May 1 is my birthday. it's pretty shit for celebrities. This is the best I could find.
1968 -
D'arcy Wretzky, American musician (
Smashing Pumpkins)
1804 -
Aleksey Khomyakov, Russian poet (d.
1860)
1830 -
Mother Jones, American labor activist (d.
1930)
1831 -
Emily Stowe, Canadian physician and suffragist (b.
1903)
1852 -
Calamity Jane, American Wild West performer (d.
1903)
1881 -
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French palaeontologist and philosopher (d.
1955)
1582 -
Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (d.
1643)
1946 -
Joanna Lumley, British actress
1946 -
John Woo, Hong Kong director, producer, writer, and actor
No great philosophers, composers, writers, artists. Just the run of the mill. But it is:
Czech Republic - "National Love Day" – couples tend to flock to the memorial of the poet
Karel Hynek Mácha in
Prague and kiss.