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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
223 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his
adopted son Lü Bu.[1] ·
760 –
Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. ·
853 –
A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.[2] ·
1176 –
The Hashshashin (Assassins)
attempt to assassinate Saladin near Aleppo. ·
1200 –
King John of England and
King Philip II of France sign
the Treaty of Le Goulet. ·
1246 – Henry
Raspe is elected anti-king of the Kingdom of Germany in
opposition to Conrad IV. ·
1254 – Serbian King Stefan Uroš I and the Republic of Venice sign
a peace treaty. ·
1370 – Brussels massacre:
Hundreds of Jews are murdered and the rest of the Jewish community is
banished from Brussels, Belgium, for allegedly desecrating
consecrated Host.[3] ·
1377 – Pope Gregory XI issues five papal bulls to denounce the doctrines of English theologian John Wycliffe. ·
1455 –
Start of the Wars of the Roses:
At the First Battle of
St Albans, Richard,
Duke of York, defeats and captures King Henry VI of England. ·
1520 –
The massacre
at the festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan,
resulting in turning the Aztecs against the Spanish.[4] ·
1629 – Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand
II and Danish King Christian IV sign
the Treaty of Lübeck ending
Danish intervention in the Thirty Years' War. ·
1762 –
Sweden and Prussia sign
the Treaty of
Hamburg. ·
1762
– Trevi Fountain is
officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.[5] ·
1766 –
A large earthquake causes
heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.[6] ·
1804 –
The Lewis and
Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs
from St. Charles, Missouri. ·
1807 –
A grand jury indicts former Vice
President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason. ·
1809 –
On the second and last day of the Battle of
Aspern-Essling (near Vienna, Austria), Napoleon I is repelled by an enemy army
for the first time. ·
1816 –
A mob in Littleport,
Cambridgeshire, England, riots over
high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to Ely the
next day. ·
1819 – SS Savannah leaves port
at Savannah, Georgia,
United States, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. ·
1826 – HMS Beagle departs on its
first voyage. ·
1840 –
The penal transportation of
British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished. ·
1848 – Slavery is
abolished in Martinique. ·
1849 –
Future U.S.
President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to
lift boats, making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a
patent. ·
1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall
of the United States Senate for
a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Union forces
begin the Siege of Port Hudson which
lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history. ·
1864 –
American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends
in failure. ·
1866 –
Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms ·
1872 – Reconstruction Era:
President Ulysses S. Grant signs
the Amnesty Act into
law, restoring full civil and
political rights to all but about 500 Confederate
sympathizers. ·
1900 –
The Associated Press is
formed in New York City as
a non-profit news cooperative. ·
1906 –
The Wright brothers are
granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". ·
1915 – Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful
force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the
contiguous U.S. during the 20th century. ·
1915
– Three trains collide in the Quintinshill
rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people
and injuring 246. ·
1926 – Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists
in Kuomintang China. ·
1927 –
Near Xining, China, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake causes
200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes. ·
1939 – World War II: Germany and Italy sign
the Pact of Steel. ·
1941 –
During the Anglo-Iraqi War,
British troops take Fallujah. ·
1942 – Mexico enters the
Second World War on the side of the Allies. ·
1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern. ·
1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect,
aiding Turkey and Greece. ·
1957 –
South Africa's government approves of racial separation in universities. ·
1958 –
The 1958 riots in Ceylon become
a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka.
