Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus

Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus was a German encyclopedia publisher and editor, famed for publishing the Conversations-Lexikon, which is now published as the Brockhaus encyclopedia.

4 May 1772

Born on the same birth day (4 May): Amos Oz • Chris Tomlin • Eric Djemba-Djemba • Frederic Edwin Church • Jackie Jackson • Jay Aston • Jme • John Hanning Speke • Katherine Jackson • Kathy Kreiner • Kimora Lee Simmons • Richard Baggallay (cricketer) • Rory McIlroy

Born in the same month (May 1772): Novalis • Raja Ram Mohan Roy • Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet