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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 12 is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
233 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of
the Catholic Church.[1] ·
907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into
abdicating, ending the Tang dynasty after nearly three hundred
years of rule. ·
1191 – Richard I of England marries Berengaria of
Navarre in Cyprus;[2] she is crowned Queen consort of
England the same day. ·
1328 – Antipope Nicholas V,
a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in
Rome by the Bishop of Venice. ·
1364 – Jagiellonian
University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków.[3] ·
1510 –
The Prince of Anhua
rebellion begins when Zhu Zhifan kills all the officials
invited to a banquet and declares his intent on ousting the powerful Ming dynasty eunuch Liu Jin during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor. ·
1551 – National
University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru. ·
1588 – French Wars of
Religion: Henry III of France flees
Paris after Henry I, Duke of
Guise, enters the city and a spontaneous
uprising occurs. ·
1593 –
London playwright Thomas Kyd is
arrested and tortured by the Privy Council for libel. ·
1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned
Queen of Bohemia after defeating her
rival, Charles
VII, Holy Roman Emperor. ·
1778 – Heinrich
XI, count of the Principality
of Reuss-Greiz, is elevated to Prince by Joseph II,
Holy Roman Emperor.[4] ·
1780 – American
Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston,
South Carolina is taken by
British forces. ·
1797 – War of the First
Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice. ·
1821 –
The first major battle of the Greek War of
Independence against the Turks is fought in Valtetsi. ·
1846 –
The Donner Party of pioneers departs Independence,
Missouri for California, on what will become a year-long
journey of hardship and cannibalism.[5] ·
1862 – American Civil War:
U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge,
Louisiana. ·
1863 –
American Civil War: Battle of Raymond:
Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn
the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's
defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during
the Vicksburg Campaign. ·
1864 –
American Civil War: The Battle
of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate
salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the
war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody
Angle" on the northwest.[6] ·
1865 –
American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito
Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place
during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory. ·
1870 –
The Manitoba Act is
given the Royal Assent,
paving the way for Manitoba to become
a province of Canada on July 15. ·
1881 –
In North Africa, Tunisia becomes
a French
protectorate. ·
1885 – North-West Rebellion:
The four-day Battle of Batoche,
pitting rebel Métis against
the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat. ·
1888 –
In Southeast Asia, the North
Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo. ·
1926 –
The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to
fly over the North Pole. ·
1932 –
Ten weeks after his abduction,
Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh,
is found dead near Hopewell, New Jersey,
just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.[7] ·
1933 –
The Agricultural
Adjustment Act, which restricts agricultural production through government
purchase of livestock for
slaughter and paying subsidies to
farmers when they remove land from planting, is signed into law by
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.[8] ·
1937 –
The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen
Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in
Westminster Abbey. ·
1941 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable,
fully automatic computer, in Berlin. ·
1942 – World War II: Second Battle of
Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch
a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead,
only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later. ·
1942
– World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is
torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by
the German
submarine U-507.[9] ·
1948 – Wilhelmina,
Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, cedes the throne. ·
1949 – Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.[10] ·
1965 –
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. ·
1968 – Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian
troops defending Fire Support Base Coral. ·
1978 –
In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province
of Shaba (now
known as Katanga); the local government asks the US, France and Belgium to
restore order. ·
1982 –
During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal,
security guards overpower Juan María
Fernández y Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with
a bayonet. ·
1989 –
The San
Bernardino train disaster kills four people, only to be
followed a week later by an underground gasoline pipeline explosion, which
kills two more people.[11] ·
1998 –
Four students are shot at Trisakti
University, leading to widespread
riots and the fall of Suharto. ·
2002 –
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives
in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President
of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since
Castro's 1959 revolution. ·
2003 –
The Riyadh compound
bombings, carried out by al-Qaeda, kill 26 people. ·
2006 – Mass unrest by
the Primeiro
Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least
150 dead. ·
2006
– Iranian Azeris interpret
a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine
as insulting, resulting
in massive riots throughout the country. ·
2008 –
An earthquake (measuring
around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people. ·
2008
– U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of a workplace
in Postville, Iowa,
arresting nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud. ·
2010 – Afriqiyah
Airways Flight 771 crashes on final approach to Tripoli
International Airport in Tripoli, Libya, killing 103 out of
the 104 people on board. ·
2015 –
A train
derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures
more than 200. ·
2015
– Massive Nepal
earthquake kills 218 people and injures more than 3500. ·
2017 –
The WannaCry
ransomware attack impacts over 400 thousand computers
worldwide, targeting computers of the United Kingdom's National Health
Services and Telefónica computers. ·
2018 – Paris knife
attack: A man was fatally shot by police in Paris after killing
one and injuring several others. Births[edit] ·
1325 – Rupert II,
Elector Palatine (d. 1398) ·
1401 – Emperor
Shōkō of Japan (d. 1428) ·
1479 – Pompeo Colonna, Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)[12] ·
1496 – Gustav I of Sweden (d.
1560)[13] ·
1590 – Cosimo
II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621) ·
1606 – Joachim von Sandrart,
German art-historian and painter (d. 1688) ·
1622 – Louis de
Buade de Frontenac, French-Canadian soldier and politician,
3rd Governor
General of New France (d. 1698) ·
1626 – Louis Hennepin, Flemish priest and
missionary (d. 1705) ·
1670 – Augustus II the
Strong, Polish king (d. 1733) ·
1700 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect and
engineer, designed the Palace of Caserta and Royal Palace of
Milan (d. 1773) ·
1725 – Louis
Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785) ·
1739 – Johann Baptist
Wanhal, Czech-Austrian organist and composer (d. 1813) ·
1754 – Franz Anton
Hoffmeister, German composer and publisher (d. 1812) ·
1755 – Giovanni
Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1824) ·
1767 – Manuel Godoy, Spanish field marshal and
politician, Prime Minister of
Spain (d. 1851) ·
1774 – Ellis Cunliffe
Lister, English politician (d. 1853) ·
1777 – Mary Reibey, Australian businesswoman (d.
1855)[14] ·
1803 – Justus von Liebig,
German chemist and academic (d. 1873)[15] ·
1804 – Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 3rd Premier of West Canada (d. 1858) ·
1806 – Johan Vilhelm
Snellman, Finnish philosopher and politician (d. 1881) ·
1812 – Edward Lear, English poet and illustrator
(d. 1888)[16] ·
1814 – Adolf von Henselt,
German pianist and composer (d. 1889) ·
1820 – Florence Nightingale,
Italian-English nurse, social reformer, and statistician (d. 1910) ·
1825 – Orélie-Antoine
de Tounens, French lawyer and explorer (d. 1878) ·
1828 – Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, English poet and painter (d. 1882)[17] ·
1829 – Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer and educator
(d. 1896) ·
1839 – Tôn
Thất Thuyết, Vietnamese mandarin (d.
1913) ·
1840 – Alejandro Gorostiaga,
Chilean colonel (d. 1912) ·
1842 – Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912) ·
1845 – Gabriel Fauré, French pianist, composer, and
educator (d. 1924) ·
1850 – Henry Cabot Lodge,
American historian and politician (d. 1924) ·
1850
– Frederick Holder,
Australian politician, 19th Premier of
South Australia (d. 1909) ·
1859 – William Alden Smith,
American lawyer and politician (d. 1932) ·
1859
– Frank
Wilson, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of
Western Australia (d. 1918) ·
1863 – Upendrakishore
Ray Chowdhury, Bengali writer, painter, violin player and
composer, technologist and entrepreneur. (d. 1915) ·
1867 – Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer and
accountant (d. 1938) ·
1869 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, wrestler,
and weightlifter (d. 1946) ·
1872 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and
politician, 10th Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 1940) ·
1873 – J. E. H. MacDonald,
English-Canadian painter (d. 1932) ·
1874 – Clemens von Pirquet,
Austrian pediatrician and immunologist (d. 1929) ·
1875 – Charles Holden, English architect, designed
the Bristol Central
Library (d. 1960) ·
1880 – Lincoln Ellsworth,
American explorer (d. 1951) ·
1885 – Paltiel Daykan, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer
and jurist (d. 1969) ·
1885
– Saneatsu
Mushanokōji, Japanese author (d. 1976) ·
1886 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and pilot
(d. 1937) ·
1899 – Abelardo L.
Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico (d. 1967)[18] ·
1889
– Otto Frank, German-Swiss businessman and
Holocaust survivor; father of diarist Anne Frank (d. 1980) ·
1892 – Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and
director (d. 1970) ·
1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1982) ·
1895
– Jiddu Krishnamurti,
Indian-American philosopher and author (d. 1986) ·
1900 – Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d.
