1907 - Fred Warngrd, Swedish athlete (d. 1950)
1927 - Ray Katt, baseball player
1909 - Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
1928 - Pall Pampichier Palsson, composer
1740 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
1928 - Ralph Goings, American painter
1785 - James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
1929 - Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)
1796 - August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
1801 - Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
1932 - Conrad Hunte, cricketer (great West Indian opener 1958-66)
1918 - Mike Wallace, American journalist
1919 - Arthur English, English actor and comedian (d. 1995)
1932 - Geraldine McEwan, actress (Henry V)
1932 - J Alex McMillan, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
1921 - Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist
1934 - Alan Bennett, Engld, playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball)
1921 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
1844 - [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Bad Herders)
1935 - Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (The Ventures)
1855 - Julius Rontgen, composer
1860 - James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan)
1936 - Glenda Jackson, Cheshire England, actress (Women in Love)
1961 - Rene Capo, Pinal del Rio Cuba, half-heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1962 - Dave Gahan, Essex, rock vocalist (Depeche Mode-Dreaming of Me)
1937 - Dave Prater, Ocilla Ga, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave)
1937 - Sonny Curtis, Texas, guitarist (Crickets)
1873 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
1938 - Geoffrey Holland, civil servant
1964 - Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey
1886 - Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
1887 - Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer
1939 - Herbert Hippauf, baseball player
1939 - Jim Dent, Augusta GA, PGA golfer (1989 MONY Syracuse Senior)
1939 - Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph)
1892 - Zita, empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary)
1968 - Bruce Pickens, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1895 - Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
1968 - Marie-Jose Perec, Guadeloupe, French 200m/400m runner (Oly-2 gold-96)
1940 - Dick Morrissey, saxophonist
1901 - Fuzzy Knight, Fairmont WV, actor (Oklahoma Annie, Cowby & the Lady)
1901 - George Duckworth, cricket wicket-keeper (England late 20's early 30's)
1969 - Amber, Dutch musician
1970 - Doug Christie, NBA guard/forward (Toronto Raptors)
1971 - Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)
1907 - Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
1942 - Tommy Roe, Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel)
1942 - William Olner, MP
1909 - Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
1943 - Maurice Foster, cricketer (West Indies batsman of 70's)
1943 - Tommy Roe, rocker
1911 - Harry Simeone, Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show)
1944 - Richard Furay, Ohio, rock vocalist (Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
1945 - Steve Katz, NYC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1946 - Candice Bergen, Beverly Hills, actr (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown)
1913 - Victor Smith, Admiral (Australian Chiefs of Staff)
1948 - John Drayton Mahaffey, Kerrville TX, PGA golfer (1978 PGA Champ)
1914 - Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orch leader
1977 - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (d. 2006)
1914 - Josef Muller-Brockmann, graphic designer/writer
1978 - Leandro Damin Cufr, Argentine footballer
1978 - Aaron Harang, American baseball player
1950 - Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host (Holding the Fort, Relative Strangers)
1916 - Cyril Bowles, bishop of Derby
1916 - Douglas Guest, organist
1917 - George Fleming, cyclist
1980 - Angela Nikodinov, Spartanburg SC, figure skater (1997 Pacif Sr champ)
1953 - Gregory Beecroft, Chorpus Christi TX, actor (Guiding Light)
1953 - Ron Jackson, baseball player
1980 - Cho Hyeon Jae, South Korean actor
1980 - Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
1955 - Kevin Peter Hall, Pitts Pa, actor (Misfits of Science)
1982 - Rachel Boston, American actress
1983 - Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
1922 - Sheila Burrell, actress (Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark)
1956 - Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress
1985 - Jake Long, American football player
1957 - John Stuper, baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1988 - John Ryan Fitzpatrick, Canadian race truck driver
1996 - Mary Matilyn Mouser, American child actress
328 - Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
1092 - Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1450 - 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1864 - Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
1873 - Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1874 - The first horse-drawn bus makes its dbut in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
1877 - Mihail Kogalniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1877 - A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
1887 - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1901 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1904 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1911 - The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
1915 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Smigly celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
1926 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
1927 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
1936 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1937 - Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy took to the airwaves becoming an overnight radio sensation.
1940 - World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
1941 - World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1942 - Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
1945 - World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jrgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
1949 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1950 - L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is released.
1955 - Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1955 - Sam and Friends debuts on a local United States television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and The Muppets.
