May 5

Events

• 553 - The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
• 1215 - Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
• 1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
• 1494 - Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
• 1640 - King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
• 1654 - Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
• 1672 - In preparation for the Franco-Dutch War, Louis XIV of France personally inspects his troops at Charleroi in one of the most magnificent displays of military power in the seventeenth century.
• 1762 - Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
• 1789 - In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
• 1809 - Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
• 1809 - The Swiss canton of Aargau allows citizenship to Jews.
• 1811 - Peninsular War: In the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro, the British-Portuguese Army repels an attempt by the French Army of Portugal to relieve the besieged city of Almeida.
• 1821 - Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
• 1835 - The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
• 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi sets sail from Genoa, leading the expedition of the Thousand to conquer the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and giving birth to the Kingdom of Italy.
• 1862 - Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
• 1864 - American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
• 1865 - American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
• 1865 - American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
• 1866 - Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
• 1877 - American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
• 1886 - The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
• 1891 - The Music Hall in New York City has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
• 1904 - Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
• 1905 - The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
• 1912 - Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
• 1920 - Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
• 1925 - Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
• 1927 - To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
• 1936 - Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• 1940 - World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London.
• 1940 - World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
• 1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
• 1945 - World War II: The German surrender at Lüneburg Heath becomes effective, encompassing all German armed forces opposing the 21st Army Group in northwestern Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands.
• 1945 - World War II: Dönitz gives Löhr permission to seek an armistice with the Western Allies to preserve a communist free Austria and recognising first, from a German standpoint, the separation of Austria from Germany undoing the Anschluss.
• 1945 - World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
• 1945 - World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
• 1945 - World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, the only battle in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
• 1946 - The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
• 1950 - Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned as King of Thailand.
• 1955 - The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
• 1961 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
• 1964 - The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
• 1972 - Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
• 1973 - Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59, an as-yet unbeaten record.
• 1980 - Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
• 1981 - Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
• 1985 - Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
• 1987 - Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
• 1991 - A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
• 1992 - Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia : Eighteen people are killed and 2,300 are injured when one of the terraces collapses before a football match between SC Bastia and Olympique de Marseille.
• 1993 - Three eight-year-old boys are murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, Ultimately leading to the conviction of the West Memphis Three.
• 1994 - The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
• 1994 - American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
• 1998 - A Peruvian Air Force Boeing 737 operating for Occidental Petroleum crashes on approach to Alférez FAP Alfredo Vladimir Sara Bauer Airport in Andoas, Peru, killing 75 people.
• 2006 - The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
• 2007 - Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
• 2010 - Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
• 2014 - Eleven people are missing after a Chinese cargo ship collides with a Marshall Islands registered container ship off the coast of Hong Kong.
• 2014 - Twenty-two people die after two boats carrying refugees collide in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Greece.
• 2019 - A Russian jet plane burst into flames while attempting an emergency landing at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow killing at least 41 people.
• 2020 - The National Telecommunications Commission issued a Cease and desist order to ABS-CBN Corporation to stop the operation of its free TV and radio stations.

