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Acontecimientos (65)

  1. 325The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
  2. 491Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
  3. 685The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
  4. 794While visiting the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken captive and beheaded.
  5. 921Christopher Lekapenos is crowned Byzantine co-emperor by his father, emperor Romanos I Lekapenos, on the feast of Whitsun.
  6. 942A Magyar raiding army defeats forces of the Muslim frontier state of Fraxinetum.
  7. 1202A major earthquake hits Syria, widely felt between Sicily and Iraq.
  8. 1217The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
  9. 1293King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Estudio de Escuelas de Generales in Alcalá de Henares.
  10. 1426King Mohnyin Thado formally ascends to the throne of Ava.
  11. 1449The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.
  12. 1497John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
  13. 1498Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
  14. 1520Hernan Cortés defeats Pánfilo de Narváez, sent by Spain to punish him for insubordination.
  15. 1521Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
  16. 1570Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
  17. 1609Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
  18. 1631The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
  19. 1645Yangzhou massacre: The ten day massacre of the residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition from Ming to Qing.
  20. 1714Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata for Pentecost, Erschallet, ihr Lieder, BWV 172, at the chapel of Schloss Weimar.
  21. 1741The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
  22. 1775The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  23. 1802By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
  24. 1813Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
  25. 1861American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state.
  26. 1861American Civil War: The State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
  27. 1862U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening of public land to settlers.
  28. 1864American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
  29. 1873Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
  30. 1875Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
  31. 1882The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
  32. 1883Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
  33. 1891History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
  34. 1902Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
  35. 1927Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  36. 1927Charles Lindbergh takes off for Paris from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, N.Y., aboard the Spirit of St. Louis on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, landing hours later.
  37. 1932Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
  38. 1932The American Friends of Lafayette is founded at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania
  39. 1940The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
  40. 1941World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
  41. 1943The Luttra Woman, a bog body from the Early Neolithic period (radiocarbon-dated ), is discovered near Luttra, Sweden.
  42. 1948Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
  43. 1949In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
  44. 1956In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
  45. 1958Capital Airlines Flight 300 collides in mid-air with a United States Air Force Lockheed T-33 over Brunswick, Maryland, killing 12.
  46. 1964Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
  47. 1965One hundred twenty-one people are killed when Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705 crashes at Cairo International Airport.
  48. 1967The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  49. 1969The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
  50. 1971In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.
  51. 1980In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, with 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
  52. 1983First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier.
  53. 1983Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by UMkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
  54. 1985Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
  55. 1989The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
  56. 1990The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
  57. 1996Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
  58. 2002The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
  59. 2009An Indonesian Air Force Lockheed L-100 Hercules crashes in Magetan Regency, killing 99.
  60. 2011Mamata Banerjee is sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, the first woman to hold this post.
  61. 2012At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
  62. 2013An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
  63. 2016The government of Singapore authorises the controversial execution of convicted murderer Kho Jabing for the murder of a Chinese construction worker despite international pleas for clemency, notably from Amnesty International and the United Nations.
  64. 2019The International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the international prototype of the kilogram obsolete.
  65. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war: Russia claims full control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol after a nearly three-month siege.

Nacimientos (212)