1971) [19] ·
1901 – The Duke of Paducah,
American country comedian, radio host and banjo player (d. 1986) ·
1903 – Faith Bennett, British actress and ATA pilot
during WWII (d. 1969) [20] ·
1903
– Wilfrid Hyde-White,
English actor (d. 1991) ·
1905 – Édouard Rinfret,
Canadian lawyer and politician, Postmaster
General of Canada (d. 1994) ·
1907 – Leslie Charteris, English author and
screenwriter (d. 1993) ·
1907
– Katharine Hepburn,
American actress (d. 2003) ·
1908 – Nicholas Kaldor, Hungarian-English economist
(d. 1986) ·
1910 – James Dudley, American baseball player,
wrestling manager and executive (d. 2004) ·
1910
– Johan Ferrier,
Surinamese educator and politician, 1st President of
Suriname (d. 2010) ·
1910
– Dorothy Hodgkin,
English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1994) ·
1910
– Gordon Jenkins,
American pianist and composer (d. 1984) ·
1911 – Charles Biro, American author and
illustrator (d. 1972) ·
1912 – Henry Jonsson, Swedish runner (d. 2001) ·
1912
– Marshal Royal,
American saxophonist and clarinet player (d. 1995) ·
1914 – Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet and author (d.
1993) ·
1914
– Howard K. Smith,
American journalist and actor (d. 2002) ·
1915 – Tony Strobl, American comics artist and
animator (d. 1991) ·
1916 – Albert Murray,
American author and critic (d. 2013) ·
1918 – Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman,
founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001) ·
1918
– Julius
Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953) ·
1921 – Joseph Beuys, German sculptor and
illustrator (d. 1986) ·
1921
– Farley Mowat,
Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 2014) ·
1922 – Marco Denevi, Argentinian lawyer and author
(d. 1998) ·
1922
– Murray Gershenz,
American actor and businessman (d. 2013) ·
1922
– Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player and
sportscaster (d. 1991) ·
1922
– Roy Salvadori,
English race car driver and manager (d. 2012) ·
1924 – Maxine Cooper, American actress and
photographer (d. 2009) ·
1924
– Alexander
Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (d. 2016) ·
1924
– Tony Hancock,
English actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1968) ·
1925 – Yogi Berra, American baseball player, coach,
and manager (d. 2015) ·
1926 – Paulette
Poujol-Oriol, Hatian educator and writer (d. 2011)[21] ·
1926
– Viren J. Shah,
Indian politician, 21st Governor of West
Bengal (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Burt Bacharach, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, and producer[22] ·
1929 – Sam Nujoma, Namibian politician, 1st President
of Namibia ·
1929
– Dollard St. Laurent,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2015)[23] ·
1930 – Jesús Franco, Spanish director and
screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1932 – Joel Joffe, Baron
Joffe, South African-English lawyer and politician (d. 2017) ·
1933 – Andrei Voznesensky,
Russian poet (d. 2010) ·
1935 – Felipe Alou, Dominican-American baseball
player, coach, and manager ·
1935
– Johnny Bucyk,
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster ·
1936 – Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and
politician, 32nd President
of Panama (d. 2009) ·
1936
– Tom Snyder, American journalist and talk
show host (d. 2007) ·
1936
– Frank Stella,
American painter and sculptor[24] ·
1937 – Beryl Burton, English cyclist (d. 1996) ·
1937
– George Carlin,
American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2008) ·
1937
– Susan Hampshire,
English actress[25] ·
1937
– Miriam Stoppard,
English physician and author ·
1938 – Millie Perkins, American actress[26] ·
1939 – Cyril Chantler, English pediatrician and
academic[27] ·
1939
– Jalal Dabagh,
Kurdish journalist and politician ·
1939
– Miltiadis Evert,
Greek minister and politician, 69th Mayor of Athens (d.
