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May 9 is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 236 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 1009Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
  • 1271Ninth Crusade, Edward I of England disembarks at Acre.
  • 1386England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor, making it the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.
  • 1450'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.
  • 1540Hernando de Alarcón sets sail on an expedition to the Gulf of California.
  • 1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch makes his first recorded appearance in England.[1]
  • 1671Thomas 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.
  • 1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.
  • 1864Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
  • 1865American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
  • 1865 – American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
  • 1873Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
  • 1874 – The first horsebus makes its début in the city of Mumbai, traveling two routes.
  • 1877Mihail Kogălniceanu 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.
  • 1887Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
  • 1901 – Australia opens its first national 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 are placed in the Index of Forbidden Books by the Vatican.
  • 1915World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
  • 1918 – World War I: Germany repels Britain's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend, Belgium.
  • 1920Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreshchatyk.
  • 1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)
  • 1927Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.[2]
  • 1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
  • 1940World 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 machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
  • 1942Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
  • 1945 – World War II: The final German Instrument of Surrender is signed at the Soviet headquarters in Berlin-Karlshorst.
  • 1945 – World War II: The German occupation of the Channel Islands comes to an end.
  • 1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II.
  • 1948Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.
  • 1949Rainier III becomes Prince of Monaco.
  • 1950Robert 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.
  • 1955Cold War: West Germany joins NATO.
  • 1958Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
  • 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 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
  • 1964Ngô Đình Cẩn, de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngô Đình Diệm before the family's toppling, is executed.
  • 1969Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo, by robbing two banks.
  • 1970Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House.
  • 1974Watergate scandal: The United States House Committee on the Judiciary opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon.
  • 1977Hotel Polen fire: A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.
  • 1979Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
  • 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. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.
  • 1980 – In Norco, California, five masked gunmen 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.
  • 1987LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
  • 1988New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.[2]
  • 1992Armenian forces capture Shusha, marking a major turning point in the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
  • 1992Westray Mine disaster kills 26 workers in Nova Scotia, Canada.
  • 1994Disappearance of Cleashindra Hall in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
  • 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 tear gas 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.
  • 2012 – A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java, Indonesia, killing 45 people.
  • 2015 – An Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashes near the Spanish city of Seville with three people on board killed.
  • 2015 – Russia stages its biggest ever military parade in Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.
  • 2018 – The historic defeat for Barisan Nasional, the governing coalition of Malaysia since the country's independence in 1957 in 2018 Malaysian general election.
  • 2018 – At the height of the 2018 East Africa floods, the Patel dam breaks in Solai, Kenya, killing 48 people and displacing another 2000.

Births[]

  • 1147Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shōgun (d. 1199)
  • 1170Valdemar II of Denmark (d. 1241)
  • 1540Maharana Pratap, Indian ruler (d. 1597)[3]
