the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
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.
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 - 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)
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 – 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
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
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)
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)
1998 - Chatichai Choonhavan, Prime minister of Thailand (b. 1920)
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 author 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)
International No Diet Day
Teacher's Day (Jamaica)
Saint George's Day (Eastern Orthodox Churches)
May 06
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.
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.
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.
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 – 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 author (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
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 author, 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
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
Cinco de Mayo (Mexico and United States)
Liberation Day (Denmark and Netherlands)
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
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.
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.
1945 - World War II: At Lüneburg Heath, the North German army surrenders to British field marshal Bernard Montgomery.
1945 - World War II: Denmark is liberated.
1946 - United States Marines stop a two-day riot at Alcatraz, in which five people were killed.
1949 – In Italy, almost the whole entire Torino football team is killed in a plane crash.
1953 - Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
1959 – The first Grammy Awards are given.
1961 - Civil rights: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the Southern United States.
1970 – Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard opens fire on student anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University.
Four students are killed, and nine students are injured.
1974 - An all-female Japanese team reaches the summit of Manaslu in the Himalayas.
This is the first time that women have reached the top of a peak over 8000 metres high.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1980 – Yugoslavia's President Josip Broz Tito dies in Ljubljana, at the age of 87.
1982 – Argentine bombers destroy the HMS Sheffield in the Falklands War, as 20 sailors are killed.
1988 - The PEPCON disaster rocks Henderson, Nevada, as tons of space shuttle fuel detonate during a fire.
1989 - Iran-Contra Affair: Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges.
The convictions are later overturned.
1990 – Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
1993 - A new democratic constitution takes effect in Andorra, ending its feudal system, which had lasted since 1278.
It becomes a co-principality with the elected President of France and the Catalan Bishop of Urgel as joint heads of state, with an elected Prime Minister as Head of Government.
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule to Jericho and the Gaza Strip.
1998 - "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is given four life sentences in prison.
2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes Mayor of London.
2001 – Guido Westerwelle becomes leader of Germany's Free Democratic Party.
2002 – A plane crash in a suburb of Kano, Nigeria kills more than 148 people.
2002 - NASA launches the satellite Aqua to explore the role of water in Earth's ecosystem.
2007 – Greensburg, Kansas, is destroyed by a tornado.
2010 – The painting Nude, Green Leaves and Bust by Pablo Picasso is sold at auction, at a record price for a work of art.
2018 - It is announced that the awarding of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature will be delayed until October 2019 because of a sexual harassment and corruption scandal at the Swedish Academy.
2019 - The first of three days of coronation ceremonies takes place for King Vajiralongkorn of Thailand.
1008 – King Henry I of France (d. 1060)
1649 - Chhatrasal, Indian warrior (d. 1731)
1654 – Kangxi Emperor of China (d. 1722)
1655 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian instrument maker (d. 1731)
1733 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1799)
1752 - John Brooks, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1767 - Tyagaraja, Indian composer (d. 1847)
1772 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
1777 – Louis Jacques Thenard, French chemist (d. 1857)
1796 – Horace Mann, American educator (d. 1859)
1810 - Count Alexandre Joseph Colonna-Walewski, son of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1868)
1820 – Julia Gardiner Tyler, First Lady of the United States (d. 1889)
1822 - Charles Boucher de Boucherville, 3rd Premier of Quebec (d. 1915)
1825 – Thomas Henry Huxley, British biologist and educator (d. 1895)
1825 - Augustus Le Plongeon, British-American photographer and antiquarian (d. 1908)
1826 – Frederic Edwin Church, American painter (d. 1900)
1827 – John Hanning Speke, British explorer (d. 1864)
1845 - William Kingdon Clifford, British philosopher and mathematician (d. 1879)
1852 – Alice Pleasance Liddell, inspiration for Alice in Wonderland (d. 1934)
1864 - Marie Booth, English daughter of William Booth and Catherine Booth (d. 1937)
1870 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (d. 1960)
1872 - A. Mitchell Palmer, United States Attorney General (d. 1936)
1873 - Joe De Grasse, Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1940)
1875 - John J. Blaine, 24th Governor of Wisconsin (d. 1934)
