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The Let’s Study Famous Folks – May Calendar

Featuring 31 Days Of Learning About Famous Folks On The Day They Were Born.

Writers/Poets/Artists/Musicians

  • Niccolo Machiavelli – Italian politician and writer (The Prince).
  • Bing Crosby – American actor and singer.
  • Audrey Hepburn – famous actress.
  • Karl Marx – German philosopher.
  • Robert Browning -English poet who wrote The Pied Piper.
  • Johannes Brahms -composer of music from the Romantic Era.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Russian Romantic Era composer (1812 Overture, Swan Lake),  
  • Phillis Wheatley – African-American poet who was both the second published African-American poet and first published woman poet in America. 
  • Fred Astaire – famous American dancer and actor.  
  • Irving Berlin – American composer and lyricist (God Bless America, White Christmas). 
  • Salvador Dali – Spanish surrealist artist (Crucifixion).
  • Jules Massenet – French composer.
  • Claudio Monteverdi – Italian composer and pioneer in the development of opera.
  • Lyman Frank Baum – American children’s book author (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz).
  • Albrecht Durer – Renaissance painter/print maker.
  • Richard Wagner – German composer of the Romantic Era.
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – famous British author (The Hound of the Baskervilles).
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson – American essayist and philosopher. 
  • Walt Whitman – American poet (Leaves of Grass) and a volunteer nurse during the Civil War.

Scientists/Explorers/Inventors

  • Robert Peary – American Arctic explorer who claimed to have 1st reached the geographic North Pole.
  • Sigmund Freud -Austrian neurologist and father of psychology.
  • Howard Carter – British archaeologist and Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamun’s tomb. Learn more about Egyptian mummies.
  • David Edward Hughes – British-American inventor of the microphone, & teleprinter.
  • Edward Jenner – English physician, considered the father of immunology and pioneered smallpox vaccinations.
  • Andrei Sakharov – Russian nuclear physicist and activist for disarmament, peace, and human rights.
  • Carolus Linnaeus -Swedish botanist, explorer, and the Father of Taxonomy. 
  • John Bardeen – American physicist, electrical engineer, and co-inventor of the transistor.
  • Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit – Dutch-German-Polish physicist, inventor, and scientific instrument maker, who invented the thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale. 
  • Igor Sikorsky -Russian-American pioneer of aviation in both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
  • Sally Ride – famous American astronaut (the first American woman to go to space).
  • Tenzing Norgay – Tibetan climber who was the 1st to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
  • Alexei Leonov – Russian cosmonaut and the first person to walk in space.

Historical Leaders/Heroes/”Baddies”

  • Kamehameha I – King of Hawaii
  • Arthur Wellesley – Duke of Wellington and a former British Prime Minister.
  • Calamity Jane – Legendary woman of the Wild West.
  • Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron] – famous German World War I fighter ace.
  • Eva Perón [Evita] – famous Argentine First Lady, actress, suffragette, unionist, and humanitarian who was the inspiration for the musical “Evita”.
  • Harry Truman – the 33rd US President.
  • John Brown – American abolitionist and revolutionary (Harpers Ferry).
  • John Wilkes Booth – American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln.
  • Florence Nightingale – a famous British nurse during the Crimean War. 
  • Nicholas II – last Tsar of Russia.
  • Malcolm X [Little] – African-American human rights activist.
  • Elizabeth Fry – English prison reformer, social reformer, and Quaker Minister.
  • Queen Victoria – former Queen of the United Kingdom and Ireland.
  • “Wild Bill” Hickok [James Butler] – American cowboy and scout.
  • Selim II “the blonde” – 11th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
  • George I – former King of England.
  • William Pitt the Younger – former British Prime Minister.
  • Charles II – former King of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
  • Patrick Henry – American Revolutionary and Founding Father famous for his “Give me liberty or give me death” speech.
  • John F. Kennedy – 35th US President.

Other Interesting Famous Folks To Learn About 

  • Bono [Paul Hewson] – lead singer of U2 and humanitarian activist.
  • Stevie Wonder [Stevland Hardaway Morris] -famous American singer-songwriter.
  • George Lucas – American movie director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones).

Have Fun Celebrating These Special Days:

  • May Day
  • Star Wars Day – May The Force Be With You!
  • Cinco de Mayo – Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with music!
  • Thank a Teacher Day! Enjoy one of these thankfulness writing ideas.
  • Mother’s Day
  • International Day of Families – Learn how to write your family story.
  • Children’s Book Week – Learn how to write about a book.
  • National Memo Day – Learn how to write a business letter.
  • Memorial Day (USA)

Why Continue To Struggle With The Boring Curriculum? Start Your Famous Folks ‘Ed-Venture’ Today.

Get all 31 days of ed-venture for just 9 little dollars. The calendar includes:

  • 55 mini-lessons about famous people born in May
  • 10 activities to celebrate fun & famous holidays like Star Wars Day & Children’s book week.
  • Notebooking pages to use throughout the month.