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What happend on 12. May in History
In our data base we found 360 events happened on 12. May:
• 254: Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I as the 23rd pope. [category: Events]
• 304: Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the beheading of the 14-year-old Pancras of Rome. [category: Events]
• 922: After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars. [category: Events]
• 1003: Pope Silvester II (b. 946) [category: Deaths]
• 1012: Pope Sergius IV [category: Deaths]
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• 1191: Richard I of England marries Berengaria of Navarre who is crowned Queen consort of England the same day. [category: Events]
• 1264: The Battle of Lewes, between King Henry III of England and the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, begins. [category: Events]
• 1328: Antipope Nicholas V, a claimant to the papacy, is consecrated in Rome by the Bishop of Venice. [category: Events]
• 1364: Jagiellonian University, the oldest university in Poland, is founded in Kraków, Poland. [category: Events]
• 1382: Joan I of Naples (b. 1327) [category: Deaths]
• 1401: Emperor Shōkō, Japanese emperor (d. 1428) [category: Births]
• 1465: Thomas Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (b. 1409) [category: Deaths]
• 1496: Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1560) [category: Births]
• 1551: National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, is founded in Lima, Peru. [category: Events]
• 1588: French Wars of Religion: Henry III of France flees Paris after Henry of Guise enters the city and a spontaneous uprising occurs. [category: Events]
• 1590: Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1621) [category: Births]
• 1622: Louis de Buade de Frontenac, French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France (d. 1698) [category: Births]
• 1626: Louis Hennepin, Flemish missionary (d. 1705) [category: Births]
• 1634: George Chapman, English writer (b. 1559) [category: Deaths]
• 1641: Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, English statesman (b. 1593) [category: Deaths]
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• 1670: Augustus II the Strong (d. 1733) [category: Births]
• 1684: Edme Mariotte, French physicist and priest (b. 1620) [category: Deaths]
• 1689: King William's War: William III of England joins the League of Augsburg starting a war with France. [category: Events]
• 1699: Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (b. 1626) [category: Deaths]
• 1700: Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (d. 1773) [category: Births]
• 1700: John Dryden, English writer (b. 1631) [category: Deaths]
• 1708: Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1658) [category: Deaths]
• 1725: Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (d. 1785) [category: Births]
• 1739: Johann Baptist Vanhal, Bohemian composer (d. 1813) [category: Births]
• 1743: Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor. [category: Events]
• 1748: Thomas Lowndes, English astronomer (b. 1692) [category: Deaths]
• 1754: Franz Anton Hoffmeister, German composer and publisher (d. 1812) [category: Births]
• 1755: Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1824) [category: Births]
• 1759: Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (b. 1700) [category: Deaths]
• 1767: Manuel de Godoy, Spanish statesman (d. 1851) [category: Births]
• 1780: American Revolutionary War: In the largest defeat of the Continental Army, Charleston, South Carolina is taken by British forces. [category: Events]
• 1784: Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist (b. 1710) [category: Deaths]
• 1792: Charles Simon Favart, French dramatist (b. 1710) [category: Deaths]
• 1796: Johann Peter Uz, German poet (b. 1720) [category: Deaths]
• 1797: First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice. [category: Events]
• 1801: Nicholas Repnin, Russian statesman (b. 1734) [category: Deaths]
• 1803: Justus von Liebig, German chemist (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1804: Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (d. 1858) [category: Births]
• 1806: Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Finnish statesman (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1812: Edward Lear, English artist and poet (d. 1888) [category: Births]
• 1814: Adolf von Henselt, German composer and pianist (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1820: Florence Nightingale, British nurse (d. 1910) [category: Births]
• 1821: The first big battle of the Greek War of Independence against the Turks occurs in Valtetsi. [category: Events]
• 1825: Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, French lawyer and adventurer (d. 1878) [category: Births]
• 1828: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1829: Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896) [category: Births]
• 1839: Tôn Thất Thuyết, Vietnamese mandarin of the Nguyễn Dynasty (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1840: Alejandro Gorostiaga, Chilean military officer (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1842: Jules Massenet, French composer (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1842: Walenty Wańkowicz, Polish painter (b. 1799) [category: Deaths]
• 1845: Gabriel Fauré, French composer (d. 1924) [category: Births]
• 1845: János Batsányi, Hungarian poet (b. 1763) [category: Deaths]
• 1850: Henry Cabot Lodge, American statesman (d. 1924) [category: Births]
• 1856: Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (b. 1786) [category: Deaths]
• 1859: William Alden Smith, American politician (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1859: Sergei Aksakov, Russian writer (b. 1791) [category: Deaths]
• 1860: Charles Barry, English architect (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
• 1862: U.S. federal troops occupy Baton Rouge, Louisiana. [category: Events]
• 1863: Battle of Raymond: two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign. [category: Events]
• 1864: J.E.B. Stuart, American soldier and Confederate Army general (b. 1833) [category: Deaths]
• 1864: American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers die in "the Bloody Angle". [category: Events]
• 1865: American Civil War: the Battle of Palmito Ranch: the first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory. [category: Events]
• 1867: Hugh Trumble, Australian cricketer (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1867: Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
• 1869: Carl Schuhmann, German athlete (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1870: The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15. [category: Events]
• 1872: Anton Korošec, Slovenian political leader (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1873: J.E.H. Macdonald, English-Canadian artist (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1874: Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1875: Charles Holden; British architect (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1876: Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843) [category: Deaths]
• 1878: Anselme Payen, French chemist (b. 1795) [category: Deaths]
• 1880: Lincoln Ellsworth, American explorer (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1881: In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate. [category: Events]
• 1884: Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (b. 1824) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: Paltiel Daykan, Russian-Israeli jurist (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1885: North-West Rebellion: the four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat. [category: Events]
• 1886: Ernst A. Lehmann, German zeppelin captain (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1889: Otto Frank, German businessman and Holocaust victim, father of Anne Frank (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1889: Yvonne de Bray, French actress (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1889: John Cadbury, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Cadbury (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1892: Fritz Kortner, Austrian director (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1895: Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1895: William Giauque, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1899: Indra Devi, Latvian Yoga Instructor (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1900: Helene Weigel, German actress (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1900: Joseph Rochefort, American naval officer and cryptanalyst (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1903: Wilfrid Hyde-White, English actor (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1905: Édouard Rinfret, Canadian politician and judge (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1907: Katharine Hepburn, American actress (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1907: Leslie Charteris, English author and screenwriter (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1907: Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (b. 1848) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1910: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, English biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1910: Gordon Jenkins, American conductor and composer (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1914: Bertus Aafjes, Dutch poet (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1914: Howard K. Smith, American journalist (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1914: James Bacon, American author, columnist, and reporter (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1916: Albert Murray, American writer [category: Births]
• 1916: James Connolly, Irish socialist and leader of the Easter Rising (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: Frank Clair, American-Canadian football coach (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1918: Julius Rosenberg, American actress, singer, and spy (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1918: Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1919: Gerald Bales, Canadian organist and composer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1921: Farley Mowat, Canadian writer and naturalist [category: Births]
• 1921: Joseph Beuys, German artist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1922: Bob Goldham, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1922: Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1922: Roy Salvadori, English Formula One driver and winner of 1959 Le Mans 24 hour (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1924: Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian mathematician [category: Births]
• 1924: Maxine Cooper Gomberg, American actress (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1924: Tony Hancock, English comedian (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1925: Yogi Berra, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1925: Amy Lowell, American poet (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole. [category: Events]
• 1926: UK General Strike 1926: In the United Kingdom, a nine-day general strike by trade unions ends. [category: Events]
• 1928: Burt Bacharach, American pianist, composer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1928: Henry Cosby, American songwriter and producer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1929: Dollard St. Laurent, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1929: Sam Nujoma, Namibian politician, 1st President of Namibia [category: Births]
• 1930: Jesús Franco, Spanish director [category: Births]
• 1930: Tom Umphlett, American baseball player (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1931: Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Ten weeks after his abduction Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home. [category: Events]
• 1933: Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet [category: Births]
• 1933: The Agricultural Adjustment Act is enacted to restrict agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies. [category: Events]
• 1935: Felipe Alou, Dominican baseball player and manager [category: Births]
• 1935: Johnny Bucyk, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1935: Józef Piłsudski, Polish statesman (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob Smith (founders of Alcoholics Anonymous) meet for the first time in Akron, Ohio, at the home of Henrietta Siberling. [category: Events]
