Today in History - Famous Birthdays - May 1st

John I, Count of Hainaut (d. 1257) 

Rudolph I of Germany, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1291) 

Magnus VI Lagabuter, King of Norway (1263-80) 

Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326) 

Franciscus Junius, [Francois du Jon], French/Neth calvinist theologist 

Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch royal painter 

Francois van Kinschot, Dutch treasurer 

Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer 

Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer 

John Haynes, Massachusetts colonial magistrate 

Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator) 

-31? James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (d. 1770) born during this month 

Gustaf Philip Creutz, Atis och Camilla 

John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp 

Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii (1782-1819) (d. 1819) 

Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor 

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol) 

Gottfried Rieger, composer 

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington and British Prime Minister (Tory) (1828-30) 

George Guest, composer 

Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer 

Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874 

Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d. 1860) 

John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army) 

Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet 

William Steele, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885 

George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap) 

Jose M de Alencar, Brazilian writer/minister of Justice 

José de Alencar, Essas Mulheres 

Mother (Mary Harris) Jones, US reformer and labor organizer 

Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (d. 1903) 

Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers) 

Chardonnet, inventor (rayon) 

Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Governor General of Canada (d. 1942) 

Prince Arthur, H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Decorating the Monument of Champlain and Receiving Addresses of Welcome from the Mayor of Quebec, the Governor General of Canada and Vice President Fairbanks, Representative of the United States 

Laza Lazarević, Serbian writer and psychiatrist (d. 1891) 

Laza Lazarevic, Prvi put s ocem na jutrenje 

Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/indian fighter 

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1934) 

Calamity Jane, Princeton Missouri, American frontierswoman (Wild Bill Hickok) 

Jacob Gordin, Kreutzer Sonata 

Cecilia Beaux, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, American portrait painter 

Marie Corelli, Leaves Out of the Book of Satan 

Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer 

Anthony J. Showalter, True Grit 

Bohuslav Jeremias, composer 

Willem J Leyds, Dutch/South Africa lawyer/politician/diplomat 

Marcel Prévost, Marie des angoisses 

J. Fisher White, Turn of the Tide 

Charles Harris, Driving Miss Daisy 

Winfield Hogaboom, The Daughter of the Don 

Harry Leon Wilson, Ruggles of Red Gap 

Ferruccio Garavaglia, Othello 

R. Andom, Three Men in a Van 

Sidónio Pais, Portuguese military and politician (d. 1918) 

Hugo Alfvén, Matchstick Men 

John Barton, Scarlet Street 

Mary Palfrey, The Great Day 

Romaine Brooks (born Beatrice Romaine Goddard), Rome Italy, American painter 

Giovanni Vitrotti, Life and Customs of Naples 

Philip Armenta, Laughing Boy 

Andor Kardos, Alraune 

Cecil Bevan, Bardell Against Pickwick 

Ian Maclaren, Cleopatra 

C.W. Stowell, The Ramparts We Watch 

Arturo De Nava, Federación o muerte 

May Hallatt, Black Narcissus 

Philip Gibbs, The City of Temptation 

Arthur Morrison, Riders of the Purple Sage 

Philip Quinn, Calamity Jane 

Imre Farkas, Iglói diákok 

Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo) 

Gaston Rieffler, Les deux amours 

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist 

Pierre Theilhard de Chardin, La messe sur le monde 

Jack W. Robson, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 

Nicholas Hannen, Richard III 

Ester Göthson, Bengts nya kärlek eller var är barnet? 

