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Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Apr 19 George Scharf, critic, dies 
Apr 23 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies
Apr 24 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
Apr 24 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
Apr 25 Stanley Rous, British soccer official.
Apr 29 Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts).
Apr 30 Gustav Freytag, writer, dies at 78.
May 01 Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
May 02 Alfred Kurella, writer.
May 03 Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
May 06 In this year, 21st Kentucky Derby: Soup Perkins aboard Halma claims in 2:37.50
May 06 Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle).
May 06 Rudolph Valentino, Silent film star is born.
May 07 In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention.
May 08 China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki.
May 08 Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
May 09 Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
May 11 Feliks Jaronski, composer, dies at 71
May 11 Jan Parandowski, writer.
May 12 Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [NS=May 22].
May 14 Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
May 15 Charles Lamont, SF CA, director (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars)
May 15 Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75.
May 17 W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol
May 19 Albert Hay Malotte, composer
May 19 Jose J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies
May 20 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
May 20 Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire).
May 20 The inaugural commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC)
May 21 Franz von Suppe, Austrian composer (Poet und Bauer), dies at 76.
May 22 Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, philosopher (Songs of Life) [OS=May 12].
May 23 Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96
May 24 H S T L "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI).
May 24 Henry Irving is recorded as becoming 1st theatrical knight
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