1340 John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector

1364 John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)

1373 Ferdinand I, the Righteous, king of Aragon/Sicily

1427 Kazimierz IV, king of Poland (1447-92)

1485 Veronica Gambara, Italian poetess

1498 Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)

1508 Andrea Palladio, [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], architect

1554 Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia)

1593 Johann Dilliger, composer

1594 John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)

1622 Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized

1625 Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)

1634 Andres de Sola, composer

1637 Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)

1645 Andreas Werkmeister, composer

1667 Jonathan Swift, Engl, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal)

1670 John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)

1683 Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)

1693 Christoph Forster, composer

1699 Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway

1719 Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)

1722 Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)

1723 William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)

1726 Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver

1753 Johann Baptist Schenk, composer

1756 Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)

1764 Franz Xaver Gerl, composer

1768 Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)

1781 Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)

1796 Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer

1809 Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer

1810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester)

1813 Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer

1813 Hermann Kurz, German author/poet

1813 Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)

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