1599 —— Diego Velazquez, Spanish painter. 1606-Pierre Kornel, French writer. 1799-Pushkin, Russian poet and founder of realism, was born. (Died in 1837) 1829 —— Japanese Go player Kitaji. 1850 —— karl ferdinand braun, German physicist. 1868-British polar explorer robert scott was born. (19 12 died) 1975 —— Chen Qizhen, a creative singer in Taiwan Province. The writer Jing M.Guo was born. 1984- Actor Bai Xue was born 1985- Model Zhang Xiaoyu was born. 1986 —— Kim Hyun Joong, a member of Korean combination SS50/kloc-0, was born. 1987- Singer Ma Haisheng was born.