May 15, 1937 – America’s first female secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, is born in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
May 18, 1872 – British philosopher, logician, and social reformer (and winner of the 1950 Nobel Prize for Literature for his varied and significant writings) Bertrand Russell is born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales
May 18, 1897 – Hollywood director Frank Capra, known for “It’s a Wonderful Life”, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”, and “It Happened One Night”, is born in Bisacquino, Italy.
May 19, 1930 – Playwright Lorraine Hansberry, whose work “A Raisin in the Sun” was the first drama by an African American woman to be produced on Broadway (in 1959), is born in Chicago.