May 1887 Day Of The Week - 1887 May Calendar Month View

About Month of May Calendar

May is the fifth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with the length of 31 days. May is a month of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and spring in the Northern Hemisphere (Summer in Europe). Therefore May in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of November in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.

May symbols: The birthstone of May is the emerald which is emblematic of love and success. The May birth flower is the Lily of the Valley and the Crataegus monogyna. The mayflower Epigaea repens is a North American harbinger of May, and the floral emblem of both Nova Scotia and Massachusetts. Its native range extends from Newfoundland south to Florida, west to Kentucky in the southern range, and to Northwest Territories in the north. The zodiac signs for the month of May are Taurus (until May 20) and Gemini (May 21 onwards).

1st » Alan Cunningham, Irish-English general (d. 1983)
2nd » Vernon and Irene Castle known as Vernon Castle, English-American dancer (d. 1918)
2nd » Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1951)
3rd » Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954)
5th » Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1941)
5th » Geoffrey Fisher, English archbishop (d. 1972)
14th » Ants Kurvits, Estonian general (d. 1943)
18th » Jeanie MacPherson, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1946)
19th » Ion Jalea, Romanian sculptor (d. 1983)
22nd » Frederick Garfield Gilmore, Canadian-American boxer (d. 1969)
22nd » Frank Nelson (athlete) or Frank Nelson, American pole vaulter (d. 1970)
23rd » Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician (d. 1963)
23rd » Nikolai Vekšin, Estonian sailor (d. 1951)
24th » Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
25th » Pio of Pietrelcina, Italian priest and saint (d. 1968)
30th » Alexander Archipenko, Ukrainian-American sculptor (d. 1964)
30th » Paulette Noizeux, French actress (d. 1971)
30th » Emil Reesen, Danish pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1964)
31st » Saint-John Perse, French poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize in Literature e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)