Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, KLS was a British East India Company army officer, politician, and Orientalist, sometimes described as the Father of Assyriology. His son, also Henry, was to become a senior commander in the British Army during the First World War.

5 April 1810

Born on the same birth day (5 April): Benjamin Harrison V • Dean Kamen • Fernando Germani • Frank Gorshin • Frederick Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg • Glenn Jordan • Kristof Vandewalle • Samuele Preisig • Vlada Avramov • Yohann Sangaré

Born in the same month (April 1810): Félicien David • John Putnam Chapin • Philip Henry Gosse • Thomas Adolphus Trollope