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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 14 is the 134th day of the year (135th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
231 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
1097 –
The Siege of Nicaea begins
during the First Crusade. ·
1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is
captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the
effective ruler of England. ·
1509 – Battle of Agnadello:
In northern Italy, French forces defeat the Republic of Venice. ·
1607 – Jamestown, Virginia is
settled as an English colony. ·
1608 –
The Protestant Union,
a coalition of Protestant German states, is founded to defend the
rights, land and safety of each member against the Catholic Church and Catholic German
states.[1] ·
1610 – Henry IV of France is
assassinated by Catholic zealot François Ravaillac,
and Louis XIII ascends the throne.[2] ·
1643 –
Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes
King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII. ·
1747 – War of the
Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George
Anson defeats the French at the First
Battle of Cape Finisterre. ·
1796 – Edward Jenner administers the
first smallpox inoculation.[3] ·
1800 –
The 6th United
States Congress recesses, and
the process of moving the U.S. Government from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., begins the following day.[4] ·
1804 – William Clark and 42 men depart
from Camp Dubois to
join Meriwether Lewis at St. Charles,
Missouri, marking the beginning of the Lewis and
Clark Expedition's historic journey up the Missouri River.[5] ·
1811 – Paraguay: Pedro
Juan Caballero, Fulgencio Yegros and José
Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia start actions to depose the
Spanish governor. ·
1836 –
The Treaties of Velasco are
signed in Velasco, Texas. ·
1863 – American Civil War:
The Battle of
Jackson takes place. ·
1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of
Utsunomiya Castle ends as former Tokugawa shogunate forces
withdraw northward. ·
1870 –
The first game of rugby in
New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby
Football Club.[6] ·
1878 –
The last
witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem,
Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science,
accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.[7] ·
1879 –
The first group of 463 Indian indentured
laborers arrives in Fiji aboard
the Leonidas. ·
1913 –
Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for
the Rockefeller
Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million
donation from John D. Rockefeller. ·
1918 –
Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands,
inaugurates the Two-minute silence. ·
1925 –
Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published. ·
1931 –
Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings,
as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers. ·
1935 –
The Constitution
of the Philippines is ratified by a popular vote. ·
1939 – Lina Medina becomes the youngest
confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five. ·
1940 – World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands is bombed by
the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire,
killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center.[8] ·
1943 –
World War II: A Japanese submarine sinks AHS Centaur off the coast
of Queensland. ·
1948 – Israel
is declared to be an independent state and a provisional
government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is
attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab–Israeli
War. ·
1951 –
Trains run on the Talyllyn Railway in Wales for the first
time since preservation, making it the first railway in the world to be
operated by volunteers. ·
1955 – Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including
the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact. ·
1961 – Civil rights
movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama,
before fire-bombing the
bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.[9] ·
1970 –
Andreas Baader is freed from custody by Ulrike Meinhof, Gudrun Ensslin and
others, a pivotal moment in the formation of the Red Army Faction. ·
1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space
station, is launched.[10] ·
1977 –
A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on
approach to Lusaka International Airport (now Kenneth
Kaunda International Airport) in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.[11] ·
1980 – Salvadoran Civil War:
the Sumpul River
massacre occurs in Chalatenango,
El Salvador. ·
1988 – Carrollton bus
collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71
near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth
group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire. ·
2004 –
The Constitutional
Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of
President Roh Moo-hyun. ·
2004
– Rico
Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 crashes into the Amazon rainforest during
approach to Eduardo
Gomes International Airport in Manaus, Brazil, killing 33 people.[12] ·
2010 – Space
Shuttle Atlantis launches on the STS-132 mission to deliver the first
shuttle-launched Russian ISS component — Rassvet.
This was originally slated to be the final launch of Atlantis,
before Congress approved STS-135.[13] ·
2012 – Agni Air Flight CHT crashes
in Nepal after a failed go-around, killing 15 people. Births[edit] ·
1316 – Charles
IV, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1378) ·
1553 – Margaret of Valois (d.
