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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 30 is the 150th day of the year (151st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
215 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
AD 70 – Siege of
Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall
of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the
First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation,
cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres. ·
1381 –
Beginning of the Peasants' Revolt in
England. ·
1416 –
The Council of Constance,
called by Emperor
Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII,
burns Jerome of Prague following
a trial for heresy. ·
1431 – Hundred Years' War:
In Rouen, France, the 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an
English-dominated tribunal. The Roman Catholic Church remembers this day as
the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc. ·
1434 – Hussite Wars: Battle of Lipany: Effectively ending the
war, Utraquist forces led by Diviš
Bořek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great. ·
1510 –
During the reign of the Zhengde Emperor, Ming dynasty rebel leader Zhu Zhifan is defeated by commander Qiu
Yue, ending the Prince of Anhua
rebellion. ·
1536 –
King Henry VIII of
England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives. ·
1539 –
In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay with 600 soldiers with the
goal of finding gold. ·
1574 – Henry III becomes
King of France.[1] ·
1588 –
The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. ·
1631 –
Publication of Gazette de France,
the first French newspaper. ·
1635 – Thirty Years' War:
The Peace of Prague is
signed. ·
1642 –
From this date all honors granted by Charles I of England are
retroactively annulled by Parliament. ·
1806 –
Future U.S. President Andrew Jackson kills Charles
Dickinson in a duel. ·
1814 –
The First Treaty of
Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1792
extent, and restoring the House of Bourbon to power. ·
1815 –
The East Indiaman Arniston is
wrecked during a storm at Waenhuiskrans, near Cape Agulhas, in present-day South Africa,
with the loss of 372 lives. ·
1834 –
Minister of Justice Joaquim António
de Aguiar issues a law seizing "all convents,
monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses" from the Catholic
religious orders in Portugal, earning him the nickname of
"The Friar-Killer". ·
1842 –
John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution
Hill in London with Prince Albert. ·
1845 –
The Fatel Razack coming
from India, lands in
the Gulf of Paria in Trinidad and Tobago carrying
the first Indians to
the country. ·
1854 –
The Kansas–Nebraska Act becomes
law establishing the US
territories of Kansas and Nebraska. ·
1868 –
Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the
United States for the first time after a proclamation by John A. Logan, head of the Grand Army of
the Republic (a veterans group). ·
1876 –
Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is
deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V. ·
1883 –
In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people. ·
1899 – Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West,
robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona. ·
1911 –
At the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the
first winner of the 500-mile auto race. ·
1913 –
The Treaty of London is
signed, ending the First Balkan War; Albania becomes an independent nation. ·
1914 –
The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets
sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City. ·
1922 –
The Lincoln Memorial is
dedicated in Washington, D.C.. ·
1925 – May Thirtieth
Movement: Shanghai Municipal
Police Force shoot and kill 13 protesting workers. ·
1937 – Memorial
Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor
demonstrators. ·
1941 – World War II: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb the
Athenian Acropolis and
tear down the German flag. ·
1942 –
World War II: One thousand British bombers launch a 90-minute
attack on Cologne, Germany. ·
1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical
officer of the Zigeunerfamilienlager (Romani family camp) at Auschwitz
concentration camp. ·
1948 –
A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks,
obliterating Vanport, Oregon within
minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless. ·
1958 –
Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in
action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at
the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier in Arlington
National Cemetery. ·
1959 –
The Auckland Harbour
Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened
by Governor-General Charles
Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham. ·
1961 –
The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated
in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. ·
1963 –
A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first
open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem. ·
1966 –
Former Congolese Prime
Minister, Évariste Kimba,
and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of
President Joseph Mobutu. ·
1967 –
The Nigerian Eastern Region declares
independence as the Republic of Biafra,
sparking a civil war. ·
