Famous Personalities Born In May - 23
Monday, 30 June 2025
1100 On this day in history birth of emperor Qinzong of China (d. 1161)
1598 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized was born on May - 23.
1606 Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer (d. 1682) was born on May - 23.
1617 Elias Ashmole, antiquary was born on this day in history.
1620 On this day in history birth of pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized
1644 Thomas Eisenhut, composer was born on May - 23.
1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, composer was born on May - 23.
1707 Carolus Linneus, Sweden, biological classifier was born on May - 23.
1707 On May - 23 birth of carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (d. 1778)
1710 On May - 23 birth of francois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures)
1718 On this day in history birth of william Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer
1729 On this day in history birth of giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno)
1734 Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism) was born on this day in history.
1735 On May - 23 birth of charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author
1737 Louis Francois Chambray, composer was born on this day in history.
1741 Andrea Lucchesi, composer was born on May - 23.
1753 Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer was born on this day in history.
1754 Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon) was born on this day in history.
1756 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer was born on this day in history.
1759 Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer was born on this day in history.
1790 On this day in history birth of jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer (d. 1842)
1794 On this day in history birth of isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer
1795 On this day in history birth of charles Barry, architect
1799 On this day in history birth of thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)
1812 Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles) was born on this day in history.
1813 Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895 was born on this day in history.
1820 James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis) was born on this day in history.
1820 On this day in history birth of lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (d. 1891)
1824 Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers) was born on this day in history.
1828 On May - 23 birth of edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)
1832 On this day in history birth of pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer
1834 Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890) was born on May - 23.
1837 On this day in history birth of james Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1843 On this day in history birth of pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer