Famous birthdays for this day ..
0121 - Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus A Verus], Emperor of Rome (161-180)
1319 - Jean II, the Good, king of France (1350-64)
1538 - Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet (Trattato)
1564 - William Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon England, playwright (Hamlet)
1567 - Nicolas Forme, composer
1573 - Marie de'Medici, Queen of France
1603 - Francesco Nigetti, composer
1637 - Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized
1648 - Pedro II, King of Portugal (1683-1706)
1711 - David Hume, English empiricist/philosopher (Treatise of Human Nature)
1718 - Esek Hopkins, US, 1st commander-in-chief (US Navy)
1726 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican freedom fighter
1776 - Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer (designed civil code law book)
1782 - Maria Amalia of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Phillip of Austria
1785 - John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist
1787 - Ludwig Uhland, writer
1796 - Auguste-Matthieu Panseron, composer
1798 - Ferdinand EugŠne Delacroix, French painter/lithograph/etcher (Journal)
1806 - Ludwig Friedrich Hetsch, composer
1808 - Martha Finley, children's book author
1812 - Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant
1820 - Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel)
1822 - Frederick Law Olmsted, architect/writer (designed Central Park)
1822 - Jan Albert van Eyken, composer/organist
1827 - Charles Edward Hovey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 - Artemus Ward, (Charles Farrar Browne), humorist
1834 - Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer
1836 - Erminnie Adelle Platt, US, ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary)
1839 - Cyrus Hamblin, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1841 - Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian
1860 - Alphonse M A J Ari‰ns, Dutch pastor
1863 - Arno Holz, writer
1863 - Charles Haslewood Shannon, lithographer/painter
1868 - Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher
1868 - Robert Herrick, US writer (Common lot)
1873 - Otto zur Linde, German author (Charon)
1874 - J H "Biddy" Anderson, cricketer (one Test S Africa v Australia 1902)
1875 - Syngman Rhee, South Korea, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Mar 26]
1878 - Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds, We Live Again)
1879 - Owen Williams Richardson, England, physicist (Nobel 1928)
1880 - Mikhail Fokine, Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance
1884 - Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers)
1886 - Ma Rainey, [Gertrude Pridgett], "Mother of the Blues", US blues singer
1888 - Aleksandr Mikhailov, USSR, astronomer
1889 - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austria, philosopher (Tractatus)
1890 - Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy, US actor/director (My Old Dutch)
1893 - Anita Loos, author (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1894 - Rudolf Hess, Hitler's Deputy Fhrer, only prisoner at Spandau
1897 - Olga Chekova, Russia, actress (Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children)
1898 - Edward PF Eagan, Denver, boxer (Oly-gold-20)/bobsledder (Oly-gold-32)
1898 - John Grierson, documentary film maker
1898 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spain, writer (Ambito, Bird of Paper, Nobel 1977)
1899 - Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, TX, actor (Hoedown, Country Fair, Blackmail)