1968 – Charles de Gaulle reappears
publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the
French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one
million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in
Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 events
in France. ·
1971 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of
the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface,
of Mars. ·
1972 – The Angry Brigade goes
on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout the United Kingdom. ·
1972
– In Ben Gurion Airport (at
the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry
out the Lod Airport massacre,
killing 24 people and injuring 78 others. ·
1974 –
The Airbus A300 passenger
aircraft first enters service. ·
1979 – Downeast Flight 46 crashes
on approach to Knox County
Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.[2] ·
1975 – European Space Agency is
established.[3] ·
1982 – Cold War: Spain joins NATO. ·
1989 – Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989: The 10-metre high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student
demonstrators. ·
1990 – Croatian Parliament is
constituted after the first free, multi-party elections, today celebrated as
the National Day of Croatia. ·
1998 –
The 6.5 Mw Afghanistan
earthquake shook the Takhar Province of northern Afghanistan with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VII (Very strong), killing around
4,000–4,500. ·
1998
– Nuclear Testing:
Pakistan conducts an underground test in the Kharan Desert. It is reported to be a plutonium device with yield of
20kt TNT equivalent. ·
2003 – Depayin massacre: At least 70 people
associated with the National
League for Democracy are killed by government-sponsored mob
in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi flees the scene, but
is arrested soon afterwards. ·
2008 – Convention
on Cluster Munitions is adopted. ·
2008
– TACA Flight 390 overshoots
the runway at Toncontín
International Airport, killing five people.[4] ·
2012 –
Former Liberian president Charles
Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in
atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil
War. ·
2013 – Nigeria passes a law banning
same-sex marriage. ·
2020 –
The Crew Dragon Demo-2 launches
from the Kennedy Space Center,
becoming the first crewed orbital spacecraft to launch from the United States since 2011. Births[edit] ·
1010 – Ren Zong,
Chinese emperor (d. 1063) ·
1201 – Theobald IV,
count of Champagne (d. 1253) ·
1423 – Georg von Peuerbach,
German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461) ·
1464 – Barbara
of Brandenburg, Bohemian queen (d. 1515) ·
1580 – Fadrique de Toledo, 1st Marquis of Villanueva de
Valdueza (d. 1634) ·
1599 – Samuel Bochart, French Protestant biblical
scholar (d. 1667) ·
1623 – John
Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (d. 1686) ·
1686 – Antonina Houbraken,
Dutch illustrator (d. 1736) ·
1718 – Wills
Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician, Secretary
of State for the Colonies (d. 1793) ·
1719 – Roger Newdigate, English politician (d.
1806) ·
1757 – Henry
Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844) ·
1768 – Étienne
Marie Antoine Champion de Nansouty, French general (d. 1815) ·
1797 – Georg
Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann, German mineralogist and geologist
(d. 1873) ·
1800 – Henri-Marie-Gaston
Boisnormand de Bonnechose, French cardinal (d. 1883) ·
1814 – Mikhail Bakunin, Russian philosopher and
theorist (d. 1876) ·
1814
– Eugène Charles
Catalan, Belgian-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894) ·
1819 – William McMurdo, English general (d. 1894) ·
1820 – Pierre-Joseph-Olivier
Chauveau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Quebec (d.
1890) ·
1835 – Alfred Austin, English author, poet, and
playwright (d. 1913) ·
1844 – Félix Arnaudin,
French poet and photographer (d. 1921) ·
1845 – Amadeo I,
Spanish king (d. 1890)[5] ·
1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé,
Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920) ·
1862 – Mirza Alakbar Sabir,
Azerbaijani philosopher and poet (d. 1911) ·
1869 – Grace
Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1951) ·
1874 – Ernest Duchesne, French physician (d. 1912) ·
1875 – Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher and
academic (d. 1944) ·
1879 – Colin Blythe, English cricketer and soldier
(d. 1917) ·
1879
– Konstantin Ramul,
Estonian psychologist and academic (d. 1975) ·
1881 – Georg von Küchler,
German field marshal (d. 1968) ·
1882 – Wyndham Halswelle,
English runner and soldier (d. 1915) ·
1883 – Sandy Pearce, Australian rugby league player
(d. 1930) ·
1884 – Siegmund Glücksmann,
German soldier and politician (d. 1942) ·
1885 – Villem
Grünthal-Ridala, Estonian poet and linguist (d. 1942) ·
1886 – Laurent Barré, Canadian lawyer and
politician (d. 1964) ·
1886
– Randolph Bourne,
American theorist and author (d. 1918) ·
1887 – Alexander Archipenko,
Ukrainian-American sculptor and illustrator (d. 1964) ·
1887
– Emil Reesen, Danish pianist, composer, and
conductor (d. 1964) ·
1890 – Roger Salengro, French soldier and
politician, French
Minister of the Interior (d. 1936) ·
1892 – Fernando Amorsolo,
Filipino painter (d. 1972) ·
1894 – Hubertus van Mook,
Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d.
