Famous birthdays for this day ..
1539 - Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist (Comedia)
1573 - Maximilian I, duke/ruler of Bayern (Catholic League)
1586 - John Ford, English dramatist ('Tis Pity She's a Whore)
1587 - Marco Ivan Lukacic, composer
1622 - Henry Vaughan, English poet (Silex Scintillans)
1644 - Abraham Jansz Storck, painter, baptized
1666 - Franois Valentijn, Dutch vicar/writer
1676 - Frederik I, van Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51)
1683 - Johann David Heinichen, composer
1699 - Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave)
1715 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer
1719 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer
1738 - Philip Hayes, composer
1741 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, composer
1741 - Samuel Chase, judge (signed Decl of Ind)
1774 - Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist/pianist/composer
1788 - Joseph Gilbert Totten, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1864
1797 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer/conductor
1809 - Philip St George Cocke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1811 - Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer
1813 - Henry Washington Benham, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1884
1820 - Gottfried Conradi, composer
1827 - French C Baeckelmans, Flemish architect (St Amanduskerk, Antwerp)
1837 - John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel)
1845 - Isabel Barrows, US, editor/penologist (Conference on Negro Question)
1863 - Johannes P Boskaljon, Curaao composer/conductor
1868 - Charles R Gallas, Dutch lexicographer (French dictionary)
1869 - Johannes M Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher
1870 - Ray Stannard Baker, US, journalist (Puliter Prize 1940)
1876 - Ian Hay, Scotland, novelist/playwright (PIp, Carrying On)
1881 - Anton Wildgans, writer
1882 - Artur Schnabel, Lipnik Austria, pianist (Beethoven Piano Sonatas)
1883 - Hermann Darewsky, composer
1885 - Cecil Burleigh, composer
1885 - Isak Dinesen, Danish writer (Out of Africa, 7 Gothic Tales)
1885 - Karen Blixen-Finecke, [Dinesen], Danish writer (Out of Africa)
1885 - Tania Blixen, writer
1886 - Otto Lederer, Czechoslovakia, actor (Jazz Singer)
1890 - Art Acord, Glenwood Sevier UT, western actor (Arizona Kid, Hard Fists)
1892 - Jean PJC Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist
1894 - Nikita S Khrushchev, 1st secretary USSR (1953-64)
1895 - Bert Wheeler, actor (Nitwits, Hold 'em Jail, High Flyers, Rainmakers)
1896 - Senor Wences, ventriloquist (his hand acts as a puppet)
1897 - Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, Dutch author (Village by the River)
1897 - Harald Saeverud, Bergen Norway, composer (Saline) [NS]
1897 - Thornton N Wilder, US, novelist/playwright (Our Town)
1899 - Vincent Wigglesworth, entomologist