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May 31
- 1048 - Birth of Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1131)
- 1799 - Death of Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
- 1832 - Death of Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
- 1918 - Death of Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (b. 1836)
- 1931 - Birth of John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 - Birth of Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1976 - Death of Jacques Monod, French biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
- 1986 - Death of James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
- 2006 - Death of Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
