What Happened In May 1892 In History

Historical Events for May, 1892

• 28th » In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.

Famous Birthdays on May in 1892

• 2nd » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot (d. 1918)
• 3rd » George Paget Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
• 3rd » Jacob Viner, Canadian economist (d. 1970)
• 7th » Archibald MacLeish, American poet, playwright, and lawyer (d. 1982)
• 7th » Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
• 9th » Zita of Bourbon-Parma (d. 1989)
• 11th » Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972)
• 12th » Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director (d. 1970)
• 15th » Charles E. Rosendahl, American admiral (d. 1977)
• 15th » Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969)
• 18th » Ezio Pinza, Italian-American opera singer (d. 1957)
• 28th » Josef Dietrich, German general (d. 1966)
• 29th » Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet (d. 1938)
• 30th » Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
• 31st » Michel Kikoine, Belarusian-French painter (d. 1968)
• 31st » Erich Neumann (politician) e.g Erich Neumann, German politician (d. 1951)
• 31st » Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian poet and author (d. 1968)
• 31st » Gregor Strasser, German politician (d. 1934)

Famous Deaths for May 1892

• 5th » August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)

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