1965) ·
1895 – Maurice Tate, English cricketer (d. 1956) ·
1896 – Howard Hawks, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1977) ·
1897 – Frank Wise, Australian politician,
16th Premier of
Western Australia (d. 1986) ·
1898 – John Gilroy,
English artist and illustrator (d. 1985) ·
1899 – Irving Thalberg, American screenwriter and
producer (d. 1936) ·
1901 – Alfred Karindi, Estonian pianist and
composer (d. 1969) ·
1901
– Cornelia Otis
Skinner, American actress and author (d. 1979) ·
1902 – Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer
(d. 1985) ·
1903 – Countee Cullen, American poet and author (d.
1946) ·
1906 – Bruno Gröning, German mystic and author (d. 1959) ·
1907 – Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist and
academic (d. 2008) ·
1908 – Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist and
engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1995) ·
1908
– Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)[6] ·
1909 – Jacques Canetti, French music executive and
talent agent (d. 1997) ·
1909
– Freddie Frith,
English motorcycle road racer (d. 1988) ·
1909
– Benny Goodman,
American clarinet player, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1986) ·
1910 – Harry Bernstein, English-American journalist
and author (d. 2011) ·
1912 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2004) ·
1912
– Erich Bagge, German physicist and academic
(d. 1996) ·
1912
– Hugh Griffith,
Welsh actor (d. 1980) ·
1912
– Millicent Selsam,
American author and academic (d. 1996) ·
1912
– Joseph Stein,
American playwright and author (d. 2010) ·
1914 – Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the
37th Yokozuna (d. 1979) ·
1915 – Len Carney, English footballer and soldier (d.
1996)[7] ·
1916 – Justin Catayée,
French soldier and politician (d. 1962) ·
1916
– Mort Meskin, American illustrator (d. 1995) ·
1918 – Pita Amor, Mexican poet and author (d. 2000) ·
1918
– Bob Evans,
American businessman, founded Bob Evans
Restaurants (d. 2007) ·
1919 – René Barrientos,
Bolivian general and politician, 55th President of Bolivia (d.
1969) ·
1920 – Franklin J.
Schaffner, Japanese-American director and producer (d. 1989) ·
1922 – Hal Clement, American author and educator
(d. 2003) ·
1924 – Anthony Dryden
Marshall, American CIA officer and
diplomat (d. 2014) ·
1925 – John Henry Marks, English physician and
author ·
1926 – Johnny Gimble, American country/western
swing musician (Bob
Wills and His Texas Playboys) (d. 2015) ·
1927 – Joan Birman, American mathematician ·
1927
– Clint Walker,
American actor and singer (d. 2018) ·
1927
– Billy
Wilson, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 1993) ·
1928 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006) ·
1928
– Agnès Varda,
Belgian-French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019) ·
1929 – Georges Gilson, French archbishop ·
1930 – Mark Birley, English businessman,
founded Annabel's (d.
2007) ·
1930
– Robert Ryman,
American painter (d. 2019) ·
1931 – Larry Silverstein,
American real estate magnate ·
1932 – Ray Cooney, English actor and playwright ·
1932
– Pauline Oliveros,
American accordion player and composer (d. 2016) ·
1932
– Ivor Richard,
Baron Richard, Welsh politician and diplomat, British
Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2018) ·
1934 – Alexei Leonov, Russian general, pilot, and
cosmonaut (d. 2019) ·
1934
– Alketas Panagoulias,
Greek footballer and manager (d. 2012) ·
1935 – Ruta Lee, Canadian-American actress and
dancer ·
1935
– Guy Tardif, Canadian academic and politician
(d. 2005) ·
1936 – Keir Dullea, American actor ·
1937 – Christopher Haskins,
Anglo-Irish businessman, life peer, and British politician ·
1937
– Rick Mather, American-English architect (d.
