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Acontecimientos (81)

  1. 192Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
  2. 760Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
  3. 853A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
  4. 1176The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo.
  5. 1200King John of England and King Philip II of France sign the Treaty of Le Goulet.
  6. 1246Henry Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in opposition to Conrad IV.
  7. 1254Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign a peace treaty.
  8. 1370Brussels massacre: An estimated 13 Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is banished from Brussels, Belgium, in an anti-Semitic attack, for allegedly desecrating consecrated Host.
  9. 1377Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe.
  10. 1455Start of the Wars of the Roses: At the First Battle of St Albans, Richard, Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England.
  11. 1520The massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan, resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.
  12. 1629Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and Danish King Christian IV sign the Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War.
  13. 1762Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg.
  14. 1762Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
  15. 1766A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
  16. 1804The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
  17. 1807A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
  18. 1809On the second and last day of the Battle of Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is defeated in a major battle for the first time in his career, and repelled by an enemy army for the first time in a decade.
  19. 1816A mob in Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the next day.
  20. 1819Leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
  21. 1826Departs on its first voyage.
  22. 1840The penal transportation of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished.
  23. 1846The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
  24. 1848Slavery is abolished in Martinique.
  25. 1849Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
  26. 1856Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
  27. 1863American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
  28. 1864American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
  29. 1866Oliver Winchester founds the Winchester Repeating Arms.
  30. 1872Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
  31. 1874Verdi's Requiem is first performed at San Marco in Milan on the first anniversary of Alessandro Manzoni's death.
  32. 1905The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II establishes the Ullah millet for the Aromanians of the empire. For this reason, the Aromanian National Day is sometimes celebrated on this day, although most do so on May 23 instead, which is when this event was publicly announced.
  33. 1906The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
  34. 1911The Uruguayan Regional Workers' Federation declares a general strike in solidarity with trolley workers in Montevideo.
  35. 1915Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
  36. 1915Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
  37. 1916A British army defeats a force of the Darfur Sultanate under Sultan Ali Dinar due to its superior firepower in the battle of Beringia.
  38. 1926Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
  39. 1927Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
  40. 1939World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
  41. 1941During the Anglo-Iraqi War, British troops take Fallujah.
  42. 1942Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
  43. 1943Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
  44. 1947Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
  45. 1948Finnish President J. K. Paasikivi releases Yrjö Leino from his duties as interior minister after the Finnish parliament adopted a motion of censure of Leino with connection to his illegal handing over of nineteen people to the Soviet Union in 1945.
  46. 1957South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities.
  47. 1958The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths are estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
  48. 1960The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
  49. 1962Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes in Unionville, Missouri after bombs explode on board, killing 45.
  50. 1963Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is clubbed over the head, causing his death five days later.
  51. 1964U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson launches his Great Society program.
  52. 1967Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
  53. 1967L'Innovation department store in Brussels, Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
  54. 1968The nuclear-powered submarine sinks with 99 men aboard, southwest of the Azores.
  55. 1969Apollo 10's Lunar Module flies within of the Moon's surface.
  56. 1972Ceylon adopts a new constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka.
  57. 1972Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices of Sinn Féin following the shooting by the Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.
  58. 1987Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India.
  59. 1987First ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
  60. 1990North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.
  61. 1992Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations.
  62. 1994A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
  63. 1996The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.
  64. 1998A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving President Bill Clinton.
  65. 2000In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
  66. 2002Civil rights movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.
  67. 2009Metalworkers at a Ssangyong Motor plant in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, begin a strike to protest job cuts.
  68. 2010Air India Express Flight 812, a Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.
  69. 2010Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).
  70. 2011An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
  71. 2012Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the third tallest man-made structure on Earth after Merdeka 118 (680.5 m) and Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
  72. 2012SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a Dragon capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the International Space Station.
  73. 2013Fusilier Lee Rigby is murdered by two Islamic extremists in Woolwich, Southeast London.
  74. 2014General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état, following six months of political turmoil.
  75. 2014An explosion occurs in Ürümqi, capital of China's far-western Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
  76. 2015The Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to utilise a public referendum to legalise gay marriage.
  77. 2017Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
  78. 2017United States President Donald Trump visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall.
  79. 2020Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in Model Colony near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 98 people.
  80. 2021Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile) Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China.
  81. 2026A gas explosion at a coal mine in Changzhi, Shanxi, leaves at least 82 people dead.

Nacimientos (210)

  1. 626Itzam K'an Ahk I, Mayan king (died 686)
  2. 1009Su Xun, Chinese writer (died 1066)
  3. 1408Annamacharya, Hindu saint (died 1503)
  4. 1539Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (died 1621)
  5. 1622Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor (died 1698)
  6. 1644Gabriël Grupello, Flemish Baroque sculptor (died 1730)
  7. 1650Richard Brakenburgh, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1702)
  8. 1665Magnus Stenbock, Swedish field marshal and Royal Councillor (died 1717)
  9. 1694Daniel Gran, Austrian painter (died 1757)
  10. 1715François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and diplomat (died 1794)
  11. 1733Hubert Robert, French painter (died 1808)
  12. 1752Louis Legendre, French butcher and politician (died 1797)
  13. 1762Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician (died 1834)
  14. 1770Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (died 1840)
  15. 1772Ram Mohan Roy, Indian philosopher and reformer (died 1833)
  16. 1779Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger, Austrian painter (died 1853)
  17. 1782Hirose Tansō, Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (died 1856)
  18. 1783William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (died 1850)
  19. 1808Gérard de Nerval, French poet and translator (died 1855)
  20. 1811Giulia Grisi, Italian soprano (died 1869)
  21. 1811Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, English politician (died 1864)
  22. 1813Richard Wagner, German composer (died 1883)
  23. 1814Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter (died 1891)
  24. 1820Worthington Whittredge, American painter (died 1910)
  25. 1828Albrecht von Graefe, German ophthalmologist and academic (died 1870)
  26. 1831Henry Vandyke Carter, English anatomist and surgeon (died 1897)
  27. 1833Félix Bracquemond, French painter and etcher (died 1914)
  28. 1833Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla, Spanish politician, Prime Minister of Spain (died 1895)
  29. 1841Catulle Mendès, French poet, author, and playwright (died 1909)
  30. 1844Mary Cassatt, American painter and educator (died 1926)
  31. 1846Rita Cetina Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (died 1908)
  32. 1848Fritz von Uhde, German painter and educator (died 1911)
  33. 1849Aston Webb, English architect and academic (died 1930)
  34. 1858Belmiro de Almeida, Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (died 1935)
  35. 1859Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (died 1930)
  36. 1859Tsubouchi Shōyō, Japanese author, playwright, and educator (died 1935)
  37. 1864Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator (died 1931)
  38. 1868Augusto Pestana, Brazilian engineer and politician (died 1934)
  39. 1874Daniel François Malan, South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime Minister of South Africa (died 1959)
  40. 1876Julius Klinger, Austrian painter and illustrator (died 1942)
  41. 1879Warwick Armstrong, Australian cricketer and journalist (died 1947)
  42. 1879Jean Cras, French admiral and composer (died 1932)
  43. 1879Symon Petliura, Ukrainian statesman and independence leader (died 1926)
  44. 1880Francis de Miomandre, French author and translator (died 1959)
  45. 1884Wilhelmina Hay Abbott, Scottish suffragist and feminist (died 1957)
  46. 1885Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (died 1924)
  47. 1885Soemu Toyoda, Japanese admiral (died 1957)
  48. 1887A. W. Sandberg, Danish film director and screenwriter (died 1938)
  49. 1891Johannes R. Becher, German politician, novelist, and poet (died 1958)
  50. 1894Friedrich Pollock, German sociologist and philosopher (died 1970)
  51. 1897Robert Neumann, German and English-speaking author (died 1975)
  52. 1900Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (died 1985)
  53. 1901Maurice J. Tobin, American politician, 6th United States Secretary of Labor (died 1953)
  54. 1902Jack Lambert, English footballer and manager (died 1940)
  55. 1902Al Simmons, American baseball player and coach (died 1956)
  56. 1904Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (died 1989)
  57. 1905Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (died 1956)
  58. 1905Tom Driberg, British politician (died 1976)
  59. 1907Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (died 1983)
  60. 1907Laurence Olivier, English actor, director, and producer (died 1989)
  61. 1908Horton Smith, American golfer and captain (died 1963)
  62. 1909Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and television host (died 1984)
