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{{pp-move}} {{pp-pc}} {{calendar}} {{This date in recent years}} {{Day}} ==Events== ===Pre-1600=== *[[1096]] – [[Count Emicho]] enters [[Mainz]], where his followers [[Rhineland massacres#Emicho|massacre Jewish citizens]].<ref name="Golb">{{Cite book|title=The Jews in Medieval Normandy: a social and intellectual history|author=Norman Golb|year=1998|location=Cambridge, United Kingdom|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref> At least 600 Jews are killed.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-massacre-in-mainz-1.5249699|title = This Day in Jewish History / Crusaders massacre the Jews of Mainz|newspaper = Haaretz}}</ref> *[[1120]] – [[Richard III of Capua]] is anointed as [[Prince of Capua|Prince]] two weeks before his untimely death. *[[1153]] – [[Malcolm IV of Scotland|Malcolm IV]] becomes King of Scotland. *[[1199]] – [[John, King of England|John]] is crowned King of England. *[[1257]] – [[Richard of Cornwall]], and his wife, [[Sanchia of Provence]], are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at [[Aachen Cathedral]].<ref>Goldstone, Nancy (2008). ''Four Queens; The Provençal Sisters who ruled Europe.'' Penguin Books, London, p. 213.</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1644]] – [[Manchu]] regent [[Dorgon]] defeats rebel leader [[Li Zicheng]] of the [[Shun dynasty]] at the [[Battle of Shanhai Pass]], allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing. *[[1703]] – Tsar [[Peter the Great]] founds the city of [[Saint Petersburg]]. *[[1798]] – The [[Pitt–Tierney duel]] takes place on [[Putney Heath]] outside [[London]]. A bloodless [[duel]] between the [[Prime Minister of Great Britain]] [[William Pitt the Younger]] and his political opponent [[George Tierney]].<ref>Nester, William. ''The Coalitions Against Napoleon: How British Money, Manufacturing and Military Power Forged the Alliances that Achieved Victory''. Frontline Books, 2023. p.103</ref> * 1798 – The [[Battle of Oulart Hill]] takes place in [[Wexford]], Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Derek|last1=Warfield|author-link1=Derek Warfield|first2=Raymond|last2=Daly|title=Celtic & Ireland in Song and Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BzVdDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT118|date=17 April 2012|publisher=BookBaby|isbn=978-1-62095-764-6|page=118}}</ref> *[[1799]] – [[War of the Second Coalition]]: [[Habsburg monarchy|Austrian]] forces defeat the [[French First Republic|French]] at [[Battle of Winterthur (1799)|Winterthur]], Switzerland. *[[1813]] – [[War of 1812]]: In Canada, American forces capture [[Battle of Fort George|Fort George]]. *[[1860]] – [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]] begins the [[Siege of Palermo]], part of the wars of [[Italian unification]]. *[[1863]] – [[American Civil War]]: The first Union infantry assault of the [[Siege of Port Hudson]] occurs. *[[1874]] – The first group of [[Dorsland Trek|Dorsland trekkers]] under the leadership of [[Gert Alberts]] leaves [[Pretoria]]. *[[1883]] – [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]] is crowned Tsar of Russia. *[[1896]] – The [[Fujita scale|F4]]-strength [[1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado|St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado]] hits in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], and [[East St. Louis, Illinois]], killing at least 255 people and causing over $10 million in damage. ===1901–present=== *[[1905]] – [[Russo-Japanese War]]: The [[Battle of Tsushima]] begins. *[[1915]] – [[HMS Princess Irene|HMS ''Princess Irene'']] explodes and sinks off [[Sheerness]], [[Kent]], with the loss of 352 lives. *[[1917]] – [[Pope Benedict XV]] promulgates the [[1917 Code of Canon Law|1917 ''Code of Canon Law'']], the first comprehensive [[Codification (law)|codification]] of [[Catholic canon law]] in the [[legal history of the Catholic Church]]. *[[1919]] – The [[NC-4]] aircraft arrives in [[Lisbon]] after completing the first [[transatlantic flight]]. *[[1927]] – The [[Ford Motor Company]] ceases manufacture of the [[Ford Model T]] and begins to retool plants to make the [[Ford Model A (1927–1931)|Ford Model A]]. *[[1930]] – The {{convert|1046|ft|m}} [[Chrysler Building]] in [[New York City]], the [[List of tallest buildings in the world|tallest man-made structure]] at the time, opens to the public. *[[1933]] – [[New Deal]]: The U.S. [[Federal Securities Act]] is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the [[Federal Trade Commission]]. *[[1935]] – New Deal: The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] declares the [[National Industrial Recovery Act]] to be unconstitutional in ''[[A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States]]'', (295 U.S. 495).<ref>{{cite book|last=Schlesinger|first=Arthur M. Jr.|title=The Age of Roosevelt. Vol. 3: The Politics of Upheaval, 1935–1936|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|date=2003|isbn=978-0-547-52425-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wa_qDwAAQBAJ|pages=279–280}}</ref> *[[1937]] – In [[California]], the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between [[San Francisco]] and [[Marin County, California]]. *[[1940]] – [[World War II]]: In the [[Le Paradis massacre]], 99 soldiers from a [[Royal Norfolk Regiment]] unit are shot after surrendering to [[Nazi Germany|German]] troops; two survive. *[[1941]] – World War II: U.S. President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] proclaims an "unlimited national emergency". * 1941 – World War II: The {{warship|German battleship|Bismarck}} is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing almost 2,100 men. *[[1942]] – World War II: In [[Operation Anthropoid]], [[Reinhard Heydrich]] is fatally wounded in [[Prague]]; he dies of his injuries eight days later. *[[1950]] – The [[Linnanmäki]] amusement park is opened for the first time in [[Helsinki]].<ref>[http://greennorth.fi/linnanmaki-amusement-park Linnanmäki Amusement Park – Green North GSA]</ref><ref>[https://finlandabroad.fi/web/grc/current-affairs/-/asset_publisher/h5w4iTUJhNne/content/linnanmaki-60-vuotta/384951 Linnanmäki turns 60 – Greece]</ref> *[[1958]] – First flight of the [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II]]. *[[1960]] – In [[Turkey]], a [[1960 Turkish coup d'état|military coup]] removes President [[Celâl Bayar]] and the rest of the democratic government from office. *[[1962]] – The [[Centralia mine fire]] is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine. *[[1965]] – [[Vietnam War]]: American warships begin the first bombardment of [[National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam|National Liberation Front]] targets within [[South Vietnam]]. *[[1967]] – Australians vote in favor of a [[Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)|constitutional referendum]] granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit [[Indigenous Australians]] and to count them in the national census. * 1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier {{USS|John F. Kennedy|CV-67|6}} is [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] by [[Jacqueline Kennedy]] and her daughter [[Caroline Kennedy|Caroline]]. *[[1971]] – The [[Dahlerau train disaster]], the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near [[Wuppertal]]. * 1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly [[Bengali Hindus]], in the [[Bagbati massacre]]. *[[1975]] – [[1975 Dibbles Bridge coach crash|Dibbles Bridge coach crash]] near [[Grassington]], in [[North Yorkshire]], England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom. *[[1977]] – A [[Aeroflot Flight 331|plane crash]] at [[José Martí International Airport]] in [[Havana]], Cuba, kills 67.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Ilyushin Il-62M CCCP-86614 Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19770527-0 |access-date=2022-05-26 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref> *[[1980]] – The [[Gwangju Massacre]]: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of [[Gwangju]] from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more. *[[1984]] – The [[Danube–Black Sea Canal]] is opened, in a ceremony attended by the [[Nicolae Ceaușescu|Ceaușescu]]s. It had been under construction since the 1950s. *[[1988]] – [[Somaliland War of Independence]]: The [[Somali National Movement]] launches a [[1988 Hargeisa-Burao offensive|major offensive]] against Somali government forces in [[Hargeisa]] and [[Burao]], then the second- and third-largest cities of [[Somalia]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Binet|first=Laurence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LboiAQAAQBAJ|title=Somalia 1991-1993: Civil War, Famine Alert and a UN "Military-Humanitarian" Intervention|date=2013-10-03|publisher=Médecins Sans Frontières|page=214|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":21">{{Cite book|last=Tekle|first=Amare|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xbQTEF0rd7wC&pg=PA152|title=Eritrea and Ethiopia: From Conflict to Cooperation|date=1 January 1994|publisher=The Red Sea Press|isbn=978-0-932415-97-4|page=152}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[First Chechen War]]: Russian President [[Boris Yeltsin]] meets with [[Chechnya]]n rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire. *[[1997]] – The [[1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak]] occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including [[1997 Prairie Dell-Jarrell tornado|the F5 that killed 27]] in [[Jarrell, Texas|Jarrell]]. *[[1998]] – [[Oklahoma City bombing]]: [[Michael Fortier (American)|Michael Fortier]] is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the [[terrorism|terrorist]] plot. *[[1999]] – [[Space Shuttle Discovery|Space Shuttle ''Discovery'']] is launched on [[STS-96]], the first shuttle mission to dock with the [[International Space Station]].<ref name="mission page">{{Cite web |last=Warnock |first=Lynda |title=STS-96 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-96.html |access-date=2020-06-15 |publisher=NASA |language=en}}</ref> *[[2001]] – Members of [[Abu Sayyaf]], an [[Islamism|Islamist]] separatist group, [[Dos Palmas kidnappings|seize twenty hostages]] from an affluent island resort on [[Palawan]] in the [[Philippines]]; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002. *[[2006]] – The 6.4 {{M|w}} [[2006 Yogyakarta earthquake|Yogyakarta earthquake]] shakes central [[Java]] with an [[Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale|MSK]] intensity of VIII (''Damaging''), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured. *[[2016]] – [[Barack Obama]] is the first president of the United States to visit [[Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park]] and meet ''[[Hibakusha]]''. *[[2017]] – [[Andrew Scheer]] takes over after [[Rona Ambrose]] as the leader of the [[Conservative Party of Canada]]. *[[2018]] – [[2018 Maryland flood|Maryland Flood Event]]: A flood occurs throughout the [[Patapsco Valley]], causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in [[Ellicott City]], and causing cars to overturn. ==Births== <!-- Do not add yourself, or anyone else who does not already have a Wikipedia article, to this list. --> ===Pre-1600=== * [[742]] – [[Emperor Dezong of Tang]] (d. 805) *[[1332]] – [[Ibn Khaldun]], Tunisian historian and theologian (d. 1406)<ref>{{cite book|author=Larbi Sadiki|title=The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-discourses|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GhRRAa-Ux0cC&pg=PA150|year=2004|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=978-1-85065-494-0|page=150}}</ref> *[[1378]] – [[Zhu Quan]], Chinese military commander, historian and playwright (d. 1448){{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} *[[1519]] – [[Girolamo Mei]], Italian historian and theorist (d. 1594)<ref>{{cite book|title=The Musical quarterly|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aJxRAQAAIAAJ|year=1954| last1=Sonneck | first1=Oscar George }}</ref> *[[1537]] – [[Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg]] (d. 1604) *[[1576]] – [[Caspar Schoppe]], German author and scholar (d. 1649) *[[1584]] – [[Michael Altenburg]], German theologian and composer (d. 1640) ===1601–1900=== *[[1601]] – [[Antoine Daniel]], French-Canadian missionary and saint (d. 1648) *[[1626]] – [[William II, Prince of Orange]] (d. 1650) *[[1651]] – [[Louis Antoine de Noailles]], French cardinal (d. 1729) *[[1652]] – [[Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine]] of Germany (d. 1722) *[[1738]] – [[Nathaniel Gorham]], American merchant and politician, 14th [[President of the Continental Congress]] (d. 1796) *[[1756]] – [[Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria]] (d. 1825) *[[1774]] – [[Francis Beaufort]], Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (d. 1857) *[[1794]] – [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]], American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1877) *[[1812]] – [[George K. Teulon]], English-Texian journalist and freemason (d. 1846)<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Bannerman|editor-first=W. Bruce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m1xIAAAAYAAJ|title=Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica|volume=II|series=4th series|year=1908|publisher=Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 140 Wardour Street W.