2013) ·
1938 – Billie Letts, American author and educator
(d. 2014) ·
1939 – Michael J. Pollard,
American actor (d. 2019) ·
1939
– Dieter Quester,
Austrian race car driver ·
1939
– Tim Waterstone,
Scottish businessman, founded Waterstones ·
1940 – Jagmohan Dalmiya, Indian cricket
administrator (d. 2015) ·
1940
– Gilles Villemure,
Canadian-American ice hockey player ·
1942 – John Gladwin, English bishop ·
1942
– Carole Stone,
English journalist and author ·
1943 – Anders Michanek, Swedish motorcycle racer ·
1943
– Gale Sayers, American football player and
philanthropist ·
1944 – Lenny Davidson, English guitarist and
songwriter (The Dave Clark Five) ·
1944
– Meredith MacRae,
American actress (d. 2000) ·
1944
– Stav Prodromou,
Greek-American engineer and businessman ·
1945 – Gladys Horton, American singer (d. 2011) ·
1946 – Allan Chapman,
English historian and author ·
1946
– Dragan Džajić,
Serbian and Yugoslav footballer ·
1947 – Jocelyne Bourassa,
Canadian golfer ·
1948 – Johan De Muynck, Belgian former professional
road racing cyclist ·
1948
– Michael Piller,
American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005) ·
1948
– David Thorpe,
Australian rules footballer ·
1949 – P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball player
and coach ·
1949
– Paul Coleridge,
English lawyer and judge ·
1949
– Bob Willis, English cricketer and
sportscaster (d. 2019) ·
1950 – Bertrand Delanoë,
French politician, 14th Mayor of Paris ·
1950
– Paresh Rawal,
Indian actor, producer, and politician ·
1950
– Joshua Rozenberg,
English lawyer, journalist, and author ·
1951 – Zdravko
Čolić, Bosnian Serb singer-songwriter ·
1951
– Fernando Lugo,
Paraguayan bishop and politician, President of
Paraguay ·
1951
– Stephen Tobolowsky,
American actor, singer, and director ·
1952 – Daniel Grodnik, American screenwriter and
producer ·
1952
– Kerry Fraser,
Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and sportscaster ·
1953 – Jim Hunter,
Canadian skier ·
1953
– Colm Meaney, Irish actor ·
1955 – Topper Headon, English drummer and
songwriter (The Clash) ·
1955
– Jacqueline McGlade,
English-Canadian biologist, ecologist, and academic ·
1955
– Caroline Swift,
English lawyer and judge ·
1955
– Colm Tóibín, Irish
novelist, poet, playwright, and critic ·
1956 – Tim Lucas, American author, screenwriter,
and critic ·
1957 – Michael Clayton,
Australian golfer ·
1958 – Eugene Belliveau, Canadian football player ·
1958
– Marie Fredriksson,
Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2019) ·
1958
– Steve Israel,
American lawyer and politician ·
1958
– Michael
López-Alegría, Spanish-American captain, pilot, and astronaut ·
1958
– Ted McGinley,
American actor ·
1959 – Phil
Brown, English footballer, coach, and manager ·
1959
– Randy Ferbey,
Canadian curler ·
1959
– Frank Vanhecke,
Belgian politician ·
1961 – Harry Enfield, English actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1961
– Bob Yari, Iranian-American director and
producer ·
1962 – Kevin Eastman, American author and
illustrator, co-created the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles ·
1962
– Richard
Fuller, English lawyer and politician ·
1962
– Tim Loughton,
English businessman and politician ·
1962
– Tonya Pinkins,
American actress and singer ·
1963 – Michel Langevin, Canadian drummer and
songwriter ·
1963
– Élise Lucet,
French journalist ·
1963
– Helen Sharman,
English chemist and astronaut ·
1964 – Wynonna Judd, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actress ·
1964
– Andrea Montermini,
Italian race car driver ·
1964
– Tom Morello, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1965 – Troy Coker, Australian rugby player ·
1965
– Billy Donovan,
American basketball player and coach ·
1965
– Iginio Straffi,
Italian animator and producer, founded Rainbow S.r.l. ·
1966 – Thomas Häßler,
German footballer and manager ·
1966
– Stephen Malkmus,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1967 – Tim Burgess,
