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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 15 is the 135th day of the year (136th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
230 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
495 BC – A newly constructed temple in
honour of the god Mercury was
dedicated in ancient Rome on
the Circus Maximus,
between the Aventine and Palatine hills. To spite the senate and
the consuls, the people awarded the dedication to a senior military officer, Marcus Laetorius. ·
221 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord, proclaims himself
emperor of Shu Han, the successor
of the Han dynasty. ·
392 –
Emperor Valentinian II is
assassinated while advancing into Gaul against
the Frankish usurper Arbogast.
He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne. ·
589 –
King Authari marries Theodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian duke Garibald I.
A Catholic, she has great influence among
the Lombard nobility. ·
908 –
The three-year-old Constantine VII, the son of Emperor Leo VI the Wise, is crowned as co-emperor of
the Byzantine Empire by
Patriarch Euthymius I at Constantinople. ·
1252 – Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes, but
also limits, the torture of heretics in
the Medieval Inquisition. ·
1525 – Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Müntzer were
defeated at the Battle of
Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in
the Holy Roman Empire. ·
1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial
in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest; she is condemned to
death by a specially-selected jury. ·
1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots marries James
Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband. ·
1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously
rejected discovery of the third
law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea
after some initial calculations were made). ·
1648 –
The Peace of Münster is
ratified, by which Spain acknowledges Dutch sovereignty. ·
1718 – James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the
world's first machine gun. ·
1776 – American Revolution:
The Fifth Virginia
Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation
to propose a resolution of independence from
Great Britain, paving the way for the United
States Declaration of Independence. ·
1791 – French Revolution: Maximilien
Robespierre proposes the Self-denying
Ordinance. ·
1792 – War of the
First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia. ·
1793 – Diego Marín Aguilera flies
a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5–6 meters, during
one of the first attempted manned flights. ·
1796 – War of the
First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph. ·
1800 –
King George
III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt
by James Hadfield,
who is later acquitted by reason of insanity. ·
1817 –
Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the
Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason
(now Friends Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). ·
1836 – Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse. ·
1849 –
The Sicilian
revolution of 1848 is finally extinguished. ·
1850 –
The Bloody Island
massacre takes place in Lake County,
California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians are
slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry. ·
1850
– The Arana–Southern
Treaty is ratified, ending "the existing
differences" between Great Britain and Argentina. ·
1851 –
The first Australian gold
rush is proclaimed, although the discovery had been made
three months earlier. ·
1858 –
Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. ·
1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law
creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed
the United
States Department of Agriculture. ·
1864 –
American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia
Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate army
to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley. ·
1867 – Canadian Bank
of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge
with Imperial Bank of
Canada to become what is CIBC in
1961. ·
1869 – Women's suffrage:
In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady
Stanton form the National
Woman Suffrage Association. ·
1891 – Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in
the encyclical Rerum novarum,
the beginning of modern Catholic social
teaching. ·
1904 – Russo-Japanese War:
The Russian minelayer Amur lays
a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and
sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse,
15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima. ·
1905 – Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres
(0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are
auctioned off. ·
1911 –
In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States,
the United
States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an
"unreasonable" monopoly under
the Sherman Antitrust
Act and orders the company to be broken up. ·
1911
– More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when
the forces of the Mexican Revolution led
by Emilio Madero take
the city of Torreón from
the Federales. ·
1914 –
During a poker game at the Gaiety Theatre in Galesburg, Illinois, comedian
Art Fisher nicknames Chicko, Harpo, Groucho, and Gummo Marx.[1] ·
1919 –
The Winnipeg general
strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population
of Winnipeg had walked off the job. ·
1919
– Greek occupation of
Smyrna. During the occupation, the Greek army kills or wounds
350 Turks; those
responsible are punished by Greek commander Aristides Stergiades. ·
1925 – Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic
communist newspaper, is founded. ·
1928 – Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first
cartoon, "Plane Crazy". ·
1929 –
A fire at
the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123. ·
1932 –
In an attempted coup d'état, the Prime Minister of
Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is assassinated. ·
1933 –
All military aviation organizations within or under the control of the RLM of
Germany were officially merged in a covert manner to form its Wehrmacht military's air arm, the Luftwaffe. ·
1934 – Kārlis Ulmanis establishes
an authoritarian government in Latvia. ·
1940 – USS Sailfish is
recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus. ·
1940
– World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years
of occupation. ·
1940
– Richard and
Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald's restaurant. ·
1941 –
First flight of the Gloster E.28/39 the first British and
Allied jet aircraft. ·
1941
– Joe DiMaggio begins
a 56-game
hitting streak. ·
1942 –
World War II: In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary
Corps (WAAC) is signed into law. ·
1943 – Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third
International). ·
1945 –
World War II: The Battle of Poljana,
the final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia. ·
1948 –
Following the expiration of The British Mandate
for Palestine, the Kingdom of Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab–Israeli
War. ·
1957 –
At Malden Island in
the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. ·
1958 –
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. ·
1960 –
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4. ·
1963 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final
Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with
astronaut Gordon Cooper on
board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space, and the last American to go into
space alone. ·
1966 –
After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyễn
Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a
military attack on the forces of General Tôn Thất
Đính, forcing him to abandon his command. ·
1969 – People's Park:
California Governor Ronald Reagan has
an impromptu student park owned by the University
of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war
protestors, sparking a riot. ·
1970 –
President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P.
