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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 25 is the 145th day of the year (146th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
220 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5Notes Events[edit] ·
567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.[1] ·
240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.[2] ·
1085 – Alfonso VI of
Castile takes Toledo, Spain, back from the Moors.[3] ·
1420 – Henry the Navigator is
appointed governor of the Order of
Christ.[4] ·
1521 –
The Diet of Worms ends
when Charles V,
Holy Roman Emperor, issues the Edict of Worms, declaring Martin Luther an outlaw.[5] ·
1644 – Ming general Wu Sangui forms an alliance with the
invading Manchus and opens the gates of
the Great Wall of China at Shanhaiguan pass, letting the Manchus
through towards the capital Beijing. ·
1659 – Richard Cromwell resigns as Lord Protector of England following the
restoration of the Long Parliament, beginning a second brief
period of the republican government
called the Commonwealth of
England. ·
1660 – Charles II lands
at Dover at the invitation of the Convention
Parliament, which marks the end of the Cromwell-proclaimed Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and
begins the Restoration of the
British monarchy. ·
1738 –
A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of
a boundary dispute and
exchange of prisoners. ·
1787 –
After a delay of 11 days, the United
States Constitutional Convention formally convenes in
Philadelphia after a quorum of seven
states is secured.[6] ·
1798 – United Irishmen
Rebellion: Battle of Carlow begins; executions of suspected
rebels at Carnew and at Dunlavin
Green take place. ·
1809 – Chuquisaca
Revolution: Patriot revolt in Chuquisaca (modern-day Sucre) against the Spanish Empire, sparking the Latin
American wars of independence. ·
1810 – May Revolution: Citizens of Buenos Aires expel Viceroy Baltasar
Hidalgo de Cisneros during the "May Week",
starting the Argentine
War of Independence. ·
1819 –
The Argentine
Constitution of 1819 is promulgated. ·
1833 –
The Chilean
Constitution of 1833 is promulgated. ·
1865 –
In Mobile, Alabama,
around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot
explodes. ·
1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London. ·
1895 –
Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of
"committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to
serve two years in prison. ·
1895
– The Republic of Formosa is
formed, with Tang Jingsong as
its president. ·
1914 –
The House
of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland. ·
1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for
teaching human evolution in
Tennessee. ·
1926 – Sholom Schwartzbard assassinates Symon Petliura, the head of the government
of the Ukrainian
People's Republic, which is in government-in-exile in Paris. ·
1935 – Jesse Owens of Ohio State
University breaks three world records and ties a fourth at
the Big Ten Conference Track
and Field Championships in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ·
1938 – Spanish Civil War:
The bombing of Alicante kills 313
people. ·
1940 – World War II: The German 2nd
Panzer Division captures the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer; the surrender of the last
French and British troops marks the end of the Battle of
Boulogne. ·
1946 –
The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir. ·
1953 – Nuclear weapons
testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts
its first and only nuclear artillery test. ·
1953
– The first public television
station in the United States officially begins broadcasting
as KUHT from the campus of the University of
Houston. ·
1955 –
In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273.
