Events

Pre-1600

• 535 Election of pope Agapetus I following the death of pope John II earlier that month.

• 1110 Baldwin I of Jerusalem captures the city of Beirut from the Fatimid Caliphate with the help of a Genoese fleet.

• 1344 A Latin Christian fleet defeats a Turkish fleet in the battle of Pallene during the Smyrniote crusades.

• 1373 Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book Revelations of Divine Love.

• 1501 Amerigo Vespucci, this time under Portuguese flag, sets sail for western lands.

• 1568 Mary, Queen of Scots, is defeated at the Battle of Langside, part of the civil war between Queen Mary and the supporters of her son, James VI.

1601–1900

• 1612 Sword duel between Miyamoto Musashi and Sasaki Kojiro on the shores of Ganryū Island. Kojiro dies at the end.

• 1619 Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.

• 1654 A Venetian fleet under Admiral Cort Adeler breaks through a line of galleys and defeats the Turkish navy.

• 1779 War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria acquires the Innviertel.

• 1780 The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice.

• 1791 The British under Charles Cornwallis defeat a Mysorean army under Tipu Sultan in the battle of Arakere.

• 1804 Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.

• 1830 Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.

• 1846 Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on the Federal Republic of Mexico following a dispute over the American annexation of the Republic of Texas and a Mexican military incursion.

• 1858 Montenegrin forces under Grand Duke Mirko Petrović-Njegoš defeat an Ottoman army under Hussein Pasha in the battle of Grahovac. The battle is a significant step towards formal independence and quickly becomes a part of national folklore.

• 1861 American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights.

• 1861 The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.

• 1861 Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.

• 1862 Southern slave Robert Smalls steals the steamboat Planter, spirits it through Confederate lines and hands it to the United States Navy, who quickly commission it as the gunboat and appoint Smalls as captain, thus making him the first black man to command a United States ship.

• 1888 With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), the Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.

1901–present

• 1909 The first edition of the Giro d'Italia, a long-distance multiple-stage bicycle race, begins in Milan; the Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna was the eventual winner.

• 1912 The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.

• 1917 Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.

• 1940 World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins, as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.

• 1943 World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia.

• 1945 World War II: Yevgeny Khaldei's photograph Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is published in Ogonyok magazine.

• 1948 Arab–Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre occurs, a day prior to the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

• 1949 Aeroflot Flight 17 crashes on approach to Severny Airport in Novosibirsk, killing 25.

• 1950 The inaugural Formula One World Championship race takes place at Silverstone Circuit. The race was won by Giuseppe Farina, who would go on to become the inaugural champion that year.

• 1951 The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.

• 1952 The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.

• 1954 The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.

• 1958 During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, the US Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.

• 1958 May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.

• 1958 Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over by sea and by land during a ten-year journey.

• 1960 Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

• 1967 Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.

• 1969 In the aftermath of the 1969 Malaysian general election, Sino-Malay sectarian violence erupts in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• 1972 A fire occurs in the Sennichi Department Store in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators result in 118 fatalities (many victims leaping to their deaths).

• 1972 The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.

• 1980 An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.

• 1981 Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.

• 1985 Police bomb MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.

• 1989 Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.

• 1990 The Dinamo–Red Star riot takes place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia, between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).

• 1992 Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.

• 1995 Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to ascend Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.

• 1996 Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.

• 1998 Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.

• 1998 India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.

• 1999 Kosovo War: NATO bombs the village of Koriša, killing at least 87 people.

• 2000 A fireworks storage depot explodes in a residential neighborhood in Enschede, Netherlands, killing 23 people and injuring 950 others.

• 2005 Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan: Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates.

• 2006 São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil.

• 2011 Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others.

• 2012 Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40.

• 2013 American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.

• 2014 An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1024 Hugh of Cluny, French abbot and saint (died 1109)

• 1179 Theobald III, Count of Champagne (died 1201)

• 1221 Alexander Nevsky, Russian prince and saint (died 1263)

• 1254 Marie of Brabant, Queen of France (died 1321)

• 1453 Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran, Scottish princess (died 1488)

• 1588 Ole Worm, Danish physician and historian (died 1654)

1601–1900

• 1638 Richard Simon, French priest and scholar (died 1712)

• 1699 Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (died 1782)

• 1712 Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician and diplomat (died 1772)

• 1713 Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (died 1765)

• 1717 Maria Theresa, Archduchess, Queen, and Empress; Austrian wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1780)

• 1730 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1782)

• 1735 Horace Coignet, French violinist and composer (died 1821)

• 1742 Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (died 1798)

