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Events

Pre-1600

28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edward I of England pending the selection of a king.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1294 – Temür, Khagan of the Mongols, is enthroned as Emperor of the Yuan dynasty.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1534 – Jacques Cartier visits Newfoundland.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1601–1900

1688 – King Narai nominates Phetracha as regent, leading to the revolution of 1688 in which Phetracha becomes king of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.<ref>Template:Cite book; Template:Cite book</ref>
1713 – Great Northern War: The Russian Navy led by Admiral Fyodor Apraksin land both at Katajanokka and Hietalahti during the Battle of Helsinki.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1768 – Rioting occurs in London after John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article for The North Briton severely criticizing King George III.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by reducing taxes on its tea and granting it the right to sell tea directly to North America. The legislation leads to the Boston Tea Party.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1775 – American Revolutionary War: A small Colonial militia led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold captures Fort Ticonderoga.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Second Continental Congress takes place in Philadelphia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1796 – War of the First Coalition: Napoleon wins a victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the Adda River in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1824 – The National Gallery in London opens to the public.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1833 – A revolt broke out in southern Vietnam against Emperor Minh Mang, who had desecrated the deceased mandarin Le Van Duyet.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1837 – Panic of 1837: New York City banks suspend the payment of specie, triggering a national banking crisis and an economic depression whose severity was not surpassed until the Great Depression.<ref>Template:Cite book; Template:Cite book</ref>
1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 22 and injuring over 120.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1857 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: In India, the first war of Independence begins. Sepoys mutiny against their commanding officers at Meerut.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1865 – American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1869 – The First transcontinental railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory with the golden spike.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
1876 – The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1881 – Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1899 – Finnish farmworker Karl Emil Malmelin kills seven people with an axe at the Simola croft in the village of Klaukkala.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1901–present

1904 – The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1908 – Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1916 – Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1922 – The United States annexes the Kingman Reef.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1940 – World War II: German fighters accidentally bomb the German city of Freiburg.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain. On the same day, Germany invades France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Meanwhile, the United Kingdom occupies Iceland.<ref>Template:Cite book Template:Dead link</ref>
1941 – World War II: The House of Commons in London is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1941 – World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1942 – World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1961 – Air France Flight 406 is destroyed by a bomb over the Sahara, killing 78.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1967 – The Northrop M2-F2 crashes on landing, becoming the inspiration for the novel Cyborg and TV series The Six Million Dollar Man.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1969 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dong Ap Bia begins with an assault on Hill 937. It will ultimately become known as Hamburger Hill.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1993 – In Thailand, a fire at the Kader Toy Factory kills over 200 workers.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 – A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1997 – The 7.3 M_w Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2005 – A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about Template:Convert from U.S. President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but it malfunctions and does not detonate.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
2012 – The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2017 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) capture the last footholds of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Al-Tabqah, bringing the Battle of Tabqa to an end.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2022 – Queen Elizabeth II misses the State Opening of Parliament for the first time in 59 years. It was the first time that a new session of Parliament was opened by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cambridge acting as Counsellors of State.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2024 – Start of the May 2024 Solar Storms, the most powerful set of Geomagnetic storms since the 2003 Halloween solar storms.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Births

Pre-1600

874 – Meng Zhixiang, Chinese general and emperor (d. 934)<ref>Spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms (十國春秋), vol. 48.</ref><ref name=AS>Academia Sinica Chinese-Western Calendar Converter Template:Webarchive.</ref>
955 – Al-Aziz Billah, Fatimid caliph (d. 996)<ref>Template:EI2</ref>
1491 – Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon (d. 1521)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1601–1900

1604 – Jean Mairet, French author and playwright (d. 1686)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1697 – Jean-Marie Leclair, French violinist and composer (d. 1764)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1727 – Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, French economist and politician (d. 1781)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1755 – Robert Gray, American captain and explorer (d. 1806)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1760 – Johann Peter Hebel, German author and poet (d. 1826)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1760 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French captain, engineer, and composer (d. 1836)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1770 – Louis-Nicolas Davout, French general and politician, French Minister of War (d. 1823)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1788 – Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist and engineer (d. 1827)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1793 – R. E. B. Baylor, American politician and jurist (d. 1873)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1812 – William Henry Barlow, English engineer (d. 1902)<ref>Template:Cite ODNB</ref>
1813 – Montgomery Blair, American lieutenant and politician, 20th United States Postmaster General (d. 1883)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1838 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1865)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1841 – James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher and broadcaster (d. 1918)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1843 – Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1920)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1847 – Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician and academic (d. 1923)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1855 – Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and educator (d. 1936)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1872 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (d. 1950)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1876 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian poet and playwright (d. 1918)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1878 – Konstantinos Parthenis, Greek painter (d. 1967)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1878 – Gustav Stresemann, German journalist and politician, Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1879 – Symon Petliura, Ukrainian journalist and politician (d. 1926)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1886 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1968)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1888 – Max Steiner, Austrian-American composer and conductor (d. 1971)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1890 – Alfred Jodl, German general (d. 1946)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1891 – Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and academic (d. 1934)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1893 – Tonita Peña, San Ildefonso Pueblo (Native American) artist (d. 1949)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1894 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Ukrainian-American composer and conductor (d. 1979)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1895 – Joe Murphy, (Irish-American), died during the 1920 Cork hunger strike (d. 1920)<ref>Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915. FamilySearch. Retrieved 26 October 2020</ref>
1897 – Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian politician, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1987)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1898 – Ariel Durant, American historian and author (d. 1981)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1899 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1987)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1900 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (d. 1979)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1901–present

