Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore, also known as Tom Moore, was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. His setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes marked the transition in popular Irish culture from Irish to English. Politically, Moore was recognised in England as a press, or "squib", writer for the aristocratic Whigs; in Ireland he was accounted a Catholic patriot.

28 May 1779

Born on the same birth day (28 May): Alexander Mitscherlich (chemist) • António Manoel de Vilhena • Carl Larsson • Louis Agassiz • Ole K. Sara • Red Horner • W. G. G. Duncan Smith • William Shawcross

Born in the same month (May 1779): Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger