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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, May 31


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Births

* 1980 Andy Hurley Best known as the drummer for the pop-punk band Fall Out Boy.
* 1976 Colin Farrell Irish actor.
* 1964 Billy Davies Scottish football manager, former professional player and the current manager of Nottingham Forest.
* 1963 Wesley Willis Musician who did mostly solo work, but also worked with the punk rock band known as the Wesley Willis Fiasco.
* 1944 Salmaan Taseer Pakistani businessman and politician who served as the Governor of Punjab the province of Pakistan from 2008 until his assassination in 2011.
* 1938 John Prescott British Labour Party politician who was Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and First Secretary of State from 1997 to 2007.
* 1932 Jay Miner Famous microprocessor designer, known primarily for his work in multimedia chips.
* 1930 Clint Eastwood American film actor, director, producer, and composer.
* 1923 Ellsworth Kelly American painter and sculptor associated with Hard-edge painting, Color Field painting and the Minimalist school.
* 1919 Huston Smith Religious studies scholar in the United States, notable for the number of religions of which he considers or has considered himself a member.
* 1911 Maurice Allais French economist, and the 1988 laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources".
* 1898 Norman Vincent Peale Author of The Power of Positive Thinking and chief progenitor of the theory of positive thinking.
* 1894 Fred Allen Born John Florence Sullivan, was an American comedian and radio host.
* 1892 Gregor Strasser Politician of the German Nazi Party.
* 1847 James Jeffrey Roche Irish-American poet, journalist and diplomat, Editor of the Boston Pilot and Helped put Teddy Roosevelt in to office.
* 1829 Francisco Luis Gomes Indo-Portuguese statesman and writer from Goa.
* 1819 Walt Whitman American journalist and poet, most famous for his lifelong work on his book Leaves of Grass.
* 1816 William Mountford English Unitarian preacher and author.
* 1773 Ludwig Tieck German poet, translator, editor, novelist, critic.
* 1753 Pierre Vergniaud Leader in the French Revolution and one of its most celebrated orators.
* 1597 Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac Balzac French author, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day.

Deaths

† 2010 Louise Bourgeois French-American artist and sculptor.
† 2009 George Tiller American physician and abortion provider.
† 1996 Timothy Leary American writer, psychologist, campaigner for psychedelic drug research and use, 1960s counterculture icon and computer software designer.
† 1991 Angus Wilson English novelist, short-story writer, biographer and critic.
† 1986 Dora Russell Born Dora Black, was a British feminist, social activist and writer.
† 1983 Jack Dempsey American boxer who held the world heavyweight title between 1919 and 1926.
† 1976 Martha Beall Mitchell Wife of John Mitchell, United States Attorney General under President Richard Nixon.
† 1963 Edith Hamilton Classicist and educator who was a writer on mythology.
† 1962 Henry Fountain Ashurst U S Senator from Arizona (1912–1941).
† 1960 Walther Funk Prominent Nazi official.
† 1945 Odilo Globocnik Prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader.
† 1889 Horatius Bonar Scottish churchman and poet.
† 1875 Eliphas Levi Born Alphonse Louis Constant, was a French occult author and magician.
† 1847 Thomas Chalmers Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland.
† 1841 George Green British mathematician and physicist, who wrote An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism (Green, 1828).
† 1832 Evariste Galois French mathematician, who, while still in his teens, developed the well-known Galois theory.
† 1809 Joseph Haydn One of the most prominent composers of the Classical period, and is called by some the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet".
† 1806 George Macartney British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat.
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