deaths
May 31, 1970
Clare Sheridan, English sculptor and author (born 1885)
Clare Sheridan
Clare Consuelo Sheridan was an English sculptor, journalist and writer, known primarily for creating busts for famous sitters and keeping travel diaries. She was a cousin of Sir Winston Churchill, with whom she had enjoyed an amicable relationship, though her support for the October Revolution in 1917 caused them to break ranks politically. She enjoyed travelling around the world; and among her circle of friends were Princess Margaret of Sweden, Lord and Lady Mountbatten, Lady Diana Cooper, Vita Sackville-West and Vivien Leigh.
May 31
May 31 is the 151st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 214 days remain until the end of the year.