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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 24 is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
221 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
919 –
The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial
Diet in Fritzlar as king
of the East Frankish Kingdom. ·
1218 –
The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. ·
1276 – Magnus Ladulås is
crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral. ·
1487 –
The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is
crowned in Christ
Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a
bid to threaten King Henry VII's
reign. ·
1567 – Erik XIV of Sweden and
his guards murder five
incarcerated Swedish nobles. ·
1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden
University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an
institutional library. ·
1607 –
One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown,
the first permanent English colony in America. ·
1621 –
The Protestant Union is
formally dissolved. ·
1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan. ·
1667 –
The French
Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands,
starting the War of Devolution opposing France to
the Spanish Empire and
the Triple Alliance. ·
1683 –
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first
university museum. ·
1689 –
The English Parliament passes
the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but
excluding Roman Catholics. ·
1738 – John Wesley is converted,
essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated
annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is
generally held on the preceding Sunday. ·
1798 –
The Irish Rebellion
of 1798 led by the United
Irishmen against British rule begins. ·
1813 –
South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading
the invasion of Venezuela, and is
proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator"). ·
1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures
the independence of the Presidency of Quito. ·
1832 –
The First Kingdom of
Greece is declared in the London
Conference. ·
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What
hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in
the United States
Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and
Washington D.C. ·
1856 – John Brown and
his men kill five slavery
supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. ·
1861 – American Civil War: Union troops
occupy Alexandria, Virginia. ·
1883 –
The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic
after 14 years of construction. ·
1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes
the Orange Free State. ·
1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the
side of the Allies. ·
1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin,
Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from
England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). ·
1935 –
The first night game in Major League
Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia
Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field. ·
1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first
successful single-rotor helicopter flight. ·
1940
– Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates
an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico. ·
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the
Atlantic, the German
Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three
crewmen. ·
1948 – Arab–Israeli War:
Egypt captures the
Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives
Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week
later. ·
1956 –
The first Eurovision Song
Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland. ·
1958 – United Press
International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International
News Service. ·
1960 –
Following the 1960 Valdivia
earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle
begins to erupt. ·
1961 – American
civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi,
for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus. ·
1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three
times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. ·
1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of
the Red Sea coast of Israel. ·
1976 –
The Judgment of
Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the
production of quality wine. ·
1981 –
Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós
Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an
aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the
president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of
the Battle of Pichincha. ·
1982 – Liberation of
Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of
the port city of Khorramshahr from
the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War. ·
1988 – Section 28 of the United
Kingdom's Local
Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that
a local
authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted. ·
1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon,
evacuating Ethiopian Jews to
Israel. ·
1992 –
The last Thai dictator,
General Suchinda Kraprayoon,
resigns following pro-democracy protests. ·
1992
– The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and
Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces
enter the town. ·
1993 – Eritrea gains its independence
from Ethiopia. ·
1993
– Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús
Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a
shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International
Airport in Mexico.[1] ·
1994 –
Four men convicted of bombing
the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced
to 240 years in prison. ·
1995 –
While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford
Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight
816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on
board.[2] ·
1999 –
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former
Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan
Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against
humanity committed in Kosovo. ·
2000 –
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of
occupation. ·
2002 –
Russia and the United States sign the Moscow
Treaty. ·
2014 –
A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs
in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people. ·
2014
– At least three people are killed in a shooting at
Brussels' Jewish Museum of
Belgium. ·
2019 –
Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India).[3] ·
2019
– Under pressure over her handling of Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation
as Leader of the Conservative Party, effective as of June 7. Births[edit] ·
15 BC – Germanicus, Roman general (d. 19) ·
1335 – Margaret
of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary (d. 1349) ·
1494 – Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557) ·
1522 – John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571) ·
1544 – William
Gilbert, English physician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1603) ·
1576 – Elizabeth
Carey, Lady Berkeley, English courtier (d. 1635) ·
1616 – John
Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, Scottish politician, Secretary of
State, Scotland (d. 1682) ·
1628 – Marek Sobieski,
Polish noble (d. 1652) ·
1669 – Emerentia von Düben,
Swedish royal favorite (d. 1743) ·
1671 – Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.
1737) ·
1686 – Daniel Gabriel
Fahrenheit, Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed
the Fahrenheit scale (d. 1736) ·
1689 – Daniel
Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord
President of the Council (d. 1769) ·
1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician,
journalist, and politician (d. 1793) ·
1789 – Cathinka Buchwieser,
German operatic singer and actress (d.1828) ·
1794 – William Whewell, English priest and
philosopher (d. 1866) ·
1803 – Alexander von
Nordmann, Finnish biologist and paleontologist (d. 1866) ·
1810 – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d.
1874) ·
1816 – Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter (d.
1868) ·
1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
(d. 1901)[4] ·
1830 – Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter and
academic (d. 1897) ·
1855 – Arthur Wing Pinero,
English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1934) ·
1861 – Gerald
Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician,
4th Prime Minister of
Malta (d. 1940) ·
1863 – George Grey Barnard,
American sculptor (d. 1938) ·
1868 – Charlie Taylor,
American engineer and mechanic (d. 1956) ·
1870 – Benjamin N. Cardozo,
American lawyer and judge (d. 1938) ·
1870
– Jan Smuts, South African lawyer and
politician, 2nd Prime
Minister of South Africa (d. 1950) ·
1874 – Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (d.
1878) ·
1875 – Robert Garrett, American discus thrower and
shot putter (d. 1961) ·
1878 – Lillian Moller
Gilbreth, American psychologist and engineer (d. 1972) ·
1879 – H. B. Reese, American candy maker,
created Reese's Peanut
Butter Cups (d. 1956) ·
1886 – Paul Paray, French organist, composer, and
conductor (d. 1979) ·
1887 – Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918) ·
1891 – William F. Albright,
American archaeologist, philologist, and scholar (d. 1971) ·
1895 – Samuel Irving
Newhouse Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications (d.
1979) ·
1899 – Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d.
1938) ·
1899
– Henri Michaux,
Belgian-French poet and painter (d. 1984) ·
1900 – Eduardo De Filippo,
Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984) ·
1901 – José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and
manager (d. 1968) ·
1902 – Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player
and politician (d. 1954) ·
1902
– Sylvia Daoust,
Canadian sculptor (d. 2004) ·
1905 – George Nakashima, American woodworker and
architect[5] (d. 1990) ·
1905
– Mikhail Sholokhov,
Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1984) ·
1909 – Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician
(d. 1992) ·
1910 – Jimmy Demaret, American golfer (d. 1983) ·
1913 – Joe Abreu, American baseball player and
soldier (d. 1993) ·
1914 – Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (d.
1986) ·
1916 – Roden Cutler, Australian lieutenant and
politician, 32nd Governor of
New South Wales (d. 2002) ·
1917 – Alan
Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, English lawyer and judge (d.
2013) ·
1918 – Coleman Young, American politician,
66th Mayor of Detroit (d.
1997) ·
1923 – Siobhán McKenna,
Irish actress (d. 1986) ·
1924 – Philip Pearlstein,
American soldier and painter ·
1925 – Carmine Infantino,
American illustrator and educator (d. 2013) ·
1925
– Mai Zetterling,
Swedish actress and director (d. 1994) ·
1926 – Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor and
screenwriter ·
1928 – William Trevor, Irish novelist, playwright
and short story writer (d. 2016) ·
1932 – Arnold Wesker, English playwright and
producer (d. 2016) ·
1933 – Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician,
50th Mayor of Chicago (d.
