Born on May 30

German Renaissance painter, printmaker, and theorist (1471–1528), Dürer is considered the greatest Germanic artist of his time. He introduced Italian Renaissance ideals to Northern Europe and revolutionized the art of woodcut and copper engraving.

Howard Hawks was an American director, producer, and screenwriter, a major figure of Hollywood's Golden Age. A jack-of-all-trades across genres (western, film noir, comedy, war film), he is regarded as one of the great auteurs of classic cinema.

American clarinetist and bandleader (1909-1986), nicknamed “the King of Swing”. He helped bring jazz to mainstream white audiences and racially integrated his bands during the 1930s and 1940s.

Clora Bryant (1927-2019) was an American jazz trumpeter, one of the very few women to establish herself as a soloist in bebop. A key figure on the Central Avenue scene in Los Angeles, she rubbed shoulders with the greatest musicians of her time.

French photographer, visual artist, film director and screenwriter

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to perform a spacewalk on March 18, 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission. A trained military pilot, he embodies the boldness of the Soviet space program.

British chemist born in 1963, Helen Sharman became in 1991 the first British person and the first Western woman to travel to space, aboard the Soviet station Mir as part of the Juno project.