Page 2: Famous Personalities Born In May - 23

1844  `abdu'l-bahá: Successor to prophet of the bahá'í faith   

1848  Helmuth j l von moltke: German general/chief of staff (ww i)   

1848  Otto lilienthal: Pioneer aviator   

1851  Antoni stolpe: Composer   

1862  William "dummy" hoy: Professional baseball player who lived to 99   

1864  Louis glass: Composer   

1865  Epitácio pessoa: President of brazil   

1866  Gustav aschaffenburg: German psychiatrist/criminalologist   

1871  Sigurd lie: Composer   

1873  Leo baeck: Rabbi/president (world union for progressive judaism)   

1875  Alfred p. sloan: American long-time president and chairman of general motors   

1879  DezsÅ‘ lauber: Hungarian sportsman   

1882  James gleason: Nyc, writer/actor (bishop's wife, flying fool)   

1883  Douglas fairbanks: Denver co, actor (zorro/3 musketeers/robin hood)   

1884  Corrado gini: Italian sociologist   

1887  Thoralf skolem: Norwegian mathematician   

1888  Adrian roland holst: Dutch poet (raged & tired)   

1888  Zack wheat: American baseball player   

1889  Ernst niekisch: German politician   

1890  Herbert marshall: London, actor (murder, razor's edge, little foxes)   

1890  Virginia eames: Ft davis tx, entertainer   

1891  Pär lagerkvist: Swedish writer, nobel laureate   

1893  Ulysses s. grant iv: American geologist and paleontologist   

1896  Felix martin julius steiner: German heer and waffen-ss officer   

1898  Frank mchugh: Actor (front page, gold diggers 1935, mighty joe young)   

1898  Joseph hazen: Lawyer   

1898  Scott o'dell: American author   

1900  Hans frank: German nazi war criminal   

1901  Edmund rubbra: Northampton england, composer (morning watch) [or 3/23]   

1902  Mark lothar: Composer   

1903  Walter reisch: Us, screenwriter (ninotchka, gaslight, titanic)   

1906  Hellmuth christian wolff: Composer   

1907  Kenneth allen: Engineer   

1907  Matthew campbell: British senior civil servant   

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1125  Hendrik v: Roman catholics german king/emperor (1098/1111-25),   

1153  David i: King of scotland (1124-53),   

1304  Jehan de lescurel: French poet and composer   

1423  Benedict xiii: [pedro the luna], spanish pope (1394-1423),   

1498  Girolamo savonarola: Dictator of florence (1494-98), hanged at 45   

1523  Ashikaga yoshitane: Japanese shogun (b. 1466)   

1524  Ismail i: Shah of persia (b. 1487)   

1568  Adolf van nassau: German son of willem the rich,