Axel Springer
Axel Cäsar Springer was a German publisher and founder of what is now Axel Springer SE, the largest media publishing firm in Europe. By the early 1960s his print titles dominated the West German daily press market. His Bild Zeitung became the nation's tabloid.
2 May 1912
Born on the same birth date (2 May 1912): Marten Toonder • Nigel Patrick
Born on the same birth day (2 May): B. B. Lal • Bill Horr • Catherine Labouré • Elias Boudinot • Isabel González • Jane Miller Thengberg • Jeong Jin-woon • Marco Pannella • Michael Broadbent • Robert Buckley • Theodore Bikel • Tony Wakeford • Yoram Kaniuk
Born in the same month (May 1912): Archibald Cox • Arthur Berger (composer) • Chien-Shiung Wu • George Woodcock • John Curtis Gowan • Joseph Stein • Julius Axelrod • János Kádár • Otto Kretschmer • Perry Como • Saadat Hasan Manto