It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest
in the U.S. ·
1955
– First ascent of Mount Kangchenjunga: A British expedition led
by Charles Evans, Joe Brown and George Band reaches the summit of the
third-highest mountain in the world (8,586 meters); Norman Hardie and Tony Streather join them the following
day. ·
1961 – Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a
special joint session of the U.S. Congress,
his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon"
before the end of the decade. ·
1963 –
The Organisation
of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ·
1966 – Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches. ·
1968 –
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated. ·
1973 –
In protest against the dictatorship
in Greece, the captain and crew on Greek naval destroyer Velos mutiny
and refuse to return to Greece, instead anchoring at Fiumicino, Italy. ·
1977 – Star Wars (retroactively
titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in
theaters. ·
1977
– The Chinese government removes a decade-old ban on William Shakespeare's
work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started
in 1966. ·
1978 –
The first of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern
University resulting in minor injuries. ·
1979 – John Spenkelink, a convicted murderer, is
executed in Florida; he is the first
person to be executed in the state after the reintroduction of capital
punishment in 1976.[7] ·
1979
– American
Airlines Flight 191: A McDonnell Douglas
DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare
International Airport, Chicago, killing all 271 on board and two
people on the ground. ·
1981 –
In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation
Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. ·
1982 – Falklands War: HMS Coventry is
sunk by Argentine Air Force A-4 Skyhawks. ·
1985 – Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately
10,000 people. ·
1986 –
The Hands Across America event
takes place. ·
1997 –
A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with
Major Johnny Paul Koroma. ·
1999 –
The United
States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the
People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the
prior two decades. ·
2000 – Liberation Day
of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its
army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after
the invasion of 1982. ·
2001 – Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first
blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.[8] ·
2002 – China Airlines
Flight 611 disintegrates in mid-air and crashes into
the Taiwan Strait,
with the loss of all 225 people on board. ·
2008 – NASA's Phoenix lander
touches down in the Green Valley region
of Mars to search for environments
suitable for water and microbial life. ·
2009 – North Korea allegedly tests its second
nuclear device, after which Pyongyang also conducts several
missile tests, building tensions in the international community. ·
2011 – Oprah Winfrey airs her last show,
ending her 25-year run of The Oprah Winfrey
Show. ·
2012 –
The SpaceX Dragon becomes
the first commercial
spacecraft to successfully rendezvous and berth with
the International
Space Station.[9] ·
2013 –
Suspected Maoist rebels kill
at least 28 people and injure 32 others in an
attack on a convoy of Indian National
Congress politicians in Chhattisgarh, India. ·
2013
– A gas cylinder explodes on
a school bus in the Pakistani city of Gujrat, killing at least 18 people. ·
2018 –
The General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes enforceable in
the European Union. ·
2018
– Ireland votes
to repeal the Eighth Amendment of their constitution that
prohibits abortion in
all but a few cases, choosing to replace it with the Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland. ·
2020 – George Floyd,
a black man, is killed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest
when he is restrained in a prone position face-down on the ground for several
minutes, provoking protests across the
United States and around the world.[10] Births[edit] ·
1048 – Emperor Shenzong
of Song (d. 1085) ·
1320 – Toghon Temür, Mongolian emperor (d. 1370) ·
1334 – Emperor Sukō of Japan (d. 1398) ·
1416 – Jakobus ("James"), Count of Lichtenburg (d.
1480) ·
1417 – Catherine
of Cleves, Duchess consort regent of Guelders (d. 1479) ·
1550 – Camillus de Lellis,
Italian saint and nurse (d. 1614) ·
1606 – Charles
Garnier, French missionary and saint (d. 1649) ·
1661 – Claude Buffier, Polish-French historian and
philosopher (d. 1737) ·
1713 – John
Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792) ·
1725 – Samuel
Ward, American politician, 31st Governor
of the Colony of Rhode Island (d. 1776) ·
1783 – Philip Pendleton
Barbour, American farmer and politician, 12th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d.
1841) ·
1791 – Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (d.
1841) ·
1803 – Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
English author, playwright, and politician, Secretary
of State for the Colonies (d. 1873) ·
1803
– Ralph Waldo Emerson,
American poet and philosopher (d. 1882) ·
1818 – Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss historian and
academic (d. 1897) ·
1818
– Louise
de Broglie, Countess d'Haussonville, French essayist and
biographer (d. 1882) ·
1830 – Trebor Mai
(né Robert Williams), Welsh poet (d. 1877) ·
1846 – Naim Frashëri, Albanian-Turkish poet and
translator (d. 1900) ·
1848 – Johann
Baptist Singenberger, Swiss composer, educator, and publisher (d.
1924) ·
1852 – William Muldoon, American wrestler and
trainer (d. 1933) ·
1856 – Louis Franchet
d'Espèrey, Algerian-French general (d. 1942) ·
1860 – James McKeen Cattell,
American psychologist and academic (d. 1944) ·
1865 – John Mott, American evangelist and
saint, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1955) ·
1865
– Pieter Zeeman,
Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1943) ·
1867 – Anders Peter Nielsen,
Danish target shooter (d. 1950) ·
1869 – Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art
critic (d. 1918) ·
1869
– Mathilde Verne,
English pianist and educator (d. 1936) ·
1878 – Bill Robinson, American actor and dancer (d.
1949) ·
1879 – Max Aitken,
Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-English businessman and
politician, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster (d. 1964) ·
1879
– William Stickney,
American golfer (d. 1944) ·
1880 – Jean Alexandre Barré,
French neurologist and academic (d. 1967) ·
1882 – Marie Doro, American actress (d. 1956) ·
1883 – Carl Johan Lind, Swedish hammer thrower (d.