2014) ·
1933
– Réal Giguère,
Canadian television host and actor ·
1933
– Aharon Lichtenstein,
French-Israeli rabbi and author (d. 2015) ·
1935 – Joan Micklin Silver,
American director and screenwriter ·
1936 – Harold Budd, American composer and poet ·
1937 – Maryvonne Dupureur,
French runner and educator (d. 2008) ·
1937
– Archie Shepp,
American saxophonist and composer ·
1938 – Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter
and producer (d. 2016) ·
1938
– Tommy Chong, Canadian-American actor,
director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1940 – Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and
essayist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1996) ·
1941 – Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, artist, writer, and producer; Nobel Prize laureate ·
1941
– Patricia
Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, English academic and
politician ·
1942 – Ali Bacher, South African cricketer and
manager ·
1942
– Hannu Mikkola,
Finnish race car driver ·
1942
– Ichirō Ozawa,
Japanese lawyer and politician, Japanese
Minister of Home Affairs ·
1943 – Gary Burghoff, American actor ·
1944 – Patti LaBelle, American singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1944
– Dominique Lavanant,
French actress ·
1945 – Terry Callier, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2012) ·
1945
– Steven Norris,
English engineer and politician ·
1945
– Richard Ottaway,
English lieutenant and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs ·
1945
– Priscilla Presley,
American actress and businesswoman ·
1946 – Tansu Çiller, Turkish economist and
politician, 22nd Prime Minister
of Turkey ·
1946
– Jesualdo Ferreira,
Portuguese footballer and manager ·
1946
– Irena Szewińska,
Russian-Polish sprinter ·
1947 – Albert Bouchard, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and drummer ·
1947
– Mike De Leon,
Filipino director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer ·
1947
– Mike Reid,
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and American football player ·
1947
– Waddy Wachtel,
American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and record producer ·
1947
– Martin Winterkorn,
German businessman ·
1948 – Richard Dembo, French director and
screenwriter (d. 2004) ·
1949 – Jim Broadbent, English actor ·
1949
– Roger Deakins ,
English cinematographer ·
1953 – Alfred Molina, English actor ·
1955 – Rosanne Cash, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1955
– Philippe Lafontaine,
Belgian singer and songwriter ·
1955
– Rajesh Roshan,
Indian composer ·
1956 – R. B. Bernstein, American constitutional
historian ·
1956
– Larry Blackmon,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1956
– Dominic Grieve,
English lawyer and politician, Attorney
General for England and Wales ·
1956
– Michael Jackson,
Irish archbishop ·
1958 – Chip Ganassi, American race car driver, team
owner and businessman ·
1959 – Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish-American ice hockey
player (d. 1985) ·
1959
– Barry O'Farrell,
Australian politician, 43rd Premier of New
South Wales ·
1960 – Guy Fletcher, English keyboard player,
guitarist, and producer ·
1960
– Bill Harrigan,
Australian rugby league referee and sportscaster ·
1960
– Kristin Scott Thomas,
English actress ·
1961 – Lorella Cedroni, Italian philosopher and
theorist (d. 2013) ·
1961
– Alain Lemieux,
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach ·
1962 – Héctor Camacho,
Puerto Rican-American boxer (d. 2012) ·
1962
– Gene Anthony Ray,
American actor, dancer, and choreographer (d. 2003) ·
1963 – Ivan Capelli, Italian race car driver and
sportscaster ·
1963
– Michael Chabon,
American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter ·
1963
– Joe Dumars, American basketball player ·
1963
– Rich Rodriguez,
American football player and coach ·
1963
– Valerie
Taylor, American computer scientist and educator ·
1964 – Liz McColgan, Scottish educator and runner ·
1964
– Adrian Moorhouse,
English swimmer ·
1964
– Isidro Pérez,
Mexican boxer (d. 2013) ·
