May 15th, 1930...

Today is Thursday !

TIME Magazine: Alois Lang

(TIME Cover: May the 12th, 1930)

1567 - (baptism) Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643)
1859 - Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906)
1898 - Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992)
1937 - Madeleine Albright, 64th American Secretary of State
1948 - Brian Eno, English musician and record producer
1953 - Mike Oldfield, English composer
1959 - Andrew Eldritch, English singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)

Karl Landsteiner
1868-1943

for his discovery of human blood groups

Austria
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research - New York, NY, USA.

Photo: nobelprize.org