2011) ·
1939
– Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player,
coach, and sportscaster (d. 2014) ·
1939
– Ron Ziegler, American politician, White House
Press Secretary (d. 2003) ·
1940 – Lill Lindfors, Swedish singer[citation needed] ·
1940
– Norman Whitfield,
American songwriter and producer (d. 2008) ·
1941 – Ruud de Wolff, Dutch singer (d. 2000) ·
1942 – Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter (d. 2000) ·
1942
– Michel Fugain,
French singer-songwriter ·
1942
– Billy Swan, American country
singer-songwriter ·
1942
– Dragoljub
Velimirović, Serbian chess player and theoretician (d. 2014) ·
1944 – Chris Patten, English academic and
politician, 28th Governor of Hong
Kong[28] ·
1945 – Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer and manager
(d. 2007) ·
1945
– Ian McLagan, English keyboard player and
songwriter (d. 2014) ·
1945
– Patrick
Ricard, French businessman (d. 2012) ·
1946 – Daniel Libeskind, American architect,
designed the Imperial War
Museum North and Jewish Museum ·
1947 – Michael Ignatieff,
Canadian journalist and politician ·
1948 – Lindsay Crouse, American actress[29] ·
1948
– Dave Heineman,
American captain and politician, 39th Governor of Nebraska ·
1948
– Richard Riehle,
American actor ·
1948
– Steve Winwood,
English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist[30] ·
1949 – Ross Bleckner, American painter ·
1950 – Bruce Boxleitner, American actor and author[31] ·
1950
– Gabriel Byrne,
Irish actor, director, and producer[32] ·
1950
– Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, Scottish
lawyer, academic, and politician ·
1950
– Billy Squier,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1951 – George Karl, American basketball player and
coach ·
1955 – Kix Brooks, American country music
singer-songwriter and musician ·
1956 – Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach, and manager ·
1956
– Sergio Marchi,
Argentinean-Canadian urban planner and politician, 10th Canadian
Minister of International Trade ·
1956
– Greg Phillinganes,
American keyboardist ·
1956
– Asad Rauf, Pakistani cricketer and umpire ·
1957 – Ziya Onis, Turkish economist and academic ·
1958 – Kim Greist, American actress[33] ·
1958 – Andreas Petroulakis,
Greek cartoonist ·
1958
– Dries van Noten,
Belgian fashion designer ·
1959 – Dave Christian, American ice hockey player ·
1959
– Ray Gillen, American rock singer-songwriter
(d. 1993) ·
1959
– Ving Rhames, American actor[34] ·
1960 – Lisa Martin,
Australian runner ·
1961 – Thomas Dooley, German-American soccer player
and manager ·
1961
– Billy Duffy, English rock guitarist and
songwriter ·
1961
– Bruce McCulloch,
Canadian actor and comedian ·
1962 – Emilio Estevez, American actor[35] ·
1962
– Brett Gurewitz,
American guitarist and songwriter ·
1962
– Gregory H. Johnson,
English-born American astronaut[36] ·
1963 – Panagiotis Fasoulas,
Greek basketball player and politician ·
1963
– Gavin Hood, South African actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1963
– Stefano Modena,
Italian race car driver ·
1963
– Vanessa A. Williams,
American actress and producer ·
1964 – Pierre Morel, French director and
cinematographer ·
1965 – Renée Simonsen,
Danish model and writer ·
1965
– Stacy Wilson,
Canadian ice hockey player[37] ·
1966 – Stephen Baldwin, American actor[38] ·
1966
– Bebel Gilberto,
American-Brazilian singer-songwriter ·
1966
– Deborah Kara Unger,
Canadian actress ·
1967 – Mireille
Bousquet-Mélou, French mathematician ·
1967
– Bill Shorten,
Australian politician ·
1968 – Tony Hawk, American skateboarder and actor[39] ·
1968
– Catherine Tate,
English actress and screenwriter ·
1969 – Suzanne Clément,
Canadian actress ·
1969
– Kim Fields, American actress[40] ·
1970 – Mark Foster,
English swimmer ·
1970
– Jim Furyk, American golfer ·
1970
– Samantha Mathis,
American actress ·
1970
– Mike Weir, Canadian golfer ·
1970
– David A. R. White,
American actor and producer ·
1971 – Doug Basham, American wrestler ·
1971
– Jamie Luner, American actress[41] ·
1972 – Christian Campbell,
Canadian-American actor, writer and photographer[42] ·
1973 – Mackenzie Astin, American actor[43] ·
1973
– Lutz Pfannenstiel,
German footballer and manager ·
1975 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (d.
