What Happened in May 1871

Historical Events

May 17 Native American fighter General William T. Sherman escapes from the Comanches in an ambulance

May 4 Mynona, Polish writer (The Creator), born in Gołańcz, Poland (d. 1946)
May 5 Alberto Cametti, composer
May 6 August Reusner, composer
May 6 Ch Morgenstern, writer
May 6 Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
May 11 Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
May 17 Henricus P Bremmer, art historian (Modern Kunstwerken)
May 18 Franiska zu Reventlow, writer
May 19 Reginald Aldworth Daly, Napanee Ontario, Canadian-American Geologist who independently developed the theory of magmatic stopping
May 23 Sigurd Lie, Norwegian composer and conductor, born in Drammen (d. 1904)
May 26 Camille Huysmans, Belgian premier (1946-47), born in Bilzen, Belgium (d. 1968)
May 27 Georges-Henri Rouault, Fr expressionist painter (Miserere et Guerre)
May 30 Olga Engl, Austrian actress (Phantom), born in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1946)