Birthdays in History Nov 3 Christiaan Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer, born in Mannheim-Neckarau, Germany (d. 1805) Nov 11 Johann Heinrich Schepp, German-Dutch engraver, born in Diez, Germany Nov 26 Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France), born in Lille, France (d. 1798) 1735 On This Day in History 1737