Gilbert Jessop

Gilbert Laird Jessop was an English cricket player, often reckoned to have been the fastest run-scorer cricket has ever known. He was Wisden Cricketer of the Year for 1898.

19 May 1874

Born on the same birth day (19 May): Arthur Gorrie • Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol • Bill Laimbeer • Claude Lelièvre • David Curtiss Munson • Dolph Schayes • Dusty Hill • Edward Parkes • Eugene Genovese • Igor Ter-Ovanesyan • Joey Ramone • Jordan Pruitt • Karel van het Reve • Kevin Amankwaah • Kevin Garnett • Leslie Broderick • Manuel Almunia • Marcedes Lewis • Polly Walker • Sina Schielke • Tony Hackworth

Born in the same month (May 1874): Clemens von Pirquet • D. F. Malan • Ernest Duchesne • François Coty • G. K. Chesterton • George Sheldon (diver) • Howard Carter • Paul Van Asbroeck • Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (1874–1878) • Romaine Brooks • Thomas Bavin • Vagn Walfrid Ekman