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): Anton Kokorin • Barend Biesheuvel • Bianca Maria Sforza • Caitlin Moran • Chester B. Bowles • Emperor Go-Fushimi • Jess Sum • Jonathan Erlich • Makar Honcharenko • Mario Kasun • Matthew Emmons • Paula Cole • Peter Grant (music manager) • Pharrell Williams • Pierre Nihant • Sigmund Exner • Thomas Hitzlsperger • Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945) • Vincenzo Viviani

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