1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian political figure (d. 1970)
1883 - Wang Jingwei, Chinese politician (d. 1944)
1887 - Andrew Dasburg, American painter (d. 1979)
1889 - Francis Spellman, American archbishop (d. 1967)
1890 - Franklin Carmichael, Canadian artist (d. 1945)
1895 – Cornelius Van Til, Dutch theologian (d. 1987)
1899 - Fritz von Opel, German industrialist, rocket pioneer and racing driver (d. 1971)
1903 - Luther Adler, American actor (d. 1984)
1904 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (d. 1975) (official birthdate)
1907 - Walter Walsh, American FBI agent and Olympic shooter (d. 2014)
1907 - Lincoln Kirstein, American writer and impresario (d. 1996)
1913 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (d. 2007)
1914 - Maedayama Eigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1971)
1916 - Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian journalist, writer and activist (d. 2006)
1918 – Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1993)
1919 - Basil Yamey, South African economist
1921 - Harry K. Daghlian, Jr., American physicist (d. 1945)
1922 - Eugenie Clark, American icthyologist (d. 2015)
1922 - King Fleming, American jazz pianist (d. 2014)
1922 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, American politician (d. 2015)
1922 - Paul-Emile Charbonneau, Canadian bishop (d. 2014)
1923 – Eric Sykes, British comedian (d. 2012)
1925 - Luis Herrera Campins, former President of Venezuela (d. 2007)
1925 - Jeno Buzansky, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
1927 - Terry Scott, English actor (d. 1994)
1928 – Hosni Mubarak, former President of Egypt (d. 2020)
1928 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 2006)
1928 – Wolfgang von Trips, German racecar driver (d. 1961)
1929 - Sydney Lamb, American linguist and academic
1929 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (d. 1993)
1929 - Manuel Contreras, Chilean general, convicted of crimes against humanity (d. 2015)
1930 – Katherine Jackson, mother of Jackson musical family
1930 - Roberta Peters, American soprano
1931 – Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Russian conductor
1934 - Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (d. 2014)
1935 - Don Friedman, American jazz pianist (d. 2016)
1937 - Ron Carter, American jazz musician
1938 - Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer and journalist (d. 2010)
1939 - Paul Gleason, American actor (d. 2006)
1940 - Robin Cook, American physician and author
1940 - Sean Barrett, British voice actor
1943 – Georgi Asparuhov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 1971)
1943 - Mihail Chemyakin, Russian painter and sculptor
1944 – Russi Taylor, American voice actress
1944 - Monica Bleibtreu, Austrian actress (d. 2009)
1945 - Jan Mulder, Dutch footballer
1947 - Trivimi Velliste, Estonian politician
1947 – Richard Jenkins, American actor
1948 – George Tupou V, King of Tonga (d. 2012)
1949 - Stella Parton, American singer-songwriter and actress
1950 – Darryl Hunt, musician
1951 – Jackie Jackson, American singer, member of the Jackson musical family
1951 – Gérard Jugnot, French actor and director
1951 – Mick Mars, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
1951 - Colleen Hanabusa, American politician
1953 - Oleta Adams, American singer and pianist
1954 – Pia Zadora, American actress and singer
1956 - Charlotte Green, English radio and television presenter
1956 - Michael L. Gernhardt, American engineer and astronaut
1956 - David Guterson, American novelist
1956 – Ulrike Meyfarth, German athlete
1958 – Keith Haring, American artist (d. 1990)
1958 – Caroline Spelman, British politician
1959 – Inger Nilsson, Swedish actress
1959 - Maurizio Cheli, Italian astronaut and air force officer
1959 – Randy Travis, American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
1960 – Werner Faymann, Chancellor of Austria
1961 – Jay Aston, English singer-songwriter and dancer
1961 – Chris Packham, English wildlife expert and television presenter
1961 - Luis Herrera, Colombian cyclist
1963 - Vange Leonel, Brazilian singer-songwriter, journalist, novelist, playwright and activist (d. 2014)
1964 - Monica Bardem, Spanish actress
1964 - Rocco Siffredi, Italian pornographic actor and director
1967 - Ana Gasteyer, American actress
1968 - Francesca Bortolozzi, Italian fencer
1970 - Paul Wiseman, New Zealand cricketer
1970 - Will Arnett, Canadian actor
1972 – Mike Dirnt, American musician (Green Day)
1973 – Guillermo Barros Schelotti, Argentine footballer
1974 – Tony McCoy, Northern Irish jockey
1975 - Louise Hansen, Danish footballer
1975 - Catherine Trudeau, Canadian actress
1977 - Emily Perkins, Canadian actress
1978 - Daisuke Ono, Japanese voice actor
1979 – Lance Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
1979 – Lesley Vainikolo, Tongan-born rugby player
1982 – Nathan Tyson, English footballer
1983 – Trisha Krishnan, Indian actress
1984 – Little Boots, British singer
1985 – Ravinder Bopara, English cricketer
1987 – Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish footballer
1987 – Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish motorcycle racer
1988 - David Gray, Scottish footballer
1989 – Rory McIlroy, Northern Irish golfer
1989 - Daniel Gyurta, Hungarian swimmer
1990 – Shunki Takahashi, Japanese footballer
1992 - Ashley Rickards, American actress
1992 - Courtney Jines, American actress
1994 – Alexander Gould, American actor
1994 – Pauline Ducruet, Monegasque royal
2002 - Anastasiya Petryk, Ukrainian singer
2009 – Prince Henrik of Denmark
1406 - Coluccio Salutati, Italian humanist and politician (b. 1331)
1436 – Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson, Swedish statesman
1471 – Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (b. 1453)
1471 – Edmund of Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, English military commander (b. 1438)
