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This Is HISTORY | Birthdays
Feb 04 1494
Francois Rabelais French satirist (Gargantua and Pantagruel) born in La Devinire Touraine Kingdom of France (d. 1553)
Feb 04 1524
Luis de Cames Portugals greatest poet (d. 1580)
Feb 04 1581
Daniel Selich German court composer born in Wittenberg (d. 1626)
Feb 04 1688
Pierre De Marivaux writer (Marianne) born in Paris France
Feb 04 1693
George Lillo bourgeois English dramatist (London Merchant)
Feb 04 1746
Tadeusz Kociuszko Polish Lithuanian and American National hero and general (d. 1817)
Feb 04 1758
Pierre-Gabriel Gardel French ballet dancerchoreographer
Feb 04 1764
Carel H Verhuell DutchFrench vice-admiralminister of Navy
Feb 04 1768
Maurits C van Hall Dutch ruler of Heicop & Boeicop lawyerpolitician
Feb 04 1769
Samuel I Wiselius Dutch lawyerbusinessmanwriter
Feb 04 1799
Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret Portuguese playwright
Feb 04 1802
Mark Hopkins American educatorphilosopher (Williams College)
Feb 04 1805
William H Ainsworth English writer (Old St Pauls Rookwood)
Feb 04 1808
Josef Kajetn Tyl Czech playwright author of the Czech national anthem(d. 1856)
Feb 04 1826
Halbert Eleazer Paine American lawyer and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Chardon Ohio (d. 1905)
Feb 04 1831
Oliver Ames 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
Feb 04 1841
Clment Ader French aviation pioneer (d. 1926)
Feb 04 1842
Georg Brandes [Morris Cohen] Danish literary historian and critic
Feb 04 1846
Nikolay Umov Russian physicist and mathematician known for discovering the Umov-Poynting vector and Umov effect born in Simbirsk Russian Empire (d. 1915)
