May 29

### Up to 1900

- 1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1328 – Philip VI of France is crowned King.
- 1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53–day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
- 1613 – Heavy flooding in Thuringia kills 2,261 people.
- 1660 – Charles II becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as the monarchy is restored.
- 1677 – The Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Native Americans.
- 1717 – The Spanish colonists create the Viceroyalty of New Granada, consisting of present–day Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela, as well as areas that are now part of Peru and Guyana.
- 1727 – Peter II becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of the Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113.
- 1790 – Rhode Island becomes the 13th State of the US.
- 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
- 1825 – King Charles X of France crowns himself in Reims.
- 1848 – Wisconsin becomes the 30th State of the US.
- 1852 – Operatic singer Jenny Lind leaves New York City after a two–year tour of the United States.
- 1867 – The Austro-Hungarian compromise establishes the Austro–Hungarian Empire. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria becomes King of Hungary on June 8.
- 1886 – Chemist John Pemberton advertises Coca-Cola in the _Atlanta Journal_.
- 1900 – N'Djamena is founded as _Fort Lamy_ by French commander Emile Gentil.

### 1901 – 2000

- 1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its first performance in Paris, with a riot later occurring.
- 1914 – The Ocean liner RMS _Empress of Ireland_ sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, killing 1,024 people.
- 1917 – John F. Kennedy is born in Brookline, Massachusetts.
- 1918 – The current Flag of Finland is introduced.
- 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
- 1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois.
- 1931 – Michele Schirru, a US citizen, is executed by an Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
- 1935 – The Messerschmidt Bf 109 fighter aircraft has its first flight.
- 1939 – Albanian Fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
- 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's song White Christmas, which later becomes the best–selling Christmas single ever.
- 1948 – Creation of the UN peacekeeping force, the UN Truce Supervision Organization.
- 1953 – Jack Catain Jr., an American businessman, marries Marlene Noble, an apparel sales associate, in Cook County, Illinois.
- 1953 – Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary become the first humans to reach the top of Mount Everest.
- 1954 – The first of the yearly Bilderberg conferences takes place.
- 1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
- 1966 – The Azteca Stadium opens in Mexico City and has a capacity of 105,000. It goes on to host the final of the FIFA World Cup on two occasions, in 1970 and 1986.
- 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first African American Mayor of Los Angeles.
- 1974 – Yitzhak Rabin replaces Golda Meir as Prime Minister of Israel.
- 1982 – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
- 1982 – Pope John Paul II visits Canterbury cathedral.
- 1985 – One of Europe's worst ever stadium disasters occurs after a riot at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, in which 39 people are killed. As a result, English football teams are banned from European Competition – the ban is removed a few years later.
- 1985 – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes a cross–Canada marathon in Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
- 1986 – The current 12–star Flag of the European Union is first raised in Brussels.
- 1988 – US President Ronald Reagan begins his first official visit to the Soviet Union, to meet with Mikhail Gorbachev.
- 1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
- 1994 – East Germany's former leader Erich Honecker dies in Santiago, Chile, at the age of 81.
- 1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo becomes President of Nigeria.
- 1999 – The Space Shuttle _Discovery_ completes its first docking with the International Space Station.