1965) ·
1886 – Rash Behari Bose, Indian soldier and
activist (d. 1945) ·
1886
– Philip Murray,
Scottish-American miner and labor leader (d. 1952) ·
1887 – Padre Pio, Italian priest and saint (d.
1968) ·
1888 – Miles Malleson, English actor and
screenwriter (d. 1969) ·
1889 – Günther Lütjens,
German admiral (d. 1941) ·
1889
– Igor Sikorsky,
Russian-American aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft (d.
1972) ·
1893 – Ernest "Pop" Stoneman, American
country musician (d. 1968) ·
1897 – Alan Kippax, Australian cricketer (d. 1972) ·
1897
– Gene Tunney, American boxer and soldier (d.
1978) ·
1898 – Bennett Cerf, American publisher and
television game show panelist; co-founded Random House (d. 1971) ·
1899 – Kazi Nazrul Islam,
Bengali poet, author, and flute player (d. 1976) ·
1900 – Alain Grandbois, Canadian poet and author
(d. 1975) ·
1907 – U Nu, Burmese politician, 1st Prime Minister of
Burma (d. 1995) ·
1908 – Theodore Roethke, American poet (d. 1963) ·
1909 – Alfred Kubel, German politician, 5th Prime
Minister of Lower Saxony (d. 1999) ·
1912 – Dean Rockwell, American commander, wrestler,
and coach (d. 2005) ·
1913 – Heinrich Bär, German colonel and pilot (d.
1957) ·
1913
– Richard Dimbleby,
English journalist and producer (d. 1965) ·
1916 – Brian Dickson, Canadian captain, lawyer, and
politician, 15th Chief Justice of
Canada (d. 1998) ·
1916
– Giuseppe Tosi,
Italian discus thrower (d. 1981) ·
1917 – Steve Cochran, American film, television and
stage actor (d. 1965) ·
1917
– Theodore Hesburgh,
American priest, theologian, and academic (d. 2015) ·
1920 – Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner and diplomat
(d. 1992) ·
1921 – Hal David, American songwriter and composer
(d. 2012) ·
1921
– Kitty Kallen,
American singer (d. 2016) ·
1921
– Jack Steinberger,
German-Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1922 – Enrico Berlinguer,
Italian politician (d. 1984) ·
1924 – István Nyers, French-Hungarian footballer
(d. 2005) ·
1925 – Rosario Castellanos,
Mexican poet and author (d. 1974) ·
1925
– Jeanne Crain,
American actress (d. 2003) ·
1925
– Eldon Griffiths,
English journalist and politician (d. 2014) ·
1925
– Don Liddle, American baseball player (d.
2000) ·
1925
– Claude Pinoteau,
French film director and screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
1926 – Claude Akins, American actor (d. 1994) ·
1926
– William Bowyer,
English painter and academic (d. 2015) ·
1926
– Phyllis Gotlieb,
Canadian author and poet (d. 2009) ·
1926
– Bill Sharman,
American basketball player and coach (d. 2013) ·
1926
– David Wynne,
English sculptor and painter (d. 2014) ·
1927 – Robert Ludlum, American soldier and author
(d. 2001) ·
1927
– Norman Petty,
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1984) ·
1929 – Beverly Sills, American soprano and actress
(d. 2007) ·
1930 – Sonia Rykiel, French fashion designer (d.
