May 31 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on May 31, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Emerald
Birth flower
Lily of the valley
How common
#279 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous May 31 birthdays
Walt Whitman · American poet, essayist and journalist1819
Charles Greeley Abbot · American astrophysicist and the 5th Secretary of the Smithsonian1872
Saint-John Perse · French poet and diplomat1887
Don Ameche · American actor1908
Maurice Allais · French economist1911
Chien-Shiung Wu · Chinese-American physicist1912
Bernard Lewis · British-American historian1916
Clint Eastwood · American actor and film director1930
John Robert Schrieffer · American physicist1931
William Nordhaus · American economist1941
Louis Ignarro · American physiologist1941
Laurent Gbagbo · 4th President of Ivory Coast1945
Svetlana Alexievich · Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer1948
Lea Thompson · American actress1961
Dina Boluarte · Peruvian lawyer and politician, president of Peru from 2022 to 20251962
Viktor Orbán · Prime Minister of Hungary1963
Brooke Shields · U.S. model and actress1965
Colin Farrell · Irish actor1976
Marco Reus · German association football player1989
Azealia Banks · American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman1991
On this day in history
1862American Civil War: Confederate troops under Joseph E. Johnston and G. W. Smith engaged Union forces under George B. McClellan at the Battle of Seven Pines outside Richmond, Virginia.
1955The U.S. Supreme Court expands on its Brown v. Board of Education decision by ordering district courts and school districts to enforce educational desegregation "at all deliberate speed."
1985United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
2013A record breaking 2.6 mile wide tornado strikes near El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, causing eight fatalities (including three storm chasers) and over 150 injuries.
1879Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1902The Second Boer War came to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging in Pretoria, South Africa.
1911The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
1951The Uniform Code of Military Justice takes effect as the legal system of the United States Armed Forces.
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