|publication-place=London|page=204|via=Google Books}}</ref> *[[1814]] – [[John Rudolph Niernsee]], Viennese-born American architect (d. 1885) *[[1815]] – [[Henry Parkes]], English-Australian politician, 7th [[Premier of New South Wales]] (d. 1896) *[[1818]] – [[Amelia Bloomer]], American journalist and activist (d. 1894) *[[1819]] – [[Julia Ward Howe]], American poet and songwriter (d. 1910) *[[1827]] – [[Samuel F. Miller (U.S. politician)|Samuel F. Miller]], American lawyer and politician (d. 1892) *[[1832]] – [[Zenas Ferry Moody]], American surveyor and politician, 7th [[Governor of Oregon]] (d. 1917) *[[1836]] – [[Jay Gould]], American businessman and financier (d. 1892) *[[1837]] – [[Wild Bill Hickok]], American police officer (d. 1876) *[[1852]] – [[Billy Barnes (cricketer)|Billy Barnes]], English cricketer (d. 1899) *[[1857]] – [[Theodor Curtius]], German chemist (d. 1928) *[[1860]] – [[Manuel Teixeira Gomes]], Portuguese politician, 7th [[President of Portugal]] (d. 1941) * 1860 – [[Margrethe Munthe]], Norwegian songwriter (d. 1931)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Margrethe Munthe |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date= 23 August 2023|editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Margrethe_Munthe |language=no|access-date=24 March 2024}}</ref> *[[1863]] – [[Arthur Mold]], English cricketer (d. 1921) *[[1867]] – [[Arnold Bennett]], English author and playwright (d. 1931) *[[1868]] – [[Aleksa Šantić]], Bosnian poet and author (d. 1924) *[[1871]] – [[Georges Rouault]], French painter and illustrator (d. 1958) *[[1875]] – [[Frederick Cuming (cricketer)|Frederick Cuming]], English cricketer (d. 1942) *[[1876]] – [[Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski]], Polish journalist and author (d. 1945) * 1876 – [[William Stanier]], English engineer (d. 1965) *[[1878]] – [[Anna Cervin]], Swedish artist (d. 1972) *[[1879]] – [[Karl Bühler]], German-American linguist and psychologist (d. 1963) * 1879 – [[Hans Lammers]], German judge and politician (d. 1962) *[[1883]] – [[Jessie Arms Botke]], American painter (d. 1971) *[[1884]] – [[Max Brod]], Czech journalist, author, and composer (d. 1968) *[[1887]] – [[Frank Woolley]], English cricketer (d. 1978) *[[1888]] – [[Louis Durey]], French composer (d. 1979) *[[1891]] – [[Claude Champagne]], Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (d. 1965) * 1891 – [[Jaan Kärner]], Estonian poet and author (d. 1958) *[[1894]] – [[Louis-Ferdinand Céline]], French physician and author (d. 1961) * 1894 – [[Dashiell Hammett]], American detective novelist and screenwriter (d. 1961) *[[1895]] – [[Douglas Lloyd Campbell]], Canadian educator and politician, 13th [[Premier of Manitoba]] (d. 1995) *[[1897]] – [[John Cockcroft]], English physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1967) * 1897 – [[Dink Templeton]], American rugby player and coach (d. 1962) *[[1898]] – [[David Crosthwait]], American engineer, inventor and writer (d. 1976) *[[1899]] – [[Johannes Türn]], Estonian chess and [[draughts]] player (d. 1993) *[[1900]] – [[Lotte Toberentz]], German overseer of the Nazi [[Uckermark concentration camp]] (d. 1964) * 1900 – [[Uładzimir Žyłka]], Belarusian poet and translator (d. 1933) ===1901–present=== *[[1906]] – [[Buddhadasa]], Thai monk and philosopher (d. 1993) * 1906 – [[Harry Hibbs (footballer)|Harry Hibbs]], English footballer (d. 1984) * 1906 – [[Antonio Rosario Mennonna]], Italian bishop (d. 2009) *[[1907]] – [[Nicolas Calas]], Greek-American poet and critic (d. 1988) * 1907 – [[Rachel Carson]], American biologist, environmentalist, and author (d. 1964) *[[1909]] – [[Dolores Hope]], American singer and philanthropist (d. 2011) *1909 – [[Juan Vicente Pérez]], Venezuelan supercentenarian, [[oldest living man]], last man born in 1900s decade (d. 2024)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-04 |title=Oldest man living |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/67479-oldest-person-living-male |access-date=2023-05-19 |website=Guinness World Records |language=en-gb}}</ref> *[[1911]] – [[Hubert Humphrey]], American journalist and politician, 38th [[Vice President of the United States]] (d. 1978) * 1911 – [[Teddy Kollek]], Hungarian-Israeli politician, [[Mayor of Jerusalem]] (d. 2007) * 1911 – [[Vincent Price]], American actor (d. 1993) *[[1912]] – [[John Cheever]], American novelist and short story writer (d. 1982) * 1912 – [[Sam Snead]], American golfer and sportscaster (d. 2002) * 1912 – [[Terry Moore (baseball)|Terry Moore]], American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1995) *[[1915]] – [[Ester Soré]], Chilean singer-songwriter (d. 1996) * 1915 – [[Herman Wouk]], American novelist (d. 2019) *[[1917]] – [[Harry Webster]], English engineer (d. 2007) *[[1918]] – [[Yasuhiro Nakasone]], Japanese commander and politician, 45th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. 