Famous birthdays for this day ..
1538 - Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
1576 - Sab Vicente de Pa£l
1594 - Benedikt Lechler, composer
1620 - John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography
1660 - Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver
1670 - Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer
1706 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer
1721 - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised
1742 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer
1743 - Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)
1750 - Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician
1766 - Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)
1769 - Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington
1773 - Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
1791 - Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
1796 - K L Immermann, writer
1804 - Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)
1807 - Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1814 - Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire
1814 - Vincente F L¢pez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje)
1815 - Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)
1815 - James Edward Harrison, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1822 - Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1828 - Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1829 - George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1836 - Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist
1837 - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
1845 - Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)
1849 - Joseph S Galli‚ni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
1851 - Eduardo Acevedo D¡az, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1856 - Henri POBJ P‚tain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)
1864 - George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen (PTT)/Dutch Min of War (1918-20)
1867 - Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
1873 - Theodor K”rner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president
1874 - John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
1874 - Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1875 - Jeno Huszka, composer
1877 - Charles Cuvillier, composer
1883 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30]
1886 - Kurt Pinthus, writer
1886 - R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)
1889 - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing (1942-45)
1892 - Jack Hulbert, Ely England, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack)
1893 - Robert Harron, NYC, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)
1895 - S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
1897 - Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist (or 1797)
1897 - Gyorgy Kosa, composer