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Emanuel Philibert Duke of Savoygovernor of Netherland
Artemisia Gentileschi Italian painter (d. 1653)
Heinrich Albert German composer (Arien oder Melodien)
Jean de la Fontaine French poet (Fables) born in Chteau-Thierry Aisne France (d. 1695)
Johann Georg Ebeling German composer born in Lneburg (d. 1676)
Richard Wainwright English composer and church organist (d. 1825)
Christian Kramp French mathematician (d. 1826)
Dominique Jean Larrey French surgeon (d. 1842)
Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen queen of Bavaria (d. 1854)
Ljudwit Gaj Croatian writerpoet (Pjesma iz Zagorja)
Alexander Hays American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Franklin Pennsylvania (d. 1864)
Francis Leopold McClintock British naval officer and explorer (d. 1907)
Jozef Lies Flemish painter born in Antwerp (d. 1865)
William Harvey Lamb Wallace American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Urbana Ohio (d. 1862)
Waldimir Kriz Krzyzanowski Polish-American engineer politician and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Greater Poland Voivodeship Poland (d. 1887)
Benjamin Henry Grierson American Major General (Union Army) born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania (d. 1911)
Robert Kingston Scott American governor of South Carolina (1868-1872) and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Armstrong County Pennsylvania (d. 1900)
Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail French serial writer
Frederick William Seward United States Assistant Secretary of State (d. 1915)
Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna of Altenburg (d. 1911)
Joseph Chamberlain British minister of CommerceColonies
Mary Johnson Lincoln educator (Boston Cooking School)
Alfred Binet French child psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test (BinetSimon test) born in Nice France (d. 1911)
Hank ODay American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcherumpiremanager (umpire 10 World Series) born in Chicago Illinois (d. 1935)
Kathe Kollwitz German print makersculptor (Bauernkrieg)
William V Moody American poet (Death of Eve Faith Healer)
Marie C of Zeggelen Dutch novelist (Koloniaaltje)
Clement Harris English composer born in London (d. 1897)
Kornelis ter Laan 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam)
Percy Grainger composerpianistconductor (Hill Songs) born in Melbourne Victoria
John Anderson 1st Viscount Waverley British civil servant politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer (1943-45) born in Midlothian Scotland (d. 1945)
Ann Jemima Flower oldest resident of Netherlands
Eugene Pallette American actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood The Mark of Zorro) born in Winfield Kansas (d. 1954)
Jul 08 1099 First Crusade 15000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on
Jul 08 1579 Our Lady of Kazan a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church was discovered underground in the city of Kazan Tatarstan
Jul 08 1672 William III is appointed stadholder by the States General in the Netherlands