• 1936: Frank Stella, American painter [category: Births]
• 1936: Guillermo Endara, Panamanian politician, 32nd President of Panama (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1936: Tom Snyder, American news anchor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1937: Beryl Burton, English cyclist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1937: George Carlin, American comedian, actor, and author (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1937: Susan Hampshire, English actress [category: Births]
• 1937: George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. [category: Events]
• 1938: Millie Perkins, American actress [category: Births]
• 1939: Jalal Dabagh, Kurdish politician [category: Births]
• 1939: Miltiadis Evert, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1939: Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1939: Ron Ziegler, American White House Press Secretary (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1940: Norman Whitfield, American songwriter and producer (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1941: Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. [category: Events]
• 1942: Billy Swan, American singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1942: Ian Dury, English singer-songwriter, bandleader, and actor (The Blockheads) (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1942: Michel Fugain, French singer and composer [category: Births]
• 1942: Holocaust: 1,500 Jews are sent to gas chambers in Auschwitz. [category: Events]
• 1942: World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: in eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later. [category: Events]
• 1942: World War II: The U.S. tanker Virginia was torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German U-Boat U-507. [category: Events]
• 1943: Linda Dano, American actress [category: Births]
• 1944: Chris Patten, English politician [category: Births]
• 1944: Arthur Quiller-Couch, English writer (b. 1863) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Max Brand, American author (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Alan Ball, Jr., English footballer (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1945: Ian McLagan, English musician and songwriter (Small Faces Faces, and The New Barbarians) [category: Births]
• 1945: Nicky Henson, English actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Patrick Ricard, French businessman [category: Births]
• 1945: Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Federación Obrera de la Industria de la Carne dissolved. [category: Events]
• 1946: Daniel Libeskind, American architect, designer, and artist [category: Births]
• 1946: L. Neil Smith, American author [category: Births]
• 1947: Catherine Yronwode, American writer and editor [category: Births]
• 1947: Michael Ignatieff, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1947: Micheline Lanctôt, American actor, director, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1948: David Heineman, American politician, 39th governor of Nebraska [category: Births]
• 1948: Joe Tasker, English mountaineer (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1948: Richard Riehle, American actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Steve Winwood, English musician and songwriter (The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith) [category: Births]
• 1948: Wilhelmina, Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands cedes throne. [category: Events]
• 1949: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin. [category: Events]
• 1949: The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany. [category: Events]
• 1950: Billy Squier, American singer-songwriter and musician [category: Births]
• 1950: Bruce Boxleitner, American actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Gabriel Byrne, Irish actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Louise Portal, French-Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1951: George Karl, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1951: Joe Nolan, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1952: Norbert Stolzenburg, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1952: Gaj Singh is crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur. [category: Events]
• 1953: Kevin Grevey, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1954: Rafael Yglesias, American novelist and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1955: Kix Brooks, American singer-songwriter (Brooks & Dunn) [category: Births]
• 1955: Austria regains its independence as the Allied occupation following World War II ends. [category: Events]
• 1955: Nineteen days after bus workers went on strike in Singapore, rioting breaks out and seriously impacts Singapore's bid for independence. [category: Events]
• 1956: Asad Rauf, Pakistani cricket umpire [category: Births]
• 1956: Bernie Federko, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1956: Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian [category: Births]
• 1956: Sergio Marchi, Canadian diplomat and politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Louis Calhern, American actor (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Lou Whitaker, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1957: Alfonso de Portago, Spanish bobsledder and race car driver (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Erich von Stroheim, Austrian director and actor (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Andreas Petroulakis, Greek artist [category: Births]
• 1958: Eric Singer, American drummer and songwriter (Kiss, Avantasia, Badlands, and Eric Singer Project) [category: Births]
• 1958: A formal North American Aerospace Defense Command agreement is signed between the United States and Canada. [category: Events]
• 1959: Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter and musician (Badlands, Blue Murder, and Sun Red Sun) (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1959: Ving Rhames, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Ian Khan, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1960: Paul Arcand, Canadian journalist and director [category: Births]
