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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[293]] – Roman Emperors [[Diocletian]] and [[Maximian]] appoint [[Galerius]] as ''[[Caesar (title)|Caesar]]'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the [[Tetrarchy]].
* [[878]] – [[Syracuse, Sicily]], is [[Siege of Syracuse (877–878)|captured]] by the Muslim [[Aghlabids]] after a nine-month siege.
* [[879]] – [[Pope John VIII]] gives blessings to [[Branimir of Croatia]] and to the [[Croatia]]n people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.<ref>{{cite book|last=Preveden|first=Francis Ralph|title=A History of the Croatian People from Their Arrival on the Shores of the Adriatic to the Present Day: Prehistory and Early Period Until 1397 A.D|location=New York|publisher=Philosophical Library|date=1962|oclc=906081868|page=58}}</ref>
* [[996]] – Sixteen-year-old [[Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto III]] is crowned [[Holy Roman Emperor]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hill|first=David Jayne|title=A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe. Vol. 1: The Struggle for Universal Empire|location=New York|publisher=Longmans, Green & Co.|date=1911|oclc=557420|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3HFAAAAMAAJ|pages=189–190}}</ref>
*[[1349]] – [[Dušan's Code]], the constitution of the [[Serbian Empire]], is enacted by [[Dušan the Mighty]].
*[[1403]] – [[Henry III of Castile]] sends [[Ruy González de Clavijo]] as [[Timurid relations with Europe|ambassador to Timur]] to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the [[Ottoman Empire]].
*[[1554]] – [[Mary I of England|Queen Mary I]] grants a [[royal charter]] to [[Derby School]], as a grammar school for boys in [[Derby]], England.
===1601–1900===
*[[1659]] – In the [[Concert of The Hague (1659)|Concert of The Hague]], the [[Dutch Republic]], the [[Commonwealth of England]] and the [[Kingdom of France]] set out their views on how the [[Second Northern War]] should end.
*[[1660]] – The [[Battle of Long Sault]] concludes after five days in which [[France|French]] [[New France|colonial]] [[militia]], with their [[Wyandot people|Huron]] and [[Algonquin people|Algonquin]] allies, are defeated by the [[Iroquois Confederacy]].
*[[1674]] – The [[szlachta|nobility]] elect [[John III Sobieski|John Sobieski]] King of Poland and Grand Duke of [[Lithuania]].
*[[1703]] – [[Daniel Defoe]] is imprisoned on charges of [[seditious libel]].<ref>{{cite book|last=La Grand|first=Virginia|title=A Spectacular Failure: Robinson Crusoe I, II, III|location=New York|publisher=Rodopi|date=2012|isbn=9789042035881|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-701ccnkmW8C|pages=62–63}}</ref>
*[[1725]] – The [[Order of St. Alexander Nevsky]] is instituted in Russia by Empress [[Catherine I]]. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in [[1942]] as the [[Order of Alexander Nevsky]].
*[[1758]] – Ten-year-old [[Mary Campbell (colonial settler)|Mary Campbell]] is abducted in [[Pennsylvania]] by [[Lenape]] during the [[French and Indian War]]. She is returned six and a half years later.
*[[1792]] – A [[lava dome]] collapses on [[Mount Unzen]], near the city of [[Shimabara, Nagasaki|Shimbara]] on the [[Japan]]ese island of [[Kyūshū]], [[1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami|creating a deadly tsunami]] that killed nearly 15,000 people.<ref>{{cite book|last=Heimburger|first=Jean-François|title=Japan and Natural Disasters: Prevention and Risk Management|location=London|publisher=ISTE Ltd|date=2018|isbn=9781786303707|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3JyDwAAQBAJ|page=17}}</ref>
*[[1809]] – The first day of the [[Battle of Aspern-Essling]] between the Austrian army led by [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen|Archduke Charles]] and the French army led by [[Napoleon|Napoleon I of France]] sees the French attack across the [[Danube]] held.
*[[1851]] – [[Slavery in Colombia]] is abolished.
*[[1856]] – [[Lawrence, Kansas]] is [[Sacking of Lawrence|captured and burned]] by pro-[[slavery]] forces.
*[[1863]] – [[American Civil War]]: The [[Union Army]] [[Battle of Plains Store|succeeds]] in closing off the last escape route from [[Port Hudson, Louisiana]], in preparation for the coming [[Siege of Port Hudson|siege]].
*[[1864]] – Russia declares an end to the [[Russo-Circassian War]] and many [[Circassians]] are forced into exile. The day is designated the [[Circassian Day of Mourning]].
* 1864 – American Civil War: The [[Battle of Spotsylvania Court House]] ends.
* 1864 – The [[Ionian Islands]] reunite with Greece.
*[[1871]] – French troops invade the [[Paris Commune]] and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "[[Bloody Week]]", some 20,000 [[communard]]s have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
* 1871 – Opening of the first [[rack railway]] in Europe, the [[Rigi Bahnen]] on [[Mount Rigi]].
*[[1879]] – [[War of the Pacific]]: Two [[Chile]]an ships blocking the harbor of [[Iquique]] (then belonging to [[Peru]]) battle two Peruvian vessels in the [[Battle of Iquique]].
*[[1881]] – The [[American Red Cross]] is established by [[Clara Barton]] in Washington, D.C.
*[[1894]] – The [[Manchester Ship Canal]] in the United Kingdom is officially opened by [[Queen Victoria]], who later [[knight]]s its designer [[Edward Leader Williams|Sir Edward Leader Williams]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hodson|first=Patricia M.|title=The Manchester Ship Canal: A Guide to Historical Sources|location=Manchester, UK|publisher=Lancashire Bibliography|date=1985|isbn=9780902217140|page=iv|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|editor-last1=Brandwood|editor-first=Geoffrey K.|editor-last2=Daniels|editor-first2=Rebecca|title=Ruskin and Architecture|last=Hardman|first=Malcolm|chapter='Intellectual Lens and Moral Retina': A Reappraisal of Ruskin's Architectural Vision|location=Reading, UK|publisher=Spire Books|date=2003|isbn=9780954361518|page=219, fn. 42}}</ref>
===1901–present===
*[[1904]] – The [[FIFA|Fédération Internationale de Football Association]] (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
*[[1911]] – [[President of Mexico]] [[Porfirio Díaz]] and the revolutionary [[Francisco Madero]] sign the [[Treaty of Ciudad Juárez]] to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the [[Mexican Revolution]].
*[[1917]] – The [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|Imperial War Graves Commission]] is established through [[royal charter]] to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Empire's]] military forces.<ref>{{cite book|last=Summers|first=Julie|title=Remembered: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission|location=London|publisher=Merrell|year=2007|isbn=9781858943749|pages=16, 18|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last1=Shortt|first1=Adam|last2=Rowe|first2=L.S.|title=Preliminary Economic Studies of the War. Volume 8|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=knILAQAAIAAJ|pages=92=93|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Gilbert|first=Martin|title=The First World War: A Complete History|location=New York|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|date=1994|isbn=9780805015409|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4povVJ-jkCoC|pages=325=326}}</ref>
* 1917 – The [[Great Atlanta fire of 1917]] causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
*[[1924]] – [[University of Chicago]] students [[Leopold and Loeb|Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr.]] murder 14-year-old [[Bobby Franks]] in a "[[thrill killing]]".
*[[1927]] – [[Charles Lindbergh]] touches down at [[Le Bourget Field]] in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
*[[1932]] – Bad weather forces [[Amelia Earhart]] to land in a pasture in [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]], and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
*[[1934]] – [[Oskaloosa, Iowa]], becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
*[[1936]] – [[Sada Abe]] is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
*[[1937]] – A [[Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations|Soviet station]], [[North Pole-1]], becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the [[drift ice]] of the Arctic Ocean.
*[[1939]] – The Canadian [[National War Memorial (Canada)|National War Memorial]] is unveiled by [[George VI|King George VI]] and [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth]] in [[Ottawa]], Ontario, Canada.
*[[1946]] – Physicist [[Louis Slotin]] is fatally irradiated in a [[criticality incident]] during an experiment with the [[demon core]] at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]].
*[[1951]] – The opening of the [[Ninth Street Show]], otherwise known as the [[9th Street Art Exhibition]]: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York [[avant-garde]], collectively known as the [[New York School (art)|New York School]].
*[[1961]] – [[American civil rights movement]]: [[Alabama]] Governor [[John Malcolm Patterson]] declares [[martial law]] in an attempt to restore order after [[race riot]]s break out.
*[[1966]] – The [[Ulster Volunteer Force]] declares war on the [[Irish Republican Army (1922–69)|Irish Republican Army]] in [[Northern Ireland]].
*[[1969]] – Civil unrest in [[Rosario, Argentina]], known as ''[[Rosariazo]]'', following the death of a 15-year-old student.
*[[1972]] – [[Michelangelo]]'s ''[[Pietà (Michelangelo)|Pietà]]'' in [[St. Peter's Basilica]] in Rome is damaged by a [[vandalism|vandal]], the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist [[Laszlo Toth]].
*[[1976]] – Twenty-nine people are killed in the [[Yuba City bus disaster]] in [[Martinez, California]].
*[[1979]] – [[White Night riots]] in [[San Francisco]] following the [[manslaughter]] conviction of [[Dan White]] for the assassinations of [[George Moscone]] and [[Harvey Milk]].
*[[1981]] – The Italian government releases the membership list of [[Propaganda Due]], an illegal pseudo-[[Freemasonry|Masonic lodge]] that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
* 1981 – [[Transamerica Corporation]] agrees to sell [[United Artists]] to [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film ''[[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heaven's Gate]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cole|first=Robert J.|title=M-G-M Is Reported Purchasing United Artists for $350 Million|work=The New York Times|date=May 16, 1981|access-date=May 21, 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/16/world/m-g-m-is-reported-purchasing-united-artists-for-350-million.html|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=M-G-M to Buy United Artists|work=The New York Times|date=May 22, 1981|access-date=May 21, 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/22/business/m-g-m-to-buy-united-artists.html|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Kermode|first=Mark|chapter=''Heaven's Gate'' and United Artists|title=Contemporary American Cinema|editor-last1=Hammond|editor-first1=Michael|editor-last2=Williams|editor-first2=Linda Ruth|location=Maidenhead, Berk., UK|publisher=Open University Press|date=2006|isbn=9780335218318|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aD1EBgAAQBAJ|page=246}}</ref>
*[[1982]] – [[Falklands War]]: A British amphibious assault during [[Operation Sutton]] leads to the [[Battle of San Carlos (1982)|Battle of San Carlos]].
*[[1988]] – [[Margaret Thatcher]] holds her controversial [[Sermon on the Mound]] before the [[General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107246|title=Speech to General Assembly of the Church of Scotland|date=1988-05-25|access-date=25 May 2018|website=Margaret Thatcher Foundation|last=Thatcher|first=Margaret}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=God, Man & Mrs Thatcher: A Critique of Mrs Thatcher's Address to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland|last=Raban|first=Jonathan|publisher=Chatto and Widus|date=1989|isbn=0-7011-3470-4|publication-place=London|authorlink=Jonathan Raban}}</ref>
*[[1991]] – Former Indian [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Rajiv Gandhi]] is [[Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi|assassinated]] by a female suicide bomber near [[Chennai|Madras]].
* 1991 – [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]], president of the [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia]], flees [[Ethiopia]], effectively bringing the [[Ethiopian Civil War]] to an end.
*[[1992]] – After 30 seasons [[Johnny Carson]] hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests ([[Robin Williams]] and [[Bette Midler]]) of ''[[The Tonight Show]]''.
*[[1994]] – The [[Democratic Republic of Yemen]] unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the [[Republic of Yemen]]; a [[Yemeni Civil War (1994)|war]] breaks out.
*[[1996]] – The ferry {{MV|Bukoba}} sinks in [[Tanzania]]n waters on [[Lake Victoria]], killing nearly 1,000.
*[[1998]] – In [[Miami]], five [[abortion clinic]]s are attacked by a [[butyric acid]] attacker.
* 1998 – President [[Suharto]] of [[Indonesia]] resigns following the killing of students from [[Trisakti shootings|Trisakti University]] earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in [[Jakarta]] against his ongoing corrupt rule.
*[[2000]] – Nineteen people are killed in a [[2000 East Coast Aviation Services British Aerospace Jetstream crash|plane crash]] in [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident British Aerospace 3102 Jetstream 31 N16EJ Wilkes-Barre, PA |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20000521-0 |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[2001]] – French [[Christiane Taubira|Taubira law]] is enacted, officially recognizing the [[Atlantic slave trade]] and [[slavery]] as [[crimes against humanity]].
*[[2003]] – The 6.8 {{M|w}} [[2003 Boumerdès earthquake|Boumerdès earthquake]] shakes northern [[Algeria]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the [[Balearic Islands]].
*[[2005]] – The tallest [[roller coaster]] in the world, [[Kingda Ka]] opens at [[Six Flags Great Adventure]] in [[Jackson Township, New Jersey]].
*[[2006]] – The [[Republic of Montenegro]] holds a [[Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006|referendum]] proposing independence from the [[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]]; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
*[[2010]] – JAXA, the [[Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency]], launches the [[solar-sail]] spacecraft [[IKAROS]] aboard an [[H-IIA]] rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
*[[2011]] – Radio broadcaster [[Harold Camping]] predicted that the [[2011 end times prediction|world would end]] on this date.
*[[2012]] – A [[Qafa e Vishës bus accident|bus accident]] near [[Himara|Himara, Albania]] kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
* 2012 – [[2012 Sana'a bombing|A suicide bombing]] kills more than 120 people in [[Sana'a|Sana'a, Yemen]].
