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, Italian composer, born in Rome (d. 1935)
May 6 August Reusner, German composer, born in Löwenberg, Silesia (d. 1935)
May 6 Christian Morgenstern, German poet (Ich und die Welt), born in Munich (d. 1914)
May 6 Victor Grignard, French chemist (Nobel 1912 - development of the Grignard reaction), born in Cherbourg, France (d. 1935)
May 11 Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer (d. 1943)
May 17 Henk Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Modern Kunstwerken), born in Leiden, Netherlands (d. 1956)
May 18 Franiska [Franny] zu Reventlow, German writer and feminist, born in Husum, Germany (d. 1918)
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)