English singer-songwriter ·
1967
– Rechelle Hawkes,
Australian hockey player ·
1967
– Sven Pipien, German-American bass player ·
1968 – Jason Kenney, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 40th Canadian
Minister of National Defence ·
1968
– Zacarias Moussaoui,
French citizen, sentenced to life in prison related to September 11 attacks ·
1969 – Naomi Kawase, Japanese director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1969
– Ryuhei Kitamura,
Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1971 – Paul Grayson,
English rugby player and coach ·
1971
– Duncan Jones,
English director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1971
– Idina Menzel,
American singer-songwriter and actress ·
1971
– Jiří Šlégr,
Czech ice hockey player and politician ·
1971
– Adrian Vowles,
Australian rugby league player and sportscaster ·
1972 – Manny Ramirez, Dominican-American baseball
player and coach ·
1974 – Big L, American rapper (d. 1999) ·
1974
– Kostas Chalkias,
Greek footballer ·
1974
– CeeLo Green, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, producer, and actor ·
1974
– David Wilkie,
American ice hockey player and coach ·
1975 – Evan Eschmeyer, American basketball player ·
1975
– Brian Fair, American singer-songwriter ·
1975
– Andy Farrell,
English rugby player and coach[8] ·
1975
– Marissa Mayer,
American computer scientist and businesswoman ·
1976 – Radoslav
Nesterović, Slovenian-Greek basketball player ·
1976
– Magnus Norman,
Swedish tennis player and coach ·
1976
– Margaret Okayo,
Kenyan runner[9] ·
1977 – Rachael Stirling, English actress ·
1977
– Federico Vilar,
Argentinian-Italian footballer ·
1979 – Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player[10] ·
1979
– Clint Bowyer,
American race car driver ·
1979
– Francis Lessard,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1980 – Steven Gerrard, English international
footballer, midfielder and manager[11] ·
1980
– Ilona Korstin,
Russian basketball player ·
1980
– Ryōgo Narita,
Japanese author ·
1981 – Devendra Banhart, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1981
– Gianmaria Bruni,
Italian race car driver ·
1981
– Ahmad Elrich,
Australian footballer ·
1981
– Remy Ma, American rapper ·
1981
– Lars Møller Madsen,
Danish handball player ·
1981
– Hisanori Takada,
Japanese footballer ·
1982 – Eddie Griffin,
American basketball player (d. 2007) ·
1982
– James Simpson-Daniel,
English rugby player[12] ·
1984 – Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer[13] ·
1984
– Matt Maguire,
Australian footballer[14] ·
1984
– Alexander Sulzer,
German ice hockey player[15] ·
1985 – Igor Kurnosov, Russian chess player (d.
2013)[16] ·
1985
– Igor Lewczuk,
Polish footballer[17] ·
1985
– Aaron Volpatti,
Canadian ice hockey player[18] ·
1986 – Nikolay Bodurov, Bulgarian international
footballer, centre-back[19] ·
1989 – Ailee, Korean-American singer and songwriter[20] ·
1989
– Lesia Tsurenko,
Ukrainian tennis player[21] ·
1990 – Andrei Loktionov, Russian ice hockey player[22] ·
1991 – Jonathan Fox,
English swimmer[23] ·
1992 – Harrison Barnes, American basketball player[24] ·
1992
– Danielle Harold,
English actress[25] ·
1994 – Scott Laughton, Canadian ice hockey player[26] ·
1996 – Beatriz Haddad Maia,
Brazilian tennis player[27] Deaths[edit] ·
531 – Xiao Tong, prince of the Liang Dynasty (b. 501) ·
727 – Hubertus,
bishop Liège ·
947 – Ma Xifan, king of Chu (b.
899) ·
1035 – Baldwin IV,
count of Flanders (b.
980) ·
1159 – Władysław
II the Exile, High Duke of
Poland and Duke of Silesia (b. 1105) ·
1252 – Ferdinand III,
king of Castile and León (b.
1199) ·
1347 – John
Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth, English peer (b. 1290) ·
1376 – Joan of
Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon, French noblewoman ·
1416 – Jerome of Prague, Czech martyr and
theologian (b. 1379) ·
1431 – Joan of Arc, French martyr and saint (b.