### From 2001

- 2004 – The US National World War II Memorial is unveiled in Washington, DC.
- 2005 – In a referendum, 54.8% of voters in France reject the proposed new European Constitution. Voters in the Netherlands also reject the Constitution by a majority a few days later.
- 2008 – 30 people are injured by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Selfoss, Iceland.
- 2010 – Tropical storm Agatha kills 180 people in Guatemala. During the storm, a large sinkhole opens up in the middle of Guatemala City.
- 2010 – Lena Meyer-Landrut of Germany wins the 55th Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway, with the song "Satellite".
- 2012 – A magnitude 5.8 earthquake hits Northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
- 2012 – Mitt Romney secures the Republican Party nomination for the US presidential election, in which he is defeated by incumbent Barack Obama on November 6.
- 2013 – The first same-sex marriage in France takes place.
- 2015 – Muhammadu Buhari takes office as President of Nigeria.
- 2015 – Sepp Blatter is controversially re–elected President of FIFA in a week of scandal at football's world governing body. He announces his resignation four days later.
- 2018 – 2018 Liège attack: A gunman kills 3 people (including two female police officers) in the Belgian city of Liège before being killed by police.
- 2018 – Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko is initially reported to have been shot dead, but appears alive at a press conference the following day; the Ukrainian secret services say they had faked his murder to prevent an attempt on his life.
- 2018 – US TV network ABC cancels the recently returned show Roseanne after a row erupts over its main star Roseanne Barr's Twitter comments.

### Up to 1900

- 1265 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (d. 1321)
- 1439 – Pope Pius III (d. 1503)
- 1594 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (d. 1632)
- 1627 – Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier, French aristocrat (d. 1693)
- 1630 – Charles II, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (d. 1685)
- 1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (d. 1715)
- 1716 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French botanist (d. 1800)
- 1736 – Patrick Henry, 1st Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
- 1773 – Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
- 1780 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (d. 1855)
- 1794 – Johann Heinrich von Madler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
- 1823 – John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (d. 1895)
- 1830 – Louise Michel, French writer and anarchist (d. 1905)
- 1860 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish composer (d. 1909)
- 1868 – Abdülmecid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Dynasty (d. 1944)
- 1871 – Clark Greenwood Voorhees, American painter (d. 1933)
- 1873 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian composer (d. 1918)
- 1874 – G. K. Chesterton, English novelist (d. 1936)
- 1880 – Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (d. 1936)
- 1892 – Alfonsina Storni, Swiss–Argentine poet (d. 1938)
- 1893 – Max Brand, American writer (d. 1944)
- 1894 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
- 1894 – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian–American director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1969)
- 1897 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (d. 1957)
- 1899 – Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician (d. 1987)

### 1901 – 1950

- 1903 – Bob Hope, British–born American comedian and actor (d. 2003)
- 1904 – Gregg Toland, American cameraman (d. 1948)
- 1905 – Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director and playwright (d. 1994)
- 1906 – T. H. White, English writer (d. 1964)
- 1911 – Armida, Mexican–American actress, singer and dancer (d. 1989)
- 1914 – Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
- 1914 – Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountain guide, reached the top of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary (d. 1986)
- 1917 – John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
- 1919 – Jacques Genest, Canadian physician
- 1920 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian–born economist (d. 2000)
- 1923 – Bernard Clavel, French writer (d. 2010)
- 1924 – Lars Bo, Danish writer and artist (d. 1999)
- 1924 – Behjat Sadr, Iranian painter (d. 2009)
- 1926 – Katie Boyle, British actress and television presenter (d. 2018)
- 1926 – Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
- 1926 – Abdoulaye Wade, former President of Senegal
- 1928 – Jacques Taminiaux, Belgian philosopher
- 1929 – Peter Higgs, British physicist (Higgs boson) and Nobel Prize in Physics winner
- 1929 – Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher
- 1930 – Jack Catain Jr., American businessman and convicted criminal (d. 1987)
- 1932 – Richie Guerin, American basketball player
- 1932 – Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and writer
- 1933 – Helmuth Rilling, German choral conductor and teacher
- 1934 – Bill Vander Zalm, Dutch–Canadian politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
- 1935 – André Brink, South African writer (d. 2015)
- 1937 – Jasper Griffin, English classical philologist
- 1937 – Hibari Misora, Japanese actress (d. 1989)
- 1937 – Alwin Schockemöhle, German showjumper
- 1938 – Christopher Bland, British businessman and politician (d. 2017)
- 1939 – Al Unser, American racing driver
- 1940 – Farooq Leghari, President of Pakistan (d. 2010)
- 1940 – Taiho Koki, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2013)
- 1941 – Doug Scott, English mountaineer
- 1941 – Bob Simon, American television correspondent (d. 2015)
- 1942 – Pierre Bourque, Canadian politician, 40th Mayor of Montreal
- 1942 – Kevin Conway, American actor
- 1944 – Bob Benmosche, American businessman (d. 2015)
- 1944 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (d. 1983)
- 1944 – Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford, English politician
- 1945 – Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist
- 1945 – Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician (d. 2013)
- 1945 – Catherine Lara, French singer-songwriter and violinist
- 1947 – Anthony Geary, American actor
- 1947 – Joey Levine, American singer-songwriter and producer
- 1947 – Gene Robinson, American bishop
- 1947 – Constantino Romero, Spanish radio host and actor (d. 2013)
- 1948 – Nick Mancuso, Italian–Canadian actor
- 1949 – Robert Axelrod, American actor
- 1949 – Francis Rossi, English musician (Status Quo)
- 1950 – Rebbie Jackson, American singer

