Martin Chemnitz

Martin Chemnitz was an eminent second-generation German, Evangelical Lutheran, Christian theologian, and a Protestant reformer, churchman, and confessor. In the Evangelical Lutheran tradition he is known as Alter Martinus, the "Second Martin": Si Martinus non fuisset, Martinus vix stetisset goes a common saying concerning him. He is listed and remembered in the Calendar of Saints and Commemorations in the Liturgical Church Year as a pastor and confessor by both the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.

9 November 1522

Born on the same birth day (9 November): Baptiste Giabiconi • Benny Mardones • Bill Guerin • Carl Gustaf Armfeldt • Carl Sagan • Charles II, Duke of Guelders • Choi Hong-hi • Finn Cole • Giles Gilbert Scott • Gustav, Prince of Vasa • Jana Pittman • Jane Humphries • Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse • Marina Warner • Nelson Diebel • Thomas Quasthoff • Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd • Tom Weiskopf

Born in the same month (November 1522): Andrew Corbet (died 1578) • Lamoral, Count of Egmont