  1. 1315Bonne of Luxembourg, first wife of John II of France (died 1349)
  2. 1470Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal, poet, and scholar (died 1547)
  3. 1505Levinus Lemnius, Dutch writer (died 1568)
  4. 1531Thado Minsaw of Ava, Viceroy of Ava (died 1584)
  5. 1537Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (died 1619)
  6. 1575Robert Heath, English judge and politician (died 1649)
  7. 1664Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor and architect (died 1714)
  8. 1726Francis Cotes, English painter and academic (died 1770)
  9. 1759William Thornton, Virgin Islander-American architect, designed the United States Capitol (died 1828)
  10. 1769Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (died 1835)
  11. 1772Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, English inventor and politician, developed Congreve rockets (died 1828)
  12. 1776Simon Fraser, American-Canadian fur trader and explorer (died 1862)
  13. 1795Pedro María de Anaya, Mexican soldier. President (1847–1848) (died 1854)
  14. 1799Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (died 1850)
  15. 1806John Stuart Mill, English economist, civil servant, and philosopher (died 1873)
  16. 1811Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1887)
  17. 1818William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express (died 1881)
  18. 1822Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1912)
  19. 1824Cadmus M. Wilcox, Confederate States Army general (died 1890)
  20. 1825Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the U.S. (died 1921)
  21. 1830Hector Malot, French author (died 1907)
  22. 1838Jules Méline, French lawyer and politician, 65th Prime Minister of France (died 1925)
  23. 1851Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (died 1929)
  24. 1854George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (died 1937)
  25. 1856Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (died 1910)
  26. 1860Eduard Buchner, German chemist, zymologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1917)
  27. 1875Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch Olympic rower and head of the Dutch Red Cross (died 1953)
  28. 1877Pat Leahy, Irish-American Olympic jumper (died 1927)
  29. 1879Hans Meerwein, German chemist (died 1965)
  30. 1882Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1949)
  31. 1883Faisal I of Iraq (died 1933)
  32. 1886Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded the Galatasaray Sports Club (died 1951)
  33. 1894Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian guru and scholar (died 1994)
  34. 1895R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire and Supermarine S.6B (died 1937)
  35. 1897Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (died 1983)
  36. 1897Malcolm Nokes, English hammer and discus thrower (died 1986)
  37. 1898Eduard Ole, Estonian painter (died 1995)
  38. 1899Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor (died 1969)
  39. 1899John Marshall Harlan II, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court (died 1971)
  40. 1900Sumitranandan Pant, Indian poet and author (died 1977)
  41. 1901Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author (died 1981)
  42. 1901Doris Fleeson, American journalist (died 1970)
  43. 1904Margery Allingham, English author of detective fiction (died 1966)
  44. 1906Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (died 1989)
  45. 1907Carl Mydans, American photographer and journalist (died 2004)
  46. 1908Henry Bolte, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (died 1990)
  47. 1908Louis Daquin, French actor and director (died 1980)
  48. 1908Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author (died 1993)
  49. 1908James Stewart, American actor (died 1997)
  50. 1911Gardner Fox, American author (died 1986)
  51. 1911Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch author and playwright (died 1995)
  52. 1913Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian footballer (died 1996)
  53. 1913William Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (died 2001)
  54. 1913Carlos J. Gradin, Argentine Archaeologist (died 2002)
  55. 1915Peter Copley, English actor (died 2008)
  56. 1915Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1981)
  57. 1915Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor (died 1999)
  58. 1916Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (died 2015)
  59. 1916Alexey Maresyev, Russian soldier and pilot (died 2001)
  60. 1916Ondina Valla, Italian sprinter and hurdler (died 2006)
  61. 1917Tony Cliff, Israeli-English author and activist (died 2000)
  62. 1917Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (died 1967)
  63. 1918Alexandra Boyko, Russian tank commander (died 1996)
  64. 1918Edward B. Lewis, American biologist, geneticist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
