Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 1
Births
[edit]- 1672 - Joseph Addison, English politician and writer (d. 1719) (pictured)
- 1852 - Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d. 1903)
- 1909 - Yiannis Ritsos, Greek poet, winner of the Lenin Peace Prize, 9 times candidate for the Nobel Prize (d. 1990)
- 1913 - Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005)
- 1918 - Jack Paar, American television host (d. 2004)
- 1967 - Tim McGraw, American musician
Deaths
[edit]- 1873 - David Livingstone, Scottish missionary (b. 1813)
- 1904 - Antonín Dvořák, Czech composer (b. 1841)
- 1945 - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda (suicide) (b. 1897)
- 1993 - Pierre Bérégovoy, French Prime Minister (suicide) (b. 1925)