May 31

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 1279 BC &ndash; Rameses II (the Great) becomes Pharaoh of Egypt.
* 455 &ndash; Roman Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome.
* 526 &ndash; Antioch, Turkey is hit by an earthquake kills 250,000 people.
* 1578 &ndash; Henry II of France lays the first stone of the Point Neuf (New Bridge) in Paris.
* 1578 &ndash; Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada to mine fool's gold, used to pave the streets in London.
* 1669 &ndash; Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys makes the last entry in his diary.
* 1740 &ndash; Frederick II of Prussia becomes King.
* 1790 &ndash; Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the strait of Juan de Fuca.
* 1795 &ndash; French Revolution: The Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed.
* 1813 &ndash; In Australia, William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth reach Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route crossing the Blue Mountains in New South Wales.
* 1854 &ndash; The civil death procedure is banned in France.
* 1859 &ndash; Big Ben in London, UK starts keeping time.
* 1864 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor.
* 1884 &ndash; John Harvey Kellogg receives a patent for Cornflakes.
* 1889 &ndash; Johnstown flood: A dam break causes a flash flood in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, killing more than 2,000 people.
* 1890 &ndash; In Ulm, southern Germany, Ulm Minster, the city's cathedral, is completed.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1902 &ndash; The Second Boer War ends, through the Treaty of Vereeniging, ensuring British control over South Africa.
* 1906 &ndash; An attack on the wedding of King Alfonso XIII of Spain kills more than 20 people.
* 1910 &ndash; The Union of South Africa is formed.
* 1911 &ndash; The hull of the ocean liner RMS Titanic is launched.
* 1911 &ndash; President Porfirio Díaz flees Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.
* 1916 &ndash; World War I: The Battle of Jutland is fought.
* 1921 &ndash; Tulsa, Oklahoma race riot: At least 39 people are killed.
* 1927 &ndash; The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line.
* 1929 &ndash; The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse is released.
* 1935 &ndash; An earthquake in Quetta, Pakistan, kills around 40,000 people.
* 1941 &ndash; World War II: 38 people are killed in an air raid in Dublin.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy Submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.
* 1946 &ndash; A magnitude 6 earthquake in Turkey kills around 1,200 people.
* 1952 &ndash; Dwight D. Eisenhower ends his service with the United States Military.
* 1961 &ndash; The Republic of South Africa is founded.
* 1962 &ndash; The West Indies Federation dissolves.
* 1962 &ndash; Nazi official Adolf Eichmann is executed.
* 1970 &ndash; Ancash Earthquake: Southern Peru is hit by a major earthquake. Along with resulting avalanches, it kills 47,000 people. 20,000 people alone are killed in a single avalanche that hit the town of Yungay.
* 1970 &ndash; Brasilia Cathedral, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, is completed.
* 1970 &ndash; The 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico begins.
* 1971 &ndash; Memorial Day in the United States is held on the last Monday in May for the first time, instead of the traditional May 30 date.
* 1973 &ndash; The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets in Cambodia.
* 1977 &ndash; The Trans–Alaska Oil Pipeline is completed.
* 1981 &ndash; Burning of the Jaffna Library in Sri Lanka.
* 1985 &ndash; 76 people are killed in a tornado outbreak in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario.
* 1991 &ndash; Civil War political parties in Angola agree on a ceasefire and fire elections.

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; The 2002 FIFA World Cup in South Korea and Japan begins, where the Senegal national football team beats the France national football team 1–0.
* 2003 &ndash; Aung San Suu Kyi is arrested in Burma.
* 2005 &ndash; Mark Felt is revealed to have been 'Deep Throat', a key figure in the Watergate scandal.
* 2009 &ndash; The last-living survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking, Millvina Dean, dies aged 97.
* 2010 &ndash; Germany's President Horst Koehler resigns from office. Christian Wulff succeeds him over a month later.
* 2010 &ndash; Israeli forces storm the Gaza–bound international flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 9 Turkish activists.
* 2013 &ndash; A series of anti–government protests in Turkey begins in Istanbul.
* 2013 &ndash; Asteroid *(285263) 1998 GE-2* and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
* 2013 &ndash; A tornado measuring 2.6 miles (4.2 kilometers) wide hits El Reno, Oklahoma.
