During this term Johnson also made a concerted effort to increase his sphere of interactions ; his higher profile was exemplified by a biographical sketch published in the New York Times in May 1849, describing him as an excellent committee worker and investigator.

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Anne died of the same disease in May 1849.

After participating in the May Uprising in Dresden of 1849, he was imprisoned and shipped to Siberia, but eventually escaped and made his way back to Europe.

Marx moved to London in May 1849 and would remain based in the city for the rest of his life.

They were married on May 29, 1849, and together had five children, only two of whom survived to adulthood ; the other three died of typhoid.

* 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.

* US Patent 6, 420, Improvement in electric telegraphs, May 1, 1849

In May 1849 he began his most active " rescue work " with " fallen women " and met prostitutes late at night on the street, in his house or in their houses, writing their names in a private notebook.

* May 9 – J. M. Dent, British publisher ( b. 1849 )

* May 16 – Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( b. 1849 )

* May 30 – John Hubbard, American admiral ( b. 1849 )

* May 20 – Dolley Madison, First Lady of the United States ( d. 1849 )

Wagner was forced to abandon his position as conductor of the Dresden Opera in 1849, as there was a warrant posted for his arrest for his participation in the unsuccessful May Revolution.

The Bourbons soon reconquered Palermo ( May 1849 ), which remained under their rule until the appearance of Giuseppe Garibaldi.

" He died on May 10, 1849 ( 18th day of the 4th month of the 2nd year of the Kaei era by the old calendar ), and was buried at the Seikyō-ji in Tokyo ( Taito Ward ).

In May 1849 it was published by Elizabeth Peabody in the Aesthetic Papers.

Following the collapse of the Roman republic of 1848-49, when the Rocca was in part demolished, it was seized in May 1849 by the Austrians.

From October 1848 until May 1849, around 300 Bábís ( later rising to 600 ), led by Mullá Muhammad ‘ Alí of Bárfarúsh, surnamed Quddús, and Mullá Husayn-i-Bushru ' i, defended themselves against the attacks of local villagers and members of the shah's army under the command of Prince Mihdí Qulí Mirzá.

Bakunin played a leading role in the May Uprising in Dresden in 1849, helping to organize the defense of the barricades against Prussian troops with Richard Wagner and Wilhelm Heine.

* I – May 1849 ( chapters 1 – 3 );

* 1850, UK, Bradbury & Evans ?, Pub date 1 May 1849 and 1 November 1850, Serial ( first publication as serial )

Jacob August Riis ( May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914 ) was a Danish American social reformer, " muckraking " journalist and social documentary photographer.

In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list.

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.

In May 1686, James decided to obtain from the English courts of the common law a ruling which affirmed his power to dispense with Acts of Parliament.

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.