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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 20 is the 140th day of the year (141st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
225 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
325 –
The First Council of
Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of
the Christian Church.[1] ·
491 –
Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I.
The widowed Augusta is
able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery. ·
685 –
The Battle of Dun
Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith,
who are decisively defeated. ·
794 –
While visiting the royal Mercian court
at Sutton Walls with
a view to marrying princess Ćlfthryth,
King Ćthelberht
II of East Anglia is taken captive and beheaded.[2] ·
1217 –
The Second Battle of
Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat
of Prince Louis of
France by William
Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke. ·
1293 –
King Sancho IV of Castile creates
the Estudio
de Escuelas de Generales in Alcalá de Henares. ·
1449 –
The Battle of
Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as
a principal royal family of Portugal. ·
1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the
west (other documents give a May 2 date). ·
1498 –
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers
the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as
Calicut), India.[3] ·
1521 – Ignatius of Loyola is
seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna. ·
1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis
Terrarum, the first modern atlas. ·
1609 – Shakespeare's
sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by
the publisher Thomas Thorpe.[4] ·
1631 –
The city of Magdeburg in
Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and
most of its inhabitants massacred,
in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War. ·
1645 – Yangzhou massacre:
The ten day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition
from Ming to Qing.[5] ·
1741 –
The Battle of
Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses. ·
1775 –
The Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte,
North Carolina. ·
1802 –
By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies,
revoking its abolition in the French Revolution. ·
1813 –
Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of
Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against
the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a
French victory. ·
1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire. ·
1861 – American Civil War:
The state of Kentucky proclaims
its neutrality,
which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces
enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the
Union. ·
1862 –
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs
the Homestead Act into
law, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.[6] ·
1864 –
American Civil War: Battle of
Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred
campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory. ·
1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.[7] ·
1875 –
Signing of the Metre Convention by
17 nations leading to the establishment of the International
System of Units. ·
1882 –
The Triple Alliance between
the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed. ·
1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt;
the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people. ·
1891 – History of cinema: The first public display
of Thomas Edison's
prototype kinetoscope. ·
1902 – Cuba gains
independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes
the country's first President. ·
1927 – Treaty of Jeddah:
The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd,
which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ·
1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to
begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a
female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day. ·
1940 – The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at
a new concentration camp at Auschwitz. ·
1941 –
World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete. ·
1948 –
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins
the 1948
Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as
the first President
of the Republic of China at Nanjing. ·
1949 –
In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to
the National
Security Agency, is established. ·
1956 –
In Operation Redwing,
the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. ·
1964 – Discovery of the cosmic
microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow
Wilson and Arno Penzias. ·
1967 –
The Popular
Movement of the Revolution political party is established in
the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. ·
1969 –
The Battle of
Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends. ·
1971 –
In the Chuknagar massacre,
Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus. ·
1980 –
In a referendum in
Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to
move towards independence from Canada. ·
1983 –
First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in
the journal Science by Luc Montagnier. ·
1983
– Church Street
bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes
on Church Street in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217
others. ·
1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins
broadcasting to Cuba. ·
1989 –
The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the
scene for the Tiananmen Square
massacre. ·
1990 –
The first post-Communist presidential
and parliamentary elections are held in Romania. ·
1996 – Civil
rights: The Supreme
Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that
would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative,
executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.[8] ·
2002 –
The independence of East Timor is
recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of
provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of
East Timor until 1976). ·
2012 –
At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude
earthquake strikes northern Italy. ·
2013 –
An EF5 tornado strikes
the Oklahoma City suburb
of Moore, killing
24 people and injuring 377 others. ·
2019 –
The International
System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making
the international
prototype of the kilogram obsolete. Births[edit] ·
1315 – Bonne of Luxembourg,
first wife of John II of France (d.
