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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 7 is the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
238 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
351
The Jewish
revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his
arrival at Antioch.[1] ·
558
In Constantinople,
the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years
after its construction.[2] Justinian I immediately
orders that the dome be rebuilt. ·
1274
In France, the Second Council of
Lyon opens to regulate the election of the Pope. ·
1487
The Siege of Mαlaga commences
during the Spanish Reconquista. ·
1544
The Burning of Edinburgh by
an English army is the first action of the Rough Wooing.[3] ·
1664 Louis XIV of France begins
construction of the Palace of Versailles. ·
1685 Battle of Vrtijeljka between
rebels and Ottoman forces. ·
1697 Stockholm's royal castle (dating back
to medieval times)
is destroyed by fire. It is replaced in the 18th century by the current Royal Palace. ·
1718
The city of New Orleans is
founded by Jean-Baptiste
Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. ·
1763 Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's
attempt to seize Fort Detroit from
the British. ·
1794 French Revolution: Robespierre introduces
the Cult of the
Supreme Being in the National Convention as
the new state religion of
the French First
Republic. ·
1824
World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is
conducted by Michael Umlauf under
the composer's supervision.[4] ·
1832
Greece's independence is recognized by the Treaty of London. ·
1840
The Great Natchez
Tornado strikes Natchez, Mississippi killing
317 people. It is the second deadliest tornado in United States history. ·
1846
The Cambridge Chronicle,
America's oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time
in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. ·
1864 American Civil War:
The Army of the Potomac,
under General Ulysses S. Grant,
breaks off from the Battle of the
Wilderness and moves southwards. ·
1864
The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is
launched by William Pile,
Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting
passengers and goods between Britain and Australia. ·
1895
In Saint Petersburg,
Russian scientist Alexander
Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and
Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detectora primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the
former Soviet Union the
anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day. ·
1915 World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198
people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many
former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire. ·
1915
The Republic of
China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands,
extending the Empire of Japan's control
over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.[5] ·
1920 Kyiv Offensive: Polish troops
led by Jσzef Piłsudski and Edward
Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force
capture Kyiv only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month
later. ·
1920
Treaty of Moscow: Soviet Russia recognizes the
independence of the Democratic
Republic of Georgia only to invade the country six months
later. ·
1920
Morecambe Football Club was
founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.[6] ·
1930
The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes
northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people
were killed. ·
1931
The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of
the New York
Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on
West 91st Street, New York City. ·
1937 Spanish Civil War:
The German Condor Legion,
equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes,
arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces. ·
1940 World War II: The Norway Debate in the British House of
Commons begins, and leads to the replacement of Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three
days later. ·
1942
World War II: During the Battle of the
Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and
sink the Imperial Japanese
Navy light aircraft
carrier Shōhō;
the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight
without visual contact between warring ships. ·
1945
World War II: Last German U boat attack of
the war, two freighters are sunk off the Firth of Forth, Scotland. ·
1945
World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional
surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's
participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day. ·
1946
Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony)
is founded.[7] ·
1948
The Council of Europe is
founded during the Hague Congress. ·
1952
The concept of the integrated circuit,
the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer. ·
1954 Indochina War: The Battle of Dien
Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the
battle began on March 13). ·
1960 Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960:
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces
that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers. ·
1976
The Honda Accord is
officially launched. ·
1986
Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes
the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits. ·
1992 Michigan ratifies a 203-year-old
proposed amendment to the United States
Constitution making the 27th Amendment law. This amendment bars
the U.S. Congress from
giving itself a mid-term pay raise. ·
1992
Space Shuttle
program: The Space Shuttle Endeavour is
launched on its first mission, STS-49. ·
1992
Three employees at a McDonald's Restaurant in Sydney, Nova Scotia,
Canada, are brutally
murdered and a fourth permanently disabled after a botched
robbery. It is the first "fast-food murder" in Canada. ·
1994 Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged
after being stolen from the National
Gallery of Norway in February.[8] ·
1998 Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for US$40 billion and
forms DaimlerChrysler in
the largest industrial merger in history.[9] ·
1999 Pope John Paul II travels
to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a
predominantly Eastern Orthodox country
since the Great Schism in
1054. ·
1999
Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are
killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft
apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia. ·
1999
In Guinea-Bissau,
President Joγo Bernardo Vieira is
ousted in a military coup. ·
2000 Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as
president of Russia. ·
2002
An EgyptAir Boeing
737-500 crashes on approach to TunisCarthage
International Airport, killing 14 people.[10] ·
2002
A China
Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people. ·
2004
American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants.
The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.[11] Births[edit] ·
Before 160 Julia Maesa, Roman noblewoman (d. 224)[12] ·
1488 John III of
the Palatinate, archbishop of Regensburg (d. 1538) ·
1530 Louis,
Prince of Condι (d. 1569)[13] ·
1553 Albert
Frederick, Duke of Prussia (d. 1618) ·
1605 Patriarch Nikon
of Moscow (d. 1681) ·
1643 Stephanus Van
Cortlandt, American politician, 10th Mayor of New York
City (d. 1700) ·
1700 Gerard van Swieten,
Dutch-Austrian physician (d. 1772) ·
1701 Carl Heinrich Graun,
German tenor and composer (d. 1759)[14] ·
1711 David Hume, Scottish economist, historian,
and philosopher (d. 1776) ·
1724 Dagobert
Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal (d. 1797) ·
1740 Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police officer and
general (d. 1814) ·
1748 Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and
philosopher (d. 1793)[15] ·
1763 Jσzef Poniatowski,
Polish general (d. 1813) ·
1767 Princess
Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820) ·
1774 William Bainbridge,
American commodore (d. 1833) ·
1787 Jacques Viger,
Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal (d.
1858) ·
1812 Robert Browning, English poet and playwright
(d. 1889)[16] ·
1833 Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer
(d. 1897)[17] ·
1836 Joseph Gurney Cannon,
American lawyer and politician, 40th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d.
1926) ·
1837 Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer
(d. 1875) ·
1840 Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and educator (d. 1893) ·
1845 Mary Eliza Mahoney,
American nurse and activist (d. 1926) ·
1847 Archibald
Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1929) ·
1857 William A. MacCorkle,
American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of
West Virginia (d. 1930) ·
1860 Tom Norman, English businessman (d. 1930) ·
1861 Rabindranath Tagore,
Indian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1941) ·
1867 Władysław
Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1925) ·
1875 Bill Hoyt,
American pole vaulter (d. 1951) ·
1880 Pandurang Vaman Kane,
Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee (d. 1972) ·
1881 George E. Wiley, American cyclist (d. 1954) ·
1882 Willem Elsschot, Belgian author and poet (d.
1960) ·
1885 George
"Gabby" Hayes, American actor (d. 1969) ·
1889 Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (d. 1943) ·
1891 Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and
activist (d. 1988) ·
1892 Archibald MacLeish,
American poet, playwright, and lawyer (d. 1982) ·
1892
Josip Broz Tito,
Yugoslav field marshal and politician, 1st President of
Yugoslavia (d. 1980) ·
1893 Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey coach and
manager (d. 1985) ·
1896 Kathleen McKane
Godfree, English tennis and badminton player (d. 1992) ·
1899 Alfred Gerrard, English sculptor and
academic (d. 1998) ·
1901 Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)[18] ·
1903 Jimmy Ball, Canadian sprinter (d. 1988) ·
1904 Kurt Weitzmann, German-American historian
and author (d. 1993) ·
1905 Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical
engineer (d. 1989)[19] ·
1906 Eric Krenz, American discus thrower and shot
putter (d. 1931) ·
1909 Edwin H. Land, American scientist and
inventor, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (d.
1991) ·
1909
Dorothy Sunrise
Lorentino, Native American teacher (d. 2005) [20] ·
1911 Ishirō Honda, Japanese director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993) ·
1911
Rıfat Ilgaz,
Turkish author, poet, and educator (d. 1993) ·
1912 Pannalal Patel, Indian author (d. 1989) ·
1913 John Spencer Hardy,
American general (d. 2012) ·
1913
Simon Ramo, American physicist and engineer
(d. 2016) ·
1914 Arthur Snelling, English civil servant and
diplomat. British Ambassador to South Africa (d.
1996) ·
1916 Huw Wheldon, Welsh-English broadcaster (d.
1986) ·
1916
W. B. Young, Scottish rugby player and
physician (d. 2013) ·
1917 Domenico Bartolucci,
Italian cardinal and composer (d. 2013) ·
1917
Lenox Hewitt,
Australian public servant (d. 2020) ·
1917
David Tomlinson,
English actor (d. 2000) ·
1919 Eva Perσn, Argentinian actress, 25th First Lady of
Argentina (d. 1952) ·
1920 Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor (d. 1985) ·
1921 Asa Briggs,
Baron Briggs, English historian and academic (d. 2016) ·
1921
Gaston Rιbuffat,
French mountaineer and author (d. 1985) ·
1922 Darren McGavin, American actor and director
(d. 2006) ·
1922
Joe
O'Donnell, American photographer and journalist (d. 2007) ·
1923 Anne Baxter, American actress (d. 1985) ·
1923
Jim Lowe, American singer-songwriter, disc
jockey, and radio host (d. 2016) ·
1923
Bόlent Ulusu,
Turkish admiral and politician, 18th Prime
Minister of Turkey (d. 2015) ·
1924 Albert Band, French-American director and
producer (d. 2002) ·
1925 Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and
academic (d. 2015) ·
1927 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,
German-American author and screenwriter (d. 2013) ·
1929 Dick Williams, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 2011) ·
1930 Totie Fields, American comedian and author
(d. 1978) ·
1930
Babe Parilli,
American football player and coach (d. 2017) ·
1930
John Smith,
Baron Kirkhill, English politician ·
1931 Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007) ·
1931
Gene Wolfe, American author (d. 2019) ·
1932 Jordi Bonet, Spanish-Canadian painter and
sculptor (d. 1979) ·
1932
Alan Cuthbert,
English pharmacologist and academic (d. 2016) ·
1932
Pete Domenici,
American lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Albuquerque (d.
2017) ·
1932
Derek Taylor,
English journalist and author (d. 1997) ·
1933 Johnny Unitas, American football player and
sportscaster (d. 2002) ·
1935 Avraham Heffner, Israeli actor, director,
and screenwriter (d. 2014) ·
1935
Michael
Hopkins, English architect ·
1936 Robin
Hanbury-Tenison, English explorer and author ·
1936
Tony O'Reilly,
Irish rugby player and businessman ·
1936
Jimmy Ruffin,
American soul singer (d. 2014) ·
1937 Eddie Clayton, English footballer[21] ·
1937
Claude Raymond,
Canadian baseball player and coach ·
1939 Sidney Altman, Canadian-American biologist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1939
Ruggero Deodato,
Italian actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1939
Ruud Lubbers,
Dutch economist and politician, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018) ·
1939
Johnny Maestro,
American pop/doo-wop singer (d. 2010) ·
1939
Clive Soley,
Baron Soley, English politician ·
1940 Angela Carter, English novelist and short
story writer (d. 1992) ·
1940
Dave Chambers,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1941 Lawrence
Collins, Baron Collins of Mapesbury, English lawyer and judge ·
1943 Terry Allen,
American singer and painter ·
1943
Harvey Andrews,
English singer-songwriter and poet ·
