Famous people died in May - page 14

Seymour Kety

Seymour Kety

Seymour Kety was a popular American neuroscientist who made great inroads in diverse fields such as psychiatry, physiology and neuroscience

AmericanAugust 25, 1915124 views

Stephen Jay Gould

Stephen Jay Gould was a famous paleontologist and one of the most read science writers of his times

AmericanSeptember 10, 1941200 views

Paul Dukas

Paul Dukas was a noted French classical music composer

FrenchOctober 1, 1865120 views

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist known for pioneering the concept of pop art with Jasper Johns

AmericanOctober 22, 1925114 views

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A Heinlein was a popular American science fiction writer

AmericanJuly 7, 1907105 views

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus, the famous mathematician and astronomer was the first to discover that the earth revolves around the sun and not the other way round

PolishFebruary 19, 1473113 views

Nancy Astor

Nancy Astor was the first woman to sit as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons

BritishMay 19, 1879301 views

Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford was a Canadian-American motion picture actress and one of the original founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

CanadianApril 8, 1892122 views

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher, better known for his existential and phenomenological theories

GermanSeptember 26, 1889158 views

Marquis de Lafayette

Marquis de Lafayette was a French aristocrat and for the United States in the American Revolutionary War

FrenchSeptember 6, 1757198 views