in Finland before committing suicide. Births Pre-1600 63 BC – Augustus, Roman emperor (d. 14 AD) 1158 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1186) 1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (d. 1294) 1495 – Bagrat III of Imereti, King of Imereti (d. 1565) 1597 – Francesco Barberini, Catholic cardinal (d. 1679) 1598 – Eleonore Gonzaga, Italian wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1655) 1601–1900 1642 – Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1678) 1647 – Joseph Dudley, English politician, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1720) 1650 – Jeremy Collier, English bishop and theologian (d. 1726) 1713 – Ferdinand VI of Spain (d. 1759) 1740 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813) 1756 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer (d. 1836) 1771 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (d. 1840) 1778 – Mariano Moreno, Argentinian journalist, lawyer, and politician (d. 1811) 1781 – Princess Juliane of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1860) 1791 – Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer and academic (d. 1865) 1791 – Theodor Körner, German soldier and author (d. 1813) 1800 – William Holmes McGuffey, American author and academic (d. 1873) 1819 – Hippolyte Fizeau, French physicist and academic (d. 1896) 1823 – John Colton, English-Australian politician, 13th Premier of South Australia (d. 1902) 1838 – Victoria Woodhull, American journalist and activist (d. 1927) 1851 – Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1930) 1852 – James Carroll Beckwith, American painter and academic (d. 1917) 1852 – William Stewart Halsted, American physician and surgeon (d. 1922) 1853 – Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (d. 1923) 1861 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (d. 1942) 1863 – Mary Church Terrell, American author and activist (d. 1954) 1865 – Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (d. 1933) 1865 – Emma Orczy, Hungarian-English author and playwright (d. 1947) 1865 – Suzanne Valadon, French model and painter (d. 1938) 1867 – John Lomax, American teacher, musicologist, and folklorist (d. 1948) 1876 – Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 1968) 1880 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist, physician, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) 1889 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New Republic (d. 1974) 1890 – Friedrich Paulus, German general (d. 1957) 1895 – Miron Merzhanov, Russian architect and engineer (d. 1975) 1895 – Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (d. 1985) 1897 – Paul Delvaux, Belgian