Famous Birthdays In November - 16
1569 Paul Sartorius, composer
1587 Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha)
1603 Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673)
1609 Henrietta Maria, French-born, Queen Consort of England (d. 1669)
1615 Guillaume Dumanoir, composer
1642 Cornelis Evertsen the Younger, Dutch buccaneer/lt admiral of Zeeland
1643 Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
1653 Joan van Hoorn, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1707-09)
1684 Abraham Alewijn, Dutch poet/playwright (Puiterveense Helleveeg)
1715 Girolamo Abos, composer
1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician
1720 Carlo Antonio Campioni, composer
1730 Gualtherius "Wouter" van Doeveren, Zealand-Flanders physician
1757 Daniel Read, composer
1758 Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841)
1762 Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess
1766 Rodolphe Kreitzer, France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv)
1780 Robert Archibald Smith, composer
1793 Francis Danby, Irish painter
1807 Francois Hainl, composer
1810 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken, composer
1839 Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908)
1840 Frederick Scotson Clark, composer
1841 Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923)
1847 Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927)
1854 Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician
1860 Edmund Schuecker, composer
1861 Vaclav Suk, composer
1862 Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer (the "Terror")
1870 Alfred Hill, composer
1873 William Christopher Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues)
1873 W. C. Handy, American composer (d. 1958)
1874 Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress (Dumb August)/wife of Henri Dons
1880 Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [NS=11/28]
1883 Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/composer (In Tempore Belli)