2015) ·
1975
– Ricky Ortiz, American professional wrestler
and football player ·
1976 – Kardinal Offishall,
Canadian rap musician and producer ·
1977 – Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player and
coach ·
1977
– Maryam Mirzakhani,
Iranian mathematician (d. 2017) [44] ·
1977
– Onur Saylak, Turkish actor, filmmaker and
director ·
1977
– Rachel Wilson,
Canadian actress and voice actress ·
1978 – Aaron Abrams, Canadian actor ·
1978
– Malin Åkerman,
Swedish-Canadian model, actress, and singer ·
1978
– Jason Biggs, American actor and comedian[45] ·
1978
– Aya Ishiguro,
Japanese singer and fashion designer ·
1979 – Adrian Serioux,Canadian soccer player ·
1979
– Aaron Yoo, American actor ·
1980 – Keith Bogans, American basketball player ·
1981 – Rami Malek, American actor[46] ·
1981
– Kentaro Sato,
Japanese-American composer and conductor ·
1981
– Dennis Trillo,
Filipino actor and singer ·
1982 – Donnie Nietes, Filipino boxer ·
1983 – Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor[47] ·
1983
– Alina Kabaeva,
Russian gymnast and politician ·
1983
– Yujiro Kushida,
Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist ·
1983
– Charilaos Pappas,
Greek footballer ·
1983
– Virginie Razzano,
French tennis player[48] ·
1983
– Francisco Javier
Torres, Mexican footballer ·
1984 – Clare Bowen, Australian actress and singer[49] ·
1985 – Paolo Goltz, Argentinian footballer ·
1985
– Andrew Howe, Italian long jumper and
sprinter ·
1985
– Jeroen Simaeys,
Belgian footballer ·
1986 – Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer ·
1986
– Emily VanCamp,
Canadian actress[50] ·
1987 – Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer ·
1988 – Marcelo, Brazilian footballer ·
1989 – Eleftheria
Eleftheriou, Greek Cypriot singer, musician, and actress ·
1990 – Florent Amodio, French figure skater ·
1992 – Volha Khudzenka, Belarusian kayaker[51] ·
1995 – Luke Benward, American actor and singer ·
1995
– Irina Khromacheva,
Russian tennis player ·
1997 – Morgan Lake, English athlete[52] Deaths[edit] ·
805 – Æthelhard, archbishop of Canterbury ·
940 – Eutychius,
patriarch of Alexandria (b. 877) ·
1003 – Sylvester II,
pope of the Catholic Church (b. 946) ·
1012 – Sergius IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b.
970) ·
1090 – Liutold of
Eppenstein, duke of Carinthia ·
1161 – Fergus of Galloway,
Scottish nobleman ·
1182 – Valdemar I,
king of Denmark (b. 1131) ·
1331 – Engelbert of Admont,
Benedictine abbot and scholar ·
1382 – Joanna I,
queen of Naples (b. 1328) ·
1465 – Thomas Palaiologos,
Despot of Morea (b.
1409) ·
1490 – Joanna,
Portuguese princess and regent (b. 1452) ·
1529 – Cecily
Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington, English noblewoman (b. 1460) ·
1599 – Murad Mirza,
Mughal prince (b. 1570) ·
1634 – George Chapman, English poet and playwright
(b. 1559) ·
1641 – Thomas
Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English soldier and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1593) ·
1684 – Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest
(b. 1620) ·
1699 – Lucas Achtschellinck,
Flemish painter (b. 1626) ·
1700 – John Dryden, English poet, playwright, and
critic (b. 1631) ·
1708 – Adolphus Frederick II, duke of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658) ·
1748 – Thomas
Lowndes, English astronomer and academic (b. 1692) ·
1759 – Lambert-Sigisbert
Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700) ·
1784 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss zoologist and
academic (b. 1710) ·
1792 – Charles Simon Favart,
French playwright and composer (b. 1710) ·
1796 – Johann Uz, German poet and author (b. 1720) ·
1801 – Nicholas Repnin, Russian general and
politician, Governor-General
of Baltic provinces (b. 1734) ·
1842 – Walenty
Wańkowicz, Belarusian-Polish painter (b. 1799) ·
1845 – János Batsányi,
Hungarian poet and academic (b. 1763) ·
1856 – Jacques
Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician, physicist, and
astronomer (b. 1786) ·
1859 – Sergey Aksakov, Russian author and academic
(b. 1791) ·
1860 – Charles Barry, English architect,
designed Upper
Brook Street Chapel and the Palace of
Westminster (b. 1795) ·
1864 – J. E. B. Stuart, American general (b. 1833) ·
1867 – Friedrich
Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist and academic (b.
1795) ·
1878 – Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic
(b. 1795) ·
1876 – Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian activist (b.
