Ki Hajar Dewantara

Raden Mas Soewardi Soerjaningrat ; from 1922 also known as Ki Hadjar Dewantara, which is also written as Ki Hajar Dewantoro to reflect its Javanese pronunciation, was a leading Indonesian independence movement activist, writer, columnist, politician, and pioneer of education for native Indonesians in Dutch colonial times. He founded the Taman Siswa school, an institution that provided education for indigenous commoners, which otherwise was limited to the Javanese aristocracy and the Dutch colonials.

2 May 1889

Born on the same birth day (2 May): Athanasius Kircher • Brad Richards • Catherine Labouré • Catherine the Great • Dawn Primarolo • Elijah McCoy • Ellie Kemper • Faisal II • Huang Zitao • Isabel González • Judge Dread • Link Wray • Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho • Satyajit Ray • Sunmi • Tiago Mendes

Born in the same month (May 1889): Abelardo L. Rodríguez • Alfonso Reyes • Beulah Bondi • Dorothy Gibson • Francis Spellman • Gottfried Fuchs • Günther Lütjens • Henry B. Richardson • Otto Frank • Paul Nash (artist) • Richard Réti • Thomas Midgley Jr. • Tản Đà • Viktor Puskar