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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 3 is the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
242 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
752 –
Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico assumes the throne. ·
1294 – John II becomes
Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg. ·
1481 –
The largest of three
earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000
casualties. ·
1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries,
adopting the baptismal name of João I. ·
1616 – Treaty of Loudun ends French civil war. ·
1715 –
A total solar
eclipse was visible across northern Europe, and northern
Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within 4 minutes accuracy. ·
1791 –
The Constitution
of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed
by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian
Commonwealth. ·
1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a
city after Congress abolishes
the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The
"City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form
of government.[1] ·
1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress
of Sveaborg to Russia. ·
1808
– Peninsular War:
The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill. ·
1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples is
defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino,
the decisive engagement of the war. ·
1830 –
The Canterbury
and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first
steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel. ·
1837 –
The University of Athens is founded
in Athens, Greece.[2] ·
1848 –
The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is
discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire. ·
1849 –
The May Uprising in
Dresden begins: The last of the German
revolutions of 1848–49. ·
1855 –
American adventurer William
Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to
conquer Nicaragua. ·
1860 – Charles XV of Sweden–Norway is
crowned king of Sweden. ·
1867 –
The Hudson's Bay Company gives
up all claims to Vancouver Island. ·
1901 –
The Great Fire of 1901 begins
in Jacksonville,
Florida. ·
1913 – Raja Harishchandra,
the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the
beginning of the Indian film industry. ·
1920 –
A Bolshevik coup fails
in the Democratic
Republic of Georgia. ·
1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state
to legislate a broad sales tax, but does
not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues. ·
1921
– The Government
of Ireland Act 1920 is passed, dividing Ireland into Northern Ireland and Southern
Ireland. ·
1928 –
The Jinan incident begins
with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan,
China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000
Chinese civilians in the following days.[3] ·
1939 –
The All India Forward
Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. ·
1942 –
World War II: Japanese naval
troops invade
Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part
of Operation Mo that
results in the Battle of the
Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United
States and Australia. ·
1945 –
World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by
the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay. ·
1947 –
New post-war Japanese
constitution goes into effect. ·
1948 –
The U.S. Supreme Court rules
in Shelley v. Kraemer that
covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities
are legally unenforceable.[4] ·
1951 –
London's Royal Festival Hall opens
with the Festival of Britain. ·
1951
– The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin
their closed door hearings into the relief of
Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman. ·
1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of
the United States land a plane at the North Pole. ·
1952
– The Kentucky Derby is
televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network. ·
1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team
from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. ·
1960 –
The Off-Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opens in New York
City's Greenwich Village,
eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time. ·
1960
– The Anne Frank House museum
opens in Amsterdam,
Netherlands. ·
1963 –
The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches
tactics and responds with violent
force to stop the "Birmingham campaign"
protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide,
bringing new-found attention to the civil rights
movement. ·
1971 – Erich Honecker becomes First
Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in
power until 1989.[5] ·
1973 –
The 108-story Sears Tower in
Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet as the world's tallest
building. ·
1978 –
The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known
as "spam")
is sent by a Digital
Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of
the United States. ·
1979 – Margaret Thatcher wins
the United Kingdom general
election.[6] The following day, she becomes the first female British
Prime Minister. ·
1986 –
Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes
on Air Lanka Flight 512 at
Colombo airport in Sri Lanka. ·
1987 –
A crash by Bobby Allison at
the Talladega
Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at
the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following
season both at Daytona
International Speedway and Talladega. ·
1999 –
The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5
tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing
$1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999
Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest
wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/-
32 km/h). ·
1999
– Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war. ·
2000 –
The sport of geocaching begins,
with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted
on Usenet. ·
2001 –
The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human
Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was
formed in 1947. ·
2002 –
An Indian Air Force MiG-21 crashes into
a bank in Jalandhar, killing eight and injuring 17. ·
2007 –
The 3-year-old British girl Madeleine
McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting
"the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". ·
2015 –
Two gunmen launch an
attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response
to the Charlie Hebdo shooting. ·
2016 –
Eighty-eight thousand people were evacuated from their homes in Fort
McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire
ripped through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes
and buildings. Births[edit] ·
490 – K'an Joy Chitam I,
ruler of Palenque (d. 565) ·
612 – Constantine
III, Byzantine emperor (d. 641) ·
1238 – Emilia Bicchieri, Italian saint (d. 1314) ·
1276 – Louis, Count of
Évreux, son of King Philip III of France (d.
