1495 John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan)

1561 Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author

1567 Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)

1637 Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)

1645 Johann Lohner, composer

1683 Johann Michael Muller, composer

1692 Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet

1694 Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778)

1724 John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist

1729 Josiah Bartlett, US physician/judge/signer (Decl of Independence)

1742 Alessandro Felici, composer

1761 Dorothy Jordan, British actress (d. 1816)

1768 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher

1785 William Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)

1787 Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)

1811 Zeng Guofan, Chinese military (d. 1872)

1840 Victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia

1851 Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal

1852 Francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer

1853 Hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17)

1854 Benedict XV, [Giacomo PGB marques della Chiessa], 258th Pope (1914-22)

1860 Tom Horn, American gunman (d. 1903)

1861 Joao da Cruz, Brazilian poet

1863 Arthur Quiller-Couch, [Q], editor (Oxford Book of English Verse)

1863 Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis (Poppenhuis)

1867 Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian chemist

1870 Joe Darling, cricketer (Australian lefty batsman at turn of century)

1870 Stanley Jackson, cricketer (captain of England, governor of Bengal)

1870 Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (d. 1964)

1871 Panayot Pipkov, composer

1877 Louis Campbell-Tipton, composer

1877 Sigfrid Karg-Elert, composer

1878 Gustav Radbruch, German lawyer/minister of Justice

1880 Franz Hessel, writer

1886 Harold G Nicolson, English diplomat/author (Good Behaviour)

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