Alexios II Komnenos Byzantine emperor born in Constantinople (d. 1183)

Julius III [Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte] Counter-Reformation Pope (1550-55) born in Monte San Savino Tuscany (d. 1555)

Alonso Prez de Guzmn 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia Spanish Armada commander born in Sanlcar de Barrameda Cdiz Spain (d. 1615)

Hernando Arias de Saavedra Spanish-American colonial governor born in Asuncin (d. 1634)

Ercole Porta Italian church composer born in Bologna (d. 1630)

Nicholas Lanier English composer born in London (d. 1666)

Thomas Sydenham English physician and author of Observationes Medicae born in Wynford Eagle Dorset (d. 1689)

Romeyn de Hooghe Dutch painter and goldsmith born in Amsterdam Netherlands (d. 1708)

Henry Purcell English organist and composer (Dido & Aeneas) born in St Anns Lane Old Pye Street Westminster (d. 1695)

Niccol Jommelli Italian composer born in Aversa Kingdom of Naples (d. 1774)

Carter Braxton American farmer and signer (Declaration of Independence) born in King and Queen County Virginia (d. 1797)

Bartolomeo Campagnoli Italian violinist and composer born in Cento Italy (d. 1827)

John Soane English architect (Bank of England Soane Museum) born in Goring-on-Thames Oxfordshire England (d. 1837)

Hannah Webster Foster American author (The Coquette or The History of Eliza Wharton) born in Salisbury Massachusetts (d. 1840)

Louis Alexandre Piccinni Italian-French composer born in Paris (d. 1850)

Nicols Bravo Mexican politician and soldier born in Chilpancingo Mexico (d. 1854)

William Mason American politician born in Lebanon Connecticut (d. 1860)

Jacques Boucher de Crvecur de Perthes French archaeologist (d. 1868)

Marie Laveau American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)

Albert Gallatin Blanchard Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

Eleazer Arthur Paine American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Geauga County Ohio (d. 1882)

Randall Lee Gibson Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1892)

Joseph Wheeler II Maj Gen (ConfederacyCavalryArmy of Tennessee)

Karl Merz German-American composer (Brainards Musical World) (d. 1890)

Isaac Kauffman Funk American publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)

Charles Peirce American philosopher (d. 1914)

Abel Hoadley Australian confectioner (Violet Crumble) born in East Sussex England (d. 1918)

William M Harnett American painter (Old Violin)

Anton CR Dreesmann GermanNeth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman)

James E Keeler US astronomer (rings of Saturn)

Niels Hansen Jacobsen Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941)

Caro Roma [Carrie Northey] composer and singer born in California (d. 1937)

Charles Collett British mechanical engineer (d. 1952)