Tjerk Hiddes de Vries

Tjerk Hiddes de Vries was a naval hero and Dutch admiral from the seventeenth century. The French, who could not pronounce his name, called him Kiërkides. His name was also given as Tsjerk, Tierck or Tjerck.

6 August 1622

Born on the same birth day (6 August): Bert Yancey • Byard Lancaster • Claude de Forbin • Egil Kapstad • Elisabeth Beresford • Howard Hodgkin • Jean-Baptiste Bessières • Jiao Liuyang • John Middleton Murry • Paul Hellyer • Simon Doull • Stéphane Peterhansel • Virginia Foster Durr • William Hyde Wollaston

Born in the same month (August 1622): Wolfgang Julius, Count of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein