1286 | | Alexander III, King of Scotland (1281-1286) |
1559 | | Isaac Casaubon, classical scholar and philologist, regarded as the most learned man in Europe, d. 1614 |
1609 | | King Frederick III of Denmark & Norway (1648-70) |
1765 | | Baron David Henri de Chassé, Dutch general, ally, then enemy of Napoleon, d. 1849 -- Learn More |
1782 | | John Caldwell Calhoun, greatest Secretary of War, architect of secession, d. 1850 |
1829 | | William Robertson Boggs, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1911 |
1837 | | Grover Cleveland, draft dodger, hangman, president (1885-89, 93-97) -- Learn More |
1838 | | Sir Randal Cremer, 1903 Nobel Peace Prize, d. 1908 |
1839 | | Francis Fessenden, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1906 |
1848 | | Nathaniel Herreshoff, yacht & torpedo boat designer, d. 1938 |
1858 | | Rudolph Diesel, who made a little engine, d. 1913 |
1869 | | Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister (1937-40), d. 1940, appeaser or wily politician |
1890 | | The U.S. Naval Militia, in Massachusetts |
1892 | | Robert Tristram Coffin, American war poet and correspondent, Poetry Pulitzer in 1936, d. 1955 |
1893 | | Wilfred Owen, soldier-poet ("Anthem for a Doomed Youth"), kia 1918 |
1920 | | Karol Wojtyla - Pope John Paul II (1978-2005) |