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) Born in 1540 Famous Deaths Jan 27 Angela Merici, Italian religious educator, founder of the Ursuline Order of nuns, and Roman Catholic saint, dies at 65 Dec 1539 History by Year Feb 1540 What Happened in 1540 Thomas Cromwell Backs The Wrong HorseAugust 22, 1540
