Novalis

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.

2 May 1772

Born on the same birth day (2 May): Abraham Pineo Gesner • Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels • David Beckham • David Rocastle • Duncan Gay • Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni • James Dyson • Jeong Jin-woon • John Glascock • Ki Hajar Dewantara • Luis Suárez (footballer, born 1935) • Schuyler Bailar • Theodore Bikel • Tiago Mendes

Born in the same month (May 1772): Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus • Raja Ram Mohan Roy • Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet