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Births

Up to 1800 
 1328 - Louis II, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1365)
 1530 - Louis, Prince de Condé, French general (d. 1569)
 1605 – Patriarch Nikon of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 1681)
 1643 - Stephanus Van Cortlandt, American politician (d. 1700)
 1704 - Carl Heinrich Graun, German composer and tenor (d. 1759)
 1711 – David Hume, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1776)
 1724 - Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, Austrian general (d. 1797)
 1740 - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
 1748 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and feminist revolutionary (d. 1793)
 1763 – Jozef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince (d. 1813)
 1767 – Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1820)
 1787 - Jacques Viger, 1st Mayor of Chicago (d. 1858)
1801  1900 
 1812 – Robert Browning, English poet (d. 1889)
 1819 – Otto Wilhelm von Struve, German astronomer (d. 1905)
 1826 – Varina Davis, First Lady of the Confederate States of America (d. 1906)
 1833 – Johannes Brahms, German composer (d. 1897)
 1836 - Joseph Gurney Cannon, American politician (d. 1926)
 1837 - Karl Mauch, German geographer and explorer (d. 1875)
 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (d. 1893)
 1841 - Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist (d. 1931)
 1847 – Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, British Prime Minister (d. 1929)
 1857 - William A. MacCorkle, 9th Governor of West Virginia (d. 1930)
 1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet and writer of the Bengali language (d. 1941)
 1867 – Wladyslaw Reymont, Polish writer (d. 1925)
 1875 - William Hoyt, American athlete (d. 1954)
 1882 - Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (d. 1960)
 1891 - Harry McShane, Scottish engineer and activist (d. 1988)
 1892 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (d. 1980)
1892 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet and politician (d. 1982)
 1893 - Frank J. Selke, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (d. 1985)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Gary Cooper, American actor (d. 1961)
 1901 - Marcel Poot, Belgian composer (d. 1988)
 1905 - Bumble Bee Slim, American musician (d. 1968)
 1908 - Max Grundig, German businessman (d. 1989)
 1909 – Edwin H. Land, American inventor (d. 1991)
 1911 – Ishiro Honda, Japanese movie director (d. 1993)
 1913 - Simon Ramo, American physicist (d. 2016)
 1914 - Arthur Snelling, English diplomat (d. 1996)
 1917 - Domenico Bartolucci, Italian cardinal (d. 2013)
 1919 - Joe Mitty, British philanthropist (d. 2007)
 1919 – Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina (d. 1952)
 1921 - Gaston Rebuffat, French mountaineer (d. 1985)
 1923 - Anne Baxter, American writer and actress (d. 1985)
 1923 - Bülend Ulusu, 18th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 2015)
 1924 - Albert Band, French-American director and producer (d. 2002)
 1924 - Marjorie Boulton, British author and poet (d. 2017)
 1925 - Lauri Vaska, Estonian-American chemist and academic (d. 2015)
 1926 - Val Bisoglio, American actor
1927 – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, German screenwriter (d. 2013)
 1928 - John Ingle, American actor (d. 2012)
 1931 – Teresa Brewer, American singer (d. 2007)
 1932 - Jordi Bonet, Canadian-Catalan painter, muralist and sculptor (d. 1979)
 1932 - Pete Domenici, American politician (d. 2017)
 1933 - Nexhmije Pagarusha, Kosovar singer and actress
 1935 - Avraham Heffner, Israeli television and movie director, producer and writer (d. 2014)
 1936 – Tony O'Reilly, Irish billionaire
 1936 - Jimmy Ruffin, American singer (d. 2014)
 1939 – Sidney Altman, Canadian molecular biologist
 1939 – Ruud Lubbers, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2018)
 1939 - Ruggero Deodato, Italian director, actor and screenwriter
 1939 - Volker Braun, German writer
 1940 - Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (d. 1992)
 1943 – Peter Carey, Australian writer
 1944 - Richard O'Sullivan, English actor
 1945 - Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
 1945 - Robin Strasser, American actress
1946 - Thelma Houston, American singer-songwriter and actress
 1946 – Michael Rosen, English poet and writer
 1946 – Bill Kreutzmann, American drummer (The Grateful Dead)
 1947 – Gary Herbert, American politician
 1947 - Antonio de la Cruz, Spanish footballer
 1947 - Numa Sadoul, French writer
 1948 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (d. 2009)
 1950 – Tim Russert, American broadcast journalist (d. 2008)
 1950 - Mark Warawa, Canadian politician (d. 2019)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Robert Hegyes, American actor (d. 2012)
 1956 – Jan Peter Balkenende, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
 1956 - Nicholas Hytner, English director and producer
 1958 – Christine Lieberknecht, German politician
 1961 - Hans-Peter Bartels, German politician
 1961 - Sue Black, Scottish forensic anthropologist
 1962 - Tony Campbell, American basketball player and coach
 1962 - Dominik Moll, German-French director and screenwriter
 1965 – Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (died 1999)
 1965 - Andrew Little, New Zealand politician
 1965 – Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish footballer
 1966 - Andrea Tafi, Italian cyclist
 1967 – Martin Bryant, Australian criminal
 1968
 Traci Lords, American actress & singer
 Lisa Raitt, Canadian politician
 1969 – Rick Porras, American movie producer
 1969 - Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter
 1969 - Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
 1972 - Jennifer Yuh Nelson, South Korean-American animator
1973 - Paolo Savoldelli, Italian cyclist
 1975 – Arni Gautur Arason, Icelandic footballer
From 1976 
 1976 - Calvin Booth, American basketball player
 1977 – Lisa Kelly, Irish singer
 1978 – Stian Arnesen, Norwegian musician and songwriter
 1978 – Shawn Marion, American basketball player
 1979 – Katie Douglas, American basketball player
 1981 - Maria Radner, German opera singer (d. 2015)
 1983 – Julio dos Santos, Paraguayan footballer
 1983 – Garry O'Connor, Scottish footballer
 1983 - Makano, Panamanian singer and composer
 1986 – Matt Helders, English musician
 1987 – Stefan Read, Canadian ski jumper
 1988 - Nathan Burns, Australian footballer
 1988 – Natalie Mejia, American dancer and singer
 1988 - Takayuki Morimoto, Japanese footballer
 1988 - Eino Puri, Estonian footballer
 1988 - Sander Puri, Estonian footballer
 1989 – Master Shortie, English singer-songwriter, rapper and producer
 1989 - Raina, South Korean singer, dancer, model and rapper
 1990 - Yoon Bit-Garam, South Korean footballer
 1992 - Alexander Ludwig, Canadian actor
 1992 - Tyler Johnson, American basketball player
1999 – Masaki Sato, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)
 2000 - Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 685 - Mawan I, Umayyah Caliph (b. 623)
 973 – Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 912)
 1266 – Farid-ud-din Ganj Shakar, Islamic saint in South Asia (b. 1179)
 1539 – Guru Nanak, founder of Sikhism (born 1469)
 1539 – Ottaviano Petrucci, Italian printer (born 1466)
 1615 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (born 1567)
 1617 – David Fabricius, German astronomer (born 1564)
 1682 – Tsar Feodor III of Russia (born 1661)
 1718 - Mary of Modena, wife of James II of England (born 1658)
 1793 - Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1722)
 1805 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1737)
 1825 – Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (born 1750)
 1840 – Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (born 1774)
 1868 - Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, English statesman (born 1778)
 1872 - Alexander Loyd, 4th Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)
 1873 - Salmon P. Chase, American politician (born 1808)
1901  2000 
 1902 - Agostino Roscelli, Italian priest (born 1818)
 1922 – Max Wagenknecht, German composer (born 1857)
 1924 - Alluri Sita Rama Raju, Indian activist (born 1897)
 1940 - George Lansbury, English politician (born 1859)
 1941 – James George Frazer, Scottish ethnologist and classical philologist (born 1854)
 1942 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (born 1863)
 1943 - Fethi Okyar, Turkish diplomat and politician (born 1880)
 1951 – Warner Baxter, American actor (born 1889)
 1958 - Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer and conductor (born 1880)
 1985 - Dawn Addams, British actress (born 1930)
 1986 - Jeffrey Mylett, American actor (born 1949)
 1986 - Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and short story writer (born 1915) 
 1987 – Colin Blakely, English actor (born 1930)
 1989 – Guy Williams, American actor (born 1924)
 1991 - István Zsolt, Hungarian football referee (born 1921)
 1995 – Ray McKinley, American jazz musician (born 1910)
1998 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South African physicist (born 1924)
 2000 – Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (born 1909)
From 2001 
 2001 - Jacques de Borbon Busset, French novelist, essayist and politician (born 1912)
 2005 – Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorean footballer (born 1980)
 2010 – Wally Hickel, American politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska (born 1919)
 2011 – Seve Ballesteros, Spanish golfer (born 1957)
 2011 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist (born 1924)
 2011 - Gunter Sachs, German businessman, art patron and playboy (born 1932)
 2013 - Ray Harryhausen, American animator, director and producer (born 1920)
 2013 - Aubrey Woods, English actor and singer (born 1928)
 2013 - Ferruccio Mazzola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1948)
 2014 - Colin Pillinger, British planetary scientist (born 1943)
 2014 - Nazim Al-Haqqani, Turkish-Cypriot spiritual leader (born 1922)
 2014 - Neville McNamara, Royal Australian Air Force commander (born 1923)
 2014 - Manuel Jiménez de Parga, Spanish politician (born 1929)
 2015 - John Dixon, Australian cartoonist (born 1929)
 2015 - Maurice Flanagan, British businessman (born 1928)
2015 - Frank DiPascali, American financier and fraudster (born 1956)
 2016 - Bernardo Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer (born 1989)
 2016 - John Stabb, American punk music singer (born 1961)
 2017 - Gran Apache, Mexican professional wrestler (born 1959)
 2017 - Elon Lages Lima, Brazilian mathematician (born 1929)
 2017 - Beppo Mauhart, Austrian football executive and journalist (born 1933)
 2017 - Gholamreza Pahlavi, Iranian prince and writer (born 1923)
 2017 - Lee Weissenborn, American politician (born 1929)
 2017 - Wu Wenjun, Chinese mathematician (born 1919)
 2018 - Maurane, Belgian singer and actress (born 1960)
 2018 - Miki Muster, Slovenian artist (born 1925)
 2018 - Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, Mexican physician and politician (born 1924)
 2018 - Crosbie E. Saint, American military officer (born 1936)
 2019 - Vicente Emano, Filipino politician (born 1943)
 2019 - Georg Katzer, German composer (born 1935)
 2019 - Te Wharehuia Milroy, New Zealand Maori language academic (born 1937)
2019 - Adam Svoboda, Czech ice hockey player (born 1978)
 2019 - Jean Vanier, Canadian philosopher and theologian (born 1928)
 2019 - Joel Virador, Filipino politician (born 1967)
Observances 
 Radio Day (Russia, Bulgaria)
 Defender of the Fatherland Day (Kazakhstan)
 Dien Bien Phu Victory Day (Vietnam)

May 07
Up to 1900 
 1191 - King Richard I of England lands in Cyprus during the Third Crusade.
 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome, in what is seen by some to be the end of the Renaissance.
 1536 - The Siege of Cuzco starts, in which Incan forces attempt to re-take the city from the Spanish.
 1536 - Henry VIII of England orders that English language Bibles should be placed in every church.
 1542 - St. Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, capital city of what was then known as Portuguese India.
 1659 - English Restoration: A faction of the army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector and re-instates the Rump Parliament.
 1682 – King Louis XIV of France moves into the Versailles Palace.
 1757 - Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
 1782 - Building work begins on the Grand Palace, residence of the Kings of Siam, present-day Thailand, in Bangkok.
 1816 - The American Bible Society is founded.
1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
 1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
 1844 - The Glaciarum, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
 1861 – Arkansas secedes from the Union.
 1861 – Richmond, Virginia is chosen as the capital city of the Confederate States of America.
 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the Confederates defeating the Army of the Potomac.
 1882 – United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is opened to the public as the World Exposition in Paris begins.
1901  2000 
 1902 - British ship Carmorta sinks in a cyclone in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, killing all 739 people on board.
 1910 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom dies. George V succeeds him as king.
 1916 - 21 Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha.
 1919 - The Third Anglo-Afghan War begins.
 1930 – An earthquake in present-day Iran kills 2,500 people.
 1935 - In the US, the Works Progress Administration is created.
 1937 – LZ 129 Hindenburg catches on fire while landing in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
 1940 - John Steinbeck is given the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
 1945 - World War II: In the last part of the war, the Prague Offensive begins.
 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run a mile in less than 4 minutes.
 1954 – Alfredo Stroessner comes to power in Paraguay, after leading a military coup against Federico Chaves.
 1966 – In the UK, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentenced to life in prison for the Moors murders.
1976 – An earthquake in Friuli, Italy kills 989 people and destroys entire villages.
 1983 – The so-called Hitler diaries are found to be a hoax.
 1991 - Time magazine publishes an article in which Scientology is strongly criticized.
 1994 – The Euro Tunnel between the UK and France, opens. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and President of France Francois Mitterrand jointly open it.
 1996 – CIA director William Colby is found dead on a Maryland riverbank, eight days after his disappearance.
 1998 – Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev moves his seat of government from Almaty to Akmola, which is renamed Astana.
 1999 – The first elections to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly are held.
From 2001 
 2001 – Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, returns to Earth.
 2001 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to set foot in a Mosque, in Damascus.
 2002 – Marc Ravalomanana becomes President of Madagascar.
 2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.
 2002 - Jacques Chirac announces that Jean-Pierre Raffarin would become Prime Minister of France.
 2004 - The series finale of Friends is shown on NBC in the United States, receiving over 52 million viewers.
 2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France.
 2010 – The United Kingdom general election, 2010 is held. It ends in a hung parliament, where no party has an overall majority. On May 11, the Conservatives under David Cameron and Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg agree to form a coalition government.
 2010 - Caroline Lucas becomes the first MP from the Green Party of England and Wales.
2011 – After the previous day's election the Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond wins an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, with 69 out of the 129 seats.
 2012 – Francois Hollande is elected President of France, as Nicolas Sarkozy is voted out of office after one term.
 2012 – The parliamentary election in Greece ends in an inconclusive result, as both main parties lose votes for supporting austerity measures.
 2013 - Ariel Castro kidnappings: Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry (and her child by Castro), and Gina DeJesus are found in Ariel Castro's house in Cleveland, Ohio, where they had been held captive for around ten years.
 2023 - The coronation of Charles III is performed at Westminster Abbey.
