* 1955 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

* 1642 – Cosimo III de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1723 )

Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.

His mother was Sophia, daughter of Casimir IV Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, and his wife Elisabeth of Austria.

Duke Frederick of Saxony, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order, died in December 1510.

Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).

Alexander (; ) ( 5 August 1461 – 19 August 1506 ) of the House of Jagiellon was the Grand Duke of Lithuania and later also King of Poland.

He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father ( 1492 ), and King of Poland on the death of his brother John I Albert ( 1501 ).

For want of funds, Alexander was unable to resist the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights or prevent Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan III from ravaging Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Tatars.

The most the Grand Duke of Lithuania could do was to garrison Smolensk and other strongholds and employ his wife Helena, the Tsar's daughter, to mediate a truce between his father-in-law and himself after the disastrous Battle of Vedrosha ( 1500 ).

Great solicitude was devoted to the education of Nicolas as tsarevich, whereas Alexander received only the training of an ordinary Grand Duke of that period.

* Alexander Jagiellon ( 1461 – 1506 ), Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland

In the summer of 1214, Andrew had a meeting with Grand Duke Leszek I of Poland and they agreed that they would divide the Principality of Halych between Hungary and Poland.

* 1789 – Stéphanie de Beauharnais, French wife of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden ( d. 1860 )

* 1917 – Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia ( d. 1992 )

* 1574 – Cosimo I de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( b. 1519 )

* Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig of Oldenburg-1905

She was the daughter of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.

Charles was born in Florence, Tuscany, where his father was then Grand Duke.

In Florence on 8 September 1787 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 18 October 1787 ( in person ), Anton married a second time with the Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria ( Maria Theresia Josephe Charlotte Johanna ), daughter of the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II.

Its roots lay in the arts and crafts school founded by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1906 and directed by Belgian Art Nouveau architect Henry van de Velde.

Realising the danger, the Duke of Marlborough resolved to alleviate the peril to Vienna by marching his forces south from Bedburg and help maintain Emperor Leopold within the Grand Alliance.

The year 1705 proved almost entirely barren for the Duke whose military disappointments were only partly compensated by efforts on the diplomatic front where, at the courts of Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Vienna, Berlin and Hanover, Marlborough sought to bolster support for the Grand Alliance and extract promises of prompt assistance for the following year ’ s campaign.

It was paired with a Darius Milhaud opera, `` The Poor Sailor '', set to a libretto by Jean Cocteau, a kind of Grand Guignol by the sea, a sailor returns, unrecognized, and gets done in by his wife.

Meanwhile, Dr. Rieux, a vacationer Jean Tarrou, and a civil servant Joseph Grand exhaustively treat patients in their homes and in the hospital.

In 1937, Jean Renoir, the son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, directed what many see as his first masterpiece, La Grande Illusion ( The Grand Illusion ).

French cinema continued its upward trend of earning awards at the Cannes Festival, including the prestigious Grand Prix for Of Gods and Men ( 2010 ) and the Jury Prize for Poliss ( 2011 ); the Best Director Award for Mathieu Amalric ( On Tour, 2010 ); the Best Actress Award for Juliette Binoche ( Certified Copy, 2010 ); and the Best Actor Award for Jean Dujardin ( The Artist, 2011 ).

* Cocteau, Jean, Le Grand Écart, 1923, his first novel

In 1959, Cooper obtained 2. 5-litre engines for the first time and Brabham put the extra power to good use by winning his first world championship race at the season-opening Monaco Grand Prix after Jean Behra's Ferrari and Stirling Moss's Cooper failed.

Djolof expanded its dominance of small chiefdoms south of the Senegal River ( Waalo, Cayor Baol, Sine – Saloum ), bringing together all the Senegambia to which he gave religious and social unity: the " Grand Djolof " Jean Boulègue, Le grand Jolof, XIII < sup > e </ sup >- XVI < sup > e </ sup > siècle, vol.

Grand Master of the naval war of Louis XIV, Admiral Jean Estrées seized Gorée on November 1, 1677.

* Jean Boulègue, Le Grand Jolof: XIIIe-XVIe siècles, les Anciens royaumes Wolof, t. 1, Karthala, 1987, 207 pages

* July 1 – The comic ballet La fille mal gardée choreographed by Jean Dauberval is first presented under the title Le ballet de la paille at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, in Bordeaux, France.

** Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

* March 28 – The foundation stone of Valletta ( Malta's Capital City ) is laid by Grand Master Jean de la Valette.

It was named Valletta after Jean Parisot de la Valette, the Grand Master who had seen the Order through its victory.

Since 1964 the Bourbon-Parma line has reigned agnatically in Luxembourg through Grand Dukes Jean and his son Henri.

He was not featured on the Luxembourgish franc as he only became Grand Duke in 2000 following the abdication of his father, Jean.

It was commissioned in 1572 by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the conventual church of the Knights of Malta.

Work on this vast edifice started during late 1574 during the reign of Grand Master Jean de la Cassière ( 1572 – 82 ) and was extended several times over the years.

La Grande Illusion ( also known as Grand Illusion ) is a 1937 French war film directed by Jean Renoir, who co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Spaak.

:" Apart from its other achievements, Jean Renoir's Grand Illusion influenced two famous later movie sequences.

Directed by Albert Lamorisse, the black-and-white film won the Prix Jean Vigo award and the Cannes Film Festival's Grand Prize, both for short film.

In 1937 he made one of his best known films, Grand Illusion ( La Grande Illusion ), starring Erich von Stroheim and Jean Gabin.

In 1796 Jean Pierre Chouteau, a French trader from St. Louis, established the first trading post in 1796 at the junction of the Grand / Neosho River and Saline Creek for business with the Osage.

) Other Beery films include Billy the Kid ( 1930 ) with Johnny Mack Brown, The Secret Six ( 1931 ) with Jean Harlow and Clark Gable, Hell Divers ( 1931 ) with Gable, Grand Hotel ( 1932 ) with Joan Crawford, Tugboat Annie ( 1933 ) with Dressler, Dinner at Eight ( 1933 ) opposite Harlow, The Bowery with George Raft, Fay Wray, and Pert Kelton that same year, China Seas ( 1935 ) with Gable and Harlow, and Eugene O ' Neill's Ah, Wilderness!

Jean Chapelain ( 4 December 1595 – 22 February 1674 ) was a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member member of the Academie Francaise.

The title Prince of Bourbon-Parma was relinquished by Grand Duke Jean in 1986, but he and his relatives kept the style of His / Her Royal Highness.