  65. 1919George Gobel, American comedian (died 1991)
  66. 1920John Cruickshank, Scottish lieutenant and banker, Victoria Cross recipient (died 2025)
  67. 1921Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (died 1947)
  68. 1921Hal Newhouser, American baseball player and scout (died 1998)
  69. 1921Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (died 1995)
  70. 1922Ted Hinton, Northern Irish international footballer (died 1988)
  71. 1923Edith Fellows, American actress (died 2011)
  72. 1923Sam Selvon, Trinidad-born writer (died 1994)
  73. 1924David Chavchavadze, English-American CIA officer and author (died 2014)
  74. 1924Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (died 1976)
  75. 1925Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (died 2001)
  76. 1926Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (died 1956)
  77. 1927Bud Grant, American football player and coach (died 2023)
  78. 1927David Hedison, American actor (died 2019)
  79. 1927Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (died 2016)
  80. 1929Pedro Trebbau, German-born Venezuelan zoologist (died 2021)
  81. 1929Gilles Loiselle, Canadian politician and diplomat, 33rd Canadian Minister of Finance (died 2022)
  82. 1930Sam Etcheverry, American football player and coach (died 2009)
  83. 1931Ken Boyer, American baseball player and manager (died 1982)
  84. 1931Louis Smith, American trumpeter (died 2016)
  85. 1932Dieter Rams, German industrial designer
  86. 1933Constance Towers, American actress and singer
  87. 1935José Mujica, Uruguayan guerrilla leader and politician, 40th President of Uruguay (died 2025)
  88. 1936Anthony Zerbe, American actor
  89. 1937Dave Hill, American golfer (died 2011)
  90. 1937Derek Lampe, English footballer
  91. 1939Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (died 2014)
  92. 1940Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1969)
  93. 1940Stan Mikita, Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (died 2018)
  94. 1940Sadaharu Oh, Japanese-Taiwanese baseball player and manager
  95. 1941Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Singapore
  96. 1941John Strasberg, American actor and teacher
  97. 1942Raymond Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States
  98. 1942Lynn Davies, Welsh sprinter and long jumper
  99. 1942Carlos Hathcock, American sergeant and sniper (died 1999)
  100. 1942Frew McMillan, South African tennis player
  101. 1943Albano Carrisi, Italian singer, actor, and winemaker
  102. 1943Deryck Murray, Trinidadian cricketer
  103. 1944Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (died 2014)
  104. 1944Boudewijn de Groot, Indonesian-Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist
  105. 1944Keith Fletcher, English cricketer and manager
  106. 1944Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman, co-founder of Red Bull GmbH (died 2022)
  107. 1944Pekka Siitoin, Finnish neo-Nazi and Satanist (d. 2003)
  108. 1945Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian intelligence officer
  109. 1946Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
  110. 1946Bobby Murcer, American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster (died 2008)
  111. 1947Steve Currie, English bass player (died 1981)
  112. 1947Greg Dyke, English journalist and academic
  113. 1949Robert Morin, Canadian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
  114. 1949Michèle Roberts, English author and poet
  115. 1949Dave Thomas, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  116. 1950Andy Johns, English-American engineer and producer (died 2013)
  117. 1950Reinaldo Merlo, Argentinian footballer and coach
  118. 1950Jane Parker-Smith, English organist (died 2020)
  119. 1951Thomas Akers, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
  120. 1951Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (died 2020)
  121. 1951Mike Crapo, American lawyer and politician
  122. 1952Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer and manager
  123. 1952Michael Wills, English politician, British Minister of Justice
  124. 1953Robert Doyle, Australian educator and politician, 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne
  125. 1954David Paterson, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of New York
  126. 1954Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway, Scottish lawyer and judge
  127. 1955Steve George, American keyboard player and songwriter
  128. 1955Zbigniew Preisner, Polish composer and producer
  129. 1956Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian-German author and critic (died 2025)
  130. 1956Gerry Peyton, English born Irish international footballer and coach
  131. 1956Douglas Preston, American journalist and author
  132. 1957Yoshihiko Noda, Japanese lawyer and politician, 62nd Prime Minister of Japan
  133. 1958Ron Reagan, American journalist and radio host
  134. 1958Jane Wiedlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
  135. 1959Susan Cowsill, American singer-songwriter
  136. 1960Tony Goldwyn, American actor and director
  137. 1961Clive Allen, English international footballer and manager
  138. 1961Nick Heyward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  139. 1963David Wells, American baseball player and sportscaster
  140. 1964Kōichirō Genba, Japanese politician, 80th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
  141. 1964Edin Osmanović, Slovenian footballer, coach, and manager
  142. 1964Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, English journalist and author
  143. 1965Ted Allen, American television host and author
  144. 1965Stu Grimson, Canadian ice hockey player, sportscaster, and lawyer
  145. 1966Dan Abrams, American journalist and author
  146. 1967Graham Brady, English politician
  147. 1967Gabriele Muccino, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
  148. 1968Timothy Olyphant, American actor and producer
  149. 1969Road Dogg, American wrestler, producer, and soldier
  150. 1970Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
  151. 1970Louis Theroux, Singaporean-English journalist and producer
  152. 1971Šárka Kašpárková, Czech triple jumper and coach
  153. 1971Hanne Stenvaag, Norwegian politician
  154. 1971Tony Stewart, American race car driver
  155. 1972Michael Diamond, Australian shooter
  156. 1972Christophe Dominici, French rugby player (died 2020)
  157. 1972Busta Rhymes, American rapper, producer, and actor
  158. 1973Nathan Long, Australian rugby league player
  159. 1974Allison Amend, American novelist and short story writer
  160. 1974Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Indian film director, writer and actor
  161. 1975Juan Minujín, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
  162. 1976Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan-American baseball player
  163. 1976Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
  164. 1977Matt Czuchry, American actor
  165. 1977Leo Franco, Argentinian footballer
  166. 1977Angela Goethals, American actress
  167. 1977Stirling Mortlock, Australian rugby player
  168. 1977Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
  169. 1978Hristos Banikas, Greek chess player
  170. 1978Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová, Czech pole vaulter
  171. 1978Nils Schumann, German runner
  172. 1979Andrew Scheer, Canadian politician, 28th Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
  173. 1979Jayson Werth, American baseball player
  174. 1980Austin Kearns, American baseball player
  175. 1980Kassim Osgood, American football player
  176. 1981Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
  177. 1981Rachel Platten, American singer and songwriter
  178. 1981Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
  179. 1981Mark Winterbottom, Australian race car driver
  180. 1982Petr Čech, Czech footballer
  181. 1982Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
  182. 1982Jessica Raine, English actress
  183. 1982Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
  184. 1983N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Indian Film Actor
  185. 1983Óscar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
  186. 1983Matt Langridge, English rower
  187. 1984Mauro Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballer
  188. 1984Patrick Ewing Jr., American basketball player
  189. 1984Keith Grennan, American football player
  190. 1985Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist
  191. 1985Brendon Goddard, Australian footballer
  192. 1986Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
  193. 1986Stéphane Mbia, Cameroonian footballer
  194. 1986Jiřina Svobodová, Czech pole vaulter
  195. 1987Mike Havenaar, Japanese footballer
  196. 1987Julian Wright, American basketball player
  197. 1988Joel Moon, Australian rugby league player
  198. 1989Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
  199. 1990Josh O'Connor, British actor
  200. 1991Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer
  201. 1991Emre Çolak, Turkish footballer
  202. 1992Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer
  203. 1992Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
  204. 1992Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player
  205. 1992Fanny Smith, Swiss freestyle skier
  206. 1993Ramy Rabia, Egyptian footballer
  207. 1993Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
  208. 1996Brian Kelly, Australian rugby league player
  209. 1997Kaoru Mitoma, Japanese footballer
  210. 1998Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver
  211. 1998Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater
  212. 2012Doug the Pug, American celebrity dog

