partypossum.com May 15th

May 15th

Holidays and Festivals

International Day of Families (International)
National Bike to Work Day * (see below)
Independence Day (Paraguay) * (see below)
Police Officer's Memorial Day * (see below)
Mother's Day (Paraguay) * CLICK HERE
Teacher's Day (Mexico and South Korea)

Hallvard Vebjornsson (Norway)
Day of Slovenian Army (Slovenia)
International Virtual Assistants Day
National Defense Transportation Day
Nakba Day (Palestinian communities)
National Chocolate Chip Day
National Safety Dose Day
Nylon Stockings Day
National Pizza Party Day
Earliest date on which Armed Forces Day can fall, while May 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Saturday of May. (United States)
La Corsa dei Ceri begins on the eve of the feast day of Saint Ubaldo. (Gubbio)
Mercuralia, in honor of Mercury. (Roman Empire)
Christian Feast Day of Achillius of Larissa
Christian Feast Day of Athanasius of Alexandria (Coptic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Dymphna
Christian Feast Day of Hilary of Galeata
Christian Feast Day of Isidore the Laborer, celebrated with festivals in various countries, the beginning of bullfighting season in Madrid.
Christian Feast Day of Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (Roman Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Reticius (Roman Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Peter, Andrew, Paul, and Denise (Roman Catholic Church)
* Rhododendron Festival - Mentone, Alabama
* Festival of Masks - Los Angeles
* Seattle Cheese Festival - Seattle
* Bike to Work Day- The Earliest date on which Bike-to-Work Day can fall, while May 21 is the latest; celebrated on the third Friday of May. (United States)
* Independence Day (Paraguay) celebrates the independence of Paraguay from Spain in 1811. Celebrations for the anniversary of the independence begin on Flag Day, 14 May.
* Police Officer's Memorial Day AKA Peace Officers Memorial Day (United States)

Flag Day (Macedonia), Tecnically Flag Day in Macedonia is celebrated every 1st and 15th of every month starting May 15th - that seems excessive * CLICK HERE

Fête de la Fusain Translation: Spindle or Shrub Day (French Republican) The 26th day of the Month of Floréal in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too...
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you."
- Traditional Irish

Drink of The Day

GodMother

2 Parts Vodka
1 Part Amaretto
Pour over ice in a Rocks Glass

Wine of The Day

Pend d'Oreille (2007) Meyer Reserve, Lawrence Vineyard
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Columbia Valley
$40

Beer of The Day

Westmalle Trappist Tripel
Brewer - Brouwerij Westmalle
Style - Tripel
ABV -9.5%

Joke of The Day

Ryan and his wife are having hard financial times, so they decide she'll become a hooker.
She's not quite sure what to do, so Ryan says, "Stand in front of that bar and pick up a guy. Tell him a hundred bucks. If you've got a question, I'll be parked around the corner.
She's not there five minutes when a guy pulls up and says, "How much?"
"A hundred dollars."
"Damn. All I've got is thirty."
"Hold on," she says and runs back to Ryan. "What can he get for thirty dollars?"
"A handjob," Ryan replies.
She runs back and tells the guy all he gets for thirty dollars is a handjob.
He says okay, she gets in the car, he unzips his pants, and out pops a simply HUGE male unit.
She stares at it for a minute, and then says, "I'll be right back."
She runs back around the corner and says breathlessly, "Ryan, can you loan this guy seventy bucks?"

Quote of The Day

"Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty."
- Actual sign In a Budapest zoo

Whiskey of The Day

(ri)1 Rye Whiskey
$50

May Observances

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease) Awareness Month
APS (Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome) Awareness Month
American Wetlands Month
Arthritis Awareness Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Awareness of Medical Orphans Month
Bicycle Safety Month
Borderline Personality Disorder Month
Brain Tumor Awareness Month
Carrots and Cauliflower Month
Celiac Awareness Month
Clean Air Month
Community Living Month (Ontario, Canada)
Creative Beginnings Month
Date Your Mate Month
EcoDriving Month
Family Wellness Month
Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
Freedom Shrine Month
Gardening for Wildlife Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Gifts From The Garden Month
Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month
Good Car-Keeping Month, Natl
Grapefruit and Kiwi Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Heal the Children Month
Healthy Vision Month
High Blood Pressure Education Mont
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
Internal Audit Awareness Month, Intl
International Audit Month
International Business Image Improvement Month
International Civility Awareness Month
International Multiple Sclerosis Month
International Victorious Woman Month
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Latino Books Month
(World) Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
National Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month
National Arthritis Month
National Barbecue Month
National Better Hearing and Speach Month
National Bike Month
National Blood Pressure Month
National Cancer Research Month
National Correct Posture Month
National Egg Month
National Electric Safety Month
National Family Month (5/12 to 6/16)
National Foster Care Month
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Hamburger Month
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
National Lupus Awareness Month
National Meditation Month
National Mediterranean Diet Month
National Mental Health Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Motorcycle Safety Month
National Moving Month
National Neurofibromatosis (NF) Awareness Month
National Older Americans Month
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Photograph Month
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
National Physiotherapy Month
National Prepare To Buy a Home Month
National Preservation Month
National Recommitment Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa (Food) Month
National Smile Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Sweet Vidalia Onions Month
National Teen Self-Esteem Month
National Tuberous Sclerosis Month
National Vinegar Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
National Youth Traffic Safety Month
Personal History Month
Potatoes and Limes Month
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month (5/12-6/16)
REACT Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sweet Vidalia Month, Natl
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Awareness Month
Teen CEO Month
Teen Self Esteem Month
Tennis Month
Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month (5/15 - 6/15)
Toxic Encephalopathy and Chemical Injury Awareness Month
Ultra-violet Awareness Month
Women's Health Care Month
Young Achiever Month
Young Achievers of Tomorrow Month

