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Feb 13 1440

Hartmann Schedel German physician humanist and historian born in Nuremberg Germany (d. 1514)

Feb 13 1457

Mary of Burgundy daughter of Charles the Bold and wife of Maximilian I Holy Roman Emperor born in Brussels Burgundian Netherlands (d. 1482)

Feb 13 1480

Girolamo Aleandro Italian Catholic cardinal Treviso Venice Italy (d. 1542)

Feb 13 1599

Alexander VII [Fabio Chigi] Italian Pope (1655-67) born in Siena Florence Italy (d. 1667)

Feb 13 1610

Jean de la Badie French theologian founder of Labadists born in Bourg Bordeaux France (d. 1674)

Feb 13 1622

Adam Pijnacker Dutch landscape painter and etcher baptized

Feb 13 1672

tienne Franois Geoffroy French physician and chemist (1718 affinity table) born in Paris (d. 1731)

Feb 13 1682

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes (Fortune Teller) born in Venice (d. 1754)

Feb 13 1713

Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas Spanish composer born in Barcelona (d. 1751)

Feb 13 1721

John Reid [Robertson] British Army General and composer (d. 1807)

Feb 13 1728

John Hunter Scottish surgeon and founder of pathological anatomy in England born in Long Calderwood Scotland (d. 1793)

Feb 13 1755

Francois Alexander Sallantin French composer born in Paris (d. 1816)

Feb 13 1766

Thomas Malthus British economist and demographer (Law of Malthus) born in Guildford England (d. 1834)

Feb 13 1768

douard Adolphe Casimir Joseph Mortier French marshal (d. 1835)

Feb 13 1805

David Dudley Field II American lawyer law codifier born in Haddam Connecticut (d. 1894)

Feb 13 1805

Peter G L Dirichlet German number theoristanalysist

Feb 13 1807

Bartolommea Capitanio Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters)

Feb 13 1813

Charles Pierre Schimpf governor of Suriname (1855-59)

Feb 13 1831

John Aaron Rawlins Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1869)

Feb 13 1833

William Whedbee Kirkland American Brigadier-General (Confederate Army) born in Hillsboro North Carolina (d. 1915)

Feb 13 1835

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (d. 1908)

Feb 13 1837

Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea composer

Feb 13 1849

Lord Randolph Churchill England politician Winstons father

Feb 13 1895

Fred Essler Austrian actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown Saratoga Trunk) born in Vienna Austria-Hungary (d. 1973)

Feb 13 1902

Blair Moody (Sen-Mich) born in New Haven Connecticut

Feb 13 1902

Karl Menger Austria-American mathematician (theory of dimension)

Feb 13 1852

Johan L E Dreyer Danish astronomer (New gen catalogue of nebulae)

Feb 13 1859

Frank van de Goes Dutch writermarxist theorist

Feb 13 1861

Uchimura Kanzo religious writer (How I Became a Christian) born in Tokyo Japan

Feb 13 1862

Karel Weis Czech composer and folk song collector born in Prague (d. 1944)

Feb 13 1870

Leopold Godowsky Lithuania virtuoso pianistcomposer

Feb 13 1874

Hendrik Spiekman Dutch journalist and politician (social-democratic)

Feb 13 1876

Fritz Buelow German-born American baseball player (d. 1933)

Feb 13 1130 Gregorio de Papareschi elected as Pope Innocent II

Feb 13 1258 Baghdad falls to the Mongols as the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed

Feb 13 1502 Nicols de Ovando y Cceres new Governor of the Indies sets sail for the Indies with fleet of 30 ships largest-ever fleet to the New World

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