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Feb 22 1403

Charles VII King of France (1422-61) drove the English out from Northern France (d. 1461)

Feb 22 1440

Ladislaus V Posthumus King of HungaryBohemia

Feb 22 1500

Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi Italian humanist (d. 1564)

Feb 22 1514

Tahmasp I shah of Persia (1524-76)author (Tazkire-i Shah)

Feb 22 1542

Santino Garsi da Parma Italian composer (d. 1604)

Feb 22 1612

George Digby 2nd Earl of Bristol English statesman (d. 1677)

Feb 22 1634

Petrus Pieter van Schooten fortress architect

Feb 22 1684

William Pulteney statesman (Earl of Bath) born in London England

Feb 22 1714

Louis-Georges de Brquigny French historian (d. 1795)

Feb 22 1749

Johann Nikolaus Forkel musicologist1st biographer of Bach

Feb 22 1756

Georg Friedrich von Martens German diplomat (d. 1821)

Feb 22 1778

Rembrandt Peale portraithistorical painter (Court of Death)

Feb 22 1779

Joachim Nicolas Eggert Swedish composer born in Ginst Rgen Island (d. 1813)

Feb 22 1785

Jean Charles Athanase Peltier Ham French Physicist (Peltier effect 1834)

Feb 22 1788

Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher (Great Pessimist)

Feb 22 1796

Adolphe Quetelet Belgian astronomer mathematician and sociologist (body mass index scale) born in Ghent French Republic (d. 1874)

Feb 22 1797

William I Berlin King of Prussia (1861-88)German Emperor (1871-88)

Feb 22 1798

Charles Mynn Thruston American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Lexington Kentucky (d. 1873)

Feb 22 1806

Jzef Kremer Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)

Feb 22 1814

Oskar Kolberg Polish ethnographer folklorist and composer (Lud) born in Przysucha Poland (d. 1890)

Feb 22 1817

Niels Wilhelm Gade Danish violinistcomposerconductor

Feb 22 1817

Carl Wilhelm Borchardt German mathematician (d. 1880)

Feb 22 1819

James Russell Lowell poetcriticdiplomatabolitionist

Feb 22 1822

Adolf Kuszmaul German physician (stomach pump Kuszmaul disease)

Feb 22 1825

Jean Baptiste Salpointe second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)

Feb 22 1827

James Barnet Fry American historian and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Carrollton Illinois (d. 1894)

Feb 22 1828

Robert Alexander Cameron American soldier and newspaper publisher (Union Army) born in Brooklyn New York (d. 1894)

Feb 22 1838

Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen discoverer of hydrogen in Sun

Feb 22 1839

Francis Pharcellus Church American editor and publisher (d. 1906)

Feb 22 1842

Carl Rosa founder (Rosa opera company) born in Hamburg Germany

Feb 22 1842

Leon Vanderkindere Belgian historianmayor (Ukkel)

Feb 22 1843

Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay FranceBrazil writer (Inocencia)

Feb 22 1849

Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin Russian mathematician (d. 1915)

Feb 22 1071 Battle of Cassel Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf IIII

Feb 22 1495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim crown

Feb 22 1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy and Charolais

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