Famous Birthdays Jan 25 Edmund Campion, English Catholic Jesuit priest & martyr, born in London, England (d. 1581) Jan 28 Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (d. 1610) Famous Deaths Jan 27 Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies 1539 History by Year 1541 What Happened in 1540 Thomas Cromwell Backs The Wrong Horse August 22, 1540