* 2017 &ndash; A massive bomb attack in central Kabul kills at least 150 people.
* 2018 &ndash; The discovery of dunes of methane on the dwarf planet Pluto is announced.
* 2018 &ndash; US President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on products from the European Union, Canada and Mexico.
* 2019 &ndash; Virginia Beach shooting: 12 government employees are shot dead by their colleague DeWayne Craddock in Virginia Beach, before he is killed in a shoot-out with police.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 1048 &ndash; Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician and philosopher (d. 1131)
* 1162 &ndash; Genghis Khan, Mongol ruler (d. 1227)
* 1243 &ndash; King James II of Majorca (d. 1311)
* 1443 &ndash; Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509)
* 1469 &ndash; King Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521)
* 1491 &ndash; Ignatius of Loyola, Spanish Jesuit (d. 1556)
* 1535 &ndash; Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607)
* 1557 &ndash; Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598)
* 1577 &ndash; Nur Jahan, Mughal Empress (d. 1645)
* 1613 &ndash; John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680)
* 1640 &ndash; Michael of Poland (d. 1673)
* 1641 &ndash; Dositheus, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1707)
* 1656 &ndash; Marin Marais, French composer and violin player (d. 1728)
* 1683 &ndash; Jean-Pierre Christin, French physicist, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1755)
* 1744 &ndash; Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Irish writer and engineer (d. 1817)
* 1750 &ndash; Karl August of Hardenberg, statesman and reformer (d. 1822)
* 1753 &ndash; Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
* 1754 &ndash; Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)
* 1773 &ndash; Ludwig Tieck, German poet and writer (d. 1853)
* 1791 &ndash; John Brown Francis, Governor of Rhode Island (d. 1864)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1801 &ndash; Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887)
* 1809 &ndash; Federico de Roncali, 1st Count of Alcoy, Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1857)
* 1816 &ndash; Dimitrie Ghica, Prime Minister of Romania (d. 1897)
* 1817 &ndash; Georg Herwegh, German poet (d. 1875)
* 1817 &ndash; Edouard Deldevez, French violinist and conductor (d. 1897)
* 1818 &ndash; John Albion Andrew, 25th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1867)
* 1819 &ndash; Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892)
* 1825 &ndash; Domenico Agostini, Italian cardinal (d. 1891)
* 1838 &ndash; Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900)
* 1852 &ndash; Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919)
* 1852 &ndash; Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist (d. 1921)
* 1857 &ndash; Pope Pius XI (d. 1939)
* 1858 &ndash; Graham Wallas, English socialist, psychologist and educator (d. 1932)
* 1860 &ndash; Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942)
* 1862 &ndash; Mikhail Nesterov, Russian painter (d. 1942)
* 1863 &ndash; Francis Younghusband, English army officer, explorer and writer (d. 1942)
* 1866 &ndash; Vladimir Rebikov, Russian composer (d. 1920)
* 1872 &ndash; Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (d. 1944)
* 1872 &ndash; Charles Greeley Abbot, American astrophysicist (d. 1973)
* 1882 &ndash; Sándor Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956)
* 1883 &ndash; Lauri Kristian Relander, 2nd President of Finland (d. 1942)
* 1885 &ndash; Alois Hudal, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop, helped Nazi war criminals escape (d. 1963)
* 1887 &ndash; Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and poet (d. 1975)
* 1892 &ndash; Michel Kikoine, Belarussian painter (d. 1968)
* 1892 &ndash; Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968)
* 1892 &ndash; Gregor Strasser, German politician (d. 1934)
* 1894 &ndash; Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956)
* 1898 &ndash; Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993)
* 1899 &ndash; Madge Blake, American actress (d. 1969)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American conductor and composer (d. 1983)
* 1908 &ndash; Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
