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    This Is HISTORY | Birthdays

    May 04 1006

    Khwaja Abdullah Ansari The Persian Sufi born in Herat Khorasan (now Afghanistan) (d. 1088)

    May 04 1008

    Henry I King of the Franks (1031-60) born in Reims France (d. 1060)

    May 04 1611

    Carlo Rainaldi Italian architect and composer born in Rome (d. 1691)

    May 04 1635

    Willem van Outhoorn Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies) born in Larike Ambon Island Dutch East Indies (d. 1720)

    May 04 1654

    Kangxi Emperor of China 4th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty born in Jingren Palace Forbidden City Beijing Qing dynasty China (d. 1722)

    May 04 1655

    Bartolomeo Cristofori Italian instrument maker - considered the inventor of the piano born in Padua (d. 1731)

    May 04 1715

    Richard Graves English writer born in Mickleton Gloucestershire (d. 1804)

    May 04 1733

    Jean-Charles de Borda French mathematician physicist political scientist and sailor born in Dax France (d. 1799)

    May 04 1738

    Josef Kohaut Czech composer born in atec Czech Republic (d. 1777)

    May 04 1744

    Marianne Martinez Austrian composer born in Vienna Austria (d. 1812)

    May 04 1752

    John Brooks 11th Governor of Massachusetts (1816-23) born in Medford (d. 1825)

    May 04 1763

    Franz Stanislaus Spindler German composer born in Steingaden Germany (d. 1819)

    May 04 1767

    Tyagaraja Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music born in Tiruvarur Thanjavur District Tamil Nadu (d. 1847)

    May 04 1769

    Charles Hague English composer born in Tadcaster Yorkshire (d. 1821)

    May 04 1772

    Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus German encyclopedia publisher born in Dortmund Germany (d. 1823)

    May 04 1776

    Johann Friedrich Herbart German philosopher and psychologist born in Oldenburg Germany (d. 1841)

    May 04 1777

    Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens Belgian composer born in Ghent Belgium (d. 1852)

    May 04 1781

    Karl Christian Friedrich Krause German philosopher born in Eisenberg Germany (d. 1832)

    May 04 1796

    Joseph Pannell Taylor American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Louisville Kentucky (d. 1864)

    May 04 1796

    William H. Prescott American historian born in Salem Massachusetts (d. 1859)

    May 04 1807

    Thomas Duncan Scottish painter born in Kinclaven Perthshire Scotland (d. 1845)

    May 04 1810

    Alexander Walewski French earl and Foreign Minister born in Walewice Warsaw Poland (d. 1868)

    May 04 1820

    Joseph Whitaker British publisher (Whitakers Almanack) born in London (d. 1895)

    May 04 1820

    Julia Gardiner Tyler 2nd wife of President John Tyler (1841-45) born in Gardiners Island New York (d. 1889)

    May 04 1822

    Charles Boucher de Boucherville Premier of Quebec born in Montreal Canada (d. 1915)

    May 04 1825

    Thomas Henry Huxley English biologist (comparative anatomy) born in Ealing Middlesex England (d. 1895)

    May 04 1825

    Augustus Le Plongeon French-American photographer and antiquitarian born in Island of Jersey France (d. 1908)

    May 04 1826

    Frederick Edwin Church American romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch) born in Hartford Connecticut (d. 1900)

    May 04 1827

    John Hanning Speke British explorer the first European to reach Lake Victoria in east Africa born in Bideford Devon (d. 1864)

    May 04 1835

    Edmund Hart Turpin English composer born in Nottingham England (d. 1907)

    May 04 1852

    Alice Liddell English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland born in London (d. 1934)

    May 04 1860

    Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek Austrian composer (Donna Diana) born in Vienna Austria (d. 1945)

    May 04 1867

    Dynam-Victor Fumet French composer and organist born in Toulouse France (d. 1949)

    HISTORICAL EVENTS | ON THIS DAY

    May 04 1256 Augustinian monastic order constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues papal bull Licet ecclesiae catholicae

    May 04 1415 Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance

    May 04 1493 Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal

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