Born on May 23
1707 Carolus Linnaeus [Carl von Linné], Swedish botanist.
1734 Friedrich Anton Mesmer, physician and hypnotist.
1810 Margaret Fuller, writer and critic.
1820 James Buchanan Eads, engineer of the Eads Bridge in St. Louis
1875 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president and chairman of the board for General Motors.
1891 Par Lagerkvist, Swedish writer (The Dwarf, Barabbas).
1908 John Bardeen, physicist, co-inventor of the transistor.
1910 Artie Shaw, bandleader and clarinetist.
1920 Helen O'Connell, big band vocalist.
1928 Rosemary Clooney, singer.
1934 Robert A. Moog, electrical engineer, creator of the Moog synthesizer.
1947 Jane Kenyon, poet (Let Evening Come, Otherwise).
Famous birthdays
Born on May 24
1544 William Gilbert, English physician and scientist.
1743 Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary.
1819 Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom (1836-1901).
1878 Lillian Moller Gilbreth, pioneer in time-motion studies.
1895 Samuel I. Newhouse, American publisher.
1903 Arthur Vineberg, Canadian heart surgeon.
1905 Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist (And Quiet Flows the Don).
1928 William Trevor, Irish short story writer and novelist (The Old Boys, The Boarding House).
1941 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman), singer and songwriter.
Born on May 25
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher.
1878 Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, tap dancer.
1886 Philip Murray, American labor leader, founder of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
1889 Igor Sikorsky, American aviation engineer who developed the first successful helicopter.
1898 Bennett Cerf, publisher, founder of Random House.
1898 Gene Tunney, heavyweight boxing champion.
1908 Theodore Rothke, poet.
1926 Miles Davis, American jazz trumpeter.
1929 Beverly Sills, opera singer.
1932 John Gregory Dunne, novelist and journalist.
1938 Raymond Carver, American writer.
1949 Jamaica Kincaid, author (Annie John, Lucy).
Born on May 26
1667 Abraham De Moivre, mathematician.
1835 Edward Porter Alexander, artillery general during the American Civil War.
1883 Mamie Smith, blues singer.
1886 Al Jolson, jazz singer and film actor.
1895 Dorothea Lange, documentary photographer.
1903 Estes Kefauver, Tennessee senator.
1907 John Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison], American actor and film icon.
1919 Jay Silverheels, actor (The Lone Ranger).
1920 Peggy Lee, jazz singer.
1923 James Arness, actor (Gunsmoke).
1951 Sally Ride, astronaut, the first American woman in space.
Born on May 27
1332 Dante Alighieri, Italian writer.
1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, American industrialist and philanthropist.
1819 Julia Ward Howe, writer of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
1837 Wild Bill [James Butler] Hickok, American frontiersman and lawman.
1878 Isadora Duncan, dancer and choreographer.
1894 (Samuel) Dashiell Hammett, detective writer (The Maltese Falcon).
1907 Rachel Carson, biologist and writer (Silent Spring, The Sea Around Us).
1911 Hubert Humphrey, U.S. politician.
1911 Vincent Price, actor and horror film icon.
1912 John Cheever, writer (The Wapshot Chronicles).
1915 Herman Wouk, author (Winds of War, The Caine Mutiny).
1923 Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under President Nixon.
1925 Tony Hillerman, mystery novelist (The Blessing Way, Sacred Clowns).
Born on May 28
1759 William Pitt the Younger, prime minister of England (1783-1801).
1738 Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine, French inventor of the execution device which bears his name.
1779 Thomas Moore, Irish poet.
1807 Jean Agassiz, naturalist and educator.
1818 P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate general during the American Civil War.
1888 Jim Thorpe, American athlete.
1908 Ian Fleming, British novelist, created the character James Bond.
1910 T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist and singer.
1912 Patrick White, Australian writer (The Tree of Man, The Eye of the Storm).
1916 Walker Percy, writer (The Moviegoer, Love in the Ruins).
1918 Herb Shriner, radio humorist.
1919 May Swenson, poet.
1932 Stephen Birmingham, novelist and biographer.
1936 Fred Chappell, poet and novelist.
1940 Maeve Binchy, Irish writer (Circle of Friends, The Copper Beach).
Born on May 29
1630 Charles II, king of England (1660-1685).
1736 Patrick Henry, American revolutionary and governor of Virginia.
1874 G.K. Chesterton, English writer.
1880 Oswald Spengler, German philosopher of history and author of The Decline of the West.
1894 Bea Lillie, comic actress.
1894 Josef von Sternberg, film director (Blue Angel).
1903 Bob Hope, comedian and actor.
1906 T.H. White, British writer (The Sword in the Stone).
1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (1961-1963).
1955 John Hinckley Jr., attempted assassin of President Ronald Reagan.
Born on May 30
1672 Peter I (the Great) czar of Russia.
1867 Arthur Vining Davis, American industrialist.
1903 Countee Cullen, American poet.
1908 Hannes Alfvén, Swedish, Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist.
1908 Mel Blanc, American entertainer, vocal artist.
1909 Benny Goodman, musician, big band leader.
1916 Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, co-discoverer of plutonium.
Born on June 1
1563 Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury.
1801 Brigham Young, American religious leader.
1814 Philip Kearney, Union general.
1831 John B. Hood, Confederate general.
1878 John Masefield, English poet.
1898 Molly Picon, comic actress and singer.
1901 John van Druten, English playwright (I am a Camera).
1926 Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jean Mortenson, later Norma Jean Baker), film actress and icon.
1932 Christopher Lasch, American social critic and writer.
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1563 Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury.
I have had his steak; its quite good, actually. isn't it made with squirrel?
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