On This Day — May 31

Abdelhak Mrini

1934 – 2025

Alexey Gromov

b. 1960

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

b. 1947

Amalio Gimeno

1852 – 1936

Andreas Meyer-Landrut

b. 1929

André Hoffmann

b. 1958

Angela McLean

b. 1961

Aydan Özoğuz

b. 1967

Charles Greeley Abbot

1872 – 1973

Chien-Shiung Wu

1912 – 1997

Christine Paulin-Mohring

b. 1962

David Lappartient

b. 1973

David Leigh

b. 1963

Edoardo Vesentini

1928 – 2020

Francisco Pascasio Moreno

1852 – 1919

Gennadi Vainikko

1938 – 2024

Georges Goyau

1869 – 1939

Georges Lacour-Gayet

1856 – 1935

Graham Webster

1913 – 2001

Harold Demsetz

1930 – 2019

John Robert Schrieffer

1931 – 2019

John Vig

b. 1942

June Clark

1941 – 2025

Leopoldo Franchetti

1847 – 1917

Louis Ignarro

b. 1941

Mariusz Maszkiewicz

b. 1959

Mary Hockaday

b. 1962

Maurice Allais

1911 – 2010

Oluwatoyin Ogundipe

b. 1960

Patricia Harris

1924 – 1985

Pavol Lančarič

b. 1963

Regina Bendix

b. 1958

Rosamond McKitterick

1949 – 2026

Saint-John Perse

1887 – 1975

Sian MacLeod

b. 1962

Steve Horn

1931 – 2011

Tokugawa Muneyoshi

1897 – 1989

Tristram Hunt

b. 1974

William Nordhaus

b. 1941

William Peddie

1861 – 1946

Yaffa Eliach

1937 – 2016

Yuri Tschinkel

b. 1964

Abdullah Al-Mamun Suhrawardy

1877 – 1935

Akira Ifukube

1914 – 2006

Al Young

1939 – 2021

Alain Duhamel

b. 1940

Alan K. Campbell

1923 – 1998

Albert Lee Reeves, Jr.

1906 – 1987

Alexander Filipenko

b. 1950

Alexander Tyagunov

1940 – 2025

Alois Hudal

1885 – 1963

Antoni Cieszyński

1882 – 1941

Bernard Lewis

1916 – 2018

Betty Kitchener

b. 1951

Blake Pelly

1907 – 1990

Cecil Fane De Salis

1857 – 1948

Cecil Watson

1901 – 1983

Charles Harington Harington

1872 – 1940

Charles de la Verpillière

b. 1954

Clarence Chant

1865 – 1956

Clint Eastwood

b. 1930

Conny Palm

1907 – 1951

Daryl Katz

b. 1961

David A. Morse

1907 – 1990

David Braley

1941 – 2020

DeWitt Stetten Jr.

