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May
May 1
1493 Phillippus Paracelsus--Born (Physician and Alchemist)
1672 Joseph Addison--Born (Essayist/Journalist)
1700 John Dryden--Died (English Poet/Author)
1759 Jacob Albright--Born (American Methodist Clergyman/Died 1808)
1764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe--Born (U.S. Capitol Architect)
1769 Arthur Wellsley--Born [Duke of Wellington (Iron Duke)]
1807 John Bankhead (Prince John) Magruder--Born (Major General, CSA)
1819 William Steele--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1823 Thomas Harrison--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/Brother of Brigadier Gen. James Edward Harrison)
1830 Mother (Mary Harris) Jones--Born (Reformer and labor organizer)
1835 Alfred Napoleon Alexander (Nattie) Duffié--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1839 Louis-Maire-Hilaire Bernigaud--Born (French chemist/inventor of rayon)
1850 Arthur William Patrick Born (Prince of England/Son of Queen Victoria)
1852 (Calamity) Jane Martha Canary--Born (Sharpshooter, muleskinner)
1855 Lucy Stone Married (she kept her maiden name) Henry Browne Blackwell (brother of Elizabeth & Emily Blackwell pioneer physicians)
1863 Edward Dorr Tracy--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1870 John Stough Bobbs--Died (Performed the first gall-bladder surgery in the U.S.Indiana State Senator)
1873 David Livingston--Died (Scottish explorer/missionary)
1880 Samuel Peter Heintzelman--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1881 John Smith Preston--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1895 John Newton--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1896 Mark Clark--Born (American General/WWII)
1903 Randolph Sinks Foster--Died (American Clergy/Author)
1909 Kate Smith--Born (singer)
1931 The Empire State Building opened in New York City
1950 Gwendolyn Brooks first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for
poetry
1967 Elvis Presley (Rock Star) married Priscilla Beaulieu.
May 2
1451 Rene II--Born (Duke of Lorraine/Son of Frederich Count of Vaudemont & Yolande of Lorraine)
1519 Leonardo da Vinci--Died (Italian Artist/Inventor, etc.)
1551 William Camden--Born (English Historian)
1729 Catherine II "The Great"--Born (Empress of Russia)
1809 Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke--Died (German Theologian/Historian & Author)
1821 Abram Sanders Piatt--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army/Poet)
1885 Hedda Hopper (Elda Furry)--Born (American Actress/Gossip Columnist)
1898 Charles Carroll Walcutt--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1903 Benjamin Spock--Born (American Pediatrician/Author)
1904 Bing Crosby--Born (Singer/Actor)
1907 Pinky Lee (Pincus Leff)--Born (American Comic/Children's TV Show: The Pinky Lee Show)
1972 J. Edgar Hoover--Died (United States FBI Director)
1983 Norm Van Brocklin "The Dutchman"--Died (American Football Player)
May 3
1455 John II "The Perfect"--Born (King of Portugal 1481-1495/Son of Alfonso V)
1469 Niccolo Machiavelli--Born (Italian Philosopher/Author)
1660 John II Casimir King of Poland initiated the Peace at Olivia
1782 Robert Mockton--Died (English General)
1852 Sara Coleridge--Died (Daughter & Biographer of Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
1863 Elisha Franklin (Bull) Paxton--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1868 William Henry Carroll--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1914 Daniel Edgar Sickles--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Minister to Spain/US Congressman)
May 4
1796 Horace Mann--Born (American Educator)
1823 Nelson Grosvenor Williams--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1825 Thomas Huxley--Born (English Biologist)
1880 Edward Clark--Born (Texas Governor/Son of Ely Clark & Susannah)
1885 Irvin Mcdowell--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1929 Audrey Hepburn--Born (Actress)
1970 Kent State massacre
1975 Moe Howard--Died (American Comedy Actor: The Three Stooges)
May 5
1429 Battle of Orleans--Hundred Years War (French under Joan of Arc attacked English)
1525 Frederick III "The Wise"--Died (Co-regent of Saxony with brother John "The Constant")
1671 Edward Montagu--Died (Born 1602) (English General/Statesman/2nd Earl of Manchester/Son of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester)