1964
– Pat Verbeek, Canadian ice hockey player and
manager ·
1965 – John C. Reilly, American actor ·
1965
– Shinichirō
Watanabe, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1966 – Éric Cantona, French footballer, manager,
and actor ·
1966
– Ricky Craven,
American race car driver and sportscaster ·
1967 – Tamer
Karadağlı, Turkish actor ·
1967
– Andrey Borodin,
Russian-English economist and businessman ·
1967
– Eric Close, American actor ·
1967
– Heavy D, Jamaican-American rapper, producer,
and actor (d. 2011) ·
1967
– Carlos Hernández,
Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager ·
1969 – Martin McCague, Northern Irish-English
cricketer ·
1969
– Jacob Rees-Mogg,
English politician ·
1969
– Rich Robinson,
American guitarist and songwriter ·
1971 – Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player and
manager ·
1972 – Greg Berlanti, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1973 – Rodrigo,
Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2000) ·
1973
– Bartolo Colón,
Dominican-American baseball player ·
1973
– Shirish Kunder,
Indian director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1973
– Vladimír Šmicer,
Czech footballer and manager ·
1974 – Sébastien Foucan,
French runner and actor ·
1974
– Masahide Kobayashi,
Japanese baseball player and coach ·
1974
– Magnus Manske,
German biochemist and computer programmer, developed MediaWiki ·
1975 – Will Sasso, Canadian actor and comedian ·
1975
– Marc Gagnon, Canadian speed skater ·
1975
– Giannis Goumas,
Greek footballer and coach ·
1975
– Maria Lawson,
English singer-songwriter ·
1976 – Alessandro Cortini,
Italian-American singer and keyboard player ·
1976
– Catherine Cox,
New Zealand-Australian netball player ·
1976
– Silje Vige, Norwegian singer ·
1977 – Jeet Gannguli, Indian score composer, music
director and singer ·
1978 – Elijah Burke, American wrestler ·
1978
– Johan Holmqvist,
Swedish ice hockey player ·
1978
– Brad Penny, American baseball player ·
1978
– Rose,
French singer, songwriter and composer ·
1979 – Tracy McGrady, American basketball player ·
1979
– Kareem McKenzie,
American football player ·
1980 – Jason Babin, American football player ·
1980
– Anthony Minichiello,
Australian rugby league player ·
1981 – Andy Lee,
Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter ·
1982 – Issah Gabriel Ahmed,
Ghanaian footballer ·
1982
– Rian Wallace,
American football player ·
1983 – Custódio Castro,
Portuguese footballer ·
1983
– Pedram Javaheri,
Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist ·
1983
– Woo Seung-yeon,
South Korean model and actress (d. 2009) ·
1984 – Sarah Hagan, American actress ·
1984
– Dmitri Kruglov,
Estonian footballer ·
1985 – Tim Bridgman, English race car driver ·
1986 – Mark Ballas, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, dancer, and actor ·
1986
– Giannis Kontoes,
Greek footballer ·
1987 – Guillaume
Latendresse, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1988 – Artem Anisimov, Russian ice hockey player ·
1988
– Monica Lin Brown,
American sergeant ·
1988
– Billy Gilman,
American musician[6] ·
1988
– Lucian Wintrich,
American political artist and White House correspondent ·
1989 – G-Eazy, American rapper[7] ·
1989
– Andrew
Jordan, English race car driver ·
1990 – Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player ·
1991 – Aled Davies,
Welsh discus thrower ·
1991
– Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1992 – Marcus Bettinelli,
English footballer, goalkeeper[8] ·
1994
– Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer[9] ·
1994 – Emily Nicholl, Scottish netball player[10] ·
1994
– Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer[11] ·
1994
– Emily Temple Wood,
American 2016 Wikipedian of the
Year award[12] ·
1999 – Tarjei Sandvik Moe,
Norwegian actor[13] Deaths[edit] ·
688 – Ségéne, bishop of Armagh (b. c. 610) ·
1089 – Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury ·
1136 – Hugues de Payens, first Grand
Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1070) ·
1153 – David I of Scotland (b.
