Anniversaries 1 May
Birth
![Joseph Addison photo]()
politician, writer and playwright
1672–1719
![Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington photo]()
British soldier and statesman
1769–1852
![Alexander William Williamson photo]()
English scientist
1824–1904
![John Bascom photo]()
American academic administrator
1827–1911
![Santiago Ramón y Cajal photo]()
Spanish neuroscientist
1852–1934
![Walter Dill Scott photo]()
President of Northwestern university and psychologist
1869–1955
![Philip Gibbs photo]()
English journalist and novelist
1877–1962
![Pierre Teilhard De Chardin photo]()
French philosopher and Jesuit priest
1881–1955
![Mark W. Clark photo]()
American general
1896–1984
![Witold Doroszewski photo]()
Lexicographer and linguist
1899–1976
![Ignazio Silone photo]()
Italian author and politician
1900–1978
![Giovannino Guareschi photo]()
Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist
1908–1968
![Morris Kline photo]()
American mathematician
1908–1992
![Raya Dunayevskaya photo]()
American philosopher
1910–1987
![Jack Paar photo]()
American author, radio and television comedian and talk sho…
1918–2004
![Gersh Budker photo]()
Soviet physicist
1918–1977
![Joseph Heller photo]()
American author
1923–1999
![Terry Southern photo]()
American author
1924–1995
![Scott Carpenter photo]()
American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut
1925–2013
![Gabriele Amorth photo]()
Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist
1925–2016
![Carver Mead photo]()
American computer scientist
1934
![Judy Collins photo]()
American singer and songwriter
1939
![Jacob Bekenstein photo]()
Mexican-Israeli physicist
1947–2015
![Patricia Hill Collins photo]()
African-American scholar
1948
![Tim McGraw photo]()
American country singer
1967
![Henry Zebrowski photo]()
American actor and comedian
1984
![Jesse Klaver photo]()
Dutch politician and trade union leader
1986
Death
![John Dryden photo]()
English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
1631–1700
![Jacques Delille photo]()
French poet and translator
1738–1813
![David Livingstone photo]()
Scottish explorer and missionary
1813–1873
![Randolph Sinks Foster photo]()
American bishop
1820–1903
![John Vance Cheney photo]()
American writer
1848–1922
![Ebenezer Howard photo]()
British writer, founder of the garden city movement
1850–1928
![Harold Nicolson photo]()
British diplomat, author, diarist and politician
1886–1968
![Sylvia Townsend Warner photo]()
writer, poet, activist
1893–1978
![Joseph Goebbels photo]()
Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister
1897–1945
![Heinrich Müller photo]()
German police official and head of the Gestapo
1900–1945
![Magda Goebbels photo]()
German politician
1901–1945
![Morteza Motahhari photo]()
Iranian politician
1919–1979
![Elaine Dundy photo]()
American journalist, actress
1921–2008
![Larkin Kerwin photo]()
Canadian physicist
1924–2004
![Eldridge Cleaver photo]()
American activist
1935–1998
![Alexandros Panagoulis photo]()
Greek politician and poet
1939–1976
![Ayrton Senna photo]()
Brazilian racing driver
1960–1994