1901 – John Desmond Bernal, Irish-English crystallographer and physicist (d. 1971)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1902 – David O. Selznick, American producer and screenwriter (d. 1965)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1903 – Otto Bradfisch, German economist, jurist, and SS officer (d. 1994)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1905 – Alex Schomburg, Puerto Rican artist and illustrator (d. 1998)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1908 – Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2000)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1909 – Maybelle Carter, American autoharp player (d. 1978)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1915 – Denis Thatcher, English businessman, Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2003)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1919 – Ella T. Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1981)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1920 – Bert Weedon, English guitarist (d. 2012)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1922 – David Azrieli, Polish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 2014)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1922 – Nancy Walker, American actress, singer, and director (d. 1992)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1923 – Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijan general and politician, President of Azerbaijan (d. 2003)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1926 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, President of Bolivia (d. 2002)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1928 – Arnold Rüütel, Estonian agronomist and politician, President of Estonia (d. 2024)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1928 – Lothar Schmid, German chess player (d. 2013)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1929 – George Coe, American actor and producer (d. 2015)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1930 – George E. Smith, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1931 – Ettore Scola, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2016)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1933 – Barbara Taylor Bradford, British novelist (d. 2024)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1935 – Larry Williams, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 1980)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1938 – Manuel Santana, Spanish tennis player (d. 2021)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1940 – Arthur Alexander, American country-soul singer-songwriter (d. 1993)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1942 – Jim Calhoun, American basketball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1943 – Raquel Blandón, Guatemalan lawyer and activist, First Lady of Guatemala (d. 2024)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1943 – Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2024)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1944 – Marie-France Pisier, French actress, director, and screenwriter (d. 2011)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1946 – Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1946 – Graham Gouldman, English guitarist and songwriter<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1946 – Dave Mason, English singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1949 – Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1954 – Mike Hagerty, American actor (d. 2022)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1955 – Chris Berman, American sportscaster<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1955 – Mark David Chapman, American murderer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1956 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (d. 1995)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1957 – Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player (d. 1979)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1958 – Rick Santorum, American lawyer and politician, United States Senator from Pennsylvania<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1959 – Victoria Rowell, American actress<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1959 – Cindy Hyde-Smith, American politician, United States Senator from Mississippi<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1960 – Bono, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and activist<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1960 – Dean Heller, American lawyer and politician, United States Senator from Nevada<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1960 – Kerry Hemsley, Australian rugby league player<ref>RLP</ref>
1960 – Merlene Ottey, Jamaican-Slovenian runner<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1962 – Robby Thompson, American baseball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1963 – Lisa Nowak, American commander and astronaut<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
1965 – Linda Evangelista, Canadian model<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1965 – Greg Fasala, Australian swimmer<ref>Template:Sports-Reference</ref>
1965 – Paul Langmack, Australian rugby league player and coach<ref name="Paul Langmack Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org">Template:Cite web</ref>
1966 – Jonathan Edwards, English triple jumper<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1967 – Eion Crossan, New Zealand rugby player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1968 – Al Murray, English comedian and television host<ref>Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999. Page 136.</ref>
1968 – William Regal, English wrestler<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1969 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer and manager<ref name="Radnedge2001">Template:Cite book</ref>
1969 – John Scalzi, American author and blogger<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1970 – David Weir, Scottish footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1974 – Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1975 – Hazem Emam, Egyptian footballer and politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1975 – Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian race car driver<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1977 – Adrian Morley, English rugby league player<ref name="Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org">Template:Cite web</ref>
1978 – Kenan Thompson, American actor and comedian<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1981 – Humberto Suazo, Chilean footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1982 – Adebayo Akinfenwa, English footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1984 – Edward Mujica, Venezuelan baseball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1985 – Ryan Getzlaf, Canadian ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1985 – Farah Jacquet, Belgian politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1985 – Jon Schofield, English canoe racer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1988 – Adam Lallana, English footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1990 – Salvador Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1990 – Ivana Španović, Serbian long jumper<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1993 – Jake Zyrus, Filipino singer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 – Andrew Anderson, American bowler<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 – Missy Franklin, American swimmer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1995 – Gabriella Papadakis, French ice dancer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 – Nicolas Aubé-Kubel, Canadian ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 – Tyus Jones, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 – Kateřina Siniaková, Czech tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 – Alex Tuch, American ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1997 – Brittany Broski, American comedian and singer<ref>Template:Cite episode</ref>
1997 – Richarlison, Brazilian footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 – Bae Jin-young, South Korean singer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Deaths

