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May 13 is the 133rd day of the year (134th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 232 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love.
• 1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.
• 1568 – Battle of Langside: the forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother.
• 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason.
• 1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.
• 1779 – War of Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel).
• 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.
• 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
• 1804 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city.
• 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia.
• 1846 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
• 1848 – First performance of Finland's national anthem.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.
• 1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.
• 1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri.
• 1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca – the battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch – in far south Texas, more than a month after Confederate General Robert E. Lee's surrender, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
• 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
• 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Brazil abolishes slavery.
• 1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
• 1912 – The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
• 1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
• 1923 – Robert Bellarmine, a Doctor of the Catholic Church, is beatified.
• 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
• 1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
• 1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
• 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
• 1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces.
• 1948 – 1948 Arab-Israeli War: the Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14.
• 1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
• 1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru.
• 1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
• 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese Middle School students in Singapore, take place.
• 1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
• 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.
• 1958 – The trademark Velcro is registered.
• 1958 – May 1958 crisis: a group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
• 1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
• 1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
• 1963 – The U.S. Supreme Court case Brady v. Maryland is decided.
• 1967 – Dr. Zakir Hussain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969.
• 1969 – Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 1972 – Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.
• 1972 – The Troubles: a car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured.
• 1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area.
• 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
• 1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
• 1989 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
• 1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China.
• 1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.
• 1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, became the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas.
• 1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people.
• 1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
• 1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India.
• 2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
• 2005 – The Andijan Massacre occurs in Uzbekistan.
• 2005 – The Bính Bridge opens to traffic in Hai Phong, Vietnam.
• 2006 – 2006 São Paulo violence: a major rebellion occurs in several prisons in Brazil.
• 2008 – The Jaipur bombings in Rajasthan, India results in dozens of deaths.
• 2011 – In the 2011 Charsadda bombing in the Charsadda District of Pakistan, two bombs explode, resulting in 98 deaths and 140 others wounded.

Births

• 1024 – Hugh of Cluny, French saint (d. 1109)
• 1254 – Marie of Brabant, Queen of France (d. 1321)
• 1588 – Ole Worm, Danish physician (d. 1654)
• 1638 – Richard Simon, French priest (d. 1712)
• 1655 – Pope Innocent XIII (d. 1724)
• 1699 – Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1782)
• 1712 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (d. 1772)
• 1713 – Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist (d. 1765)
• 1717 – Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress and last of the House of Habsburg (d. 1780)
• 1730 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)
• 1735 – Horace Coignet, French composer (d. 1821)
• 1742 – Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (d. 1798)
• 1753 – Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician, and politician (d. 1823)
• 1759 – Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1824)
