– John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (d. 1513) 1462 – Henry Medwall, first known English vernacular dramatist (d. 1501) 1474 – Ludovico Ariosto, Italian playwright and poet (d. 1533) 1515 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish priest and scholar (d. 1585) 1588 – Marin Mersenne, French mathematician, philosopher, and theologian (d. 1648) 1593 – Toyotomi Hideyori, Japanese nobleman (d. 1615) 1601–1900 1611 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German scholar and critic (d. 1671) 1621 – Louis, Grand Condé, French general (d. 1686) 1633 – Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans (d. 1654) 1672 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (d. 1703) 1698 – François Francoeur, French violinist and composer (d. 1787) 1742 – Ozias Humphry, English painter and academic (d. 1810) 1749 – Yolande de Polastron, French educator (d. 1793) 1750 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna (d. 1795) 1752 – Carl Stenborg, Swedish opera singer, actor, and director (d. 1813) 1767 – August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet and critic (d. 1845) 1774 – Anne Catherine Emmerich, German nun and mystic (d. 1824) 1779 – Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan (d. 1808) 1783 – N. F. S. Grundtvig, Danish pastor, philosopher, and author (d. 1872) 1804 – Eduard Mörike, German pastor, poet, and academic (d. 1875) 1814 – Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, French archaeologist, ethnographer, and historian (d. 1874) 1815 – Giuseppina Strepponi, Italian soprano and educator (d. 1897) 1822 – Karl von Ditmar, German geologist and explorer (d. 1892) 1824 – Jaime Nunó, Spanish-American composer, conductor, and director (d. 1908) 1828 – Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (d. 1914) 1828 – Clarence Cook, American author and critic (d. 1900) 1830 – Frédéric Mistral, French poet and lexicographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914) 1831 – Wilhelm Raabe, German author and painter (d. 1910) 1841 – Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer and academic (d. 1904) 1846 – Paul Chater, Indian-Hong Kong businessman and politician (d. 1926) 1851 – John Jenkins, American-Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of South Australia (d. 1923) 1852 – Gojong of Korea (d. 1919) 1857 – Georg Michaelis, German academic and politician, 6th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1936) 1863 – Mary of the Divine Heart, German nun and saint (d. 1899) 1863 – W.W. Jacobs, English novelist and short story writer (d. 1943) 1867 – Alexander Parvus, Belarusian-German theoretician and