1402 Jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)

1417 William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)

1553 Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum)

1616 John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (product of Wallis)

1632 Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707)

1641 Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)

1669 Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens)

1690 Ernst J earl van Biron, Russian duke of Koerland/regent of Ivan VI

1705 Thomas Birch, English historian (d. 1766)

1715 Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer (d. 1799)

1719 Spranger Barry, Irish actor (d. 1777)

1748 Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer

1749 Edward Rutledge, (Gov-SC)/attorney/signer (Decl of Independence)

1760 Gracchus Babeuf, French utopian socialist (Tribun du Peuple)

1765 Thomas Attwood, composer

1785 Joannes P Roothaan, 1st Dutch general of the Jesuits (1829-53)

1794 Joan F Van Oordt, vicar (Groninger direction)

1797 Gabor Matray, composer

1800 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/author (Povesti)

1804 Franklin Pierce, Hillsboro NH, (D) 14th Pres (1853-1857)

1809 Horatio Phillips Van Cleve, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

1815 William Dennison, postmaster/general (Union), died in 1882

1842 James Lillywhite Jr, cricketer (1st England Test captain)

1843 Josef Sucher, composer

1858 Frank Hearne, cricketer (bro of George & Alec, Eng & S Afr)

1859 Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], NYC, criminal

1859 Billy The Kid, American outlaw (d. 1881)

1860 Karl Branting, Sweden, statesman/diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1921)

1861 Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)

1862 Alberto Williams, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer (Etrerno Reposo)

1862 Theo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillism)

1864 Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (d. 1936)

1869 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer (d. 1942)

1875 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian literary critic and politician (d. 1933)

1876 Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (d. 1946)

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