May 19

Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury and a leader of the tenth-century English monastic revival, died at Canterbury.

Malcolm X, later known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, the American Muslim minister and orator, was born in Omaha, Nebraska.

J. Donald Walters, later Swami Kriyananda, a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda and founder of the Ananda movement, was born to American parents in Romania.

The English scholar Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall, whose 1930 English rendering of the Qur'an is widely read, died in the West Country.

Stephen Herbert Langdon, the American-born Oxford Assyriologist and cuneiform scholar, died in England.