Hoisington the first female United States Army generals. ·
1970
– Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State
University by police during student protests. ·
1972 –
The Ryukyu Islands,
under U.S. military governance since
its conquest in
1945, reverts to Japanese control. ·
1972
– In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and
paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning
to become president. ·
1974 – Ma'alot massacre:
Members of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack
and take hostages at an Israeli school; a
total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren. ·
1976 – Aeroflot Flight 1802 crashes
in Viktorovka, Chernihiv Raion, killing all 52 people on
board.[2] ·
1987 –
The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype
orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit. ·
1988 – Soviet–Afghan War:
After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins to withdraw 115,000
troops from Afghanistan. ·
1991 – Édith Cresson becomes France's first
female Prime Minister. ·
1997 –
The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War"
in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War"
veterans. ·
1997
– The Space
Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space
station Mir.[3] ·
2004 – Arsenal F.C. go an entire league
campaign unbeaten in the English Premier League, joining Preston North End
F.C with the right to claim the title "The
Invincibles". ·
2008 – California becomes
the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to
legalize same-sex marriage after
the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban
unconstitutional. ·
2010 – Jessica Watson becomes the youngest
person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo. ·
2013 –
An upsurge in violence in Iraq leaves
more than 389 people dead over three days. Births[edit] ·
1397 – Sejong the Great, Korean king of Joseon (d. 1450)[4] ·
1531 – Maria of Austria, Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (d.
1581)[citation needed] ·
1565 – Hendrick de Keyser,
Dutch sculptor and architect (d. 1621)[5] ·
1567 – Claudio Monteverdi,
Italian priest and composer (d. 1643)[6] ·
1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d.
1724)[7] ·
1608 – René Goupil, French-American missionary and
saint (d. 1642) ·
1633 – Sébastien
Le Prestre de Vauban, French noble (d. 1707) ·
1645 – George
Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys, British judge (d. 1689) ·
1689 – Lady Mary
Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762)[8] ·
1720 – Maximilian Hell, Hungarian priest and
astronomer (d. 1792) ·
1749 – Levi Lincoln Sr., American lawyer and
politician, 4th United
States Attorney General (d. 1820) ·
1759 – Maria Theresia
von Paradis, Austrian pianist and composer (d. 1824) ·
1770 – Ezekiel Hart, Canadian businessman and
politician (d. 1843) ·
1773 – Klemens von
Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State
Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (d. 1859) ·
1786 – Dimitris Plapoutas,
Greek general and politician (d. 1864) ·
1803 – Juan Almonte, son of José María Morelos,
was a Mexican soldier and diplomat who served as a regent in the Second Mexican
Empire (1863-1864) (d. 1869)[9] ·
1805 – Samuel Carter,
Early English railway solicitor and MP (d.
1878) ·
1808 – Michael William Balfe,
Irish composer and conductor (d. 1870) ·
1817 – Debendranath Tagore,
Indian philosopher and author (d. 1905) ·
1841 – Clarence Dutton, American commander and
geologist (d. 1912) ·
1845 – Élie Metchnikoff,
Russian zoologist (d. 1916) ·
1848 – Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter and
illustrator (d. 1926) ·
1854 – Ioannis Psycharis,
Ukrainian-French philologist and author (d. 1929) ·
1856 – L. Frank Baum, American novelist (d. 1919) ·
1856
– Matthias Zurbriggen,
Swiss mountaineer (d. 1917) ·
1857 – Williamina Fleming,
Scottish-American astronomer and academic (d. 1911) ·
1859 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1906) ·
1862 – Arthur Schnitzler,
Austrian author and playwright (d. 1931) ·
1863 – Frank Hornby, English businessman and
politician, invented Meccano (d. 1936) ·
1869 – Paul Probst, Swiss target shooter (d. 1945) ·
1869
– John Storey,
Australian politician, 20th Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1921) ·
1882 – Walter
White, Scottish international footballer (d. 1950)[10] ·
1890 – Katherine Anne
Porter, American short story writer, novelist, and essayist (d.
1980) ·
1891 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and
playwright (d. 1940) ·
1891
– Fritz Feigl, Austrian-Brazilian chemist and
academic (d. 1971) ·
1892 – Charles E. Rosendahl,
American admiral (d. 1977) ·
1892
– Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969) ·
1893 – José Nepomuceno,
Filipino filmmaker, founder of Philippine cinema (d. 1959) ·
1894 – Feg Murray, American hurdler and cartoonist
(d. 1973) ·
1895 – Prescott Bush, American captain, banker, and
politician (d. 1972) ·
1895
– William D. Byron,
American lieutenant and politician (d. 1941) ·
1898 – Arletty, French model, actress, and singer
(d. 1992) ·
1899 – Jean Étienne Valluy,
French general (d. 1970) ·
1900 – Ida Rhodes, American mathematician, pioneer
in computer programming (d. 1986) [11] ·
1901 – Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984) ·
1901
– Luis Monti, Argentinian-Italian footballer
and manager (d. 1983) ·
1902 – Richard J. Daley, American lawyer and
politician, 48th Mayor of Chicago (d.
1976) ·
1902
– Sigizmund Levanevsky,
Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (d. 1937) ·
1903 – Maria Reiche, German mathematician and
archaeologist (d. 1998) ·
1904 – Clifton Fadiman, American game show host and
author (d. 1999) ·
1905 – Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994) ·
1905
– Albert Dubout,
French cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor (d. 1976) ·
1905
– Abraham Zapruder,
American businessman and amateur photographer, filmed the Zapruder film (d. 1970) ·
1907 – Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (d. 1931) ·
1909 – James Mason, English actor, producer, and
screenwriter (d. 1984) ·
1909
– Clara Solovera,
Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1992) ·
1910 – Constance Cummings,
British-based American actress (d. 2005) ·
1911 – Max Frisch, Swiss playwright and novelist
(d. 1991) ·
1911
– Herta Oberheuser,
German physician (d. 1978) ·
1912 – Arthur Berger,
American composer and educator (d. 2003) ·
1914 – Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (d. 1972) ·
1914
– Angus MacLean,
Canadian farmer and politician, 25th Premier
of Prince Edward Island (d. 2000) ·
1914
– Norrie Paramor,
English composer, producer, and conductor (d. 1979) ·
1915 – Hilda Bernstein, English-South African
author and activist (d. 2006) ·
1915
– Paul Samuelson,
American economist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2009) ·
1915
– Henrik Sandberg,
Danish production manager and producer (d. 1993) ·
1916 – Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress (d. 2014) ·
1918 – Eddy Arnold, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor (d. 2008) ·
1918
– Arthur
Jackson, American lieutenant and target shooter (d. 2015) ·
1918
– Joseph Wiseman,
Canadian-American actor (d. 2009) ·
1920 – Michel Audiard, French director and
screenwriter (d. 1985) ·
1922 – Sigurd Ottovich
Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (d. 2013) ·
1922
– Jakucho Setouchi,
Japanese nun and author ·
1923 – Richard Avedon, American sailor and
photographer (d. 2004) ·
1923
– John Lanchbery,
English-Australian composer and conductor (d. 2003) ·
1924 – Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist
and zoologist (d. 1971) ·
1925 – Andrei Eshpai, Russian pianist and composer
(d. 2015) ·
1925
– Mary F. Lyon,
English geneticist and biologist (d. 2014) ·
1925
– Carl Sanders,
American soldier, pilot, and politician, 74th Governor of Georgia (d.