1943
John Bannon, Australian academic and politician,
39th Premier of
South Australia (d. 2015) ·
1943
Peter Carey,
Australian novelist and short story writer ·
1945 Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1945
Robin Strasser,
American actress ·
1946 Thelma Houston, American R&B/disco
singer and actress ·
1946
Marv Hubbard,
American football player (d. 2015) ·
1946
Bill Kreutzmann,
American drummer ·
1946
Michael Rosen,
English author and poet ·
1946
Brian Turner,
English chef and television host ·
1949 Kathy Ahern, American golfer (d. 1996) ·
1949
Deborah Butterfield,
American sculptor[22] ·
1950 John
Dowling Coates, Australian lawyer, sports administrator and
businessman ·
1950
Randall
"Tex" Cobb, American boxer and actor ·
1950
Tim Russert, American television journalist
and lawyer (d. 2008) ·
1953 Pat McInally, American football player and
coach ·
1953
Ian McKay, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1982) ·
1954 Philippe Geluck, Belgian cartoonist ·
1954
Joanna Haigh,
English meteorologist and physicist ·
1954
Amy Heckerling,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1955 Clιment Gignac,
Canadian politician ·
1955
Ben Poquette,
American basketball player ·
1955
Axel Zwingenberger,
German pianist and songwriter ·
1956 Jan Peter Balkenende,
Dutch jurist and politician, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands ·
1956
Anne Dudley, English pianist and composer ·
1956
Nicholas Hytner,
English director and producer ·
1956
Jean Lapierre,
Canadian talk show host and politician ·
1956
Calum
MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician ·
1957 Kristina M. Johnson,
American business executive, engineer, academic and government official ·
1958 Mikhail
Biryukov, Russian footballer and manager ·
1958
Mark G. Kuzyk,
American physicist and academic ·
1958
Anne Marie Rafferty,
English nurse and academic ·
1959 Michael E. Knight,
American actor ·
1959
Tony Sealy, English footballer, forward and
manager[23] ·
1959
Heiki Valk, Estonian archeologist and
academic ·
1960 Adam Bernstein, American director and
screenwriter ·
1960
Ara
Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham, Iraqi-English surgeon and academic ·
1960
Almudena Grandes,
Spanish author ·
1961 Hans-Peter Bartels,
German politician ·
1961
Sue
Black, Scottish anthropologist and academic ·
1961
Ivar Must, Estonian composer and producer ·
1962 Tony Campbell, American basketball player
and coach ·
1962
Judith Donath,
American computer scientist and academic ·
1963 Johnny Lee Middleton,
American bass player and songwriter ·
1964 Ronnie Harmon, American football player ·
1964
Denis Mandarino,
Brazilian guitarist, composer, and painter ·
1964
Leslie O'Neal,
American football player ·
1965 Reuben
Davis, American football player ·
1965
Owen Hart, Canadian wrestler (d. 1999) ·
1965
Norman Whiteside,
Northern Irish footballer and manager ·
1965
Huang Zhihong,
Chinese shot putter ·
1967 Martin Bryant, Australian mass murderer ·
1967
Adam Price,
Danish chef and screenwriter ·
1967
Joe Rice, American colonel and politician ·
1968 Traci Lords, American actress and singer ·
1968
Lisa Raitt, Canadian lawyer and politician,
30th Canadian
Minister of Transport ·
1969 Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter[24] ·
1969
Jun Falkenstein,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1969
Katerina Maleeva,
Bulgarian tennis player ·
1971 Reidar Horghagen, Norwegian drummer ·
1971
Dave Karpa, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1971
Thomas Piketty,
French economist[25] ·
