Dan Brouthers
Dennis Joseph "Dan" Brouthers was an American first baseman in Major League Baseball whose career spanned the period from 1879 to 1896, with a brief return in 1904. Nicknamed "Big Dan" for his size, he was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) and weighed 207 pounds (94 kg), which was large by 19th-century standards.
8 May 1853
Born on the same birth day (8 May): Chinmayananda Saraswati • David Hurst • Evgeny Lebedev • Jordyn Huitema • Margarete Böhme • Thomas Drury (1551–1603)
Born in the same month (May 1853): Carl Larsson • Jacob Gordin • Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac • Vaiben Louis Solomon