Observances this Week

Salvation Army Week, May 8th through May 15th

National Women's Health Week, 7 Days beginning with Mother's Day
Reading Is Fun Week, Second Full Week in May
Universal Family Week, Second Full Week in May
Food Allergy Awareness Week, Second Full Week in May
National Return To Work Week, Second Full Week in May
Salute to Moms 35+ Week, Second Full Week in May
Work At Home Moms Week, Second Full Week of May
National Stuttering Awareness Week, Second Full Week of May

Public Service Recognition Week, Full Week of May 15th
National Police Week, Full Week of May 15th
Arbour Week, (Prince Edward Island, Canada)Third Week in May * CLICK HERE
National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week, Third Week in May
American Craft Beer Week, 7 Days Starting the Second Monday in May
World Trade Week, 12 Days Starting Second Monday in May
Children's Book Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May
National Etiquette Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May
National Transportation Week, Full Week of the Third Friday in May

Historical Events on May 15th

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756 Abd-al-Rahman I becomes emir of Cordova Spain
884 Marinus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1004 Henry II the Saint crowned king of Italy
1213 English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury
1248 Archbishop Konrad v Hochstaden lays cornerstone for Koln cathedral
1252 Pope Innocent IV issues the papal bull ad exstirpanda, which authorizes, but also limits, the torture of heretics in the Medieval Inquisition.
1492 Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1514 Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.
1525 German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
1525 The battle of Frankenhausen ends the Peasants' War.
1536 Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason, adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.
1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.
1572 Louis van Nassau & huguenots occupy Valenciennes
1602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1610 Parliament of Paris appoints Louis XIII (8) as French king
1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).
1625 16 rebellious farmers hanged in Vocklamarkt Upper-Austria
1648 The Treaty of Westphalia signed.
1648 Treaty of Munster, Spain & Netherlands ratified
1665 Pope Alexander VII convicts Jansenisme
1672 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1701 The War of the Spanish Succession begins.
1702 War of Spanish Succession, 1st American conflict between England & France
1718 James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents the world's first machine gun.
1730 Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min)
1755 Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.
1756 The Seven Years' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
1776 The Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.
1791 Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1792 France declares war on Kingdom of Sardinia, War of the First Coalition.
1793 Diego Marín Aguilera flies a glider for "about 360 meters", at a height of 5-6 meters, during one of the first attempted flights.
1796 Napoleon enters Milan in triumph, First Coalition.
1796 France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris
1800 George III survives two assassination attempts in one day.
1800 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles
1811 Paraguay declares independence from Spain.
1817 Ambonese uprising against Dutch authority, under T Matulesia
1817 Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1829 Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith
1836 Francis Baily observes "Baily's Beads" during annular solar eclipse
1849 Philadelphia Turngemeinde founded
1849 Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and crush the republican government of Sicily
1850 The Bloody Island Massacre takes place in Lake County, CA, in which a large number of Pomo Indians in Lake County were slaughtered by a regiment of the United States Calvary, led by Nathaniel Lyon.
1851 Rama IV (Phra Chomklao Chaoyuhua) is crowned King of Thailand (1851-68)
1856 2nd SF Vigilance Committee organized
1858 Opening of the present Royal Italian Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
1862 Battle of Princeton WV
1862 Battle of Drewry's Bluff (Ft Darling), Virginia
1862 Confederate cruiser The Alabama runs aground near London
1862 Department of Agriculture created
1862 Gen Benjamin F Butler delegates "Woman Order" of NO to be his whores
1862 President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
1862 Union Grounds, Brooklyn, 1st baseball enclosure, opens
1864 Battle of New Market, Virginia students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate Army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley, American Civil War.
1864 Battle of Resaca, Georgia ends, American Civil War.
1864 Skirmish at Marksville (Avoyelles) (Red River Campaign)
1868 Dutch government of Zuylen van Nijevelt falls
1869 In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
1876 2nd Kentucky Derby, Bobby Swim aboard Vagrant wins in 2:38.25
1882 May Laws-Czar Alexander III bans Jews from living in rural Romania
1883 Italy signs military treaty with Austria-Hungary & Germany
1885 Canadian Meti insurgent Louis Reil captured, Saskatchewan
1891 British Central African Protectorate (now Malawi) forms
1891 Jules Massenets opera "Griselde," premieres in Paris
1891 Operations begin at Philips & Co in Holland
1891 Rerum Novarum, the first document of the Catholic Social Teaching tradition, is published by Pope Leo XIII.
1894 20th Kentucky Derby, Frank Goodale aboard Chant wins in 2:41
1896 Tornado kills 78 in Texas
1897 The Greek army retreats with heavy losses in the Greco-Turkish War.
1902 Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft
1902 Portugal bankrupt by revolt in Angola
1905 Las Vegas, Nevada, is founded when 110 acres (0.4 km²), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
1905 Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville
1905 The Russian minelayer Amur laid a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sank Japan's battleship Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew.
1906 NY Giants' Hooks Wiltse strikes out 4 batters in 1 inning
1910 The last time a major earthquake happened on the Elsinore Fault Zone.
1911 British house of commons accept Parliament Bill
1911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
1911 The Georgios Averof cruiser is bought by Greece.
1911 The United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
1912 37th Preakness, Clarnence Turner on Colonel Holloway wins in 1:56.6