  63. 1909Margaret Mee, English illustrator and educator (died 1988)
  64. 1912Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2004)
  65. 1913Rafael Gil, Spanish director and screenwriter (died 1986)
  66. 1913Dominique Rolin, Belgian author (died 2012)
  67. 1914Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat (died 2010)
  68. 1914Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (died 1993)
  69. 1917George Aratani, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2013)
  70. 1917Jean-Louis Curtis, French author (died 1995)
  71. 1919Paul Vanden Boeynants, Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2001)
  72. 1920Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (died 2004)
  73. 1921George S. Hammond, American scientist (died 2005)
  74. 1922Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and producer (died 1987)
  75. 1924Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor (died 2018)
  76. 1925Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1991)
  77. 1927Michael Constantine, American actor (died 2021)
  78. 1927Peter Matthiessen, American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (died 2014)
  79. 1927George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2017)
  80. 1928Raymond E. Brown, American Sulpician priest and biblical scholar (died 1998)
  81. 1928Serge Doubrovsky, French theorist and author (died 2017)
  82. 1928John Mackenzie, Scottish director and producer (died 2011)
  83. 1928T. Boone Pickens, American businessman (died 2019)
  84. 1928Hiroshi Sano, Japanese novelist (died 2013)
  85. 1929Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet (died 2013)
  86. 1930Kenny Ball, English jazz trumpet player, vocalist, and bandleader (died 2013)
  87. 1930Marisol Escobar, French-American sculptor (died 2016)
  88. 1930Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and politician (died 1978)
  89. 1932Robert Spitzer, American psychiatrist and academic (died 2015)
  90. 1933Fred Anderson, Australian-South African rugby league player (died 2012)
  91. 1933Chen Jingrun, Chinese mathematician and academic (died 1996)
  92. 1934Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor (died 2023)
  93. 1934Garry Wills, American historian, author, and political philosopher
  94. 1935Billy Rayner, Australian rugby league player (died 2006)
  95. 1936George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (died 2014)
  96. 1937Facundo Cabral, Argentinian singer-songwriter (died 2011)
  97. 1937Tomáš Janovic, Slovak writer (died 2023)
  98. 1938Richard Benjamin, American actor and director
  99. 1938Susan Strasberg, American actress (died 1999)
  100. 1939Paul Winfield, American actor (died 2004)
  101. 1940Kieth Merrill, American filmmaker
  102. 1940E. A. S. Prasanna, Indian cricketer
  103. 1940Michael Sarrazin, Canadian actor (died 2011)
  104. 1940Bernard Shaw, American journalist (died 2022)
  105. 1940Mick Tingelhoff, American football player (died 2021)
  106. 1941Menzies Campbell, Scottish sprinter and politician (died 2025)
  107. 1942Roger Brown, American basketball player (died 1997)
  108. 1942Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber) (died 2023)
  109. 1942Barbara Parkins, Canadian actress
  110. 1942Richard Oakes, Native American civil rights activist (died 1972)
  111. 1943Betty Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)
  112. 1943Tommy John, American baseball player (died 2026)
  113. 1944John Flanagan, Australian fantasy author (died 2026)
  114. 1945Bob Katter, Australian politician
  115. 1946George Best, Northern Irish footballer (died 2005)
  116. 1946Michael Green, English physicist and academic
  117. 1946Howard Kendall, English footballer and manager (died 2015)
  118. 1946Andrei Marga, Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician
  119. 1946Lyudmila Zhuravleva, Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
  120. 1948Tomás Sánchez, Cuban painter and engraver
  121. 1948Nedumudi Venu, Indian actor and screenwriter (died 2021)
  122. 1949Cheryl Campbell, English actress
  123. 1949Valentin Inzko, Austrian diplomat
  124. 1950Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and poet
  125. 1951Kenneth Bianchi, American serial killer and rapist
  126. 1953François Bon, French writer
  127. 1953Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and manager
  128. 1953Paul Mariner, English footballer, coach, and manager (died 2021)
  129. 1954Barbara May Cameron, Native American human rights activist (died 2002)
  130. 1954Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