Births

Up to 1800 
 973 - Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1024)
 1397 - Sejong the Great of Korea (d. 1450)
 1405 – Skanderbeg, national hero of Albania (d. 1468)
 1501 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
 1562 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1629)
 1574 – Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
 1606 – Lorenzo Lippi, Italian poet and painter (d. 1665)
 1680 - Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French composer and cellist (d. 1755)
 1713 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
 1714 - Anton Raaff, German tenor (d. 1797)
 1758 – Maximilien de Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
 1758 – André Masséna, French soldier (d. 1817)
 1769 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
 1769 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (d. 1834)
 1792 - Georg Ohm, German mathematician (d. 1872)
 1797 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
 1800 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881)
1801  1900 
 1801 - José Joaquín Pérez, President of Chile (d. 1889)
 1820 – Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer of Australia (d. 1861)
 1851 - Arisitide Bruant, French singer and composer (d. 1925)
 1853 - Philander C. Knox, American politician (d. 1921)
 1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
 1856 – Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (d. 1920)
 1861 – Motilal Nehru, Indian politician (d. 1931)
 1864 - Eugenio Tosi, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1929)
 1866 – Jóannes Patursson, Faroese poet and politician (d. 1946)
 1868 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918), May 18 in Gregorian calendar
 1868 – Gaston Leroux, French writer (d. 1927)
 1870 - Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer (d. 1936)
 1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
 1871 – Christian Morgenstern, German writer (d. 1914)
 1872 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (d. 1934)
 1872 - Djemal Pasha, Ottoman Empire politician (d. 1922)
1879 – Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952)
 1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
 1882 – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
 1889 - Lyubov Popova, Russian artist and designer (d. 1924)
 1895 – Rudolph Valentino, Italian-American actor (d. 1926)
 1899 - Billy Cotton, English bandleader (d. 1969)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957)
 1902 – Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
 1904 – Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)
 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1978)
 1906 – André Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
 1913 – Stewart Granger, British actor (d. 1993)
 1915 – Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
 1915 – Theodore H. White, writer (d. 1986)
 1916 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (d. 1997)
 1917 – Jilly Rizzo, American restaurateur and entertainer (d. 1992)
 1919 - Alejandro Finisterre, Spanish inventor of table football (d. 2007)
 1919 - André Guelfi, French racing driver (d. 2016)
 1920 – Ross Hunter, producer (d. 1996)
 1920 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister and later President of Fiji (d. 2004)
 1921 – Erich Fried, Austrian writer (d. 1988)
 1922 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor (d. 2019)
 1923 – Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess (d. 2008)
 1923 - Harry Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2002)
1924 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of John F. Kennedy (d. 2006)
 1924 - Nestor Basterretxea, Basque artist (d. 2014)
 1925 – Hanns Dieter Hüsch, German cabaretist (d. 2005)
 1926 - Gilles Grégoire, Canadian politician (d. 2006)
 1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist (d. 2007)
 1930 - Philippe Beaussant, French musicologist and writer (d. 2016)
 1931 – Willie Mays, American Baseball Hall of Famer
 1932 - Ahmet Haxhiu, Albanian political activist (d. 1994)
 1932 - Fritz Lichtenhahn, Swiss actor (d. 2017)
 1934 - Richard Shelby, American politician
 1937 – Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, American boxer (d. 2014)
 1938 - Jean Garon, Canadian politician, lawyer and academic (d. 2014)
 1940 - Angela Carter, English writer (d. 1992)
 1941 - Ivica Osim, Bosnian footballer
 1943 – Andreas Baader, member of the Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
 1944 – Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player
 1945 – Bob Seger, rock music singer
 1945 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, musician
 1946 - Susan Brown, English actress
1947 – Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
 1947 – Martha Nussbaum, American philosopher
1951  1975 
 1951 – Samuel K. Doe, Liberian military officer and politician (d. 1990)
 1952 - Gerrit Salm, Dutch politician
 1953 – Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 1953 – Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer and manager
 1953 - Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (d. 1986)
 1954 - Tom Abernethy, American basketball player
 1955 – Tom Bergeron, American game show host
 1955 – John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, British politician
 1958 - Lorita Flores, Spanish singer and actress
 1958 - Jan Leyers, Belgian singer-songwriter and television personality
 1958 - Randall Stout, American architect (d. 2014)
 1959 - Charles Hendry, English politician
 1959 - Hiroyuki Sakashita, Japanese footballer
 1960 – John Flansburgh, musician
 1961 – George Clooney, American actor, movie director and screenwriter
 1961 - Tom Hunter, Scottish businessman
 1961 - Gina Riley, Australian actress, singer, producer and screenwriter
 1963 - Alessandra Ferri, Italian ballerina
1964 – Dana Hill, American actress (d. 1996)
 1965 - Leslie Hope, Canadian actress
 1968 - Worku Bikila, Ethiopian long-distance runner
 1968 - Shin Hae-chul, South Korean music performer and radio DJ
 1968 - Laetitia Sadier, French singer and keyboardist
 1969 - Vlad Filat, former Prime minister of Moldova
 1970 – George Rivas, Texas 7 ringleader
 1971 – Chris Shiflett, American guitarist (Foo Fighters)
 1972 – Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
 1972 - Naoko Takahashi, Japanese runner
From 1976 
 1977 – Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist
 1977 - Nozomi Hiroyama, Japanese footballer
 1978 – Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder
 1980 – Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player
 1980 - Wolke Hegenbarth, German actress
 1980 – Kate Lawler, British Big Brother contestant
 1982 - Duri Camichel, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2015)
 1983 – Daniel Alves, Brazilian footballer
 1983 – Adrianne Palicki, American actress
 1983 – Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
 1983 – Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model
 1984 - Anton Babchuk, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
 1985 – Tanerau Latimer, New Zealand rugby player
 1986 - Goran Dragic, Slovenian basketball player
 1987 - Moon Geun-young, South Korean actress
 1987 - Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer
 1987 - Meek Mill, American rapper
 1989 - Dominika Cibulkova, Slovakian tennis player
 1990 - Masato Kudo, Japanese footballer
 1990 – Caitlin Yankowskas, American figure skater
 1991 - Harriet Lee, British Paralympic swimmer
