Events

Pre-1600

• 1096 Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.

• 1120 Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.

• 1153 Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.

• 1199 John is crowned King of England.

• 1257 Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.

• 1595 A Gaelic Irish army successfully ambushes an English force in the battle of Clontibret during the Nine Years' War.

1601–1900

• 1644 Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.

• 1703 Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.

• 1798 The Pitt–Tierney duel takes place on Putney Heath outside London. A bloodless duel between the prime minister of Great Britain William Pitt the Younger and his political opponent George Tierney.

• 1798 The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.

• 1799 War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.

• 1813 War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.

• 1832 An Egyptian army under Ibrahim Pasha captures Acre from the Ottomans after a five-months siege.

• 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi begins the Siege of Palermo, part of the wars of Italian unification.

• 1863 American Civil War: The first Union infantry assault of the Siege of Port Hudson occurs.

• 1874 The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.

• 1883 Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

• 1896 The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage.

1901–present

• 1905 Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.

• 1915 HMS Princess Irene explodes and sinks off Sheerness, Kent, with the loss of 352 lives.

• 1917 Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.

• 1919 The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.

• 1927 The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.

• 1930 The Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

• 1933 New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

• 1935 New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).

• 1937 In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.

• 1940 World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.

• 1941 World War II: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".

• 1941 World War II: The is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men.

• 1942 World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.

• 1950 The Linnanmäki amusement park is opened for the first time in Helsinki.

• 1958 First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.

• 1960 In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.

• 1962 The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.

• 1965 Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.

• 1967 Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.

• 1967 The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

• 1971 The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.

• 1971 Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.

• 1975 Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33, the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.

• 1977 A plane crash at José Martí International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67.

• 1980 The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.

• 1984 The Danube–Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescuss. It had been under construction since the 1950s.

• 1988 Somaliland War of Independence: The Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then the second- and third-largest cities of Somalia.

• 1996 First Chechen War: Russian president Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechen rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.

• 1997 The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.

• 1998 Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

• 1999 Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-96, the first shuttle mission to dock with the International Space Station.

• 2001 Members of Abu Sayyaf, an Islamist separatist group, seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

• 2006 The 6.4 Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.

• 2014 – The football club Kerala Blasters FC and its first supporters' group Manjappada are formed.

• 2016 Barack Obama is the first president of the United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

• 2017 Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.

• 2018 Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn.

Births

Pre-1600

• 742 Emperor Dezong of Tang (died 805)

• 1332 Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian and theologian (died 1406)

• 1378 Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (died 1448)

• 1519 Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and theorist (died 1594)

• 1537 Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg (died 1604)

• 1576 Caspar Schoppe, German author and scholar (died 1649)

• 1584 Michael Altenburg, German theologian and composer (died 1640)

1601–1900

• 1601 Antoine Daniel, French-Canadian missionary and saint (died 1648)

• 1626 William II, Prince of Orange (died 1650)

• 1651 Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal (died 1729)

• 1652 Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine of Germany (died 1722)

• 1738 Nathaniel Gorham, American merchant and politician, 14th President of the Continental Congress (died 1796)

• 1756 Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria (died 1825)

• 1774 Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (died 1857)

• 1794 Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1877)

• 1812 George K. Teulon, English-Texian journalist and freemason (died 1846)

• 1814 John Rudolph Niernsee, Viennese-born American architect (died 1885)

• 1815 Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales (died 1896)

• 1818 Amelia Bloomer, American journalist and activist (died 1894)

• 1819 Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter (died 1910)

• 1827 Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (died 1892)

• 1832 Zenas Ferry Moody, American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon (died 1917)

• 1836 Jay Gould, American businessman and financier (died 1892)

• 1837 Wild Bill Hickok, American police officer (died 1876)

• 1852 Billy Barnes, English cricketer (died 1899)

• 1857 Theodor Curtius, German chemist (died 1928)

• 1860 Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal (died 1941)

• 1860 Margrethe Munthe, Norwegian songwriter (died 1931)

• 1863 Arthur Mold, English cricketer (died 1921)

• 1867 Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (died 1931)

• 1868 Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author (died 1924)

• 1871 Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator (died 1958)

• 1875 Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (died 1942)

• 1875 Jorge Newbery, Argentine aviator (died 1914)

• 1876 Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author (died 1945)

• 1876 William Stanier, English engineer (died 1965)

• 1878 Anna Cervin, Swedish artist (died 1972)

• 1879 Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist (died 1963)