*[[2014]] – [[2014 Taipei Metro attack|Random killings]] occurred on the [[Bannan Line]] of the [[Taipei MRT]], killing four and injuring 24.<ref name="Strait">{{cite news|title=Four killed, 21 wounded in Taipei subway knife attack|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/east-asia/story/three-killed-25-wounded-taiwan-subway-knife-attack-20140521|work=[[The Straits Times]]|accessdate=21 May 2014|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|date=21 May 2014}}</ref>
*[[2017]] – [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]] performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
==Births==
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===Pre-1600===
*[[1471]] – [[Albrecht Dürer]], German painter, engraver, and mathematician (d. 1528)
*[[1497]] – [[Al-Hattab]], Muslim jurist (d. 1547)
*[[1527]] – [[Philip II of Spain]] (d. 1598)
===1601–1900===
• [[1633]] - [[Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre]], French composer (d. 1678)
*[[1653]] – [[Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland]] (d. 1697)
*[[1688]] – ([[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) [[Alexander Pope]], English poet, essayist, and translator (d. 1744)
*[[1755]] – [[Alfred Moore]], American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
*[[1756]] – [[William Babington (physician)|William Babington]], Irish-born, English [[physician]] and [[Mineralogy|mineralogist]] (d. 1833)<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-977|title=Babington, William|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/977|access-date=Jan 14, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1759]] – [[Joseph Fouché]], French lawyer and politician (d. 1820)
*[[1775]] – [[Lucien Bonaparte]], French soldier and politician (d. 1840)
*[[1780]] – [[Elizabeth Fry]], English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker (d. 1845)<ref>{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Fry {{!}} British philanthropist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Fry |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1790]] – [[William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire]], English politician, [[Lord Chamberlain|Lord Chamberlain of the Household]] (d. 1858)
*[[1792]] – [[Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis]], French mathematician and engineer (d. 1843)
*[[1799]] – [[Mary Anning]], English paleontologist (d. 1847)<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Anning {{!}} English fossil hunter and anatomist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Anning |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=23 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1801]] – [[Princess Sophie of Sweden]], Swedish princess (d. 1865)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Allgemeine deutsche Real-Encyklopädie für die gebildeten Stände|url={{Google books|ySNTAAAAcAAJ|page=696|plainurl=yes}}|access-date=Jan 22, 2019|language=de|volume=8|page=696}}</ref>
*[[1806]] – [[Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland]], English duchess (d. 1868)<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-16544|title=Gower, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson- [née Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard], duchess of Sutherland|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/16544|access-date=Jan 22, 2019|last1=Reynolds|first1=K. D.}}</ref>
*[[1808]] – [[David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo]], Dutch Talmudist (d. 1890)<ref>{{Cite Jewish Encyclopedia|article=CARDOZO, DAVID DE JAHACOB LOPEZ|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4036-cardozo-david-de-jahacob-lopez|access-date=Jan 14, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1827]] – [[William P. Sprague]], American banker and politician (d. 1899)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000748|title=SPRAGUE, William Peter, (1827 - 1899)|website=[[Bioguide]]|access-date=Jan 23, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1828]] – [[Rudolf Koller]], Swiss painter (d. 1905)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D22039.php|title=Koller, Rudolf|publisher=Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz, Bern|language=de|access-date=Jan 23, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1835]] – [[František Chvostek]], Czech-Austrian physician and academic (d. 1884)
*[[1837]] – [[Itagaki Taisuke]], Japanese soldier and politician (d. 1919)
*[[1843]] – [[Charles Albert Gobat]], Swiss lawyer and politician, and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1914)
* 1843 – [[Louis Renault (jurist)|Louis Renault]], French jurist, educator, and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1918)
*[[1844]] – [[Henri Rousseau]], French painter (d. 1910)
*[[1850]] – [[Giuseppe Mercalli]], Italian priest and volcanologist (d. 1914)
*[[1851]] – [[Léon Bourgeois]], French police officer and politician, 64th [[Prime Minister of France]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1925)
*[[1853]] – [[Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac]], French politician (d. 1905)
*[[1855]] – [[Ella Stewart Udall]], American telegraphist (d. 1937)<ref>For birth and death date, see {{Cite web |title=Eliza Luella (Ella) Stewart Udall |url=https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/people/eliza-luella-ella-stewart-udall?lang=eng |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113062943/https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/people/eliza-luella-ella-stewart-udall?lang=eng |archive-date=November 13, 2022 |access-date=November 15, 2022 |website=The First Fifty Years of Relief Society |publisher=Church Historian's Press}} For telegraphy, see {{Cite book |last=McKoy |first=Kathleen L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JsD9o6SQQ6UC |title=Cultures at a Crossroads: An Administrative History of Pipe Spring National Monument |publisher=[[United States Department of the Interior|U. S. Department of the Interior]], [[National Park Service]], Intermountain Region |year=2000 |page=35 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
*[[1856]] – [[José Batlle y Ordóñez]], Uruguayan journalist and politician, [[President of Uruguay]] (d. 1929)
*[[1858]] – [[Édouard Goursat]], French mathematician (d. 1936)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Édouard-Jean-Baptiste Goursat|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edouard-Jean-Baptiste-Goursat|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[1860]] – [[Willem Einthoven]], Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1927)
*[[1861]] – [[Abel Ayerza]], Argentinian physician and academic (d. 1918)
*[[1863]] – [[Archduke Eugen of Austria]] (d. 1954)
*[[1864]] – [[Princess Stéphanie of Belgium]] (d. 1945)
*[[1867]] – [[Anne Walter Fearn]], American physician (d. 1939)<ref>{{cite book|first=Philips|last=Clifton J.|chapter=Fearn, Anne Walter|editor-first=Edward T.|editor-last=James|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|volume=1|year=1971|isbn=978-0-67462-734-5|page=603}}</ref>
*[[1873]] – [[Hans Berger]], German neurologist and academic (d. 1941)
*[[1878]] – [[Glenn Curtiss]], American cyclist and engineer (d. 1930)
*[[1880]] – [[Tudor Arghezi]], Romanian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1967)
*[[1884]] – [[Manuel Pérez y Curis]], Uruguayan poet and publisher (d. 1920)
*[[1885]] – [[Princess Sophie of Albania]], (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) (d. 1936)
*[[1893]] – [[Arthur Carr (cricketer)|Arthur Carr]], English cricketer (d. 1963)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/10666.html|title=Arthur Carr|website=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|access-date=Jan 24, 2019}}</ref>
* 1893 – [[Giles Chippindall]], Australian public servant (d. 1969)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chippindall-sir-giles-tatlock-9740|title=Chippindall, Sir Giles Tatlock (1893–1969)|author=Ian Carnell|author-link=Ian Carnell|website=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=Jan 14, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1895]] – [[Lázaro Cárdenas]], Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of [[Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas]] (d. 1970)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/c/cardenas.htm|title=Lázaro Cárdenas|publisher=Biografias y Vidas|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1898]] – [[Armand Hammer]], American physician and businessman, founded [[Occidental Petroleum]] (d. 1990)
* 1898 – [[Charles Léon Hammes]], Luxembourgian lawyer and judge (d. 1967)
* 1898 – [[Carl Johnson (athlete)|Carl Johnson]], American long jumper (d. 1932)
* 1898 – [[John McLaughlin (artist)|John McLaughlin]], American painter and translator (d. 1976)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] – [[Regina M. Anderson]], Multiracial playwright and librarian (d. 1993)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Regina M. Anderson {{!}} American librarian and playwright |language=en |work=Encyclopedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Regina-M-Anderson |access-date=2018-07-08}}</ref>
* 1901 – [[Horace Heidt]], American pianist, bandleader, and radio host (d. 1986)
* 1901 – [[Sam Jaffe (producer)|Sam Jaffe]], American film producer and agent (d. 2000)
* 1901 – [[Suzanne Lilar]], Belgian author and playwright (d. 1992)
*[[1902]] – [[Earl Averill]], American baseball player (d. 1983)
* 1902 – [[Marcel Breuer]], Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the [[Ameritrust Tower]] (d. 1981)
* 1902 – [[Anatole Litvak]], Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1974)
*[[1903]] – [[Manly Wade Wellman]], American author (d. 1986)
*[[1904]] – [[Robert Montgomery (actor)|Robert Montgomery]], American actor and director (d. 1981)
* 1904 – [[Fats Waller]], American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1943)
*[[1907]] – [[John C. Allen]], American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
*[[1912]] – [[Chen Dayu]], Chinese painter and calligrapher (d. 2001)
* 1912 – [[John Curtis Gowan]], American psychologist and academic (d. 1986)
* 1912 – [[Monty Stratton]], American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)
*[[1913]] – [[Gina Bachauer]], Greek pianist and composer (d. 1976)
*[[1914]] – [[Romain Gary]], French novelist, diplomat, film director, aviator (d. 1980)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Romain Gary |url=http://agora.qc.ca/thematiques/mort/dossiers/gary_romain |access-date=Jun 4, 2021 |website=L'agora}}</ref>
*[[1915]] – [[Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan]], Indian Civil Service Officer and former Under Secretary-General of the UN (d. 2003)
*[[1916]] – [[Dennis Day]], American singer and actor (d. 1988)
* 1916 – [[Tinus Osendarp]], Dutch sprinter and police officer (d. 2002)
* 1916 – [[Harold Robbins]], American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
*[[1917]] – [[Raymond Burr]], Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1993)
*[[1919]] – [[George P. Mitchell]], American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
*[[1920]] – [[Bill Barber (musician)|Bill Barber]], American tuba player and educator (d. 2007)
* 1920 – [[Forrest White]], American businessman, co-founded the [[Music Man (company)|Music Man Company]] (d. 1994)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15098790c |title=White, Forrest (1920–....) |publisher=[[Bnf.fr]] |language=fr |access-date=Apr 10, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1921]] – [[Sandy Douglas]], English computer scientist and academic, designed ''[[OXO (video game)|OXO]]'' (d. 2010)
* 1921 – [[Andrei Sakharov]], Russian physicist and academic, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1989)
*[[1923]] – [[Vernon Biever]], American photographer (d. 2010)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vernon J. Biever |url=https://www.eernissefuneralhome.com/obituaries/Vernon-J-Biever?obId=645093#/celebrationWall |access-date=Jan 31, 2019 |publisher=Eernisse Funeral Homes & Cremation Service |location=Port Washington, WI}}</ref>
* 1923 – [[Armand Borel]], Swiss-American mathematician and academic (d. 2003)
* 1923 – [[Ara Parseghian]], American football player and coach (d. 2017)
* 1923 – [[Dorothy Hewett]], Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright (d. 2002)
* 1923 – [[Evelyn Ward]], American actress (d. 2012)
*[[1924]] – [[Peggy Cass]], American actress, comedian, and game show panelist (d. 1999)<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 March 1999 |title=Obituary: Peggy Cass |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-peggy-cass-1080192.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-peggy-cass-1080192.html |archive-date=2022-05-12 |access-date=17 February 2020 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1926]] – [[Robert Creeley]], American novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2005)
*[[1927]] – [[Kay Kendall]], English actress and comedian (d. 1959)
* 1927 – [[Péter Zwack]], Hungarian businessman and diplomat (d. 2012)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zwack Péter |url=http://www.parlament.hu/kepviselo/elet/z404.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001409/http://www.parlament.hu/kepviselo/elet/z404.htm |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=Apr 10, 2019 |language=hu}}</ref>
*[[1928]] – [[Tom Donahue (DJ)|Tom Donahue]], American radio host and producer (d. 1975)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/tom-donahue |access-date=Jan 31, 2019 |publisher=[[Rock & Roll Hall of Fame]] |location=Cleveland, Ohio}}</ref>
* 1928 – [[Alice Drummond]], American actress (d. 2016)
*[[1929]] – [[Larance Marable]], American drummer (d. 2012)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Larance Marable |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/larance-marable-mn0000101903/biography |access-date=Feb 12, 2019 |website=[[Allmusic.com]]}}</ref>
* 1929 – [[Robert Welch (designer)|Robert Welch]], English silversmith and industrial designer (d. 2000)
*[[1930]] – [[Tommy Bryant]], American bassist (d. 1982)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139215810 |title=Bryant, Tommy (1930–1982) |publisher=[[Bnf.fr]] |language=fr |access-date=Feb 12, 2019}}</ref>
* 1930 – [[Keith Davis (rugby union)|Keith Davis]], New Zealand rugby player (d. 2019)
* 1930 – [[Malcolm Fraser]], Australian politician, 22nd [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. 2015)
*[[1932]] – [[Inese Jaunzeme]], Latvian javelin thrower and surgeon (d. 2011)
* 1932 – [[Leonidas Vasilikopoulos]], Greek admiral and intelligence chief (d. 2014)<ref>{{Cite web |script-title=el:Βασιλικόπουλος, Λεωνίδας |trans-title=Vasilikopoulos, Leonidas |url=http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/el/organwsi/geniko-epiteleio-naftikou/diatelesantes-arxigoi-gen/206-gr/viografika/2015-03-23-19-16-51/1067-2015-03-23-19-38-54 |access-date=Apr 10, 2019 |language=el}}</ref>
*[[1933]] – [[Maurice André]], French trumpet player (d. 2012)
* 1933 – [[Yevgeny Minayev]], Russian weightlifter (d. 1993)
*[[1934]] – [[Jocasta Innes]], Chinese-English journalist and author (d. 2013)<ref>{{Cite web |date=Apr 23, 2013 |title=Jocasta Innes |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10013601/Jocasta-Innes.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10013601/Jocasta-Innes.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |access-date=Feb 12, 2019 |website=[[Telegraph.co.uk]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* 1934 – [[Bob Northern]], American horn player and bandleader (d.2020)
* 1934 – [[Bengt I. Samuelsson]], Swedish biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[1935]] – [[Terry Lightfoot]], English clarinet player and bandleader (d. 2013)
*[[1936]] – [[Günter Blobel]], Polish-American biologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2018)
*[[1938]] – [[Lee "Shot" Williams]], American singer (d. 2011)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lee "Shot" Williams |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lee-shot-williams-mn0000786244/biography |access-date=Feb 12, 2019 |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
*[[1939]] – [[Heinz Holliger]], Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor
*[[1940]] – [[Tony Sheridan]], English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
*[[1941]] – [[Martin Carthy]], English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1941 – [[Bobby Cox]], American baseball player and manager
* 1941 – [[Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway]], English photographer and politician
* 1941 – [[Ronald Isley]], American singer-songwriter and producer
*[[1942]] – [[David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral]], English politician, [[Secretary of State for Wales]]
* 1942 – [[John Konrads]], Australian swimmer (d. 2021)
* 1942 – [[Danny Ongais]], American race car driver (d. 2022)
*[[1943]] – [[Vincent Crane]], English pianist and composer (d. 1989)
* 1943 – [[John Dalton (musician)|John Dalton]], English bass player
* 1943 – [[Hilton Valentine]], English guitarist and songwriter (d. 2021)
*[[1944]] – [[Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar]], Iranian-English academic and politician (d. 2022)
* 1944 – [[Marcie Blane]], American singer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Artist information |url=https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6ce22798-7801-4bda-95e0-03169745f5e4 |access-date=Apr 11, 2019}}</ref>
* 1944 – [[Janet Dailey]], American author and entrepreneur (d. 2013)
* 1944 – [[Mary Robinson]], Irish lawyer and politician, [[President of Ireland]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 February 2020 |title=Mary Robinson |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/mary-robinson |access-date=28 July 2021 |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1945]] – [[Ernst Messerschmid]], German physicist and astronaut
* 1945 – [[Richard Hatch (actor)|Richard Hatch]], American actor, writer, and producer (d. 2017)
*[[1946]] – [[Allan McKeown]], English-American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Allan John McKeown |url=http://memorial.yourtribute.com/allanmckeown/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213123623/http://memorial.yourtribute.com/allanmckeown/ |archive-date=February 13, 2019 |access-date=Feb 12, 2019 |website=yourtribute.com}}</ref>
* 1946 – [[Wayne Roycroft]], Australian equestrian rider and coach
*[[1947]] – [[Bill Champlin]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1947 – [[Linda Laubenstein]], American physician and academic (d. 1992)
* 1947 – [[İlber Ortaylı]], Turkish historian and academic
*[[1948]] – [[Elizabeth Buchan]], English author and critic
* 1948 – [[Joe Camilleri]], Maltese-Australian singer-songwriter and saxophonist
* 1948 – [[Jonathan Hyde]], Australian-English actor
* 1948 – [[Denis MacShane]], Scottish journalist and politician, UK [[Minister of State for Europe]]
* 1948 – [[Leo Sayer]], English-Australian singer-songwriter and musician
*[[1949]] – [[Andrew Neil]], Scottish journalist and academic
* 1949 – [[Denis O'Connor (police officer)|Denis O'Connor]], British police officer<ref>{{Cite web |title=O'Connor, Denis, 1949- |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w64t8vq4 |access-date=Apr 14, 2019 |publisher=[[SNAC]]}}</ref>
* 1949 – [[Rosalind Plowright]], English soprano
*[[1950]] – [[Will Hutton]], English economist and journalist
*[[1951]] – [[Al Franken]], American actor, screenwriter, and politician
* 1951 – [[Adrian Hardiman]], Irish lawyer and judge (d. 2016)
*[[1952]] – [[Mr. T]], American actor and wrestler
*[[1953]] – [[Nora Aunor]], Filipino actress and recording artist
* 1953 – [[Jim Devine]], British politician<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 15, 2011 |title=WPR - Jim Devine (Ex-MP) |url=http://www.parliamentaryrecord.com/content/profiles/mp/Jim-Devine/Livingston/766 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715044446/http://www.parliamentaryrecord.com/content/profiles/mp/Jim-Devine/Livingston/766 |archive-date=2011-07-15}}</ref>
*[[1954]] – [[Marc Ribot]], American guitarist and composer
*[[1955]] – [[Paul Barber (field hockey)|Paul Barber]], English field hockey player
* 1955 – [[Stan Lynch]], American drummer, songwriter, and producer
*[[1957]] – [[James Bailey (basketball)|James Bailey]], American basketball player
* 1957 – [[Nadine Dorries]], English nurse and politician
* 1957 – [[Judge Reinhold]], American actor and producer
* 1957 – [[Renée Soutendijk]], Dutch actress
*[[1958]] – [[Christian Audigier]], French fashion designer (d. 2015)
* 1958 – [[Muffy Calder]], Canadian-Scottish computer scientist and academic<ref name="whoswho">{{Cite web |title=CALDER, Prof. Muffy |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U256072 |access-date=3 February 2019 |website=Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press}}</ref>
* 1958 – [[Michael Crick]], English journalist and author<ref>{{Cite web |last=Matt Wells |date=17 October 2003 |title=The Guardian profile: Michael Crick |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/oct/17/uk.conservatives1 |access-date=3 February 2019 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>
* 1958 – [[Naeem Khan]], Indian-American fashion designer
* 1958 – [[Jefery Levy]], American director, producer, and screenwriter<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jerry Roberts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA335 |title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |date=5 June 2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6378-1 |pages=335}}</ref>
*[[1959]] – [[Nick Cassavetes]], American actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1959 – [[Abdulla Yameen]], Maldivian politician, 6th [[President of the Maldives]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=B. Turner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YtvMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA829 |title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2015: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World |date=27 December 2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-349-67278-3 |pages=829}}</ref>
*[[1960]] – [[Jeffrey Dahmer]], American serial killer (d. 1994)
* 1960 – [[Kent Hrbek]], American baseball player and sportscaster<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rob Neyer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vYKjyXmt0YC&pg=PA132 |title=Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups: A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues |date=2 June 2003 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-7432-4174-8 |pages=132}}</ref>
* 1960 – [[Mohanlal]], Indian actor
* 1960 – [[Mark Ridgway]], Australian cricketer
* 1960 – [[Vladimir Salnikov]], Russian swimmer
*[[1962]] – [[David Crumb]], American composer and educator
*[[1963]] – [[Richard Appel]], American screenwriter and producer
* 1963 – [[Patrick Grant (composer)|Patrick Grant]], American musician and producer
* 1963 – [[David Lonsdale]], English actor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lonsdale, David, 1963- |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2013025020.html |access-date=Apr 17, 2017 |website=[[Id.loc.gov]]}}</ref>
* 1963 – [[Dave Specter]], American guitarist
* 1963 – [[Laurie Spina]], Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
*[[1964]] – [[Danny Bailey]], English footballer and coach<ref>{{Cite web |title=Danny Bailey |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=315 |access-date=Feb 15, 2019 |website=[[Soccerbase]]}}</ref>
* 1964 – [[Pete Sandoval]], Salvadoran-American drummer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Artist information |url=https://musicbrainz.org/artist/021cf1cd-8ac4-4d58-aba2-301e9e336d60 |access-date=Apr 23, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1966]] – [[Lisa Edelstein]], American actress and playwright
* 1966 – [[Tatyana Ledovskaya]], Belarusian hurdler
*[[1967]] – [[Chris Benoit]], Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
*[[1968]] – [[Ilmar Raag]], Estonian director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1968 – [[Matthias Ungemach]], German-Australian rower
* 1968 – [[Julie Vega]], Filipino actress and singer (d. 1985)
*[[1969]] – [[Pierluigi Brivio]], Italian footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=BRIVIO PIERLUIGI |url=https://www.tuttocalciatori.net/Brivio_Pierluigi |access-date=Mar 8, 2019 |website=tuttocalciatori.net |language=it}}</ref>
* 1969 – [[Georgiy Gongadze]], Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (d. 2000)
* 1969 – [[Masayo Kurata]], Japanese voice actress and singer
* 1969 – [[George LeMieux]], American lawyer and politician
* 1969 – [[Brian Statham (footballer)|Brian Statham]], Rhodesian born English footballer and manager<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brian Statham |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=7567 |access-date=21 May 2020 |website=[[Soccerbase]]}}</ref>
*[[1970]] – [[Brigita Bukovec]], Slovenian hurdler
* 1970 – [[Dorsey Levens]], American football player and sportscaster
* 1970 – [[Pauline Menczer]], Australian surfer
* 1970 – [[Carl Veart]], Australian footballer and coach
*[[1972]] – [[The Notorious B.I.G.]], American rapper (d. 1997)
*[[1973]] – [[Stewart Cink]], American golfer
* 1973 – [[Noel Fielding]], English comedian, musician and television presenter
*[[1974]] – [[Brad Arthur]], Australian rugby league coach
* 1974 – [[Fairuza Balk]], American actress
* 1974 – [[Havoc (musician)|Havoc]], American rapper and producer
*[[1975]] – [[Anthony Mundine]], Australian rugby league player and boxer
*[[1976]] – [[Stuart Bingham]], English snooker player
* 1976 – [[Abderrahim Goumri]], Moroccan runner (d. 2013)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abderrahim GOUMRI |url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/morocco/abderrahim-goumri-55511 |access-date=Apr 23, 2019 |website=[[IAAF]]}}</ref>
* 1976 – [[Deron Miller]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Miller, Deron, 1976- |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008083420.html |access-date=Apr 23, 2019 |website=[[Id.loc.gov]]}}</ref>
*[[1977]] – [[Quinton Fortune]], South African international footballer and coach<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quinton Fortune |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=14332 |access-date=21 May 2020 |website=[[Soccerbase]]}}</ref>
* 1977 – [[Michael Fuß]], German footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Fuß |url=http://www.tebe.de/portrait28_fu%C3%9F.JPG.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719093750/http://www.tebe.de/portrait28_fu%C3%9F.JPG.html |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |publisher=[[Tennis Borussia Berlin]] |language=de}}</ref>
* 1977 – [[Ricky Williams]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Ricky Williams |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/1756/ricky-williams |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref>
*[[1978]] – [[Max B]], American rapper and songwriter<ref>{{Cite web |title=Max B |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1094253-Max-B-2 |access-date=Apr 3, 2019 |website=[[Discogs.com]]}}</ref>
* 1978 – [[Briana Banks]], German-American porn actress and model<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=briana banks |url=http://www.penthouse.com/t1/pets/briana-banks.html |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809133501/http://www.penthouse.com/t1/pets/briana-banks.html |archive-date=August 9, 2007 |access-date=Apr 25, 2019}}</ref>
* 1978 – [[Jamaal Magloire]], Canadian basketball player and coach
*[[1979]] – [[Damián Ariel Álvarez]], Argentinian-Mexican footballer
* 1979 – [[Jamie Hepburn]], Scottish politician, [[Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health]]
* 1979 – [[James Clancy Phelan]], Australian author and academic
* 1979 – [[Scott Smith (fighter)|Scott Smith]], American mixed martial artist
* 1979 – [[Sonja Vectomov]], Czech musician/composer
*[[1980]] – [[Gotye]], Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter
*[[1981]] – [[Craig Anderson (ice hockey)|Craig Anderson]], American ice hockey player
* 1981 – [[Edson Buddle]], American soccer player
* 1981 – [[Josh Hamilton]], American baseball player
* 1981 – [[Maximilian Mutzke]], German singer-songwriter
* 1981 – [[Anna Rogowska]], Polish pole vaulter
*[[1983]] – [[Līga Dekmeijere]], Latvian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Liga Dekmeijere |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/player/40341/title/Liga-Dekmeijere |access-date=Apr 9, 2019 |publisher=[[Women's Tennis Association]]}}</ref>
* 1983 – [[Deidson Araújo Maia]], Brazilian footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Passport |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/deidson-araujo-maia/135990/ |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
*[[1984]] – [[Brandon Fields]], American football player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brandon Fields |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FielBr20.htm?redir |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |website=[[Pro-Football-Reference.com]]}}</ref>
* 1984 – [[Sara Goller]], German volleyball player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sara Goller |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/sara-goller-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417221616/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/sara-goller-1.html |archive-date=April 17, 2020 |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |publisher=[[Sports Reference]]}}</ref>
*[[1985]] – [[Mark Cavendish]], Manx cyclist
* 1985 – [[Alexander Dale Oen]], Norwegian swimmer (d. 2012)
* 1985 – [[Isa Guha]], English cricketer and sportscaster
* 1985 – [[Lucie Hradecká]], Czech tennis player
* 1985 – [[Kano (rapper)|Kano]], English rapper, producer, and actor
* 1985 – [[Dušan Kuciak]], Slovak footballer
* 1985 – [[Heath L'Estrange]], Australian rugby league player
* 1985 – [[Andrew Miller (baseball)|Andrew Miller]], American baseball player
*[[1986]] – [[Mario Mandžukić]], Croatian footballer
* 1986 – [[Myra (singer)|Myra]], American singer and actress<ref>{{Cite web |title=Myra |url=http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000045012479 |access-date=Apr 9, 2019 |website=[[Isni]]}}</ref>
* 1986 – [[Eder Sánchez]], Mexican race walker
* 1986 – [[Park Sojin]], South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
* 1986 – [[Greg Stewart (ice hockey)|Greg Stewart]], Canadian ice hockey player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gregory Stewart |url=https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/14187/gregory-stewart |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |website=eliteprospects.com}}</ref>
* 1986 – [[Matt Wieters]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Matt Wieters |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/matt-wieters-446308 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref>
*[[1987]] – [[Beau Falloon]], Australian rugby league player
*[[1988]] – [[Claire Cashmore]], English Paralympic swimmer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Claire Cashmore |url=https://www.paralympic.org/rio-2016/schedule-results/info-live-results/rio-2016/eng/zb/engzb_swimming-athlete-profile-n1229547-cashmore-claire.htm |access-date=24 February 2020 |website=International Paralympic Committee |language=en}}</ref>
* 1988 – [[Park Gyu-ri]], South Korean singer
* 1988 – [[Jonny Howson]], English footballer
* 1988 – [[Kaire Leibak]], Estonian triple jumper<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kaire LEIBAK |url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/estonia/kaire-leibak-205210 |access-date=Apr 30, 2019 |website=[[IAAF]]}}</ref>
*[[1989]] – [[Emily Robins]], New Zealand actress and singer
* 1989 – [[Hal Robson-Kanu]], Welsh footballer
*[[1990]] – [[Kierre Beckles]], Barbadian athlete<ref>{{Cite web |title=Athletics {{!}} Athlete Profile: Kierre BECKLES - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/athletics/athlete-profile-n6009123-kierre-beckles.htm |access-date=14 April 2020 |website=results.gc2018.com}}</ref>
* 1990 – [[Rene Krhin]], Slovenian footballer
*[[1991]] – [[Guilherme Costa Marques|Guilherme]], Brazilian footballer
*[[1992]] – [[Hutch Dano]], American actor
* 1992 – [[Lisa Evans]], Scottish footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lisa Evans |url=https://www.arsenal.com/women/players/lisa-evans |access-date=28 April 2020 |website=www.arsenal.com |language=en}}</ref>
* 1992 – [[Philipp Grüneberg]], German footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philipp Grüneberg |url=https://www.fussballdaten.de/person/philipp-grueneberg/ |access-date=Apr 30, 2019 |website=[[fussballdaten.de]] |language=de}}</ref>
* 1992 – [[Olivia Olson]], American singer and actress
*[[1993]] – [[Grete Gaim]], Estonian biathlete<ref>{{Cite web |title=GAIM, GRETE |url=http://www.esbl.ee/biograafia/Grete_Gaim |access-date=Apr 9, 2019 |language=et}}</ref>
* 1993 – [[Luke Garbutt]], English footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luke Garbutt |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=53091 |access-date=21 May 2020 |website=[[Soccerbase]]}}</ref>
* 1993 – [[Lynn Williams (soccer)|Lynn Williams]], American soccer player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lynn Williams |url=https://www.ussoccer.com/players/enwiki/w/lynn-williams |access-date=2021-01-14 |website=www.ussoccer.com |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1994]] – [[Tom Daley]], English diver<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 December 2013 |title=Tom Daley's 'brave' announcement should not matter - but it does |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/25193760 |access-date=24 February 2020 |website=BBC Sport |language=en-gb}}</ref>
*[[1995]] – [[Diego Loyzaga]], Filipino actor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carlos Diego Loyzaga Montano |url=https://www.affordablecebu.com/load/biography/carlos_diego_loyzaga_montano/36-1-0-864 |access-date=Apr 9, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1996]] – [[Josh Allen (quarterback)|Josh Allen]], American football player
* 1996 – [[Indy de Vroome]], Dutch tennis player
* 1996 – [[Karen Khachanov]], Russian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tennis Karen Khachanov - ESPN |url=http://m.espn.com/general/tennis/playercard?playerId=2367&src=desktop |access-date=24 February 2020 |website=m.espn.com |language=EN}}</ref>
*[[1997]] – [[Ivan De Santis]], Italian footballer
* 1997 – [[Sisca Folkertsma]], Dutch footballer
* 1997 – [[Viktoria Petryk]], Ukrainian singer-songwriter
* 1997 – [[Kevin Quinn (actor)|Kevin Quinn]], American actor and singer<ref>{{Cite web |title=BUNK'D |url=https://www.dgepress.com/disneychannel/shows/bunkd/bios/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702141417/http://www.disneyabcpress.com/disneychannel/shows/bunkd/bios/ |archive-date=July 2, 2017 |access-date=June 8, 2021 |website=Disney Channel |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[2002]] – [[Elena Huelva]], Spanish cancer activist and influencer (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roca |first=Ariadna |title=¿Quién es la familia de Elena Huelva? Su apoyo más importante durante su lucha contra el cáncer |url=https://www.antena3.com/novamas/gente/quien-familia-elena-huelva-apoyo-mas-importante-lucha-cancer_2023010463b5844216973000018e9471.html |access-date=2022-01-06 |website=[[Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel)|Antena 3]]|language=es}}</ref>
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[252]] – [[Sun Quan]], Chinese emperor of [[Eastern Wu]] (b. 182)
* [[954]] – [[Feng Dao]], Chinese prince and chancellor (b. 882)
* [[987]] – [[Louis V of France|Louis V]], king of [[West Francia]] (b. c. 966)
*[[1075]] – [[Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary|Richeza of Poland]], queen of Hungary (b. 1013)
*[[1086]] – [[Wang Anshi]], Chinese statesman and poet (b. 1021)