1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended
1914 Bolivia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1914 Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris
1915 A T & T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
1916 Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front
1918 1st regular airmail service (between NY & Washington DC) inaugurated
1918 43rd Preakness, Johnny Loftus aboard War Cloud wins in 1:53.6
1918 44th Preakness, Charles Peak aboard Jack Hare Jr wins in 1:53.4
1918 Greeks troops lands at Smyrna
1918 The Finnish Civil War ends.
1918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game
1919 Bkln Dodgers score 10 runs in 13th to beat Reds 10-0
1919 Greek invasion of Izmir. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks. The responsible are punished by the Greek Commander Aristides Stergiades. Hasan Tahsin fires the first shot of the Turkish War of Independence.
1919 The Winnipeg General Strike begins. By 11:00 a.m., almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
1920 Council of Lithuania adjourns as the newly elected Constituent Assembly of Lithuania meets for the first time in Kaunas.
1920 Soccer team ADO '20 forms in Heemskerk
1923 Cooperation of Dutch Molen forms
1926 52nd Kentucky Derby, Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8
1926 British general strike ends, but mine workers go on strike
1928 Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in the cartoon "Plane Crazy"
1929 A fire at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio kills 123.
1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleve Ohio)
1930 Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
1931 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Quadragesimo anno
1932 The May 15 Incident, in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
1933 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
1934 Dept of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1934 Karlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia, names himself fascist dictator.
1935 Pirates beat Phillies 20-5
1935 The Moscow Metro is opened to public.
1936 Amy Johnson arrives in Croydon England after a record-breaking return flight to Cape Town, S Afr in record 4d16h
1937 63rd Preakness, Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 1:58.4
1938 Paul-Henri Spak forms red coalition of Belgium
1940 German armour division moves into Northern France
1940 German troops occupy Amsterdam, Gen Winkelman surrenders, After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation, World War II.
1940 McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1940 Nazi's capture General Dutch Persbureau (ANP)
1940 USS Sailfish (SS-192) recommissioned, originally the USS Squalus.
1941 1st British turbojet flies
1941 British attack Halfaya-pass & Fort Capuzzo in Egypt & Libya
1941 Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak; Yanks lose 13-1
1941 Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid Jewish music
1942 Gasoline 1st rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
1942 Nazi occupiers in Neth arrests 2,000 Dutch officers
1942 In the United States, a bill creating the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) is signed into law, World War II.
1943 All India Gorkha League came into existence in Darjeeling.
1943 Halifax bombers sinks U-463
1943 Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern (or Third International).
1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising ends, in it's destruction
1944 14,000 Jews of Munkacs Hungary deported to Auschwitz
1944 Cincinnati Red Clyde Shoun no-hits Boston Braves, 1-0
1944 Eisenhower, Montgomery, Churchill & George VI discuss D-Day plan
1944 Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of Patriarch Throne
1945 The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia, World War II.
1948 28 year old British Mandate over Palestine ends
1948 74th Preakness, Eddie Arcaro aboard Citation wins in 2:02.4
1948 Australia scores 721 runs in one day v Essex, world record
1948 Bradman scores 187 Aust v Essex, 124 minutes, 33 fours 1 five
1948 Following the demise of the British Mandate of Palestine, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia invade the territory partitioned for the Arab state by the British Mandate of Palestine thus starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1951 AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders
1951 The Polish cultural attache in Paris, Czeslaw Milosz, asks the French government for political asylum.
1952 Detroit Tiger Virgil Trucks no-hits Wash Senators, 1-0
1952 Johnny Longden becomes 2nd jockey to ride 4,000 winners
1953 Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago
1953 Osip Zadkines monument to "The destroyed city" unveiled in Rotterdam
1954 KGLO (now KIMT) TV channel 3 in Mason City, IA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 Austrian state treaty signed making Austria independent again
1955 Building of space travel center at Baikonur Kazachstan begins
1955 KPUA (now KGMD) TV channel 9 in Hilo, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 The Austrian Independence Treaty is signed.
1955 The first ascent of Makalu, the world's fifth highest mountain.
1955 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 Vienna Treaty, Brit, France, US & USSR restores Austria's independence
1957 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)
1957 18,000 people at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
1957 At Malden Island in the Pacific, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple. The device fails to detonate properly.
1958 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
1959 100th anniversary of 1st college baseball game, between Amherst & Williams Teams reenact the original contest
1960 Chic Cub Don Cardwell no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1960 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 7th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad
1960 KHVO TV channel 13 in Hilo, HI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4 into Earth orbit; later recovery failed
1960 Taxes took 25% of earnings in US
1961 "Bonanza" by Al Caiola Orchestra hits #19
1961 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1961 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra
1962 US marines arrive in Laos
1963 Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1963 The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
1963 Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1964 Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp
1964 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 91st Preakness, Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2
1965 Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1965 Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1966 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex v Somerset
1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational
1966 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
1967 Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1967 Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman
1968 "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival
1968 1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago
1968 A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36
1968 Paul McCartney & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host
1969 Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
1969 California Governor Ronald Reagan has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot called Bloody Thursday.
1970 Beatles' last LP, "Let It Be," is released in US
1970 Elizabeth Hoisington & Anna Mae Mays named 1st female US generals
1970 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
1970 Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
1970 President Richard Nixon appoints Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington the first female United States Army Generals.
1970 South-Africa excluded from Olympic play
1971 "70, Girls, 70" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 35 performances
1971 97th Preakness, Gustavo Avila aboard Canonero II wins in 1:54
1971 Radio Nordsee International's ship bombed
1972 "Hard Job Being God" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 6 performances
1972 Bus plunges into Nile River killing 50 pilgrims. (Minia Egypt)
1972 George Wallace shot & left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
1972 In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to be become President.
1972 Ryukyu Is & Daito Is returned to Japan after 27 yrs of US control
1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0
1974 Ma'alot massacre, In an Arab (Mail truck) terrorist attack and hostage taking at an Israeli school, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22 schoolchidren.
1974 Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president
1975 11th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1975 Emmy 2nd Daytime Award & Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation
1976 102nd Preakness, John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55
1976 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1976 Fonz Song by Heyettes hits #91
1976 Kentucky Moonrunner by Cledus Maggard hits #85
1977 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1980 1st trans-US balloon crossing
1980 Flyers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
1980 Shawn Weatherly, (SC (will win Miss Universe), crowned 29th Miss USA
1981 "Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island" airs
1981 2nd City TV's (SCTV) network premier (NBC)
1981 George Harrison releases "All Those Years Ago" in UK
1981 Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto
1981 SCTV Network 90, sequel to Second City Television debut on NBC
1981 Soyuz 40 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Rumanian) to Salyut 6
1982 108th Preakness, Jack Kaenel aboard Aloma's Ruler wins in 1:55.4
1983 Lenore Muraoka wins LPGA United Virginia Bank Golf Classic
1983 Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion
1985 Everton wins 25th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1986 Argentine ex-president Galtieri sentenced to 12 years
1987 1st Energiya Launch (USSR)
1987 Record archery score for a pair over 24 hrs, is set
1987 The Soviet Union launches the Polyus prototype orbital weapons platform. It fails to reach orbit.
1988 "Carrie" closes at Virginia Theater NYC after 5 performances
1988 "Gospel at Colonus" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 61 perfs
1988 2nd American Comedy Award: Robin Williams & Tracey Ullman
1988 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1988 After more than eight years of fighting, the Red Army begins its withdrawal from Afghanistan (115,000 troops).
1989 "Chu Chem" closes at Ritz Theater NYC after 44 performances
1989 Blue Jays fire manager Jimy Williams & replace him with Cito Gaston
1989 Maxwell House coffee runs ads during "Roe vs Wade" movie despite threat of boycott by right-to-lifers
1989 Soviet Pres Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs
1989 US Basketball League cancels its summer schedule
1990 "Cemetery Club" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 56 perfs
1990 "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $825 million
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,822.45
1990 Edmonton Oiler Klima beats Boston Bruins in 6th period
1990 Mona Grudt, 19, of Norway, crowned 39th Miss Universe
1990 Portrait of Doctor Gachet by Vincent van Gogh is sold for a record $82.5 million, the most expensive painting at the time.
1991 Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama"
1991 Edith Cresson becomes France's first female prime minister.
1991 Manchester United wins 31th Europe Cup II at Rotterdam
1991 Nepal premier Bhattarai resigns
1991 Pres Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A's-Balt Oriole game
1991 Red Sox & White Sox play then slowest 9 inning game (4:11)
1992 Colombo '92 opens in Genoa Italy
1992 NY dept store chain Alexanders announces closing of all 11 stores
1992 Part of Cruger Avenue in Bronx renamed Regis Philbin Avenue
1993 119th Preakness, Mike Smith aboard Prairie Bayou wins in 1:56.6
1993 Actress Jane Seymour weds actor James Kesch
1993 Alamodome in San Antonio TX opens
1993 Montreal Expo retires their 1st #, #10 for Rusty Staub
1994 40th McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Laura Davies
1995 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1997 ABC News & Starwave Corp launch ABCNEWS.com
1997 STS 84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission
1997 The United States government acknowledges the existence of the "Secret War" in Laos and dedicates the Laos Memorial in honor of Hmong and other "Secret War" veterans.
2008 California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
2010 Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
2012 Eurozone economy narrowly avoids recession
2012 Greece's fifth attempt to a form a coalition government fails and new June elections are scheduled
2013 In a study published in the scientific journal Nature, researchers from Oregon Health & Science University in the United States describe the first creation of human embryonic stem cells by cloning
2013 The Eurozone records a recession for the sixth straight quarter

