Famous Personalities Born In May - 04
Wednesday, 19 March 2025
1006 Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat) was born on May - 04.
1008 On this day in history birth of khajeh Abdollah Ansari, The Persian Sufi (d. 1088)
1008 King Henry I of France (d. 1060) was born on May - 04.
1611 On May - 04 birth of carlo Rainaldi, composer
1631 On this day in history 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 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder was born on this day in history.
1715 Richard Graves, English writer (d. 1804) was born on May - 04.
1733 On May - 04 birth of jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
1738 Josef Kohaut, composer was born on this day in history.
1744 Marianne von Martinez, composer was born on May - 04.
1752 John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825) was born on May - 04.
1763 Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer was born on May - 04.
1767 On this day in history birth of tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music (d. 1847)
1769 On May - 04 birth of charles Hague, composer
1772 Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823) was born on this day in history.
1776 Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist was born on May - 04.
1777 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer was born on this day in history.
1781 On May - 04 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 this day in history.
1820 Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack was born on May - 04.
1820 On this day in history birth of julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)
1822 Charles Boucher de Boucherville, Quebec politician (d. 1915) was born on this day in history.
1825 On this day in history birth of thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
1825 On May - 04 birth of augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian (d. 1908)
1826 Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch) was born on May - 04.
1827 On this day in history birth of john Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
1835 Edmund Hart Turpin, composer was born on May - 04.
1852 On May - 04 birth of alice Pleasance Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1860 Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana) was born on this day in history.
1867 Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer was born on May - 04.