On this date in 1528, the Augsburg Anabaptist Eitelhans Langenmantel was executed as a heretic, along with a servant and a maid. Langenmantel had used his own fortune to print several dissident tracts.

His infant grandson, Daniel Hoechstetter, would eventually emigrate to Cumberland where he did honorable business for England’s Royal Mines as part of a community of German miners.

Through this Anglicized descendant, Langenmantel is the maternal great great great great great great great grandfather of U.S. President and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.

On this day..

• 2012: Zhang Jianfei, job-seeker
• Feast Day of Saint Mocius
• 1748: Arthur Gray and William Rowland, Hawkhurst Gang smugglers
• Corpses Strewn: New York's slave conspiracy of 1741
• 1741: Caesar and Prince, leaders of a plot to burn New York?
• 1915: Basanta Kumar Biswas, bomber
• 1928: Clarence "Buck" Kelly, testicle donor
• 1858: William and Daniel Cormack, for murdering John Ellis
• 1958: Khosrow Roozbeh
• 1744: Jan, of Johonnes Van Houten
• 1939: Evgeny Miller, White Russian
• 1891: The Namoa pirates
• 1685: Margaret McLachlan and Margaret Wilson, the Solway Martyrs