Dashed left edge = started before May 1861 ·
Dashed right edge = ongoing beyond May 1861
Events in May 1861 3
1861 – 1931Motilal Nehru (1861-1931)Died 6 February 1931, aged 69Indian lawyer and nationalist who served twice as president of the Indian National Congress. He wrote the Nehru Report of 1928 on a constitution for India. He was the father of Jawaharlal Nehru.
1861 – 1941Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)Died 7 August 1941, aged 80Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, composer and philosopher, and in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote the national anthems of India and Bangladesh.
1861 – 1931Nellie Melba (1861-1931)Died 23 February 1931, aged 69Australian operatic soprano and one of the most famous singers of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. She sang leading roles at Covent Garden for decades. Peach Melba and Melba toast are named after her.