Famous Birthdays In October - 09

1201  On this day in history birth of robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris  

1221  On this day in history birth of salimbene di Adam, Italian chronicler  

1261  On October - 09 birth of dionysius, the Justified, king of Portugal (1279-1325)  

1328  King Peter I of Cyprus (d. 1369) was born on October - 09.  

1581  On this day in history birth of claude G Bachet de Meziriac, French mathematician/theologist  

1586  On this day in history birth of jan III van Foreest, lawyer/poet/mayor of Hoorn  

1586  Archduke Leopold V of Austria (d. 1632) was born on this day in history.  

1626  On October - 09 birth of john Ferrabosco, composer  

1663  On this day in history birth of gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)  

1704  Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (d. 1777) was born on this day in history.  

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1727  Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer was born on this day in history.  

1757  Charles X, reactionary king of France (1824-30); deposed was born on this day in history.  

1760  On this day in history birth of pierre Gaveaux, composer  

1766  Bedrich Divis Weber, composer was born on October - 09.  

1771  Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15) was born on October - 09.  

1782  Lewis Cass, (Gov-Mich) was born on October - 09.  

1796  Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English Egyptologist (d. 1878) was born on this day in history.  

1813  John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor (D-Miss, 1859-63) was born on October - 09.  

1819  Samuel McGowan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897 was born on October - 09.  

1822  George Sykes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1880 was born on October - 09.  

1823  Mary Ann Shadd Cary, 1st black US newspaper publishers was born on October - 09.  

1830  Harriet Hosmer, sculptor was born on October - 09.  

1835  Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (d. 1921) was born on October - 09.  

1840  Simeon Solomon, British artist (d. 1905) was born on this day in history.  

1847  On October - 09 birth of andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburg's coal basin)  

1847  Stephanus J du Toit, South Africa theologist/journalist (Afr Bond) was born on this day in history.  

1852  On October - 09 birth of hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)  

1858  On October - 09 birth of gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer (Philips)  

1859  Alfred Dreyfus, accused Jewish French officer (Dreyfus Affair) was born on October - 09.  

1863  Alexander Siloti, Kharkov Russia, pianist/prof (Moscow Cons 1888-91) was born on this day in history.  

1869  On this day in history birth of harry Lawrence Freeman, composer  

1871  On this day in history birth of gerrit Bolkestein, minister of Education (1939-4-)  

1871  On this day in history birth of george Gauthier, Bishop of Montreal and rector of the Université de Montréal (d. 1940)  

1871  Didak Buntić, Croatian monk and scholar was born on October - 09.  

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1047  On October - 09 clemens II, [Suitger], Pope (1046-47), dies (b. 1005)  

1253  Grosseteste, an English scholar, dies at 78 on October - 09.  

1273  On this day in history death of elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany  

1326  Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies on this day in history.  

1390  On October - 09 johan I, king of Castile (1379-90), dies  

1423  Frederik III of Blankenheim, bishop of Straatsburg/Utrecht, dies on this day in history.  

1436  Jacoba van Bavarian, countess of Holland/Zealand, dies at 35 on this day in history.  

1555  Death of Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493) on this day in history.