Oscar Åberg, Thomas Graals bästa barn 

Floyd Starr, Episode dated 16 July 1963 

Tom Moore, Manhandled 

Felipe Boero, composer 

Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964) 

Hugh C. Weir, Dolly's Scoop 

Zinaida Morskaya, Aktrisa 

John Butler, Money to Loan 

Erich Rahn, Jiu-Jitsu - Die unsichtbare Waffe 

Franklyn Ardell, Mark of the Vampire 

Léon Nurbel, L'amour veille 

Jim Hollywood, A Chump at Oxford 

Joseph Achron, Spring Night 

C. Ernest Cadle, The Bushman 

Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/Brit gen/director of Palestine (1945-48) 

Alan Cunningham,  

Vincenzo Cardarelli, La primadonna 

Kurt Vespermann, Ein Tag Film 

Spinelly, American Love 

Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone) 

Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946) 

Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (d. 1947) 

Mark Wayne Clark, American general (d. 1984) 

J. Lawton Collins, American general (d. 1987) 

Eugene R Black, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62) 

Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine) 

Arkadi Vovsi, Rasplata 

June Blumenthal, The Invisible Ray 

Robert Baberske, Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 

Ignazio Silone, Fontamara 

Nat Bonx, Radio Days 

Heinz Eric Roemheld, American film composer (d. 1985) 

Antal Szerb, Hungarian author and historian (d. 1945) 

Antal Szerb, A Pendragon legenda 

Dalia Íñiguez, Feliz año, amor mío 

Vilcsi Mihályi, Sári biró 

Endre Bohem, The Boys of Paul Street 

Heinz Roemheld, The Hunchback of Notre Dame 

Sonnie Hale, First a Girl 

Odette Dinay, Madame Bovary 

Maria Tenazi, Zare 

Augusto Galli, Sei tu l'amore 

Sumao Ishihara, Sansho the Bailiff 

Ralph Bushman, Our Hospitality 

Fred Spencer, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 

Arthur Spjuth, Song of Stockholm 

Hans Schalla, Rivalen 

Viktor Kolpakov, Hamlet 

Katherine Grant, Oranges and Lemons 

Leila Hyams, NYC, actress (Big House, Ruggles of Red Gap) 

Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet PM (1980-85) 

Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (d. 1982) 

Walter Rühland, Comes a Horseman 

Toyokichi, Watashi wa josei no. 1 

Kaarlo Karppanen, The Guarded Village 1944 

Red Cagle, The Big Game 

Aleksandr Borisov, Mussorgsky 

Yuri Tolubeyev, Hamlet 

Henry Koster, Harvey 

Leila Hyams, Freaks 

Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (d. 1983) 

Jack Heller, The Yanks Are Coming 

A.P. Dearsley, And the Same to You 

Kenneth Buckley, London Wall 

Ana Díaz Plana, Juan Sebastián Elcano 

Josephine Dunn, One Hour with You 

Rose Hobart, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 

Jan Pauw, CEO (Aruban Theater Group) 

Oliver Hill, civil rights attorney (d. 2007) 

Kate Smith, American singer (d. 1986) 

Oliver Hill, The House Behind the Cedars 

Esfir Buranova, Chyort s portfelem 

Einar Molin, Resan till dej 

Eva Svobodová, Dobrý voják Svejk 

Hayes Alvis, Mills Blue Rhythm Band 

F. Bud Mautino, Pilot 

John Crofton, Cain's Way 

Robert Chapin, Isle of Missing Men 

Ernie Pinckert, Hold 'Em Jail 

Ralph Freed, The Fisher King 

Phyllis Barrington, Sinister Hands 

Kate Smith, Once Upon a Time in America 

Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone) 

Giovanni Guareschi, Don Camillo e l'on. Peppone 

Ethel Jane Cain, original UK Speaking Clock voice 

George Melachrino, composer 

Janis Ritsos, writer 

Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet 

Vladimir Roudenko, Napoleon 

John F. Warren, Torn Curtain 

Enrique Guitart, La mies es mucha 

Zbigniew Unilowski, One Room Tenants 

Paul Franz, The Man Who Knew Too Much 

Yannis Ritsos, Balada sto hameno selinofos 

Jane Cain, Vanity 

George Melachrino, No Orchids for Miss Blandish 

Charles Koff, The Movers 

Alessandro Bodrero, Concrete Cowboys 

Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins) 

