Joseph Merrick

Joseph Carey Merrick, often erroneously called John Merrick, was an English man known for his severe physical deformities. He was first exhibited at a freak show under the stage name "the Elephant Man", and then went to live at the London Hospital, in Whitechapel, after meeting Sir Frederick Treves, subsequently becoming well known in London society.

5 August 1862

Born on the same birth day (5 August): Carl Harries • Horace Rawlins • Ilya Repin • Jack Cogger • Louise of the Netherlands • Richie Ginther • Tamás Faragó • Terri Clark • The Dave Clark Five • Ulla Salzgeber • Wassily Leontief • Xavier Trias

Born in the same month (August 1862): Amos Alonzo Stagg • Andrew Fisher • Claude Debussy • Emilio Salgari • Henri Le Sidaner • Herbert Booth • Maurice Maeterlinck • Victoria of Baden • Zonia Baber