  • 1555Jerónima de la Asunción, Spanish Catholic nun and founder of the first monastery in Manila (d. 1630)[4]
  • 1594Louis Henry, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg, military leader in the Thirty Years' War (d. 1662)
  • 1617Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege (d. 1655)
  • 1740Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer and educator (probable;[5] d. 1816)
  • 1746Gaspard Monge, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1818)[6]
  • 1763János Batsányi, Hungarian-Austrian poet and author (d. 1845)
  • 1800John Brown, American activist (d. 1859)
  • 1801Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English politician, founded the town of Fleetwood (d. 1866)
  • 1814John Brougham, Irish-American actor and playwright (d. 1880)
  • 1823Frederick Weld, English-New Zealand politician, 6th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1891)
  • 1824Jacob ben Moses Bachrach, Polish apologist and author (d. 1896)
  • 1825James Collinson, Victorian painter (d. 1881)
  • 1836Ferdinand Monoyer, French ophthalmologist, invented the Monoyer chart (d. 1912)
  • 1837Adam Opel, German engineer, founded the Opel Company (d. 1895)
  • 1845Gustaf de Laval, Swedish engineer and businessman (d. 1913)
  • 1850Edward Weston, English-American chemist (d. 1936)
  • 1855Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch composer (d. 1932)
  • 1860J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (d. 1937)
  • 1866Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian economist and politician (d. 1915)
  • 1870Harry Vardon, British golfer (d. 1937)
  • 1873Anton Cermak, Czech-American captain and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)
  • 1874Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (d. 1939)
  • 1882George Barker, American painter (d. 1965)
  • 1882 – Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder and businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards (d. 1967)
  • 1883José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, author, and critic (d. 1955)
  • 1884Valdemar Psilander, Danish actor (d. 1917)
  • 1885Gianni Vella, Maltese artist (d. 1977)[7]
  • 1888Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (d. 1918)
  • 1888 – Rolf de Maré, Swedish art collector (d. 1964)
  • 1892Zita of Bourbon-Parma, last Empress of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1989)
  • 1893William Moulton Marston, American psychologist and author (d. 1947)
  • 1895Richard Barthelmess, American actor (d. 1963)
  • 1895 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
  • 1895 – Frank Foss, American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
  • 1896Richard Day, Canadian-American art director and set decorator (d. 1972)
  • 1900Maria Malicka, Polish stage and film actress (d. 1992) [8]
  • 1904Conrad Bernier, Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator (d. 1988)
  • 1905Lilí Álvarez, Spanish tennis player, author, and feminist (d. 1998)[9]
  • 1906Eleanor Estes, American librarian, author, and illustrator (d. 1988)
  • 1907Jackie Grant, Trinidadian cricketer (d. 1978)
  • 1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and author (d. 1976)
  • 1907 – Baldur von Schirach, German politician (d. 1974)
  • 1909Don Messer, Canadian violinist (d. 1973)
  • 1909 – Gordon Bunshaft, American architect, designed the Solow Building (d. 1990)
  • 1911Harry Simeone, American music arranger, conductor, and composer (d. 2005)
  • 1912Pedro Armendáriz, Mexican-American actor (d. 1963)
  • 1912 – Per Imerslund, Norwegian-German soldier and author (d. 1943)
  • 1912 – Géza Ottlik, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1990)
  • 1914Patricia Swift Blalock, American librarian (d.2011)[10]
  • 1914 – Denham Fouts, American prostitute (d. 1948)
  • 1914 – Thanat Khoman, Thai politician and diplomat (d. 2016)
  • 1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini, Italian conductor and director (d. 2005)
  • 1914 – Hank Snow, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
  • 1916William Pène du Bois, American author and illustrator (d. 1993)
  • 1917Fay Kanin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
  • 1918Moisis Michail Bourlas, Greek soldier and educator (d. 2011)
  • 1918 – Orville Freeman, American soldier and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2003)
  • 1918 – Mike Wallace, American journalist, media personality and one-time game show host (d. 2012)
  • 1919Clifford Chadderton, Canadian soldier and journalist (d. 2013)[11]
  • 1920William Tenn, English-American author and academic (d. 2010)[12]
  • 1920 – Richard Adams, English novelist (d. 2016)
  • 1921Daniel Berrigan, American priest, poet, and activist (d. 2016)
  • 1921 – Sophie Scholl, German activist (d. 1943)
  • 1921 – Mona Van Duyn, American poet and academic (d. 2004)
  • 1923Johnny Grant, American radio host and producer (d. 2008)
  • 1924Bulat Okudzhava, Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)