James T. Vaughn, He Walked by Night 

Jesse Price, Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw 

Ott Devine, Nashville Rebel 

John Walvoord, For Those Who Remain 

Lee Loeb, Shall We Dance 

Betty Cooper, The Hidden Room 

J. Allen Hynek, Close Encounters of the Third Kind 

Maurice Noble, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 

Rikie Suzuki, Hiroba no kodoku 

Ralph Bass, Selma 

Nick Lukats, Knute Rockne All American 

Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano 

Felipe Padilla de Leon, composer 

Otto Kretschmer, German U-Boat commander (d. 1998) 

Natasa Nesovic, Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh 

Osvaldo Moreno, Gran pensión La Alegría 

Eugene Kash, Story of a Violin 

Einzi Stolz, Episode dated 9 June 1981 

Winthrop Rockefeller, Episode #5.4 

Hansi Wendler, Der Verlorene 

Otto Kretschmer, Wolf Pack: U-Boats in the Atlantic - 1939-1944 

Choukoukou, Mr. Lion 

Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor 

Louis Nye, American comedian and actor (d. 2005) 

Ygnacio Sepulveda, Emperor of the North 

Kenneth O'Rourke, The Irish in America 

Sadykbek Dzhamanov, The Sword and the Dragon 

Bruno Persa, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 

Mark Toby, The Courtship of Eddie's Father 

Balraj Sahni, Do Bigha Zamin 

Louis Nye, The Facts of Life 

Rudi Gellesch, Das große Spiel 

Aage Stentoft, Vi er allesammen tossede 

Earlene Heath, Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb 

G.B.J. Hiltermann, Episode #1.2 

Ralph Cohn, Sleep, My Love 

Patrick Ford, The Searchers 

Archie Williams, American athlete (d. 1993) 

Hanns Martin Schleyer,  

Joan Rodker, Dying Day: Part 1: Mr. Skipling is Sentenced to Death 

Henry Hite, Monster a-Go Go 

Art Stevens, 101 Dalmatians 

Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway) 

Jane Jacobs, Scranton, Pa, urbanologist 

Ben Lapin, Mama's Sidewalk Cafe 

Delphine Drew, Tailspin Tommy in The Great Air Mystery 

Albert Schaefer, The Set-Up 

Mien Fang, Five Fingers of Death 

Kostas Andritsos, Maria Pentagiotissa 

Glenn Ford, Superman 

Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling) 

John Beradino, Los Angeles California, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital) 

Louis G "Lo" van Hensbergen, actor/author (Amsterdam Affair) 

Ahron Soloveichik, Orthodox Jewish rabbi 

Cok Henneman, Vertel nu eens eerlijk 

André Barelli, Gates of the Night 

Ulric Cross, Hello! West Indies 

Aimé Barelli, Les joyeux pélerins 

Lo van Hensbergen, Nosferatu the Vampyre 

Serge Silberman, Ran 

Wendy Toye, On the Twelfth Day... 

Fyodor Khitruk, Winnie Pooh 

Pauline Letts, The Trojan Women 

John Beradino, Seven Men from Now 

Danielle Darrieux, Persepolis 

Jack Paar, Canton Ohio, American television host of the Jack Paar Show (d. 2004) 

Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977) 

Sam Azouz, Bart Got a Room 

Marie Motlová, Hogo fogo Homolka 

Franca Belli, Unknown Men of San Marino 

Viktor Lazarev, Lyubit po-russki 2 

Adrian Weiss, The Bride and the Beast 

James Copeland, High and Dry 

Jack Paar, Jack Paar: 'As I Was Saying...' 

Alwyn Farquharson, Scottish clan-captain/large landowner 

Dan O'Herlihy, Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop) 

Al Zarilla, The Winning Team 

Eugeniusz Stawowski, First Start 

Ed White, Night Life 

William Alley, The Westerner 

Kurt Schmengler, Die Dominas-Bande 

John Meredyth Lucas, Elaan of Troyius 

Manna Dey, Sholay 

Dan O'Herlihy, RoboCop 

Mario Giannini, L'ebbrezza del cielo 

Nonna Koperzhinskaya, Koroleva benzokolonki 

Maya Kulieva, Lichnaya zhizn korolevy 

Gerhard Klein, Berlin - Ecke Schönhauser 

Robin Estridge, Eye of the Devil 

Sirkka Sari, Rikas tyttö 

Mario Montuori, Love at Twenty 

Sirkka Sipilä, Aatamin puvussa - ja vähän Eevankin... 

