Cornelis de Bie

Cornelis de Bie was a Flemish rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish and Dutch painters in his Het Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst, first printed in 1662.

10 February 1627

Born on the same birth day (10 February): Benjamin Smith Barton • Butch Morris • Dick Anderson • Harold Macmillan • Holly Willoughby • Judith Anderson • Julius von Szymanowski • Laura Dern • Makenzie Vega • Nadia Podoroska • Pauline Brunius • Roberto Jiménez (footballer, born 1986) • Tiffany Espensen

Born in the same month (February 1627): Charles Morton (educator)