Constantine XI Dragases last Byzantine Emperor

Ali Sjir Nevai [Fani] Turkish poetauthor (Mahbub al-kulub)

Giambattista Andreini Italian playwright and actor (Ladamo) born in Florence (d. 1654)

Franciscus van de Enden Flemish jesuitfree thinkertutor of Spinoza

Johann Aegidius Bach German violistian (d. 1716)

George Hamilton 1st Earl of Orkney British soldier (d. 1737)

Amos Bull early American composer (The Responsary)

Karel Blazej Kopriva Czech organist and composer born in Ctoliby Czech Republic (d. 1785)

Susette Gontard the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hlderlin (d. 1802)

Daniel Belknap American composer born in born in Framingham Massachusetts (d. 1815)

FarkasWolfgang Bolyai Hungarian mathematician (parallel axiom)

Johann Baptist von Spix German scientist (d. 1826)

Franz Xaver Gabelsberger German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)

Samuel Jones Tilden philanthropist for NY Public Library

John Alexander Logan American political leader and Major General (Union Army) born in Murphysboro Illinois (d. 1886)

Felix Dahn German Historian jurist and poet born in Hamburg (d. 1912)

Silas Adams American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)

Wilhelm Maybach German engineer designer of 1st Mercedes

Whitaker Wright English mining tycoon (d. 1904)

Leander Starr Jameson PM of South African Cape colony

Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs 1st Dutch female physician

Edward Carson 1st Baron Carson lawyerleader (Irish Unionist Party)

Johannes T de Visser theologistDutch 1st minister of Education

Anthony Hope [Hopkins] novelist born in London England

Erich von Drygalski German geographerglaciologistAntarctic expl

Mrs Patrick Campbell [Beatrice Tanner] English actress (Pygmalion) born in London England (d. 1940)

George Ade American journalistplaywrighthumorist (Fables in Slang)

Edward Naylor English composer and organist born in Scarborough (d. 1934)

Fran Saleki Fingar Slovene folk writer (Our Blood Service Girls) born in Doslove Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1862)

Howard T Ricketts American pathologist (studied typhus fever) born in Findlay Ohio (d. 1910)

Amy Lowell American poet and critic (Patterns Sword Blades & Poppy Seed) born in Brookline Massachusetts (d. 1925)

Vsevolod Meyerhold [Karl Kasimir Theodor] Russian theatrical director and actor (Houligan) born in Penza Oblast Russian Empire (d. 1940)

Martin Stixrud Norwegian figure skater (Olympic bronze 1920)