1950 - Anthony De Longis, American actor
1951 - Dick Mast, Bluffton OH, Nike golfer (1990 Mississippi Gulf Coast)
1914 - Robert Gross, composer
1915 - Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar
1952 - Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
1917 - H C Allen, American historian
1917 - Johnny Guarnieri, NYC, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show)
1736 - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83)
1917 - Patricia Burke, Milan Italy, actress (Forbidden)
1919 - Michael Lyne, British air Vice-marshal
1750 - Johannes Matthias Sperger, composer
1955 - Cindy Olavarri, Pleasant Hills Calif, cyclist (7-Eleven team)
1920 - Geoffrey Bush, composer
1956 - Andrew Mitchell, British MP
1769 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
1795 - Leopold Jansa, composer
1957 - Amanda Plummer, NYC, actress (Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker)
1921 - Donald Malcome Campbell, Surrey UK, boat racer (1955 speed records)
1811 - Camille Marie Stamaty, composer
1811 - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer
1922 - Marty Allen, Pitts, comedian (Allen & Rossi), "Hello Dere"
1958 - Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
1923 - Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC, NFL def tackle (NY Yankees, Giants)
1959 - Catherine Keener, American actress
1959 - Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997)
1959 - Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)
1925 - David McNee, commissioner (Metropolitan Police)
1960 - Terry Sweeney, St Albans NY, writer/comedian (SNL)
1960 - Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
1961 - Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
1854 - Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony)
1963 - Ana Quirot, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympics-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1963 - Kim Williams, Bethesda MD, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland-26th)
1929 - Gerrit den Braber, Dutch composer/producer
1965 - Dante Jones, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1929 - Michael Manser, architect
1929 - Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile (May 6, 1954)
1965 - Wayne Presley, Detroit, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1932 - Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Geoffrey Leigh, CEO (Allied London Properties)
1880 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922)
1933 - Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman)
1933 - Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
1934 - Bryan Bass, headmaster (City of London School)
1882 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1934 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician
1934 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
1887 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
1887 - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch
1887 - Juan Gris, Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window)
1968 - Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
1970 - Carl Pickens, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1938 - Christopher Glenn, NYC, news anchor (CBS Nightwatch)
1938 - Kenneth J Gregory, warden (Goldsmiths' College)
1895 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
1971 - Demetrius DuBose, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1939 - Boris Ivanovich Tischenko, composer
1939 - Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer
1900 - Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society)
1971 - Yasmeen Ghauri, Montrael Canada, model (Valentino Perfume)
1901 - Edmund Rubbra, composer [or May 23]
1941 - Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author
1942 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)
1972 - Ryan Kuwabara, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1943 - Peter Graves, supt minister (Westminster Central Hall)
1905 - Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
1905 - Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
1973 - Igor Nikitin, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1944 - Salim Altaf, cricketer (Pakistan medium-pacer in 21 Tests 1967-78)
1907 - Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician
1947 - Barbara Rhodes, Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There)
1973 - Ninya Perna, Miss USA-Nevada (1997)
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)
1948 - Wasim Bari, cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistan's most successful)
1911 - Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby league player
1911 - Charles Joseph A Russhon, USAF lt col/liaison (James Bond films)
1974 - Scott Galyon, linebacker (NY Giants)
1949 - Roland Lee, American Watercolor Artist
1911 - Richard Chapman, golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur)
1912 - Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1936)
1400 - The Tran Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Ho Quy Ly, a court official.
1708 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech - "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" - at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
1806 - After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
1821 - Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
1848 - The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1857 - Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1862 - The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
1868 - The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1879 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
1889 - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
1905 - Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
1908 - American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1909 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1919 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1931 - Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1935 - Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1939 - The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spisk Nov Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak-Hungarian War.
1940 - The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1942 - World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
1956 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
1962 - NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.
1965 - NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1978 - The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
1980 - Archbishop scar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
1982 - Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas Garca is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efran Ros Montt.
1983 - Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1989 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
1991 - The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
1994 - At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martnez.
1994 - Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
1994 - A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
1996 - Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1999 - Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis Mara Argaa.
2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 - In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 654 Iraqi combatants are also killed.