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Born on May 15th

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1565 Henrick de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam
1567 Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, Italian composer (L'Orfeo) (d. 1643)
1608 René Goupil, French Catholic missionary (Canadian Martyrs) (d. 1642)
1720 Maximilian Hell, Slovakian astronomer (d. 1792)
1749 Levi Lincoln, Sr., American revolutionary, statesman, politician, and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1820)
1754 Pierre Dutillieu, composer
1759 Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer
1764 Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer
1767 Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (d. 1843)
1773 Clemens L Metternich, Austrian prince
1773 Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (d. 1859)
1786 General Dimitris Plapoutas, a Revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence (d. 1864)
1791 Baron Floris A van Hall, Dutch minister of Justice/Finance
1795 Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
1802 Isaac Ridgeway Trimble, Major General (Confederate Army) (d. 1888)
1807 Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata, composer
1808 Gottfried Herrmann, composer
1808 Michael William Balfe, composer
1810 Jacob Thompson, (Confederacy) (d. 1885)
1813 Stephen Heller, composer
1817 Debendranath Tagore, Indian religious reformer (d. 1905)
1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden, Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 Laurence Simmons Baker, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d.1907)
1830 Martinus W van der Aa, author/Dutch head-editor (The Time)
1841 Giovanni Bolzoni, composer
1845 Ilja (Elias) Metsjnikov, USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
1848 Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (d. 1926)
1855 Eduard earl of Keyserling, German writer (Dritte Stiege)
1855 Graf Keyserling, writer
1856 L(yman) Frank Baum, American children's book author (Wizard of Oz) (d. 1919)
1856 Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountaineer and guide (d. 1917)
1857 Williamina Fleming, Scottish-born astronomer (d. 1911)
1859 Pierre Curie, French physicist (Nobel Prize laureate 1903) (d. 1906)
1860 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson, 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
1862 Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian dramatist, narrator, and novelist (La Ronde) (d. 1931)
1865 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion)
1873 Nikolay N Tcherepnin, St Petersburg, composer of ballets, songs
1878 Francisco Pujol, composer
1880 Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church)
1883 Stanley Robert Marchant, composer
1888 Jean Wahl, French philosopher
1889 Bessie Hillman, founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America)
1890 Katherine Anne Porter, American author (Ship of Fools) (d. 1980)
1891 Chief Nipo T Strongheart, Yakima WA, US indian actor (Pony Soldier)
1891 David Vogel, Ukraine, author (Huwelijksleven)
1891 Fritz Feigl, Austrian chemist (spot tests) (d. 1971)
1891 Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (Black Snow) (d. 1940)
1892 Jimmy Wilde, boxer (d. 1969)
1893 Michel Gusikoff, composer
1893 Stanley Lupino, English comic (Cheer Up, Over She Goes)
1895 Astrid Zachrison, Swedish supercentenarian (d. 2008)
1895 Charles Lamont, SF CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars)
1895 William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (d. 1941)
1898 Arlette-Leonie Arletty (Bathiat), French model and actress (Maxime) (d. 1992)
1899 Jean-Etienne Valluy, French general (d. 1970)
1901 Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1901 Xavier Herbert, Australian author (d. 1984)
1902 Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1976)
1903 Anny Ondra, Czechoslovakia, actress (Blackmail, Manxman)
1903 Maria Reiche, German-born mathematician and archaeologist (d. 1998)
1904 Clifton Fadiman, Bkln NY, TV host (Information Please, Quiz Kids)
1904 Gustav-Adolf Boltenstein, Sweden, equest dressage (Oly-gold-1952, 56)
1905 Abraham Zapruder, American businessman who unexpectedly filmed the assassination of John F. Kennedy. (d. 1970)
1905 Joseph Cotten, American actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse) (d. 1994)
1907 Josef Alexander, composer
1907 Phillip Piratin, communist
1907 Sukhdev Thapar, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1931)
1908 Lars-Eric Vilner Larsson, Akarp Sweden, composer (Linden)
1909 Clara Solovera, Chilean folk musician (d. 1992)
1909 James Mason, British actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil) (d. 1984)
1909 Rodolfo Cornejo, composer
1910 Constance Cummings, British actress (John & Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour) (d. 2005)
1910 Robert F Wagner, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65)
1911 Herta Oberheuser, Nazi doctor (d. 1978)
1911 Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Galitzianer Cowboy)
1911 Max Frisch, Swiss author (Stiller, Biedermann) (d. 1991)
1912 Alexis Kagame, Rwanda, priest/writer
1912 Alexis Nihon, Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
1912 Arthur Victor Berger, American composer (Ideas of Order) (d. 2003)
1914 Jack Pepys, immunologist
1914 Pierre Froidebise, composer
1914 Turk Broda, ice hockey goaltender (d. 1972)
1915 Gus Viseur, French button accordionist (d. 1974)
1915 Hilda Bernstein, British-born South African author, artist, and activist (d. 2006)
1915 Mario Monicelli, Italian director and screenwriter
