Famous Birthdays In January - 19

0399  Pulcheria, Byzantine empress (d. 453) was born on this day in history.  

1200  On January - 19 birth of dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto  

1544  Francis II de Valois-Angouleme, king of France (1559-60) was born on this day in history.  

1613  Jacques Huyn, composer was born on January - 19.  

1639  On this day in history birth of noel Alexandre, French theologian/historian  

1676  On this day in history birth of john Weldon, composer  

1679  Girolamo Chiti, composer was born on January - 19.  

1686  On January - 19 birth of hakuin Ekakuborn, Japan, Zen Buddhist  

1736  James Watt, Scotland, inventor (steam engine) was born on January - 19.  

1736  On this day in history birth of laurens P van de Spiegel, Dutch regent/secretary of State 1787-95  

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1737  On January - 19 birth of jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Fr writer (Paul et Virgin)  

1739  Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808) was born on January - 19.  

1749  Isaiah Thomas, US, printer/editor/publisher/historian was born on January - 19.  

1752  James Morris III, American army officer (d. 1820) was born on January - 19.  

1757  On this day in history birth of augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)  

1760  Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer was born on this day in history.  

1790  Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish historian/poet (Blommorna) was born on January - 19.  

1798  On this day in history birth of auguste Comte, philosopher/founder (sociology & positivism)  

1802  [Jean] Silvain van de Weyer, 1st Belg min of Foreign affairs (1831) was born on January - 19.  

1806  Vaclav Jindrich Veit, composer was born on January - 19.  

1807  Robert Edward Lee, Stratford Va, General-in-Chief (Confederacy) was born on January - 19.  

1807  Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870) was born on January - 19.  

1807  On January - 19 birth of robert E. Lee, Stratford Virginia, American Confederate General in Chief (d. 1870)  

1808  Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (d. 1887) was born on this day in history.  

1809  Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author (Pit & the Pendulum) was born on January - 19.  

1813  On January - 19 birth of henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor (Bessemer engine)  

1816  On January - 19 birth of henry Gray, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892  

1820  John Haskell King, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888 was born on this day in history.  

1827  Carlos Guido y Spano, Argentina, conductor (Rafagas,) was born on January - 19.  

1830  On January - 19 birth of george Blake Cosby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1909  

1832  On January - 19 birth of ferdinand Laub, composer  

1832  On January - 19 birth of salvador Giner y Vidal, composer  

1837  On this day in history birth of william Williams Keen, surgeon (brain)  

1839  Bohumil Pazdirek, composer was born on this day in history.  

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0639  On January - 19 dagobert I, king of Austrasia/Soissons/Burgundy/Neustrië, dies  

1479  On this day in history johan II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81  

1526  Death of Isabella of Burgundy, wife of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1501) on this day in history.  

1547  On this day in history death of henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29  

1549  On January - 19 barthout van Assendelft, 1st land advocate of Holland, dies  

1576  On this day in history hans Sachs, composer, dies at 81  

1591  Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60 on January - 19.  

1625  On January - 19 erhard Buttner, composer, dies at 32