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Jul 22 1210

Joan of England Queen consort of Scotland wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1238)

Jul 22 1478

Philip I (the Handsome) 1st Habsburg King of Spain (1504-06)

Jul 22 1510

Alessandro de Medici Duke of Florence (d. 1537)

Jul 22 1535

Katarina Stenbock wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)

Jul 22 1596

Michael I first Russian Tsar of the House of Romanov (1613-45) born in Moscow Russia (d. 1645)

Jul 22 1597

Virgilio Mazzocchi Italian composer born in Veja (d. 1646)

Jul 22 1621

Anthony Ashley Cooper 1st earl of Shaftesburyminister (1660-73)

Jul 22 1642

Johann Quirsfeld German composer born in Dresden (d. 1686)

Jul 22 1647

Margaretha Mary Alacoque French Roman Catholic saint and mystic born in LHautecour France (d. 1690)

Jul 22 1651

Ferdinand Tobias Richter Austrian composer born in Wrzburg (d. 1711)

Jul 22 1711

Georg Wilhelm Richmann Russian physicist (d. 1753)

Jul 22 1713

Jacques-Germain Soufflot French architect (d. 1780)

Jul 22 1722

Jean-NoelJoannes Natalis Paquot Belgian priesthistorian

Jul 22 1733

Mikhail Shcherbatov Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)

Jul 22 1755

Gaspard de Prony French mathematician (d. 1839)

Jul 22 1763

James Geddes American Engineer (Erie Canal) born in Carlisle Pennsylvania (d. 1838)

Jul 22 1784

Friedrich W Bessel German astronomer (star parallax Bessel Function)

Jul 22 1804

Victor Schoelcher French writer (abolitionism) born in Paris (d. 1893)

Jul 22 1807

Karolina Pawlowa Russian writer (A Double Life) born in Yaroslavl Russian Empire (d. 1893)

Jul 22 1820

Louis Powell Harvey American politician Governor of Wisconsin born in East Haddam Connecticut (d. 1862)

Jul 22 1822

Hamilton Prioleau Bee Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1897)

Jul 22 1822

John George Walker American Major General (Confederate Army) born in Jefferson City Missouri (d. 1893)

Jul 22 1830

Herbert Stanley Oakeley English composer born in Ealing (d. 1903)

Jul 22 1830

William Sooy Smith American civil engineer and Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Tarlton Ohio (d. 1916)

Jul 22 1833

Benjamin Hanby American composer (Jolly Old Saint Nicholas) born in Rushville Ohio (d. 1867)

Jul 22 1834

Daniel McCook Jr American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Carrollton Ohio (d. 1864)

Jul 22 1844

William Archibald Spooner English Oxford Don and reverend and inventor (spoonerisms) born in London England (d. 1930)

Jul 22 1848

Adolf Friedrich V Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)

Jul 22 1853

Victor Roger French composer (Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette) born in Montpellier France (d. 1903)

Jul 22 1863

Alec Hearne English cricketer (brother of George and Frank Kent 1884-1910 born in Ealing (d. 1952))

Jul 22 1871

Akos Buttykai Hungarian composer born in Halmi (d. 1935)

Jul 22 1873

Ettore Pozzoli Italian composer and pianist born in Seregno (d. 1957)

Jul 22 1878

Lucien Febvre French historian (Un destin Martin Luther)

Jul 22 1099 First Crusade Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem

Jul 22 1306 King Phillip the Fair orders expulsion of Jews out of France

Jul 22 1456 Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade) Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats Sultan Murad II

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