B
05--1562
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Deventer Holland, church music composer
05--1912
Ellen Mller-Preis, Austria, foils (Olympics, 1932-56)
05--1940
Deanna Lund, Chic Ill, actress (Land of the Giants, Detective)
05--1946
Andre the Giant, [Roussimoff], France, WWF/actor (Princess Bride)
05--1953
Martha Smith, Cleve Ohio, actress (Animal House, Blood Link)
05--1961
Anette Dybda, Isle of Fyn Denmark, Miss Denmark (1977)
05--1963
Natasha Richardson, London Engld, actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale)
05011238
Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80)
05011493
Phillippus Paracelsus, Switzerland, physician/alchemist (or 11/10)
05011592
Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer
05011620
Mikl¢s Zr¡nyi, Hungarian general
05011672
Joseph Addison, England, essayist (Spectator)
05011764
Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect (built Capitol)
05011769
Arthur Wellsley, Duke of Wellington, British PM (C) (1828-30)
05011800
Ret Thomas Aloysius Dornin, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1874
05011807
John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army)
05011819
William Steele, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
05011825
George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap)
05011830
Mary Harris Jones, [Mother Jones], hell-raiser
05011835
Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers)
05011839
Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
05011862
Anthony G Krller, entrepreneur/govt advisor/husband of Helene Mller
Marcel Prvost, French publisher/writer (Les demis-vierges)
05011872
Hugo Alfvn, Stockholm Sweden, composer (Midsommarvaka)
05011880
Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Tantum dic verbo)
05011881
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist
05011892
Howard Barlow, Plain City Ohio, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
05011895
Leo Sowerby, Grand Rapids Michigan, composer (Pulitzer 1946)
05011898
Eugene R Zwart, US, Pres of World Bank (1953-62)
05011899
J¢n Leifs, Iceland, composer/conductor
050119--
Art Fleming, Bronx NY, TV host (Jeopardy)
Bruno Ravel, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
Carmen Montejo, spanish entertainer
Darius McCrary, actor (Edward Winslow-Family Matters)
John Diehl, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Det Zito-Miami Vice)
Johnny Colt, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
Louis Nye, Hartford Ct, comedian (Steve Allen, Happy Days)
Sharon Spelman, LA Calif, actress (Joyce-Angie)
05011900
Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine)
05011907
Jan Pauw, CEO (Universal Netherlands Workers Aruba)
John Peacock, founder (Stage group Gen Dutch Covenant Aruba)
05011908
Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer (Don Camillo, Peppone)
05011909
Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America) Phila Flyer good luck charm
Yannis Ritsos, Greek poet
05011910
Cliff Battles, Akron Oh, NFL hall of famer (Braves, Redskins)
05011913
Walter Susskind, Praha (Prague) Czechoslovakia, conductor
05011916
Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway)
Jack Parr, Canton Ohio, TV host (Jack Paar Show)
05011917
Danielle Darrieux, France, actress (Alexander the Great, Mayerling)
John Beradino, LA Calif, actor (Steve Hardy-General Hospital)
05011919
Dan O'Herlihy, Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)
05011921
Paul Daels, president (Flemish Iron Pilgramige committee)
05011923
Joseph Heller, novelist (Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award)
05011925
Chuck Bednarik, Penn, NFL hall of fame center/linebacker (Phila)
Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder, astronaut (Mercury 7 (Aurora 7))
05011927
Greta Andersen, Denmark, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
Harry Belefonte, calypso singer (Banana Boat Song)
Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer (Sea gulls die of illness)
05011928
Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist
05011930
Ollie Matson, NFL halfback (Cardinals, Rams, Lions, Eagles)
05011933
Joan Hackett, East Harlem NYC, actress (Defenders, Another Day)
05011937
Bo Nilsson, Swedish composer (Doppelspiel)
05011939
Judy Collins, Seattle Wash, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds)
Max Robinson, Richmond VA, black news anchor (ABC Evening News)
05011942
Stephen Macht, Phila Pa, actor (Joe-Knots Landing, Cagney & Lacey)
05011944
Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higer & Higher, We're All Alone)
05011946
Joanna Lumley, Kashmir India, actress (On Her Majesty's Secret Serv)
Valentin Muratov, USSR, floor exercise gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956)
05011947
Carlos Ward, rocker (B T Express)
05011949
Douglas Barr, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (Howie-Fall Guy)
05011953
Felix Hanemann, rocker (Zebra)
05011954
Michael Scott, reporter (Entertainment Tonight)
Ray Parker Jr, rocker (Ghostbusters Theme)
05011956
Byron Stewart, Baxter Springs Ks, actor (Warren-St Elsewhere)
05011957
Dick Swett, (Rep-D-New Hampshire)
Steve Ferris, rocker (Mr Mister)
05011959
Paul Smith, rocker (Haircut 100)
05011960
Steven Cauthen, jockey (1978 Kentucky Derby)
05011967
Tawni Cable, Salem Oregon, playmate (June 1989)
05011968
Mark Scott, Paramus NJ, rock drummer (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
0501197-
Roy Rosello, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
05021601
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (lantern)
05021660
Alessandro Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)
05021729
Catherine II (the Great), empress of Russia (1762-96)
05021740
Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found Amer Biblical Society
05021779
John Galt, Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd)
05021810
Leo XIII, 257th Roman Catholic pope (1878-1903)
05021821
Abram Sanders Piatt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1908
05021837
Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
05021840
Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founded Zionist movement
05021844
Elijah McCoy, black inventor, held over 50 patents
05021849
Frst Bernhard HM von Blow, German chancellor/Prussian PM (1900-09)
05021860
D'Arcy Thompson, zoologist/classicist (On Growth & Form)
Theodor Herzl, Austria journalist (founded zionism)
05021872
GG van der Hoeven, head director (NRC)
05021884
Franois de Vries, economist
05021887
Edward Collins, NY, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's)
05021890
E[dward] E[lmer] "Doc" Smith, US, sci-fi author (Triplanetary)
05021892
Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, [Red Baron], German WW I ace
05021895
Peggy Bacon, Ridgefield Ct, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
05021898
Jef [Josephus C F] Last, poet/Spanish politician
050219--
Jo Ann Pflug, Atlanta Ga, actress (M*A*S*H, Candid Camera, Rituals)
Matt Thorr, rocker (Jailhouse-Alive in a Mad World)
Myriam Hern ndez, Chile, spanish singer
05021902
Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez)
05021903
Benjamin Spock, pediatrician/author (Common Sense Book of Bay Care)
05021905
Alan Rawsthorne, Haslingden England, composer (Cortges)
05021906
Aileen Riggin, Newport RI, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1920, 24)
05021908
William Bakewell, LA Calif, actor (Stage manager-Pinky Lee Show)
05021912
Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate
Marten Toonder, writer/cartoonist (Mr Bommel)
05021915
Van Alexander, NYC, orch leader (Gordon MacRae Show)
05021919
Than Wyenn, NYC, actor (Pete Kelly's Blues)
05021921
Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director (Goddess, Adversary)
05021924
Aafje Heynis, singer
Theodore Bikel, folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
05021925
John Neville, actor (Adventures of Baron Mnchausen)
Roscoe Lee Browne, Woodbury NJ, actor (McCoy, Saunders-Soap)
05021932
Bruce Glover, Chicago Ill, actor (Diamonds are Forever)
05021935
Feisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58)
Hoessein ibn Talal, King of Jordan (1952-  )
05021936
Michael Rabin, NYC, violinist (In Memorium)
Quinn Redeker, Woodstock Ill, actor (Dan Raven, Young & Restless)
05021937
Lorenzo Music, Bkln NY, writer/actor (Carlton-Rhoda)
05021940
Roger Robinson, Seattle Wash, actor (Warren-Friends, Newman's Law)
Sari van Heemskerck Pillis-Duvekot, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
05021941
Jules Wdenbosch, premier Suriname
05021945
Bianca Prez Morena de Macias Jagger, Nicaragua, model/Mick's ex-wife
Goldy McJohn, rocker (Steppenwolf)
05021946
Lesley Gore, Tenafly NJ, singer (cries at her own party)
Robert Henriit, rocker (Argent)
05021947
Bill Lowery, (Rep-R-CA, 1981-  )
05021948
Larry Gatlin, country singer (Gatlan Brothers)
05021949
Joey Phillips, percussionist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
05021950
Lou Gramm, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love is)
05021953
"Keith" Jamaal Wilkes, NBA forward (Golden State-Rookie of Yr 1975)
05021959
Brian Tochi, LA Calif, actor (Dr Alan Poe-St Elsewhere, Renegades)
05021961
Doctor Robert, [Bruce R Howard], rocker (Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways)
05021962
Elizabeth Berridge, Westchester NY, actress (Amadeus, Funhouse)
05031455
Johan II de Volmakte, King of Portugal (1481-95)/took in Spanish Jews
05031469
Niccol Machiavelli, Italy, politician/writer (Prince)
05031514
Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], primate of Portugal
05031773
Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat
05031816
Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union Army), died in 1892
05031826
Charles XV Louis E, King of Sweden/Norway (1859-72)/poet
05031844
Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semitic journalist
Richard D'Oyly Carte, England, opera impresario (Ivanhoe)
05031849
Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter (NY Tribune, NY Evening Sun)
05031873
Nikolay Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs (OS)
05031874
Franois Coty, Corsica, Corsican senator/perfume maker
05031892
Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life)
George Thomson, demonstrated electron diffraction (Nobel 1937)
05031895
Earnest Kantorowicz, German/US historian (Laudes regiae)
Zoltan Korda, Hong Kong/England, director (Jungle Book)
05031897
V K Krishna Menon, India, minister of defense
05031898
Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74)
05031899
Aline MacMahon, McKeesport Pa, actress (Backdoor to Heaven)
050319--
Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth, rocker (Overkill-Hello From the Gutter)
Mark Thomas Miller, Louisville Ky, actor (Johnny-Misfits of Science)
05031902
Jack Larue, NYC, actor (Lights Out, Mouthpiece, My Favorite Brunette)
Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General)
05031903
Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, singer (White Christmas, Going My Way)
05031904
Charles "Red" Ruffing, NY Yankee pitcher, hitter (1930-46)
05031906
Mary Astor, actress (Maltese Falcon, Dinky, Across the Pacific)
05031907
Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)
05031913
Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)
05031916
Henry Barbosa Gonzalez, San Antonio Tx, (Rep-D-Tx, 1961-  )
Pierre Emmanuel, French poet (Sodome)
05031919
Betty Comden, Bkln, song writer (Comden & Green-Bells are Ringing)
Pete Seeger, folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene)
05031920
Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], middle/welterweight boxer (champ)
05031921
Vasco dos Santos Gonalves, Portuguese leftist colonel
05031923
Ralph M Hall, (Rep-D-TX, 1981-  )
05031924
Mary Carver, LA Calif, actress (Cecilia-Simon & Simon)
05031925
Nina Bara, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Tonga-Space Patrol)
05031928
James Brown, Augusta Ga, singer/jail bird, soul brother #1 (Hot Pants)
Jeanne Bal, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Pat-Love & Marriage)
05031929
Hendrik L van Beek, Dutch vice-admiral
05031931
Alex Cord, actor (Dead are Alive)
05031935
Donald P Hodel, Portland Ore, US Secreatary of Interior (1985-89)
05031936
Engelbert Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey], Madras India, singer
05031937
Frankie Valli, [Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
05031939
Jonathan Harvey, English composer (Bhakti, Music of Stockhausen)
Jos Torres, US, boxer (Olympics)
Samantha Eggar, England, actress (Collector)
05031941
Nona Gaprindasvili, USSR, world women's chess champ (1962-78)
05031942
Vera Cslavsk-Odlozilova, Czech, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
05031944
Peter Staples, rocker (Troggs-Wild Thing)
05031946
Greg Gumbel, sportscaster (CBS TV, WFAN)
05031947
Doug Henning, magician (Broadway play-Magic)
05031949
Ron Wyden, (Rep-D-OR, 1981-  )
05031950
Mary Hopkin, South Wales, singer (Those Were the Days)
05031951
Christopher Cross, singer (Sailing, Arthur's Theme)
05031952
Allen Wells, England, 100m dash (Olympic-gold-1980)
05031953
Van McLain, rocker (Shooting Star)
05031957
Rod Langway, Formosa, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Wash Caps)
05031959
David Ball, rocker (Soft Cell)
05031968
Deborah Caprioglio, Italy, actress (Paprika)
05041006
Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)
05041635
Willem van Outhoorn, governor-general (Dutch Indies)
05041776
Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philospher/psychologist
05041796
Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools
Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1864
05041820
Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)
05041825
Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
05041826
Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
05041860
Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
05041875
Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
05041877
Arthur Long, US, boxer/businessman (?-Died 8/8/1992)
05041889
Francis J Spellman, US Cardinal
05041891
Johan W F Werumeus Buning, poet (...farmer's gang)
05041902
Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor (Neth Antilles)
05041903
Luther Adler, NYC, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-Psychiatrist)
05041905
M ty s Seiber, Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
05041906
Esmond Knight, East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder)
05041909
Howard Da Silva, [Silverblatt], Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776)
05041912
Lou Brown, Bkln, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
05041914
Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63)
05041918
Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM convicted of bribe-taking
05041921
Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor)
05041922
John Paul Hammerschmidt, (Rep-R-AR, 1967-  )
05041924
Dennis Weaver, actor (McCloud)
05041925
Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
05041928
Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg SC, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (1981-  )
Maynard Ferguson, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
05041929
Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
05041930
Roberta Peters, NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met)
05041931
Ed Cassidy, drummer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
05041934
Pete Barbutti, Scranton Pa, comedian (Garry Moore Show)
05041936
El Cordobs, Spanish bullfighter
05041938
William J Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)
05041941
George F Will, political analyst (Night Line)
05041942
Ronnie Bond, drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
05041943
Nickolas Ashford, SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock)
05041944
Paul Gleason, actor (Breakfast CLub, Die Hard)
05041945
Monika van Paemel, Belgian writer (Accursed fathers)
05041948
Billy O'Donnell, harness racer driver of year (1984)
05041949
Gerrit J P van Otterloo, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
Sybil Danning, [Danninger], Weis Austria, actress (Chained Heat)
05041950
Hilly Hicks, LA Calif, actor (Roll Out, Roots)
05041951
Gene Greenwood, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
Jackie [Sigmund] Jackson, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
05041954
Julie Budd, Bkln, singer (Child of Plenty)
05041956
Michael L Gernhardt, Mansfield Ohio, PhD/astronaut
Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt W Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
05041958
Keith Haring, Kutztown Pa, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review)
05041959
Randy Travis, country singer (Always & Forever)
05041961
Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Van Nuys Cal, actress (Erin-Waltons)
05041962
Tracy Vaccaro, Glendale Calif, playmate (October, 1983)
05041967
Matthew Crane, Kimberton Pa, actor (Matt Cory-Another World)
05041975
Pablo Ruiz, Buenos Aires Arg, spanish singer
05051352
Ruprecht, Roman catholic German king
05051635
Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant indiscret)
05051804
Jacob Kats, Flemish writer (Aerdsch Paradise)
05051813
Síren Kierkegaard, Denmark, philosopher (founded Existentialism)
05051815
Eugne-Marin Labiche, French playwright
05051817
George Washington Julian, MC (Union), died in 1899
05051818
Karl Marx, philospher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital)
05051819
Stanislaw Moniuszko, Polish composer
05051823
James Allen Hardie, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1876
05051826
Eugnie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperoress of France
05051832
H H Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States)
05051833
Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer/explorer
05051846
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Poland, author (Quo Vadis, Nobel 1905)
05051849
Hambletonian, Chester NY, greatest standardbred horse
05051867
Nellie Bly, whose name became a synonym for female star reporter
05051869
Hans Erich Pfitzner, Moscow Russia, composer (Krakquer Begrs)
05051879
Symon Petljoera, leader Ukraine (pogroms)
05051883
Charles Bender, only Americian Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
05051884
Wang Tjing-Wei, premier China (1932-35)
05051885
Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State)
05051887
Lord Geoffrey Fisher of Lambeth, archbishop of Canterbury
05051890
Christopher Morley, author (Kitty Foil)
05051899
Freeman Gosden, Richmond Va, radio actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy)
050519--
Melinda Culea, Western Springs Ill, actress (A-Team, Glitter)
Richard Schaal, Chicago Ill, actor (Leo-Phyllis, Trapper John MD)
05051900
Charles Jewtraw, US, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1924)
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan gewinnt)
Spencer Tracy, actor (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
05051903
James Beard, US, culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices)
05051904
Gordon Richards, British jockey (winner of 4,870 races)
05051905
Arnold Meijer, leader of fascist Nationally Front
05051908
Jacques Massu, French general (Algeria)
Rex Harrison, [Reginald Carey], Engld, actor (My Fair Lady, Cleopatra)
05051912
Alice Faye, [Ann Leppert], actress (Alexander's Ragtime Band)
05051913
Tyrone Power, actor (Mark of Zorro, Alexander's Ragtime Band)
05051915
Richard H Rovere, Jersey City, journalist (Goldwater Caper)
05051919
George London, Montreal Canada, bass-baritone (Monterone-Rigoleto)
Tony Canadeo, Chicago, NFL hall of fame halfback (Green Bay Packers)
05051921
Sonja Oosterman, singer (Marketensters)
05051922
Phil Gordon, Meridian Miss, actor/singer (Jasper-Bev Hillbillies)
05051924
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director (Monday's Child)
05051925
Monica Lewis, actress (Box Office)
05051926
Ann B Davis, Schenectady NY, actress (Bob Cummings Show, Brady Bunch)
05051927
Charles Rosen, NYC, pianist/musicologist (Sonata Forms)
Pat Carroll, Shrevport La, comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy)
05051929
John S Ragin, Newark NJ, actor (Dr Astin-Quincy ME)
05051930
Michael J Adams, pilot (X-15)
05051932
Will Hutchins, Atwater Calif, actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord)
05051935
Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake NY, soap opera writer (Gen Hospital)
05051938
Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw Poland, director (Hands Up, Deep End)
Michael Murphy, US, actor (McCabe & Mrs Miller, Unmarried Woman)
05051939
James R Jones, (Rep-D-OK, 1973-  )
05051941
Aleksandr Ragulin, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
Howie Komives, NBA star (NY Knicks, Buffalo Braves)
05051942
Tammy Wynette, Redbay Alabama, country singer (Stand by your Man)
05051943
Michael Palin, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)
05051944
Jean-Pierre Leaud, Paris France, actor (Detective)
John Rhys Davies, Salisbury England, actor (Sir Edward-Quest)
05051945
Raphael, Spain, spanish singer (When the Sun Sets, Lo Meyur de Ano)
05051948
Bill Ward, rocker (Black Sabbath)
05051949
Anna Bergman, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Agent 69)
Michael Murphy, LA Calif, actor (Dr Art Armstrong-2 Marriages)
05051950
Maggie MacNeal, singer (Mouth & MacNeal, I See a Star)
05051952
Louis Cortiezzi, rocker (Mink DeVille)
05051953
Billy Burnette, Memphis Tn, rocker (Between Friends)
05051954
Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
05051955
Robert Feld, Nashville Tn, National Scrabble Champion (1990)
05051956
Dick Kemper, bassist (Vandenberg)
05051957
Lisa Eilbacher, Dharan Saudia Arabia, actress (Beverly Hills Cop)
Thereza Bazaar, rocker (Dollar-Love's Gotta Hold on Me)
05051959
Ian McCullough, rocker (Echo & Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
05051962
Lori Singer, actress (Footloose, Summer Heat)
05051972
Wendy Kaye, Memphis Tenn, playmate (Jul, 1991)
05051973
Tina Yothers, Whittier Calif, actresss (Jennifer-Family Ties)
05051976
Sage Stallone, actor (Rocky V)/Syvester's son
05051990
Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, NYC, daughter of Caroline
0506 973
Henry II, Roman Catholic German king/emperor (1002/14-24)
05061501
Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 days)
05061581
Frans Francken, the Younger, painter
05061606
Lorenzo Lippi, [Perlone Zipoli], poet/painter
05061740
John Penn, signed Decl of Ind
05061758
Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat (1781)
05061769
Ferdinand III, archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane
05061785
Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller
05061801
George Sears Greene, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
05061802
Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer, artist
05061806
Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons
05061812
Marin R Delany, Charlestown Va, pioneer black nationalist
Martin Robinson Delaney, US, 1st black major in US Medical Corp
05061813
Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1893
05061814
Wilhelm Ernst, violinist/composer
05061825
Joseph Bailey, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
05061829
Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England
05061830
Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet
05061843
Grove Karl Gilbert, geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville, Utah
05061849
Wyatt Eaton, artist
05061856
Robert Edwin Peary, US, arctic explorer (North Pole-Apr 6 1909)
Sigmund Freud, Austria, cigar smoker, father of psychology
05061859
Luis Mar¡a Drago, Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist
Willem Kloos, poet
05061861
Radindranath Tagore, Indian philosopher/poet/writer
05061868
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont, Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924)
05061869
Jan R Slotemaker de Brune, clergyman/CHU-politician
05061870
Amedos Peter Giannine, San Jose Calif, founded Bank of America
John McClutcheon, cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931)
05061875
William Daniel Leahy, Iowa, 5 star adimiral/chief of staff (1949)
05061879
Johan H T Norlind, Swedish musicologist
05061880
Baron W Edmund, Archangel & Ironside, British field marshal
Ernst L Kirchner, German painter
05061883
Jos Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher/author [or May 9]
05061888
Emmanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73)
05061889
Arthur Morison, typographer
05061895
Rudolph Valentino, sheik/actor (Eagle)
05061898
Daniel Gerber, Freemont Mi, beloved by babies at mealtime
050619--
Tony King, Canton Ohio, actor (Sgt John Webber-Bronk)
05061902
Harry Golden, Jewish humorist/writer (2 Plain, Only in America)
Max Ophls, Saarland, dir/writer (Letters From an Unknown Woman)
Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall
05061904
Harry Martinson, Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974)
05061905
[Bernard] Toots Shor, raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor)
05061906
Andr Weil, [Bourbaki], French/US mathematician
05061907
Weeb Ewbank, NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, NY Jets)
05061912
Barend Roest Crollius, painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth)
Bill Quinn, NYC, actor (Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in the Family)
Hugh Martell, British Vice Admiral
05061913
Carmen Cavallaro, US, actress(?)
Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist
Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
Stewart Granger, [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
Woody Herman, US jazz clarinetist/composer (Thundering Herds)
05061915
George Perle, Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
John Arnold, British high court judge
May Henriquez-Alvarez, Curaaos sculptor
Orson Welles, Kenosha Wisc, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds)
Theodore H White, historian/writer (Making of President)
05061919
Frank Ereaut, Balliff of Jersey
05061920
John Henderson, Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
05061921
Freddy Randall, jazz trumpeteer
Robert Fell, CEO (British Stock Exchange)
Ross Hunter, US, actor(?)
05061922
Alan Ross, editor (London Magazine)
Carlos J Moorhead, (Rep-R-CA, 1973-  )
Pat Harder, Milwaukee, NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions)
05061923
Elizabeth Sellars, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Chalk Garden)
05061924
Mimi Benzell, Bridgeport Ct, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
05061925
Patrick Meany, CEO (Rank Organization)
05061926
John Hamilton-Jones, CEO (Richmond Enterprises)/British Maj-Gen
Marguerite Piazza, New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway)
05061929
John Taylor, bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen
Rosemary Camp, president (Council for British Archaeology)
05061931
Marvin Leath, (Rep-D-TX, 1979-  )
Willie Mays, baseball player, "Say Hey Kid" (660 HRs, NL MVP 1954)
05061932
John Bond, cricket umpire
05061933
Lord Pender
05061934
Richard C Shelby, (Rep-D-AL (1979-86)/Sen-D-AL, 1987-  )
05061936
Joanna Dunham, actress
05061938
Eleanor Platt, QC
05061939
Anthony Blacker, master-general of Ordnance
05061940
Murray Sidlin, Baltimore Maryland, conductor (Natl Symph 1973-77)
05061941
Fred J Eckert, (Rep-D-NY, 1985-87)
Ghena Dimitrova, actress (Nabucco)
05061945
Bob Seger, singer (Silver Bullet Band)
Richard Eyers, LA Calif, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West)
05061946
Jim Ramstad, (Rep-R-Minnesota)
Susan Brown, actress (General Hospital)
Sydne Rome, Akron Ohio, actress (What?, Candy)
05061948
Lolita, [Abr zame], spanish singer (Esprame)
Richard Cox, NYC, actor (Mark-Executive Suite)
05061949
David C Leestma, Muskegon Mich, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 45)
05061953
Lynn Whitfield, Baton Rouge, actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice)
Tony Blair, British MP
05061954
Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky, Russia, cosmonaut
05061955
Donald A Thomas, Cleve Ohio, PhD/astronaut
John Hutton, MP
05061959
Charles Hendry, MP
Eric D Fingerhut, (Rep-D-Ohio)
Kate Collins, Boston Mass, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children)
05061960
Bart de Farmer, guitarist (Ivy Green)
Larry Steinbachek, rock synthersizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
05061961
Clay O'Brien, Ray Az, actor (Weedy-Cowboys)
05061962
Neil Foster, cricketer
05061963
Alessandra Ferri, British ballerina
05061964
Dana Hill, Van Nuys Calif, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
Kim Oden, Ala, US Olympic volleyball player (NCAA Play of Decade-80s)
Roma Downey, Derry Ireland, actress (JoAnna-One Life to Live)
05061965
Norman Whiteside, British soccer player
Zahid Sadiq, cricketer
05061967
Patrick F Manning Jr, Poughkeepsie NY, rower (Olympic-92)
05061968
Linnea Marie Fayard, Shrevept La, Miss Louisiana-America (1991-5th)
05071530
Louis I Cond, French prince/leader of hugenots
05071574
Innocent X, [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th pope (1644-55)
05071763
Josef Poniatovski, Polish general/marshal of France
05071776
D niel Berzsenyi, [Hungarian Horatius], Hungarian poet
05071812
Robert Browning, London England, poet (Pied Piper)
05071826
Varina Howell Davis, 1st lady (Confederacy), died in 1905
05071827
Francis Engle Patterson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
05071833
Johannes Brahms, German composer, enjoys a good lullaby
05071840
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk Russia, composer (1812 Overture)
05071847
Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)
05071861
Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
05071882
Willem Elsschot, [Alfons J de Ridder], Flemish writer (Mend)
05071887
Henri Pourrat, French writer (Gaspard of the Montagnes)
05071892
Archibald MacLeish, Glencoe Ill, polit essayist/poet/dramatist (JB)
Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
05071897
Kitty McKane, England, tennis (Oly 1920, 24) gold/2 silver/2 bronze
050719--
Kevin O'Connor, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
Maria Laria, Havana Cuba, Spanish TV hostess (Cara Cara)
Michael E Knight, actor (Tad Martin-All My Children)
Phil Campbell, rocker (Motorhead-No Remorse)
05071900
Bauke Tuinstra, Fries notary/author (Earste Keur)
05071901
Gary Cooper, Montana, actor (2 Acad Awards-Sgt York, High Noon)
L T Coggeshall, medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
05071908
Ed MacDonald, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
05071909
Edwin H Land, inventor (instant photography (Polaroid))
05071912
Paul H F Brenneker, Neth/Antillian photographer/folklorist
05071917
David Tomlinson, US, actor(?)
05071919
Eva (Evita) Per¢n-Duarte, Argentina, 1st lady/actress
05071922
Darren McGavin, Spokane Wash, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182)
Gale Robbins, Chicago Ill, actress/singer (Hollywood House)
05071923
Anne Baxter, Mich City Ind, actr (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel)
Pete V Domenici, (Sen-R-NM, 1973-  )
05071926
Val Bisoglio, NYC, actor (Lt Marsh-Police Woman, Danny-Quincy ME)
05071927
Jim Lowe, Springfield Mass, DJ (WNEW) "King of Trivia"
05071929
Dick Williams, baseball player, manager (including Seattle 1986-87)
05071930
Horst Bienek, German poet
05071931
Gene [Rodman] Wolfe, US, sci-fi author (Soldier of Arete)
Nel J Ginjar-Mas, Dutch Sect of State (VVD)
Teresa Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In)
05071932
Pete V Domenici, (Sen-R New Mexico)
05071933
Johnny Unitas, NFL QB (Balt Colts, San Diego); one of the greats
05071935
Kevin O'Connor, US, actor (Bogie, Special Effects)
05071938
Johnny Caldwell, Ireland, flyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1956)
05071939
Jimmy Ruffin, soloist (What Becomes of Broken Hearted)
Marco St John, New Orleans La, actor (Rayford-Ball Four)
Rudolphus F M Lubbers, Netherland Premier (CDA)
05071943
Peter Horak, jetboat jumper
05071944
Sivi Aberg, actress (Batman TV show)
05071945
Robin Strasser, NYC, actress (One Life to Live, Another World)
Wim A Mateman, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
05071946
Bill Danoff, Springfield Mass, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band)
05071950
Prairie Prince, rocker (Tubes)
05071951
Janis Ian, [Fink], NYC, rocker (At 17, Society's Child)
Robert Hegyes, NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter)
05071955
Peter Reckell, actor (Days of our Lifes)
05071959
Tamara E Jernigan, [Tammy], Chattoonaga Tn, PhD/astronaut (STS 40, 52)
05071960
Arnon Ohad, co-pilot El Al plane that crashed on Bijlmer Amsterdam
05071962
Robbie Knievel, daredevil, son of Evel
05071964
Mustapha Zerqti, Moroccan/Neth writer (Ihtidaar hub fi el-mahd
05071968
Traci Lords, [Nora L Kuzma], Steubenville Oh, porn actress (Cry Baby)
05071969
Katerina Maleeva, Bulgaria, tennis player (US Open Junior 1984)
05071987
Katie Danza, daughter of Tony & Tracy Danza
05081592
Francis Quarles, English poet (Argalus & Parthenia, Emblems)
05081629
Niels Juel, Danish admiral (Oland, Moen, Kjgebocht)
05081641
Nicolaas Witsen, etcher/mayor (Amsterdam)
05081668
Alain R Lesage, French author (Turcaret ou le Financier)
05081737
Edward Gibbon, England, historian (Decline & Fall of Roman Empire)
05081753
Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, father of Mxican independence
05081786
Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
05081810
James Cooper, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
05081814
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, anarchist
05081824
William Walker, filibuster/president of Nicaragua (1856-57)
05081828
Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901)
05081829
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist
05081833
Frank Wheaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
05081836
Bryan Morel Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
05081842
Emil C Hansen, Danish physiologist
05081846
Oscar Hammerstein, Germany, opera/playwright (Kohinoor)
05081857
Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, actor/wife of Alida Little
05081858
John Meade Falkner, novelist (Moonfleet)
05081871
[Emile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (French revolutionary)
05081882
Philips C Visser, explorer/diplomat
05081884
Harry S Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1949)
05081891
Chet "Red" Hoff, pitcher (NY Yankees 1911-15), lived to 100
05081892
Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
05081893
Francis Quimet, Mass shop asst who won golf's US Open (1913)
05081895
Edmund Wilson, American critic/writer (Patriotic Gore)
Fulton J Sheen, El Paso Ill, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
Jos G¢mez, [Joselito el Gallo], bullfighter
05081899
August von Hayek, economist
Friedrich A von Hayek, Aust/British economist (Road to Serfdom)
Jan F van Hall, sculptor/resistance fighter
050819--
Eric Brittingham, rocker (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
Jeff Wincott, Toronto Canada, actor (Night Heat)
Mark Blankfield, Pasadena Tx, comedian (Fridays, Good & Evil)
Reid Smith, Burbank Calif, actor (Chase, Chisholms)
Stephen Furst, Norfolk Va, actor (Animal House, Elliot-St Elsewhere)
05081903
Fernandel, [Fernand JD Contandin], French actor (Paris Holiday)
05081904
John Snagge, BBC commentator
05081906
David Van Vactor, Plymouth Indiana, composer (Chaconne)
Roberto Rossellini, Italy, director (Open City)
05081911
Robert Johnson, blues singer (King of Delta Blues Singer)
Wilhelm F de Gay Fortman, lawyer/foreign minister
05081912
Gertrud Fussenegger, [Dorn], Austrian writer (Mohrenlegende)
05081914
Lord Murton, of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman of Comm House of Lords
05081915
John Archer, Nebraska, actor (Destination: Moon)
05081920
Maurice Cranston, political scientist
Sloan Wilson, US, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannal Suit)
05081921
Graham Leonard, bishop of London
05081922
Brian Kellett, CEO (Port of London Authority)
05081925
Ali Hassan Mwinyi, president of Tanzania (1985-  )
Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle, lord of appeal in ordinary
05081926
Don Rickles, Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
Richard F Attenborough, environmentalist/zoologist (BBC)
Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge
05081927
Ian Denholm, CEO (Murray Investment Trust)
Philip Wilkinson, deputy chairman (National Westminster Bank)
05081928
Theodore Sorenson, pesidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days)
05081929
V N M Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of State (CDA)
05081930
Doug Atkins, Humbolt Tn, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bears, Saints)
Gary Snyder, [Japhy Ryder], beat poet (Rip Rap & Cold Mountain Poems)
Heather Harper, soprano
05081933
Alistair Service, writer/publisher
05081934
Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge
Roger Kendrick, governor (Dartmoor Prison)
05081935
Jack Charlton, soccer manager (Rep of Ireland)
Salome Jens, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (From Here to Eternity)
Viscount Falkland, British Lib-Dem peer
05081936
Neville Purvis, British vice admiral/Chief of Fleet Support
05081937
Danil Robberechts, Belgian writer (Great Labia)
Dennis DeConcini, (Sen-D-AZ, 1977-  )
Michael Simmons, Air Marshal (British Ministry of Defense)
Thomas Pynchon, novelist (V)
05081939
Otis Paul Drayton, Glen Cove NY, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1964)
05081940
James Blyth, CEO (Boots)
Peter Benchley, author (Jaws, Deep)
Ricky Nelson, NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, It's Late, Garden Party)
05081941
James A Traficant Jr, (Rep-D-OH, 1985-  )
05081942
Angel Cordero Jr, Santurce PR, jockey (Seattle Slew-1978 Ky Derby)
Norman Lamont, MP/Chancellor of Exchequer
05081943
Paul Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
Rick Samwell-Smith, rocker (Yardbirds-For Your Love)
Toni Tennille, Montgomery Ala, female Beachboy (Capt & Tennille)
05081944
Gary Glitter, [Paul Gadd], England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
05081945
Keith Jarrett, jazz musician
05081947
Felicity Lott, English soprano (We come to the river)
05081948
John Reid, MP
05081951
Chris Frantz, rocker (Talking Heads-& She Was)
Deborah Harmon, actress (Ted Knight Show, M*A*S*H, Just the 10 of Us)
Philip Bailey, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
05081954
David Keith, Knoxville Tenn, actor (Back Roads, Firestarter)
05081955
Alex Van Halen, rock drummer (Van Halen-1984, Jump)
05081957
Deana Deardruff, US, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
05081959
Ronnie Lott, Albuquerque, NM, NFL defensive back (SF 49er)
05081964
Cheryl Richardson, Palo Alto Calif, actress (Jennie-General Hospital)
Melissa Gilbert Brinkman, LA, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
Peter Gill, rocker (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
05081971
Chris Wolf, actor/musician (Guys Next Door)
05091596
Abraham van Diepenbeeck, painter
05091738
John Pindar, [Peter], physician/poet
05091740
Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Il Barbiere the Siviglia)
05091783
Alexander Ross, Canada, pioneer/fur trader
05091785
James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
05091796
August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
05091800
John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry
05091801
Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
05091810
Louis Gallait, historical painter
05091824
William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army)
05091829
Ciro Pinsuti, pianist/composer
05091843
Belle Boyd, spy (Confederate)/actress/lecturer
05091860
James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan)
05091873
Howard Carter, British archaeologist (found King Tutankhamen's tomb)
Lilian Mary Baylis, manager (Old Vic & Sadler's Wells Theater)
05091882
Henry J Kaiser, builder (Liberty Ships, Jeeps, Boulder Dam)
05091892
Zita, empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary)
05091895
Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
Richard Barthelmess, US, actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose)
050919--
Gregory Beecroft, actor (Guiding Light)
Jeanna Michaels, New London Ct, actress (Connie-Dallas, Gen Hospital)
05091906
Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats)
05091907
Baldur von Schirach, German writer/nazi politician (Frame)
05091910
Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
05091911
Harry Simeone, Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show)
05091912
Pedro Armendariz, Mexico, actor (From Russia With Love)
05091913
John Hayes, Admiral
Victor Smith, Admiral (Australian Chiefs of Staff)
05091914
Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor
Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orch leader
Hank Snow, Nova Scotia Canada, country singer (I Went to Your Wedding)
Theodore Kheel, labor negotiator (Fair Employment Practices)
05091915
Richard Janvrin, British vice admiral
05091916
Cyril Bowles, bishop of Derby
Douglas Guest, organist
05091917
John Arnatt, actor
05091918
Mike Wallace, Brookline Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes)
Orville Freeman, Minneapolis, (Sen-D-Mn)/Sec of Agriculture (1961-69)
05091919
Arthur English, comedian/actor
05091920
Richard Adams, author (Day Gone By)
05091922
Sheila Burrell, actress
05091924
Boelat S Okoedzjava, Russian author (Student!)
Connie Russell, NYC, singer (Club Embassy, Garroway at Large)
Gerard Wernars, graphic form engraver (bibliotheekwerkpostz's 1991)
Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter (l'Amour)
05091925
Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance
05091926
Alistair MacFarlane, principal (Heriot-Watt University England)
Bernard Rose, organist
Francis Kennedy, British diplomat
Joshua Hassan, chief minister (Gibralter)
Robin Cooke, pres (NZ Court of Appeal)
05091927
John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal (Northern Ireland)
05091928
Barbara Ann Scott, Ottawa Ontario, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
Richard A "Pancho" Gonzalez, LA Calif, tennis star (US 1948-49)
05091929
Anthony Lloyd, Lord Justice of Appeal
05091930
Joan Sims, actress (Carry on Behind, Carry on Cleo)
05091931
Vance DeVoe Brand, Longmont Co, astro (Apollo 18, STS-5, 41B, 35)
05091932
David Plastow, CEO (Medical Research Council)
Gavin Lyall, author (Conduct of Major Maxim)
Geraldine McEwan, actress (Henry V)
J Alex McMillan, (Rep-R-NC, 1985-  )
05091933
Johnny Grant, unofficial mayor of Hollywood
05091934
Alan Bennett, actor/playwright
John Robertson, deputy chairman (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
Roy Massey, Master of Choristers (Hereford Cathedral)
05091936
Albert Finney, UK, actor (Dresser, Under the Volcano)
Glenda Jackson, Cheshire England, actress (Women in Love)
Terry Downes, middleweight boxing champ
Terry Drinkwater, TV newsman (CBS)
05091937
Dave Prather, singer (Sam & Dave)
Sonny Curtis, guitarist (Crickets)
05091938
Geoffrey Holland, civil servant
Nokie Edwards, rocker (Ventures)
05091939
Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph)
Ralph Harold Boston, Laurel MS, long jumper (Olympic-gold-60)
05091940
Dick Morrissey, saxophonist
James L Brooks, producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi)
05091941
Jan Dibbets, speed artist (Dutch Mountains)
05091942
John D Ashcroft, (Gov-MO)
Tommy Roe, Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel)
William Olner, MP
05091943
Bruce Milner, rocker (Every Mother's Son)
05091944
Don Dannemann, rocker (Cyrkle)
Richard Furay, rocker (Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
05091945
Steve Katz, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die, Blues Project)
05091946
Candice Bergen, Beverly Hills, actr (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown)
05091947
Anthony Corlan, Cork City Ireland, actor (Something for Everyone)
05091949
Billy Joel, Bronx, singer (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge)
Oleg Yuriyevich Atkov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10)
0509195-
Alley Mills, Chicago Ill, actress (Norma Arnold-Wonder Years)
05091950
James A Butts, LA Calif, triple jumper (Olympic-silver-1976)
Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host
05091952
Patrick Ryecart, actor (Silas Mariner)
05091953
Scott McInnis, (Rep-R-Colorado)
05091955
Kevin Peter Hall, Pitts Pa, actor (Misfits of Science)
05091957
Fred Markham, 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph
05091958
Esko Rechardt, Finland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1980)
05091960
Jim Reilly, rocker (Red Rockers)
05091962
Dave Gahan, rocker (Depeche Mode-Strangelove, Pimf)
Paul Heaton, rocker (Housemartins-Happy Hour, Over There)
05091964
Miloslav Mecir, Czechoslovakia, tennis player (Olympic-gold-1988)
05091965
Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Distance)
05101697
Jean-Marie Leclair, composer
05101724
Johan A Zoutman, spy (battle of Doggersbank)
05101727
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, statesman
05101730
George Ross, lawyer, signed Decl of Ind
05101754
Asmus Jakob Carstens, painter
05101760
Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, soldier/author/composer (Marseillaise)
05101769
Jean Lannes, duc de Montebello, Marshal of France
05101770
Louis Nicholas Davout, French field marshall (defeated Prussians)
05101788
Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist
05101795
Jacques-Nicolas-Augustin Thierry, historian
05101810
James Shields, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
05101813
Montgomery Blair, Franklin County Ky, lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford)
05101822
August Ritter von Pettenkofen, painter
05101823
John Sherman, MC (Union), died in 1900
05101824
Charles Henry Van Wyck, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
05101830
Franois M Raoult, French physicist/chemist (law of Raoult)
05101838
James, 1st Viscount Bryce, historian/statesman
John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
05101843
Benito Prez Gald¢s, Spain, novelist (Fountain of Gold, Naz arin)
Kaufmann Kohler, reform rabbi/theologian
05101850
Thomas Johnstone Lipton, England, tea magnate (Lipton Tea)
05101855
Anatol Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake)
05101857
Hendrik Zwardemaker, physiologist (olfactometer)
05101873
Jan Kalf, literary/art historian (Preservation of museums)
05101878
Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (1923, Nobel 1926)
05101886
Karl Barth, Basel Switzerland, theologian/author (Action in Waiting)
Olaf Stapleton, British religious sci-fi writer (Star Maker)
05101887
Jacobus C Bloem, poet (Sintels)
05101888
Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer (Gone With Wind)
05101894
Dimitri Tiomkin, Russia composer (Acad Award 1954-High & Mighty)
05101897
Ewart Levy
05101898
Ariel Durant, writer (Story of Civilization)
Herbert Elwell, Minneapolis Minnesota, composer (Happy Hypocrite)
05101899
Fred Astaire, Omaha Neb, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime)
051019--
Larry Flash Jenkins, Long Island NY, actor (White Shadow)
Laurence Lau, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
Victoria Rowell, actress (Drucilla-Young & Restless)
05101902
David O Selznick, Pittsburgh Pa, producer (Gone With the Wind)
Joachim Prinz, author/Rabbi of Berlin (1926-37)
05101904
David Brown, CEO (Aston Martin Lagonda)
05101905
Angus Paton, civil engineer
05101908
Carl Albert, (D) speaker of the House
05101909
Lord Collison, British agriculture worker's leader
Maybelle Carter, Nickelsville Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)
05101910
Jimmy Demaret, winner of 44 golf tournaments, but not the Open
Margot Turner, matron-in-chief (Army Nursing Service)
05101912
Edward Gardner, Queen's Court
05101914
Charles McGraw, NYC, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family)
Lord Smith, British surgeon
05101915
Bert van Dongen, [Abraham J Cohen], singer/imitator/actor
Christian Beyers Naud, South African anti-apartheid fighter
Denis Thatcher, husband of British PM Margret
Monica Dickens, author/founder (US Samaritians)
05101916
Milton Babbitt, US composer
05101918
Margo, singer (Golden Irish Favorites)
T Berry Brazelton, doctor (On Being a Father)
05101919
Ella Grasso, (Gov-D-Ct)
05101920
Basil Kelly, Lord Justice of Appeals (Northern Ireland)
05101921
Nancy Walker, Phila, Bounty ads/actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife)
05101922
David Orr, deputy chairman (Inchcape)/CEO (British Council)
05101923
John Dugdal, Lord-Lt (Salop]
05101925
Edward Fursdon, British Maj-Gen (defense council)
05101929
Brian Corby, CEO (Prudential)
05101930
June Knox-Mawer, British radio host/novelist (World of Islands)
Pat Summerall, NFLer (NY Giants)/sportscaster (CBS)/achoholic
05101931
Lord Michael Mustill, of Pateley Bridge, Lord Justice of Appeal
05101934
William Lithgow, British industrialist/farmer
05101936
Anthony Mullens, British Lt-Gen (Deputy chief of defense)
Gary Owens, disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show)
Trevor Clay, Gen-Sec (Royal College of Nursing)
05101937
Arthur Kopit, US, playwright (Day Whores Came Out to Play Tennis)
05101938
Henry Fambrough, rocker (Spinners)
Manuel Santana, tennis player (US Open 1965)
Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor (Atlanta Symph)
Michael Shea, director of public affairs (Hanson Trust)
05101939
Tamara Press, Lenningrad USSR, track star (Olympic-gold-1964)
05101940
Arthur Alexander, US singer/songwriter (Lonely Just Like Me)
Taurean Blacque, actor (Neal Washington-Hill Street Blues)
William Cash, MP
05101941
Danny Rapp, rocker (Danny & Juniors)
Win Bischoff, CEO (Schroders)
05101943
Donovan, [Leitch], Scotland, rock singer (Mellow Yellow)
05101944
Jackie Lomax, Liverpool, rocker (Is This What You Want)
Marie-France Pisier, Daclat Vietnam, actress (Scruples, Midnight)
05101946
Graham Gouldman, bassist (10cc)
Maureen Lipman, actress (Educating Rita, Wonderworks)
05101947
Dave Mason, Worcester England, singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree)
Jay Ferguson, Burbank Calif, rocker (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
Meg Foster, Conn, actress (Sunshine, Cagney & Lacey)
05101951
Steve Gunderson, (Rep-R-WI, 1981-  )
05101953
Aynsley Dunbar, rocker (Mothers of Invention-200 Motels, Retaliation)
Steve Thomas, rocker (Shooting Star)
05101955
Homer Simpson, animation (Simpsons)
Mark David Chapman, assassin of John Lennon
05101957
Phil Mahre, US, slalom skier (Olympics-silver-1980)
Sid Vicious, [John Beverly], bassist (Sex Pistols)
Steve Mahre, US, slalom skier (Olympic-silver-1984)
05101958
Ellen Ochoa, LA Calif, PhD/Astronaut (STS 56)
Rick Santorum, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
05101960
Bono Vox, [Paul Hauson], Dublin Ireland, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree)
05101961
Teri Copley, Arcadia Calif, actress (Mickey-We've Got it Made)
05101962
Garry Daley, keyboard (China Crisis-Christian)
05101969
Dennis Bergkamp, soccer star (Ajax)
Judson Mills, Purcellville Va, actor (Hutch-As The World Turns)
05101991
Emily McEnroe, daughter of Tatum O'Neal & John McEnroe
05111568
Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (Battle of White Mountain)
05111722
Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor (Amsterdam)
05111807
Ira Aldridge, Great 19th century Black actor
05111821
[Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brig General (Union volunteers)
05111823
Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter
05111830
John Converse Starkweather, Brig General (Union volunteers)
05111841
Earnest von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter
05111847
Godefroid Kurth, Belg historian (La cit de Lige au moyen ge)
05111852
Charles Warren Fairbanks, (R) 26th US VP (1905-09)
05111854
Ottmar Mergenthaler, Hachtel Germany, inventor (linotype)
05111878
Dhr Reyskens, oldest resident of Netherland
05111882
Joseph Marx, Austrian composer/critic
05111888
Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], Temun Russia, composer (White Xmas)
P A J Losecat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council
05111891
Henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45)
05111892
Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul)
05111894
Anton A Mussert, Dutch political leader (NSB)
Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920)
Martha Graham, Pitts, dancer/choreographer (Appalachian Spring)
05111895
William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
05111896
Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter
05111897
Izak W van der Merwe, [Boerneef], S Afr writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek)
051119--
Darrow Igus, Newark NJ, comedian (Fridays, Roll Out)
Terry McGovern, Berkley Calif, actor (Jim-Charlie & Company)
05111901
Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author (Cheyene Autumn)
05111902
Bid£ Sayao, Niteroi Brazil, soprano (Mimia-La Bohme)
05111903
Charlie Gehringer, Detroit Tigers' 2nd baseman (1924-42)
05111904
Guus Weitzel, radio-announcer
Salvador Dal¡, Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion)
05111906
Kent Taylor, [Louis Weiss], Iowa, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders)
05111911
Doodles Weaver, LA Calif, comedian (Doodles Weaver)
05111912
Foster Brooks, Louisville Ky, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy)
Phil Silvers, Bkln NY, comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show)
05111913
Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge NJ, orch leader (Vic Damone Show)
05111916
Camilo Jos Cela, Spain, author (La Colmena-1951)
05111920
Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Code 3, Tammy, Doris Day Show)
05111924
Jackie Milburn, English soccer star (Newcastle United)
05111927
Mort Sahl, comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party)
Zilpha Keatly Snyder, US, sci-fi author (Headless Cupid)
05111928
Yaacov Agam, Israeli statues artist
05111930
Stanley L Elkin, Bkln NY, writer/professor (Living End)
05111932
Valentino
05111933
Louis Farrakhan, leader of black islam nation
05111934
James M Jeffords, (Rep-R-VT, 1975-  )
05111935
Doug McClure, Glendale Calif, actor (Checkmate, Virginian, Roots)
05111938
Carla Bley, musician (Escalator Over the Hill)
Harvey Sollberger, Cedar Rapids Ia, flutist/composer (2 Oboes Troping)
05111941
Eric Burdon, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
05111943
Les Chadwick, bassist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersy)
Nancy Greene, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
05111947
Claude "Butch" Hudson Trucks, drummer (Allman Brothers)
05111948
Alfred Matt, Austria, slalom (Olympic-bronze-1968)
05111953
Boyd Gaines, Atlanta Ga, actor (Mark-One Day at a Time, Sure Thing)
05111955
Jos Haagmans, singer (Frank Boeijen Group)
05111956
Mark Herndon, rock drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down)
05111959
Martha Quinn, Ossining NY, MTV vee-jay/actress (Bradys)
05111961
Cecile Licad, Manila Philippines, pianist (Leventritt Award-1981)
Diana Lee, Seattle Wa, playmate (May, 1988)
05111962
Emilio Estevez, NYC, actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns)
05111963
Mark Breland, Bkln NY, welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1984)
05111964
Katie Wagner, model/guest VJ (MTV)
05111967
Kenneth Gould, Chic Ill, Welterweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1988)
05121670
August II de Sterke, King of Poland (355 children)
05121729
Michal FB Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general (7 Year Wars)
05121804
Robert Baldwin, (L) help establish cabinet govt in Canada (or 1904)
05121806
Amos Beebe Eaton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1877
J V Snellman, Finland, journalist/statesman/nationalist
05121812
Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)
Louis Ludwig Blenker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
05121820
Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)
05121828
Gabriel Dante Rossetti, England, poet/painter, Pre-Raphaelite
05121842
Jules Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
05121845
Gabriel Urbain Faur, Pamiers France, composer (Requiem, Ballade)
05121868
Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books
05121874
Clemens Freiherr von Pirquet, Austrian artist (Reactie of Pirquet)
05121880
Lincoln Ellsworth, led 1st transarctic, transantarctic flights
051219--
Lisa Raggio, NYC, actress (Pvt Maria Gianelli-Pvt Benjamin)
Mark Evans, rocker (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
Ray Gillen, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
Vanessa Williams, Bkln NY, actress (Rhonda Blair-Melrose Place)
05121900
Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress/wife of Bertolt Brecht
05121903
Lennox RF Berkeley, British composer (Castaway)
Wilfrid Hyde-White, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Peyton Place)
05121906
William M Ewing, US geologist/geophysicist
05121907
Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)
05121910
Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove Mo, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour)
05121914
Bertus Aafjes, Limburgs poet
Dan Daniel, (Rep-D-VA, 1969-  )
Howard K Smith, LA, TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate)
05121917
Andr A Rieu, conductor
05121921
Giovanni Benelli, archbishop of Florence/Pope candidate
05121923
Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Rocco e i suoi fratelli)
05121925
Earl Hutto, (Rep-D-FL, 1979 -  )
John Simon, theater critic (NY Times)
Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, NY Yankee catcher/coach/manager, Mets, Astros
05121926
Earl D Hutto, (Rep-D-Florida)
Mervyn M Dymally, (Rep-D-CA, 1981-  )
05121928
Manuel Lujan Jr, (Rep-R-NM, 1969-  )
05121929
Burt Bacharach, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
05121930
Patricia Keller McCormick, Calif, diver (Olympic-2 gold-1952, 56)
05121931
Johan Fleerackers, Flemish vice-president of Dutch One
05121936
Tom Snyder, Milwaukee Wisc, newscaster (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News)
05121937
Beryl Burton, UK, won record (7) women's cycling titles
George Carlin, Bronx, comedian (7 dirty words, AM & FM, Carwash)
Gerry E Studds, (Rep-D-MA, 1973-  )
05121938
Millie Perkins, Passaic NJ, actress (Jane-Knots Landings)
Susan Hampshire, London England, actress (Vanity Fair, Living Free)
05121939
Ronald Ziegler, press secretary (Nixon)
05121941
Anthony Newman, LA Calif, harpsichordist/organist (Bhajeb)
Ruud de Wolff, singer/guitarist (Blue Diamonds)
05121942
Barry B[rookes] Longyear, US, sci-fi author (City of Baraboo)
Ian Dury, rocker
05121943
Billy Swan, rocker (I Can Help)
David Walker, rocker (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
Linda Dano, LA Calif, actress (Felicia Gallant-Another World)
05121945
Linda Carlson, Knoxville Tn, actress (Bev-Newhart, Katie-Kaz)
05121946
Ian McLagen, rocker (Faces)
05121948
Lindsay Ann Crouse, NYC, actress (Slapshot, Iceman, Places in Heart)
Steve Winwood, England, rocker (A Higher Love)
05121950
Billy Squier, Mass, heavy metal guitarist (Don't Say No)
Bruce Boxleitner, Elgin Ill, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King)
Jocko Marcellino, rocker (Sha Na Na)
Shozo Fujii, judo champion
05121951
Gunnar Larrson, Sweden, 200m/400m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1972)
05121958
Beth Maitland, actress (Traci-Young & Restless)
Christian Brando, son of Marlon/killed sisters boyfriend
05121959
Dave Christian, Minn, NHL right wing (Wash Caps, Olympic-gold-1980)
0512196-
Jamie Luner, Palo Alto Calif, actress (Cindy-Just the 10 of Us)
05121961
Billy Duffy, rocker (Cult-Hell's Kitchen)
05121964
Joy Ellen Kitzmiller, LA Calif, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
05121966
Stephen Baldwin, actor (Beast, Lawrenceville Stories)
05121969
Kim Fields, LA Calif, actress (Tootie-Facts of Life)
05121972
Paul Stout, Saugus Calif, actor (Phillip-Scarecrow & Mrs King)
05121973
Mackenzie Astin, actor (Facts of Life, Garbage Pail Kids)
05121976
Matthew P Newmark, actor (Joseph Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
05131265
Dante Aligheri, poet
05131314
Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint
05131655
Innocent XIII, [Michelangiolo dei Conti], Italy, 244th Pope (1721-24)
05131717
Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria (Wife of Napolean)
05131729
Henry William (Baron) Stiegel, early American glassmaker
05131730
Marquess of Rockingham, (Whig), British PM (1765-66, 1782)
05131761
Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer (Mauritius Lijnslager)
05131769
Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26)
05131792
Pius IX "Pio Nono", [Giovanni-Maria Mastai-Ferretti], Pope (1846-78)
05131795
Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
05131828
Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer
05131830
Zebulon Baird Vance, Governor (Confederacy), died in 1894
05131831
Willem baron of Goltstein of Oldenaller, minister of Cologne
05131840
L-M Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin the Tarascon)
05131842
Arthur Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
05131843
Count Paul J Smet de Naeyer, Belgian politician
05131854
Louis H Chrispijn, actor/director
05131856
Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art
05131857
Ronald Ross, England, pathologist (Nobel 1902)
05131867
Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist (Willam Morris)
05131881
Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer
05131882
Georges F Broque, French cubist painter (Bike)
05131883
Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus (Dutch-Indies)
051319--
Leslie Winston, Auston Tx, actress  (Cindy-Waltons)
05131903
Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer
05131907
Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites)
Laurence Kirwan, archaeologist
05131908
Michael Richardson, commandant (Home for Disabled Sailors)
05131911
Robert Middleman, Cin Oh, actor (Barney-Monroes)
05131913
Sanjiva Reddy, president (India)
William R Tolbert, president Liberia (1971-80)
05131914
Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49)
05131915
John Habakkuk, principal (Jesus College in Oxford)
05131917
Paul Osmond, British senior civil servant
Wilhelmus C Wen, [Broeder Pius], social worker Curaao)
05131918
John Johnston, British diplomat (Rhodesia, Malaysia)
05131920
Ratu Kasmisere Mara, PM  of Fiji (1960-70, 70-  )
05131921
Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader
05131926
Beatrice Arthur, [Frankel], NY, actress (Maude, Dorothy-Golden Girls)
05131927
Clive Barnes, drama critic (NY Times, NY Post)
Herbert Ross, director/choreographer (Footloose)
05131930
Mike Gravel, (Sen-R-Alaska)
05131931
Eileen Diss, theatrical designer
Jim Jones, reverend, poisoned over 100 in Guyana (Jonestown Massacre)
Sydney Lipworth, CEO (Monopolies & Mergers Commission)
William Utting, chief inspector (British Social Services)
05131933
Sid Morrison, (Rep-R-WA, 1981-  )
05131936
Alan Rayfield, governor (Long Latin Prison)
05131937
John Cope, MP/Paymaster General
Judith Somogi, NYC, conductor (Frankfurt Opera-1982)
Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author (6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber)
Zohra Lampert, NYC, actress (Doctor's Hospital)
05131938
Buck Taylor, Hollywood Calif, actor (Monroes, Gunsmoke)
05131939
Anthony Hide, racehorse trainer
Harvey Keitel, actor (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
William W Cobey Jr, (Rep-R-NC, 1985-87)
05131940
Bruce Chatwin, England, writer (On the Black Hill)
05131941
Imca Marina, [Bijl], singer (Viva Espa¤a, Bella Italia, Oh Brazil)
Joe Brown, singer/guitarist
Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba)
Senta Berger, Vienna Austria, actress (Cast a Giant Shadow)
05131942
Jim Douglas, jazz guitarist
Vladimir A Dzhanibekov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 27/39/T6/T12/T13)
05131943
Mary Wells, Detroit, singer (My Guy)
05131944
Crispin Agnew of Lochnaw, British explorer/genealogist
05131945
Magic Dick, rocker (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
05131946
Danny Klein, rocker (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
Tim Pigott-Smith, actor (Sweet William, Jewel in Crown)
05131947
David Hughes, cricketer
Stephen R Donaldson, US, sci-fi author (Lord Foul's Bane)
05131949
Franklin Ajaye, comedian/actor (Jazz Singer, Car Wash)
John Glover, conductor
Overend Watts, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
Zoe Wanamaker, actress (Raggedy Rawney)
05131950
Peter Gabriel, rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds)
Stevie Wonder, singer/songwriter (You are the Sunshine of My Love)
05131951
Paul Thompson, rocker (Roxy Music)
Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)
05131952
John R Kasich, (Rep-R-OH, 1983-  )
05131956
Aleksandr Yuriyevich Kalery, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
05131957
Eloise Broady, Houston Tx, playmate (Apr, 1988)
05131959
Robert Earnshaw, racehorse trainer
05131963
Julian Brookhouse, rocker (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
05141316
Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78)/emperor (1355-78)
05141679
Peder [Nielsen] Horrebow, Danish astronomer
05141686
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, Germany, inventor (thermometer) (or 5/24)
05141771
Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist
05141780
Auguste De Polignac, premier France (Rponse  mes adversaires)
05141781
Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian
05141787
Thomas Gainsborough, baptized, England, artist (Blue Boy)
05141830
George Pierce Doles, (Confederate Army Brig General, died in 1864
05141836
James Patrick Major, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
05141881
Ed Walsh, pitcher, whose lifetime ERA of 1.82 is lowest ever
05141883
Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil)
Julian Eltinge, Mass, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator
05141885
Otto Klemperer, Breslau Germany, conductor (Das Ziel)
05141895
Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
05141897
Sidney Bechet, US, jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader
051419--
Eric Peterson, rocker (Testament-Souls of Black)
Walter Olkewicz, Bayonne NJ, actor (Last Resort, Wizards & Warriors)
05141904
Billie Dove, NYC, actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride)
05141906
Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi (1966-  )
James Flavin, Portland Me, actor (Man With a Camera)
05141907
Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president (Pakistan)
05141909
Vladimir Alatortsev, USSR, International Chess Master (1950)
05141911
J Borremans, Belgian politician (communist)/Chamber minister
05141917
Lou Harrison, Portland Oregon, composer (Rapunzel)
05141919
Heloise, & her helpful hints [or Apr 15, 1921?]
05141923
Diane Arbus, [Nemerov], NYC, photographer (Vogue/Harper's Bazaar)
05141925
Patrice Munsel, Spokane Wash, soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
05141926
Eric Morecambe, London, comedian (Morecambe & Wise, Picadilly Palace)
05141929
Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
05141930
Edward V "Ned" Regan, Planfield NJ, (Controller-R-NY, 1978-  )
05141936
Bobby Darin, [Walden Waldo Cassotto], Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife)
05141937
Dick Howser, shortstop (Kansas City A's), manager (KC Royals)
05141942
Byron L Dorgan, (Rep-D-ND, 1981-  )
05141943
Alan B Mollohan, (Rep-D-WV, 1983-  )
Jack Bruce, Lanarkshire Scotland, bassist (Cream-White Room)
05141944
Francesca Annis, London England, actress (Madame Bovary, Dune)
Gene Cornish, rocker (Rascals)
George Lucas, director (Star Wars)
05141945
Lek Leckenby, rocker (Herman's Hermits-There's a Kinda Hush)
05141946
Robert Jarvik, inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart)
05141951
Jay Beckenstein, saxrophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
Seasan Hubley, [Susan], NYC, actress (Vice Squad, Hardcore)
05141952
David Byrne, Dunbartin Scotland, rocker (Talking Heads-Psycho Killer)
Donald R McMonagle, Flint Michigan, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 39, 54)
05141953
Tom Cochrane, rocker (Red Rider)
05141956
Gillian [Marucha] Bradshaw, US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May)
05141957
William G Gregory, Lockport NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut
05141959
Mike Quick, NFL wide receiver (Phila Eagles)
05141962
C C Deville, rocker (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
Ian Astbury, rocker (Cult-Fire Woman)
05141966
Fabrice Morvan, Guadeloupe, singer (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know)
05141969
David William Wood, Boston, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever)
05141970
Natasha Ryan, LA Calif, actress (Amy-Ladies' Man)
05141973
Shanice [Wilson], Pittsburgh Pa, rock vocalist (Discovery, Loving You)
05151567
Claudio Monteverdi, Cremona Italy, composer (L'Orfeo)
05151791
Baron Floris A van Hall, minister of Justice/Finance
05151795
Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
05151802
Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
05151810
Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy), died in 1885
05151819
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)
05151830
Laurence Simmons Baker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
05151845
Ilja (Elias) Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
05151856
Lyman Frank Baum, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
05151859
Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
05151860
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
05151862
Arthur Schnitzler, Austria, playwright/novelist (La Ronde)
05151865
Albert Verwey, poet/literature historian (Motion)
05151880
Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop (Friend Kirche)
05151888
Jean Wahl, French philosopher
05151890
Katherine Anne Porter, US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
05151891
David Bird, Ukraine author (Huwelksleven)
Mikhail Bulgakov, Russia, playwright/novelist (Black Snow)
05151894
Jean Renoir, French director (La Bte Humane)
05151897
Casper Hweler, musico critic
051519--
Jim Phipps, rock drummer (Every Mother's Nightmare-Hard to Hold)
Peggy Pope, Montclair NJ, actress (Billy, Mrs David-Soap)
05151902
Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chic)
05151904
Clifton Fadiman, Bkln NY, TV host (Information Please, Quiz Kids)
Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein, Sweden, equest dressage (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
05151905
Joseph Cotten, US, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)
05151908
Lars-Erik Larsson, Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden)
05151909
James Mason, England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil)
05151910
Constance Cummings, US, actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour)
Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65)
05151911
Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Quieter, Biedermann)
05151912
Alexis Kagame, Rwanda, priest/writer
Alexis Nihon, Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
Arthur Berger, NYC, composer (Ideas of Order)
05151915
Maurice B Latey, commentator (BBC World Service)
Paul A Samuelson, economist (1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal)
05151916
Bill Williams, Bkln NY, actor (Starlit Time, Date With the Angels)
05151918
Eddy Arnold, country singer (Anytime)
Joseph Wiseman, Montral, actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables)
05151921
Erroll Garner, Pittsburgh Pa, jazz pianist (Misty)
05151922
Enrico Berlinguer, sec-gen (CP) Italy
05151923
Richard Avedon, US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)
05151924
Ursula Thiess, Hamburg, actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano)
05151925
Jos Jacobs, Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster)
05151926
Anthony Shaffer, twin brother playwright (Sleuth)
Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright (5 Finger Exercise, Equus)
05151930
Jasper Johns, artist (Green Target)
05151931
F Korthals Altes, Dutch minister of Justice (VVD)
05151932
John Glen, Thames England, actor (Spy Who Love Me, Backfire)
05151936
Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, actress/singer (Cinderfella)
Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)
Paul Zindel, playwright (Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds)
05151937
Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer (If I Had a Hammer)
05151938
Lenny Welch, Asbury Park NJ, (Breaking up is Hard to Do)
05151940
Paul Rudd, Boston Mass, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthçr's Court)
05151941
Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust)
05151942
Anthony W England, Indianapolis Indiana, PhD/astronaut (STS 51F)
05151944
Gunilla Hutton, Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)
Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
05151947
Graham Goble, rocker (Little River Band)
05151948
Brian Eno, Woodbridge England, singer (On Land)
05151949
Frank L Culbertson Jr, Charleston SC, Cmdr USN/astro (STS-38)
05151951
Dennis Frederiksen, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
05151953
George Brett, WV, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP)
Mike Oldfield, England, composer (Tubular Bells)
05151954
Andrea Gyarmati, Hungary, water polo player (Olympic, 1948-60)
05151955
Lee Horsley, Muleshoe Tx, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
05151959
Andrew Eldritch, rocker (Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet)
05151963
George Heidweiler, Suriname, Dutch painter
Grant Herslov, LA Calif, actor (Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof)
05151964
Pierre Trentin, France, 1K time trials (Olympic-gold-1968)
05151967
Omar Vizquel, Caracas Venezuela, shortstop (Seattle Mariners)
05151968
Todd Porter, NJ, actor (Hamilton-Whiz Kids)
05151970
Frank de Boer, soccer star (Ajax)
05151973
Vic"Tori"a Davey Spelling, LA Ca, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)
05151974
Ahmet Rodan Zappa, son of Frank
05151981
Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, 10th in succession to British throne
05161609
Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain
05161641
Dudley North, financier/economist
05161659
Campegius Vitringa, theologist
05161718
Maria G Agnesi, Italy mathematician curves= xýy=aý(a-y)
05161761
John Opie, artist
05161763
Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
05161782
John Sell Cotman, water color artist
05161788
Friedrich Rckert, poet
05161801
William Henry Seward, Sec of State (1861-69, buys Alaska at 2/acre)
05161804
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, founded 1st US kindergarten
05161806
George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
05161816
Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
05161819
Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898
05161822
Eduard Hille, composer/conductor
05161824
Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
05161827
Petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)
05161831
David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
05161832
Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
05161850
Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
05161866
Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
05161889
Joan Collette, painter
05161892
Richard Tauber, [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor
05161893
Jos Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance
05161898
August De Shriver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP)
051619--
Carolyn Conwell, actress (Mary-Young & Restless)
Jeanette Rodriguez, Carcas Venezuala, spanish actress
05161902
Jan Kiepura, Polish/US singer
05161904
Hugh Plaxton, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1928)
05161905
Henry Fonda, Grand Is Nebraska, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)
Herbert Ernest Bates, novelist
05161906
Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezula, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas)
05161907
Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)
05161908
Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister (Linggadjati)
05161909
Charles Wislon, Principal (Glasgow University)
05161911
Margaret Sullavan, Norfolk Va, actress (Back Street)
Olaff J de Landell, [JB Wemmerslager van Sparwoude], writer
05161912
Studs Terkel, NYC, author/host (Stud's Place, Working)
05161913
Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
05161916
Bernard Braden, broadcaster
Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president (Israel)
05161917
George Gaynes, Helsinki Finland, actor (Henry-Punky Brewster)
Geraint Jones, conductor/organist
05161918
Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro P ramo)
Kevin Skelton, Bishop of Lichfield
05161919
Richard Mason, author
[Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, West Allis Wisconsin, pianist
05161921
Harry Carey Jr, Saugus Calif, actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
05161922
Colin Cole, Principal King of Arms
Martine Carol, [Maryse Mopurer], actress (Action of Tiger)
Russell Wood, treasurer to Queen Elizabeth
05161924
Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president (Gambia, 1970-  )
Frank F Mankiewicz, columnist (Perfectly Clear)
05161927
John Walford, solicitor
05161928
Billy Martin, baseball manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
Reginald Askew, dean of King's College London
05161929
Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters)
John Conyers Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1965-  )
05161930
Desmond Langley, gov (Bermuda)
Don Conicannon, govt minister
Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman)
05161931
Donald Martino, Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
Jack Dodson, Pitts Pa, actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show)
Lowell P Weicker, (Sen-R-CT, 1971-88/Gov-D-CT)
Peter Levi, poet/writer
05161934
Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
Nicholas Goodison, CEO (TSB Group)
05161936
Philippe de Montebello, Paris, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut)
Roy Hudd, comedian
05161937
Yvonne Craig, Taylorville Ill, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)
05161938
Stuart Bell, MP
05161940
Gareth Roberts, chancellor Sheffield University
05161941
John McWilliams, MP
05161943
Dan Coats, (Rep-R-IN, 1981-  )
05161944
Billy Cobham, Panam , jazz artist (Same Ole Love)
05161945
Brewster H Shaw Jr, Mich, Col USAF/astro (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)
James Moran, (Rep-D-Virginia)
05161946
Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
05161947
Bill Smitrovich, actor (Crime Story, Miami Vice)
Rosie Barnes, MP
05161949
Jimmy Hood, MP
Rick Reuschel, pitcher (NY Yankees)
05161950
Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
05161951
Jonathan Richman, rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
05161952
Pierce Brosnan, Israel, actor (Remington Steele)
05161953
David Maclean, British minister of state
Richard Page, rocker (Mr Mister)
Rick Rhoden, pitcher (NY Yankees)
05161954
Janet Maw, actress
05161955
Debra Winger, Columbus Oh, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
Hazel O'Connor, Coventry England, singer/actress (Breaking Glass)
Jack Morris, St Paul Minn, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
Olga Korbut, Grodno  Byelorussia, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1972)
05161957
Joan Benoit, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathon runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
05161958
Glenn Gregory, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
05161959
Mare Winningham, Phoenix Az, actress (St Elmo's Fire, Turner & Hooch)
05161960
Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita)
05161961
Nina Arvesen, White Plains, NY, actress (Cassandra-Young & Restless)
05161964
John Salley, NBA star (Detroit Pistons)
05161965
Brent Jasmer, Portland Oregon, actor (Sly-Bold & Beautiful)
05161966
Janet Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer, Michael's sister (Control)
Scott Reeves, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Ryan-Young & Restless)
05161968
Ralph Tresvant, singer (New Editon)
05161969
Steve Lewis, US, 4X100/400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
Tracey Gold, NYC, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
Tricia Cast, actress (Nina-Young & Restless)
05161970
Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
05161979
Evan Ferrante, actor (Owen-Swan's Crossing)
05171444
Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)
05171451
Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg
05171490
Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia
05171551
Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist
05171749
Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination
05171794
Anna Brownell Jameson, author
05171796
Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Curaao (christen slaves)
05171803
Robert Smith Surtees, novelist
05171804
Ottho G Heldring, vicar (H Gestichten)
05171812
Joseph Warren Revere, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
05171823
Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, contralto/composer
05171836
Joseph Norman Lockyer, discovered Helium/founded Nature magazine
05171866
Erik Satie, Honfleur France, composer (Mmoirs d'un Ambsique)
05171867
Gerrit Mannoury, mathematician/philosopher
05171873
Dorothy Miller Richardson, novelist
Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le Feu)
05171876
Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist
05171886
Alfonso XIII, Borb¢n King of Spain (1902-31)
05171888
Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
05171889
Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel)
Marcel Moyse, Saint-Amour, France, flutist (20 Exercises et tudes)
051719--
Arturo Peniche, Mxico City Mxico, spanish actor
Audie Desbrow, rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
Paige Turco, actress (Melanie-Guiding Light)
05171900
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's spiritual leader
Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's ayatollah
05171901
Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige)
05171903
Douglas Packard, British Lt General
05171904
Jean Gabin, French actor (Stormy Waters, French Can Can)
05171906
Eric Mensforth, former pres Westland Aircraft
05171907
Charles Cawley, chief scientist/minister of power
Horace McMahon, South Norwalk Ct, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye)
Ilona Schacherer Elek, Budapest Hung, fencer (Olympic-gold-1936, 48)
05171908
Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927)
05171909
Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant
05171911
Maureen O'Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress (Pride & Prejudice)
05171912
Archibald Cox, 1st Watergate special prosecutor
Clarence "Ace" Parker, NFL QB (Brooklyn, Boston Yanks)
05171913
Alec Ogilvie, CEO (Powell Duffryn)
Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant
05171915
Joseph Craggs, electrical engineer
05171916
Cornelis A Eman, Antillian politician
05171918
Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome)
05171920
Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls)
Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
05171921
Dennis Brain, London England, french-hornist (Serenade)
John Garlick, British senior civil servant
05171923
Michael Beetham, Marshal of RAF
Miles Wingate, deputy master Trinity House
Peter [Mennini] Mennin, Erie Pennsylvania, composer (Moby Dick)
05171924
Lord Tombs, CEO (Rolls Royce)
Thomas Baird, vice-admiral
05171926
David Young, CEO (Cairn tech)
Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor (U of South Pacific)
Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Airilet
Tenniel Evans, rev/actor
05171927
Ronald Halstead, deputy chairman (British Steel)
05171928
Donald Cameron Watt, historian
Ian Griggs, bishop of Ludlow
05171929
Raymond Hide, geophysicist
05171931
Dewey Redman, jazz musician
05171932
Arthur Jones, principal (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester)
Rodric Braithwaite, ambassador to USSR
05171934
Earl Morrall, NFL QB (Lions, Giants, Colts)
05171935
Dennis Potter, playwright
Ivan Slone, world-famous watchmaker
05171936
Dennis Hopper, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider)
05171938
Don Dolan, Staten Island NY, actor (Guy Lewis- General Hospital)
Pervis Jackson, rocker (Spinners)
Trinus Riemersma, Fries writer (Conquest of Lion tamer)
05171939
Hugh Dykes, MP
Wim de Bie, CEO (Simplistic Covenant)
05171942
Taj Mahal, NYC, singer/songwriter (Real Thing)
05171944
Jesse Winchester, Shreveport La, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it)
05171945
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, cricketer
George Miller, (Rep-D-CA, 1975-  )
05171946
Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
05171950
Bill Bruford, drummer (Yes, King Crimson, Genesis)
Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills)
Keith Bradley, MP
05171951
Simon Hughes, MP
05171952
Jody Pijper, (background)singer
05171953
George Johnson, rocker (Brothers Johnson)
Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show)
Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England
05171954
John Iles, actor
05171956
"Sugar" Ray Leonard, Wilmington NC, boxer (Olympic-gold-76)
Bob Saget, comedian/actor (Danny-Full House, America's Home Videos)
Sue Carpenter, TV presenter/journalist
05171958
Vincent Henar, bassist (Fra Fra Sound)
05171959
Paul Di'anno, rocker (Iron Maiden)
05171960
Fiona Hutchison, Miami Fla, actress (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
05171961
Enya, [Eithne N¡ Bhraon in], Gweedore Ireland, vocalist (Watermark)
05171962
Tracey Bryn, rocker (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee)
05171963
Brigitte Nielsen, actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV, Domino)
05171970
Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
05181711
Ruggiero G Boscovich, [Rudzer J Boskovic], Italian astronomer
05181744
Joseph Bear, Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap)
05181797
Frederik Augustus II, King of Saxon (1836-54)
05181798
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1870
05181815
Thomas Stanhope Bocock, rep (Confederacy), died in 1891
05181817
James William Denver, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
05181830
Karl Goldmark, Keszthely Hungary, composer (Sakuhtala)
05181836
Wilhelm Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion (1866-94)
05181850
Oliver Heaviside, physicist predicted existance of ionosphere
05181854
Bernard Zweers, composer (On my Fatherland)
05181862
Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist
05181864
John P Veth, painter/etcher/lithographer/art historian
05181865
William Heinemann, England, publisher (Chemical Instrumental)
05181868
Nicholas II Aleksandrovitsj, last tsar of Russia (1894-1917)
05181869
Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern
05181872
Bertrand Russell, England, mathematician/philosopher (Nobel 1950)
05181883
Walter Gropius, German architect (founded Bauhaus school of design)
05181885
Eurico Gaspar Dutra, president of Brazil (1945-50)
05181891
Rudolf Carnap, philosopher (German Logical Positivist)
05181897
Frank Capra, director (Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic & Old Lace)
05181898
Juan J Domenchina, Spanish poet/interpreter (sombra desterrada)
051819--
Gail Strickland, Birmingham Ala, actress (Alice West-Insiders)
Priscilla Pointer, NYC, actress (Rebecca-Dallas, Call to Glory)
Steve Delong, rocker (Sweet F A-Stick To Your Guns)
05181900
Sarah Miriam Peale, US, portrait painter (Gen Lafayette-1825)
05181901
Henri Sauguet, Bordeaux France, composer (La Chotte)
Vincent du Vigneaud, US biochemist
05181902
Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer (Music Man)
05181904
Jacob K Javits, (Sen-R-NY)
05181907
Clifford Curzon, London England, pianist (MacFarren Gold Medal)
05181909
Fred Perry, Stockport England, tennis star (Wimbeldon 1934-36)
05181911
Joe Turner, KC, blues singer (Corrine Corrina, Shake Rattle & Roll)
05181912
Perry Como, singer/TV (Perry Como Show, What did Delaware?)
Richard Brooks, Phila, director (Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood)
05181914
Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Boris Godoenov)
Pierre A Balmain, France, fashion designer (1940's "New Look")
05181918
John Paul II, 264th Roman Catholic pope (1978-  )
05181919
Margot Fonteyn, England, ballerina (Giselle)
05181922
Bill Macy, Revere Mass, actor (Walter-Maude, Oh! Calcutta)
05181923
Liam Sullivan, Jacksonville Ill, actor (Mapoy-Monroes)
05181924
Jack Whitaker, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC, CBS)
05181928
Pernell Roberts, Waycross Ga, actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD)
05181930
Babara Goldsmith, New Rochelle, author (Little Gloria Happy At Last)
Don L Lind, Midvale Utah, astronaut (STS 51B)
Fred[erick] [Thomas] Saberhagen, US, sci-fi author (Book of Swords)
Warren B Rudman, (Sen-R-NH, 1980-  )
05181931
Robert Morse, Newton Mass, actor (That's Life, Jack Frost)
05181934
Dwayne Hickman, LA, actor (Dobie Gillis, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini)
05181937
Brooks Robinson, Baltimore Oriole 3rd baseman (1955-77)
Ildik¢ Sagi-Retj, Hung, foils (Oly-2 gold/3 silv/2 bronze-1960-76)
05181941
Diane McBain, Cleve Ohio, actress (Surfside Six, Spinout, Donner Pass)
05181945
Marten van Tra, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
05181946
Reggie Jackson, "Mr October" baseball rightfielder (Yankees, A's)
05181949
Rick Wakeman, rocker (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
William Wallace, rocker (Guess Who)
05181950
Rodney Milburn Jr, USA, hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
05181951
James Stephens, Mount Kisko NY, actor (Paper Chase, Devil's Island)
05181952
Diane E[lizabeth] Duane, US, sci-fi author (Door into Fire)
George Strait, country singer (Beyond the Blue Neon)
Martin R Hoke, (Rep-R-Ohio)
05181953
Butch Tavares, rocker (Tavares)
05181958
Toyah Wilcox, Birmingham England, rocker (I Want to Be Free)
05181960
Yannick Noah, France, tennis player (French 1983)
05181969
Martika, [Marta Marrero], Cuba, singer (Toy Soldiers)
05191469
Giovanni della Robbia, Ital's sculptor
05191611
Innocent XI, [Benedetto Odescalchi], Italy, 240th Pope (1676-89)
05191795
Johns Hopkins, philanthropist, founded Johns Hopkins University
05191808
Samuel Jameson Gholson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
05191812
Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
05191815
John Gross Barnard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1882
05191828
Adin Ballou Underwood, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
05191858
Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/traveller
05191859
Lady Nellie Melba, [Heal Mitchell], Australian soprano (Peach Melba)
05191860
Victor E Orlando, Ital's premier (1917-19)
05191864
Carl Ethan Akeley, US, naturalist, devoleped animal mount process
05191869
Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State
05191879
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, US/Eng's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor
Waldorf Astor, US/English Lower/Upper house member/owner Observer
05191890
Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam (1946, 1969)
051919--
Marilyn Chris, actress (Wanda Wolek-One Life to Live)
Tim Waldrip, Spokane Wash, actor (Casey-American Dream)
05191904
Anthony Bushell, actor (Journey's End)
Sven Thofelt, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-gold-1928)
05191909
Bruce Bennett, Tacoma Wash, actor (Before I Hang, Sahara)
05191915
Christian Beyers Naud, South african anti-apartheid minister
05191919
Beth Jameson, Norman Ok, golfer (US Women's Open 1947)
05191922
David McLean, Akron Oh, actor (Tate-Tate)
05191925
Malcolm X, [Little], [Detroit Red], Omaha NB, founder (Black Muslims)
05191928
Anthony C B Chapman, England, sports car builder/autoracer (Formula 1)
05191929
Harvey Cox, US theologist (Secular City)
05191934
James Charles Lehrer, Wichita Ks, news anchor (McNeil-Lehrer Report)
Jan Wijn, pianist
05191935
David Hartman, Pawtucket RI, TV personality (Good Morning America)
05191936
Elisabeth Schwartz, Austria, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1956)
05191937
Sanne Sannes, photographer
05191938
James H Bilbray, (Rep-D-Nevada)
05191939
Francis R Scobee, Wash, USAF/astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster)
James Fox, England, actor (Greystoke)
05191940
Frank Lorenzo, airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)
05191941
Nora Ephron, NY, writer (Heartburn)
05191945
Peter Townshend, singer (Who-Tommy)
05191946
Diedre Lenihan, Atlanta Ga, actress (Wendy-Needles & Pins)
05191947
Glenn Close, Greenwich Ct, actress (Fatal Attractions) (or 0319)
Jerry Hyman, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears)
05191948
Grace Jones, [Mendoza], Spanishtown Jamacia, singer/actress (Vamp)
Tom Scott, LA, saxophonist/bandleader (Pat Sajak Show)
05191952
Barbara Loomis, rocker (BT Express)
Joey Ramone, [Jeffrey Hyman], rock drummer (Ramones-Baby I Love You)
05191954
Rick Cerone, Newark NJ, catcher (Yankees/Red Sox/Mets/Expos)
05191955
Ed Whitson, pitcher (NY Yankees, SD Padres)
Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 36, 49, SK:66)
05191956
Althea Gwyn, WBL center (NY Stars)
Martyn Ware, rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
Steve Ford, actor (Young & Restless)/son of Pres Gerald Ford
05191957
Bill Laimbeer, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers, Detroit Pistons)
05191961
Lisa Rathgber, Hillsboro Ill, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1980)
05191963
Yazz, [Yasmin Evans], Mrs Simon La Bon/rocker (One Way is Up)
05191965
Joshua Rifkind, actor (Marshall Chronicles)
05191969
David Wharton, Warminster PA, US Olympic swimmer (Olympic-silver-88)
05201364
Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], British soldier/politican
05201470
Pietro Bembo, cardinal/theologian
05201537
Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician (De Formato Foetu)
05201743
[Franois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, ( Breda), leader (Haiti)
05201750
Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812
05201759
William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
05201768
Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison, 1st lady (1809-17)
05201772
William Congreve, English officer (design fire rocket)
05201799
Honor de Balzac, France, novelist (Pere Goriot, Human Comedy)
05201806
John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
05201815
Barthlmy Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter
05201818
William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)
05201822
Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo)
Frdric Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901)
05201828
James William Reilly, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
05201830
Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family, Alleen on de world)
05201841
Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate
05201844
Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French painter (Dream)
05201851
Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor (flat phonograph record)
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, US, nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne
05201872
Albert Steinrck, German actor
05201874
Folkert E Posthuma, minister of Agriculture/Industry
05201881
Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland
05201882
Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928)
05201889
Margery Allingham, detective story writer
William Lawther, union leader
05201890
Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
05201894
Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondant)
05201899
Estelle Taylor, US, actress (8 Commandments)
John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71)
052019--
Jay Schellen, rocker (Hurricane-I'm On To You)
Pete McClanahan, rocker (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of Century)
05201901
Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37)
05201905
Harry Campion, founder (British Central Statistical Office)
05201908
Jimmy Stewart, PA, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life)
05201909
John Arkell, director of BBC administration
05201911
Annie Schmidt, writer (Fam Doorsnee/Jip & Janneke)
Gardner F[rancis] Fox, US, sci-fi author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman)
05201912
Joseph Proce, 3rd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
05201913
Henry Cadbury Brown, architect
William Hewlett, cofounder of Hewlett-Packard Co
05201915
Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense
Peter Copley, actor (Victim, King & Country)
05201916
John McIntyre, theologian
Owen Chadwick, chancellor (U of East Anglia)
05201917
Richard Cobb, historian
05201919
George Gobel, Chicago Ill, comedian/TV personality (I Love My Wife)
05201920
Betty Driver, actress
John Cruickshank, banker
William Simpson, British trade union leader
05201921
John Harrison, Vice admiral british/surgeon
John Marchi, (Rep-R-NY)
05201922
Clifford Butler, vice chancellor (Loughborough University of Technolog
05201923
Edith Fellows, Boston, actress (Pennies From Heaven, City Streets)
Hugh Beach, General British
05201924
Peter Shore, MP/labour minister
05201925
D French Slaughter Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1985-  )
05201926
David Hedison, Providence RI, actor (Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
05201927
Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player/coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota)
05201928
David Berriman, CEO (Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds trustees
05201929
Andr Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
David Hedison, [Ara Heditsian], Providence RI, actor (Licence to Kill)
05201930
James McEachin, Pennert NC, actor (Harry-Tenafly)
Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)
05201931
Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)
05201933
Constance Towers, actress (Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss)
Danny Aiello, actor (Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing)
05201936
Anthony Zerbe, US, actor (Papillon, They Call Me Mr Tibbs)
05201937
Earl of Iveagh, pres (Guiness Pics)
05201938
Alan Smithers, British professor
Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K spped skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
05201940
Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
05201941
Goh Chok Sole, premier of Singapore (1990-  )
05201942
Lynn Davies, long jumper
Paula, [Jill Jackson], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
05201943
Deryck Murray, cricket Manager (West Indies team)
Ian Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
05201944
Boudewijn the Great, singer (Good night mister president)
Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter
David M Walker, Columbus Ga, Capt USN/astron (STS 51-A 30, sk:STS-44)
Joe Cocker, England, rock musician (You are so Beautiful to me)
Keith Fletcher, cricket captain (Essex & England)
05201945
Harold E Ford, (Rep-D-TN, 1975-  )
Lord Hollick, CEO (MAI)
Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russia, colonel/cosmonaut
Wally Herger, (Rep-R-California)
05201946
Bakhaavaa Buidaa, Mongolia, wrestler (Oly-silver-1972) disqualified
Cher Bono, Cal, rocker/actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask)
05201948
Dave Thomas, St Catherines Ontario, comedian (SCTV)
John R McKernan Jr, (Rep-R-ME, 1983-86/Gov-Maine)
Samuel Gejdenson, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1981-  )
05201949
Nick Joe Rahall II, (Rep-D-WV, 1977-  )
05201951
Michael D Crapo, (Rep-R-Idaho)
Thomas D "Tom" Akers, St Louis, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, 49)
William Cullen Bryant, actor (Hell Squad)
05201952
Warren Cann, rocker (Ultravox)
05201954
James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
05201955
Nigel Griffiths, labour MP
Steve George, rocker (Mr Mister)
05201958
Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour)
Ronald Prescot Reagan Jr, Pres son/TV host (Ron Reagon Show)
05201959
Bronson Pinchot, NYC, actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop)
05201960
John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair)
05201961
Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts)
05201962
Lydia Cheng, NYC, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder (1982) (Pumping Iron 2)
Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model
05201963
Brian Nash, Glendale Calif, actor (Joel-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
05201964
Earl Spencer
Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
05201965
Fia Porter, Mexia Tx, actress (Audrey Ames-One Life to Live)
05201966
Mindy Cohn, LA, actress (Facts of Life)
05201969
Suzanne Lawrence, Humble Texas, Miss Texas-America (1991) (4th)
0521 427
-BC- Plato, [Aristocles], Athens(?), Greek philosopher (Politeia)
05211471
Albrecht Drer, Nrnberg Germany, Renaissance painter/print maker
05211527
Philip II, King of Spain (1556-98) & Portugal (1580-98)
05211688
Alexander Pope, England, poet (Rape of the Lock)
05211775
Lucien Bonaparte, prince of Canino/Musignano
05211780
Elizabeth Fry, Quaker minister/prison reformer/nurse
05211796
Reverdy Johnson, rep (Union), died in 1876
05211808
Grard de Nerval, [Labrunie], French poet/writer (Sylvia)
05211822
Dabney Herndon Maury, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1900
Mosby Monroe Parsons, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1865
05211825
George Lafayette Beal, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
05211826
Danillo II, ruler of Montenegro
05211834
Charles-Albert Gobat, Switz, politician/lawyer/author (Nobel 1902)
05211835
Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
05211843
Louis Renault, French lawyer
05211844
Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter
05211851
Lon Bourgeois, France, politician, internationalist (Nobel 1920)
05211855
Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
05211858
Jos Battle Ordonez, Uruguay, politician
05211860
Willam Einthoven, inventor (electrocardiograph)
05211865
C J Thomsen, Denmark, archaeologist, named Stone/Iron/Bronze Ages
05211872
Henry Warren, Boston Mass, inventor (Telechon electric clock)
05211873
Emil Ermatinger, Switz, literature historian
05211878
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, US, inventor (hydroplane)
Louis L H de Visser, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN)
05211898
Armand Hammer, NYC, millionaire industrialist (Occidental Petroleum)
05211899
Ralph Sanford, Springfield Mass, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
052119--
Anthony Corder, rocker (Tora Tora-Walkin' Shoes)
Booth Savage, Frederickton NB Canada, actor (Jason West-Hot Shots)
Isabel Pandora, spanish entertainer
John Ricco, rock guitarist (Warrior Soul-Last Decade of The Century)
John Zee, NYC, actor (Bring 'em Back Alive)
Lynnie Greene, Boston Mass, actress (Maria-On Our Own)
Richard Libertini, Cambridge Mass, actor (Soap, Ghost)
05211901
Horace Heidt, Alameda Calif, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon)
Suzanne Lilar, [Verbist], France/Belgian writer (Le burlador)
05211903
Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier (1953..7)
Manly Wade Wellman, Angola, sci-fi author (After Dark, Devil's Planet)
Pedro Aramburu, president Argentina
05211904
(Thomas) Fast Waller, Jazz pianist/composer
Fats Waller, jazz pianist, composer (Ain't Misbehavin')
Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)
Thomas "Fats" Waller, US jazz pianist (Honeysuckle Rose)
05211909
Guy de Rothschild, banker
05211911
Andr Renard, Belgian worker's union leader (Syndical Unifi)
05211916
Harold Robbins, author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers)
Helen Willis Moody Roark, tennis player (US Open 1923-25, 27-29, 31)
Leonard Manasseh, architect
05211917
Dennis Day, NYC, actor/singer (Jack Benny Show)
Jean-Louis Curtis, French writer (Just Causes)
Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla)
05211918
Leonard Mullens, rubber physicist
05211919
Lord Maxwell, College of Justice (Scotland)/senator
Mark Wood, bishop of Ludlow
05211920
Anthony Steel, London, actor (Malta Story, Wooden Horse)
05211921
Andrei Sakharov, Moscow, physicist, human rights worker (Nobel '75)
05211924
Peggy Cass, TV panelist, actress (To Tell the Truth)
Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer (Book of Imaginery Beings)
05211926
Dan Perlsweig, horse trainer
Rick Jason, NYC, actor (Day of the Wolves, Eagles Attack at Dawn)
Robert Creeley, Mass, poet/novelist (Island)
05211927
Kay Kendall, Yorkshire England, actress (Genevieve, Les Girls)
05211929
Charles Wadsworth, Barnesville Georgia, pianist (Lincoln Center)
Robert Welch, designer/silversmith
05211930
David Smith, principal/vice chancellor (Edinburgh University)
Malcolm Fraser, PM of Australia
Stanley Wells, director (Shakespeare Institute U of Birmingham)
05211931
Desmond Wilcox, broadcaster
George Vassiliou, president of Cyprus (1988-  )
05211932
John Armitage, principal (College of St Hilda & St Bede Durham)
05211933
Barry Norman, Britain, film critic (Film Greats)
05211935
Terry Lightfoot, clarinetist/bandleader
05211936
Dipak Nandy, founder (Runnymead Trust)
05211938
David Groh, Bkln NY, actor (Joe-Rhoda, Don-Another Day)
05211941
Ronald Isley, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
05211942
David Hunt, Wales sec of state
Robert C Springer, St Louis, Col USMC/astronaut (STS-29, STS-38)
05211943
Hilton Valentine, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
05211944
Janet Dailey, US, author
Mary Robinson, pres of Republic of Ireland
Mike Degett, horse trainer
05211945
Ernst Messersclmid, Reutlingen Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
05211947
Richard Hatch, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
05211948
Leo Sayer, [Gerard], England, singer (When I Need Love)
05211949
Andrew Nell, editor (Sunday Times)
Arno Hintjens, Belgian singer (T C Matic)
Rosalind Plowright, soprano
05211952
Mr T, [Lawrence Tero], Chicago, actor, (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T)
05211954
Marina Langner, Dusseldorf Germany, Miss World runner-up (1975)
05211955
John Galvin, rocker (Molly Hatchet)
Stan Lynch, rocker (Tommy Petty & Heartbreakers)
05211957
Judge Reinhold, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Sue Woodstra, Colton Ca, volleyball player (Olympic-silver-1984)
05211958
Mike Barson, rocker (Madness)
05211959
Nick Cassavets, actor (Rosemary's Baby, Quiet Cool)
05211961
Tim Lever, keyboard/sax (Dead or Alive-You Spin Me Round)
05211963
Yelena Vodorezova, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-1976)
05211964
Annabel Schofield, Wales, actress (Laurel Ellis-Dallas)
05221804
John William (Turk) Livingston, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1885
05221813
Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman)
05221821
Alfred Sully, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
05221828
Albrecht Grfe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology
05221844
Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing)
05221859
Arthur Conan Doyle, UK, brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice
05221874
Daniel F Malan, premier of South-Africa (1948-54)
05221891
Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college pres (Univ of Calif)
05221892
Louis of Tulder, tenor (Kantoorkruk Up to High C)
05221895
Jiddu Krishnamurti, India, spiritual philosopher (Songs of Life)
05221898
Ren the Fox, tailor/actor/composer
052219--
Victoria Wyndham, actress (Rachel Cory-Another World)
05221902
Al Simmons, Milwaukee, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334
05221904
Anne de Vries, writer (Bartje)
05221907
Herg, [Georges Rmi], Belgian cartoonist (Kuifje)
Laurence Olivier, actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer)
05221911
Anatol Rapoport, Russ/US mathem/biologist (olympic theory)
05221914
Vance Packard, US sociologist (Hidden Pseuders)
05221919
Paul Vanden Boeynants, premier Belgium (1966-68, 1978-79)
05221920
Thomas Gold, astronomer; proposed steady-state theory of universe
05221922
Judith Crist, NY, movie critic (TV Guide)
05221924
Charles Aznavour, Paris France, singer (Monsieur Carnavel)
Helen Wedemeyer, Hilo Hawaii, actor (Hawaii Five-O)
05221925
Jean Tinguely, Swiss speed artist (movement objects)
05221927
Michael Constantine, actor (Room 222, Don't Drink the Water)
05221928
T Boone Pickens, buys large companies (Shamrock)
05221930
Dieuwke Y W de Countf-Nauta, Dutch Sect of State (CDA)
05221933
John Browning, Denver Colorado, pianist (Leventritt Award-1956)
05221934
Peter Nero, NYC, pianist (A Sunday in NY)
05221938
Frank Converse, actor (It's About Time, Dr Cook's Garden, Movin' On)
Richard Benjamin, actor/director (Goodbye Columbus, He & She)
Susan Strasberg, NYC, actress (In Praise of Older Women, Manitou)
05221940
Michael Sarrazin, actor (Seduction, They Shoot Horses Don't They)
05221941
Paul Winfield, LA, actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn)
05221942
Barbara Parkins, Vancouver BC, actress (Betty-Peyton Place, Asylum)
Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer
05221943
Tommy John, pitcher (Yankee/Dodger)
05221948
Richard Baker, (Rep-R-Louisiana)
05221950
Bernie Taupin, musician, writes with Elton John
05221951
Iva Davies, rocker (Icehouse)
05221952
Jan Todd, woman power lifter, once lifted 248 kg in a squat
05221953
John Edward Stevens, NYC, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
05221954
Jerry Dammers, keyboardist (Specials-Special)
05221955
Sam Coppersmith, (Rep-D-Arizona)
05221956
Douglas Heyes Jr, LA Calif, actor (Captains & Kings, Aspen)
05221959
[Patrick] Morrissey, rocker (Depeche Mode-Somebody)
05221964
David Lidberg, jockey
05221970
Naomi Campbell, London England, model/girlfriend of Mike Tyson
05221972
Alison Eastwood, daughter of actor Clint
05231617
Elias Ashmole, antiquary
05231707
Carolus Linnus, Sweden, biological classifier
05231718
William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer
05231729
Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il giorno)
05231734
Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism)
05231753
Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer
05231754
Andrea Appiani, fresco painter
05231790
Jules-Sbastien-Csar Dumont d'Urville, explorer
05231795
Charles Barry, architect
05231799
Thomas Hood, poet/composer
05231810
Margaret Fuller, writer/critic 1st pro book review column (NY Trib)
05231812
Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles)
05231813
Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
05231820
James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)
05231824
Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers)
05231828
Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)
05231837
James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
05231844
'Abdu'l-Bah , early Bah '¡ leader ('Azamat 7, 1)
05231848
Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff
05231862
William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99
05231866
Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist
05231883
Douglas Fairbanks, US actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood)
05231888
Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Woest en moe)
05231890
Herbert Marshall, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes)
05231891
Pr Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist (Barabbas, Nobel 1951)
05231898
Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young)
052319--
Bill McCutcheon, Russell Ky, actor (Dom Deluise Show, Ball Four)
Charles Pierce, SF, woman impersonnator (Judy Garland)
Charytin, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, TV entertainer (El Show de Charytin)
Lucia Galan, Buenos Aires Argentina, singer (Pimpinera)
Mary Fickett, actress (Ruth Martin-All My Children)
Phil Allocco, rocker (Law & Order-Whiskey Song)
05231901
Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch)
05231903
Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
05231907
Kenneth Allen, engineer
Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant
05231908
Christian GK Bata, Togolese chairman (International Broadcasters)
John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972)
Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building)
05231909
Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat
05231910
Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House)
Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
Hugh Casson CH, architect
05231911
Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society)
05231912
David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England)
Jean Franaix, Le Mans France, composer (Le Rui Nu)
John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun)
M Jean Francaix, composer
Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust)
Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University)
05231913
Ian Graeme, major-general
05231914
Alec Dickson, founder (VSO)
Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth)
05231918
Dennis Compton, author/cricketeer
05231919
Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family)
05231920
Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)
05231921
Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician
James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader)
Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
05231923
Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
05231924
Desmond Carrington, British radio host
Michael McCrum, master of Corpus Christi College Cambridge
05231928
Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor (Without a Clue, Masada)
Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/coronet paper towels spokeswoman
05231929
Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness)
05231931
Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller)
Jos Telles Da Conceiao, Brazil, high jumper (Olympic-bronze-1952)
05231932
James Lester, MP
John Lyons, Master of Trinity Hall (Cambridge)
05231933
Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of land & fishing (CDA)
Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress (Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch)
05231934
Malcolm Gill, deputy head of Banking Depart, Bank for Intl Settlements
Robert Moog, inventor (Moog Synthesizer)
05231935
Juliet Campbell, British ambassador to Luxembourg
Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank
05231936
Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer
05231937
John Mazza, horse trainer
05231938
John R Miller, (Rep-R-WA, 1985-  )
Peter Preston, editor (Guardian)
05231939
Ron Stevens, horse trainer
05231943
John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1967, 70, 71)
Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands
05231944
Giles Smith, TV journalist
Lady Olga Maitland, MP
05231945
Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best)
05231946
Tom Dorris, horse trainer
05231949
Alan Garc¡a Prez, pres of Peru (1985-  )
05231950
Linda Thompson, Memphis Tn, actress (Hee Haw)
05231951
Anatoli Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)
05231952
"Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83)
Deborah Adair, actress (Tracey-Dynasty)
05231955
John Stevens, MEP
05231958
Shelly West, country singer
Thomas Reiter, German engineer/test pilot/astronaut candidate
05231962
Karen Duffy, [Duff], NYC, MTV veejay
05231964
Staci Greason, Denver, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives)
05231966
Graeme Hick, cricketer
05241544
William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism)
05241619
Philip Wouwerman, painter
05241743
Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist
05241751
Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardina (1796-1802)
05241753
Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, black who served with Washington
05241781
Louis-Franois Dauprat, composer/horn player
05241794
William Whewell, British philospher (History of Inductive Science)
05241803
Karel LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino/Musignano
05241807
Thomas Duncan, painter
05241810
Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism
05241811
Charles Clark, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
05241816
Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)
Robert Seaman Granger, (Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894)
05241819
Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great-Britain/Ireland/Emperor India
Victoria, Queen of England (1837-1901)
05241838
Paul Laband, German lawyer
05241840
Frederick Walker, painter
05241841
Charles Napier Henry, painter
Tito Mattei, pianist/composer
05241850
Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter
05241852
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician
05241854
Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I)
05241855
Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright
05241858
Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer)
05241866
Armando Frid, Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years)
05241870
Jan C Smuts, philosopher/general/premier South-Africa (1919...48)
Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth & League of Nations
05241878
Lillian M Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954)
05241886
Paul Paray, Le Trport Normandy, conductor (Artemis Trouble)
05241891
Benedictus H Dancer, botanist
05241895
Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)
05241898
Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando)
05241899
Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times)
052419--
Judy Kahan, Roslyn Heights NY, actress (Doc, Mary Hartman)
Rich Robinson, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
05241904
George Formby, [William Hoy Booth], British singer/comic
Kenneth Buckley, British rear-admiral
05241905
Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965)
05241906
Edmund Sargant, solicitor
John Mayo, director-general (Help the Aged)
05241909
Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca)
Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe
05241912
Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano
Joseph Anthony (Deuster), US director/actor (Matchmaker, Tomorrow)
05241913
Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936)
05241914
Clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt)
Lilli Palmer, [Peiser], Germany, actress (Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weimar)
05241916
Roden Cutler, Governor (New South Wales)
05241917
Derek Hodgson, British high court judge
Lord Campbell of Alloway, QC
05241918
Coleman A Young, civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit)
D V Jennings, solicitor
05241923
Paul Bramley, oral surgeon
Siobhan McKenna, Ireland, stage actress (Saint Joan)
05241925
Mai Zetterling, actress/director (Hitchhiker)
05241927
John Kelly Jr, US, sculls (Oly-gold-1956), brother of Grace Kelly
Timothy Beven, CEO (Barclays Bank)
05241928
Peter Griffiths, MP
Stanley Baxter, British comic
William Trevor, Brit writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune)
05241930
Ivor Richardson, Judge (NZ Court of Appeals)
05241932
Arnold Wesker, British playwright
Elaine Malbin, opera singer
Graham Arnold, artist
James Anderton, Chief constable of Manchester England
Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant
05241933
Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal
Tony Mullett, director-general (National Criminal Intelligence Service
05241934
Jane Byrne, (Mayor-D-Chic)
05241938
Tommy Chong, Edmonton, Alberta, comedian/actor (Cheech & Chong)
05241939
Gert J Schutte, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (GPV)
05241940
Joseph Brodsky, USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987)
05241941
Andres Garcia, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, actor (Tiger Shark)
Baroness Hollis of Heigham, history lecturer (U of East Anglia)
Bob Dylan, [Zimmerman], Minn, singer/songwriter (Blowin' in Wind)
Martin Mogg, governor (British Durham Prison)
Tony Valentino, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water)
05241942
Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie & Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now)
Sarah Dash, Trenton, NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
05241943
Gary Burghoff, actor (Radar-M*A*S*H)
James Levine, British conductor
05241944
Arthur Brown, rock vocalist (Fire)
Patti LaBelle, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
05241945
Priscilla Presley, Bkln NY, actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun)
Richard Ottaway, MP
Steven Norris, British MP
05241946
Irina Kirszenstein Szewinska, Lennigrad, long jumper (Oly-bronze-1972)
Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor (TLS)
Steve Upton, rock drummer (Wishbone Ash-There's the Rub, Locked In)
05241947
Luke Rittner, sect-gen (Arts Council)
05241949
John Illsley, rocker (Dire Straits)
05241951
Pat Bradley, golfer (leader in LPGA career earnings)
Rob Baker, rocker (Red Rider)
05241953
Nell Campbell, [Laura], Sydney Australia, actress (Rocky Horror)
05241955
Rosanne Cash, country singer (I Wonder)
Thad Ackel, horse trainer
05241956
Helen Terry, rocker (Now You're Mine)
05241957
John G Rowland, (Rep-R-CT, 1985-  )
05241959
George Glanos, horse trainer
05241963
Gene Anthony Ray, Harlem NY, actor (Leroy-Fame)
Joe Dumars, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
05241964
Adrian Moorhouse, British 100m breaststroker (Olympic-gold-1988)
05241965
Chris Jorgis, Palo Alto Calif, US badminton player (Olympic-92)
05241966
Tommy Turner, jockey
05241967
Steve McDonald, rocker (Redd Kross)
05241970
Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge NJ, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
05241982
?, heaviest known viable baby, South Africa (10.2 kg)
05251494
Jacopo Pontormo II, Italy, painter (Funeral procession of Christ)
05251781
Ferdinand K J, archduke of Austria-Este/gov-gen (Sicily)
05251803
Ralph Waldo Emerson, US, essayist/philosopher (Concord Hymn)
05251830
Jules de Geyter, Belgian poet (International)
05251845
William Muldoon, Belfast NY, boxing commissioner (help find PAL)
05251847
John Alexander Dowie, [Elijah the Restorer], US, evangelist
05251865
Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxon (1904-18)
John Raleigh Mott, organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946)
Pieter Zeeman, naturalist (Zeeman effect, Nobel 1902)
05251878
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, actor (Stormy Weather, Little Colonel)
05251879
W Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook, Canada/English banker
05251886
Philip Murray, founded Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
05251889
Igor Sikorsky, developed a working helicopter
05251891
Robert W P Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief (Haarlem Newspaper)
05251898
Bennett Cerf, publisher (Random House) panelist (What's My Line)
Gene Tunney, world heavyweight boxing champion (1926-30)
052519--
Hillary Bailey Smith, actress (As the World Turns)
Klaus Meine, rocker (Scorpions-No One Like You)
Sue Simmons, news anchor (WNBC-TV)
05251905
Joseph C Harsch, Toledo Ohio, newscaster (Background)
05251907
U Nu, premier Burma (1948-58, 1960-62)
05251908
David Lean, British director (Lawrence of Arabia)
Theodore Roethke, US, poet (Words for the Wind)
05251911
Andr Renard, Belgian worker union leader (Movement Syndical Unifi)
05251917
Dorothy Sarnoff, US, actress(?)
Theodore Hesburgh, ex-president of Notre Dame
05251918
Claude Akins, actor (BJ & Bear, Movin' On, Lobo)
Peder Lunde, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-silver-1952)
05251919
Lindsey Nelson, Pulaski Tn, sportscaster (NY Mets)
05251921
Hal David, lyricist (Promises Promises-Grammy 1969)
05251923
John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer (Friends in High Places)
05251925
Jeanne Crain, Barstow Calif, actress (Man Without a Star)
05251926
Miles D Davis, US, jazz trumpeter (L'ascenseur pour l'chafaud)
05251927
Robert Ludlum, spy novelist (Bourne Identity)
05251929
Beverly Sills, [Belle "Bubbles" Miriam Silverman], Bkln NY, soprano
David S Ruder, 23rd chairman of Security & Exchange Commission
05251931
John Gabriel, US, actor(?)
05251932
Georgi M Grechko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
K.C. Jones, Taylor Tx, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956)
05251934
Ron Nesson, press secretary (Gerald Ford)
05251935
Barbara Harris, US, actress (Family Plot, Plaza Suite)
05251936
Tom T Hall, Olive Hill Ky, country singer/writer (Harper Valley PTA)
05251938
Ludmil Buldakova, USSR, volleyball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season)
05251939
Dixie Carter, actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night)
Ian McKellen, England, actor (Keep, Plenty, Scarlet Pimpernel)
05251943
Leslie Uggams, NYC, singer/actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots)
Sally Jesse Raphael, TV talk show host (Sally)
05251944
Frank Oz, Heresford England, puppeteer (Sesame St, Muppet Show)
05251945
Dave Lee Travis, DJ
05251946
Irnema Szewinski Kirszenstein, Poland, 200m runner (1968 Olym Gold)
Janet E[llen] Morris, US, sci-fi author (Golden Sword, Tempus)
05251947
Jessi Colter, [Miriam Johnson], Phoenix, country singer (I'm Not Lisa)
Karen Valentine, Santa Rosa Cal, actress (Room 222)
05251951
Clifford Archer, bassist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
05251954
Allison Stern, wife of radio personality Howard Stern
05251955
Connie Selleca, Bronx, actress (Hotel, Capt America II)
05251958
Dorothy Straight, 4 year old author (How World Begun)
Paul Weller, guitar (Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council)
05251963
Mike Myers, Canada, comedian (SNL, Wayne's World)
05251965
Mark Knight, Calif, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
05251967
Danny Gonzales, jockey
05251969
Matt Borlenghi, LA Calif, actor (Brian Bodine-All My Children)
05251970
Lindsay Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
Sidney Greenbush, LA, twin actress (Carrie-Little House on Prairie)
05261478
Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1523-34)
05261566
Mohammed III, sultan of Turkey (1595-1603)
05261667
Abraham De Moivre, French mathematician (De Moivre's theorem)
05261689
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English essayist, feminist, eccentric
05261799
Alexander S Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin)
August Kopisch, German writer (Die Heinzelmnnchen von Kln)
05261806
Henry Knox Thatcher, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1880
05261835
Edward Porter Alexander, Brig General (Confederate Army)
05261850
Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, actress (Stupid force)
05261859
Alfred Edward Housman, Bromsgrove England, poet (A Buried Life)
05261867
Mary, queen of Great Britain/North Ireland
05261874
Henry Farman, French aviation pioneer (double decker)
05261876
Jack Root, boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion
05261877
Isadora Duncan, SF, free form/interpretative dancer
Jean Schlumberger, French writer (La Mort de Sparte)
Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34)
05261884
Charles Winninger, Athens Wisc, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)
05261886
Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee)
05261890
Kurt Edzard, German sculptor (nudist/portraits)
05261893
Eugene Goossens, London England, conductor/composer (Perseus)
Norma Talmadge, US actress (Sign on Door, Camille)
052619--
Barbara Stock, Downers Grove Ill, actress (Susan-Spenser For Hire)
Robyn Bernard, singer/actress (General Hospital)
05261903
Estes Kefauver, (Sen-D-Tn)
05261907
John Wayne, "Duke", [Marion Michael Morrison], actor (True Grit)
05261908
Robert Morley, England, actor (High Road to China, African Queen)
05261909
Richard Maibaum, NYC, screenwriter (Goldfinger)
05261910
Laurance S Rockefeller, CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank)
05261912
J nos K d r, premier Hungary (1956-58)
05261913
Peter Cushing, England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles, Star Wars)
05261914
Archie Duncan, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Sherlock Holmes)
05261920
Peggy Lee, [Norma Egstrom], Jamestown ND, singer (Thats All There Is?)
05261923
Horst Tapper, German director/actor (Derrick)
James Arness, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing)
Oren Lee Staley, 1st pres of National Farmers Organization (1955-79)
Roy Dotrice, Guernsey Channel Island, actor (Wizard)
05261924
Cooper Evans, (Rep-R-IA, 1981-87)
Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark)
05261925
Alec McCowen, Tunbridge Wells England, actor (Never Say Never Again)
05261926
Miles Davis, Alton Ill, jazz artist (cool jazz)
05261927
Jacques Bergerac, actor (Gigi, Les Girls, Thunder in Sun)
05261929
Hugo Raes, Flemish writer (Horses Jump & Fresh Sea)
05261938
Teresa Stratas, [Anastasia Stratakis], Toronto Canada, soprano
William Elden Bolcom, Seattle Washington, composer (Oracles)
05261939
Brent Musburger, sportscaster (CBS-TV)
05261942
Levon Helm, drummer/singer (Band)
Ray Ennis, England, guitar (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
05261943
Erica G Terpstra, Oly swimmer/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (VVD)
05261944
Verden "Phally" Allen, keyboardist (Mott the Hoople)
05261945
Garry Peterson, rocker (Guess Who)
05261946
Stevie Nicks, Phoenix Az, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Bella Donna)
05261947
Sherry Bain, Calif, actress (Pipe Dreams)
05261949
Dan Pastorini, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders)
Dayle Haddon, Montral Qubec Canada, actress (Bedroom Eyes)
Hank Williams Jr, country singer (Honky Tonk)
Pam Grier, Winston-Salem NC, actress (Big Bird Cage, Tough Enough)
Philip Michael Thomas, Columbus Ohio, actor (Miami Vice)
0526195-
Candace L Collins, Dupo Illinois, playmate (Dec, 1979)
05261951
Sally Kristen Ride, LA Calif, 1st US woman astronaut (STS-7, STS 41G)
05261956
Joe Penny, actor (Jake & Fatman)
05261959
Wayne Hussey, rocker (Mission-Lover for Life)
05261962
Bob[cat] Goldthwait, comedian (Police Academy)
Colin Vearncombe, rocker (Black-Wonderful Like)
Genie Francis, Englewood NJ, actress (General Hospital, Bare Essence)
05261963
Charles Van Eman, Pitts, actor (Charlie-All My Children, Dynasty II)
Eddie Martin Jr, jockey
05261964
Lenny Kravitz, singer (911 is a Joke)
05261966
Helena Bonham Carter, UK, actress (Getting it Right, Lady Jane)
Zola Budd, Bloemfontein South Africa, track star (Olympics-1988)
05261968
Frederik, Heir Apparent Crown Prince of Denmark
05261976
Benji Gregory, Encino Calif, actor (Brian Tanner-Alf)
05271332
Ibn Khaldun, Tunis, Arab historian/sociologist (Muqaddimah)
05271595
Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer
05271626
William II, prince of Orange
05271756
Maximilian I Jozef, King of Bavaria
05271774
Francis Beaufort, admiral/hydrographer (Beaufort wind force scale)
05271794
Cornelius Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad)
05271799
Jacques-Francois-Fromental-Elle Halevy, [Elie Levy], composer
05271815
Henry Parkes, statesman
05271818
Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragette known for her pantaloons
05271819
Julia Ward Howe, US, author/lecturer (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
05271822
Joseph Joachim Raff, composer
05271823
John Gray Foster, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
05271836
Edwin Gray Lee, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
Jay Gould, US railroad executive, financier
05271837
"Wild Bill" Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout
Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
05271849
"Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
05271854
Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Jeune Belgium)
05271861
Victoria E Matthews, educator
05271867
Arnold Bennett, England, novelist/playwright/critic (Great Babylon)
05271871
Georges Rouault, French painter/graphic artist (Miserere et Guerre)
Georges-Henri Rouault, expressionist painter
05271874
Dustin Farnum, US, actor (Squaw Man, Virginian) [or 1870]
05271881
Rudolf Pannwitz, German writer
05271887
Erich Kuttner, German journalist/historian (Vorwrts)
05271892
Sara Heyblom, actress
05271894
Dashiell Hammett, Maryland, author (Sam Spade, Maltese Falcon)
Louis-Ferdinand Cline, France, novelist (Journey to End of Night)
Samuel Dashiell Hammett, detective story writer (Maltese Falcon)
05271897
John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist (Radar, Nobel 1951)
Louis-Ferdinand Cline, [Destouches], French physician/anti semite
052719--
Beau Kazer, actor (Brock-Young & Restless)
Isabel Lascurain, Mxico, singer
Susan Foster, Torrance Calif, actress (Sierra)
05271906
Robert Shone, director-general (NEDC)
05271907
Felix de Nobel, orchestra leader
Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring)
05271908
Harold Rome, composer (Fanny, Pins & Needles)
Melle J Oldeboerrigter, [Melle], painter/cartoonist
05271910
Daniel Greenway, CEO (Daniel Greenway & Sons)
05271911
Hubert Humphrey, (Sen-D-Minn) 38th VP (1965-69), 1968 Pres candidate
Vincent Price, St Louis Mo, actor (Fly, Laura)
05271912
John Cheever, writer (Wapshot Chronicle)
Sam Snead, Hot Springs Va, PGA golfer (Masters 1949, 52, 54)
05271913
Mervyn Stockwood, bishop of Southwark England
Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German cartoonist/painter
05271914
Lord Erroll of Hale, British minister
Rose Stainton, CEO (British Airways)
05271915
Herman Wouk, US, author (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War)
Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini)
05271916
Norman Griggs, VP (Building Society Association)
05271918
Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese PM (1982-87)
05271919
Kam Fong, Honolulu Hawaii,actor (Hawaii Five-0)
05271920
Michael Webster, CEO (DRG)
William Crawshay, Lord-Lt of Gwent
05271921
Caryl Chessman, kidnapper who got death penalty (1960)
Redd Stewart, Ashland City Tn, guitarist/pianist (Pee Wee King Show)
05271922
Christopher Lee, London England, actor (Hound of Baskervilles)
05271923
Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State (1973-77)/Nobel Peace Prize (1973)
Lord Freyberg, British Colonel of General Staff
05271925
John Moberly, diplomat
Mai Zetterling, Sweden, actress (Only 2 Can Play, Quartet)
05271927
Bryan Cowgill, deputy chairman (Mirror Group)
Jan Blokker, writer/journalist (VPRO, People's Newspaper)
05271928
Thea Musgrave, Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots)
05271930
John Barth, novelist (Sot-Weed Factor)
Simon Barrington-Ward
William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI
05271931
Florence Sharples, director (British YWCA)
John Chapple, British chief of General Staff
Kenny Price, Florence Ky, country singer (Midwestern Hayride, Hee Haw)
05271932
Jeffrey Bernard, singer
05271934
Harlan [Jay] Ellison, US, sci-fi author (7 Hugos, Doomsman)
05271935
Elias Gistelinck, Flemish composer
Lee Meriwether, LA Calif, Miss America (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones)
Ramsey Lewis, Chic, pop jazz artist (Hang on Sloopy)
05271936
Benjamin Bathurst, vice chief of British Defense Staff
Eric Anderson, headmaster (Eton)
Lord Holme, president British Liberal Party
Louis Gossett Jr, Bkln NY, actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep)
05271939
Earl Cairns, CEO (S G Warburg & Co)
05271941
Allan Carr, Ill, director (Grease, Happiest Millionaire)
Davina Phillips, actress
05271942
Kent Bede Bernard, Trinidad, 4X400 runner (Olympic-bronze-1964)
Roger Freeman, British minister of transport
05271943
Bruce Weitz, Norwalk Ct, actor (Hill St Blues, Death of a Centerfold)
Cilla Black, Liverpool England, rock vocalist (You're My World)
Don Williams, singer
05271944
Christopher J Dodd, (Gov/Sen-D-CT, 1981-  )
05271945
Bruce Cockburn, Canada singer/songwriter/folk rocker
05271947
Peter DeFazio, (Rep-D-Oregon)
Robert Reinacher Jr, horse trainer
05271948
Pete Sears, bassist (Jefferson Starship)
05271951
John Conteh, boxer
05271954
Catherine Carr, US breaststroke swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1972)
05271956
Lisa Niemi, actress (Dirty Dancing, Will Rodgers Follies)
Steve Pagano, horse trainer
05271957
Duncan Goodhew, swimmer
Siouxsie Sioux, [Susan Ballion], Kent England (Siouxsie & Banshees)
05271958
Linnea Quigley, Davenport Iowa, actress (Night of Demons)
Neil Finn, rocker (Split Enz-I Got You, Crowded House)
05271960
Ray Armsetad, Kirksville Mo, 4X400 runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
05271961
Cathy Silvers, NYC, actress (Jenny-Happy Days, Foley Square)
John Lugbill, Wauseon Ohio, US canoist/kayaker (Olympic-92)
05271962
Ravi Shastri, cricketer
05271965
Pat Cash, tennis player (Wimbeldon 1987)
Todd Bridges, actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish)
05271967
Chin Yang, jockey
Paul Gascoigne, soccer player
05271969
Dondre Whitfield, Bkln NY, actor (Terence-All My Children)
05281371
John the Fearless, Burgundy France, Duke of Burgundy/warrior
05281660
George I, King of England (1714-27)
05281738
Joseph I Guillotin, France, inventor (guillotine)
05281759
William Pitt, the Younger (C), English PM (1783-1801, 1804-06)
05281807
Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
05281810
Alexandre Calamo, Switz, painter/etcher/lithographer
05281818
P G T Beauregard, La, General in charge of capture of Sumter
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, Gen (Confederate Army)
05281819
William Birney, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1907
05281828
Alpheus Baker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
05281830
George Lucas Hartsuff, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
05281831
Eliza Ann Gardner, underground railway conductor
05281838
Basil Wilson Duke, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1916
05281865
Gerrit Grns, physiologist (Vitamin E)
05281868
Claude Anet, [Jean Schopfer], French writer (Fille Perdue)
05281879
Milutin Milankovic, Yugoslavian astronomer/meterologist
05281884
Edvard Benes, premier/president of Czechoslovakia (1921-22, 35-48)
Theo(by) Van Ren, sculptor/lithographer
05281886
Nicolai Sokoloff, near Kiev Ukraine, conductor (Seattle Symph)
05281888
James Francis Thorpe, Shawnee OK, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912)
Jim Thorpe, greatest US athlete of 1st half century
05281896
Marius Monnikendam, choir composer
Warren Giles, baseball's National League president
05281898
Andy Kirk, jazz musician
052819--
John Karlen, Bkln NY, actor (Harvey Lacey-Cagney & Lacey)
05281900
Owen Aisher, president (Marley)
05281903
Gaston Duribreux, Flemish writer
05281906
Mary Ralton, director British WRAC
Phil Regan, singer (My Wild Irish Rose)
05281907
Patrick Browne, British Lord justice of appeal
05281908
Ian Lancaster Fleming, London England, author (James Bond)
05281910
Rachel Kempson, actress (Captive Heart)
Stuart Piggott, archealogist
T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
05281912
Leslie Monson, diplomat
Patrick White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973)
05281913
Gordon Wolstenholme, physician
05281915
Scott McKay, Pleasantville Iowa, actor (Stage Door)
Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist
05281916
C Wright Mills, US sociologist (Power Elite)
Thora Hird, actress (Nightcomers, Kind of Loving)
Walker Percy, Brimingham Ala, author (Adventures of a Bad Catholic)
05281917
Barry Commoner, Brooklyn NY, biologist (Science & Survival)
Gerald Cash, Gov-Gen (Bahamas)
Marshall Reed, Englewood Calif, actor (Fred Asher-Lineup)
05281919
Duke of Rutland
Frank Middlemass, actor (Island, Oliver Twist)
John Eldridge, CEO (Matthews Wrightmson)
05281922
John Alderson, chief constable of Devon & Cornwall UK
05281923
Gyrgy Ligeti, Dicsszentmartin Transylvania Hungary composer
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, India, film star/politician
05281924
Edward du Cann, CEO (Lonrho)
Lord Rippon, British govt minister
Reginald Eyre, solicitor/MP
05281925
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Zehlendorf Germany, baritone (Doktor Faust)
05281927
Franois Nourissier, French writer (Un petit bourgeois)
Norman Ireland, CEO (Bowater)
Robert Evans, CEO (British Gas)
05281928
Albert Booth, British government minister
05281929
Patrick McNair-Wilson, MP
05281930
Edward Seaga, PM (Jamaica)
Julian Slade, composer
05281931
Carroll Baker, Penn, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow)
Raymond Miquel, chairman (Scottish Sports Council)
Stephen Birmingham, Hartford, author (Real Lace: America's Irish Rich)
05281932
Lord Renton, Conservative minister
Timothy Renton, MP
05281933
John Karlen, US, actor (Harvey Lacey-Cagney & Lacey)
Philip Otton, high court judge
05281934
Dionne quintuplets, (Annette, Ccile, milie, Marie, Yvonne)
05281938
Jerry West, W Virginia, NBA superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic-gold-1960)
05281940
Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director (Paradiso)
Thomas E Petri, (Rep-R-WI, 1979-  )
05281943
Liz Edgar, horse show jumper
Ray Mitchell, governor (Albany Prison, England)
05281944
Billy Vera, musician (& Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night)
Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of Pips (Last train)
05281945
John Fogerty, guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
05281946
Madeline LeRouix, Wyoming, actress
05281947
Beth Howland, Boston Mass, actress (Vera-Alice, Company)
Faith Brown, impressionist
Sondra Locke, Shelbyville Tenn, actress (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)
05281949
Sue Holderness, actress
05281954
Joao Carlos De Oliveira, Brazil, triple jumper (Oly-bronze-1976, 80)
05281956
Germaine Montenesdro, 2nd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
Susie Diane Owens, Arkansas City Kansas, playmate (March, 1988)
05281957
Kirk Gibson, Mich, outfield (Tigers, Dodgers, 1988 NL MVP)
Walter R Tucker, (Rep-D-California)
05281958
Yvet Anna, painter
05281960
Allan Green, cricketeer
05281962
Brandon Cruz, actor (Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
Roland Gift, rocker (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
05281968
Kylie Minogue, Australia, rock vocalist (Locomotion)
05281970
Morgan Fox, Prince George BC, playmate (Dec, 1990)
05281977
Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, Miami Fla, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
05291627
Anne ML of Orlans, duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle)
05291630
Charles II, King of England (1660-85)
05291716
Louis JM Daubenton, French zoologist
05291736
Patrick Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me death"
05291810
Erasmus Darwin Keyes, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
Solomon Meredith, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1875
05291824
Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox, Major General (Confederate Army)
05291825
David Bell Birney, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
05291826
Ebenezer Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)
05291827
Reuben Lindsay Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1890
05291837
Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader (CHU)
05291851
Lon VA Bourgeois, French premier (1895-96, Nobel 1920)
05291860
Isaac [Manuel F] Albniz, Spanish pianist/composer (Iberia)
05291868
Frderic baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker
05291874
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist (Man Who Made Gold)
05291880
Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West)
05291885
Erwin F Finlay-Freundlich, British astronomer (theory of relativity)
05291894
Beatrice Lillie, Toronto, comedian/actress (Around World in 80 Days)
Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Der blaue Engel)
05291896
George L Funke, botanist (Flower Physiology)
05291897
Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Brno Austria, movie composer (Violanta)
052919--
Aroya Megnot, Southfield Mich, actress (Ava-Loving)
Donna Jean Young, East McKeesport Pa, comedienne (Laugh-in)
Sandy Helberg, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Flatbush, 79 Park Ave)
05291903
Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes], Kent England, entertainer (famous profile)
05291904
Robert Knox, bacteriologist
05291905
Gerrit Achterberg, poet (Sailing)
Jan (Johannes) Teulings, actor/director
Sebastian Shaw, London, actor (High Season, Spy in Black)
05291906
Terence Hanbury White, novelist
05291909
Neil R[onald] Jones, US, sci-fi author (Space War, Twin Worlds)
05291911
James Marjoribanks, British ambassador
Louis Wain, agricultural scientist
05291913
Douglas Black, physician
Iris Adrian, LA Calif, actress (Blue Hawaii, Bluebeard)
05291915
David Jenklins, librarian (National Library of Wales)
Igor Buketoff, Hartford Conn, conductor (Iceland Symph 1964-65)
Lord Huntingfield, British agent to UN Secreteriat
05291917
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres (1961-1963)
05291920
Robin Haydon,  British diplomat
05291921
Clifton James, NYC, actor (Buster & Billie, David & Lisa)
George Terry, chief constable of Sussex England
James Clifton, Spokane Wash, actor (Live & Let Die)
05291922
Iannis Xenakis, Braila Romania, composer/architect/mathematician
John Heerbecq, Church commissioner
05291923
Earl of Morley, Lord Lt of Devon
Richard Worsley, quarter master General
05291925
Anthony Grant, MP
Kennetgh Couzens, CEO (Coal Products)
05291926
Charles Denner, Tarnow Poland, actor (And Now My Love)
05291927
Carl Toms, stage designer
Trevor Holdsworth, CEO (National Power)
05291928
Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)
05291929
Katie Boyle, [Lady Sander Saunders], British broadcaster
05291930
Eleanor Fazan, opera/show choreographer
05291934
Heihatjir Tj, Japanese admiral
05291935
Andr P Brink, South African writer (Dry White Season)
Martin Garrod, Commandant General Royal Marines
05291936
Arlene McQuade, NYC, actress (Rosalie-Goldbergs)
05291937
Alwin Schockemohle, horse show jumper
05291939
Al Unser, auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71)
Nanette Newman, writer/actress (Endless Game, Of Human Bondage)
05291941
Douglas Scott, mountaineer
05291942
Kevin Conway, NYC, actor (Flash Point, Cage of Angels)
05291943
Bob Edgar, (Rep-D-PA, 1975-87)
E Thomas Coleman, (Rep-R-MO, 1976-  )
Terry Pavey, editor (TV Times)
05291944
Helmut Berger, actor (Ash Wednesday, Damned, Picture of Dorian Gray)
Quentin Davies, (C) MP
05291945
Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, Minister of State (Scotland)
Martin Pipe, horse trainer
05291946
Robin Johnson, Brooklyn, actress (Times Square)
05291948
Anthony Geary, Coalville Utah, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital)
Linda Esther Gray, opera singer
Michael Berkley, composer/broadcaster
05291949
Francis Rossi, rocker (Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man)
Gary Brooker, keyboardist (Procol Harum)
05291950
Rebbie [Maureen] Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (R U Tuff Enuff)
05291952
Louise Cooper, UK, sci-fi author (Nemesis, Inferno, Infanta, Nocturne)
05291955
John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded Pres Reagan in 1981
Mike Porcaro, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
05291956
Greg R, rocker (Bad)
La Toya Yvette Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Playboy, Millipede)
Larry Blackmon, rocker (Cameo-Alligator Woman)
05291958
Annette Bening, Topeka KS, actress (Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont)
Ivar Sisniega, Mxico, pentathelete (Olympic-1980)
05291959
Rupert Everett, actor (Princess Daisy, Another Country)
Tamayo Otsuki, actress
05291960
Mel Gaynor, drummer (Simple Minds-Water Front)
05291961
Melissa Etheridge, US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough)
05291963
Lisa Whelchel, Fort Worth Texas, actress (Blair-Facts of Life)
Tracey E Bregman Recht, actress (Young & Restless, Concrete Jungle)
05291965
Emilio Sanchez, Madrid Spain, Tennis player (1988 Olympic bronze)
05291973
Tiffany M Sloan, Orange county Calif, playmate (Oct, 1992)
05291977
Danny Gerard, Mt Vernon NY, actor (Alan Silver-Brooklyn Bridge)
05291989
Danielle Riley Keough, grand daughter of Elvis Presley
05291991
Coral Browne, Australian actor (Ruling Class), dies of cancer at 77
05301220
Alexander Nevski, [Aleksandr], Russian great ruler (1252-63)
05301524
Selm II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
05301672
Peter I, (the Great), tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
05301757
Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
05301800
Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
05301812
John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers)
05301829
Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
05301830
Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
05301832
George Doherty Johnston, Brig General (Confederate Army)
05301835
Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
05301845
Amadeus I FM, duke of Aosta/king of Spain (1870-73)
05301846
Peter Carl Faberg, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker
05301847
Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
05301859
Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
05301867
Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
05301881
George KFW von Kchler, German field marshal (Invasion Netherlands)
05301887
Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
05301888
James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
05301891
Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
053019--
John Terlesky, actor (Dakota-Guns of Paradise)
Michel Langevin, Canada, rock drummer (Voivod-Angel Rat)
Scott Holmes, actor (Tom-As the World Turns)
Steve West, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
Ted McGinley, Newport Beach Calif, actor (Love Boat, Dynasty)
William Springer, Indiana legislator
05301901
Cornelia Otis Skinner, writer (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay)
05301902
Stepin Fetchit, [Lincoln Perry], actor (Miracle in Harlem)
05301903
Countee Cullen, Balt Md, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems)
05301904
Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panam  (1956-60)
05301908
Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig
05301909
Benny Goodman, Chicago Ill, swinger/clarinetist, "King of Swing"
05301911
Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
05301914
Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orch leader (Milton Berle Show)
05301916
Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
05301922
Harry Clement Stubbs, US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld)
05301923
Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill)
05301924
Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
05301925
Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
05301926
Christine Jorgensen, pioneer transsexual
Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph)
05301927
Clint Walker, Hartford Ill, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals)
05301929
Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
05301932
Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns)
05301934
Alexei A Leonov, Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II Soyuz 19)
05301936
Keir Dullea, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa)
Ruta Lee, actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar)
05301938
Wilfried A de Pree, Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (PvdA)
05301939
Michael J Pollard, Passaic NJ, actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne)
05301942
Dan Miller, (Rep-R-Florida)
05301943
Gale Sayers, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
05301944
Larry Davidson, rocker (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
05301945
Meredith MacRae, Houston Tx, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons)
05301955
Nicky "Topper" Headon, drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
05301957
Allison Roe, Auckland NZ, marathoner (NYC-1981)
Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
05301958
Marie, Ostra-Ljuajak Sweden, singer (Roxette-Must Have Been Love)
Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, US Navy Lt Commander/astronaut
05301960
Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
05301961
Trey Parker, actor (Newsies)
05301962
Tonya Pinkins, Chicago Ill, actress (Livia Frye-All My Children)
05301963
Lynda Wiesmeier, Washington DC, playmate (Jul, 1982)
05301964
Wynonna Judd, country singer (Judds-Rockin' With Rhythm)
05301976
Omri Hairi Katz, LA Calif, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie Indiana)
05311469
Manuel I, King of Portugal (1495-1521) during era of exploration
05311701
Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible
05311753
Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader
05311810
Horatio Seymour, Gov (Union), died in 1886
05311818
John Albion Andrew, Gov (Union), died in 1867
05311819
Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass)
05311837
Ernest Daudet, French writer (White Terror)
Stephen Dodson Ramseur, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
William Henry Fitzhugh "Rooney" Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)
05311838
Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (Wife at University)
05311857
Pius XI, [Ambrogio DA Ratti], Italy, 259th Pope (1922-39)
05311860
Walter Richard Sickert, Danish/English painter (The Miner)
05311863
Francis E Younghusband, British journalist/explorer
05311872
Charles G Abbot, US, astronomer (Constant Sun)
William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist (Don Quixote)
05311887
Saint-John Perse, France, poet/diplomat (Nobel 1960)
05311888
Jack Holt, US, gold digger/actor/father of Jennifer Holt
05311889
Athene Seyler, London, actress (Make Mine Mink)
05311892
Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader
Willem Ravelli, baritone singer
05311894
Fred Allen, [John Sullivan], radio comedian (Fred Allen Show)
05311897
Margalo Gillmore, London, actress (Skirts Ahoy, High Society)
05311898
Johan Brouwer, pianist/writer/resistance fighter
Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking)
053119--
Corey Hart, Montreal Canada, vocalist (I Wear My Sunglasses at Night)
Maeve Kinkead, actress (Guiding Light)
05311900
Helma Wolf-Catz, author
05311902
Henk Schaer, [Hendricus JM Schaareman], actor/conductor
05311908
Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
05311909
Thor Thorvaldsen, Norway, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1948, 52)
05311912
Barbara Pepper, NYC, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres)
Henry M "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash)
Martin Schwarzschild, US astronomer (evolution)
05311916
Bert Hanstra, Holten Netherlands, director (Fanfare)
05311920
Edward Bennett Williams, lawyer/team owner (Redskins, Balt Orioles)
05311921
Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress (Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man)
Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X)
05311922
Denholm Elliott, actor (Alfie, Cuba, Doll's House, King Rat)
Elisabeth, arch duchess of Austria/princess of Liechtenstein
05311923
Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (1949-  )
05311928
Jacob Lateiner, Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
05311929
Elaine Stewart, actress (Take the High Ground)
05311930
Clint Eastwood, SF Calif, actor (Dirty Harry), mayor (Carmel, Calif)
05311931
John Schrieffer, US physicist (Nobel 1972)
Shirley Verrett, New Orleans, mezzo-soprano (Cassandra-Les Troyens)
Steve Horn, (Rep-R-California)
05311934
Bent Peter Rasch, Denmark, canoe (Olympic-gold-1952)
Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
05311938
Peter Yarrow, NYC, (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon)
05311939
Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage
05311941
Johnny Paycheck, country singer (Take This Job & Shove It)
Kenneth Cooper, NYC, harpsichordist/professor (Barnard, Bkln)
05311942
Happy Hairston, NBA star (Cin, Detroit, LA)
05311943
Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
Sharon Gless, LA Calif, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey)
05311944
Mick Ralphs, guitarist (Mott the Hoople, Bad Company)
05311946
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German play director
05311948
Duncan L Hunter, (Rep-R-CA, 1981-  )
John "Bonzo" Bonham, drummer (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
Rhea Perlman, Bkln NY, actress (Carla-Cheers, Zena-Taxi)
05311949
Steven Kampmann, Phila, actor (Kirk-Newhart)
05311950
Gregory Harrison, Catalina Calif, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run)
Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me)
05311956
Bart of Poppel, bassist/guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
05311960
Chris Elliot, actor/comedian (Get a Life, David Letterman Show)
Norm Johnson, NFL placekicker (Seattle Seahawk)
05311961
Harry Enfield, comedian
Lea Thompson, actress (Casual Sex, Howard the Duck, Space Camp)
05311963
Wendy Smith, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
05311964
Scotti Hill, Manhasset NY, rock guitarist (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
05311965
Brooke Shields, NYC, actress/model (Blue Lagoon, Endless Love)
05311967
Sandrine Bonnaire, France, actress (Vagabond, Police)
05311990
Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam
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05011171
Dermot MacMurrough, last Irish King of Leinster, dies
05011277
Stefanus IV Uros I de Great, King of Serbia (1243-76), dies
05011308
Albrecht I van Habsburg, German King (1298-1308), murdered
05011447
Louis VII, Duke of Baveria (1413-43), dies
05011456
Hugues de Lannoy, Flemish viceroy of Holland/Zealand, dies
05011471
Thomas a Kempis, spiritual writer (Navolging of Christ), dies
05011555
Marcellus II, [Marcello Cervini], Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53
05011572
Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri], great-inquisiteur/Pope (1566-72), dies
05011700
John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies
Amalia, princess of Weimar/wife of prince Hendrik the Navigator, dies
Alphonse Wauters, Belgian historian, dies at 81
05011902
John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85
05011904
Anton¡n Dvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), dies
Jos E Rodo, Uruguayan writer (Motivos de proteo), dies
05011932
Paul Doumer, Pres France (1931-32), assassin by Russia's Paul Gargalov
Wilhelm Normann, German chemist (harden van olin), dies
05011945
Joseph Goebbels, nazi-German minister of propaganda, commits suicide
05011948
Christos Ladas, Greek minister of Justice, murdered
05011952
William Fox, US film pioneer (Nickelodeon), dies
Oscar Torp, Norwegian premier, dies
05011965
Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies at 53
05011978
Aram Katchaturian, Armeens/Russian composer (The earth), dies
05011981
Clarence A Bacote, historian/political scientist, dies at 75
05011982
Gene Sheldon, actor (Bernardo-Zorro), dies at 72
05011984
Gordon Jenkins, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73
05011988
Carroll Righter, astrologer, dies at 88 of postrate cancer
05011989
David Webster, South African white anti-apartheids activist, murdered
05011993
Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50
Pierre Brgovoy, French premier (1992-93), commits suicide at 67
Ranasinghe Premadasa, president (Sri Lanka, 1989-93), murdered at 68
0502 649
Maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies
05021250
Toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered
05021488
Jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies
05021519
Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67
05021567
Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
05021845
August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
David H Chass, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84
05021857
LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
Martin Bormann, propoganda minister for Hitler, dies
05021954
Pauline de Cock-Manifarges, singer, dies at 82
05021957
Joseph McCarthy, commie hunting senator (R), dies at 47
05021958
Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist, dies
05021960
Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
05021963
Wyck Brooks, US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77
05021964
Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
05021968
Donald L Hall, US flyer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
05021972
J Edgar Hoover, head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77
05021973
Alan Carney, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me), dies at 61
05021982
Hugh Marlowe, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 71
05021983
Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies
05021984
Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies at 66
05021985
Hal LeRoy, dancer/actor, dies at 71 after cardiac surgery
Milton S Eisenhower, US diplomat, dies at 85
05021990
David Rappaport, 3'11' actor (Wizard. LA Law), shoots himself at 38
05021992
Lee Salk, baby doctor/author, dies at 77 of cardiac arrest
Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88
Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82
05021993
Mick Ronson, Engl guitarist (David Bowie/Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
WLPM, the Short, Dutch 2nd chamber member (KVP, 1945-73), dies at 83
05031294
Jan I, duke of Brabant/Limburg/poet, dies
05031410
Alexander V, [Petros Philargi], Kreta's Pope (1409-10), dies
05031442
Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies
05031481
Mohammed II, [Ftih"/veroverar), sultan of Turkey (1451-81), dies
05031758
Benedict XIV, [Prospero L Lambertini], Pope (1740-58), dies at 84
05031774
Heinrich A Fouqu, Prussian general (7 year war), dies
05031881
Josip Jurcic, Slovic writer (Schone Vida), dies
P draic Pearse, Irishg nationalist, executed by British firing squad
05031926
Napoleon V Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne
05031932
Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer (Dies Irae)/dir Burgtheater, dies
Johan H Westerveld, lt-col/leader Order Service, executed
05031945
Louis L H de Visser, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CPN), dies at 66
05031961
Maurice [Jean Jacques] Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher, dies
05031965
Howard Jump, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies
Otto Forst de Battaglia, Austrian diplomat/genealogist, dies at 75
05031972
Bruce Cabot, actor (Diamonds are Forever), dies at 68
05031979
Erin O'Brien-Moore, actress (Nurse Choate-Peyton Place), dies at 76
05031982
Helmut Dantine, actor (Shadow of the Cloak), dies at 64
Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 73
05031983
Vaughn Taylor, actor, dies of a cerebal hemmorrhage at 72
05031986
Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72
05031990
Pimen, [Sergei M Irzjekov], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies
05031991
Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/2nd-Member of parliament (D66), dies
Gerrit Mik, psychiatrist/Dutch 2nd Chamber Member (D66), dies
Jersy Kosinski, author (Being There), dies at 57
05031992
Elizabeth Lennox, radio singer, dies at 98 of heart seizure
George Murphy, (Sen-R-Ca, 1965-71), dies at 89 of Leukemia
05041752
Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
05041855
Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder, dies at 66
05041879
William Froude, British civil engineer/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies
Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies
Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 52
05041953
Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies
05041955
Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
05041965
Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
05041970
4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
05041980
Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
05041984
Diana Dors, actress, dies at 52 of cancer
05041987
Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44
05041991
Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
05041992
Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
05051028
Alfonso V, King of Le¢n/Galici (999-1028), dies in battle
05051194
Kazimierz II, the Justified, grand duke of Poland (1177-94), dies
05051309
Charles II, King of Naples (1285-1309), dies
05051525
Frederik III the wise, ruler of Saxon (1486-1525), dies
05051582
Charlotte de Bourbon, Princess of Orange, dies
05051705
Leopold I, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire, dies at 64
05051786
Pedro III, King of Portugal, dies
05051821
Napoleon I Bonaparte, emperor France (1799-1815), dies in St Helena
05051827
Frederik Augustus I, Justified, King of Saxon (1806-27), dies at 76
05051859
Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies
05051909
Pauline Staegeman, German feminist, dies
Alfred H Fried, Austrian/German pacifist (Nobel 1911), dies
Charles Boissevain, editor in chief (General Trade 1885-1908), dies
Maurice Maeterlinck, Belg playwright (Grand Fairie, Nobel 1911), dies
05051951
Eddie Dunn, comedian (Face to Face, Spin the Picture), dies at 54
05051963
Jacobus JP Old, architect/co-founder (Stl), dies at 73
05051969
Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), dies at 57
Rev Gary Davis, musician, dies
Thomas Burnett Swann, sci-fi author (Day of Minotaur), dies at 47
05051981
Bobby Sands, IRA activists dies in his 66th day of his hunger strike
05051983
John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80
05051988
Tamara Pos, Suriname/Dutch activist
05051992
Jean-Claude Pascal, French actor, dies at 64
Stefano d'Arrigo, Siciilian writer, dies at 72
05051993
Balak Brahmachari, [Marxist Godman], Indies guru, dies at 73
Irving Howe, US writer/critic (Dissent), dies at 72
05061085
King Alfonso VI, of Le¢n conquered Toledo, dies
05061124
Balak, Emir of Aleppo, murdered
05061527
Karel van Bourbon, military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37
05061638
Cornelius Jansen, theologian, dies
05061642
Frans Francken, the Younger, painter, dies on 61st birthday
William Hamilton, metaphysicist, dies
Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, explorer/scientist, dies
05061862
Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 44
05061882
Frederick Cavendish, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
Thomas Henry Burke, assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
Franz von Lenbach, artist, dies
05061910
Edward VII, King of England (1901-10), dies
Lyman Frank Baum, author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62
Carel S Adama van Scheltema, poet/writer (socialism), dies at 47
43 communist rebels, executed in Athens
P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies
05061952
Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies
Lucian Blaga, philospher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 65
Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74
05061971
Helene Weigel, Austria/German actress/stage star, dies
05061987
William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
05061990
Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
05061991
Anthony van Kampen, writer (Ketelbinkie/Geschonden eldorado), dies
Chucky Mullins, US soccer player, dies
Wilfrid Hyde-White, Brits actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies at 87
05061992
Marlene Dietrich, [Maria M von Losch], actress, dies at 90 in Paris
0507 685
Marwan I ibn al-Hakam, 4th kalief of Omajjaden (684-85), dies
05071205
Ladislaus III Arpad, King of Hungary (1204-05), dies
05071523
Franz von Sickingen, German knight/protect of poor, dies in battle
05071617
David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53
05071793
Johan A Zoutman, spy (Battle of Doggersbank), dies
05071800
Niccol Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72
05071825
Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna
05071871
Louis Papineau, political reformer, dies
05071876
Franz Grave von Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies
05071884
Judah P Benjamin, confederate minister of War, dies
05071915
Alfred G Vanderbilt, US millionaire, dies aboard Lusitania
Charles Frohman, dies aboard Lusitania
Albert Thomas, French social. minister of Weapon production, dies
05071941
David Wnkoop, revolutionary socialist, dies
05071942
Felix P von Weingartner, Austria conductor/composer, dies
Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed
Lurleen Burns, wife of George Wallace/gov of Alabama, dies at 41
05071985
Dawn Addams, actress (Alan Young Show, Star Maidens), dies at 54
05071989
Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies in Argentina at 65
0508 535
John, [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35), dies
0508 685
Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies
05081319
Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319), dies
05081577
Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, lawyer/President (Raad van State), dies
05081725
John Lovewell, US indian fighter, dies in battle
05081773
Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head, dies
05081785
Pietro Longhi, painter, dies
05081794
Antoine-Laurent Lavosier, chemist, gullotined
05081844
Charles XIV Johan, [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway, dies
05081873
John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66
05081880
Gustave Flaubert, French writer (Salammb), dies
05081887
Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
Eugne-Henri-Paul Gauguin, French painter (Tahiti), dies
Eadweard Muybridge, English photographer (horse trot), dies
05081909
Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat, dies
Henry McNeal Turner, 1 US black army chaplain, dies at 82
05081932
Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
Oswald Spengler, German philosopher (Underworld of Abendlandes), dies
Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
Margaret Lindsay, actress (Take a Guess), dies at 40
John CB "John" Sluyters, painter, dies at 75
05081958
Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered
05081961
James Fairfax, actor (Gale Storm Show), dies at 63
05081973
Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player, dies
05081975
Avery Brundage, US chairman Intl Oly Committee (1952-72), dies at 87
05081976
Ulrike Meinhof, lead Germany Red Army Faction, dies
05081982
Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer, dies in an accident
05081985
Dolph Sweet, actor (Gimme a Break), dies of cancer at 64
Edmond O'Brien, actor (Sam Benedict), dies at 69 of Alzheimer's
05081987
Pam Ewing, (Victoria Principal) character on Dallas, is killed off
05081988
Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80
05081992
Addeke H Boerma, dir-gen (FAO), dies at 80
Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, author (Fear on Java, dies
Richard Derr, actor (When Worlds Collide), dies at 74 of cancer
05081993
Kees Deenik, singer/conductor
05091280
Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42
05091443
Niccol¢ d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies
05091590
Karel "Cardinal" van Bourbon, archbishop of Rouen, dies at 66
05091657
William Bradford, Governor (Plymouth Colony, Mass), dies
05091688
Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 67
05091760
Nikolaus Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf, leader of Moravian Church, dies
05091791
Francis Hopkinson, US writer/music/lawyer, dies at 53
05091805
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, poet/playwright, dies
05091850
Louis-Joseph Gay-Lussac, chemist/physicist, dies
05091903
Rudolf Serkin, Bohemian/US pianist, dies
Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies
Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist, dies
Louis II, Prince of Monaco, dies
Canada Lee, black actor, dies at 45 in NYC
Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, NY Met Opera), dies
Bill Goodwin, TV announcer (Burns & Allen), dies at 47
Leopold Figl, premier Austria, dies
05091966
Wilhelmus M Bekkers, bishop of Dukeenbosch, dies
05091967
Elmar Berkovich, Dutch industrial designer (Eindhoven theater), dies
05091968
Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74
Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), dies at 81
05091970
Walter P Reuther, US worker's union leader/president CIO, dies
05091977
James Jones, US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), dies at 55
05091979
Cyrus S Eaton, Canada/US multi-millionaire, dies at 95
05091981
Nelson Algren, US writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72
05091982
Ab [Albert] Visser, poet/writer (Kan sloeg Abel), dies
05091986
Herschel Bernardi, actor (Lt Jacoby-Peter Gunn, Arnie), dies at 62
05091987
Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78
05091989
Paul J Steenbergen, actor/director/founder Hague's Comedy, dies at 82
05091990
Luigi Nono, Ital's composer (Intolleranza), dies
Pauline Frederick, 1st women to moderate Pres debate, dies at 84
05091991
James L Reinsch, media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy), dies
Ronnie Brody, British actor, dies
05091992
Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident
05091993
Lady Freya Stark, English author (Sunday Bloody Sunday), dies at 61
Penelope Gilliatt [Conner], British author
0510 238
Gaius Julius Verus Maximinus, the Thracian, Roman Emperor, murdered
05101566
Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65
05101569
Juan the Avila, Spanish minister/writer
05101696
Jean de La Bruyre, essayist, dies
05101764
Picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies
05101774
Louis XV, King of France (1715-74), dies
05101798
George Vancouver, British explorer, dies (birth date unknown)
05101818
Paul Revere, US patriot, dies
05101829
Thomas Young, physicist/decipherer of Egyptian hierogolyphics, dies
05101849
Katsushuka Hokusai, artist, dies
05101859
Johan BJFS, archduke of Austria (Firechief & Housewife), dies
05101863
Stonewall Jackson, General, dies of wounds at Chancellorsville
05101880
John Goss, composer/organist, dies
Henry M Stanley, [John Rowlands], British explorer, dies
Johannes de Koo, journalist/playwright, dies
William Huggins, discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda, dies
Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle
John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies
Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
Johannes Walter, German geologist (Die Denudation i.d. Wste), dies
Andr Bertulot, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
Arnaud/Armand Fraiteur, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
Maurice-Albert Raskin, Belgian resistance fighter, hanged
05101950
John G Fletcher, US poet (Burning Mountain), dies
05101964
Carol Haney, dancer (Pantomime Quiz), dies at 35
05101973
Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian, dies at 62
05101977
Joan Crawford, [Lucille Fay Le Sueur], actress, dies
05101979
John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, writer, dies
Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros en de eenzame man), dies
05101982
Jean C M Picart le Doux, French designer, dies
Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies
05101984
Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56
05101990
Walker Percy, physician/novelist (Lancelot), dies of cancer at 73
Armand HF Boni, [Armand the Good], Flemish poet/writer, dies
05101992
Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74
John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 79
Liesbeth Saers, sculptor, dies
Sylvia Sims, singer (Flower Drum Song), dies of a heart attack at 74
05111610
Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies
05111857
E Franois Vidocq, French criminalogist/police officer, dies at 81
05111871
John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79
Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer (s-effect), dies
Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies
Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90
05111944
Henk Hos, resistance fighter, executed at 37
Else JT Rangstrím, Swedish conductor/singer/composer/critic, dies
05111960
John D Rockefeller Jr, philanthropist, dies at 86
05111973
Grigor M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies
05111976
Alvar Aalto, architect (Finlandia House), dies at 78
05111979
Lester Flatt, of Flatt & Scruggs, dies at 64
05111981
Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies at 36 of brain & lung cancer
Hoyt J Fuller, editor (1st World magazine), dies at 57
05111982
Leigh Snowden, actress, dies at 51 of cancer
Piet van Egmond, organist/conductor, dies at 70
05111983
Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at 65
05111985
Jorja Curtight, actress, dies of a heart attack
05111991
Ho Dam, foreign minister North-Korea (1970-83), dies
05111992
Carlos Herrera, drink inventor (Margarita), dies at 90
Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98
0512 912
Leo VI Sophos, Byzantine Emperor (886-912), dies at 45
05121003
Gerbert, French scholar, dies in Rome
Sylvester II, [Gerbert van Aurillac], 1st Fren Pope (999-1003), dies
05121012
Sergius IV, [Pietro Crescentii], Italian Pope (1009-12), dies
05121382
Johanna I, Queen of Naples/Provence, dies
05121634
George Chapman, English dramatist/interpreter, dies
05121852
John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies
05121864
J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31
05121871
John F W Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies
05121876
Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63
05121884
Bedrich Smetana, Czech composer (2 Widows), dies
05121897
Willem Roelofs, painter/lithographer, dies
Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish writer (La sirena negra), dies
Alfred Milner, British governor (Cape Colony)/minister, dies
Pieter Jelles Troelstra, leader SDAP, dies
05121932
Lindbergh baby, found dead
05121935
Josef Pilsudski, Polish dictator (1926-35), dies
Oscar DePriest, (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 80
05121957
Erich von Stroheim, Austrian/US actor (Grand Illusion), dies
05121962
Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67
05121982
Humphrey Searle, writer (20th Century counterpoint), dies at 66
05121984
Doris May, actress, dies at 81 of heart failure
05121985
Jean Debuffet, French painter/sculptor, dies
05121987
Victor Feldman, pianist/drummer, dies at 53
05121989
Joe Valdez Caballero, creator of hard taco, shell, dies at 81
05121992
Joe Burke, president (KC Royals), dies at 68, dies
05131381
John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies
05131390
Robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90), dies
05131619
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, lands advocate, beheaded
Christian G Krner, German lawyer, dies at 74
05131835
John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
05131839
Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
05131884
Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor, dies
05131885
Juliana Horatia [Gatty] Ewing, author (Lob Lie-by-the-Fire), dies
05131904
Jan Boissevain, ship owner/politician, dies
05131916
Sholem Aleichem, yiddish writer (Fiddler on the Roof), dies
Fridtjof Nansen, diplomat (Nobel 1922), dies
Helena Lange, German feminist, dies
Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips, author (Issue Beukennoot), dies at 65
05131961
Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), dies at 60
05131962
Frank Jenks, actor (Colonel Flack), dies at 60
Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter, dies at 51
H Trendley Dean, doctor (introduced fluoridation into water)
05131966
Henk [Hendrik M] of Randwijk, poet/editor in chief (illegal), dies
05131967
Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), dies at 64
05131982
Irmgard Keun, W-German writer (Blhende Neurosen), dies at 72
Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74
05131985
Leatrice Joy, silent screen star, dies at 91 in Riverdale (Bronx) NYC
Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), dies of cancer at 64
05131988
Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter fell to death out of a hotel window at 59
05131990
Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies
05131992
Floyd Arceneaux, trumpeter, dies at 58
Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of cancer at 59
05131993
Evert "Eef" Dolman, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1964), dies at 47
0514 347
Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
0514 649
Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II), dies
0514 964
John XII, [Octavianus], Pope (955-64), dies
05141565
Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies
05141610
Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572, 89-1610), dies
05141726
John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding guests, dies
Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam), dies
05141761
Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rule of Simpson), dies at 50
05141893
Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer), dies at 83
Richard Hol, composer/organist/conductor, dies
05141912
August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans), dies
Frederik VIII C W K, King of Denmark (1906-12), dies at 68
Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She), dies
Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71
05141940
Eddy [Charles E] du Platform, writer/poet, dies
Emma Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living my life, dies
Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber, dies at 49
Menno ter Brak, writer/essayist (Forum, New Elite), dies
05141947
John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59
Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher, dies at 59
Sidney Bechet, US jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/bandleader, dies at 62
05141965
Frances Perkins, US 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83
05141968
Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86
05141976
Keith Reif, guitarist, electrocuted tuning his guitar
05141982
Baron Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador, dies
05141984
Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill), dies
05141987
Rita Hayworth, actress, dies at 68 of Alzheimer's disease
05141988
Willem Drees, PM of Netherland (1948-58), dies at 101
05141991
Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist, dies
Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies
Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide
05141992
Lyle Alzado, NFL defense linesman (Raiders), dies at 43 of cancer
05141993
Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal, commits suicide at 40
William Randolph Hearst, US newspaper magnate (Pulitzer), dies at 85
0515 884
Marinus I, [Martinus II], Pope (882-84), dies
05151174
Noer ad-Din Mahmoed, King of Syria, dies
05151470
Charles VIII, Knutsson Bonde, king of Sweden (14??-70), dies
05151482
Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker, dies
05151761
Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Batavia), dies
05151801
Louis C Graf Barbiano de Belgioioso, minister of Brussel, dies
05151842
Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon), dies at 76
05151886
Emily Dickinson, US poet, dies
05151889
Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia, dies
Paul d'Estornelles de Constant, French diplomat/pacifist, dies at 71
Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22), dies
Ki Inukai, premier Japan, murdered
Willem A Bonger, sociologist/criminologist (Race & Crime), dies
05151945
Major Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
Cornelis H Edelman, geologist, dies
Edward Hopper, US painter (House by Railroad), dies at 84
Willem H Rassers, cultural anthropologist (Pandji-Novel), dies at 95
05151976
Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88
05151985
Jackie Curtis, playwright/actor, dies of a drug overdose at 38
05151986
Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), dies at 71
05151987
John Baur, museum director, dies at 78
05151988
Andrew Duggan, actor, dies of cancer at 64
05151992
Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44
0516 942
Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
05161669
Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
05161691
Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
05161703
Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies
05161777
Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies
05161829
William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
05161830
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
05161835
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
05161847
Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
05161864
Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
05161926
Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies
Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
05161932
Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies
05161942
Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
George Ade, novelist/playwright, dies
Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
Randoolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home
Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44
05161975
Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
05161984
Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies at 35 of cancer
Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich man, poor man), dies at 71
05161985
Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
05161988
Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42
Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78
05161989
Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered
05161990
Jim Henson, muppeteer (Sesame Street), dies of pneumonia at 53
Sammy Davis Jr, entertainer, dies at 64 of throat cancer
05161993
Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
05171050
Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies
05171510
Sandro Botticelli, [Alessandro di Mariano del Filpepi], painter, dies
05171575
Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, dies
05171695
Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
05171727
Catherine I, emperess of Russia, dies
05171809
Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies
05171838
Charles-Mauricede Talleyrand-Prigord, statesman, dies
05171883
Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies
Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies
Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies
Timothy Cole, wood engraver, dies
Paul Abraham Dukas, composer, dies
French of Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81
05171964
Otto V Kuusinen, pres of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82
05171967
Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies
05171978
John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies
05171981
Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st US woman free balloon pilot, dies
05171985
Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
Hugh Burden, actor, dies at 72
05171987
Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
05171992
George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87
Leonardo del Ferro, [Keyser], US epic tenor, dies
0518 526
John I, Pope (523-26), dies
05181160
Erik IX Helgi, [The Saint], King of Sweden, dies
05181410
Ruprecht, Roman catholics German king, dies
05181587
Felix van Cantalice, Italian saint, dies
05181675
Jacques Marquette jesuit/missionaries (Chicago), dies at 37
05181839
Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), dies at 57
05181848
William A Leidesdorf, black, dies at 38 in SF
05181884
Heinrich R Gppert, German paleo-botanist, dies
George Meredith, English poet/writer (Diana of Crossways), dies
Isaac [Manuel F] Albniz, Spanish pianist/composer), dies at 48
Gustav Mahler, Austr conductor/composer (Childrentotenlieder), dies
05181955
Mary McLeod Bethune, educator & civil rights leader, dies at 79
05181973
Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43), dies at 92
05181974
Daniel R Topping, US owner (NY Yankees), dies at 61
05181980
Ian Curtis, musician (Joy Division), dies
05181981
Arthur O'Connell, actor (Mr Peepers, 2nd Hundred Years), dies at 73
William Saroyan, US stagewriter (Time of your life), dies at 72
05181985
Tex Terry, actor, dies at 82
05181987
Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System, dies at 73
05181990
Jill Ireland, actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), dies at 54 of cancer
05181992
Lawrence Welk, bandleader (L Welk Show), dies at 89 of pneumonia
05181993
Heinrich Albertz, theology/mayor of Berlin (1966-67), dies at 78
Pamela M Cunnington, English architect/writer, dies at 67
0519 804
Alcuin, English scholar, dies in Tours France at 69
0519 988
Dunstan[us], English archbishop of Canterbury, dies
05191296
Celestine V, [Pietro del Murrone], Pope (1294), dies
05191536
Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
05191647
Sebastian Vrancx, Flemish painter (captain of vigilante), dies
05191801
Herman H Vitringa, politician (National Meetings), dies
Nathaniel Hawthorne, US, writer (Scarlet Letter), dies
05191872
Johan van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Wordbook), dies at 44
05191895
Jos J Marti y Perez, Spanish/Cuban poet (Versos sencillos), dies
05191901
Marthinus Wessels Pretorius, 1st pres Republic South-Africa, dies
Thomas E Lawrence (of Arabia), dies in a motorcycle crash
05191953
Damasco Berenguer y Fuste, Spanish gen/min of War, dies at 79
05191958
Ronald Colman, British actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 67
Joe Howard, singer (Gay Nineties Revue), dies at 94
Maria Dabrowska, Polish writer (Znaki Zycia), dies
05191966
Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's King by Capt Cook (1773), dies
Coleman Hawkins, US jazz musician/composer, dies
05191971
Ogden Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), dies at 68
05191983
Jean Rey, Belgian minister, dies
05191987
Alice B[radley] Sheldon, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful), dies at 71
05191989
Able J Herzberg, Russ/Neth lawyer (Eichmann in Jerusalem), dies
Robert Weber, character actor, dies of Lou Gehrig Disease at 64
05191991
Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies
05191993
Nemesio Antunes, Chilean painter, dies at 75
05201277
John XXI, [Petrus Juliani/Hispanus], Port Pope (1276-77), dies
05201444
Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63
05201449
Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies
05201471
Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71), dies
05201506
Christopher Colombus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55
05201597
Matths Heldt, dies in battle
05201622
Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies
05201648
Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies
05201669
Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies
05201834
Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, 1834, dies
Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies
05201847
Mary Lamb, writer, dies
05201864
John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70
05201875
Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at 58
05201876
Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
05201883
William Chambers, author/publisher, dies
05201896
Clara Josephine Schumann, pianist, dies
Jacob Verdam, philospher, dies
Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
05201935
Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68
05201939
Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59
Joris [Georges) of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament, dies
05201956
Andr Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies
Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies
05201972
Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75
05201975
Barbara Hepworth, sculptor, dies
05201984
Peter Bull, British actor, dies of a heart attack at 72
05201985
George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
05201989
Gilda Radner, comedienne (Sat Night Live), dies at 42 of cancer
John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies
0521 987
Louis V, last Carlovingians King of France (966-987), dies
05211481
Christian I, king of Denmark/Norway/Sweden, dies
05211542
Hernando de Soto, dies while searching for gold, near Mississippi R
05211650
James G, Marquis of Montrose, Scottish general, hanged
05211790
Thomas Warton, English poet (Oxford sausage), dies
05211810
Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
05211894
August A Kundt, German physicist, (test of Kundt), dies at 54
Victor AD Sgalen, [Max Anly], French ship's doctor/writer, dies
Bobby Franks, killed by Leopold & Loeb, at 14
Arthur A R Firbank, British writer (Valmouth, Prancing Nigger), dies
Hugo de Vries, botanist Gruppenweise Artbildung, dies at 87
Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU, dies at 65
Klaus Mann, German writer, dies at 42
05211970
Vinton Hayworth, actor (Gen Schaeffer-I Dream of Jeannie), dies at 63
05211973
Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61
05211984
Andrea Leeds, actress, dies of cancer at 70
05211987
Alejandro Rey, actor (Carlos-Flying Nun), dies at 57
05211988
Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations, dies at 92
05211990
Mary Victor Bruce, who flew around empire state bldg in 1930, dies
Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered
05211991
Rajiv Gandhi, Indian Prime Minster (1984-91), assassinated
05211992
Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59, dies
Elizabeth David, British cookbook writer, dies
Mrithi, gorilla (Gorilla in the Mist), dies at 24
Skip Stephenson, TV host (Real People), dies
05211993
John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80
05221540
Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/pres of Romagna, dies at 57
05221667
Alexander VII, [Fabio Chigi], Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68
Ferdinand II, King of Sicily, dies
05221868
Julius Plcker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies
05221885
Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Misrables), dies
05221910
Jules Renard, French writer (Le plaisir the rompre), dies at 46
John [Denton P] French, British field marshal (Boer war/WW I), dies
05221939
Willem de Mrode, poet (Precious Blood), dies at 51
05221945
Carel A Lion Cachet, lithographer/wood carver, dies
Claude McKaye, Jamaican/US author (Banjo, Home to Harlem), dies at 57
05221949
Klaus HT Mann, German/US writer (Turning Point), dies
05221957
Langston Hughes, poet laureate, dies
05221958
Magdalene Szkely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58
05221965
Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Das Sein in der Zeit), dies
Joseph W Krutch, US writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies
05221984
John Marley, actor, dies at 77 following heart surgery
05221988
Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament), dies at 73
05221990
Rocky Graziano, boxer, dies at 71, of heart failure
05221991
Lino Brocka, Philippines director, dies
05221993
Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Polish/US pianist (Carnegie Hall), dies at 100
05231125
Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies
05231153
David I, king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68
05231423
Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies
05231498
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian preacher tortured & executed in Florence
05231627
Luis de G¢ngora y Argote, poet/writer, dies
05231648
Luis de Nain, painter, dies
05231701
William Kidd, naval captain/pirate, hanged in London
John Wood, architect/town planner, dies
05231783
James Otis, American lawyer, dies
05231785
William Woollett, engraver, dies
05231842
Jos de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34
05231860
Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies
05231881
Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies
Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies
Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies
05231906
Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies
Franois Coppe, French poet, dies
Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in cop ambush
Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in cop ambush
John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla
05231940
Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35
05231941
Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies
Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison
05231960
Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies
05231961
Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53
05231965
David Smith, sculptor, dies
Ruth Gates, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
05231967
Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30
05231968
Merle Kendrick, orch leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
05231969
Jimmy McHugh, composer (I Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies
05231970
Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68
05231973
Athena Lorde, actress (Judith-One Man's Family), dies at 57
05231981
George Jessel, US comic/toastmaster (Diary of young comic), dies at 83
05231982
Louis J N Grardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69
05231986
Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70
05231988
David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73
05231991
Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies
Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies
05231992
Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies
Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered
05241153
David I, King of Scotland, dies
05241543
Copernicus, allegedly sees 1st copy of De Revolutionibus &, dies
Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland
05241612
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, dies
05241665
Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies
05241670
Ferdinand II, ruler of Toscane, dies at 59
William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies
05241792
George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies
Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies
05241844
William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies
Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74
05241851
Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic poet (grammatica), dies at 40
05241872
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies
05241879
William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73
05241881
Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies
Cor Hermus, actor, dies at 63
John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71
Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack
05241968
Bernard Rogers, composer, dies
05241972
Gavin Muir, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show), dies at 64
05241974
Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies at 75 of cancer
05241981
Jack Warner, [Waters], actor (Captive Heart)/variety artist, dies
05241986
Stephen D Thorne, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33
05241987
Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89
05241988
Hamish Hamilton, publisher, dies
05241989
Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies
05241991
Gene Clark, singer/composer (Byrds), dies
05241993
Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, dies at 66
0525 615
Boniface IV, Pope (608-15), dies
0525 946
Edmund the Older, king of Wessex/England 939-46, dies
05251085
Gregory VII, [Ildefireo], Pope (1073-85), dies
05251261
Alexander IV, [Rinaldo dei conti di Segni], Pope (1254-61), dies
05251890
Rosa Bonheur, French painter, dies
05251895
Ahmed Djevdet Pasja, Turkish lawyer/Justice, dies
Madame C J Walker, wealthy cosmetics manufacturer, dies at 51
Symon Petljoera, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), dies at 47
05251937
Henry O Tanner, artist, dies
05251949
Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II), dies at 47
05251968
Charles K Feldman, [Gould], producer (Casino Royale), dies at 63
George KFW von Kchler, German marshal (Netherlands 1940), dies at 86
05251971
Jo Etha Collier, young black woman killed by 3 whites in Drew Miss
Terence De Marney, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo), dies at 62
05251981
Rosa Ponselle, US singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies at 84
05251982
Larry J Blake, character actor, dies at 68
05251983
Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at 76
05251985
Harold Hecht, choreographer, dies at 77 of cancer
Robert Nathan, US writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91
05251986
Chester Bowles, US senator/ambassador, dies at 85
05251990
Vic Tayback, actor (Mel-Alice), dies at 60 of a heart attack
05251992
Danny Biasone, persuaded NBA to use 24 second clock, dies at 83
Johan B W Polak, publisher/publicist (Bloom of dcadence), dies at 63
Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist, dies at 78, dies
05261421
Mohammed I, sultan of Turkey (1413-21), dies
05261512
Bajezid II, governor of Amasja/8th sultan of Turkey, dies
05261703
Samuel Pepys, English marine expert (Diary), dies
05261753
Willem Maurits, earl of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders, dies
05261818
Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Russian field marshal/War Minister, dies
05261831
Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies
05261905
Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies
Jan Blockx, Belgian opera composer (Bride of the Sea), dies
Victor Herbert, Irish/US cellist/composer/conductor, dies at 65
05261933
Jimmie Rodgers, country singer, dies at 35
Charles H Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), dies at 74
Cornelis J Cutters, supreme commander of Navy (1910-18), dies
Friedrich AH von Waldeck, monarch of Waldeck, dies
Lincoln Ellsworth, artic explorer, dies at 71
Al Simmons, outfielder (A's)/lifetime batting avg of .334, dies at 54
Ed Walsh, baseball pitcher (1.82 ERA), dies at 78
Joe Kelly, TV host (Quiz Kids), dies at 57
05261967
Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician, dies
05261971
John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70
05261973
Jacques Lipchitz, US cubist sculptor, dies at 81
05261977
William Powell, rocker (O'Jays), dies of cancer at 35
05261991
Tom Eyen, US musical/TV writer (Dreamgirls, Mary Hartman), dies
05261993
Cor de Great, pianist/conductor/composer (Vernissage), dies at 78
0527 866
Ordo¤o I, King of Asturia (850-66), dies
05271039
Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, dies
05271178
Godfried van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht, dies
05271525
Thomas Mntzer, anabaptist campaigner, executed, dies
05271564
John Calvin, theologian, dies
05271569
Franois de Coligny, French general (Jarnac), dies
05271580
Jonker Barthold Entens van Mentheda until Middelstum, dies
05271596
Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies
05271647
Achsah Young, becomes 1st woman known to be executed as a witch (MA)
05271661
Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll soldier, beheaded
05271768
Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies
05271797
Franois-Emile Babeuf, French revolutionary, dies
05271840
Niccolo Paganini, violinist, dies
05271855
Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies
05271876
Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies
05271896
Allard Pierson, theologist/philosopher/art historian/poet, dies
05271902
Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet, dies
Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies
Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies
Joseph S Gallini, General/military governor of Paris, dies
Henry Adams, historian, dies
Meijer Linnewiel, [Prof Kokadorus], Amsterdams street hawker, dies
Joseph Roth, Austria journalist/writer (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies
Gnther Ltjens, German admiral (Bismarck), dies
05271949
Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY
Thomas Blamey, soldier, dies
Ainslie Pryor, actor (Adventures of Hiram Holiday), dies at 46
Samuel Stritch, US cardinal/archbishop (Chicago), dies
05271963
Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered
05271964
Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, dies at 74
Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage), dies at 43
05271975
Ezzard Charles, heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51), dies at 53
05271976
Ruth McDevitt, actress (Jo-All in the Family), dies at 80
05271982
Jo Lagrillire, [Joke], Flemish cartoon character, dies at 47
05271988
Florida Friebus, actress (Bob Newhart Show), dies at 79 of a stroke
Melvin J "Cy" Oliver, US jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77
05271991
Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88
05271992
Danil Robberechts, Belgian writer (Aankomen in Avignon), dies at 55
Tony "Big Tuna" Accardo, mobster (St Valentines Day), dies at 86
05271993
Willem PG Assmann, Second-Member of parliament, dies at 85
05281089
Lanfrance, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies
05281259
Christoffel I, King of Denmark, dies
05281317
Guy van Avesnes/Henegouwen, bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 63
05281357
Afonso IV, King of Portugal (1325-57), dies at 66
05281843
Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies at 84
05281849
Anne Bront, novelist, dies
Edward Bellamy, US author ("Looking Backward"), died
05281911
Stephanus J du Toit, So Afr theologist/journalist (Afr Bond), dies
Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician, dies
05281921
Geo Mestdagh, Belgian aviation pioneer, dies
Georges Eekhoud, Belgian writer (Belgian Kempen), dies
05281942
Jean F van Royen, German secretary PTT (camp Amersfoort), dies
05281964
John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76
05281971
Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), dies at 46
05281972
Edward VIII, King of Gr Brit/N Ireland/emperor (India 1936), dies
05281973
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, German composer/conductor (Hassan), dies
05281975
Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), dies at 75
05281981
Mary Lou Williams, black musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC
Stefan Wyszynski, Polish Cardinal, dies
05281984
Eric Morecambe, comedian (Morecambe & Wise), dies at 58
05281986
Lurene Tuttle, actress (Father of Bride, Julia), dies at 79
05291453
Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor, dies at 49
05291500
Bartholomeu Diaz de Narvaez (Novaez), Portugese sea explorer, dies
05291544
Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68
05291814
Josphine, empress of France (1804-14), dies
05291816
Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies
05291829
Humphry Davy, scientist/inventor (Miner's safety lam), dies
05291877
John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63
05291892
Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies
William Schwenck Gilbert, Engl writer (Gilbert & Sullivan), dies at 74
Adolf Oberlnder, German painter, dies
05291924
Pierre-Paul Cambon, French diplomat (Madrid/London), dies
Heihatjir Tg, Japanese admiral (Russ-Japanese war), dies
Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer, dies at 61
John Barrymore [Blythe], US actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies
05291951
Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl (Baby Snooks Show), dies at 59
05291970
John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68
05291982
Romy Schneider, actress, dies of cardiac arrest at 43
05291985
39, die at Heysel Stadium in Liverpool in a riot prior to soccor match
Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93
05291992
Bill Beyers, actor (Wally-Capitol), dies of AIDS at 37
Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies at 43 of a heart attack
05291993
Billy Conn, boxer (fought Joe Louis 1951), dies at 75
Tiny Hofman, Amsterdams activist (Nieuwmarkt), dies at 68
05301035
Boudewijn IV, count of Flanders, dies
05301252
Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castili/Le¢n, dies
05301416
Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church
05301431
Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19
05301574
Charles IX, King of France (1560-74), dies
05301593
Christopher Marlowe, English dramatist/poet/spy, murdered
05301744
Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
05301778
Voltaire, [Franois-Marie Arouet], French writer (Candide), dies
05301912
Wilbur Wright, US aviation pioneer, dies
05301918
Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
05301919
Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
Rafael L Trujillo Molina, pres/dictator Dom Rep (1930-61), murdered
Leo Szilard, Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
05301967
Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
05301969
John Cipollini, guitarist, dies at 45 of ephysema
05301973
Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66
05301980
Carl Radle, bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
05301981
Ziaur Rahmen, pres of Bangladesh, is assassinated
05301983
Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at 84
05301987
Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks), dies at 94
Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist, dies at 71
05301989
Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
05301992
Karl Carstens, president Germany (1979-84), dies at 77
Leen 't Hart, organist/composer, dies at 72
05301993
Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies at 79
0531 455
Petronius Maximus, senator/Emperor of Rome, lynched
05311091
Hendrik van Verdun, bishop of Luik (1075-91), dies
05311504
Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies
05311567
Preguin de la Grange, French minister/martyr of Reform, dies
05311594
Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies (birth date unknown)
05311740
Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51
05311806
Michal FB Freiherr von Melas, Austrian general, dies
05311809
Franz Josef Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies at 76
05311906
King Alfonso XIII, assassinated in Madrid
Victoria von Battenberg, assassinated in Madrid
05311910
Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies at 89
Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85
Reinhard Heydrich, German protector of Bohemia & Moravia, assassinated
05311952
Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies
05311955
"Wild Bill" Vukovich, killed in Indy 500
Willem Elsschot, [Alfons de Ridder], Flemish writer (Kas), dies at 78
05311962
Adolf Eichmann, war criminal, hanged at Ramie Prison in Israel at 56
05311974
Adelle Davis, US nutrionalist (Let's stay healthy), dies at 70
05311976
Jacques Monod, French biochemist, dies
Martha Mitchell wife of former Att Gen John Mitchell, dies in NY at 57
05311983
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 87
05311989
Charles A Hufnagel, doc (artificial heart valve pioneer), dies at 72
Terry Drinkwater, CBS news correspondant, dies at 53 of cancer
05311991
Angus Wilson, [Johnstone-W], British writer (Wrong Set), dies
H N "Swanie" Swanson, literary agent, dies at 91 of a stroke
05311992
Lutz Stavenhagen, top aid to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, dies at 52
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[Fed States of Micronesia] Proclamation of Federated States (1979)
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[Abbotsbury Dorsetshire England] Garland Day
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[Ancient Rome] Lemuria; a. d. iij Id. Maias
[Baltimore] Preakness Frog Hop
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[Guinea] Guinea Democratic Party Anniversary
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[Austria] Independence Day (1955)
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[Macedonia, Greece] Anastenarides Feast-dance barefoot on hot coals
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[Bermuda] Bermuda Day
[Haiti] National Sovereignty Day
[Sri Lanka] Republic Day (1972)
[US] National Maritime Day
0523
[Bermuda] Empire Day
[German Federal Republic] Republic Day (1949)
[Jamaica] Labour Day
[Rye, Sussex England] Mayoring Day
[South Carolina] Ratification Day (1788)
0524
[Bahamas, Belize, Gibralter, Lesotho, Turk & Caicos] Commonwealth Day
[Bulgaria] Education Day/Enlightenment & Culture Day
[Ecuador] Battle of Pichincha/Independence Day (1822)
[England] Victoria Day/Empire Day (1819)
[ancient Rome] Quando Rex Comitiavit; a. d. ix Kal. Junias
05240525
[France] La Fete des Saintes Maries
0525
[Argentina] Day of May Revolution/National Day (1810)
[Chad, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Zambia] African Freedom/Unity Day
[Jordan] Independence Day/Arab Renaissance Day (1946)
[Libya, Sudan] Sudan National Day/May Revolution Day (1969)
[Yugoslavia] Day of Youth
[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)
[Virginia] Confederate Memorial Day (1868)
0526
[Guyana] Independence Day (1966)
0527
[Afgh nist n] Independence Day (1921)
[Nicaragua] Army Day
[Nigeria] Children's Day
[Turkey] Freedom & Constitution Day (1960, 1961)
0528
[Puerto Rico] Memorial Day
[US] Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868]
0529
[England] Oak Apple Day/Nettle Day (1660)
[Rhode Island] Ratification Day (1790)
[Wisconsin] Admission Day (1848)
0530
[Anguilla] Anguilla Day
[Channel Is, England, N Ireland, Wales] Spring Holiday
[Guam, Puerto Rico, US, US Virgin Islands] Memorial Day
[Lincoln City, Indiana] Nancy Hanks Lincoln Memorial Day
[US] REAL Memorial Day (Decoration Day) (1868)
0531
[Botswana] President's Day
[Brunei] Royal Brunei Malay Regiment
[Namibia, South Africa] Union Day (1910), Republic Day (1961)
[Zimbabwe] Independence Day (1979)
I
0500
[RC] Month of Mary
[RC] Memorial of St Joseph the Workman, stepfather of Jesus (opt)
[Christian] May Fellowship Day (Church Woman United)
0501  62
[Ang, Luth] Feast of SS Philip & James, apostles
05011994
[Orthodox] Easter (4/18 OS)
05012000
[Orthodox] Easter (4/17 OS)
[Baha'i] Twelfth day of Ridvan-festival
0502 373
[RC, Luth, Ang] Mem of St Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria/doctor
05021863
[Bah '¡] 12th day of Ridv n (festival); Jam l 5, 20
05022000
[Jewish] Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) (Nisan 27, 5760 AM)
[Christian-Poland] Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa
[RC] Commemoration of Finding of Cross
[RC] Commemoration of SS Alexander, Eventius & Theodulus, martyrs
[Christian-Bruges Belgium] Holy Blood Procession
0503  62
[RC] Feast of SS Philip & James, apostles
0503 376
[RC] Commemoration of St Juvenal, bishop/confessor
[Christian] Commemoration of St Florian, patron of firemen
0504 387
[Luth, old RC, Ang] Feast of St Monica, mom of St Augustine of Hippo
05041997
[Jewish] Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Memorial Day) (Nisan 27, 5757 AM)
05041999
[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5759 AM)
05051572
[old RC] Feast of St Pius V, pope (1566-72)
05051997
[Ang, RC] Rogation Day
[Ang] Feast day of St Edbert
[Ang] Feast day of St Evodius of Antioch
[Ang] Feast day of St John Before Latin Gate
[Ang] Feast day of St Petronax
[RC] Commemoration of St John Before Latin Gate
05061997
05071079
[old RC] Feast of St Stanislaus, bishop, martyr, patron of Poland
05071996
[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5756 AM)
05071997
05071998
[Moslem] Ashura (Muharram 10, 1419 AH)
[Orthodox] Latest possible Orthodox Easter (4/25 OS)
[RC] Commemoration of Apparition of St Michael the Archangel
05081417
[Ang] Commemoration of Dame Julian of Norwich
05081997
[Christian] Solemnity of Ascension
[Islam] calendar leap day (Dhl-Hijjah 30, 1417 AH)
[Ang] Feast Day of St Beatus of Lungern/Vendme
[Ang] Feast Day of St Gerontius of Cervia
[Ang] Feast Day of St Pachomius
[Christian] Feast of St Joan
0509 389
[old RC, Ang] Comm St Gregory Nazianzen, bp of Constantinople/doctor
05091994
05091997
[Islam] New Year's Day (Muharram 1, 1418 AH)
[Ang]  Feast Day of St Alphius
[Ang]  Feast Day of St Calepodius
[Ang]  Feast Day of St Cataldus or Cathal
[Ang]  Feast Day of St Conleth or Conlaed
[Ang]  Feast Day of St Epimarchus
[Ang]  Feast Day of St Gordian
[Ang]  Feast Day of St John of Avila
[Ang]  Feast Day of St Solange
[Denmark] Common Prayer Day
[RC] Commemoration of SS Gordian & Epimachus, martyrs
05101459
[RC] Commemoration of St Antoninus, bishop of Florence, confessor
05101994
05101995
[Moslem] 'Id al-Adha (Dhl-Hijjah 10, 1415 AH)
05101999
0511  62
[RC] Commemoration of SS Philip & James the Less, apostles
05111994
05111999
05112001
[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day)
[Bhuddist-Burma] Buddha's Birthday
0512 100
[RC] Commemoration of St Domitilla, martyr
[RC] Memorial of SS Nereus, Achilleus martyrs (opt)
0512 304
[RC] Memorial of St Pancras, Roman martyr (opt)
05121994
05121999
Feast day of St Andrew Hubert Fournet
Feast day of St Erconwald
Feast day of St Euthymius, the Enlightener
Feast day of St Gilyceria of Heraclea
Feast day of St John the Silent
Feast day of St Mucius or Mocius
Feast day of St Peter Regalatus
Feast day of St Servatius or Servais
Feast day of St Solomon
[Bhuddist-Singapore] Buddha's Birthday
05131621
[RC] Comm of St Robert Bellarmine, bishop/confessor/doctor
05131996
05131999
[Christian] St Matthias, apostle
0514 306
[RC] Commemoration of St Boniface, martyr
05141996
05141998
[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5758 AM)
[RC] Commemoration of St Dymphna, patron of insane
05151170
[RC] Commemoration of Isidore the Farmer, patron of farmers
05151719
[old RC] Feast of St John Baptist de la Salle, confessor
05151996
[Christian] Feast of St Brendan
[Christian] Feast of St Carantoc/Carannog
[Christian] Feast of St Domnolus of Le Mans
[Christian] Feast of St Germerius/Germier
[Christian] Feast of St Honoratus of Amiens
[Christian] Feast of St John Newpomucen
[Christian] Feast of St Peregrinus of Auxerre
[Christian] Feast of St Possadius
[Christian] Feast of St Simon Stock
[Unification Church] Day of Love of God
05161160
[RC] Commemoration of St Ubaldus of Gubbio, bishop/confessor
05161994
[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments); Sivan 6, 5754 AM
05161996
[Christian] Feast of St Bruno of Wrzburg
[Christian] Feast of St Mardon/Madern
0517 988
[RC] Comm of St Dunstan, archbp of Canterbury, patron of jewelers
05171592
[RC] Commemoration of St Paschal Baylon, lay brother
[Christian] St Eric of Sweden
0518 250
[RC] Commemoration of St Venantius, bishop, martyr
[RC] Commemoration of St John I, pope & martyr (523-526)
[Luth] Commemoration of Erik, King of Sweden, martyr
05181995
[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5755 AM)
05181997
[Christian-Scotland] Term Day
[Christian] Solemnity of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
[Moslem] Ashura (Muharram 10, 1418 AH)
05181998
[Christian] St Ives
[Ang, Luth] Commemoration of St Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury
[RC] Commemoration of St Peter Celestine, pope
05191996
[Islam] New Year's Day (Muharram 1, 1417 AH)
05191997
[Ang] Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
05191998
[Christian] Feast of St Austregisiluis/Outrill
[Christian] Feast of St Basilla/Basilissa
[Christian] Feast of St Baudelius
[Christian] Feast of St Ethelbert
[Christian] Feast of St Thalelaeus/Asterius, Alexander & Others
0520 804
[Ang] Commemoration of Alcuin, deacon & abbot of Tours
[RC] Memorial of St Bernardine of Siena, priest (opt)
05201998
[Orthodox] Feast of SS Constantine & Helen
05211690
[Luth] Commemoration of John Eliot, missionary to Indians
05211994
[Moslem] 'Id al-Adha; end of Ramadn fast (Shawwl 1, 1414 AH)
05211997
[Ang, RC] Ember Day
05211998
05211999
[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5759 AM)
[RC] Commem of St Rita of Cascia, widow; invoked in desperate cases
05221096
[Orth] Translat of Relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker (5/9 OS)
05221994
05221995
[Christian] Feast of St Aldhelm
[Christian] Feast of St Desiderius of Vienne
[Christian] Feast of St Euphrosyne of Polotsk
[Christian] Feast of St Guibert
[Christian] Feast of St John Baptist dei Rossi
[Christian] Feast of St William of Rochester
05231116
[Christ] Feast of St Ivo of Chartres, patron of lawyers
[Bah '¡] Declaration of Bab (festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
05231994
05231995
05231997
05231999
05232000
[Jewish] Lag B'Omer (love for Holy Land Day) (Iyar 18, 5760 AM)
[Christian] Feast of St David I of Scotland
[Christian] Feast of St Donatian & Rogatian
[Christian] Feast of St Nicetas of Pereaslav
[Christian] Feast of St Vincent of Lerins
[RC] Memorial of Blessed Virgin Mary, help of Christians
0524 883
[Orth] Feast of SS Cyril & Methodius, evangelizers (5/11 OS)
[Luth] Commemoration of Copernicus, teacher
05241783
[Luth] Commemoration of Euler, teacher
[Ang] Commemoration of Jackson Kemper, 1st missionary bishop in US
05241995
05241996
[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5756 AM)
05241997
05241999
[Anglican] Deposition of St Aldelmus, bishop/confessor
[RC] Pope Urban I, patron of wine
0525 230
[RC] Commemoration of St Urban I, pope (222-230), martyr
0525 563
-BC- [Buddhist-Hong Kong] Buddha's Birthday
0525 735
[Ang, RC] Mem of Bede the Venerable, priest, monk of Jarrow (opt)
[RC] Memorial of St Gregory VII, pope [1073-85], confessor (opt)
05251607
[RC] Feast of St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, virgin
[RC] Commemoration of St Madeleine Sophie Barat, virgin
05251994
05251995
05251997
[Christian] Solemnity of Most Holy Trinity (Trinity Sunday)
0526 178
[RC] Commemoration of St Eleutherius, pope [175-178], martyr
0526 605
[RC, Ang] Mem Augustine, English Apostle, 1st abp of Canterbury (opt)
05261595
[RC] Memorial of St Philip Neri, priest
05261996
05261999
[Christian] Feast of St Augustine of Canterbury
[Christian] Feast of St Eutropius of Orange
[Christian] Feast of St Julius of Durostorum
[Christian] Feast of St Melangel of Montacella
[Christian] Feast of St Restituta of Sora
0527 526
[old RC] Commemoration of St John I, pope/martyr
0527 735
[old RC] Feast of St Bede the Venerable, doctor/writer
[Luth] Commemoration of John Calvin, renewer of church
05271994
05271996
[Christian] Feast of St Germanus of Paris
[Christian] Feast of St Ignatius of Rostov
[Christian] Feast of St Justus of Urgel
[Christian] Feast of St Senator of Milan & St William of Gellone
0528 604
[old RC] Feast of St Augustine, 1st achbp of Canterbury, confessor
05281081
[Christ] Comm of St Bernard of Montjoux, patron of mountain climbers
05281994
05281996
[Moslem] Ashura (Muharram 10, 1417 AH)
05281999
05282001
[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5761 AM)
[Christian-Andorra] Our Lady of Canolic
[Christian] Feast of St Bernard of Montjoux or Menthon
[Christian] Feast of St Cyril of Caesarea
[Christian] Feast of St Maximinus of Trier
[Christian] Feast of St Sisinnius, Martyrius & Alexander
[Christian] Feast of St Theodosia of Constantinople
[Christian] Feast of St William, Stephen, Raymond & companions
05291607
[old RC] Feast of St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi, virgin
05291637
[Luth] Commemoration of Jiri Tranovsky, hymn writer
[Bah '¡] Death (ascension) of prophet Bah 'u'll h ('Azamat 7, 49)
05291994
05291996
05291997
[RC] Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
05291999
0530 273
[RC] Commemoration of St Felix I, pope [268-73], martyr
[RC] Commemor of St Ferdinand III, Spanish king/patron of engineers
[RC] Comm of St Jean d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, patroness of France
05301995
[Islam] leap day (Dhl-Hijjah 30, 1415 AH)
05301999
[Luth, Ang, RC] Feast of Visitation [Queenship] of Mary
[RC] Commemoration of St Aurelia Petronilla, virgin
05311540
[old RC] Feast of St Angela Merici, virgin
05311995
[Islam] New Year's Day (Muharram 1, 1416 AH)
05311996
05311998
[Jewish] Shavuot (celebration of 10 commandments) (Sivan 6, 5758 AM)
S
Correct Posture Month-National Physical Fitness & Sports Month
Flower-Hawthorne & Lily of the Valley     Gem-Emerald
Good Car Keeping Month-National Bike Month-Better Sleep Month
National Barbecue Month-National Photo Month
National Photo-Car Maintainence-Foot Health Month
National Tavern-Steelmark-Senior Citizen Month
Sight Saving Month-Touring Theatre Month
Baseball teams may resume negotiating with their own free agents
May Day, International Workers Day, Law Day, Loyalty Day, Bird Day
[Algonquin] Flower Moon
[Ancient Rome] Kalendae Mai
[Babylonia] Abu
[England] Beltane-people light bonfires celebrating end of winter
[Nunamiut Eskimos] Moon When Ice Goes Out
National Stuttering Awareness Week begins
[World] Humane Sunday
International Tuba Day (1st Friday)
Kentucky Derby
0501 506
Eta "May" Aquarid meteor shower, radiant in Aquarius
0501 520
Astrological sign:  Taurus
International Tuba Day
[US] National Teacher's Day
National Nurses Day
[US] National Nurse's Day
Beaufort Scale Day-measures wind force (scale 0 calm to 12 hurricane)
Solar Summer-quarter of year with greatest sunshine in N Hemisphere
[Ancient Rome] Non Mai
[Sweden] Ake name day
[World] Red Cross Day
[World] World Red Cross Day
North Pole Flight Day (1926)
Third Shift Workers Day
[Ancient Rome] Lemuria; a d vij Id Maias
[US] National Transportation Week begins
Annular eclipse visible over North America
Eclipse of the sun North-Africa-USA (6m13s)
Spring Ghost Tales Day
[Ancient Rome] Lemuria
Limerick Day
National Hospital Day (1921)
National Limerick Day
Leprechaun Day-no blarney!
