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  1113 Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, France, conquered Normandy (d. 1151)
  1198 King Alexander II of Scotland (d. 1249)
  1210 Floris IV, Count of Holland
  1358 King John I of Castile (d. 1390)
  1393 Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1458)
  1420 Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt)
  1531 Ercole Bottrigari, composer
  1552 Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (d. 1614)
  1579 John Amner, English composer, born in Ely (d. 1641)
  1580 John Taylor, English poet (d. 1654)
  1591 Robert Herrick, English poet ('Gather ye rosebuds while ye may') (baptized), born in London (d. 1674)
  1635 Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (d. 1699)
  1683 Meinrad Spiess, German composer, born in Honsolgen (d. 1761)
  1694 Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25]
  1707 Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, English Evangelical Revivalist (d. 1791)
  1712 Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer
  1725 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
  1733 David Traugott Nicolai, composer
  1750 Letizia Ramolino, mother of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1836)
  1758 Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1794)
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• 79 Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Roman Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
• 410 Rome overrun by Visigoths under Alaric I for the first time in nearly 800 years, seen as the fall of the Western Roman Empire
• 1516 Battle of Marj Dabiq: Ottoman forces decisively beat the Mamluk Sultanate
• 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Protestants by Roman Catholics begins in Paris and later spreads to the French provinces
• 1662 Act of Uniformity requires English to accept Book of Common Prayer
• 1814 British forces capture Washington, D.C. and destroy many landmarks (War of 1812)
• 1968 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific
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