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Famous Birthdays
- May 3 Friedrich Wilhelm Weis, German physician and composer, born in Göttingen, Electorate of Hanover, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1826)
- May 4 Marianne Martinez, Austrian composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1812)
- May 18 Joseph Beer, Bohemian clarinetist, and composer (5th clarinet flap), born in Grünwald, Bohemia (d. 1812)
- May 19 Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of England, consort to King George III1, born in Unteres Schloß, Mirow, Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany), (d. 1818)
- May 31 Richard Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish inventor and educationalist, born in Bath, Somerset (d. 1817)
Famous Deaths
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
May 30 English poet (The Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer), dies at 56
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