Prentice Mulford

Prentice Mulford was an American literary humorist and California author. In addition, he was pivotal in the development of the thought within the New Thought movement. Many of the principles that would become standard in the movement, including the Law of Attraction, were clearly laid out in his Your Forces and How to Use Them, released as a series of essays during 1886–1892.

5 April 1834

Born on the same birth date (5 April 1834): Frank R. Stockton • Wilhelm Olbers Focke

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Aleksei Budõlin • Barbara Holland • Charlotte de Turckheim • Dean Kamen • Enzo Cannavale • Frank Schepke • Frans Gommers • Harry Freedman • Herbert von Karajan • Janet Rowley • Rachel Homan • Roy McFarland • Saba Qamar • Sandy Mayer • Stanley Dziedzic • Sébastien Érard • Yasuhiro Takemoto • Émile Billard

Born in the same month (April 1834): Charles Farrar Browne • Charles Lennox Richardson • Frank R. Stockton • James Fisk (financier) • Wilhelm Olbers Focke