1319) ·
1415 – Cecily
Neville, Duchess of York (d. 1495) ·
1428 – Pedro González
de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal (d. 1495) ·
1446 – Margaret of York (d. 1503) ·
1461 – Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal (d. 1521) ·
1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli,
Italian historian and philosopher (d. 1527)[7] ·
1479 – Henry V,
Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1552) ·
1481 – Juana
de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Spanish abbess of the Franciscan
Third Order Regular (d. 1534) ·
1536 – Stephan Praetorius,
German theologian (d. 1603) ·
1632 – Catherine of
St. Augustine, French-Canadian nurse and saint, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec (d.
1668) ·
1662 – Matthäus
Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect, designed the Pillnitz Castle (d. 1736) ·
1678 – Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (d. 1747) ·
1695 – Henri Pitot, French physicist and engineer,
invented the Pitot tube (d.
1771) ·
1729 – Florian Leopold
Gassmann, Czech composer (d. 1774) ·
1761 – August von Kotzebue,
German playwright and author (d. 1819) ·
1764 – Princess
Élisabeth of France (d. 1794)[8] ·
1768 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and
businessman (d. 1838) ·
1783 – José de la Riva
Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and
2nd President of North Peru (d. 1858)[9] ·
1814 – Adams George
Archibald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Lieutenant
Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1892) ·
1826 – Charles XV of Sweden (d.
1872) ·
1844 – Richard D'Oyly Carte,
English talent agent and composer (d. 1901) ·
1849 – Jacob Riis, Danish-American journalist and
photographer (d. 1914) ·
1849
– Bernhard von Bülow,
German soldier and politician, Chancellor
of Germany (d. 1929) ·
1854 – George Gore, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1933) ·
1859 – August Herrmann, American executive in Major League
Baseball (d.1931) ·
1860 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and
physicist (d. 1940) ·
1867 – Andy Bowen, American boxer (d. 1894) ·
1867
– J. T. Hearne, English
cricketer (d. 1944) ·
1870 – Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d.
1948) ·
1871 – Emmett Dalton, American criminal (d. 1937) ·
1873 – Pavlo Skoropadskyi,
German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (d.
1945) ·
1874 – François Coty, French businessman and
publisher, founded Coty, Inc. (d.
1934) ·
1874
– Vagn Walfrid Ekman,
Swedish oceanographer and academic (d. 1954)[10] ·
1877 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and
author (d. 1925) ·
1879 – Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and
soldier, co-founded Qantas (d. 1950) ·
1886 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer
(d. 1971) ·
1887 – Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954) ·
1889 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981) ·
1889
– Gottfried Fuchs,
German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (d. 1972) ·
1891 – Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic (d.
1969) ·
1891
– Eppa Rixey, American baseball pitcher (d.
1963) ·
1892 – George Paget Thomson,
English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1975) ·
1892
– Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and
academic (d. 1970) ·
1893 – Konstantine
Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (d. 1975) ·
1895 – Cornelius Van Til,
Dutch philosopher, theologian, and apologist (d. 1987) ·
1896 – Karl Allmenröder,
German soldier and pilot (d. 1917) ·
1896
– V. K. Krishna Menon,
Indian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Indian
Minister of Defence (d. 1974) ·
1896
– Dodie Smith, English author and playwright
(d. 1990) ·
1897 – William Joseph
Browne, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Solicitor
General of Canada (d. 1989) ·
1898 – Septima Poinsette
Clark, American educator and activist (d. 1987) ·
1898
– Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and
politician, 4th Prime Minister
of Israel (d. 1978) ·
1902 – Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and
poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1984) ·
1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d.
1977) ·
1905 – Edmund Black, American hammer thrower (d.
1996) ·
1905
– Werner Fenchel,
German-Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1988) ·
1905
– Red Ruffing, American baseball pitcher and
coach (d. 1986) ·
1906 – Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987) ·
1906
– René Huyghe,
French historian and author (d. 1997) ·
1906
– Anna Roosevelt
Halsted, American journalist and author (d. 1975) ·
1906
– Enrique Laguerre,
Puerto Rican journalist, author, and playwright (d. 2005) ·
1910 – Norman Corwin, American screenwriter and
producer (d. 2011) ·
1912 – Virgil Fox, American organist and composer
(d. 1980) ·
1912
– May Sarton, American poet, novelist and
memoirist (d. 1995) ·
1913 – William Inge, American playwright and
novelist (d. 1973) ·
1914 – Georges-Emmanuel
Clancier, French journalist, author, and poet (d. 2018))[11] ·
1915 – Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer,
founded Stampede Wrestling (d.