  • 1926John Middleton Murry, Jr., English soldier, pilot, and author (d. 2002)
  • 1927Manfred Eigen, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
  • 1928Ralph Goings, American painter (d. 2016)
  • 1928 – Pancho Gonzales, American tennis player (d. 1995)
  • 1928 – Barbara Ann Scott, Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
  • 1930Joan Sims, English actress (d. 2001)
  • 1930 – Kalifa Tillisi, Libyan historian and linguist (d. 2010)
  • 1931Vance D. Brand, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut
  • 1932Conrad Hunte, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
  • 1934Alan Bennett, English screenwriter, playwright, and novelist
  • 1935Nokie Edwards, American guitarist (d. 2018)
  • 1935 – Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
  • 1936Terry Downes, British boxer and former world middle-weight champion (d. 2017)
  • 1936 – Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
  • 1936 – Glenda Jackson, English actress and politician
  • 1937Sonny Curtis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1937 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum
  • 1937 – Dave Prater, American singer (d. 1988)
  • 1938Charles Simić, Serbian-American poet and editor
  • 1939Ralph Boston, American long jumper
  • 1939 – Ion Țiriac, Romanian tennis player and manager
  • 1939 – Ken Warby, Australian motorboat racer
  • 1939 – Giorgio Zancanaro, Italian baritone
  • 1939 – John Ogbu, Nigerian-American anthropologist and professor (d. 2003)
  • 1940James L. Brooks, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1941Dorothy Hyman, English sprinter
  • 1941 – Danny Rapp, American musician (d. 1983)
  • 1942John Ashcroft, American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General
  • 1942 – Tommy Roe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1943Vince Cable, English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
  • 1943 – Anders Isaksson, Swedish historian and journalist (d. 2009)
  • 1943 – Colin Pillinger, English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014)
  • 1944Richie Furay, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1945Gamal El-Ghitani, Egyptian journalist and author (d. 2015)
  • 1945 – Jupp Heynckes, German footballer and manager
  • 1945 – Steve Katz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
  • 1946Candice Bergen, American actress and producer
  • 1946 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (d. 2002)
  • 1947Yukiya Amano, Japanese diplomat (d. 2019)
  • 1948Hans Georg Bock, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic
  • 1948 – John Mahaffey, American golfer
  • 1948 – Steven W. Mosher, American social scientist and author
  • 1948 – Calvin Murphy, American basketball player and radio host
  • 1949Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist
  • 1949 – Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat, 17th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (d. 2013)
  • 1951Alley Mills, American actress
  • 1953Bruno Brokken, Belgian high jumper
  • 1955Meles Zenawi, Prime Minister of Ethiopia (d. 2012)
  • 1955 – Anne Sofie von Otter, Swedish soprano and actress
  • 1956Wendy Crewson, Canadian actress and producer
  • 1956 – Jana Wendt, Australian television host
  • 1958Graham Smith, Canadian swimmer
  • 1959Andrew Jones, New Zealand cricketer
  • 1960Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
  • 1961Sean Altman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1961 – John Corbett, American actor
  • 1962Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter
  • 1962 – Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter
  • 1963Joe Cirella, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1965Ken Nomura, Japanese race car driver and sportscaster
  • 1965 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
  • 1966Mark Tinordi, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1968Masahiko Harada, Japanese ski jumper
  • 1968 – Graham Harman, American philosopher and academic
  • 1968 – Ruth Kelly, British economist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
  • 1968 – Marie-José Pérec, French sprinter[13]
  • 1968 – Neil Ruddock, English international footballer and television personality[14]
  • 1970Doug Christie, American basketball player
  • 1970 – Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer & all time top scorer for Chinese national team[15]
  • 1970 – Ghostface Killah, American rapper and actor
  • 1971Jason Lee, English footballer and manager
  • 1971 – Dan Chiasson, American poet and critic
  • 1972Megumi Odaka, Japanese actress and singer
  • 1973Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan runner
  • 1973 – Leonard Myles-Mills, Ghanaian sprinter
  • 1975Tamia, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
  • 1975 – Brian Deegan, American motocross rider
  • 1977Averno, Mexican wrestler
  • 1977 – Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
