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What happend on 15. May in History
In our data base we found 352 events happened on 15. May:
• 392: Valentinian II, Roman Emperor (b. 371) [category: Deaths]
• 392: Emperor Valentinian II is assassinated while advancing into Gaul against the Frankish usurper Arbogast. He is found hanging in his residence at Vienne. [category: Events]
• 913: Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz (b. 850) [category: Deaths]
• 1036: Emperor Go-Ichijō of Japan (b. 1008) [category: Deaths]
• 1157: Yuri Dolgorukiy, Russian prince and founder of Moscow (b. 1099) [category: Deaths]
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• 1174: Nur ad-Din Zangi, Syrian ruler (b. 1118) [category: Deaths]
• 1252: Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad extirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition. [category: Events]
• 1381: Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron (b. 1315) [category: Deaths]
• 1397: Sejong the Great (d. 1450) [category: Births]
• 1525: Insurgent peasants led by Anabaptist pastor Thomas Muentzer were defeated at the Battle of Frankenhausen, ending the German Peasants' War in the Holy Roman Empire. [category: Events]
• 1536: Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury. [category: Events]
• 1567: Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (d. 1643) [category: Births]
• 1567: Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband. [category: Events]
• 1585: Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535) [category: Deaths]
• 1591: Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (b. 1582) [category: Deaths]
• 1602: Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Cape Cod. [category: Events]
• 1608: René Goupil, French missionary (d. 1642) [category: Births]
• 1609: Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557) [category: Deaths]
• 1618: Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made). [category: Events]
• 1634: Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585) [category: Deaths]
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• 1648: The Treaty of Westphalia is signed. [category: Events]
• 1689: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English writer (d. 1762) [category: Births]
• 1698: Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642) [category: Deaths]
• 1699: Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631) [category: Deaths]
• 1700: John Hale, American pastor (b.1636) [category: Deaths]
• 1701: The War of the Spanish Succession begins. [category: Events]
• 1714: Roger Elliott, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (b. 1665) [category: Deaths]
• 1718: James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun. [category: Events]
• 1720: Maximilian Hell, Hungarian astronomer (d. 1792) [category: Births]
• 1740: Ephraim Chambers, English writer and encyclopaedist (b. 1680) [category: Deaths]
• 1749: Levi Lincoln, Sr., American statesman (d. 1820) [category: Births]
• 1755: Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards. [category: Events]
• 1763: Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (d. 1826) [category: Births]
• 1764: Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, German organist and composer (d. 1827) [category: Births]
• 1767: Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician (d. 1843) [category: Births]
• 1773: Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician and statesman (d. 1859) [category: Births]
• 1773: Alban Butler, English priest and writer (b. 1710) [category: Deaths]
• 1776: American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence. [category: Events]
• 1786: Dimitris Plapoutas, Greek General (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1791: Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying ordinance. [category: Events]
• 1792: War of the First Coalition: France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia. [category: Events]
• 1793: Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted manned flights. [category: Events]
• 1796: First Coalition: Napoleon enters Milan in triumph. [category: Events]
• 1800: George III of the United Kingdom survives an assassination attempt by James Hadfield, who is later acquitted by reason of insanity. [category: Events]
• 1808: Michael William Balfe, Irish composer (d. 1870) [category: Births]
• 1811: Paraguay declares independence from Spain. [category: Events]
• 1817: Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905) [category: Births]
• 1817: Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [category: Events]
• 1836: Francis Baily observes "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse. [category: Events]
• 1841: Clarence Dutton, American geologist (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1845: Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican Head of State (b. 1800) [category: Deaths]
• 1848: Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1849: Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily [category: Events]
• 1850: The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, California, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County are slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Cavalry, led by Nathaniel Lyon. [category: Events]
• 1854: Ioannis Psycharis, Greek author and linguist (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1856: L. Frank Baum, American author (d. 1919) [category: Births]
• 1856: Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1917) [category: Births]
• 1857: Williamina Fleming, English astronomer (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1858: Opening of the present Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London. [category: Events]
• 1859: Pierre Curie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1906) [category: Births]
• 1862: Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture. [category: Events]
• 1864: American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia – students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley. [category: Events]
• 1864: American Civil War: Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends. [category: Events]
• 1869: Paul Probst, Swiss sports shooter (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1869: Woman's suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. [category: Events]
• 1879: Gottfried Semper, German architect and educator (b. 1803) [category: Deaths]
• 1886: Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830) [category: Deaths]
• 1890: Katherine Anne Porter, American author (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1891: Fritz Feigl, Austria chemist (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1891: Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1891: Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum Novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching. [category: Events]
• 1892: Jimmy Wilde, Welsh boxer (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1895: Astrid Zachrison, Swedish super-centenarian (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1895: Prescott Bush, American banker and politician (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1895: William D. Byron, American politician (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1898: Arletty, French model and actress (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1899: Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1901: Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1901: Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1902: Richard J. Daley, American politician (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1903: Maria Reiche, German mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1904: Clifton Fadiman, American intellectual, author, editor, radio and television personality (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1904: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and "Yashima". [category: Events]
• 1905: Abraham Zapruder, American businessman, filmed the Zapruder Film (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1905: Joseph Cotten, American actor (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1905: Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off. [category: Events]
• 1907: Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1909: Clara Solovera, Chilean musician (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1909: James Mason, English actor (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1910: Constance Cummings, English actress (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1911: Herta Oberheuser, German Nazi doctor (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1911: Max Frisch, Swiss author (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1911: In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up. [category: Events]
• 1912: Arthur Berger, American composer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1914: John Angus MacLean, Canadian politician (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1914: Norrie Paramor, English arranger and conductor (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1914: Turk Broda, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1915: Gus Viseur, French accordionist (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1915: Hilda Bernstein, English-South African author (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1915: Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1915: Paul Samuelson, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1916: Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress [category: Births]
• 1918: Eddy Arnold, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1918: Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1919: Greek invasion of İzmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. Those responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. [category: Events]
• 1919: The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job. [category: Events]
• 1920: Michel Audiard, French screenwriter and director (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1920: Nasrallah Sfeir, Lebanese cardinal [category: Births]
• 1922: Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and nun [category: Births]
• 1923: John Lanchbery, English composer and conductor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1923: Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1923: Richard Avedon, American photographer (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1924: Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1924: Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Roy Stewart, Jamacian-English actor (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1926: Anthony Shaffer, English playwright, screenwriter, novelist, barrister, and advertising executive (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1926: Clermont Pépin, Canadian pianist, composer, and teacher (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1926: Peter Shaffer, English playwright and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1928: Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (b. 1845) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy [category: Events]
• 1929: A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123. [category: Events]
• 1930: Jasper Johns, American painter [category: Births]
• 1931: Ken Venturi, American golfer [category: Births]
• 1932: The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed. [category: Events]
• 1934: Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia. [category: Events]
• 1935: Utah Phillips, American singer-songwriter (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1935: Kazimir Malevich, Polish-Ukrainian artist (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1935: The Moscow Metro is opened to public. [category: Events]
• 1936: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian actress [category: Births]
• 1936: Paul Zindel, American writer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1936: Ralph Steadman, English cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1936: Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist [category: Births]
• 1937: Joe Tait, American broadcaster [category: Births]
• 1937: Madeleine Albright, American politician, 64th United States Secretary of State [category: Births]
• 1937: Trini Lopez, American singer, guitarist, and actor [category: Births]
• 1937: Phillip Snowden, English politician (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Diane Nash, American Civil Rights activist [category: Births]
• 1938: Lenny Welch, American singer [category: Births]
• 1938: Mireille Darc, French actress [category: Births]
• 1939: Dorothy Shirley, English athlete [category: Births]
• 1940: Don Nelson, American basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1940: Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1940: Roger Ailes, American businessman and broadcaster [category: Births]
• 1940: Menno ter Braak, Dutch author (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California. [category: Events]
• 1940: USS Sailfish is recommissioned. It was originally the USS Squalus. [category: Events]
• 1940: World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation. [category: Events]
• 1942: Doug Lowe, Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1942: Jusuf Kalla, Indonesian politician [category: Births]
• 1942: K. T. Oslin, American singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1942: World War II: in the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law. [category: Events]
• 1943: Freddie Perren, American songwriter, producer, and conductor (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1943: Paul Bégin, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1943: Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International). [category: Events]
• 1944: Bill Alter, American politician [category: Births]
• 1944: Ulrich Beck, German sociologist [category: Births]
• 1945: Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza [category: Births]
• 1945: Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, composer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Charles Williams, English writer (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia. [category: Events]
• 1946: Aly Bain, Shetland fiddler (The Boys of the Lough) [category: Births]
• 1946: Nguyen Van Ly, Vietnamese priest and dissident [category: Births]
• 1947: Graeham Goble, Australian singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Little River Band, Mississippi, Travis Wellington Hedge, Birtles & Goble, and Birtles Shorrock Goble) [category: Births]
• 1948: Brian Eno, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Roxy Music and 801) [category: Births]
• 1948: Kathleen Sebelius, American politician, 21st United States Secretary of Health and Human Services [category: Births]
• 1948: Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese baseball player [category: Births]
• 1948: Edward J. Flanagan, American priest, founder of Boys Town (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Following the demise of the British Mandate of Palestine, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade Israel thus starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. [category: Events]
• 1949: George Adams, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1950: Nicholas Hammond, American actor [category: Births]
• 1951: Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1951: The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czesław Miłosz, asks the French government for political asylum. [category: Events]
• 1952: Chazz Palminteri, American actor, writer, and director [category: Births]
• 1952: Phil Seymour, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1953: George Brett, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1953: Mike Oldfield, English musician, songwriter, and producer (The Sallyangie) [category: Births]
• 1954: Robert P. Harrison, American educator and guitarist (Glass Wave) [category: Births]
• 1954: William March, American writer (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Lee Horsley, American actor [category: Births]
• 1956: Andreas Loverdos, Greek lawyer and politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Dan Patrick, American sportscaster [category: Births]
• 1956: Austin Osman Spare, English artist and magician (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque statesman [category: Births]
• 1957: Kevin Von Erich, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1957: At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly. [category: Events]
• 1958: Ron Simmons, American wrestler and football player [category: Births]
• 1958: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3. [category: Events]
• 1959: Andrew Eldritch, English singer-songwriter and musician (The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisterhood, and SSV) [category: Births]
• 1959: Kaokor Galaxy, Thai boxer [category: Births]
• 1959: Khaosai Galaxy, Thai boxer [category: Births]
• 1959: Luis Pérez-Sala, Spanish race car driver [category: Births]
• 1960: Rhonda Burchmore, Australian actress, singer, and dancer [category: Births]
• 1960: Rob Bowman, American director [category: Births]
• 1960: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4. [category: Events]
• 1961: Katrin Cartlidge, English actress (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1961: Melle Mel, American rapper and songwriter (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five) [category: Births]
• 1962: Lisa Curry-Kenny, Australian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1963: Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space. [category: Events]
• 1964: Digna Ochoa, Mexican politician [category: Births]
• 1964: Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark [category: Births]
• 1964: Vladko Maček, Croatian politician (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: André Abujamra, Brazilian composer [category: Births]
• 1965: Raí, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1966: Pete Wiggs, English musician, composer, and writer (Saint Etienne) [category: Births]
• 1966: After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command. [category: Events]
• 1967: John Smoltz, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Laura Hillenbrand, American author [category: Births]
• 1967: Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1967: Orlando Zapata, Cuban activist (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1967: Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1968: Seth Putnam, American singer-songwriter and musician (Anal Cunt, Post Mortem, and Siege) (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1969: Assala Nasri, Syrian singer [category: Births]
• 1969: Emmitt Smith, American football player [category: Births]
• 1969: Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1969: People's Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday. [category: Events]
• 1970: Desmond Howard, American football player [category: Births]
• 1970: Frank de Boer, Dutch football player [category: Births]
• 1970: Martin Rossiter, English singer-songwriter (Gene) [category: Births]
• 1970: Rod Smith, American football player [category: Births]
• 1970: Ronald de Boer, Dutch football player [category: Births]
• 1970: Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests. [category: Events]
• 1970: President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals. [category: Events]
• 1971: Phil Pfister, American weightlifter [category: Births]
• 1971: Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: David Charvet, French actor [category: Births]
• 1972: In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President. [category: Events]
• 1972: The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control. [category: Events]
• 1973: Emilia Tsoulfa, Greek sailor [category: Births]
• 1974: Ahmet Zappa, American musician, songwriter, producer, actor, and publisher [category: Births]
• 1974: Marko Tredup, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Shiney Ahuja, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab terrorist attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchildren. [category: Events]
• 1975: Ales Michalevic, Belarusian politician [category: Births]
• 1975: Peter Iwers, Swedish Musician (In Flames) [category: Births]
• 1975: Ray Lewis, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Ryan Leaf, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Torraye Braggs, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Tyler Walker, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Amy Chow, American gymnast [category: Births]
• 1978: Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1978: David Krumholtz, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: Dwayne De Rosario, Canadian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Edu Gaspar, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Krissy Taylor, American model (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1978: Robert Menzies, Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Chris Masoe, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1979: Robert Royal, American football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Josh Beckett, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Rocky Marquette, American actor [category: Births]
