On This Day — May 1
5112 noted people were born and 2335 died on May 1 in our archive, including Françoise Laborde, Peter Lax and Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 1
Françoise Laborde
b. 1953
Peter Lax
1926 – 2025
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
1852 – 1934
Abraham Foxman
1940 – 2026
Abraham Silberschatz
b. 1947
Aleksander Grad
b. 1962
Alexander William Williamson
1824 – 1904
Anatol Codru
1936 – 2010
Anja Reinalter
b. 1970
Antônio Delfim Netto
1928 – 2024
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
1769 – 1852
Auguste Baron
1794 – 1862
Awa Marie Coll-Seck
b. 1951
Bashir Rameyev
1918 – 1994
Charles E. Phelps
1833 – 1908
Fatix Sibäğätullin
1950 – 2022
Firuddin Babayev
1929 – 1987
Grigore T. Popa
1892 – 1948
Herbert Backe
1896 – 1947
Ho Ching
b. 1953
Ivan Wilhelm
b. 1942
Jacob Bekenstein
1947 – 2015
Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier
1917 – 1995
James Stirling
1692 – 1770
Jarosław Sellin
b. 1963
John Macadam
1827 – 1865
Judy Collins
b. 1939
Kenneth W. Ford
1926 – 2025
Kim Leadbeater
b. 1976
Konstantin Umansky
1902 – 1945
Levon Khachikyan
1918 – 1982
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair
1818 – 1898
Marat Markaw
b. 1969
Michel Parisse
1936 – 2020
Michel Schifres
1946 – 2025
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Tikhonov
1905 – 1997
Patricia Hill Collins
b. 1948
Peter Smith
b. 1952
Piotr Skwieciński
b. 1963
Ralf Dahrendorf
1929 – 2009
Ronald Fagin
b. 1945
Sathyabhama Das Biju
b. 1963
Serhii Kivalov
b. 1954
Sidónio Pais
1872 – 1918
Swanee Hunt
b. 1950
Theodor Oberländer
1905 – 1998
Tommy Finlayson
b. 1938
Waitstill Sharp
1902 – 1984
William Willis
1837 – 1894
Yury Yershov
b. 1940
A.M. Harun-ar-Rashid
1933 – 2021
Adam Ingram
b. 1951
Anand Mahindra
b. 1955
Anders Aune
1923 – 2011
Antal Szerb
1901 – 1945
Antonio Ledezma
b. 1955
Aram Karamanoukian
1910 – 1996
Arie Eldad
b. 1950
Arthur Oliver Wheeler
1860 – 1945
Balraj Sahni
1913 – 1973
Bob Andrzejczak
b. 1986
Boris Didkovsky
1883 – 1938
Bryan F. Mahan
1856 – 1923
Carver Mead
b. 1934
Cecilia Beaux
1855 – 1942
Colette Avital
b. 1939
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano
b. 1934
Cyrille-Fraser Delâge
1869 – 1957
D.P. Sharma
b. 1969
David E. Aspnes
b. 1939
David Spivak
b. 1978
Dimitris Kremastinos
1942 – 2020
Dodo Abashidze
1924 – 1990
Don A. J. Upham
1809 – 1877
Donald E. Ingber
b. 1956
Donald Kagan
1932 – 2021
Dragan Marušič
b. 1953
Dvora Netzer
1897 – 1989
Edward Glaeser
b. 1967
Edward Joshua Cooper
1798 – 1863
Edward Northey
1868 – 1953
Edward Ozorowski
1941 – 2024
Elizabeth Marie Pope
1917 – 1992
Elizabeth S. Russell
1913 – 2001
Emily Banks
b. 1968
Eric Goldberg
b. 1955
Espen Barth Eide
b. 1964
Eugene R. Black, Sr.