2003) ·
1915
– Richard Lippold,
American sculptor and academic (d. 2002) ·
1916 – Léopold Simoneau,
Canadian tenor and actor (d. 2006) ·
1917 – Betty Comden, American screenwriter and
librettist (d. 2006) ·
1917
– George Gaynes, Finnish-American
actor (d. 2016) ·
1918 – Ted Bates,
English footballer and manager (d. 2003) ·
1919 – John Cullen Murphy,
American soldier and illustrator (d. 2004) ·
1919
– Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and activist (d. 2014) ·
1920 – John Lewis,
American pianist and composer (d. 2001) ·
1921 – Sugar Ray Robinson,
American boxer (d. 1989) ·
1922 – Len Shackleton, English footballer and
journalist (d. 2000) ·
1923 – George Hadjinikos,
Greek pianist, conductor, and educator (d. 2015) ·
1923
– Ralph Hall, American lieutenant, lawyer, and
politician (d. 2019) ·
1924 – Yehuda Amichai, German-Israeli author and
poet (d. 2000) ·
1924
– Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver,
founded Tyrrell Racing (d.
2001) ·
1925 – Jean Séguy, French sociologist and author
(d. 2007) ·
1926 – Matt Baldwin, Canadian curler and engineer ·
1928 – Dave Dudley, American singer-songwriter (d.
2003) ·
1928
– Jacques-Louis Lions,
French mathematician (d. 2001) ·
1929 – Denise Lor, American singer and actress (d.
2015) ·
1930 – Juan Gelman, Argentinian poet and author (d.
2014) ·
1930
– David Harrison,
English chemist and academic ·
1931 – Vasily Rudenkov, Belarusian hammer thrower
(d. 1982) ·
1931
– Sait Maden, Turkish translator, poet, painter
and graphic designer (d. 2013) ·
1932 – Robert Osborne, American actor and historian
(d. 2017) ·
1933 – James Brown, American singer-songwriter,
producer, and actor (d. 2006) ·
1933
– Steven Weinberg,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1934 – Henry Cooper, English boxer and sportscaster
(d. 2011) ·
1934
– Georges Moustaki,
Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013) ·
1934
– Frankie Valli,
American singer and actor ·
1935 – Ron Popeil, American businessman, founded
the Ronco Company ·
1937 – Nélida Piñon,
Brazilian author and academic ·
1938 – Omar Abdel-Rahman,
Egyptian terrorist ·
1938
– Chris Cannizzaro,
American baseball player ·
1938
– Napoleon XIV,
American singer, songwriter and record producer ·
1939 – Jonathan
Harvey, English composer and educator (d. 2012) ·
1940 – David Koch, American engineer, businessman,
and philanthropist (d. 2019) ·
1940
– Clemens Westerhof,
Dutch footballer and manager ·
1941 – Alexander Harley, English general ·
1941
– Edward Malloy,
American priest and academic ·
1942 – Věra
Čáslavská, Czech gymnast and coach (d. 2016) ·
1942
– Dave Marash, American journalist and
sportscaster ·
1942
– Butch Otter, American soldier and
politician, 32nd Governor of Idaho ·
1943 – Yukio Hashi, Japanese singer and actor ·
1943
– Jim Risch, American lawyer and politician,
31st Governor of Idaho ·
1943
– Vicente Saldivar,
Mexican boxer (d. 1985) ·
1944 – Peter Doyle,
English bishop ·
1944
– Pete Staples,
English bass player ·
1945 – Jörg Drehmel, German triple jumper and coach ·
1945
– Davey Lopes, American baseball player, coach,
and manager ·
1946 – Norm Chow, American football player and
coach ·
1946
– Silvino Francisco,
South African snooker player ·
1946
– Greg Gumbel, American sportscaster ·
1947 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000) ·
1948 – Denis Cosgrove, British-American academic
and geographer (d. 2008) ·
1948
– Chris Mulkey,
American actor ·
1949 – Liam Donaldson, English physician and
academic ·
1949
– Ruth
Lister, Baroness Lister of Burtersett, English academic and
politician ·
1949
– Ron Wyden, American academic and politician ·
1950 – Mary Hopkin, Welsh singer-songwriter ·
1950
– Dag Arnesen, Norwegian pianist and composer ·
1951 – Alan Clayson, English singer-songwriter and
journalist ·
1951
– Christopher Cross,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1951
– Ashok Gehlot,
Indian politician, 21st Chief
Minister of Rajasthan ·
1951
– Tatyana Tolstaya,
Russian author and publicist ·
1952 – Chuck Baldwin, American pastor and
politician ·
1952
– Caitlin Clarke,
American actress (d. 2004) ·
1952
– Joseph W. Tobin,
American cardinal ·
1953 – Bruce Hall,
American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ·