*[[1237]] – [[Olaf the Black]], Manx son of [[Godred II Olafsson]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Orr Anderson|author-link= Alan Orr Anderson|year=1922|title= Early Sources of Scottish History|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924077097958|volume=2|location=London|publisher=OLIVER AND BOYD|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924077097958/page/n518 507]|access-date=Jan 22, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1254]] – [[Conrad IV of Germany|Conrad IV]], king of Germany (b. 1228)<ref>{{cite web |title=Conrad IV {{!}} king of Germany |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Conrad-IV |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1416]] – [[Anna of Celje]], queen consort of Poland (b. 1386)
*[[1471]] – [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]], king of England (b. 1421)
*[[1481]] – [[Christian I of Denmark|Christian I]], king of Denmark (b. 1426)
*[[1512]] – [[Pandolfo Petrucci]], Italian ruler (b. 1452)
*[[1524]] – [[Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk]], English soldier and politician, [[Lord High Treasurer]] (b. 1443)
*[[1542]] – [[Hernando de Soto]], Spanish-American explorer (b. 1496)
*[[1563]] – [[Martynas Mažvydas]], Lithuanian writer (b. 1510)
===1601–1900===
*[[1607]] – [[John Rainolds]], English scholar and academic (b. 1549)
*[[1617]] – [[Luis Fajardo (Spanish Navy officer)|Luis Fajardo]], Spanish admiral and nobleman (b. {{circa}} 1556)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/13105/luis-fajardo |title=Luis Fajardo |work=Diccionario Biográfico Español |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=27 April 2022 |language=es }}</ref>
*[[1619]] – [[Hieronymus Fabricius]], Italian anatomist (b. 1537)
*[[1639]] – [[Tommaso Campanella]], Italian astrologer, theologian, and poet (b. 1568)
*[[1647]] – [[Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft]], Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1581)
*[[1650]] – [[James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose]], Scottish general and politician (b. 1612)
*[[1664]] – [[Elizabeth Poole]], English settler, founded [[Taunton, Massachusetts]] (b. 1588)
*[[1670]] – [[Niccolò Zucchi]], Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
*[[1686]] – [[Otto von Guericke]], German physicist and inventor of the [[Magdeburg Hemispheres]] (b. 1602)
*[[1690]] – [[John Eliot (missionary)|John Eliot]], English-American minister and missionary (b. 1604)
*[[1719]] – [[Pierre Poiret]], French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
*[[1724]] – [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer]], English politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (b. 1661)
*[[1742]] – [[Lars Roberg]], Swedish physician and academic (b. 1664)
*[[1762]] – [[Alexander Joseph Sulkowski]], Polish and Saxon general (b. 1695)
*[[1771]] – [[Christopher Smart]], English actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1722)
*[[1786]] – [[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]], German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (b. 1742)
*[[1790]] – [[Thomas Warton]], English poet and critic (b. 1728)
*[[1810]] – [[Chevalier d'Eon]], French diplomat and spy (b. 1728)
*[[1829]] – [[Sikandar Jah|Sikandar Jah, 3rd Nizam]] (b. 1768)<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ap.gov.in/?page_id=207| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200615190817/https://www.ap.gov.in/?page_id=207| archive-date = 2020-06-15| title = Asaf Jahis – AP State Portal}} </ref>
*[[1844]] – [[Giuseppe Baini]], Italian priest and composer (b. 1775)
*[[1858]] – [[José de la Riva Agüero]], Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)<ref>{{cite book|first=Benjamin Eli|last=Smith|title=The Century cyclopedia of names: a pronouncing and etymological dictionary of names in geography, biography, mythology, history, ethnology, art, archaeology, fiction, etc., etc., etc.|url=https://archive.org/details/centurycyclopedi00smit/page/858/mode/2up|year=1903|publisher=The Century Company|location=New York|page=858}}</ref>
*[[1862]] – [[John Drew (actor)|John Drew]], Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
*[[1879]] – [[Arturo Prat]], Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
*[[1894]] – [[Émile Henry (anarchist)|Émile Henry]], French anarchist (b. 1872)
* 1894 – [[August Kundt]], German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
*[[1895]] – [[Franz von Suppé]], Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] – [[Joseph Olivier (rugby union)|Joseph Olivier]], French rugby player (b. 1874)
*[[1911]] – [[Williamina Fleming]], Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Deborah|last1=Todd|first2=Joseph|last2=Angelo|title=A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy|location=New York|publisher=Facts of File|year=2003|page=118|isbn=978-0-81604-639-3}}</ref>
*[[1915]] – [[Leonid Gobyato]], Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
*[[1919]] – [[Evgraf Fedorov]], Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
*[[1920]] – [[Venustiano Carranza]], Mexican politician, 54th [[President of Mexico]] (b. 1859)
*[[1925]] – [[Hidesaburō Ueno]], Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of [[Hachikō]] (b. 1871)
*[[1926]] – [[Ronald Firbank]], English-Italian author (b. 1886)
*[[1929]] – [[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery]], English politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1847)
*[[1932]] – [[Marcel Boulenger]], French fencer and author (b. 1873)
*[[1935]] – [[Jane Addams]], American activist and author, co-founded [[Hull House]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1860)
* 1935 – [[Hugo de Vries]], Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
*[[1940]] – [[Billy Minter]], English footballer and manager (b. 1888)
*[[1949]] – [[Klaus Mann]], German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1906)
*[[1952]] – [[John Garfield]], American actor (b. 1913)
*[[1956]] – [[Harry Bensley]], English businessman and adventurer (b. 1877)
*[[1957]] – [[Alexander Vertinsky]], Ukrainian-Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1889)
*[[1964]] – [[James Franck]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1882)
*[[1965]] – [[Marguerite Bise]], French chef (b. 1898)
* 1965 – [[Geoffrey de Havilland]], English pilot and engineer, designed the [[de Havilland Mosquito]] (b. 1882)
*[[1968]] – [[Doris Lloyd]], English actress (b. 1896)
*[[1970]] – [[E. L. Grant Watson]], English-Australian biologist and author (b. 1885)
*[[1973]] – [[Vaughn Monroe]], American singer, trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (b. 1911)
* 1973 – [[Ivan Konev]], Soviet Marshal and general (b. 1897)
*[[1981]] – [[Raymond McCreesh]], [[PIRA|PIRA volunteer]] and Hunger Striker (b. 1957)
* 1981 – [[Patsy O'Hara]], [[Irish National Liberation Army|INLA volunteer]] and Hunger Striker (b. 1957)
*[[1983]] – [[Kenneth Clark]], English historian and author (b. 1903)
*[[1984]] – [[Ann Little]], American actress (b. 1891)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/people/actresses/Little-Ann.html|title=Ann Little|website=silentera.com|access-date=Jan 22, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1988]] – [[Sammy Davis Sr.]], American actor and dancer (b. 1900)
*[[1991]] – [[Rajiv Gandhi]], Indian politician, 6th [[Prime Minister of India]] (b. 1944)
*[[1995]] – [[Les Aspin]], American captain and politician, 18th [[United States Secretary of Defense]] (b. 1938)
*[[1996]] – [[Paul Delph]], American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1957)
* 1996 – [[Lash LaRue]], American actor and producer (b. 1917)
* 1996 – [[Villem Raam]], Estonian art historian, art critic and conservator (b. 1910)
*[[1998]] – [[Robert Gist]], American actor and director (b. 1917)
*[[2000]] – [[Barbara Cartland]], English author (b. 1901)
* 2000 – [[John Gielgud]], English actor (b. 1904)
* 2000 – [[Mark R. Hughes]], American businessman, founded [[Herbalife]] (b. 1956)
*[[2002]] – [[Niki de Saint Phalle]], French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1930)
*[[2003]] – [[Alejandro de Tomaso]], Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded [[De Tomaso]] (b. 1928)
* 2003 – [[Frank D. White]], American captain, banker, and politician, 41st [[Governor of Arkansas]] (b. 1933)
*[[2005]] – [[Deborah Berger]], American [[outsider art]]ist (b. 1956)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/obits/1/b-13.txt|title=B Obituaries Orleans Parish Louisiana|website=US GenWeb Archive|access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref>
* 2005 – [[Stephen Elliott (actor)|Stephen Elliott]], American actor (b. 1918)
* 2005 – [[Howard Morris]], American actor and director (b. 1919)
*[[2006]] – [[Spencer Clark (racing driver)|Spencer Clark]], American race car driver (b. 1987)
* 2006 – [[Katherine Dunham]], American dancer, choreographer, and author (b. 1909)
* 2006 – [[Cherd Songsri]], Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
* 2006 – [[Billy Walker (musician)|Billy Walker]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
*[[2012]] – [[Eddie Blazonczyk]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)<ref>{{cite news|date= May 24, 2012 |title=Eddie Blazonczyk, 70, Polka Singer and Bandleader, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/music/eddie-blazonczyk-70-polka-singer-and-bandleader-dies.html|newspaper=[[Nytimes.com]]|access-date=Jan 22, 2019}}</ref>
* 2012 – [[Otis Clark]], American butler and preacher, survivor of the [[Tulsa race riot]] (b. 1903)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.voicesofoklahoma.com/interview/clark-otis/|title= Otis Clark|publisher=[[Voices of Oklahoma]]|access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>
* 2012 – [[Constantine of Irinoupolis]], Metropolitan of Irinoupolis and Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (b. 1936)
* 2012 – [[Roman Dumbadze]], Georgian commander (b. 1964)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ria.ru/20120521/654612223.html|date=May 21, 2012|website=[[Ria.ru]]|language=ru|script-title=ru:Роман Думбадзе. Биография|trans-title= Roman Dumbadze. Biography|access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>
* 2012 – [[Douglas Rodríguez (boxer)|Douglas Rodríguez]], Cuban boxer (b. 1950)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/douglas-rodriguez-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418073321/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/douglas-rodriguez-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2020|title=Douglas Rodríguez|publisher=[[Sports Reference]]|access-date=April 30, 2019}}</ref>
* 2012 – [[Bill Stewart (American football)|Bill Stewart]], American football player and coach (b. 1952)
* 2012 – [[Alan Thorne]], Australian anthropologist and academic (b. 1939)
*[[2013]] – [[Count Christian of Rosenborg]], member of the Danish royal family (b. 1942)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bt.dk/royale/grevinde-anne-dorte-af-rosenborg-er-doed|title=Grevinde Anne Dorte af Rosenborg er død|date=Jan 3, 2014|website=[[Bt.dk]]|language=da|trans-title=Countess Anne Dorte of Rosenborg is dead|access-date=Jan 22, 2019}}</ref>
* 2013 – [[Frank Comstock]], American trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1922)
* 2013 – [[Cot Deal]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1923)
* 2013 – [[Leonard Marsh (businessman)|Leonard Marsh]], American businessman, co-founded [[Snapple]] (b. 1933)
* 2013 – [[Bob Thompson (musician)|Bob Thompson]], American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
* 2013 – [[Dominique Venner]], French journalist and historian (b. 1935)
*[[2014]] – [[Tunku Annuar]], Malaysian son of [[Badlishah of Kedah]] (b. 1939)
* 2014 – [[Johnny Gray (baseball)|Johnny Gray]], American baseball player (b. 1926)
* 2014 – [[Jaime Lusinchi]], Venezuelan physician and politician, [[President of Venezuela]] (b. 1924)
* 2014 – [[Alireza Soleimani]], Iranian wrestler (b. 1956)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/so/ali-reza-soleimani-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418010122/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/so/ali-reza-soleimani-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2020|title=Ali Reza Soleimani|publisher=[[Sports Reference]]|access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>
*[[2015]] – [[Annarita Sidoti]], Italian race walker (b. 1969)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/annarita-sidoti-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418012405/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/annarita-sidoti-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2020|title=Annarita Sidoti|publisher=[[Sports Reference]]|access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>
* 2015 – [[Twinkle (singer)|Twinkle]], English singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
* 2015 – [[Jassem Al-Kharafi]], Kuwaiti businessman and politician, 8th [[List of Speakers of Kuwait National Assembly|Kuwaiti Speaker of the National Assembly]] (b. 1940)
* 2015 – [[Fred Gladding]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1936)
* 2015 – [[Louis Johnson (bassist)|Louis Johnson]], American bass player and producer (b. 1955)
*[[2016]] – [[Nick Menza]], American drummer and songwriter (b. 1964)
*[[2019]] – [[Rik Kuypers]], Belgian film director (b. 1925)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sudinfo.be/id120435/article/2019-05-22/le-realisateur-belge-rik-kuypers-est-mort-lage-de-94-ans|title=Le réalisateur belge Rik Kuypers est mort, à l'âge de 94 ans|date=May 22, 2019|website=sudinfo.be}}</ref>
* 2019 – [[Binyavanga Wainaina]], Kenyan writer (b. 1971)<ref>[https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2019/05/22/binyavanga-wainaina-1971-2019-rip/ "Binyavanga Wainaina, 1971–2019, RIP"], ''Johannesburg Review of Books'', May 22, 2019.</ref>
*[[2020]] – [[Alan Merten]], fifth [[University President|President]] of [[George Mason University]] (b. 1941) <ref>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Preston |title=University mourns the loss of Alan Merten {{!}} George Mason |url=https://www2.gmu.edu/news/585871 |website=www2.gmu.edu |access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref>
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==Holidays and observances==
* [[Afro-Colombian Day]] ([[Colombia]])
* Christian [[feast day]]:
** [[Arcangelo Tadini]]
** [[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Adílio Daronch]] and [[Manuel Gómez González]]
** Blessed [[Franz Jägerstätter]]
** Earliest day on which [[Corpus Christi (feast)|Corpus Christi]] can fall, while June 24 is the latest; held on Thursday after [[Trinity Sunday]] (often locally moved to Sunday). ([[Roman Catholic Church]])
** [[Constantine the Great and Christianity|Emperor Constantine I]]
** [[Eugène de Mazenod]]
** [[Helena of Constantinople]], also known as "Feast of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, [[Equal-to-the-Apostles]]." ([[Eastern Orthodox Church]], [[Anglican Communion]])
** [[John Eliot (missionary)|John Elliot]] ([[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|Episcopal Church]])
** [[Saints of the Cristero War]], including [[Christopher Magallanes]]
** [[May 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
* [[Circassian Day of Mourning]] ([[Circassians]])
*[[Armed Forces Day#Hungary|Day of Patriots and Military]] (Hungary)
* [[Independence Day]], celebrates the [[Montenegrin independence referendum (2006)|Montenegrin independence referendum]] in 2006, celebrated until the next day. ([[Montenegro]])
* [[International Tea Day]] ([[International observance|International]])<ref name=un>{{cite web |title=International Days |url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/ |website=www.un.org |access-date=2 January 2021 |language=en |date=6 January 2015}}</ref>
* [[Navy Day (Chile)|Navy Day]] ([[Chile]])
* [[Public holidays in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha|Saint Helena Day]], celebrates the discovery of [[Saint Helena]] in 1502. ([[Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]])
* [[World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development]] ([[International observance|International]])<ref name=un />
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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
* [[293]] – Roman Emperors [[Diocletian]] and [[Maximian]] appoint [[Galerius]] as ''[[Caesar (title)|Caesar]]'' to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the [[Tetrarchy]].
* [[878]] – [[Syracuse, Sicily]], is [[Siege of Syracuse (877–878)|captured]] by the Muslim [[Aghlabids]] after a nine-month siege.
* [[879]] – [[Pope John VIII]] gives blessings to [[Branimir of Croatia]] and to the [[Croatia]]n people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.<ref>{{cite book|last=Preveden|first=Francis Ralph|title=A History of the Croatian People from Their Arrival on the Shores of the Adriatic to the Present Day: Prehistory and Early Period Until 1397 A.D|location=New York|publisher=Philosophical Library|date=1962|oclc=906081868|page=58}}</ref>
* [[996]] – Sixteen-year-old [[Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor|Otto III]] is crowned [[Holy Roman Emperor]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hill|first=David Jayne|title=A History of Diplomacy in the International Development of Europe. Vol. 1: The Struggle for Universal Empire|location=New York|publisher=Longmans, Green & Co.|date=1911|oclc=557420|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F3HFAAAAMAAJ|pages=189–190}}</ref>
*[[1349]] – [[Dušan's Code]], the constitution of the [[Serbian Empire]], is enacted by [[Dušan the Mighty]].
*[[1403]] – [[Henry III of Castile]] sends [[Ruy González de Clavijo]] as [[Timurid relations with Europe|ambassador to Timur]] to discuss the possibility of an alliance between Timur and Castile against the [[Ottoman Empire]].
*[[1554]] – [[Mary I of England|Queen Mary I]] grants a [[royal charter]] to [[Derby School]], as a grammar school for boys in [[Derby]], England.
===1601–1900===
*[[1659]] – In the [[Concert of The Hague (1659)|Concert of The Hague]], the [[Dutch Republic]], the [[Commonwealth of England]] and the [[Kingdom of France]] set out their views on how the [[Second Northern War]] should end.