2019)<ref>{{cite web |title=Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Japanese PM and Reagan confidant, dies at 101 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/29/yasuhiro-nakasone-japanese-pm-and-reagan-confidant-dies-at-101 |website=The Guardian |access-date=23 January 2020 |date=29 November 2019}}</ref> *[[1921]] – [[Bob Godfrey]], Australian-English animator, director, and voice actor (d. 2013) *[[1922]] – [[Otto Carius]], German lieutenant and pharmacist (d. 2015) * 1922 – [[Christopher Lee]], English actor (d. 2015) * 1922 – [[John D. Vanderhoof]], American banker and politician, 37th [[Governor of Colorado]] (d. 2013) *[[1923]] – [[Henry Kissinger]], German-American political scientist and politician, 56th [[United States Secretary of State]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2023)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pengelly |first=Martin |date=2023-11-30 |title=Henry Kissinger, secretary of state to Richard Nixon, dies at 100 |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/29/henry-kissinger-dies-secretary-of-state-richard-nixon |access-date=2023-11-30 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> * 1923 – [[Sumner Redstone]], American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2020) *[[1924]] – [[Jaime Lusinchi]], Venezuelan physician and politician, [[President of Venezuela]] (d. 2014) * 1924 – [[John Sumner (director)|John Sumner]], English-Australian director, founded the [[Melbourne Theatre Company]] (d. 2013) *[[1925]] – [[Tony Hillerman]], American journalist and author (d. 2008) *[[1927]] – [[Jüri Randviir]], Estonian chess player and journalist (d. 1996) *[[1928]] – [[Thea Musgrave]], Scottish-American composer and educator *[[1930]] – [[John Barth]], American novelist and short story writer (d. 2024) * 1930 – [[William S. Sessions]], American civil servant and judge, 8th [[Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (d. 2020) * 1930 – [[Eino Tamberg]], Estonian composer and educator (d. 2010) *[[1931]] – [[André Barbeau]], French-Canadian neurologist (d. 1986) * 1931 – [[John Chapple (British Army officer)|John Chapple]], English field marshal and politician, [[Governor of Gibraltar]] (d. 2022)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Field Marshal Sir John Chapple obituary |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/field-marshal-sir-john-chapple-obituary-q03zzzspw |date=26 March 2022 |access-date=2022-03-26|work=The Times |issn=0140-0460 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220326200205/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/field-marshal-sir-john-chapple-obituary-q03zzzspw#selection-973.72-973.580 |archive-date=26 March 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1931 – [[Bernard Fresson]], French actor (d. 2002) * 1931 – [[Faten Hamama]], Egyptian actress and producer (d. 2015) * 1931 – [[Philip Kotler]], American author and professor *[[1933]] – [[Edward Samuel Rogers]], Canadian businessman (d. 2008) * 1933 – [[Manfred Sommer]], Spanish author and illustrator (d. 2007) *[[1934]] – [[Ray Daviault]], Canadian-American baseball player (d. 2020) * 1934 – [[Harlan Ellison]], American author and screenwriter (d. 2018) *[[1935]] – [[Daniel Colchico]], American football player and coach (d. 2014) * 1935 – [[Mal Evans]], British road manager of [[The Beatles]] (d. 1976) * 1935 – [[Jerry Kindall]], American baseball player and coach (d. 2017) * 1935 – [[Ramsey Lewis]], American jazz pianist and composer (d. 2022) * 1935 – [[Lee Meriwether]], American model and actress, [[Miss America 1955]] *[[1936]] – [[Benjamin Bathurst (Royal Navy officer)|Benjamin Bathurst]], English admiral * 1936 – [[Louis Gossett Jr.]], American actor and producer (d. 2024) * 1936 – [[Marcel Masse]], Canadian educator and politician, 29th [[Minister of National Defence (Canada)|Canadian Minister of National Defence]] (d. 2014) *[[1937]] – [[Allan Carr]], American playwright and producer (d. 1999) *[[1939]] – [[Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns]], English courtier and businessman * 1939 – [[Yves Duhaime]], Canadian captain and politician * 1939 – [[Sokratis Kokkalis]], Greek businessman * 1939 – [[Gerald Ronson]], English businessman and philanthropist * 1939 – [[Lionel Sosa]], Mexican-American advertising and marketing executive<ref name="expressnews">{{cite news |url=https://www.expressnews.com/150years/leaders/article/San-Antonio-s-Lionel-Sosa-is-a-legend-in-the-6114992.php |title=Sosa a legend in Hispanic marketing: Ad guru says partners didn't realize they were making history |last=Hendricks |first=David |date=March 5, 2015 |newspaper= [[San Antonio Express-News]]|access-date= 7 February 2019}}</ref> * 1939 – [[Don Williams]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017) *[[1940]] – [[Mike Gibson (sports journalist)|Mike Gibson]], Australian journalist and sportscaster (d. 2015) *[[1942]] – [[Lee Baca]], American police officer * 1942 – [[Piers Courage]], English racing driver (d. 1970) * 1942 – [[Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman]], English accountant and politician, [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] * 1942 – [[Robin Widdows]], English racing driver *[[1943]] – [[Cilla Black]], English singer and actress (d. 2015) * 1943 – [[Bruce Weitz]], American actor *[[1944]] – [[Christopher Dodd]], American lawyer and politician * 1944 – [[Karen Fladset]], Norwegian handball player<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Karen Fladset |first1=Rolf |last1=Bryhn |first2=Thomas |last2=Aune |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date=22 August 2023 |editor-last=Bolstad | editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Karen_Fladset |language=no|access-date=18 March 2024}}</ref> * 1944 – [[Ingrid Roscoe]], English historian and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire]] (d. 2020) * 1944 – [[Alain Souchon]], French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor *[[1945]] – [[Bruce Cockburn]], Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist *[[1946]] – [[Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen]], Danish bassist and composer (d. 2005) * 1946 – [[John Williams (motorcyclist)|John Williams]], English motorcycle racer (d. 1978) *[[1947]] – [[Peter DeFazio]], American politician * 1947 – [[Marty Kristian]], German-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor * 1947 – [[Branko Oblak]], Slovenian footballer and coach * 1947 – [[Riivo Sinijärv]], Estonian politician, 19th [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Estonia)|Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs]] *[[1948]] – [[Wubbo de Boer]], Dutch civil servant (d. 2017) * 1948 – [[Pete Sears]], English bass player * 1948 – [[Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart]], American