  131. 1955Iva Davies, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  132. 1956Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet (died 2018)
  133. 1957Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and politician
  134. 1959David Blatt, Israeli-American basketball player and coach
  135. 1959Olin Browne, American golfer
  136. 1959Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and performer
  137. 1959Kwak Jae-yong, South Korean director and screenwriter
  138. 1959Mehbooba Mufti, Indian politician
  139. 1960Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
  140. 1962Andrew Magee, French-American golfer
  141. 1962Brian Pillman, American football player and wrestler (died 1997)
  142. 1963Claude Closky, French contemporary artist
  143. 1965Jay Carney, American journalist, 29th White House Press Secretary
  144. 1966Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter and producer
  145. 1966Wang Xiaoshuai, Chinese director and screenwriter
  146. 1968Graham Linehan, Irish comedy writer and activist
  147. 1969Michael Kelly, American actor
  148. 1969Cathy McMorris Rodgers, American lawyer and politician
  149. 1970Naomi Campbell, English model
  150. 1970Brody Stevens, American comedian and actor (died 2019)
  151. 1972Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter
  152. 1973Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor
  153. 1973Shefali Shah, Indian actress
  154. 1974Sean Gunn, American actor
  155. 1974Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer
  156. 1974Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian Olympic gymnast
  157. 1974Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukrainian politician
  158. 1974Canek Sánchez Guevara, Cuban author and dissident (died 2015)
  159. 1974Anne Beathe Tvinnereim, Norwegian politician
  160. 1975Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and manager
  161. 1976Christian Vande Velde, American cyclist
  162. 1977Pat Smullen, Irish jockey (died 2020)
  163. 1978Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
  164. 1978Katie Price, English television personality and glamour model
  165. 1979Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress
  166. 1979Tihomir Dovramadjiev, Bulgarian Chess boxer
  167. 1979Maggie Q, American actress
  168. 1980Tarin Bradford, Australian rugby league player
  169. 1980Sharice Davids, American politician
  170. 1980Lucy Gordon, British actress and model (died 2009)
  171. 1981Bryan Danielson, American wrestler
  172. 1981Bassel Khartabil, Syrian computer programmer and engineer (died 2015)
  173. 1981Jürgen Melzer, Austrian tennis player
  174. 1981Mark O'Meley, Australian rugby league player
  175. 1982Erin McNaught, Australian model and actress
  176. 1982Apolo Ohno, American speed skater
  177. 1982Hong Yong-jo, North Korean footballer
  178. 1983Natasha Kai, American soccer player and Olympic medalist
  179. 1984Clara Amfo, English television and radio presenter
  180. 1984Karoline Herfurth, German actress
  181. 1984Didier Ya Konan, Ivorian footballer
  182. 1984Dustin Moskovitz, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook
  183. 1985Tranquillo Barnetta, Swiss footballer
  184. 1985Mauro Boselli, Argentine footballer
  185. 1985Tao Okamoto, Japanese model and actress
  186. 1986Julian Edelman, American football player
  187. 1986Matt Jarvis, English footballer
  188. 1986Tatiana Volosozhar, Russian figure skater
  189. 1987Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
  190. 1987Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
  191. 1988Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress
  192. 1989Corey Dickerson, American baseball player
  193. 1990Wyatt Roy, Australian politician
  194. 1991Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer
  195. 1991Suho, South Korean singer and actor
  196. 1992Anna Baryshnikov, American actress
  197. 1994Florian Luger, Austrian male model
  198. 1994Athena Manoukian, Greek-Armenian singer and songwriter
  199. 1997Lauri Markkanen, Finnish basketball player
  200. 1997Brandon Duhaime, American ice hockey player
  201. 1998Samile Bermannelli, Brazilian fashion model
  202. 1999Samuel Chukwueze, Nigerian footballer
  203. 1999Femke Huijzer, Dutch model
  204. 1999Hōshōryū Tomokatsu, Mongolian sumo wrestler
  205. 2000Julián Carranza, Argentine footballer
  206. 2001Enzo Barrenechea, Argentine footballer
  207. 2001Emma Chamberlain, American internet personality
  208. 2001Joshua Zirkzee, Dutch footballer
  209. 2002Anthony Richardson, American football player
  210. 2004Peyton Elizabeth Lee, American actress

