Famous Birthdays on this Day in History 1301 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333) 1507 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566) King of Great Britain James I Stuart (1566) 1566 - James I Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England (1567/1603-25) 1595 - Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland (1632-48) 1606 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649) 1608 - Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War) 1613 - Christian de Placker, composer 1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal) 1633 - Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar 1708 - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer 1717 - Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer 1741 - Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector 1749 - Jean-Marie Collot dHerbois, France, chairman (National Convention) 1764 - John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society 1764 - Jose Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay 1766 - Edmund Weber, composer 1771 - Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859) 1782 - Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (Lavenir) 1782 - John Bray, composer 1783 - Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria) 1790 - John Gibson, British (?) sculptor 1792 - Gustav Schwab, writer 1810 - Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels) 1811 - Henry Prince, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892 1814 - Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter 1815 - John William Glover, composer 1815 - Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872) 1816 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899) 1834 - Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina) 1834 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892) 1842 - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer 1843 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer 1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928) 1850 - David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932) 1851 - Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890) 1854 - Alfredo Catalani, composer 1856 - Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia) 1858 - Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor 1858 - Dirk Fock, governor-general of Neth Indies (1921-26) 1861 - Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I) 1861 - Jose Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist 1865 - Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate 1865 - May Whitty, Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva, Suspicion) 1867 - Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist 1867 - Frank Iredale, cricketer (Australian batsman 1894-99) 1868 - Heinrich Schenker, [A Niloff], Austrian musicologist (Urlinie) 1874 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941) 1877 - Charles Coburn, Macon Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) 1878 - James M Kilroe, priest of St Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx 1880 - Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung) 1884 - Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974) 1885 - Stevan Hristic, composer 1886 - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer (Hiawathas Song) 1889 - Enrico Celio, president (Switzerland) 1890 - Barbara Everest, London England, actress (Fatal Witness, Inquest) 1893 - Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder (Union Natl Arubano) Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson (1896) 1896 - Wallis Simpson [Duchess of Windsor], Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, American divorcee and wife of Edward VIII (abdicated) 1896 - Walter Lang, composer 1897 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Brooklyn New York, American actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges) 1898 - Paul Muller-Zurich, composer 1898 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968) 1899 - George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei) 1900 - Laura Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (Ive Got a Secret) 1901 - Edward Lambert, British diplomat 1902 - Guy Lombardo, London Ontario Canada, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne) 1903 - Walter Hammond, cricketer (one of the greatest of English batsman) 1903 - Lou Gehrig [Henry Louis Gehrig], Iron Horse, 1st baseman for NY Yankees (d. 1941) 1903 - Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938) 1904 - Balis Dvarionas, composer 1
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