*[[1660]] – The [[Battle of Long Sault]] concludes after five days in which [[France|French]] [[New France|colonial]] [[militia]], with their [[Wyandot people|Huron]] and [[Algonquin people|Algonquin]] allies, are defeated by the [[Iroquois Confederacy]].
*[[1674]] – The [[szlachta|nobility]] elect [[John III Sobieski|John Sobieski]] King of Poland and Grand Duke of [[Lithuania]].
*[[1703]] – [[Daniel Defoe]] is imprisoned on charges of [[seditious libel]].<ref>{{cite book|last=La Grand|first=Virginia|title=A Spectacular Failure: Robinson Crusoe I, II, III|location=New York|publisher=Rodopi|date=2012|isbn=9789042035881|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-701ccnkmW8C|pages=62–63}}</ref>
*[[1725]] – The [[Order of St. Alexander Nevsky]] is instituted in Russia by Empress [[Catherine I]]. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in [[1942]] as the [[Order of Alexander Nevsky]].
*[[1758]] – Ten-year-old [[Mary Campbell (colonial settler)|Mary Campbell]] is abducted in [[Pennsylvania]] by [[Lenape]] during the [[French and Indian War]]. She is returned six and a half years later.
*[[1792]] – A [[lava dome]] collapses on [[Mount Unzen]], near the city of [[Shimabara, Nagasaki|Shimbara]] on the [[Japan]]ese island of [[Kyūshū]], [[1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami|creating a deadly tsunami]] that killed nearly 15,000 people.<ref>{{cite book|last=Heimburger|first=Jean-François|title=Japan and Natural Disasters: Prevention and Risk Management|location=London|publisher=ISTE Ltd|date=2018|isbn=9781786303707|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_3JyDwAAQBAJ|page=17}}</ref>
*[[1809]] – The first day of the [[Battle of Aspern-Essling]] between the Austrian army led by [[Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen|Archduke Charles]] and the French army led by [[Napoleon|Napoleon I of France]] sees the French attack across the [[Danube]] held.
*[[1851]] – [[Slavery in Colombia]] is abolished.
*[[1856]] – [[Lawrence, Kansas]] is [[Sacking of Lawrence|captured and burned]] by pro-[[slavery]] forces.
*[[1863]] – [[American Civil War]]: The [[Union Army]] [[Battle of Plains Store|succeeds]] in closing off the last escape route from [[Port Hudson, Louisiana]], in preparation for the coming [[Siege of Port Hudson|siege]].
*[[1864]] – Russia declares an end to the [[Russo-Circassian War]] and many [[Circassians]] are forced into exile. The day is designated the [[Circassian Day of Mourning]].
* 1864 – American Civil War: The [[Battle of Spotsylvania Court House]] ends.
* 1864 – The [[Ionian Islands]] reunite with Greece.
*[[1871]] – French troops invade the [[Paris Commune]] and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "[[Bloody Week]]", some 20,000 [[communard]]s have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
* 1871 – Opening of the first [[rack railway]] in Europe, the [[Rigi Bahnen]] on [[Mount Rigi]].
*[[1879]] – [[War of the Pacific]]: Two [[Chile]]an ships blocking the harbor of [[Iquique]] (then belonging to [[Peru]]) battle two Peruvian vessels in the [[Battle of Iquique]].
*[[1881]] – The [[American Red Cross]] is established by [[Clara Barton]] in Washington, D.C.
*[[1894]] – The [[Manchester Ship Canal]] in the United Kingdom is officially opened by [[Queen Victoria]], who later [[knight]]s its designer [[Edward Leader Williams|Sir Edward Leader Williams]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Hodson|first=Patricia M.|title=The Manchester Ship Canal: A Guide to Historical Sources|location=Manchester, UK|publisher=Lancashire Bibliography|date=1985|isbn=9780902217140|page=iv|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|editor-last1=Brandwood|editor-first=Geoffrey K.|editor-last2=Daniels|editor-first2=Rebecca|title=Ruskin and Architecture|last=Hardman|first=Malcolm|chapter='Intellectual Lens and Moral Retina': A Reappraisal of Ruskin's Architectural Vision|location=Reading, UK|publisher=Spire Books|date=2003|isbn=9780954361518|page=219, fn. 42}}</ref>
===1901–present===
*[[1904]] – The [[FIFA|Fédération Internationale de Football Association]] (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
*[[1911]] – [[President of Mexico]] [[Porfirio Díaz]] and the revolutionary [[Francisco Madero]] sign the [[Treaty of Ciudad Juárez]] to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the [[Mexican Revolution]].
*[[1917]] – The [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|Imperial War Graves Commission]] is established through [[royal charter]] to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|British Empire's]] military forces.<ref>{{cite book|last=Summers|first=Julie|title=Remembered: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission|location=London|publisher=Merrell|year=2007|isbn=9781858943749|pages=16, 18|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last1=Shortt|first1=Adam|last2=Rowe|first2=L.S.|title=Preliminary Economic Studies of the War. Volume 8|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1918|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=knILAQAAIAAJ|pages=92=93|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Gilbert|first=Martin|title=The First World War: A Complete History|location=New York|publisher=Henry Holt and Company|date=1994|isbn=9780805015409|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4povVJ-jkCoC|pages=325=326}}</ref>
* 1917 – The [[Great Atlanta fire of 1917]] causes $5.5 million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
*[[1924]] – [[University of Chicago]] students [[Leopold and Loeb|Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, Jr.]] murder 14-year-old [[Bobby Franks]] in a "[[thrill killing]]".
*[[1927]] – [[Charles Lindbergh]] touches down at [[Le Bourget Field]] in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
*[[1932]] – Bad weather forces [[Amelia Earhart]] to land in a pasture in [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]], and she thereby becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
*[[1934]] – [[Oskaloosa, Iowa]], becomes the first municipality in the United States to fingerprint all of its citizens.
*[[1936]] – [[Sada Abe]] is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
*[[1937]] – A [[Soviet and Russian manned drifting ice stations|Soviet station]], [[North Pole-1]], becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the [[drift ice]] of the Arctic Ocean.
*[[1939]] – The Canadian [[National War Memorial (Canada)|National War Memorial]] is unveiled by [[George VI|King George VI]] and [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Elizabeth]] in [[Ottawa]], Ontario, Canada.
*[[1946]] – Physicist [[Louis Slotin]] is fatally irradiated in a [[criticality incident]] during an experiment with the [[demon core]] at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]].
*[[1951]] – The opening of the [[Ninth Street Show]], otherwise known as the [[9th Street Art Exhibition]]: A gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York [[avant-garde]], collectively known as the [[New York School (art)|New York School]].
*[[1961]] – [[American civil rights movement]]: [[Alabama]] Governor [[John Malcolm Patterson]] declares [[martial law]] in an attempt to restore order after [[race riot]]s break out.
*[[1966]] – The [[Ulster Volunteer Force]] declares war on the [[Irish Republican Army (1922–69)|Irish Republican Army]] in [[Northern Ireland]].
*[[1969]] – Civil unrest in [[Rosario, Argentina]], known as ''[[Rosariazo]]'', following the death of a 15-year-old student.
*[[1972]] – [[Michelangelo]]'s ''[[Pietà (Michelangelo)|Pietà]]'' in [[St. Peter's Basilica]] in Rome is damaged by a [[vandalism|vandal]], the mentally disturbed Hungarian geologist [[Laszlo Toth]].
*[[1976]] – Twenty-nine people are killed in the [[Yuba City bus disaster]] in [[Martinez, California]].
*[[1979]] – [[White Night riots]] in [[San Francisco]] following the [[manslaughter]] conviction of [[Dan White]] for the assassinations of [[George Moscone]] and [[Harvey Milk]].
*[[1981]] – The Italian government releases the membership list of [[Propaganda Due]], an illegal pseudo-[[Freemasonry|Masonic lodge]] that was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries.
* 1981 – [[Transamerica Corporation]] agrees to sell [[United Artists]] to [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] for $380 million after the box office failure of the 1980 film ''[[Heaven's Gate (film)|Heaven's Gate]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cole|first=Robert J.|title=M-G-M Is Reported Purchasing United Artists for $350 Million|work=The New York Times|date=May 16, 1981|access-date=May 21, 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/16/world/m-g-m-is-reported-purchasing-united-artists-for-350-million.html|postscript=none}}; {{cite news|title=M-G-M to Buy United Artists|work=The New York Times|date=May 22, 1981|access-date=May 21, 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/22/business/m-g-m-to-buy-united-artists.html|postscript=none}}; {{cite book|last=Kermode|first=Mark|chapter=''Heaven's Gate'' and United Artists|title=Contemporary American Cinema|editor-last1=Hammond|editor-first1=Michael|editor-last2=Williams|editor-first2=Linda Ruth|location=Maidenhead, Berk., UK|publisher=Open University Press|date=2006|isbn=9780335218318|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aD1EBgAAQBAJ|page=246}}</ref>
*[[1982]] – [[Falklands War]]: A British amphibious assault during [[Operation Sutton]] leads to the [[Battle of San Carlos (1982)|Battle of San Carlos]].
*[[1988]] – [[Margaret Thatcher]] holds her controversial [[Sermon on the Mound]] before the [[General Assembly of the Church of Scotland]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/107246|title=Speech to General Assembly of the Church of Scotland|date=1988-05-25|access-date=25 May 2018|website=Margaret Thatcher Foundation|last=Thatcher|first=Margaret}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=God, Man & Mrs Thatcher: A Critique of Mrs Thatcher's Address to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland|last=Raban|first=Jonathan|publisher=Chatto and Widus|date=1989|isbn=0-7011-3470-4|publication-place=London|authorlink=Jonathan Raban}}</ref>
*[[1991]] – Former Indian [[Prime Minister of India|Prime Minister]] [[Rajiv Gandhi]] is [[Assassination of Rajiv Gandhi|assassinated]] by a female suicide bomber near [[Chennai|Madras]].
* 1991 – [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]], president of the [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia]], flees [[Ethiopia]], effectively bringing the [[Ethiopian Civil War]] to an end.
*[[1992]] – After 30 seasons [[Johnny Carson]] hosted his penultimate episode and last featuring guests ([[Robin Williams]] and [[Bette Midler]]) of ''[[The Tonight Show]]''.
*[[1994]] – The [[Democratic Republic of Yemen]] unsuccessfully attempts to secede from the [[Republic of Yemen]]; a [[Yemeni Civil War (1994)|war]] breaks out.
*[[1996]] – The ferry {{MV|Bukoba}} sinks in [[Tanzania]]n waters on [[Lake Victoria]], killing nearly 1,000.
*[[1998]] – In [[Miami]], five [[abortion clinic]]s are attacked by a [[butyric acid]] attacker.
* 1998 – President [[Suharto]] of [[Indonesia]] resigns following the killing of students from [[Trisakti shootings|Trisakti University]] earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in [[Jakarta]] against his ongoing corrupt rule.
*[[2000]] – Nineteen people are killed in a [[2000 East Coast Aviation Services British Aerospace Jetstream crash|plane crash]] in [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident British Aerospace 3102 Jetstream 31 N16EJ Wilkes-Barre, PA |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20000521-0 |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
*[[2001]] – French [[Christiane Taubira|Taubira law]] is enacted, officially recognizing the [[Atlantic slave trade]] and [[slavery]] as [[crimes against humanity]].
*[[2003]] – The 6.8 {{M|w}} [[2003 Boumerdès earthquake|Boumerdès earthquake]] shakes northern [[Algeria]] with a maximum [[Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli intensity]] of X (''Extreme''). More than 2,200 people were killed and a moderate tsunami sank boats at the [[Balearic Islands]].
*[[2005]] – The tallest [[roller coaster]] in the world, [[Kingda Ka]] opens at [[Six Flags Great Adventure]] in [[Jackson Township, New Jersey]].
*[[2006]] – The [[Republic of Montenegro]] holds a [[Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006|referendum]] proposing independence from the [[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]]; 55% of Montenegrins vote for independence.
*[[2010]] – JAXA, the [[Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency]], launches the [[solar-sail]] spacecraft [[IKAROS]] aboard an [[H-IIA]] rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.
*[[2011]] – Radio broadcaster [[Harold Camping]] predicted that the [[2011 end times prediction|world would end]] on this date.
*[[2012]] – A [[Qafa e Vishës bus accident|bus accident]] near [[Himara|Himara, Albania]] kills 13 people and injures 21 others.
* 2012 – [[2012 Sana'a bombing|A suicide bombing]] kills more than 120 people in [[Sana'a|Sana'a, Yemen]].
*[[2014]] – [[2014 Taipei Metro attack|Random killings]] occurred on the [[Bannan Line]] of the [[Taipei MRT]], killing four and injuring 24.<ref name="Strait">{{cite news|title=Four killed, 21 wounded in Taipei subway knife attack|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/east-asia/story/three-killed-25-wounded-taiwan-subway-knife-attack-20140521|work=[[The Straits Times]]|accessdate=21 May 2014|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|date=21 May 2014}}</ref>
*[[2017]] – [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus]] performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
==Births==
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===Pre-1600===
*[[1471]] – [[Albrecht Dürer]], German painter, engraver, and mathematician (d. 1528)
*[[1497]] – [[Al-Hattab]], Muslim jurist (d. 1547)
*[[1527]] – [[Philip II of Spain]] (d. 1598)
===1601–1900===
• [[1633]] - [[Joseph Chabanceau de La Barre]], French composer (d. 1678)
*[[1653]] – [[Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Poland]] (d. 1697)
*[[1688]] – ([[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) [[Alexander Pope]], English poet, essayist, and translator (d. 1744)
*[[1755]] – [[Alfred Moore]], American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
*[[1756]] – [[William Babington (physician)|William Babington]], Irish-born, English [[physician]] and [[Mineralogy|mineralogist]] (d. 1833)<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-977|title=Babington, William|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/977|access-date=Jan 14, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1759]] – [[Joseph Fouché]], French lawyer and politician (d. 1820)
*[[1775]] – [[Lucien Bonaparte]], French soldier and politician (d. 1840)
*[[1780]] – [[Elizabeth Fry]], English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker (d. 1845)<ref>{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Fry {{!}} British philanthropist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-Fry |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1790]] – [[William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire]], English politician, [[Lord Chamberlain|Lord Chamberlain of the Household]] (d. 1858)
*[[1792]] – [[Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis]], French mathematician and engineer (d. 1843)
*[[1799]] – [[Mary Anning]], English paleontologist (d. 1847)<ref>{{cite web |title=Mary Anning {{!}} English fossil hunter and anatomist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Anning |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=23 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1801]] – [[Princess Sophie of Sweden]], Swedish princess (d. 1865)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Allgemeine deutsche Real-Encyklopädie für die gebildeten Stände|url={{Google books|ySNTAAAAcAAJ|page=696|plainurl=yes}}|access-date=Jan 22, 2019|language=de|volume=8|page=696}}</ref>
*[[1806]] – [[Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland]], English duchess (d. 1868)<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-16544|title=Gower, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson- [née Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana Howard], duchess of Sutherland|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/16544|access-date=Jan 22, 2019|last1=Reynolds|first1=K. D.}}</ref>
*[[1808]] – [[David de Jahacob Lopez Cardozo]], Dutch Talmudist (d. 1890)<ref>{{Cite Jewish Encyclopedia|article=CARDOZO, DAVID DE JAHACOB LOPEZ|url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4036-cardozo-david-de-jahacob-lopez|access-date=Jan 14, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1827]] – [[William P. Sprague]], American banker and politician (d. 1899)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000748|title=SPRAGUE, William Peter, (1827 - 1899)|website=[[Bioguide]]|access-date=Jan 23, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1828]] – [[Rudolf Koller]], Swiss painter (d. 1905)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hls-dhs-dss.ch/textes/d/D22039.php|title=Koller, Rudolf|publisher=Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz, Bern|language=de|access-date=Jan 23, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1835]] – [[František Chvostek]], Czech-Austrian physician and academic (d. 1884)
*[[1837]] – [[Itagaki Taisuke]], Japanese soldier and politician (d. 1919)
*[[1843]] – [[Charles Albert Gobat]], Swiss lawyer and politician, and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1914)
* 1843 – [[Louis Renault (jurist)|Louis Renault]], French jurist, educator, and [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1918)
*[[1844]] – [[Henri Rousseau]], French painter (d. 1910)
*[[1850]] – [[Giuseppe Mercalli]], Italian priest and volcanologist (d. 1914)
*[[1851]] – [[Léon Bourgeois]], French police officer and politician, 64th [[Prime Minister of France]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1925)
*[[1853]] – [[Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac]], French politician (d. 1905)
*[[1855]] – [[Ella Stewart Udall]], American telegraphist (d. 1937)<ref>For birth and death date, see {{Cite web |title=Eliza Luella (Ella) Stewart Udall |url=https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/people/eliza-luella-ella-stewart-udall?lang=eng |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113062943/https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/people/eliza-luella-ella-stewart-udall?lang=eng |archive-date=November 13, 2022 |access-date=November 15, 2022 |website=The First Fifty Years of Relief Society |publisher=Church Historian's Press}} For telegraphy, see {{Cite book |last=McKoy |first=Kathleen L. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JsD9o6SQQ6UC |title=Cultures at a Crossroads: An Administrative History of Pipe Spring National Monument |publisher=[[United States Department of the Interior|U. S. Department of the Interior]], [[National Park Service]], Intermountain Region |year=2000 |page=35 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
*[[1856]] – [[José Batlle y Ordóñez]], Uruguayan journalist and politician, [[President of Uruguay]] (d. 1929)
*[[1858]] – [[Édouard Goursat]], French mathematician (d. 1936)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Édouard-Jean-Baptiste Goursat|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edouard-Jean-Baptiste-Goursat|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=22 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[1859]] - [[Fred Dunlap|Frederick C. "Sure Shot" Dunlap]], He was the highest paid player in Major League Baseball from 1884 to 1889.
*[[1860]] – [[Willem Einthoven]], Indonesian-Dutch physician, physiologist, and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1927)
*[[1861]] – [[Abel Ayerza]], Argentinian physician and academic (d. 1918)
*[[1863]] – [[Archduke Eugen of Austria]] (d. 1954)
*[[1864]] – [[Princess Stéphanie of Belgium]] (d. 1945)
*[[1867]] – [[Anne Walter Fearn]], American physician (d. 1939)<ref>{{cite book|first=Philips|last=Clifton J.|chapter=Fearn, Anne Walter|editor-first=Edward T.|editor-last=James|title=Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary|volume=1|year=1971|isbn=978-0-67462-734-5|page=603}}</ref>
*[[1873]] – [[Hans Berger]], German neurologist and academic (d. 1941)
*[[1878]] – [[Glenn Curtiss]], American cyclist and engineer (d. 1930)
*[[1880]] – [[Tudor Arghezi]], Romanian journalist, author, and poet (d. 1967)
*[[1884]] – [[Manuel Pérez y Curis]], Uruguayan poet and publisher (d. 1920)
*[[1885]] – [[Princess Sophie of Albania]], (Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg) (d. 1936)
*[[1893]] – [[Arthur Carr (cricketer)|Arthur Carr]], English cricketer (d. 1963)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/10666.html|title=Arthur Carr|website=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|access-date=Jan 24, 2019}}</ref>
* 1893 – [[Giles Chippindall]], Australian public servant (d. 1969)<ref>{{cite book |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/chippindall-sir-giles-tatlock-9740|title=Chippindall, Sir Giles Tatlock (1893–1969)|author=Ian Carnell|author-link=Ian Carnell|website=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]]|publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University|access-date=Jan 14, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1895]] – [[Lázaro Cárdenas]], Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of [[Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas]] (d. 1970)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/c/cardenas.htm|title=Lázaro Cárdenas|publisher=Biografias y Vidas|language=es|access-date=May 29, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1898]] – [[Armand Hammer]], American physician and businessman, founded [[Occidental Petroleum]] (d. 1990)
* 1898 – [[Charles Léon Hammes]], Luxembourgian lawyer and judge (d. 1967)
* 1898 – [[Carl Johnson (athlete)|Carl Johnson]], American long jumper (d. 1932)
* 1898 – [[John McLaughlin (artist)|John McLaughlin]], American painter and translator (d. 1976)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] – [[Regina M. Anderson]], Multiracial playwright and librarian (d. 1993)<ref>{{Cite news |title=Regina M. Anderson {{!}} American librarian and playwright |language=en |work=Encyclopedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Regina-M-Anderson |access-date=2018-07-08}}</ref>
* 1901 – [[Horace Heidt]], American pianist, bandleader, and radio host (d. 1986)
* 1901 – [[Sam Jaffe (producer)|Sam Jaffe]], American film producer and agent (d. 2000)
* 1901 – [[Suzanne Lilar]], Belgian author and playwright (d. 1992)
*[[1902]] – [[Earl Averill]], American baseball player (d. 1983)
* 1902 – [[Marcel Breuer]], Hungarian-American architect and academic, designed the [[Ameritrust Tower]] (d. 1981)
* 1902 – [[Anatole Litvak]], Ukrainian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1974)
*[[1903]] – [[Manly Wade Wellman]], American author (d. 1986)
*[[1904]] – [[Robert Montgomery (actor)|Robert Montgomery]], American actor and director (d. 1981)
* 1904 – [[Fats Waller]], American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1943)
*[[1907]] – [[John C. Allen]], American roller coaster designer (d. 1979)
*[[1912]] – [[Chen Dayu]], Chinese painter and calligrapher (d. 2001)
* 1912 – [[John Curtis Gowan]], American psychologist and academic (d. 1986)
* 1912 – [[Monty Stratton]], American baseball player and coach (d. 1982)
*[[1913]] – [[Gina Bachauer]], Greek pianist and composer (d. 1976)
*[[1914]] – [[Romain Gary]], French novelist, diplomat, film director, aviator (d. 1980)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Romain Gary |url=http://agora.qc.ca/thematiques/mort/dossiers/gary_romain |access-date=Jun 4, 2021 |website=L'agora}}</ref>
*[[1915]] – [[Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan]], Indian Civil Service Officer and former Under Secretary-General of the UN (d. 2003)
*[[1916]] – [[Dennis Day]], American singer and actor (d. 1988)
* 1916 – [[Tinus Osendarp]], Dutch sprinter and police officer (d. 2002)
* 1916 – [[Harold Robbins]], American author and screenwriter (d. 1997)
*[[1917]] – [[Raymond Burr]], Canadian-American actor and director (d. 1993)
*[[1919]] – [[George P. Mitchell]], American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
*[[1920]] – [[Bill Barber (musician)|Bill Barber]], American tuba player and educator (d. 2007)
* 1920 – [[Forrest White]], American businessman, co-founded the [[Music Man (company)|Music Man Company]] (d. 1994)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15098790c |title=White, Forrest (1920–....) |publisher=[[Bnf.fr]] |language=fr |access-date=Apr 10, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1921]] – [[Sandy Douglas]], English computer scientist and academic, designed ''[[OXO (video game)|OXO]]'' (d. 2010)
* 1921 – [[Andrei Sakharov]], Russian physicist and academic, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1989)
*[[1923]] – [[Vernon Biever]], American photographer (d. 2010)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vernon J. Biever |url=https://www.eernissefuneralhome.com/obituaries/Vernon-J-Biever?obId=645093#/celebrationWall |access-date=Jan 31, 2019 |publisher=Eernisse Funeral Homes & Cremation Service |location=Port Washington, WI}}</ref>
* 1923 – [[Armand Borel]], Swiss-American mathematician and academic (d. 2003)
* 1923 – [[Ara Parseghian]], American football player and coach (d. 2017)
* 1923 – [[Dorothy Hewett]], Australian feminist poet, novelist and playwright (d. 2002)
* 1923 – [[Evelyn Ward]], American actress (d. 2012)
*[[1924]] – [[Peggy Cass]], American actress, comedian, and game show panelist (d. 1999)<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 March 1999 |title=Obituary: Peggy Cass |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-peggy-cass-1080192.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220512/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-peggy-cass-1080192.html |archive-date=2022-05-12 |access-date=17 February 2020 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1926]] – [[Robert Creeley]], American novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2005)
*[[1927]] – [[Kay Kendall]], English actress and comedian (d. 1959)
* 1927 – [[Péter Zwack]], Hungarian businessman and diplomat (d. 2012)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zwack Péter |url=http://www.parlament.hu/kepviselo/elet/z404.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001409/http://www.parlament.hu/kepviselo/elet/z404.htm |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |access-date=Apr 10, 2019 |language=hu}}</ref>
*[[1928]] – [[Tom Donahue (DJ)|Tom Donahue]], American radio host and producer (d. 1975)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/tom-donahue |access-date=Jan 31, 2019 |publisher=[[Rock & Roll Hall of Fame]] |location=Cleveland, Ohio}}</ref>
* 1928 – [[Alice Drummond]], American actress (d. 2016)
*[[1929]] – [[Larance Marable]], American drummer (d. 2012)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Larance Marable |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/larance-marable-mn0000101903/biography |access-date=Feb 12, 2019 |website=[[Allmusic.com]]}}</ref>
* 1929 – [[Robert Welch (designer)|Robert Welch]], English silversmith and industrial designer (d. 2000)
*[[1930]] – [[Tommy Bryant]], American bassist (d. 1982)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb139215810 |title=Bryant, Tommy (1930–1982) |publisher=[[Bnf.fr]] |language=fr |access-date=Feb 12, 2019}}</ref>
* 1930 – [[Keith Davis (rugby union)|Keith Davis]], New Zealand rugby player (d. 2019)
* 1930 – [[Malcolm Fraser]], Australian politician, 22nd [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (d. 2015)
*[[1932]] – [[Inese Jaunzeme]], Latvian javelin thrower and surgeon (d. 2011)
* 1932 – [[Leonidas Vasilikopoulos]], Greek admiral and intelligence chief (d. 2014)<ref>{{Cite web |script-title=el:Βασιλικόπουλος, Λεωνίδας |trans-title=Vasilikopoulos, Leonidas |url=http://www.hellenicnavy.gr/el/organwsi/geniko-epiteleio-naftikou/diatelesantes-arxigoi-gen/206-gr/viografika/2015-03-23-19-16-51/1067-2015-03-23-19-38-54 |access-date=Apr 10, 2019 |language=el}}</ref>
*[[1933]] – [[Maurice André]], French trumpet player (d. 2012)
* 1933 – [[Yevgeny Minayev]], Russian weightlifter (d. 1993)
*[[1934]] – [[Jocasta Innes]], Chinese-English journalist and author (d. 2013)<ref>{{Cite web |date=Apr 23, 2013 |title=Jocasta Innes |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10013601/Jocasta-Innes.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10013601/Jocasta-Innes.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |access-date=Feb 12, 2019 |website=[[Telegraph.co.uk]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* 1934 – [[Bob Northern]], American horn player and bandleader (d.2020)
* 1934 – [[Bengt I. Samuelsson]], Swedish biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate
*[[1935]] – [[Terry Lightfoot]], English clarinet player and bandleader (d. 2013)
*[[1936]] – [[Günter Blobel]], Polish-American biologist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2018)
*[[1938]] – [[Lee "Shot" Williams]], American singer (d. 2011)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lee "Shot" Williams |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/lee-shot-williams-mn0000786244/biography |access-date=Feb 12, 2019 |website=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
*[[1939]] – [[Heinz Holliger]], Swiss oboist, composer, and conductor
*[[1940]] – [[Tony Sheridan]], English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
*[[1941]] – [[Martin Carthy]], English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1941 – [[Bobby Cox]], American baseball player and manager
* 1941 – [[Ambrose Greenway, 4th Baron Greenway]], English photographer and politician
* 1941 – [[Ronald Isley]], American singer-songwriter and producer
*[[1942]] – [[David Hunt, Baron Hunt of Wirral]], English politician, [[Secretary of State for Wales]]
* 1942 – [[John Konrads]], Australian swimmer (d. 2021)
* 1942 – [[Danny Ongais]], American race car driver (d. 2022)
*[[1943]] – [[Vincent Crane]], English pianist and composer (d. 1989)
* 1943 – [[John Dalton (musician)|John Dalton]], English bass player
* 1943 – [[Hilton Valentine]], English guitarist and songwriter (d. 2021)
*[[1944]] – [[Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar]], Iranian-English academic and politician (d. 2022)
* 1944 – [[Marcie Blane]], American singer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Artist information |url=https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6ce22798-7801-4bda-95e0-03169745f5e4 |access-date=Apr 11, 2019}}</ref>
* 1944 – [[Janet Dailey]], American author and entrepreneur (d. 2013)
* 1944 – [[Mary Robinson]], Irish lawyer and politician, [[President of Ireland]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=27 February 2020 |title=Mary Robinson |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/mary-robinson |access-date=28 July 2021 |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1945]] – [[Ernst Messerschmid]], German physicist and astronaut
* 1945 – [[Richard Hatch (actor)|Richard Hatch]], American actor, writer, and producer (d. 2017)
*[[1946]] – [[Allan McKeown]], English-American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Allan John McKeown |url=http://memorial.yourtribute.com/allanmckeown/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213123623/http://memorial.yourtribute.com/allanmckeown/ |archive-date=February 13, 2019 |access-date=Feb 12, 2019 |website=yourtribute.com}}</ref>
* 1946 – [[Wayne Roycroft]], Australian equestrian rider and coach
*[[1947]] – [[Bill Champlin]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
* 1947 – [[Linda Laubenstein]], American physician and academic (d. 1992)
* 1947 – [[İlber Ortaylı]], Turkish historian and academic
*[[1948]] – [[Elizabeth Buchan]], English author and critic
* 1948 – [[Joe Camilleri]], Maltese-Australian singer-songwriter and saxophonist
* 1948 – [[Jonathan Hyde]], Australian-English actor
* 1948 – [[Denis MacShane]], Scottish journalist and politician, UK [[Minister of State for Europe]]
* 1948 – [[Leo Sayer]], English-Australian singer-songwriter and musician
*[[1949]] – [[Andrew Neil]], Scottish journalist and academic
* 1949 – [[Denis O'Connor (police officer)|Denis O'Connor]], British police officer<ref>{{Cite web |title=O'Connor, Denis, 1949- |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w64t8vq4 |access-date=Apr 14, 2019 |publisher=[[SNAC]]}}</ref>
* 1949 – [[Rosalind Plowright]], English soprano
*[[1950]] – [[Will Hutton]], English economist and journalist
*[[1951]] – [[Al Franken]], American actor, screenwriter, and politician
* 1951 – [[Adrian Hardiman]], Irish lawyer and judge (d. 2016)
*[[1952]] – [[Mr. T]], American actor and wrestler
*[[1953]] – [[Nora Aunor]], Filipino actress and recording artist
* 1953 – [[Jim Devine]], British politician<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 15, 2011 |title=WPR - Jim Devine (Ex-MP) |url=http://www.parliamentaryrecord.com/content/profiles/mp/Jim-Devine/Livingston/766 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715044446/http://www.parliamentaryrecord.com/content/profiles/mp/Jim-Devine/Livingston/766 |archive-date=2011-07-15}}</ref>
*[[1954]] – [[Marc Ribot]], American guitarist and composer
*[[1955]] – [[Paul Barber (field hockey)|Paul Barber]], English field hockey player
* 1955 – [[Stan Lynch]], American drummer, songwriter, and producer
*[[1957]] – [[James Bailey (basketball)|James Bailey]], American basketball player
* 1957 – [[Nadine Dorries]], English nurse and politician
* 1957 – [[Judge Reinhold]], American actor and producer
* 1957 – [[Renée Soutendijk]], Dutch actress
*[[1958]] – [[Christian Audigier]], French fashion designer (d. 2015)
* 1958 – [[Muffy Calder]], Canadian-Scottish computer scientist and academic<ref name="whoswho">{{Cite web |title=CALDER, Prof. Muffy |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U256072 |access-date=3 February 2019 |website=Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press}}</ref>
* 1958 – [[Michael Crick]], English journalist and author<ref>{{Cite web |last=Matt Wells |date=17 October 2003 |title=The Guardian profile: Michael Crick |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/oct/17/uk.conservatives1 |access-date=3 February 2019 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>
* 1958 – [[Naeem Khan]], Indian-American fashion designer
* 1958 – [[Jefery Levy]], American director, producer, and screenwriter<ref>{{Cite book |last=Jerry Roberts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA335 |title=Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |date=5 June 2009 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-6378-1 |pages=335}}</ref>