1898 – 1992
Evelyn Seymour, 17th Duke of Somerset
1882 – 1954
Fayez al-Tarawneh
1949 – 2021
Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe
1884 – 1964
Frank Kitts
1912 – 1979
Frans van Kinschot
1577 – 1651
Friedrich Spanheim the Younger
1632 – 1701
Gaona Tlhasana
b. 1983
George Lockhart Rives
1849 – 1917
Georgiy Roedov
1939 – 2021
Giles Yeo
b. 1973
Giovannino Guareschi
1908 – 1968
Gustaf Philip Creutz
1731 – 1785
Günther Pancke
1899 – 1973
Hamaguchi Osachi
1870 – 1931
Hamilton Harris
1820 – 1900
Haseena Khan
b. 1954
Hazret Sovmen
b. 1937
Henry Ayers
1821 – 1897
Henry DeWolf Smyth
1898 – 1986
Herman Halushchenko
b. 1973
Hugo Alfvén
1872 – 1960
Ignazio Silone
1900 – 1978
Ilona Prunyi
b. 1941
Ion Vatamanu
1937 – 1993
J. Allen Hynek
1910 – 1986
James Frazier Barker
b. 1947
James Graham, 6th Duke of Montrose
1878 – 1954
James Scott Dunlop
b. 1962
Jane Hinton
1919 – 2003
Jean Delpech
1916 – 1988
Jean-Baptiste Noulet
1802 – 1890
Jim Fruchterman
b. 1959
Joanna Lumley
b. 1946
Jorge Cham
b. 1976
Joseph Addison
1672 – 1719
Joseph Heller
1923 – 1999
Joseph Lawton Collins
1896 – 1987
Juan Manuel Moreno
b. 1970
Julian Cunningham
1893 – 1972
Julie Benz
b. 1972
Julius von Haast
1822 – 1887
Kashinathuni Nageshwara Rao
1867 – 1938
Katherine Mack
b. 1981
Kenji Yoshino
b. 1969
Kenjirō Takayanagi
1899 – 1990
Kim Lewison
b. 1952
Konstantin Igumnov
1873 – 1948
Kristin Normann
b. 1954
Krzysztof Knittel
b. 1947
Kuniko Tanioka
b. 1954
Kurimoto Joun
1822 – 1897
Kusmayanto Kadiman
b. 1954
Kálmán Lambrecht
1889 – 1936
L. M. Milne-Thomson
1891 – 1974
Li Yaowen
1918 – 2018
Lorna M. Hughes
b. 1968
Louis William Tordella
1911 – 1996
Lucette Desvignes
1926 – 2024
Luigi Berzolari
1863 – 1949
Lulume Bayiga
b. 1970
Maia Morgenstern
b. 1962
Malay Bhowmick
b. 1956
Mansour Moalla
b. 1930
Manuel Rivas Vicuña
1880 – 1937
Marcel Prévost
1862 – 1941
Marilyn Milian
b. 1961
Marina Tauber
b. 1986
Mark Dodgson
b. 1957
Mark Whitacre
b. 1957
Michael Chagares
b. 1962
Michael Franz
b. 1964
Michael Heltzer
1928 – 2010
Michael Schilkin
1900 – 1962
Michel Camdessus
b. 1933
Miguel Portas
1958 – 2012
Mihai Ralea
1896 – 1964
Mike Young
b. 1963
Mikko Alatalo
b. 1951
Mineo Ōsumi
1876 – 1941
Mirta Zaida Lobato
b. 1948
Modesto Lafuente
1806 – 1866
Mohammad Daud
b. 1943
Morio Kita
1927 – 2011
Morten Bødskov
b. 1970
Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam
1927 – 2018
Màrius Serra
b. 1963
Nazim Ahmedli
b. 1953
Nazir Ahmed
1898 – 1973
Nikolai Yanushkevich
1868 – 1918
Nikolay Neprimerov
1921 – 2017
Nina Arkhipova
1921 – 2016
Oleh Nemchinov
b. 1977
Oliver Bierhoff
b. 1968
P. V. Rajamannar
1901 – 1979
Patrice Talon
b. 1958
Patrick Schnieder
b. 1968
Paul Benioff
1930 – 2022
Paul D. MacLean
1913 – 2007
Pavlo Kuznietsov
1950 – 2022
Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton
1884 – 1972
Philip John Withers
b. 1963
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
1881 – 1955
Pierre-Amand Landry
1846 – 1916
Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
1850 – 1942
Purificación Carpinteyro Calderón
b. 1961
Raoul Servais
1928 – 2023
Rauan Kenzhekhanuly
b. 1979
Reginald Ruggles Gates
1882 – 1962
Ritsuko Nagao
1933 – 2026
Robert Chambers
b. 1932
Roland Rainer
1910 – 2004
Rubén Marín
1934 – 2024
… and 4,912 more
Died on May 1
Grove Karl Gilbert
1843 – 1918
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.
