt/minister of War (1807-10)

1757 Jacobus Bellamy, [Zelandus], Zealand poet

1790 Letitia Christian Tyler, 1st wife of President Tyler

1815 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (80 Years & More)

1840 Auguste Rodin, France, sculptor (Kiss, Thinker)

1841 John W Rayleigh, England, physicist (Nobel 1904)/Cambridge (1908-14)

1844 Octave Fouque, composer

1848 Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 1919)

1850 Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (d. 1908)

1853 Oskar Panizza, writer

1858 Alexis Contant, composer

1865 Frans L M "Sas" van Aerschot, Flemish operetta actor (Paljas)

1866 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC & PRC) (traditional)

1881 Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (d. 1948)

1881 Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (d. 1954)

1886 L G Kortenhorst, politician

1886 Leonardus G Kortenhorst, Dutch MP (KVP)

1886 Ben Travers, British playwright (d. 1980)

1889 DeWitt Wallace, St Paul Minn, publisher, founded Readers Digest (1921)

1890 Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (d. 1974)

1896 Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist (d. 1987)

1897 Karl Marx, Germany, composer/conductor

1898 Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice)

1898 Leon Å tukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)

1903 Jack Oakie, Sedalia Mo, actor (Great Dictator, 1974 Photoplay Award)

1905 Evgeny Grigor'yevich Bruslovsky, composer

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