1881 – Rose Macaulay, English writer (The Towers of Trebizond), born in Rugby, Warwickshire, England (d. 1958) 1902 – Hendrik Johan Kruls, Dutch general and chief military authority (1944-46), born in Amsterdam (d. 1975) 1903 – Paul Horgan, American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (Mountain Standard Time), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1995) 1911 – Ronald …
1578 – Catharina Belgica of Nassau, Countess of Hanau-Münzenberg and daughter of William of Orange, born in Antwerp (d. 1648) 1830 – František Zden?k Skuherský, Czech composer, born in Opo?no, Kingdom of Bohemia (d. 1892) 1848 – Jean Robert Planquette, French composer (Bells of Corneville), born in Paris (d. 1903) 1944 – Robert C. Merton, …
1857 – Thorstein Veblen, American economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899), born in Cato, Wisconsin (d. 1929) 1882 – Holmes Herbert, British actor (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Kiss), born in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England (d. 1956) 1936 – Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, daughter of Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona and Princess …
1866 – George Morrison, American entrepreneur (owner of Mammoth Caves), born at the border of Ohio and Pennsylvania (d. 1937) 1870 – George Dixon, Canadian boxer (World Bantamweight title, 1892; World Featherweight champion, 1891-97 and 1898-1901; 1st Black athlete to win a World C’ship in any sport), born in Halifax, Nova Scotia (d. 1908) 1872 …
1609 – Judith Leyster, Dutch Golden Age painter, baptized in Haarlem, Dutch Republic (d. 1660) 1896 – Barbara La Marr [Reatha Watson], American vaudeville and silent film actress (The White Moth), and screenwriter, born in Yakima, Washington (d. 1926) 1902 – Kenneth F. Fearing, American poet (Dead Reckoning), born in Oak Park, Illinois (d. 1961) …
1625 – Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, English soldier, admiral and patron to Samuel Pepys, born in Barnwell (d. 1672) 1886 – Ernst May, German architect and city planner (New Frankfurt), born in Frankfurt am Main (d. 1970) 1890 – Judith Lowry, American actress (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds), born in …
1727 – Horatio Gates, British-American soldier (general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War), born in Maldon, England (d. 1806) 1739 – George Clinton, American revolutionary war soldier and politician (US Vice-President, 1805-12; Governor of New York, 1777-95 and 1801-04), born in Little Britain, New York (d. 1812) 1885 – Andre Maurois [Emile Herzog], …
1683 – Pieter Langendijk, Dutch painter, etcher and playwright (Wiskunstenaars), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1756) 1750 – Henry Knox, American general (Continental Army and later the United States Army) and 1st US Secretary of War (1785-94), born in Boston, Massachusetts Bay (d. 1806) 1824 – Richard James Oglesby, American politician and Major General (Union …
1884 – Abraham Rutgers, Dutch governor (Suriname, 1928-33), born in Amsterdam (d. 1966) 1914 – Kenneth Bancroft Clark, American civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto) and first black president of the American Psychological Association, born in Panama Canal Zone (d. 2005) 1914 – Frances Oldham Kelsey, Canadian-American FDA Director (stopped thalidomide use in the US), born …
1339 – Louis I, Duke of Anjou (1360-84) and King of Naples (Battle at Poitiers), born in Château de Vincennes, France (d. 1384) 1816 – Charlotte Saunders Cushman, American actress (Lady MacBeth), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1876) 1824 – Gabriel C. Wharton, American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Confederate Army), born in Culpeper County, …