2014) ·
1925
– Roy Stewart, Jamaican-English actor and
stuntman (d. 2008) ·
1926 – Clermont Pépin,
Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2006) ·
1926
– Anthony Shaffer,
English author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2001) ·
1926
– Peter Shaffer,
English playwright and screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
1930 – Jasper Johns, American painter and sculptor ·
1931 – Ken Venturi, American golfer and
sportscaster (d. 2013) ·
1935 – Don Bragg, American pole vaulter ·
1935
– Ted Dexter, Italian-English cricketer ·
1935
– Utah Phillips,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2008) ·
1935
– Akihiro Miwa,
Japanese singer, actor, director, composer, author and drag queen ·
1936 – Anna Maria
Alberghetti, Italian-American actress and singer ·
1936
– Mart Laga, Estonian basketball player (d.
1977) ·
1936
– Ralph Steadman,
English painter and illustrator ·
1936
– Paul Zindel, American playwright and novelist
(d. 2003) ·
1937 – Madeleine Albright,
Czech-American politician and diplomat, 64th United
States Secretary of State ·
1937
– Karin Krog, Norwegian singer ·
1937
– Trini Lopez, American singer, guitarist, and
actor (d. 2020) ·
1938 – Mireille Darc, French actress, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2017) ·
1938
– Nancy Garden,
American author (d. 2014)[12] ·
1939 – Dorothy Shirley, English high jumper and
educator ·
1940 – Roger Ailes, American businessman (d. 2017) ·
1940
– Lainie Kazan,
American actress and singer ·
1940
– Don Nelson, American basketball player and
coach ·
1941 – Jaxon, American illustrator and publisher,
co-founded the Rip Off Press (d.
2006) ·
1942 – Lois Johnson, American singer-songwriter (d.
2014) ·
1942
– Jusuf Kalla, Indonesian businessman and
politician, 10th Vice
President of Indonesia ·
1942
– Doug
Lowe, Australian politician, 35th Premier of Tasmania ·
1942
– K. T. Oslin, American singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1943 – Paul Bégin, Canadian lawyer and politician ·
1943
– Freddie Perren,
American songwriter, producer, and conductor (d. 2004) ·
1944 – Bill Alter, American police officer and
politician ·
1944
– Ulrich Beck, German sociologist and academic
(d. 2015) ·
1945 – Michael Dexter, English hematologist and
academic ·
1945
– Jerry Quarry,
American boxer (d. 1999) ·
1946 – Thadeus
Nguyễn Văn Lý, Vietnamese priest and activist ·
1947 – Graeham Goble, Australian singer-songwriter,
guitarist and producer ·
1948 – Kate Bornstein, American author, playwright,
performance artist, and gender theorist ·
1948
– Yutaka Enatsu,
Japanese baseball player ·
1948
– Brian Eno, English singer-songwriter,
keyboard player, and producer ·
1948
– Kathleen Sebelius,
American politician, 44th Governor of Kansas ·
1949 – Frank L.
Culbertson Jr., American captain, pilot, and astronaut ·
1949
– Robert S.J.
Sparks, English geologist and academic ·
1950 – Jim Bacon, Australian politician, 41st Premier of Tasmania (d.
2004) ·
1950
– Jim Simons,
American golfer (d. 2005) ·
1951 – Dennis Frederiksen,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2014) ·
1951
– Chris Ham, English political scientist and
academic ·
1951
– Frank Wilczek,
American mathematician and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1952 – Chazz Palminteri, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1953 – George Brett, American baseball player and
coach ·
1953
– Athene Donald,
English physicist and academic ·
1953
– Mike Oldfield,
English-Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1954 – Diana Liverman, English-American geographer
and academic ·
1954
– Caroline Thomson,
English journalist and broadcaster ·
1955 – Mohamed Brahmi, Tunisian politician (d.
