Nellie Bly

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.

5 May 1864

Born on the same birth day (5 May): Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell • Charles B. Hanford • Chief Bender • Collie Smith • Heike Henkel • Jean Corston, Baroness Corston • Meb Keflezighi • Roger Rees • Sergey Stanishev • Stan Goldberg • Steve Scott (runner) • Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter • Vanessa Bryant • William C. Campbell (golfer) • Yossi Benayoun

Born in the same month (May 1864): Anna Jarvis • Ante Trumbić • Louis Richardet • Princess Stéphanie of Belgium • William O'Connor (fencer) • Willy Stöwer