Anniversaries 5 May
Birth
![Pío Pico photo]()
Governor of Alta California
1801–1894
![Sören Kierkegaard photo]()
Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
1813–1855
![Karl Marx photo]()
German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and …
1818–1883
![Henry Nettleship photo]()
British schoolteacher
1839–1893
![William H. Crogman photo]()
American classical philologist
1841–1931
![Henryk Sienkiewicz photo]()
Polish journalist, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and philan…
1846–1916
![Douglas Mawson photo]()
Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic
1882–1958
![Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell photo]()
senior officer of the British Army
1883–1950
![Paul Eldridge photo]()
American writer
1888–1982
![Christopher Morley photo]()
American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet
1890–1957
![August Dvorak photo]()
American scientist
1894–1975
![Kenneth Burke photo]()
American philosopher
1897–1993
![Pat Frank photo]()
American writer
1908–1964
![Zail Singh photo]()
Indian politician and former President of India
1916–1994
![Arthur Leonard Schawlow photo]()
American physicist
1921–1999
![Leo Ryan photo]()
American teacher and politician
1925–1978
![Charles Rosen photo]()
American pianist and writer on music
1927–2012
![Ronald DeWolf photo]()
American critic of Scientology
1934–1991
![Adam Przeworski photo]()
Polish-American academic
1940
![J. Patrick Lewis photo]()
American children's writer and poet
1942
![Michael Palin photo]()
British comedian, actor, writer and television presenter
1943
![Marsha M. Linehan photo]()
psychologist, professor, author
1943
![Todd Strasser photo]()
American author of young-adult and middle grade novels
1950
![Alex Webb (photographer) photo]()
American photojournalist
1952
![Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw photo]()
American legal scholar
1959
![Scott Westerfeld photo]()
American science fiction writer
1963
![Max Tegmark photo]()
Swedish-American cosmologist
1967
![Gabriel Roth photo]()
Argentine footballer
1979
![Adele (singer) photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1988
![Skye Sweetnam photo]()
Canadian singer-songwriter
1988
![Jessica Dubroff photo]()
American child pilot trainee
1988–1996
![Chris Brown photo]()
American singer, songwriter, dancer, actor , and painter
1989
Death
![Napoleon I of France photo]()
French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
1769–1821
![Charles Robert Leslie photo]()
British painter (1794-1859)
1794–1859
![Elbridge G. Spaulding photo]()
American politician
1809–1897
![Alexander Maclaren photo]()
British minister
1826–1910
![Bret Harte photo]()
American author and poet
1836–1902
![James Branch Cabell photo]()
American author
1879–1958
![Emanuel Moravec photo]()
Czech military officer, writer, and politician
1893–1945
![Ludwig Erhard photo]()
German politician
1897–1977
![Mário Quintana photo]()
Brazilian writer
1906–1994
![George Bird Evans photo]()
American writer
1906–1998
![Howard Zahniser photo]()
American environmentalist
1906–1964
![Frithjof Schuon photo]()
Swiss philosopher
1907–1998
![Mikhail Botvinnik photo]()
Soviet chess player
1911–1995
![Murray Kempton photo]()
American journalist
1917–1997
![Michael Shaara photo]()
American writer
1928–1988
![Umaru Yar'Adua photo]()
President of Nigeria
1951–2010
![Bobby Sands photo]()
Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
1954–1981
![Helmin Wiels photo]()
Curaçao politician
1958–2013
![Ritsuko Okazaki photo]()
Japanese singer
1959–2004
