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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 5 is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
240 days remain until the end of the year. This day marks the approximate midpoint of
spring in the Northern Hemisphere and of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere
(starting the season at the March equinox). Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
553 –
The Second
Council of Constantinople begins.[1] ·
1215 –
Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England —
part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. ·
1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.[2] ·
1494 – Christopher Columbus lands
on the island of Jamaica and claims
it for Spain.[3] ·
1640 –
King Charles I of England dissolves
the Short Parliament.[4] ·
1654 – Cromwell's Act of
Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh. ·
1672 –
In preparation for the Franco-Dutch War, Louis XIV of France personally
inspects his troops at Charleroi in one
of the most magnificent displays of military power in the seventeenth
century.[5] ·
1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty
of St. Petersburg. ·
1789 –
In France, the Estates-General convenes
for the first time since 1614. ·
1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman
awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique
of weaving straw with silk and thread. ·
1809
– The Swiss canton of Aargau allows citizenship to Jews. ·
1811 –
Peninsular War: In the Battle of
Fuentes de Ońoro, the British-Portuguese Army repels an attempt by
the French Army of Portugal to relieve the besieged city of Almeida. ·
1821 –
Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island
of Saint Helena in
the South Atlantic Ocean. ·
1835 –
The first
railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen. ·
1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi sets
sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the
Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of
the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy. ·
1862 – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion
in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico. ·
1864 – American Civil War:
The Battle of the
Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania
County. ·
1865 –
American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders
about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama. ·
1865
– American Civil War: The Confederate
government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia. ·
1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United
States at Waterloo, New York. ·
1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment
by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. ·
1886 –
The Bay View massacre:
A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven. ·
1891 –
The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and
first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as
the guest conductor. ·
1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia
Athletics at the Huntington
Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in
the modern era of baseball. ·
1905 –
The trial in the Stratton Brothers
case begins in London, England; it marks the first time
that fingerprint evidence
is used to gain a conviction for murder. ·
1912 – Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg. ·
1920 –
Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and
Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder. ·
1925 – Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant
on John T. Scopes for
teaching evolution in
violation of the Butler Act. ·
1927 – To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published. ·
1936 –
Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. ·
1940 – World War II: Norwegian refugees form
a government-in-exile in
London. ·
1940
– World War II: Norwegian Campaign:
Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate
to German forces after
all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms. ·
1941 –
Emperor Haile Selassie returns
to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory
Day. ·
1945 –
World War II: The German
surrender at Lüneburg Heath becomes effective, encompassing
all German armed forces opposing the 21st Army Group in northwestern
Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands. ·
1945
– World War II: Dönitz gives Löhr permission
to seek an armistice with the Western Allies to preserve a communist
free Austria and recognising first, from a
German standpoint, the separation of Austria from Germany undoing the Anschluss. ·
1945
– World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by
the Czech resistance to
free the city from German
occupation. ·
1945
– World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched
by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon. ·
1945
– World War II: Battle of Castle
Itter, the only battle in which American and German troops fought
cooperatively. ·
1946 –
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins
in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused
of war crimes and crimes against
humanity. ·
1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King of Thailand. ·
1955 –
The General Treaty,
by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of
West Germany, comes into effect. ·
1961 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American
to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. ·
1964 –
The Council of Europe declares
May 5 as Europe Day. ·
1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes
into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the
deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. ·
1973 – Secretariat wins
the 1973 Kentucky Derby in
1:592⁄5, an as-yet unbeaten
record. ·
1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms
the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day
siege. ·
1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days
of hunger-striking,
aged 27. ·
1985 – Ronald Reagan visits the
military cemetery at Bitburg and the
site of the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp, where he makes a speech. ·
1987 – Iran–Contra affair:
Start of Congressional televised
hearings in the United States of America ·
1991 –
A riot breaks
out in the Mt.
Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot
a Salvadoran man. ·
1992 – Armand
Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia (Corsica): Eighteen people are killed and 2,300
are injured when one of the terraces collapses before a football match
between SC Bastia and Olympique de
Marseille. ·
1993 –
Three eight-year-old boys are murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas,
Ultimately leading to the conviction of the West Memphis Three. ·
1994 –
The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes
the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. ·
1994
– American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism. ·
1998 –
A Peruvian Air Force Boeing 737 operating for Occidental Petroleum crashes on
approach to Alférez FAP Alfredo Vladimir Sara Bauer Airport in Andoas, Peru,
killing 75 people.[6] ·
2006 –
The government of Sudan signs an accord
with the Sudan Liberation
Army. ·
2007 – Kenya Airways
Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala
International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it
the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.[7] ·
2010 – Mass
protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the
government as a result of the Greek
government-debt crisis. ·
2014 –
Eleven people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with
a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong
Kong. ·
2014
– Twenty-two people die after two boats carrying refugees collide in
the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece. ·
2019 –
A Russian jet plane burst into flames while
attempting an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport in
Moscow killing at least 41 people.[8] ·
2020 –
The National Telecommunications Commission issued
a Cease and desist order
to ABS-CBN Corporation to
stop the operation of its free TV and radio stations one day after their
25-year Congressional franchise was expired. Births[edit] ·
1210 – Afonso III of
Portugal (d. 1279)[9] ·
1282 – Juan
Manuel, Prince of Villena (d. 1322)[10] ·
1310 – Preczlaw of Pogarell, Cardinal and Bishop of
Wrocław (d. 1376) ·
1352 – Rupert of Germany,
Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1410) ·
1479 – Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (d. 1574) ·
1504 – Stanislaus Hosius,
Polish cardinal (d. 1579) ·
1530 – Gabriel,
comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (d. 1574) ·
1542 – Thomas
Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (d. 1623) ·
1582 – John
Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1628) ·
1684 – Françoise
Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice
de Noailles (d. 1739) ·
1747 – Leopold
II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792) ·
1749 – Jean-Frédéric
Edelmann, French pianist and composer (d. 1794) ·
1764 – Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and
politician (d. 1812) ·
1800 – Louis
Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864) ·
1813 – Sřren Kierkegaard,
Danish philosopher and author (d. 1855) ·
1818 – Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist,
and journalist (d. 1883) ·
1826 – Eugénie de Montijo,
French wife of Napoleon III (d.
1920)[11] ·
1830 – John Batterson
Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson
Company (d. 1906) ·
1832 – Hubert Howe Bancroft,
American ethnologist and historian (d. 1918) ·
1833 – Ferdinand von Richthofen,
German geographer and academic (d. 1905) ·
1834 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and
architect (d. 1873) ·
1843 – William George Beers,
Canadian dentist and patriot (d. 1900) ·
1846 – Henryk Sienkiewicz,
Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1916) ·
1858 – John L. Leal, American physician (d. 1914) ·
1859 – Charles B. Hanford,
American Shakespearean actor (d. 1926)[12] ·
1864 – Nellie Bly, American journalist and author
(d. 1922) ·
1865 – Helen Maud Merrill,
American litterateur and poet (d. 1943) ·
1866 – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (d.
1938) ·
1869 – Fabián de la Rosa,
Filipino painter and educator (d. 1937) ·
1869
– Hans Pfitzner,
German composer and conductor (d. 1949) ·
1874 – Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian
politician, 24th Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1941) ·
1882 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage
movement leader and socialist activist (d. 1960) ·
1883 – Archibald
Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician,
43rd Governor-General
of India (d. 1950) ·
1883
– Anna Johnson
Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (d. 1966)[13] ·
1884 – Chief Bender, American baseball player and
coach (d. 1954) ·
1885 – Kingsley Fairbridge,
South African-Australian scholar and politician (d. 1924) ·
1887 – Mervyn S. Bennion,
American captain, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1941) ·
1889 – Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and
soldier (d. 1973) ·
1890 – Christopher Morley,
American journalist and author (d. 1957) ·
1892 – Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (d.
1968)[14] ·
1898 – Elsie Eaves, American engineer (d. 1983)[15] ·
1898
– Blind Willie McTell,
American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (d. 1959) ·
1899 – Freeman Gosden, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 1982) ·
1900 – Helen Redfield, American geneticist (d.
1988)[16] ·
1903 – James Beard, American chef and author (d.
1985) ·
1905 – Floyd Gottfredson,
American author and illustrator (d. 1986) ·
1906 – Charles Exbrayat, French author and screenwriter
(d. 1989) ·
1907 – Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk, Bukovinian
(Ukrainian) journalist and author (d. 1982)[17] ·
1908 – Kurt Böhme, German opera singer (d. 1989) ·
1909 – Miklós Radnóti,
Hungarian poet and author (d. 1944) ·
1910 – Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator
(d. 1999) ·
1911 – Gilles Grangier, French director and
screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1911
– Andor Lilienthal,
Russian-Hungarian chess player (d. 2010) ·
1911
– Pritilata Waddedar,
Indian educator and activist (d. 1932)[18] ·
1913 – Duane Carter, American race car driver (d.
1993) ·
1914 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958) ·
1915 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (d.
1998) ·
1916 – Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (d.
1994) ·
1917 – Pío Leyva, Cuban singer-songwriter (d. 2006) ·
1918 – Egidio Galea, Maltese Roman Catholic priest
(d. 2005) ·
1919 – Georgios
Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 1999) ·
1921 – Arthur Leonard
Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1999) ·
1922 – Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish nurse and
humanitarian (d. 2003) ·
1923 – William C.
Campbell, American golfer (d. 2013) ·
1923
– James Gilbert,
Scottish television producer and director (d. 2016) ·
1923
– Cathleen Synge
Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (d. 2017)[19] ·
1923
– Richard Wollheim,
English philosopher and academic (d. 2003) ·
1925 – Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and
politician (d. 1978) ·
1927 – Pat Carroll,
American actress ·
1929 – Ilene Woods, American actress (d. 2010) ·
1930 – Hans Abramson, Swedish director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
1931 – Greg,
Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1999) ·
1932 – Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (d.
2014) ·
1932
– Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsled racer (d. 2002) ·
1933 – Igor Kashkarov, Russian high jumper ·
1933
– Collie Smith,
Jamaican cricketer (d. 1959) ·
1934 – Henri Konan Bédié,
Ivorian politician, 2nd President of
Côte d'Ivoire[20] ·
1934
– Victor Garland,
Australian accountant and politician, 26th Australian
Minister for Veterans' Affairs ·
1935 – Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and magazine
editor ·
1935
– Bernard Pivot,
French journalist, talk show host, and producer ·
1935
– Robert Rehme,
American film producer ·
1936 – Sandy Baron, American actor and comedian (d.
2001) ·
1936
– Patrick Gowers,
English composer and educator (d. 2014) ·
1936
– Ervin Lázár,
Hungarian author (d. 2006) ·
1937 – Delia Derbyshire, English musician, arranger
and composer (d. 2001)[21] ·
1938 – Michael Murphy,
American actor ·
1938
– Barbara Wagner,
Canadian figure skater and coach ·
1939 – Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and
activist (d. 2013) ·
1940 – Lance Henriksen, American actor ·
1940
– Michael Lindsay-Hogg,
American director and producer ·
1941 – Alexander Ragulin,
Russian ice hockey player (d. 2004) ·
1942 – István Bujtor, Hungarian actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009) ·
1942
– Jean
Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician ·
1942
– Hugh
Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon, English politician (d. 2015) ·
1942
– Tammy Wynette,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998) ·
1943 – Michael Palin, English actor and
screenwriter ·
1943
– Ignacio Ramonet,
Spanish journalist and author ·
1944 – Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer ·
1944
– John Rhys-Davies,
Welsh actor and screenwriter ·
1944
– Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and
director (d. 2015) ·
1945 – Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and
critic ·
1945
– Dianne Willcocks,
English sociologist and academic ·
1946
– Jim Kelly,
American actor, athlete, and martial artist ·
1946 – Aydın Menderes,
Turkish politician (d. 2011) ·
1948 – Bella van der
Spiegel-Hage, Dutch cyclist ·
1948
– Bill Ward,
English drummer and songwriter ·
1949 – Eppie Bleeker, Dutch speed skater ·
1950 – Rex Caldwell, American golfer ·
1950
– Maggie MacNeal,
Dutch singer ·
1951 – Rudolf Finsterer, German rugby player and
coach ·
1951
– Toomas Vilosius,
Estonian physician and politician, 2nd Minister
of Social Affairs of Estonia ·
1952 – Ed Lee,
American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San
Francisco (d. 2017) ·
1952
– Jorge Llopart,
Spanish race walker ·
1952
– Willem Witteveen,
Dutch scholar and politician (d. 2014) ·
1955 – Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer ·
1956 – Steve Scott,
American runner and coach ·
1957 – Richard E. Grant, Swazi-English actor, director,
and screenwriter ·
1957
– Peter Howitt,
English actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1957
– Aad van Mil, Dutch water polo player ·
1958 – Ron Arad, Israeli colonel and pilot (d.
1986) ·
1958
– Robert
DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer and sportscaster ·
1958
– Vanessa Downing,
Australian actress ·
1958
– Jack Wishna, American businessman,
co-founded Rockcityclub (d.