1615) ·
1574 – Francesco Rasi, Italian
singer-songwriter, theorbo player, and
poet (d. 1621) ·
1592 – Alice Barnham, wife of statesman Francis Bacon (d. 1650) ·
1630 – Katakura Kagenaga,
Japanese samurai (d. 1681) ·
1652 – Johann Philipp
Förtsch, German composer (d. 1732) ·
1657 – Sambhaji, Indian emperor (d. 1689) ·
1666 – Victor
Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732) ·
1679 – Peder Horrebow, Danish astronomer and
mathematician (d. 1764) ·
1699 – Hans Joachim von
Zieten, Prussian general (d. 1786) ·
1701 – William
Emerson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1782) ·
1710 – Adolf
Frederick, King of Sweden (d. 1771) ·
1725 – Ludovico Manin, the last Doge of Venice (d. 1802) ·
1727 – Thomas Gainsborough,
English painter (d. 1788) ·
1737 – George
Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Irish-English politician and
diplomat, Governor
of Grenada (d. 1806) ·
1752 – Timothy Dwight IV,
American minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1817) ·
1752
– Albrecht Thaer,
German agronomist and author (d. 1828) ·
1761 – Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and
politician, 4th United
States Secretary of War, 3rd United
States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1816) ·
1771 – Robert Owen, Welsh businessman and social
reformer (d. 1858) ·
1771
– Thomas
Wedgwood, English photographer (d. 1805) ·
1781 – Friedrich
Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian and academic (d. 1873) ·
1794 – Fanny Imlay, daughter of British
feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (d.
1816) ·
1814 – Charles Beyer, German-English engineer,
co-founded Beyer, Peacock
and Company (d. 1876) ·
1817 – Alexander Kaufmann,
German poet and educator (d. 1893) ·
1820 – James
Martin, Irish-Australian politician, 6th Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1886) ·
1830 – Antonio Annetto
Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (d. 1905) ·
1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and
academic (d. 1903) ·
1851 – Anna Laurens Dawes,
American author and suffragist (d. 1938) ·
1852 – Henri Julien, Canadian illustrator (d. 1908) ·
1863 – John Charles Fields,
Canadian mathematician, founder of the Fields Medal (d. 1932) ·
1867 – Kurt Eisner, German journalist and
politician, Prime Minister
of Bavaria (d. 1919) ·
1868 – Magnus Hirschfeld,
German physician and sexologist (d. 1935) ·
1869 – Arthur Rostron, English captain (d. 1940) ·
1872 – Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinal (d. 1961) ·
1878 – J. L. Wilkinson, American baseball player
and manager (d. 1964) ·
1879 – Fred Englehardt, American jumper (d. 1942) ·
1880 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971) ·
1881 – Lionel Hill, Australian politician,
30th Premier of
South Australia (d. 1963) ·
1881
– George Murray
Hulbert, American judge and politician (d. 1950) ·
1885 – Otto Klemperer, German composer and
conductor (d. 1973) ·
1887 – Ants Kurvits, Estonian general and
politician, 10th Estonian
Minister of War (d. 1943) ·
1888 – Archie Alexander, American mathematician and
engineer (d. 1958) ·
1893 – Louis Verneuil, French actor and playwright
(d. 1952) ·
1897 – Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist,
clarinet player, and composer (d. 1959) ·
1897
– Ed Ricketts, American biologist and
ecologist (d. 1948) ·
1899 – Charlotte Auerbach,
German-Jewish Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist. (d.1994) ·
1899
– Pierre Victor Auger,
French physicist and academic (d. 1993) ·
1899
– Earle Combs, American baseball player and
coach (d. 1976) ·
1900 – Hal Borland, American journalist and author
(d. 1978) ·
1900
– Walter Rehberg,
Swiss pianist and composer (d. 1957) ·
1900
– Cai Chang, Chinese first leader of All-China
Women's Federation (d. 1990) ·
1900
– Leo Smit,
Dutch pianist and composer (d. 1943) ·
1900
– Edgar Wind, German-English historian,
author, and academic (d. 1971) ·
1901 – Robert Ritter, German psychologist and
physician (d. 1951) ·
1903 – Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997) ·
1904 – Hans Albert Einstein,
Swiss-American engineer and educator (d. 1973) ·
1904
– Marcel Junod,
Swiss physician and anesthesiologist (d. 1961) ·
1905 – Jean Daniélou, French cardinal and
theologian (d. 1974) ·
1905
– Herbert
Morrison, American soldier and journalist (d. 1989) ·
1905
– Antonio Berni,
Argentinian painter, illustrator, and engraver (d. 1981) ·
1907 – Ayub Khan,
Pakistani general and politician, 2nd President of
Pakistan (d. 1974) ·
1907
– Hans von der Groeben,
German journalist and diplomat (d. 2005) ·
1908 – Betty Jeffrey, Australian nurse and author
(d. 2000) ·
1909 – Godfrey Rampling, English sprinter and
colonel (d. 2009) ·
1910 – Ken Viljoen, South African cricketer (d.
1974) ·
1910
– Ne Win, Prime Minister and President of
Burma (d. 2002) ·
1914 – Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani journalist, poet,
and politician (d. 1983) ·
1914
– William Thomas Tutte, British codebreaker
and mathematician (d. 2002) [14] ·
1916 – Robert F. Christy,
Canadian-American physicist and astronomer (d. 2012) ·
1916
– Lance Dossor,
English-Australian pianist and educator (d. 2005) ·
1916
– Marco Zanuso,
Italian architect and designer (d. 2001) ·
1917 – Lou Harrison, American composer and critic
(d. 2003) ·
1917
– Norman Luboff,
American composer and conductor (d. 1987) ·
1919 – Solange
Chaput-Rolland, Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001) ·
1919
– John Hope,
American soldier and meteorologist (d. 2002) ·
1921 – Richard Deacon,
American actor (d. 1984) ·
1922 – Franjo Tuđman, Yugoslav historian;
later 1st President of Croatia (d.
1999) ·
1923 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician, Iraqi
Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2019) ·
1923
– Mrinal Sen, Bangladeshi-Indian director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
1925 – Sophie Kurys, American baseball player (d.
2013) ·
1925
– Patrice Munsel,
American soprano and actress (d. 2016) ·
1925
– Boris Parsadanian,
Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (d. 1997) ·
1925
– Al Porcino, American trumpet player (d.
2013) ·
1925
– Ninian Sanderson,
Scottish race car driver (d. 1985) ·
1926 – Eric Morecambe, English comedian and actor
(d. 1984) ·
1927 – Herbert W. Franke,
Austrian scientist and author ·
1928 – Dub Jones,
American R&B bass singer (d. 2000) ·
1928
– Frederik H. Kreuger,
Dutch engineer, author, and academic (d. 2015) ·
1928
– Brian
Macdonald, Canadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2014) ·
1929 – Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author
(d. 2013) ·
1929
– Henry McGee, English actor and singer (d.
2006) ·
1929
– Gump Worsley,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007) ·
1930 – William James,
Australian general and physician (d. 2015) ·
1931 – Alvin Lucier, American composer and academic ·
1932 – Robert Bechtle, American lithographer and
painter ·
1933 – Siân Phillips, Welsh actress and singer ·
1935 – Ethel Johnson,
American professional wrestler (d. 2018)[15] ·
1935
– Rudi Šeligo,
Slovenian playwright and politician (d. 2004) ·
1936 – Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter and
actor (d. 1973) ·
1936
– Dick Howser, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 1987) ·
1938 – Robert Boyd,
English pediatrician and academic ·
1939 – Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and
humanitarian (d. 2016) ·
1939
– Troy Shondell,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2016) ·
1940 – Chay Blyth, Scottish sailor and rower ·
1940
– H. Jones, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982) ·
1940
– George Mathewson,
Scottish banker and businessman ·
1941 – Ada den Haan, Dutch swimmer ·
1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (d.