2016)[11] ·
1931 – Herb Gray, Canadian lawyer and politician,
7th Deputy
Prime Minister of Canada (d. 2014) ·
1931
– Georgy Grechko,
Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2017) ·
1931
– Irwin Winkler,
American director and producer ·
1932 – John Gregory Dunne,
American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2003) ·
1932
– K. C. Jones, American basketball player and
coach ·
1933 – Sarah
Marshall, English-American actress (d. 2014) ·
1933
– Basdeo Panday,
Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 5th Prime
Minister of Trinidad and Tobago ·
1933
– Ray Spencer, English footballer (d. 2016) ·
1933
– Jógvan Sundstein,
Faroese accountant and politician, 7th Prime
Minister of the Faroe Islands ·
1935 – John Ffowcs Williams,
Welsh engineer and academic ·
1935
– Cookie Gilchrist,
American football player (d. 2011) ·
1935
– W. P. Kinsella,
Canadian novelist and short story writer (d. 2016) ·
1935
– Victoria Shaw,
Australian-born American actress (d. 1988) ·
1936 – Tom T. Hall, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1936
– Rusi Surti, Indian cricketer (d. 2013) ·
1937 – Tom Phillips,
English painter and academic ·
1938 – Raymond Carver, American short story writer
and poet (d. 1988) ·
1938
– Margaret Forster,
English historian, author, and critic (d. 2016) ·
1938
– Geoffrey Robinson,
English businessman and politician ·
1939 – Dixie Carter, American actress and singer
(d. 2010) ·
1939
– Ian McKellen,
English actor ·
1940 – Nobuyoshi Araki, Japanese photographer ·
1941 – Rudolf Adler, Czech filmmaker[12]:88 ·
1941
– Uta Frith, German developmental
psychologist[13] ·
1941
– Vladimir Voronin,
Moldovan economist and politician, 3rd President of Moldova ·
1943 – Jessi Colter, American singer-songwriter and
pianist ·
1943
– John Palmer,
English keyboard player ·
1943
– Leslie Uggams,
American actress and singer ·
1944 – Digby Anderson, English journalist and
philosopher ·
1944
– Pierre Bachelet,
French singer-songwriter (d. 2005) ·
1944
– Charlie Harper,
English singer-songwriter and producer ·
1944
– Robert
MacPherson, American mathematician and academic ·
1944
– Frank Oz, English-born American puppeteer,
filmmaker, and actor ·
1944
– Chris Ralston,
English rugby player ·
1946 – Bill Adam, Scottish-Canadian racing driver ·
1946
– David A. Hargrave,
American game designer, created Arduin (d. 1988) ·
1947 – Karen Valentine, American actress ·
1947
– Catherine G. Wolf,
American psychologist and computer scientist ·
1948 – Bülent Arınç,
Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of Turkey ·
1948
– Marianne
Elliott, Northern Irish historian, author, and academic ·
1948
– Klaus Meine, German rock singer-songwriter ·
1949 – Jamaica Kincaid, Antiguan-American novelist,
short story writer, and essayist ·
1949
– Barry Windsor-Smith,
English painter and illustrator ·
1950 – Robby Steinhardt, American rock violinist
and singer ·
1951 – Bob Gale, American director, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1952 – Jeffrey Bewkes, American businessman ·
1952
– Nick Fotiu, American ice hockey player and
coach ·
1952
– David Jenkins,
Trinidadian-Scottish runner ·
1952
– Al Sarrantonio,
American author and publisher ·
1952
– Gordon H. Smith,
American businessman and politician ·
1953 – Eve Ensler, American playwright and producer ·
1953
– Daniel Passarella,
Argentinian footballer, coach, and manager ·
1953
– Stan Sakai, Japanese-American author and
illustrator ·
1953
– Gaetano Scirea,
Italian footballer (d. 1989) ·
1954 – John Beck,
English footballer, midfielder and manager[14] ·
1954
– Murali,
Indian actor, producer, and politician (d. 2009) ·
1955 – Alistair Burt, English lawyer and politician ·
1956 – Stavros Arnaoutakis,
Greek politician ·
1956
– Larry Hogan, American politician, 62nd Governor of Maryland ·
1956
– David P. Sartor,
American composer and conductor ·
1957 – Alastair Campbell,
English journalist and author ·
1957
– Edward Lee,
American author ·
1957
– Robert Picard,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1958 – Dorothy Straight, American children's author ·
1958
– Paul Weller, English singer, songwriter and
musician ·
1959 – Julian Clary, English comedian, actor, and
author ·
1959
– Manolis Kefalogiannis,
Greek politician ·
1959
– Rick Wamsley,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1960 – Amy Klobuchar, American lawyer and
politician ·
1960
– Anthea Turner,
English journalist and television host ·
1962 – Ric Nattress, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach, and manager ·
