Births
1423 - Louis XI, King of France (1461-83)
1567 - Samuel de Champlain, explorer (Lake Champlain)
1683 - Edward Young, English poet (Revenge, Complaint)
1687 - Arnold Hoogvliet, Dutch poet (Abraham the Patriarch)
1728 - Robert Adam, architect/designer (Adelphi Terrace, London)
1731 - Samuel Huntington, (Gov-Ct), Continental Congress pres
1738 - John Singleton Copley, Mass, finest colonial American artist
1793 - John Claire, England, poet
1794 - Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt)
1796 - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher (Sotsjinenija) [NS]
Events
323 - Battle at Adrianopolis: Flavius Julius Crispus' beats emperor Licinius
683 - St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
987 - Hugo Capet crowned king of France
1090 - Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II
1187 - Crusaders enter Tiberias
1428 - Treaty of Delft-between Jacoba of Bayern & Philip the Good
1468 - Duke Charles the Stout marries Princess Margaretha of York
1608 - Samuel de Champlain founded city of Quebec
1630 - Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament
1661 - Portugal gives Tanger & Bombay to English King Charles II
Deaths
683 - Leo II, Pope (681-83), dies
1090 - Egbert II van Brunswick, Fries count, dies in battle
1570 - Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67
1642 - Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69
1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
1801 - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer, dies at 56
1809 - Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62
1816 - Dorothea Jordan, French actress/mistress (William IV), dies at 65
1862 - William Barksdale, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 40
1863 - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, US Union lt, dies in battle at about 22