Peter Martyr d'Anghiera

Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, formerly known in English as Peter Martyr of Angleria, was an Italian historian at the service of Spain during the Age of Exploration. He wrote the first accounts of explorations in Central and South America in a series of letters and reports, grouped in the original Latin publications of 1511 to 1530 into sets of ten chapters called "decades". His Decades of the New World are of great value in the history of geography and discovery. His De Orbe Novo describes the first contacts of Europeans and Native Americans, Native American civilizations in the Caribbean and North America, as well as Mesoamerica, and includes, for example, the first European reference to India rubber. It was first translated into English in 1555, and in a fuller version in 1912. ^{Peter Martyr d'Anghiera, Italian-Spanish historian and author (d. 1526)}

2 February 1457

Born on the same birth day (2 February): Aleksey Naumov (footballer) • Alix Le Clerc • Cornelius Lanczos • Hansi Hinterseer • James I of Aragon • John Tudor (baseball) • Mimi Page • Paul Mescal • Tom Smothers • Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg

Born in the same month (February 1457): Mary of Burgundy