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Feb 17 1444

Rudolf Agricola [Roelof Huysman] Dutch humanistorganist

Feb 17 1490

Charles de Bourbon officergovernor (Lombardy)

Feb 17 1519

Francis Duke of Guise French soldier and politician (d. 1563)

Feb 17 1581

Fausto Poli Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)

Feb 17 1646

Pierre Le Pesant sieur de Boisguilbert French economist (d. 1714)

Feb 17 1653

Arcangelo Corelli Italian violinistcomposer (Concerto Grossi) born in Fusignano Italy (d. 1713)

Feb 17 1667

Georg Bronner German composer and organist born in Hamburg (d. 1720) baptismal date

Feb 17 1696

Ernst Gottlieb Baron composer born in Breslau Silesia

Feb 17 1699

Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff German architect (Sanssouci)

Feb 17 1718

Matthew Tilghman American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)

Feb 17 1723

Tobias Mayer method of lunars for longitude determination

Feb 17 1740

Horace B de Saussure Swiss physicistgeologist

Feb 17 1752

Friedrich M Klinger German playwright (Wirrwarr)

Feb 17 1754

Jan Jachym Kopriva Czech composer and organist born in Ctoliby Czech Republic (d. 1792)

Feb 17 1774

Raphaelle Peale American painter (After the Rain-1823)

Feb 17 1781

Ren Lannec French physician who invented the stethoscope born in Quimper France (d. 1826)

Feb 17 1796

Philipp Franz von Siebold German physician (d. 1866)

Feb 17 1804

Samuel Read Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1883)

Feb 17 1816

Haller Nutt Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)

Feb 17 1820

Henri Vieuxtemps Verviers Belgium composerteacher (Brussels Cons)

Feb 17 1820

Elzar-Alexandre Taschereau Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)

Feb 17 1824

William Farrar Baldy Smith American Major General (Union Army) born in St. Albans Vermont (d. 1903)

Feb 17 1836

Gustavo Adolfo Bcquer Spanish poet (d. 1870)

Feb 17 1837

Francis Jay Herron American Major General (Union Army) born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (d. 1902)

Feb 17 1837

Sam[uel] van Houten Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)

Feb 17 1844

A Montgomery Ward found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)

Feb 17 1848

Louisa Lawson Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)

Feb 17 1855

Otto Liman von Sanders German general in Turkey (WWI)

Feb 17 1857

Samuel Sidney McClure Irish-American newspaper editorpublisher

Feb 17 1858

Ernest Ford English composer born in Warminster Wiltshire (d. 1919)

Feb 17 1862

Edward German (Jones) Whitchurch Shropshire British composer

Feb 17 1862

Mori gai Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)

Feb 17 1863

Fyodor Sologub Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)

Feb 17 1461 Wars of the Roses Second Battle of St Albans - Lancastrian army defeats Yorkists and recapture King Henry VI

Feb 17 1500 Battle of Hemmingstedt - German peasant army repels ducal army of Schleswig and Holstein

Feb 17 1568 Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II agrees to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire for peace

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