Mother (Mary)
Jones (1830) labor leader of Appalachian coal miners
M. Scott Carpenter (1925) American astronaut and oceanographer
Who shares my birthday?
Is your birthday in May? The names of some of the famous people born in
May are shown on the calendar on this page and the next. What do you
know about the person who shares your birthday?
Catherine the
Great (1729) German princess who became empress of Russia
Bing Crosby
(1904) American singer
Golda Meir (1898) prime minister of Israel
Pete Seeger (1919) American folk singer and composer
Horace Mann
(1796) American educator
Thomas Huxley
(1825) English biologist
Karl Marx (1818)
German philosopher, revolutionary, and writer
Nellie Bly (1867?) American newspaper reporter (real name Elizabeth
Cochrane)
Robert E. Peary (1856) American who discovered the North Pole
Willie Mays (1931)
American baseball player; third greatest home run hitter
Robert Browning (1812) English poet
John Unitas (1933) American who became one of the greatest football
quarterbacks
Harry S. Truman (1884) 33rd President of the United States
Fulton J. Sheen
(1895) American religious leader
John Brown (1800) American antislavery reformer
Sir James Barrie
(1860) Scottish author who wrote Peter Pan
Fred Astaire (1899) American entertainer
Ella Tambussi
Grasso (1919) first woman governor of Connecticut
Ottmar
Mergenthaler
(1854) German- American inventor of Linotype (a machine that sets
metal type)
Irving Berlin (1888) American songwriter
Florence Nightingale (1820) English nurse; founded modern
professional nursing
Yogi Berra (1925) American baseball player and manager
Maria Theresa (1717) Austrian empress
Joe Louis (1914) the “Brown Bomber,” American boxing champion
Gabriel Fahrenheit
(1686) German scientist; developed the Fahrenheit temperature scale
L. Frank Baum (1856) American author of Oz books
Pierre Curie (1859)
French scientist who, with his wife, Marie, discovered radium
William Seward (1801) American statesman who purchased Alaska from
Russia
Olga Korbut (1955) Soviet Olympic gold medal gymnast
Edward Jenner
(1749) English
doctor; discovered > vaccination against n smallpox
Alfonso XIII (1886) king of Spain
Bertrand Russell
(1872) British philosopher and mathematician
Dame Margot Fonteyn (1919) British ballerina
Dame Nellie Melba (1861) Australian opera singer
Lorraine
Hansberry (1930)
American playwright who wrote A Raisin in the Sun
Antoinette Blackwell (1825) first ordained woman minister in U.S.
Sigrid Undset (1882) Norwegian author who won a
Nobel Prize
Elisha Root (1808) American mechanic and inventor
Glenn Hammond
Curtiss (1879) American aviator and aeronautical inventor
Richard Wagner
(1813) German musical composer
Arthur Conan
Doyle (1859) British author of the Sherlock Holmes stories
Carolus Linnaeus
(1707) Swedish botanist
Mary Cassatt (1845)
American painter best known for pictures of mothers and children
Victoria (1819) British queen who ruled for 63 years
Jane Byrne (1934) American politician; first woman mayor of Chicago
Ralph Waldo
Emerson (1803)
American writer
Beverly Sills (1929)
American singer
Sally Ride (1951) American astronaut; first American woman in space
John Wayne (1907) American movie actor
Julia Ward Howe
(1819) American poet;
wrote “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Rachel Carson
(1907) American biologist who wrote The Sea Around Us
Jim Thorpe (1888) American Indian who was a great athlete
Patrick White (1912) Australian author who won a Nobel Prize
Patrick Henry
(1736) American patriot
John F. Kennedy
(1917) 35th President of the United States
Rosa Raisa (1893) Polish-born opera singer
Benny Goodman
(1909) American clarinetist and bandleader
Walt Whitman (1819) American poet; wrote Leaves of Grass
Elizabeth
Coatsworth (1893) American author of books for children