Mikołaj Rej

Mikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice was a Polish poet and prose writer of the emerging Renaissance in Poland as it succeeded the Middle Ages, as well as a politician and musician. He was the first Polish author to write exclusively in the Polish language, and is considered, to be one of the founders of Polish literary language and literature.

4 February 1505

Born on the same birth day (4 February): Arthur E. Chase • Charlie Barnett (actor) • Christopher Zeeman • Friedrich Ebert • Hannibal Buress • Ida Lupino • Jason Kapono • Jerome Brown • Julian Bell • Ken Thompson • Ludwig Prandtl • Mauricio Pinilla • Mikuláš Dzurinda • Neil Johnston • Raimonds Vaikulis • Rasim Delić • Rosa Parks • Russell Cooper

Born in the same month (February 1505): Aegidius Tschudi