1083) ·
1201 – Theobald
III, Count of Champagne (b. 1179) ·
1351 – Abu al-Hasan
Ali ibn Othman, Moroccan sultan (b. 1297) ·
1408 – Taejo of Joseon (b. 1335) ·
1425 – Murdoch
Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362) ·
1456 – Ambroise de Loré,
French commander (b. 1396) ·
1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus,
Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473) ·
1612 – Robert
Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Lord High Treasurer (b.
1563) ·
1627 – Luis de Góngora,
Spanish poet and cleric (b. 1561) ·
1632 – Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer
(b. 1553) ·
1665 – Mary of Jesus of
Ágreda, Spanish Franciscan abbess and mystic (b. 1602)[14] ·
1734 – Georg Ernst Stahl,
German physician and chemist (b. 1660) ·
1792 – George
Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, English admiral and politician,
16th Governor of
Newfoundland (b. 1718) ·
1806 – John
Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll, Scottish field marshal and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Argyllshire (b. 1723) ·
1843 – Sylvestre
François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765) ·
1848 – Annette von
Droste-Hülshoff, German author and composer (b. 1797)[15] ·
1861 – Elmer E. Ellsworth,
American colonel (b. 1837) ·
1872 – Julius
Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794) ·
1879 – William Lloyd
Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805) ·
1881 – Samuel Palmer, English painter and
illustrator (b. 1805) ·
1901 – Louis-Zéphirin
Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824) ·
1908 – Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and
architect (b. 1821) ·
1915 – John
Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896) ·
1919 – Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and
educator (b. 1870) ·
1929 – Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863) ·
1941 – Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887) ·
1945 – Robert Ritter von
Greim, German field marshal and pilot (b. 1892) ·
1948 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, director, and
screenwriter (b. 1885) ·
1949 – Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect,
designed Lenin's Mausoleum and Moscow
Kazanskaya railway station (b. 1873) ·
1950 – Archibald
Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician,
43rd Governor-General
of India (b. 1883) ·
1951 – Thomas N. Heffron,
American actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1872) ·
1956 – Martha Annie
Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)[16] ·
1958 – Frank Rowe,
Australian public servant (b. 1895) ·
1959 – John Foster Dulles,
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United
States Secretary of State (b. 1888) ·
1963 – Elmore James, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1918) ·
1965 – Sonny Boy
Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (b.
1908) ·
1974 – Duke Ellington, American pianist and
composer (b. 1899) ·
1976 – Denise Pelletier, Canadian actress (b. 1923) ·
1979 – Ernest Bullock, English organist, composer,
and educator (b. 1890) ·
1981 – Herbert
Müller, Swiss race car driver (b. 1940) ·
1984 – Vince McMahon Sr.,
American wrestling promoter and businessman, founded WWE (b.
1914) ·
1988 – Freddie Frith, English motorcycle road racer
(b. 1909) ·
1990 – Arthur Villeneuve,
Canadian painter (b. 1910) ·
1991 – Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1944) ·
1992 – Hitoshi Ogawa, Japanese race car driver (b.
1956) ·
1995 – Harold Wilson, English academic and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1916) ·
1996 – Enrique Álvarez
Félix, Mexican actor (b. 1934) ·
1996
– Joseph Mitchell,
American journalist and author (b. 1908) ·
1997 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923) ·
2000 – Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar
(b. 1947) ·
2000
– Majrooh Sultanpuri,
Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919) ·
2002 – Wallace Markfield,
American author (b. 1926) ·
2003 – Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910) ·
2004 – Henry Ries, German-American photographer (b.
1917) ·
2004
– Milton Shulman,
Canadian author and critic (b. 1913) ·
2004
– Edward Wagenknecht,
American critic and educator (b. 1900) ·
2005 – Carl Amery, German activist and author (b.