[US] National Astronomy Day
Friday the 13th!  Beware!
Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day-It may be waving at you
Peace Officer's Memorial Day
[Ancient Rome] Idus Mai
[US] National Defense Transportation Day
International Chicken Flying Meet (3rd Saturday)
[Maryland] Preakness Stakes (2nd jewel in horse racing triple crown)
Jumping Frog Jubilee
[UN] World Telecommunications Day
International Museum Day
Visit Your Relatives Day
World Good-Will Day
[Sweden] Erik name day in (most popular Swedish man's name)
Eliza Doolittle Day, encourages proper use of language
Weights & Measures Day
0521 621
Astrological sign:  Gemini
National Maritime Day
[Indianapolis Indiana] Sportacular-honors US amateur athletes
[World] World Trade Day/National Maritime Day (1819)
[Ancient Rome] Tubilustrium
[Ancient Rome] Quando Rex Comitiavit
[White Sulphur Springs, WV] Dandelion Festival
Indianaolis 500 auto race
[Mystic, Conn] Lobster Festival
[Scottsboro Alabama] Catfish Festival
[US] American Merchant Marine Book Week
Eta Pegasid meteor shower, radiant in Pegasus
05-- 885
Pope Stephen V begins reign
05--1921
WJZ-AM in Baltimore MD begins radio transmissions
05--1939
1st FM radio station W43B (formerly W1XOJ, later WGTR) goes on air
05--1949
WAPI (now WVMT) TV channel 13 in Birmingham, AL (NBC) 1st broadcast
KELO TV channel 11 in Sioux Falls, SD (CBS) begins broadcasting
KSBY TV channel 6 in San Luis Obispo/Salia, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
05--1960
WCRB-FM & WBZ-FM in Boston begin stereo test broadcasts
05--1979
Radio Shack introduces TRS-80 Model II
05--1990
Howard County, MD becomes 1st in US to make bicycle helmets mandatory
05--1991
Ride for Rain - 3 students ride 3,000 miles across Amazon River Basin
05011006
Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
05011528
P nfilo the Narvaz begins exploration to with 350 men to Florida
05011628
Meiboom in Quincy Mass) degenerates into orgy with indian women
05011682
Louis XIV & his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
05011707
England, Wales & Scotland form UK of Great Britain
05011751
1st American cricket match was played
05011776
Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
05011786
Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premiers in Wien (Vienna)
05011822
John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston
05011840
1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
05011841
1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif
05011844
Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate
05011850
John Geary becomes 1st SF mayor
05011851
Great Exhibition opens in London's Hyde Park, with Crystal Palace
05011853
Argentina adopts it's constitution
05011857
William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrenders to US Navy
05011861
Lee orders Confederate troops under T J Jackson to Harper's Ferry
Union captain David Farragut conquers New Orleans
05011863
Battle of Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
Battle of Port Gibson, Mississippi
Beginning of 4-day Battle of Chancellorsville
Confederate congress passed resolution to kill black soldiers
05011864
Atlanta campaign, GA
Wilderness campaign
05011867
Howard University chartered
Reconstruction of South begins, black voter registration
05011869
"Folies-Bergre" opens in Paris
A colt is reported killed by a meteorite near New Concord, Ohio
Folies Bergre opens in Paris
05011873
1st US postal card issued
International Exhibition opens in Wien (Vienna)
05011875
238 members of "Whiskey Ring" accused of anti-US activities
05011883
Baseball returns to Phila, 1st NL game since 1876
NY Athletic Club hires Bob Rogers as 1st American pro sports trainer
05011884
Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
Moses Walker became 1st black player in major league
05011886
US general strike for 8 hour day broken
05011889
1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
US Quarantine Station opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
05011893
World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
Premature blast collapses mine tunnel killing 200 at Scofield, Utah
05011901
Detroit Tigers commit 12 errors against Chicago White Sox
Herb McFarland hit 1st grand slam in American League
Pan-American Exposition opens in Buffalo
05011906
Phillie's John Lush no-hits Bkln Dodgers, 6-0
Indian Mine Laws passes (concessions from Neth-Indies)
World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama
05011914
China's 1st president Yuan Shikai wins dictatorial qualification
05011915
British Lusitania leaves NY, for Liverpool
German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
05011920
Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds
Belgian-Luxembourg toll tunnel opens
Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 1-1, in 26 innings
Druzisch sultan Pasja al-Atrasj elected governor of Suwayda
Earl Sande, wins his 1st Kentucky Derby
05011924
Admiral Paul Koundouri¢tis becomes president of Greece
Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
05011926
British coal-miners go on strike
Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
Satchel Paige makes pitching debut in Negro Southern League
1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
Netherlands beats Belgium 3-2 in soccer match in Amsterdam
6 children die & 10 injured by hailstones in Klausenburg, Romania
Drunken fascist Erich Wichman harasses VARA-radio transmitter
Lei Day begun (a Hawaiian celebration)
Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service
05011929
Brooklyn's Johnny Finn sets 100 yard sack race in 14.4 seconds
Farm workers strike begins in East-Groningen
Police kill 19 Mayday demonstraters in Berlin
05011931
Empire State Building opens in NYC
Norway claims Peter I Island
Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running radio program on CBS
1st Suriname union congress at Paramaribo
05011934
Austria signs pact with Vatican
Philippine legislature accepts US proposal for independence
Water state kingdom dismisses NSB-leader Anton Mussert
05011936
Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades
FDR signs act of neutrality
Batman Comics hit street
Pulitzer prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
05011940
140 Palestinian Jews die as German planes bomb their ship
05011941
"Citizen Kane," directed & starring Orson Welles, premiers in NY
German assault on Tobroek
05011943
Johnny Longden on Count Fleet wins 69th Kentucky Derby (2:04)
Rauter signs unofficial death sentence
food rationing begins in US
Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
Pulitzer prize awarded to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
Surprise attack on Weteringschans Amsterdam, fails
Radio Budapest, Hungary re-enters shortwave broadcasting after WW II
Mrs Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
Radar for coml & private planes 1st demonstrated
Vice Adm Roscoe Hillenkoeter becomes 1st director of CIA
Dem People's Rep of Korea (N Korea) established
Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
05011950
Gwendolyn Brooks, is 1st Black awarded a Pulitzer Prize (poetry)
Mayor of Brussels reluctantly bans May Day parade
New marriage laws enforced in People's Republic China
Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
05011951
600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany
Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
Mickey Mantle's 1st HR
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #3428
Bishops publish Mandement (member socialistic org forbidden)
HSA-UWC Established (Unification Church) (Moonies)
WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, PR (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
05011955
Bob Feller's 15th 1 or less hitter (12 1-hitters, 3 no-hitters)
Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
US give Poland credit of $95 million
Vanguard TV-1 booster test reaches 195 km
05011958
Ambonese rebellion bombed Ambon/conquer Morotai
Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Brian London
West Germany ntroduces 5 day work week
White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
India's Bombay state split into Gujarat & Maharashtra states
Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
05011961
1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba
Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain
05011962
1st French underground nuclear experiment in the Sahara
Bo Belinsky pitches a no-hitter, in his 4th start
JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA)
05011963
1st American (James Whittaker) to conquer Mount Everest
Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth
05011964
1st BASIC program run on a computer (Dartmouth)
Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks, 4 games to 3, for Stanley Cup
USSR launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon
05011966
Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting
US troops shooting targets in Cambodia
Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
Priscilla Beaulieu & Elvis Presley wed in Las Vegas
Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
05011969
43 Unification church couples wed in NYC
Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0
Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting
05011971
Amtrak railroad begins operation
Rolling Stones release "Brown Sugar"
05011972
Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
Radio's Mutual Black Network premiers
05011973
SF Giants score 7 runs with 2 outs in 9th to beat Pirates, 8-7
05011976
Bold Forbes wins Kentucky Derby
Jos Hermens, Netherlands sets record for 20,000 m, 57:24.2
05011977
Empress Lilly dedicated
1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated
Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
05011979
Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)
Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing
Billie Jean King admits to a lesbian affair with Marilyn Barnett
Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) convicted on FBI Abscam charges
Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3
1982 World's Fair in Knoxville Tennessee opens
Nordiques 4-Isles 5 (OT)-semifinals-Isles hold 3-0 lead
05011983
Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)
Mick Fleetwood (of Fleetwood Mac) files for bankruptcy
05011986
Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
05011987
46 HRs hit in 13 baseball games
Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun
135 acre Disney's MGM studio officially opens to public
Jockey Chris Antley ends record of 64 consecutive winning days
05011991
A's Rickey Henderson steals an all time record 939th base vs Yanks
Angola's civil war ends
05011992
Eric Houston kills 4 in a Calif HS where he failed history 4 yrs prior
NY Rangers wins their 1st ever 7th game of a playoff (vs NJ Devils)
Bomb attack on Sri Lankan president (26 die)
05021598
Peace of Vervins
05021668
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, ends War of Devolution
05021670
Hudson Bay Company founded
05021776
France & Spain agree to donate arms to American rebels
05021780
William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
05021808
Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid
05021864
N R Pogson discovers asteroid #80 Sappho
05021865
Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
05021876
Ross Barnes hit 1st home run in National League
05021878
US stops minting 20 coin
05021885
"Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
Congo Free State established by King Leopold II of Belgium
Territory of Oklahoma created
Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
1st US air passenger service starts
05021920
1st game of National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
05021922
WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Ft Worth Texas
05021923
Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yanks 3-0
Netherlands refuses to recognize USSR
Kezar Stadium in SF's Golden Gate Park opens
05021926
US military intervenes in Nicaragua
05021927
Intl Economic Conference (52 countries including USSR) opens
Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
05021928
KPQ-AM in Wenatchee WA begins radio transmissions
Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
05021933
Germany forbids trade union
05021934
Nazi-Germany begins People's court
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1926 Demiddelaer
"Peter & Wolf" premiers in Moscow
Emperor Haile Selassie & family flee Abyssinia
05021938
Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
05021939
Lou Gehrig ends 2,130 consecutive game streak, Yanks beat Tigers 22-2
Ted Williams lowest average (.308) in year he hit over .400
05021944
WABD (WNEW, now WNYW) TV channel 5 in NYC (DUM/MET/FOX) 1st broadcast
Germany Army in Italy surrenders
Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
Bolivian state of siege proclaimed
Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur Miller (Death of a salesman)
Dutch 1st Chamber accept Laws on immigration
Dutch PM Malan recognizes South-Africa but not China PR
05021952
1st commercial jet plane, BOAC Comet
Operations begin at United Suriname Workers of Netherland
Dark Star, noses out Native Dancer to win Kentucky Derby
Feisal II intalled as king of Iraq
Hussein I intalled as king of Jordan
Stan Musial hits 5 HRs in a doubleheader
05021955
India poses discrimination "onaanraakbaren" punishable
Pulitzer prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
WGBH TV channel 2 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
05021956
US Lab detects high-temperature microwave radiation from Venus
US Methodist church disallows race separation
Pulitzer prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
OAS strikes in Algeria
WMHT TV channel 17 in Schenectady-Alby-Tro, NY (PBS) 1st broadcast
Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for for 5 weeks
Northern Dancer wins Kentucky Derby
05021965
Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
05021966
Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
05021967
Tor Maple Leafs beat Mont Canadiens 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 2, for NBA championship
Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London
Israelli television begins transmitting
05021970
1st woman jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
KOAI (now KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
Electrical fire in Sunshine Silver mine. 126 die (Kellogg Idaho)
A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2014 Vasilevskis
05021974
Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
05021975
Apple records closes down
05021978
Portland Trail Blazers win their only NBA championship, in 4 games
05021979
"Quadrophenia" premieres in London
05021980
Joseph Doherty & 3 other IRA men arrested for murder
05021981
Radio Shack re-releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 with 2 fixes
Argentina cruiser Belgrano off Falkland Islands sinks; about 300 die
6.7 earthquake injures 487 in Coalinga Calif
Mattingly's single breaks up Lamarr Hoyt's perfect game bid
05021986
Transportation Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
05021987
Chris Mccarron on Alysheba wins 113rd Kentucky Derby (2:03.4)
05021988
Balt Orioles sign a 15 year lease to remain in Balt & get a new park
Jackson Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000
South Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
05021991
Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus
Lil E Tees (17-1 shot) wins 118th Kentucky Derby
05031342
Count Hartmann II becomes ruler of Vaduz (Liechtenstein)
05031382
Battle on Beverhoutsfield near Brugge
Jews flee Spain
05031494
Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica
Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
05031512
5th Lateran Council (18th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
05031654
Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
05031661
Johannes Hevelius observes 3rd transit of Mercury ever to be seen
05031662
Royal charter granted Connecticut
05031678
French conquering fleet at Curaao, 1200 die
05031715
Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
05031765
1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
05031802
Washington DC incorporates as a city
05031808
Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May"
05031810
Lord Byron swims Hellespont
05031822
Society for Propagation of Faith starts (Lyon, France)
05031830
1st regular steam train passenger service starts
05031845
1st black lawyer (Macon B Allen) admitted to bar (Mass)
Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
05031846
Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
05031851
Most of SF destroyed by fire; 30 die
05031861
GEN Winfield Scott presents his Anaconda Plan
Lincoln asks for 42,000 Army Volunteers & another 18,000 seamen
05031863
Battle of Chancellorsville-Beaten Union army withdraws
Battle of Fredricksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
Battle of Salem Church, VA
05031886
M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
05031888
A Charlois discovers asteroid #277 Elvira
Camp Merriman established at Presidio (SF) (see 0517)
05031901
Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
British-controlled Egypt takes Sinai peninsula from Turkey
Afghanistan Emir Amanoellah begins war against Great Britain
America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax
05031922
Mayor Hylan closes streets for building of Yankee Stadium
Salt layer find at Winterswijk
1st nonstop transcontinental flight (NY-San Diego) completed
British general strike-3 million workers support miners
Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
US marines land in Nicaragua (9-mo after leaving), stay until 1933
Prussia bans anti-fascists
24 tourists begin 1st air-charter holiday (London-Basle, Switz)
05031933
1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of US Mint takes office
C Jackson discovers asteroids #1356 Nyanza & #1638 Ruanda
French People's Front wins elections
NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio makes his major-league debut, gets 3 hits
Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitizer Prize for "Gone With the Wind"
05031938
Concentration camp at Flossenbrg goes into use
Vatican recognizes Franco-Spain
Eddie Arcaro on Whirlaway wins 67th Kentucky Derby (2:01.4)
Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
Nazi's execute 72 OD'ers in reprisial in Sachsenhausen, Netherlands
Nazi's require Dutch Jews to wear a Jewish star
05031943
Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
US Panzer division conquer Mateur Tunisia
"Meet Me in St Louis" opens on Broadway
Meat rationing ends in US
Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
British troop join in Rangoon
International military tribunal in Tokyo begins
Japan forms a constitutional democracy
05031948
Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener & Tennessee Williams
1st firing of a US Viking rocket; reached 80 km
Gil McDougald ties major league record with 6 RBIs in 1 inning
Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1952 Hesburgh
NY Yankee Gil McDougald is 5th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (9th)
1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
WTVO TV channel 17 in Rockford, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
Westchester conf of Amer Library Assoc proclaims "Freedom to Read"
05031954
KTEN TV channel 10 in Ada-Ardmore, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh & John Patrick
WHA TV channel 21 in Madison, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
05031956
A new range of mountains discovered in Antarctica (2 over 13,000')
05031958
WINS suspends Alan Freed for causing a riot in Boston, he quits
Tiger's Charlie Maxwell hits 4 consecutive HRs in a doubleheader
05031963
Leslie Narum is only Balt Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat
1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 2-1 in 10
KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast
Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
05031966
WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
05031967
Black students seize finance building at Northwestern U
Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl
05031969
Unbeaten Majestic Prince wins Kentucky Derby
05031971
All Things Considered premiers on 112 National Public Radio stations
National Public Radio begins programming
Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
05031973
Chicago's Sears Tower, world's tallest building (443 m), topped out
KC Royals' George Brett gets his 1st major league hit
05031976
Panama 747SP lands after record flight around world (46:26)
Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
05031978
"Sun Day" - solar energy events are held in US
1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
05031980
Genuine Risk becomes 2nd philly to win Kentucky Derby
Texas Ranger Ferguson Jenkins becomes 4th to win 100 games in AL & NL
ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)
NY Times reports that military will get 25% of NASA's budget
Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
Bruins 3-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-1 lead
US bishops condemn nuclear weapons
05031984
B A Skiff discovers asteroid #3325
L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3616
05031985
Date of $5 million check in "View to a Kill"
Bill Shoemaker, 54, wins Kentucky Derby
NASA launches Goes-G, it failed to achieve orbit
NY Yankee Don Mattingly is 6th to hit 3 sacrifice flies in a game
Willie Shoemaker on Ferdinand wins 112th Kentucky Derby (2:02.8)
05031987
Miami Herald reports a woman spent Friday & Saturday with Gary Hart
05031988
4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
Beverly Hills 90210 Gabrielle Carteris marries Charles Isaacs
George Murphy, (Sen-R-Calif)/actor, dies at 89
NY Met Eddie Murray is 24th to hit 400 HRS
Ohio Glory wins 1st WLAF game (after 6 loses), beat Frankfurt 20-17
05041471
Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
05041493
Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal
05041626
Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
05041715
French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
Rhode Island declares independence from England
05041780
American Academy of Arts & Science founded
05041783
Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
05041805
Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
05041814
Bourbon reign restored in France
05041846
US state Michigan ends death penalty
05041851
1st major SF fire
05041858
War of Reform (Mxico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
05041861
At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
05041863
Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
05041864
Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
05041865
Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
Battle of Mobile, AL
05041866
Woodward's Gardens opens to public
05041878
Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
05041886
Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
R Luther discovers asteroid #258 Tyche
05041896
A Charlois discovers asteroid #416 Vaticana
Grease fire ignites « ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
05041897
Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
05041910
Tel Aviv founded
Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
05041916
At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
05041917
Arabs sack Tel Aviv
Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
05041919
1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
Student revolt at Tian An Men Square, Peking
KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
05041923
Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna
NY state revokes Prohibition law
8th modern Olympic games opens in Paris
German Republic election fascists & communists win
League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
05041926
General strike hits Britain
05041927
1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
05041932
Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
05041933
Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
05041935
Willis Saunders on Omaha wins 61st Kentucky Derby
Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
05041940
21 NSB'ers (fascist & communist) arrested in Netherlands
Gallahadion (35-1 longshot) wins Kentucky Derby
Battle of Coral Sea begins
Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
Food 1st rationed in US
Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
German troops in Netherland, Denmark & Norway surrender
05041946
5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz pirison in SF bay
Warren Mehrtens on Assault wins 72nd Kentucky Derby (2:06.6)
The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter to the death
Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
Queen Juliana unveals National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
05041957
Bill Shoemaker misjudges finish & loses Derby to Iron Liege
Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia
Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
05041960
1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC
Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
US balloon reaches 34,595m altitude
05041963
Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
05041964
"Another World" & "As the World Turns" premieres on TV
70 GATT-countries confere in Geneva
KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record
Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
05041968
Dancer's Image wins 94th Kentucky Derby, but disqualified for drugs
Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers in 1st ABA championship, 4 games to 2
05041969
Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues for Stanley Cup
National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
05041973
1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20
Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
05041974
Cannonade wins Kentucky Derby
Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
05041976
Kiss performs their 1st concert
05041979
Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England
NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
05041981
Rockline premiers on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
T Furuta discovers asteroid #2478 Tokai
05041982
Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
05041985
Spend a Buck wins Kentucky Derby
05041989
Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat
US launches Magellan to Venus
US space shuttle STS-30 launched
05041990
Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
Latvia's parliment votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease
Pres Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
Strike the Gold wins 117th Kentucky Derby
05041993
Space probe Galileo enter asteroid belt
0505 553
2nd Council of Constantinople (5th ecumenical council) opens
05051382
Battle of Beverhoutsveld - population beats drunken army
05051646
King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
05051749
Pope Benedict XIV proclaims 1750 a Year" [?]
05051789
French king Louis XVI calls for Etats-Gnraux
05051797
Napoleon I's sister Elisa marries Felix Bacciochi
05051809
Citzenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland
05051814
British attack Ft Ontario, Oswego, NY
05051816
American Bible Society organized (NY)
05051842
City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
05051847
American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
05051853
R Luther discovers asteroid #26 Proserpina
05051861
Alexandria, VA  - CS troops abandon city
H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #70 Panopaea
05051862
French army intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
Peninsular Campaign-Battle of Williamsburg, VA
05051863
Battle of Tupelo, MS
Joe Coburn KOs Mike McCoole for US boxing title in 63rd round
05051864
Atlanta Campaign-5 days fighting begins at Rocky Face Ridge
Battle of Wilderness, VA (Germanna Ford, Wilderness Tavern)
Campaign in Northern Georgia - Chattanooga GA to Atlanta GA
05051865
1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
Battle of Puebla; Mxicans defeat Maximilian's forces (Cinco de Mayo)
05051891
Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
05051893
Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
Cy Young of Boston pitches perfect game against Philadelphia (3-0)
"Chicago Defender," begins publishing
Robert S Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"
05051907
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #638 Moira
Great White Fleet arrives in SF
1st legal publication of "Pravda"
5th modern Olympic games opens in Stockholm
Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda begins publishing (4/22 OS)
05051916
US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
05051917
St Louis Brown Ernie Koob no-hits Chic White Sox, 1-0
05051920
German-Latvian peaces treaty signed
Polish troops occupy Kiev
US pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
Minature newspaper published (Brighton Gazette 10 x 13 cm)
Construction on Yankee Stadium (Bronx) begins
Unions terminate Twentse textile strike
John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
Ty Cobb goes 6 for 6, (16 total bases)
Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1st woman to fly solo from Engl to Australia takes-off (Amy Johnson)
Japan & China sign a peace treaty
H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1693 Hertzsprung
Jessie Owens of US, sets then long jump record at 26' 8¬"
05051936
Italians troops conquer Addis Ababa
Flash floods kill 75 in Northeast Kentucky
05051940
Norwegian govt in exile forms in London
Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
US begins rationing sugar during WW II
Gandhi freed from prison
Mauthausen Concentration camp liberated
Netherlands & Denmark liberated from Nazi control
05051947
Mississippi Valley flooding kills 16 & causes $850M in damage
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1st air squadron of jets aboard a carrier
Belgian cabinet-Spoke resigns
Council of Europe established
KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Phumiphon Abundet crowned as king Rama IX of Thailand
Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
Military coup by general Alfredo Stroessner in Paraguay
Broadway musical "Damn Yankees" opens
West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers
Jim Bailey (US) runs mile a record 3:58.6 in LA Calif
World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
Adolf Schrf elected president of Austria
05051958
KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
05051961
Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
LA Angel Bo Belinsky no-hits Balt Orioles, 2-0
05051964
Separatists riot in Quebec
05051965
1st large-scale US Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
05051966
Mont Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
Boston beats Los Angeles, 4 games to 3, for NBA championship
Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
05051971
Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115
Ron Turcotte on Secretariat wins Kentucky Derby (1:59.4, record)
05051975
Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
Train crash at Schiedam, kills 24
05051978
Cin Red Pete Rose becomes 14th player to get 3,000 hits
05051979
Masterpiece Radio Theater begins broadcasting
Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
Bruins 5-Isles 1-Wales Conf Championship-Isles hold 3-2 lead
05051987
Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
Detroit Tigers are 11 games back in AL, but go on to win AL East
Eugene A Marino intalled as 1st black US archbishop
05051989
Mike Tyson gets 2nd speeding ticket for drag racing in Albany NY
Paul Hogan & Linda Koslowski wed in Byron Bay, Eastern Australia
Unbridled beats 2 favorites in 116th Kentucky Derby
Country singer Tammy Wynette hospitalized with bile duct infection
05052000
conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & Moon
Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance
05061536
King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church
05061753
French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
05061787
1st Black Masonic Lodge forms Prince Hall, Boston
African Lodge # 459 organizes in Boston
05061794
Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
05061804
Suriname sold to English (util Feb, 1816)
05061833
John Deere makes 1st steel plow
05061840
1st postage stamps (Penny Black) issued (Great Britain)
05061851
Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
SF Chamber of Commerce starts
05061853
1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, Connecticut)
Train falls off bridge in S Norwalk Ct; 46 drown
05061860
SF Olympic Club, 1st US athletic club founded
Arkansas & Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th state to secede from US
Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US & Confederacy
05061864
Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA
Battle of Wilderness-Gen Longstreet seriously injured
Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
Eiffel Tower in Paris, completed
Universal Exposition opens in Paris
05061890
Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
05061891
Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
05061896
M Wolf discovers asteroid #417 Suevia
British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" (BG)
05061903
Chicago White Sox commit 12 errors against Detroit Tigers
"Temporary" permit to erect overhead wires on Market St SF
King George V ascends to British throne
King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania
05061914
British house of lords rejects women suffrage
Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15
05061916
Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
05061917
St Louis Brown Bob Groom no-hits Chic White Sox, 3-0
American Soccer League formed
NY to SF footrace begins
Italy & USSR sign trade agreement
05061935
KTM-AM in Los Angeles Calif changes call letters to KEHE (now KABC)
Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)
05061937
Dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die)
Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath)
Josef Stalin becomes leader of USSR
05061942
Corregidor & Philippines surrenders to Japanese Armies
05061943
British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
05061944
KJR-AM in Seattle Wash swaps calls with KOMO
Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherland
Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of Jackson)"
05061950
Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
05061951
Pitts Pirate Cliff Chambers no-hits Boston Brave, 3-0
Brown's Bobo Holloman 1st major league start, no-hits Phila A's, 6-0
Roger Bannister breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
West Germany joins NATO
05061956
WRCB TV channel 3 in Chattanooga, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
05061957
Italian cabinet of Segni resigns
Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
Pres Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
Princess Margaret marries Antony Armstrong-Jones
Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ram¢n Mercader), flees
1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
Antonio Segni elected president of Italy
Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
D McLeish discovers asteroid #2854
05061966
Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7
400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
Battle between students & troops in Paris, 1000 injured
Spain closes border to Gibralter except to Spaniards
05061970
Yuchiro Miura of Japan skies down Mt Everest
05061973
1st WHA championshiphip, Winnipeg Jets win 4 games to 1
05061974
Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, Ore
Smallest attendance at Phila's Veterans Stadium (4,149)
Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan Vermeer found in London
05061975
Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello, Idaho
05061977
"Beatles at Hollywood Bowl," released in UK
05061978
Steve Cauthen & Affirmed wins Kentucky Derby en route to Triple Crown
05061979
Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m
05061981
C Shoemaker discovers asteroids #2742 Gibson, #2773 & #2982 Muriel
05061982
Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games
05061984
Balt Oriole Cal Ripken Jr hits for cycle
05061985
17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB
05061986
Donald E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
Gary Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
Mario Andretti sets one-lap speed record at Indy at 218.204 MPH
PTL's Jim Bakker & Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God
05061989
Sunday Silence wins upset victory at Kentucky Derby
Tom Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in SC
Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands
NY Met Anthony Young begins losing streak of at least 26 games
05062012
Transit of Venus
05071274
2nd Council of Lyons (14th ecumenical council) opens
05071416
Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy
05071429
English siege of Orlans broken by Joan of Arc
05071700
William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
05071727
Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
05071771
Samuel Hearne explores Copper Mine River of Canada
05071789
1st inaugurational ball (NYC)
05071792
Capt Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
Indiana Territory organized
05071824
Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony performed for 1st time
Tornado strikes Natchez Miss, kills 317
American Medical Association organizes (Phila)
05071848
Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
05071856
Argentinian & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville TN
05071862
Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
05071864
Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
05071867
Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
05071873
US marines attack Panama
05071877
Cin Enquirer, 1st uses term "Bullpen" to indicate foul territory
05071885
John E W Thompson, named minister to Haiti
05071888
Opera "Le Roi D'ys" is produced (Paris)
05071902
L Carnera discovers asteroid #485 Genua
Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
05071904
Flexible Flyer trademark registered
R S Dugan discovers asteroid #535 Montague
05071913
British House of Commons rejects women's suffrage
05071914
US Congress establishes mother's day
Woodrow Wilson's daughter Eleanor marries in White House
Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
05071920
USSR recognizes independence of Georgia
Belgian soccer team defeats Netherlands: 1-2
NY Giant Jesse Barnes no-hits Phillies, 2-0
Mine strike at Belgian Borinage railroad
05071924
Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
05071925
Phillies have their 8th game postponed in a row
Pirate shortstop Glenn Wright makes an unassisted triple play
SF Municipal Airport (Mills Field) dedicated
05071928
England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1146 Biarmia
C Jackson discovers asteroids #1243 Pamela & #1321 Majuba
05071934
Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autnomous Region
Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (One in White)
World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
Germany & Italy  announce their alliance (Rome-Berlin Axis)
05071940
Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain
British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
Cornerstone of B of A building at 300 Montgomery laid
Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
Battle in Coral Sea-Japanese expansion ends
Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
British troop occupy Tunis
Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps
Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched
Germany signs unconditional surrender; WW II ends in Europe
Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated
Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
Nazi generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender
Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano)
SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
05071947
"Kraft Television Theater" premiers on NBC
General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
Paraguayian govt unleashes contra revolt
Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
05071953
Record 537-kg swordfish was caught by LE Marron, in Chile
05071954
French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
Bill Shoemaker aboard Swaps, beats Eddie Arcaro on Nashua in Derby
USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain
West Europe Union established
05071956
Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
05071957
Herb Score hit in face by Gil McDougald's line drive
Maj Johnson, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to 17.28 miles (27.8 K)
05071958
Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of USSR
Michael Tal beats Botvinnik 12«-8« for world chess championship
Pulitzer prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
05071963
SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km))
05071965
WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, WI (ABC) begins broadcasting
05071966
Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene
Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers in 2nd ABA championship, 4 games to 1
05071972
Lakers beat Knicks for NBA championship, 4 games to 1
05071973
Pulitzer prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
05071974
Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
05071975
Flyers 3-Isles 4 (OT)-Semifinals-Flyers hold 3-1 lead
Pres Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"
Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
05071977
Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins 103rd Kentucky Derby (2:02.2)
05071979
Gary Roenicke hits into Orioles 13th triple play (Oakland)
05071982
Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing
IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
Oakland Raiders to move to LA
05071983
August Hoffman perform record 29,051 consecutive sit-ups
Bruins 4-Isles 8-Wales Conf Championship-Isles win series 4-2
05071984
$180m out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
105ø F, Sacramento, CA
Diane Chambers' (Shelley Long) final episode on Cheers
05071988
Winning Colors becomes 3rd filly to win Kentucky Derby
Mark Merrony (Wales) cycles for 30 mins in Nepal at 21,030 feet
Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
05071992
5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0508 615
St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05081360
Treaty of Brtigny signed by English & French
05081450
Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI
05081541
Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
05081721
Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII
05081784
Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
05081792
British Capt George Vancouver sights, names Mt Rainier, Wash
US Post Office established
05081823
"Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
1st major battle of Mxican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
John Brown holds antislavery convention
05081862
Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell Va
05081863
Confederaci¢n Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
05081864
Atlanta Campaign: Sever fighting near Dalton
Battle of Antietam, VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)
Initial fighting at Spotslyvania Court House
05081866
Australian Rules Football is created
05081878
1st unassisted triple play in organized baseball, by Paul Hines
Paul Hines made baseball's unassisted 1st triple play
05081885
Sarah Ann Henley survives 76-m jump from Clifton Bridge, Avon, Engl
05081886
Atlanta pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola
China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
05081900
250 grave robbers shot to death
Galveston Texas, hit by hurricane; about 6,000 die
05081902
Mt Pele erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
Phila A's pitcher Chief Benders plays outfield & hits 2 HRs
05081907
Boston's Big Jeff Pfeffer no-hits Cin Reds, 6-0
Heavyweight Tommy Burns KOs Jack O'Brien in LA
Regret becomes 1st of 3 fillys to win Kentucky Derby
05081919
1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
05081924
Memel territories given to Lithuania
Workers at Werkspoor in Amsterdam strike against 3rd wage cut
French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd)
Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pirates, 11-0
Cin Red Ernie Lombardi doubles in 6th, 7th, 8th & 9th beat Phils 15-4
War Admiral wins 63rd Kentucky Derby on his way to Triple Crown
German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
Aircraft carrier Lexington sunks by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
Johnny Longden on Count Fleet wins 68th Preakness Stakes (1:57.4)
Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet
Gen Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov
V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe
05081946
Red Sox Johnny Pesky scores 6 runs in 1 game
05081949
West German constitution approved
05081950
Chang Kai Shek asks US for weapons
Dacron men's suits introduced
05081953
WIPB TV channel 49 in Muncie, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1st shot-put over 60' (18.29 m)-Parry O'Brien, Los Angeles, CA
Pres Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock
VP Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
05081960
USSR & Cuba regain diplomatic relations
1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport Texas
Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
05081962
"Funny Thing Happened on Way to the Forum" opens on Broadway
05081963
"Dr No" premiers in US
JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
05081965
1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7")
05081966
Last game at old Busch stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF
Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson)
05081967
Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in US Army
05081968
Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins (4-0)
Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
05081970
Beatles release "Let it Be" album
Knicks beat Lakers, 113-99 for their 1st NBA championship
Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali at Madison Sq Garden
05081972
Sabena aircraft at Lod Intl, Tel Aviv, captured by Palestinians
Indians holding SD hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
05081974
50 MPH speed limit in Britain lifted
05081977
David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings
05081978
ABC TV airs "Stars Salute Israel at 30"
05081979
Radio Shack releases TRSDOS 2.3
05081980
Sabres take only 15 shots, Islanders 22, in a playoff game
05081981
L Brozek discovers asteroid #3419
Ron Davis pitches 10th consecutive strike out, 1 short of record
Canucks 5-Isles 6 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
05081984
Chicago White Sox beat Milw Brewers, 7-6, in 25 inn (completed 5/9)
Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed
USSR announces it will not participate in LA Summer Olympics
05081989
Paul McCartney releases "My Brave Face" & "Ferry Cross the Mersey"
US space shuttle STS-30 lands
05081991
CIA director William H Webster resigns
05091002
After trailing 9-0, St Louis Cards beat Atlanta Braves 12-11
05091092
Lincoln Cathedral consecrated
05091336
Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux
05091386
Treaty of Windsor between Portugal-England
05091460
Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings
05091502
Columbus left Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World
05091671
Col Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels
05091754
1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or die"
Joseph Bramah receives British patent for beer pump handles
05091837
"Sherrod" burns in Mississipi River below Natchez Miss; 175 dies
05091846
Battle of Resaca de la Palma-US sends Mexico back to Rio Grande
05091862
Battle of Farmington, MS
Battle of Ft Pickens, FL (Pensacola), evacuated by CS
US Naval Academy relocated from Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
05091864
Battle of Cloyd's Mt, & Swift Creek, VA (Drewery's Bluff, Ft Darling)
Battle of Dalton, GA
Ship battle at Helgoland, Austria-Denmark
05091874
Victoria Embankment, in London opens
Telegraph Hill RR Co organized
05091896
1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
05091901
Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chic White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2
05091905
M Wolf discovers asteroid #565 Marbachia
P Gotz discovers asteroid #564 Dudu
05091908
Dirk Fock becomes governor of Suriname
Fire breaks out at Empire Theater in Edinburgh Scotland
17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
Pres Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
German & French fight Battle of Artois
British-France Sykes-Picot meet over division of Turkey
R Schorr discovers asteroid #869 Mellena
Cornerstone for Hebrew University, Jerusalem laid
Richard Byrd & Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
Australian Parliament 1st convenes in new capital, Canberra
NY Giant Carl Hubbell no-hits Pitts Pirates
WJW-AM in Cleveland Ohio begins radio transmissions
Gallant Fox wins 55th Preakness Stakes en route to triple crown
Burgoo King wins Preakness Stakes
Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa merges with WHO to become WHO-WOC
Spanish anarchists call for general strike
1st KLM airplane to land on Bonaire
Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
Reds beat Phillies 21-10 (Ernie Lombardi goes 6 for 6)
English Army breaks German spy codes
Alsab wins Preakness Stakes
Rotschild-Haddassh University Hospital opens
1st eye bank opens (NYC)
Country singer Jimmie Davis becomes governor of Louisiana
Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation (Natl Day)
Jersey liberated from nazis
1st hour long entertainment TV show, "NBC's Hour Glass" premiers
1st variety show on TV "NBC's Hour Glass," premiers
King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy abdicates, replaced by Umberto
Britain's 1st launderette opens in Queensway London
Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco
French Foreign min Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS
Robert Schuman announces Schuman Plan for European integration
05091951
Air raid on Chinese positions at Yellow River
German Federal Republic joins NATO
Botvinnik recaptures world chess championship
Nigeria becomes a member of British Commonwealth
US send U-2 over USSR
05091961
Balt Oriole Jim Gentile hits 2 grand slams (9 RBIs) vs Minn Twins
FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"
Beatles sign their 1st contract with EMI Pstlophone
Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
Khrushchev visits Egypt
Peter & Gordon release "World Without Love"
Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert
Luna 5 launched (USSR) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon. (fails)
1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship
100,000s  demonstrate against Vietnam War
05091971
Friends of Earth return 1500 non-returnable bottles to Schweppes
Largest walk in crowd (31,626) in Balt Oriole history
05091972
T Smirnova discovers asteroids #1903 Adzhimushkaj & #1904 Massevitch
05091973
For 2nd time, Johnny Bench hits 3 HRs in a game
05091974
House Judiciary Committee begin formal hearings on Nixon impeachment
Mabel Murphy Smythe confirmed as ambassador to Rep of Cameroon
Patty Hearst let out of jail
05091978
Fee Waybill of Tubes breaks a leg falling off stage
05091980
35 motorists die as a Liberian freighter rams a Tampa Bay Bridge
Kazimiroff Blvd in Bronx named for a Bronx historian
183 die aboard a Polish jetliner that crashes in Warsaw
Actor Tom Cruise (27) & actress Mimi Rogers (33), marry