1915 Maurice B Latey, commentator (BBC World Service)
1915 Paul A Samuelson, American economist (Nobel Prize laureate 1970, John Bates Clark Meda 1947) (d. 2009)
1916 Bill Williams, Bkln NY, actor (Starlit Time, Date With the Angels)
1916 Vera Gebuhr, Danish actress
1917 Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist
1918 Eddy Arnold, American country music singer (Cattle Call, Anytime) (d. 2008)
1918 Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (Dr No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables) (d. 2009)
1919 Charles Palmer, cricketer (one Test 1955, later MCC president)
1920 Hugh Henry Home Popham, aviator/writer/poet
1922 Enrico Berlinguer, Italian communist/sec-gen (CPI) [or May 25]
1922 Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
1923 John Lanchbery, English composer (d. 2003)
1923 Johnny Walker, Indian actor (d. 2003)
1923 Richard Avedon, American photographer (1957 ASMP award) (d. 2004)
1924 Andrea Gyarmati, Hungary water polo player (Olympics, 1948-60)
1924 Don Kenyon, cricketer (England batsman in 8 Tests 1951-55)
1924 Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist
1924 Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (d. 1971)
1924 Ursula Thiess, Hamburg, actress (Monsoon, Bengal Brigade, Americano)
1925 Andrey Yakoulevich Eshpay, composer
1925 Emmanuel Ghent, composer
1925 Jos Jacobs, Flemish director (Madonna of Nedermunster)
1926 Anthony Shaffer, British playwright (Sleuth), twin brother to Peter Shaffer (d. 2001)
1926 Clermont Pepin, composer
1926 Peter Shaffer, British playwright (5 Finger Exercise, Equus), twin brother to Anthony Shaffer
1929 Jack Flavell, cricketer (England pace bowler in 4 Tests 1961-64)
1930 Jasper Johns, American painter and sculptor (Green Target)
1931 David Healy, actor (Supergirl, Doomsday Gun, Patton, Be My Guest)
1931 F Korthals Altes, Dutch minister of Justice (VVD)
1931 Ken Venturi, American golfer
1932 John Glen, Thames England, actor (Spy Who Loves Me, Backfire)
1934 David Robin Francis Guy Greville, 8th Duke of Warwick
1935 Ted Dexter, cricketer (in Milan Superb England batsman of 60's)
1935 Utah Phillips, American labor organizer and folk singer (d. 2008)
1936 Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian-born actress (Cinderfella)
1936 Donald (Anthony) Moffitt, US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)
1936 Jean Balissat, composer
1936 Paul Zindel, American writer (Effects of Gamma Rays on Marigolds) (d. 2003)
1936 Ralph Steadman, British cartoonist
1936 Wavy Gravy, American clown and activist
1937 Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
1937 Trini López, Trinidadian musician, guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
1938 Diane Nash, American 1960s Civil Rights Movement leader
1938 Lenny Welch, American singer (Breaking up is Hard to Do)
1938 Mireille Darc, French actress
1939 Brian Hartley, mathematician
1939 Dorothy Shirley, British athlete
1940 Beth Stone, LPGA golfer
1940 Don Nelson, American basketball coach, currently of the Golden State Warriors
1940 Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer
1940 Mireille Darc, Toulon France, actor (Week End, Hurried Man)
1940 Paul Rudd, Boston Mass, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
1940 Roger Ailes, American businessman
1941 Cyril Cooray, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test umpire on intl panel)
1941 K.T. Oslin, American musician, country singer (80's Ladies)
1941 Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)
1941 Richard Edward Wilson, composer
1942 Anthony Wayne England, Indianapolis, PhD/astronaut (STS 51-F)
1942 Doug Lowe, 35th Premier of Tasmania
1942 Jusuf Kalla, vicepresident of Indonesia and Chairman of the Golkar Party.
1943 Harve Brosten, comedy writer/producer/director (All in the Family)
1944 Bill Alter, Missouri State Senator
1944 Gunilla Hutton, Goteborg Sweden, actress (Petticoat Junction)
1944 Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
1944 Tich, rocker
1944 Ulrich Beck, German sociologist
1945 Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown
1945 Lasse Berghagen, Swedish singer
1946 Chazz Palminteri, Bronx NY, actor (Jade, Diabolique, Bronx Tale)
1947 Graeham Goble, Australian musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (Little River Band)
1948 Brian Eno, British keyboardist and record producer (On Land)
1948 Kathleen Sebelius, American politician, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
1948 Yutaka Enatsu, Japanese professional baseball pitcher
1949 Eric J Beekes, actor/singer (Hunk)
1949 Frank L Culbertson Jr, Charleston SC, Cmdr USN/astro (STS-38)
1949 Wendy Pritchard, Australian women's field hockey team manager (Oly-96)
1950 Nicholas Hammond, American actor
1951 Dennis Frederiksen, rocker (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
1951 Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1952 Chazz Palminteri, American actor, writer and director
1952 Rick Waits, baseball pitcher (Rangers, Indians, Twins)
1953 George Brett, American baseball player, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP)
1953 Mike Oldfield, British composer (Tubular Bells)
1954 Bob Beauchemin, Winnipeg Canada, golfer (West Coast Open-1982, 83)
1954 Robert P. Harrison, American thinker
1955 Lee Horsley, American actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
1956 Alice Miller, Marysville CA, LPGA golfer (1985 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1956 Andreas Loverdos, Greek lawyer and politician
1956 Dan Patrick, American sportscaster (ESPN)
