Famous People Born in May 1879

May 2 American politician and statesman influential in domestic and foreign policy in the mid-1940s, born in Charleston, South Carolina

May 2 Nannie Helen Burroughs, American educator and civil rights activist (founded National Training School for Women and Girls), born in Orange, Virginia (d. 1961)
May 3 Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and aviation pioneer (Qantas), born in Morinish, Queensland (d. 1950)
May 6 Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (development of Hittitology), born in Lysá nad Labem, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1952)
May 6 Tobias Norlind, Swedish musicologist, born in Vellinge, Sweden (d. 1947)
May 10 Symon Petliura, Ukrainian socialist leader (pogroms), born in Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1926)

May 19 American born British politician, 1st female MP in UK House of Commons, born in Danville, Virginia

May 22 Alla Nazimova, Ukrainian-born actress, scriptwriter, and producer (Blood and Sand), born in Yalta, Taurida Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1945)
May 22 Eastwood Lane, American composer, born in Brewerton, New York (d. 1951)
May 22 Jean Cras, French composer, born in Brest, France (d. 1932)
May 22 Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer (Big Ship Great Aussie skipper 1920-21), born in Kyneton, Australia (d. 1947)
May 23 Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman (d. 1966)
May 24 H. B. Reese, American inventor of Reese's, born in York County, Pennsylvania (d. 1956)
May 25 William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian English newspaper publisher (Daily Express), born in Maple, Ontario (d. 1964)
May 27 Hans Lammers, German SS officer and Nazi politician, born in Lublinitz, Silesia, Prussia, German Empire (d. 1962)
May 27 Lucile Watson, Canadian actress (Great Lie, Watch on the Rhine, Let's Dance), born in Québec, Canada (d. 1962)
May 28 Milutin Milanković, Serbian astronomer and geophysicist (linked long-term changes in climate to astronomical factors affecting the amount of solar energy received at Earth’s surface), born in Dalj, Austria-Hungary (d. 1958)
May 30 Colin Blythe, English cricketer (outstanding slow lefty pre-WWI), born in Deptford (d. 1917)
May 31 Mark Hambourg, Russian-British composer, born in Boguchar, Russia (d. 1960)