1412) ·
1434 – Prokop the Great, Czech general (b. 1380) ·
1469 – Lope de Barrientos, Castilian bishop (b. 1389) ·
1472 – Jacquetta of
Luxembourg, daughter of Pierre de Luxembourg (b. 1416) ·
1574 – Charles IX of France (b.
1550) ·
1593 – Christopher Marlowe,
English poet and playwright (b. 1564) ·
1606 – Guru Arjan Dev, fifth of the Sikh gurus (b. 1563) ·
1640 – Peter Paul Rubens,
German-Belgian painter (b. 1577) ·
1696 – Henry
Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Tewkesbury, English politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1638) ·
1670 – John Davenport,
English minister, co-founded the New Haven Colony (b. 1597) ·
1712 – Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645) ·
1718 – Arnold
van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch-English general (b. 1670) ·
1744 – Alexander Pope, English poet, essayist, and
translator (b. 1688) ·
1770 – François Boucher,
French painter and set designer (b. 1703) ·
1778 – Voltaire, French philosopher and author (b.
1694) ·
1778
– José de la Borda,
French/Spanish mining magnate in colonial Mexico (b. ca. 1700) ·
1829 – Philibert
Jean-Baptiste Curial, French general (b. 1774) ·
1832 – James Mackintosh, Scottish historian,
jurist, and politician (b. 1765) ·
1855 – Mary Reibey, Australian businesswoman, (b.
1777) ·
1892 – Mary Hannah Gray
Clarke, American author, correspondent, and poet (b. 1835) ·
1865 – John Catron, American lawyer and judge (b.
1786) ·
1901 – Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician,
lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841) ·
1911 – Milton Bradley, American businessman,
founded the Milton Bradley
Company (b. 1836) ·
1912 – Wilbur Wright, American pilot and businessman,
co-founded the Wright Company (b.
1867) ·
1918 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher and
theorist (b. 1856) ·
1925 – Arthur
Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author (b. 1876) ·
1926 – Vladimir
Steklov, Russian mathematician and physicist (b. 1864) ·
1934 – Tōgō
Heihachirō, Japanese admiral (b. 1848) ·
1939 – Floyd Roberts, American race car driver (b.
1904) ·
1941 – Prajadhipok, Thai king (b. 1893) ·
1946 – Louis Slotin, Canadian physicist and chemist
(b. 1910) ·
1947 – Georg von Trapp, Austrian captain (b. 1880) ·
1948 – József Klekl,
Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician (b. 1874) ·
1949 – Emmanuel
Célestin Suhard, French cardinal (b. 1874) ·
1951 – Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author (b.
1886) ·
1953 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b.
1886) ·
1955 – Bill Vukovich, American race car driver (b.
1918) ·
1957 – Piero Carini, Italian race car driver (b.
1921) ·
1960 – Boris Pasternak, Russian poet, novelist, and
literary translator, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1890) ·
1961 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican soldier and
politician, 36th President
of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891) ·
1964 – Isaac Babalola
Akinyele, Nigerian king (b. 1882) ·
1964
– Eddie Sachs, American race car driver (b.
1927) ·
1964
– Leó Szilárd,
Hungarian-American physicist and engineer (b. 1898) ·
1965 – Louis Hjelmslev, Danish linguist and
academic (b. 1899) ·
1967 – Claude Rains, English-American actor (b.
1889) ·
1967
– Georg Wilhelm Pabst,
Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885) ·
1971 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer
(b. 1886) ·
1975 – Steve Prefontaine,
American runner (b. 1951) ·
1975
– Tatsuo Shimabuku,
Japanese martial artist, founded Isshin-ryū (b. 1908) ·
1975
– Michel Simon,
Swiss-born French actor (b. 1895) ·
1976 – Max Carey, American baseball player, coach,
and manager (b. 1890) ·
1976
– Mitsuo Fuchida,
Japanese captain (b. 1902) ·
1978 – Jean Deslauriers, Canadian violinist,
composer, and conductor (b. 1909) ·
1980 – Carl Radle, American bass player and
producer (b. 1942) ·
1981 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b.