2003) ·
1942
– Byron Dorgan,
American lawyer and politician ·
1942
– Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green,
English businessman and politician (d. 2014) ·
1942
– Tony Pérez,
Cuban-American baseball player and manager ·
1942
– Malise Ruthven,
Irish author and academic ·
1943 – Jack Bruce, Scottish-English
singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2014) ·
1943
– L. Denis Desautels,
Canadian accountant and civil servant ·
1943
– Ólafur Ragnar
Grímsson, Icelandic academic and politician, 5th President of Iceland ·
1943
– Derek Leckenby,
English pop-rock guitarist (d. 1994) ·
1943
– Richard Peto, English
statistician and epidemiologist ·
1944 – Gene Cornish, Canadian-American guitarist ·
1944
– George Lucas,
American director, producer, and screenwriter, founded Lucasfilm ·
1944
– David Kelly,
Welsh scientist (d. 2003) ·
1945 – Francesca Annis, English actress ·
1945
– George
Nicholls, English rugby player ·
1945
– Yochanan Vollach,
Israeli footballer ·
1946 – Sarah
Hogg, Viscountess Hailsham, English economist and journalist ·
1947 – Al Ciner, American pop-rock guitarist ·
1947
– Ana Martín, Mexican
actress, singer producer and former model (Miss Mexico 1963)[16] ·
1948 – Timothy
Stevenson, English lawyer and politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Oxfordshire ·
1948
– Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer and
coach (d. 2007) ·
1949 – Sverre Årnes, Norwegian author,
screenwriter, and director ·
1949
– Walter Day, American game designer and
businessman, founded Twin Galaxies ·
1949
– Johan Schans,
Dutch swimmer ·
1949
– Klaus-Peter Thaler,
German cyclist ·
1951 – Jay Beckenstein, American saxophonist ·
1952 – David Byrne, Scottish singer-songwriter,
producer, and actor ·
1952
– Michael Fallon,
Scottish politician, Secretary
of State for Defence ·
1952
– Orna Grumberg,
Israeli computer scientist and academic ·
1952
– Raul Mälk, Estonian
politician, 22nd Estonian
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1952
– Wim Mertens, Belgian composer, countertenor
vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist. ·
1952
– Donald R. McMonagle,
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut ·
1952
– Robert Zemeckis,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1953 – Tom Cochrane, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1953
– Hywel Williams,
Welsh politician ·
1955 – Marie Chouinard, Canadian dancer and
choreographer ·
1955
– Alasdair Fraser,
Scottish fiddler ·
1955
– Peter Kirsten,
South African cricketer and rugby player ·
1955
– Dennis Martínez,
Nicaraguan baseball player and coach ·
1955
– Jens Sparschuh,
German author and playwright ·
1956 – Hazel Blears, English lawyer and
politician, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government ·
1956
– Steve Hogarth,
English singer-songwriter and keyboardist ·
1958 – Christine Brennan,
American journalist and author ·
1958
– Chris
Evans, English-Australian politician, 26th Australian
Minister for Employment ·
1958
– Rudy Pérez,
Cuban-born American composer and music producer [17] ·
1958
– Wilma Rusman,
Dutch runner ·
1959 – Carlisle Best, Barbadian cricketer ·
1959
– Patrick Bruel,
French actor, singer, and poker player ·
1959
– Markus Büchel,
Liechtensteiner politician, 9th Prime
Minister of Liechtenstein (d. 2013) ·
1959
– Robert
Greene, American author and translator ·
1959
– John Holt,
American football player (d. 2013) ·
1959
– Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1959
– Heather Wheeler,
English politician ·
1960 – Anne Clark,
English singer-songwriter and poet ·
1960
– Alec Dankworth,
English bassist and composer ·
1960
– Frank Nobilo, New
Zealand golfer ·
1960
– Ronan Tynan, Irish tenor ·
1961 – David Quantick, English journalist and
critic ·
1961
– Tommy Rogers,
American wrestler (d. 2015) ·
1961
– Tim Roth, English actor and director ·
1961
– Alain Vigneault,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1962 – Ian Astbury, English-Canadian
singer-songwriter ·
1962
– C.C. DeVille,
American guitarist, songwriter, and actor ·
1962
– Danny Huston,
Italian-American actor and director ·
1963 – Pat Borders, American baseball player and
coach ·
1963
– David Yelland,
English journalist and author ·
1964 – James M. Kelly,
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut ·
1964
– Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster and
producer ·
1964
– Alan McIndoe,
Australian rugby league player ·
1964
– Eric Peterson,
American guitarist and songwriter ·
1965 – Eoin Colfer, Irish author ·
1966 – Marianne Denicourt,
French actress, director, and screenwriter ·
1966
– Mike Inez, American rock bass player and
songwriter ·
1966
– Fab Morvan, French singer-songwriter, dancer
and model ·
1966
– Raphael Saadiq,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1967 – Natasha Kaiser-Brown,
American sprinter and coach ·
1967
– Tony Siragusa,
American football player and journalist ·
1968 – Mary DePiero, Canadian diver[18] ·
1969 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress[19] ·
1969
– Sabine Schmitz,
German race car driver and sportscaster ·
1969
– Henry
Smith, English politician ·
1969
– Danny Wood, American singer-songwriter,
record producer, and choreographer ·
1971 – Deanne Bray, American actress ·
1971
– Sofia Coppola,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1971
– Martin Reim, Estonian footballer and manager ·
1972 – Kirstjen Nielsen, American attorney,
6th United
States Secretary of Homeland Security[20] ·
1973 – Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer and
actress ·
1973
– Voshon Lenard,
American basketball player ·
1973
– Fraser Nelson,
Scottish journalist ·
1973
– Hakan Ünsal,
Turkish footballer and sportscaster ·
1973
– Julian White,
English rugby player ·
1974
– Anu Välba, Estonian
journalist ·
1975 – Nicki Sørensen,
Danish cyclist ·
1976 – Hunter Burgan, American bass player ·
1976
– Brian Lawrence,
American baseball player and coach ·
1976
– Martine McCutcheon,
English actress and singer ·
1977 – Sophie Anderton, English model and actress ·
1977
– Roy Halladay,
American baseball player (d. 2017) ·
1977
– Ada Nicodemou,
Cypriot-Australian actress ·
1978 – Brent Harvey, Australian footballer ·
1978
– Eddie House, American basketball player ·
1978
– André Macanga,
Angolan footballer and manager ·
1978
– Gustavo Varela,
Uruguayan footballer ·
1979 – Dan Auerbach, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1979
– Edwige Lawson-Wade,
French basketball player ·
1979
– Clinton Morrison,
English-Irish footballer ·
1979
– Carlos Tenorio,
Ecuadorian footballer ·
1980 – Zdeněk Grygera,
Czech footballer ·
1980
– Pavel Londak,
Estonian footballer ·
1980
– Eugene
Martineau, Dutch decathlete ·
1980
– Júlia Sebestyén,
Hungarian figure skater ·
1980
– Hugo Southwell,
English-Scottish rugby player ·
1980
– Joe van Niekerk,
South African rugby player ·
1981 – Pranav Mistry, Indian computer scientist,
invented SixthSense ·
1983 – Anahí, Mexican singer-songwriter, producer,
and actress ·
1983
– Keeley Donovan,
English journalist ·
1983
– Frank Gore, American football player ·
1983
– Uroš Slokar,
Slovenian basketball player ·
1983
– Tatenda Taibu,
Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1983
– Amber Tamblyn,
American actress, author, model, director ·
1984 – Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian footballer ·
1984
– Luke Gregerson,
American baseball player ·
1984
– Olly Murs, English singer-songwriter ·
1984
– Michael Rensing,
German footballer ·
1984
– Indrek Siska,
Estonian footballer ·
1984
– Mark Zuckerberg,
American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Facebook ·
1985 – Dustin Lynch, American singer-songwriter ·
1985
– Sam Perrett, New Zealand rugby league player ·
1985
– Simona Peycheva,
Bulgarian gymnast ·
1985
– Zack Ryder, American wrestler ·
1986 – Andrea Bovo, Italian footballer ·
1986
– Clay Matthews III,
American football player ·
1986
– Marco Motta, Italian footballer ·
1987 – Jeong Min-hyeong, South Korean footballer
(d. 2012) ·
1987
– Franck Songo'o,
Cameroonian footballer ·
1987
– François Steyn,
South African rugby player ·
1988 – Jayne Appel, American basketball player ·
1989 – Rob Gronkowski, American football player ·
1989
– Alina Talay, Belorussian hurdler ·
1993 – Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and
singer ·
1993
– Kristina Mladenovic,
French tennis player ·
1993
– Bence Rakaczki,
Hungarian footballer (d. 2014) ·
1994 – Marcos Aoás Corrêa,
Brazilian footballer ·
1994
– Pernille Blume,
Danish swimmer[21] ·
1994
– Bronte Campbell,
Australian swimmer[22] ·
1994
– Dennis Praet,
Belgian footballer ·
1995 – Bernardo
Fernandes da Silva Junior, Brazilian footballer ·
1995
– Jonah Placid,
Australian rugby player ·
1996 – Martin Garrix, Dutch DJ ·
2001 – Jack
Hughes, American hockey player[23] Deaths[edit] ·
649 – Pope Theodore I ·
934 – Zhu Hongzhao, Chinese general and governor ·
964 – Pope John XII (b. 927) ·
1080 – William Walcher, Bishop of Durham ·
1219 – William
Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, English soldier and politician (b.