Pupi Campo, A Hole in the Head 

Marne Maitland, The Man with the Golden Gun 

12th Lord Middleton, English large landowner/multi-millionaire 

Paul Daels, president (Flemish Iron Pilgrimage committee) 

Dimiter Hadjiev, The Daisy 

Stanley Hosgood, North West Frontier 

Nina Arkhipova, Burnt by the Sun 

Rosalia Maggio, Don't Torture a Duckling 

Kneeles Reeves, Rain Man 

Pierre Ringel, Strangers in the House 

Harry Bronk, De wachters bij het graf 

Otto Lara Rezende, Garota de Ipanema 

Heinz Hupfer, Ete und Ali 

Michel Cournot, Ursule and Grelu 

Tad Mosel, All the Way Home 

Joseph Heller, Brooklyn New York, American novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award) 

Zénaïde Rossi, Day for Night 

Pauline Roberts, Maniacs on Wheels 

William Reeves, Brigadoon 

Toshio Takahara, Seven Samurai 

William Marchant, Desk Set 

Ion Popescu-Gopo, De-as fi... Harap Alb 

Ralph Senensky, This Side of Paradise 

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 

Earl George, composer 

Enrico Josif, composer 

Patricia Roberts Harris, 1st US black woman cabinet member 

Terry Southern, writer 

Ljerka Prekratic, Martin in the Clouds 

Viktor Astafyev, Tayozhnaya povest 

Vera Burlakova, Pokrov Gates 

Lee Hewitt, Kentucky Rifle 

Big Maybelle, Jazz on a Summer's Day 

Nikos Vastardis, Kapou, kapos, kapote 

Tadeusz Grabowski, The Constant Factor 

Devi Abashidze, Kvarkvare 

Jean Mauvais, The Phantom of Liberty 

Judy Stone, Discovering Treasure: The Story of the Treasure of the Sierra Madre 

Dennis Main-Wilson, Peace and Goodwill 

Carlo Sposito, Episode #1.2 

Claudine Dupuis, Quai des Orfèvres 

Dennis Turner, The People vs. Larry Flynt 

Dodo Abashidze, The Legend of Suram Fortress 

Karel Kachyna, The Ear 

Art Fleming, MacArthur 

Terry Southern, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 

Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila) 

Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder Colo, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7) 

Scott Carpenter, Boulder, CO, pilot and astronaut (d. 2013) 

Charles Blair Jr., Survive! 

Isabel Osca, El Crimen Perfecto (The Perfect Crime) 

Robert Dane, The Girl on the Bridge 

Helen Bamber, Helen Bamber 

Clay Blair Jr., Return from the River Kwai 

Gabriele Amorth, The Rite of Exorcism: Myth, Mystery & Hope 

Chuck Bednarik, The Game of Their Lives: Pro Football's Wonder Years 

Paul White, Sing, You Sinners 

Scott Carpenter, In Search of Liberty Bell 7 

Peter Lax, Hungarian Mathematician 

Geoffrey Nethercott, Who Was Maddox? 

Vladimir Svetlov, Iz ada v ad 

Muhtesem Durukan, Gerzek Saban 

Ruth Phillips, General Hospital 

Jos Ghijsen, Episode #1.8 

Valentin Bryleev, Ballad of a Soldier 

Paddie O'Neil, Norman Wisdom: The Early Bird 

Greta Andersen, Denmark, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948) 

Israr Ali, cricket pace bowler (Pakistani in 4 Tests 1952-59) 

Lord Bathurst, English earl/large landowner/multi-millionaire 

Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer (Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor) 

