Birthdays in History on May 23

Philip I (1052-1108)

King of the Franks (1060-1108), born in Champagne-et-Fontaine, France

1100 Qinzong, last Emperor of Song Dynasty in China, born in China (d. 1161)
1598 Claude Mellan, French engraver, cartoonist and painter, born in Abbeville, France (d. 1688)
1606 Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz, Spanish writer, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1682)
1617 Elias Ashmole, English antiquarian and collector (Ashmolean Museum), born in Litchfield (d. 1692)
1620 Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized in Antwerp

Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Swedish botanist, explorer and the Father of Taxonomy, born in Råshult, Sweden

1710 François Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures), born in Nancy, France (d. 1761)
1718 William Hunter, Scottish anatomist and physician, born in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland (d. 1783)
1729 Giuseppe Parini, Italian prose writer and poet (Il Giorno), born in Bosisio, Lombardy, Italy (d. 1799)
1734 Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician and hypnotist (Mesmerism), born in Iznang, Germany (d. 1815)
1735 Charles Joseph, 7th Prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal and author, born in Brussels (d. 1814)
1754 Andrea Appiani, Italian royal painter (Napoleon), born in Milan (d. 1817)
1790 Jules Dumont d'Urville, French explorer and naval officer, born in Condé-sur-Noireau, France (d. 1842)
1795 Charles Barry, British architect, born in London (d. 1860)
1810 Margaret Fuller [Ossoli], American feminist and journalist (NY Tribune), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1850)
1812 Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros, French poet and writer (Les Vierges Folles), born in Paris (d. 1876)
1813 Mason Brayman, American attorney, newspaperman and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1895)
1820 James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis), born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana (d. 1887)
1820 Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California, born in Le Roy, New York (d. 1891)

Ambrose Burnside (1824-1881)

American soldier, industrialist and politician (Governor of Rhode Island, 1866-69) who popularized sideburns, born in Liberty, Indiana

1828 Edward Hitchcock Jr., 1st American physical educator (Amherst College), born in Amherst, Massachusetts (d. 1911)
1832 Pieter Jan Baptist Carel Robidé van der Aa, Dutch Indologist and geographer, born in Oosterbeek, Netherlands (d. 1887)
1834 Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (d. 1890)
1837 James Sanks Brisbin, American educator, lawyer, and Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1892)
1844 `Abdu'l-Bahá, Successor to Prophet of the Bahá'í Faith (d. 1921)
1848 Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WWI)
1848 Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
1865 Epitácio Pessoa, 11th President of Brazil (Minas Gerais Republican: 1919-22), born in Umbuzeiro, Paraíba, Empire of Brazil (d. 1942)
1866 Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist
1873 Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)
1875 Alfred P. Sloan, American long-time president and chairman of General Motors (d. 1966)
1881 Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral, Portuguese aviator (1st flight across the south Atlantic), born in Celorico da Beira, Portugal (d. 1924)
1884 Corrado Gini, Italian sociologist (d. 1965)
1887 Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
1888 Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired)
1889 Ernst Niekisch, German politician (d. 1967)
1890 Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer
1891 Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish poet, novelist, and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1951), born in Växjö, Sweden (d. 1974)
1893 Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1977)
1896 Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (d. 1966)
1898 Scott O'Dell, American author (d. 1989)

Hans Frank (1900-1946)

German Nazi war criminal (occupied Poland) who was executed at Nuremberg, born in Karlsruhe, Baden, German Empire

1907 Kenneth Allen, engineer
1907 Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant

John Bardeen (1908-1991)

American physicist, electrical engineer and co-inventor of the transistor (Nobel 1956, 1972), born in Madison, Wisconsin

1908 Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building)
1909 Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat
1910 Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
1910 Hugh Casson CH, architect
1910 Margaret Wise Brown, American author (d. 1952)
1911 Melvin M Payne, American scientific leader (National Geographic Society, 1932-88), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1990)
1912 David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England)
1912 Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University)
1913 Ian Graeme, major-general
1914 Alec Dickson, founder (VSO)
1914 Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth)
1914 Leo Lerman, American writer and editor (Condé Nast Publications), born in NYC, New York (d. 1994)
1915 Clyde Wiegand, physicist
1916 Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright (living legacy award 1995)
1917 Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist, born in West Hartford, Connecticut (d. 2008)
1919 Gayatri Devi, 3rd Maharani consort of Jaipur, India (1940-49), born in London, England (d. 2009)
1919 Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary
1921 Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
1924 Michael McCrum, master (Corpus Christi College Cambridge)
1925 Joshua Lederberg, American molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
1929 Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965- )
1930 Friedrich Achleitner, German poet
1930 Richard Anuszkiewicz, American artist 'new wizard of op', born in Erie, Pennsylvania (d. 2020)
1932 John Lyons, Master (Trinity Hall), born in Cambridge, England
1933 Bruce A Peterson, US test pilot (M2, HL-10)
1933 Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture & land & fishing (CDA)
1934 Malcolm Gill, deputy head (Bank for Intl Settlements)
1935 Juliet Campbell, British ambassador (to Luxembourg)
1935 Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank
1936 Douglas John Gorman, British businessman (Chairman of CMG (Computer Management Group)), born in Woolwich, England (d. 1995)
1938 John Miller, American politician (Rep-R-WA, 1985-93), born in New York City (d. 2017)
1938 Peter Preston, editor (Guardian)
1942 Gabriel Liiceanu, Romanian philosopher
1943 Lars-Åke Nilsson, Swedish diplomat, born in Lund, Sweden (d. 1996)
1943 Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands
1944 Giles Smith, TV journalist
1945 Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire
1946 H. Paul Shuch, American scientist who coordinated radio amateurs to search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), born in Chicago, Illinois
1947 Ann Hui, director (Boat People)
1947 Bernard Comrie, English linguist
1947 Jane Kenyon, American poet (d. 1995)
1949 Alan García, President of Peru (Peruvian Aprista Party: 1985-90, 2006-11), born in Lima, Peru (d. 2019)

Martin McGuinness (1950-2017)

Irish Sinn Féin politician and IRA member, born in Derry, Northern Ireland

1950 William Barr, American lawyer (US Attorney General, 1992-93 and 2019-20), born in New York City
1951 Antonis Samaras, Greek politician
1952 Martin Parr, British photographer, born in Epsom, England
1953 Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Prime Minister of Rwanda (1993-94) and one of the 1st female political figures in Africa, born in Nyaruhengeri, Rwanda (d. 1994)
1956 Ursula Plassnik, Austrian politician and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2004-8), born in Klagenfurt, Austria
1958 Mitch Albom, American writer
1958 Thomas Reiter, German cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22)
1964 Ruth Metzler-Arnold, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1967 Anna Ibrisagic, Swedish politician
1970 Blake Schwendiman, American author
1970 Yigal Amir, Israeli assassin of Yitzhak Rabin