Edwin Sandys (1561–1629)

Sir Edwin Sandys was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1626. He was also one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1606 established the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States in the colony of Virginia, based at Jamestown. The parish of Sandys, in Bermuda is named after him.

9 December 1561

Born on the same birth day (9 December): Augustus Quirinus Rivinus • Chamras Saewataporn • Grace Hopper • Hermione Gingold • Hikaru Nakamura • Jean-Pierre Thiollet • Joan Blos • Maddalena Laura Sirmen • Martin Taylor (footballer, born 1966) • MyKayla Skinner • Roy Rubin (basketball) • Ryder Hesjedal • Saima Wazed • Stefen Fangmeier

Born in the same month (December 1561): Kikkawa Hiroie • Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1592–1642)