Ferdinand Lassalle

Ferdinand Lassalle was a Prussian-German jurist, philosopher, socialist and politician who is best remembered as the initiator of the social-democratic movement in Germany. "Lassalle was the first man in Germany, the first in Europe, who succeeded in organising a party of socialist action", according to Élie Halévy. Or, as Rosa Luxemburg put it: "Lassalle managed to wrestle from history in two years of flaming agitation that needed decades to come about".

11 April 1825

Born on the same birth day (11 April): Anatoly Berezovoy • Andronikos IV Palaiologos • Bernd Eichinger • Christopher Smart • Dimitrios Anastasopoulos • Guy Verhofstadt • Harley Race • Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours • Olivier Magne • Trot Nixon • Veronica Pyke

Born in the same month (April 1825): Thomas D'Arcy McGee