Who was born earliest, Carl Maria von Weber or Charles Gounod?
Carl Maria von Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (18 or 19 November 1786 5 June 1826) was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, and was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.
Charles Cayley Charles Bagot Cayley (1823–1883) was an English linguist, best known for translating Dante into the metre of the original, with annotations. He also made metrical versions of the "Iliad", the "Prometheus" of Æschylus, the "Canzoniere" of Petrarch.