• 1879 Hans Lammers, German judge and politician (died 1962)

• 1883 Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (died 1971)

• 1884 Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer (died 1968)

• 1887 Frank Woolley, English cricketer (died 1978)

• 1888 Louis Durey, French composer (died 1979)

• 1891 Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (died 1965)

• 1891 Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author (died 1958)

• 1894 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (died 1961)

• 1894 Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter (died 1961)

• 1895 Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba (died 1995)

• 1897 John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1967)

• 1897 Dink Templeton, American rugby player and coach (died 1962)

• 1898 David Crosthwait, American engineer, inventor and writer (died 1976)

• 1899 Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (died 1993)

• 1900 Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp (died 1964)

• 1900 Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet and translator (died 1933)

1901–present

• 1906 Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher (died 1993)

• 1906 Harry Hibbs, English footballer (died 1984)

• 1906 Antonio Rosario Mennonna, Italian bishop (died 2009)

• 1907 Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (died 1988)

• 1907 Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author (died 1964)

• 1909 Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist (died 2011)

• 1909 Juan Vicente Pérez, Venezuelan supercentenarian, oldest living man, last man born in 1900s decade (died 2024)

• 1911 Hubert Humphrey, American journalist and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States (died 1978)

• 1911 Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem (died 2007)

• 1911 Vincent Price, American actor (died 1993)

• 1912 John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer (died 1982)

• 1912 Sam Snead, American golfer and sportscaster (died 2002)

• 1912 Terry Moore, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 1995)

• 1915 Ester Soré, Chilean singer-songwriter (died 1996)

• 1915 Herman Wouk, American novelist (died 2019)

• 1917 Harry Webster, English engineer (died 2007)

• 1918 Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2019)

• 1921 Bob Godfrey, Australian-English animator, director, and voice actor (died 2013)

• 1922 Otto Carius, German lieutenant and pharmacist (died 2015)

• 1922 Christopher Lee, English actor (died 2015)

• 1922 John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado (died 2013)

• 1923 Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2023)

• 1923 Sumner Redstone, American businessman and philanthropist (died 2020)

• 1924 Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan physician and politician, President of Venezuela (died 2014)

• 1924 John Sumner, English-Australian director, founded the Melbourne Theatre Company (died 2013)

• 1925 Tony Hillerman, American journalist and author (died 2008)

• 1927 Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist (died 1996)

• 1928 Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer and educator

• 1930 John Barth, American novelist and short story writer (died 2024)

• 1930 William S. Sessions, American civil servant and judge, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 2020)

• 1930 Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer and educator (died 2010)

• 1931 André Barbeau, French-Canadian neurologist (died 1986)

• 1931 John Chapple, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (died 2022)

• 1931 Bernard Fresson, French actor (died 2002)

• 1931 Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress and producer (died 2015)

• 1931 Philip Kotler, American author and professor

• 1933 Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian businessman (died 2008)

• 1933 Manfred Sommer, Spanish author and illustrator (died 2007)

• 1934 Ray Daviault, Canadian-American baseball player (died 2020)

• 1934 Harlan Ellison, American author and screenwriter (died 2018)

• 1935 Daniel Colchico, American football player and coach (died 2014)

• 1935 Mal Evans, British road manager of the Beatles (died 1976)

• 1935 Jerry Kindall, American baseball player and coach (died 2017)

• 1935 Ramsey Lewis, American jazz pianist and composer (died 2022)

• 1935 Lee Meriwether, American model and actress, Miss America 1955

• 1936 Benjamin Bathurst, English admiral (died 2025)

• 1936 Louis Gossett Jr., American actor and producer (died 2024)

• 1936 Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence (died 2014)

• 1937 Allan Carr, American playwright and producer (died 1999)

• 1939 Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns, English courtier and businessman

• 1939 Yves Duhaime, Canadian captain and politician

• 1939 Sokratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman

• 1939 Gerald Ronson, English businessman and philanthropist

• 1939 Lionel Sosa, Mexican-American advertising and marketing executive

• 1939 Don Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2017)

• 1940 Mike Gibson, Australian journalist and sportscaster (died 2015)

• 1942 Lee Baca, American police officer

• 1942 Piers Courage, English racing driver (died 1970)

• 1942 Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster

• 1942 Robin Widdows, English racing driver

• 1943 Cilla Black, English singer and actress (died 2015)

