Day 2 Day History

Sep 30 1207

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi Persian mystic and poet born in Khorassan Afghanistan (d. 1273)

Sep 30 1530

Geronimo Mercuriali Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606)

Sep 30 1550

Michael Maestlin German mathematician (d. 1631)

Sep 30 1627

Robinson Crusoe fictional character according to Daniel Defoe

Sep 30 1631

William Stoughton American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)

Sep 30 1700

Stanisaw Konarski Polish writer (d. 1773)

Sep 30 1710

John Russell 4th Duke of Bedford British statesman (d. 1771)

Sep 30 1715

tienne Bonnot de Condillac French philosopher (d. 1780)

Sep 30 1765

Jos Mara Morelos Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815)

Sep 30 1788

FitzRoy Somerset 1st Baron Raglan British Army officer (commander of the British forces during the Crimean War) born in Badminton England (d. 1855)

Sep 30 1805

Samuel Peter Heintzelman American Major General (Union Army) born in Manheim Pennsylvania (d. 1880)

Sep 30 1808

Lambertus GC Ledeboer Dutch vicar (Folies-old Calvinist communities)

Sep 30 1811

Augusta of Saxe-Weimar Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890)

Sep 30 1824

Peter Milne Scottish composer and violinist born in Kincardine ONeil (d. 1908)

Sep 30 1827

Kenner Garrard American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Bourbon County Kentucky (d. 1879)

Sep 30 1827

Ellis H. Roberts American politician (d. 1918)

Sep 30 1832

Frederick Sleigh Bobs Roberts British gov of Natal (Ireland-Boer war)

Sep 30 1847

Wilhelmina E Drucker [Lensing] Dutch feminist

Sep 30 1852

Charles Villiers Stanford Irish organistcomposer

Sep 30 1857

Hermann Sudermann German writer (Honor That Ehre Frau Sorge)

Sep 30 1861

William Wrigley Jr. American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)

Sep 30 1869

Ernest Jones cricket pace bowler (marvellous Aust at turn of century)

Sep 30 1870

Jean Perrin French physicist studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)

Sep 30 1870

Thomas W. Lamont American banker father of Corliss Lamont great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)

Sep 30 1871

John Fabricius NethEnglish stageauthor (Ring of Prophet)

Sep 30 1876

Katherine Griffith [Kiernan] American actress (Pollyanna Fast Company) born in San Francisco California (d. 1921)

Sep 30 1879

Ernst Isler Swiss organist and critic born in Zurich (d. 1944)

Sep 30 1879

Henri Casadesus French violist and composer (Viola damour)

Sep 30 1882

George Bancroft American actor (Underworld) born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania (d. 1956)

Sep 30 1882

Hans Geiger German physicist (co-inventor of the Geiger counter) born in Neustadt an der Weinstrae German Empire (d. 1945)

Sep 30 1883

Robert Lightfoot English theologist and exegetist (St Johns Gospel) (d. 1953)

Sep 30 1883

Bernhard Rust Nazi education minister (d. 1945)

Sep 30 1887

Lil Dagover [Marta-Maria Lillits] Dutch-born German actress (Spiders) born in Madioen Dutch East Indies (d. 1980)

Sep 30 1199 Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew

Sep 30 1555 Bishop of Oxford Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic

Sep 30 1626 Battle between King Bethlen Gabor & Earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends

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