Famous People Born on May 31
Famous people born on May 31 include Walt Whitman (1819), Clint Eastwood (1930) and Svetlana Alexievich (1948).
BORN ON THIS DAY
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Clint Eastwood
American actor and filmmaker (born 1930)
Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian author and Nobel Prize winner (b. 1948)
Pope Pius XI
Head of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939
Viktor Orbán
Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002, 2010–2026)
Saint-John Perse
French poet and diplomat (1887–1975)
Marco Reus
German footballer (born 1989)
Colin Farrell
Irish actor (born 1976)
Brooke Shields
American actress (born 1965)
Laurent Gbagbo
President of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 to 2011
Maurice Allais
French economist (1911–2010)
Dina Boluarte
President of Peru from 2022 to 2025
John Robert Schrieffer
American physicist (1931–2019)
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist (1912–1997)
Manuel I of Portugal
King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521
Iga Świątek
Polish tennis player (born 2001)
DIED ON THIS DAY
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Évariste Galois
French mathematician (1811–1832)
Tintoretto
Italian painter (1518–1594)
Jacques Monod
French biochemist (1910–1976)
Elizabeth Blackwell
British-American physician (1821–1910)
James Rainwater
American physicist
Raymond Davis Jr.
American scientist (1914–2006)
Timothy Leary
American psychologist (1920–1996)
Frederick William I of Prussia
King in Prussia from 1713 to 1740
Louise Bourgeois
French-American artist (1911–2010)
Petronius Maximus
Western Roman emperor in 455
Sources
- May 31 — Wikipedia. Births and deaths on this date
- Walt Whitman — Wikipedia
- Joseph Haydn — Wikipedia
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation. Birth years under More famous deaths