occultist and author (d. 2014) *[[1949]] – [[Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale]], English politician (d. 2021) * 1949 – [[Christa Vahlensieck]], German runner *[[1950]] – [[Dee Dee Bridgewater]], American singer-songwriter and actress * 1950 – [[Makis Dendrinos]], Greek basketball player and coach (d. 2015) *[[1951]] – [[John Conteh]], English boxer *[[1954]] – [[Pauline Hanson]], Australian businesswoman, activist, and politician * 1954 – [[Jackie Slater]], American football player and coach *[[1955]] – [[Eric Bischoff]], American wrestler, manager, and producer * 1955 – [[Richard Schiff]], American actor, director, and producer * 1955 – [[Ian Tracey (organist)|Ian Tracey]], English organist and conductor *[[1956]] – [[Cynthia McFadden]], American journalist * 1956 – [[Rosemary Squire]], English producer and manager, co-founded [[Ambassador Theatre Group]] * 1956 – [[Giuseppe Tornatore]], Italian director and screenwriter *[[1957]] – [[Dag Terje Andersen]], Norwegian politician, [[Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion|Norwegian Minister of Labour]] * 1957 – [[Nitin Gadkari]], Indian lawyer and politician, [[Ministry of Road Transport and Highways|Indian Minister of Transport]] * 1957 – [[Eddie Harsch]], Canadian-American keyboard player and bass player (d. 2016) * 1957 – [[Siouxsie Sioux]], English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer *[[1958]] – [[Nick Anstee]], English accountant and politician, 682nd [[Lord Mayor of London]] * 1958 – [[Neil Finn]], New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician * 1958 – [[Jesse Robredo]], Filipino politician, 23rd [[Secretary of the Interior and Local Government]] (d. 2012) *[[1960]] – [[Gaston Therrien]], Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster *[[1961]] – [[José Luíz Barbosa]], Brazilian runner and coach * 1961 – [[Peri Gilpin]], American actress *[[1962]] – [[Marcelino Bernal]], Mexican footballer * 1962 – [[Ray Borner]], Australian basketball player * 1962 – [[Steven Brill (scriptwriter)|Steven Brill]], American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter * 1962 – [[Anthony A. Hyman]], Israeli-English biologist and academic * 1962 – [[David Mundell]], Scottish lawyer and politician, [[Secretary of State for Scotland]] * 1962 – [[Ravi Shastri]], Indian cricketer, coach and sportscaster *[[1963]] – [[Gonzalo Rubalcaba]], Cuban pianist and composer * 1963 – [[Maria Walliser]], Swiss skier *[[1964]] – [[Adam Carolla]], American actor, producer, and screenwriter *[[1965]] – [[Todd Bridges]], American actor<ref>{{cite web |title=Todd Bridges |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/22212%7C0/Todd-Bridges#overview |publisher=[[Turner Classic Movies]] |access-date=23 May 2023}}</ref> * 1965 – [[Pat Cash]], Australian-English tennis player and sportscaster *[[1966]] – [[Heston Blumenthal]], English chef and author *[[1967]] – [[Paul Gascoigne]], English international footballer, coach, and manager<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul Gascoigne |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=2775 |website=soccerbase.com |access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref> * 1967 – [[Eddie McClintock]], American actor *[[1968]] – [[Jeff Bagwell]], American baseball player and coach * 1968 – [[Rebekah Brooks]], English journalist * 1968 – [[Harun Erdenay]], Turkish basketball player and coach * 1968 – [[Frank Thomas]], American baseball player and sportscaster *[[1969]] – [[Todd Hundley]], American baseball player * 1969 – [[Jeremy Mayfield]], American race car driver * 1969 – [[Craig Federighi]], American computer scientist and engineer *[[1970]] – [[Michele Bartoli]], Italian cyclist * 1970 – [[Tim Farron]], English educator and politician * 1970 – [[Joseph Fiennes]], English actor * 1970 – [[Alex Archer (musician)|Alex Archer]], American-born Australian musician *[[1971]] – [[Mathew Batsiua]], Nauruan politician * 1971 – [[Paul Bettany]], English actor * 1971 – [[Wayne Carey]], Australian footballer and coach * 1971 – [[Kaur Kender]], Estonian author * 1971 – [[Lisa Lopes]], American rapper and dancer (d. 2002) * 1971 – [[Lee Sharpe]], English footballer * 1971 – [[Grant Stafford]], South African tennis player * 1971 – [[Sophie Walker]], British politician, leader of the [[Women's Equality Party]] * 1971 – [[Petroc Trelawny]], British radio and television broadcaster *[[1972]] – [[Todd Demsey]], American golfer * 1972 – [[Antonio Freeman]], American football player * 1972 – [[Maxim Sokolov]], Russian ice hockey player *[[1973]] – [[Jack McBrayer]], American actor and comedian * 1973 – [[Tana Umaga]], New Zealand rugby player and coach * 1973 – [[Yorgos Lanthimos]], Greek film video, and theatre director, producer and screenwriter *[[1974]] – [[Skye Edwards]], British singer-songwriter * 1974 – [[Denise van Outen]], English actress, singer, and television host * 1974 – [[Derek Webb]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1974 – [[Danny Wuerffel]], American football player *[[1975]] – [[André 3000]], American rapper * 1975 – [[Michael Hussey]], Australian cricketer * 1975 – [[Jadakiss]], American rapper<ref>{{cite web |last1=J. |first1=Miranda |title=Happy Birthday, Jadakiss! |url=https://www.xxlmag.com/happy-birthday-jadakiss/ |publisher=[[XXL (magazine)|XXL]] |access-date=23 May 2023 |date=27 May 2015}}</ref> * 1975 – [[Jamie Oliver]], English chef and author * 1975 – [[Feryal Özel]], Turkish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic *[[1976]] – [[Marcel Fässler (racing driver)|Marcel Fässler]], Swiss racing driver *[[1977]] – [[Abderrahmane Hammad]], Algerian high jumper * 1977 – [[Mahela Jayawardene]], Sri Lankan cricketer *[[1978]] – [[Adin Brown]], American soccer player *[[1979]] – [[Michael Buonauro]], American author and illustrator (d. 2004) * 1979 – [[Mile Sterjovski]], Australian footballer *[[1980]] – [[Craig Buntin]], Canadian figure skater *[[1981]] – [[Alina Cojocaru]], Romanian ballerina * 1981 – [[Johan Elmander]], Swedish footballer *[[1982]] – [[Natalie Neidhart|Natalya]], Canadian professional wrestler<ref name="OWOW">{{cite web|url=http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/profiles/n/natalya-neidhart.html|title=Natalya Neidhart|access-date=April 26, 2008|publisher=Online