1522 Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish general and statesman (d. 1568)

1527 Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor

1630 Eleanor Gonzaga, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1686)

1680 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer

1727 Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist (d. 1773)

1736 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, composer

1742 Felix Maximo Lopez, composer

1772 Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia Christian, composer

1774 Wilhelmine of Prussia, queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)

1781 Felice Blangini, composer

1785 David Wilkie, British artist (d. 1841)

1786 Henry Rowley Bishop, British composer/conductor

1787 Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/feminist

1787 Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (d. 1851)

1803 Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet

1804 Alfonso Ferrero la Marmora, Italian general and statesman (d. 1878)

1808 Antoine-Amable-Elie Elwart, composer

1810 Asa Gray, Sauquoit NY, botanist (Flora of North America)

1810 Benjamin Stone Roberts, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1875

1812 Jesse Johnson Finley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1904

1839 August A Kundt, German physicist (sound vibration, test of Kundt)

1845 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker (1st Belgian farm gilde)

1846 Aloys, Liechtenstein nobleman/politician

1856 Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia (d. 1929)

1860 Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer/1st premier of Poland (1919-20)

1861 Dorothy Dix, pseudonym of US journalist Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer (d. 1951)

1863 Richard Dehmel, writer

1869 James E Sullivan, founder (Amateur Athletic Union)

1871 Amadeo Vives, composer

1874 Carrie White, oldest US woman (dies Nov 1990 at 116)

1874 Clarence Shepard Day, NYC, author (Life with Father)

1874 Riccardo Martin, composer

1877 Arthur C Pigou, English economist (Wealth & welfare)

1881 Percy Lesueur, hockey player/inventor (large goalie glove)

1882 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italy, operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds)

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