1957 Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque Lehendakari (Prime Minister)
1957 Kevin Von Erich, American professional wrestler
1958 Ron Simmons, American professional wrestler
1959 Andrew Eldritch, British singer and songwriter (The Sisters of Mercy)
1959 Kaokor Galaxy, Thai boxer
1959 Luis Perez-Sala, Spanish racing driver
1960 Rhonda Burchmore, Australian Entertainer
1960 Rob Bowman, American film director
1961 Anne Kelly, LPGA golfer
1961 Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (d. 2002)
1961 Melle Mel, American musician
1962 Lisa Curry-Kenny, Australian Ironwoman
1963 George Heidweiler, Suriname, Dutch painter
1963 Grant Herslov, LA California, actor (Wayne-Spencer, Under One Roof)
1964 Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
1964 Pamela Dukes, Bronx NY, discus thrower
1964 Pierre Trentin, France, 1K time trials (Olympic-gold-1968)
1965 André Abujamra, Brazilian film score composer
1965 Dan Stryzinski, NFL punter (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 Glen Hnatiuk, Selkirk Manitoba, Nike golfer (1992 Mississippi Gulf)
1965 Jeff Rochlin, Bkln NY, actor (Cutting Class, Splitz, Taps)
1965 Raí, Brazilian footballer
1966 Paul Ysebaert, Sarnia, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1966 Pete Wiggs, British musician (Saint Etienne)
1967 John Smoltz, baseball player, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, 1996 Cy Young)
1967 Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
1967 Omar Vizquel, Caracas Venezuela, shortstop (Seattle Mariners, Indians)
1968 Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politician
1968 James "Jim" Neil, Buffalo NY, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 Leroy Hoard, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Seth Putnam, American musician
1968 Todd Porter, NJ, actor (Hamilton-Whiz Kids)
1969 Asalah Nasri, Syrian singer
1969 Emmitt Smith, American football player, running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
1969 Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player
1969 Holly McPeak, Manhattan Beach CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 Artie Smith, NFL defensive end (Cin Bengals)
1970 Cory Philpot, CFL running back (BC Lions)
1970 Desmond Howard, American football player, NFL receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars, Oakland Raiders)
1970 Frank de Boer, Dutch football player (Ajax)
1970 Keith Tower, NBA center (LA Clippers)
1970 Martin Rossiter, Welsh Musician
1970 Prince Be, rapper (PM Dawn)
1970 Rod Smith, American football player, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 Ronald de Boer, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1970 Tony Brown, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 Phil Pfister, American strength athlete
1971 Scott Shipley, Bremerton Wash, slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96)
1972 David Charvet, French actor (Melrose Place)
1972 Patrick Pothuizen, soccer player (Vitesse)
1972 Tirrell Greene, WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Troy Drake, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 Emilia Tsoulfa, Greek sailing champion
1973 Suzannah Bianco, San Jose CA, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-alt-96)
1973 Vic"Tori"a Davey Spelling, LA Ca, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)
1974 A J Hinch, Wavely IA, baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 Addilson dos Santos, soccer player (Sparta)
1974 Ahmet Rodan Zappa, American musician, son of Frank Zappa (Z, 2 Hip 4 TV)
1974 Shiney Ahuja, Indian actor
1974 Vassilis Kikilias, Greek basketball player
1975 Peter Iwers, Swedish Musician
1975 Ray Lewis, American football player, NFL linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1976 Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer
1976 Eric DuBose, Bradenton Fl, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
1976 Ryan Leaf, American football player
1976 Torraye Braggs, American basketball player
1976 Tyler Walker, baseball player
1978 Amy Chow, American gymnast (Olympics-gold/silver-96)
1978 Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress
1978 David Krumholtz, American actor (Billy Kulchak-Chicago Sons)
1978 Dwayne DeRosario, Canadian footballer
1978 Edu, Brazilian footballer
1978 Krissy Taylor, American model (d. 1995)
1980 Josh Beckett, American baseball player, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1980 Rocky Marquette, American actor
1981 Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress
1981 Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player
1981 Patrice Evra, French-Senegalese footballer
1981 Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne, eventer
1982 Alex Breckenridge, American actress
1982 Jessica Sutta, American dancer, singer and actress (The Pussycat Dolls)
1982 Segundo Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer
1982 Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
1982 Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete
1983 Devin Bronson, American guitarist (Avril Lavigne)
1984 Sérgio Jimenez, Brazilian racing driver
1985 Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
1986 Adam Moffat, Scottish football player
1986 Kyle Loza,Freestyle Motocross Rider
1986 Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer
1987 Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
1987 Ersan Ilyasova, Turkish basketball player
1987 Jennylyn Mercado, Filipina actress and singer
1989 Sunny, Korean singer
1990 Joe Mattock, English footballer
1994 Andrew Higgins, Canadian Soccer Keeper
1995 Ksenia Sitnik, Belarusian singer