1909 – 1990

Detlev Buchholz

b. 1944

Diane Lamarre

b. 1955

Dina Boluarte

b. 1962

Duncan L. Hunter

b. 1948

Edgar Savisaar

1950 – 2022

Emmerich Joseph de Dalberg

1773 – 1833

Ernst Hadorn

1902 – 1976

Eva Cheng

b. 1960

Eve Ewing

b. 1986

Fakhreddin Jamali

b. 1945

Faustin Hélie

1799 – 1884

Francesco Cappè

b. 1971

Francis Younghusband

1863 – 1942

François-Xavier Villain

1950 – 2025

Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford

1827 – 1905

Friedrich Kraus

1858 – 1936

Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois

b. 1990

Gary Bautell

1942 – 2022

Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux

b. 1962

George Gaskell

b. 1948

George P. Merrill

1854 – 1929

George Vujnovich

1915 – 2012

Georgi Burkov

1933 – 1990

Gerhard Woeginger

1964 – 2022

Giovanni Palatucci

1909 – 1945

Gisela May

1924 – 2016

Gloria Molina

1948 – 2023

Graham Wallas

1858 – 1932

Gregor Strasser

1892 – 1934

Hamo Beknazarian

1892 – 1965

Haraldur Sigurðsson

b. 1939

Harry McCalmont

1861 – 1902

Helen E. Fisher

1945 – 2024

Helga Eng

1875 – 1966

Henrik Jakob von Düben

1733 – 1805

Henry M. Jackson

1912 – 1983

Hervé Alphand

1907 – 1994

Hervé Gaymard

b. 1960

Hilla von Rebay

1890 – 1967

Howard Vincent

1849 – 1908

Igor Vasilyev

b. 1961

Iwa Koesoemasoemantri

1899 – 1971

Jacqueline McGlade

b. 1955

Jacques Matter

1791 – 1864

James Dobbins

1942 – 2023

James Eberle

1927 – 2018

James J. Sheehan

b. 1937

Jan Sobiło

b. 1962

Janusz Weiss

1948 – 2023

Jean Rouch

1917 – 2004

Jean de Selys Longchamps

1912 – 1943

Jeffrey A. Winters

b. 1960

Jim Bolger

1935 – 2025

John Cox Bray

1842 – 1894

John Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone

1868 – 1947

Jorge Taiana

b. 1950

Joseph Marie Élisabeth Durocher

1817 – 1860

Joss Bland-Hawthorn

b. 1959

José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra

b. 1955

Karl August von Hardenberg

1750 – 1822

Karl Bartos

b. 1952

Kenneth McLennan

1925 – 2005

Konstantin Paustovsky

1892 – 1968

Laura van den Berg

b. 1983

Laurent Gbagbo

b. 1945

Lauri Kristian Relander

1883 – 1942

Leonid Melnikov

1906 – 1981

Lev Biryuk

b. 1946

Luigi Miraglia

1846 – 1903

Lynda Bellingham

1948 – 2014

Līga Meņģelsone

b. 1972

Margret Suckale

b. 1956

Marina Lévy

b. 1968

Marina Solodkin

1952 – 2013

Marios Garoyian

b. 1961

Marty Ehrlich

b. 1955

Melvyn P. Leffler

b. 1945

Menahem Golan

1929 – 2014

Merritte W. Ireland

1867 – 1952

Michael J. Elliott

1951 – 2016

Michael Weiss

b. 1980

Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki

1640 – 1673

Norbert Darabos

b. 1964

Norbert Leser

1933 – 2014

Odón Elorza González

b. 1955

Olav Skjevesland

1942 – 2019

Paulette Lenert

b. 1968

Pekka Sauri

b. 1954

Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi

b. 1951

Peter Howitt

b. 1946

Peter M. Schneider

1955 – 2022

Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke

1757 – 1834

Pierre Lasserre

1867 – 1930

Pirkka-Pekka Petelius

b. 1953

Pius XI

1857 – 1939

Rainier III, Prince of Monaco

1923 – 2005

Regina Brett

b. 1956

Reginald Hanson

1840 – 1905

Riad al-Maliki

b. 1955

Richard B. Hetnarski

1928 – 2024

Richard Gilder

1932 – 2020

Richard Lovell Edgeworth

1744 – 1817

Richard Yost

b. 1953

Robert Daudelin

b. 1939

Rolande Trempé

1916 – 2016

Roy McMurtry

1932 – 2024

Rudolf von Scheliha

1897 – 1942

Sakihito Ozawa

b. 1954

Sara Duterte

b. 1978

Sheilah Martin

b. 1956

Shirley Verrett

1931 – 2010

Silvia Pinto

1937 – 1982

Stacey Sinclair

b. 1971

Sven Ekman

1876 – 1964

Svetlana Alexievich

b. 1948

Thomas Murphy

1925 – 2022

Thomas Spring Rice, 2nd Baron Monteagle of Brandon

1849 – 1926

Tomo Virk

b. 1960

Tutu Puoane

b. 1979

Ueli Aebi

1946 – 2025

Valerii Borysov

b. 1957

Valston Hancock

1907 – 1998

Veronika Remišová

b. 1976

Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire

1868 – 1938

Victoria Billing

b. 1975

Viktor Orbán

b. 1963

Volodymyr Kistion

b. 1965

Willard A. Holbrook, Jr.

1898 – 1986

William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie

1847 – 1924

William Worrall Mayo

1819 – 1911

Yannis Valinakis

b. 1955

Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov

1893 – 1966

Zahava Solomon

b. 1950

Édouard Deldevez

1817 – 1897

Jacques Monod

1910 – 1976

Adolf Eichmann

1906 – 1962

Albert Mosse

1846 – 1925

Ama Ata Aidoo

1942 – 2023

Erich Kähler

1906 – 2000

Eugène Cosserat

1866 – 1931

Francesco Siacci

1839 – 1907

Grant Hammond

1944 – 2019

Irene Manton

1904 – 1988

Jacob Clay

1882 – 1955

John Cadman, 1st Baron Cadman

1877 – 1941

John Peden

1871 – 1946

Kwoh-Ting Li

1910 – 2001

Maida Clark

1902 – 1991

Michio Suzuki

1926 – 1998

Raymond Davis Jr.

