People born on May 31

Walt Whitman

American poet, essayist and journalist

Clint Eastwood

American actor and film director (born 1930)

Pius XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

Svetlana Aleksievich

Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer

Philip II of Spain

16th-century King of Spain, Portugal, Naples and Sicily; King consort of England, lived 1527-1598

Viktor Orbán

Prime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–present)

Saint-John Perse

French poet and diplomat

Marco Reus

German footballer (born 1989)

Colin Farrell

Irish actor (born 1976)

Brooke Shields

American actress (born 1965)

Laurent Gbagbo

4th President of Ivory Coast

Maurice Allais

French economist (1911–2010)

John Robert Schrieffer

American physicist (1931-2019)

Rainier III, Prince of Mónaco

Prince of Monaco (1923-2005)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

German filmmaker, playwright and actor (1945-1982)