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Friday, 20 February 2026
Apr 22 Nikolai Obouhov, composer 
Apr 23 Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer.
Apr 24 Jack Hulbert, Ely England, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack)
Apr 27 Louis Victor de Broglie, physicist (studied electrons)
Apr 28 1st performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval".
Apr 28 Georges Antoine, composer
Apr 29 Charlie Reilly is baseball's 1st pinch hitter
Apr 29 Charlie Reilly is baseball's inaugural pinch hitter.
May 01 Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone).
May 01 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, San Fransisco Bay.
May 01 US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay.
May 01 Willem A Scholten, manufacturer (potatoes), dies at 89
May 02 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, [Red Baron], German WW I ace
May 02 Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69.
May 03 Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life).
May 04 Canadian Thomas I. 'Carbide' Willson develops inaugural manufacturing process to create acetylene gas; already developed on a laboratory scale; sells process to Union Carbide
May 05 Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer, dies at 80.
May 06 Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 54.
May 07 Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB).
May 08 Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
May 09 Eric Westberg, composer.
May 11 In this year, 18th Kentucky Derby: Lonnie Clayton aboard Azra claims in 2:41½
May 11 Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul)
May 13 Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer, dies at 63.
May 14 Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer
May 14 Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem.
May 15 Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered
May 16 Coenraad B van Haeringen, linguist/etymologist (Dutch Dictionary)
May 16 John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies.
May 17 Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72.
May 19 Charles Brady King invents pneumatic hammer.
May 19 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author (Povestj Zjizni) [OS]
May 19 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
May 20 George Sampson patents clothes dryer
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