1914 – 2006

Rupert Neudeck

1939 – 2016

Stanley Fischer

1943 – 2025

Theodoros Pangalos

1938 – 2023

Thomas Chalmers

1780 – 1847

Walther Funk

1890 – 1960

William S. Sly

1932 – 2025

Évariste Galois

1811 – 1832

Abel Bonnard

1883 – 1968

Albert Egges van Giffen

1884 – 1973

Alice Weld Tallant

1875 – 1958

Alured Clarke

1696 – 1742

Antoine-Aimé Dorion

1818 – 1891

Archibald Bulloch Roosevelt, Jr.

1918 – 1990

Archil Gomiashvili

1926 – 2005

Arlene Francis

1907 – 2001

Arnold Wilson

1884 – 1940

Barbara Ward

1914 – 1981

Bernard Cracroft Aston

1871 – 1951

Bruno Wüstenberg

1912 – 1984

Carlo Smuraglia

1923 – 2022

Charles A. Hufnagel

1916 – 1989

Charles Drelincourt the Younger

1633 – 1697

Charles Moskos

1934 – 2008

Colin Callander

1897 – 1979

Detlef Gromoll

1938 – 2008

Ede Zathureczky

1903 – 1959

Emily Blatch, Baroness Blatch

1937 – 2005

Eugène Goüin

1818 – 1909

Fedor Panyutin

1790 – 1865

Fernando de los Ríos Urruti

1879 – 1949

Francesco Colasuonno

1925 – 2003

G. A. Gripenberg

1890 – 1975

George Green

1793 – 1841

George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney

1737 – 1806

Gerald E. Brown

1926 – 2013

Gheorghe Macovei

1880 – 1969

Giuseppe Pella

1902 – 1981

Grigory Butakov

1820 – 1882

Gu Songfen

1930 – 2026

Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery

1882 – 1974

Henri Casadesus

1879 – 1947

Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès

1817 – 1880

Ingram Marshall

1942 – 2022

Ivan Murray Johnston

1898 – 1960

Jaakko Laajava

1947 – 2025

James Bennett Griffin

1905 – 1997

James Rainwater

1917 – 1986

Jerzy Kaliszewski

1912 – 1990

Jiří Bělohlávek

1946 – 2017

Johann von Schraudolph

1808 – 1879

John Andrew Sullivan

1868 – 1927

John Ross Robertson

1841 – 1918

Juan Martínez Silíceo

1486 – 1557

Jüri Nuut

1892 – 1952

Kauko Pirinen

1915 – 1999

Kenji Fukunaga

1910 – 1988

Kenneth Bloomfield

1931 – 2025

Kenneth W. Dam

1932 – 2022

Lewis M. Branscomb

1926 – 2023

Liubomyr Huzar

1933 – 2017

Louis-Honoré Fréchette

1839 – 1908

Louise Bourgeois

1911 – 2010

Luciano Lama

1921 – 1996

Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius

1788 – 1843

Lutz Stavenhagen

1940 – 1992

Magnus Hestenes

1906 – 1991

Maximilian von Lingg

1842 – 1930

Michael D. Ford

1928 – 2018

Mohamed Abdelaziz

1947 – 2016

Napoléon Doumet-Adanson

1834 – 1897

Nikolai Orlov

1892 – 1964

Norman Lamm

1927 – 2020

Oskar Heinroth

1871 – 1945

Ove Ljung

1918 – 1997

Owen Lattimore

1900 – 1989

Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel

1888 – 1973

Petar Mladenov

1936 – 2000

Rodolfo Olgiati

1905 – 1986

Ryamizard Ryacudu

1950 – 2026

Sandra Escher

1947 – 2021

Shūzō Okada

1886 – 1983

Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, 3rd Baronet

1784 – 1841

Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira

1928 – 2021

T. B. L. Webster

1905 – 1974

Theodor Meynert

1833 – 1892

Thomas Jones

1614 – 1692

Tomi Reichental

1935 – 2026

Victor Child Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey

1845 – 1915

Walter Pfrimer

1881 – 1968

William Furse

1865 – 1953

William H. Blanchard

