Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit ( 24 May 1686 – 16 September 1736 ) was a Dutch-German-Polish physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer ( 1709 ) and the mercury thermometer ( 1714 ), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him.

He took an active part in parliament in 1685 and 1686, but remained a non-juror during the whole of William's reign, being frequently fined for his non-attendance, and took the oaths for the first time after Anne's accession, on 11 May 1703.

* May 30 – John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician ( d. 1686 )

* May 10 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist ( d. 1686 )

* May 25 – Carlo Dolci, Italian artist ( d. 1686 )

* May 31 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman ( b. 1686 )

* May 4 – Eustace Budgell, English writer ( b. 1686 )

His paternal grandparents were Jean Bernadotte ( Pau, 29 September 1683 – Pau, 3 October 1760 ) and wife ( m. Pau, 1 May 1707 ) Marie du Pucheu dite de La Place ( Pau, 6 February 1686 – Pau, 5 October 1773 ), daughter of Jacques du Pucheu dit de La Place and wife Françoise de Labasseur.

Other evidence also shows Newton's absorption in the Principia: Newton for years kept up a regular programme of chemical or alchemical experiments, and he normally kept dated notes of them, but for a period from May 1684 to April 1686, Newton's chemical notebooks have no entries at all.

Newton, faced in May 1686 with Hooke's claim on the inverse square law, denied that Hooke was to be credited as author of the idea, giving reasons including the citation of prior work by others before Hooke.

Newton, faced in May 1686 with Hooke's claim on the inverse square law, denied that Hooke was to be credited as author of the idea, giving reasons including the citation of prior work by others before Hooke.

Otto von Guericke ( originally spelled Gericke, ) ( November 20, 1602 – May 11, 1686 ( Julian calendar ); November 30, 1602 – May 21, 1686 ( Gregorian calendar )) was a German scientist, inventor, and politician.

There he died peacefully on May 11 ( Julian ) 1686, 55 years to the day after he had fled the flames in 1631.

Gloucester dates back to May 26, 1686, when courts were established separate from those of Burlington.

Mayfair is named after the annual fortnight-long May Fair that took place on the site that is Shepherd Market today ( from 1686 until it was banned in that location in 1764 ).

Until 1686, the May Fair was held in Haymarket, and after 1764, it moved to Fair Field in Bow because the well-to-do residents of the area felt the fair lowered the tone of the neighbourhood.

Count Andrey Ivanovich Osterman () ( June 9, 1686 – May 31, 1747 ) was a German-born Russian statesman who came to prominence under Tsar Peter I of Russia ( Peter the Great ) and served until the accession of the Tsesarevna Elizabeth.

Carlo ( or Carlino ) Dolci ( 25 May 1616 – 17 January 1686 ) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions.

* May 6-Andrew Michael Ramsay, biographer ( born 1686 )

* May 10-Jean Mairet, dramatist ( died 1686 )

The name changed to Waterbury on May 15, 1686, when the settlement was admitted as the 28th town in the Connecticut Colony.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

In May 1607, the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed sailed through Chesapeake Bay and thirty miles up the James River to a parcel of densely wooded, swamp land.

James Avery Hopwood ( May 28, 1882-July 1, 1928 ), was the most successful playwright of the Jazz Age, having four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920.

* Barlett, Donald P. and Steele, James B .; " Monsanto's Harvest of Fear ", Vanity Fair May 2008

* Booknotes interview with James Srodes on Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, May 19, 2002.

James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

On the February 20, 2011, episode of Top Gear, James May had Bovril in an urn inside a Claas Dominator combine harvester in Norway, which was converted into a snow plough.

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

In May 1997, Prime Minister James joined 14 other Caribbean leaders, and President Clinton, during the first-ever U. S .- regional summit in Bridgetown, Barbados.

At the end of May 1942, Eisenhower accompanied Lt. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, to London to assess the effectiveness of the theater commander in England, Maj. Gen. James E. Chaney.

* In the first episode of the second series of James May's Man Lab, James May and Oz Clarke were demonstrating map-reading skills by pretending to escape from Dartmoor prison and cross Dartmoor to their escape car ( although they had to start their escape from outside the prison grounds as they were not allowed permission inside the prison ).

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).

* 12 May: James Connolly and Sean MacDiarmada

* Spouses: Ruth Doreen Crick, née Dodd ( b. 1913, m. 18 February 1940 – 8 May 1947 ), now Mrs. James Stewart Potter ; Odile Crick, née Speed ( b. 11 August 1920, m. 14 August 1949 – 28 July 2004, d. 5 July 2007 )

Franklin James Schaffner ( May 30, 1920July 2, 1989 ) was an American film director best known for such films as Planet of the Apes ( 1968 ), Patton ( 1970 ), Papillon ( 1973 ), and The Boys from Brazil ( 1978 ).

However, in May 2012 Judge James Taylor ruled that while Price had lived in Coleman's home after their marriage ended, their relationship at the time of his death failed to meet Utah ’ s standard for a common-law marriage.

The 4th edition of Gamma World ( ISBN 1-56076-401-5 ) was a 192-page softcover book, written by Bruce Nesmith and James M. Ward, published in May 1992 by TSR.

William's envoy Everhard van Weede Dijkvelt visited England between February and May 1687, instructed to persuade James to help contain French aggression.

Prime Minister Percival James Patterson visited Cuba at the end of May 1997.

James Joseph Brown ( May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006 ) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist.

James Brown was born in Barnwell, South Carolina on May 3, 1933, to Susie ( née Behlings ) Brown ( August 8, 1916-February 26, 2004 ) and Joseph (" Joe ") Gardner ( March 29, 1911-July 10, 1993 ) ( who changed his surname to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him ).

* 1963 – James May, English television presenter

James Whale ( 22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957 ) was an English film director, theatre director and actor.