2013) ·
1955
– Lia Vissi, Cypriot singer-songwriter and
politician ·
1956 – Andreas Loverdos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Labour ·
1956
– Dan Patrick,
American television anchor and sportscaster ·
1956
– Kevin Greenaugh,
American nuclear engineer ·
1957 – Meg Gardiner, American-English author and
academic ·
1957
– Juan José Ibarretxe,
Spanish politician ·
1957
– Kevin Von Erich,
American football player and wrestler ·
1958 – Jason Graae, American musical theater actor ·
1958
– Ruth Marcus,
American journalist ·
1958
– Ron Simmons, American football player and
wrestler ·
1959 – Khaosai Galaxy, Thai boxer and politician ·
1959
– Luis Pérez-Sala,
Spanish race car driver ·
1959
– Beverly Jo Scott,
American-Belgian singer-songwriter ·
1960 – Rhonda Burchmore, Australian actress,
singer, and dancer ·
1960
– Rob Bowman,
American director and producer ·
1960
– R. Kuhaneswaran,
Sri Lankan politician ·
1960
– Rimas Kurtinaitis,
Lithuanian basketball player and coach ·
1961 – Giselle Fernández,
Mexican-American television journalist. ·
1962 – Lisa Curry, Australian swimmer ·
1963 – Gavin Nebbeling, South African footballer[13] ·
1964 – Lars Løkke Rasmussen,
Danish lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister
of Denmark ·
1965 – André Abujamra,
Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1965
– Scott Tronc, Australian rugby league player ·
1966 – Jiří Němec,
Czech footballer ·
1967 – Simen Agdestein, Norwegian chess grandmaster
and football player ·
1967
– Laura Hillenbrand,
American journalist and author ·
1967
– John Smoltz, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1967
– Madhuri Dixit,
Indian actress ·
1968 – Cecilia Malmström,
Swedish academic and politician, 15th European
Commissioner for Trade ·
1968
– Sophie Raworth,
English journalist and broadcaster ·
1969 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese-American baseball
player (d. 2011) ·
1969
– Emmitt Smith, American
football player and sportscaster ·
1970 – Frank de Boer, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1970
– Ronald de Boer,
Dutch footballer and manager ·
1970
– Desmond Howard,
American football player and sportscaster ·
1970
– Alison Jackson,
English photographer, director, and screenwriter ·
1970
– Rod Smith,
American football player ·
1970
– Ben Wallace,
English captain and politician ·
1971 – Karin Lušnic, Slovenian tennis player ·
1972 – Danny Alexander, Scottish politician, Secretary
of State for Scotland ·
1972
– David Charvet,
French actor and singer ·
1974 – Vasilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player
and politician ·
1974
– Matthew Sadler,
English chess player and author ·
1974
– Marko Tredup,
German footballer and manager ·
1974
– Ahmet Zappa, American musician and writer ·
1975 – Ray Lewis, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1975
– Ales Michalevic,
Belarusian lawyer and politician ·
1976 – Torraye Braggs, American basketball player ·
1976
– Mark
Kennedy, Irish footballer ·
1976
– Jacek Krzynówek,
Polish footballer ·
1976
– Ryan Leaf, American football player and
coach ·
1976
– Anže Logar,
Slovenian politician ·
1976
– Tyler Walker,
American baseball player ·
1978 – Amy Chow, American gymnast and pediatrician ·
1978
– Dwayne De Rosario,
Canadian soccer player ·
1978
– Edu,
Brazilian footballer ·
1978
– David Krumholtz,
American actor ·
1979 – Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer ·
1979
– Daniel Caines,
English sprinter ·
1979
– Chris Masoe, New Zealand rugby player ·
1979
– Ryan Max Riley,
American skier ·
1979
– Robert Royal,
American football player ·
1979
– Dominic Scott,
Irish guitarist ·
1980 – Josh Beckett, American baseball player ·
1981 – Patrice Evra, French footballer ·
1981
– Paul Konchesky,
English international footballer[14] ·
1981
– Justin Morneau,
Canadian baseball player ·
1981
– Zara Phillips,
English equestrian ·
1981
– Jamie-Lynn Sigler,
American actress and singer ·
1982 – Veronica
Campbell-Brown, Jamaican sprinter ·
1982
– Segundo Castillo,
Ecuadorian footballer ·
1982
– Rafael Pérez,
Dominican baseball player ·
1982
– Layal Abboud,
Lebanese singer ·
1984 – Jeff Deslauriers, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1984
– Sérgio Jimenez,
Brazilian race car driver ·
1984
– Samantha Noble,
Australian actress ·
1984
– Beau Scott, Australian rugby league player ·
1984
– Mr Probz, Dutch singer, songwriter, rapper,
actor and record producer [15] ·
1985 – Cristiane,
Brazilian footballer ·
1985
– Tania Cagnotto,
Italian diver ·
