Anniversaries 1 May

Birth

Joseph Addison226

politician, writer and playwright 1672–1719

Артур Уэлсли Уэллингтон1

1769–1852

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington45

British soldier and statesman 1769–1852

Alexander William Williamson1

English scientist 1824–1904

John Bascom2

American academic administrator 1827–1911

Jules Devaux1

(1828-1886) 1828–1886

Santiago Ramón y Cajal6

Spanish neuroscientist 1852–1934

Marie Corelli3

British writer 1855–1924

Walter Dill Scott12

President of Northwestern university and psychologist 1869–1955

Philip Gibbs1

English journalist and novelist 1877–1962

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin64

French philosopher and Jesuit priest 1881–1955

Mark W. Clark23

American general 1896–1984

Witold Doroszewski4

Lexicographer and linguist 1899–1976

Günther Pancke2

German general 1899–1973

Ignazio Silone3

Italian author and politician 1900–1978

Giovannino Guareschi8

Italian journalist, cartoonist and humorist 1908–1968

Morris Kline42

American mathematician 1908–1992

Yiannis Ritsos3

Greek poet 1909–1990

Raya Dunayevskaya1

American philosopher 1910–1987

Jack Paar2

American author, radio and television comedian and talk sho… 1918–2004

Gersh Budker3

Soviet physicist 1918–1977

Joseph Heller132

American author 1923–1999

Terry Southern1

American author 1924–1995

Scott Carpenter2

American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut 1925–2013

Gabriele Amorth4

Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist 1925–2016

S. M. Krishna6

Indian politician 1932

Carver Mead2

American computer scientist 1934

Julian Mitchell3

British writer 1935

Jerry Mander3

American activist 1936

Judy Collins2

American singer and songwriter 1939

Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel2

Mexican bishop 1940

Bobbie Ann Mason1

American writer 1940

Jacob Bekenstein6

Mexican-Israeli physicist 1947–2015

Patricia Hill Collins2

African-American scholar 1948

Terry Goodkind93

American novelist 1948

Phil Foglio1

American cartoonist 1956

Patrice Talon1

Beninese president 1958

Godfrey Wenness4

1967

Tim McGraw35

American country singer 1967

Susan Cain50

self-help writer 1968

Wes Anderson4

American filmmaker 1969

Zafar Mirzo149

1972

Seba Johnson3

Olympic skier 1973

Philipp Meyer8

American writer 1974

Henry Zebrowski1

American actor and comedian 1984

Jesse Klaver2

Dutch politician and trade union leader 1986

Michelle Dilhara1

Sri Lankan actress 1996

Death

John Dryden196

English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

Jacques Delille4

French poet and translator 1738–1813

David Livingstone6

Scottish explorer and missionary 1813–1873

Randolph Sinks Foster14

American bishop 1820–1903

Antonín Dvořák4

Czech composer 1841–1904

John Vance Cheney6

American writer 1848–1922

Ebenezer Howard3

British writer, founder of the garden city movement 1850–1928

Robb Wilton5

comedian 1881–1957

Harold Nicolson6

British diplomat, author, diarist and politician 1886–1968

Sylvia Townsend Warner2

writer, poet, activist 1893–1978

Joseph Goebbels145

Nazi politician and Propaganda Minister 1897–1945

Heinrich Müller6

German police official and head of the Gestapo 1900–1945

Magda Goebbels2

German politician 1901–1945

Asger Jorn48

Danish artist 1914–1973

Morteza Motahhari1

Iranian politician 1919–1979

Elaine Dundy42

American journalist, actress 1921–2008

Larkin Kerwin2

Canadian physicist 1924–2004

Eldridge Cleaver21

American activist 1935–1998

Alexandros Panagoulis3

Greek politician and poet 1939–1976

Stuart Wilde1

English writer 1946–2013

Ayrton Senna16

Brazilian racing driver 1960–1994