Famous birthdays for this day ..
1578 - Philip III, King of Spain & Portugal (1598-1621)
1592 - Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher
1629 - Christian Huygens, Holland, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings)
1676 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
1710 - Marie A C de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer
1718 - Emanuele Barbella, composer
1721 - William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader
1723 - John Wainwright, composer
1738 - Duck of Portland, (C) British PM (1783, 1807-09)
1762 - Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist
1770 - George Canning, London, British PM (1827)
1782 - Carlo Coccia, composer
1797 - Adolphe Thiers, 1st president of 3rd French Republic (1871-77)
1803 - Friedrich von Amerling, Austrian painter
1809 - George W Vreede, Dutch lawyer/politician
1813 - Junius S Morgan, US, merchant/philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art)
1819 - Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder (Halle Orch)
1820 - Harry Thompson Hays, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
1831 - Gerhard Rohlfs, German explorer/ambassador in Abyssinia
1832 - James Hewett Ledlie, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1882
1842 - Sven August Korling, composer
1843 - Gustave Leon Huberti, composer
1852 - Henrique Oswald, composer
1857 - Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer (Gulliver)
1862 - Pyotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11)
1866 - Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, educated Helen Keller
1870 - Syd Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman in 58 Tests 1890-1912)
1873 - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer
1874 - Count Alexander, of Athlone, gov-gen (South-Africa/Canada)
1876 - Murray Bisset, cricketer (South African wicket-keeper 1899 & 1910)
1877 - Dani‰l Plooy, Dutch new testament scholar
1879 - James Branch Cabell, American novelist/essayist (Restless Heads)
1881 - Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer/director (Burg Theater)
1886 - Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism)
1886 - Ernst R Curtius, German literature historian
1889 - Adolph Hitler, Austria, dictator of Nazi Germany (1936-45)[NS=Apr 20]
1889 - Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History)
1889 - Efim D Bogoljubov, Russian chess player
1889 - James Stephenson, actor (Letter, Espionage Agent, Nancy Drew)
1892 - Giorgio Cesana, Italy, coxswain, (Olympic-gold-1906)
1892 - Vere G Childe, British archaeologist/prehistorian
1895 - Mary Marquet, St Petersburg Russia, actress (Matter of Resistance)
1895 - Wiktor Labunski, composer
1897 - Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader
1898 - Lee Tracy, Atlanta Ga, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye)