Wop May

Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, was a Canadian flying ace in the First World War and a leading post-war aviator. He was the final Allied pilot to be pursued by Manfred von Richthofen before the German ace was shot down on the Western Front in 1918. After the war, May returned to Canada, pioneering the role of a bush pilot while working for Canadian Airways in Northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories.

20 April 1896

Born on the same birth day (20 April): Adolf Hitler • Allan Houston • Crispin Glover • Felix Baumgartner • Heinrich Göbel • John Eliot Gardiner • John Paul Stevens • Julia Morris • Kai Siegbahn • Marie-Antoinette de Geuser • Napoleon III • Paul Poiret • Shemar Moore • Viacheslav Fetisov

Born in the same month (April 1896): Einar Lundborg • Frits Peutz • Nikolay Semyonov • Reverend Gary Davis • Robert E. Sherwood • Rogers Hornsby • Ruut Tarmo • Señor Wences • Tristan Tzara • Árpád Weisz