1916 – 1966

William Smith

1756 – 1835

William à Court, 1st Baron Heytesbury

1779 – 1860

Willoughby Dickinson, 1st Baron Dickinson

1859 – 1943

Willy Spühler

1902 – 1990

Yan Gamarnik

1894 – 1937

Yuri Zhukov

1908 – 1991

Zhou Ruchang

1918 – 2012

Adolfas Mekas

1925 – 2011

Aileen Ward

1919 – 2016

Alan L. Gropman

1938 – 2026

Alberto Blanc

1835 – 1904

Albertus W. Catlin

1868 – 1933

Alexander McCabe

1886 – 1972

Alexander T. Hawthorn

1825 – 1899

Amitai Etzioni

1929 – 2023

Anatoli Ivanov

1928 – 1999

Andrée Geulen-Herscovici

1921 – 2022

Angus Wilson

1913 – 1991

Anibal Quijano

1930 – 2018

Anna Kochanowska

1922 – 2019

Anton Heinrich Springer

1825 – 1891

Antonio Agustín y Albanell

1517 – 1586

Antonio Imbert Barrera

1920 – 2016

Aníbal González

1876 – 1929

Art Lund

1915 – 1990

Arthur Herbert Church

1834 – 1915

Arthur Japy Hepburn

1877 – 1964

Benjamin Rudyerd

1572 – 1658

Beverley B. Munford

1856 – 1910

Beverly A. Davis

1868 – 1944

Billy Strayhorn

1915 – 1967

Birgit Skiöld

1923 – 1982

Bohdan Wróblewski

1931 – 2017

Boris Rösner

1951 – 2006

Bothalage Desmond James Stanley Fernando

1930 – 2012

Bruce Perry Crandall

1933 – 2026

C. L. R. James

1901 – 1989

Carl Jacob Gardberg

1926 – 2010

Carl Viggo Lange

1904 – 1999

Carl W. Hoffman

1919 – 2016

Cecil Terence Ingold

1905 – 2010

Charles B. Timberlake

1854 – 1941

Charles Edward Maurice Lloyd

1899 – 1956

Charles Lloyd

1784 – 1829

Charles Stockton

1845 – 1924

Christo

1935 – 2020

Cristóbal de Sandoval, Duke of Uceda

1581 – 1624

Curt von Gottberg

1896 – 1945

Czesław Zbierański

1885 – 1982

Dave Smith

1950 – 2022

Dennis Joseph Dougherty

1865 – 1951

Donald Windham

1920 – 2010

Donn Tatum

1913 – 1993

Dwarka Prasad Mishra

1901 – 1988

Edith Hamilton

1867 – 1963

Edmund Rose

1836 – 1914

Eduard Toldrà

1895 – 1962

Eduardo Urzúa

1916 – 1999

Edwyn Sherard Burnaby

1830 – 1883

Elisha Baxter

1827 – 1899

Elizabeth Blackwell

1821 – 1910

Emilio García Gómez

1905 – 1995

Erik Lindegren

1910 – 1968

Ernest Myrand

1854 – 1921

Eugene A. Chappie

1920 – 1992

Ezzatollah Sahabi

1930 – 2011

Fathia Nkrumah

1932 – 2007

Federico Baistrocchi

1871 – 1947

Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau

1866 – 1931

Francis Eugene Walter

1894 – 1963

Francis Harvey

1873 – 1916

Frederick Bullock

1851 – 1931

Friedrich Geselschap

1835 – 1898

Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia

1688 – 1740

Gabrielle Maud Vassal

1880 – 1959

George Ashley Maude

1817 – 1894

George Chalmers

1742 – 1825

George Colborne Nugent

1864 – 1915

George Getty

1855 – 1930

George III of Limpurg

1470 – 1522

George Tiller

1941 – 2009

George Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon

1803 – 1866

Georges-Antoine Belcourt

1803 – 1874

Gerlach Cornelis Joannes van Reenen

1818 – 1893

German Ugryumov

1948 – 2001

Grafton D. Cushing

1864 – 1939

Günter Luther

1922 – 1997

Hal Haskins

1924 – 2003

Hannah Marie Wormington

1914 – 1994

Hans Keilson

1909 – 2011

Hari Sabarno

1944 – 2019

Henry Devereux, 14th Viscount Hereford

1777 – 1843

Henry F. Ashurst

1874 – 1962