• 1792 – Pope Pius IX (d. 1878)
• 1794 – Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (d. 1835)
• 1795 – Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (d. 1875)
• 1822 – Francis, Duke of Cádiz (d. 1902)
• 1830 – Zebulon Baird Vance, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1894)
• 1832 – Juris Alunāns, Latvian philologist (d. 1864)
• 1840 – Alphonse Daudet, French author (d. 1897)
• 1842 – Arthur Sullivan, English composer (d. 1900)
• 1856 – Tom O'Rourke, American boxer and manager (d. 1938)
• 1857 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
• 1868 – Sumner Paine, American target shooter (d. 1904)
• 1881 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author (d. 1922)
• 1881 – Joe Forshaw, American long-distance runner (d. 1964)
• 1882 – Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor (d. 1963)
• 1883 – Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear (d. 1962)
• 1885 – Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984)
• 1894 – Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Icelandic politician, 2nd President of Iceland (d. 1972)
• 1895 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist, parapsychologist, and author (d. 1964)
• 1898 – Justin Tuveri, Italian-French soldier (d. 2007)
• 1904 – Louis Duffus, South African cricketer (d. 1984)
• 1905 – Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th President of India (d. 1977)
• 1907 – Daphne du Maurier, English author and playwright (d. 1989)
• 1908 – Eugen Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1996)
• 1909 – Ken Darby, American composer and conductor (d. 1992)
• 1911 – Robert Middleton, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1911 – Maxine Sullivan, American singer and actress (d. 1987)
• 1912 – Gil Evans, Canadian-American pianist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Judah Nadich, American rabbi (d. 2007)
• 1913 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician, 20th President of Liberia (d. 1980)
• 1914 – Joe Louis, American boxer (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Johnnie Wright, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Johnnie & Jack) (d. 2011)
• 1918 – Balasaraswati, Indian dancer (d. 1984)
• 1920 – Gareth Morris, English flute player (d. 2007)
• 1922 – Michael Ainsworth, English cricketer (d. 1978)
• 1922 – Bea Arthur, American actress and singer (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Otl Aicher, German graphic designer (d. 1991)
• 1923 – Red Garland, American pianist (Miles Davis Quintet) (d.1984)
• 1924 – Theodore Mann, American director and producer (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Harry Schwarz, German-South African lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 13th South African Ambassador to the United States (d. 2010)
• 1924 – Conrad Swan, Canadian academic
• 1927 – Archie Scott Brown, Scottish race car driver (d. 1958)
• 1927 – Herbert Ross, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2001)
• 1928 – Enrique Bolaños, Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua
• 1928 – Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Theo Saat, Dutch sprinter
• 1928 – Jim Shoulders, American rodeo rider (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Mike Gravel, American lieutenant and politician
• 1930 – José Jiménez Lozano, Spanish journalist and author
• 1930 – Vernon Shaw, Dominican politician, 5th President of Dominica
• 1931 – Jim Jones, American cult leader, founded the Peoples Temple (d. 1978)
• 1931 – Sydney Lipworth, South African businessman
• 1933 – John Roseboro, American baseball player and coach (d. 2002)
• 1934 – Ehud Netzer, Israeli archaeologist (d. 2010)
• 1934 – Leon Wagner, American baseball player and actor (d. 2004)
• 1935 – Dominic Cossa, American opera singer
• 1935 – Teddy Randazzo, American singer-songwriter and accordion player (The Three Chuckles) (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Bill Rompkey, Canadian educator and politician
• 1937 – Trevor Baylis, English inventor, invented the wind-up radio
• 1937 – Roch Carrier, Canadian author
• 1937 – John Cope, British politician
• 1937 – Zohra Lampert, American actress
• 1937 – Roger Zelazny, American author and poet (d. 1995)
• 1938 – Giuliano Amato, Italian politician, 48th Prime Minister of Italy
• 1938 – Laurent Beaudoin, Canadian businessman
• 1938 – Francine Pascal, American author
• 1938 – Milton Johns, English actor
• 1939 – Hildrun Claus, German long jumper
• 1939 – Peter Frenkel, German race walker
• 1939 – Harvey Keitel, American actor and producer
• 1940 – Bruce Chatwin, English author (d. 1989)
• 1940 – Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Japanese long-distance runner (d. 1968)
• 1941 – Senta Berger, Austrian actress, producer, and author
• 1941 – Joe Brown, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and game show host
• 1941 – Jody Conradt, American basketball player and coach
• 1941 – Ritchie Valens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
• 1942 – Leighton Gage, American author (d. 2013)
• 1942 – Roger Young, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1943 – Anthony Clarke, British judge