  • 1977 – Svein Tuft, Canadian cyclist
  • 1978Leandro Cufré, Argentinian footballer
  • 1978 – Santiago Dellapè, Argentinian-Italian rugby player
  • 1978 – Aaron Harang, American baseball player
  • 1978 – Marwan al-Shehhi, Emirati terrorist (d. 2001)
  • 1979Pierre Bouvier, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1979 – Rosario Dawson, American actress
  • 1979 – Andrew W.K., American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, motivational speaker, and music producer
  • 1980Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
  • 1980 – Angela Nikodinov, American figure skater
  • 1980 – Tony Schmidt, German race car driver
  • 1980 – Jo Hyun-jae, South Korean actor
  • 1981Bill Murphy, American baseball player
  • 1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis, Greek footballer
  • 1983Giacomo Brichetto, Italian footballer
  • 1983 – Alan Campbell, British sculler
  • 1983 – Christos Marangos, Cypriot footballer
  • 1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
  • 1983 – Gilles Müller, Luxembourgian tennis player
  • 1983 – Tyler Lumsden, American baseball player
  • 1983 – Leandro Rinaudo, Italian footballer
  • 1984Prince Fielder, American baseball player
  • 1984 – Chase Headley, American baseball player
  • 1985Jake Long, American football player
  • 1985 – Henrique Andrade Silva, Brazilian footballer
  • 1987Scott Bolton, Australian rugby league player
  • 1987 – Kevin Gameiro, French footballer
  • 1987 – Vitaliy Pushkar, Ukrainian race car driver
  • 1988J. R. Fitzpatrick, Canadian race car driver
  • 1989Ellen White, English footballer
  • 1991Majlinda Kelmendi, Kosovar judoka
  • 1992Dan Burn, English footballer[16]
  • 1996Saron Läänmäe, Estonian footballer
  • 1996 – Grace Reid, Scottish diver[17]

Deaths[]

  • 729Osric, king of Northumbria
  • 893Shi Pu, warlord of the Tang Dynasty
  • 909Adalgar, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen
  • 934Wang Sitong, Chinese general and governor (b. 892)
  • 1280Magnus VI of Norway
  • 1315Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)
  • 1329John Drokensford, Bishop of Bath and Wells
  • 1443Niccolò Albergati, Italian Cardinal and diplomat (b. 1373)
  • 1446Mary of Enghien (b. 1368)
  • 1590Charles de Bourbon French cardinal and pretender to the throne (b. 1523)
  • 1657William Bradford, English-American politician, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)
  • 1707Dieterich Buxtehude, German-Danish organist and composer (b. 1637)
  • 1736Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese judge and politician (b. 1658)
  • 1745Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
  • 1747John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish field marshal and diplomat, British Ambassador to France (b. 1673)
  • 1760Nicolaus Zinzendorf, German bishop and saint (b. 1700)
  • 1789Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval, French general and engineer (b. 1715)
  • 1790William Clingan, American politician (b. 1721)
  • 1791Francis Hopkinson, American judge and politician (b. 1737)
  • 1805Friedrich Schiller, German poet, playwright, and historian (b. 1759)
  • 1850Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)
  • 1850 – Garlieb Merkel, Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)
  • 1861Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (b. 1805)
  • 1864John Sedgwick, American general and educator (b. 1813)
  • 1889William S. Harney, American general (b. 1800)
  • 1906Oscar von Gebhardt, German theologian and academic (b. 1844)
  • 1914C. W. Post, American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)
  • 1915François Faber, Luxembourgian-French cyclist and soldier (b. 1887)
  • 1915Anthony Wilding, New Zealand tennis player and cricketer (b. 1883)
  • 1918George Coșbuc, Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)
  • 1931Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
  • 1933John Arthur Jarvis, English swimmer (b. 1872)
  • 1935Ernst Bresslau, German zoologist (b. 1877)
  • 1938Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (b. 1866)
  • 1942Józef Cebula, Polish priest and saint (b. 1902)
  • 1944Han Yong-un, Korean poet and social reformer (b. 1879)
  • 1949Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)
  • 1950Esteban Terradas i Illa, Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)
  • 1957Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)
  • 1957 – Ezio Pinza, Italian actor and singer (b. 1892)
  • 1959Bhaurao Patil, Indian activist and educator (b. 1887)
  • 1965Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)
  • 1968Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1892)
  • 1968 – Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie (b. 1894)
  • 1968 – Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1883)
  • 1968 – Finlay Currie, British actor (b. 1878)[18]
  • 1970Walter Reuther, American union leader (b. 1907)
  • 1976Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