1963 – George Hickenlooper,
American director and producer (d. 2010) ·
1963
– Mike Myers, Canadian-American actor, singer,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1963
– Ludovic Orban,
Romanian engineer and politician, 68th Prime Minister
of Romania ·
1964 – David Shaw,
Canadian-American ice hockey player ·
1965 – Yahya Jammeh, Gambian colonel and
politician, President of the
Gambia ·
1967 – Luc Nilis, Belgian footballer and manager ·
1967
– Mark Rosewater,
head designer of Magic: the Gathering ·
1967
– Andrew Sznajder,
Canadian tennis player[15] ·
1968 – Kendall Gill, American basketball player,
boxer, and sportscaster ·
1969 – Glen Drover, Canadian guitarist and
songwriter ·
1969
– Anne Heche, American actress ·
1969
– Karen Bernstein,
Canadian voice actress ·
1969
– Stacy London,
American journalist and author ·
1970 – Robert Croft, Welsh-English cricketer and
sportscaster ·
1970
– Jamie Kennedy,
American actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1970
– Octavia Spencer,
American actress and author[a] ·
1971 – Stefano Baldini, Italian runner ·
1971
– Marco Cappato,
Italian politician ·
1972 – Karan Johar, Indian actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1973 – Daz Dillinger, American rapper and producer ·
1973
– Molly Sims, American model and actress[18] ·
1974 – Dougie Freedman, Scottish footballer and
manager ·
1974
– Frank Klepacki,
American drummer and composer ·
1974
– Miguel Tejada,
Dominican-American baseball player ·
1975 – Blaise Nkufo, Congolese-Swiss footballer ·
1976 – Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper ·
1976
– Erki Pütsep,
Estonian cyclist ·
1976
– Ethan Suplee,
American actor ·
1976
– Cillian Murphy,
Irish actor[19] ·
1976
– Miguel Zepeda,
Mexican footballer ·
1977 – Andre Anis, Estonian footballer ·
1977
– Alberto Del Rio,
Mexican-American mixed martial artist and wrestler ·
1978 – Adam Gontier, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1978
– Brian Urlacher,
American football player ·
1979 – Carlos Bocanegra, American international
soccer player, defender and Sports Executive[20] ·
1979
– Sayed Moawad,
Egyptian footballer ·
1979
– Caroline Ouellette,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1979
– Sam Sodje, English-Nigerian footballer ·
1979
– Jonny Wilkinson,
English rugby player ·
1979
– Chris Young,
American baseball pitcher ·
1980 – David Navarro,
Spanish footballer ·
1981 – Michalis Pelekanos,
Greek basketball player ·
1981
– Matt Utai, New Zealand rugby league player ·
1982 – Adam Boyd, English footballer ·
1982
– Daniel Braaten,
Norwegian footballer ·
1982
– Ryan Gallant,
American skateboarder ·
1982
– Roger Guerreiro,
Polish footballer ·
1982
– Justin Hodges,
Australian rugby league player ·
1982
– Ezekiel Kemboi,
Kenyan runner ·
1982
– Jason Kubel, American baseball player ·
1982
– Stacey Pensgen,
American figure skater and meteorologist ·
1982
– Luke Webster,
Australian footballer ·
1984 – Luke Ball, Australian footballer ·
1984
– Kyle Brodziak,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1984
– A. J. Foyt IV,
American race car driver ·
1984
– Shawne Merriman,
American football player ·
1985 – Luciana Abreu, Portuguese singer and actress ·
1985
– Demba Ba, French footballer ·
1985
– Gert Kams, Estonian footballer ·
1985
– Roman Reigns,
American football player and wrestler ·
1986 – Edewin Fanini, Brazilian footballer ·
1986
– Yoan Gouffran,
French footballer ·
1986
– Takahiro
Hōjō, Japanese actor and musician ·
1986
– Geraint Thomas,
Welsh cyclist ·
1987 – Timothy Derijck, Belgian footballer ·
1987
– Yves De Winter,
Belgian footballer ·
1987
– Moritz Stehling,
German footballer ·
1987
– Kamil Stoch, Polish ski jumper ·
1988 – Dávid Škutka,
Slovak footballer ·
1988
– Cameron van der
Burgh, South African swimmer[21] ·
1990 – Bo Dallas, American wrestler ·
1990
– Nikita Filatov,
Russian ice hockey player ·
1993 – James
Porter, English cricketer ·
1994 – Matt Murray,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1994
– Aly Raisman, American gymnast ·
1995 – Kagiso Rabada, South African cricketer ·
1996 – David Pastrňák,
Czech ice hockey player Deaths[edit] ·
675 – Li Hong, Chinese prince (b. 652) ·
709 – Aldhelm, English-Latin bishop, poet, and
scholar (b. 639) ·
803 – Higbald of
Lindisfarne, English bishop ·
912 – Xue Yiju, chancellor of Later Liang ·
916 – Flann Sinna, king of Meath ·
939 – Yao Yanzhang, general of Chu ·
986 – Abd al-Rahman
al-Sufi, Muslim astronomer (b. 903) ·
992 – Mieszko I of Poland (b.
