Famous Birthdays In May - 05
Wednesday, 17 August 2022
0867 On this day in history birth of uda, Emperor of Japan (d. 931)
1210 King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279) was born on this day in history.
1352 On May - 05 birth of ruprecht, Roman catholic German king
1479 Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (d. 1574) was born on this day in history.
1546 Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623) was born on this day in history.
1557 On this day in history birth of emmanuel-Philibert van Lalaing, baron of Montigny/marquis of Renty
1635 On May - 05 birth of philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret)
1657 Jacques Danican Philidor, composer was born on May - 05.
1680 Giuseppe Porsile, composer was born on this day in history.
1715 Daniel Dal Barba, composer was born on this day in history.
1747 On May - 05 birth of leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
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 On this day in history birth of søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
1815 Eugene-Marin Labiche, French playwright was born on May - 05.
1817 George Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899 was born on this day in history.
1818 Karl Marx, philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) was born on May - 05.
1819 Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer was born on this day in history.
1823 On this day in history 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 May - 05.
1830 On this day in history birth of john Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906)
1832 H H Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States) was born on this day in history.
1833 Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer was born on this day in history.
1834 On this day in history 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 On this day in history birth of johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer
1846 On May - 05 birth of federico Chueca, composer
1846 On May - 05 birth of henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
1848 On this day in history birth of adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer
1849 On this day in history birth of hambletonian, Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse
1854 Antonio Smareglia, composer was born on this day in history.
1862 On this day in history birth of max Elskamp, Belgian author/poet (Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya)