Empress Matilda Princess of England and wife of Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1169)

Sir Thomas More English statesman humanist and author (d. 1535)

Jacob de Witt Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)mathematician

Thomas Killigrew English humoristplaywrightleader (Kings Men)

Jean-Francois Regnard French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)

Anna Ivanova Romanova Empress of Russia (1730-40) [NS]

Philippe Buache French geographercartographer (Contourlijnen)

William Boyce English organistcomposer (Cathedral Music) born in London (d. 1779)

Rhijnvis Feith Dutch mayorwriter (ZwolleThirsa)

John Rylands England merchantphilanthropist

Frederik Paludan-Muller Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)

Gardner Quincy Colton American lecturer who was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anesthetic in dentistry born in Georgia Vermont

LeRoy Pope Walker American lawyer and 1st Confederate States Secretary of War (1861) born in Huntsville Alabama (d. 1884)

William Higgins discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)

Ricardo Palma Peru writerpoet (Tradiciones Peruanas)

James Murray Scottish lexicographer and philologist (Oxford English Dictionary) born in Denholm Scotland (d. 1915)

Nicolaas G Pierson Dutch bankerSuriname premier (1897-1901)

Bernard Maybeck US architect (Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco)

Arthur Collins singercomedian (Peerless Quartet)

Raf[ael] Verhulst [Koen Ravestein] Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus)

Laura Ingalls Wilder American author (Little House on Prairie) born in Pepin Wisconsin (d. 1957)

Jindrich S Baar Czech pastorwriter (Jan Cimbura)

Alfred Adler Austrian psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)

Wilhelm Stenhammar [Carl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammar] Swedish composer considered the finest Swedish pianist of his time born in Stockholm Sweden (d. 1927)

Nikolaos Sokrates Politis Greek lawyerdiplomatforeign minister

G. H. Hardy English mathematician (HardyWeinberg principle A Mathematicians Apology) born in Cranleigh England (d. 1947)

Julius Curtius German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-..)

[Harry] Sinclair Lewis American writer and social critic (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930) born in Sauk Centre Minnesota (d. 1951)

Eubie Blake US ragtime composerpianist (Memories of You) (d. 1983) born in Baltimore Maryland

Harry Nyquist important contributor to information theory (d. 1976)

Ann Little [Mary Brooks] American actress born in Mount Shasta California (d. 1984)

Harold Hoffman (Gov-NJ) born in South Amboy New Jersey

Jacob Paludan Danish pharmacistwriter (Jorgen Stein)