Famous people died in May - page 8

Bartolomeu Dias was a Portuguese explorer who became the first European to reach Indian Ocean from the Atlantic

Constantine the Great was a Roman Emperor of Illyrian ancestry who ruled from 306 to 337 AD

Tipu Sultan was a ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore renowned for his bravery in the wars against the British East India Company

Lena Horne was a famous American actress and civil rights activist and is remembered for her roles in ‘The Duke Is Tops’ and ‘Cabin in the Sky’

Robert Koch was a famous German microbiologist who identified the cause of various deadly diseases such as anthrax and cholera

Leo Szilard was a renowned nuclear physicist who is credited for design of a nuclear reactor

Fredrick Gowland Hopkins was a Nobel Prize winning biochemist who discovered vitamins

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Levi Parsons Morton was the 22nd Vice President of the United States

J Edgar Hoover served as first director of Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 until 1972