1800 Louis Christopher Francois Hachette--Born (French Publisher)
1813 Soren Kierkegaard--Born (Danish philosopher and theologian)
1814 The British attacked Ft. Ontario
1818 Karl Marx--Born (German Socialist/Author)
1821 Napoleon Bonaparte Died
1823 James Allen Hardie--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1824 Thomas Welsh--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1830 John Batterson Stetson--Born (Hat designer)
1861 Peter Cooper Hewitt--Born (Inventor of the mercury-vapor lamp)
1864 John Marshall Jones--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1865 The Thirteenth Amendment ratified abolishing slavery
1867 Nellie Bly--Born (Journalist)
1880 Peter William Lund--Died (Danish Naturalist)
1883 Charles Albert (Chief) Bender--Born (Native American Baseball Hall of
Fame)
1886 Gabriel René Paul--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1891 Carnegie Hall opened in New York City
1899 Freeman F. Gosden--Born (Radio comedy writer and performer /Amos 'n' Andy)
1902 Bret Harte (Francis Brett Harte)--Died (American humorist/author/poet/Son of Henry Harte & Elizabeth Ostrander)
1904 The first perfect baseball game
1908 Rex Harrison--Born (Actor)
1909 Carlos Baker--Born (Biographer)
1925 John T. Scopes arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution
1911 Crystal Eastman (Social investigator/Peace worker/Feminist/Daughter of Eliiah Eastman & Annis Bertha Ford)Married Wallace Benedict
1961 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became the first American in Space
May 6
973 Henry II--Born (Holy Roman emperor)
1429 Battle of Orleans (day 2)--Hundred Years War (French under Joan of Arc attacked English)
1527 Charles III, Duke of Bourbon--Died (8th Duke of Bourbon/Son of Gilbert,Count of Montpensier & Claire de Gonzague)
1529 Battle of Ghagra (Babur defeated the Afghan Chiefs)
1576 The Fifth War of Religion in France ended with the Peace of Monsieur The Huguenots were granted freedom of worship in all places except Paris
1740 John Penn--Born (Signer of the Declaration of Independence)
1758 Maximillien Robespierre--Born (French Revolutionary)
1782 Sir Edward Charles Whinyates--Born (British General/Son of Major Thomas Whinyates & Catherine Frankland)
1786 Ludwig Borne (originally Lob Baruch)--Born (German Satirist/Political writer)
1801 George Sears Greene--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1813 Joseph Tarr Copeland--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1817 Ann Elizabeth Schonemann--Died (German Lady celebrated by Goethe)
1825 Joseph Bailey--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1840 Frederick William Stowe--Born (Son of Harriet Beecher
Stowe)
1856 Sigmund Freud--Born (Psycologist)
1859 Alexander Von Humbolt--Died (German Scientist/Explorer & Brother of Wilhelm)
1861 Arkansas secedes from the Union
1862 Henry David Thoreau--Died (American author)
1864 Micah Jenkins--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1868 Nicholas II--Born (Last Russian Tsar)
1877 Chief Crazy Horse surrendered to U.S. troops
1888 Russell Stover--Born (Candy magnate)
1893 Joseph Tarr Copeland--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1895 Rudolph Valentino--Born (Actor)
1902 Max Ophuls--Born (Film director)
1910 Edward VII--Died (King of England)
1915 Orson Welles--Born (Actor, director, and writer)
1931 Willie Mays (The 'Say hey ' kid)--Born (Baseball Player)
1937 The German airship Hindenburg burst into flames and crashed to the ground as it attempted to dock with a mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey
1942 Ariel Dorfman--Born (Chilean author)
1954 Medical student Roger Bannister broke the four-minute mile during a track meet finishing in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds
1992 Marlene Dietrich--Died (Actress)
May 7
973 Otto I (The Great)--Died (Roman Emperor/King of Germany)
1429 Battle of Orleans (day 3)--Hundred Years War (French under Joan of Arc continued attack on English)
1718 Mary of Modena--Died (Queen of England/Daughter of Alfonso IV)
1762 Prince Josef Anton Poniatowski--Born (French General)
1774 William Bainbridge--Born (US Naval Officer)
1812 Robert Browning--Born (English Poet)
1821 Francis Engle Patterson--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1833 Johannes Brahms--Born (Composer)
