Famous People Who Died In May

• David Livingstone

  Explorer Missionary

  South Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

• Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco

  Novelist

  Guayas, Ecuador

• Antonin Dvorak

  Composer

  Czech Republic

• Ranasinghe Premadasa

  Politician

  Sri Lanka

• Leonardo da Vinci

  Architect

  Italy

• Giulio Natta

  Scientist

  Imperia, Italy

• André-Marie Mbida

  Statesman

  ?Île-de-France, Cameroon

• Sir John Carew Eccles

  Neurophysiologist

  Victoria, Australia

• Gary Becker

  Economist

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Jackie Cooper

  Actor

  California, United States of America

• Karel Appel

  Painter

  North Holland, Netherlands

• Jerzy Kosinski

  Author

  Poland

• Carl von Ossietzky

  Pacifist

  Germany

• Milan Rastislav Štefánik

  Politician

  Tren?ín, Slovakia

• Edward Calvin Kendall

  Chemist

  Connecticut, United States of America

• Augustus Pitt Rivers

  Archaeologist

  England, United Kingdom

• Carlos Saavedra Lamas

  Academic

  Argentina

• Bret Harte

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

  Mathematician

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Bobby Sands

  Activist

  Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

• Henry David Thoreau

  Journalist

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Alexander von Humboldt

  Geographer

  Berlin, Germany

• Marlene Dietrich

  Actress

  Berlin, Germany

• Edward VII

  Royalty

  England, United Kingdom

• Allan McLeod Cormack

  Physicist

  Gauteng, South Africa

• Salmon P Chase

  Politician

  New Hampshire, United States of America

• Salmon P. Chase

  Politician

  New Hampshire, United States of America

• H.H. Holmes

  Murderer

  New Hampshire, United States of America

• Lionel Rose

  Sportsman

  Victoria, Australia

• Manuel Ortiz Guerrero

  Poet

  Guaira Department, Paraguay

• John Stuart Mill

  Civil Servant

  England, United Kingdom

• Paul Gauguin

  Artist

  Île-de-France, France

• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

  Chemist

  Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

• Lena Horne

  Actress

  New York, United States of America

• Friedrich Schiller

  Poet

  Baden Wurttemberg, Germany

• Tenzing Norgay

  Mountaineer

  Solukhumbu, Nepal

• Paul Revere

  Silversmith

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• John Wayne Gacy

  Criminal

  Illinois, United States of America

• Roque Dalton

  Poet

  El Salvador

• Shel Silverstein

  Author

  Illinois, United States of America

• Juan Gris

  Artist

  Spain

• John D. Rockefeller Jr.

  Entrepreneur

  Ohio, United States of America

• Douglas Adams

  Novelist

  England, United Kingdom

• Blaise Diagne

  Politician

  Dakar, Senegal

• Bette Nesmith Graham

  Entrepreneur

  Texas, United States of America

• Bedrich Smetana

  Composer

  Pardubice, Czech Republic

• James Connolly

  Socialist

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Irena Sendler

  Nurse

  Poland

• James Young

  Chemist

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Sholem Aleichem

  Author

  Kiev Oblast, Ukraine

• Bede Griffiths

  Benedictine Monk

  England, United Kingdom

• Charles Édouard Guillaume

  Physicist

  Val-de-Travers, Switzerland

• Dame Wendy Hiller

  Actress

  England, United Kingdom

• August Strindberg

  Novelist

  Stockholm, Sweden

• Henry IV of France

  Royalty

  Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

• B.B. King

  Musician

  Mississippi, united states of America

• Ian Brady

  Criminal

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Robert Menzies

  Politician

  Victoria, Australia

• Edward Hopper

  Artist

  New York, United States of America

• Emily Dickinson

  Poet

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Irwin Shaw

  Author

  New York, United States of America

• Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  Biochemist

  Sussex, United kingdom

• Levi P. Morton

  Politician

  Vermont, United States of America

• Joseph Fourier

  Mathematician

  Yonne, France

• John Deere

  Entrepreneur

  Vermont, United States of America

• John Jay

  Diplomat

  New York, United States of America

• Tony Randall

  Actor

  Oklahoma, United States of America

• Paul Dukas

  Composer

  France

• Andrew Kehoe

  Criminal

  Michigan, united states of America

• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

  Publisher

  New York, United States of America

• Jamsetji Tata

  Entrepreneur

  Gujarat, India

• Jackie Kennedy

  Socialite

  New York, United States of America

• Ogden Nash

  Poet

  New York, United States of America

• Marquis de Lafayette

  Military Leader

  Haute-Loire, France

• Barbara Hepworth

  Artist

  West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

• John Hicks

  Economist

  England, United Kingdom

• Philipp Lenard

  Physicist

  Slovakia

• Katherine Dunham

  Dancer

  Illinois, United States of America

• Nicolaus Copernicus

  Astronomer

  Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship Województwo kujaws, Poland

• John Garfield

  Actor

  New York, United States of America

• Jane Addams

  Activist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Constantine the Great

  Emperor

  Nisava, Serbia

• Albert Claude

  Biologist

  Belgium

• Langston Hughes

  Playwright

  Missouri, United States of America

• Victor Hugo

  Author

  Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

• Henrik Ibsen

  Playwright

  Norway

• John D. Rockefeller

  Businessman

  New York, United States of America

• Roger Moore

  Producer

  London, United kingdom

• Augustin-louis Cauchy

  Mathematician

  France

• Duke Ellington

  Conductor

  United States of America

• William Lloyd Garrison

  Abolitionist

  Massachusetts, United States Of America

• William Lloyd Garrison

  Journalist

  Massachusetts, United States Of America

• Elmore James

  Guitarist

  Mississippi, United States of America

• Gustavus Theodore Von Holst

  Composer

  England, United Kingdom

• Leonora Carrington

  Artist

  England, United Kingdom

• Robert Capa

  Photographer

  Hungary

• Madam C. J. Walker

  Entrepreneur

  Louisiana, United States of America

• Charles Horace Mayo

  Surgeon

  Minnesta, United States of America

• Samuel Pepys

  Politician

  England, United Kingdom

• Eddie Albert

  Actor

  Illinois, United States of America

• Martin Heidegger

  Philosopher

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Robert Koch

  Biologist

  Lower Saxony, Germany

• Ernst Ruska

  Scientist

  Baden-Württemberg, Germany

• Jawaharlal Nehru

  Politician

  Uttar Pradesh, India

• Niccolo Paganini

  Composer

  Liguria, Italy

• Gary Coleman

  Actor

  Illinois, United States of America

• Noah Webster

  Lexicographer

  Connecticut, United States of America

• Maya Angelou

  Poet

  Missouri, United States of America

• Phil Hartman

  Actor

  Ontario, Canada

• Joséphine de Beauharnais

  Empress

  Martinique, France

• Jeff Buckley

  Musician

  California, united states of America

• James J. Hill

  Businessman

  Ontario, Canada

• Mary Pickford

  Actress

  Ontario, Canada

• Boris Pasternak

  Author

  Russia

• Steve Prefontaine

  Athlete

  Oregon, United States of America

• Wilbur Wright

  Inventor

  Indiana, United States of America

• Voltaire

  Historian

  Île-de-France, France

• Otto Adolf Eichmann

  Military Leader

  Germany

• Joseph Haydn

  Composer

  Lower Austria, Australia

• Évariste Galois

  Mathematician

  France

• tintoretto

  Painter

  Veneto, Italy