1519 - Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (b. 1492)
1566 - Luca Ghini, Italian physician and botanist (b. 1490)
1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian organist and composer (b. 1533)
1605 – Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian physician and naturalist (b. 1522)
1615 - Adriaan van Roomen, Flemish mathematician (b. 1561)
1677 - Isaac Barrow, English mathematician and theologian (b. 1630)
1729 - Louis-Antoine, Cardinal de Noailles, French cardinal (b. 1651)
1734 - James Thornhill, English painter
1774 - Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick (b. 1714)
1790 – Matthew Tilghman, American planter and revolutionary leader (b. 1718)
1799 – Tipu Sultan, Indian military leader (b. 1750)
1811 – Mikolay Kamensky, Russian general (b. 1776)
1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet (b. 1784)
1849 – Hokusai, Japanese artist (b. 1760)
1859 - Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician (b. 1771)
1880 – Edward Clark, 8th Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1897 - Duchess Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria (b. 1847)
1901 - John Jones Ross, 7th Premier of Quebec (b. 1831)
1903 - Goce Delchev, Macedonian revolutionary figure (b. 1872)
1916 - Easter Rising leaders executed in Ireland:
Edward Daly (b. 1891)
Joseph Mary Plunkett (b. 1887)
Willie Pearse (b. 1891)
1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian pacifist and writer (b. 1864)
1923 - Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (b. 1877)
1924 - E. Nesbit, English author and poet (b. 1858)
1938 – Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist (b. 1889)
1945 - Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (b. 1877)
1949 - Torino footballers killed in plane crash:
Aldo Ballarin, Italian footballer (b. 1922)
Dino Ballarin, Italian footballer (b. 1925)
Guglielmo Gabetto, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
Leslie Lievesley, English footballer (b. 1911)
Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (b. 1919)
Romeo Menti, Italian footballer (b. 1919)
1953 - Alexandre Pharamond, French rugby player (b. 1876)
1955 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (b. 1881)
1961 – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher (b. 1908)
1961 - Anita Stewart, American actress (b. 1895)
1970 - Victims of the Kent State shootings:
Allison Krause, Kent State victim (b. 1951)
Jeffrey Miller, Kent State victim (b. 1950)
Sandra Scheuer, Kent State victim (b. 1949)
William Schroeder, Kent State victim (b. 1950)
1971 – Seamus Elliott, Irish cyclist (b. 1934)
1972 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist (b. 1886)
1980 – Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
1984 – Willie Ormond, Scottish footballer (b. 1927)
1984 - Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
1985 - Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of the Salvation Army (b. 1907)
1987 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (b. 1942)
1991 - Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egyptian singer-songwriter and mandolin player (b. 1907)
2000 - Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist (b. 1909)
2002 – François Adam, Belgian cyclist (b. 1911)
2008 – Kishan Maharaj, Indian tabla player (b. 1923)
2009 – Dom DeLuise, American entertainer (b. 1933)
2010 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917)
2012 – Adam Yauch, American musician (Beastie Boys) (b. 1964)
2012 – Rashidi Yekini, Nigerian footballer (b. 1963)
2013 - Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist (b. 1917)
2013 - Otis R. Bowen, 44th Governor of Indiana (b. 1918)
2013 - Mario Machado, Chinese-American journalist and actor (b. 1935)
2014 - Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-born British tennis player (b. 1983)
2014 - Dick Ayers, American comic book artist and cartoonist (b. 1924)
2014 - Edgar Cortright, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
2014 - Tatiana Samoilova, Russian actress (b. 1934)
2015 - Eva Aeppli, Swiss artist (b. 1925)
2015 - Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (b. 1913)
2015 - Andrew Lewis, Guyanese boxer (b. 1970)
2015 - Joshua Ozersky, American food writer (b. 1967)
2015 - Zhivko Gospodinov, Bulgarian footballer (b. 1957)
2016 - Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, President of Burundi (b. 1946)
2016 - Bob Bennett, American politician (b. 1933)
2016 - Karl W. Butzer, German-American geographer (b. 1934)
2016 - Olle Ljungström, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1961)
2016 - Rita Renoir, French entertainer and actress (b. 1934)
2016 - Friedrich Schattleitner, Austrian sports shooter (b. 1923)
2017 - William Baumol, American economist (b. 1922)
2017 - Bart Carlier, Dutch footballer (b. 1929)
2017 - C. Jackson Grayson, American businessman and writer (b. 1923)
2017 - Victor Lanoux, French actor (b. 1936)
2017 - Edwin Sherin, American-Canadian television director and producer (b. 1930)
2017 - R. Lee Wrights, American political activist and consultant (b. 1958)
2018 - Abi Ofarim, Israeli musician (b. 1937)
2018 - Naser Cheshm Azar, Iranian musician, composer and arranger (b. 1950)
2018 - Renate Dorrestein, Dutch writer and journalist (b. 1954)
2019 - Prospero Nograles, Filipino politician (b. 1947)
2019 - Rachel Held Evans, American Christian writer (b. 1981)
2019 - Terje Moe Gustavsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1954)
Unofficial Star Wars Day ("May the fourth be with you")
International Firefighters Day
Youth Day (China, Fiji)
Greenery Day (Japan)
Bird Day (United States)
Cassinga Day (Namibia)
Remembrance of the Dead (Netherlands)
May 04
This day is the first day of the second third of the year, as well as the one third point of a common year because there are 121 days before and 243 days after it in common years.
There are 122 days before and 243 after it in leap years.