1842 Theodore Edme Mionnet--Died (French Numismatist)
1863 Earl Van Dorn--Died (Major General, CSA)
1877 James Patrick Major-- Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1885 George (Gabby) Hayes--Born (Western Cowboy Actor)
1901 Gary Cooper--Born (Actor)
1915 British liner, Lusitania, sunk by a German submarine
May 8
1670 Charles Beauclerk--Born (1st Duke of St. Albans)
1783 Vincente Rocafuerte--Born (Ecuadorian Statesman)
1786 James Hamilton--Born (English Politician)
1810 James Cooper--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1833 Frank Wheaton--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1836 Bryan Morel Thomas--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1842 Dumont d'Urville (Jules Sebastian Cesar)--Died (French Rear-Admiral)
1864 Leroy Augustus Stafford--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1865 John Reynolds--Died (American politician & Author)
1873 John Stuart Mill--Died (Scottish Political Economist/Philosopher)
1878 Elsie May Bell--Born (Daughter of Alexander Graham Bell)
1880 Gustave Flaubert--Died (French Author)
1884 Harry S. Truman--Born (33rd US President)
1885 Thomas B. Costain--Born (Author/Historian)
1899 Manning Ferguson Force--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1940 Ricky Nelson--Born (Singer/Actor)
May 9
1741 Giovanni Paisiello--Born (Italian Opera Composer)
1775 Jacob Jennings Brown--Born (US General)
1800 John Brown--Born (Abolitionist)
1805 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller--Died (German Poet/Dramatist Author/Historian)
1809 Theodore Irving--Born (Author & Theologian)
1812 William George Mackey Davis--Born (Brigadier General, CSA/CSA Congressman)
1819 William Hays--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1824 William Edmondson (Grumble) Jones--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1827 William Feimster Tucker--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1864 John Sedgwick--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1874 Howard Carter--Born (Archeologist)
1888 George Gibbs Dibrell--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/US Congressman)
1889 William Selby Harney--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1903 Paul Gauguin--Died (French Artist/Son of Clovis Gauguin & Aline Maria Chazal)
May 10
1505 Charles III, Duke of Bourbon Married Suzanne, Dutchess of Bourbon, Daughter of Peter II, Duke of Bourbon & Anne of France, daughter of Louis XI, King of France
1730 George Ross--Born (Signer of US Declaration of Independence)
1774 Louis XV--Died (King of France)
1775 Americans under the command of Ethan Allen captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British
1795 Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry--Born (French Historian/Brother of Amedee Simon Dominique Thierry)
1810 James Shields--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army/US Senator)
1813 Montgomery Blair--Born (Postmaster General for Lincoln)
1818 Paul Revere--Died (American patriot)
1824 Charles Henry Van Wyck--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army/US Congressman/US Senator)
1825 William Henry Powell--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1830 Alfred Jefferson Vaughan, Jr. --Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1838 John Wilkes Booth--Born (President Lincoln's Assassin)
1843 Astor Place Riot in New York City
1863 Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson--Died (Confederate General)
1864 James Clay Rice--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1886 Albin Francisco Schoepf--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1899 Fred Astaire--Born (Dancer/Actor)
1907 Orlando Bolivar Willcox--Died (Major General, Union Army/Commanded Dept. of Arizona during Apache Wars/Author under the pseudonym Maj. Walter March)
May 11
1708 Jules Hardouin Mansart--Died (French Architect)
1726 Charles Beauclerk--Born (1st Duke of St. Albans)
1760 Johann Peter Hebel--Born (German Poet)
1780 Nicolas Fernandez de Moratin--Died (Spanish Poet)
1814 Robert Treat Paine--Died (Signer of US Declaration of Independence)
1821 Charles John Meuller Stohlbrand--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1830 John Converse Starkweather--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1838 Thomas Andrew Knight--Died (English Botanist/Brother of Richard Payne Knight)