1960 - The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1961 - Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
1964 - Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
1969 - Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in So Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1970 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1980 - In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980 - In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987 - A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kosciuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
1992 - Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
2001 - In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
2004 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by a land mine under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
2006 - Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
1927 - Ray Katt, baseball player
1909 - Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
1928 - Pall Pampichier Palsson, composer
1740 - Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
1928 - Ralph Goings, American painter
1785 - James Pollard Espy, Penns, meteorologist (Philosphy of Storms)
1929 - Kay Dotrice, British actress (d. 2007)
1796 - August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
1801 - Samuel Cousins, mezzotint engraver
1932 - Conrad Hunte, cricketer (great West Indian opener 1958-66)
1918 - Mike Wallace, American journalist
1919 - Arthur English, English actor and comedian (d. 1995)
1932 - Geraldine McEwan, actress (Henry V)
1932 - J Alex McMillan, (Rep-R-NC, 1985- )
1921 - Daniel Berrigan, American peace activist
1934 - Alan Bennett, Engld, playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball)
1921 - Mona Van Duyn, American poet (d. 2004)
1844 - [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Bad Herders)
1935 - Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (The Ventures)
1855 - Julius Rontgen, composer
1860 - James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist (Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan)
1936 - Glenda Jackson, Cheshire England, actress (Women in Love)
1961 - Rene Capo, Pinal del Rio Cuba, half-heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1962 - Dave Gahan, Essex, rock vocalist (Depeche Mode-Dreaming of Me)
1937 - Dave Prater, Ocilla Ga, rock vocalist (Sam & Dave)
1937 - Sonny Curtis, Texas, guitarist (Crickets)
1873 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
1938 - Geoffrey Holland, civil servant
1964 - Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey
1886 - Francis Biddle, United States Attorney General (d. 1968)
1887 - Jules Van de Leene, Belgian writer
1939 - Herbert Hippauf, baseball player
1939 - Jim Dent, Augusta GA, PGA golfer (1989 MONY Syracuse Senior)
1939 - Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots (345 mph)
1892 - Zita, empress (Austria)/Queen (Hungary)
1968 - Bruce Pickens, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1895 - Lucian Blaga, Romaniams philosopher/poet (Dogmatic Aeon)
1968 - Marie-Jose Perec, Guadeloupe, French 200m/400m runner (Oly-2 gold-96)
1940 - Dick Morrissey, saxophonist
1901 - Fuzzy Knight, Fairmont WV, actor (Oklahoma Annie, Cowby & the Lady)
1901 - George Duckworth, cricket wicket-keeper (England late 20's early 30's)
1969 - Amber, Dutch musician
1970 - Doug Christie, NBA guard/forward (Toronto Raptors)
1971 - Paul McGuigan, English bassist (Oasis)
1907 - Kathryn Kuhlman, famed evangelist (d. 1976)
1942 - Tommy Roe, Atlanta, rocker (Hooray for Hazel)
1942 - William Olner, MP
1909 - Don Messer, Canadian country musician (d. 1973)
1943 - Maurice Foster, cricketer (West Indies batsman of 70's)
1943 - Tommy Roe, rocker
1911 - Harry Simeone, Newark NJ, choral director (Kate Smith Show)
1944 - Richard Furay, Ohio, rock vocalist (Buffalo Springfield, Poco)
1945 - Steve Katz, NYC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1946 - Candice Bergen, Beverly Hills, actr (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown)
1913 - Victor Smith, Admiral (Australian Chiefs of Staff)
1948 - John Drayton Mahaffey, Kerrville TX, PGA golfer (1978 PGA Champ)
1914 - Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orch leader
1977 - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (d. 2006)
1914 - Josef Muller-Brockmann, graphic designer/writer
1978 - Leandro Damin Cufr, Argentine footballer
1978 - Aaron Harang, American baseball player
1950 - Matthew Kelly, actor/TV host (Holding the Fort, Relative Strangers)
1916 - Cyril Bowles, bishop of Derby
1916 - Douglas Guest, organist
1917 - George Fleming, cyclist
1980 - Angela Nikodinov, Spartanburg SC, figure skater (1997 Pacif Sr champ)
1953 - Gregory Beecroft, Chorpus Christi TX, actor (Guiding Light)
1953 - Ron Jackson, baseball player
1980 - Cho Hyeon Jae, South Korean actor
1980 - Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
1955 - Kevin Peter Hall, Pitts Pa, actor (Misfits of Science)
1982 - Rachel Boston, American actress
1983 - Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
1922 - Sheila Burrell, actress (Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark)
1956 - Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress
1985 - Jake Long, American football player
1957 - John Stuper, baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1988 - John Ryan Fitzpatrick, Canadian race truck driver
1996 - Mary Matilyn Mouser, American child actress
328 - Athanasius is elected Patriarch bishop of Alexandria.
1092 - Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.
1450 - 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
1671 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
1726 - Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn.
1864 - Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded.
1873 - Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
1874 - The first horse-drawn bus makes its dbut in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
1877 - Mihail Kogalniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
1877 - A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
1887 - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
1901 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1904 - The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100 mph (160 km/h).
1911 - The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books.
1915 - World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1920 - Polish-Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Smigly celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk.
1926 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary seems to indicate that this did not happen).
1927 - The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra.
1936 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
1937 - Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy took to the airwaves becoming an overnight radio sensation.
1940 - World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
1941 - World War II: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
1942 - Holocaust: The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.
1945 - World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jrgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.
1945 - World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1946 - King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Humbert II.
1949 - Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco.
1950 - Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union.
1950 - L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health is released.
1955 - Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
1955 - Sam and Friends debuts on a local United States television channel, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and The Muppets.
1960 - The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill.
1961 - Jim Gentile of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive innings.
1964 - Ngo Dinh Can, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.
1969 - Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in So Paulo, by robbing two banks.
1970 - Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
1974 - Watergate Scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
1980 - In Florida, Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture collides with the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. 35 people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
1980 - In Norco, California, five masked gunman hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history. Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987 - A Polish LOT Ilyushin IL-62M "Tadeusz Kosciuszko" (SP-LBG) crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing 183 people.
1992 - Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War.
2001 - In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium Disaster. The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.
2002 - The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.
2002 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
2004 - Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov is killed by a land mine under a VIP stage during a World War II memorial victory parade in Grozny, Chechnya.
2006 - Estonia ratifies the European Constitution.
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