On This Day — May 5

Alston Scott Householder

1904 – 1993

Francesco Tricomi

1897 – 1978

Lazarus Fuchs

1833 – 1902

Adolfo Suárez Illana

b. 1964

Anatoly Artamonov

b. 1952

Anne Fraïsse

b. 1959

Ara Babloyan

b. 1947

Arthur Leonard Schawlow

1921 – 1999

Artur Michalski

b. 1962

Bernard Pivot

1935 – 2024

Cathleen Synge Morawetz

1923 – 2017

Charles Chree

1860 – 1928

Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy

1926 – 2016

César Alierta

1945 – 2024

Dimitris Tsatsos

1933 – 2010

Dmitry Krasilnikov

b. 1971

Dorothy Garrod

1892 – 1968

Douglas H. Wheelock

b. 1960

Douglas Mawson

1882 – 1958

Elke Ferner

b. 1958

Fumiko Hayashi

b. 1946

Harry Waris

1893 – 1973

Ibraheem Zakzaky

b. 1953

Iosif Grigulevich

1913 – 1988

Isaac Folorunso Adewole

b. 1954

Jean-François Copé

b. 1964

Jean-Marc Moura

b. 1956

Jens Holmboe

1880 – 1943

Johann Nepomuk Fuchs

1842 – 1899

John William Draper

1811 – 1882

Jorge Quiroga

b. 1960

Kersti Sarapuu

b. 1954

Louis Christophe François Hachette

1800 – 1864

Louis Émile Javal

1839 – 1907

Michael Cates

b. 1961

Michel Zink

b. 1945

Nicolas Demorand

b. 1971

Nikolai Mladenov

b. 1972

Nikolay Pilyugin

1908 – 1982

Ruben Hovsepyan

1939 – 2016

Serge Telle

b. 1955

Sergei Vladimirovich Yeliseyev

b. 1971

Stefan Bergman

1895 – 1977

Takaoki Sasaki

1878 – 1966

Thomas Bavin

1874 – 1941

Thomas Cromwell

b. 1952

Witold Waszczykowski

b. 1957

Yigong Shi

b. 1967

Yūkichi Takeda

1886 – 1958

Adam Clayton Powell

1865 – 1953

Adaora Adimora

1956 – 2024

Adele

b. 1988

Adil Isgandarov

1910 – 1978

Adrián Vázquez Lázara

b. 1982

Andrea Giunta

b. 1960

Andrew Davies

b. 1952

Andrew Liveris

b. 1954

Andy Tsang

b. 1958

Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler

1883 – 1966

Anton de Waal

1837 – 1917

António Augusto dos Santos Marto

b. 1947

Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

1883 – 1950

Arthur L. Thurlow

1913 – 2020

Augustin Joseph Schulte

1856 – 1937

Basil Yamey

1919 – 2020

Benedikt Paul Göcke

b. 1981

Bohdana Frolyak

b. 1968

Brian Williams

b. 1959

Bruno Hussar

1911 – 1996

Carl August Ehrensvärd

1745 – 1800

Carl Jakob Adolf Christian Gerhardt

1833 – 1902

Chantal Ladesou

b. 1948

Charlie Gonzalez

b. 1945

Cosimo Izzo

1943 – 2022

Dagmar Wöhrl

b. 1954

Dan Balz

b. 1946

Daniel Amit

1938 – 2007

David Pekoske

b. 1955

Dieter Zetsche

b. 1953

Dionisio Fierros

1827 – 1894

Dmitry Morozov

b. 1971

Ed Lee

1952 – 2017

Elaine Fuchs

b. 1950

Eliza Reid

b. 1976

Emilia Ferreiro

1937 – 2023

Emine Dzhaparova

b. 1983

Emmanuel de Mérode

b. 1970

Ernest-Eugène Hiolle

1834 – 1886

Eugène Labiche

1815 – 1888

Ferdinand von Richthofen

1833 – 1905

Francis Pollet

b. 1964

Frank Michelman

b. 1936

Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

1809 – 1889

Gar Alperovitz

b. 1936

Geoffrey Fisher

1887 – 1972

Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente

1872 – 1959

Georgios Papadopoulos

1919 – 1999

Georgiy Zakharov

1897 – 1957

Gloria Dubner

b. 1950

Hans Pfitzner

1869 – 1949

Helvi Sipilä

1915 – 2009

Henri Konan Bédié

1934 – 2023

Henry Grattan Nolan

1893 – 1957

Henry Nettleship

