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Jan 19 1200

Dogen Kigen Japan Zen teacher 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto

Jan 19 1544

Francis II de Valois-Angouleme king of France (1559-60)

Jan 19 1613

Jacques Huyn French baroque composer born in Beaune (d. 1652)

Jan 19 1676

John Weldon English composer born in Chichester (d. 1736)

Jan 19 1679

Girolamo Chiti Italian composer and music theorist born in Siena (d. 1759)

Jan 19 1736

Laurens Pieter van de Spiegel Dutch Grand Pensionary of Zeeland and Holland (1787-95)

Jan 19 1737

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Fr writer (Paul et Virgin)

Jan 19 1739

Joseph Bonomi the Elder Italian architect (d. 1808)

Jan 19 1749

Isaiah Thomas American printereditorpublisherhistorian

Jan 19 1752

James Morris III American army officer (d. 1820)

Jan 19 1757

Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf German Princess (d. 1831)

Jan 19 1790

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom Swedish historianpoet (Blommorna)

Jan 19 1798

Auguste Comte philosopherfounder (sociology & positivism)

Jan 19 1802

[Jean] Silvain van de Weyer 1st Belgium min of Foreign affairs (1831)

Jan 19 1808

Lysander Spooner American philosopher (d. 1887)

Jan 19 1813

Henry Bessemer engineerinventor (Bessemer engine)

Jan 19 1816

Henry Gray Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1892)

Jan 19 1820

John Haskell King American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Sackets Harbor New York (d. 1888)

Jan 19 1827

Carlos Guido y Spano Argentina conductor (Rafagas)

Jan 19 1830

George Blake Cosby Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1909)

Jan 19 1848

John F. Stairs Canadian businessman (d. 1904)

Jan 19 1851

David Starr Jordan NY biologistuniversity pres (Leland Stanford)

Jan 19 1858

Eugene Brieux French playwright (Blanchette Lesson Avaries)

Jan 19 1859

Alice Eastwood botanist (Handbook of Trees of California) born in Toronto Ontario

Jan 19 1863

Werner Sombart German fascist (Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben)

Jan 19 1866

Harry Davenport American actor and director (Her Unborn Child My Sin) born in NYC New York (d. 1949)

Jan 19 1869

Alfred R Zimmerman mayor (Rotterdam 1906-22)Dir (League of Nations)

Jan 19 1873

Hans Erich Blaich [Dr. Owlglass] German writer (Simplicissimus) born in Leutkirch im Allgu (d. 1945)

Jan 19 1878

Herbert Chapman English football player and manager (d. 1934)

Jan 19 1879

Marie Koenen authorwife of Felix Rutten (Wassend Cereal)

Jan 19 1887

Alexander Woollcott American critic and short story writer (The Man Who Came to Dinner) born in Phalanx New Jersey (d. 1943)

Jan 19 1889

Sophie Taeuber-Arp Davos Switzerland painter sculptor and dancer

Jan 19 1892

lafur Thors Icelandic Prime Minister (5 times between 1942-63) born in Borgarnes Iceland (d. 1964)

Jan 19 1419 French city of Rouen surrenders to Henry V in Hundred Years War

Jan 19 1493 France cedes Roussillon & Cerdagne to Spain by treaty of Barcelona

Jan 19 1511 Italian city Mirandola surrenders to the French

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