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Gregory XIV [Niccolo Sfondrati] Roman Catholic pope (1590-91)
William Carstares Scottish minister (d. 1715)
Bernard Fontenelle French scientistwriter (Plurality of Worlds)
Marie-Joseph de Chnier French poet (Caus Gracchus) born in Constantinople Ottoman Empire (d. 1811)
Hans Jrta Swedish political activist (d. 1847)
Ioannis Kapodistrias Greek diplomat of the Russian Empire and first head of state of independent Greece (d. 1831)
Jarena Lee African American travelling minister
Lydia Maria Child American author journalist and abolitionist (Juvenile Miscellany) born in Medford Massachusetts (d. 1880)
Loisa Puget French composer born in Paris (d. 1889)
Benjamin Franklin Sands Commander (Union Navy) (d. 1883)
Otto Ludwig German writer and critic (d. 1865)
Auguste-douard Mariette French Egyptologist (d. 1881)
William Anderson Pile American politician minister and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Indianapolis Indiana (d. 1889)
Melville Fuller American 8th chief justice born in Augusta Maine (d. 1910)
Josiah Willard Gibbs theoretical physicistchemist
Sanuel Dana Greene Lt Cmdr (Union Navy) (d. 1884)
Rachilde [Marguerite Vallette-Eymery] French author (Monsieur Venus)
August W Messer German philosophereducatorpsychologist
Helene Kroller-Muller Dutch museum founder (d. 1939)
Else Lasker-Schler German writer (d. 1945)
Edward Johnston British craftsman and calligrapher - the father of modern calligraphy (d 1944)
Feodor Chaliapine Russian authornovelist (Pages from My Life)
Elsa Beskow [Maartman] Swedish childrens bookfairy tales author
Jean Gilbert [Max Winterfeld] German composer born in Hamburg Germany (d. 1942)
Paul August von Klenau Danish composerconductor (Sulamith)
John van Melle South African writer (Dawid Booysen)
Jan de Vries Dutch scholar of Germanic linguistics and Germanic mythology born in Amsterdam (d. 1964)
David Drummond Australian politician (d. 1965)
J W Hearne cricket leg-spinner (all-rounder for England in 24 Tests) (d. 1965)
Leo Szilard Hungarian physicistA-bomb workerpeace activist
Thomas Hitchcock Jr great polo player (Westchester Cup 1924273039)
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