935) ·
1085 – Pope Gregory VII (b. 1020) ·
1261 – Pope Alexander IV (b.
1185) ·
1452 – John Stafford,
English archbishop and politician ·
1555 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch physician,
mathematician, and cartographer (b. 1508) ·
1555
– Henry II of Navarre (b.
1503) ·
1595 – Valens Acidalius, German poet and critic (b.
1567) ·
1595
– Philip Neri, Italian priest and saint (b.
1515) ·
1607 – Mary Magdalene
de' Pazzi, Italian Carmelite nun and mystic (b. 1566) ·
1632 – Adam Tanner,
Austrian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1572) ·
1667 – Gustaf Bonde,
Finnish-Swedish politician, 5th Lord High
Treasurer of Sweden (b. 1620) ·
1681 – Pedro Calderón
de la Barca, Spanish poet and playwright (b. 1600) ·
1741 – Daniel Ernst
Jablonski, German bishop and theologian (b. 1660) ·
1786 – Peter III of
Portugal (b. 1717) ·
1789 – Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist and physician
(b. 1751) ·
1797 – John
Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, English field marshal and
politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Essex (b. 1719) ·
1805 – William Paley, English priest and
philosopher (b. 1743) ·
1849 – Benjamin D'Urban,
English general and politician, Governor of
British Guiana (b. 1777) ·
1895 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha,
Ottoman sociologist, historian, and jurist (b. 1822) ·
1899 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor
(b. 1822) ·
1912 – Austin Lane Crothers,
American educator and politician, 46th Governor of Maryland (b.
1860) ·
1917 – Maksim
Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (b. 1891) ·
1919 – Eliza Pollock, American archer (b. 1840) ·
1919
– Madam C. J. Walker,
American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Madame
C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company (b. 1867) ·
1924 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and
illustrator (b. 1889) ·
1926 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and
politician (b. 1879) ·
1927 – Payne Whitney, American businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1876) ·
1930 – Randall Davidson, Scottish-English
archbishop (b. 1848) ·
1934 – Gustav Holst, English trombonist, composer,
and educator (b. 1874) ·
1937 – Henry Ossawa Tanner,
American-French painter and illustrator (b. 1859) ·
1939 – Frank Watson Dyson,
English astronomer and academic (b. 1868) ·
1942 – Emanuel Feuermann,
Ukrainian-American cellist and educator (b. 1902) ·
1943 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (b. 1888) ·
1948 – Witold Pilecki, Polish officer and
Resistance leader (b. 1901) ·
1951 – Paula von
Preradović, Croatian poet and author (b. 1887) ·
1954 – Robert Capa, Hungarian photographer and
journalist (b. 1913) ·
1957 – Leo Goodwin,
American swimmer, diver, and water polo player (b. 1883) ·
1968 – Georg von Küchler,
German field marshal (b. 1881) ·
1970 – Tom Patey, Scottish mountaineer and author
(b. 1932) ·
1977 – Yevgenia Ginzburg,
Russian author (b. 1904) ·
1979 – Itzhak Bentov, Czech-Israeli engineer,
mystic, and author (b. 1923) ·
1979
– Amédée Gordini,
Italian-born French racing driver and sports car manufacturer (b. 1899) ·
1981 – Ruby Payne-Scott, Australian physicist and
astronomer (b. 1912) ·
1981
– Fredric Warburg,
English author and publisher (b. 1898) ·
1983 – Necip
Fazıl Kısakürek, Turkish author, poet, and playwright
(b. 1904) ·
1983
– Idris of Libya (b.
