page_title: 1889
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: 1889 / Births / May
caption_attribution_description: Catalog #: 02-S-00460 Last Name: Sikorsky First Name: Igor Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
context_page_description: 1889 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1889th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 889th year of the 2nd millennium, the 89th year of the 19th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1880s decade. As of the start of 1889, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: May 3
  Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
  Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (d. 1972)
  May 9 – Constantin S. Constantin, Romanian general (d. 1948)
  May 12
  Otto Frank, German publisher, businessman, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980)
  Abelardo L. Rodríguez, Mexican professional baseball player, general and substitute President of Mexico, 1932-1934 (d. 1967)
  Ouyang Yuqian, Chinese playwright, director and Peking opera performer (d. 1962)
  May 18 – Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist, inventor (d. 1944)
  May 21 – Bernard Rawlings, British admiral (d. 1962)
  May 23 – Carlo Braga, Filipino Roman Catholic priest, archbishop and servant of God (d. 1971)
  May 25
  Günther Lütjens, German admiral (d. 1941)
  Igor Sikorsky, Russian developer of the helicopter (d. 1972)
  May 31 – Charles Gordon Bell, British pilot (d. 1918)
caption: Igor Sikorsky
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