1118 Manuel I Komnenos, Greek Byzantine Emperor (d. 1180)

1489 Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV of Scotland (d. 1541)

1570 James Whitelocke, English judge (d. 1632)

1598 Hans Nansen, Danish statesman (d. 1667)

1607 Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist: Istoria del Concilio di Trento

1628 John Bunyan, England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress)

1640 Willem de Vlamingh, Flemish sea captain (c. 1648)

1650 John Palfijn, Flemish physician/inventor (forceps) [or Nov 25]

1661 Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)

1681 Jean Cavalier, French Protestant rebel leader (d. 1740)

1700 Nathaniel Bliss, Astronomer Royal (d. 1764)

1700 Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1770)

1704 Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies)

1757 William Blake, English poet/painter (Songs of Innocence & Experience)

1763 Matthaus Fischer, composer

1770 F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V & Wilhelmina of Prussia

1772 Luke Howard, British meteorologist (d. 1864)

1777 Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat

1784 Ferdinand Reis, composer

1785 Achille-Charles, duc de Broglie, French PM (1835-36)

1792 Victor Cousin, French philosopher/minister of Education

1793 Carl Jonas Love Almquist, Swedish composer (Tornrosens Buck)

1795 Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer

1805 John Stephens, US archaeologist; founded study of Central America

1810 William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect

1811 Maximilian II Jozef, king of Bayern (1848-64)

1812 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer

1841 E M Grace, cricketer (brother of W G)

1843 Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer

1853 Helen Magill White, first American woman to earn a Ph.D. (d. 1944)

1854 Gottlieb J Haberlandt, Hungarians/German botanist

1856 Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky, composer

1857 Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85)

1864 Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver

1864 James Allen English writer (d. 1912)

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