Fallecimientos (104)

  1. 685Ecgfrith of Northumbria (born 645)
  2. 794Æthelberht II, king of East Anglia
  3. 965Gero the Great, Saxon ruler (born c. 900)
  4. 1062Bao Zheng, Chinese magistrate and mayor of Kaifeng (born 999)
  5. 1277Pope John XXI (born 1215)
  6. 1285John I of Cyprus (born 1259)
  7. 1291Sufi Saint Sayyid Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari
  8. 1366Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople (born 1329)
  9. 1444Bernardino of Siena, Italian-Spanish missionary and saint (born 1380)
  10. 1449Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches
  11. 1449Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (born 1392)
  12. 1476Isabel Ingoldisthorpe, English noblewoman (born 1441)
  13. 1501Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican tertiary Religious Sister (born 1467)
  14. 1503Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Italian banker and politician (born 1463)
  15. 1506Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, early European explorer of the Americas (born 1451)
  16. 1550Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shōgun (born 1510)
  17. 1579Isabella Markham, English courtier (born 1527)
  18. 1622Osman II, Ottoman sultan (born 1604)
  19. 1645Shi Kefa, Chinese general and calligrapher (born 1601)
  20. 1648Władysław IV Vasa, Polish son of Sigismund III Vasa (born 1595)
  21. 1677George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, Spanish-English politician, English Secretary of State (born 1612)
  22. 1713Thomas Sprat, English bishop (born 1635)
  23. 1717John Trevor, Welsh lawyer and politician, 102nd Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1637)
  24. 1722Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist and mycologist (born 1669)
  25. 1732Thomas Boston, Scottish author and educator (born 1676)
  26. 1782William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (born 1701)
  27. 1793Charles Bonnet, Swiss botanist and biologist (born 1720)
  28. 1812Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop (born 1732)
  29. 1834Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (born 1757)
  30. 1841Joseph Blanco White, Spanish poet and theologian (born 1775)
  31. 1864John Clare, English poet (born 1793)
  32. 1873George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (born 1814)
  33. 1880Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse and philanthropist (born 1814)
  34. 1896Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (born 1819)
  35. 1909Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (born 1859)
  36. 1917Valentine Fleming, Scottish soldier and politician (born 1887)
  37. 1917Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (born 1850)
  38. 1924Bogd Khan, Mongolian ruler (c. 1869)
  39. 1925Joseph Howard, Maltese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (born 1862)
  40. 1931Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (born 1831)
  41. 1940Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
  42. 1942Hector Guimard, French Architect (born 1867)
  43. 1946Jacob Ellehammer, Danish pilot and engineer (born 1871)
  44. 1947Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
  45. 1947Georgios Siantos, Greek sergeant and politician (born 1890)
  46. 1949Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1891)
  47. 1956Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (born 1872)
  48. 1956Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer and trainer (born 1881)
  49. 1961Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (born 1915)
  50. 1962Timothy (Szretter), a Polish Orthodox clergyman, the third Metropolitan of Warsaw and all Poland (born 1901)
  51. 1964Rudy Lewis, American singer (born 1936)
  52. 1971Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (born 1904)
  53. 1973Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1938)
  54. 1973Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (born 1945)
  55. 1975Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (born 1903)
  56. 1976Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1911)
  57. 1976Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (born 1924)
  58. 1976Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (born 1934)
  59. 1989John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)
  60. 1989Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (born 1946)
  61. 1995Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (born 1925)
  62. 1996Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed the Third Doctor (born 1919)
  63. 1998Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (born 1916)
  64. 2000Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (born 1922)
  65. 2000Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (born 1970)
  66. 2000Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (born 1933)
  67. 2001Renato Carosone, Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1920)
  68. 2002Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and academic (born 1941)
  69. 2005Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (born 1913)
  70. 2005William Seawell, American general (born 1918)
  71. 2007Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (born 1914)
  72. 2008Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (born 1944)
  73. 2009Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect and urban planner, designed Roy Thomson Hall (born 1924)
  74. 2009Lucy Gordon, American actress and model (born 1980)
  75. 2009Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (born 1919)
  76. 2011Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor (born 1952)
  77. 2012Leela Dube, Indian anthropologist and scholar (born 1923)
  78. 2012Robin Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer (born 1949)
  79. 2012David Littman, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (born 1933)
  80. 2012Ken Lyons, American bass guitarist (born 1953)
  81. 2012Eugene Polley, American engineer, invented the remote control (born 1915)
  82. 2012Andrew B. Steinberg, American lawyer (born 1958)
  83. 2013Flavio Costantini, Italian painter and illustrator (born 1926)
  84. 2013Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (born 1924)
  85. 2013Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (born 1947)
  86. 2013Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (born 1924)
  87. 2013Ray Manzarek, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (born 1939)
  88. 2013Denys Roberts, English judge and politician (born 1923)
  89. 2013Zach Sobiech, American singer-songwriter (born 1995)
  90. 2014Sandra Bem, American psychologist and academic (born 1944)
  91. 2014Ross Brown, New Zealand rugby player (born 1934)
  92. 2014Robyn Denny, English-French painter (born 1930)
  93. 2014Arthur Gelb, American journalist, author, and critic (born 1924)
  94. 2014Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English businessman (born 1933)
  95. 2014Barbara Murray, English actress (born 1929)
  96. 2015Bob Belden, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (born 1956)
  97. 2015Femi Robinson, Nigerian actor and playwright (born 1940)
  98. 2016Kho Jabing, Malaysian convicted murderer who was executed by hanging in Singapore (born 1984)
  99. 2019Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver (born 1949)
  100. 2021Gary Wilson, American anti-pornography activist (born 1956)
  101. 2022Roger Angell, American sportswriter and author (born 1920)
  102. 2022Susan Roces, Filipino actress (born 1941)
  103. 2024Ivan Boesky, American stock trader (born 1937)
  104. 2025George Wendt, American actor and comedian (born 1948)

Celebraciones (11)

  1. Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)
  2. Emancipation Day (Florida)
  3. European Maritime Day (European Council)
  4. Independence Restoration Day, celebrates the independence of East Timor from Indonesia in 2002.
  5. Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)
  6. National Awakening Day (Indonesia), and its related observances:
  7. Indonesian Doctor Day (Indonesia)
  8. National Day (Cameroon)
  9. World Bee Day
  10. World Metrology Day
  11. Doug the Pug Day (Nashville, Tennessee)

Santoral (11)

  1. Abercius and Helena
  2. Alcuin of York
  3. Aurea of Ostia
  4. Austregisilus
  5. Baudilus
  6. Bernardino of Siena
  7. Columba of Rieti
  8. Lydia of Thyatira
  9. Lucifer of Cagliari
  10. Sanctan
  11. May 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)