1147) ·
1470 – Charles VIII of
Sweden (b. 1409) ·
1576 – Tahmasp I, Shah of Persia (b. 1514) ·
1603 – Magnus
II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1543) ·
1608 – Charles
III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543) ·
1610 – Henry IV of France (b.
1553) ·
1643 – Louis XIII of France (b.
1601) ·
1649 – Friedrich Spanheim,
Swiss theologian and academic (b. 1600) ·
1667 – Georges de Scudéry,
French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1601) ·
1688 – Antoine Furetière,
French scholar, lexicographer, and author (b. 1619) ·
1754 – Pierre-Claude
Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright and producer (b. 1692) ·
1761 – Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and
academic (b. 1710) ·
1847 – Fanny Mendelssohn,
German pianist and composer (b. 1805) ·
1860 – Ludwig Bechstein, German author (b. 1801) ·
1873 – Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and
author (b. 1797) ·
1878 – Ōkubo
Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1830) ·
1881 – Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse and
author (b. 1805) ·
1889 – Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and
politician (b. 1809) ·
1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and
academic (b. 1810) ·
1906 – Carl Schurz, German-American general,
journalist, and politician, 13th United
States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1829) ·
1912 – Frederick VIII
of Denmark (b. 1843) ·
1912
– August Strindberg,
Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist (b. 1849) ·
1918 – James Gordon
Bennett, Jr., American journalist and publisher (b. 1841) ·
1919 – Henry J. Heinz, American businessman,
founded the H. J. Heinz Company (b.
1844) ·
1923 – N. G. Chandavarkar,
Indian jurist and politician (b. 1855) ·
1923
– Charles de Freycinet,
French engineer and politician, 43rd Prime Minister
of France (b. 1828) ·
1931 – David Belasco, American director, producer,
and playwright (b. 1853) ·
1934 – Lou Criger, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1872) ·
1935 – Magnus Hirschfeld,
German physician and sexologist (b. 1868) ·
1936 – Edmund
Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and
diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt (b.
1861) ·
1940 – Emma Goldman, Lithuanian author and activist
(b. 1869) ·
1940
– Menno ter Braak,
Dutch author (b. 1902) ·
1943 – Henri La Fontaine,
Belgian lawyer and author, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1854) ·
1945 – Heber J. Grant, American religious leader,
7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (b. 1856) ·
1945
– Wolfgang Lüth,
Latvian-German captain (b. 1913) ·
1945
– Isis Pogson, English astronomer and
meteorologist (b. 1852) ·
1953 – Yasuo Kuniyoshi, American painter and
photographer (b. 1893) ·
1954 – Heinz Guderian, Prussian-German general (b.
1888) ·
1956 – Joan Malleson, English physician (b. 1889) ·
1957 – Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (b.
1884) ·
1959 – Sidney Bechet, American saxophonist,
clarinet player, and composer (b. 1897) ·
1959
– Infanta
Maria Antonia of Portugal (b. 1862) ·
1960 – Lucrezia Bori, Spanish soprano and actress
(b. 1887) ·
1962 – Florence Auer, American actress and
screenwriter (b. 1880) ·
1968 – Husband E. Kimmel,
American admiral (b. 1882) ·
1969 – Enid Bennett, Australian-American actress
(b. 1893) ·
1969
– Frederick Lane,
Australian swimmer (b. 1888) ·
1970 – Billie Burke, American actress and singer
(b. 1884) ·
1973 – Jean Gebser, German linguist, philosopher,
and poet (b. 1905) ·
1976 – Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter,
harmonica player, and producer (b. 1943) ·
1979 – Jean Rhys, Dominican-English novelist (b.
1890) ·
1980 – Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912) ·
1982 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b. 1909) ·
1983 – Roger J. Traynor, American academic and
jurist, 23rd Chief Justice
of California (b. 1900) ·
1983
– Miguel Alemán Valdés,
Mexican politician, 46th President of Mexico (b.