### 1951 – 1975

- 1951 – Peter Chernin, President of News Corporation
- 1952 – Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan–American computer programmer (d. 2014)
- 1953 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor and director (d. 2008)
- 1953 – Danny Elfman, American singer, composer, musician ("Oingo Boingo")
- 1955 – Carme Forcadell, Catalan politician
- 1955 – Gordon Rintoul, Director of the National Museums of Scotland
- 1955 – Mike Porcaro, American musician (Toto) (d. 2015)
- 1955 – John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin
- 1956 – La Toya Jackson, American singer
- 1956 – Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, UK Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1956 – Bjarni Fridriksson, Icelandic judoka
- 1957 – Ted Levine, American actor
- 1958 – Karen Maruyama, Japanese–American actress
- 1958 – Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player
- 1958 – Wayne Duvall, American actor
- 1958 – Annette Bening, American actress
- 1959 – Rupert Everett, English actor
- 1959 – Steve Hanley, Irish–English bass player and songwriter
- 1961 – Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and activist
- 1962 – Fandi Ahmad, Singaporean footballer, coach and manager
- 1962 – Carol Kirkwood, Scottish weather presenter
- 1962 – Semino Rossi, Argentine–Italian singer
- 1963 – Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter (Iron Maiden)
- 1967 – Noel Gallagher, English musician (Oasis)
- 1970 – Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer and manager
- 1971 – Rob Womack, British paralympic athlete
- 1972 – Stanislas, French singer-songwriter
- 1972 – Bill Curley, American basketball player
- 1972 – Simon Jones, British singer and bass player
- 1975 – Melanie Brown, English singer (Spice Girls)
- 1975 – Sarah Millican, English comedienne

### From 1976

- 1976 – Yegor Titov, Russian footballer
- 1977 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
- 1977 – Marco Cassetti, Italian footballer
- 1977 – Antonio Lebo Lebo, Angolan footballer
- 1978 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player (The Hives)
- 1978 – Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
- 1978 – Lorenzo Odone, Italian Adrenoleukodystrophy patient (d. 2008)
- 1978 – Adam Rickitt, English singer and actor
- 1979 – Arne Friedrich, German footballer
- 1979 – Brian Kendrick, American professional wrestler
- 1979 – Fonseca, Colombian singer
- 1981 – Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
- 1982 – Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
- 1982 – Joanne Borgella, American singer and model (d. 2014)
- 1982 – Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
- 1982 – Bjarte Myrhol, Norwegian handball player
- 1983 – Jean Makoun, Cameroonian footballer
- 1984 – Carmelo Anthony, American NBA basketball player
- 1985 – Hernanes, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Hornswoggle, American professional wrestler
- 1987 – Alessandra Torresani, American actress
- 1988 – Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
- 1988 – Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- 1988 – Muath Al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian air force pilot (d. 2015)
- 1989 – Riley Keough, American model and actress
- 1989 – Brandon Mychal Smith, American actor, singer and dancer
- 1992 – Gregg Sulkin, British actor
- 1998 – Lucia Gil, Spanish singer and actress

