Louis Hachette

Louis Christophe François Hachette was a French publisher who established a Paris publishing house designed to produce books and other material to improve the system of school instruction. Publications were initially focused on the classics and subsequently expanded to include books and magazines of all types. The firm is currently part of a global publishing house.

5 May 1800

Born on the same birth day (5 May): Aryna Sabalenka • Cathleen Synge Morawetz • Celeste (singer) • Delia Derbyshire • Emanuele Giaccherini • Georgios Papadopoulos • Guru Amar Das • Helen Redfield • Iryna Vilde • James Cracknell • Jon Butcher • Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor • Maggie MacNeal • Michael Palin • Rupert, King of the Romans • Simon Rimmer • Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter • Tiffany Roberts • William George Beers • Žigmund Pálffy

Born in the same month (May 1800): Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de Bonnechose • John Brown (abolitionist) • Roman Sanguszko • Rómulo Díaz de la Vega