Frederick III the Wise elector of Saxony (1486-25) protector Luther

Leonhard Fuchs German botanist (History of Plants)

Pius V [Antonio Ghislieri] saint pope (1566-72)

Antonio Scandello Italian composer (Passion of Johannes)

Robert Fludd English composer born in Bearsted (d. 1637) baptismal date

Pedro Caldern de la Barca Spanish dramatist poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age born in Madrid (d. 1681)

Thomas Fairfax Lord Fairfax English Parliamentary general

Pieter van Bloemen [Standaart] Flemish painter baptized

John Stanley English blind composer and organist born in London (d. 1786)

Hugh Mercer Scottish military officer (fought in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War) born in Rosehearty Scotland (d. 1777)

Stanislaw II August Poniatowski last king of Poland (1764-95)

Thomas Linley the elder English composer and tenor born in Badminton Gloucestershire (d. 1795)

Francois-Joseph Gossec Belgian-French composer (Les Pcheurs Mirza)

Paul Cuffe Mass merchantshipbuilderAfrican American nationalist

James Hall Scottish geologist born in Dunglass Scotland (d. 1832)

Charles Brockden Brown father of American novel (Wieland)

James Madison Randolph Jeffersons grandson and the 1st to be born in the White House Washington D.C.

Ellen Wood English author (East Lynne Pomeroy Abbey)

Antoine Dorion (L) joint premier of Canada (1858 1863-64)

Anne Bront English novelistpoet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall) born in Thornton West Yorkshire (d. 1849)

Lewis Addison Grant American teacher lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Winhall Vermont (d. 1918)

Eyre Massey Shaw British first chief of London Fire Brigade born in Ballymore Ireland (d. 1908)

Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (d. 1903)

Wilhelmina Albregt-Engelman Dutch actress daughter of Mimi Bia born in Amsterdam (d. 1902)

Antanas Baranauskas Lithuanian bishoppoetdialectologist

Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte composer

Anton G van Hamel founder (Roman Philology in Netherlands)

Lucas Lindeboom Dutch vicarevangelist (Vredebond)

Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev Russian composer born in St Petersburg Russia (d. 1918)

Alva Belmont American socialite & suffragette (d. 1933)

Eugene Augustin Lauste developer (1st sound-on-film recording)

Oscar Apfel American actor (The Squaw Man Inspiration Before Dawn) born in Cleveland Ohio (d. 1938)

Alfred Radcliffe-Browne British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders) born in Birmingham England (d. 1955)