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Jul 14 1602

Jules Mazarin French cardinal French 1st Minister (1642-61)

Jul 14 1608

George Goring Lord Goring English royalist soldier (d. 1657)

Jul 14 1610

Ferdinando II de Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)

Jul 14 1634

Pasquier Quesnel French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)

Jul 14 1671

Jacques DAllonville French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)

Jul 14 1675

Claude Alexandre de Bonneval French soldier (d. 1747)

Jul 14 1676

Caspar Abel German theologian historian and poet (d. 1763)

Jul 14 1696

William Oldys English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)

Jul 14 1707

Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary French composer and violinist born in Maroilles France (d. 1802)

Jul 14 1721

John Douglas Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)

Jul 14 1743

Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin Russian poet (d. 1816)

Jul 14 1756

Thomas Rowlandson English paintercartoonistetcher

Jul 14 1762

Joseph Lakanal Serres Arige French Politician and Educator

Jul 14 1785

Mordecai Manuel Noah American writer journalist (d. 1851)

Jul 14 1794

John G Lockhart [Scorpion] biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott)

Jul 14 1801

Johannes Peter Mller German physiologist (d. 1858)

Jul 14 1816

Arthur de Gobineau French philosopher (d. 1882)

Jul 14 1818

Nathaniel Lyon American Brigadier General (Union Army) 1st Union General to die in battle born in Ashford Connecticut (d. 1861)

Jul 14 1830

Richard Henry Jackson Irish-American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Kinnegad County Westmeath Ireland (d. 1892)

Jul 14 1831

William Dwight American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Springfield Massachusetts (d. 1888)

Jul 14 1834

James Abbott McNeill Whistler artist (Whistlers Mother)

Jul 14 1855

Richard Samuel Hughes Welsh composer and pianist born in Aberystwyth Wales (d. 1893)

Jul 14 1857

Frederick Louis Maytag American businessman head of Maytag born in Elgin Illinois (d. 1937)

Jul 14 1859

Willy Hess German violinist born in Mannheim Germany (d. 1928)

Jul 14 1862

Florence Bascom American geologist and 1st woman hired by the US Geological Survey born in Williamstown Massachusetts (d. 1945)

Jul 14 1874

Abbas Hilmi II last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914)

Jul 14 1874

Andre Debierne French chemistphysicist (Actinium)

Jul 14 1880

Donald Meek Scottish actor (Stage Fair Stagecoach) born in Glasgow Scotland (d. 1946)

Jul 14 1884

Charles Meldrum Daniels swimmer (Olympic gold 1904 08) born in Dayton Ohio

Jul 14 1890

Ossip Zadkine [Zadkin] RussFrench sculptor (Destroyed City)

Jul 14 1891

Henry Oscar actor (Saint in London) born in London England

Jul 14 1893

John G Strijdom premier of South-Africa (1954-58)

Jul 14 1893

Spencer Williams American director writer and actor (The Amos n Andy Show) born in Vidalia Louisiana (d. 1969)

Jul 14 1223 Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father Philip II

Jul 14 1420 Battle at Vitkov Zizkas hill (Prague) Taboriets beat Bohemia

Jul 14 1682 Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal London

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