Famous birthdays for this day ..
1536 - Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall
1697 - Jean Marie I'aine Leclair, composer
1705 - Gallus Zeiler, composer
1724 - Johan A Zoutman, Dutch lt-admiral (battle of Doggersbank)
1727 - Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, French minister of Finance (17.. -76)
1730 - George Ross, US judge (signed Declaration of Independence)
1741 - Johann Michael Schmidt, composer
1754 - Asmus Jakob Carstens, painter
1760 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise)
1760 - J P Hebel, writer
1769 - Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello, Marshal of France
1770 - Louis Nicholas Davout, French fieldmarshal (defeated Prussians)
1776 - George Thomas Smart, composer
1780 - Peter Lichtenthal, composer
1783 - Niccola Benvenuti, composer
1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist
1795 - Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian
1800 - Nikolay Alexeyevich Titov, composer
1810 - James Shields, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1813 - Montgomery Blair, Franklin County Ky, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford)
1822 - August Ritter von Pettenkofen, painter
1823 - John Sherman, MC (Union), died in 1900
1824 - Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1825 - Rudolf Viole, composer
1830 - Fran‡ois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult)
1837 - Pinckney B S Pinchback, Lt gov (Louisiana)
1838 - James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman
1843 - Benito P‚rez Gald¢s, Spain, novelist (Fountain of Gold, Naz arin)
1843 - Kaufmann Kohler, reform rabbi/theologian
1850 - Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea)
1855 - Anatoli Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) [NS]
1857 - Hendrik Zwaardemaker, Dutch physiologist (olfactometer)
1858 - Frederick Zech Jr, composer
1867 - Jim Kelly, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian 1896-1905)
1873 - Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor
1873 - Jan Kalf, literary/art historian (Preservation of museums)
1876 - Ivan Cankar, Slavs author (Hlapec Jernej-Njegova Pravica)
1877 - Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer
1878 - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926)
1882 - Thurston Hall, Boston MA, actor (Roaming Lady, In Society)
1885 - Fritz v Unruh, writer
1885 - Mae Murray, [Girl with bee-stung lips], VA, actress (High Stakes)
1885 - Marie Benavente, [Maria Wissink], actress (Scapegoat)
1886 - Karl Barth, Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting)
1886 - Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
1887 - Jacobus C Bloem, Dutch poet (Sintels)
1888 - Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind)
1894 - Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia, composer (Acad Award 1954-High & Mighty)
1897 - Dalton Parry Conyngham, cricketer (one Test S Africa v England 1923)
1897 - Ewart Levy
1898 - Ariel Durant, writer (Story of Civilization)
1898 - Herbert Elwell, Minneapolis Minnesota, composer (Happy Hypocrite)
1899 - Fred Astaire, Omaha Neb, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime)