The Rise and Fall of Man

[posted by Callimachus]

Born today, in chronological order, were:

• King Henry VIII of England
  
• John Wesley
  
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
• Richard Rodgers, American composer (d. 1979)
  
• Mel Brooks
  
• Hans Blix
  

Oh and also Norika Fujiwara:



Whom I've never heard of, but what the hell.