1843) ·
1884 – Bedřich Smetana,
Czech composer and educator (b. 1824) ·
1907 – Joris-Karl Huysmans,
French author and critic (b. 1848) ·
1916 – James Connolly, Scottish-born Irish
socialist and rebel leader (b. 1868) ·
1925 – Amy Lowell, American poet and critic (b.
1874) ·
1931 – Eugène Ysaÿe,
Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858) ·
1935 – Józef Piłsudski,
Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1867) ·
1944 – Max Brand, American journalist and author
(b. 1892) ·
1944
– Arthur Quiller-Couch,
English author, poet, and critic (b. 1863) ·
1956 – Louis Calhern, American actor and singer (b.
1895) ·
1957 – Alfonso de Portago,
Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928) ·
1957
– Erich von Stroheim,
Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (b. 1885) ·
1963 – Richard Girulatis,
German footballer and manager (b. 1878) ·
1963
– Robert Kerr,
Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (b. 1882) ·
1964 – Agnes Forbes
Blackadder, Scottish medical doctor (b. 1875)[53] ·
1966 – Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer
(b. 1896) ·
1967 – John Masefield, English poet and author (b.
1878) ·
1970 – Nelly Sachs, German poet and
playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1891) ·
1971 – Heinie Manush, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1901) ·
1973 – Frances Marion, American screenwriter,
novelist and journalist (b. 1888) ·
1973
– Art Pollard, American race car driver (b.
1927) ·
1974 – Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey
League player (b. 1944) ·
1980 – Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910) ·
1981 ·
1981 – Francis Hughes, Provisional IRA hunger striker (b. 1956)[54] o Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean professor and
politician, 2nd President of
Singapore (b. 1907)[55] ·
1985 – Jean Dubuffet, French painter and sculptor
(b. 1901) ·
1986 – Elisabeth Bergner,
German actress (b. 1897) ·
1992 – Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and songwriter (b.
1911) ·
1992
– Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932) ·
1993 – Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier
(b.1920) ·
1994 – Erik Erikson, German-American psychologist
and psychoanalyst (b. 1902) ·
1994
– John
Smith, Scottish-English lawyer and politician, Shadow
Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1938) ·
1995 – Ștefan Kovács,
Romanian football player and coach (b. 1920) ·
1999 – Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American
illustrator (b. 1914) ·
2000 – Adam Petty, American race car driver (b.
1980) ·
2001 – Perry Como, American singer and television
host (b. 1912) ·
2001
– Alexei Tupolev,
Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (b. 1925) ·
2003 – Prince
Sadruddin Aga Khan, French-American diplomat (b. 1933) ·
2005 – Ömer Kavur, Turkish director, producer, and
screenwriter (b. 1944) ·
2005
– Martin Lings,
English author and scholar (b. 1909) ·
2005
– Monica Zetterlund,
Swedish actress (b. 1937) ·
2006 – Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of
Libya (b. 1918) ·
2008 – Robert Rauschenberg,
American painter and illustrator (b. 1925) ·
2008
– Irena Sendler,
Polish nurse and humanitarian (b. 1910) ·
2009 – Antonio Vega,
Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1957) ·
2012 – Jan Bens, Dutch footballer and coach (b.
1921) ·
2012
– Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (b. 1920) ·
2013 – Gerd Langguth, German political scientist,
author, and academic (b. 1946) ·
2014 – Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress
and singer (b. 1925) ·
2014
– Marco Cé, Italian cardinal (b. 1925) ·
2014
– H. R. Giger, Swiss painter, sculptor, and
set designer (b. 1940) ·
2014
– Sarat Pujari,
Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1934) ·
2014
– Lorenzo Zambrano,
Mexican businessman and philanthropist (b. 1944) ·
2015 – Peter Gay, German-American historian,
author, and academic (b. 1923) ·
2016 – Mike Agostini, Trinidadian sprinter (b.
1935) ·
2017 – Mauno Koivisto, Finnish banker and politician,
9th President of Finland (b. 1923)[56] ·
2018 – Dennis Nilsen, Scottish serial killer (b.
1945) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
2nd Amendment Day (Pennsylvania, United States) ·
Christian feast day: o Blessed Imelda o Blessed Joan of
Portugal o Gregory Dix (Church of England) o Modoald o Nereus,
Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras o Patriarch Germanus I
of Constantinople (Eastern Church) o May
12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of the
Finnish Identity (Finland) ·
International
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day ·
Saint Andrea
the First Day (Georgia) |
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