May 3: Niccolo Machiavelli & Mary Astor

[Jim Eshelman]

Machiavelli, Niccolo. May 2, 1469, 11:13 PM LMT, Florence, Italy (AA).
Astor, Mary. May 3, 1906, 8:10 PM CST, Quincy, IL (A).

I include Machiavelli on this date because his birthday, by the local calendar, was May 3: the Florence day began at sunset, so the night hours at the end of (what we today call) May 2 were, for his birth date and place, already labelled May 3. - The recorded time was "May 3 at 4 o'clock," meaning four hours after sunset. I calculate local sunset (visual) as 7:13 PM L:MT, and therefore use 11:13 PM LMT for the birth time.