Famous Births, Deaths and Notable Dates in May |
1st - First
Labor Day.
Joseph Addison 1672.
Arthur, Duke of Wellington, 1769.
| 11th - Eleventh
Baron Mόnchhausen 1720.
William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1778.
Jean Lιon Gιrτme 1824.
| 21 - Twenty-first
Albrecht Dόrer 1471.
Fernando de Soto 1542.
Alexander Pope 1688.
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2nd - Second
Leonardo da Vinci 1519.
Robert Hall 1764.
Jerome K. Jerome 1859.
William Henry Hudson 1862.
| 12th - Twelfth
Robert Fielding 1712.
James Sheridan Knowles 1784.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828.
Jules Massenet 1842.
| 22 - Twenty-second
Newman Hall 1816.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner 1813.
Maria Edgeworth 1849.
Victor Hugo 1885. |
3rd - Third
Niccolo Machiavelli 1469.
Thomas Hood 1845.
Jacob Riis 1849.
| 13th - Thirteenth
Carolus Linnζus (Karl von Linnι) 1707.
Alphonse Daudet 1840.
Sir Arthur Sullivan 1842. | 23 - Twenty-third
Thomas Hood 1798.
Margaret Fuller Ossoli 1810.
Henrik Ibsen 1896.
Dr. John Campbell 1861.
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4th - Fourth
Frederick Edwin Church 1826.
Isaac Barrow 1677.
John James Audubon 1780.
Horace Mann 1796.
Thomas Henry Huxley 1825.
| 14th - Fourteenth
John Dutton 1659.
Gabriel Fahrenheit 1686.
Robert Owen 1771.
Henry Grattan 1820.
| 24 - Twenty-fourth
Jean Paul Marat 1744.
Stephen Girard 1750.
Sir Robert Adair 1763.
Queen Victoria 1819.
Caroline Fox 1819.
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5th - Fifth
Napoleon Bonaparte 1821.
Empress Eugenie 1826.
Bret Harte 1902.
| 15th - Fifteenth
Ephraim Chambers 1740.
Florence Nightingale 1820.
Michael W. Balfe 1808.
Edmund Keane 1833.
Daniel O'Connell 1847.
| 25 - Twenty-fifth
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (George) 1803.
Dr. William Paley 1805.
William Henry Channing 1810. |
6th - Sixth
Plato b.c. 427.
Robespierre 1758.
General Andrea Messena 1758.
| 16th - Sixteenth
Sir William Patty 1623.
Honore de Balzac 1799.
William H. Seward 1801.
Felicia Hemans 1835.
| 26 - Twenty-sixth
The Venerable Bede 735.
Count Nicolas Ludwig Zinzendorf 1800.
Capel Lofft 1821.
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7th - Seventh
Correggio 1494.
Robert Browning 1812.
Johannes Brahms 1833.
Lord Rosebery (Archibald Primrose) 1847.
| 17th - Seventeenth
Heloise 1163.
Matthew Parker 1575.
Edwin Jenner 1749.
| 27 - Twenty-seventh
Alighieri Dante 1265.
John Calvin 1564.
Julia Ward Howe 1819.
Noah Webster 1843.
John Kendrick Bangs 1862.
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8th - Eighth
Rev. William Jay 1769.
Franηois Mignet 1796.
Louis Gottschalk 1829.
John Stuart Mill 1873.
| 18th - Eighteenth
Francis Mahony (Father Prout) 1866.
Mrs. Johnson (Stella) 1735.
John Wilson (Christopher North) 1785.
| 28 - Twenty-eighth
William Pitt 1759.
Thomas Moore 1779.
Louis Agassiz 1807.
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9th - Ninth
John Brown 1800.
Johann Schiller 1805.
J. M. Barrie 1860. | 19th - Nineteenth
James Boswell 1795.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte 1762.
William E. Gladstone 1898. | 29 - Twenty-ninth
Patrick Henry 1736.
Joseph Fouche 1763.
Josephine 1814.
Gerald Massey 1829.
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10th - Tenth
Rouget de l'Isle 1760.
Jared Sparks 1789.
James Bryce 1838.
Sir Henry Stanley 1904.
| 20th - Twentieth
Elizabeth G. Fry 1780.
John Stuart Mill 1806.
Alfred Domett 1811.
Rudolf H. Lotze 1817.
Marquis de Lafayette 1834.
| 30 - Thirtieth
Joan d'Arc burned at Rouen 1431.
Alexander Pope 1744.
Voltaire 1778.
Alfred Austin 1835.
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| | 31st - Thirty-first
Ludwig Tieck 1773.
Joseph Haydn 1809.
Walt Whitman 1819.
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Famous Births, Deaths and Notable Dates in May |
