Famous Birthdays In May - 01

1218  John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) was born on May - 01.  

1218  On this day in history birth of rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291)  

1238  Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) was born on May - 01.  

1285  Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) was born on May - 01.  

1493  Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10) was born on this day in history.  

1545  Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist was born on May - 01.  

1567  On May - 01 birth of michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter  

1577  On May - 01 birth of francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer  

1582  On May - 01 birth of marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer  

1592  On this day in history birth of johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer  

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1594  John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate was born on this day in history.  

1672  Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator) was born on this day in history.  

1735  On this day in history birth of john H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp  

1738  On this day in history birth of king Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (d. 1819)  

1759  On this day in history birth of jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor  

1764  Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol) was born on this day in history.  

1764  Gottfried Rieger, composer was born on May - 01.  

1769  On May - 01 birth of arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30)  

1771  On this day in history birth of george Guest, composer  

1775  Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer was born on this day in history.  

1800  Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874 was born on May - 01.  

1804  On May - 01 birth of aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860)  

1807  On May - 01 birth of john Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army)  

1818  On May - 01 birth of jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet  

1819  On May - 01 birth of william Steele, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885  

1825  George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap) was born on May - 01.  

1829  On this day in history birth of jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice  

1830  On May - 01 birth of mother (Mary Harris) Jones, US reformer and labor organizer  

1831  On May - 01 birth of emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903)  

1835  On May - 01 birth of alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers)  

1839  On May - 01 birth of chardonnet, inventor (rayon)  

1850  Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (d. 1942) was born on May - 01.  

1851  Laza Lazarević, Serbian writer and psychiatrist (d. 1891) was born on this day in history.  

1852  On May - 01 birth of calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/indian fighter  

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0408  Death of Arcadius, Eastern Roman emperor (b. 337/338) on this day in history.  

1118  On May - 01 death of edith of Scotland, first wife of Henry I of England (b. c. 1080)  

1171  On this day in history dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies  

1240  Death of Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati and dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals on May - 01.  

1277  On May - 01 stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies  

1308  On May - 01 death of albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered  

1447  On this day in history louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies  

1456  On May - 01 hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies