Anniversaries 3 May
Birth
![Niccolo Machiavelli photo]()
Italian politician, Writer and Author
1469–1527
![Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès photo]()
French ''abbé'' ad statesman
1748–1836
![August von Kotzebue photo]()
German dramatist
1761–1819
![Richard D'Oyly Carte photo]()
English theatre manager and producer
1844–1901
![Élie Metchnikoff photo]()
Russian-French immunologist, embriologist, biologist, Nobel…
1845–1916
![E. W. Howe photo]()
Novelist, magazine and newspaper editor
1853–1937
![Mikhail Bulgakov photo]()
Russian author primarily known for his novel "Master and Ma…
1891–1940
![Dodie Smith photo]()
English novelist and playwright
1896–1990
![Wang Ming photo]()
Chinese politician
1904–1974
![May Sarton photo]()
American poet, novelist, and memoirist
1912–1995
![Virgil Fox photo]()
American musician
1912–1980
![Kiro Gligorov photo]()
President of the Republic of Macedonia
1917–2012
![Pete Seeger photo]()
American folk singer
1919–2014
![Ann B. Davis photo]()
American actress
1926–2014
![Luce Irigaray photo]()
feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist…
1930
![Steven Weinberg photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1933
![James Brown photo]()
American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist
1933–2006
![Jeffrey C. Hall photo]()
American geneticist and chronobiologist
1945
![Götz Aly photo]()
German journalist, historian and social scientist
1947
![Paul Sloane photo]()
British author and puzzle designer
1950
![Christopher Cross photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1951
![Ben Elton photo]()
English comedian, author, playwright, actor and director
1959
![Jaron Lanier photo]()
American computer scientist, musician, and author
1960
![David Vitter photo]()
U.S. Senator from Louisiana
1961
![Michael Marshall Smith photo]()
British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer
1965
![Nina Paley photo]()
US animator, cartoonist and free culture activist
1968
![Reza Aslan photo]()
Iranian-American author, commentator
1972
![Maryam Mirzakhani photo]()
Iranian mathematician
1977–2017
![Hiro Mashima photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1977
![Genevieve Nnaji photo]()
Nigerian actress, producer, and director
1979
Death
![Juan Donoso Cortés photo]()
Spanish author, political theorist and diplomat
1809–1853
![William Frederick Yeames photo]()
british painter
1835–1918
![Charles Fort photo]()
American writer
1874–1932
![Patrick Pearse photo]()
Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916
1879–1916
![Karl Freund photo]()
German film director and cinematographer
1890–1969
![Zakir Hussain (politician) photo]()
3rd President of India
1897–1969
![Maurice Merleau-Ponty photo]()
French phenomenological philosopher
1908–1961
![Barbara Castle photo]()
British politician
1910–2002
![Bill Downs photo]()
American journalist
1914–1978
![Jacques Bertin photo]()
French geographer and cartographer
1918–2010
![Karel Appel photo]()
Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet
1921–2006
![Alex Agase photo]()
American football player and coach, college athletics admin…
1922–2007
![Goro Shimura photo]()
Japanese mathematician
1930–2019
![Gary S. Becker photo]()
American economist
1930–2014
![Hamid Dalwai photo]()
Indian social reformer, thinker and writer
1932–1977
![Dalida photo]()
French singer, actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder
1933–1987
![John Miles Foley photo]()
American literary scholar
1947–2012
![James Mace photo]()
American historian of the Ukraine
1952–2004
