births
February 19, 1526
Carolus Clusius, Flemish botanist and academic (died 1609)
Carolus Clusius
Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius, seigneur de Watènes, was an Artois doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th-century scientific horticulturists.