• 1753 Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician, and politician, French Minister of the Interior (died 1823)

• 1792 Pope Pius IX (died 1878)

• 1794 Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (died 1835)

• 1795 Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and chronologist (died 1875)

• 1804 Per Gustaf Svinhufvud af Qvalstad, treasurer of Tavastia province, manor host, and paternal grandfather of President of Finland P. E. Svinhufvud (died 1866)

• 1811 Juan Bautista Ceballos, President of Mexico (1853) (died 1859)

• 1822 Francis, Duke of Cádiz, King Consort of Queen Isabella II of Spain (died 1902)

• 1830 Zebulon Baird Vance, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of North Carolina (died 1894)

• 1832 Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist and author (died 1864)

• 1840 Alphonse Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (died 1897)

• 1842 Arthur Sullivan, English composer (died 1900)

• 1856 Tom O'Rourke, American boxer and manager (died 1938)

• 1857 Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1932)

• 1868 Sumner Paine, American target shooter (died 1904)

• 1869 Mehmet Emin Yurdakul, Turkish writer (died 1944)

• 1877 Robert Hamilton, Scottish international footballer (died 1948)

• 1881 Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author (died 1922)

• 1881 Joe Forshaw, American runner (died 1964)

• 1882 Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (died 1963)

• 1883 Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear (died 1962)

• 1884 Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (died 1944)

• 1885 Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (died 1984)

• 1887 Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (died 1951)

• 1888 Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist (died 1993)

• 1894 Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland (died 1972)

• 1895 Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author (died 1964)

1901–present

• 1904 Earle Birney, Canadian poet and novelist (died 1995)

• 1905 Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th President of India (died 1977)

• 1907 Daphne du Maurier, English novelist and playwright (died 1989)

• 1909 Ken Darby, American composer and conductor (died 1992)

• 1911 Maxine Sullivan, American singer and actress (died 1987)

• 1912 Gil Evans, Canadian-American pianist, composer, and bandleader (died 1988)

• 1913 Robert Dorning, English actor, singer, and dancer (died 1989)

• 1913 William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician, 20th President of Liberia (died 1980)

• 1914 Joe Louis, American boxer (died 1981)

• 1914 Johnnie Wright, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)

• 1922 Otl Aicher, German graphic designer and typographer (died 1991)

• 1922 Bea Arthur, American actress and singer (died 2009)

• 1924 Harry Schwarz, South African anti-apartheid leader, lawyer, and Ambassador (died 2010)

• 1927 Clive Barnes, English writer and critic (died 2008)

• 1928 Enrique Bolaños, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua (died 2021)

• 1930 Mike Gravel, American politician (died 2021)

• 1931 Jim Jones, American cult leader, founder of the Peoples Temple (died 1978)

• 1933 John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (died 2002)

• 1934 Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist, architect, and academic (died 2010)

• 1935 James F. White, American funeral director and politician (died 2026)

• 1937 Zohra Lampert, American actress

• 1937 Roger Zelazny, American author and poet (died 1995)

• 1938 Giuliano Amato, Italian academic and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Italy

• 1939 Harvey Keitel, American actor

• 1940 Bruce Chatwin, English author (died 1989)

• 1941 Senta Berger, Austrian actress

• 1941 Jody Conradt, American basketball player and coach

• 1941 Ritchie Valens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1959)

• 1943 Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (died 1992)

• 1944 Armistead Maupin, American author, screenwriter, and actor

• 1945 Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2023)

• 1945 Lou Marini, American saxophonist and composer

• 1946 Tim Pigott-Smith, English actor and author (died 2017)

• 1946 Marv Wolfman, American author

• 1949 Zoë Wanamaker, American-British actress

• 1950 Danny Kirwan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2018)

• 1950 Bobby Valentine, American baseball player and manager

• 1950 Stevie Wonder, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

• 1952 John Kasich, American politician, 69th Governor of Ohio

• 1952 Mary Walsh, Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter

• 1952 Londa Schiebinger, American academic and author

• 1954 Johnny Logan, Australian-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1956 Richard Madeley, English journalist and author

• 1957 Mar Roxas, Filipino economist and politician, 24th Secretary of the Interior and Local Government

• 1961 Siobhan Fallon Hogan, American actress

• 1961 Dennis Rodman, American basketball player, wrestler, and actor

• 1963 Andrea Leadsom, English politician

• 1964 Stephen Colbert, American comedian and talk show host

• 1965 José Rijo, Dominican baseball player

• 1965 Lari White, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (died 2018)