1839 – 1893

Hiroshi Hase

b. 1961

Ignacio Ramonet

b. 1943

Ion Dumeniuc

1936 – 1992

Isabel Hardman

b. 1986

Isabelle Moretti

b. 1964

István Bujtor

1942 – 2009

Itsunori Onodera

b. 1960

Ivan Kubrakow

b. 1975

Jacques Fournier

1929 – 2021

James R. Arnold

1923 – 2012

Jean-Joseph Farre

1816 – 1887

Jean-Joseph Gaume

1802 – 1879

Jeffrey Marc Monforton

b. 1963

Jiří Svoboda

b. 1945

Joaquín Leguina

b. 1941

Johann Tobias Mayer

1752 – 1830

John Charles Fenton

1880 – 1951

John Howson

1816 – 1885

John Macmillan Brown

1845 – 1935

John Porter East

1931 – 1986

John Weir Foote

1904 – 1988

Juan Manuel Abal Medina

b. 1968

Julio Ribeiro

b. 1929

Józef Pius Dziekoński

1844 – 1927

Kang Jung-ai

b. 1957

Keklik Yücel

b. 1968

Kim Hoon

b. 1948

Kimberlé Crenshaw

b. 1959

Kintarô Okamura

1867 – 1935

Kyōsuke Kindaichi

1882 – 1971

Károly Kalchbrenner

1807 – 1886

Larry Brilliant

b. 1944

Leo Lionni

1910 – 1999

Leo Ryan

1925 – 1978

Listyo Sigit Prabowo

b. 1969

Ludwig Burmester

1840 – 1927

Lyubov Yegorova

b. 1966

Malam Bacai Sanhá

1947 – 2012

Marie Ehrling

b. 1955

Marie-Eugène Debeney

1864 – 1943

Mario Búcaro

b. 1977

Martin Brudermüller

b. 1961

Matthew Lieberman

b. 1970

Matthias Theodor Vogt

b. 1959

Maurice Green

1926 – 2017

Max Tegmark

b. 1967

Michael Palin

b. 1943

Michele Tenore

1780 – 1861

Mike J. Dunleavy

b. 1961

Miklós Radnóti

1909 – 1944

Mitsunari Okamoto

b. 1965

Mitsuyoshi Yanagisawa

b. 1948

Moshe Gafni

b. 1952

Narinder Nath Vohra

b. 1936

Natalia Pasternak Taschner

b. 1976

Natalya Khorokhorina

b. 1954

Nicholas Bloom

b. 1973

Nina Virchenko

b. 1930

Patrick Brownsey

1948 – 2023

Peter J. Hotez

b. 1958

Peter Molyneux

b. 1959

Philip S. Lee

b. 1944

Pietro Gasparri

1852 – 1934

Pío del Río Hortega

1882 – 1945

Rafał Taubenschlag

1881 – 1958

Raminta Popovienė

b. 1970

Redi Tlhabi

b. 1978

Riad Sattouf

b. 1978

Richard S. Muller

b. 1933

Robert Gordon

1786 – 1853

Robert Spaemann

1927 – 2018

Robert von Puttkamer

1828 – 1900

Rostam Qasemi

1964 – 2022

Ryszard Horowitz

b. 1939

Salvador Illa Roca

b. 1966

Samuel Abraham Goldblith

1919 – 2001

Saparhan Omarov

b. 1968

Saskia Hamilton

1967 – 2023

Sergey Akhromeyev

1923 – 1991

Sergey Solovyov

1820 – 1879

Sergey Stanishev

b. 1966

Shianghao Wang

1915 – 1993

Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet

1864 – 1922

Siri Hatlen

b. 1957

Son Won-il

1909 – 1980

Stephen Flowers

b. 1953

Sviatoslav Shevchuk

b. 1970

Sylvia Pankhurst

1882 – 1960

T. S. Avinashilingam Chettiar

1903 – 1991

Tatiana Tairova-Yakovleva

b. 1967

Teiji Ichiko

1911 – 2004

Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter

1542 – 1623

Trần Đức Lương

1937 – 2025

Veit Wittrock

1839 – 1914

Vic Garland

1934 – 2022

Victor Pierre Le Gorgeu

1881 – 1963

Wang Yinglai

1907 – 2001

Adolf Miethe

1862 – 1927

Adolf von Koenen

1837 – 1915

Albert de Lapparent

1839 – 1908

Carlos Saavedra Lamas

1878 – 1959

Charles-Ange Laisant

1841 – 1920

Claude Julien

1925 – 2005

David F. Swensen

1954 – 2021

Edward Pietrzyk

1949 – 2021

Ian H. Witten

2000 – 2023

James R. Browning

1918 – 2012