1955) ·
1981
– Ziaur Rahman,
Bangladeshi general and politician, 7th President of
Bangladesh (b. 1936) ·
1982 – Albert Norden, German journalist and
politician (b. 1904) ·
1986 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer,
founded his own eponymous
fashion brand (b. 1940) ·
1993 – Sun Ra, American pianist, composer, and
bandleader (b. 1914) ·
1994 – Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader,
13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (b. 1899) ·
1994
– Marcel Bich, Italian-French businessman,
co-founded Société Bic (b.
1914) ·
1994
– Agostino Di
Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955) ·
1995 – Ted Drake, English footballer and manager
(b. 1912) ·
1995
– Lofty England,
English-Austrian engineer (b. 1911) ·
1995
– Bobby Stokes,
English footballer (b. 1951) ·
1996 – Léon-Étienne Duval,
French cardinal (b. 1903) ·
1996
– Alo Mattiisen,
Estonian composer (b. 1961) ·
1999 – Kalju Lepik, Estonian poet and author (b.
1920) ·
2000 – Tex Beneke, American saxophonist and
bandleader (b. 1914) ·
2001 – Denis Whitaker, Canadian general and
historian (b. 1915) ·
2005 – Gérald Leblanc,
Acadian poet (b. 1945) ·
2005
– Tomasz Pacyński,
Polish journalist and author (b. 1958) ·
2005
– Alma Ziegler,
American baseball player and stenographer (b. 1918) ·
2006 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1926) ·
2006
– David Lloyd,
New Zealand biologist and academic (b. 1938) ·
2006
– Robert Sterling,
American actor (b. 1917) ·
2007 – Jean-Claude Brialy,
Algerian-French actor and director (b. 1933) ·
2007
– Birgit Dalland,
Norwegian politician (b. 1907) ·
2007
– Gunturu Seshendra
Sarma, Indian poet and critic (b. 1927) ·
2009 – Torsten Andersson,
Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1926) ·
2009
– Susanna Haapoja,
Finnish politician (b. 1966) ·
2009
– Ephraim Katzir,
Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (b.
1916) ·
2010 – Yuri
Chesnokov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1933) ·
2010
– Dufferin Roblin,
Canadian commander and politician, 14th Premier of Manitoba (b.
1917) ·
2011 – Isikia Savua, Fijian police officer and
diplomat (b. 1952) ·
2011
– Saleem Shahzad,
Pakistani journalist (b. 1970) ·
2011
– Marek Siemek,
Polish philosopher and historian (b. 1942) ·
2011
– Clarice Taylor,
American actress (b. 1917) ·
2011
– Rosalyn Sussman
Yalow, American physicist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1921) ·
2012 – John Fox,
American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1957) ·
2012
– Andrew Huxley,
English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1917) ·
2012
– Gerhard Pohl,
German economist and politician (b. 1937) ·
2012
– Jack Twyman, American basketball player and
sportscaster (b. 1934) ·
2013 – Jayalath Jayawardena,
Sri Lankan physician and politician (b. 1953) ·
2013
– Larry
Jones, American football player and coach (b. 1933) ·
2014 – Hienadz Buraukin, Belarusian poet,
journalist, and diplomat (b. 1936) ·
2014
– Henning Carlsen,
Danish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927) ·
2014
– Joan Lorring,
British actress (b. 1926) ·
2014
– Leonidas
Vasilikopoulos, Greek admiral (b. 1932) ·
2015 – Beau Biden, American soldier, lawyer, and
politician, 44th Attorney
General of Delaware (b. 1969) ·
2015
– Joël Champetier,
Canadian author and screenwriter (b. 1957) ·
2015
– L. Tom Perry,
American religious leader and member of the Quorum
of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1922) ·
2016 – Tom Lysiak, Polish-Canadian ice hockey
player (b. 1953) ·
2016
– Rick MacLeish,
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1950) ·
2019 – Jason Marcano, Trinidadian footballer (b.
1983)[28] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Anguilla Day, commemorates the beginning of
the Anguillian Revolution in
1967. (Anguilla) ·
Canary Islands Day (Spain) ·
Christian feast day: o Earliest day on which Feast of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary can fall, while July 3 is the
latest; celebrated 20 days after Pentecost. (Catholic Church) o May
30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Indian
Arrival Day (Trinidad and Tobago) ·
Lod Massacre
Remembrance Day (Puerto Rico) |
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