• 1966 Alison Goldfrapp, English singer-songwriter and producer

• 1966 Darius Rucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1967 Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)

• 1967 Melanie Thornton, American-German singer (died 2001)

• 1968 Scott Morrison, Australian politician, 30th Prime Minister of Australia

• 1969 Buckethead, American guitarist and songwriter

• 1972 Darryl Sydor, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1973 Reinhold Einwallner, Austrian politician

• 1976 Trajan Langdon, American basketball player and executive

• 1977 Tom Cotton, American politician

• 1977 Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer-songwriter

• 1977 Samantha Morton, English actress and director

• 1977 Pusha T, American rapper

• 1978 Mike Bibby, American basketball player and coach

• 1978 Barry Zito, American baseball player

• 1979 Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland

• 1979 Steve Mildenhall, English footballer

• 1981 Luciana Berger, English politician

• 1981 Andrey Polukeyev, Russian sprinter

• 1982 Larry Fonacier, Filipino basketball player

• 1982 Oguchi Onyewu, American footballer

• 1983 Natalie Cassidy, English actress and singer

• 1983 Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player

• 1983 Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer

• 1984 Dawn Harper, American hurdler

• 1985 Javi Balboa, Equatoguinean footballer

• 1985 Jaroslav Halák, Slovak ice hockey player

• 1985 Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor and singer

• 1985 Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1986 Lena Dunham, American actress, director, and screenwriter

• 1986 Robert Pattinson, English actor

• 1986 Alexander Rybak, Belarusian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, violinist, and actor

• 1986 Kris Versteeg, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1987 Candice King, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1987 Marianne Vos, Dutch cyclist

• 1988 Paulo Avelino, Filipino actor and singer

• 1988 Casey Donovan, Australian singer-songwriter

• 1988 Lydia Williams, Australian footballer

• 1989 P. K. Subban, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1990 Mychal Givens, American baseball player

• 1991 Jen Beattie, Scottish footballer

• 1991 Francis Coquelin, French footballer

• 1991 Junior Messias, Brazilian footballer

• 1991 Alan Patrick, Brazilian footballer

• 1992 Thievy Bifouma, Congolese footballer

• 1992 Willson Contreras, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1992 Tyrann Mathieu, American football player

• 1992 Josh Papalii, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player

• 1992 Mark Stone, Canadian hockey player

• 1993 Abby Dahlkemper, American footballer

• 1993 Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer

• 1993 Debby Ryan, American actress and singer

• 1993 Morgan Wallen, American singer-songwriter

• 1994 Percy Tau, South African footballer

• 1997 Nico Hoerner, American baseball player

• 1998 Adrià Pedrosa, Spanish footballer

• 1998 Luca Zidane, Algerian footballer

• 1999 Óscar Mingueza, Spanish footballer

• 1999 Aníbal Moreno, Argentine footballer

• 2002 Diego López, Spanish footballer

• 2003 Jaxson Dart, American football player

• 2003 Javi Guerra, Spanish footballer

• 2003 Jabari Smith Jr., American basketball player

• 2005 Romain Esse, English footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 189 Emperor Ling of Han, Chinese emperor (born 156)

• 1112 Ulric II, Margrave of Carniola

• 1176 Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (born 1119)

• 1285 Robert de Ros, 1st Baron de Ros

• 1312 Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (born 1263)

• 1573 Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyō (born 1521)

1601–1900

• 1612 Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese master swordsman (born 1575)

• 1619 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch politician (born 1547)

• 1704 Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher and author (born 1632)

• 1726 Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, Italian singer (born 1659)

• 1782 Daniel Solander, Swedish-English botanist and phycologist (born 1736)

• 1807 Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (born 1721)

• 1809 Beilby Porteus, English bishop (born 1731)

• 1832 Georges Cuvier, French zoologist and academic (born 1769)

• 1835 John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (born 1752)

• 1836 John Littlejohn, American sheriff and Methodist preacher (born 1756)

• 1866 Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (born 1796)

• 1878 Joseph Henry, American physicist and academic (born 1797)

• 1884 Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (born 1809)

• 1885 Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (born 1809)

1901–present

• 1903 Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (born 1864)

• 1916 Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (born 1859)

• 1921 Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (born 1848)

• 1926 Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (born 1857)

• 1929 Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (born 1878)

• 1930 Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)

• 1938 Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)

• 1941 Frederick Christian, English cricketer (born 1877)

• 1941 Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (born 1891)

• 1945 Tubby Hall, American drummer (born 1895)

• 1946 Zara DuPont, American suffragist (born 1869)

• 1947 Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (born 1926)

• 1948 Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (born 1920)

