1383 Birth of Amadeus of Savoy, elected as antipope Felix V in 1439. The infamous papal schism of 1378-1415 which has seen two, three and then four popes simultaneously was not the last time that the papacy was multiplied. Quarrels at the Council of Basel led to rival Councils and the election of Amadeus as Felix V. He had been a successful Duke of Savoy but resigned his title after the death of his wife and became a hermit. After his reign failed to achieve widespread recognition he stepped down as papal claimant in return for a cardinalship, thus ending the last of the schisms.
1926 Birth of Ivan Illich, Catholic priest and counterculture philosopher, best known for his 1971 work Deschooling Society. Illich believed that the modern educational system was a massive failure, producing only little bourgeois “victims for the consuming society”. Existing schools should be abolished; young people were better taught on the job, by mentors or peers. Illich quarreled with the Church, for whom he was too radical and tainted by Marxism, and eventually abandoned the priesthood but never his Christian faith. He died in 2002.