Jeanne Guyon

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon was a French Christian accused of advocating Quietism, which was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church. Madame Guyon was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing the book A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer.

13 April 1648

Born on the same birth day (13 April): Alan Watt (diplomat) • Edward Bruce (New Deal) • Howard Keel • Jacques Lacan • Jean Pierre Flourens • John Cameron (footballer, born 1872) • Josephine Butler • Michael Stuart Brown • Mikhail Shufutinsky • Paul Sorvino • Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford • Tommy Raudonikis • Werner Voss • William Alexander (bishop)

Born in the same month (April 1648): Grinling Gibbons • Henri de Massue, Earl of Galway • John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby • Peter II of Portugal