1900) ·
1984 – Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and
diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (b.
1910) ·
1984
– Walter Rauff,
German SS officer (b. 1906) ·
1987 – Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer
(b. 1918) ·
1987
– Vitomil Zupan,
Slovenian poet and playwright (b. 1914) ·
1988 – Willem Drees, Dutch politician and
historian, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (b. 1886) ·
1991 – Aladár Gerevich,
Hungarian fencer (b. 1910)[24] ·
1992 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and
politician, Mayor of Beijing (b.
1899) ·
1993 – William
Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (b. 1908) ·
1994 – Cihat Arman, Turkish footballer and manager
(b. 1915) ·
1994
– W. Graham Claytor
Jr., American businessman, lieutenant, and politician, 15th United
States Secretary of the Navy (b. 1914) ·
1995 – Christian B.
Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1916) ·
1997 – Harry Blackstone Jr.,
American magician and author (b. 1934) ·
1997
– Boris Parsadanian,
Armenian-Estonian violinist and composer (b. 1925) ·
1998 – Marjory Stoneman
Douglas, American journalist and environmentalist (b. 1890) ·
1998
– Frank Sinatra,
American singer and actor (b. 1915) ·
2000 – Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician,
84th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1937) ·
2001 – Paul Bénichou, French writer, intellectual,
critic, and literary historian (b. 1908) ·
2001
– Gil Langley, Australian cricketer,
footballer, and politician (b. 1919) ·
2003 – Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1940) ·
2003
– Wendy Hiller,
English actress (b. 1912) ·
2003
– Robert Stack,
American actor and producer (b. 1919) ·
2004 – Anna Lee, English-American actress (b. 1913) ·
2005
– Jimmy Martin,
American musician (b. 1927) ·
2006 – Lew Anderson, American actor and saxophonist
(b. 1922) ·
2006
– Stanley Kunitz,
American poet and translator (b. 1905) ·
2006
– Eva Norvind, Mexican actress, director, and
producer (b. 1944) ·
2007 – Mary Scheier, American sculptor and educator
(b. 1908) ·
2007
– Ülo Jõgi, Estonian
historian and author (b. 1921) ·
2010 – Frank J. Dodd, American businessman and
politician, president of the New Jersey Senate (b.
1938) ·
2010
– Norman Hand, American football player (b.
1972) ·
2010
– Goh Keng Swee,
Singaporean soldier and politician, 2nd Deputy
Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918) ·
2012 – Ernst Hinterberger,
Austrian author and screenwriter (b. 1931) ·
2012
– Mario Trejo, Argentinian poet, playwright,
and journalist (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Wayne Brown,
American accountant and politician, 14th Mayor of Mesa (b.
1936) ·
2013
– Arsen Chilingaryan,
Armenian footballer and manager (b. 1962) ·
2013
– Asghar Ali Engineer,
Indian author and activist (b. 1939) ·
2013
– Ray Guy,
Canadian journalist (b. 1939) ·
2014 – Jeffrey Kruger, English-American businessman
(b. 1931) ·
2014
– Emanuel Raymond
Lewis, American librarian and author (b. 1928) ·
2014
– Morvin Simon, New
Zealand historian, composer, and conductor (b. 1944) ·
2015 – B.B. King, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (b. 1925) ·
2015
– Micheál O'Brien,
Irish footballer and hurler (b. 1923) ·
2015
– Stanton J. Peale,
American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937) ·
2015
– Franz Wright,
Austrian-American poet and translator (b. 1953) ·
2016 – Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and
artist (b. 1962) ·
2017 – Powers Boothe, American actor (b. 1948) ·
2018 – Tom Wolfe, American author (b. 1931) ·
2019 – Tim Conway, American actor, writer (b. 1933)[25] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Matthias the Apostle (Roman Catholic
Church, Anglican Communion) o Mo Chutu of Lismore (Roman Catholic
Church) o May
14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest
day on which the first day of Sanja Matsuri can fall, while May 21 is
the latest; celebrated on the third weekend of May. (Sensō-ji, Tokyo) ·
Hastings
Banda's Birthday (Malawi) ·
National
Unification Day (Liberia) ·
The
first day of Izumo-taisha
Shrine Grand Festival. (Izumo-taisha) |
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