Elijah McCoy
Profession - Inventor
Born - May 02,1844
Died - Oct 10,1929
1844 Bernadette Soubirous French nun and saint (d. 1879)
1844 Ismail Qemali Albanian civil servant and politician first Prime Minister of Albania (d. 1919)
1844 Richard Theodore Greener American lawyer academic and diplomat (d. 1922)
1844 Ludwig Boltzmann Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1906)
1844 Joshua Slocum Canadian sailor and adventurer (d. 1909)
1844 Charles-Marie Widor French organist and composer (d. 1937)
1844 Pablo de Sarasate Spanish violinist and composer (d. 1908)
1844 Marie Euphrosyne Spartali British Pre-Raphaelite painter (d. 1927)
1844 Umberto I of Italy (d. 1900)
1844 Arthur O'Shaughnessy English poet and herpetologist (d. 1881)
1844 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian composer and academic (d. 1908)
1844 Minna Canth Finnish journalist playwright and activist (d. 1897)
1844 Adolphus Greely American general and explorer Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1935)
1844 Paul Verlaine French poet (d. 1896)
1844 William Lyne Australian politician 13th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1913)
1844 Anatole France French journalist novelist and poet Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1844 Lewis Powell American soldier attempted assassin of William H. Seward (d. 1865)
1844 Richard D'Oyly Carte English talent agent and composer (d. 1901)
1844 Henri Rousseau French painter (d. 1910)
1844 Mary Cassatt American painter and educator (d. 1926)
1844 `Abdu'l-Bahá Iranian religious leader (d. 1921)
1844 Félix Arnaudin French poet and photographer (d. 1921)
1844 Garret Hobart American lawyer and politician 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)
1844 Detlev von Liliencron German poet and author (d. 1909)
1844 Oscar von Gebhardt German theologian and academic (d. 1906)
1844 John Boyle O'Reilly Irish-born poet journalist and fiction writer (d. 1890)
1844 Peter I of Serbia (d. 1921)
1844 Dankmar Adler German-born American architect and engineer (d. 1900)
1844 William Archibald Spooner English priest and scholar (d. 1930)
1844 Stefan Drzewiecki Ukrainian-Polish engineer and journalist (d. 1938)
1844 Gerard Manley Hopkins English poet (d. 1889)
1844 Henri Berger German composer and bandleader (d. 1929)
1844 Ilya Repin Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1930)
1844 Alfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1900)
1844 James Henry Greathead South African-English engineer (d. 1896)
1844 Auguste Michel-Lévy French geologist and author (d. 1911)
1844 Thomas-Alfred Bernier Canadian journalist lawyer and politician (d. 1908)
1844 George W. De Long American Naval officer and explorer (d. 1881)
1844 Edward Carpenter English anthologist and poet (d. 1929)
1844 Emily Ruete/Salama bint Said also called Sayyida Salme a Princess of Zanzibar and Oman (d. 1924)
1844 Abel Hoadley English-Australian candy maker created the Violet Crumble (d. 1918)
1844 Paul Taffanel French flute player and conductor (d. 1908)
1844 William H. Illingworth English-American photographer (d. 1893)
1844 Robert Stout Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
1844 Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman Argentinian lawyer and politician 10th President of Argentina (d. 1909)
1844 Edward Pulsford English-Australian politician and free-trade campaigner (d. 1919)
1844 Francis William Reitz South African lawyer and politician 5th State President of the Orange Free State (d. 1934)
1844 Henry J. Heinz American businessman founded the H. J. Heinz Company (d. 1919)
1844 Ernest Myers English poet and author (d. 1921)
1844 John See English-Australian politician 14th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1907)
1844 Gustave Schlumberger French historian (d. 1929)
1844 Sarah Bernhardt French actress (d. 1923)
1844 Robert Bridges English poet and playwright (d. 1930)
1844 Philip Wicksteed English economist (d. 1927)
1844 Klas Pontus Arnoldson Swedish journalist and politician Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
1844 Mehmed V Ottoman sultan (d. 1918)
1844 John J. Loud American inventor (d. 1916)
1844 Henry Eyster Jacobs American educator and theologian (d. 1932)
1844 Alexandra of Denmark (d. 1925)
1844 Franz Xavier Wernz German religious leader 25th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914)
1844 Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee Indian barrister and first president of Indian National Congress (d. 1906)
1844 G. Stanley Hall American psychologist and academic (d. 1924)