1992 - Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player
 1992 - Takashi Usami, Japanese footballer
 1993 - Naomi Scott, British actress, singer and musician
 1995 - Marko Pjaca, Croatian footballer
 1996 - Dominic Scott Kay, American child actor
 2002 - Emily Alyn Lind, American child actress
 2019 - Archie Mountbatten-Windsor, son of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1471 - Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English commander (b. 1438)
 1475 – Dieric Bouts, Flemish painter (b. 1415)
 1502 - James Tyrrell, English knight (b. 1450)
 1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
 1638 – Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
 1692 – Nathaniel Lee, English playwright (b. 1653)
 1757 - Battle of Prague:
 Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
 Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
 1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician (b. 1683)
 1840 – Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian President and independence leader (b. 1792)
 1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
 1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (b. 1817)
 1872 – George Robert Gray, British zoologist (b. 1808)
 1873 - José Antonio Báez, President of Venezuela (b. 1790)
 1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
1901  2000 
 1902 - Bret Harte, American writer (b. 1836)
 1910 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
 1913 – Alexandros Schinas, Greek anarchist (b. 1870)
 1919 – L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
 1939 - Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869)
 1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer (b. 1862)
 1951 – Hans Andrias Djurhuus, Faroese poet (b. 1883)
 1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
 1959 - Ragnar Nurkse, Estonian-American economist and academic (b. 1897)
 1961 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright and philosopher (b. 1895)
 1967 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
 1970 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1897)
 1975 - Jozsef Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)
 1985 - Julie Vega, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1968)
 1987 – William Casey, American CIA director (b. 1913)
 1990 - Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901)
 1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
 1992 – Jilly Rizzo, American restaurateur and entertainer (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2002 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
 2002 – Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
 2003 - Art Houtteman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
 2004 - Virginia Capers, American actress (b. 1925)
 2006 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
 2006 – Lillian Asplund, RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
 2012 - George Lindsey, American actor, comedian, and writer (b. 1928)
 2013 - Giulio Andreotti, former Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
 2014 - Cornelius Gurlitt, German art collector (b. 1932)
 2014 - Wil Albeda, Dutch politician (b. 1925)
 2014 - Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and environmentalist (b. 1921)
 2014 - Jimmy Ellis, American boxer (b. 1940)
 2014 - Bill Dana, American pilot and astronaut (b. 1930)
 2015 - Errol Brown, Jamaican-British singer (b. 1943)
 2015 - Jim Wright, American politician, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1922)
 2015 - Jerome Cooper, American jazz drummer (b. 1946)
2016 - Hannes Bauer, German trombonist (b. 1954)
 2016 - Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (b. 1990)
 2016 - David Hall, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma (b. 1930)
 2016 - Margot Honecker, German politician (b. 1927)
 2016 - Valeriy Zuyev, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1952)
 2016 - Nico de Bree, Dutch footballer (b. 1944)
 2016 - Reg Grundy, Australian television producer (b. 1923)
 2016 - Candye Kane, American singer-songwriter and pornographic actress (b. 1961)
 2016 - Chris Mitchell, Scottish footballer (b. 1988)
 2017 - Steven Holcomb, American bobsledder (b. 1980)
 2017 - Val Jellay, Australian actress (b. 1927)
 2017 - Rais Khan, Pakistani sitarist (b. 1939)
 2017 - Marshall Julum Shakya, Nepalese politician (b. 1940)
 2017 - Min Bahadur Sherchan, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1931)
 2018 - Cirilo Bautista, Filipino writer (b. 1941)
 2018 - Paolo Ferrari, Italian actor (b. 1929)
 2018 - Tarcisio Gitti, Italian politician (b. 1936)
2018 - Khaled Mohieddin, Egyptian army general and politician (b. 1922)
 2018 - Charles W. Steger, American academic (b. 1947)
 2018 - Ray Szmanda, American radio personality and radio presenter (b. 1926)
 2018 - Jamal Naji, Palestinian-Jordanian novelist (b. 1954)
 2019 - Max Azria, Tunisian-American fashion designer (b. 1949)
 2019 - Gjermund Eggen, Norwegian cross-country skier (b. 1941)
Observances 
 International No Diet Day
 Teacher's Day (Jamaica)
 Saint George's Day (Eastern Orthodox Churches)

May 06
Up to 1900 
 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
 1215 - Rebel barons renounce (withdraw) their allegiance to King John of England, as part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
 1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
 1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
 1668 - Portuguese galley Santissimo Sacramento strikes a reef off the coast of Salvador, Northeast Brazil, and sinks. Out of the over 1,000 people on board, only 70 survive the disaster.
 1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
 1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time in 150 years.
 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 denies citizenship to Jews.
1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte dies aged 51 on the South Atlantic island of Saint Helena. It takes several weeks for the news to reach Europe, due to the remoteness of the island.
 1821 - The first edition of the British daily newspaper The Guardian is published.
 1835 – In Belgium, the first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
 1842 – The Great Fire of Hamburg starts. It is brought under control on May 8.
 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, eventually leading to the creating of the Kingdom of Italy.
 1862 – Cinco de Mayo in Mexico: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla.
 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County, Virginia.
 1865 – In North Bend, Ohio (a suburb of Cincinnati), the first train robbery in the United States takes place.
 1866 - First Memorial Day commemoration in Waterloo, New York.
1877 – Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
 1885 – George Eastman is granted a US patent for rolling film.
 1886 – The Bay View Tragedy occurs, militia fire upon a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin killing seven.
 1891 – The Music Hall in New York (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
1901  2000 
 1902 – Commonwealth Public Service Act creates the Australian Public Service.
 1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans threw the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
 1905 - The trial in the Stratton brothers case begins in London. It is the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to get a conviction for murder.
 1916 – American marines invade the Dominican Republic.
