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Feb 24 1304

Muhammad ibn Battutah Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)

Feb 24 1463

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Italian scholarplatonist

Feb 24 1501

Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius] German writer (Suzanna)

Feb 24 1536

Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini] Fano Italy Pope (1592-1605)

Feb 24 1545

Don John of Austria Spanish military leader (d. 1578)

Feb 24 1771

Johann Baptist Cramer GermanBritish pianistcomposerpublisher

Feb 24 1774

Prince Adolphus 1st Duke of Cambridge (d. 1850)

Feb 24 1786

Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)

Feb 24 1809

Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel governorviceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)

Feb 24 1547

Jan of Austria Spanish military manland guardian of the Netherland

Feb 24 1557

Matthias Holy Roman emperor (1612-19) born in Vienna Austria

Feb 24 1595

Matthias C Sarbiewski [Sarbievius] Polish jesuitpoet

Feb 24 1622

Johannes Clauberg German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)

Feb 24 1684

Catherine I Empress of Russia 1725-27 Dorpat Estonia

Feb 24 1693

James Quin British actor (Covent Garden Theatre) born in London England (d. 1766)

Feb 24 1697

Bernard S Albinus [Weiss] German surgeonanatomist

Feb 24 1704

Hubert Renotte Flemish composer and organist born in Lige (d. 1745)

Feb 24 1709

Jacques de Vaucanson French inventor (d. 1782)

Feb 24 1721

John McKinly Ulster Ireland American physician

Feb 24 1723

John Burgoyne British general (surrendered at Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War) born in Sutton England (d. 1792)

Feb 24 1766

Samuel Wesley composerorganist (Exultate Deo) born in Bristol England

Feb 24 1811

Daniel A Payne Bishopreformereducator of AME Church

Feb 24 1811

Edward Dickinson Baker American politician and Major General (Union Army) born in London England (d. 1861)

Feb 24 1824

John Crawford Vaughn Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1875)

Feb 24 1827

Charles Davis Jameson American politician and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Gorham Maine (d. 1862)

Feb 24 1831

Georg Leo earl von Caprivi German chancellorpremier of Prussia

Feb 24 1833

Eduard earl von Taaffe Austrian premier (1868..93)

Feb 24 1837

Rosala de Castro Santiago de Compostela Galician writer and poet (Sculos Escuros) (d. 1885)

Feb 24 1838

Thomas Benton Smith Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1923)

Feb 24 1846

Luigi Denza Italian composer (Funicul Funicul) born in Castellammare di Stabia (d. 1922)

Feb 24 1848

C Grant B Allen Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)

Feb 24 1848

Johanna Barbiers Dutch actress (Voddenraper of Paris) born in Zaandam The Netherlands (d. 1927)

Feb 24 1848

Andrew Inglis Clark Tasmanian politician (d. 1907)

Feb 24 1387 King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda

Feb 24 1389 Battle at Falkping Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden

Feb 24 1496 Englands Henry VII ends commercial dispute with Flanders

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