  Births

• 1210 - Afonso III of Portugal
• 1282 - Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena
• 1310 - Preczlaw of Pogarell, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław
• 1352 - Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine
• 1479 - Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru
• 1504 - Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal
• 1530 - Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman
• 1542 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire
• 1582 - John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg
• 1684 - Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles
• 1747 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1749 - Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer
• 1764 - Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician
• 1800 - Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher
• 1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author
• 1818 - Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist
• 1826 - Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III
• 1830 - John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company
• 1832 - Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian
• 1833 - Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic
• 1834 - Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and architect
• 1843 - William George Beers, Canadian dentist and patriot
• 1846 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1858 - John L. Leal, American physician
• 1859 - Charles B. Hanford, American Shakespearean actor
• 1864 - Nellie Bly, American journalist and author
• 1865 - Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet
• 1866 - Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman
• 1869 - Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator
• 1869 - Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor
• 1874 - Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales
• 1882 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist
• 1883 - Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India
• 1883 - Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician
• 1884 - Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach
• 1885 - Kingsley Fairbridge, South African-Australian scholar and politician
• 1887 - Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient
• 1889 - Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and soldier
• 1890 - Christopher Morley, American journalist and author
• 1892 - Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist
• 1898 - Elsie Eaves, American engineer
• 1898 - Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player
• 1899 - Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter
• 1900 - Helen Redfield, American geneticist
• 1903 - James Beard, American chef and author
• 1905 - Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator
• 1906 - Charles Exbrayat, French author and screenwriter
• 1907 - Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk, Bukovinian journalist and author
• 1908 - Kurt Böhme, German opera singer
• 1909 - Miklós Radnóti, Hungarian poet and author
• 1910 - Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator
• 1911 - Gilles Grangier, French director and screenwriter
• 1911 - Andor Lilienthal, Russian-Hungarian chess player
• 1911 - Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist
• 1913 - Duane Carter, American race car driver
• 1914 - Tyrone Power, American actor
• 1915 - Alice Faye, American actress and singer
• 1916 - Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India
• 1917 - Pío Leyva, Cuban singer-songwriter
• 1918 - Egidio Galea, Maltese Roman Catholic priest
• 1919 - Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece
• 1921 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 - Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish nurse and humanitarian
• 1923 - William C. Campbell, American golfer
• 1923 - James Gilbert, Scottish television producer and director
• 1923 - Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician
• 1923 - Richard Wollheim, English philosopher and academic
• 1925 - Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician
• 1927 - Pat Carroll, American actress
• 1929 - Ilene Woods, American actress
• 1930 - Hans Abramson, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1931 - Greg, Belgian author and illustrator
• 1932 - Stan Goldberg, American illustrator
• 1932 - Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsled racer
• 1933 - Igor Kashkarov, Russian high jumper
• 1933 - Collie Smith, Jamaican cricketer
• 1934 - Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian politician, 2nd President of Côte d'Ivoire
• 1934 - Victor Garland, Australian accountant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs
• 1935 - Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and magazine editor
• 1935 - Bernard Pivot, French journalist, talk show host, and producer
• 1935 - Robert Rehme, American film producer
• 1936 - Sandy Baron, American actor and comedian
• 1936 - Patrick Gowers, English composer and educator
• 1936 - Ervin Lázár, Hungarian author
• 1937 - Delia Derbyshire, English musician, arranger and composer
• 1938 - Michael Murphy, American actor
• 1938 - Barbara Wagner, Canadian figure skater and coach
• 1939 - Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist
• 1940 - Lance Henriksen, American actor
• 1940 - Michael Lindsay-Hogg, American director and producer
• 1941 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian ice hockey player
• 1942 - István Bujtor, Hungarian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 - Jean Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician
• 1942 - Hugh Courtenay, 18th Earl of Devon, English politician
• 1942 - Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 - Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter
• 1943 - Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and author
• 1944 - Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer
• 1944 - John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor and screenwriter
• 1944 - Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director
• 1945 - Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and critic
• 1945 - Dianne Willcocks, English sociologist and academic
• 1946 - Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist
• 1946 - Aydın Menderes, Turkish politician
• 1948 - Bella van der Spiegel-Hage, Dutch cyclist
• 1948 - Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter
• 1949 - Eppie Bleeker, Dutch speed skater
• 1950 - Rex Caldwell, American golfer
• 1950 - Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer
• 1951 - Rudolf Finsterer, German rugby player and coach
• 1951 - Toomas Vilosius, Estonian physician and politician, 2nd Minister of Social Affairs of Estonia
• 1952 - Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco
• 1952 - Jorge Llopart, Spanish race walker
• 1952 - Willem Witteveen, Dutch scholar and politician
• 1955 - Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer
• 1956 - Steve Scott, American runner and coach
• 1957 - Richard E. Grant, Swazi-English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 - Peter Howitt, English actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1957 - Aad van Mil, Dutch water polo player
• 1958 - Ron Arad, Israeli colonel and pilot
• 1958 - Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1958 - Vanessa Downing, Australian actress
• 1958 - Jack Wishna, American businessman, co-founded Rockcityclub
• 1959 - Bobby Ellsworth, American singer and bass player
• 1959 - Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1959 - Steve Stevens, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1959 - Brian Williams, American journalist
• 1960 - Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1961 - Marg Downey, Australian actress
• 1961 - Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician
• 1961 - Rob Williams, American basketball player
• 1962 - Kaoru Wada, Japanese composer and conductor
• 1963 - James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1963 - Simon Rimmer, English chef and author
• 1963 - Scott Westerfeld, American author and composer
• 1964 - Jean-François Copé, French politician, French Minister of Budget
• 1964 - Heike Henkel, German high jumper
• 1964 - Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer
• 1964 - Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1964 - Efrat Mishori, Israeli poet and filmmaker
• 1965 - Glenn Seton, Australian race car driver
• 1966 - Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer
• 1966 - Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
• 1966 - Josh Weinstein, American screenwriter and producer
• 1967 - Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator
• 1967 - Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician
• 1969 - Pieter Muller, South African rugby player
• 1970 - Kyan Douglas, American television host and author
• 1970 - Todd Newton, American game show host
• 1971 - Harold Miner, American basketball player
• 1971 - Mike Redmond, American baseball player and manager
• 1972 - James Cracknell, English rower
• 1972 - Žigmund Pálffy, Slovakian ice hockey player
• 1972 - Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1975 - Meb Keflezighi, American runner
• 1976 - Dieter Brummer, Australian actor
• 1976 - Jean-François Dumoulin, Canadian race car driver
• 1976 - Anastasios Pantos, Greek footballer
• 1976 - Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster
• 1978 - Morgan Pehme, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1979 - Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
• 1980 - Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
• 1980 - Hank Green, American entrepreneur, educator, and vlogger
• 1980 - DerMarr Johnson, American basketball player
• 1981 - Craig David, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
• 1981 - Danielle Fishel, American actress
• 1982 - Ferrie Bodde, Dutch footballer
• 1982 - Wouter D'Haene, Belgian sprinter
• 1982 - Randall Gay, American football player
• 1982 - Corey Parker, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1983 - James Anyon, English cricketer
• 1983 - Henry Cavill, English actor
• 1983 - Mabel Gay, Cuban triple jumper
• 1983 - Annie Villeneuve, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1983 - Scott Ware, American football player
• 1984 - Johanna Hedva, Korean-American artist and genderqueer activist
• 1984 - Wade MacNeil, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1984 - Christian Valdez, Mexican footballer
• 1985 - Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer
• 1985 - Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer
• 1985 - Tsepo Masilela, South African footballer
• 1985 - Marcos Rogério Oliveira Duarte, Brazilian footballer
• 1985 - Terrence Wheatley, American football player
• 1987 - Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer
• 1988 - Adele, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 - Mervyn Westfield, English cricketer
• 1989 - Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1991 - Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer
• 1991 - Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer
• 1992 - Loïck Landre, French footballer
• 1994 – Celeste, English singer
• 1998 - Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
• 1999 - Nathan Chen, American figure skater
• 1999 - Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer

  Deaths

• 465 - Gerontius, Archbishop of Milan
• 1194 - Casimir II the Just, Polish son of Bolesław III Wrymouth
• 1243 - Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, English justiciar
• 1306 - Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine general
• 1309 - Charles II of Naples
• 1316 - Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England
• 1338 - Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor
• 1380 - Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr
• 1432 - Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer
• 1525 - Frederick III, Elector of Saxony
• 1582 - Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange
• 1586 - Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland
• 1671 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom
• 1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter and linguist
• 1700 - Angelo Italia, Italian architect
• 1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1760 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician
• 1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar
• 1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher
• 1821 - Napoleon, French general and emperor
• 1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony
• 1833 - Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter
• 1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician
• 1859 - Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic
• 1860 - Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop
• 1883 - John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria
• 1892 - August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic
• 1896 - Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician
• 1902 - Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet
• 1907 - Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter
• 1913 - Henry Moret, French painter
• 1916 - John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel
• 1916 - Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player
• 1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1924 - A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician
• 1931 - Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver
• 1942 - Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician
• 1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player
• 1957 - Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician
• 1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer
• 1965 - Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer
• 1965 - John Waters, American director and screenwriter
• 1971 - Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse
• 1973 - Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic
• 1977 - Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany
• 1981 - Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker
• 1983 - Horst Schumann, German physician
• 1983 - John Williams, English-American actor
• 1985 - Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge
• 1988 - Michael Shaara, American author and academic
• 1993 - Irving Howe, American literary and social critic
• 1994 - Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator
• 1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach
• 1999 - Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter
• 2000 - Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist
• 2000 - Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach
• 2001 - Morris Graves, American painter and educator
• 2001 - Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes
• 2002 - Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia
• 2002 - Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies
• 2002 - George Sidney, American director and producer
• 2003 - Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander
• 2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician
• 2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer
• 2006 - Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 2007 - Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser
• 2008 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins
• 2008 - Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist
• 2010 - Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano
• 2010 - Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria
• 2011 - Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier
• 2011 - Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager
• 2011 - Dana Wynter, British actress
• 2012 - Surendranath, Indian cricketer
• 2012 - Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg
• 2012 - Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher
• 2012 - George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager
• 2012 - Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications
• 2013 - Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author
• 2013 - Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author
• 2014 - Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State
• 2015 - Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author
• 2015 - Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician
• 2017 - Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician
• 2017 - Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician

  Holidays and observances

• Children's Day
• Christian feast day:
• * Angelus of Jerusalem
• * Aventinus of Tours
• * Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice
• * Frederick the Wise
• * Hilary of Arles
• * Jutta of Kulmsee
• * Stanisław Kazimierczyk
• * May 5
• Cinco de Mayo
• Constitution Day
• Europe Day
• Feast of al-Khadr or Saint George
• Indian Arrival Day
• International Midwives' Day
• Liberation Day
• Lusophone Culture Day
• World Portuguese language day
• Martyrs' Day
• Patriots' Victory Day
• Senior Citizens Day
• Tango no sekku