Births: • Balzac, Honoré de (1799-1850) • Coluzzi, Francesca Romana (1943-2009) • Hedison, David (1927-2019) • Lunghini, Elsa (1973) • McCoy, Matt (1958) • Montañés y Pérez, Bernardino (1825-1893) • Murer, Eugène (1841-1906) • Stewart, James (1908-1997) Deaths: • Colombo, Cristoforo (1451-1506)
May 19
Events: • 1935: Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) is canonized. Births: • Elliott, Alison (1970) • Ephron, Nora (1941-2012) • Fox, James (1939) • Isabella d’Este, Marchesa di Mantova (1474-1539) • Jones, Grace (1948) • Jordaens, Jacob (1593-1678) • Sánchez, Carmen (2001) Deaths: • Anne Boleyn,…
May 18
Births: • Courtois, Gustave (1853-1923) • Donald, James (1917-1993) • Girotti, Massimo (1918-2003) Deaths: • Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732-1799) • Berger, Helmut (1944-2023) • Grodin, Charles (1935-2021) • Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911)
May 17
Births: • Angelo, Jean (1888-1933) • Federico II Gonzaga, 1st Duke of Mantua (1500-1540) • Gabin, Jean (1904-1976) • Satie, Erik (1866-1925) Deaths: • Boleyn, George (c.1504-1536) • Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) • Jones, Henry (1912-1999) • Randall, Tony (1920-2004)
May 16
Births: • Brosnan, Pierce (1953) • Fonda, Henry (1905-1982) • Monicelli, Mario (1915-2010) • Sturgess, Jim (1978) Deaths: • Coleman, Dabney (1932-2024) • Mariana de Austria, Queen consort of Spain (1634-1696)
May 15
Births: • Cotten, Joseph (1905-1994) • Glen, John (1932) • Hammond, Nicholas (1950) • Mason, James (1909-1984) • Wiseman, Joseph (1918-2009) Deaths: • Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886) • Domenico Veneziano (c.1410-1461)
May 14
Baptized: • Gainsborough, Thomas (1727-1788) Births: • Blanchett, Cate (1969) • Coppola, Sofia (1971) • Darin, Bobby (1936-1973) • Denicourt, Marianne (1966) • Longdon, Terence (1922-2011) • Phillips, Siân (1933) • Roth, Tim (1961) Deaths: • Bolognini, Mauro (1922-2001) • Griffith, Hugh (1912-1980) • Henri IV, King of France…
May 13
Births: • Braque, Georges (1882-1963) • Daudet, Alphonse (1840-1897) • Foerste, Maxime (1991) • Keitel, Harvey (1939) • Molinaro, Édouard (1928-2013) • New, Hannah (1984) • Otero, Ana (1970) Deaths: • Cooper, Gary (1901-1961) • Day, Doris (1924-2019)
May 12
Births: • Byrne, Gabriel (1950) • Hepburn, Katharine (1907-2003) • Hyde-White, Wilfrid (1903-1991) • Renoir, Edmond-Victor (1849-1944) • Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Deaths: • Calhern, Louis (1895-1956) • Dryden, John (1631-1700) • Piccoli, Michel (1925-2020)
May 11
Births: • Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989) • Ferreri, Marco (1928-1997) • Fisher, Frances (1952) • Furneaux, Yvonne (1926-2024) • Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) • Richardson, Natasha (1963-2009) • Thring, Frank (1926-1994) Deaths: • Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976) • Barker, Lex (1919-1973) • Benton, Robert (1932-2025) • Gris, Juan (1887-1927) • La Bruyère, Jean…