William Mitchell Byers, musician 

Morio Kita, Arabian naito: Shindobaddo no bôken 

Michael Charlton, Episode dated 8 February 1965 

Gary Bertini, La guerre et la paix 

Sandra Kent, You're So Agreeable 

Horst Drinda, KLK Calling PTZ: The Red Orchestra 

Roland Verhavert, The Conscript 

Marthus Mathias, O Vale dos Amantes 

Billy Byers, Lord of the Flies 

Lenke Lorán, Entanglement 

Laura Hidalgo, Las tres perfectas casadas 

Laura Betti, 1900 

Wolfgang Kudrnofsky, Der Rabe 

Vera Sládková, The Train of Childhood and Expectation 

Akira Yoshimura, The Eel 

Ján Króner, Duchovia 

Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist/pres (l'ASIFA) 

Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish racer (d. 2002) 

Clyde Wright, Advanced English: Interviews with the Famous 

Piero Nuti, Le vigne di Meylan 

Marilyn Howard, Episode #10.8 

Karl Heinz Wocker, Episode dated 15 May 1977 

Marilyn Mercer, Guns of Hate 

Vitaliy Melnikov, Poor, Poor Pavel 

André Weber, That Obscure Object of Desire 

Hermina Pipinic, Chronicle of a Crime 

Raoul Servais, Taxandria 

Sonny James, [James Loden], Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love) 

Sonny Ramadhin, cricket spin bowler (great WI) 

Bent From, Støv for alle pengene 

Frank Sorello, The Night of the Assassin 

Sam Ozment, Fly the Unfriendly Skies 

Tom Dunn, The Wind in the Willows 

Howard Paine, American Stamps 

Gurmindzh Zavkibekov, Znamja kuzneca 

Ralf Dahrendorf, Haves and Have Nots 

Laura Black, Boarding School 

Detlef Müller, Russenmusik 

Mona Knox, Escape from Terror 

Stanislaw Mikulski, Kanal 

Paul Herlinger, Adventures in Odyssey: Go West Young Man 

Joe Cornelius, Trog 

Marc Wilder, The Tender Trap 

Sonny James, Slap Shot 

Mona McKinnon, Plan 9 from Outer Space 

Rik Van Nutter, Thunderball 

Little Walter, [Marion Walter Jacobs], rocker 

Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles) 

Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los Angeles 

Norbert Kückelmann, Morgen in Alabama 

Mario David, The Revelation 

Jela Lukesová, Sahin 

Maj Fant, Gäst hos Hagge 

Ollie Matson, Super Bowl XXXVIII 

János Tóth, Love 

John Hirsch, Peep Show 

Mario Pinzauti, Ringo, It's Massacre Time 

Richard Riordan, Coast to Coast 

Little Walter, Lone Star 

Franco Migliacci, Django Unchained 

Ethel Ayler, The Bodyguard 

Slavko Vukcevic, Polaznik 

Sergey Muratov, Priklyucheniya v gorode, kotorogo net 

Naim Attallah, Brimstone & Treacle 

Kinzô Azusa, Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro 

Torsten Sjöholm, Jerusalem 

Pepe Da Rosa, Especial Nochevieja 1979 

Jacques Languirand, Mars et Avril 

Józef Wieczorek, A Woman's Decision 

Don Kagan, Pete Rose 

Erich Neureuther, Die spanische Fliege 

Joe Valdez, The Love Boat 

Richard Bradford, Red Sky at Morning 

Georgi Drumev, Breakfast on the Grass 

Berndt Egerbladh, Peter-No-Tail 

László Halász, Angi Vera 

Ella Mae Smith, Night of the Living Dead 

Jitka Frantová, Galgentoni 

Tamara Miletic, Only People 

Wayne Williams, This Is Your Life 

Joseja Moe, Forbidden Island 

Veselin Donov, Fatherland Newsreel 

Istref Begolli, Zivot radnika 

Sergei Sibel, V tridevyatom tsarstve 

Jack Aaron, The Spook Who Sat by the Door 

Dave Wilson, Saturday Night Live: The Best of Chris Farley 

Alette Beaujon, Curacaos poet (Gedichten on the Bay & Elsewhere) 

Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, Mexican politician