Oriole Eddie Murray is 1st to switch hit HRs in 2 consecutive games
05091988
Australia's new parliment house is opened by Queen Elizabeth
Journalist petition Chinese govt for freedom of press
NY Mets Kevin Elster, errors after 88 errorless games at shortstop
NY Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur
Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession
Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer
America Cup finals begin in San Diego
Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
Michelle McLean, 19, of Namibia, crowned Miss Universe
Landslide in Nambija Ecuador, kills 300
05101267
Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
05101427
Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland
05101503
Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
05101652
John Johnson, a free black granted 550 acres in Northampton Va
05101655
Jamaica captured by English
05101676
Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia govt begins
Louis XVI ascends to throne of France
05101775
2nd Cont Congress convened in Pa issues paper currency for 1st time
Green Mountain Boys capture Ft Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution
05101787
Parliment impeaches Warren Hastings
05101796
Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge
Indian Mutiny begins with revolt of Sepoys of Meerut
Sepoy-revolt in Meerutkazerne, Delhi
05101861
Union troops march on state militia in St Louis, MI
05101862
Battle of Plum Run Bend, TN (Plum Point Bend)
05101865
Surrender of Sam Jones
Union captures Jefferson Davis in Irwinville Ga
05101869
Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinential RR
05101871
German-French peace treaty signed: France loses Elzas
Peace of Frankfurt-am-Main concluded between France & Germany
05101872
Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US president
05101876
Centennial Fair opens in Philadelphia
05101879
Meteor falls near Estherville, Iowa
05101889
Buddhist wins Preakness
05101893
Imperial Institute in London opens
Agile wins Kentucky Derby
05101906
Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
1st Mother's Day held (Phila)
Winchester's Fred Toney no-hits Lexington for 17 inning
1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)
Comet Halley's closest approach to Earth in 1910 pass
05101913
Long shot Donerail wins Kentucky Derby
Yanks commit 8 errors & still beat Tigers 10-9 in 10 innings
Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea
Disastrous fire in Ellendale, ND
Historic Shipport Museum opens in Amsterdam
05101917
Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
HMS Vindictive sunk to block entrance of Ostend Harbor
Johnny Loftus on Sir Barton wins 45th Kentucky Derby (2:09.8)
Race riot in Charleston SC, 2 blacks killed
WHB-AM in Kansas City MO begins radio transmissions
05101924
J Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1044 Teutonia
05101928
WGY, Schenectady begins regular TV programming
1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)
Golf ball size hail falls in Burlington NJ
05101932
J Hartmann discovers asteroid #1254 Erfordia
Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France
05101933
Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF) forms
Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
Paraguay declares war on Bolivia
Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands
H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1753 Mieke
Manuel Aza¤a becomes president of Spain
Nahas Pasja becomes premier of Egypt
Busmen strike in London
Banning speech on anti-fascism demonstration in Amsterdam
British Local Defense Volunteers (Home Guard) forms
French marines stationed on Aruba
Germany invades Benelux countries
Nazi army overthrows eastern Europe
Nazi armys attacks Netherland, Belgium & Luxembourg
Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British PM
Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
Eddie Arcaro on Whirlaway wins 66th Preakness Stakes (1:58.8)
England's House of Commons detroyed in a blitz
German Luftwaffe strikes London with fire bombs
Holborn Theater in London destroyed
Whirlaway wins Preakness Stakes
Smith v Allwright (excluding Blacks from primary voting) is illegal
Red Sox win 15th straight beat Yanks 5-4, DiMaggio hits Grand Slam
Umberto II succeeds Victor Emanuel III as king of Italy
05101948
1st attack by Egyptian irregular forces at Kfar Darom Israel
1st Neth-US telex sent
Z Alexander Looby elected to Nashville City Council
KCBD TV channel 11 in Lubbock, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
05101954
Bolshoi-ballet does not appear in Paris
05101956
French govt sends 50,000 reservists to Algeria
KFSN TV channel 30 in Fresno, CA (ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1st meeting of legislative of Cameroon
05101959
Soviet forces arrive in Afghanistan
US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip
USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
05101963
Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison
05101967
C U Cesco & A R Klemol discovers asteroid #1770 Schlesinger
Keith Richards, Brian Jones & Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
05101968
Paris peace talks begin
Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times
US troop begin attack on Heuvel 937/Hamburger Hill
05101970
Boston Bruins sweep St Louis Blues for Stanley Cup
Brave's Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in his 1,000th game, loses to Cards 6-5
05101971
US special delivery rates go from 45 to 60
05101972
Overloaded South Korean bus plunges into resevoir, killing 77
9th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 8-4
Knicks beat Lakers, 102-93, for NBA championship, 4 games to 1
Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
05101974
NY Nets beats Utah Stars in 7th ABA championship, 4 games to 1
05101975
Brian Oldfield of US put shot 75,' an unofficial record
Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing
John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros
05101980
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2811
05101981
Francois Mitterrand defeats Valery Giscard d'Estang for Pres of France
Montreal Expo Charlie Lee no-hits SF Giants, 4-0
05101983
Lee Chin Yong did 170 continuous chin-ups in Seoul
Oilers 0-Isles 2-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 1-0 lead
Intl Court of Justice rules on US blockade of Nicaragua
05101985
Challenger transports back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
05101986
Tommy Lee drummer of Motley Cre marries Heather Locklear
05101988
Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000
French TGV-train hits record speed of 510.6 kph
Bible Lands Museum opens in Jerusalem Israel
05101993
Fire in clothing factory at Bangkok, kills 145
Last TV appearance of Mies Bouwman
Paul Czannes stilllife sells for $28,600,000 in NYC
Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol
0511 330
Constantinople founded
05111421
Jews are expelled from Styria Austria
05111689
Battle of Bantry Bay, French & English naval battle
05111690
English troops of W Phips conquer Port Royal Nova Scotia
05111745
Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
05111751
1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvannia Hospital)
05111752
1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)
05111772
Fire in Amsterdam theater on Emperors canal
05111792
Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray
05111816
American Bible Society forms (NY)
05111818
Cincinatti Reds Hod Eller no-hits St Louis Cards, 6-0
05111833
"Lady-of-the-Lake" strikes iceberg & sinks in N Atlantic; kills 215
05111850
A De Gasparis discovers asteroid #11 Parthenope
Work starts on 1st brick building in SF
05111858
Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state
05111862
Confederates scuttle CSS Virginia off Norfolk, VA
05111864
Battle of Yellow Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge)
Gen J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern
05111865
Surrender of Jeff Thompson
05111883
A Borrelly discovers asteroid #233 Asterope
American RR Union strikes Pullman Sleeping Car Co
Wash Senator catcher Charlie Farrell throws out 8 attempted stealers
05111900
Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs James J Corbett at Coney Island NY
L Carnera discovers asteroid #486 Cremona
Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace
G H Peters discovers asteroid #536 Merapi
US Andrew Carnegie gives away $1,500,000 to build Peace Palace
05111907
Bank of SF incorporated
05111910
Glacier National Park established
Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
05111917
Britain grants Royal Letters Patent to New Zealand
05111918
Exterminator wins Kentucky Derby
05111919
Yanks' Jack Quinn & Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie
05111921
Tel Aviv becomes 1st all Jewish municipality
05111923
10 HRs hit in Phillies 20-14 victory over St Louis Cards
Cartel des Gauches wins French parliamentary election
Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
05111925
Communistic Party of Holland splits
Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region constituted in RSFSR
05111926
Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic O
Belgium beats England 9-1 in soccer
General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)
05111929
1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
Willis Saunders on Omaha wins 60th Preakness Stakes (1:58.4)
05111940
NY World's Fair reopens
05111942
Japanese troops conquer Kalewa
US 7th div lands on Attu, Aleoeten
Slomp Resistance fighter (Frits de Zwerver) freed from Arnhem prison
05111945
US marines conquer Awatsha Draw Okinawa
05111946
1st night game at Boston Braves Field (Giants 5, Braves 1)
Warren Mehrtens on Assault wins 71st Preakness Stakes (2:01.4)
BF Goodrich manufactures 1st tubeless tire, Akron, Oh
Laos accepts constitution for parliamentary democracy
Haganah takes control of Safed & port of Haifa
Luigi Einaudi elected president of Italy
05111949
1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 (NYC)
By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
Siam renames itself Thailand
05111950
Belgium mine disaster at Borinage, 39 die
05111951
Jay Forrester patents computer core memory
Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage)
Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory
Israel attacks Gaza
05111957
Gabriel Paris forms govt of Colombia
Elvis Presley's 1st entry on UK charts with "Heartbreak Hotel"
French liner "France" launched
Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
Antonio Segni becomes president of Italy
US sends troops to Thailand
LA Dodger Sandy Koufax 2nd no-hitter beats NY Giants, 8-0
Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama
05111965
1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India)
Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000
100,000,000th US phone connected
05111968
Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park"
05111970
Sammy Davis Jr weds Altovise
05111972
Boston Bruins beat NY Rangers 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show
Willie Mays traded to NY Mets
05111974
Steely Dan releases "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"
05111975
Flyers 1-Isles 2-Semifinals-Series tied at 3 games
Israel signs an agreement with European Economic Market
05111977
Ted Turner manages an Atlanta Braves game
05111978
Margaret A Brewer becomes 1st female general of US marine corp
Kim Carnes' "Bette Davis Eyes" hits #1, stay there 9 weeks
Canucks 4-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
05111984
Transit of Earth as seen on Mars
Booby trap bomb kills 86 people in India
05111988
Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
05111989
217th & final episode of "Dynasty" is aired
05111990
NY Yankees trade Dave Winfield to Angels for Mike Witt
05111993
Paramaribo Suriname TV studio destroyed by fire
0512 254
Stephan I replaces Lucius I as Catholic Pope
05121328
Louis IV de Beier selects P Rainalducci as antiPope Nicolaas V
05121459
Sun City India founded by Rao Jodhpur
05121777
1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
05121780
Charleston, SC falls to British (Revolutionary War)
05121792
Lavatory that flushed itself at regular intervals patented
05121832
Opera "L'Elisir D'Amore" is produced (Milan)
05121863
Battle of Raymond, Miss
Battle of Drewry's Bluff, VA (Ft Darling)
Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia
Battle of Todd's Tavern, VA (Sheridan's Raid)
Butler attacks Drewry's Bluff on James River
05121865
Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
05121870
Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
Segregated street cars integrated in Louisville, Ky
05121872
J C Watson discovers asteroid #121 Hermione
US Assay Office in Helena, Montana authorized
05121875
1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0
05121881
France sign treaty of protection with Tunisia colony
Treaty of Bardo, Tunis becomes a French protectorate
05121885
Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebel against Canada
05121888
Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
05121890
Louisiana legalized prize fighting
05121901
Pres McKinley visits SF
A Kopff discovers asteroids #633 Zelima & #634 Ute
2nd NAACP conference (NYC)
Phil A's Chief Bender no-hits Cleveland Indians, 4-0
05121915
Croatians plunder Armenia, killing 250
Franklin K Mathiews, presents idea of "Book Week"
M Wolf discovers asteroid #870 Manto
05121919
Yanks & Senators play 2nd straight extra inning tie, 4-4 in 15
National Hospital Day 1st observed
Uzbekistan & Kirgizistan become autonomous Soviet republics
Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole
Gen Pilsudski sets coup on premier Witos compared
Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole
Pulitzer prize awarded to Julia Peterkin (Scarlet Sister Mary)
Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)
George VI crowned King of England
St Louis Cards beat Phila Phillies, 15-3
05121940
French mariniers occupy St Maarten
German tanks conquer Moerdkbrug
Nazi blitz conquest of France began by crossing Muese River
Great British convoy marches into Alexandria
David Ben-Gurion leaves Jewish state in Palestine
Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943
Axis forces in North Africa surrender
Tunisia (German troops in North-Africa surrender
05121944
Secret Police arrest Gerrit Van de Peat
Queen Wilhelmina resigns
05121949
1st foreign woman ambassador received in US-SVL Pandit, India
West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade
1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
05121952
Charlton Playground named in Bronx
05121953
KUHT TV channel 8 in Houston, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
05121955
Chicago Cub Sam Jones is 1st black to pitch no-hitter (Pirates, 4-0)
05121956
Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine's 2nd no-hitter, beats NY Giants, 3-0
East Pakistan struck by cyclone & tidal waves
Liz Taylor's 4th marriage (Eddie Fisher)
05121960
Elvis Presley appears on a Frank Sinatra special
Botvinnik wins world chess championship for 3rd time
Grevelingendam closes
05121963
Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show
Race riot in Birmingham Alabama
Manlio Brosio chosen as sec-gen of NATO
05121965
Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations
St Louis's Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns
05121968
WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH
05121970
Ernie Banks hits his 500th home run
Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court
KTVM TV channel 6 in Butte, MT (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Race riots in Augusta Georgia; 6 blacks killed (5 by cops)
05121971
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger weds Bianca Macias at St Tropez Town Hall
Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (completed 5/13)
Paul McCartney & Wings release "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
Indiana Pacers beat Ky Colonels in 6th ABA championship, 4 games to 3
05121974
Boston Celtics beat Mil Bucks for NBA championship, 4 games to 3
05121975
US merchant ship Mayaguez seized by Cambodian forces
05121977
1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
05121978
Commerce Dept says hurricane names will no longer be only female
05121979
Chris Evert's 125-match winning streak on clay comes to an end
05121980
1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon
05121983
Oilers 3-Isles 6-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 2-0 lead
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-D
Joe Lucius scored his 13th hole-in-one on same hole
S Afr prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
World of Rivers world exposition opens in New Orleans
"Entertainment Tonight" performs their 2,000th TV performance
05121990
Comic Relief '90 (4th one) raises $4.7 million
1st Belgian woman (Ingrid Baeyens) to ascend Mount Everest
05121993
Final episode of 6 year run of ABC's Wonder Years in Netherlands
0513 535
St Agapitus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
05131110
Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
05131568
Mary of Scotland defeat at Battle of Langside (Glasgow)
05131607
English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA
05131779
War of Bavarian Succession ends
05131820
Opera "Die Jgarsbraut" is completed
US passes Tariff of Abominations
1st foreign embassy in Hawaii established
05131846
US declares war on Mxico, 2 months after fighting begins
05131861
Queen Victoria announces England's position of neutrality
05131864
Atlanta Campaign-Battle of Resaca [or 0515]
05131874
Pope Pius IX encyclical "On Greek-Ruthenian rite"
Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded
05131888
DeWolf Hooper 1st recited "Casey at Bat"
Princess Isabel of Brazil signs "Lei Aura" abolishing slavery
05131891
Kingman wins Kentucky Derby
05131909
A Kopff discovers asteroid #681 Gorgo
Christian National Labor Workers (CNV) party begins in Netherlands
NY Giant Fred Merkle is 1st to get 6 RBIs in an inning (1st)
05131912
Royal Flying Corps established in England
1st 4 engine aircraft built & flown (Igor Sikorsky-Russia)
1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
1st US airmail stamps issued (24)
05131923
Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)
German cabinet of Luther falls
"Black Friday" on Berlin Stock Exchange
Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
Only known fatality due to hail
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1194 Aletta
Paul Doumer elected president of France
05131934
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1320 Impala
Great dustbowl storm
Quiroga govt takes office in Spain
British bomb factory at Breda
Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina flees to England
Pitcher Jim Tobin belts 3 HRs in a game
German & Italian forces in Africa surrender
German occupiers confiscate all radios
US troops conquer Dakeshi Okinawa
US convicts 58 camp guard of Mauthausen concentration camp to death
Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
Minor-league pitcher Ron Necciai strikes out 27 in 9-innings
Pandit Nehru becomes premier of India
05131954
Labour Party wins British municipal elections
Robin Roberts gives up a HR then retires next 27 men in a row
05131955
Mickey Mantle hits 3 consecutive HRs of at least 463'
05131958
French settlers riot against French army in Algeria
Jordan & Iraq form Arab Federation
Pierre Pflimlin forms French govt
Rioters attack US VP Nixon in Venezuala
Stan Musial gets hit # 3000
05131960
1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
Phillies lose 3rd consecutive 1-0 game
WOLE TV channel 12 in Aguadillo, PR
05131965
Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction"
Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black"
NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller
Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries
05131969
P Wild discovers asteroid #1775 Zimmerwald
05131970
Beatles movie "Let it Be" premiers
05131971
Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane seriously injured in a car accident
05131972
115 die in nightclub atop 7-story Sennichi dept store (Osaka Japan)
Milwaukee Brewers beat Minn Twins, 4-3, in 22 innings (started 5/12)
05131975
Flyers 4-Isles 1-Semifinals-Flyers win semifinals 4-3
Hail stones as large as tennis balls hit Wernerville Tenn
05131976
NY Nets beat Denver Nuggets in 9th & final ABA championship, 4 to 2
05131978
Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m steeplechase (8:05.4)
Joie Chitwood drives a Chevette 5.6 miles on just 2 wheels
05131980
Cincinatti Red Ray Knight hits 2 HRs in 5th inning vs NY Mets
05131981
Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St Peter's Square
Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
Canucks 0-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
Chicago Cubs win their 8,000th (beat Astros)
Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi & Lebedev for 211 days in space
05131983
Reggie Jackson is 1st major leaguer to strike out 2,000 times
05131984
Johan Cruyffs last competitive match
Carlton Fisk becomes 5th catcher to steal 100 bases
Phila Police bomb a house held by group "Move", kills 11
05131989
Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
Minn Twin Kirby Puckett becomes 35th to hit 4 doubles in a game
Trinidad & Tobago ties US 1-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
05131991
"Michael Jackson: Magic & Madness" goes on sale
Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
South African activist Winnie Mandela convicted of abducting 4 blacks
Final episode of "Night Court" airs on NBC-TV
Frank Stallone beats Geraldo Rivera in boxing on Howard Stern Show
6th annual business person run held in Wall Street
Arsenio Hall's 1,000th show retrospective seen in Netherlands
CBS' Knots Landing ends 14 year run with 334th show in Netherlands
KC Royal George Brett hits his 300th HR
Methane gas explosion in Secunda coal mine South-Africa, kills 50
Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05141027
Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France
05141264
Baron's War fought in England
05141509
Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
05141607
1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Va
Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution
05141796
1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
05141804
Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
05141811
Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
05141853
Gail Borden applies for patent for condensed milk
05141862
Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
05141863
Battle of Jackson, MS
05141864
Battle of Reseca, GA -Atlanta-
05141874
1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill 3-0
05141879
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #196 Philomela
05141884
Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
05141894
Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
05141896
Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10øF-Climax, Colo)
05141903
President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
05141908
1st passenger flight in an airplane
05141913
French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
05141914
Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
M Wolf discovers asteroid #871 Amneris
Johnny Loftus on Sir Barton wins 44th Preakness Stakes (1:53)
05141920
Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
05141921
Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
05141932
"We Want Beer!" parade in NY
05141935
LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement
Nazi bombs Rotterdam (600-900 dead), surrender
Netherlands surrender to Germany
US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stlpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
05141948
Israel declares independence from under British administration
Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
05141949
Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
05141954
Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
05141955
Warsaw Pact forms
05141960
USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
05141961
Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
05141967
Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
Last Chevrolet Corsair built
Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
05141972
In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1905 Ambartsumian
Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
05141974
Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
05141975
US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
05141977
KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0
05141981
Boston Celtics win their 14th NBA championship (beat Houston Rockets)
NASA launches space vehicle S-192
Guinea adopts constitution
05141983
Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
05141985
C Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3553 Mera
05141986
Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
05141989
1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
05141990
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
42 die in a train collision is Japan
Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05151248
Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Kln cathedral
05151525
German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
05151602
Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
05151618
Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law
05151702
War of Spanish Succession, 1st Amer conflict between England & France
05151796
Treaty of Paris
05151800
Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
05151829
Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
05151836
Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
05151849
Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia
Battle of Princeton, WV
Department of Agriculture created
Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
05151864
Battle of New Market, Virginia
Battle of Resaca, Georgia (or 05/13)
05151876
Vagrant wins Kentucky Derby
05151882
May Laws-Czar Alexander III bands Jews from living in rural areas
05151885
Canadian Mti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan
British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) established
Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
05151896
Tornado kills 78 in Texas
Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
Sup Court dissolves Standard Oil violates Sherman Antitrust Act
Ty Cobb rushes a fan at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
A.T.&T. becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
1st regular airmail service (between NY & Wash) inaugurated
War Cloud wins Preakness
Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0 18 inning game
05151919
Bkln Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0
British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
05151929
Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
Gas fire in Cleveland Ohio; 121 die
Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno
05151933
1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
05151934
Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
Karlis Ulmanis names himself fascist dictator of Latvia
05151935
Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
Charles Kurtsinger on War Admiral wins 62nd Preakness Stakes (1:58.4)
Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
05151939
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1506 Xosa
1st nylon stockings sold in US
Gen Winkelman signs surrender to Germany
German armour division moves into Northern France
1st British turbojet flies
British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks win 13-1
Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
Cincinatti Reds Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
Eddie Arcaro on Citation wins 73rd Preakness Stakes (2:02.6)
Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
05151952
Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0
Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Joe Walcott in Chicago
Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
Austria regains its sovereignity
Austrian state treaty signed making itself independent again
Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins
KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
05151957
18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
1st British A-bomb explosion (Christmas Island)
05151958
USSR launches Sputnik III
05151960
Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sputnik 4 launched into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
05151961
36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra
Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched
Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
"Wonderwall" with George Harrison premiers at Cannes Film Festival
A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
05151969
Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
05151972
Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)
George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control
Calif Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
05151975
11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
05151977
N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2862 Vavilov
05151980
1st trans-US balloon crossing
Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC)
George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
Leonard Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
05151982
16-year-old jockey wins Preakness
Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #3344 Modena
05151983
Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set
Soviets begin withdrawl in Afghanistan
05151990
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
Miss Universe pageant
05151991
Defense releases docs claiming Noriega was "CIA's man in Panama"
Edith Cresson becomes France's 1st female premier
Pres Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Balt Oriole game
Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
05151993
Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub
Prairie Bayou wins 118th Preakness
0516 955
Alberich II. (bastard?)son of Octavianus elected pope
05161165
Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
05161571
Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
05161605
Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
05161770
Marie Antoinette marries future King Louis XVI of France
05161792
Denmark abolishes slave trade
05161803
Peace of Amiens ends
Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
05161811
Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
05161860
-18) Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
05161861
Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
05161863
Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA
Congress authorizes nickel 5 piece (replaces silver half-dime)
N R Pogson discovers asteroid #87 Sylvia
US Treasury Dept authorizes nickel
05161868
President Johnson acquitted during Senate impeachment, by 1 vote
05161869
Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
05161872
Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
05161874
1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
05161875
1st running of Kentucky Derby
Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
05161879
Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
05161881
World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
05161888
CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
J Palisa discovers asteroid #278 Paulina
05161891
A Charlois discovers asteroid #310 Margarita
05161894
Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
05161901
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG)
05161903
1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
05161914
American Horseshoe Pitchers Assn organizes in Kansas City
Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
05161920
Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized in Rome
Spanish bullfighter Joselito was fatally gored fighting his last bull
White Star Line Majestic completes 5« day maiden voyage
108øF in Blitzen Oregon
05161925
1st network radiocast (WHAS) of Kentucky Derby, Flying Ebony wins
NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
1st Academy Awards (Film-Wings, Actor-E Jennings Actress-J Gaynor)
05161933
Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1427 Ruvuma
38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
05161939
1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
-May 17th) RAF bombs Mhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
Bomb dropped on Mhne & Eder dams in Ruhr Germany[dup]
German troops destroy synagouge of Warsaw
Milt police attack gypsies
Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Halve Moon Okinawa
05161948
Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game since breaking his collarbone
WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in SF
King Boudewn of Belgium visits Congo
05161956
Kraft Theatre presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
US launches its 3rd atomic submaine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn
Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
05161963
Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
Northern Dancer wins Preakness stakes by 2« lengths
Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting
A record of "Pets Sounds" is released
N Chernykh discovers asteroid #1796 Riga
National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
Barbra Striesand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks at marine dock SF
US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF
Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
05161971
1st class postage now costs 8 (was 6)
Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
05161972
Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet
Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Ron Lyle in Las Vegas
Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
05161976
Mont Canadiens sweeps Phila Flyers for Stanley Cup
05161977
5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Alfredo Evangelista in Landover Md
05161980
Brian May of rock group Queen collapses onstage with hepatitis
Los Angeles beats Phila 76ers, for NBA championship
Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
05161981
Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
05161982
Canucks 1-Isles 3-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-0 (15-4)
Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4
05161983
Isles win 3rd Cup in row def Canucks in Vancouver 3-1 in game 4
Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
05161986
Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
05161987
Chris Mccarron on Alysheba wins 112nd Preakness Stakes (1:55.8)
Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
05161991
Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
05161992
Pine Bluff wins 117th Preakness
Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
Sleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
0517 218
7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0517 352
Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
0517 884
St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
05171527
P nfilo de Narvaz departs to explore Florida
05171620
1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
05171630
Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
05171672
Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
05171673
Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
05171742
Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
05171756
Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
05171787
English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
05171792
24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
Hard frost in southern New England
Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
Papal States annexed by France
05171849
Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri
05171863
Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS
05171864
Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
05171871
Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
05171872
Bohemian Club incorporated
05171875
Oliver Lewis on Aristides wins 1st Kentucky Derby, Churchill Down
7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
05171881
Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
Revised version of New Testament
05171887
J Palisa discovers asteroid #266 Aline
05171890
1st regular weekly comic paper (Comic Cuts) (England)
Mascagni Opera Cavalleria Rusticans 1st performed (Rome)
Opera "Rustic Chivalry" is produced (Rome)
05171898
Camp Merritt established in Presidio [see 0503]
05171899
Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
Mafeking under seige by Boers
Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
Last liberal British Cabinet overthrown
National Baptist Convention chartered
last liberal British cabinet-Asquith falls
British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
M Wolf discovers asteroid #891 Gunhild
1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
Belgian-Luxembourg sign unity agreement
President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
05171925
Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
Chang Kai Shek made lord of China supreme war lord in Canton
German cabinet-Marx takes power
Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
05171930
Earl Sande on Gallant Fox wins 56th Kentucky Derby (2:07.6)
Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
05171937
Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
05171940
Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
Allies land on Netherland's New-Guinea (operation Straightline)
Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea
2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
US 77th infantry division conquerors Chocolate Licorice
KVP wins 2nd-Parliamentary election
05171949
British government admits Republic of Ireland
05171955
Cabinet of Drees resigns
05171957
Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education
Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
1st atomic reactor system to be patented, JW Flora, Canoga Park CA
Marin County withdraws from BART district
Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
05171966
KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"
05171968
European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
05171969
Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
05171972
T Smirnova discovers asteroids #2400 Derevskaya, #3082 Dzhalil & #3146
05171973
Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
05171975
10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
05171979
-12ø F (11ø C), Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs
05171980
Codex wins Preakness
Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
VS Kumar Anandan sets record of balancing on 1 foot for 33 hrs
Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
05171983
Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
Oilers 2-Isles 4-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-0 (15-5)
Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
05171989
Nelson Mandela recieves a BA from U of S Africa
05171990
Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
European court rules pension rights for both men & women
St John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
05181596
Willem Barents leaves Amsterdam for Novaya Zemlya
05181756
England declares war on France
05181794
2nd battle of Bouvines (France-Austria)
05181804
Napoleon became Emperor of France
05181828
Battle of Las Piedras, ends conflict between Uruguay & Brazil
05181846
US troops attack Rio Grande occuping Matamoros
05181860
Abraham Lincoln nominated for president
05181861
Battle of Sewall's Point VA-1st Federal offense against South
05181863
Seige of Vicksburg, MS
Battle of Yellow Bayou, LA (Bayou de Glaize, Old Oaks)
05181890
1st performance Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (Rome)
05181895
A Charlois discovers asteroid #403 Cyane
05181896
Plessy v. Ferguson upholds "separate but equal" policy
Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
NY Giant William Joyce sets record of 4 triples in 1 game
05181899
World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
Britain proclaims protectorate over kingdom of Tonga
American Ion Perdicaris kidnapped in Morocco
05181910
Passage of Earth through tail of Halley's Comet causes near-panic
J Helffrich discovers asteroid #714 Ulula
Pres/dictator Jos Porfirio Diaz of Mexico term ends
H E Wood discovers asteroid #758 Mancunia
Phila A's beat Detroit Tigers 24-2
05181917
US passes Selective Service act
TNT explosion in chemical factory in Oakdale Penn kills 200
Dutch 1st Chamber agrees to 48 hour work week (was 45 hrs)
S Belyavskij discovers asteroid #978 Aidamina
05181926
H E Wood discovers asteroid #2193 Jackson
05181927
"Slide Lake" in Gros Ventre Wyoming collapes
05181929
Brooklyn Dodgers beat Phillies 20-16
05181933
Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act signed by FDR, to build dams
An Egyptian steamer sinks
Jewish veterans honor their dead
05181942
L Boyer discovers asteroid #1601 Patry
NYC ends night baseball games for rest of WW II
05181944
Polish 2nd Army corps captures convent of Monte Cassino
05181947
A's catcher Warren Rosar catches his 147th game without an error
Antiquarian Booksellers Assoc of America incorporates
Tommy Glaviano makes 3 consecutive errors on grounders
UN moves HQ to NYC
US General Collins predicts use of atom bomb in Korea
1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
28.7 cm rain falls at Lake Maloya New Mexico (state record
05181956
Hungarian party leader Matyas R kosi enforces his own policy
Eillen Fulton begins playing Lisa on As the World Turn (for > 30 yrs)
05181964
David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC
05181965
Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt
WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
05181967
Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London
Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit
05181971
Bulgarian constitution goes into effect
Mont Canadiens beat Chic Black Hawks 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup
Pres Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
Utah Stars beat Ky Colonels in 4th ABA championship, 4 games to 3
Vampire rapist Wayne Bodens last victim found
05181972
John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded
Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #2691
India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
05181977
E S Bus discovers asteroid #3598 Saucier
Nightclub in Cincinnati fire kills 164
05181979
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2304 Slavia
Mount St Helens blows its top in Washington State, 60 die
1st remote location for "Nightline" (South Africa)
Judy Carne arrested at JFK airport on an 11 year old drug warrant
05181991
USSR launches 2 cosmonauts to MIR space station
Italians police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola
0519 715
St Gregory II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
05191506
Columbus selects his son Diego as sole heir
05191588
Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound to England
05191643
Battle of Allersheim
05191749
George II grants charter to Ohio Company to settle Ohio Valley
05191793
Netherland captures French island of St Maarten (held until 1795)
05191851
J R Hind discovers asteroid #14 Irene
05191856
Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery
05191862
Homestead Act becomes law provides cheap land for settlement of West
05191863
Siege of Vicksburg, investment of city complete
Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA (Bermuda Hundred)
Last engagement in series of battles known as Spotsylvania
05191865
President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
05191874
J Perrotin discovers asteroid #138 Tolosa
05191878
Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by Pres Garfield
05191881
J Palisa discovers asteroid #220 Stephania
05191885
1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
05191892
National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded
05191893
A Charlois discovers asteroids #367 Amicitia & #368 Haidea
Heavy rain wash "quick clay" into a deep valley, kills 111 (Norway)
05191900
Great Britain annexes Tonga archipeligo
05191905
Tom Jenkins beats Frank Gotcha for heavyweight wrestling champ
05191906
Dutch King Victor Emanuel & Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
Federated Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
Heavyweight Jack Johnson & Jack O'Brien fight to no decision
05191910
Cleve Indian Cy Young gets his 500th win, beats Wash 5-4 in 11 innings
05191911
Phila Athletics are 12« games back in AL, & win World Series
05191917
M Wolf discovers asteroid #875 Nymphe
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #913 Otila
05191921
Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting a national quota system
05191923
KPD-revolts by allied occupation of Ruhrgebiedsteden
Zev wins Kentucky Derby
05191926
French air force bombs Damascus Syria
"Firedamp" explodes in Mather Pa coal mine killing 195 of 273 miners
51 frogs enter 1st annual "Frog Jumping Jubilee" (Angel's Camp, Cal)
Explosion in coal mine in Mather, Pennsylvania, 195 die
General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek govt
Stampede in Yankee Stadium crushes 2 people to death
05191930
White woman win voting rights in South-Africa
05191931
Armour cruiser Germany launched
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1323 Tugela
Military coup by Col Damian Veltsjev in Bulgaria
NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin in 1936
Churchill signs British-Russian anti-nazi pact
Amsterdam time becomes MET (Middle European Time)
Germany occupiers forbid taxis
New nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland
05191943
Berlin is declared "Judenrien" (free of Jews)
05191950
NY Times reports of worlds smallest & dumbest mechanical brain
05191951
UN begins counter offensive in Korea
Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA mail-opening project
Adone Zoli forms Italian govt
South Pacific soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
05191959
John de Quay becomes premier of Netherlands
05191960
Belgian parliament requires rest day for self employed
Juan Marichal debuts as SF Giant pitcher, beats Phillies on 1 hitter
USAF Maj Robert M White takes X-15 to 33,222 m
Scheveningen: new worm opened
05191962
Indonesian parachutist land in New Guinea
05191964
US diplomats find at least 40 secret mics in Moscow embassy
Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female ambassador (Luxembourg)
05191967
US bombs Hanoi
USSR ratifies treaty with Engl & US banning nuclear weapons in space
05191968
Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games
Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard
USSR launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
05191972
WMAV TV channel 18 in Oxford, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
05191973
Secretariat wins 98th Preakness (1:55), 2nd leg in Triple Crown
05191974
Phila Flyers beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
05191976
Gold ownership legalized in Australia
05191979
Guitarist Eric Clapton marries Patti Boyd
05191980
Ringo & Barbara Bach are involved in a car crash
NASA launches Intelsat V
05191984
Edmonton Oilers beat NY Islanders 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
Pat LaFontaine scores 2 goals within 22 sec in an NHL playoff game
STS 41-D vehicle moves to launch pad
05191988
Red Sox retire Bobby Doerr's #1
Dow Jones Avg passes 2,500 mark for 1st time, closes at 2,501.1
Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) last appearance on Dallas
05191990
Summer Squall wins 115th Preakness Stakes
05191992
VP Dan Quayle sites Murphy Brown as a poor example of family values
Boeing 727 crashes into mountain at Medell¡n Colombia, kills 132
05192161
Syzygy: 8 of 9 planets aligned on same side of sun
0520 325
1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nica, Asia Minor
0520 526
Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria
05201498
Vasco da Gama, navigator arrives at Calcutta India
05201501
Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands
05201690
England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
05201704
Elias Neau forms school for slaves in NY
05201774
Britain gives Qubec, Labrador & territory north of Ohio
05201775
Citizens of Mecklenburg County, NC declare independence of Britain
05201825
Charles X becomes King of France
1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
05201845
1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
05201861
Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
North Carolina becomes 11th & last state to secede from Union
05201862
Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West
05201867
Brit parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women sufferage
Royal Albert Hall foundation laid
05201868
Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz
Intl Bureau of Weights & Measures established by treaty
A Charlois discovers asteroid #293 Brasilia
05201900
2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
05201902
US military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
05201903
R S Dugan discovers asteroid #510 Mabella
05201910
Funeral for Britian's King Edward VII
Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 & 1918)
05201918
1st electrically propelled warship (New Mxico)
Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
Stanley Baldwin, becomes PM of UK
Belgian cabinet of Jaspar takes power
Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from NY to cross Atlantic for Paris
Great Britain via treaty grants Saudi Arabia's kingdom independent
Saudi Arabia becomes independent (Treaty of Jedda)
1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
05201932
Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria
Gen Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
Archer's "Christian Calendar & Gregorian Reform" published
Former Dutch premier Colijn says Neth Indie not ready for independence
Germany invades Crete
US Communist Party forms
05201950
Hill Prince wins Preakness
Chang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
Argentine parliament accepts separation of church & state
Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll
Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
Yanks sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
Mauritania adopts constitution
White mob attacks "Freedom Riders" in Montgomery, Alabama
Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia
Buster Mathis defeats Joe Frazer to qualify for US Olympic team
Pakistani airliner crashed at Cairo Egypt, killing 120
05201967
BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references)
Damascus wins Preakness
US troop march into Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
05201970
100,000 march in NY supporting US policies in Vietnam
2 die in a NYC subway accident
Beatles' "Let it Be" movie premiers in UK
05201971
Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of US soldiers in SE Asia
Affirmed wins Preakness
Bee Bee Bee wins Preakness
Cameroon adopts its constitution
Indiana Pacers beat NY Nets in 5th ABA championship, 4 games to 2
Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
05201974
Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
05201977
"Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
05201978
3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris
Steve Cauthen on Affirmed wins 103rd Preakness Stakes (1:54.4)
US launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus
05201979
1st western pop star to tour USSR-Elton John
05201980
Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
In a referendum, 59.5% of Qubec voters reject separatism
Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
FBI arrests John A Walker Jr, convicted of spying for USSR
