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Marie of Valois Princess of France born in Chteau De Saint Germain-En- Ile-De-France France (d. 1404)
Eleanor of Portugal Holy Roman Empress born in Torres Vedras Lisbon Portugal (d. 1467)
Claudio Achillini Italian lawyer and poet born in Bologna Italy (d. 1640)
Francesca Caccini Italian composer and singer born in Florence Italy (d. 1641)
Pietro Sanmartini Italian composer born in Florence Italy (d. 1701)
Eberhard Ludwig Duke of Wrttemberg born in Stuttgart Germany (d. 1733)
Johann Gottfried Walther German composer and musicologist born in Erfurt Germany (d. 1748)
Samuel Johnson English scholar and lexicographer (A Dictionary of the English Language) born in Lichfield Staffordshire (d. 1784)
Jean Allamand Swiss-Dutch natural philosopher born in Lausanne Switzerland (d. 1787)
George Read American judge and signer (Declaration of Independence) born in Cecil County Maryland (d. 1798)
Toms de Iriarte Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias) born in La Orotava Tenerife Canary Islands of Spain (d. 1791)
Adrien-Marie Legendre French mathematician (worked on elliptic integrals) born in Paris (d. 1833)
Johann Anton Sulzer Swiss writer and composer born in Rheinfelden Aargau Switzerland (d. 1828)
Gregory XVI [Bartolomeo Alberto Mauro Cappellari] Pope (1831-1846) born in Belluno Venetia Austrian Empire (d. 1846)
Oliver Holden American composer born in Shirley Massachusetts (d. 1844)
Martin-Pierre Dalvimare French musician and composer born in Dreux France (d. 1839)
Joseph Story American lawyer and 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45) born in Marblehead Massachusetts (d. 1845)
Justinus Kerner German physician and medical writer (first detailed description of botulism) born in Ludwigsburg Baden-Wrttemberg Germany (d. 1862)
Christian VIII King of Denmark (1839-1848) and King of Norway (1814) born in Copenhagen Denmark (d. 1848)
Johann David Passavant German historian painter and graphic artist born in Frankfurt Germany (d. 1861)
Robert Cowdin American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Jamaica Vermont (d. 1874)
Herschel Vespasian Johnson American politician (41st Governor of Georgia) born in Burke County Georgia (d. 1880)
Henry C. Wayne American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Savannah Georgia (d. 1883)
Marcellus Augustus Stovall American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Sparta Georgia (d. 1895)
Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos Portuguese Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa born in Funchal Madeira Portugal (d. 1880)
Anton Mauve Dutch realist painter and cousin of Vincent Van Gogh born in Zaandam Netherlands (d. 1888)
John L. Bates American lawyer and politician (41st Governor of Massachusetts) born in Easton Massachusetts (d. 1946)
Lincoln Loy McCandless American cattle rancher and politician born in Indiana Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
Alberto Franchetti Italian composer born in Turin Italy (d. 1942)
Hermann Kutter Swiss Protestant theologian (founder of Christian Socialism in Switzerland) born in Bern Switzerland (d. 1931)
Ellen Hansell American tennis player (US National champion 1887) born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1937)
Clark Wissler American anthropologist (American Indian) born in Hagerstown Indiana (d. 1947)
Johannes Anker Larsen Danish writer (Vises Sten) born in Langeland Denmark (d. 1957)
Sep 18 1454 In the Battle of Chojnice the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years War.
Sep 18 1679 New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony
Sep 18 1739 Turkey & Austria sign peace treaty-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks