Mayday! Mayday!

Born on May 1st:

Jack Paar, TV host and raconteur (1918). Here he is with Oscar Levant:



John Woo, film director (1946):



Tim Hodgkinson, musician (1949):



Fred Frith - Chris Cutler- Tim Hodgkinson (@ The Stone)

This article is often termed a "pearl" of science

The Molecular structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid was an article published by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in the scientific journal Nature in its 171st volume on page 737-738 (dated April 25, 1953).