This Day in History : [ 05 / Nov ]

Mamd Ghzn 7th Mongol Empire ruler in Iran born in Abaskun Iran (d. 1304)

Hans Sachs German composer playwright and shoemaker born in Nrnberg (d. 1576)

Joachim Camerarius German botanist (horticulture catalog) and physician born in Nuremberg Germany (d. 1598)

Philippe de Mornay (or Philippe Du-Plessis-Mornay) French writer born in Buhy France (d. 1623)

Anna van Nassau daughter of William the Silent and his second wife Anna of Saxony and wife of William Louis Count of Nassau-Dillenburg born in Breda Netherlands (d. 1588)

Charles Chauncy American clergyman and President of Harvard College (1654-72) born in Yardley-Bury England (d. 1672)

Isaac de Benserade French poet born in Lyons-la-Fort France (d. 1691)

Ibrahim I 18th Ottoman Sultan (1640-48) born in Constantinople Ottoman Empire (d. 1648)

Christian Liebe German composer born in Freiberg Saxony (d. 1708)

Attilio Ariosti Italian composer born in Bologna (d. 1729)

Christoph Ludwig Agricola German landscape painter born in Regensburg Germany (d. 1719)

Pietro Longhi Venetian painter born in Venice (d. 1785)

John Brown English writer born in Rothbury Northumberland England (d. 1766)

William Byron 5th Baron Byron English duelist (d. 1798)

Etienne P de Senancour French author (Obermann)

Carolina F L duchess of Berry daughter of crown prince of Naples

Benjamin Franklin Butler American Major General (Union Army) born in Deerfield New Hampshire (d. 1893)

Julius H [Szamvald] Stahel Hungarian-American diplomat mining engineer and Major General (Union Army) born in Szeged Hungary (d. 1912)

William Woods Averell Major General (Union Army) (d. 1900)

Duncan Gordon Boyes English recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1869)

Rui Barbosa Brazil statesmanjuristessayistcivil liberties

Ella Wheeler Wilcox American author and poet (d. 1919)

Charles Dupuy French prime minister (d. 1923)

Paul Sabatier French chemist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)

Alphonse Desjardins founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins (d. 1920)

Eugene V. Debs Terre Haute Indiana American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (d. 1926)

Leon P Teisserenc de Bort French meteorologist (stratosphere)

Ida Tarbell muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)

Chittaranjan Das Indian lawyer and politician (founded the Swaraj Party) born in Bikrampur British India (d. 1925)

Raymond Duchamp-Villon cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)

George A. Malcolm American jurist & educator (d. 1961)

Ernie Parker Australian tennis player (Australasian Cship 1913) born in Perth WA (d. 1918)

James Elroy Flecker English poetdramatist (Hassan)