1923 – 2011
Albin Haller
1849 – 1925
Amos Wilder
1895 – 1993
Antoine Louis Dugès
1797 – 1838
Antonín Dvořák
1841 – 1904
Aram Khachaturian
1903 – 1978
Carl S. Herz
1930 – 1995
Carlos Eduardo Moreira Ferreira
1939 – 2022
David M. Kennedy
1905 – 1996
Erik Jayme
1934 – 2024
Eugene Gendlin
1926 – 2017
Ferdinand Minding
1806 – 1885
Frederick Kipping
1863 – 1949
Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken
1830 – 1896
Gabriel Lamé
1795 – 1870
Günther Gereke
1893 – 1970
Harold Nicolson
1886 – 1968
Helen Murray Free
1923 – 2021
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
1777 – 1850
Pierre Adolphe Chéruel
1809 – 1891
Radhia Cousot
1947 – 2014
Rafael Roncagliolo
1944 – 2021
Ralph Hartley
1888 – 1970
Tokugawa Muneyoshi
1897 – 1989
Victoria Prego
1948 – 2024
Vladimir Poptomov
1890 – 1952
Abbé Delille
1738 – 1813
Alexandre Guy Pingré
1711 – 1796
Alexandros Panagoulis
1939 – 1976
Anatoly Aleksin
1924 – 2017
Anders Sandøe Ørsted
1778 – 1860
Anthony Mamo
1909 – 2008
Aspy Engineer
1912 – 2002
Blair Tennent
1898 – 1976
Charles Holden
1875 – 1960
Charles I. Faddis
1890 – 1972
Charles Upham Shepard
1804 – 1886
Constantin Olteanu
1928 – 2018
David Livingstone
1813 – 1873
Debu Chaudhuri
1935 – 2021
Dominique Lecourt
1944 – 2022
Ebenezer Howard
1850 – 1928
Eduard Schönfeld
1828 – 1891
Edward Ochab
1906 – 1989
Elisabeth Blunschy
1922 – 2015
Elmar Altvater
1938 – 2018
Ferdinand Gregorovius
1821 – 1891
Fernand Dumont
1927 – 1997
Frank N. Ikard
1913 – 1991
Frank Packer
1906 – 1974
Fumio Gotō
1884 – 1980
G. Robert Blakey
1936 – 2026
Grant Gilmore
1910 – 1982
Harriet Presser
1936 – 2012
Heciyê Cindî
1908 – 1990
Henry Berliner
1895 – 1970
Henry Brinley Richards
1819 – 1885
Henry Cecil, 1st Marquess of Exeter
1754 – 1804
Henry Mainwaring
1587 – 1653
Herbert Marsh
1757 – 1839
Hyōe Ōuchi
1888 – 1980
Israel Russell
1852 – 1906
J. S. Roskell
1913 – 1998
James Ramsay
1916 – 1986
Jan Rudolph Slotemaker de Bruïne
1869 – 1941
Jean-Jacques Laffont
1947 – 2004
Jean-Louis Dumas
1938 – 2010
John Dryden
1631 – 1700
John Dunmore
1923 – 2023
John Newton
1823 – 1895
John Perceval, 1st Earl of Egmont
1683 – 1748
József Hámori
1932 – 2021
Kenneth Clark
1914 – 2005
Klymentiy Sheptytsky
1869 – 1951
Leland Ossian Howard
1857 – 1950
Lothrop Stoddard
1883 – 1950
Louis Henry Davies
1845 – 1924
Lucie Favier
1932 – 2003
Martina Bunge
1951 – 2022
Michel Vinaver
1927 – 2022
Mirrie Hill
1889 – 1986
Mohamed Meziane
1897 – 1975
Mohamed Talbi
1921 – 2017
Morteza Motahhari
1919 – 1979
Moshe Landau
1912 – 2011
Nikolai Dukhov
1904 – 1964
Nirmala Deshpande
1929 – 2008
Norman Gash
1912 – 2009
Paul Devinat
1890 – 1980
Peter Lorenz Sellergren
1768 – 1843
Peter Nixon
1928 – 2025
Pierre Bérégovoy
1925 – 1993
Pius V
1504 – 1572
Rufina Gasheva
1921 – 2012
Senteza Kajubi
1926 – 2012
Sergei Korsakoff
1854 – 1900
Solomon W. Golomb
1932 – 2016
Stefan Mladenov
1880 – 1963
Sydney Cockerell
1867 – 1962
Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa
1894 – 1962
