People who died on May 31, 1994 (the exact day you were born) * Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano Natural disasters in 1994 * Christmas 1994 Nor'easter * Northridge earthquake * 1994 Paez river earthquake People who died on May 31 (various years) * 2006 - Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter (b. 1930), mother of singer Stevie Wonder * 2006 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate * 2006 - Miguel Berrocal, sculptor * 2006 - Ryan Bennett, broadcast commentator * 2004 - Étienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter * 2004 - Robert Quine, American guitarist * 2000 - Johnnie Taylor, American singer * 2000 - Tito Puente, American musician * 1998 - Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver * 1997 - James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist * 1996 - Timothy Leary, American professor and LSD advocate * 1993 - Spuds Mackenzie, American advertisement dog * 1987 - John Abraham (Director), Indian film director * 1986 - James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate * 1986 - Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank), American artist * 1983 - Jack Dempsey, American boxer * 1978 - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer * 1977 - William Castle, American director * 1976 - Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel laureate * 1970 - Terry Sawchuk, hockey player * 1967 - Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger * 1962 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician * 1961 - Walter Little, Canadian politician * 1960 - Walther Funk, Nazi leader * 1960 - Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer * 1957 - Leopold Staff, Polish poet * 1945 - Odilo Globocnik, Austrian nazi * 1910 - Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician * 1908 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French Canadian poet * 1848 - Eugénie de Guérin, French writer * 1847 - Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor * 1846 - Philip Marheineke, German clergyman * 1837 - Joseph Grimaldi, British clown * 1832 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician * 1831 - Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer * 1809 - Jean Lannes, French marshal * 1809 - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer * 1799 - Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer * 1747 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman * 1740 - King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia * 1680 - Joachim Neander, German clergyman * 1594 - Tintoretto, Italian painter * 1558 - Philip Hoby, English politician * 1495 - Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, * 1410 - King Martin I of Aragon * 1408 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun * 1349 - Thomas Wake, English politician * 1246 - Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England

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