• 1943 – Kurt Trampedach, Danish painter and sculptor
• 1943 – Mary Wells, American singer-songwriter (d. 1992)
• 1944 – Crispin Agnew, British judge and explorer
• 1944 – Armistead Maupin, American author, screenwriter, and actor
• 1944 – Carolyn Franklin, American singer and songwriter (d. 1988)
• 1945 – Sam Anderson, American actor
• 1945 – Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1945 – Magic Dick, American harmonica player (The J. Geils Band)
• 1945 – Lou Marini, American saxophonist, arranger and composer
• 1946 – Waneta Hoyt, American murderer (d. 1998)
• 1946 – Tim Pigott-Smith, British actor and writer
• 1946 – Jean Rondeau, French race car driver and constructor (d. 1985)
• 1946 – Marv Wolfman, American author
• 1947 – Edgar Burcksen, Dutch-American film editor
• 1948 – Dean Meminger, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1949 – Jane Glover, British conductor
• 1949 – Zoë Wanamaker, American-English actress
• 1950 – Danny Kirwan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1950 – Manning Marable, American educator and author (d. 2011)
• 1950 – Bobby Valentine, American baseball player and manager
• 1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1951 – Rosie Boycott, British journalist and feminist
• 1951 – Sharon Sayles Belton, American politician, 45th Mayor of Minneapolis
• 1951 – Herman Philipse, Dutch professor of philosophy
• 1951 – Selina Scott, British broadcaster
• 1951 – Paul Thompson, English drummer (Roxy Music, Concrete Blonde, and Angelic Upstarts)
• 1951 – James Whale, English radio and television host
• 1952 – John Kasich, American talk show host and politician, 69th Governor of Ohio
• 1952 – Mary Walsh, Canadian actress
• 1953 – Gerry Sutcliffe, English politician
• 1953 – David Voelker, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
• 1953 – Harm Wiersma, Dutch draughts player
• 1954 – Johnny Logan, Australian-Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1956 – Steve Blackwood, American actor
• 1956 – Richard Madeley, English journalist
• 1957 – Alan Ball, American screenwriter, producer, and director
• 1957 – David Hill, British choral conductor
• 1957 – Andrea Klump, German terrorist
• 1957 – Mar Roxas, Filipino economist and politician
• 1957 – Koji Suzuki, Japanese author
• 1958 – Frances Barber, English actress
• 1959 – Jerry Butler, American pornographic actor
• 1961 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player, wrestler, and actor
• 1962 – Paul Burstow, British politician
• 1962 – Nick Hurd, English politician
• 1962 – Kathleen Jamie, Scottish poet
• 1962 – Paul McDermott, Australian comedian, actor, and singer (Doug Anthony All Stars)
• 1962 – Sean McDonough, American sportscaster
• 1962 – Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003)
• 1963 – Andrea Leadsom, English politician
• 1963 – Wally Masur, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1964 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian, actor, and talk show host
• 1964 – Ronnie Coleman, American bodybuilder
• 1964 – Tom Verica, American actor and director
• 1964 – Chris Maitland, English drummer (No-Man, Porcupine Tree and Nosound)
• 1965 – José Antonio Delgado, Venezuelan mountaineer (d. 2006)
• 1965 – Tasmin Little, English violinist
• 1965 – János Marozsán, Hungarian footballer
• 1965 – Hikari Ōta, Japanese comedian and actor
• 1965 – Lari White, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1966 – Alison Goldfrapp, English singer-songwriter and producer (Goldfrapp)
• 1966 – Darius Rucker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hootie & the Blowfish)
• 1966 – Kamen Vodenicharov, Bulgarian actor and singer
• 1967 – Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Death, Control Denied, Slaughter, and Voodoocult) (d. 2001)
• 1967 – Melanie Thornton, American-German singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001)
• 1968 – PMD, American rapper (EPMD)
• 1968 – Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (d. 1997)
• 1968 – Susan Floyd, American actress
• 1968 – Dmitriy Shevchenko, Russian discus thrower
• 1968 – Sonja Zietlow, German television host
• 1969 – Buckethead, American guitarist and songwriter (Guns N' Roses, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Praxis, and Deli Creeps)
• 1969 – Nikos Aliagas, French-Greek journalist and television host
• 1970 – Doug Evans, American football player
• 1970 – Robert Maćkowiak, Polish sprinter
• 1971 – Imogen Boorman, English actress and martial artist
• 1971 – Rob Fredrickson, American football player
• 1971 – Espen Lind, Norwegian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Espionage)
• 1971 – Fana Mokoena, South African actor
• 1971 – Tom Nalen, American football player
• 1972 – Stefaan Maene, Belgian swimmer
• 1972 – Darryl Sydor, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1972 – Pieta van Dishoeck, Dutch rower
• 1973 – Eric Lewis, American pianist
• 1973 – Bridgett Riley, American boxer and stuntwoman
• 1975 – Jamie Allison, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 – Cristian Bezzi, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1975 – Itatí Cantoral, Mexican actress and singer