Larry Holmes wins a decision over Carl Williams
US began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
05201987
Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF & Harley Race for trademark name "king"
05201988
Mike Schmidt hits his 535th HR, moving into 8th place
China declares martial law in Beijing
Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mt Everest top
05201992
India launches its 1st satelite independently
05201993
274th & final "Cheers" on NBC
Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
05211420
Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
05211502
Portugese admiral Da Nova discovers St Helena
05211602
Martha's Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
05211793
Red Curaao forbids criticism on House of Orange
05211804
Lewis & Clark Expedition begins
05211832
1st Democratic party national convention
05211846
1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
05211856
Lawrence, Kans captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
05211861
Richmond, Va is designated Confederate Capital
05211863
Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
05211864
GEN David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia
05211871
-July 28) French regular troops attack Commune of Paris; 17,000 die
05211879
Battle of Iquiquw
J Palisa discovers asteroid #197 Arete
05211881
American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
US Nation Lawn Tennis Association formed
05211897
Yerkes Obsrvatory 40" (1 m) refractor used for 1st time
US Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
M Wolf & L Carnera discovers asteroid #480 Hansa
Federation Internationale de Football Assn (Soccer) forms in Paris
05211908
1st horror movie (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) premiers in Chicago
05211914
Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
Britain begins "Summer Time" (Daylight Savings Time)
Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
M Wolf discovers asteroids #872 Holda & #873 Mechthild
05211922
H E Wood discovers asteroid #982 Franklina
Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie)
Ruppert buys out Huston interest in Yankees for $15 million
Leopold & Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
05211925
George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
05211928
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1304 Arosa
Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, NYC
NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
Belgian cabinet of Jaspar falls
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1196 Sheba
1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman (Amelia Earhart) lands
Mt Davidson Cross lit by FDR via telegraph
1st US ship sunk by a U-boat (Robin Moor)
Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 mins), White Sox beat Senators
NY Yank Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, HR)
05211950
Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
Bkln Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning & beat Cin Reds, 19-1
Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
05211953
French cabinet of Mayer resigns
1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
05211956
US explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, WI (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
French cabinet of Mollet resigns
Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations
Fire in in Wgimond Belgium resort, kills 19
US begin intelligence flights above Laos
05211966
Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
Kauai King wins Kentucky Derby
05211968
Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
US sub Scorpion sinks off Azores, with all 99 crew lost
WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
National Guard mobilized to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
05211971
National Guard mobilized to quell riot in Chattanooga Tenn
05211975
Lowell W Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
05211977
Jean Cruguet on Seattle Slew wins 102nd Preakness Stakes (1:54.4)
SD Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
05211978
118 Unification church couples wed in England
05211979
Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of SF mayor Moscone
Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in USSR
Mont Canadiens beat NY Rangers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
05211980
"Empire Strikes Back" premeirs
05211981
Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
NY Islanders beat Minn North Stars 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
05211982
E Bowell discovers asteroid #3018 Godiva
P Wild discovers asteroid #2731 Cucula
05211983
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
David Bowie's "Let's "Dance," single goes #1
05211985
A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #3305
Frustaci Septuplets, Calif, Patricia Frustaci gives birth to 7
05211986
Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
Risen Star wins Preakness
05211989
Nancy Lopez wins her 3rd LPGA championship
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
Last episode of "Newhart" airs
Ethiopia's Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
NJ senate overrides Governor Florio's veto & lowers sales tax to 6%
Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
Venezuela president Carlos Andrs Prez resigns
0522  12
-BC- A daytime meteor shower, possibly Zeta Perseid observed in China
0522 760
14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
05221176
Attempted assassination on Saladin of Aleppo
05221200
Peace of Goulet
05221370
Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium
05221761
1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Phila
05221807
Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
05221819
1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga)
05221856
H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #41 Daphne
Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
05221858
Confederaci¢n Granadina (now Colombia) forms
05221863
War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops
05221864
Battle of N Anna River, VA (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown)
Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash
05221872
Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500)
05221877
Baden-Baden wins Kentucky Derby
05221883
Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out
05221884
1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters
Tecumseh wins Preakness
05221893
Montreal Athletic Assn beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game
05221900
Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative
M Wolf & A Schwassmann discovers asteroid #455 Bruchsalia
05221905
Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School
05221906
10th anniversary of Olympics, celebration held in Athens
Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane
05221909
1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched
Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row
05221915
Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland)
In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks
05221926
CPH expells David Wine
Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China
Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4
Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930)
Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game
World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated
Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel"
British troop take Baghdad
Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan
Stalin disbands Komintern
6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa
05221946
Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3
05221947
"Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece
1st US ballistic missile fired
Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey
E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1580 Betulia
Poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize
Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4
Hasty Road wins Preakness
KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting
Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th
KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
South Africa govt approves race separation in universities
Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF
05221962
Neth telephone net becomes completely automated
Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m
Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game
05221963
Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured
Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade
LBJ presents "Great Society"
Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1
05221967
Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel
Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium)
05221969
Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface
Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus
Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0
Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified
US president Nixon begins visit Moscow
05221974
Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later
05221975
Ky Colonels beats Ind Pacers in 8th ABA championship, 4 games to 1
05221976
NASA launches space vehicle S-179
St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR
05221977
Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years)
Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11
05221981
Soyuz 40 returns to Earth
05221983
Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR
05221985
Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader
US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR
05221987
30 killed in a Texas tornado
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23
Final episode of "Newhart" airs
Microsoft presents Windows 3.0
North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen
05221992
Calif Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in NJ
India launches its Agni rocket
Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show
05231430
Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians, who sell her to English
05231493
Peace of Senlis
05231533
King Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon marriage declared null & void
05231555
Giampietro Caraffa elected Pope Paul IV
05231576
Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory
05231618
Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War
05231660
King Charles II returns from exile sails from Scheveningen to England
05231706
Battle of Ramillies-Marlborough defeats French
Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
05231788
SC becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
Declaration of B b (Bah '¡ festival) ('Azamat 7, 1)
Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
05231853
Buenos Aires gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
05231856
N R Pogson discovers asteroid #42 Isis
05231861
Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Ft Royal, Virginia
05231864
Battle of Dallas, GA
Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting
05231865
Flag flown at full staff over White House, 1st time since Lincoln shot
Grand Review begins in Washington DC
05231867
Jesse James-gang rob bank in Richmond Missouri (2 die, $4,000 taken)
05231873
Canada's North West Mounted Police force established
Postal cards sold in SF for 1st time
05231876
1st NL no-hitter (Joe Borden, Boston)
05231878
Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia
05231882
6" of snow falls in eastern Iowa
Baseball game between one-armed & one-legged players
05231887
1st transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver, BC
1st Philippine Expeditionary Troops sail from SF
B.J. & Peg Hunnicutt of Mill Valley's anniversary (on M*A*S*H)
05231900
Associated Press News Service forms in NY
Indians score 9 runs after 2 outs in 9th to beat Senators 14-13
US captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo
1st automobile trip across US from SF to NY, ended April 1
1st direct primary election law in US adopted, by Wisconsin
Dirigible explodes over SF Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
Part of Great White Fleet arrives in Puget Sound, Wash
NY Public Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by Pres Taft
05231915
Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary during WW I
King Oil/Shell refinery on Curaao officially opens
"Shuffle Along" 1st black musical comedy, opens in NYC
05231922
"Abie's Irish Rose" 1st of over 2,500 performances
Harry Greb gave Gene Tunney his only professional boxing defeat
Walt Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
Stanley Baldwin becomes British premier
05231926
Lebanese constitution established under French mandate
Bomb attack on Italians embassy in Buenos Aires, 22 die
Whipsnade Zoo opens in Whipsnade Beds England
Sir Hubert Ferdinand Opperman sets 24 hr record of 860 mi, 367 yds
Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66)
1st scheduled night game, postponed due to rain (Cincinatti)
British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
British parliament plans to make Palestine independent by 1949
Submarine Squalis sank off Portsmouth NH, 26 die
Heavyweight Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer (disqualification) in Wash DC
In Dr Faustus, Serenus Zeitblom begins his bio of Adrian Leverkhn
Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
05231947
PC Hooft prize established for literature
05231948
Joe DiMaggio hits 3 consecutive HRs
Ramat Rahel gateway to Jerusalem is repossessed by Israel
Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
05231953
WHIZ TV channel 18 in Zanesville, OH (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
05231956
World Trade Center dedicated in Ferry Building, SF
Mao Tse tung start "Great leap forward" movement in China
05231959
Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
Israel announced capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
WGTV TV channel 8 in Athens-Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
WKBM TV (now WLII) channel 11 in Caguas/San Juan, PR 1st broadcast
WRCA radio changes call letters back to WNBC (NYC)
Joe Pepitone 2nd Yankee to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning (Joe DiMaggio)
OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life
Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
05231963
NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000
Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150
Beatles release "Paperback Writer"
Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London
Who release rock opera "Tommy"
Grateful Dead's 1st perfomance outside of US (England)
SD Padres beat SF Giants 17-16 in 15 innings
05231971
Rock group Iron Butterfly disbands
05231977
Benin adopts its constitution
05231979
"Kids Are Alright" premiers
Rocker Tom Petty files chapter 11 bankruptcy
Colin Wilson rides a surfboard 294 miles
05231984
Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game
Maryland stops sale of cheap pistols on Jan 1, 1990
05231989
Lincoln Square in Bronx named
05231990
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,856.26
NY Yankees hit 6 home runs to beat Minn Twins 12-0
Phillie Tommy Greene no-hits Mont Expos, 2-0
NY Yankees play in their 4th straight extra inning game
05241086
Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland
05241430
Jeanne d'Arc captured during battle
05241487
Lambert Simnel, pretender to English throne, crowned in Dublin
05241658
Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought
05241689
English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
05241738
Methodist Church established
05241809
Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
05241815
George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
05241818
Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
05241822
Battle of Pichincha, Bol¡var secures independence of Quito from Spain
05241824
Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
05241829
Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
05241830
1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg)
05241846
Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mxican War
Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts
05241861
Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops
Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
05241862
Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
Berkeley, Calif named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US
05241873
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #131 Vala
1st American bicycle race held (Boston)
CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston
Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario
05241883
Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland
05241884
Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
05241890
Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London
Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
05241900
Britain annexes Orange Free State
05241902
Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
Bristol University granted Royal Charter
05241915
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
Conscription begins in Britain
Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning
05241921
1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
British Legion formed
05241922
Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6øC)
Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1117 Reginita
Umberto Nobile fly airship over North Pole again
05241929
Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
Amy Johnson lands at Port Darwin after flying from London
05241931
1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1195 Orangia
Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia
05241935
1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)
1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1)
1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood (1416 die)
Admiral Dnitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal
Willie Mays begins playing for NY Giants
05241954
1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit
German airline Lufthansa forms
Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
05241958
Pres Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa
Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
05241961
27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
05241962
M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit
1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)
Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
AFL grants a franchise to Cincinatti Bengals
Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
05241969
Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
05241971
A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
05241975
Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
05241976
1st commerial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC)
05241980
Flyers 4-Isles 5 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-2 (15-6)
Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages
NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
Al Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500
Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain
05241984
Det Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game
05241985
"View to a Kill" premiers in US
-25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy
Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
Mont Canadiens beat Calgary Flames 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hrs
Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500
Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
"Indiana Jones & Last Crusade" premiers
05241990
Andre Dawson recieves a record 5 intentional walks in a game
Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
05241992
Al Unser Jr wins Indy 500
0525 585
-BC- 1st known prediction of a solar eclipse
St Gregory VII, pope (1073-85), dies (birth date unknown)
05251721
John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
05251784
Jews are expelled from Warsaw by Marshall Mniszek
05251787
Constitutional convention opens at Phila, G Washington presiding
05251810
Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain (Natl Day)
05251825
American Unitarian Assn founded
05251862
Battle of Winchester VA
05251864
Battle of New Hope Church, GA
05251870
Irish Fenians raid Eccles Hill, Qubec
05251876
1st tie in NL history (Athletics & Louisville, 2-2 in 14)
05251887
Gas lamp at Paris Opera catches fire; 200 die
1st US troop transport to Manila leaves SF
05251900
Eyre M Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics
05251906
After 20 straight wins, Boston Red Sox lose to Chicago White Sox 3-0
Revolution in Mxico overthrows President Jos Porfirio Diaz
05251914
British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
05251915
Chicago Claude Hendrix no-hits Pitts (Federal League), 10-0
M Wolf discovers asteroid #874 Rotraut
05251924
V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1030 Vitja
Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
05251928
Amelia Earhart (as a passenger) is 1st woman to fly Atlantic Ocean
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1244 Deira
Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates
Jesse Owens equals or breaks 6 world records in one hour
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1393 Sofala
1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to NY
Carl Storck becomes 2nd NFL president
05251940
German troops conquer Boulogne
Golden Gate Intl Expo reopens
05251941
5,000 drown in a storm at Ganges Delta region in India
Riot at Mobile Ala shipyard over upgrading 12 black workers
Trident conference in Wash DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
Arther C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit
Jordan gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
Coal dust explosion rocks Centralia Coal Co's Mine #5 killing 111
05251948
Ben Hogan wins PGA golf tournament
SF receives its 1st telecast
Chinese Red army occupies Shanghai
05251950
Bkln-Battery Tunnel opens in NYC
NY Giant Willie Mays 1st major league game (goes 0 for 5)
05251953
1st atomic cannon electronically fired, Frenchman Flat, Nevada
1st noncommercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
Series of 19 twisters destroy Udall Kansas & most of Blackwell Okla
05251959
Khrushchev visits Angolia
Supreme ct rules La prohibiting black-white boxing unconstitutional
05251961
JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m
05251962
Isley Brother relase "Twist & Shout"
US unions AFL-CIO begins campaign for 35-hour work week
Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket
Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania & Zambia
Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles & is knocked unconscious on stage
Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1st round for HW boxing title
05251966
Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce
Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash"
Indiana Pacers beat LA Stars in 3rd ABA championship, 4 games to 2
05251972
Heavyweight Joe Frazier KOs Ron Stander
05251973
George Harrison releases "Give Me Love" in UK
Skylab 2 (US) launched
US launches 1st Skylab crew Kerwin, Conrad, Weitz
05251975
Warriors beat Bullets for NBA championship, 4 games to 0
05251976
Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Richard Dunn in Munich
05251977
"Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released
05251978
"Star Wars" released
Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
05251979
American Airlines DC-10 crashes in Chicago killing 275
Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt
Raul Gonz les of Mxico completes 50,000 m walk in record 3:41:38.4
05251980
Jacek Wszoka of Poland sets high jump record (7'8")
Al Unser becomes 1st Indy 500 winner to be disqualified
Ferguson Jenkins becomes 7th pitcher to strike out 3,000 batters
STS-4 vehicle moves to launch pad
"Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released
Fire in Nassermeer Egypt kills 357
95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida
Hands Across America - 6 million people hold hands from Calif to NY
KC Royal George Brett gets his 2,000th hit
05251989
Calgary Flames beat Montreal Canadiens for Stanley Cup
Eastern Airlines graduates it 1st class of non-union pilots
05251991
Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews
Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show"
NY Yankees score 9 runs before 1st out in 8th inn, beat Brewers 13-7
05261328
William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII
05261637
1st battle of Pequot at New Harbour Ct kills 500 indians
05261647
Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony
05261736
Battle of Ackia (La), British & Chickasaw Indians defeat French
05261781
Bank of North America incorporated in Philadelphia
05261788
Mary Clark of England gives birth to a baby without a brain
05261790
Territory South of River Ohio created by Congress
05261861
Postmaster General Blair announces end of postal connection with South
Union blockades New Orleans LA & Mobile AL
05261864
Territory of Montana organized
05261865
Battle of Galveston TX, surrender of Edmund Kirby Smith
05261868
President Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
HMS Challenger returns from 128,000-km oceanographic exploration
05261887
Legal betting at rece tracks begins
05261896
1st American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
Dow Jones Industrial Average adopted
Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
05261898
SF approves City Charter, allows Municipal ownership of utiliies
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of 3 Gables" (BG)
A pogrom against Jews in Minsk Belorussia
Chic White Sox Ed Walsh no-hits NY Highlanders, 8-1 in 5 inning game
Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
05261915
H H Asquith forms a coalition government in England
05261916
F Sy discovers asteroid #858 El Djezair
05261917
Walt Cruise hit 1st HR out of Braves Field
05261918
Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
05261922
Lenin suffers a stroke
1st Le Mans Grand Prix d'Endurance was run
Socialistic Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
German cabinet of Marx resigns
Pres Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting immigration
Lebanon adopts constitution
15 millionth T-Ford produced
05261928
A's commit 7 errors & lose to Yanks 7-4
05261930
Joe Sewell, hardest to strike out, is struck out twice by Pat Caraway
05261932
Admiral Makoto Saito forms parliament cabinet in Tokyo
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1245 Calvinia
Phillies Chuck Klein hits for cycle vs St Louis Cards
05261934
Century of Progress Exposition reopens in Chicago
05261937
San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens
House on un-American Activities begins work
05261941
American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck
German occupiers begin youth labor
Belgium Jews are required by Nazis to wear a Jewish star
1st president of a black country to visit US (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)
Jews riot against Germany in Amsterdam
US drop fire bombs on Tokyo
Klement Gottwald becomes premier of Czechoslovakia
Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
05261948
South Africa elects a nationalist govt with apartheid policy
05261953
Dutch Convair crashes at Schipholweg, 2 die
05261955
Khrushchev arrives in Belgrade
Aircraft carrier "Bennington" burns off RI, killing 103
05261958
Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
Union Square, SF becomes state historical landmark
Harvey Haddix pitches 12 perfect innings, loses in 13th
05261961
Freedom Ride Coordinating Committee establishes in Atlanta
USAF bomber flies Atlantic in a record of just over 3 hours
Organization of African Unity established
Wes Stock becomes only Balt Oriole to win a double header
05261965
Revised intl Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect
Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK
05261969
Apollo 10 returns to Earth
John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montrael)
Bahrain adopts it's constitution
Beatles' "Beatles 1967-1970," album goes #1
Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game complete 5/28)
05261974
During a David Cassidy concert in London a 14 year old is trampled
05261975
Tennis game in Surrey championships lasts 31 minutes
N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2426 Simonov
"Beatlemania" opens in Winter Garden Theater on Broadway
George Willig climbs NYC World Trade Center
Movie "Star Wars" debuts
05261978
1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
05261980
Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"
Phillie Steve Carlton is 1st NLer to record 6, 1-hitters
Soyuz 36 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Hungarian) to Salyut 6
05261981
Soyuz T-4 returns to Earth
05261983
Challenger moves to launch pad for STS-7
LA Lakers set NBA playoff game record of fewest free throws
NASA launches Exosat
05261984
C Shoemaker & E Shoemake discovers asteroid #3317 Paris
Floods kill 14 in Tulsa Okla
Frisbee is kept aloft for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
Tulsa Oklahoma gets 13" of rain, 14 die
05261985
Danny Sullivan wins Indy 500 by 24 seconds following a spin
05261989
At 7:42 AM, radio has a 30 2nd silence, honoring radio
Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
05261990
Phila Phillies retire Mike Schmidt's uniform #20
Austria passenger flight explodes in Bangkok, 223 die
1st woman known to be executed as a witch, Achsah Young in Mass
05271679
Habeaus Corpus act passes in UK
05271703
St Petersburg (Lenningrad) founded by Peter the Great
05271813
Americans capture Ft George, Canada
05271844
Samuel F.B. Morse completes 1st telegraph line
05271850
Mormon Temple in Nauvoo Illinois destroyed by tornado
Marine Telegraph from Ft Point to SF completed
05271856
Doctor William Palmer found guilty of poisoning
05271857
H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #44 Nysa
05271862
Battle of Hanover Court House, VA (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
05271863
CSS Chattahoochie explodes on Chattahoochie River GA, 18 die
Seige of Port Hudson LA
05271873
1st Preakness Stakes won by Survivor (2:43)
A Charlois discovers asteroid #267 Tirza
1st major tornado to strike urban US (St Louis & E St Louis Mo)
Bay District Race Track closes
Tornado (900 kph?) hits St Louis Missouri; 306 die
05271903
Queen Wilhelmina opens Berlages Merchants bureau in Amsterdam
05271904
NL record of 5 stolen bases in a game (Dennis McGann, NY Giants)
05271905
Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1st outlining of Gustav Mahler's 6th symphony, in Essen
Bubonic Plague breaks out in SF
Groundbreaking begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
05271917
Race riot in East St Louis Illinois, 1 black killed
Battle of Aisne
1st transatlantic flight ends; US Navy flying boat takes 11 days
Tatar ASSR established in Russian SFSR
After 84 years of British control, Afgh nist n achieves sovereignty
Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
Thomas Masaryk elected Czechoslovakia president
1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field Va
Piccard & Knipfer make 1st flight into stratosphere, by balloon
05271933
Austrian communistic party banned
Century of Progress Exposition opens in Chicago
Trailing 11-3, Yanks score 12 runs in 8th & beat White Sox 15-11
Walt Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act unconstitutional
RMS Queen Mary leaves Southampton for NY on maiden voyage
05271937
Carl Hubbell wins his 24th consecutive game (sine July 17, 1936)
Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
05271940
British & French begin evacuation of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo)
FDR proclaimes an "unlimited national emergency"
German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force
Allies landing on Biak, Indonesia (operation Horlicks)
Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
05271950
Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Wallace Stevens
Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park, SF opens
05271952
European Defense Community forms
05271953
Dutch social democratic/Dutch Liberal Party win municipal elections
05271955
Boston Red Sox Norm Zauchin gets 10 RBIs, beating Senators 16-0
Ernest Green & 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS
Vanguard SLV-1 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1st use of oversized catching mitt (Balt Oriole Clint Courtney)
Military coup overthrows democratic government of Turkey
Pres Kennedy announces US goal to reach Moon
Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' «"
"From Russia With Love" premiers in US
05271968
6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 4-3
NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises
Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost
Walt Disney World construction begins
05271970
British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
05271971
UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
05271973
Rick Wohlhuter uns record 880 yards in 1:44.6
Paul McCartney releases "Venus & Mars"
Phila Flyers beat Buffalo Sabres 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup
05271977
NYC fines George Willig 1 for each of 110 stories he climbed
05271979
Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop
05271981
A Gilmore & P Kilmartin discovers asteroid #2434 Bateson
John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
Lenny Randle tries to blow a slow roller foul but ump says no
C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3194 Dorsey
05271983
Former EPA official Rita Lavelle indicted for contempt of Congress
05271984
C & E Shoemaker discovers asteroid #3671 Dionysius
Manuela Manleeva wins 3 singles tennis matches in one day
05271985
Inaugural bands parade for Pres Reagan
05271986
Norway Showcase groundbreaking
05271987
Jim & Tammy Bakker appears on "Nightline" after PTL scandal
Yank Phil Niekro is 3rd pitcher making 700th start (Young & Sutton)
05271990
74th Indianapolis 500 runs
Csar Gaviria Trujillo chosen pres of Colombia
Radical Democratic Party holds 1st political meetings in Moscow
Austrian Boeing 767-300 explodes at Bangkok, 223 die
Mafia bombs Uffizi-museum in Florence, kills 6
0528 585
-BC- Thales Miletus predicts solar eclispe Persian-Lydian battle ends
0528 640
Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638)
05281358
Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising
05281533
England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage
05281539
Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
05281664
1st Baptist Church organized (Boston)
05281731
All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
05281742
1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
05281754
George Washington defeats French & indians at Ft Duquesne (Pitts)
05281774
1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie
05281845
Fire in Quebec Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
05281863
1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
A Borrelly discovers asteroid #99 Dike
05281871
Paris communards revolt put down
05281880
Grenanda wins Preakness
05281892
Sierra Club forms in SF, for conservation of nature
05281894
Belgium Princess Josephine marries Prince Karl von Hohenzollern
Britain annexes Orange Free State (as Orange River Colony)
05281901
Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
Parader wins Preakness
05281904
Bryn Mawr wins Preakness
05281905
P Gotz discovers asteroids #566 Stereoskopiab & #567 Eleutheria
Auto-Cycle Union Tourist Trophy was 1st held
05281918
Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent
Armenia declares it's Independence
05281926
Military coup by Gen Manuel Gomes da Costa in Portugal
US Customs Court created by congress
1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited, NYC
Dam closed, at current monument (South Seas)
05281935
C Jackson discovers asteroid #1712 Angola
05281937
Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic
Neville Chamberlain becomes PM of England
Belgium surrenders to Germany, King Leopold III gives himself up
British-French strike captures Narvik Norway
05281941
1st night game at Wash DC, Griffith stadium (Yanks 6, Senators 5)
1st night game at Yankee stadium (Senators 2, Yanks 1)
05281948
Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
05281951
Bernardus J Alfrink appointed bishop's asst of Utrecht
Willie Mays gets his 1st major league hit, a home run
05281953
Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
05281955
Bob Sweikert wins Indianapolis 500
Nashua wins Preakness
Carl Erskine becomes 1st to hit HRs in 8 straight games
NL approves Bkln Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast
WPSD TV channel 6 in Paducah, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
French cabinet of Pflimlin resigns
05281959
Congressional Committee of Astronautics meets Project 7 astronauts
05281961
Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
Last trip (Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
Suit alleging de facto school segregation filed in Rochester NY
US stock market drops $20.8 B in 1 day
Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premiers on CBS radio
05281963
Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed
Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)
Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st PM of Kenya
Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli
Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit
05281965
Fire & explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400
05281967
Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip
AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions
NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise
Senator Eugene Mccarthy wins Democrat primary in Oregon
Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
USSR Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Nat'l HQ at Watergate
Chic White Sox beat Cleve Indians, 6-3, in 21 inn (game started 5/26)
05281974
E F Helin discovers asteroid #2050 Francis
165 killed in a fire at Beverly Hills Supper Club in Kentucky
05281978
Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times
05281980
2 Oakland A's steal home in 1st inning
Joe Darby does a standing long jump of 12'5"
05281982
Leonard Maltin's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight
Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain
05281985
David Jacobsen taken hostage in Beirut Lebanon
Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-G
05281987
Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
Paul Pearman jumps 21 barrels on a skateboard in Augusta
Southern League no-hit record-Bob Milacki pitches 11 1/3 no-hit inn
Stacking of Discovery's SRBs completed
05281989
Delta Burke (Designing Women) weds Gerald McRaney (Major Dad)
Emerson Fittipaldi wins Indianapolis 500
05281991
Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa
05281993
200,000 demonstrate against mafia terror
Polish cabinet-Suchocka falls
0529 526
Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die
0529 757
St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
05291138
Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II
05291176
Battle of Legnano
05291415
Council of Konstanz
Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
Gov John Winthrop begins "History of New England"
05291660
Charles II restored to English throne after Puritan Commonwealth
05291692
Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated
05291721
South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
05291787
"Virginia Plan" proposed
05291790
Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifing Constitution
05291848
Wisconsin becomes 30th state
05291849
Patent for lifting vessels granted to Abraham Lincoln
05291861
Asteroid 72, Feronia, discovered (name for Italian goddess of groves)
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #72 Feronia
Dorothea Dix offers help in setting up hospitals for Union Army
05291864
Mxican Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
Present constitution of Switzerland takes effect
05291884
1st steam cable trams start in highgate
05291889
A Charlois discovers asteroid #284 Amalia
05291900
Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
Frank "Home Run" Baker's 1st career home run
05291910
Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
1st running of Indianapolis 500
05291914
Ship rams Canadian ship Empress of Ireland on St Lawrence R; 1024 die
05291916
Official flag of president of US adopted
US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
05291919
Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
Ecuador becomes independent
Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
Hague local museum opens
05291940
Arthur Seyss-Inquart intalled as Reich commissar of Hague
Confederacy of Algiers (Churchill-Marshall-Eisenhower)
Meat & cheese rationed in US
US 1st Marine division conquerors Shuri-castle Okinawa
KVP wins Provincial National election in Netherlands
1st North Pole flight in single engine plane-CF Blair
05291953
Edmund P Hillary & Tensing Norkay are 1st to reach summit of Everest
05291954
Kirk & Anne Douglas married
Pope Pius X issues holy declaration
WESH TV channel 2 in Daytona Beach-Orlando, FL (NBC) 1st broadcast
05291957
Algerian rebellion, kills 336 collaborators
Laos govt of prince Suvanna Phuma resigns
Charles de Gaulle forms French govt
Everly Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
05291962
Barbra Striesand appears on "Garry Moore Show"
Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' HR out of Connie Mack Stadium
05291967
Australian Paul McManus waterskis barefoot for 1:30:19
05291978
1st class postage now 15 (13 for 3 years)
05291979
Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premiers
05291980
Attempted assassination of Vernon Jordan Jr, National Urban Leag pres
J Turners "Juliet & her Nurse" sold for $6,400,000 in NYC
Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
05291983
Yuri Dumchev of USSR throws discus a record 71.86 m
05291984
Boston Red Sox retires #9 (Ted Williams) & #4 (Joe Cronin)
35 die in rioting between British & Italians at European Cup soccer
05291987
"Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent
Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
Robin Ventura set a college baseball record with hits in 57 games
Student protesters in China construct a replic of Statue of Liberty
05291990
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,870.49
NY Mets fire manager Davey Johnson & hire Bud Harrelson
NY Mets score in 9th to end home shut-out streak at 3 games
Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church
05301498
Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
05301527
U of Marburg (Germany) founded
05301539
Spanish explorer Fernando de Soto lands in Florida
Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
05301814
1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
05301822
House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
05301848
William Young patents ice cream freezer
05301854
Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
Territories of Kansas & Nebraska created
05301858
Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
05301862
Battle of Booneville MS - captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
Battle of Front Royal, VA
05301864
Battle of Bethesda Church VA
05301866
Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premiers (Prague)
05301889
Brasierre is invented
05301894
Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
Memorial Day 1st observed in US
R S Dugan discovers asteroid #511 Davida
Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1st Indianapolis 500 car race, Ray Harroun wins at 75 MPH (120 KPH)
US Marines sent to Nicaragua
05301913
1st Balkan War ends, Treaty of London
Conclusion of 1st Balkan War
New country of Albania, formed
05301921
Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
H E Wood discovers asteroid #1032 Pafuri
Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
British mariners shoot on demonstrators
Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
05301930
Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
05301933
Patent on invisible glass installation
05301935
Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
05301937
Denny Shute wins PGA golf tournament
Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
Police kill 10 strikers at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago
Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
05301941
English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1st Bombing attack on Cologne (1,000 bombers)
US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
05301946
United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
05301949
East Germans constitution approved
WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
05301951
Heavyweight Ezzard Charles KOs Joey Maxim in Chicago
05301953
1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Tunisia begins domestic self governing
05301956
Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
05301959
Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
World's 1st hovercraft tested at Cowes England
Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 61 die
Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
05301965
Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
05301966
300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
05301968
Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
Gibraltar adopts constitution
People revolt in Willemstad, Curaao [Trinti di mei]
05301971
36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; drunk LSD apple juice
Train crash at Pigeon droppings, 5 die
US Mariner 9 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched
05301972
3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
05301974
10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
05301975
Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
05301977
Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits Calif Angels, 2-0
05301979
Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
Ted Coombs began a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
"Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
05301982
Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
05301985
Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
05301986
Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
05301990
135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
Minn Twin Bert Blyleven becomes 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
05311634
US colony Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
05311678
Tax protester Lady Godiva rides naked through Coventry
05311790
US copyright law enacted
05311821
1st catholic minster of US initiated in Baltimore Md
NY's Astor Hotel opens ... most elaborate in US
05311853
Elisha Kane's Arctic expedition leaves NY aboard Advance
05311861
Gen Beauregard is given command of Confederate Alexandria Line
Mint at New Orleans closes
05311862
Battle of Seven Pines VA (Fair Oaks)
05311864
Raid at Morgan's Kentucky
05311870
Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)
05311879
1st electric railway opens at Berlin Trades Exposition
Madison Square Garden opens its doors
05311884
John Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
Johnstown Flood; 2,209 die in Penn
05311891
Work on trans-Siberian railway begans
05311899
Bronx acquires Keltch Memorial Park
US troops arrive in Peking, help put down Boxer Rebellion
Boer War Ends; Treaty of Vereeniging signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
Attack on King Alfonso XIII & Victoria von Battenberg in Madrid
Miss Pottelsberghe de la Pottery is 1st airplane passenger (Belgium)
1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
Cape of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
Union of South Africa declares independence from UK
US marines land on Cuba
05311913
17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
05311914
Chic White Sox Joe Benz no-hits Cleve Indians, 6-1
05311915
An LZ-38 Zeppelin makes an air raid on London
Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
05311917
1st jazz record released (Dark Town Strutters Ball)
05311918
M Wolf discovers asteroids #892 Seeligeria & #893 Leopoldina
05311919
NC-4 aircraft commanded by AC Read completes 1st crossing of Atlantic
Suffy McInnis (1st base) begins an errorless string of 1,700
China & USSR exchange diplomats
05311926
Portuguese president Bernardino Machedo flees after coup
Sesquicentennial Exposition opens in Philadelphia
05311927
Tiger 1st baseman Johnny Neun makes an unassisted triple play
1st aerial cross of Pacific takes off from Oakland
Atlantic City Convention Center opens
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1108 Demeter
05311935
Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat
Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
05311937
Bkln Dodgers snap NY Giant Carl Hubbell's 24-game winning streak
German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1466 Mundleria
-June 1) 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington Kansas (state record)
German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools
Sam Snead wins PGA golf tournament
05311947
Communists grab power in Hungary
Eastern DC-4 crashes between Ft Deposit & Perryville Md, kills 53
Italian cabinet of Gasperi forms
Due to rain, Johnny Parson wins Indy 500 in 345 miles
05311951
Neth & South Africa sign cultural accord
S Arend discovers asteroid #1591 Baize
05311953
Lebanese president Camille Shamun disbands government
WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities
Great Britain proclaims emergency crisis due to railroad strike
Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
Mickey Mantle HR just misses clearing Yankee Stadium's roof
05311958
Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
Dominican Republic president Trujillo assassinated
Judge Irving Kaufman orders Board of Ed of New Rochelle, to integrate
Union of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
Charles Schmid kills first Pied Piper victim
SF Giants beat NY Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hrs 32 mins)
Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy
05311969
John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
05311970
7.75 Earthquake aftershocks hit Peru; 50-70,000 die
At 03:23 PM, Yungay Peru levelled by earthquake (50-70,000 die)
KDUB TV channel 40 in Dubuque, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
05311971
WDXR (now WKPD) TV channel 29 in Paducah, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting
Israel & Syria sign an agreement concerning Golan Heights
05311975
Fred Newman made 12,874 baskets in a one-day exhibition
Loudest PA (76 KW) for Who's Quadrophenia in London
05311977
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani becomes Heir Apparent to throne of Qatar
Trans Alaska oil pipeline completed
05311979
J Kveton discovers asteroid #2672 Pisek
Radio City Music Hall (NYC) reopens
Zimbabwe proclaims independence
Phila 76ers sweep Lakers for NBA championship in 4 games
05311985
41 tornadoes hit Northeast US, killing 88
Guatemala adopts constitution
New Orleans Saints are sold for $70,204,000
05311987
Edmonton Oilers beat Flyers 4 games to 3 for Stanley Cup
Saul Ballesteros drives 3 golf balls off Mt McKinley, Alaska
"Rambling with Gambling" 20,000th radio program on WOR-AM (NYC)
1st presentation of rock n roll Elvis awards
Speaker of House Jim Wright resigns
NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 3rd victim, Joseph Ponce
Oldest bride - Minnie Munro, 102, weds Dudley Reid, 83, in Australia
Sides in Angola sign a treaty ending 16 year civil war
05311993
President Dobrica Cosic of little Yugoslavia flees
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