Fallecimientos (86)

  1. 192Dong Zhuo, Chinese warlord and politician (born 138)
  2. 337Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (born 272)
  3. 748Empress Genshō of Japan (born 683)
  4. 1068Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (born 1025)
  5. 1310Saint Humility, founder of the Vallumbrosan religious order of nuns (born c.1226)
  6. 1409Blanche of England, sister of King Henry V (born 1392)
  7. 1455Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (born 1406)
  8. 1455Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, Lancastrian commander (born 1414)
  9. 1455Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English commander (born 1393)
  10. 1457Rita of Cascia, Italian nun and saint (born 1381)
  11. 1490Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English administrator, nobleman and magnate (born 1416)
  12. 1538John Forest, English friar and martyr (born 1471)
  13. 1540Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (born 1483)
  14. 1545Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (born 1486)
  15. 1553Giovanni Bernardi, Italian sculptor and engraver (born 1495)
  16. 1602Renata of Lorraine (born 1544)
  17. 1609Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff, Dutch captain (born 1573)
  18. 1666Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (born 1608)
  19. 1667Pope Alexander VII (born 1599)
  20. 1745François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French general (born 1671)
  21. 1760Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and author (born 1700)
  22. 1772Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian and academic (born 1687)
  23. 1795Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign Minister of Prussia (born 1725)
  24. 1802Martha Washington, First, First Lady of the United States (born 1731)
  25. 1851Mordecai Manuel Noah, American journalist and diplomat (born 1755)
  26. 1859Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (born 1810)
  27. 1861Thornsbury Bailey Brown, American soldier (born 1829)
  28. 1868Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (born 1801)
  29. 1885Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1802)
  30. 1901Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist, assassin of Umberto I of Italy (born 1869)
  31. 1910Jules Renard, French author and playwright (born 1864)
  32. 1932Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the Abbey Theatre (born 1852)
  33. 1933Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime Minister of Mongolia (born 1894)
  34. 1938William Glackens, American painter and illustrator (born 1870)
  35. 1939Ernst Toller, German playwright and author (born 1893)
  36. 1939Jiří Mahen, Czech author and playwright (born 1882)
  37. 1948Claude McKay, Jamaican writer and poet (born 1889)
  38. 1950Alfonso Quiñónez Molina, Salvadoran politician, physician, and three-time president of El Salvador (born 1874)
  39. 1954Chief Bender, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1884)
  40. 1965Christopher Stone, English radio host (born 1882)
  41. 1966Tom Goddard, English cricketer (born 1900)
  42. 1967Langston Hughes, American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (born 1902)
  43. 1967Charlotte Serber, American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (born 1911)
  44. 1972Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author (born 1904)
  45. 1972Margaret Rutherford, English actress (born 1892)
  46. 1974Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (born 1903)
  47. 1975Lefty Grove, American baseball player (born 1900)
  48. 1982Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and politician, 5th President of Turkey (born 1899)
  49. 1983Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)
  50. 1983Erna Scheffler, German lawyer and justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (born 1893)
  51. 1984Karl-August Fagerholm, Finnish politician, valtioneuvos, the Speaker of the Parliament and the Prime Minister of Finland (born 1901)
  52. 1985Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator, director, and producer (born 1909)
  53. 1988Giorgio Almirante, Italian journalist and politician (born 1914)
  54. 1989Steven De Groote, South African pianist and educator (born 1953)
  55. 1990Rocky Graziano, American boxer (born 1922)
  56. 1991Lino Brocka, Filipino director and screenwriter (born 1939)
  57. 1991Shripad Amrit Dange, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1899)
  58. 1991Stan Mortensen, English footballer and manager (born 1921)
  59. 1992Zellig Harris, American linguist and academic (born 1909)
  60. 1993Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (born 1892)
  61. 1997Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (born 1906)
  62. 1997Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)
  63. 1998John Derek, American actor, director, and photographer (born 1926)
  64. 1998José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (born 1910)
  65. 2000Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (born 1916)
  66. 2004Richard Biggs, American actor (born 1960)
  67. 2004Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (born 1945)
  68. 2005Charilaos Florakis, Greek politician (born 1914)
  69. 2005Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor and singer (born 1914)
  70. 2006Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (born 1945)
  71. 2007Pemba Doma Sherpa, Nepalese mountaineer (born 1970)
  72. 2008Robert Asprin, American soldier and author (born 1946)
  73. 2010Martin Gardner, American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (born 1914)
  74. 2011Joseph Brooks, American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (born 1938)
  75. 2012Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (born 1970)
  76. 2012Wesley A. Brown, American lieutenant and engineer (born 1927)
  77. 2013Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (born 1922)
  78. 2015Marques Haynes, American basketball player and coach (born 1926)
  79. 2015Vladimir Katriuk, Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (born 1921)
  80. 2016Velimir "Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician (born 1933)
  81. 2017Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (born 1981)
  82. 2019Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and illustrator (born 1923)
  83. 2020Denise Cronenberg, Canadian costume designer (born 1938)
  84. 2022Dervla Murphy, Irish touring cyclist and author (born 1931)
  85. 2024David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer (born 1954)
  86. 2026Richard A. Tapia, American mathematician, National Medal of Science recipient (born 1939)

Celebraciones (10)

  1. Abolition Day (Martinique)
  2. Aromanian National Day (marginal, celebration on May 23 is more common)
  3. Harvey Milk Day (California)
  4. International Day for Biological Diversity (International)
  5. United States National Maritime Day
  6. National Sovereignty Day (Haiti)
  7. Republic Day (Sri Lanka)
  8. Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra to Bari (Ukraine)
  9. Unity Day (Yemen), celebrates the unification of North and South Yemen into the Republic of Yemen in 1990.
  10. World Goth Day

Santoral (10)

  1. Castus and Emilius
  2. Fulk
  3. Humilita
  4. Blessed John Forest
  5. Blessed Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini
  6. Michael Hồ Đình Hy (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
  7. Quiteria
  8. Rita of Cascia
  9. Romanus of Subiaco
  10. May 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)