Famous Personalities Born In May - 04
Monday, 07 July 2025
1006 On May - 04 birth of abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)
1008 On May - 04 birth of khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
1008 King Henry I of France (d. 1060) was born on May - 04.
1611 On May - 04 birth of carlo Rainaldi, composer
1631 Mary I Henriette Stuart, daughter of Charles I/queen of England was born on May - 04.
1635 On May - 04 birth of willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies)
1654 Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722) was born on this day in history.
1655 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder was born on this day in history.
1715 Richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804) was born on May - 04.
1733 On this day in history birth of jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
1738 Josef Kohaut, composer was born on May - 04.
1744 Marianne von Martinez, composer was born on May - 04.
1752 John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825) was born on May - 04.
1763 On this day in history birth of franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
1767 Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (d. 1847) was born on this day in history.
1769 On May - 04 birth of charles Hague, composer
1772 Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823) was born on May - 04.
1776 Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist was born on May - 04.
1777 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer was born on this day in history.
1781 Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832) was born on this day in history.
1796 Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools) was born on this day in history.
1796 Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1864 was born on this day in history.
1796 William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859) was born on this day in history.
1820 Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack was born on May - 04.
1820 On this day in history birth of julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)
1822 Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (d. 1915) was born on this day in history.
1825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist was born on May - 04.
1825 On May - 04 birth of augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908)
1826 On May - 04 birth of frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
1827 On May - 04 birth of john Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
1835 Edmund Hart Turpin, composer was born on May - 04.
1852 Alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934) was born on this day in history.
1860 On this day in history birth of emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
1867 Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer was born on this day in history.