Takashi Nagai
1908 – 1951
Takayasu Okushima
1939 – 2024
Torstein Grythe
1918 – 2009
Wanda Wiłkomirska
1929 – 2018
Wilhelm Decker
1899 – 1945
Wilhelm His
1831 – 1904
Wilhelm Normann
1870 – 1939
William Hewson
1739 – 1774
William Primrose
1904 – 1982
Yi Un
1897 – 1970
Zoltán Gombocz
1877 – 1935
Achille Larue
1849 – 1922
Adolf Weiler
1851 – 1916
Adrian Prakhov
1846 – 1916
Agustín García-Gasco Vicente
1931 – 2011
Albert Brisbane
1809 – 1890
Albert Plécy
1914 – 1977
Aleksandar Mašin
1857 – 1910
Alexander Gilmore Cochran
1846 – 1928
Alexander Kutateli
1897 – 1982
Alexandre Étard
1852 – 1910
Ali Soheili
1896 – 1958
Alice Mabel Bacon
1858 – 1918
Alphonse-Marie-Marcellin-Thomas Bérenger
1785 – 1866
Amalia Anglès y Mayer
1827 – 1859
André Frédéric Hartmann
1772 – 1861
Antero Rubín Homent
1851 – 1935
Anthony Hoskyns-Abrahall
1903 – 1982
Antonio Janigro
1918 – 1989
Antony Bulwer-Lytton, Viscount Knebworth
1903 – 1933
Arima Ryokitsu
1861 – 1944
Arnaldo Rascovsky
1907 – 1995
Arnold Manaaki Wilson
1928 – 2012
Arthur B. Williams
1872 – 1925
Arthur Dewey Struble
1894 – 1983
Asher Hinds
1863 – 1919
Ashok Mitra
1928 – 2018
Assi Dayan
1945 – 2014
August Friedrich Müller
1684 – 1761
Augustine Mahiga
1945 – 2020
Ayrton Senna
1960 – 1994
Basil Arthur
1928 – 1985
Bautista Saavedra
1870 – 1939
Benjamin Waller
1716 – 1786
Bernardo Pereira de Vasconcelos
1795 – 1850
Binyamin Sasson
1903 – 1989
Blyden Jackson
1910 – 2000
Bob Brockie
1932 – 2025
Bob Holt
1914 – 1985
Boyan Petrov
1973 – 2018
Bozor Sobir
1938 – 2018
Bruce Peterson
1933 – 2006
Carl E. Milliken
1877 – 1961
Carmel Snow
1887 – 1961
Cesare Merzagora
1898 – 1991
Charles Abercrombie Smith
1834 – 1919
Charles G. Callard
1923 – 2004
Charles Manly
1795 – 1871
Charles Sutherland Elton
1900 – 1991
Christoph Meiners
1747 – 1810
Cosimo de Torres
1584 – 1642
Dave Goldberg
1967 – 2015
David Petrovich Shterenberg
1881 – 1948
David Webster
1945 – 1989
Davorjanka Paunović
1921 – 1946
Deb Foskey
1949 – 2020
Denis Bérardier
1735 – 1794
Direk Jayanama
1905 – 1967
Dorothy Swaine Thomas
1899 – 1977
Douglass Watson
1921 – 1989
Doyle Niemann
1947 – 2024
Duan Dechang
1904 – 1933
Edoardo Villa
1915 – 2011
Edward J. McDermott
1852 – 1926
Ernie McCoy
1905 – 1983
Ferdinand Hoefer
1811 – 1878
Ferdinand Jan Ormeling
1912 – 2002
Francesco Lamperti
1813 – 1892
Francis Barnes
1744 – 1838
Francis Mansell
1579 – 1665
Francis Winnington
1634 – 1700
Frank Kingsley Norris
1893 – 1984
Frederick Scott Archer
1813 – 1857
Frits Warmolt Went
1903 – 1990
Frédéric Cailliaud
1787 – 1869
Fyodor Bredikhin
1831 – 1904
Geoffrey Francis Archer
1882 – 1964
George Green Foster
1860 – 1931
George Hodgson
1893 – 1983
George Julian Zolnay
1863 – 1949
George MacKinnon
1906 – 1995
Gheorghe Petrașcu
1872 – 1949
Giovanni Sechi
1871 – 1948
Girija Vyas
1946 – 2025
Glenda Farrell
1904 – 1971
Godfrey Locker-Lampson
1875 – 1946
Gordon Lightfoot
1938 – 2023
Grigorios Maraslis
1831 – 1907
Guillaume Chartier
1395 – 1472
… and 2,135 more