(19 May) African American Muslim leader Malcolm X (al-Hajj Malik al-Shabazz) was born in Omaha,…

(18 May) Persian astronomer, mathematician, and poet, Omar Khayyam, was born in Nishapur (now in…

(5 May) Bidar Kadın, the fourth consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, was born in 1855…