1985
– Laura Harvey,
English football coach ·
1985
– Tathagata Mukherjee,
Indian actor ·
1985
– Denis Onyango,
Ugandan goalkeeper ·
1985
– Justine Robbeson,
South African javelin thrower ·
1986 – Thomas Brown,
American football player ·
1986
– Matías Fernández,
Chilean footballer ·
1986
– Adam Moffat, Scottish footballer ·
1987 – David Adams,
American baseball player ·
1987
– Michael Brantley,
American baseball player ·
1987
– Brian Dozier,
American baseball player ·
1987
– Mark Fayne, American ice hockey player ·
1987
– Ersan İlyasova,
Turkish basketball player ·
1987
– Leonardo Mayer,
Argentinian tennis player ·
1987
– Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player[16] ·
1988 – Indrek Kajupank, Estonian basketball player ·
1988
– Scott Laird, English footballer ·
1989 – Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa,
French footballer ·
1990 – Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1990
– Lee Jong-hyun,
Korean guitarist ·
1990
– Stella Maxwell,
New Zealand model ·
1993 – Jeremy Hawkins, New Zealand rugby league
player ·
1993
– Tomáš Kalas, Czech
international footballer[17] ·
1996 – Birdy, English singer-songwriter ·
1997 – Ousmane Dembélé,
French footballer Deaths[edit] ·
392 – Valentinian II, Roman emperor (b. 371) ·
558 – Hilary of Galeata,
Christian monk (b. 476) ·
884 – Narinus I, pope of the Catholic Church (b.
830) ·
913 – Hatto I,
German archbishop (b. 850) ·
926 – Zhuang Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 885) ·
973 – Byrhthelm,
bishop of Wells ·
1036 – Go-Ichijō,
emperor of Japan (b. 1008) ·
1157 – Yuri Dolgorukiy, Grand Prince of Kiev (b.
1099) ·
1175 – Mleh,
prince of Armenia ·
1174 – Nur ad-Din,
Seljuk emir of Syria (b. 1118) ·
1268 – Peter II,
count of Savoy (b. 1203) ·
1461 – Domenico Veneziano,
Italian painter (b. c. 1410) ·
1464 – Henry
Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (b. 1436) ·
1470 – Charles VIII,
king of Sweden (b. 1409) ·
1585 – Niwa Nagahide, Japanese samurai (b. 1535) ·
1609 – Giovanni Croce, Italian composer and
educator (b. 1557) ·
1615 – Henry Bromley,
English politician (b. 1560) ·
1634 – Hendrick Avercamp,
Dutch painter (b. 1585) ·
1698 – Marie Champmeslé,
French actress (b. 1642) ·
1699 – Sir Edward
Petre, 3rd Baronet, English politician (b. 1631) ·
1700 – John Hale,
American minister (b. 1636) ·
1740 – Ephraim Chambers, English publisher (b.
1680) ·
1773 – Alban Butler, English priest and
hagiographer (b. 1710) ·
1845 – Braulio Carrillo
Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, Head of
State of Costa Rica (b. 1800) ·
1879 – Gottfried Semper, German architect and
educator, designed the Semper Opera House (b.
1803) ·
1886 – Emily Dickinson, American poet and author
(b. 1830) ·
1914 – Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and
educator (b. 1863)[18] ·
1919 – Hasan Tahsin, Turkish journalist (b. 1888) ·
1924 – Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant,
French diplomat and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1852) ·
1926 – Joseph James
Fletcher, Australian biologist (b. 1850) ·
1928 – Umegatani
Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845) ·
1935 – Kazimir Malevich, Ukrainian-Russian painter
and theoretician (b. 1878) ·
1937 – Philip
Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer (b. 1864) ·
1945 – Kenneth J. Alford,
English soldier, bandmaster, and composer (b. 1881) ·
1945
– Charles
Williams, English author, poet, and critic (b. 1886) ·
1948 – Edward J. Flanagan,
Irish-American priest, founded Boys Town (b.
1886) ·
1954 – William March, American soldier and author
(b. 1893) ·
1956 – Austin Osman Spare,
English painter and magician (b. 1886) ·
1957 – Keith
Andrews, American race car driver (b. 1920) ·
1957
– Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1892) ·
1963 – John Aglionby,
English-born Bishop of Accra and
soldier (b. 1884) ·
1964 – Vladko Maček, Croatian lawyer and
politician (b. 1879) ·
1965 – Pio Pion, Italian businessman (b. 1887) ·
1967 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882) ·
1967
– Italo Mus, Italian painter (b. 1892) ·
1969 – Joe Malone,
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890) ·
1971 – Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer,
and playwright (b. 1900) ·
1978 – Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and
politician, 12th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1894) ·
1980 – Gordon Prange, American historian and author
(b. 1910) ·
1982 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b.