* 1908 &ndash; Nils Poppe, Swedish actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2000)
* 1909 &ndash; Aurore Gagnon, Canadian child abuse victim (d. 1920)
* 1909 &ndash; Art Coulter, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2000)
* 1911 &ndash; Maurice Allais, French economist (d. 2010)
* 1912 &ndash; Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (d. 1997)
* 1912 &ndash; Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979)
* 1914 &ndash; Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (d. 2006)
* 1915 &ndash; Carmen Herrera, Cuban-American artist
* 1916 &ndash; Bert Haanstra, Dutch movie and documentary director (d. 1997)
* 1916 &ndash; Bernard Lewis, British-American historian (d. 2018)
* 1917 &ndash; Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and anthropologist (d. 2004)
* 1921 &ndash; Alida Valli, Italian actress (d. 2006)
* 1921 &ndash; Edna Doré, English actress (d. 2014) 
* 1922 &ndash; Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992)
* 1923 &ndash; Prince Rainier III of Monaco (d. 2005)
* 1923 &ndash; Ellsworth Kelly, American painter, sculptor and printmaker (d. 2015)
* 1925 &ndash; Frei Otto, German architect (d. 2015)
* 1926 &ndash; Domenico De Simone, Italian politician (d. 2019)
* 1926 &ndash; James Krüss, writer (d. 1997)
* 1927 &ndash; Red Holloway, American musician (d. 2012)
* 1927 &ndash; Joe Robinson, British actor (d. 2017)
* 1928 &ndash; Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
* 1929 &ndash; Menahem Golan, Israeli director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2014)
* 1929 &ndash; Andreas Meyer-Landrut, German diplomat
* 1930 &ndash; Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer
* 1930 &ndash; Elaine Stewart, American actress (d. 2011)
* 1931 &ndash; Shirley Verrett, American soprano (d. 2010)
* 1931 &ndash; John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist
* 1932 &ndash; Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994)
* 1933 &ndash; Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar, Indian writer and curator (d. 2019)
* 1935 &ndash; Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand
* 1938 &ndash; Johnny Paycheck, American country music singer (d. 2003)
* 1938 &ndash; John Prescott, former Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
* 1938 &ndash; Peter Yarrow, American folk singer ("Peter, Paul and Mary")
* 1939 &ndash; Terry Waite, British humanitarian
* 1939 &ndash; Haraldur Sigurdsson, Icelandic  volcanologist and geochemist
* 1940 &ndash; Anatoliy Bondarchuk, Ukrainian hammer thrower and coach
* 1941 &ndash; Louis Ignarro, American pharmacologist
* 1942 &ndash; Minos Kyriakou, Greek businessman (d. 2017)
* 1943 &ndash; Sharon Gless, American actress
* 1943 &ndash; Joe Namath, American football star
* 1945 &ndash; Pepe Eliaschev, Argentine journalist and writer (d. 2014)
* 1945 &ndash; Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor and director (d. 1982)
* 1945 &ndash; Laurent Gbagbo, former President of Ivory Coast
* 1947 &ndash; Junior Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter
* 1948 &ndash; Svetlana Alexievich, Belarussian journalist and writer
* 1948 &ndash; John Bonham, English musician, drummer with Led Zeppelin (d. September 25, 1980)
* 1948 &ndash; Lynda Bellingham, English actress and broadcaster (d. 2014)
* 1948 &ndash; Duncan Hunter, American lieutenant, lawyer and politician
* 1949 &ndash; Tom Berenger, American actor
* 1950 &ndash; Gregory Harrison, actor

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1952 &ndash; Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk)
* 1955 &ndash; Tommy Emmanuel, Australian guitarist and singer
* 1955 &ndash; Lynne Truss, English writer
* 1956 &ndash; Gerd Weber, East German footballer
* 1959 &ndash; Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver (d. 2014)
* 1960 &ndash; Peter Winterbottom, English rugby player
* 1960 &ndash; Chris Elliott, American comedian
* 1961 &ndash; Lea Thompson, American actress
* 1962 &ndash; Corey Hart, Canadian singer-songwriter
* 1963 &ndash; Viktor Orban, Prime Minister of Hungary
* 1963 &ndash; Wesley Willis, American musician
* 1964 &ndash; Yukio Edano, Japanese politician
* 1965 &ndash; Brooke Shields, American model and actress
* 1966 &ndash; Roshan Mahamana, Sri Lankan cricketer