1951 - Dick Mast, Bluffton OH, Nike golfer (1990 Mississippi Gulf Coast)
1914 - Robert Gross, composer
1915 - Francis Berry, poet/Shakespearean scholar
1952 - Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
1917 - H C Allen, American historian
1917 - Johnny Guarnieri, NYC, jazz pianist (Morey Amsterdam Show)
1736 - Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83)
1917 - Patricia Burke, Milan Italy, actress (Forbidden)
1919 - Michael Lyne, British air Vice-marshal
1750 - Johannes Matthias Sperger, composer
1955 - Cindy Olavarri, Pleasant Hills Calif, cyclist (7-Eleven team)
1920 - Geoffrey Bush, composer
1956 - Andrew Mitchell, British MP
1769 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
1795 - Leopold Jansa, composer
1957 - Amanda Plummer, NYC, actress (Hotel New Hampshire, Dollmaker)
1921 - Donald Malcome Campbell, Surrey UK, boat racer (1955 speed records)
1811 - Camille Marie Stamaty, composer
1811 - Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer
1922 - Marty Allen, Pitts, comedian (Allen & Rossi), "Hello Dere"
1958 - Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
1923 - Arnie Weinmeister, AAFC, NFL def tackle (NY Yankees, Giants)
1959 - Catherine Keener, American actress
1959 - Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997)
1959 - Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)
1925 - David McNee, commissioner (Metropolitan Police)
1960 - Terry Sweeney, St Albans NY, writer/comedian (SNL)
1960 - Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
1961 - Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
1854 - Alfred Milner, Giessen Germany, British governor (Cape colony)
1963 - Ana Quirot, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympics-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1963 - Kim Williams, Bethesda MD, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Heartland-26th)
1929 - Gerrit den Braber, Dutch composer/producer
1965 - Dante Jones, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos)
1929 - Michael Manser, architect
1929 - Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile (May 6, 1954)
1965 - Wayne Presley, Detroit, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1932 - Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
1933 - Geoffrey Leigh, CEO (Allied London Properties)
1880 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922)
1933 - Norman Bailey, British bass-baritone (Flying Dutchman)
1933 - Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment
1934 - Bryan Bass, headmaster (City of London School)
1882 - Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
1934 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician
1934 - Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
1887 - Anthony van Hoboken, Dutch musicologist (Haydn-catalog)
1887 - Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch
1887 - Juan Gris, Spain, cubist painter (Still Life Before an Open Window)
1968 - Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
1970 - Carl Pickens, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1938 - Christopher Glenn, NYC, news anchor (CBS Nightwatch)
1938 - Kenneth J Gregory, warden (Goldsmiths' College)
1895 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)
1971 - Demetrius DuBose, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1939 - Boris Ivanovich Tischenko, composer
1939 - Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer
1900 - Erich Fromm, Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (Sane Society)
1971 - Yasmeen Ghauri, Montrael Canada, model (Valentino Perfume)
1901 - Edmund Rubbra, composer [or May 23]
1941 - Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author
1942 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)
1972 - Ryan Kuwabara, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1943 - Peter Graves, supt minister (Westminster Central Hall)
1905 - Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)
1905 - Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
1973 - Igor Nikitin, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1944 - Salim Altaf, cricketer (Pakistan medium-pacer in 21 Tests 1967-78)
1907 - Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician
1947 - Barbara Rhodes, Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There)
1973 - Ninya Perna, Miss USA-Nevada (1997)
1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)
1948 - Wasim Bari, cricket wicket-keeper (Pakistan's most successful)
1911 - Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby league player
1911 - Charles Joseph A Russhon, USAF lt col/liaison (James Bond films)
1974 - Scott Galyon, linebacker (NY Giants)
1949 - Roland Lee, American Watercolor Artist
1911 - Richard Chapman, golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur)
1912 - Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1936)
1400 - The Tran Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Ho Quy Ly, a court official.
1708 - James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
1775 - American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech - "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" - at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia.
1801 - Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
1806 - After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
1821 - Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
1848 - The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1857 - Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1862 - The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
1868 - The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
1879 - War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
1889 - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India.
1905 - Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
1908 - American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
1909 - Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1919 - In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1931 - Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
1933 - The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1935 - Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
1939 - The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spisk Nov Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak-Hungarian War.
1940 - The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
1942 - World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
1956 - Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
1962 - NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative.
1965 - NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1978 - The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
1980 - Archbishop scar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
1982 - Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas Garca is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efran Ros Montt.
1983 - Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1989 - Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
1991 - The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
1994 - At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martnez.
1994 - Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
1994 - A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
1996 - Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
1999 - Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis Mara Argaa.
2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2003 - In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 654 Iraqi combatants are also killed.
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