Famous Birthdays In May - 05

0867  Uda, Emperor of Japan (d. 931) was born on May - 05.  

1210  King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279) was born on May - 05.  

1352  On May - 05 birth of ruprecht, Roman catholic German king  

1479  Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574) was born on May - 05.  

1546  Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623) was born on May - 05.  

1557  On this day in history birth of emmanuel-Philibert van Lalaing, baron of Montigny/marquis of Renty  

1635  Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret) was born on May - 05.  

1657  Jacques Danican Philidor, composer was born on this day in history.  

1680  Giuseppe Porsile, composer was born on May - 05.  

1715  Daniel Dal Barba, composer was born on May - 05.  

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1747  Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792) was born on this day in history.  

1749  On this day in history birth of jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer  

1764  Robert Craufurd, British general (d. 1812) was born on this day in history.  

1800  Louis Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette) was born on May - 05.  

1804  Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Earthly Paradise) was born on May - 05.  

1813  Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855) was born on this day in history.  

1815  Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright was born on this day in history.  

1817  On May - 05 birth of george Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899  

1818  On May - 05 birth of karl Marx, philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital)  

1819  On this day in history birth of stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer  

1823  On May - 05 birth of james Allen Hardie, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1876  

1826  Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Empress of France was born on this day in history.  

1830  John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906) was born on May - 05.  

1832  H H Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States) was born on this day in history.  

1833  On this day in history birth of ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer  

1834  On May - 05 birth of viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)  

1835  On this day in history birth of leopold II, Belgian crown prince, baptized  

1842  Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer was born on May - 05.  

1846  On May - 05 birth of federico Chueca, composer  

1846  Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905) was born on this day in history.  

1848  On this day in history birth of adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer  

1849  Hambletonian, Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse was born on this day in history.  

1854  On May - 05 birth of antonio Smareglia, composer  

1862  Max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya) was born on May - 05.  

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0200  On this day in history death of sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)  

0311  On May - 05 gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50  

0984  On May - 05 death of gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia  

1028  On May - 05 alfonso V, King of Leon/Galicia (999-1028), dies in battle  

1194  Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies on this day in history.  

1219  On this day in history death of king Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)  

1309  On this day in history charles II, the Lame, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies  

1504  On this day in history anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82