1972 Peter
Dubovskύ, Czech-Slovak footballer (d. 2000) ·
1972
Frank Trigg, American mixed martial artist
and wrestler ·
1973 Kristian Lundin, Swedish songwriter and
producer ·
1973
Paolo Savoldelli,
Italian cyclist ·
1974 Ian Pearce, English footballer and assistant
manager[26] ·
1973
Lawrence
Johnson, American pole vaulter ·
1975 Ashley Cowan, English cricketer ·
1976 Calvin Booth, American basketball player ·
1976
Berke Hatipoğlu,
Turkish guitarist and songwriter ·
1976
Stacey Jones, New
Zealand rugby league player[27] ·
1976
Andrea Lo Cicero,
Italian rugby player[28] ·
1976
Michael P. Murphy,
American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2005) ·
1976
Ayelet Shaked,
Israeli Minister of Justice (2015-2019) ·
1977 Elton Flatley, Australian rugby player ·
1978 Stian Arnesen, Norwegian guitarist, drummer,
and songwriter ·
1978
James Carter,
American hurdler ·
1978
Shawn Marion,
American basketball player ·
1979 Katie Douglas, American basketball player ·
1983 Phionah Atuhebwe, Ugandan vaccinologist and
immunization expert[29] ·
1984 James Loney, American baseball player ·
1984
Alex Smith, American football player ·
1984
Kevin Owens, Canadian wrestler ·
1985 Jarrad Hickey, Australian rugby league
player ·
1985
Drew Neitzel,
American basketball player ·
1986 Matt Helders, English drummer ·
1987 Asami Konno, Japanese singer ·
1987
Michael Maidens,
English footballer (d. 2007) ·
1987
Mark Reynolds,
Scottish footballer[30] ·
1987
David Schlemko,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1988 Eino Puri, Estonian footballer ·
1988
Sander Puri, Estonian footballer ·
1989 Earl Thomas, American football player[31] ·
1995 Seko Fofana, French born Ivorian
international footballer[32] ·
1997 Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player[33] ·
1998 Maryna Piddubna, Ukrainian Paralympic
swimmer[34] ·
1998
Jesse Puljujδrvi,
Finnish ice hockey player Deaths[edit] ·
721 John of Beverley, bishop of York ·
833 Ibn Hisham, Egyptian Muslim historian ·
973 Otto I, Holy
Roman Emperor (b. 912) ·
1014 Bagrat III,
1st King of Georgia (b. 960) ·
1092 Remigius de Fιcamp,
English monk and bishop ·
1202 Hamelin
de Warenne, Earl of Surrey ·
1205 Ladislaus III of
Hungary (b. 1201) ·
1234 Otto I, Duke of
Merania (b. c. 1180) ·
1243 Hugh
d'Aubigny, 5th Earl of Arundel ·
1427 Thomas
la Warr, 5th Baron De La Warr, English priest (b. 1352) ·
1494 Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (b.
1471) ·
1523 Franz von Sickingen,
German knight (b. 1481) ·
1539 Ottaviano Petrucci,
Italian printer (b. 1466) ·
1617 David Fabricius, German astronomer and
theologian (b. 1564)[35] ·
1667 Johann Jakob
Froberger, German organist and composer (b. 1616) ·
1682 Feodor III of Russia (b.
1661) ·
1685 Bajo Pivljanin (b. 1630) ·
1718 Mary of Modena (b. 1658) ·
1793 Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and
composer (b. 1722) ·
1800 Niccolς Piccinni,
Italian composer (b. 1728) ·
1805 William
Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English general and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737) ·
1815 Jabez Bowen, American colonel and
politician, 45th Deputy
Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1739) ·
1825 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and
conductor (b. 1750) ·
1840 Caspar David
Friedrich, German painter and educator (b. 1774) ·
1868 Henry
Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Scottish lawyer and
politician, Lord High Chancellor of
Great Britain (b. 1778) ·
1872 Alexander Loyd, American carpenter and
politician, 4th Mayor of Chicago (b.