• 1957 Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (born 1886)

• 1961 Gary Cooper, American actor (born 1901)

• 1962 Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (born 1893)

• 1962 Franz Kline, American painter and academic (born 1910)

• 1963 Alois Hudal, Austrian-Italian bishop (born 1885)

• 1972 Dan Blocker, American actor (born 1928)

• 1974 Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican poet and diplomat (born 1902)

• 1974 Arthur J. Burks, American colonel and author (born 1898)

• 1975 Marguerite Perey, French physicist (born 1909)

• 1975 Bob Wills, American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1905)

• 1977 Mickey Spillane, American mobster (born 1934)

• 1985 Leatrice Joy, American actress (born 1893)

• 1985 Richard Ellmann, American literary critic and biographer (born 1918)

• 1988 Chet Baker, American singer and trumpet player (born 1929)

• 1992 F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (born 1909)

• 1994 Duncan Hamilton, Irish-English race car driver (born 1920)

• 1994 John Swainson, Canadian-American jurist and politician, 42nd Governor of Michigan (born 1925)

• 1995 Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (born 1921)

• 1999 Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Saudi Arabian scholar and academic (born 1910)

• 1999 Gene Sarazen, American golfer and journalist (born 1902)

• 2000 Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1938)

• 2000 Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (born 1951)

• 2001 Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (born 1939)

• 2002 Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1939)

• 2005 Eddie Barclay, French record producer, founded Barclay Records (born 1921)

• 2005 George Dantzig, American mathematician and academic (born 1914)

• 2006 Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (born 1923)

• 2006 Johnnie Wilder, Jr., American singer (born 1949)

• 2008 Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, Emir of Kuwait (born 1930)

• 2008 Ron Stone, American journalist and author (born 1936)

• 2009 Frank Aletter, American actor (born 1926)

• 2009 Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian rabbi (born 1934)

• 2009 Achille Compagnoni, Italian skier and mountaineer (born 1914)

• 2011 Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1982)

• 2011 Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (born 1933)

• 2011 Wallace McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (born 1930)

• 2011 Bruce Ricker, American director and producer (born 1942)

• 2012 Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician (born 1937)

• 2012 Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (born 1941)

• 2012 Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Cuban-American theologian, author, and academic (born 1943)

• 2012 Lee Richardson, English speedway rider (born 1979)

• 2012 Don Ritchie, Australian humanitarian (born 1925)

• 2012 Nguyễn Văn Thiện, Vietnamese bishop (born 1906)

• 2013 Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, author, and actress (born 1927)

• 2013 Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (born 1937)

• 2013 Jagdish Mali, Indian photographer (born 1954)

• 2013 Chuck Muncie, American football player (born 1953)

• 2013 Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (born 1973)

• 2013 Lynne Woolstencroft, Canadian politician (born 1943)

• 2014 David Malet Armstrong, Australian philosopher and author (born 1926)

• 2014 Malik Bendjelloul, Swedish director and producer (born 1977)

• 2014 J. F. Coleman, American soldier and pilot (born 1918)

• 2014 Ron Stevens, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1949)

• 2014 Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author (born 1948)

• 2015 Earl Averill, Jr., American baseball player (born 1931)

• 2015 Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer (born 1927)

• 2015 Nina Otkalenko, Russian runner (born 1928)

• 2015 David Sackett, American-Canadian physician and academic (born 1934)

• 2015 Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (born 1937)

• 2016 Murray A. Straus, American sociologist and academic (born 1926)

• 2019 Doris Day, American singer and actress (born 1922)

• 2019 Unita Blackwell, American civil rights activist and politician (born 1933)

• 2022 Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 2nd President of the United Arab Emirates (born 1948)

• 2024 Alice Munro, Canadian short story writer (born 1931)

• 2024 Cyril Wecht, American forensic pathologist (born 1931)

• 2024 Samm-Art Williams, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1946)

• 2025 Kit Bond, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri (born 1939)

• 2025 Danny Lendich, New Zealand businessperson (born 1944)

• 2025 José Mujica, Uruguayan politician, 40th President of Uruguay (born 1935)

Holidays and observances

• Abbotsbury Garland Day (Dorset, England)

Christian feast day:

• André-Hubert Fournet

• Our Lady of Fátima

• Conchita Barrecheguren (Roman Catholic)

• Gerard of Villamagna

• Glyceria

• John the Silent (Roman Catholic)

• Julian of Norwich (Roman Catholic)

• Frances Perkins (Episcopal Church (USA))

• Servatius

• May 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Rotuma Day (Rotuma)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on May 13