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): Alan Arnett McLeod • Alan Beith • Clement Isong • Cornelius Harnett • Dave Bancroft • Donald Pettit • Guy Rocher • Henry de Montherlant • Jessica Lange • John Paul Stevens • Leslie Phillips • Luke Kuechly • Marie-Antoinette de Geuser • Oliver Kirk • Robert Byrne (chess player) • Sydney Chapman (economist) • Vannesa Rosales • Viacheslav Fetisov

Born in the same month (April 1896): Einar Lundborg • Ernst Udet • Fred Barnett (English footballer) • Fred Haney • Frits Peutz • Hans List • Johnny Golden • Léo-Paul Desrosiers • Na Hye-sŏk • Nikolay Semyonov • Reverend Gary Davis • Robert E. Sherwood • Robert Henry Best • Rogers Hornsby • Ruut Tarmo • Señor Wences • Tristan Tzara • Wallace Carothers • Yip Harburg • Árpád Weisz