Capability Brown
Lancelot Brown, more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th-century artists to be accorded his due" and "England's greatest gardener".
30 August 1716
Born on the same birth day (30 August): Bertha Parker Pallan • Bruce McLaren • Gerald Albright • Grand Duchess Alexandra Alexandrovna of Russia • Ian McNaught-Davis • Karen Buck • Pavel Nedvěd • Samuel Whitbread (1720–1796) • Tug McGraw • Vic Seixas • Virginia Lee Burton