The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils. ·
1960 –
The Great Chilean
earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude
scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake
ever recorded. ·
1962 – Continental
Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board. ·
1963 –
Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is
shot in an assassination attempt, and dies five days later. ·
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson launches
the Great Society. [1967]] – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping. ·
1967
– L'Innovation department
store in Brussels, Belgium,
burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most
devastating fire in Belgian history. ·
1968 –
The nuclear-powered submarine USS Scorpion sinks
with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. ·
1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within
8.4 nautical miles (16 km)
of the moon's surface. ·
1972 –
Ceylon adopts a new
constitution, becoming a republic and changing its name to Sri Lanka, and joins the Commonwealth of
Nations. ·
1972
– Over 400 women in Derry, Northern Ireland attack the offices
of Sinn Féin following
the shooting by the Irish Republican
Army of a young British soldier on leave. ·
1987 – Hashimpura massacre occurs
in Meerut, India. ·
1987
– First ever Rugby World Cup kicks
off with New Zealand playing Italy at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand. ·
1990 – North and South Yemen are unified to
create the Republic of Yemen. ·
1992 – Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia join the United Nations. ·
1994 –
A worldwide trade embargo against Haiti goes into effect to punish its
military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected
leader, Jean-Bertrand
Aristide. ·
1996 –
The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a
pro-democracy meeting. ·
1998 –
A U.S. federal judge rules that U.S. Secret
Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the Lewinsky scandal involving
President Bill Clinton. ·
2000 –
In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels
are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna. ·
2002 – Civil rights
movement: A jury in Birmingham, Alabama,
convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of
the 1963 murder of four girls in the 16th
Street Baptist Church bombing. ·
2010 – Air India
Express Boeing 737 crashes
over a cliff upon landing at Mangalore, India, killing 158 of 166 people
on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737. ·
2010
– Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2–0 in the Uefa Champions
League final in Madrid, Spain to become the first, and so far
only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia,
Champions League). ·
2011 – An EF5 tornado strikes Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and
wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest
single tornado in U.S. history. ·
2012 – Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It
is the tallest tower in
the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure
on Earth after Burj Khalifa (829.8
m). ·
2014 –
General Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes
interim leader of Thailand in a military coup d'état,
following six months of political turmoil. ·
2014
– An explosion occurs
in Ürümqi, capital of
China's far-western Xinjiang region,
resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries. ·
2015 –
The Republic of Ireland becomes
the first nation in the world to legalize
gay marriage in a public referendum. ·
2017 –
Twenty-two people are killed at an Ariana Grande concert in the 2017 Manchester
Arena bombing. ·
2017
– United States President Donald
Trump visits the Church of
the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting
U.S. president to visit the Western Wall. Births[edit] ·
626 – Itzam K'an Ahk I,
Mayan king (d. 686) ·
1009 – Su Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1066) ·
1408 – Annamacharya, Hindu saint (d. 1503) ·
1539 – Edward
Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford (d. 1621) ·
1622 – Louis de
Buade de Frontenac, French soldier and governor (d. 1698) ·
1644 – Gabriël Grupello,
Flemish Baroque sculptor (d. 1730) ·
1650 – Richard Brakenburgh,
Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1702) ·
1694 – Daniel Gran, Austrian painter (d. 1757) ·
1715 – François-Joachim
de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1794) ·
1733 – Hubert Robert, French painter (d. 1808) ·
1752 – Louis Legendre, French butcher and
politician (d. 1797) ·
1762 – Henry
Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst, English politician (d. 1834) ·
1770 – Princess
Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840) ·
1772 – Ram Mohan Roy, Indian philosopher and
reformer (d. 1833) ·
1782 – Hirose Tansō, Japanese neo-Confucian
scholar, teacher, writer (d. 1856) ·
1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and
inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850) ·
1808 – Gérard de Nerval,
French poet and translator (d. 1855) ·
1811 – Giulia Grisi, Italian soprano (d. 1869) ·
1811
– Henry
Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, English politician (d.
1864) ·
1813 – Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883) ·
1814 – Amalia Lindegren, Swedish painter (d. 1891) ·
1820 – Worthington
Whittredge, American painter (d. 1910) ·
1828 – Albrecht von Graefe,
German ophthalmologist and academic (d. 1870) ·
1831 – Henry Vandyke Carter,
English anatomist and surgeon (d. 1897) ·
1833 – Félix Bracquemond,
French painter and etcher (d. 1914) ·
1833
– Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla,
Spanish politician, Prime Minister of
Spain (d. 1895) ·
1841 – Catulle Mendčs,
French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1909) ·
1844 – Mary Cassatt, American painter and educator
(d. 1926) ·
1846 – Rita Cetina
Gutiérrez, Mexican poet, educator, and activist (d. 1908) ·
1848 – Fritz von Uhde, German painter and educator
(d. 1911) ·
1849 – Aston Webb, English architect and academic
(d. 1930) ·
1858 – Belmiro de Almeida,
Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (d. 1935) ·
1859 – Arthur Conan Doyle,
British writer (d. 1930) ·
1859
– Tsubouchi
Shōyō, Japanese author, playwright, and educator (d.
1935) ·
1864 – Willy Stöwer, German author and illustrator
(d. 1931) ·
1868 – Augusto
Pestana, Brazilian engineer and politician (d. 1934) ·
1874 – Daniel François
Malan, South African clergyman and politician, 5th Prime
Minister of South Africa (d. 1959) ·
1876 – Julius Klinger, Austrian painter and
illustrator (d. 1942) ·
1879 – Warwick Armstrong,
Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 1947) ·
1879
– Jean Cras, French admiral and composer (d.
1932) ·
1879
– Symon Petliura,
Ukrainian statesman and independence leader (d. 1926) ·
1880 – Francis de Miomandre,
French author and translator (d. 1959) ·
1885 – Giacomo Matteotti,
Italian lawyer and politician (d. 1924) ·
1885
– Soemu Toyoda,
Japanese admiral (d. 1957) ·
1887 – A. W. Sandberg, Danish film director and
screenwriter (d. 1938) ·
1891 – Johannes R. Becher,
German politician, novelist, and poet (d. 1958) ·
1894 – Friedrich Pollock,
German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1970) ·
1897 – Robert Neumann,
German and English-speaking author (d. 1975) ·
1900 – Juan Arvizu, Mexican lyric opera tenor and
bolero vocalist (d.1985) ·
1901 – Maurice J. Tobin, American politician,
6th United
States Secretary of Labor (d. 1953) ·
1902 – Jack
Lambert, English footballer and manager (d. 1940) [7] ·
1902
– Al Simmons, American baseball player and
coach (d. 1956) ·
1904 – Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and
inventor (d. 1989) ·
1905 – Bodo von Borries, German physicist and
academic, co-invented the electron microscope (d.
1956) ·
1905
– Tom Driberg, British politician (d. 1976) ·
1907 – Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (d.
1983) ·
1907
– Laurence Olivier,
English actor, director, and producer (d. 1989) ·
1908 – Horton Smith, American golfer and captain
(d. 1963) ·
1909 – Bob Dyer, American-Australian radio and
television host (d. 1984)[8] ·
1909
– Margaret Mee,
English illustrator and educator (d. 1988) ·
1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2004) ·
1913 – Rafael Gil, Spanish director and
screenwriter (d. 1986) ·
1913
– Dominique Rolin,
Belgian author (d. 2012) ·
1914 – Max Kohnstamm, Dutch historian and diplomat
(d. 2010) ·
1914
– Sun Ra, American pianist, composer,
bandleader, poet (d. 1993) ·
1917 – George Aratani, American businessman and
philanthropist (d. 2013) ·
1917
– Jean-Louis Curtis,
French author (d. 1995) ·
1919 – Paul Vanden
Boeynants, Belgian businessman and politician, 55th Prime Minister
of Belgium (d. 2001) ·
1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian-American
astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004) ·
1921 – George S. Hammond,
American scientist (d. 2005) ·
1922 – Quinn Martin, American screenwriter and
producer (d. 1987) ·
1924 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian
singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2018) ·
1925 – Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor
(d. 1991) ·
1927 – Michael Constantine,
American actor ·
1927
– Peter Matthiessen,
American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded The Paris Review (d. 2014) ·
1927
– George Andrew Olah,
Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2017) ·
1928 – Serge Doubrovsky, French theorist and author
(d. 2017) ·
1928
– John
Mackenzie, Scottish director and producer (d. 2011) ·
1928
– T. Boone Pickens,
American businessman (d. 2019) ·
1928
– Hiroshi Sano,
Japanese novelist (d. 2013) ·
1929 – Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet (d. 2013) ·
1930 – Kenny Ball, English jazz trumpet player,
vocalist, and bandleader (d. 2013) ·
1930
– Marisol Escobar,
French-American sculptor (d. 2016) ·
1930
– Harvey Milk, American lieutenant and
politician (d. 1978) ·
1932 – Robert
Spitzer, American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2015) ·
1933 – Fred
Anderson, Australian-South African rugby league player (d. 2012)[9] ·
