May 9 Alexander Ross, Canadian fur trader, born in Morayshire, Scotland (d. 1856) May 10 Niccola Benvenuti, composer May 22 Thomas Forbes Walmisley, English composer, born in Westminster, London (d. 1866) May 25 Philip Pendleton Barbour, American politician and U.S. Supreme Court justice, born in Gordonsville, Virginia (d. 1841) 1782 Famous Birthdays by Year 1784