1349) ·
1470 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal, poet, and
scholar (d. 1547) ·
1505 – Levinus Lemnius, Dutch writer (d. 1568) ·
1531 – Thado Minsaw of Ava,
Viceroy of Ava (d. 1584) ·
1537 – Hieronymus Fabricius,
Italian anatomist (d. 1619) ·
1575 – Robert Heath, English judge and politician
(d. 1649) ·
1664 – Andreas Schlüter,
German sculptor and architect (d. 1714) ·
1726 – Francis Cotes, English painter and academic
(d. 1770) ·
1743 – Toussaint Louverture,
Haitian revolutionary, general, and president (d. 1803) ·
1759 – William Thornton, Virgin Islander-American
architect, designed the United States
Capitol (d. 1828) ·
1769 – Andreas Vokos
Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835) ·
1772 – Sir
William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, English inventor and politician,
developed Congreve rockets (d.
1828) ·
1776 – Simon Fraser,
American-Canadian fur trader and explorer (d. 1862) ·
1795 – Pedro María de Anaya,
Mexican soldier. President (1847-1848) (d. 1854)[9] ·
1799 – Honoré de Balzac,
French novelist and playwright (d. 1850) ·
1806 – John Stuart Mill, English economist, civil
servant, and philosopher (d. 1873) ·
1811 – Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and
politician, 4th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1887) ·
1818 – William Fargo, American businessman and
politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express (d. 1881) ·
1822 – Frédéric Passy,
French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1912) ·
1824 – Cadmus M. Wilcox, Confederate
States Army general (d. 1890) ·
1825 – Antoinette
Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream
Protestant minister in the U.S. (d. 1921) ·
1830 – Hector Malot, French author (d. 1907) ·
1838 – Jules Méline, French lawyer and politician,
65th Prime Minister
of France (d. 1925) ·
1851 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor,
invented the Gramophone record (d.
1929) ·
1854 – George Prendergast,
Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (d.
1937) ·
1856 – Henri-Edmond Cross,
French Neo-Impressionist painter (d. 1910) ·
1860 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, zymologist,
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1917) ·
1875 – Hendrik Offerhaus,
Dutch rower (d. 1953) ·
1877 – Pat Leahy,
Irish-American jumper (d. 1927) ·
1879 – Hans Meerwein, German chemist (d. 1965) ·
1882 – Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist,
essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1949) ·
1883 – Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933) ·
1886 – Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and
manager, founded the Galatasaray Sports Club (d. 1951) ·
1894 – Chandrashekarendra
Saraswati, Indian guru and scholar (d. 1994) ·
1895 – R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed
the Supermarine Spitfire and Supermarine S.6B (d. 1937) ·
1897 – Diego Abad de
Santillán, Spanish economist and author (d. 1983) ·
1897
– Malcolm Nokes,
English hammer and discus thrower (d. 1986) ·
1898 – Eduard Ole, Estonian painter (d. 1995) ·
1899 – Aleksandr Deyneka,
Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1969) ·
1899
– John Marshall
Harlan II, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1971) ·
1900 – Sumitranandan Pant,
Indian poet and author (d. 1977) ·
1901 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician,
and author (d. 1981) ·
1901
– Doris Fleeson,
American journalist (d. 1970) ·
1904 – Margery Allingham,
English author of detective fiction (d. 1966) ·
1906 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (d. 1989) ·
1907 – Carl Mydans, American photographer and
journalist (d. 2004) ·
1908 – Henry Bolte, Australian politician,
38th Premier of Victoria (d.
1990) ·
1908
– Louis Daquin,
French actor and director (d. 1980) ·
1908
– Francis Raymond
Fosberg, American botanist and author (d. 1993) ·
1908
– James Stewart,
American actor (d. 1997) ·
1911 – Gardner Fox, American author (d. 1986) ·
1911
– Annie M. G. Schmidt,
Dutch author and playwright (d. 1995) ·
1913 – Teodoro Fernández,
Peruvian footballer (d. 1996) ·
1913
– William
Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001) ·
1915 – Peter Copley, English actor (d. 2008) ·
1915
– Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician,
5th Israeli
Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1981) ·
1915
– Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor
(d. 1999) ·
1916 – Owen Chadwick, English rugby player,
historian, and academic (d. 2015) ·
1916
– Alexey Maresyev,
Russian soldier and pilot (d. 2001) ·
1916
– Ondina Valla,
Italian sprinter and hurdler (d. 2006) ·
1917 – Tony Cliff, Israeli-English author and
activist (d. 2000) ·
1917
– Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and
politician, 28th Canadian
Minister of Justice (d. 1967) ·
1918 – Alexandra Boyko, Russian tank commander (d.