• 1943 Bruce Weitz, American actor

• 1944 Christopher Dodd, American lawyer and politician

• 1944 Karen Fladset, Norwegian handball player

• 1944 Ingrid Roscoe, English historian and politician, Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire (died 2020)

• 1944 Alain Souchon, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1945 Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1946 Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer (died 2005)

• 1946 John Williams, English motorcycle racer (died 1978)

• 1947 Peter DeFazio, American politician

• 1947 Marty Kristian, German-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1947 Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer and coach

• 1947 Riivo Sinijärv, Estonian politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs

• 1948 Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant (died 2017)

• 1948 Pete Sears, English bass player

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

• 1949 Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale, English politician (died 2021)

• 1949 Christa Vahlensieck, German runner

• 1950 Dee Dee Bridgewater, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1950 Makis Dendrinos, Greek basketball player and coach (died 2015)

• 1951 John Conteh, English boxer

• 1954 Pauline Hanson, Australian businesswoman, activist, and politician

• 1954 Jackie Slater, American football player and coach

• 1955 Eric Bischoff, American wrestler, manager, and producer

• 1955 Richard Schiff, American actor, director, and producer

• 1955 Ian Tracey, English organist and conductor

• 1956 Cynthia McFadden, American journalist

• 1956 Rosemary Squire, English producer and manager, co-founded Ambassador Theatre Group

• 1956 Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian director and screenwriter

• 1957 Dag Terje Andersen, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Labour

• 1957 Nitin Gadkari, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Transport

• 1957 Eddie Harsch, Canadian-American keyboard player and bass player (died 2016)

• 1957 Siouxsie Sioux, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer

• 1958 Nick Anstee, English accountant and politician, 682nd Lord Mayor of London

• 1958 Neil Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician

• 1958 Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician, 23rd Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (died 2012)

• 1960 Gaston Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster

• 1961 José Luíz Barbosa, Brazilian runner and coach

• 1961 Peri Gilpin, American actress

• 1962 Marcelino Bernal, Mexican footballer

• 1962 Ray Borner, Australian basketball player

• 1962 Steven Brill, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1962 Anthony A. Hyman, Israeli-English biologist and academic

• 1962 David Mundell, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland

• 1962 Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer, coach and sportscaster

• 1963 Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist and composer

• 1963 Maria Walliser, Swiss skier

• 1964 Adam Carolla, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

• 1965 Todd Bridges, American actor

• 1965 Pat Cash, Australian-English tennis player and sportscaster

• 1966 Heston Blumenthal, English chef and author

• 1967 Paul Gascoigne, English international footballer, coach, and manager

• 1967 Eddie McClintock, American actor

• 1968 Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player and coach

• 1968 Rebekah Brooks, English journalist

• 1968 Harun Erdenay, Turkish basketball player and coach

• 1968 Frank Thomas, American baseball player and sportscaster

• 1969 Todd Hundley, American baseball player

• 1969 Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver

• 1969 Craig Federighi, American computer scientist and engineer

• 1970 Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist

• 1970 Tim Farron, English educator and politician

• 1970 Joseph Fiennes, English actor

• 1970 Alex Archer, American-born Australian musician

• 1971 Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician

• 1971 Paul Bettany, English actor

• 1971 Wayne Carey, Australian footballer and coach

• 1971 Kaur Kender, Estonian author

• 1971 Lisa Lopes, American rapper and dancer (died 2002)

• 1971 Lee Sharpe, English footballer

• 1971 Grant Stafford, South African tennis player

• 1971 Sophie Walker, British politician, leader of the Women's Equality Party

• 1971 Petroc Trelawny, British radio and television broadcaster

• 1972 Todd Demsey, American golfer

• 1972 Antonio Freeman, American football player

• 1972 Maxim Sokolov, Russian ice hockey player

• 1973 Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian

• 1973 Tana Umaga, New Zealand rugby player and coach

• 1974 Skye Edwards, British singer-songwriter

• 1974 Denise van Outen, English actress, singer, and television host

• 1974 Derek Webb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1974 Danny Wuerffel, American football player

• 1975 André 3000, American rapper

• 1975 Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer

• 1975 Jadakiss, American rapper

• 1975 Jamie Oliver, English chef and author

• 1975 Feryal Özel, Turkish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic

• 1976 Marcel Fässler, Swiss racing driver

• 1977 Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian high jumper

• 1977 Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer

• 1978 Adin Brown, American soccer player

• 1979 Michael Buonauro, American author and illustrator (died 2004)

• 1979 Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer

• 1980 Craig Buntin, Canadian figure skater

• 1981 Alina Cojocaru, Romanian ballerina

• 1981 Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer

• 1982 Natalya, Canadian professional wrestler

• 1982 Mariano Pavone, Argentine footballer

• 1983 Clare Rustad, Canadian soccer player

• 1984 Blake Ahearn, American basketball player

• 1984 Miguel González, Mexican baseball pitcher

• 1985 Chiang Chien-ming, Taiwanese baseball player

• 1985 Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer

• 1986 Conor Cummins, Manx motorcycle racer

• 1986 Bamba Fall, Senegalese basketball player

• 1986 Lasse Schöne, Danish footballer

• 1987 Gervinho, Ivorian footballer

• 1987 Bella Heathcote, Australian actress

• 1987 Bora Paçun, Turkish basketball player

• 1987 Matt Prior, Australian rugby league player

• 1987 Martina Sáblíková, Czech speed skater and cyclist

• 1988 Celso Borges, Costa Rican footballer

• 1988 Vontae Davis, American football player (died 2024)

• 1988 Irina Davydova, Russian hurdler

• 1988 Garrett Richards, American baseball pitcher

• 1988 Tyler Sash, American football player (died 2015)

• 1989 Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer

• 1989 Peakboy, South Korean rapper, record producer, and singer-songwriter

• 1990 Yenew Alamirew, Ethiopian runner

• 1990 Chris Colfer, American actor and singer

• 1990 Jonas Hector, German footballer

• 1990 Marcus Kruger, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1991 Sebastien Dewaest, Belgian footballer

• 1991 Tim Lafai, Samoan rugby league player

• 1991 Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player

• 1991 Mário Rui, Portuguese footballer

• 1991 Armando Sadiku, Albanian footballer

• 1991 Eneli Vals, Estonian footballer

• 1992 Aaron Brown, Canadian sprinter

• 1992 Jeison Murillo, Colombian footballer

• 1992 Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canadian canoer

• 1994 Maximilian Arnold, German footballer

• 1994 João Cancelo, Portuguese footballer

• 1994 Aymeric Laporte, French-Spanish footballer

• 1994 Aleksandra Uznańska-Wiśniewska, Polish–Thai politician, political scientist, and humanitarian

• 1995 Yoán Moncada, Cuban baseball player

• 1996 Kim Jae-hwan, South Korean singer

• 1997 Anna Bondar, Hungarian tennis player

• 1997 Daniel Jones, American football player

• 1997 Konrad Laimer, Austrian footballer

• 1998 Josep Martínez, Spanish footballer

• 1999 Matheus Cunha, Brazilian footballer

• 1999 Lily-Rose Depp, French-American actress and model

• 2000 Abner Vinícius, Brazilian footballer

• 2002 Jérémy Doku, Belgian footballer

• 2002 Gabri Veiga, Spanish footballer

• 2003 Franco Colapinto, Argentine racing driver

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 366 Procopius, Roman usurper (born 325)

• 398 Murong Bao, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan (born 355)

• 475 Eutropius, bishop of Orange

• 866 Ordoño I of Asturias (born 831)

• 927 Simeon I of Bulgaria first Bulgarian Emperor (born 864)

• 1039 Dirk III, Count of Holland (born 981)

• 1045 Bruno of Würzburg, imperial chancellor of Italy (born c. 1005)

• 1178 Godfrey van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht

• 1240 William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey (born 1166)

• 1444 John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English commander (born 1404)

• 1508 Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan (born 1452)

• 1525 Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian (born 1488)

• 1541 Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury (born 1473)

• 1564 John Calvin, French pastor and theologian (born 1509)

1601–1900

• 1610 François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France (born 1578)

• 1624 Diego Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish sailor and cosmographer (born c. 1580)

• 1637 John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, English politician (born c. 1566)

• 1661 Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish general and politician (born 1607)

• 1675 Gaspard Dughet, Italian-French painter (born 1613)

• 1690 Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian organist and composer (born 1626)

• 1702 Dominique Bouhours, French priest and critic (born 1628)

• 1707 Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France (born 1640)

• 1781 Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (born 1716)

• 1797 François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist (born 1760)

• 1831 Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author (born 1799)

• 1840 Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer (born 1782)

• 1867 Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist (born 1796)

• 1896 Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1839)

1901–present

• 1910 Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)

• 1918 Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (born 1869)

• 1919 Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist (born 1848)

