Elizabeth Peabody
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.
16 May 1804
Born on the same birth day (16 May): Ivan Sutherland • Janet Soskice • Louisa Chirico • Maria Lacerda de Moura • Richard Page (musician) • Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford
Born in the same month (May 1804): Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad • Robert Baldwin