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392 Valentinianus II, emperor of Rome (375-392), murdered
884 Marinus I (Martinus II), Pope (882-84)
913 Hatto I, Archbishop of Mainz
1036 Emperor Go-Ichijo of Japan (b. 1008)
1157 Yury Dolgoruky, Russian prince
1174 Nur ad-Din, King of Syria (1146-1174) (b. 1118)
1381 Eppelein von Gailingen, German robber baron
1470 Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1482 Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician & mapmaker
1585 Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
1591 Dimitri Ivanovitch (Tsarevich), Russian son of czar Ivan IV, murdered (b. 1582)
1609 Giovanni Croce, Italian composer (b. 1557)
1621 Henrick de Keyser, Amsterdam's master builder
1622 Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer
1634 Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (b. 1585)
1685 Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana
1698 Marie Champmeslé, French actress (b. 1642)
1699 Edward Petre, English Jesuit and privy councilor (b. 1631)
1700 John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (b.1636)
1703 Charles Perrault, French writer (b. 1628)
1714 Roger Elliott, British general and Governor of Gibraltar
1740 Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
1746 Giovanni Antonio Ricieri, composer
1760 Alaungpaya, King of Burma (b. 1711)
1761 Jacob Mossel, governor-general (Dutch East Indies)
1773 Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (b. 1710)
1782 Marquis of Pombal, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1699)
1785 Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer
1801 Louis C count Barbiano de Belgioioso, Austrian diplomat
1821 John Wall Calcott, composer
1822 Christian Ludwig Dieter, composer
1823 Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer
1824 Alexander Campbell, composer
1832 Carl Friedrich Zelter, composer
1833 Edmund Kean, English actor (Shylock)
1842 Emanuel A D M J count de las Cases, French historian (Napoleon)
1845 Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican Head of State (b. 1800)
1845 Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/write
1855 Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader
1872 Thomas Hastings, composer
1873 Alexander J Cuza, monarch of Moldavia/Romania
1879 Gottfried Semper, German architect (b. 1803)
1886 Emily Dickinson, American poet (b. 1830)
1889 Alfred Potocki, premier Austrian/governor/viceroy of Galicia
1892 Arthur Hodister, British ivory seller (Heart of Darkness), murdered
1895 Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack)
1899 Francisque Sarcey, French writer (Le Temps)
1924 Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1852)
1926 Mohammed VI Vahideddin, last sultan of Turkey (1918-22)
1932 Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1933 Ernest Torrence, actor (I Cover the Waterfront)
1935 Kazimir Malevich, Polish/Ukrainian artist (b. 1878)
1937 Phillip Snowden, British politician (b. 1864)
1940 Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19)
1940 Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (b. 1902)
1940 Willem A Bonger, Dutch criminologist (Race & Crime), suicide
1945 Charles Williams, British writer (b. 1886)
1945 Major Courtney, US medal of honor marine, dies in battle of Sugar Loaf
1948 Edward Flanagan, American priest and founder of Boys Town (b. 1886)
1952 Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue)
1952 Italo Montemezzi, composer
1954 William March, American writer (b. 1893)
1956 Austin Osman Spare, British artist and magician (b. 1886)
1958 Michael G the Boer, historian (Harbor of Amsterdam)
1959 Berend van den Amstel, [Bernard CED Hattink], Dutch actor
1964 Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist
1964 Vladko Macek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia deputy prime minister (b. 1879)
1965 Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies
1967 Edward Hopper, American painter (House by Railroad) (b. 1882)
1967 Jaromir Fiala, composer
1971 Tyrone Guthrie, English director, producer, and writer (b. 1900)
1972 Nigel Green, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File)
1973 Willem H Rassers, Dutch cult anthropologist (Pandji-Novel)
1976 Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea)
1978 Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1982 Gordon Smiley, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1984 Francis Schaeffer, American theologian, philosopher, and pastor (b. 1912)
1984 Lionel Charles Robbins, British economist
1985 Jackie Curtis, actor (Underground USA), dies of a drug overdose
1986 Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)
1986 Theodore White, American writer, journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer) (b. 1915)
1987 John Baur, museum director
1987 Wynne Gibson, actor (Night After Night, Aggie Appleby)
1988 Andrew Duggan, actor (Jigsaw, Firehouse)
1988 Greta Nissen, actress (Ambassador Bill)
1989 John Waldo Green, American songwriter (b. 1908)
1991 Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Malian writer (b. c. 1900)
1991 Andreas Floer, German mathematician (b. 1956)
1991 Bud Freeman, jazz tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 84
1991 Freddie Paris, dies
1991 Reno Brown, dies
1991 Ronald Lacey, British actor (Raiders of Lost Ark, Next Victim) (b. 1935)
1992 Bruce Hopkins, performer/director
1992 Jovy Marcelo, Filipino race car driver (b. 1965)
1992 Robert Morris Page, US physicist (radar)
1993 Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese writer, poet, and diplomat (b. 1933)
1994 Frederik baron van Pallandt, Danish singer (Nina & F), murdered
1994 Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (Armand in Camille) (b. 1905)
1994 Ronnie Potsdammer, singer/song/text writer/programmer
1994 Royal Dano, actor (Ghoulies 2),
1994 (Henry) John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan)
1995 Edouard Dermit, actor (Testament of Orpheus)
1995 Eric Porter, British actor (Crucible, Hennessy) (b. 1928)
1995 Johnny Van Derrick, jazz violinist
1995 Perry Lederman, folk singer
1996 Charles B. Fulton, American jurist (b. 1910)
1996 George M Tindley, songwriter/vocalist
1998 Earl "the Goat" Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2003 George Francis, British gangster (b. 1940)
2003 June Carter Cash, American musician and singer (b. 1929)
2005 Alan B. Gold, Quebec Chief Justice (b. 1917)
2007 Jerry Falwell, American evangelist (b. 1933)
2007 Yolanda King, American actress and activist, daughter of Martin Luther King, Jr. (b. 1955)
2008 Alexander Courage, composer of original Star Trek theme (b. 1919)
2008 Astrid Zachrison, Swedish supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2008 Robert Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer, younger brother of Joey Dunlop (b. 1960)
2008 Tommy Burns, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
2009 Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Australian actor (b. 1923)
2009 Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (b. 1964)
2010 Besian Idrizaj, Footballer (b. 1987)
2010 Loris Kessel, Swiss racing driver (b. 1950)
2013 Henrique Rosa, President of Guinea-Bissau (2003–2005) (b. 1946)
2011 Bob Flannigan, American jazz singer (The Four Freshmen)
2012 Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author
2014 Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian politician
2015 Garo Yepremian, American NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins)

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