Lovro Toman

Lovro Toman was a Slovene Romantic nationalist revolutionary activist during the Revolution of 1848, known as the person who in Ljubljana, at the Wolf Street 8, raised the Slovene tricolor for the first time in history in response to a German flag raised on top of the Ljubljana Castle. Later he helped founding one of the first Slovene publishing houses, the Slovenska matica. He was a Slovene national conservative politician and member of the Austrian Parliament. Together with Janez Bleiweis and Etbin Henrik Costa, he was part of the leadership of the Old Slovene party.

10 August 1827

Born on the same birth day (10 August): Al Alberts • Alfred Döblin • Bernardo Silva • Billy Gonsalves • Bona of Savoy • Charles Darrow • Doyle Brunson • George Cooper (British Army officer) • Greg Hawgood • Ian Murray (Scottish politician) • Jimmy Martin • Marcus Foligno • Michael Dokes • Nikos Korovesis • Norma Shearer • Peter Endrulat • Riddick Bowe • Rocky Colavito • Samuel Arnold (composer) • William Harnett

Born in the same month (August 1827): Charles Lilley • Deodoro da Fonseca • Ezra Butler Eddy • Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna of Russia