• 1975 – Brian Geraghty, American actor
• 1975 – Evelin Samuel, Estonian singer
• 1976 – Mark Delaney, Welsh footballer and coach
• 1976 – Trajan Langdon, American basketball player
• 1976 – Ana Popović, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1976 – Magdalena Walach, Polish actress
• 1977 – Ilse DeLange, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Anthony Q. Farrell, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter
• 1977 – Robby Hammock, American baseball player and coach
• 1977 – Neil Hopkins, American actor
• 1977 – Samantha Morton, English actress and director
• 1977 – Christopher Ralph, Canadian actor
• 1977 – Brian Thomas Smith, American actor and producer
• 1977 – Aleksei Terentjev, Estonian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Brooke Anderson, American journalist
• 1978 – Mike Bibby, American basketball player
• 1978 – Ryan Bukvich, American baseball player
• 1978 – Germán Magariños, Argentinian director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
• 1978 – Dilshan Vitharana, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1978 – Barry Zito, American baseball player
• 1979 – Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland
• 1979 – Mickey Madden, American bass player (Maroon 5)
• 1979 – Steve Mildenhall, English footballer
• 1979 – Lauren Phoenix, Canadian porn actress
• 1979 – Vyacheslav Shevchuk, Ukrainian footballer
• 1979 – Jenny Winkler, German actress
• 1980 – Waka Inoue, Japanese model and actress
• 1980 – Mau Marcelo, Filipino singer
• 1980 – L. J. Smith, American football player
• 1981 – Luciana Berger, English politician
• 1981 – Nicolas Jeanjean, French rugby player
• 1981 – Sunny Leone, Canadian-American porn actress and model
• 1981 – Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress
• 1981 – Shaun Phillips, American football player
• 1981 – James Yun, American wrestler and actor
• 1982 – Albert Crusat, Spanish footballer
• 1982 – Yoko Kumada, Japanese model and singer
• 1982 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
• 1983 – Natalie Cassidy, English actress
• 1983 – Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
• 1983 – Johnny Hoogerland, Dutch professional cyclist
• 1983 – Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
• 1983 – Jacob Reynolds, American actor
• 1983 – Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
• 1984 – J. B. Cox, American baseball player
• 1984 – Benny Dayal, Indian singer (S5)
• 1984 – Dawn Harper, American hurdler
• 1984 – Ginger Orsi, American actress and singer
• 1984 – Caroline Rotich, Kenyan long-distance runner
• 1985 – Javier Balboa, Spanish-Equatoguinean footballer
• 1985 – Jaroslav Halák, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1985 – Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor and singer
• 1985 – Travis Zajac, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Lena Dunham, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1986 – Eun-Hee Ji, South Korean golfer
• 1986 – David Hernandez, American baseball player
• 1986 – Giuliana Marino, German model
• 1986 – Robert Pattinson, English actor, singer, and producer
• 1986 – Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer-songwriter, violinist, and actor
• 1986 – Scott Sutter, English footballer
• 1986 – Kris Versteeg, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1987 – Candice Accola, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1987 – Antonio Adán, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Matt Doyle, American actor and singer
• 1987 – Laura Izibor, Irish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1987 – Mei Kurokawa, Japanese actress and singer
• 1987 – Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
• 1987 – Carrie Prejean, American model and author, Miss California USA 2009
• 1987 – Marianne Vos, Dutch cyclist
• 1988 – Paulo Avelino, Filipino actor and singer
• 1988 – Casey Donovan, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1989 – P. K. Subban, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1991 – Francisco Lachowski, Brazilian model
• 1992 – Egert Heintare, Estonian football and futsal player
• 1993 – Romelu Lukaku, Belgian footballer
• 1993 – Bang Minah, South Korean idol singer (Girl's Day)
• 1993 – Debby Ryan, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 1176 – Matthias I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1119)
• 1312 – Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1263)
• 1573 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyo (b. 1521)
• 1619 – Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Dutch politician (b. 1547)
• 1704 – Louis Bourdaloue, French preacher (b. 1632)
• 1782 – Daniel Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
• 1807 – Eliphalet Dyer, American colonel, politician, and jurist (b. 1721)
• 1809 – Beilby Porteus, English bishop (b. 1731)
• 1832 – Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
• 1835 – John Nash, English architect, designed the Royal Pavilion (b. 1752)
• 1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician (b. 1796)
