Julius Caesar Scaliger

Julius Caesar Scaliger, or Giulio Cesare della Scala, was an Italian scholar and physician, who spent a major part of his career in France. He employed the techniques and discoveries of Renaissance humanism to defend Aristotelianism against the New Learning. In spite of his contentious disposition, his contemporary reputation was high. Jacques Auguste de Thou claimed that none of the ancients could be placed above him and that he had no equal in his own time.

23 April 1484

Born on the same birth day (23 April): Caleb Johnson • Chloe Kim • Duncan Renaldo • E. B. Ford • Frank Borzage • Georg Fabricius • Halston • John Boye • Joseph Green (actor) • Justinian Oxenham • Neville Brody • Nicole Vaidišová • Paul Collier • Paul Vaughan (rugby league) • Prince Louis of Wales • Rifaat el-Mahgoub • Ryan Walter • Simone Simon • Valerie Bertinelli • Victoria Glendinning • Willie Mitchell (ice hockey)

Born in the same month (April 1484): Antonio da Sangallo the Younger • Rana Sanga