  • 1976 – Ulrike Meinhof, German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
  • 1977James Jones, American novelist (b. 1921)
  • 1978Giuseppe Impastato, Italian journalist and activist (b. 1948)
  • 1978 – Aldo Moro, Italian lawyer and politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
  • 1979Cyrus S. Eaton, Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)
  • 1979 – Eddie Jefferson, American singer and lyricist (b. 1918)
  • 1980Kate Molale, South African activist (b. 1928)
  • 1981Nelson Algren, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1909)
  • 1983Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer (b. 1891)
  • 1985Edmond O'Brien, American actor and director (b. 1915)
  • 1986Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)
  • 1987Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)
  • 1993Penelope Gilliatt, English novelist, short story writer, and critic (b. 1932)
  • 1994Elias Motsoaledi, South African activist (b. 1924)
  • 1997Rawya Ateya, Egyptian captain and politician (b. 1926)
  • 1997 – Marco Ferreri, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
  • 1998Alice Faye, American actress and singer (b. 1915)
  • 1998 – Talat Mahmood, Indian singer and actor (b. 1924)
  • 2003Russell B. Long, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (b. 1918)
  • 2004Akhmad Kadyrov, Chechen cleric and politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (b. 1951)
  • 2004 – Alan King, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
  • 2004 – Brenda Fassie, South African singer (b. 1964)
  • 2007Dwight Wilson, Canadian soldier (b. 1901)
  • 2008Jack Gibson, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1929)
  • 2008 – Baptiste Manzini, American football player (b. 1920)
  • 2008 – Nuala O'Faolain, Irish journalist and producer (b. 1942)
  • 2008 – Pascal Sevran, French singer, television host, and author (b. 1945)
  • 2009Chuck Daly, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
  • 2010Lena Horne, American singer, actress, and activist (b. 1917)
  • 2010 – Otakar Motejl, Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
  • 2011Wouter Weylandt, Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)
  • 2012Bertram Cohler, American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic (b. 1938)
  • 2012 – Geoffrey Henry, Cook Islander lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
  • 2012 – Vidal Sassoon, English-American hairdresser and businessman (b. 1928)
  • 2013Ramón Blanco Rodríguez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1952)
  • 2013 – George M. Leader, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
  • 2013 – Humberto Lugo Gil, Mexican lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (b. 1933)
  • 2013 – Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (b. 1921)
  • 2014Giacomo Bini, Italian priest and missionary (b. 1938)
  • 2014 – Harlan Mathews, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
  • 2014 – Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, Indian politician, 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1935)
  • 2014 – Mary Stewart, English-Scottish author and poet (b. 1916)
  • 2015Edward W. Estlow, American football player and journalist (b. 1920)
  • 2015 – Kenan Evren, Turkish general and politician, 7th President of Turkey (b. 1917)
  • 2015 – Elizabeth Wilson, American actress (b. 1921)
  • 2017Robert Miles, a Swiss-born Italian record producer, composer, musician and DJ (b. 1969)
  • 2018Per Kirkeby, Danish painter, poet, film maker and sculptor (b. 1938)
  • 2019Freddie Starr, English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor (1943) [19]
  • 2020Little Richard, American singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1932)

Holidays and observances[]

  • Anniversary of Dianetics (Church of Scientology)
  • Christian feast day:
    • Beatus of Lungern
    • Beatus of Vendome
    • Christopher (Eastern Orthodox Church)
    • George Preca
    • Gerontius of Cervia
    • Gregory of Nazianzen (The Episcopal Church (US) and traditional Roman Catholic calendar)
    • Nicolaus Zinzendorf (Lutheran)
    • Pachomius the Great
    • Tudy of Landevennec
    • May 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Commemoration of the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands related observances:
    • Liberation Day, commemorating the end of the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. (Guernsey and Jersey)
    • National Day (Alderney)
  • Europe Day, commemorating the Schuman Declaration. (European Union)
  • Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (Soviet Union, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan)
    • Victory and Peace Day, marks the capture of Shusha (1992) in the Nagorno-Karabakh War, and the end of World War II. (Armenia)
    • Victory Day over Nazism in World War II (Ukraine)

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