1835 Birthday Leopold II, Belgian crown prince, baptized 1755 Event 515 prominant filipinos baptized as Catholic 1753 Birthday John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized 1733 Birthday Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized 1727 Birthday Thomas Gainsborough, English painter, Blue Boy, baptized 1723 Birthday Adam Smith, Kirkcaldy Scot, economist, Wealth of Nations, baptized 1718 Birthday Thomas Chippendale, England, furniture maker, baptized 1710 Birthday Reynier de Klerk, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, baptized 1689 Birthday Samuel Richardson, English novelist, Pamela, baptized 1687 Birthday [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, baptized 1685 Birthday Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch Classical professor, baptized 1683 Birthday Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer, Traite, baptized 1664 Birthday John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist/architect, baptized 1662 Birthday Jan F van Bloom, Orizonte, Flemish painter, baptized 1657 Birthday Pieter van Bloemen, Standaart, Flemish painter, baptized 1655 Birthday Francois Fagel, Dutch Field Marshal, baptized 1654 Death Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies 1649 Birthday John Blow, composer of 1st English opera, Venus and Adonis, baptized 1645 Birthday Giovanni Adb Viscardi, Swiss architect, baptized 1644 Birthday Abraham Jansz Storck, painter, baptized 1640 Birthday Antoine Coyzevox, French sculptor, baptized 1637 Birthday Philip J van Lichtenbergh, Governor of Suriname, baptized 1630 Birthday Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, baptized 1623 Birthday Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized 1622 Birthday Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized 1622 Birthday Adam Pijnacker, landscape painter/etcher, baptized 1620 Birthday Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized 1618 Birthday Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spain, Baroque artist [baptized] 1613 Event Amsterdams merchant Hans Bontemantel baptized 1612 Birthday Samuel Butler, England, poet/satirist, Hudibras, baptized 1604 Birthday John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized 1599 Birthday Diego Velazquez, Spain, painter, Rokeby Venus, baptized 1598 Birthday Francisco de Zurbaran, Spain, Baroque painter, baptized 1598 Birthday Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized 1597 Birthday Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzassisch painter, baptized 1591 Birthday Robert Herrick, England, poet, Gather ye rosebuds, baptized 1583 Birthday Orlando Gibbons, English composer, O Clap Your Hands, baptized 1581 Birthday Thomas Overbury, poet, baptized 1579 Birthday John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist, Phylaster, baptized 1578 Birthday Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized 1576 Birthday Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized 1571 Birthday Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, baptized 1564 Event William Shakespeare baptized