1996) ·
1918
– Edward B. Lewis,
American biologist, geneticist, and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2004) ·
1919 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991) ·
1920 – John Cruickshank, Scottish lieutenant and
banker, Victoria Cross recipient ·
1921 – Wolfgang Borchert,
German author and playwright (d. 1947) ·
1921
– Hal Newhouser,
American baseball player and scout (d. 1998) ·
1921
– Hao Wang,
Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1995) ·
1922 – Ted Hinton,
Northern Irish international footballer (d. 1988)[10] ·
1923 – Edith Fellows, American actress (d. 2011) ·
1923
– Sam Selvon, Trinidad-born writer (d. 1994)[11] ·
1924 – David Chavchavadze,
English-American CIA officer and author (d. 2014) ·
1924
– Zelmar Michelini,
Uruguayan journalist and politician (d. 1976) ·
1925 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed
the Tupolev Tu-144 (d.
2001) ·
1926 – Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d.
1956) ·
1927 – Bud Grant, American football player and
coach ·
1927
– David Hedison,
American actor (d. 2019) ·
1927
– Franciszek Macharski,
Polish cardinal (d. 2016) ·
1929 – Gilles Loiselle, Canadian politician and
diplomat, 33rd Canadian
Minister of Finance ·
1930 – Sam Etcheverry, American football player and
coach (d. 2009) ·
1931 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1982) ·
1931
– Louis Smith,
American trumpeter (d. 2016) ·
1933 – Constance Towers, American actress and
singer ·
1935 – José Mujica, Uruguayan guerrilla leader and politician,
40th President
of Uruguay ·
1936 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor ·
1937 – Dave Hill,
American golfer (d. 2011) ·
1937
– Derek Lampe, English footballer[12] ·
1939 – Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director,
cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 2014) ·
1940 – Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter and
producer (d. 1969) ·
1940
– Stan Mikita, Slovak-Canadian ice hockey
player and sportscaster (d. 2018) ·
1940
– Sadaharu Oh, Japanese-Taiwanese baseball
player and manager ·
1941 – Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean politician,
2nd Prime
Minister of Singapore ·
1941
– John Strasberg,
American actor and teacher ·
1942 – Raymond Chrétien,
Canadian lawyer and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States ·
1942
– Lynn Davies, Welsh sprinter and long jumper ·
1942
– Carlos Hathcock,
American sergeant and sniper (d. 1999) ·
1942
– Frew McMillan,
South African tennis player ·
1943 – Albano Carrisi, Italian singer, actor, and
winemaker ·
1943
– Deryck Murray,
Trinidadian cricketer ·
1944 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (d.