World of Wrestling|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301202822/http://www.onlineworldofwrestling.com/bios/n/natalya-neidhart/|archive-date=March 1, 2019}}</ref> *[[1984]] – [[Blake Ahearn]], American basketball player * 1984 – [[Miguel González (pitcher)|Miguel González]], Mexican baseball pitcher *[[1985]] – [[Chiang Chien-ming]], Taiwanese baseball player * 1985 – [[Roberto Soldado]], Spanish footballer *[[1986]] – [[Conor Cummins]], Manx motorcycle racer * 1986 – [[Bamba Fall]], Senegalese basketball player * 1986 – [[Lasse Schöne]], Danish footballer *[[1987]] – [[Gervinho]], Ivorian footballer * 1987 – [[Bella Heathcote]], Australian actress * 1987 – [[Bora Paçun]], Turkish basketball player * 1987 – [[Matt Prior (rugby league)|Matt Prior]], Australian rugby league player * 1987 – [[Martina Sáblíková]], Czech speed skater and cyclist *[[1988]] – [[Vontae Davis]], American football player (d. 2024) * 1988 – [[Irina Davydova]], Russian hurdler<ref>{{cite web |title=Irina KOLESNICHENKO {{!}} Profile |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/russia/irina-davydova-227237 |website=worldathletics.org |access-date=23 January 2020}}</ref> * 1988 – [[Garrett Richards]], American baseball pitcher * 1988 – [[Tyler Sash]], American football player (d. 2015) *[[1989]] – [[Igor Morozov (footballer)|Igor Morozov]], Estonian footballer * 1989 – [[Peakboy]], South Korean rapper, record producer, and singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite web|last=Seong|first=Ji-su|script-title=ko:[영상] [톱스타 리턴즈] #반말인터뷰/같이 작업하고 싶은 천재만재 가수 픽보이 (Peakboy)|url=http://www.topstarnews.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=864928|website=Top Star News|access-date=November 5, 2021|language=ko|date=March 11, 2021}}</ref> *[[1990]] – [[Yenew Alamirew]], Ethiopian runner * 1990 – [[Chris Colfer]], American actor and singer * 1990 – [[Marcus Kruger]], Swedish ice hockey player *[[1991]] – [[Sebastien Dewaest]], Belgian footballer * 1991 – [[Tim Lafai]], Samoan rugby league player * 1991 – [[Ksenia Pervak]], Russian tennis player * 1991 – [[Eneli Vals]], Estonian footballer *[[1992]] – [[Aaron Brown (sprinter)|Aaron Brown]], Canadian sprinter * 1992 – [[Laurence Vincent-Lapointe]], Canadian canoer<ref>{{cite web|title=Laurence Vincent-Lapointe|date=4 August 2016|url=https://www.canoeicf.com/athlete/laurence-vincent-lapointe|publisher=International Canoe Federation|access-date=23 April 2020}}</ref> *[[1995]] – [[Yoán Moncada]], Cuban baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Yoán Moncada |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/yoan-moncada-660162 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=23 May 2023}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Kim Jae-hwan (singer)|Kim Jae-hwan]], South Korean singer<ref>{{cite web|title=김재환, 5월의 가수 선정…풍부한 성량+장르 무관 소화력[TEN차트]|url=https://tenasia.hankyung.com/article/2024052527634|work=TenAsia|date=27 May 2024|access-date=26 February 2025|language=ko}}</ref> *[[1997]] – [[Anna Bondar]], Hungarian tennis player<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/322942/anna-bondar|title=WTAtennis.com Profile: Anna Bondar|publisher=[[Women's Tennis Association]]|access-date=17 October 2022}}</ref> * 1997 – [[Daniel Jones (American football)|Daniel Jones]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Daniel Jones |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/3917792/daniel-jones |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=23 May 2023}}</ref> *[[1999]] – [[Lily-Rose Depp]], French-American actress and model<ref>{{cite web |last1=Juneau |first1=Jen |title=Lily-Rose Depp Marks 23rd Birthday as Dad Johnny Depp Nears End of Legal Battle with Amber Heard |url=https://people.com/movies/lily-rose-depp-23rd-birthday-dad-johnny-depp-nears-end-of-legal-battle/ |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |access-date=23 May 2023 |date=30 May 2022}}</ref> <!--Please do not add yourself, non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. --> ==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== * [[366]] – [[Procopius (usurper)|Procopius]], Roman usurper (b. 325) * [[398]] – [[Murong Bao]], emperor of the [[Xianbei]] state [[Later Yan]] (b. 355) * [[475]] – [[Eutropius of Orange|Eutropius]], [[Ancient Diocese of Orange|bishop of Orange]] * [[866]] – [[Ordoño I of Asturias]] (b. 831) * [[927]] – [[Simeon I of Bulgaria]] first Bulgarian Emperor (b. 864) *[[1039]] – [[Dirk III, Count of Holland]] (b. 981) *[[1045]] – [[Bruno of Würzburg]], imperial chancellor of Italy (b. c. 1005) *[[1178]] – [[Godfrey van Rhenen]], bishop of Utrecht *[[1240]] – [[William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey]] (b. 1166) *[[1444]] – [[John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset]], English commander (b. 1404) *[[1508]] – [[Ludovico Sforza]], Duke of Milan (b. 1452) *[[1525]] – [[Thomas Müntzer]], German mystic and theologian (b. 1488) *[[1541]] – [[Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury]] (b. 1473) *[[1564]] – [[John Calvin]], French pastor and theologian (b. 1509) ===1601–1900=== *[[1610]] – [[François Ravaillac]], French assassin of [[Henry IV of France]] (b. 1578) *[[1624]] – [[Diego Ramírez de Arellano]], Spanish sailor and cosmographer (b. c. 1580) *[[1637]] – [[John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield]], English politician (b. c. 1566) *[[1661]] – [[Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll]], Scottish general and politician (b. 1607) *[[1675]] – [[Gaspard Dughet]], Italian-French painter (b. 1613) *[[1690]] – [[Giovanni Legrenzi]], Italian organist and composer (b. 1626) *[[1702]] – [[Dominique Bouhours]], French priest and critic (b. 1628) *[[1707]] – [[Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan]], French mistress of [[Louis XIV]] of France (b. 1640) *[[1781]] – [[Giovanni Battista Beccaria]], Italian physicist and academic (b. 1716) *[[1797]] – [[François-Noël Babeuf]], French journalist (b. 1760) *[[1831]] – [[Jedediah Smith]], American hunter, explorer, and author (b. 1799) *[[1840]] – [[Niccolò Paganini]], Italian violinist and composer (b. 1782) *[[1867]] – [[Thomas Bulfinch]] American mythologist (b. 1796) *[[1896]] – [[Aleksandr Stoletov]], Russian physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1839) ===1901–present=== *[[1910]] – [[Robert