Anniversaries 31 May
Birth
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Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
1577–1645
![Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac photo]()
French author, best known for his epistolary essays
1597–1654
![Pierre Vergniaud photo]()
French politician
1753–1793
![Ludwig Tieck photo]()
German poet, translator, editor, novelist, and critic
1773–1853
![William Mountford photo]()
English Unitarian preacher and author
1816–1885
![Walt Whitman photo]()
American poet, essayist and journalist
1819–1892
![Francisco Luís Gomes photo]()
Indo-Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, po…
1829–1869
![Henry Sidgwick photo]()
English philosopher
1838–1900
![James Jeffrey Roche photo]()
American journalist
1847–1908
![Gregor Strasser photo]()
German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Ps…
1892–1934
![Elizabeth Coatsworth photo]()
American writer
1893–1986
![George R. Stewart photo]()
American historian, toponymist, and novelist
1895–1980
![Norman Vincent Peale photo]()
American writer
1898–1993
![Maurice Allais photo]()
French economist; 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize i…
1911–2010
![Chien-Shiung Wu photo]()
Chinese American experimental physicist
1912–1997
![Henry M. Jackson photo]()
American politician
1912–1983
![Akira Ifukube photo]()
Japanese composer
1914–2006
![Bernard Lewis photo]()
British-American historian
1916–2018
![Huston Smith photo]()
Religious studies scholar
1919–2016
![Ellsworth Kelly photo]()
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
1923–2015
![Rainier III, Prince of Monaco photo]()
Prince of Monaco
1923–2005
![Harold Demsetz photo]()
American economist
1930–2019
![Clint Eastwood photo]()
actor and director from the United States
1930
![Jay Miner photo]()
American electrical engineer
1932–1994
![Henry B. Eyring photo]()
American Mormon leader
1933
![Bob Ferry photo]()
American basketball player-coach
1937
![John Prescott photo]()
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997–2007)
1938
![Joe Namath photo]()
American football player
1943
![Salmaan Taseer photo]()
Pakistani politician
1944–2011
![Rainer Werner Fassbinder photo]()
German film director, screenwriter, and actor
1945–1982
![David Gubbins photo]()
British university teacher
1947
![Helen Fisher photo]()
Canadian anthropologist
1947
![Alfred de Zayas photo]()
American United Nations official
1947
![Svetlana Alexievich photo]()
Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose w…
1948
![Joseph L. Coffey photo]()
American Roman Catholic priest, former Navy chaplain and bi…
1960
![Wesley Willis photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1963–2003
![Viktor Orbán photo]()
Hungarian politician, chairman of Fidesz
1963
![Billy Davies photo]()
Scottish association football player and manager
1964
![Tristram Hunt photo]()
British historian and ex-politician
1974
![Robin Wasserman photo]()
American writer of speculative fiction for young people
1978
![Reggie Yates photo]()
English actor, television presenter and radio DJ
1983
![Waka Flocka Flame photo]()
American rapper and comedian
1986
Death
![Joseph Haydn photo]()
Austrian composer
1732–1809
![George Macartney photo]()
British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat
1737–1806
![Thomas Chalmers photo]()
Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of S…
1780–1847
![Horatius Bonar photo]()
British minister and poet
1808–1889
![Évariste Galois photo]()
French mathematician, founder of group theory
1811–1832
![Elizabeth Blackwell photo]()
England-born American physician, abolitionist, women's righ…
1821–1910
![Franz Strauss photo]()
German composer and virtuoso horn player. Father of Richard…
1822–1905
![Edith Hamilton photo]()
American teacher and writer
1867–1963
![Henry Fountain Ashurst photo]()
United States Senator from Arizona
1874–1962
![Walther Funk photo]()
German economist and politician
1890–1960
![Dora Russell photo]()
author, feminist, socialist campaigner
1894–1986
![Anirvan photo]()
Indian Hindu philosopher
1896–1978
![C. L. R. James photo]()
Trinidadian writer
1901–1989
![Adolf Eichmann photo]()
German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer
1906–1962
![Neil H. Jacoby photo]()
University professor and public servant
1909–1979
![Jacques Monod photo]()
French biologist
1910–1976
![Louise Bourgeois photo]()
American and French sculptor
1911–2010
![Martha Beall Mitchell photo]()
Wife of American politician
1918–1976
![Timothy Leary photo]()
American psychologist
1920–1996
![Gene Hill photo]()
American author
1928–1997