1946) ·
1984 – Francis Schaeffer,
American pastor, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1912) ·
1985 – Jackie Curtis, American actress and writer
(b. 1947) ·
1986 – Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b.
1958) ·
1986
– Theodore H. White,
American historian, journalist, and author (b. 1915) ·
1989 – Johnny Green, American composer and
conductor (b. 1908) ·
1989
– Luc Lacourcière,
Canadian ethnographer and author (b. 1910) ·
1991 – Andreas Floer, German mathematician and
academic (b. 1956) ·
1991
– Amadou Hampâté Bâ,
Malian ethnologist and author (b. 1901) ·
1991
– Fritz Riess, German race car driver (b.
1922) ·
1993 – Salah Ahmed Ibrahim,
Sudanese poet and diplomat (b. 1933) ·
1994 – Gilbert Roland, American actor (b. 1905) ·
1995 – Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928) ·
1996 – Charles B. Fulton,
American lawyer and judge (b. 1910) ·
1998 – Earl Manigault, American basketball player
(b. 1944) ·
1998
– Naim Talu, Turkish economist, banker,
politician, 15th Prime
Minister of Turkey (b. 1919) ·
2003 – June Carter Cash, American
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (b. 1929) ·
2006 – Nizar Abdul Zahra,
Iraqi footballer (b. 1961) ·
2007 – Jerry Falwell, American pastor,
founded Liberty University (b.
1933) ·
2008 – Tommy Burns,
Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1956) ·
2008
– Alexander Courage,
American composer and conductor (b. 1919) ·
2008
– Will Elder, American illustrator (b. 1921) ·
2009 – Bud Tingwell, Australian actor, director,
and producer (b. 1923) ·
2009
– Wayman Tisdale,
American basketball player and bass player (b. 1964) ·
2010 – Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b.
1987) ·
2010
– Loris Kessel, Swiss
race car driver (b. 1950) ·
2012 – Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and
essayist (b. 1928) ·
2012
– Arno Lustiger,
German historian and author (b. 1924) ·
2012
– Zakaria Mohieddin,
Egyptian soldier and politician, 33rd Prime Minister of
Egypt (b. 1918) ·
2013 – Henrique Rosa, Bissau-Guinean
politician, President of
Guinea-Bissau (b. 1946) ·
2014 – Jean-Luc Dehaene, French-Belgian politician,
63rd Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1940) ·
2014
– Noribumi Suzuki,
Japanese director and screenwriter (b. 1933) ·
2015 – Elisabeth Bing, German-American physical
therapist and author (b. 1914) ·
2015
– Jackie Brookner,
American sculptor and educator (b. 1945) ·
2015
– Garo Yepremian,
Cypriot-American football player (b. 1944) ·
2020
– Fred Willard,
American actor, comedian, and writer (b. 1933)[19] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Aoi Matsuri (Kyoto) ·
Christian feast day: o Athanasius of
Alexandria (Coptic
Church) o Dymphna o Hallvard Vebjørnsson (Roman Catholic
Church) o Isidore the Laborer,
celebrated with festivals in various countries, the beginning of bullfighting season in Madrid. o Jean-Baptiste
de La Salle (Roman Catholic
Church) o Peter,
Andrew, Paul, and Denise (Roman Catholic
Church) o Reticius (Roman Catholic
Church) o Sophia of Rome (Roman Catholic church) o May
15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Constituent
Assembly Day (Lithuania) ·
Earliest
date on which Armed Forces Day (United
States) can fall, while May 21 is the latest; celebrated on
the third Saturday of May. ·
Independence
Day (Paraguay), celebrates the independence of Paraguay from Spain in 1811. Celebrations
for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, May 14. ·
International
Conscientious Objectors Day ·
International
Day of Families (International) ·
La Corsa dei Ceri begins on the eve of
the feast day of Saint Ubaldo. (Gubbio) ·
Mother's Day (Paraguay) ·
Nakba Day (Palestinian
communities) ·
Peace
Officers Memorial Day (United States) ·
Teachers' Day (Colombia, Mexico and South Korea) |
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