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Jul 02 1489

Thomas Cranmer England reformer Archbishop of Canterbury (1533-55) martyr born in Aslockton England (d. 1556)

Jul 02 1581

Johann Staden German baroque composer probably born in Nuremberg (d. 1634) baptismal date

Jul 02 1636

Daniel Speer German composer born in Breslau (d. 1707)

Jul 02 1644

Abraham a Santa Clara [Johann Megerle] German court vicar

Jul 02 1647

Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham English min of foreign affairs

Jul 02 1652

Guillielmus Willem Kerricx Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans)

Jul 02 1665

Samuel Penhallow English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)

Jul 02 1698

Francesco III dEste Duke of Modena (d. 1780)

Jul 02 1714

Christoph W Ritter von Gluck Austria composer (Il re pastore)

Jul 02 1746

Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck German-Danish composer born in Husum Germany (d. 1832)

Jul 02 1756

Christian G Korner German lawyerfather of Karl

Jul 02 1763

Peter Ritter German cellist and composer born in Mannheim Palatinate (d. 1809)

Jul 02 1810

Robert Augustus Toombs Secy State (Confederacy) (d. 1885)

Jul 02 1819

Charles-Louis Hanon French composer (d. 1900)

Jul 02 1819

Thomas Anderson Scottish Chemist (discovered pyridine)

Jul 02 1820

George Law Curry Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)

Jul 02 1822

Douglas Strutt Galton English engineer (railstrains)

Jul 02 1830

John Bordenave Villepigue Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

Jul 02 1834

Hendry P G Quack lawyer economist Secretary Dutch Bank

Jul 02 1836

Henry Eugene Davies American writer public official lawyer and Major General (Union Army) born in NYC New York (d. 1894)

Jul 02 1847

Marcel Bertrand French mine engineer (tectonic geology)

Jul 02 1849

Maria Theresia of Austria-Este queen of Bavaria (d. 1919)

Jul 02 1862

William Henry Bragg English physicist Nobel laureate (d. 1942)

Jul 02 1865

Lili Braun Prussia feministsocialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)

Jul 02 1867

Herbert Prior British actor (Caught Short Slave of Desire) born in Oxfordshire England (d. 1954)

Jul 02 1876

Wilhelm Cuno German ship ownerrepublic chancellor (1922-23)

Jul 02 1881

Royal H. Weller American politician (d. 1929)

Jul 02 1882

Edgar Mayne cricketer (Australian batsman prolific for Victoria)

Jul 02 1884

Alfons Maria Jakob German neurologist (d. 1931)

Jul 02 1887

Marcel Tabuteau Compigne France oboist (Philadelphia Orch 1915-54)

Jul 02 1888

Selman Waksman RussUS microbiologist (Nobel 1951)

Jul 02 1889

Cor Hermus Dutch actor director and writer (Bleeke Bet William of Orange Jantes A Mother) born in Amsterdam Noord-Holland Netherlands (d. 1953)

Jul 02 1890

Earl Roy Curry religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (d. 1980)

Jul 02 1298 Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf and Albrecht I

Jul 02 1561 Menas Emperor of Ethiopia defeats a revolt in Emfraz

Jul 02 1582 Battle of Yamazaki Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide

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