Lionel Lukin, credited with inventing the self-righting lifeboat, is buried in the parish churchyard.

* February 16 – Lionel Lukin ( born 1742 ), English inventor.

Lionel Lukin ( 18 May 1742 ( Great Dunmow, Essex, England )-16 February 1834 ( Hythe, Kent, England ) is considered by some to have been the inventor of the lifeboat ( although see William Wouldhave for the competing claim ).

Born in Essex, at Great Dunmow in 1742, Lionel Lukin became credited with the invention of the Lifeboat after some experimentation along the French lines in 1784 with his own conversion of a Norway ‘ yawl ’ which he tested out on the river Thames, and in 1785 having received the personal encouragement of the Prince Regent, Lukin took out a patent.

‘ This Lionel Lukin was the first who built a life ~ boat, and was the original inventor of that principal of safety by which many lives and property have been preserved from shipwreck .’

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William Wouldhave ( 1751 – 1821 ) is a rival of Lionel Lukin for recognition as inventor of the lifeboat.

The first judge of the court was Lionel Lukin.

The suburb of Applecross was originally assigned to Lionel Lukin on 28 May 1830.

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* January 18 – Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ( d. 1765 )

Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, PC ( 18 January 1688 – 10 October 1765 ) was an English political leader and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

Herbert Lionel Adolphus Hart ( 18 July 1907 – 19 December 1992 ) was an influential legal philosopher of the 20th century.

The deal was finalized on April 18, 2006, and Lionel made the announcement the following day.

Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritzky ( January 1, 1806 – May 18, 1853 ) was a 19th-century chess master, famous primarily for a game he lost against Adolf Anderssen, which because of its brilliance was named " The Immortal Game ".

The relocation plan had only been unveiled some 18 months before the new stadium was opened-chairman Lionel Pickering had originally planned to boost Derby's stadium capacity by rebuilding it with a 26, 000-seat capacity.

In the United Kingdom on 18 September 2004, the BBC's All-Time Greatest Love Songs ( hosted by Lionel Richie ) saw the duet performed live by Paige and Dickson, together for the first time in 20 years, to a rapturous reception.

At 18, he joined Lionel Hampton's big band before joining the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra as lead trumpet.

Work took place at the Packard Proving Grounds at Utica, Michigan ; the plane flew successfully in the evening of September 18, 1928, with Packard test-pilot, Walter Lees and designer Captain Lionel M. Woolson.

Sir Lionel is the subject of the late-medieval folk ballad " Sir Lionel ", recorded as Child Ballad 18, in which he slays a giant wild boar.

His district was created after the 1980 census round of redistricting as the most Democratic district in the San Diego area ( it included much of the territory represented for 18 years by Lionel Van Deerlin before his defeat by Duncan Hunter ).

Lionel John Alexander Monckton ( 18 December 1861 – 15 February 1924 ) was an English writer and composer of musical theatre.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Lionel Galway, KCMG, DSO ( 25 September 185917 June 1949 ) was the Governor of South Australia from 18 April 1914 until 30 April 1920.

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer ( May 21, 1960 – November 28, 1994 ) was an American serial killer and sex offender.

* Lionel Charles Liddell ( 22 May 1868 – 21 March 1942 ).

* May 2 – Lionel Richie's hit " Hello " becomes Motown's first ever UK million-selling single.

Rousset also hosts an 8 inch ( 200 mm ) fab which was opened on 15 May 2000 by French prime minister Lionel Jospin.

In May 1977 an autobiographical musical called ' Lionel ' opened in the West End at the New London Theatre.

On May 2, 2008, Lionel Richie was the 21st recipient of the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's annual Spring Sing.

Journeying to fetch his bride, Lionel was received in great state both in France and Italy, and was married to Violante at Milan on 28 May 1368.

In theatre, she performed at the Royal Court and played the title role as the life-enhancing tart in Lionel Bart's musical Maggie May ( 1964 ).

Contracts were awarded, beginning in May 1952 to build approach roads and rail lines for the causeway construction and the project was officially started at a ceremony on September 16, 1952 attended by Minister of Transport Lionel Chevrier and Premier of Nova Scotia Angus L. MacDonald.

By now the show had proved a hit, and several notable stars appeared in later productions, including Leslie Phillips, Miranda Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Nicholas Parsons, Peter Capaldi, Kate Bush, Richard Vernon, Ruby Wax, Graham Crowden, Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Elvis Costello, and Benjamin Zephaniah ( as a Rastafarian police van driver ) and several musical acts, particularly from the Bad News series which was also aided by Queen guitarist Brian May, such as Def Leppard and Marillion.

Thomas Camoys ' second wife was Elizabeth Mortimer, widow of Henry ' Hotspur ' Percy ( 20 May 1364 – 21 July 1403 ), and daughter of Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, and Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster, daughter of Lionel of Antwerp, second son of Edward III of England.

Makalu was first climbed on May 15, 1955 by Lionel Terray and Jean Couzy of a French expedition led by Jean Franco.

It was purchased with 4, 000 acres ( 16 km² ) by Lionel Rothschild in May 1872 as his principal country residence.

Sir Erskine May found several precedents for Members disabled to sit for refusing to take the Oath, together with Quaker MP Joseph Pease who was permitted to affirm, and Jewish MPs Baron Lionel de Rothschild and David Salomons who were eventually allowed to take the Oath while omitting the words " on the true faith of a Christian ".

George Lionel Throssell, CMG ( 23 May 1840 – 30 August 1910 ) was the second Premier of Western Australia.

Ingrams married Mary Morgan on 24 November 1962 ; they had three children: a son, Fred ( b. 14 February 1964 ), who is an artist ; a second son, Arthur, who was disabled and died in childhood ; and a daughter, Margaret ( b. 4 May 1965 d. 12 May 2004 ) who was nicknamed Jubby and married in 1990, David Lionel Ford ( b. 1952 ), the younger son of Sir Edward William Spencer Ford, GCVO, KCB ERD ( b. 1910 ) Assistant Private Secretary to HM King George VI and to HM Queen Elizabeth II ( descended from the Earls of Shrewsbury ), by his wife, Virginia ( 1918-95 ), the daughter of the 1st and last Baron Brand, CMG ( 1878-1963 ), by his wife Phyllis Langhorne, dau of Chiswell Dabney Langhorne, of Mirador, Greenwood, Virginia, United States.

and Maggie May, by Lionel Bart, as well as stage and radio productions by his friend Spike Milligan.

* May 23 – Lionel Groulx, priest, historian, Quebec nationalist and traditionalist ( b. 1878 )

David Lionel Baddiel ( born 28 May 1964 ) is an American-born British comedian, novelist and television presenter.

* May 5-Daniel Lionel Hanington, politician and 5th Premier of New Brunswick ( b. 1835 )

Additionally, on May 27, 2004, Union Pacific Railroad sued Athearn and Lionel for trademark infringement because both companies put the names and logos of UP, as well as the names and logos of various fallen flag railroads UP had acquired over the years, on their model railroad products without a license.

As of May 1, 2008 Lionel was fully out of bankruptcy.

* May 17 — Lionel FitzGerald, artist

In May 1967, Lionel Corporation announced it had purchased the American Flyer name and tooling even though it was teetering on the brink of financial failure itself.