1922) ·
2005
– Arthur Haulot,
Belgian journalist and poet (b. 1913) ·
2005
– Guy Tardif, Canadian academic and politician
(b. 1935) ·
2006 – Henry Bumstead, American art director and
production designer (b. 1915) ·
2006
– Claude Piéplu,
French actor (b. 1923) ·
2006
– Michał
Życzkowski, Polish technician and educator (b. 1930) ·
2008 – Dick Martin,
American actor, comedian, and director (b. 1922) ·
2008
– Jimmy McGriff,
American organist and bandleader (b. 1936) ·
2009 – Jay Bennett, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (b. 1963) ·
2010 – Ray Alan, English ventriloquist, actor, and
screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
2010
– Paul Gray,
American bass player and songwriter (b. 1972) ·
2010
– Raymond V. Haysbert,
American businessman and activist (b. 1920) ·
2010
– Petr Muk, Czech singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1965) ·
2010
– Anneliese
Rothenberger, German soprano and actress (b. 1926) ·
2011 – Huguette Clark, American heiress, painter,
and philanthropist (b. 1906) ·
2011
– Hakim Ali Zardari,
Indian-Pakistani businessman and politician (b. 1930) ·
2012 – Klaas Carel Faber,
Dutch-German SS officer (b. 1922) ·
2012
– Kathi Kamen Goldmark,
American journalist and author (b. 1948) ·
2012
– Jacqueline Harpman,
Belgian psychoanalyst and author (b. 1929) ·
2012
– Juan Francisco
Lombardo, Argentinian footballer (b. 1925) ·
2012
– Lee Rich, American production manager and
producer (b. 1918) ·
2013 – Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist
and composer (b. 1929) ·
2013
– Ron
Davies, Welsh footballer (b. 1942) ·
2013
– Gotthard Graubner,
German painter (b. 1930) ·
2013
– Haynes Johnson,
American journalist and author (b. 1931) ·
2013
– Pyotr Todorovsky,
Ukrainian-Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1925) ·
2014 – David Allen,
English cricketer (b. 1935) ·
2014
– Stormé DeLarverie,
known as the "Rosa Parks of the lesbian community" (b. 1920)[17] ·
2014
– Mahafarid Amir
Khosravi, Iranian businessman (b. 1969) ·
2014
– Knowlton Nash,
Canadian journalist and author (b. 1927) ·
2014
– John Vasconcellos,
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1932) ·
2015 – Dean Carroll, English rugby player (b. 1962) ·
2015
– Kenneth Jacobs,
Australian lawyer and judge (b. 1917) ·
2015
– Tanith Lee, English author (b. 1947) ·
2018 – Gudrun Burwitz, daughter of Margarete Himmler and Heinrich Himmler (b. 1929)[18] ·
2018
– John Bain (TotalBiscuit),
English gaming commentator and critic (b. 1984)[19] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Aldersgate Day/Wesley Day (Methodism) ·
Battle of Pichincha
Day (Ecuador) ·
Bermuda Day (Bermuda), celebrated on the nearest weekday
if May 24 falls on the weekend. ·
Christian feast day: o Anna Pak Agi (one of The Korean Martyrs) o Jackson Kemper (Episcopal
Church) o Joanna o Sarah (celebrated by the Romani people of Camargue) o May
24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest
day on which El Colacho tradition
can fall, while June 27 is the latest; celebrated on Sunday after Corpus Christi.
(Castrillo de Murcia, near Burgos) ·
Independence
Day (Eritrea), celebrates the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia in 1993. ·
Lubiri Memorial Day (Buganda) ·
Saints
Cyril and Methodius Day (Eastern Orthodox
Church, Julian Calendar) and its related observance: o Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Literature
Day (Bulgaria) o Saints Cyril and Methodius, Slavonic Enlighteners' Day (North Macedonia) ·
Victoria Day; celebrated on Monday on or
before May 24. (Canada), and its related observance: o National Patriots'
Day or Journée nationale des patriotes (Quebec) |
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