2012) ·
1959 – Bobby Ellsworth, American singer and bass
player ·
1959
– Ian McCulloch,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1959
– Steve Stevens,
American guitarist and songwriter ·
1959
– Brian Williams,
American journalist ·
1960 – Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and
sportscaster ·
1961 – Marg Downey, Australian actress ·
1961
– Hiroshi Hase,
Japanese wrestler and politician ·
1961
– Rob Williams,
American basketball player (d. 2014) ·
1962 – Kaoru Wada, Japanese composer and conductor ·
1963 – James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter ·
1963
– Simon Rimmer,
English chef and author ·
1963
– Scott Westerfeld,
American author and composer ·
1964 – Jean-François Copé,
French politician, French Minister of Budget ·
1964
– Heike Henkel,
German high jumper ·
1964
– Don Payne,
American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013) ·
1964
– Minami Takayama,
Japanese voice actress and singer ·
1964
– Efrat Mishori,
Israeli poet and filmmaker ·
1965 – Glenn Seton, Australian race car driver ·
1966 – Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer ·
1966
– Sergei Stanishev,
Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister
of Bulgaria[22] ·
1966
– Josh Weinstein,
American screenwriter and producer ·
1967 – Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator ·
1967
– Alexis Sinduhije,
Burundian journalist and politician ·
1969 – Pieter Muller, South African rugby player ·
1970 – Kyan Douglas, American television host and
author ·
1970
– Todd Newton, American game show host ·
1971 – Harold Miner, American basketball player ·
1971
– Mike Redmond,
American baseball player and manager ·
1972 – James Cracknell, English rower ·
1972
– Žigmund Pálffy,
Slovakian ice hockey player ·
1972
– Mikael Renberg,
Swedish ice hockey player ·
1975 – Meb Keflezighi, American runner ·
1976 – Dieter Brummer, Australian actor ·
1976
– Jean-François
Dumoulin, Canadian race car driver ·
1976
– Anastasios Pantos,
Greek footballer ·
1976
– Juan Pablo Sorín,
Argentinian footballer and sportscaster ·
1978 – Morgan Pehme, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1979 – Vincent Kartheiser,
American actor ·
1980 – Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer ·
1980
– Hank Green, American entrepreneur, educator,
and vlogger ·
1980
– DerMarr Johnson,
American basketball player ·
1981 – Craig David, English singer-songwriter,
musician and producer ·
1981
– Danielle Fishel,
American actress ·
1982 – Ferrie Bodde, Dutch footballer ·
1982
– Wouter D'Haene,
Belgian sprinter ·
1982
– Randall Gay, American football player ·
1982
– Corey Parker,
Australian rugby league footballer ·
1983 – James Anyon, English cricketer ·
1983
– Henry Cavill,
English actor ·
1983
– Mabel Gay, Cuban triple jumper ·
1983
– Annie Villeneuve,
Canadian singer-songwriter ·
1983
– Scott Ware, American football player ·
1984 – Johanna Hedva, Korean-American artist and
genderqueer activist[23] ·
1984
– Wade MacNeil,
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1984
– Christian Valdez,
Mexican footballer ·
1985 – Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer ·
1985
– Emanuele Giaccherini,
Italian footballer ·
1985
– Tsepo Masilela,
South African footballer ·
1985
– Marcos
Rogério Oliveira Duarte, Brazilian footballer ·
1985
– Terrence Wheatley,
American football player ·
1987 – Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer ·
1988 – Adele, English singer-songwriter ·
1988
– Mervyn Westfield,
English cricketer ·
1989 – Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter,
dancer, and actor ·
1991 – Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer ·
1991
– Raúl Jiménez,
Mexican footballer ·
1992 – Loďck Landre, French footballer ·
1994 – Celeste, English singer ·
1998 – Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player ·
1999 – Nathan Chen, American figure skater ·
1999
– Justin Kluivert,
Dutch footballer Deaths[edit] ·
465 – Gerontius,
Archbishop of Milan ·
1194 – Casimir II the Just,
Polish son of Bolesław
III Wrymouth (b. 1138) ·
1243 – Hubert
de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, English justiciar (b. c. 1160) ·
1306 – Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine general (b. 1261) ·
1309 – Charles II of Naples (b.
1254) ·
1316 – Elizabeth of
Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England (b. 1282) ·
1338 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese
Emperor (b. 1324) ·
1380 – Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr[24] ·
1432 – Francesco
Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer ·
1525 – Frederick
III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463) ·
1582 – Charlotte of Bourbon,
Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange (b.
1547) ·
1586 – Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of
Ireland (b. 1529) ·
1671 – Edward
Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and
politician, Lord Chamberlain of the
United Kingdom (b. 1602) ·
1672 – Samuel Cooper, English painter and linguist
(b. 1609) ·
1700 – Angelo Italia, Italian architect (b. 1628) ·
1705 – Leopold I,
Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640) ·
1760 – Laurence
Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (b. 1720) ·
1766 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar
(b. 1684) ·
1808 – Pierre Jean
George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757) ·
1821 – Napoleon, French general and emperor (b.
