Famous Personalities Born In January - 05
Sunday, 19 October 2025
1209 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272) was born on January - 05.
1548 Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617) was born on this day in history.
1560 On January - 05 birth of william Cobbold, composer
1587 On this day in history birth of xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal was born on January - 05.
1596 On January - 05 birth of henry Lawes, English composer
1614 On this day in history birth of archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
1661 Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer was born on January - 05.
1667 Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1740) was born on this day in history.
1679 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer was born on this day in history.
1696 Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757) was born on January - 05.
1710 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer was born on January - 05.
1717 William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793) was born on this day in history.
1729 On January - 05 birth of paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter
1759 On January - 05 birth of jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader
1762 Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842) was born on this day in history.
1769 On this day in history birth of jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics)
1773 Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer was born on January - 05.
1778 On this day in history birth of fortunato Santini, composer
1779 On this day in history birth of stephen Decatur, US, naval hero (War of 1812)
1779 On this day in history birth of zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak)
1787 On this day in history birth of john Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
1788 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer was born on this day in history.
1806 Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet (La Belgium) was born on this day in history.
1810 On this day in history birth of auguste Mermet, composer
1811 On this day in history birth of cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey)
1813 Thomas Neville Waul, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903 was born on January - 05.
1822 Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 was born on January - 05.
1823 William Rockstro, composer was born on this day in history.
1828 On this day in history birth of august Valentine Kautz, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895
1829 On this day in history birth of sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854)
1834 William John Wills, English explorer of Australia, member of the Burke and Wills expedition (d. 1861) was born on January - 05.
1835 Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer was born on January - 05.
1835 Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch gouvernement doctor on Saint Maarten was born on this day in history.