Koch]], German physician and microbiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1843) *[[1918]] – [[Ōzutsu Man'emon]], Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] (b. 1869) *[[1919]] – [[Kandukuri Veeresalingam]], Indian author and activist (b. 1848) *[[1933]] – [[Achille Paroche]], French target shooter (b. 1868) *[[1939]] – [[Joseph Roth]], Austrian-French journalist and author (b. 1894) *[[1941]] – [[Ernst Lindemann]], German captain (b. 1894) * 1941 – [[Günther Lütjens]], German admiral (b. 1889) *[[1942]] – [[Muhammed Hamdi Yazır]], Turkish theologian, logician, and translator (b. 1878) *[[1943]] – [[Gordon Coates]], New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st [[Prime Minister of New Zealand]] (b. 1878) *[[1945]] – [[Enno Lolling]], German physician (b. 1888) *[[1947]] – [[Ed Konetchy]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1885) *[[1949]] – [[Robert Ripley]], American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded ''[[Ripley's Believe It or Not!]]'' (b. 1890) *[[1953]] – [[Jesse Burkett]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1868) *[[1960]] – [[James Montgomery Flagg]], American painter and illustrator (b. 1877) *[[1963]] – [[Grigoris Lambrakis]], Greek physician and politician (b. 1912) *[[1964]] – [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], Indian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of India]] (b. 1889) *[[1965]] – [[John Rinehart Blue]], American military officer, educator, businessperson, and politician (b. 1905)<ref name="Cumberland Evening Times 6">{{cite news| title =John R. Blue| newspaper =[[Cumberland Times-News|Cumberland Evening Times]]| location =[[Cumberland, Maryland]]| date =May 28, 1965| page =20| url =https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66807954/john-r-blue/| access-date =January 3, 2021| url-status =live| via =Newspapers.com| archive-date =January 3, 2021| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20210103224402/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/66807954/john-r-blue/}}</ref> *[[1967]] – [[W. Otto Miessner]], American composer and educator (b. 1880) * 1967 – [[Ernst Niekisch]], German academic and politician (b. 1889) *[[1969]] – [[Jeffrey Hunter]], American actor and producer (b. 1926) *[[1971]] – [[Béla Juhos]], Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1901) * 1971 – [[Armando Picchi]], Italian footballer and coach (b. 1935) *[[1980]] – [[Gün Sazak]], Turkish agronomist and politician (b. 1932) *[[1984]] – [[Vasilije Mokranjac]], Serbian composer (b. 1923) *[[1986]] – [[Murder of the Faruqis]]:<ref name="NST">{{cite news |title=Assassination motive behind al-Faruqi killings |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1309&dat=19860820&id=MNRHAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vo4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5815,1095948 |work=New Straits Times |date=August 20, 1986 |location=Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |access-date=June 22, 2024}}</ref><ref name="NYT1986">{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=AROUND THE NATION; Islamic Scholar and Wife Slain in Pennsylvania |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/28/us/around-the-nation-islamic-scholar-and-wife-slain-in-pennsylvania.html |work=The New York Times |date=May 28, 1986 |access-date=July 10, 2024 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20070123000000/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/28/us/around-the-nation-islamic-scholar-and-wife-slain-in-pennsylvania.html |archive-date=January 23, 2007}}</ref> ** [[Ismail al-Faruqi]], Palestinian-American Muslim philosopher and scholar (b. 1921) ** [[Lois Lamya al-Faruqi]], American scholar of ethnomusicology, wife of Ismail al-Faruqi (b. 1926) * 1986 – [[Ajoy Mukherjee]], Indian politician, [[Chief Minister of West Bengal]] (b. 1901) * 1986 – [[Giorgos Tzifos]], Greek actor and cinematographer (b. 1918) *[[1987]] – [[John Howard Northrop]], American biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1891) *[[1988]] – [[Hjördis Petterson]], Swedish actress (b. 1908) * 1988 – [[Ernst Ruska]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1906) *[[1989]] – [[Arseny Tarkovsky]], Russian poet and translator (b. 1907) *[[1990]] – [[Robert B. Meyner]], American lawyer and politician, 44th [[Governor of New Jersey]] (b. 1908) *[[1991]] – [[Leopold Nowak]], Austrian musicologist and theorist (b. 1904) *[[1992]] – [[Uncle Charlie Osborne]], American fiddler (b. 1890) *[[1998]] – [[Minoo Masani]], Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1905) *[[2000]] – [[Kazimierz Leski]], Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912) * 2000 – [[Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch]], Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th [[Governor of Hong Kong]] (b. 1917) * 2000 – [[Maurice Richard]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1921) *[[2002]] – [[Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson]], Scottish historian (b. 1909)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ewan |first1=Elizabeth L. |last2=Innes |first2=Sue |last3=Reynolds |first3=Sian |last4=Pipes |first4=Rose |title=Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen |date=27 June 2007 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-2660-1 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2003]] – [[Luciano Berio]], Italian composer and educator (b. 1925) *[[2006]] – [[Rob Borsellino]], American journalist (b. 1949) * 2006 – [[Paul Gleason]], American actor (b. 1939) * 2006 – [[Craig Heyward]], American football player (b. 1966) *[[2007]] – [[Izumi Sakai]], Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1967) * 2007 – [[Gretchen Wyler]], American actress and dancer (b. 1932) * 2007 – [[Ed Yost]], American inventor, created the modern [[hot air balloon]] (b. 1919) *[[2008]] – [[Franz Künstler]], Hungarian soldier (b. 1900) *[[2009]] – [[Thomas M. Franck]], American lawyer and academic (b. 1931) * 2009 – [[Clive Granger]], Welsh-American economist and academic, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1934) * 2009 – [[Mona Grey]], British nursing administrator; Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (b. 