• 1980: Gordon Prange, American historical author (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1981: Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Patrice Evra, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Zara Phillips, English royal and horse rider [category: Births]
• 1982: Alex Breckenridge, American actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Charles E. Rosendahl, American vice admiral (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1982: Jessica Sutta, American singer, dancer, and actress (Pussycat Dolls) [category: Births]
• 1982: Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete [category: Births]
• 1982: Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Jeff Deslauriers Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1984: Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1984: Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher, and pastor (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Cristiane, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Tania Cagnotto, Italian diver [category: Births]
• 1986: Adam Moffat, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Thomas Brown, American football player [category: Births]
• 1986: Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1987: Ersan İlyasova, Turkish basketball player [category: Births]
• 1987: Jennylyn Mercado, Filipino singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1987: Kévin Constant, French-born Guinean footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Mark Fayne, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1987: The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit. [category: Events]
• 1988: Nemanja Nešić, Serbian rower (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1988: Soviet war in Afghanistan: After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan. [category: Events]
• 1989: Kiki Vidis, Australian porn actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Sunny, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (Girls' Generation) [category: Births]
• 1989: Johnny Green, American songwriter, composer, and conductor (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Luc Lacourcière, French-Canadian author and ethnographer (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Jordan Eberle, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1990: Lee Jong-hyun South Korean singer, guitarist, and actor (CN Blue) [category: Births]
• 1991: Mollee Gray, American actress, singer, and dancer [category: Births]
• 1991: Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Malian writer (b. c. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Ronald Lacey, English actor (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Édith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister. [category: Events]
• 1992: Anna Shaffer, English actress [category: Births]
• 1992: Barbara Lee, American singer (The Chiffons) (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Mahfizur Rahman Sagor, Bangladeshi swimmer [category: Births]
• 1993: Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Eric Porter, English actor (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Birdy, English singer [category: Births]
• 1996: Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Precious Doe, American murder victim (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1997: The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans. [category: Events]
• 1998: Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: George Francis, English gangster (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: June Carter Cash, American singer-songwriter, musician, dancer, and actress (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Alan B. Gold, Canadian chief justice (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Jerry Falwell, American pastor, founded Liberty University (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Alexander Courage, American composer (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Astrid Zachrison, Swedish super-centenarian (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Robert Dunlop, Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1960) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional. [category: Events]
• 2009: Bud Tingwell, Australian actor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Loris Kessel, Swiss race car driver (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo. [category: Events]
• 2012: Arno Lustiger, German historian and author (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: George Wyllie, Scottish artist (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jean Craighead George, American author (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Roy Shaw, English arts administrator (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• _: Achillius of Larissa [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Aoi Matsuri (Kyoto) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Athanasius of Alexandria (Coptic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Constituent Assembly Day (Lithuania) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Dymphna [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest date on which Armed Forces Day can fall, while May 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Saturday of May. (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest date on which Bike-to-Work Day can fall, while May 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Friday of May. (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hallvard Vebjørnsson (Norway) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hilary of Galeata [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Paraguay from Spain in 1811. Celebrations for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, May 14. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Day of Families (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Isidore the Laborer, celebrated with festivals in various countries, the beginning of bullfighting season in Madrid. [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (Roman Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: La Corsa dei Ceri begins on the eve of the feast day of Saint Ubaldo. (Gubbio) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: May 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mercuralia, in honour of Mercury. (Roman Empire) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Nakba Day (Palestinian communities) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Peace Officers Memorial Day (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Peter, Andrew, Paul, and Denise (Roman Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Reticius (Roman Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Slovenian Army Day (Slovenia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Sophia of Rome (Roman Catholic church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Teachers' Day (Mexico and South Korea) [category: Holidays and observances]