 1920 - Sacco and Vanzetti case: US authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
 1925 – Afrikaans established as an official language in South Africa.
 1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 1940 – World War II: In London, a Norwegian government-in-exile is formed.
1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day, or Patriots' Victory Day.
 1944 - World War II: German troops execute 216 civilians in the village of Kleinoura, Greece.
 1945 – World War II: German troops in the Netherlands and Denmark capitulate to Canadian and British forces, liberating these countries from Nazi occupation.
 1945 – World War II: Prague uprising against the Nazis.
 1945 – World War II: Mauthausen concentration camp is liberated.
 1945 – World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
 1946 - The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo, with 28 Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
1949 – The Council of Europe in Strasbourg is founded through the Treaty of London as the first European institution working for European integration. Since 1964, May 5 has been designated Europe Day by the Council of Europe and is celebrated since then to commemorate its founding on 5 May 1949.
 1950 – Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King Rama IX of Thailand.
 1955 – West Germany gains full sovereignty.
 1961 – Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space, making a sub-orbital flight of 15 minutes.
 1964 – 5 May is declared Europe Day on the 25th anniversary of the Council of Europe.
 1967 – The first all-British space satellite, Ariel 3 is launched from the United States.
 1972 - Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 people on board.
 1973 - Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby in record time.
 1977 - The first interview between David Frost and Richard Nixon is broadcast.
1980 – Operation Nimrod: The Special Air Service storm the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
 1980 – Constantine Karamanlis is elected for the first time as President of Greece.
 1984 - In Luxembourg, the Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden with the song Diggi-Loo, Diggi Ley.
 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings.
 1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, DC after a Salvadoran man is shot by police.
 1992 – The 27th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified.
 1994 - The Signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
 1999 - Indonesia and Portugal reach an agreement on ending the war in East Timor. They also agree to give East Timor a referendum on independence later in the year.
From 2001 
 2002 – Jacques Chirac is elected to a second term as President of France, defeating far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the second round of the Presidential Election.
 2004 - Pablo Picasso's painting Boy With a Pipe is sold at auction for 104.2 million US Dollars.
 2005 – The United Kingdom general election takes place, in which Tony Blair's Labour Party is re-elected for a third, consecutive term.
 2006 – The government of Sudan signed an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA).
 2007 – Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 crashes in Cameroon.
 2010 – In Greece, widespread protests occur in the wake of the debt crisis.
 2010 – Nigerian President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua dies after a long illness. Caretaker President Goodluck Jonathan succeeds him.
 2011 – The election to the Scottish Parliament takes place, with the Scottish National Party, under Alex Salmond, getting an overall majority, taking 69 of the 129 seats.
 2018 - NASA launches its InSight probe to Mars.
2019 - Presidential elections: Stevo Pendarovski is elected President of North Macedonia, while Laurentino Cortizo is elected President of Panama.
 2019 - Brunei abandons its policy of making gay sex punishable by death.
 2019 - Aeroflot Flight 1492 bursts into flames on its return to Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, killing 41 out of the 78 people on board.
 2019 - A tanker explosion near Niamey, Niger, kills 58 people.
Up to 1900 
 867 – Emperor Uda of Japan (d. 931)
 1210 – King Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
 1352 – Rupert I, King of Germany (d. 1410)
 1479 – Guru Amar Das, 3rd Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
 1546 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623)
 1747 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
 1810 - Lorenzo Salvi, Italian tenor (d. 1879)
 1813 – Soren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
 1818 – Karl Marx, German Communist philosopher (d. 1883)
 1819 - Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer, conductor and teacher (d. 1872)
 1826 – Eugenie de Montijo, Empress of France (d. 1920)
 1828 - Robert von Puttkamer, Prussian statesman (d. 1900)
 1830 - John Patterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer (d. 1906)
 1833 - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer (d. 1905)
 1834 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian architect and painter (d. 1873)
 1846 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish writer (d. 1917)
 1846 - Lars Magnus Ericsson, Swedish inventor (d. 1926)
 1864 – Nellie Bly, American journalist (d. 1922)
1869 - Hans Pfilzner, German composer (d. 1949)
 1877 – Georgi Sedov, Russian naval officer and polar explorer (d. 1914)
 1882 – Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (d. 1958)
 1882 – Sylvia Pankhurst, British activist (d. 1960)
 1883 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, British field marshal and Viceroy of India (d. 1950)
 1883 - Agustin Barrios, Paraguayan guitarist and composer (d. 1944)
 1883 - Rudolf Spielmann, Austrian chess player (d. 1932)
 1887 – Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1972)
 1887 - Marvyn S. Bennion, American captain (d. 1941)
 1890 - Christopher Morley, American writer (d. 1957)
 1894 – August Dvorak, American inventor (d. 1975)
 1899 - Freeman Fisher Gosden, American comedian and actor (d. 1982)
1901  1950 
 1901 – Blind Willie McTell, American singer (d. 1959)
 1907 - Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer (d. 1982)
 1908 - Kurt Böhme, German bass (d. 1989)
 1911 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess player (d. 2010)
 1911 - Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
 1914 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
 1915 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (d. 1998)
 1916 - Zail Singh, 7th President of India (d. 1994)
 1917 - Pío Leyva, Cuban singer (d. 2006)
 1917 - Lennie Merullo, American baseball player (d. 2015)
 1919 – Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek military leader (d. 1999)
 1921 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist (d. 1999)
 1922 - Monica Lewis, American actress (d. 2015)
 1923 - Sergey Akhromeyev, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1991)
 1925 - Leo Ryan, American politician (d. 1978)
 1927 - Charles Rosen, American pianist and music writer (d. 2012)
 1928 - Richard Schaal, American actor (d. 2014)
 1930 – Ezzatollah Sahabi, Iranian politician (d. 2011)
1931 - Greg, Belgian cartoonist (d. 1999)
 1932 - Stan Goldberg, American comic writer (d. 2014)
 1933 - Igor Kashkarov, Soviet high jumper
 1934 - Ace Cannon, American saxophonist
 1934 - Henri Konan Bédié, former President of Ivory Coast
 1935 - Shih Chi-yang, Taiwanese politician (d. 2019)
 1937 – Tran Duc Luong, former President of Vietnam
 1937 – Delia Derbyshire, English composer (d. 2001)
 1939 - Ray Gosling, English broadcaster, journalist and activist (d. 2013)
 1940 – Lance Henriksen, American actor and painter
 1941 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2004)
 1942 - Marc Alaimo, American actor
 1942 – Tammy Wynette, American musician (d. 1998)
 1943 – Michael Palin, British actor, comedian, writer and TV presenter
 1943 - Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and writer
 1944 – Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer
 1944 – John Rhys-Davies, British actor
 1944 – Roger Rees, British actor (d. 2015)
 1945 - Kurt Loder, American journalist, critic, writer and columnist
1946 - Beth Carvalho, Brazilian samba singer (d. 2019)
 1947 – Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2012)
 1948 – Bill Ward, British musician
 1950 – Morton Rhue, American writer
1951  1975 
 1952 - Willem Witteveen, Dutch legal scholar and politician (d. 2014)
 1952 - Ed Lee, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 2017)
 1953 - Dieter Zetschke, German businessman
 1955 - Lisa Jane Persky, American actress
 1957 – Richard E. Grant, British actor
 1959 – Ian McCulloch, British singer
 1959 – Brian Williams, American news anchor
 1960 - Jorge Quiroga, former President of Bolivia
 1961 - Mike J. Dunleavy, American politician, Governor of Alaska
 1962 - Nicolas Vanier, Senegalese writer, explorer and director
 1963 - Simon Rimmer, English chef
 1964 - Heike Henkel, German high jumper
 1964 - Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
 1966 - Shawn Drover, Canadian musician
 1966 - Sergei Stanishev, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
 1966 - Josh Weinstein, American writer
 1967 - Takehito Koyasu, Japanese voice actor
 1969 - Olav Sepp, Estonian chess player
 1972 - Zigmund Palffy, Slovakian ice hockey player
 1972 – James Cracknell, British rower
1972 – Brad Bombadir, Canadian ice hockey player
 1972 - Devin Townsend, Canadian musician
 1975 - Meb Keflezighi, Eritrean-born American runner
From 1976 
 1976 - Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer
 1976 - Sage Stallone, American actor (d. 2012)
 1977 - Jessica Schwarz, German actress
 1978 – John Wilshere, Papua New Guinea rugby league player
 1978 – Santiago Cabrera, Chilean actor
 1979 – Vince Grella, Australian footballer
 1980 – Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
 1981 – Danielle Fishel, American actress
 1981 – Craig David, British singer
 1982 – Jay Bothroyd, English footballer
 1982 – Sándor Torghelle, Hungarian footballer
 1983 – Henry Cavill, Jersey actor
 1984 - Wade McNeil, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
 1985 – Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, illustrator and singer
 1985 - Tsapo Masilela, South African footballer
 1985 - Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer
 1987 - Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer
 1988 – Adele, British singer and songwriter
 1988 – Brooke Hogan, American singer and television personality
 1988 – Skye Sweetnam, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
 1989 – Chris Brown, American singer and actor
1991 - Shubha Phutela, Indian actress (d. 2012)
 1991 - Robin de Kruijf, Dutch volleyball player
 1992 – Yosuke Mikami, Japanese footballer
 1992 – Taisuke Miyazaki, Japanese footballer
 1993 - Francine Niyonsaba, Burundian middle-distance runner
 1998 - Menna Fitzpatrick, British Paralympic skier
 1999 - Nathan Chen, American figure skater
Up to 1900 
 200 – Sun Ce, Chinese warlord (b. 175)
 311 – Gallerius, Roman Emperor (b. 260)
 984 - Gerberga of Saxony (b. 913)
 1028 – Alfonso V of Castile (b. 994)
 1194 – Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
 1219 – Leo II, King of Armenia (b. 1150)
 1257 – Haakon the Young, Junior King of Norway (b. 1232)
 1306 - Constantine Palaiologus, Byzantine prince and general (b. 1261)
 1309 – Charles II of Naples (b. 1254)
 1525 – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1463)
 1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
 1700 - Angelo Italia, Sicilian Baroque architect (b. 1628)
 1705 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
 1731 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
 1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)
 1821 – Napoleon, French general and later Emperor of France (b. 1769)
 1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
 1855 - Seabury Ford, 20th Governor of Ohio (b. 1801)
 1859 – Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)
1865 – Ben Hall, Australian bushranger shot dead by the police (b. 1837)
 1881 - Ansel Briggs, 1st Governor of Iowa (b. 1806)
 1883 - Eva Gonzales, French painter (b. 1847)
 1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
 1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
 1900 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
1901  2000 
 1916 – John MacBride, Irish Nationalist (b. 1865)