1953
– Jake Hooker,
Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2014) ·
1954 – Angela Bofill, American singer-songwriter ·
1954
– Jean-Marc Roberts,
French author and screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1955 – Stephen D. M. Brown,
British geneticist ·
1955
– Colin Deans, Scottish rugby player ·
1955
– David Hookes,
Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2004) ·
1955
– Seishirō Nishida,
Japanese actor ·
1956 – Marc Bellemare, Canadian lawyer and
politician ·
1957 – Alain
Côté, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1957
– Rod Langway, Taiwanese-American ice hockey
player and coach ·
1958 – Bill Sienkiewicz, American author and
illustrator ·
1958
– Sandi Toksvig,
Danish-English comedian, writer, and broadcaster ·
1959 – David
Ball, English keyboard player and producer ·
1959
– Uma Bharti, Indian activist and politician,
16th Chief
Minister of Madhya Pradesh ·
1959
– Ben Elton, English actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1960 – Kathy Smallwood-Cook,
English sprinter and educator ·
1961 – Steve McClaren, English footballer and
manager ·
1961
– David Vitter,
American lawyer and politician[12] ·
1961
– Leyla Zana, Kurdish activist and politician ·
1962 – Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder ·
1963 – Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player
and coach ·
1963
– Mona Siddiqui,
Pakistani-Scottish journalist and academic ·
1964 – Sterling Campbell,
American drummer and songwriter ·
1964
– Ron Hextall, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and manager ·
1965 – Ignatius Aphrem II,
Syrian patriarch ·
1965
– Mark Cousins,
Northern Irish director, writer, cinematographer ·
1965
– John Jensen, Danish footballer and coach ·
1965
– Mikhail Prokhorov,
Russian businessman ·
1966 – Giorgos Agorogiannis,
Greek footballer ·
1966
– Frank
Dietrich, German politician (d. 2011) ·
1967 – Daniel
Anderson, Australian rugby league coach and manager ·
1967
– Kenneth Joel Hotz, Canadian producer,
writer, director, actor, and comedian ·
1968 – Viliami Ofahengaue,
Tongan-Australian rugby player ·
1971 – Douglas Carswell, British politician, the
first elected MP for the UK Independence
Party[13] ·
1972 – Stephen Barclay, English lawyer and
politician ·
1973 – Jamie Baulch, Welsh sprinter and television
host ·
1975 – Willie Geist, American television journalist
and host ·
1976 – Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player ·
1976
– Brad
Scott, Australian footballer and coach ·
1976
– Chris
Scott, Australian footballer and coach ·
1977 – Eric Church, American country music
singer-songwriter[14] ·
1977
– Ryan Dempster,
Canadian baseball player and sportscaster ·
1977
– Tyronn Lue, American basketball player and
coach ·
1977
– Maryam Mirzakhani,
Iranian mathematician (d. 2017) ·
1977
– Ben Olsen, American soccer player and coach ·
1978 – Christian Annan, Ghanaian-Hong Kong
footballer ·
1978
– Paul
Banks, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1978
– Dai Tamesue, Japanese hurdler ·
1978
– Lawrence Tynes,
American football player ·
1979 – Steve Mack, American wrestler ·
1979
– Anastasiya Shvedova,
Belarusian pole vaulter ·
1980 – Zuzana Ondrášková,
Czech tennis player ·
1982 – Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-American football
player ·
1982
– Nick Stavinoha,
American baseball player ·
1983 – Joseph Addai, American football player ·
1983
– Romeo Castelen,
Dutch footballer ·
1983
– Jérôme Clavier,
French pole vaulter ·
1983
– Márton Fülöp,
Hungarian footballer (d. 2015) ·
1985 – Ezequiel Lavezzi, Argentinian footballer ·
1985
– Kadri Lehtla,
Estonian biathlete ·
1985
– Miko Mälberg,
Estonian swimmer ·
1986 – Moon Byung-woo, South Korean footballer ·
1987 – Lina
Grinčikaitė, Lithuanian sprinter ·
1988 – Ben Revere, American baseball player ·
1988
– Paddy Holohan,
Irish mixed martial artist ·
1989 – Jesse Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league
player ·
1989
– Katinka Hosszú,
Hungarian swimmer ·
1990 – Brooks Koepka, American golfer ·
1991 – Samuel Seo, South Korean musician ·
1992 – Aaron Whitchurch, Australian rugby league
player ·
1995 – Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player (d.