1805) ·
1876 William Buell
Sprague, American clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1795) ·
1887 C. F. W. Walther, German-American religious
leader and theologian (b. 1811) ·
1896 H. H. Holmes, American serial killer (b.
1861) ·
1902 Agostino Roscelli,
Italian priest and saint (b. 1818) ·
1917 Albert Ball, English fighter pilot (b. 1896) ·
1922 Max Wagenknecht, German pianist and composer
(b. 1857) ·
1924 Alluri Sitarama Raju,
Indian activist (b. 1897/1898) ·
1925 William
Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, English businessman and politician
(b. 1851) ·
1937 Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain and author
(b. 1886) ·
1938 Octavian Goga, Romanian politician, former
Prime Minister (b. 1881) ·
1940 George Lansbury, English journalist and
politician (b. 1859) ·
1941 James George Frazer,
Scottish-English anthropologist and academic (b. 1854) ·
1942 Felix Weingartner,
Croatian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1863) ·
1943 Fethi Okyar, Turkish colonel and politician,
2nd Prime
Minister of Turkey (b. 1880) ·
1946 Herbert Macaulay, Nigerian journalist and
politician (b. 1864) ·
1951 Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889) ·
1967 Margaret Larkin, American writer and poet
(b. 1899) ·
1958 Mihkel Lόdig, Estonian organist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1880) ·
1976 Alison Uttley, English children's book
writer (b. 1884) ·
1978 Mort Weisinger, American journalist and
author (b. 1915) ·
1986 Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author
(b. 1915) ·
1987 Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b.
1930) ·
1987
Paul Popham, American soldier and activist,
co-founded Gay Men's Health
Crisis (b. 1941) ·
1990 Sam Tambimuttu, Sri Lankan lawyer and
politician (b. 1932) ·
1994 Clement Greenberg,
American art critic (b. 1909) ·
1995 Ray McKinley, American drummer, singer, and
bandleader (Glenn Miller
Orchestra) (b. 1910) ·
1998 Allan McLeod Cormack,
South African-English physicist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1924) ·
1998
Eddie Rabbitt,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941) ·
2000 Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909) ·
2001 Jacques de
Bourbon-Busset, French author and politician (b. 1912) ·
2004 Waldemar Milewicz,
Polish journalist (b. 1956) ·
2005 Tristan Egolf, American author and activist
(b. 1971) ·
2005
Peter Rodino,
American captain and politician (b. 1909) ·
2005
Otilino Tenorio,
Ecuadorian footballer (b. 1980) ·
2006 Richard Carleton, Australian journalist (b.
1943) ·
2006
Joan C. Edwards,
American singer and philanthropist (b. 1918) ·
2007 Isabella Blow, English magazine editor (b.
1958) ·
2007
Diego Corrales,
American boxer (b. 1977) ·
2007
Octavian Paler,
Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1926) ·
2007
Yahweh ben Yahweh,
American cult leader, founded the Nation of Yahweh (b. 1935) ·
2009 David Mellor,
English designer (b. 1930) ·
2009
Danny Ozark, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (b. 1923) ·
2011 Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (b. 1957) ·
2011
Willard Boyle,
Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1924) ·
2011
Big George, English songwriter, producer,
and radio host (b. 1957) ·
2012 Sammy Barr, Scottish trade union leader (b.
1931) ·
2012
Ferenc Bartha,
Hungarian economist and politician (b. 1943) ·
2012
Dennis E. Fitch,
American captain and pilot (b. 1942) ·
2013 Ferruccio Mazzola,
Italian footballer and manager (b. 1948) ·
2013
George Sauer, Jr.,
American football player (b. 1943) ·
2014 Neville McNamara, Australian air marshal (b.
1923) ·
2014
Colin Pillinger,
English astronomer, chemist, and academic (b. 1943) ·
2014
Dick Welteroth,
American baseball player (b. 1927) ·
2015 Frank DiPascali, American businessman (b.
1956) ·
2015
John Dixon,
Australian-American author and illustrator (b. 1929) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Harriet Starr Cannon (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o Stanislaus (Roman Martyrology) o May 7
(Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Defender
of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan) ·
Dien Bien Phu
Victory Day (Vietnam) ·
Radio Day, commemorating the work of Alexander
Popov (Russia, Bulgaria) |
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