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet

1805 – 1859

Johannes Østrup

1867 – 1938

Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury

1797 – 1890

Lee Hong-koo

1934 – 2026

Louis-Amable Jetté

1836 – 1920

Ludwig Erhard

1897 – 1977

Soledad Gallego-Díaz

1951 – 2026

Sunney Chan

1936 – 2025

Theodore Maiman

1927 – 2007

Émile Molinier

1857 – 1906

Aatos Erkko

1932 – 2012

Albert Dekker

1905 – 1968

Albert Joseph Goblet d'Alviella

1790 – 1873

Ann McBride Norton

1944 – 2020

Anton Buttigieg

1912 – 1983

Antonio José Cavanilles

1745 – 1804

August Wilhelm von Hofmann

1818 – 1892

Augustin Cabanès

1862 – 1928

Beryl Nashar

1923 – 2012

Carl Friedrich Keil

1807 – 1888

Colin Muir Barber

1897 – 1964

Cornelia Templeton Hatcher

1867 – 1953

Dermot Boyle

1904 – 1993

Donald Bailey

1901 – 1985

Douglas Clifton Brown, 1st Viscount Ruffside

1879 – 1958

Earl Blaik

1897 – 1989

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester

1602 – 1671

Edwin H. Simmons

1921 – 2007

Errett P. Scrivner

1898 – 1978

Eugenia Pragierowa

1888 – 1964

Francis Ormond

1827 – 1889

Frans van Kinschot

1577 – 1651

Georg von Arco

1869 – 1940

Georges Ohnet

1848 – 1918

Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente

1872 – 1959

Giorgi Dzotsenidze

1910 – 1976

Gordon Hewart, 1st Viscount Hewart

1870 – 1943

Habib Pacha Es-Saad

1867 – 1942

Hans Jansen

1942 – 2015

Hasan Karmi

1905 – 2007

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais

1823 – 1871

Henry Sidney

1529 – 1586

Howard Robertson

1888 – 1963

Hugo Banzer

1926 – 2002

Irving Howe

1920 – 1993

Isao Tomita

1932 – 2016

Ivan Alekseyevich Kablukov

1857 – 1942

James Despencer-Robertson

1886 – 1942

John Flynn

1880 – 1951

Joseph W. Kennedy

1916 – 1957

José Ángel de la Casa

1950 – 2025

Józef Rostafiński

1850 – 1928

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

1777 – 1842

Kenneth Keating

1900 – 1975

Kirtley F. Mather

1888 – 1978

Louis Demaison

1852 – 1937

Louis Marie de Milet de Mureau

1751 – 1825

Marius Gabriel Cazemajou

1864 – 1898

Martiros Saryan

1880 – 1972

Mercedes de la Merced

1960 – 2013

Michael Augustine Corrigan

1839 – 1902

Mikhail Gnesin

1883 – 1957

Millicent Barton Rex

1901 – 1966

Napoleon

1769 – 1821

Niels Nikolaus Falck

1784 – 1850

Nikolai Borchsenius

1906 – 1965

Nikolai von Rosenbach

1836 – 1901

Pierre Jean George Cabanis

1757 – 1808

Qemal Stafa

1920 – 1942

Race Mathews

1935 – 2025

Richard D. McCarthy

1927 – 1995

Robert Lloyd Praeger

1865 – 1953

Rosalie Slaughter Morton

1876 – 1968

Shin Ik-hee

1894 – 1956

Simona Postlerová

1964 – 2024

Siné

1928 – 2016

Sir John Melville

1803 – 1860

Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet

1905 – 1981

Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet

1786 – 1855

Stanley Falkow

1934 – 2018

Stuart Garson

1898 – 1977

Takayoshi Yoshioka

1909 – 1984

Thomas Woodnutt Miller

1886 – 1973

Valery Baranov

1957 – 2023

Viglius Zuichemus

1507 – 1577

Vitaly Bujanovsky

1928 – 1993

Waldo K. Lyon

1914 – 1998

William David Ross

1877 – 1971

William Mackenzie, 1st Baron Amulree

1860 – 1942

William Younghusband

1814 – 1863

Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga

1920 – 2006

Adolph Kiefer

1918 – 2017

Ai Qing

1910 – 1996

Aleixo Corte-Real

1886 – 1943

Alejandro Cicarelli

1811 – 1879

Alessandra Codazzi

1921 – 2010

Alexandre Marie Léonor de Saint-Mauris de Montbarrey

1732 – 1796

Alfred Fowell Buxton

1854 – 1952

Alfred Hermann Fried

1864 – 1921

Amancio Alcorta

1842 – 1902

Andreas Faye

1802 – 1869

Andrei Mocioni

1812 – 1880

Andrew Morrissey

1860 – 1921

Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva

1871 – 1955

Anne Thaxter Eaton

1881 – 1971

Ansel Briggs

1806 – 1881

Anthony Wagner

1908 – 1995

Arthur Laurents

1917 – 2011

Augustus Maxwell

1820 – 1903

Aurel Persu

1890 – 1977

Austin Roberts

1883 – 1948

Axel Leijonhufvud

1933 – 2022

Barbara Conway

1952 – 1991

Barry Edward Johnson

1937 – 2002

Basile-Jean Risopoulos

1919 – 1997

Basilio Pompilj

1858 – 1931

Ben Smith

1879 – 1964

Benjamin Dass

1706 – 1775

Benjamin Elon

1954 – 2017

Billy Frank, Jr.

1931 – 2014

Bruce G. Lindsay

1947 – 2015

Butler Derrick

1936 – 2014

Carl Sofus Lumholtz

1851 – 1922

Carl Vogt

1817 – 1895

Carlos M. Padilla

1944 – 2023

Cay Sundström

1902 – 1959

Celil Oker

1952 – 2019

Chaim Gross

1904 – 1991

Charles Grafly

1862 – 1929

Charles Grafton Page

1812 – 1868

Charles H. Zimmerman

1908 – 1996

Charles Hosmer Morse

1833 – 1921

Charles L. Gerlach

1895 – 1947

Charles-Grégoire de Beauchamps

1731 – 1817

Chris Strachwitz

1931 – 2023

Christian Schneider

1887 – 1972

Clémentine Jouassain

1829 – 1902

Conde Balcom McCullough

1887 – 1946

Corinne Erhel

1967 – 2017

Dan S Tawfik

1955 – 2021

Daniel Ciugureanu

1885 – 1950

David J. O'Connor

1924 – 2011

David Lasser

1902 – 1996

David M. Britt

1917 – 2009

David Milne

1763 – 1845

David S. King

1917 – 2009

David Shapiro

1947 – 2024

Del Crandall

1930 – 2021

Del M. Clawson

1914 – 1992

E. Ross Adair

1907 – 1983

Earl Faircloth

1920 – 1995

Eduard Gans

1797 – 1839

Edward Seymour, 16th Duke of Somerset

1860 – 1931

Edward W. Snedeker

1903 – 1995

Eleanor Purdie

1872 – 1929

Elijah H. Mills

1776 – 1829

Erich Franz Eugen Bracht

1882 – 1969

Eugène Olivier

1881 – 1964

Feđa Stojanović

1948 – 2021

Fikrat Goja

1935 – 2021

Fortunato Benavides

1947 – 2023

Francisco Diez Canseco

1821 – 1884

Franklin Peale

1795 – 1870

Franz von Soxhlet

1848 – 1926

François Annibal d'Estrées

1573 – 1670

Frederick III of Saxony

1463 – 1525

Frederick W. Mulkey

1874 – 1924

Frederik Raben-Levetzau

1850 – 1933

Friedrich August I of Saxony

1750 – 1827

Friedrich Eduard Eichens

1804 – 1877

Fritz Heine

1904 – 2002

Gae͏̈tan Duval

1930 – 1996

George Bell

1872 – 1944

George Hubbard Blakeslee

1871 – 1954

George Nugent, 1st Marquess of Westmeath

1785 – 1871

Gianfrancesco Gambara

1533 – 1587

Gilberto Echeverri Mejía

1936 – 2003

Gunder Aas

1785 – 1853

Halsey Ives

1847 – 1911

Hans Smidth

1839 – 1917

Haroldo Conti

1925 – 1976

Hermann Kopf

1901 – 1991

Hermann Schmitz

1928 – 2021

Homer Stryker

1894 – 1980

Horst Schumann

1906 – 1983

Hossein Qajeyi

1958 – 1982

Howard Kippenberger

1897 – 1957

Hugh Bradner

1915 – 2008

Irmgard Keun

1905 – 1982