Richard Baxter

Richard Baxter was an English Nonconformist church leader and theologian from Rowton, Shropshire, who has been described as "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". He made his reputation in the late 1630s by his ministry at Kidderminster in Worcestershire, when he also began a long and prolific career as theological writer.

12 November 1615

Born on the same birth day (12 November): Brian Hyland • Buck Dharma • David Ellefson • DeWitt Wallace • Elias Pettersson • James Luther Adams • Jason Lezak • Jeanne Mance • Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz • John McGahern • Kim Hunter • Lex Lang • Mariella Frostrup • Mista (footballer) • Paul Emery • Richard H. Truly

Born in the same month (November 1615): Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire • Philip William, Elector Palatine