Famous Personalities Born In January - 05
Friday, 17 January 2025
1209 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272) was born on this day in history.
1548 On this day in history birth of francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1560 On January - 05 birth of william Cobbold, composer
1587 Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641) was born on January - 05.
1592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal was born on January - 05.
1596 Henry Lawes, English composer was born on January - 05.
1614 Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662) was born on this day in history.
1661 Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer was born on this day in history.
1667 Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1740) was born on this day in history.
1679 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer was born on January - 05.
1696 On this day in history birth of giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)
1710 On January - 05 birth of friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer
1717 William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793) was born on January - 05.
1729 Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter was born on January - 05.
1759 On January - 05 birth of jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader
1762 On January - 05 birth of constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
1769 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics) was born on January - 05.
1773 On this day in history birth of pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer
1778 Fortunato Santini, composer was born on this day in history.
1779 Stephen Decatur, US, naval hero (War of 1812) was born on January - 05.
1779 Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak) was born on this day in history.
1787 On this day in history birth of john Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
1788 On this day in history birth of kaspar Ett, German organist/composer
1806 Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet (La Belgium) was born on January - 05.
1810 On this day in history birth of auguste Mermet, composer
1811 On this day in history birth of cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (est Robert College, Turkey)
1813 On January - 05 birth of thomas Neville Waul, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
1822 Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894 was born on this day in history.
1823 William Rockstro, composer was born on January - 05.
1828 August Valentine Kautz, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1895 was born on January - 05.
1829 On January - 05 birth of sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854)
1834 William John Wills, English explorer of Australia, member of the Burke and Wills expedition (d. 1861) was born on January - 05.
1835 On January - 05 birth of friedrich Richard Faltin, composer
1835 On this day in history birth of hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch gouvernement doctor on Saint Maarten