1888 Irving Berlin--Born (Composer)
May 12
1191 Richard I (The Lionheart)--married Berengaria (Daughter of Sancho VI, King of Navarre)
1496 Gustavus I--Born (King of Sweden)
1691 Herbert Croft--Died (Bishop of Hereford)
1772 Heinrich Minutoli (Baron Menu Minutoli)--Born (German Archeologist)
1806 Amos Beebe Eaton--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1812 Louis (Ludwig) Blenker--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1845 August Wilhelm von Schlegel--Died (German Poet)
1864 James Ewell Brown (Jeb) Stuart--Died (Major General, CSA)
1890 Julius White--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1906 Gabriel Colvin Wharton--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1915 William W. Kirkland--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
May 13
1707 Carolus Linnaeus (Karl von Linne)--Born (Swedish Botanist)
1717 Maria Teresa Habsburg--Born (Austrian Empress)
1720 Maximillian Hell--Born (Austrian Astonomer)
1767 John VI--Born (King of Portugal 1816-1826/Son of Queen Maria I)
1779 Jakob Salomon Bartholdy--Born (German diplomat/Art Collector/Author)
1864 Junius Daniel--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1871 The Law of Guaranties that defined the relation of the Papacy and the Italian government
1885 Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle--Died (German Physiological Author)
1914 Joe Louis--Born (Boxer)
1941 Richie Valens--Born (Singer)
May 14
1219 William Marshal--Died (1st Earl of Pembroke/Regent of England)
1686 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit--Born
1771 Robert Owen--Born (Founder of English Socialism)
1796 William Hickley Prescott--Born (American Historian)
1830 George Pierce Doles--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1836 James Patrick Major--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1838 Angeline Emily Grimke (Abolitionist/Woman's rights activist)Married Theodore Weld
1882 John Gross Barnard--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1887 William Burnham Woods--Died (Major General, Union Army/Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court/Brother of Maj. Gen. Charles Robert Woods)
1892 Thomas Algeo Rowley--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army/US Marshal)
1905 Thomas James Churchill--Died (Major General, CSA)
1906 Carl Schurz--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Senator/Secretary of the Interior)
May 15
1797 Constantine Henry Phipps--Born (English Statesman/Son of the 1st Earl of Mulgrave)
1802 Isaac Ridgeway Trimble--Born (Major General, CSA)
1814 Stephen Heller--Born (Hungarian Pianist Composer)
1815 Collett Leventhorpe--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden--Born (Major General, Union Army & Brother of Confederate Gen. G B Crittenden)
1830 Laurence Simmons Baker--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1852 Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams--Died (Wife of President John Quincy Adams)
1859 Pierre Curie--Born (Physicist/Chemist & Husband of Marie Curie)
1875 Earthquake in Colombia 16,000 people Killed
1879 Kenner Garrard--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1883 Josiah Gorgas--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1886 Emily Dickinson--Died
1906 John Mcarthur--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1925 Nelson Appleton Miles--Died (Major General, Union Army)
May 16
1641 Sir Dudley North--Born (English Politician/Economist)
1801 William Henry Seward--Born (U.S. Secretary of State/Son of Samuel Sweezy Seward & Mary Jennings)
1806 George Cadwalader--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1824 Edmund Kirby Smith--Born (Lt. General, CSA)
1832 Philip Danforth Armour--Born (American meat packer entrepenuer/Danforth Armour & Julia Ann Brooks)
1835 Mrs. Hemans (Felicia Dorothea Browne)--Died (English Poet)
1847 Vincente Rocafuerte--Died (Ecuadorian Statesman)
1862 Joseph Lewis Hogg--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1863 Lloyd Tilghman--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1874 George Lucas Hartsuff--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1904 John Benjamin Sanborn--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1905 Henry Fonda--Born (Actor)
1919 Liberace--Born (Pianist)
May 17
1536 Thomas Boleyn--Died executed (Queen Anne's brother)