• 1961: Billy Duffy, English guitarist and songwriter (The Cult, Theatre of Hate, and The Nosebleeds) [category: Births]
• 1961: Bruce McCulloch, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Lar Park Lincoln, American actress [category: Births]
• 1961: Paul Begala, American political commentator [category: Births]
• 1961: Thomas Dooley, German-American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1962: Brett Gurewitz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Bad Religion, Daredevils, and Error) [category: Births]
• 1962: Emilio Estevez, American actor [category: Births]
• 1963: Charles Pettigrew, American singer (Charles and Eddie) (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1963: Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1963: Gavin Hood, South African director [category: Births]
• 1963: Jerry Trimble, American actor [category: Births]
• 1963: Panagiotis Fasoulas, Greek basketball player and politician, Mayor of Piraeus [category: Births]
• 1963: Stefano Modena, Italian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1963: Vanessa A. Williams, American actress [category: Births]
• 1963: Richard Girulatis, German football manager (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Robert Kerr, Canadian sprinter (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Geechy Guy, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1964: Pierre Morel, French director [category: Births]
• 1965: The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon. [category: Events]
• 1966: Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1966: Stephen Baldwin, American actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Felix Martin Julius Steiner, German Heer and Waffen-SS officer (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Joe McKinney, Irish actor [category: Births]
• 1967: Paul D'Amour, American singer and musician (Tool and Replicants) [category: Births]
• 1967: John Masefield, English writer (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Catherine Tate, English comedian, actress, and writer [category: Births]
• 1968: Mark Clark, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1968: Scott Schwartz, American actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Tony Hawk, American skateboarder [category: Births]
• 1968: Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral, east of Lai Khe in South Vietnam on the night of 12/13 May, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides and beginning the Battle of Coral-Balmoral. [category: Events]
• 1969: Kevin Nalty, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1969: Kim Fields, American actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Jim Furyk, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1970: Mark Foster, English swimmer [category: Births]
• 1970: Mike Weir, Canadian golfer [category: Births]
• 1970: Samantha Mathis, American actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Steve Palframan, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1970: Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Doug Basham, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1971: Jamie Luner, American actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Heinie Manush, American baseball player (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Bobby Kent, American murder victim (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1973: Kendra Kassebaum, American actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Lutz Pfannenstiel, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Robert Tinkler, Canadian voice actor [category: Births]
• 1973: Travis Lutter, American mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1973: Art Pollard, American race car driver (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Marc Capdevila, Spanish swimmer [category: Births]
• 1975: Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1975: Lawrence Phillips, American football player [category: Births]
• 1975: Mayagüez incident: the Cambodian navy seizes the American merchant ship SS Mayaguez in international waters. [category: Events]
• 1976: Kardinal Offishall, Canadian rapper, songwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1977: Graeme Dott, English snooker player [category: Births]
• 1977: Lorena Bernal, Argentine-Spanish model and actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Rebecca Herbst, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer, writer, and fashion designer (Morning Musume and Tanpopo) [category: Births]
• 1978: Hossein Reza Zadeh, Iranian weightlifter [category: Births]
• 1978: Jason Biggs, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Josh Phelps, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Malin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian actress and model [category: Births]
• 1978: Wilfred Le Bouthillier, Canadian singer [category: Births]
• 1978: Robert Coogan, American actor (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining center of the province of Shaba (now known as Katanga). The local government asks the U.S.A., France and Belgium to restore order. [category: Events]
• 1979: Aaron Yoo, Korean-American actor [category: Births]
• 1979: Andre Carter, American football player [category: Births]
• 1979: Callum Chambers, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Dennis Trillo, Filipino model, actor, and singer [category: Births]
• 1979: Erdinç Saçan, Turkish-Dutch politician [category: Births]
• 1979: Robert Key, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1979: Steve Smith, American football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Felipe Lopez, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Keith Bogans, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Kentaro Sato, Japanese-American composer and conductor [category: Births]
• 1981: Rami Malek, American actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Francis Hughes starves to death in the Maze Prison in a Republican campaign for political prisoner status to be granted to Provisional IRA prisoners. [category: Events]
• 1982: Darren Williams, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: David Thaxton, English actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1982: During a procession outside the shrine of the Virgin Mary in Fátima, Portugal, security guards overpower Juan Fernandez Krohn before he can attack Pope John Paul II with a bayonet. [category: Events]
