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Birthdays of Personalities on May 03

1455 : Joƒo II, the perfect, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews
1469 : Niccol• Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince)
1514 : Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal
1535 : Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer
1647 : John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Bellone aen bant)
1691 : Carolus van der Abeele, Flemish jesuit/author (Introduction … l'amour)
1692 : Jan J Mauricius, Dutch governor-general of Suriname (1742-51)
1764 : Elisabeth PMH, princess of France/son of king Louis XVI
1773 : Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
1815 : Hermanus W Witteveen, Dutch theologist
1816 : Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892
1826 : Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
1844 : Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
1844 : Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
1849 : Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)
1859 : Andy Adams, US writer (Log of a Cowboy)
1867 : ValŠre-Gille, Belgian playwright (La Corbeille d'Octobre)
1873 : [Nicoline] Magdalene Anchor-Roll, Norwegian author (Kvinnen og Den)
1874 : Fran‡ois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
1890 : B Traven, writer
1892 : George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
1893 : Hope Landin, Minneapolis MN
1895 : Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
1895 : Gabriel M-E-R Chevallier, French author (Le petit g‚n‚ral)
1897 : V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
1898 : Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
1898 : Septima Poinsette Clark, civil rights activist/educator
xxxx : Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
1902 : Seton I Miller, Chehalis WA, writer (Pete's Dragon, Istanbul)
1904 : Charles "Red" Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
1905 : Albrecht Luitpold G Ferdinand Michael Wittelsbach, duke of Bavaria
1907 : Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
1911 : John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter
1913 : Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
1913 : William M Inge, US playwright (Picnic-Pulitzer 1953)
1916 : Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1961- )
1916 : Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome)
1919 : Betty Comden, Bkln, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing)
1920 : Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], middle/welterweight boxer (champ)
1921 : Vasco dos Santos Gon‡alves, Portuguese leftist colonel
1922 : Marina Svetlova, ballerina/choreographer (Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo)
1923 : Ralph M Hall, (Rep-D-TX, 1981- )
1929 : Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
1929 : Jaharna Imam, Bangladeshi writer/political activist
1931 : Joseph Lichtman Layton, dancer
1935 : Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secretary of Interior (1985-89)
1943 : John Costello, historian
1944 : Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist
1944 : Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1946 : Greg Gumbel, sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
1947 : Doug Henning, Ft Garry Manitoba, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
1949 : Albert Sacco Jr, Boston Mass, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
1949 : Ron Wyden, (Rep-D-OR, 1981- )
1953 : Bruce Hall, Champaign Ill, rock bassist (Reo Speedwagon)
1953 : Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)
1955 : Steve Jones, English pop guitarist (Sex Pistols-Mercy)
1959 : David Ball, Blackpool, rock keyboardist (Soft Cell)
1968 : Jay Darlington, London England, keyboardist (Kula Shaker)
1971 : James Roberson, defensive end (Tennessee Oilers)
1972 : Josh Taves, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1973 : Michel Traveller, soccer player (Ajax)

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