Pre-1600

1299 – Theingapati, heir to the Pagan Kingdom<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1403 – Katherine Swynford, widow of John of Gaunt<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1482 – Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1397)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1493 – Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1433)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1521 – Sebastian Brant, German author (b. 1457)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1566 – Leonhart Fuchs, German physician and botanist (b. 1501)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1569 – John of Ávila, Spanish mystic and saint (b. 1500)<ref name=Avila>Template:Cite web</ref>

1601–1900

1641 – Johan Banér, Swedish field marshal (b. 1596)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1717 – John Hathorne, American merchant and politician (b. 1641)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1726 – Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (b. 1670)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1774 – Louis XV of France (b. 1710)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1787 – William Watson, English physician, physicist, and botanist (b. 1715)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1794 – Élisabeth of France, French princess and youngest sibling of Louis XVI (b. 1764)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1798 – George Vancouver, English navigator and explorer (b. 1757)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1807 – Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, French general (b. 1725)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1818 – Paul Revere, American engraver and soldier (b. 1735)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1829 – Thomas Young, English physician and linguist (b. 1773)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1849 – Hokusai, Japanese painter and illustrator (b. 1760)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1863 – Stonewall Jackson, American general (b. 1824)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1865 – William Armstrong, American lawyer, civil servant, politician, and businessperson (b. 1782)<ref name="Munske 2004 46">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Congress 1">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Leps 1865 1">Template:Cite book</ref>
1868 – Henry Bennett, American lawyer and politician (b. 1808)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1889 – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1826)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1891 – Carl Nägeli, Swiss botanist and mycologist (b. 1817)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1897 – Andrés Bonifacio, Filipino soldier and politician, President of the Philippines (b. 1863)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

1901–present

1910 – Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1826)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1945 – Richard Glücks, German SS officer (b. 1889)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1945 – Konrad Henlein, Czech soldier and politician (b. 1898)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1950 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (b. 1883)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1960 – Yury Olesha, Russian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1899)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1964 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter, illustrator, and set designer (b. 1881)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1965 – Hubertus van Mook, Dutch politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (b. 1894)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1968 – Scotty Beckett, American actor and singer (b. 1929)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1974 – Hal Mohr, American director and cinematographer (b. 1894)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1977 – Joan Crawford, American actress (year of birth disputed)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1982 – Peter Weiss, German playwright and painter (b. 1916)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1988 – Shen Congwen, Chinese author and academic (b. 1902)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1989 – Dominik Tatarka, Slovak writer (b. 1913)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1990 – Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (b. 1916)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1994 – John Wayne Gacy, American serial killer (b. 1942)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1999 – Shel Silverstein, American poet, author, and illustrator (b. 1930)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
2000 – Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1923)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
2000 – Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
2001 – Sudhakarrao Naik, Indian politician, Governor of Himachal Pradesh (b. 1934)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2002 – Kaifi Azmi, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2002 – Yves Robert, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1920)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2003 – Milan Vukcevich, Serbian-American chemist and chess player (b. 1937)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
2006 – Soraya, Colombian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1969)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2008 – Leyla Gencer, Turkish soprano (b. 1928)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2010 – Frank Frazetta, American illustrator and painter (b. 1928)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2012 – Horst Faas, German photographer and journalist (b. 1933)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2012 – Carroll Shelby, American race car driver and designer (b. 1923)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2012 – Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian captain and author (b. 1918)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2015 – Chris Burden, American sculptor, illustrator, and academic (b. 1946)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2018 – David Goodall, Australian botanist and ecologist (b. 1914)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2019 – Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spanish politician and chemist (b. 1951)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2020 – Betty Wright, American soul singer (b. 1953)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2021 – Pauline Tinsley, British soprano (b. 1928)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2022 – Bob Lanier, American professional basketball player (b. 1948)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2022 – Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician (b. 1934)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024 – Sam Rubin, American journalist (b. 1960)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024 – Jim Simons, American hedge fund manager, mathematician, and philanthropist (b. 1938)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Holidays and observances

Children's Day (Maldives)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Christian feast day:
- Alphius, Philadelphus and Cyrinus<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Calepodius<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Catald<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Comgall<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Damien of Molokai<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Gordianus and Epimachus<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Job (Roman Catholic Church, pre-1969 calendar)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- John of Ávila<ref name=Avila />
- May 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Confederate Memorial Day (North Carolina and South Carolina)<ref name=Trawicky>Template:Cite book</ref>
Constitution Day (Micronesia)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Earliest possible day on which Pentecost can fall, while June 13 is the latest;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> celebrated 50 days after Easter Day. (Christianity)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Golden Spike Day (Promontory, Utah)<ref name=Trawicky />
Mother's Day (Guatemala,<ref name=Trawicky /> and Mexico<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>)

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