* 1966 &ndash; Nick Scotti, American model, actor and singer
* 1967 &ndash; Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress
* 1972 &ndash; Antti Niemi, Finnish footballer
* 1972 &ndash; Frode Estil, Norwegian cross-country skier
* 1972 &ndash; Sarah Murdoch, English-Australian model and actress
* 1973 &ndash; Kate Howey, British judoka
* 1974 &ndash; Chad Campbell, American golfer
* 1974 &ndash; Kenan Dogulu, Turkish singer
* 1974 &ndash; Tristram Hunt, English politician
* 1975 &ndash; Toni Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper
* 1975 &ndash; Antonín Kinsky, Czech footballer

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Colin Farrell, Irish actor
* 1976 &ndash; Matt Harping, American basketball player
* 1976 &ndash; Tonka Tomicic, Chilean model and television host
* 1977 &ndash; June Sarpong, British television presenter
* 1977 &ndash; Eric Christian Olsen, American actor
* 1977 &ndash; Katrín Jónsdóttir, Icelandic footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer
* 1978 &ndash; Eric Moussambani, Equatoguinean swimmer
* 1978 &ndash; Robert Rinder, English barrister and television personality 
* 1979 &ndash; Jean-François Gillet, Belgian footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
* 1981 &ndash; Yoon Mi-rae, American-Korean singer and songwriter
* 1981 &ndash; Mikael Antonsson, Swedish footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Daniele Bonera, Italian footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Marlies Schild, Austrian skier
* 1983 &ndash; Reggie Yates, British television presenter
* 1984 &ndash; Jason Smith, Australian actor
* 1984 &ndash; Nate Robinson, American basketball player
* 1984 &ndash; Daniela Samulski, German swimmer (d. 2018)
* 1986 &ndash; Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian singer
* 1988 &ndash; Lisa Bund, German singer
* 1989 &ndash; Marco Reus, German footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Pablo Alboran, Spanish singer
* 1989 &ndash; Bas Dost, Dutch footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Erik Karlsson, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1991 &ndash; Azealia Banks, American rapper, singer and songwriter.

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 455 &ndash; Petronius Maximus, West Roman Emperor
* 1076 &ndash; Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (b. 1050)
* 1162 &ndash; Geza II of Hungary (b. 1130)
* 1246 &ndash; Isabella of Angoulême, queen of John of England (b. 1188)
* 1349 &ndash; Thomas Wake
* 1408 &ndash; Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1358)
* 1495 &ndash; Cecily Neville, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (b. 1415)
* 1594 &ndash; Tintoretto, Italian painter (b. 1518)
* 1680 &ndash; Joachim Neander, German Calvinist clergyman (b. 1650)
* 1740 &ndash; King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (b. 1688)
* 1747 &ndash; Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
* 1799 &ndash; Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (b. 1715)
* 1809 &ndash; Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (b. 1732)
* 1809 &ndash; Jean Lannes, French Marshal of Empire (b. 1769)
* 1831 &ndash; Samuel Bentham, mechanical engineer (b. 1757)
* 1832 &ndash; Evariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
* 1837 &ndash; Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (b. 1779)
* 1846 &ndash; Philip Marheineke, German Protestant divine (b. 1780)
* 1847 &ndash; Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor, social reformer, educator, writer, and scientist (b. 1780)
* 1848 &ndash; Eugénie de Guérin, writer (b. 1805)
* 1881 &ndash; Hugh J. Anderson, Governor of Maine (b. 1801)
* 1887 &ndash; Moritz Wagner, German geographer and naturalist (b. 1813)
* 1899 &ndash; Elisha Baxter, Governor of Arkansas (b. 1827)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1908 &ndash; Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian writer, poet and politician (b. 1839) 
* 1910 &ndash; Elizabeth Blackwell, first female physician in the United States (b. 1821)
* 1918 &ndash; Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist (b. 1836)
* 1920 &ndash; Nasrullah Khan, Emir of Afghanistan
* 1945 &ndash; Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi officer (b. 1904)
* 1957 &ndash; Stefanos Sarafis, Greek Resistance activist (b. 1890)