1889) ·
1983
– Jack Stewart,
Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1917) ·
1986 – Chester Bowles, American journalist and
politician, 22nd Under Secretary
of State (b. 1901) ·
1990 – Vic Tayback, American actor (b. 1930) ·
1995 – Élie Bayol, French racing driver (b. 1914) ·
1995
– Krešimir
Ćosić, Croatian basketball player and coach, Naismith
Basketball Hall of Famer 1996 (b. 1948) ·
1995
– Dany Robin, French actress (b. 1927) ·
1996 – Renzo De Felice, Italian historian and
author (b. 1929) ·
2003 – Sloan Wilson, American author and poet (b.
1920) ·
2004 – Roger Williams
Straus, Jr., American publisher, co-founded Farrar, Straus
and Giroux Publishing Company (b. 1917) ·
2005 – Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director,
producer, and politician (b. 1929) ·
2005
– Robert Jankel,
English businessman, founded Panther Westwinds (b.
1938) ·
2005
– Graham Kennedy,
Australian television host and actor (b. 1934) ·
2005
– Ismail Merchant,
Indian-born film producer and director (b. 1936) ·
2005
– Zoran Mušič,
Slovene painter and illustrator (b. 1909) ·
2007 – Charles Nelson
Reilly, American actor, comedian, and director (b. 1931) ·
2008 – J. R. Simplot, American businessman,
founded Simplot (b. 1909) ·
2009 – Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (b. 1905) ·
2010 – Alexander Belostenny,
Ukrainian basketball player (b. 1959) ·
2010
– Michael H. Jordan,
American businessman (b. 1936) ·
2010
– Alan Hickinbotham,
Australian footballer and coach (b. 1925) ·
2010
– Gabriel Vargas,
Mexican painter and illustrator (b. 1915) ·
2010
– Jarvis
Williams, American football player and coach (b. 1965) ·
2011 – Terry Jenner, Australian cricketer and coach
(b. 1944) ·
2012 – William Hanley, American author and
screenwriter (b. 1931) ·
2012
– Peter D. Sieruta,
American author and critic (b. 1958) ·
2012
– Lou Watson, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1924) ·
2013 – Mahendra Karma, Indian politician (b. 1950) ·
2013
– Nand Kumar Patel,
Indian politician (b. 1953) ·
2014 – David Allen,
English cricketer (b. 1935) ·
2014
– Marcel Côté,
Canadian economist and politician (b. 1942) ·
2014
– Wojciech Jaruzelski,
Polish general and politician, 1st President of Poland (b.
1923) ·
2014
– Herb Jeffries,
American singer and actor (b. 1913) ·
2014
– Toaripi Lauti,
Tuvaluan educator and politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Tuvalu (b. 1928) ·
2014
– Matthew Saad
Muhammad, American boxer and trainer (b. 1954) ·
2015 – George Braden, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 2nd Premier
of the Northwest Territories (b. 1949) ·
2015
– Robert Lebel,
Canadian bishop (b. 1924) ·
2019 – Claus von Bülow,
Danish-British socialite (b.1926)[22] ·
2020 – George Floyd, an African American man killed
during an arrest after allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill in
Minneapolis. Holidays and observances[edit] ·
African Liberation
Day (African Union, Rastafari) ·
Christian feast day: o Aldhelm o Bede o Canius o May
25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest
day on which Arbor Day can
fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in May. (Venezuela) ·
Earliest
day on which Children's Day can
fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in May.
(Hungary) ·
Earliest
day on which Holiday of
Saint Etchmiadzin can fall, while July 27 is the latest;
celebrated on the 64th day after Easter. (Armenia) ·
Earliest
day on which Memorial Day can
fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Monday in May.
(United States) ·
Earliest
day on which Mother's Day can
fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in May.
(Algeria, Dominican Republic, France (First Sunday of June, if Pentecost occurs on this day), Haiti,
Mauritius, Morocco, Sweden, Tunisia) ·
Earliest
day on which Turkmen Carpet Day can
fall, while May 31 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in May. (Turkmenistan) ·
First National
Government / National Day
(Argentina) ·
Geek Pride Day (geek culture) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Jordan from the United Kingdom in 1946. ·
Last bell (Russia, post-Soviet
countries) ·
International
Missing Children's Day and its related observances: o National
Missing Children's Day (United States), ·
National Tap Dance
Day (United States) ·
Towel Day in honour of the work of the
writer Douglas Adams |
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