1727 Catherine I of Russia (Martha Skavronsky)--Died(Russian Empress/2nd Wife of Peter the Great/Daughter Of Samuel Skavronsky & Elisabeth Moritz)
1741 John Penn--Born (Signer of US Declaration of Independence)
1797 Theophilus Parsons, Jr.--Born (Legal Author)
1812 Joseph Warren Revere--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army/Grandson of Paul Revere/Traveler/Author)
1829 John Jay--Died
1847 Madame Fanny Cecile Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Hensel--Died (Composer)
1870 Eliakin Littell--Died (American Publisher)
1875 John Cabell Breckenridge--Died (Major General, CSA/US Congressman US Vice President)
1886 Alfonso XIII--Born (King of Spain)
1901 Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
May 18
1048 Omar Khayyam--Born (Persian Mathematician, Philosopher, Astronomer, and Poet)
1152 Henry II Married Eleanor daughter of William X, duke of Aquitaine, Eleanor was the ex-wife of Louis VII King of France
1733 Georg Bohm--Died (German Baroque Organist)
1797 King Frederick I of Wurttemberg Married Charlotte Augusta Matilda (Princess Royal of England)
1798 Ethan Allen Hitchcock--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1857 Clarence Darrow--Born(American Lawyer/Son Of Amirus Darrow & Emily Eddy)
1862 William Hugh Keim--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1864 James Byron Gordon--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1884 Heinrich Robert Goppert--Died (German Botanist/Paleontologist)
1887 William (Extra Billy) Smith--Died (Major General, CSA)
1897 Frank Capra--Born (Movie Director)
May 19
1536 Anne Boleyn--Died beheaded (Queen of England)
1715 Charles Montagu--Died (English Statesman/Poet/1st Earl of Halifax)
1739 Jeremiah Dummer--Died (American Author)
1808 Samuel Jameson Gholson--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1812 Felix Kirk Zollicoffer--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1815 John Gross Barnard--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1828 Adin Ballou Underwood--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1864 Nathaniel Hawthorne--Died (American Author/Son of Nathaniel Hawthorne & Elizabeth Clarke (Manning) Hathorne)
May 20
1790 Elizabeth Gunning--Died (Duchess of Hamilton & Argyll & Wife of James 6th Duke of Hamilton and later the Wife of John Campbell the 5th Duke of Argyll Sister of Maria Gunning)
1806 John Stuart Mill--Born (Scottish Political Economist/Philosopher)
1828 James William Reilly--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1874 Alexander Brydie Dyer--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1875 Amalie (Marie Friederike Amalie)--Died (Princess of Oldenburg/Wife of Otho King of Greece)
1876 Willis Arnold Gorman--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1881 William Henry French--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1882 The Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria, & Italy
1910 Joseph Alexander Cooper--Died (Major General, Union Army)
May 21
1420 Peace of Troyes
1471 Henry VI--Died(King of England/Son of Henry V & Catherine)
1481 Christian I--Died (King of Denmark)
1688 Alexander Pope--Born (English Poet)
1724 Robert Harley--Died (English Statesman)
1743 Bryan Edwards--Born (English West Indies Historian)
1772 John Singleton Copley--Born (English Jurist/Son of the American Artist John Singleton Copley)
1822 Dabney Herndon Maury--Born (Major General, CSA)
1825 George Lafayette Beal--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1835 Newton Martin Curtis--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1864 Albert Gallatin Jenkins--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1881 Thomas Alexander Scott--Died (American Financier)
1883 Barbara Heineman--Died (Spiritual Leader of the Amana Society)
1894 Philip Cook--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1901 Fitz John Porter--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1923 Thomas Benton Smith--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1935 Jane Addams --Died (Social Reformer/Founder of Hull House)
May 22
1604 Count Peter Ernst von Mansfeld--Died (German General)
1662 Charles II, King of England Married Katherine Henrietta, daughter of John IV of Braganza)
1719 Lady Caroline Cavendish--
1788 Elizabeth Patton Crockett--Born (Davy Crockett's 2nd wife)