2016) ·
1996 – Mary Cain,
American runner[15] ·
1996
– Alex Iwobi, Nigerian football player[16] ·
1996
– Domantas Sabonis,
Lithuanian basketball player[17] ·
1997 – Desiigner, American rapper[18] ·
1997
– Dwayne Haskins,
American football player[19] ·
1997
– Ivana Jorović,
Serbian tennis player[20] Deaths[edit] ·
678 – Tōchi,
Japanese princess ·
738 – Uaxaclajuun
Ub'aah K'awiil, Mayan ruler (ajaw) ·
1152 – Matilda of Boulogne (b.
1105)[21] ·
1270 – Béla IV of Hungary (b.
1206) ·
1294 – John I, Duke of
Brabant (b. 1252) ·
1330 – Alexios II Megas
Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b.
1282) ·
1481 – Mehmed the Conqueror,
Ottoman sultan (b. 1432) ·
1501 – John
Devereux, 9th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, English Baron (b. 1463) ·
1524 – Richard
Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent, English peer (b. 1481) ·
1534 – Juana
de la Cruz Vazquez Gutierrez, Spanish Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b.
1481) ·
1589 – Julius,
Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528) ·
1606 – Henry Garnet, English priest and author (b.
1555) ·
1621 – Elizabeth
Bacon, English Tudor gentlewoman (b. 1541) ·
1679 – James Sharp,
Scottish archbishop (b. 1613) ·
1693 – Claude
de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607) ·
1704 – Heinrich Ignaz
Franz Biber, Czech-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1644) ·
1724 – John Leverett
the Younger, American lawyer, academic, and politician (b. 1662) ·
1750 – John Willison, Scottish minister and author
(b. 1680) ·
1752 – Samuel Ogle, English-American captain and
politician, 5th Governor
of Restored Proprietary Government (b. 1692) ·
1758 – Pope Benedict XIV (b.
1675) ·
1763 – George Psalmanazar,
French-English author (b. 1679) ·
1764 – Francesco Algarotti,
Italian philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1712) ·
1779 – John Winthrop,
American mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1714) ·
1793 – Martin Gerbert, German historian and
theologian (b. 1720) ·
1839 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771) ·
1856 – Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b.
1803) ·
1856
– Louis-Étienne
Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788) ·
1882 – Leonidas Smolents,
Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)[22] ·
1910 – Howard Taylor
Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871) ·
1916 – Tom Clarke,
Irish rebel (b. 1858) ·
1916
– Thomas MacDonagh,
Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878) ·
1916
– Patrick Pearse,
Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879) ·
1918 – Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and
missionary (b. 1863) ·
1919 – Elizabeth Almira
Allen, American educator (b. 1854) ·
1921 – Théodore Pilette,
Belgian race car driver (b. 1883) ·
1925 – Clément Ader, French engineer, designed
the Ader Avion III (b.
1841) ·
1932 – Charles Fort, American journalist and author
(b. 1874) ·
1935 – Jessie Willcox Smith,
American illustrator (b.
1863) ·
1939 – Madeleine Desroseaux,
French author and poet (b. 1873) ·
1942 – Thorvald Stauning,
Danish politician, 24th Prime Minister
of Denmark (b. 1873) ·
1943 – Harry Miller,
American engineer (b. 1875) ·
1948 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (b. 1876) ·
1949 – Fanny Walden, English footballer and
cricketer (b. 1888) ·
1958 – Frank Foster,
English cricketer (b. 1889) ·
1969 – Zakir Husain,
Indian academic and politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897) ·
1970 – Cemil Gürgen
Erlertürk, Turkish footballer, coach, and pilot (b. 1918) ·
1972 – Kenneth Bailey,
Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (b.
