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What happend on 19. May in History
In our data base we found 298 events happened on 19. May:
• 804: Alcuin, English monk and scholar (b. c.735) [category: Deaths]
• 988: Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 909) [category: Deaths]
• 1102: Stephen II, Count of Blois (b. c.1045) [category: Deaths]
• 1125: Vladimir II Monomakh, Russian prince (b. 1053) [category: Deaths]
• 1296: Pope Celestine V (b. 1215) [category: Deaths]
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• 1319: Louis, Count of Évreux, son of Philip III of France (b. 1276) [category: Deaths]
• 1389: Dmitry Donskoy, Russian prince (b. 1350) [category: Deaths]
• 1445: John II of Castile defeats the Infantes of Aragon at the First Battle of Olmedo. [category: Events]
• 1499: Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12. [category: Events]
• 1526: Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (b. 1464) [category: Deaths]
• 1531: Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (b. 1456) [category: Deaths]
• 1535: French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage). [category: Events]
• 1536: Anne Boleyn, English second wife of Henry VIII of England (b. 1501 or 1507) [category: Deaths]
• 1536: Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest. [category: Events]
• 1542: Prome Kingdom falls to Toungoo Dynasty. [category: Events]
• 1568: Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots. [category: Events]
• 1593: Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (d. 1678) [category: Births]
• 1601: Costanzo Porta, Italian composer (b. 1528 or 1529) [category: Deaths]
• 1610: Thomas Sanchez, Spanish theologian (b. 1550) [category: Deaths]
• 1637: Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588) [category: Deaths]
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• 1643: Thirty Years' War: French forces under the duc d'Enghien decisively defeat Spanish forces at the Battle of Rocroi, marking the symbolic end of Spain as a dominant land power. [category: Events]
• 1649: An Act of Parliament declaring England a Commonwealth is passed by the Long Parliament. England would be a republic for the next eleven years. [category: Events]
• 1700: José de Escandón, Spanish governor (d. 1770) [category: Births]
• 1715: Charles Montagu, English poet and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (b. 1661) [category: Deaths]
• 1724: Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, English admiral and politician (d. 1779) [category: Births]
• 1744: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, German wife of King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1818) [category: Births]
• 1749: King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River. [category: Events]
• 1762: Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1814) [category: Births]
• 1773: Arthur Aikin, English mineralogist (d. 1854) [category: Births]
• 1776: American Revolutionary War: A Continental Army garrison surrenders in the Battle of The Cedars. [category: Events]
• 1780: New England's Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M. [category: Events]
• 1786: John Stanley, English composer (b. 1712) [category: Deaths]
• 1795: Johns Hopkins, American philanthropist (d. 1873) [category: Births]
• 1795: James Boswell, Scottish biographer (b. 1740) [category: Deaths]
• 1795: Josiah Bartlett, American physician and statesman, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1729) [category: Deaths]
• 1797: Maria Isabel of Portugal (d. 1818) [category: Births]
• 1798: William Byron, 5th Baron Byron, English nobleman and duelist (b. 1722) [category: Deaths]
• 1802: Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour. [category: Events]
• 1821: Camille Jordan, French politician (b. 1771) [category: Deaths]
• 1825: Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon, French philosopher (b. 1760) [category: Deaths]
• 1827: Paul-Armand Challemel-Lacour, French statesman (d. 1896) [category: Births]
• 1828: U.S. President John Quincy Adams signs the Tariff of 1828 into law, protecting wool manufacturers in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1831: Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Baltic German biologist (b. 1793) [category: Deaths]
• 1845: Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England. [category: Events]
• 1848: Mexican-American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million. [category: Events]
• 1861: Dame Nellie Melba, Australian opera singer (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1864: Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (b. 1804) [category: Deaths]
• 1864: American Civil War: the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends. [category: Events]
• 1865: Sengge Rinchen, Mongol nobleman and general (b. 1811) [category: Deaths]
• 1870: Albert Fish, American serial killer (d. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1871: Walter Russell, American artist (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1874: Gilbert Laird Jessop, English cricketer (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1876: Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, Dutch politician (b. 1801) [category: Deaths]
• 1878: Alfred Laliberté, French Canadian sculptor and painter (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1879: Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1880: Albert Richardson, English architect, writer, and educator (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1884: David Munson, American athlete (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1885: Peter W. Barlow, English engineer (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1889: Henry B. Richardson, American archer (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1890: Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1891: Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (d. 1916) [category: Births]
• 1895: José Martí, Cuban independence leader (b. 1853) [category: Deaths]
• 1897: Frank Luke, American pilot (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1897: Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol Prison. [category: Events]