• 1983: Alina Kabayeva, Russian gymnast [category: Births]
• 1983: Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Francisco Torres, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Virginie Razzano, French tennis player [category: Births]
• 1983: Yujiro Kushida, Japanese professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1984: Tommaso Reato, Italian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1985: Jeroen Simaeys, Belgian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Tally Hall, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1985: Jean Dubuffet, French painter (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Im Dong-Hyun, South Korean archer [category: Births]
• 1986: Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Mouhamed Sene, Senegalese basketball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, politician, and activist (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Gianluca Sansone, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Kieron Pollard, West Indies cricketer [category: Births]
• 1988: Marcelo Vieira da Silva Júnior, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Marky Cielo, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1989: Matthew Hann, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1989: The San Bernardino train disaster kills 4 people. A week later an underground gasoline pipeline explodes killing 2 more people. [category: Events]
• 1990: Jacory Harris, American football player [category: Births]
• 1990: Oliver Kragl, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Tobias Strobl, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Malcolm David Kelley, American actor [category: Births]
• 1992: Lenny Montana, American actor (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Nikos Gatsos, Greek poet and lyricist (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Robert Reed, American actor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Omond Solandt, Canadian scientist (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Erik Erikson, German psychoanalyst (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: John Smith, English politician (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Irina Khromacheva, Russian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1995: Kenton Duty, American actor [category: Births]
• 1995: Luke Benward, American actor [category: Births]
• 1995: Sawyer Sweeten, American actor [category: Births]
• 1995: Sullivan Sweeten, American actor [category: Births]
• 1995: Mia Martini, Italian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Four students are shot at Trisakti University, leading to widespread riots and the fall of Suharto [category: Events]
• 1999: Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd Allah ibn Baaz, Saudi Arabian scholar (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Saul Steinberg, Romanian-American cartoonist (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Alexei Tupolev, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Perry Como, American singer and actor (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American gangster (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution. [category: Events]
• 2003: Khalid al-Juhani, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1975) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, French United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: The Riyadh compound bombings, carried out by Al Qaeda, kill 26 people. [category: Events]
• 2005: Martin Lings, English-Islamic scholar (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Monica Zetterlund, Swedish singer and actress (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Gillespie V. Montgomery, American politician (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Hussein Maziq, Libyan politician, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Iranian Azeris interpret a cartoon published in an Iranian magazine as insulting, resulting in massive riots throughout the country. [category: Events]
• 2006: Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead. [category: Events]
• 2007: Dadullah, Afghan-Taliban military commander [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Teddy Infuhr, American actor (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Riots in which over 50 people are killed and over 100 are injured take place in Karachi upon the arrival in town of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. [category: Events]
• 2008: Irena Sendler, Polish social worker and humanitarian (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Robert Rauschenberg, American artist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: An earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people. [category: Events]
• 2008: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts the largest-ever raid of workplace and arrests nearly 400 immigrants for identity theft and document fraud. [category: Events]
• 2009: Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop) (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Eddy Paape, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Neil McKenty, English-Canadian broadcaster and author (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tor Marius Gromstad, Norwegian footballer (b. 1989) [category: Deaths]
• _: Blessed Imelda [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Blessed Joan of Portugal [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Crispoldus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Dominic de la Calzada [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Epiphanius of Salamis [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Florence Nightingale, Nurse, CE 1910 (Anglican Communion) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: May 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Modoald [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, and Pancras [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Patriarch Germanus I of Constantinople (Eastern Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Philip of Agira [category: Holidays and observances]