This Week's Birthdays - Week of May 23

May 23, 1729 – Giuseppe Parini, Italian writer (d. 1799)

May 24, 1686 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, German inventor and thermometer maker (d. 1736)

May 25, 1803 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher (d. 1882)

May 26, 1907 – John Wayne, American actor (d. 1979)

May 27, 1837 – Wild Bill Hickok, American gunfighter (d. 1876)

May 28, 1818 – P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (d. 1893)

May 29, 1736 – Patrick Henry, American patriot, 1st & 6th Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)