1818 Jeremiah Tilford Boyle--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1819 Richard Lee Turberville Beale--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1820 Alfred Sully--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1828 Albrecht von Grafe--Born (German Occultist/Son of Karl Grafe)
1856 Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry--Died (French Historian/Brother of Amedee Simon Dominique Thierry)
1859 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--Born (Author)
1868 Isham Nicholas Haynie--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1884 William Tatum Wofford--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1888 Jim Thorpe--Born (Football Player)
1907 Lawrence Olivier--Born (Actor)
1938 Mary Eileen Ahern --Died (Librarian)
1943 Helen Herron Taft--Died (First Lady, Wife of US President William Howard Taft/Daughter of John Williamson Herron & Harriet Collins)
May 23
1430 Joan of Arc--captured by English
1701 Captain Kidd--Died
1790 Dumont d'Urville (Jules Sebastian Cesar)--Born (French Rear-Admiral)
1813 Mason Brayman--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1824 Ambrose Everett Burnside--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1837 James Sanks Brisbin--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1868 Kit Carson--Died (American Frontier Scout)
1882 George Douglas Ramsay--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1885 Victor Hugo--Died (French Author)
1896 Lucius Fairchild--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1898 Henry Rootes Jackson--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
May 24
1543 Copernicus--Born
1807 Thomas Duncan--Born (Scottish Artist)
1811 Charles Clark--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1816 Robert Seaman Granger--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1819 Queen Victoria (Hanover) of England--Born(Queen of England/Daughter of Edward Augustus Hanover, Duke of Kent, & Victoria Mary Louisa
1824 William Henry Winder--Died (American Brigadier General in the War of 1812/Lawyer)
1833 John Randolph--Died (US Congressman)
1842 Theodore Hagen--Born (Artist/Professor)
1876 Henry Kingsley--Died (English Author/Poet/Brother of Charles & George Henry Kingsley)
1896 John Echols--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
May 25
1521 Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, Married Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, daughter of Vladislaus II & Anna of Foix-Candale (Vladislaus II's 4th wife)
1555 Gemma Frisius--Died (Dutch Mathematician/Cartographer)
1681 Pedro Calderon de la Barca--Died (Spanish Poet/Dramatist)
1778 Klaus Harms--Born (German Theologian/Author)
1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson--Born
1816 Henry Hopkins Sibley--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1823 George Reinhold Pauli--Born (German Historian)
1845 Thomas Duncan--Died (Scottish Artist)
1846 Helena Augusta Victoria--Born (Princess of England/Daughter of Queen Victoria)
May 26
818 Ali al-Rida--Died (8th Shi'a Imam of Persia)
946 Edmund I "The Magnificent"--Died Killed (King of the English/Son of Edward the Elder & Edgiva/Edmund's year of birth c921)
1667 Abraham De Moivre--Born (French Mathematician)
1689 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu--Born (English Author/daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 5th Earl & Duke of Kingston)
1736 Battle of Ackia Northwestern Mississippi (British soldiers and Chickasaw Indians defeated French soldiers and Chocktaw Indians)
1745 Jonathan Edwards (The Younger)--Born (Clergy)
1799 Alexander Pushkin--Born (Russian Poet)
1805 Napoleon Bonaparte crowned King of Italy
1806 Henry Knox Thatcher--Born (American Rear-Admiral)
1831 Battle of Ostrolenska (Russians defeated the Poland)
1835 Edward Porter Alexander--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1849 Anne Bronte--Died
1853 John Wesley Hardin--Born (Outlaw)
1876 Alexander Welch Reynolds--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1885 Samuel Beatty--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1886 Al Jolson--Born (Jazz singer and silent film actor)
1891 Samuel Powhatan Carter--Died (Major General, Union Army)
1907 John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison) --Born (American actor)
1951 Sally Ride--Born (First American woman in space)
May 27