1910) * 2009 – [[Abram Hoffer]], Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (b. 1917) * 2009 – [[Gérard Jean-Juste]], Haitian-American priest and theologian (b. 1946) * 2009 – [[Carol Anne O'Marie]], American nun and author (b. 1933) * 2009 – [[William Refshauge]], Australian soldier and physician (b. 1913) * 2009 – [[Paul Sharratt]], English-American television host (b. 1933) *[[2010]] – [[Payut Ngaokrachang]], Thai animator and director (b. 1929) *[[2011]] – [[Jeff Conaway]], American actor and singer (b. 1950) * 2011 – [[Margo Dydek]], Polish-American basketball player (b. 1974) * 2011 – [[Gil Scott-Heron]], American singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1949) *[[2012]] – [[Simeon Daniel]], Nevisian educator and politician, 1st [[Premier of Nevis]] (b. 1934) * 2012 – [[Friedrich Hirzebruch]], German mathematician and academic (b. 1927) * 2012 – [[Anahit Perikhanian]], Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = PERIKHANIAN, ANAHIT | last = Ambartsumian | first = Arthur | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/perikhanian-anahit | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Iranica | year = 2014 }}</ref> * 2012 – [[David Rimoin]], Canadian-American geneticist and academic (b. 1936) *[[2013]] – [[Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri]], Indian politician (b. 1917) * 2013 – [[Bill Pertwee]], English actor (b. 1926) * 2013 – [[Abdoulaye Sékou Sow]], Malian politician, [[List of heads of government of Mali|Prime Minister of Mali]] (b. 1931) *[[2014]] – [[Robert Genn]], Canadian painter and author (b. 1936) * 2014 – [[Helma Sanders-Brahms]], German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940) * 2014 – [[Roberto Vargas]], Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929) * 2014 – [[Massimo Vignelli]], Italian-American graphic designer (b. 1931) *[[2015]] – [[Erik Carlsson]], Swedish rally driver (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11651975/Erik-Carlsson-rally-driver-obituary.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11651975/Erik-Carlsson-rally-driver-obituary.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Erik Carlsson, rally driver – obituary|date=4 June 2015|website=The Telegraph|access-date=14 June 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Nils Christie]], Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (b. 1928) * 2015 – [[Andy King (footballer, born 1956)|Andy King]], English footballer and manager (b. 1956)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hunter |first=Andy |date=2015-05-27 |title=Everton hero Andy King dies at the age of 58 |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/may/27/andy-king-everton-dies-mk-dons-west-bromwich |access-date=2023-08-01 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Michael Martin (philosopher)|Michael Martin]], American philosopher and academic (b. 1932) *[[2017]] – [[Gregg Allman]], American musician, singer and songwriter (b. 1947)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2017/music/people-news/gregg-allman-dies-dead-69-southern-rock-1202446640|title=Gregg Allman, Southern Rock Pioneer, Dies at 69|last=Morris|first=Chris|date=May 27, 2017|work=Variety|access-date=May 27, 2017}}</ref> *[[2018]] – [[Gardner Dozois]], American science fiction author and editor (b. 1947)<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/gardner-dozois-70-acclaimed-science-fiction-editor-20180529.html|title=Gardner Dozois, 70, acclaimed science fiction editor|last=Graham|first=Kristen A.|date=29 May 2018|work=The Philadelphia Inquirer|access-date=29 May 2018}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Larry Kramer]], American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (b. 1935)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/larry-kramer-dead.html |title=Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84 |first=Daniel |last=Lewis |work=The New York Times |date=May 27, 2020 |access-date=May 27, 2020 }}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Poul Schlüter]], former Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1929)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2021-05-28-poul-schluter-er-doed|title=Poul Schlüter er død – TV 2|date=28 May 2021}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Elizabeth MacRae]], American actress (b. 1936)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-30 |title=Elizabeth MacRae, 'General Hospital' and 'Gomer Pyle' actor, dies at 88 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-05-29/elizabeth-macrae-actor-general-hospital-gomer-pyle-dies-88 |access-date=2024-06-01 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> *2024 – [[Bill Walton]], American basketball player and sportscaster (b. 1952)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Sandomir |first=Richard |date=2024-05-27 |title=Bill Walton, N.B.A. Hall of Famer and Broadcasting Star, Dies at 71 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/sports/basketball/bill-walton-dead.html |access-date=2024-05-28 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> * <!--Please do not add non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. 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Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. --> ==Holidays and observances== * [[Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)]] * [[Children's Day (Nigeria)]] * Christian [[feast day]]: ** [[Augustine of Canterbury]] ** [[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Lojze Grozde]] ** [[Bruno (Bishop of Würzburg)|Bruno of Würzburg]] ** [[Eutropius of Orange]] ** [[Hildebert]] ** [[Julius the Veteran]] ** [[May 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]] * [[Mother's Day (Bolivia)]] * [[Navy Day (Japan)]] * [[Politics of Guadeloupe|Slavery Abolition Day]] ([[Guadeloupe]], [[Saint Barthélemy]], [[Collectivity of Saint Martin|Saint Martin]]) * Start of [[National Reconciliation Week]] (Australia) ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{commons}} * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/27 BBC: On This Day] * {{NYT On this day|month=5|day=27}} * [https://www.onthisday.com/events/may/27 Historical Events on May 27] {{months}} [[Category:Days of May]]
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