1933
– Chen Jingrun,
Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 1996) ·
1934 – Peter Nero, American pianist and conductor ·
1935 – Billy Rayner, Australian rugby league player
(d. 2006)[10] ·
1936 – George H. Heilmeier,
American engineer (d. 2014) ·
1937 – Facundo Cabral, Argentinian
singer-songwriter (d. 2011) ·
1938 – Richard Benjamin, American actor and
director ·
1938
– Susan Strasberg,
American actress (d. 1999) ·
1939 – Paul Winfield, American actor (d. 2004) ·
1940 – Kieth Merrill, American filmmaker ·
1940
– E. A. S. Prasanna,
Indian cricketer[11] ·
1940
– Michael Sarrazin,
Canadian actor (d. 2011) ·
1940
– Bernard Shaw,
American journalist ·
1940
– Mick Tingelhoff,
American Pro Football Hall of Famer ·
1941 – Menzies Campbell, Scottish sprinter and
politician ·
1942 – Roger
Brown, American basketball player (d. 1997)[12] ·
1942
– Ted Kaczynski,
American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber) ·
1942
– Barbara Parkins,
Canadian actress ·
1942
– Richard Oakes,
Native American civil rights activist (d. 1972) ·
1943 – Betty
Williams, Northern Irish peace activist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2020) ·
1943
– Tommy John, American baseball player ·
1944 – John Flanagan,
Australian fantasy author ·
1945 – Bob Katter, Australian politician ·
1946 – George Best, Northern Irish footballer and
manager (d. 2005) ·
1946
– Michael Green,
English physicist and academic ·
1946
– Howard Kendall,
English footballer and manager (d. 2015) ·
1946
– Andrei Marga,
Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician ·
1946
– Lyudmila Zhuravleva,
Russian-Ukrainian astronomer ·
1948 – Tomás Sánchez,
Cuban painter and engraver ·
1948
– Nedumudi Venu,
Indian actor and screenwriter ·
1949 – Cheryl Campbell, English actress ·
1949
– Valentin Inzko,
Austrian diplomat ·
1950 – Bernie Taupin, English singer-songwriter and
poet ·
1953 – François Bon, French writer ·
1953
– Cha Bum-kun, South Korean footballer and
manager ·
1953
– Paul Mariner,
English footballer, coach, and manager ·
1954 – Barbara May Cameron,
Native American human rights activist (d. 2002)[13] ·
1954
– Shuji Nakamura,
Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1955 – Iva Davies, Australian singer-songwriter and
guitarist[14] ·
1956 – Lucie Brock-Broido,
American poet (d. 2018) ·
1957 – Lisa Murkowski, American lawyer and
politician ·
1959 – David Blatt, Israeli-American basketball
player and coach ·
1959
– Olin Browne, American golfer[15] ·
1959
– Morrissey, English singer-songwriter and
performer ·
1959
– Kwak Jae-yong,
South Korean director and screenwriter ·
1959
– Mehbooba Mufti,
Indian politician ·
1960 – Hideaki Anno, Japanese animator, director,
and screenwriter ·
1962 – Andrew Magee, French-American golfer[16] ·
1962
– Brian Pillman,
American football player and wrestler (d. 1997) ·
1963 – Claude Closky, French contemporary artist[17] ·
1965 – Jay Carney, American journalist, 29th White House
Press Secretary ·
1966 – Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1966
– Wang Xiaoshuai,
Chinese director and screenwriter ·
1968 – Graham Linehan, Irish comedian, actor, and
author ·
1969 – Cathy McMorris
Rodgers, American lawyer and politician ·
1970 – Naomi Campbell, English model ·
1970
– Brody Stevens,
American comedian and actor (d. 2019) ·
1972 – Max Brooks, American author and screenwriter ·
1973 – Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Danish actor ·
1974 – Garba Lawal, Nigerian footballer ·
1974
– Henrietta Ónodi,
Hungarian Olympic gymnast ·
1974
– Arseniy Yatsenyuk,
Ukrainian politician ·
1975 – Salva Ballesta, Spanish footballer and
manager ·
1976 – Christian Vande
Velde, American cyclist ·
1977 – Pat Smullen, Irish jockey[18] ·
1978 – Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress ·
1978
– Katie Price, English television personality
