Famous Personalities Born In May - 04
Thursday, 10 July 2025
1006 Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat) was born on this day in history.
1008 Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088) was born on this day in history.
1008 On this day in history birth of king Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1611 On this day in history birth of carlo Rainaldi, composer
1631 On May - 04 birth of mary I Henriette Stuart, daughter of Charles I/queen of England
1635 Willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies) was born on this day in history.
1654 Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722) was born on this day in history.
1655 On this day in history birth of bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder
1715 On this day in history birth of richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804)
1733 Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799) was born on May - 04.
1738 On May - 04 birth of josef Kohaut, composer
1744 Marianne von Martinez, composer was born on May - 04.
1752 John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825) was born on this day in history.
1763 On May - 04 birth of franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
1767 On May - 04 birth of tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (d. 1847)
1769 Charles Hague, composer was born on this day in history.
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 On May - 04 birth of charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
1781 On this day in history birth of karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)
1796 Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools) was born on this day in history.
1796 On May - 04 birth of joseph Pannell Taylor, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1864
1796 William H. Prescott, American historian (d. 1859) was born on May - 04.
1820 On this day in history birth of joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
1820 Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45) was born on May - 04.
1822 Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (d. 1915) was born on May - 04.
1825 Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist was born on this day in history.
1825 On May - 04 birth of augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908)
1826 On this day in history 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 this day in history.
1852 On May - 04 birth of alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1860 On this day in history birth of emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
1867 On May - 04 birth of dynam-Victor Fumet, composer