• 1878 – Joseph Henry, American scientist (b. 1797)
• 1884 – Cyrus McCormick, American businessman, co-founded the International Harvester Company (b. 1809)
• 1885 – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician, pathologist, and anatomist (b. 1809)
• 1903 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines (b. 1864)
• 1916 – Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 – Jean Aicard, French poet, playwright, and author (b. 1848)
• 1926 – Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American prelate(b. 1857)
• 1930 – Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 – Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1941 – Frederick Christian, English cricketer (b. 1877)
• 1941 – Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna (b. 1891)
• 1945 – Tubby Hall, American drummer (b. 1895)
• 1947 – Sukanta Bhattacharya, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1926)
• 1948 – Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, American socialite and sister to future U.S. President John F. Kennedy (b. 1920)
• 1957 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician (b. 1886)
• 1961 – Gary Cooper, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1962 – Henry Trendley Dean, American dentist (b. 1893)
• 1963 – Alois Hudal, Austrian-Italian bishop (b. 1885)
• 1972 – Dan Blocker, American actor (b. 1928)
• 1974 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican diplomat (b. 1902)
• 1974 – Arthur J. Burks, American colonel and author (b. 1898)
• 1975 – Bob Wills, American singer-songwriter and actor (Light Crust Doughboys) (b. 1905)
• 1977 – Mickey Spillane, American mobster (b. 1934)
• 1985 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1988 – Chet Baker, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1929)
• 1992 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor (b. 1909)
• 1994 – Duncan Hamilton, Irish-English race car driver (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Abd al-Aziz ibn Baz, Saudi Arabian scholar (b. 1910)
• 1999 – Gene Sarazen, American golfer (b. 1902)
• 2000 – Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
• 2000 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (b. 1951)
• 2001 – Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (b. 1939)
• 2001 – R. K. Narayan, Indian author (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (b. 1925)
• 2002 – Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1939)
• 2005 – Eddie Barclay, French record producer, founded Barclay Records (b. 1921)
• 2005 – George Dantzig, American mathematician (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Michael Ross, American serial killer (b. 1959)
• 2006 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Ron Stone, American journalist (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Frank Aletter, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2009 – Meir Brandsdorfer, Belgian rabbi (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Achille Compagnoni, Italian skier and mountaineer (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Derek Boogaard, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1982)
• 2011 – Wallace McCain, Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Bruce Ricker, American director and producer (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Alain Voss, Brazilian-French illustrator (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Blues Brothers, and The Mar-Keys) (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Cuban-American theologian and educator (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Les Leston, English race car driver (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, Welsh nurse and politician (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Lee Richardson, English motorcycle racer (b. 1979)
• 2012 – Don Ritchie, Australian humanitarian (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Nguyen Van Thien, Vietnamese bishop (b. 1906)
• 2013 – Hedda Bolgar, Swiss-American psychoanalyst (b. 1909)
• 2013 – Joyce Brothers, American psychologist, columnist, and actress (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Kennett Love, American journalist (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Luciano Lutring, Italian criminal (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Jagdish Mali, Indian photographer (b. 1954)
• 2013 – Chuck Muncie, American football player (b. 1953)
• 2013 – Vladimir Romanovsky, Russian canoe racer (b. 1957)
• 2013 – Fyodor Tuvin, Russian footballer (b. 1973)
• 2013 – Lynne Woolstencroft, Canadian politician (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances

• Abbotsbury Garland Day (Dorset, England)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Our Lady of Fatima
  • Gerard of Villamagna
  • Glyceria
  • John the Silent (Roman Catholic)
  • Julian of Norwich (Roman Catholic)
  • Frances Perkins (Episcopal Church (USA)
  • Servatius
  • May 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• One of the three feast days of the Lemuralia, observed in ancient Rome

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada