| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| John Abbott |
Actor |
5-Jun-1905 |
24-May-1996 |
The Woman in White |
| Barry Atwater |
Actor |
16-May-1918 |
24-May-1978 |
The Night Stalker |
| Jim Barnes |
Golf |
8-Apr-1886 |
24-May-1966 |
Winner of 4 Majors |
| Laura Dewey Bridgman |
Oddity |
21-Dec-1829 |
24-May-1889 |
Blind deaf mute |
| Yakima Canutt |
Actor |
29-Nov-1895 |
24-May-1986 |
Legendary stuntman |
| Gene Clark |
Singer/Songwriter |
17-Nov-1944 |
24-May-1991 |
The Byrds, No Other |
| Nicolaus Copernicus |
Astronomer |
19-Feb-1473 |
24-May-1543 |
Heliocentrist, De revolutionibus |
| Clyde Cowan |
Physicist |
6-Dec-1919 |
24-May-1974 |
Co-Discover of the neutrino |
| Frank Dalby Davison |
Author |
23-Jun-1893 |
24-May-1970 |
Dusty |
| Thomas J. Dodd |
Politician |
15-May-1907 |
24-May-1971 |
US Senator from Connecticut, 1958-71 |
| John Foster Dulles |
Government |
25-Feb-1888 |
24-May-1959 |
Eisenhower's Secretary of State |
| Edward F. Dunne |
Politician |
12-Oct-1853 |
24-May-1937 |
Governor of Illinois, 1913-17 |
| Duke Ellington |
Jazz Musician |
29-Apr-1899 |
24-May-1974 |
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing |
| Jacques Feyder |
Film Director |
21-Jul-1885 |
24-May-1948 |
Carnival in Flanders |
| William Lloyd Garrison |
Activist |
10-Dec-1805 |
24-May-1879 |
Anti-slavery editor of the Liberator |
| Robert Giaimo |
Politician |
15-Oct-1919 |
24-May-2006 |
Congressman from Connecticut, 1959-81 |
| Hermione Gingold |
Actor |
9-Dec-1897 |
24-May-1987 |
Madame Alvarez in Gigi |
| Paul Dedrick Gray |
Bassist |
8-Apr-1972 |
24-May-2010 |
Bassist for Slipknot |
| Philip C. Habib |
Diplomat |
25-Feb-1920 |
24-May-1992 |
US Ambassador to South Korea, 1971-74 |
| Victor Herbert |
Composer |
1-Feb-1859 |
24-May-1924 |
Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life |
| David I |
Royalty |
c. 1084 |
24-May-1153 |
King of Scotland, 1124-53 |
| George Jessel |
Actor |
3-Apr-1898 |
24-May-1981 |
Toastmaster General of the United States |
| George Johnstone |
Military |
1730 |
24-May-1787 |
British MP, Governor of West Florida |
| Philip M. Kaiser |
Diplomat |
12-Jul-1913 |
24-May-2007 |
US Ambassador to Austria, 1980-81 |
| Rachel Kempson |
Actor |
28-May-1910 |
24-May-2003 |
Matriarch of Redgrave dynasty |
| Guy Kibbee |
Actor |
6-Mar-1882 |
24-May-1956 |
Captain January |
| Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz |
Poet |
12-Jan-1751 |
24-May-1792 |
Sturm und Drang movement |
| Willy Ley |
Author |
2-Oct-1906 |
24-May-1969 |
The Conquest of Space |
| Dick Martin |
Comic |
30-Jan-1922 |
24-May-2008 |
Laugh-In |
| Hugh McCulloch |
Government |
7-Dec-1808 |
24-May-1895 |
Twice US Treasury Secretary |
| Vince McMahon, Sr. |
Wrestling |
6-Jul-1914 |
24-May-1984 |
World Wrestling Entertainment founder |
| John Bach McMaster |
Historian |
29-Jun-1852 |
24-May-1932 |
History of the People of the United States |
| William O. Mills |
Politician |
12-Aug-1924 |
24-May-1973 |
Congressman, committed suicide |
| Joseph Mitchell |
Author |
27-Jul-1908 |
24-May-1996 |
The New Yorker |
| Edward Mulhare |
Actor |
8-Apr-1923 |
24-May-1997 |
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir |
| Amado Nervo |
Poet |
27-Aug-1870 |
24-May-1919 |
Modernismo poet, La Revista Moderna |
| Samuel Palmer |
Painter |
27-Jan-1805 |
24-May-1881 |
English landscape painter |
| George W. Pepper |
Politician |
16-Mar-1867 |
24-May-1961 |
US Senator from Pennsylvania, 1922-27 |
| Papa Pilgrim |
Criminal |
c. 1941 |
24-May-2008 |
Hillbilly Heaven |
| John Randolph of Roanoke |
Politician |
2-Jun-1773 |
24-May-1833 |
US Senator from Virginia, 1825-27 |
| Ruth A. Schmidt |
Educator |
16-Sep-1930 |
24-May-2010 |
President of Agnes Scott College, 1982-94 |
| Archibald Wavell |
Military |
5-May-1883 |
24-May-1950 |
British Field Marshal in WWII |
| Brand Whitlock |
Diplomat |
4-Mar-1869 |
24-May-1934 |
US Ambassador to Belgium, 1914-21 |
| Harold Wilson |
Head of State |
11-Mar-1916 |
24-May-1995 |
Two-time Prime Minister of Britain |
| Harold Bell Wright |
Novelist |
4-May-1872 |
24-May-1944 |
The Winning of Barbara Worth |