* 1957 &ndash; Leopold Staff, Polish poet (b. 1878)
* 1960 &ndash; Walther Funk, Nazi leader (b. 1890)
* 1960 &ndash; Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (b. 1882)
* 1961 &ndash; Walter Little, Canadian politician (b. 1877)
* 1962 &ndash; Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b. 1906)
* 1963 &ndash; Edith Hamilton, German-American writer and teacher (b. 1867)
* 1967 &ndash; Billy Strawhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (b. 1915)
* 1970 &ndash; Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
* 1976 &ndash; Jacques Monod, French biologist (b. 1910)
* 1977 &ndash; William Castle, American director (b. 1914)
* 1978 &ndash; Jozsef Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
* 1981 &ndash; Gyula Lorant, Hungarian footballer (b. 1928)
* 1981 &ndash; Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician (b. 1902)
* 1982 &ndash; Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer (b. 1930)
* 1983 &ndash; Jack Dempsey, American boxer (b. 1895)
* 1986 &ndash; James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
* 1986 &ndash; Gaston Rebuffat, French mountaineer (b. 1921)
* 1994 &ndash; Herva Nelli, Italian-American soprano (b. 1909)
* 1996 &ndash; Paul Peter Piech, artist (b. 1920)
* 1996 &ndash; Timothy Leary, American LSD advocate (b. 1920)
* 1999 &ndash; Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
* 2000 &ndash; Tito Puente, musician (b. 1923)
* 2000 &ndash; Johnnie Taylor, vocalist (b. 1938)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Arlene Francis, American actress (b. 1907)
* 2002 &ndash; Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (b. 1929)
* 2003 &ndash; Francesco Colasuonno, Italian cardinal (b. 1925)
* 2004 &ndash; Robert Quine, guitarist (b. 1942)
* 2006 &ndash; Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist (b. 1914)
* 2009 &ndash; Millvina Dean, last-living RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1912)
* 2009 &ndash; George Tiller, American abortion doctor (b. 1941)
* 2010 &ndash; Louise Bourgeois, French-born sculptor (b. 1911)
* 2011 &ndash; Pauline Betz, American tennis player (b. 1919)
* 2011 &ndash; Andy Robustelli, American football player (b. 1925)
* 2011 &ndash; Ezzatollah Sahabi, Iranian politician (b. 1930)
* 2013 &ndash; Jean Stapleton, American actress (b. 1923)
* 2013 &ndash; Tim Samaras, American storm chaser (b. 1957)
* 2013 &ndash; Paul Samaras, American storm chaser (b. 1988)
* 2014 &ndash; Marilyn Beck, American entertainment journalist (b. 1928)
* 2014 &ndash; Hoss Ellington, American NASCAR driver (b. 1935)
* 2014 &ndash; Martha Hyer, American actress (b. 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Brajanath Ratha, Indian poet (b. 1936)
* 2014 &ndash; Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1922)
* 2014 &ndash; Marinho Chagas, Brazilian footballer (b. 1952)
* 2015 &ndash; Karl Wlaschek, Austrian executive (b. 1917)
* 2015 &ndash; Mario Saliwa, South African cricketer (b. 1984)
* 2015 &ndash; Slim Richey, American guitarist (b. 1938)
* 2016 &ndash; Mohamed Abdelaziz, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (b. 1947)
* 2016 &ndash; Jan Crouch, American televangelist and broadcasting executive (b. 1938)
* 2016 &ndash; Antonio Imbert Barrera, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1920)
* 2016 &ndash; Carla Lane, English television writer (b. 1928)
* 2016 &ndash; Rupert Neudeck, German journalist and humanitarian (b. 1939)
* 2016 &ndash; David Tod Roy, Chinese translator (b. 1933)
* 2016 &ndash; Corry Brokken, Dutch singer (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Lubomyr Husar, Ukrainian religious figure (b. 1933)
* 2017 &ndash; Tino Insana, American actor (b. 1948)
* 2017 &ndash; Fred Kummerow, American science professor (b. 1914)
* 2017 &ndash; Bern Nix, American jazz guitarist (b. 1947)
* 2017 &ndash; Jiri Belohlavek, Czech conductor (b. 1946)
* 2018 &ndash; Michael D. Ford, English art director and set decorator (b. 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Aníbal Quijano, Peruvian sociologist (b. 1928)
* 2019 &ndash; Roky Erickson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)

## Observances 
* Visitation of the Virgin Mary (Christian liturgical feast)
* Anti–Tobacco Day
* Castile-La Mancha Day

## References