### Up to 1950

- 1259 – King Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
- 1379 – Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
- 1425 – Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
- 1453 – Constantine XI Palaiologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1404)
- 1500 – Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (b. 1451)
- 1546 – David Beaton, Scottish cardinal and politician (b. 1494)
- 1814 – Josephine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (b. 1763)
- 1829 – Humphrey Davy, British chemist (b. 1778)
- 1866 – Winfield Scott, American general (b. 1786)
- 1868 – Michael Obrenovich III of Serbia (b. 1823)
- 1883 – Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (b. 1810)
- 1892 – Baha'u'llah, founder of the Baha'i religion (b. 1817)
- 1903 – Bruce Price, American architect (b. 1845)
- 1910 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer and conductor (b. 1837)
- 1911 – W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
- 1919 – Robert Bacon, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
- 1931 – Michele Schirru, US citizen executed by an Italian military firing squad
- 1935 – Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)
- 1939 – Ursula Ledochowska, Austrian–Polish nun and saint (b. 1865)
- 1942 – John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
- 1948 – May Whitty, English actress (b. 1865)

### 1951 – 2010

- 1951 – Fanny Brice, American singer and comedienne (b. 1891)
- 1958 – Juan Ramon Jimenez, Spanish writer (b. 1881)
- 1972 – Prithviraj Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1901)
- 1973 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer and composer (b. 1929)
- 1973 – George Harriman, English rugby player and managing director (b. 1908)
- 1977 – Ba Maw, Prime Minister of Burma (b. 1893)
- 1979 – Mary Pickford, Canadian–born actress (b. 1892)
- 1982 – Romy Schneider, Austrian–French actress (b. 1938)
- 1987 – Charan Singh, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
- 1988 – Siaka Stevens, President of Sierra Leone (b. 1905)
- 1989 – John Cipollina, American guitarist (b. 1943)
- 1994 – Erich Honecker, East German political leader (b. 1913)
- 1996 – Tamara Toumanova, Russian–American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
- 1997 – Jeff Buckley, American musician (b. 1966)
- 1998 – Barry Goldwater, United States Senator (b. 1909)
- 2004 – Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician (b. 1912)
- 2008 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
- 2009 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (b. 1978)
- 2010 – Dennis Hopper, American actor (b. 1936)

### From 2011

- 2011 – Sergei Bagapsh, President of Abkhazia (b. 1949)
- 2011 – Ferenc Madl, President of Hungary (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Bill Clements, 42nd Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
- 2012 – Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1912)
- 2012 – Doc Watson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
- 2013 – Mulgrew Miller, American pianist (b. 1955)
- 2013 – Franca Rame, Italian actress (b. 1929)
- 2014 – Karlheinz Böhm, Austrian–German actor (b. 1928)
- 2014 – Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss developmental biologist (b. 1939)
- 2014 – Christine Charbonneau, Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1943)
- 2015 – Bruno Pesaola, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Ed Gilligan, American financial executive, President of American Express (b. 1960)
- 2015 – Doris Hart, American tennis player (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Betsy Palmer, American actress (b. 1926)
- 2016 – Ralph Ketner, American businessman (b. 1920)
- 2016 – T. Marshall Hahn, American academic administrator (b. 1926)
- 2016 – Don McNay, American financial writer and columnist (b. 1959)
- 2017 – Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
- 2017 – Manuel Noriega, Panamanian military leader (b. 1934)
- 2017 – Mordechai Tzipori, Israeli general and politician (b. 1924)
- 2017 – Michael A'Hearn, American astronomer (b. 1940)
- 2018 – Yoseph Imry, Israeli physicist (b. 1939)

## Observances

- Democracy Day (Nigeria)
- International UN Peacekeepers Day
- Oak Apple Day (England)
- Statehood Day (Rhode Island and Wisconsin)