2014) ·
1944
– Boudewijn de Groot,
Indonesian-Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1944
– Keith Fletcher,
English cricketer and manager ·
1944
– Dietrich Mateschitz,
Austrian businessman, co-founded Red Bull GmbH ·
1945 – Vladimiro Montesinos,
Peruvian intelligence officer ·
1946 – Cher,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress ·
1946
– Bobby Murcer,
American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2008) ·
1947 – Steve Currie, English bass player (d. 1981) ·
1947
– Greg Dyke, English journalist and academic ·
1949 – Robert Morin, Canadian director,
cinematographer, and screenwriter ·
1949
– Michčle Roberts,
English author and poet ·
1949
– Dave Thomas,
Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1950 – Andy Johns, English-American engineer and
producer (d. 2013) ·
1950
– Reinaldo Merlo,
Argentinian footballer and coach ·
1950
– Jane Parker-Smith,
English organist (d. 2020)[13] ·
1951 – Thomas Akers, American colonel, engineer,
and astronaut ·
1951
– Christie Blatchford,
Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (d. 2020)[14] ·
1951
– Mike Crapo, American lawyer and politician ·
1952 – Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer and
manager ·
1952
– Michael Wills,
English politician, British
Minister of Justice ·
1953 – Robert Doyle, Australian educator and
politician, 103rd Lord
Mayor of Melbourne ·
1954 – David Paterson, American lawyer and
politician, 55th Governor of New York ·
1954
– Colin
Sutherland, Lord Carloway, Scottish lawyer and judge ·
1955 – Steve George,
American keyboard player and songwriter ·
1955
– Zbigniew Preisner,
Polish composer and producer ·
1956 – Ingvar Ambjřrnsen,
Norwegian-German author and critic ·
1956
– Gerry Peyton,
English born Irish international footballer and coach[15] ·
1956
– Douglas Preston,
American journalist and author ·
1957 – Yoshihiko Noda, Japanese lawyer and
politician, 62nd Prime Minister of
Japan ·
1958 – Ron Reagan, American journalist and radio
host ·
1958
– Jane Wiedlin,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress ·
1959 – Susan Cowsill, American singer-songwriter ·
1960 – Tony Goldwyn, American actor and director ·
1961 – Clive Allen, English international
footballer and manager[16] ·
1961
– Nick Heyward,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1963 – David Wells, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1964 – Kōichirō
Genba, Japanese politician, 80th Japanese
Minister for Foreign Affairs ·
1964
– Edin Osmanović,
Slovenian footballer, coach, and manager ·
1964
– Charles
Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, English journalist and author ·
1965 – Ted Allen, American television host and
author ·
1965
– Stu Grimson, Canadian ice hockey player,
sportscaster, and lawyer ·
1966 – Dan Abrams, American journalist and author ·
1967 – Graham Brady, English politician ·
1967
– Gabriele Muccino,
Italian director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1968 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor and
producer ·
1969 – Road Dogg, American wrestler, producer, and
soldier ·
1970 – Terrell Brandon, American basketball player ·
1970
– Louis Theroux,
Singaporean-English journalist and producer ·
1971 – Šárka Kašpárková,
Czech triple jumper and coach ·
1971
– Tony Stewart,
American race car driver ·
1972 – Michael
Diamond, Australian shooter ·
1972
– Christophe Dominici,
French rugby player ·
1972
– Busta Rhymes,
American rapper, producer, and actor ·
1973 – Nathan Long,
Australian rugby league player ·
1974 – Allison Amend, American novelist and short
story writer ·
1974
– Shiboprosad
Mukherjee, Indian film director, writer and actor ·
1975 – Juan Minujín, Argentinian actor, director,
and screenwriter ·
1976 – Ramón Hernández,
Venezuelan-American baseball player ·
1976
– Tomoya Satozaki,
Japanese baseball player ·
1977 – Matt Czuchry, American actor ·
1977
– Leo Franco, Argentinian footballer ·
1977
– Angela Goethals,
American actress ·
1977
– Stirling Mortlock,
Australian rugby player ·
1977
– Vesa Toskala,
Finnish ice hockey player ·
1978 – Hristos Banikas, Greek chess player ·
1978
– Pavla
Hamáčková-Rybová, Czech pole vaulter ·
1978
– Nils Schumann,
German runner ·
1979 – Andrew Scheer, Canadian politician,
28th Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada ·
1979
– Jayson Werth,
American baseball player ·
1980 – Austin Kearns, American baseball player ·
1980
– Kassim Osgood,
American football player ·
1981 – Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer ·
1981
– Rachel Platten,
American singer and songwriter ·
1981
– Lindsay Taylor,
American basketball player ·
1981
– Mark Winterbottom,
Australian race car driver ·
1982 – Petr Čech, Czech footballer ·
1982
– Imran Farhat,
Pakistani cricketer ·
1982
– Jessica Raine,
English actress ·
1982
– Daniel Ribeiro,
Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1983 – Óscar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer ·
1983
– Matt Langridge,
English rower ·
1984 – Mauro Rafael da
Silva, Brazilian footballer ·
1984
– Patrick Ewing, Jr.,
American basketball player ·
1984
– Keith Grennan,
American football player ·
1985 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist ·
1985
– Brendon Goddard,
Australian footballer[17] ·
1986 – Dexter Blackstock,
English footballer[18] ·
1986
– Stéphane Mbia,
Cameroonian footballer ·
1986
– Jiřina
Svobodová, Czech pole vaulter ·
1987 – Mike Havenaar, Japanese footballer ·
1987
– Julian Wright,
American basketball player ·
1988 – Joel Moon, Australian rugby league player[19] ·
1989 – Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league
player ·
1991 – Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and
performer ·
1991
– Emre Colak, Turkish footballer ·
1992 – Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer ·
1992
– Jack Gleeson,
Irish actor ·
1992
– Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player ·
1993 – Caroline Zhang, American figure skater[20] ·
1996 – Brian Kelly,
Australian rugby league player ·
1998 – Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver ·
1998
– Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater Deaths[edit] ·
685 – Ecgfrith of
Northumbria (b. 645) ·
794 – Ćthelberht
II, king of East Anglia ·
965 – Gero
the Great, Saxon ruler (b.c. 900) ·
1062 – Bao Zheng, Chinese magistrate and mayor
of Kaifeng (b. 999) ·
1277 – Pope John XXI (b. 1215) ·
1285 – John II of Jerusalem (b.
1259) ·
1291 –
Sufi Saint Sayyid
Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari ·
1366 – Maria of Calabria,
Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329) ·
1444 – Bernardino of Siena,
Italian-Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1380) ·
1449 – Álvaro
Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches ·
1449
– Infante
Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392) ·
1501 – Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican tertiary
Religious Sister (b. 1467) ·
1503 – Lorenzo
di Pierfrancesco de' Medici, Italian banker and politician (b.
1463) ·
1506 – Christopher Columbus,
Italian explorer, discovered the Americas (b. 1451) ·
1550 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu,
Japanese shōgun (b. 1510) ·
1579 – Isabella Markham, English courtier (b. 1527) ·
1622 – Osman II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1604) ·
1645 – Shi Kefa, Chinese general and calligrapher
(b. 1601) ·
1648 – Władysław
IV Vasa, Polish son of Sigismund III Vasa (b.
1595) ·
1677 – George
Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, Spanish-English politician, English
Secretary of State (b. 1612) ·
1713 – Thomas Sprat, English bishop (b. 1635) ·
1717 – John Trevor,
Welsh lawyer and politician, 102nd Speaker of the House of Commons (b.
1637) ·
1722 – Sébastien Vaillant,
French botanist and mycologist (b. 1669) ·
1732 – Thomas Boston, Scottish author and educator
(b. 1676) ·
1782 – William
Emerson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1701) ·
1793 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss botanist and biologist
(b. 1720) ·
1812 – Count
Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop (b. 1732) ·
1834 – Gilbert
du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (b. 1757) ·
1841 – Joseph Blanco White,
Spanish poet and theologian (b. 1775) ·
1864 – John Clare, English poet (b. 1793) ·
1873 – George-Étienne
Cartier, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (b. 1814) ·
1880 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse and philanthropist
(b. 1814) ·
1896 – Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer
(b. 1819) ·
1909 – Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer
(b. 1859) ·
1917 – Valentine Fleming,
Scottish soldier and politician (b. 1887) ·
1917
– Philipp von Ferrary,
Italian stamp collector (b. 1850) ·
1924 – Bogd Khan, Mongolian ruler (c. 1869) ·
1925 – Joseph
Howard, Maltese politician, 1st Prime Minister of
Malta (b. 1862) ·
1931 – Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and
politician (b. 1831) ·
1940 – Verner von
Heidenstam, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1859) ·
1942 – Hector Guimard, French Architect (b. 1867) ·
1946 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish pilot and engineer
(b. 1871) ·
1947 – Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1862) ·
1947
– Georgios Siantos,
Greek sergeant and politician (b. 1890) ·
1949 – Damaskinos of Athens,
Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime
Minister of Greece (b. 1891) ·
1956 – Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist,
and caricaturist (b. 1872) ·
1956
– Zoltán Halmay,
Hungarian swimmer and trainer (b. 1881) ·
1961 – Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (b.
