Births
865 - Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi], Persian physician
1476 - Motonoboe, Japanese painter (Kano-school)
1592 - George Villiers, 1st duke of Buckingham/PM (1625-28)
1673 - Conrad Michael Schneider, composer
1700 - Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer
1713 - Louis A A Count d'Affry, French general/ambassador to Netherland
1748 - Amalia Frstin von Gallitzin, wife of Russian monarch Golitsyn
1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frankfurt, social philosopher (Faust)
1754 - Peter Winter, composer
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975)
Events
476 - West Roman Empire formally disbands/emperor Romulus August ousted
476 - German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
1521 - Turkish sultan Suleiman I's troops occupy Belgrade
1565 - Oldest city in the US, St Augustine Fla, established
1609 - Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1619 - Ferdinand II elected Holy Roman Emperor
1632 - Henry Casimir I appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1637 - WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa
1655 - New Amsterdam & Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service
1789 - Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
Deaths
388 - Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed
430 - Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75
876 - Louis the German, King of East France Empire (833-76), dies
1065 - Frederik van Luxembourg, duke of Neth-Lutherans (1046-65)
1481 - Afonso V, King of Portugal, dies
1484 - Diogo, duke of Viseu, murdered
1539 - Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded at about 75
1544 - Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies at about 53
1550 - Nicolas Perrenot de Granvelle, Charles V's asst sec of state, dies
1646 - Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53