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Today's Anniversary – Monday, May 11


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Births

* 1946 Fred E. Foldvary Lecturer in economics at Santa Clara University, California, and a research fellow at The Independent Institute.
* 1933 Louis Farrakhan Head of the Nation of Islam.
* 1927 Mort Sahl Montreal-born stand-up comedian.
* 1918 Richard Feynman American physicist; in the International Phonetic Alphabet his surname is rendered [?fa?nm?n], the first syllable sounding like "fine".
* 1904 Salvador Dali Spanish surrealist artist.
* 1894 Martha Graham American dancer and choreographer regarded as one of the foremost pioneers of modern dance, and is widely considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
* 1889 Paul (artist) Nash English war artist,landscape painter and noted English surrealist.
* 1881 Theodore von Karman Hungarian-born engineer and physicist who was active primarily in the fields of aeronautics during the seminal era in the 1940s and 1950s.
* 1861 Frederick Russell Burnham American scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scouting Movement.
* 1830 Richard Henry Beddome British military officer in India and a naturalist.
* 1799 Thomas Noel English poet.

Deaths

† 2001 Douglas Adams English author and satirist, most famous for his The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series of radio plays and books.
† 1996 Nnamdi Azikiwe President of Nigeria from 1963 to 1966.
† 1981 Bob Marley More famously known as Bob Marley, was a Jamaican singer, guitarist, songwriter, and social activist.
† 1960 John D. Rockefeller American businessman and philanthropist, the son and heir of John D Rockefeller and the first president of the Rockefeller Foundation.
† 1957 Theophile de Donder Belgian mathematician and physicist famous for his 1923 work in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of free energy.
† 1948 Ed Ricketts American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher.
† 1927 Juan Gris Better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter who lived and worked in France almost all of his life.
† 1923 Henry Martyn Robert Brigadier General in the United States Army.
† 1920 William Dean Howells American realist author and literary critic.
† 1918 Leonard H. (Lord Courtney) Courtney British politician, long held to have made the first published reference to the phrase "Lies — damned lies — and statistics" in 1895.
† 1916 Max Reger German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.
† 1914 Daniel De Leon Curaηao-born American socialist and Syndicalism-influenced trade unionist of Spanish Jewish origin.
† 1896 Henry Cuyler Bunner American novelist and poet born in Oswego, New York.
† 1881 Henri-Frederic Amiel Swiss philosopher, poet and critic.
† 1871 John Herschel English scientist, astronomer and mathematician; son of astronomer William Herschel, his discoveries and influence spanned several scientific fields.
† 1831 John Trumbull American poet born in what is now Watertown, Connecticut, where his father was a Congregational preacher.
† 1778 William Pitt British Whig statesman who achieved his greatest fame as war minister during the Seven Years' War and who was later Prime Minister of Great Britain.
† 1646 Yagyu Munenori Japanese swordsman, founder of the Edo branch of Yagy? Shinkage-ry?, which he learned from his father Yagy? "Sekishusai" Muneyoshi.
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