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1828  George hume "maryland" steuart: Brig general (confederate army)   

1837  Theodore dubois: Composer   

1839  Eduard napravnik: Composer   

1842  Edouard j a agneessens: Flemish painter (slave market)   

1845  James c. calhoun: American soldier, brother-in-law of george armstrong custer   

1851  Tom kendall: Australian cricketer   

1852  Deacon white: American baseball player   

1854  Nikolay vladimirovich scherbachov: Composer   

1856  Felix mottl: Composer   

1863  Dragutin lerman: Croatian explorer   

1865  Ferdinand i vam: King of romania   

1872  Max beerbohm: England, caricaturist/writer/wit (saturday review)   

1879  Rentaro taki: Composer   

1880  Joshua l cowen: Inventor (electric train)   

1880  Miles w l killearn of killearn: Scotish baron/diplomat   

1886  William francis gibbs: Naval architect, designed liberty ships   

1887  Harry hooper: American baseball player   

1889  Simon kimbangu/kibangu: Congo prophet   

1890  Duke kahanamoku: Hawaii, swimmer (olympics-3 gold/2 silver-12, 20, 24)   

1890  Franz philipp: Composer   

1890  Jean rhys: British writer   

1891  Alexander mikhaylovich dzegelyonok: Composer   

1891  Germaine loosveldt: Flemish actress (kniertje in on hope)   

1894  Jean rhys: [ella williams], dominica, writer (voyage in the dark)   

1895  Richard cardinal cushing: Archbishop of boston   

1896  Phil baker: Phila, comedian (who's whose)   

1897  Fred rose: American songwriter and publishing executive   

1898  Albert claude: Belgium, biologist/physician (nobel 1974)   

1898  Malcolm cowley: Belsano penn, author (flowering of new england)   

1898  Marie j hugenholtz: [doctor grandi], surgeon on curacao   

1899  Johan j fabricius: Dutch novelist (island of demons)   

1899  Jorge luis borges: Argentina, writer of fiction, essays (labyrinths)   

1899  Ruth schaumann: German painter/writer (rose, black king)   

1900  Preston foster: Ocean city nj, actor (waterfront, gunslinger)   

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0079  Pliny the elder: Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)   

1103  Magnus iii berbein: [blootbeen], king of norway (1093-1103),   

1217  Eustace "the monk": French buccaneer,   

1313  Henry vii: Roman catholic german king/emperor (1308/12-13),   

1371  Eduard: Duke of gelre (1361-71), assasinated   

1540  Girolamo francesco maria mazzola: Italian painter (b. 1503)   

1542  Gasparo contarini: Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)   

1572  Gaspard de châtillon: Count the coligny, french gen/admiral, beheaded