 1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist (b. 1864)
 1925 - Tome Jose de Barros Queiros, Portuguese politician (b. 1872)
 1931 - Glen Kidston, English pilot and racing driver (b. 1899)
 1941 - Natalie of Serbia (b. 1859)
 1944 – Bertha Benz, German automobile pioneer (b. 1849)
 1945 – Peter Van Pels, Dutch-Jewish refugee (b. 1926)
 1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician (b. 1878)
 1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
 1977 – Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
 1981 – Bobby Sands, Northern Irish activist and hunger striker (b. 1954)
 1992 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French comedian and singer (b. 1927)
 1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)
 1999 - Candy Candido, American radio performer, bass player, singer, animator and voice actor (b. 1913)
From 2001 
 2002 – Hugo Banzer, President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
 2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
 2004 – Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
 2005 – Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (b. 1974)
 2007 – Theodore Maiman, American physicist (b. 1927)
 2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
 2010 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian mezzo-soprano (b. 1910)
 2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (b. 1951)
 2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian World War I veteran (b. 1901)
 2011 – Arthur Laurents, American playwright (b. 1917)
 2012 - Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, Swedish royal, uncle of Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Margrethe II of Denmark (b. 1916)
 2013 - Sarah Kirsch, German poet (b. 1935)
 2014 - Eduardo Mac Entyre, Argentine artist (b. 1929)
 2014 - Billy Frank, Jr., American activist (b. 1931)
 2014 - Butler Derrick, American politician (b. 1936)
 2015 - Hans Jansen, Dutch politician (b. 1942)
2015 - Oscar Holderer, German rocket scientist (b. 1919)
 2015 - Craig Gruber, American musician (b. 1951)
 2015 - Brian Sedgemore, British politician (b. 1937)
 2015 - Jon Castañares, Spanish economist and politician (b. 1925)
 2016 - Sylvia Kauders, American actress (b. 1921)
 2016 - Siné, French cartoonist (b. 1928)
 2016 - Isao Tomita, Japanese musician and composer (b. 1932)
 2017 - Buhe, Chinese politician (b. 1926)
 2017 - Benny Elon, Israeli politician (b. 1954)
 2017 - Corinne Erhel, French politician (b. 1967)
 2017 - Amancio Escapa Aparicio, Spanish-Dominican prelate (b. 1938)
 2017 - Almir Guineto, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
 2017 - Adolph Kiefer, American swimmer (b. 1918)
 2017 - Leila Seth, Indian judge (b. 1930)
 2017 - Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, President of Mauritania (b. 1953)
 2018 - Michele Castoro, Italian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1952)
 2018 - Wilson Frost, American politician (b. 1925)
 2018 - Ermanno Olmi, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2018 - Klaus Dede, German writer and journalist (b. 1935)
 2018 - Stanley Falkow, American microbiologist (b. 1934)
 2018 - José María Iñigo, Spanish journalist and commentator (b. 1942)
 2018 - Boyan Petrov, Bulgarian zoologist and mountaineer (b. 1973)
 2019 - Barbara Perry, American actress (b. 1921)
 2019 - Shih Chi-yang, Taiwanese politician (b. 1935)
 2019 - Norma Miller, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919)
Observances 
 Cinco de Mayo (Mexico and United States)
 Liberation Day (Denmark and Netherlands)
 Children's Day (Japan)
 Children's Day (South Korea)
 Coronation Day (Thailand)
 Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia)
 Martyrs' Day (Albania)
 Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
 Lusophone Culture Day in Portuguese-speaking countries
 Europe Day

May 05
Up to 1900 
 1415 - Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
 1436 - Assassination of Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson.
 1471 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Tewkesbury - Edward IV of England defeats the Lancastrian Army under Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, who is killed in the battle.
 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the "New World" between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives at the island that is now known as Manhattan.
 1675 - Charles II of England orders the construction of the Greenwich Royal Observatory.
 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to withdraw its allegiance to King George III of Great Britain.
 1780 - The first derby in horse racing is held at Epsom, England.
1799 - Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: Battle of Seringapatam - Siege of Seringatapatam ends with the city being invaded and Tipu Sultan being killed by the besieging British army under command of George Harris.
 1814 – Napoleon I begins his exile on the Italian island of Elba.
 1814 – Ferdinand VII returns Spain to absolute rule.
 1859 - The Cornwall Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge, linking the counties of Devon and Cornwall in the Southwest of England.
 1869 - The naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
 1886 - Haymarket Square Riot: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, killing 8 people and injuring 60. The police fire into the crowd.
1901  2000 
 1902 - Eight fishermen die in the Galway Bay drowning tragedy.
 1904 – The construction of the Panama Canal begins.
 1904 – German football club FC Schalke 04 is founded.
 1910 – The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
 1912 – Italy occupies the island of Rhodes.
 1919 - May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, against the Treaty of Versailles, which would transfer Chinese territory to Japan.
 1924 – The 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris begin.
 1932 – Gangster Al Capone begins an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea begins with an attack by aircraft from the US aircraft carrier USS Yorktown on Japanese naval forces at Tulagi island in the Solomon Islands, which Japanese forces had invaded a day before.
 1945 - World War II: British forces liberate Neuengamme Concentration camp near Hamburg.