May 4 Edmund Hart Turpin, English composer, born in Nottingham, England (d. 1907)
May 11 Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (Dievs, svētī Latviju! (“God bless Latvia!”), the national anthem of Latvia), born in Viļķene Parish, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1905)
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