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b. 2001Iga Świątek
Polish professional tennis player and multiple Grand Slam champion
Did you know? Her father was an Olympic rower who competed for Poland in the men's quadruple sculls at the 1988 Seoul Games.
b. 1996Normani
American singer and dancer from Fifth Harmony, known for Love Lies, Motivation and her album Dopamine
Did you know? She trained as a competitive gymnast and dancer as a child.
b. 1989Marco Reus
German professional footballer who played for Borussia Dortmund
Did you know? He missed Germany's 2014 World Cup victory due to an injury sustained in their final warm-up match.
b. 1976Colin Farrell
Golden Globe-winning Irish actor known for The Banshees of Inisherin
Did you know? As a teenager, he once auditioned for the Irish boyband Boyzone but was ultimately unsuccessful.
b. 1973Natasha Korolyova
Popular Russian singer known for her successful career in pop music
Did you know? She achieved fame as a teenager following a series of successful collaborations with the prominent singer and songwriter Igor Nikolayev.
b. 1970Paolo Sorrentino
Oscar-winning director known for the film The Great Beauty
Did you know? He survived a carbon monoxide leak that killed both his parents because he was away watching a football match.
b. 1965Brooke Shields
American model and actress known for The Blue Lagoon
Did you know? She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in French Literature after taking a break from her Hollywood career.
b. 1963Viktor Orbán
Hungarian prime minister and Fidesz leader who has dominated the country's politics since 2010 with his illiberal democracy
Did you know? He was a professional footballer in his youth and remained registered as a player during his first term as Prime Minister.
b. 1962Dina Boluarte
First female President of Peru
Did you know? She is a trained lawyer who originally rose to power as Vice President before assuming the presidency in 2022.
Svetlana Alexievich
Belarusian writer of Voices from Chernobyl and The Unwomanly Face of War, whose oral histories won the Nobel Prize
Did you know? She spent years interviewing hundreds of people to create a collective narrative of the Chernobyl disaster.
1948–1980John Bonham
Powerhouse drummer for the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin
Did you know? He was entirely self-taught and famously used his bare hands to play the drums during his lengthy solo on the song Moby Dick.
b. 1945Laurent Gbagbo
Ivorian politician who served as President of Côte d'Ivoire
Did you know? He was the first former head of state to be tried by the International Criminal Court, though he was later acquitted of all charges.
1945–1982Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Influential German director and major figure in New German Cinema
Did you know? Despite dying at only thirty-seven, he completed over forty feature films and several television series in his short career.
b. 1941William Nordhaus
Nobel Prize-winning economist noted for work on climate change
Did you know? He created the first computer models capable of calculating the long-term economic impact of global warming on the world.
1931–2019John Robert Schrieffer
Nobel Prize-winning physicist who explained the mechanics of superconductivity
Did you know? He developed the breakthrough theory alongside his professor, making them one of the few student-teacher teams to win a Nobel Prize.
b. 1930Clint Eastwood
American actor and director of Dirty Harry and Westerns, who won Oscars for directing Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby
Did you know? He served as the non-partisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea in California for two years during the late eighties.
1923–2005Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
Long-reigning monarch of Monaco who married actress Grace Kelly
Did you know? During the Second World War, he served as a liaison officer in the French Army and received the Croix de Guerre.
1912–1997Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project
Did you know? She was the first female instructor in the physics department at Princeton and later led the American Physical Society.
1911–2010Maurice Allais
French economist and physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics
Did you know? In addition to his work in economics, he conducted famous experiments with pendulums that appeared to show anomalies in the force of gravity.
1908–1993Don Ameche
Oscar-winning American actor known for the film Cocoon
Did you know? In the mid-twentieth century, his name became a common slang term for a telephone in many parts of the United States.
1887–1975Saint-John Perse
French poet and diplomat who won the Nobel Prize for Literature
Did you know? He used a pseudonym to keep his literary work separate from his high-ranking career at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1857–1939Pius XI
Italian pope who signed the Lateran Treaty creating Vatican City in 1929 and condemned Nazism in an encyclical
Did you know? Before his election, he was a mountaineer who scaled several of the highest peaks in the Alps.
1819–1892Walt Whitman
American poet whose free-verse collection Leaves of Grass, including Song of Myself, celebrated democracy and the individual
Did you know? During the American Civil War, he worked as a volunteer nurse in military hospitals to care for wounded and dying soldiers.
1773–1853Ludwig Tieck
Influential writer and leading figure of the German Romantic movement
Did you know? He helped translate the works of William Shakespeare into German, making them widely accessible to a new audience.
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Joseph HaydnAustrian composer of the Classical periodView profile Photo (modified): Thomas Hardy · Public domain1809Died
🇫🇷Évariste GaloisFrench mathematician and political activistView profile Photo (modified): Alfred Galois · Public domain1832Died
🇩🇪Adolf EichmannGerman-Austrian official of the Nazi Party, an officer of the Schutzstaffel, a convicted war criminal, and one of the…View profile Photo (modified): Author and location unknown. Bettina Stangneth's caption for the image says: "Unknown photographer, undated (1941), AKG · Public domain1962Died
Jacopo TintorettoItalian Renaissance painter of the Venetian schoolView profile Photo (modified): Jacopo Tintoretto · Public domain1594Died
🇫🇷Jacques MonodFrench biochemistView profile Photo (modified): Farabola · Public domain1976Died
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May 31: birthdays, history and star sign
26 famous people were born on May 31, including Genghis Khan, Walt Whitman and Clint Eastwood. Anyone born on May 31 is a Gemini, an air sign ruled by Mercury. Notable events on May 31 include Battle of Jutland (1916) and Battle of the Kalka River (1223).
