Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, also known as "Der große Schweiger" (translated as "The Great Taciturn" or "The Great Silent One"), was born in 1800, and his voice recordings from...

The earliest born person with a recording was a man who hated talking. History really does have a sense of humor.

Quite fitting that one of his recordings was a line from Shakespeare: Dein Ohr leih jedem, wengen deine Stimme – Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice

Reminds me the joke that when Moltke was awakened in the middle of the night with the news that France had declared war on Prussia, he rolled over onto his other side and said, “The second drawer on the left — the plans are ready there” and went back to sleep.

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