*[[1959]] – [[Nick Cassavetes]], American actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1959 – [[Abdulla Yameen]], Maldivian politician, 6th [[President of the Maldives]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=B. Turner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YtvMDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA829 |title=The Statesman's Yearbook 2015: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World |date=27 December 2016 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK |isbn=978-1-349-67278-3 |pages=829}}</ref>
*[[1960]] – [[Jeffrey Dahmer]], American serial killer (d. 1994)
* 1960 – [[Kent Hrbek]], American baseball player and sportscaster<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rob Neyer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vYKjyXmt0YC&pg=PA132 |title=Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups: A Complete Guide to the Best, Worst, and Most Memorable Players to Ever Grace the Major Leagues |date=2 June 2003 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-0-7432-4174-8 |pages=132}}</ref>
* 1960 – [[Mohanlal]], Indian actor
* 1960 – [[Mark Ridgway]], Australian cricketer
* 1960 – [[Vladimir Salnikov]], Russian swimmer
*[[1962]] – [[David Crumb]], American composer and educator
*[[1963]] – [[Richard Appel]], American screenwriter and producer
* 1963 – [[Patrick Grant (composer)|Patrick Grant]], American musician and producer
* 1963 – [[David Lonsdale]], English actor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lonsdale, David, 1963- |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2013025020.html |access-date=Apr 17, 2017 |website=[[Id.loc.gov]]}}</ref>
* 1963 – [[Dave Specter]], American guitarist
* 1963 – [[Laurie Spina]], Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
*[[1964]] – [[Danny Bailey]], English footballer and coach<ref>{{Cite web |title=Danny Bailey |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=315 |access-date=Feb 15, 2019 |website=[[Soccerbase]]}}</ref>
* 1964 – [[Pete Sandoval]], Salvadoran-American drummer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Artist information |url=https://musicbrainz.org/artist/021cf1cd-8ac4-4d58-aba2-301e9e336d60 |access-date=Apr 23, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1966]] – [[Lisa Edelstein]], American actress and playwright
* 1966 – [[Tatyana Ledovskaya]], Belarusian hurdler
*[[1967]] – [[Chris Benoit]], Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
*[[1968]] – [[Ilmar Raag]], Estonian director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1968 – [[Matthias Ungemach]], German-Australian rower
* 1968 – [[Julie Vega]], Filipino actress and singer (d. 1985)
*[[1969]] – [[Pierluigi Brivio]], Italian footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=BRIVIO PIERLUIGI |url=https://www.tuttocalciatori.net/Brivio_Pierluigi |access-date=Mar 8, 2019 |website=tuttocalciatori.net |language=it}}</ref>
* 1969 – [[Georgiy Gongadze]], Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (d. 2000)
* 1969 – [[Masayo Kurata]], Japanese voice actress and singer
* 1969 – [[George LeMieux]], American lawyer and politician
* 1969 – [[Brian Statham (footballer)|Brian Statham]], Rhodesian born English footballer and manager<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brian Statham |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=7567 |access-date=21 May 2020 |website=[[Soccerbase]]}}</ref>
*[[1970]] – [[Brigita Bukovec]], Slovenian hurdler
* 1970 – [[Dorsey Levens]], American football player and sportscaster
* 1970 – [[Pauline Menczer]], Australian surfer
* 1970 – [[Carl Veart]], Australian footballer and coach
*[[1972]] – [[The Notorious B.I.G.]], American rapper (d. 1997)
*[[1973]] – [[Stewart Cink]], American golfer
* 1973 – [[Noel Fielding]], English comedian, musician and television presenter
*[[1974]] – [[Brad Arthur]], Australian rugby league coach
* 1974 – [[Fairuza Balk]], American actress
* 1974 – [[Havoc (musician)|Havoc]], American rapper and producer
*[[1975]] – [[Anthony Mundine]], Australian rugby league player and boxer
*[[1976]] – [[Stuart Bingham]], English snooker player
* 1976 – [[Abderrahim Goumri]], Moroccan runner (d. 2013)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Abderrahim GOUMRI |url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/morocco/abderrahim-goumri-55511 |access-date=Apr 23, 2019 |website=[[IAAF]]}}</ref>
* 1976 – [[Deron Miller]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Miller, Deron, 1976- |url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2008083420.html |access-date=Apr 23, 2019 |website=[[Id.loc.gov]]}}</ref>
*[[1977]] – [[Quinton Fortune]], South African international footballer and coach<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quinton Fortune |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=14332 |access-date=21 May 2020 |website=[[Soccerbase]]}}</ref>
* 1977 – [[Michael Fuß]], German footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael Fuß |url=http://www.tebe.de/portrait28_fu%C3%9F.JPG.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719093750/http://www.tebe.de/portrait28_fu%C3%9F.JPG.html |archive-date=July 19, 2011 |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |publisher=[[Tennis Borussia Berlin]] |language=de}}</ref>
* 1977 – [[Ricky Williams]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Ricky Williams |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/1756/ricky-williams |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref>
*[[1978]] – [[Max B]], American rapper and songwriter<ref>{{Cite web |title=Max B |url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1094253-Max-B-2 |access-date=Apr 3, 2019 |website=[[Discogs.com]]}}</ref>
* 1978 – [[Briana Banks]], German-American porn actress and model<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=briana banks |url=http://www.penthouse.com/t1/pets/briana-banks.html |url-status=dead |magazine=[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809133501/http://www.penthouse.com/t1/pets/briana-banks.html |archive-date=August 9, 2007 |access-date=Apr 25, 2019}}</ref>
* 1978 – [[Jamaal Magloire]], Canadian basketball player and coach
*[[1979]] – [[Damián Ariel Álvarez]], Argentinian-Mexican footballer
* 1979 – [[Jamie Hepburn]], Scottish politician, [[Minister for Sport, Health Improvement and Mental Health]]
* 1979 – [[James Clancy Phelan]], Australian author and academic
* 1979 – [[Scott Smith (fighter)|Scott Smith]], American mixed martial artist
* 1979 – [[Sonja Vectomov]], Czech musician/composer
*[[1980]] – [[Gotye]], Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter
*[[1981]] – [[Craig Anderson (ice hockey)|Craig Anderson]], American ice hockey player
* 1981 – [[Edson Buddle]], American soccer player
* 1981 – [[Josh Hamilton]], American baseball player
* 1981 – [[Maximilian Mutzke]], German singer-songwriter
* 1981 – [[Anna Rogowska]], Polish pole vaulter
*[[1983]] – [[Līga Dekmeijere]], Latvian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Liga Dekmeijere |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/player/40341/title/Liga-Dekmeijere |access-date=Apr 9, 2019 |publisher=[[Women's Tennis Association]]}}</ref>
* 1983 – [[Deidson Araújo Maia]], Brazilian footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Passport |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/deidson-araujo-maia/135990/ |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |website=soccerway.com}}</ref>
*[[1984]] – [[Brandon Fields]], American football player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brandon Fields |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/F/FielBr20.htm?redir |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |website=[[Pro-Football-Reference.com]]}}</ref>
* 1984 – [[Sara Goller]], German volleyball player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sara Goller |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/sara-goller-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417221616/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/go/sara-goller-1.html |archive-date=April 17, 2020 |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |publisher=[[Sports Reference]]}}</ref>
*[[1985]] – [[Mark Cavendish]], Manx cyclist
* 1985 – [[Alexander Dale Oen]], Norwegian swimmer (d. 2012)
* 1985 – [[Isa Guha]], English cricketer and sportscaster
* 1985 – [[Lucie Hradecká]], Czech tennis player
* 1985 – [[Kano (rapper)|Kano]], English rapper, producer, and actor
* 1985 – [[Dušan Kuciak]], Slovak footballer
* 1985 – [[Heath L'Estrange]], Australian rugby league player
* 1985 – [[Andrew Miller (baseball)|Andrew Miller]], American baseball player
*[[1986]] – [[Mario Mandžukić]], Croatian footballer
* 1986 – [[Myra (singer)|Myra]], American singer and actress<ref>{{Cite web |title=Myra |url=http://www.isni.org/isni/0000000045012479 |access-date=Apr 9, 2019 |website=[[Isni]]}}</ref>
* 1986 – [[Eder Sánchez]], Mexican race walker
* 1986 – [[Park Sojin]], South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
* 1986 – [[Greg Stewart (ice hockey)|Greg Stewart]], Canadian ice hockey player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gregory Stewart |url=https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/14187/gregory-stewart |access-date=Apr 25, 2019 |website=eliteprospects.com}}</ref>
* 1986 – [[Matt Wieters]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Matt Wieters |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/matt-wieters-446308 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=18 May 2023}}</ref>
*[[1987]] – [[Beau Falloon]], Australian rugby league player
*[[1988]] – [[Claire Cashmore]], English Paralympic swimmer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Claire Cashmore |url=https://www.paralympic.org/rio-2016/schedule-results/info-live-results/rio-2016/eng/zb/engzb_swimming-athlete-profile-n1229547-cashmore-claire.htm |access-date=24 February 2020 |website=International Paralympic Committee |language=en}}</ref>
* 1988 – [[Park Gyu-ri]], South Korean singer
* 1988 – [[Jonny Howson]], English footballer
* 1988 – [[Kaire Leibak]], Estonian triple jumper<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kaire LEIBAK |url=https://www.iaaf.org/athletes/estonia/kaire-leibak-205210 |access-date=Apr 30, 2019 |website=[[IAAF]]}}</ref>
*[[1989]] – [[Emily Robins]], New Zealand actress and singer
* 1989 – [[Hal Robson-Kanu]], Welsh footballer
*[[1990]] – [[Kierre Beckles]], Barbadian athlete<ref>{{Cite web |title=Athletics {{!}} Athlete Profile: Kierre BECKLES - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/athletics/athlete-profile-n6009123-kierre-beckles.htm |access-date=14 April 2020 |website=results.gc2018.com}}</ref>
* 1990 – [[Rene Krhin]], Slovenian footballer
*[[1991]] – [[Guilherme Costa Marques|Guilherme]], Brazilian footballer
*[[1992]] – [[Hutch Dano]], American actor
* 1992 – [[Lisa Evans]], Scottish footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lisa Evans |url=https://www.arsenal.com/women/players/lisa-evans |access-date=28 April 2020 |website=www.arsenal.com |language=en}}</ref>
* 1992 – [[Philipp Grüneberg]], German footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Philipp Grüneberg |url=https://www.fussballdaten.de/person/philipp-grueneberg/ |access-date=Apr 30, 2019 |website=[[fussballdaten.de]] |language=de}}</ref>
* 1992 – [[Olivia Olson]], American singer and actress
*[[1993]] – [[Grete Gaim]], Estonian biathlete<ref>{{Cite web |title=GAIM, GRETE |url=http://www.esbl.ee/biograafia/Grete_Gaim |access-date=Apr 9, 2019 |language=et}}</ref>
* 1993 – [[Luke Garbutt]], English footballer<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luke Garbutt |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=53091 |access-date=21 May 2020 |website=[[Soccerbase]]}}</ref>
* 1993 – [[Lynn Williams (soccer)|Lynn Williams]], American soccer player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lynn Williams |url=https://www.ussoccer.com/players/enwiki/w/lynn-williams |access-date=2021-01-14 |website=www.ussoccer.com |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1994]] – [[Tom Daley]], English diver<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 December 2013 |title=Tom Daley's 'brave' announcement should not matter - but it does |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/diving/25193760 |access-date=24 February 2020 |website=BBC Sport |language=en-gb}}</ref>
*[[1995]] – [[Diego Loyzaga]], Filipino actor<ref>{{Cite web |title=Carlos Diego Loyzaga Montano |url=https://www.affordablecebu.com/load/biography/carlos_diego_loyzaga_montano/36-1-0-864 |access-date=Apr 9, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1996]] – [[Josh Allen (quarterback)|Josh Allen]], American football player
* 1996 – [[Indy de Vroome]], Dutch tennis player
* 1996 – [[Karen Khachanov]], Russian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tennis Karen Khachanov - ESPN |url=http://m.espn.com/general/tennis/playercard?playerId=2367&src=desktop |access-date=24 February 2020 |website=m.espn.com |language=EN}}</ref>
*[[1997]] – [[Ivan De Santis]], Italian footballer
* 1997 – [[Sisca Folkertsma]], Dutch footballer
* 1997 – [[Viktoria Petryk]], Ukrainian singer-songwriter
* 1997 – [[Kevin Quinn (actor)|Kevin Quinn]], American actor and singer<ref>{{Cite web |title=BUNK'D |url=https://www.dgepress.com/disneychannel/shows/bunkd/bios/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702141417/http://www.disneyabcpress.com/disneychannel/shows/bunkd/bios/ |archive-date=July 2, 2017 |access-date=June 8, 2021 |website=Disney Channel |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[2002]] – [[Elena Huelva]], Spanish cancer activist and influencer (d. [[2023]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roca |first=Ariadna |title=¿Quién es la familia de Elena Huelva? Su apoyo más importante durante su lucha contra el cáncer |url=https://www.antena3.com/novamas/gente/quien-familia-elena-huelva-apoyo-mas-importante-lucha-cancer_2023010463b5844216973000018e9471.html |access-date=2022-01-06 |website=[[Antena 3 (Spanish TV channel)|Antena 3]]|language=es}}</ref>
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[252]] – [[Sun Quan]], Chinese emperor of [[Eastern Wu]] (b. 182)
* [[954]] – [[Feng Dao]], Chinese prince and chancellor (b. 882)
* [[987]] – [[Louis V of France|Louis V]], king of [[West Francia]] (b. c. 966)
*[[1075]] – [[Richeza of Poland, Queen of Hungary|Richeza of Poland]], queen of Hungary (b. 1013)
*[[1086]] – [[Wang Anshi]], Chinese statesman and poet (b. 1021)
*[[1237]] – [[Olaf the Black]], Manx son of [[Godred II Olafsson]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Alan Orr Anderson|author-link= Alan Orr Anderson|year=1922|title= Early Sources of Scottish History|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924077097958|volume=2|location=London|publisher=OLIVER AND BOYD|page=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924077097958/page/n518 507]|access-date=Jan 22, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1254]] – [[Conrad IV of Germany|Conrad IV]], king of Germany (b. 1228)<ref>{{cite web |title=Conrad IV {{!}} king of Germany |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Conrad-IV |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=14 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1416]] – [[Anna of Celje]], queen consort of Poland (b. 1386)
*[[1471]] – [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]], king of England (b. 1421)
*[[1481]] – [[Christian I of Denmark|Christian I]], king of Denmark (b. 1426)
*[[1512]] – [[Pandolfo Petrucci]], Italian ruler (b. 1452)
