Sir Richard Burton translated The Arabian Nights and The Kama Sutra into English

It is the birthday of British explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821), who may be best remembered for translating the Arabian Nights stories from Arabic and, with linguist Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, the Indian love guides, the Kama Sutra (1883) and the Ananga Ranga (1895) from Sanskrit. Burton also explored East Africa and the Lake Tanganyika region and wrote Lake Regions of Equatorial Africa (1860).