1769) ·
1827 – Frederick
Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750) ·
1833 – Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter
(b. 1777) ·
1855 – Sir Robert
Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786) ·
1859 – Peter
Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b.
1805) ·
1860 – Jean-Charles Prince,
Canadian bishop (b. 1804) ·
1883 – John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian
politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (b.
1818) ·
1892 – August Wilhelm
von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818) ·
1896 – Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1839) ·
1902 – Bret Harte, American short story writer and
poet (b. 1836)[25] ·
1907 – Şeker Ahmed
Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841) ·
1913 – Henry Moret, French painter (b. 1856) ·
1916 – John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (b.
1865) ·
1916
– Maurice Raoul-Duval,
French polo player (b. 1866) ·
1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried,
Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1864) ·
1924 – A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and
politician (b. 1853) ·
1931 – Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car
driver (b. 1899) ·
1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920) ·
1947 – Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball
player (b. 1917) ·
1957 – Leopold Löwenheim,
German mathematician and logician (b. 1878) ·
1959 – Carlos Saavedra
Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1878) ·
1962 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b.
1889) ·
1965 – Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b.
1915) ·
1965
– John
Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893) ·
1971 – Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b.
1887) ·
1973 – Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b.
1948) ·
1977 – Ludwig Erhard, German economist and
politician, Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1897) ·
1981 – Bobby Sands, PIRA
volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)[26] ·
1983 – Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901) ·
1983
– John Williams,
English-American actor (b. 1903) ·
1985 – Donald
Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (b. 1901) ·
1988 – Michael Shaara, American author and academic
(b. 1928) ·
1993 – Irving Howe, American literary and social critic
(b. 1920) ·
1994 – Mário Quintana,
Brazilian poet and translator (b. 1906) ·
1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik,
Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911) ·
1999 – Vasilis
Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920) ·
2000 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914) ·
2000
– Bill Musselman,
American basketball player and coach (b. 1940) ·
2001 – Morris Graves, American painter and educator
(b. 1910) ·
2001
– Clifton Hillegass,
American publisher, created CliffsNotes (b. 1918) ·
2002 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and
politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b.
1926) ·
2002
– Paul Wilbur Klipsch,
American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio
Technologies (b. 1904)[27] ·
2002
– George Sidney,
American director and producer (b. 1916) ·
2003 – Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (b.
1964) ·
2003
– Walter Sisulu,
South African activist and politician (b. 1912) ·
2006 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer
(b. 1919) ·
2006
– Atıf
Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b.
1925) ·
2007 – Theodore Harold
Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created
the laser (b. 1927) ·
2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman,
co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b.
1917) ·
2008
– Jerry Wallace,
American singer and guitarist (b. 1928) ·
2010 – Giulietta Simionato,
Italian soprano (b. 1910) ·
2010
– Umaru Musa Yar'Adua,
Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (b.
1951) ·
2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier
(b. 1901) ·
2011
– Yosef Merimovich,
Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924) ·
2011
– Dana Wynter, British actress (b. 1931) ·
2012 – Surendranath,
Indian cricketer (b. 1937) ·
2012
– Carl Johan
Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (b. 1916) ·
2012
– Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and
publisher (b. 1932) ·
2012
– George Knobel,
Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922) ·
2012
– Roy Padayachie,
South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications
(b. 1950) ·
2013 – Sarah Kirsch,
German poet and author (b. 1935) ·
2013
– Robert Ressler,
American FBI agent and author (b. 1937) ·
2014 – Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and
politician, 9th Governor of Lagos
State (b. 1926) ·
2015 – Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer,
and author (b. 1935) ·
2015
– Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and
politician (b. 1942) ·
2017 – Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and
politician (b. 1954) ·
2017
– Ely Ould Mohamed
Vall, Mauritanian politician (b. 1953) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Children's Day (Japan, South Korea) ·
Christian feast day: o Blessed Edmund
Ignatius Rice o Frederick
the Wise (Lutheran
Church–Missouri Synod) o May 5
(Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Cinco de Mayo (Mexico, United States) ·
Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan) ·
Europe Day (Council of Europe) ·
Feast of al-Khadr or Saint George (Palestinian) ·
International
Midwives' Day (International) ·
Liberation Day (Denmark, Netherlands) ·
Lusophone Culture
Day (Community
of Portuguese Language Countries) ·
World Portuguese language day
(International)[28] ·
Martyrs' Day (Albania) ·
Patriots' Victory
Day (Ethiopia) ·
Tango no sekku (Japan) |
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