1898) ·
1972
– Emil Breitkreutz,
American runner and coach (b. 1883) ·
1972
– Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904) ·
1978 – Bill Downs, American journalist (b. 1914) ·
1981 – Nargis, Indian actress (b. 1929) ·
1986 – Robert Alda, American actor (b. 1914) ·
1987 – Dalida, Italian singer, actress, dancer, and
model (b. 1933)[23] ·
1988 – Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and
academic (b. 1908) ·
1989 – Christine Jorgensen,
American trans woman (b.
1926) ·
1991 – Jerzy Kosiński,
Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1933) ·
1992 – George Murphy, American actor, dancer, and
politician (b. 1902) ·
1996 – Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist, composer,
and educator (b. 1921) ·
1996
– Alex Kellner,
American baseball player (b. 1924) ·
1996
– Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924) ·
1997 – Sébastien Enjolras,
French race car driver (b. 1976) ·
1997
– Narciso Yepes,
Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1927) ·
1998 – Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908) ·
1999 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1927) ·
1999
– Steve Chiasson,
Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1967) ·
1999
– Godfrey Evans,
English cricketer (b. 1920) ·
2000 – Júlia Báthory,
Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901) ·
2000
– John Joseph O'Connor,
American cardinal (b. 1920) ·
2002 – Barbara
Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, English politician, First Secretary
of State (b. 1910) ·
2002
– Yevgeny Svetlanov,
Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928) ·
2003 – Suzy Parker, American model and actress (b.
1932) ·
2004 – Ken Downing, English race car driver (b.
1917) ·
2004
– Darrell Johnson,
American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1928) ·
2006 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor, and
poet (b. 1921) ·
2006
– Pramod Mahajan,
Indian politician (b. 1949) ·
2006
– Earl Woods, American colonel, baseball
player, and author (b. 1932) ·
2007 – Warja
Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913) ·
2007
– Wally Schirra,
American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923) ·
2007
– Knock Yokoyama,
Japanese politician (b. 1932) ·
2008 – Leopoldo
Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish engineer and politician, Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1926) ·
2009 – Renée Morisset,
Canadian pianist (b. 1928) ·
2009
– Ram Balkrushna
Shewalkar, Indian author and critic (b. 1931) ·
2010 – Roy Carrier, American accordion player (b.
1947) ·
2010
– Peter O'Donnell,
English soldier and author (b. 1920) ·
2010
– Guenter Wendt,
German-American engineer (b. 1923) ·
2011 – Jackie Cooper, American actor, television
director, producer and executive (b. 1922) ·
2011
– Sergo Kotrikadze,
Georgian footballer and manager (b. 1936) ·
2011
– Thanasis Veggos,
Greek actor and director (b. 1927) ·
2012 – Jorge Illueca, Panamanian politician,
30th President of Panama (b.
1918) ·
2012
– Felix Werder,
German-Australian composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1922) ·
2013 – Joe Astroth, American baseball player (b.
1922) ·
2013
– Herbert Blau,
American engineer and academic (b. 1926) ·
2013
– Cedric Brooks,
Jamaican-American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1943) ·
2013
– Keith Carter,
American swimmer and soldier (b. 1924) ·
2013
– Brad Drewett,
Australian tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1958) ·
2013
– David Morris Kern,
American pharmacist, co-invented Orajel (b. 1909) ·
2013
– Curtis Rouse,
American football player (b. 1960) ·
2013
– Branko Vukelić,
Croatian politician, 11th Minister of
Defence for Croatia (b. 1958) ·
2014 – Gary Becker, American economist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1930) ·
2014
– Francisco Icaza,
Mexican painter (b. 1930) ·
2014
– Jim Oberstar,
American educator and politician (b. 1934) ·
2015 – Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian director and
screenwriter (b. 1926) ·
2015
– Danny Jones,
Welsh rugby player (b. 1986) ·
2015
– Warren Smith,
American golfer and coach (b. 1915) ·
2016 – Ian Deans, Canadian politician (b. 1937) ·
2016
– Jadranka
Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter
(b. 1950) ·
2017 – Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer and
model (b. 1942) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Abhai (Syriac Orthodox
Church) o Moura (Coptic
Church) o Philip and James the Lesser o Sarah the Martyr (Coptic
Church) o The
Most Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of Poland o Theodosius of Kiev (Eastern Orthodox
Church) o May 3
(Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Constitution
Memorial Day (Japan) ·
Finding of the Holy
Cross-related observances: o Fiesta de las Cruces (Spain
and Hispanic America) o Roodmas, or Feast of the Finding of the
Holy Cross (Gallican Rite of the Catholic Church) ·
Sun Day (International) |
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