and glamour model ·
1979 – Nazanin Boniadi, Iranian-American actress ·
1979
– Maggie Q, American actress ·
1980 – Tarin Bradford, Australian rugby league
player[19] ·
1980
– Sharice Davids,
American politician ·
1980
– Lucy Gordon,
British actress and model (d. 2009) ·
1981 – Daniel Bryan, American wrestler ·
1981
– Bassel Khartabil,
Syrian computer programmer and engineer (d. 2015) ·
1981
– Jürgen Melzer,
Austrian tennis player ·
1981
– Mark O'Meley,
Australian rugby league player[20] ·
1982 – Erin McNaught, Australian model and actress ·
1982
– Apolo Ohno, American speed skater ·
1982
– Hong Yong-jo,
North Korean footballer ·
1983 – Natasha Kai, American soccer player and
Olympic medalist ·
1984 – Karoline Herfurth,
German actress ·
1984
– Didier Ya Konan,
Ivorian footballer ·
1984
– Dustin Moskovitz,
American entrepreneur, co-founder of Facebook ·
1985 – Tranquillo Barnetta,
Swiss footballer ·
1985
– Tao Okamoto, Japanese model and actress ·
1986 – Julian Edelman, American football player ·
1986
– Matt Jarvis, English footballer ·
1986
– Tatiana Volosozhar,
Russian figure skater ·
1987 – Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player ·
1987
– Arturo Vidal,
Chilean footballer ·
1988 – Heida Reed, Icelandic-British actress ·
1989 – Corey Dickerson, American baseball player ·
1990 – Wyatt Roy, Australian politician ·
1991 – Joel Obi, Nigerian footballer ·
1991
– Suho, South Korean singer and actor ·
1992 – Anna Baryshnikov, American actress[21] ·
1994 – Florian Luger, Austrian male model ·
1998 – Samile Bermannelli,
Brazilian fashion model[22] ·
1999 – Camren Bicondova, American actress ·
1999
– Femke Huijzer,
Dutch model[23] Deaths[edit] ·
192 – Dong Zhuo, Chinese warlord and politician
(b. 138) ·
337 – Constantine the
Great, Roman emperor (b. 272) ·
748 – Empress Genshō of
Japan (b. 683) ·
1067 – Constantine X, Byzantine Emperor (b.
1006) ·
1068 – Emperor Go-Reizei of
Japan (b. 1025) ·
1310 – Saint Humility, founder of the Vallumbrosan religious order of nuns
(b. c.1226) ·
1409 – Blanche of England,
sister of King Henry V (b. 1392) ·
1455 – Edmund
Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1406) ·
1455
– Thomas
Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, Lancastrian commander (b. 1414) ·
1455
– Henry
Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English commander (b. 1393) ·
1457 – Rita of Cascia, Italian nun and saint (b.
1381) ·
1490 – Edmund
Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, English administrator, nobleman and
magnate (b. 1416) ·
1538 – John Forest, English friar and martyr (b.
1471) ·
1540 – Francesco
Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (b. 1483) ·
1545 – Sher Shah Suri, Indian ruler (b. 1486) ·
1553 – Giovanni Bernardi,
Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1495) ·
1602 – Renata of Lorraine (b.
1544) ·
1609 – Pieter
Willemsz. Verhoeff, Dutch captain (b. 1573) ·
1666 – Gaspar Schott, German physicist and
mathematician (b. 1608) ·
1667 – Pope Alexander VII (b.
1599) ·
1745 – François-Marie,
1st duc de Broglie, French general (b. 1671) ·
1760 – Baal Shem Tov, Polish rabbi and author (b.
1700) ·
1772 – Durastante Natalucci,
Italian historian and academic (b. 1687) ·
1795 – Ewald
Friedrich von Hertzberg, Prussian politician, Foreign
Minister of Prussia (b. 1725) ·
1802 – Martha Washington,
First, First Lady of the United States (b. 1731) ·
1851 – Mordecai Manuel Noah,
American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755) ·
1859 – Ferdinand
II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810) ·
1861 – Thornsbury Bailey
Brown, American soldier (b. 1829) ·
1868 – Julius Plücker,
German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801) ·
1885 – Victor Hugo, French novelist, poet, and
playwright (b. 1802) ·
1901 – Gaetano Bresci, Italian-American anarchist,
assassin of Umberto I of Italy (b.
