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Jan 07 1355

Thomas of Woodstock 1st Duke of Gloucester son of Edward III of England (d. 1397)

Jan 07 1502

Gregory XIII [Ugo Boncompagni] Bologna Papal States Italian pope (1572-85) introduced Gregorian calendar in 1582

Jan 07 1528

Jeanne dAlbret Queen of Navarre and mother of French King Henry IV

Jan 07 1539

Sebastian de Covarrubias Horozco Spanish lexicographer

Jan 07 1611

James Harrington England political author (Commonwealth of Oceans)

Jan 07 1647

Wilhelm Ludwig Duke of Wrttemberg (d. 1677)

Jan 07 1653

Bernhard Albinus German court-physician (Frederick of Prussia)

Jan 07 1685

Gerard George Clifford Dutch director of East India Company

Jan 07 1685

Jonas Alstrmer Swedish industrialist (d. 1761)

Jan 07 1706

Johann Heinrich Zedler German publisher (d. 1751)

Jan 07 1718

Israel Putnam American Revolutionary War general (d. 1790)

Jan 07 1745

Johann Christian Fabricius Tnder Danish Entomologist (named nearly 10000 species)

Jan 07 1755

Stephen Groombridge Goudhurst Kent English Astronomer (Catalogue of Circumpolar Stars)

Jan 07 1786

John Catron Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1865)

Jan 07 1799

Daniel Tyler American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Brooklyn Connecticut (d. 1882)

Jan 07 1808

Jacob Ammen American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Fincastle Virginia (d. 1894)

Jan 07 1813

Ann Rutledge said to be Abraham Lincolns true love born in Henderson Kentucky (d. 1835)

Jan 07 1816

Stephen Miller American politician (Governor of Minnesota) Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Perry County Pennsylvania (d. 1881)

Jan 07 1821

Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell Brigadier General (Confed Army) (d. 1891)

Jan 07 1822

Lucius C M Bakker Frisian physicianauthor (Goethe)

Jan 07 1822

Theodor Aufrecht German indologist (Rigvedas Hymns)

Jan 07 1824

James Morrison Hawes American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Lexington Kentucky (d. 1889)

Jan 07 1827

Sir Sandford Fleming Scottish-Canadian engineer introduced Universal Standard Time (d. 1915)

Jan 07 1830

[Samuel] Emerson Opdycke American businessman and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Hubbard Ohio (d. 1884)

Jan 07 1830

Albert Bierstadt German painter (US landscapes)

Jan 07 1833

Henry Enfield Roscoe English Chemist (vanadium and photochemistry) born in London England

Jan 07 1834

Johann Philipp Reis German physicist and inventor (d. 1874)

Jan 07 1844

Marie-Bernarde Soubirous [St Bernadette of Lourdes] saintvisionary

Jan 07 1845

Paul Deusen German philosopher (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft)

Jan 07 1858

Eliezer Ben-Yehuda key figure in the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language (d. 1922)

Jan 07 1868

Abraham M Mark Lidzbarski PolishGerman orientalist

Jan 07 1871

mile Borel French mathematician and politician (d. 1956)

Jan 07 1873

Adolph Zukor Hungarian movie producerdirectorexecutive (Paramount)

Jan 07 1325 Afonso IV succeeds Dionysius as King of Portugal

Jan 07 1558 Calais last English possession in France retaken by French

Jan 07 1566 Antonio Michele Ghislieri is elected Pope Pius V

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