Guido Gezelle

Guido Pieter Theodorus Josephus Gezelle was an influential writer and poet and a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium. He is famous for the use of the West Flemish dialect, but he also wrote in other languages like Dutch, English, French, German, Latin and Greek.

1 May 1830

Born on the same birth day (1 May): Alex Cunningham • Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas • James Clarence Mangan • Jan Heylen • Johannes Stadius • Katya Zamolodchikova • Nikolai Yezhov • Peter Lax • William Lilly • William Nylander

Born in the same month (May 1830): Alexei Savrasov • Antonio Annetto Caruana • Hector Malot • John B. Stetson • Otto Staudinger • Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) • Zebulon Vance