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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    Jan 22 1571

    Robert Bruce Cotton English antiquary politician

    Jan 22 1592

    Pierre Gassendi Champtercier Provence scientistphilosopher

    Jan 22 1654

    Richard Blackmore English physician and writer (d. 1729)

    Jan 22 1707

    Carl Hockh German composer and violinist (d. 1773)

    Jan 22 1709

    Joseph Riepel Austrian-born German composer born in Rainbach im Mhlkreis (d. 1782)

    Jan 22 1729

    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing German criticdramatist

    Jan 22 1748

    Lewis Edson early American composer born in Woodstock New York (d. 1820)

    Jan 22 1797

    Maria Leopoldina of Austria Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)

    Jan 22 1799

    Ludger Duvernay Canadian printer and publisher (d. 1852)

    Jan 22 1802

    Richard Upjohn American gothic architect (Trinity Chapel NY)

    Jan 22 1820

    Johan Hendrik Koelman portrait painter (Jahresringe)

    Jan 22 1826

    [Merriwether] Jeff Thompson Partisan (Confederate Army) (d. 1876)

    Jan 22 1840

    Ernest Roland Wilberforce English bishop (d. 1907)

    Jan 22 1848

    Samuel Muller Fzn Dutch historianarchivist (Middle Ages)

    Jan 22 1849

    August Strindberg Swedish dramatistnovelist (Apologia)

    Jan 22 1855

    Albert Neisser [Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser] Schweidnitz Prussia German physician who discovered the bacterias that cause gonorrhea and leprosy

    Jan 22 1858

    Beatrice Potter Webb English sociologist economist ( founded London School of Economics) and writer (My Apprenticeship) born in Standish (d. 1943)

    Jan 22 1858

    Frederick Lugard British captainbaron (Congo)

    Jan 22 1871

    Leon Jessel German composer (The Parade of the Tin Soldiers) born in Stettin (d. 1942)

    Jan 22 1874

    Wincenty Witoz Galicia PM of Poland (1920-21 1923 1926)

    Jan 22 1874

    Edward Harkness American philanthropist (d. 1940)

    Jan 22 1875

    Bonifacius C de Jonge governor (Dutch East Indies)

    Jan 22 1875

    Thomas W Ross American actor (Without Limit Kings Row 17 Mortal Storm) born in Boston Massachusetts (d. 1959)

    Jan 22 1877

    Hjalmar Schacht president of German Reichsbankminister of Economics

    Jan 22 1878

    Constance Collier British actress and writer (Rope Stage Door Whirlpool) born in Windsor England (d. 1955)

    Jan 22 1879

    Francis Picabia French avante-garde artist writer and typographist (Amorous Parade) born in Paris France (d. 1953)

    Jan 22 1882

    Theodore Kosloff Russian-born actor ballet dancer and choreographer born in Moscow Russian Empire (d. 1956)

    Jan 22 1889

    Henri Plissier French cyclist (1923 Tour de France) born in Paris France (d. 1935)

    Jan 22 1890

    Fred M. Vinson American Democratic politician US Treasury Secretary (1945-46) and the 13th Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1946-53) born in Louisa Kentucky (d. 1953)

    Jan 22 1890

    Vinko Zganec Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)

    Jan 22 1891

    Franz Alexander HungarianUS psycho analytical

    Jan 22 1891

    Moise Kisling PolishFrench painter (La Souris Boiteuse)

    Jan 22 1892

    Marcel Dassault [Bloch] French airplane builder

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    Jan 22 1371 King Robert II of Scotland is crowned becoming the first monarch of the House of Stewart (-90)

    Jan 22 1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican

    Jan 22 1517 Ottoman forces take Cairo capital of the Mamluk Sultanate

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