1869) ·
1910 – Jules Renard, French author and playwright
(b. 1864) ·
1932 – Augusta, Lady
Gregory, Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright,
co-founded the Abbey Theatre (b.
1852) ·
1933 – Tsengeltiin
Jigjidjav, Mongolian politician, 10th Prime
Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894) ·
1938 – William Glackens, American painter and
illustrator (b. 1870) ·
1939 – Ernst Toller, German playwright and author
(b. 1893) ·
1939
– Jiří Mahen,
Czech author and playwright (b. 1882) ·
1948 – Claude McKay, Jamaican writer and poet (b.
1889) ·
1954 – Chief Bender, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (b. 1884) ·
1965 – Christopher
Stone, English radio host (b. 1882) ·
1966 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900) ·
1967 – Langston Hughes, American poet, social
activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902) ·
1967
– Charlotte Serber,
American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)[24] ·
1972 – Cecil Day-Lewis, Anglo-Irish poet and author
(b. 1904) ·
1972
– Margaret Rutherford,
English actress (b. 1892) ·
1974 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz,
German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903) ·
1975 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b.
1900) ·
1982 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish general and
politician, 5th President of Turkey (b.
1899) ·
1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1899) ·
1985 – Wolfgang Reitherman,
German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909) ·
1988 – Giorgio Almirante,
Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914) ·
1989 – Steven De Groote, South African pianist and
educator (b. 1953) ·
1990 – Rocky Graziano, American boxer (b. 1922) ·
1991 – Shripad Amrit Dange,
Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899) ·
1991
– Stan Mortensen,
English footballer and manager (b. 1921) ·
1992 – Zellig Harris, American linguist and
academic (b. 1909) ·
1993 – Mieczysław
Horszowski, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892) ·
1997 – Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and
painter (b. 1906) ·
1997
– Alfred Hershey,
American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1908) ·
1998 – John Derek, American actor, director, and
photographer (b. 1926) ·
1998
– José Enrique Moyal,
Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910) ·
2000 – Davie Fulton, Canadian lawyer, judge, and
politician (b. 1916) ·
2004 – Richard Biggs, American actor (b. 1960) ·
2004
– Mikhail Voronin,
Russian gymnast (b. 1945) ·
2005 – Charilaos Florakis,
Greek politician (b. 1914) ·
2005
– Thurl Ravenscroft,
American voice actor and singer (b. 1914) ·
2006 – Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and
diplomat (b. 1945) ·
2007 – Pemba Doma Sherpa,
Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970) ·
2008 – Robert Asprin, American soldier and author
(b. 1946) ·
2010 – Martin Gardner, American mathematician,
cryptographer, and author (b. 1914) ·
2011 – Joseph Brooks,
American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938) ·
2012 – Muzafar Bhutto, Pakistani politician (b.
1970) ·
2012
– Wesley A. Brown,
American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927) ·
2013 – Sigurd Ottovich
Schmidt, Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Marques Haynes, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1926) ·
2015
– Vladimir Katriuk,
Ukrainian-Canadian SS officer (b. 1921) ·
2016 – Velimir
"Bata" Živojinović, Serbian actor and politician
(b. 1933) ·
2017 – Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer (b.
1981)[25] ·
2019 – Judith Kerr, German-born British writer and
illustrator (b. 1923) ·
2020 – Denise Cronenberg,
Canadian costume designer (b. 1938)[26] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Fulk o Humilita o Michael
Hồ Đěnh Hy (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) o Quiteria o May
22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Harvey Milk Day (California) ·
International
Day for Biological Diversity (International) ·
United
States National Maritime Day ·
National
Sovereignty Day (Haiti) ·
Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas from Myra
to Bari (Ukraine) ·
Unity Day (Yemen),
celebrates the unification of North and South Yemen into the Republic
of Yemen in 1990. |
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