*[[1524]] – [[Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk]], English soldier and politician, [[Lord High Treasurer]] (b. 1443)
*[[1542]] – [[Hernando de Soto]], Spanish-American explorer (b. 1496)
*[[1563]] – [[Martynas Mažvydas]], Lithuanian writer (b. 1510)
===1601–1900===
*[[1607]] – [[John Rainolds]], English scholar and academic (b. 1549)
*[[1617]] – [[Luis Fajardo (Spanish Navy officer)|Luis Fajardo]], Spanish admiral and nobleman (b. {{circa}} 1556)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dbe.rah.es/biografias/13105/luis-fajardo |title=Luis Fajardo |work=Diccionario Biográfico Español |publisher=Real Academia de la Historia |access-date=27 April 2022 |language=es }}</ref>
*[[1619]] – [[Hieronymus Fabricius]], Italian anatomist (b. 1537)
*[[1639]] – [[Tommaso Campanella]], Italian astrologer, theologian, and poet (b. 1568)
*[[1647]] – [[Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft]], Dutch poet and playwright (b. 1581)
*[[1650]] – [[James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose]], Scottish general and politician (b. 1612)
*[[1664]] – [[Elizabeth Poole]], English settler, founded [[Taunton, Massachusetts]] (b. 1588)
*[[1670]] – [[Niccolò Zucchi]], Italian astronomer and physicist (b. 1586)
*[[1686]] – [[Otto von Guericke]], German physicist and inventor of the [[Magdeburg Hemispheres]] (b. 1602)
*[[1690]] – [[John Eliot (missionary)|John Eliot]], English-American minister and missionary (b. 1604)
*[[1719]] – [[Pierre Poiret]], French mystic and philosopher (b. 1646)
*[[1724]] – [[Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer]], English politician, [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] (b. 1661)
*[[1742]] – [[Lars Roberg]], Swedish physician and academic (b. 1664)
*[[1762]] – [[Alexander Joseph Sulkowski]], Polish and Saxon general (b. 1695)
*[[1771]] – [[Christopher Smart]], English actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1722)
*[[1786]] – [[Carl Wilhelm Scheele]], German-Swedish chemist and pharmacist (b. 1742)
*[[1790]] – [[Thomas Warton]], English poet and critic (b. 1728)
*[[1810]] – [[Chevalier d'Eon]], French diplomat and spy (b. 1728)
*[[1829]] – [[Sikandar Jah|Sikandar Jah, 3rd Nizam]] (b. 1768)<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ap.gov.in/?page_id=207| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200615190817/https://www.ap.gov.in/?page_id=207| archive-date = 2020-06-15| title = Asaf Jahis – AP State Portal}} </ref>
*[[1844]] – [[Giuseppe Baini]], Italian priest and composer (b. 1775)
*[[1858]] – [[José de la Riva Agüero]], Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (b. 1783)<ref>{{cite book|first=Benjamin Eli|last=Smith|title=The Century cyclopedia of names: a pronouncing and etymological dictionary of names in geography, biography, mythology, history, ethnology, art, archaeology, fiction, etc., etc., etc.|url=https://archive.org/details/centurycyclopedi00smit/page/858/mode/2up|year=1903|publisher=The Century Company|location=New York|page=858}}</ref>
*[[1862]] – [[John Drew (actor)|John Drew]], Irish-American actor and manager (b. 1827)
*[[1879]] – [[Arturo Prat]], Chilean lawyer and commander (b. 1848)
*[[1894]] – [[Émile Henry (anarchist)|Émile Henry]], French anarchist (b. 1872)
* 1894 – [[August Kundt]], German physicist and academic (b. 1839)
*[[1895]] – [[Franz von Suppé]], Austrian composer and conductor (b. 1819)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] – [[Joseph Olivier (rugby union)|Joseph Olivier]], French rugby player (b. 1874)
*[[1911]] – [[Williamina Fleming]], Scottish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1857)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Deborah|last1=Todd|first2=Joseph|last2=Angelo|title=A to Z of Scientists in Space and Astronomy|location=New York|publisher=Facts of File|year=2003|page=118|isbn=978-0-81604-639-3}}</ref>
*[[1915]] – [[Leonid Gobyato]], Russian general and engineer (b. 1875)
*[[1919]] – [[Evgraf Fedorov]], Russian mathematician, crystallographer, and mineralogist (b. 1853)
*[[1920]] – [[Venustiano Carranza]], Mexican politician, 54th [[President of Mexico]] (b. 1859)
*[[1925]] – [[Hidesaburō Ueno]], Japanese agriculturalist, guardian of [[Hachikō]] (b. 1871)
*[[1926]] – [[Ronald Firbank]], English-Italian author (b. 1886)
*[[1929]] – [[Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery]], English politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1847)
*[[1932]] – [[Marcel Boulenger]], French fencer and author (b. 1873)
*[[1935]] – [[Jane Addams]], American activist and author, co-founded [[Hull House]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1860)
* 1935 – [[Hugo de Vries]], Dutch botanist and geneticist (b. 1848)
*[[1940]] – [[Billy Minter]], English footballer and manager (b. 1888)
*[[1949]] – [[Klaus Mann]], German-American novelist, playwright, and critic (b. 1906)
*[[1952]] – [[John Garfield]], American actor (b. 1913)
*[[1956]] – [[Harry Bensley]], English businessman and adventurer (b. 1877)
*[[1957]] – [[Alexander Vertinsky]], Ukrainian-Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet (b. 1889)
*[[1964]] – [[James Franck]], German physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1882)
*[[1965]] – [[Marguerite Bise]], French chef (b. 1898)
* 1965 – [[Geoffrey de Havilland]], English pilot and engineer, designed the [[de Havilland Mosquito]] (b. 1882)
*[[1968]] – [[Doris Lloyd]], English actress (b. 1896)
*[[1970]] – [[E. L. Grant Watson]], English-Australian biologist and author (b. 1885)
*[[1973]] – [[Vaughn Monroe]], American singer, trumpet player, bandleader, and actor (b. 1911)
* 1973 – [[Ivan Konev]], Soviet Marshal and general (b. 1897)
*[[1981]] – [[Raymond McCreesh]], [[PIRA|PIRA volunteer]] and Hunger Striker (b. 1957)
* 1981 – [[Patsy O'Hara]], [[Irish National Liberation Army|INLA volunteer]] and Hunger Striker (b. 1957)
*[[1983]] – [[Kenneth Clark]], English historian and author (b. 1903)
*[[1984]] – [[Ann Little]], American actress (b. 1891)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.silentera.com/people/actresses/Little-Ann.html|title=Ann Little|website=silentera.com|access-date=Jan 22, 2019}}</ref>
*[[1988]] – [[Sammy Davis Sr.]], American actor and dancer (b. 1900)
*[[1991]] – [[Rajiv Gandhi]], Indian politician, 6th [[Prime Minister of India]] (b. 1944)
*[[1995]] – [[Les Aspin]], American captain and politician, 18th [[United States Secretary of Defense]] (b. 1938)
*[[1996]] – [[Paul Delph]], American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1957)
* 1996 – [[Lash LaRue]], American actor and producer (b. 1917)
* 1996 – [[Villem Raam]], Estonian art historian, art critic and conservator (b. 1910)
*[[1998]] – [[Robert Gist]], American actor and director (b. 1917)
*[[2000]] – [[Barbara Cartland]], English author (b. 1901)
* 2000 – [[John Gielgud]], English actor (b. 1904)
* 2000 – [[Mark R. Hughes]], American businessman, founded [[Herbalife]] (b. 1956)
*[[2002]] – [[Niki de Saint Phalle]], French-American sculptor and painter (b. 1930)
*[[2003]] – [[Alejandro de Tomaso]], Argentinian-Italian race car driver and businessman, founded [[De Tomaso]] (b. 1928)
* 2003 – [[Frank D. White]], American captain, banker, and politician, 41st [[Governor of Arkansas]] (b. 1933)
*[[2005]] – [[Deborah Berger]], American [[outsider art]]ist (b. 1956)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/obits/1/b-13.txt|title=B Obituaries Orleans Parish Louisiana|website=US GenWeb Archive|access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref>
* 2005 – [[Stephen Elliott (actor)|Stephen Elliott]], American actor (b. 1918)
* 2005 – [[Howard Morris]], American actor and director (b. 1919)
*[[2006]] – [[Spencer Clark (racing driver)|Spencer Clark]], American race car driver (b. 1987)
* 2006 – [[Katherine Dunham]], American dancer, choreographer, and author (b. 1909)
* 2006 – [[Cherd Songsri]], Thai director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1931)
* 2006 – [[Billy Walker (musician)|Billy Walker]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1929)
*[[2012]] – [[Eddie Blazonczyk]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)<ref>{{cite news|date= May 24, 2012 |title=Eddie Blazonczyk, 70, Polka Singer and Bandleader, Dies|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/music/eddie-blazonczyk-70-polka-singer-and-bandleader-dies.html|newspaper=[[Nytimes.com]]|access-date=Jan 22, 2019}}</ref>
* 2012 – [[Otis Clark]], American butler and preacher, survivor of the [[Tulsa race riot]] (b. 1903)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.voicesofoklahoma.com/interview/clark-otis/|title= Otis Clark|publisher=[[Voices of Oklahoma]]|access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>
* 2012 – [[Constantine of Irinoupolis]], Metropolitan of Irinoupolis and Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (b. 1936)
* 2012 – [[Roman Dumbadze]], Georgian commander (b. 1964)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ria.ru/20120521/654612223.html|date=May 21, 2012|website=[[Ria.ru]]|language=ru|script-title=ru:Роман Думбадзе. Биография|trans-title= Roman Dumbadze. Biography|access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>
* 2012 – [[Douglas Rodríguez (boxer)|Douglas Rodríguez]], Cuban boxer (b. 1950)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/douglas-rodriguez-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418073321/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/douglas-rodriguez-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2020|title=Douglas Rodríguez|publisher=[[Sports Reference]]|access-date=April 30, 2019}}</ref>
* 2012 – [[Bill Stewart (American football)|Bill Stewart]], American football player and coach (b. 1952)
* 2012 – [[Alan Thorne]], Australian anthropologist and academic (b. 1939)
*[[2013]] – [[Count Christian of Rosenborg]], member of the Danish royal family (b. 1942)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bt.dk/royale/grevinde-anne-dorte-af-rosenborg-er-doed|title=Grevinde Anne Dorte af Rosenborg er død|date=Jan 3, 2014|website=[[Bt.dk]]|language=da|trans-title=Countess Anne Dorte of Rosenborg is dead|access-date=Jan 22, 2019}}</ref>
* 2013 – [[Frank Comstock]], American trombonist, composer, and conductor (b. 1922)
* 2013 – [[Cot Deal]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1923)
* 2013 – [[Leonard Marsh (businessman)|Leonard Marsh]], American businessman, co-founded [[Snapple]] (b. 1933)
* 2013 – [[Bob Thompson (musician)|Bob Thompson]], American pianist and composer (b. 1924)
* 2013 – [[Dominique Venner]], French journalist and historian (b. 1935)
*[[2014]] – [[Tunku Annuar]], Malaysian son of [[Badlishah of Kedah]] (b. 1939)
* 2014 – [[Johnny Gray (baseball)|Johnny Gray]], American baseball player (b. 1926)
* 2014 – [[Jaime Lusinchi]], Venezuelan physician and politician, [[President of Venezuela]] (b. 1924)
* 2014 – [[Alireza Soleimani]], Iranian wrestler (b. 1956)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/so/ali-reza-soleimani-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418010122/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/so/ali-reza-soleimani-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2020|title=Ali Reza Soleimani|publisher=[[Sports Reference]]|access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>
*[[2015]] – [[Annarita Sidoti]], Italian race walker (b. 1969)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/annarita-sidoti-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418012405/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/si/annarita-sidoti-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2020|title=Annarita Sidoti|publisher=[[Sports Reference]]|access-date=May 3, 2019}}</ref>
* 2015 – [[Twinkle (singer)|Twinkle]], English singer-songwriter (b. 1948)
* 2015 – [[Jassem Al-Kharafi]], Kuwaiti businessman and politician, 8th [[List of Speakers of Kuwait National Assembly|Kuwaiti Speaker of the National Assembly]] (b. 1940)
* 2015 – [[Fred Gladding]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1936)
* 2015 – [[Louis Johnson (bassist)|Louis Johnson]], American bass player and producer (b. 1955)
*[[2016]] – [[Nick Menza]], American drummer and songwriter (b. 1964)
*[[2019]] – [[Rik Kuypers]], Belgian film director (b. 1925)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sudinfo.be/id120435/article/2019-05-22/le-realisateur-belge-rik-kuypers-est-mort-lage-de-94-ans|title=Le réalisateur belge Rik Kuypers est mort, à l'âge de 94 ans|date=May 22, 2019|website=sudinfo.be}}</ref>
* 2019 – [[Binyavanga Wainaina]], Kenyan writer (b. 1971)<ref>[https://johannesburgreviewofbooks.com/2019/05/22/binyavanga-wainaina-1971-2019-rip/ "Binyavanga Wainaina, 1971–2019, RIP"], ''Johannesburg Review of Books'', May 22, 2019.</ref>
*[[2020]] – [[Alan Merten]], fifth [[University President|President]] of [[George Mason University]] (b. 1941) <ref>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Preston |title=University mourns the loss of Alan Merten {{!}} George Mason |url=https://www2.gmu.edu/news/585871 |website=www2.gmu.edu |access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref>
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==Holidays and observances==
* [[Afro-Colombian Day]] ([[Colombia]])
* Christian [[feast day]]:
** [[Arcangelo Tadini]]
** [[Beatification|Blessed]] [[Adílio Daronch]] and [[Manuel Gómez González]]
** Blessed [[Franz Jägerstätter]]
** Earliest day on which [[Corpus Christi (feast)|Corpus Christi]] can fall, while June 24 is the latest; held on Thursday after [[Trinity Sunday]] (often locally moved to Sunday). ([[Roman Catholic Church]])
** [[Constantine the Great and Christianity|Emperor Constantine I]]
** [[Eugène de Mazenod]]
** [[Helena of Constantinople]], also known as "Feast of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, [[Equal-to-the-Apostles]]." ([[Eastern Orthodox Church]], [[Anglican Communion]])
** [[John Eliot (missionary)|John Elliot]] ([[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|Episcopal Church]])
** [[Saints of the Cristero War]], including [[Christopher Magallanes]]
** [[May 21 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
* [[Circassian Day of Mourning]] ([[Circassians]])
*[[Armed Forces Day#Hungary|Day of Patriots and Military]] (Hungary)
* [[Independence Day]], celebrates the [[Montenegrin independence referendum (2006)|Montenegrin independence referendum]] in 2006, celebrated until the next day. ([[Montenegro]])
* [[International Tea Day]] ([[International observance|International]])<ref name=un>{{cite web |title=International Days |url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/ |website=www.un.org |access-date=2 January 2021 |language=en |date=6 January 2015}}</ref>
* [[Navy Day (Chile)|Navy Day]] ([[Chile]])
* [[Public holidays in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha|Saint Helena Day]], celebrates the discovery of [[Saint Helena]] in 1502. ([[Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha]])
* [[World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development]] ([[International observance|International]])<ref name=un />
==References==
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==External links==
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21 BBC: On This Day]
* {{NYT On this day|month=5|day=21}}
* [https://www.onthisday.com/events/may/21 Historical Events on May 21]
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