• 1898: Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and esotericist (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1898: William Ewart Gladstone, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1901: Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, South African politician, 1st President of the South African Republic (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: Arthur Shrewsbury, English cricketer (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Auguste Molinier, French historian (b. 1851) [category: Deaths]
• 1906: Bruce Bennett, American athlete and actor (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1907: Benjamin Baker, English engineer (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1908: Manik Bandopadhyay, Indian Bengali novelist (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1908: Merriam Modell, American author (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1908: Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1909: Nicholas Winton, English humanitarian [category: Births]
• 1910: Alan Melville, South African cricketer (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1910: Nathuram Godse, Indian assassin of Mahatma Gandhi (d. 1949) [category: Births]
• 1911: Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior. [category: Events]
• 1912: Bolesław Prus, Polish writer (b. 1847) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (d.1996) [category: Births]
• 1914: Alex Shibicky, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1914: Go Seigen, Japanese Go player [category: Births]
• 1914: Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1915: John Simpson Kirkpatrick, Australian soldier (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1918: Raoul Lufbery, French-American pilot and flying ace (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Georgie Auld, Canadian-American musician and bandleader (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1919: Mitja Ribičič, Slovenian politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia [category: Births]
• 1919: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, initiating what is later termed the Turkish War of Independence. [category: Events]
• 1921: Daniel Gélin, French actor (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1921: Harry W. Brown, American pilot (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1921: Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1921: Yuri Kochiyama, American civil rights activist [category: Births]
• 1921: The U.S. Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration. [category: Events]
• 1922: Joe Gilmore, Irish barkeep [category: Births]
• 1922: The Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union is established. [category: Events]
• 1924: Sandy Wilson, English composer [category: Births]
• 1925: Guy Provost, Canadian actor (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1925: Malcolm X, American civil rights activist (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1925: Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1926: Fernand Raynaud, French comedian and actor (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1926: Peter Zadek, German director (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1926: Swami Kriyananda, Indian teacher and author [category: Births]
• 1928: Colin Chapman, English car designer, founder of Lotus Cars (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1928: Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1928: Gil McDougald, American baseball player (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1929: John Stroger, American politician (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1930: Eugene D. Genovese, American historian and author (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1930: Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1931: Bob Anderson, English race car driver (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1931: Eric Tappy, Swiss tenor [category: Births]
• 1932: Alma Cogan, English singer (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1932: Claude Blanchard, French-Canadian comedian and actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1932: Paul Erdman, American economist and author (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1934: Bill Fitch, American basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1934: Jim Lehrer, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1934: Ruskin Bond, Indian author [category: Births]
• 1934: Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria. [category: Events]
• 1935: David Hartman, American actor and journalist [category: Births]
• 1935: T. E. Lawrence, English soldier (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Pat Roach, English actor and wrestler (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1938: Madge Hindle, English actress [category: Births]
• 1938: Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese politician (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1939: Dick Scobee, American astronaut (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1939: James Fox, English actor [category: Births]
• 1939: Livio Berruti, Italian athlete [category: Births]
• 1939: Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong actress [category: Births]
• 1940: Jan Janssen, Dutch cyclist [category: Births]
• 1940: Mickey Newbury, American singer-songwriter (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1940: Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish matador (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Bobby Burgess, American dancer and singer [category: Births]
• 1941: Nora Ephron, American screenwriter (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1941: Tania Mallet, English model and actress [category: Births]
• 1942: Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research, Inc. (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1942: Robert Kilroy-Silk, English politician and television presenter [category: Births]
• 1943: Eddie May, English footballer and manager (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1943: Shirrel Rhoades, American writer [category: Births]
