List of Famous people born on May 19th
Gad Rausing
Gad Rausing was a Swedish industrialist and archaeologist. Together with his brother Hans he inherited the Swedish packaging company Tetra Pak, founded by their father Ruben Rausing and by 2011 the largest food packaging company in the world by sales. In 1995 Rausing bought out his brother's interest in the company in what was at the time the most extensive private buyout in Europe.
Maurice de Rothschild
Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild was a French art collector, vineyard owner, financier and politician. He was born into the Rothschild banking family of France.
Manuel Almunia
Manuel Almunia Rivero is a Spanish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Lady Charlotte Guest
Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest, later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English aristocrat who is best known as the first publisher in modern print format of The Mabinogion which is the earliest prose literature of Britain. Guest established The Mabinogion as a source literary text of Europe, claiming this recognition among literati in the context of contemporary passions for the Chivalric romance of King Arthur and the Gothic movement. The name Guest used for the book was derived from a mediaeval copyist’s error, already established in the 18th century by William Owen Pughe and the London Welsh societies.
William Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower
William Manners Tollemache, Lord Huntingtower, known as Sir William Manners, Bt, between 1793 and 1821, was a British nobleman and Tory politician.
Ana María Pérez del Campo
Ana María Pérez del Campo Noriega is a Spanish lawyer, feminist and writer. She pioneered the struggle for women's rights under Franco and during Spain's transition to democracy. In 1974, she founded and headed the Asociación de Mujeres Separadas at a time when divorce had not yet been legalized and went on to prepare the terms of the 1981 divorce law. She has constantly fought for equal rights for men and women, recently turning to the defence of abused women.
Catherine Dickens
Catherine Thomson "Kate" Dickens was the wife of English novelist Charles Dickens, and the mother of his ten children.
Kweon Han-jin
Kweon Han-Jin is a South Korean football player who plays for Jeju United.
Wilson Alfredo Jones
Wilson Alfredo Jones Rodríguez was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Egon Albrecht-Lemke
Egon Albrecht-Lemke was a German-Brazilian Luftwaffe fighter pilot and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross during World War II. Albrecht claimed 25 aerial victories, 10 over the Western Front and 15 over the Eastern Front.