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May Day
Labor leader Mary Harris Jones born 1830
Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month begins
 		 2
Writer Nikki Tate born 1962
 		 3
UN World Press Freedom Day
World Laughter Day
 
4
Actress and Ambassador Audrey Hepburn born 1929.
Hawaiian surfer Eddie Aikau born 1946.
 		 5
Philosopher and theologian Soren Kierkegaard born 1813
Journalist Nellie Bly born 1865
Children's Day in Japan celebrates growth and happiness of children
 		 6
Baseball player Willie Mays born 1931
Japan's first female astronaut Chiaki Mukai born 1952
 		 7
Football player Johnny Unitas born 1933
Poet Robert Browning born 1812
Composer Johannes Brahms born 1833
World AIDS Orphans' Day
 		 8

International Red Cross Day
 		 9
Archaeologist Howard Carter born 1874
 		 10
Mother's Day
 
11
Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham born 1894
Painter Salvador Dali born 1904
 		 12
Skateboarder Tony Hawk born 1968
Nurse Florence Nightingale born 1820
International Nurses Day is celebrated on May 12, the anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth
 		 13
Singer and musician Stevie Wonder born 1950
 		 14
Filmmaker George Lucas born 1944
 		 15
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright born 1937
UN International Day of Families
Children's author L. Frank Baum born 1856
 		 16
Author and journalist Studs Terkel born 1912
 		 17
World Telecommunications Day
 
18
Ballerina Margot Fonteyn born 1919
 		 19
Civil Rights activist Malcolm X born 1925
 		 20
Painter Henri Rousseau born 1844
 		 21
Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross 1881
 		 22
Detective story writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle born 1859
UN International Day for Biological Diversity
 		 23
 		 24
Singer and songwriter Bob Dylan born 1941
 
25
Poet and essayist Ralph W. Emerson born 1803
 		 26
Photographer Dorothea Lange born 1895
Astronaut Sally Ride born 1951
 		 27
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger born 1923
Dancer Isadora Duncan born 1878
Ecologist and writer Rachel Carson born 1907
 		 28
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani born 1944
Olympic champion Jim Thorpe born 1888
MY HERO Hero Fest in Laguna Beach, California
 		 29
U.S. President John F. Kennedy born 1917
Comedian Bob Hope born 1903
 		 30
Bandleader and musician Benny Goodman born 1909
 		 31 UN World No-Tobacco Day
Poet Walt Whitman born 1819
 
 
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