(d. 1563) 1550 – Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish general (d. 1615) 1547 – George I, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1596) 1561 – Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Paraguayan-Argentinian soldier and politician (d. 1634) 1588 – Nicholas Lanier, English singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1666) 1601–1900 1624 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician and author (d. 1689) 1638 – Maria Theresa of Spain (d. 1683) 1659 – Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (d. 1695) 1714 – Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer (d. 1774) 1753 – John Soane, English architect and academic, designed the Royal Academy and Freemasons' Hall (d. 1837) 1758 – Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840) 1786 – Nicolás Bravo, Mexican soldier and politician, 11th President of Mexico (d. 1854) 1786 – William Mason, American surgeon and politician (d. 1860) 1788 – Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist and author (d. 1868) 1793 – Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (d. 1834) 1801 – Marie Laveau, American voodoo practitioner (d. 1881) 1821 – William Jervois, English captain, engineer, and politician, 10th Governor of South Australia (d. 1897) 1836 – Joseph Wheeler, American general and politician (d. 1906) 1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912) 1839 – Charles Sanders Peirce, American mathematician, statistician, and philosopher (d. 1914) 1844 – Abel Hoadley, English-Australian candy maker, created the Violet Crumble (d. 1918) 1852 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (d. 1937) 1852 – Alice Brown Davis, American tribal chief (d. 1935) 1860 – Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (d. 1938) 1864 – Carl Correns, German botanist and geneticist (d. 1933) 1866 – Jeppe Aakjær, Danish author and poet (d. 1930) 1871 – Charles Collett, English engineer (d. 1952) 1872 – Ranjitsinhji, Indian cricketer (d. 1933) 1874 – Mamie Dillard, African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist (d. 1954) 1875 – George Hewitt Myers, American forester and philanthropist (d. 1957) 1876 – Hugh D. McIntosh, Australian businessman (d. 1942) 1880 – Georgia Douglas Johnson, American poet and playwright (d. 1966) 1880 – Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Native American activist (d. 1947) 1884 – Herbert Johanson, Estonian architect (d. 1964) 1885 – Johannes de Jong, Dutch cardinal (d. 1955) 1885 – Carl Clinton Van Doren, American critic and biographer (d. 1950) 1886 – H.D., American poet, novelist, and memoirist (d. 1961) 1887 – Giovanni Gronchi, Italian soldier and