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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    Aug 17 1586

    Johann V Andreae German vicarwriter (Christenburg)

    Aug 17 1607

    Pierre de Fermat mathematician who needed wider margins (Fermats Last Theorem) [or 1608]

    Aug 17 1629

    King John [Jan] III Sobieski of Poland. Victor over the Turks in 1683 (d. 1696)

    Aug 17 1720

    Charles D J Eisen French engraverpainter (Contes de La Fontaine)

    Aug 17 1768

    Louis Charles Antoine Desaix French general (d. 1800)

    Aug 17 1786

    Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld mother of Queen Victoria (d. 1861)

    Aug 17 1794

    Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfrst German priest (d. 1849)

    Aug 17 1811

    Johannes H Scholten Dutch theologist (Free Will)

    Aug 17 1817

    Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove Belgian Internal minister (1870-71)

    Aug 17 1819

    James Henry Van Alen American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Kinderhook New York (d. 1886)

    Aug 17 1828

    Jules Bernard Luys French neurologist (d. 1897)

    Aug 17 1834

    Peter Benoit Flemish composerconductor (LeieRubens Cantata)

    Aug 17 1838

    Laura de Force Gordon California lawyer a prominent suffragette and 1st woman to run a daily newspaper in the US (Stockton Daily Leader 1874) born in North East Pennsylvania (d. 1907)

    Aug 17 1840

    Wilfrid Scawen Blunt England writer (Irish Land League)

    Aug 17 1844

    Menelik II King of Ethiopia (1896-1913) born in Angolalla Ethiopia (d. 1913)

    Aug 17 1851

    Henry Drummond Scottish geologist and evangelist

    Aug 17 1856

    Violet Paget [Vernon Lee] British author (Satan the master)

    Aug 17 1863

    Gene Stratton-Porter American author and naturalist (d. 1924)

    Aug 17 1866

    Mir Mahboob Ali Khan 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (d. 1911)

    Aug 17 1866

    Julia Marlowe [Sarah Frances Frost] English-American Shakespearean actress born in Cumberland England (d. 1950)

    Aug 17 1870

    Frederick Russell developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine

    Aug 17 1873

    John A. Sampson American gynecologist (d. 1946)

    Aug 17 1876

    Eric Drummond 1st Secretary-General of League of Nations (1919-33)

    Aug 17 1876

    Henri G Winkelman Dutch generalsupreme commandernavy 1940

    Aug 17 1878

    Reg Duff cricketer (Australian batsman century on debut 1902)

    Aug 17 1880

    Leo Ascher Austrian-born composer who moved to the US born in Vienna (d. 1942)

    Aug 17 1880

    Percy Sherwell cricketer (great South African batsman-keeper-captain)

    Aug 17 1885

    Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann German anarchistsfeminist (Wife & society)

    Aug 17 1885

    Kurt Hiller German writer born in Berlin (d. 1972)

    Aug 17 1887

    Charles I last emperor of Austria-Hungary (1916-18)

    Aug 17 1888

    Monty Wooley American actor (Pied Piper The Man Who Came to Dinner) born in NYC New York (d. 1963)

    Aug 17 1890

    Harry L Hopkins US politician (Loan & Lease law)

    Aug 17 1894

    Erik A Blomberg Swedish art historianpoetauthor (Jorden)

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    Aug 17 1180 Yoritomo Minamoto leads uprising against Kiyomori Taira who installed his grandson Emperor Antoku to the throne

    Aug 17 1544 ImperialEnglish armies occupy Saint-Dizier France

    Aug 17 1563 King Charles IX of France declared an adult at 13

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