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Dec 17 1554

Ernst of Bayern princebishop of Liegearchbishop of Cologne

Dec 17 1619

Prince Rupert of the Rhine soldierchemistengravermathematician commander in the English Civil War and first Governor of the Hudsons Bay Company (d. 1682)

Dec 17 1706

Gabrielle Chtelet [La belle Emilie] French writer (Voltaire)

Dec 17 1734

William Floyd US soldiersigner (Declaration of Independence)

Dec 17 1734

Maria I of Portugal Portuguese queen (d. 1816)

Dec 17 1749

Domenico Cimarosa Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto)

Dec 17 1778

Hunphry Davy English chemist (discovered some elements)

Dec 17 1796

Thomas Chandler Haliburton Canadian novelist (d. 1865)

Dec 17 1797

Joseph Henry American scientistinventorpioneer of electromagnetism

Dec 17 1800

Gergely Czuczor HungCzech poettranslator (Great Hung dictionary)

Dec 17 1807

John Greenleaf Whittier American poet (Snow-bound) born in Haverhill Massachusetts (d. 1892)

Dec 17 1819

Samuel Jones Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1887)

Dec 17 1820

Frederick Tracy Dent American General (Union Army) born in St. Louis Missouri (d. 1892)

Dec 17 1821

Frederick West Lander American poet and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Salem Massachusetts (d. 1862)

Dec 17 1824

John Kerr Scottish physicist and pioneer in the field of electro-optics (electro-visually Kerr-effect) born in Ardrossan Scotland (d. 1907)

Dec 17 1824

Manning Ferguson Force American lawyer judge and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Washington D.C. (d. 1899)

Dec 17 1824

Thomas Starr King NY Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)

Dec 17 1830

Jules de Goncourt French novelist (Germinie) wrote with his brother Edmond de Goncourt born in Paris (d. 1870)

Dec 17 1833

James Thadeus Holtzclaw Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1893)

Dec 17 1835

Alexander E Agassiz American businessmanbiologistgeology

Dec 17 1842

Marius Sophus Lie Norwegian mathematician (continous groups)

Dec 17 1847

mile Faguet French writer and critic (d. 1916)

Dec 17 1852

Herbert Beerbohm Tree British actor and theatre manager (King John Trilby) born in Kensington London England (d. )

Dec 17 1861

Fritz Volbach German musicologistconductorcomposer

Dec 17 1863

Ion Vidu Romanian composer and conductor born in Mneru Arad district (d. 1931)

Dec 17 1873

Ford Madox Ford English novelisteditor (Inheritors)

Dec 17 1881

Aubrey Faulkner cricketer (great South African all-rounder early 20th cent)

Dec 17 1883

Raimu [Jules Auguste Cesar Muraire] French actor (The Bakers Wife Marius Fanny) born in Toulon Var France (d. 1946)

Dec 17 1887

Hermine Reuss Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947)

Dec 17 1891

Robertson Hare actor (Our Girl Friday Banana Ridge) born in London England

Dec 17 1892

Sam Barry American basketball coach (d. 1950)

Dec 17 1893

Erwin Piscator German stage director (Der Stellvertreter)

Dec 17 1894

Arthur Fiedler conductor (Boston Pops) born in Boston Massachusetts

Dec 17 1526 Ferdinand of Austria chosen as King of Bohemia

Dec 17 1526 Pope Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition

Dec 17 1531 Pope Clement VII establishes a parallel body to the Inquisition in Lisbon Portugal

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