Famous people born on May 31
- 2001Iga Świątek · Polish professional tennis player
- 1989Marco Reus · German professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for Major League Soccer club LA Galaxy
- 1976Colin Farrell · Irish actor
- 1965Brooke Shields · American actress and current president of the Actors' Equity Association
- 1963Viktor Orbán · Hungarian lawyer and politician who served as the prime minister of Hungary from 1998 to 2002 and from 2010 to 2026
- 1962Dina Boluarte · Peruvian politician, civil servant, and lawyer who served as the president of Peru from 7 December 2022 until she was…
- 1948Svetlana Alexievich · Belarusian author, investigative journalist, and oral historian who writes in Russian
- 1945Laurent Gbagbo · Ivorian politician who served as the president of Côte d'Ivoire from 2000 until his arrest in April 2011
- 1945Rainer Werner Fassbinder · German filmmaker, dramatist and actor
- 1931John Robert Schrieffer · American theoretical physicist who, with John Bardeen and Leon Cooper, was a recipient of the 1972 Nobel Prize in…
- 1930Clint Eastwood · Clinton Eastwood Jr
- 1923Rainier III, Prince of Monaco · Prince of Monaco from 1949 until his death in 2005
- 1912Chien-Shiung Wu · Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and…
- 1911Maurice Allais · French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering…
- 1887Saint-John Perse · French poet, writer and diplomat, awarded the 1960 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the soaring flight and the evocative…
- 1857Pius XI · Head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 until his death in February 1939
- 1819Walt Whitman · Walter Whitman Jr
- 1773Ludwig Tieck · German poet, fiction writer, translator, and critic
- 1469Manuel I of Portugal · King of Portugal from 1495 to 1521
- 1162Genghis Khan · Founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire
On May 31 in history
- 1916Battle of Jutland · The Battle of Jutland was a naval battle between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet, under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas…
- 1223Battle of the Kalka River · The Battle of the Kalka River was fought between the Mongol Empire, whose armies were led by Jebe and Subutai, and a coalition of several Rus' principalities…
- 1921Tulsa Race Massacre · The Tulsa race massacre was a two-day-long terrorist massacre perpetrated by white supremacists that took place in the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma…
- 20102010 Gaza flotilla raid · Six civilian ships of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla were raided by Israel on 31 May 2010 in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine of the flotilla…
- 19721972 European Cup Final · The 1972 European Cup final was a football match held at De Kuip, Rotterdam, on 31 May 1972, that was contested between Internazionale of Italy and AFC Ajax of…
Zodiac sign
Gemini · Air · ruled by Mercury · Curious, Adaptable, Witty, Restless
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1265–1321Dante Alighieri
Florentine poet who wrote The Divine Comedy, the epic journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise that helped shape the Italian language
Did you know? He was exiled from his home city of Florence and spent the rest of his life travelling through Italy.
1926–1962Marilyn Monroe
Hollywood star of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Some Like It Hot who became one of the most famous screen icons of all time
Did you know? Her distinctive breathy voice was actually a technique suggested by a speech therapist to help her overcome a childhood stutter.
1814–1876Mikhail Bakunin
Russian revolutionary and founder of collectivist anarchism who clashed with Karl Marx in the First International
Did you know? He escaped from exile in Siberia by travelling through Japan and America to reach London.
b. 1937Morgan Freeman
American actor of The Shawshank Redemption and Driving Miss Daisy, known for his voice, who won an Oscar for Million Dollar Baby
Did you know? He did not achieve major film stardom until his fifties, following his breakout performance in the movie Street Smart.
b. 1996Tom Holland
1928–2003Idi Amin
Ugandan army officer who seized power in 1971 and ruled as a brutal dictator, expelling Uganda's Asian community
Did you know? He was a formidable athlete in his youth and held the light heavyweight boxing championship of Uganda for nine consecutive years.
1780–1831Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian general and military theorist whose book On War described war as the continuation of politics by other means
Did you know? His most famous work was actually published posthumously by his wife, who edited and organised his unfinished manuscripts.
b. 1980Steven Gerrard
Long-serving Liverpool captain and England international midfielder
Did you know? He is the only player to have scored in the finals of the Champions League, UEFA Cup, FA Cup and League Cup.
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- Who was born on May 31?
- Famous people born on May 31 include Genghis Khan (1162), Walt Whitman (1819), Clint Eastwood (1930), Pius XI (1857) and Svetlana Alexievich (1948). In total, 26 famous people in our archive were born on May 31.
- Which celebrities share a May 31 birthday?
- Famous people alive today with a May 31 birthday include Clint Eastwood, Svetlana Alexievich, Viktor Orbán and Colin Farrell.
- What star sign is someone born on May 31?
- People born on May 31 are Gemini, an air sign ruled by Mercury. Gemini runs from May 21 to June 20.
- What happened on May 31 in history?
- Notable events on May 31 include Battle of Jutland (1916), Battle of the Kalka River (1223) and Tulsa Race Massacre (1921).
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- May 31 in historyYour birthday has a story. See every famous birth, historic event and notable death recorded on May 31, the day the world welcomed you.Date page
- Your most famous birthday match: Genghis KhanOf the 26 famous people who share your birthday, Genghis Khan is the best known. Read their story and see what you have in common.Person
- Gemini zodiac signAs a Gemini you're known for being curious, adaptable and witty, just like Genghis Khan. Meet others who share your star sign.Zodiac
- Famous birthdays in MaySee the best-known people born on every day of May, from the 1st to the last day of the month.Month
- The 100 ClubWill you make it to 100? Meet the famous people who celebrated their 100th birthday, and the stars who are next in line.Centenarians
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