Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney
Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney was an English Army officer, Whig politician and peer who served as Master-General of the Ordnance from 1693 to 1702. He is best known as one of the Immortal Seven, a group of seven Englishmen who drafted an invitation to William of Orange, which led to the November 1688 Glorious Revolution and subsequent deposition of James II of England.
8 April 1641
Born on the same birth day (8 April): Anna Korakaki • Arno Verschueren • Edmund Husserl • Félix Hernández • Gerd Andres • Manolis Angelopoulos • Tilly Armstrong • William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke • Winifred Asprey
Born in the same month (April 1641): Robert Sibbald