Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1408) 1403 – Louis III of Anjou (d. 1434) 1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer and navigator (d. 1584) 1528 – Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (d. 1603) 1529 – Günther XLI, Count of Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (d. 1583) 1599 – Francesco Borromini, Swiss-Italian architect, designed the San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (d. 1667) 1601–1900 1636 – Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein, German prince (d. 1698) 1644 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1710) 1663 – Johann Nikolaus Hanff, German organist and composer (d. 1711) 1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, French composer and theorist (d. 1764) 1694 – Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1754) 1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799) 1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (d. 1789) 1741 – Wenzel Pichl, Czech violinist, composer, and director (d. 1805) 1744 – Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797) 1758 – Josepha Barbara Auernhammer, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1820) 1761 – William Mullins, 2nd Baron Ventry, Anglo-Irish politician and peer (d. 1827) 1764 – Fletcher Christian, English sailor (d. 1793) 1766 – Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu, French general and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1822) 1771 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (d. 1829) 1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and author (d. 1856) 1782 – Charles Maturin, Irish author and playwright (d. 1824) 1798 – Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, French geologist and engineer (d. 1874) 1816 – Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (d. 1893) 1825 – William Pitt Ballinger, American lawyer and politician (d. 1888) 1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the National Council (d. 1879) 1839 – Karl Alfred von Zittel, German palaeontologist and geologist (d. 1904) 1862 – Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer (d. 1897) 1862 – Billy Hughes, English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952) 1865 – Henri Lebasque, French artist (d. 1937) 1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1945) 1867 – Yevgeny Miller, Russian general (d. 1938) 1877 – Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (d. 1945) 1879 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 4th Governor of Rizal (d. 1963) 1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic