Birthdays in History on May 30

Alexander Nevsky

1220 Alexander Nevsky, Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir, considered the key figure in medieval Rus (1252-63), born in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal (now Russia) (d. 1263)

1423 Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
1524 Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
1623 Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized
1623 John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
1653 Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
1713 Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
1718 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, British politician (d. 1793)
1719 Roger Newdigate, British politician (d. 1806)

Henry Addington

1757 Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1801-04), born in London (d. 1844)

1800 Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
1812 John Alexander McClernand, American politician and Major General (Union Army), born in Breckinridge County, Kentucky (d. 1900)
1814 Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
1819 William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
1820 Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)

1829 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
1830 Edward Winslow Hinks, American Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in Bucksport, Maine (d. 1894)
1832 George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
1845 Amadeus/Amadeo I, duke of Aosta and King of Spain (1870-73)
1846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1847 Alice Stopford Green, Irish historian and proponent of Irish independence, born in Kells, Ireland (d. 1929)
1859 Pierre Marie Felix Janet, French psychologist/neurologist
1867 Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
1875 Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
1881 Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
1886 Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
1887 Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
1888 James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
1891 Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
1892 Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
1894 Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
1901 Cornelia Otis Skinner, Chic, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)
1902 Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, English Archaeologist (Arzawa civilization, Turkey)
1903 Countee Cullen, African American poet of the Harlem Renaissance (Black Christ & Other Poems), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1903 Ray Howard-Jones, artist
1904 Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panama (1956-60)
1906 Bruno Gröning, German faith healer (d. 1959)
1907 Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
1907 Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)

1912 Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
1912 Joseph Stein, American dramatist and playwright (Fiddler on the Roof), born in NYC, New York (d. 2010)
1912 Julian Gustave Symons, writer
1915 Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer
1916 Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
1918 Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
1918 Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
1919 René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
1922 Hal Clement [Harry Clement Stubbs], US sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld), born in Somerville, Massachusetts
1925 Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
1925 Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam (1975-79)
1926 Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual (born George William Jorgensen, Jr)
1926 James Whitman McLamore, businessman
1927 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, American author (American Glass Animals)
1928 John Keith Wright, English economist, Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84)
1928 Agnès Varda, Belgium-born French director (Vagabond), born in Ixelles, Belgium
1928 Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
1930 Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1930 Robert Ryman, American painter
1934 Alexei A Leonov, Russian cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19), born in Siberia, USSR
1937 Arthur C. Jacobs, Scottish poet, born in Glasgow (d. 1994)
1938 Wilfried de Pree, Dutch politician and theologian (PvdA)/theologist
1942 Dan Miller, (Rep-R-Florida)
1944 Lenny Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over), born in London, England
1946 Candy Lightner, American political activist/founder (MADD), born in Pasadena, California
1950 Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
1951 Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician

Brian Kobilka

1955 Brian Kobilka, American Nobel Prize winning chemistry professor (G protein-coupled receptors), born in Little Falls, Minnesota

1956 Jonathan Idema, Poughkeepsie, New York, torturer, kidnapper and con artist (d. 2012)
1957 Allison Roe, marathoner (NYC-1981), born in Auckland, New Zealand
1957 Hervé Leroux, French fashion designer and founder of Hervé Léger fashion house, born in Bapaume, France (d. 2017)
1958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Lt Cmdr/astro (STS 73, sk 92), born in Madrid, Spain
1958 Steve Israel, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-New York)
1959 Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician, born in Bruges, Belgium
1959 Claudia Alexander, Canadian-born American NASA Scientist (led Galileo mission to Jupiter), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 2015)
1962 Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator
1963 Helen Patricia Sharman, Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
1968 Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks
1968 Kelley Armstrong, Canadian novelist (Women of the Otherworld), born in Sudbury, Ontario
1970 Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
1972 Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
1975 Marissa Mayer, American technology executive (CEO of Yahoo, designed Google home page), born in Wausau, Wisconsin
1978 Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
1984 Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
1986 Ashley Slaney, daughter of Olympians Mary Decker & Richard Slaney