1915) ·
1964 – Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936) ·
1971 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b.
1904) ·
1973 – Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b.
1938) ·
1973
– Jarno Saarinen,
Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945) ·
1975 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and
lithographer (b. 1903) ·
1976 – Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1911) ·
1976
– Zelmar Michelini,
Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924) ·
1976
– Héctor Gutiérrez
Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934) ·
1989 – John Hicks, English economist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1904) ·
1989
– Gilda Radner,
American actress and comedian (b. 1946) ·
1995 – Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player
(b. 1925) ·
1996 – Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed
the Third Doctor (b.
1919) ·
1998 – Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (b.
1916) ·
2000 – Jean-Pierre Rampal,
French flute player (b. 1922) ·
2000
– Malik Sealy, American basketball player and
actor (b. 1970) ·
2000
– Yevgeny Khrunov,
Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933) ·
2001 – Renato Carosone, Italian singer-songwriter
and pianist (b. 1920) ·
2002 – Stephen Jay Gould,
American paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1941) ·
2005 – Paul Ricśur, French philosopher and academic
(b. 1913) ·
2005
– William Seawell,
American general (b. 1918) ·
2007 – Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914) ·
2008 – Hamilton Jordan, American politician,
8th White House
Chief of Staff (b. 1944) ·
2009 – Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect and
urban planner, designed Roy Thomson Hall (b. 1924) ·
2009
– Lucy Gordon,
American actress and model (b. 1980)[21] ·
2009
– Pierre Gamarra,
French author, poet, and critic (b. 1919) ·
2011 – Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor
(b. 1952) ·
2012 – Leela Dube, Indian anthropologist and
scholar (b. 1923) ·
2012
– Robin Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter
and producer (b. 1949) ·
2012
– David Littman,
English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1933) ·
2012
– Ken Lyons, American bass guitarist (b. 1953) ·
2012
– Eugene Polley,
American engineer, invented the remote control (b. 1915) ·
2012
– Andrew B. Steinberg,
American lawyer (b. 1958) ·
2013 – Flavio Costantini,
Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1926) ·
2013
– Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and
manager (b. 1924) ·
2013
– Anders Eliasson,
Swedish composer (b. 1947) ·
2013
– Miloslav Kříž,
Czech basketball player and coach (b. 1924) ·
2013
– Ray Manzarek,
American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1939) ·
2013
– Denys Roberts,
English judge and politician (b. 1923) ·
2013
– Zach Sobiech,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1995) ·
2014 – Sandra Bem, American psychologist and academic
(b. 1944) ·
2014
– Ross Brown,
New Zealand rugby player (b. 1934) ·
2014
– Robyn Denny, English-French painter (b.
1930) ·
2014
– Arthur Gelb, American journalist, author,
and critic (b. 1924) ·
2014
– Prince Rupert
Loewenstein, Spanish-English businessman (b. 1933) ·
2014
– Barbara Murray,
English actress (b. 1929)[22] ·
2015 – Bob Belden, American saxophonist, composer,
and producer (b. 1956) ·
2015
– Femi Robinson,
Nigerian actor and playwright (b. 1940) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Baudilus o Sanctan o May
20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of
Remembrance (Cambodia) ·
European Maritime
Day (European Council) ·
Independence
Restoration Day, celebrates the independence of East Timor from Indonesia in 2002. ·
National
Awakening Day (Indonesia), and its related observances: o Indonesian
Doctor Day (Indonesia) |
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