• 1933 Achille Paroche, French target shooter (born 1868)

• 1939 Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author (born 1894)

• 1941 Ernst Lindemann, German captain (born 1894)

• 1941 Günther Lütjens, German admiral (born 1889)

• 1942 Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (born 1878)

• 1943 Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1878)

• 1945 Enno Lolling, German physician (born 1888)

• 1947 Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager (born 1885)

• 1949 Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not! (born 1890)

• 1953 Jesse Burkett, American baseball player and manager (born 1868)

• 1960 James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator (born 1877)

• 1963 Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician (born 1912)

• 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889)

• 1965 John Rinehart Blue, American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician (born 1905)

• 1967 W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator (born 1880)

• 1967 Ernst Niekisch, German academic and politician (born 1889)

• 1969 Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer (born 1926)

• 1971 Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1901)

• 1971 Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach (born 1935)

• 1980 Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician (born 1932)

• 1984 Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (born 1923)

1986 Murder of the Faruqis:

• Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar (born 1921)

• Lois Lamya al-Faruqi, American scholar of ethnomusicology, wife of Ismail al-Faruqi (born 1926)

• 1986 Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (born 1901)

• 1986 Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor and cinematographer (born 1918)

• 1987 John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)

• 1988 Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress (born 1908)

• 1988 Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1906)

• 1989 Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator (born 1907)

• 1990 Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey (born 1908)

• 1991 Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist and theorist (born 1904)

• 1992 Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler (born 1890)

• 1998 Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1905)

• 2000 Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (born 1912)

• 2000 Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (born 1917)

• 2000 Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1921)

• 2002 Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson, Scottish historian (born 1909)

• 2003 Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator (born 1925)

• 2006 Rob Borsellino, American journalist (born 1949)

• 2006 Paul Gleason, American actor (born 1939)

• 2006 Craig Heyward, American football player (born 1966)

• 2007 Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1967)

• 2007 Gretchen Wyler, American actress and dancer (born 1932)

• 2007 Ed Yost, American inventor, created the modern hot air balloon (born 1919)

• 2008 Franz Künstler, Hungarian soldier (born 1900)

• 2009 Thomas M. Franck, American lawyer and academic (born 1931)

• 2009 Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)

• 2009 Mona Grey, British nursing administrator; Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (born 1910)

• 2009 Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (born 1917)

• 2009 Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian-American priest and theologian (born 1946)

• 2009 Carol Anne O'Marie, American nun and author (born 1933)

• 2009 William Refshauge, Australian soldier and physician (born 1913)

• 2009 Paul Sharratt, English-American television host (born 1933)

• 2010 Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director (born 1929)

• 2011 Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer (born 1950)

• 2011 Margo Dydek, Polish-American basketball player (born 1974)

• 2011 Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and poet (born 1949)

• 2012 Simeon Daniel, Nevisian educator and politician, 1st Premier of Nevis (born 1934)

• 2012 Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician and academic (born 1927)

• 2012 Anahit Perikhanian, Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (born 1928)

• 2012 David Rimoin, Canadian-American geneticist and academic (born 1936)

• 2013 Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (born 1917)

• 2013 Bill Pertwee, English actor (born 1926)

• 2013 Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (born 1931)

• 2014 Robert Genn, Canadian painter and author (born 1936)

• 2014 Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1940)

• 2014 Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1929)

• 2014 Massimo Vignelli, Italian-American graphic designer (born 1931)

• 2015 Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (born 1929)

• 2015 Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (born 1928)

• 2015 Andy King, English footballer and manager (born 1956)

• 2015 Michael Martin, American philosopher and academic (born 1932)

• 2017 Gregg Allman, American musician, singer and songwriter (born 1947)

• 2018 Gardner Dozois, American science fiction author and editor (born 1947)

• 2020 Larry Kramer, American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (born 1935)

• 2021 Poul Schlüter, former Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1929)

• 2024 Elizabeth MacRae, American actress (born 1936)

• 2024 Bill Walton, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1952)

• 2025 Freddie Aguilar, Filipino musician and singer-songwriter (born 1953)

Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)

• Children's Day (Nigeria)

Christian feast day:

• Augustine of Canterbury

• Blessed Lojze Grozde

• Bruno of Würzburg

• Eutropius of Orange

• Hildebert

• Julius the Veteran

• May 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Mother's Day (Bolivia)

• Navy Day (Japan)

• Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)

• Start of National Reconciliation Week (Australia)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on May 27