1799 George Washington Doane--Born (American Author)
1823 John Gray Foster--Born (Major General, CSA)
1836 Edwin Gray Lee--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1837 James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok--Born
1863 Edward Payson Chapin--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1892 Ralph Pomeroy Buckland--Died (Major General, Union Army/US Congressman)
May 28
1541 Margaret Countess of Salisbury--Died Beheaded in the Tower of London (Wife of Richard Pole/Daughter of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence & Isabel, Daughter of the Earl of Warwick "The King-Maker")
1672 Edward Montagu--Died (English Admiral/First Earl of Sandwich)
1759 William Pitt (The Younger)--Born (British Prime Minister)
1787 Leopold Mozart--Died (German Violinist/Father of Amadeus Mozart)
1817 James William Denver--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1818 Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard--Born (Confederate States Lt. General)
1819 William Birney--Born (Major General, Union Army/Brother of Major Gen. David B Birney)
1828 Alpheus Baker--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1830 George Lucas Hartsuff--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1838 Basil Wilson Duke--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1842 Theodore Aryault Dodge--Born (Historian)
1849 Anne Bronte--Born (Author/Sister of Emily and Charlotte Bronte/Youngest daughter of Patrick Bronte & Maria Branwell)
1863 Edmund Kirby--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1869 Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg--Died (German Theologian & Author)
1891 Winfield Scott Featherston--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1895 Walter Quintin Gresham--Died (Major General, Union Army/Secretary of the Treasury/Secretary of State)
1900 Sir George Grove--Died (English Engineer/Author)
1908 Stephen Dill Lee--Died (Lt. General, CSA)
1913 Lunsford Lindsay Lomax--Died (Major General, CSA)
May 29
1379 Henry II of Castile--Died (King of Castile/Son of Alfonso XI & Eleanor of Guzman)
1630 Charles II--Born (King of England/Son of Charles I, King of England, and Henrietta Maria)
1675 Humphrey Ditton--Born (English Mathematician)
1729 William Dodd--Born (English Clergy/Author)
1736 Patrick Henry--Born (American Revolutionary Patriot & Advocate)
1810 Erasmus Darwin Keyes--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1824 Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox--Born (Major General, CSA)
1825 David Bell Birney--Born (Major General, Union Army/Brother of Major Gen. William Birney)
1827 Reuben Lindsay Walker--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1847 Marquis Emmanuel de Grouchy--Died (French Marshal in Napoleonic Wars)
1866 Winfield "Old Fuss and Feathers" Scott--Died (Lt General, Union Army)
1891 Gustavus Adolphus De Russy--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1910 George Francis Mcginnis--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy--Born (35th US President)
1979 Mary Pickford--Died (Actress)
May 30
1431 Joan of Arc--Died (Executed)
1536 Henry VIII King of England Married Jane Seymour
1640 Peter Paul Rubens--Died (Flemish Artist)
1672 Peter the Great--Born (Russian King)
1744 Alexander Pope--Died (English Poet)
1778 Voltaire--Died (French Philosopher)
1812 John Alexander Mcclernand--Born (Major General, Union Army)
1817 Herman August Hagen--Born (German American Entomologist)
1830 Edward Winslow Hincks--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1832 George Doherty Johnston--Born (Brigadier General, CSA)
1864 James Barbour Terrill--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/Brother of Union Gen. W R Terrill)
1887 James Phillip Simms--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1912 Wilbur Wright--Died (American Inventor & Brother of Orville Wright)
May 31
1819 Walt Whitman--Born (American Poet)
1824 Charles (Karl) Leopold Matthies--Born (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1837 Stephen Dodson Ramseur--Born (Major General, CSA)
1862 Robert Hopkins Hatton--Died (Brigadier General, CSA/US Congressman)
1871 William Reading Montgomery--Died (Brigadier General, Union Army)
1899 Alexander Travis Hawthorn--Died (Brigadier General, CSA)
1970 Earthquake in Yungay, Peru 70,000 people Killed & 50,000 people injured