• 1943: Kristjan Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1943: World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set Monday, May 1, 1944 as the date for the Normandy landings ("D-Day"). It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather. [category: Events]
• 1944: Peter Mayhew, English-American actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter, musician, and author (The Who, Deep End, and Thunderclap Newman) [category: Births]
• 1945: Philipp Bouhler, German Nazi leader (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: André the Giant, French wrestler and actor (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1946: Claude Lelièvre, Belgian activist [category: Births]
• 1946: Michele Placido, Italian actor and director [category: Births]
• 1946: Booth Tarkington, American novelist (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: David Helfgott, Australian pianist [category: Births]
• 1947: Gijs IJlander, Dutch writer [category: Births]
• 1947: Paul Brady, Irish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Planxty) [category: Births]
• 1947: Steve Currie, English bassist (T. Rex) (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1948: Grace Jones, Jamaican singer-songwriter and actress [category: Births]
• 1949: Archie Manning, American football player [category: Births]
• 1949: Dusty Hill, American singer-songwriter and musician (ZZ Top and American Blues) [category: Births]
• 1950: A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. [category: Events]
• 1951: Dick Slater, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1951: Joey Ramone, American singer-songwriter and musician (The Ramones and Sniper) (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1952: Bert van Marwijk, Dutch footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1953: Dawud M. Mu'Min, American convicted murderer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1953: Jimmy Thackery, American singer and guitarist (The Nighthawks) [category: Births]
• 1953: Shavarsh Karapetyan, Armenian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1953: Victoria Wood, English comedian and actress [category: Births]
• 1954: Phil Rudd, Australian drummer (AC/DC and Buster Brown) [category: Births]
• 1954: Rick Cerone, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1954: Charles Ives, American composer (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: James Gosling, Canadian computer scientist, created Java [category: Births]
• 1956: Martyn Ware, English musician and producer (The Human League, Heaven 17, and B.E.F.) [category: Births]
• 1956: Steven Ford, American actor [category: Births]
• 1957: Bill Laimbeer, American basketball player and coach [category: Births]
• 1958: Archie Scott-Brown, English race car driver (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1958: Ronald Colman, English actor (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Nicole Brown Simpson, American murder victim, wife of O. J. Simpson (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1959: The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail. [category: Events]
• 1960: Yazz, English singer and model [category: Births]
• 1961: Gregory Poirier, American screenwriter and director [category: Births]
• 1961: Wayne Van Dorp, Dutch-Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1961: 11 Bengali martyrs gave up their life in a police firing in Silchar Railway Station, Assam, while demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement. [category: Events]
• 1961: Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). [category: Events]
• 1962: A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". [category: Events]
• 1963: Filippo Galli, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1963: Walter Russell, American artist (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Lawrence Ng, Hong Kong actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Miloslav Mečíř, Slovakian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1964: Murali, Indian (Tamil) film actor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1964: Sean Whalen, American actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Boris, French singer-songwriter and composer [category: Births]
• 1965: Cecilia Bolocco, Chilean model and television host, Miss Universe 1987 [category: Births]
• 1965: Maile Flanagan, American actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Tu'i Malila, Malagasy turtle, the world's oldest tortoise (b. 1777) [category: Deaths]
• 1966: Jodi Picoult, American writer [category: Births]
• 1966: Marc Bureau, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1966: Polly Walker, English actress [category: Births]
• 1966: Sophia Crawford, English actress and martial artist [category: Births]
• 1967: Massimo Taccon, Italian artist [category: Births]
• 1968: Kyle Eastwood, American singer and musician [category: Births]
• 1969: Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Choi Kyung-Ju, South Korean golfer [category: Births]
• 1970: Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1970: Mario Dumont, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1971: Psicosis, Mexican wrestler [category: Births]
• 1971: Ross Katz, American director, producer, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1971: Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1972: Claudia Karvan, Australian actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Jenny Berggren, Swedish singer-songwriter (Ace of Base) [category: Births]
• 1973: Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver [category: Births]
• 1974: Andrew Johns, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1975: Delma Gonçalves, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Jonas Renkse, Swedish singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Katatonia, Bloodbath, and October Tide) [category: Births]
• 1975: Josh Paul, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1975: London Fletcher, American football player [category: Births]
• 1975: Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1975: Li Tobler, Swiss actress (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Ed Cota, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Kevin Garnett, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Brandon Inge, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Manuel Almunia, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Natalia Oreiro, Uruguayan singer-songwriter, fashion designer, and actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Wouter Hamel, Dutch singer and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1978: Dave Bus, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Kim Zolciak, American television personality [category: Births]
• 1978: Marcus Bent, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Barbara Nedeljáková, Slovak actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Diego Forlán, Uruguayan footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Drew Fuller, American actor and model [category: Births]
• 1980: Tony Hackworth, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Joseph Schull, Canadian playwright and historian (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor [category: Births]
• 1981: Georges St. Pierre, Canadian mixed martial artist [category: Births]
• 1981: Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer [category: Births]
• 1981: Luciano Figueroa, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Michael Leighton, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1981: Sina Schielke, German sprinter [category: Births]
• 1981: Yo Gotti, American rapper [category: Births]
• 1982: Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Klaas Vantornout, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1982: Pål Steffen Andresen, Norwegian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Eve Angel, Hungarian porn actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Jessica Fox, English actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Jean Rey, Belgian lawyer and politician 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Carla Lynch, English cactress and model [category: Births]
• 1984: Marcedes Lewis, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: John Betjeman, English poet (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Chris Loudon, Scottish darts player [category: Births]
• 1986: Eric Lloyd, American actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Mario Chalmers, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Jimmy Lyons, American saxophone player (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. [category: Events]
• 1987: David Edgar, Canadian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Mariano Torres, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: James Tiptree, Jr, American author (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Lily Cole, English model and actress [category: Births]
• 1989: Jasmine, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer [category: Births]
• 1989: C. L. R. James, Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Jordan Pruitt, American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1991: Croatians vote for independence in a referendum. [category: Events]
• 1992: Michele Camporese, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Ola John, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1994: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American editor and First Lady of the United States, wife of John F. Kennedy (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: The Sierra Gorda Biosphere, the most ecologically diverse region in Mexico, is established as a result of grassroots efforts. [category: Events]
• 1998: Sōsuke Uno, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Candy Candido, American actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: James Blades, English percussionist (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Susannah McCorkle, American singer (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Apple Store, the first two Apple Stores opened in Tysons Corner, Virginia and the same day in Glendale, California at Glendale Galleria. [category: Events]
• 2002: John Gorton, Australian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Walter Lord, American writer (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Camoflauge, American rapper (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Henry Corden, American actor (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Freddie Garrity, English singer and actor (Freddie and the Dreamers) (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Dean Eyre, New Zealand politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: President of Romania Traian Băsescu survives an impeachment referendum and returns to office from suspension. [category: Events]
• 2008: Vijay Tendulkar, Indian playwright (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Clint Smith, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Herbert York, American physicist (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Nicholas Maw, English composer (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist, Nobel Laureate (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: The Royal Thai Armed Forces concludes its crackdown on protests by forcing the surrender of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship leaders. [category: Events]
• 2011: Garret FitzGerald, Irish politician (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bob Boozer, American basketball player (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Phil Lamason, New Zealand pilot (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• _: Calocerus (Eastern Orthodox Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day (Turkey, Northern Cyprus) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Dunstan [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Greek Genocide Remembrance Day (Greece) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Hồ Chí Minh's Birthday (Vietnam) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Ivo of Kermartin [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Joaquina Vedruna de Mas [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Malcolm X Day (United States of America) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Maria Bernarda Bütler [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: May 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Peter Celestine [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pudentiana (Roman Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]