May 14th
Holidays and Festivals
National Unification Day (Liberia)
Rose Day (Korea) * CLICK HERE
Hastings Banda's Birthday (Malawi)
Dance Like a Chicken Day
Christian Feast Day of Engelmund of Velsen
Christian Feast Day of Matthias the Apostle (Roman Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Michael Garicoits
Christian Feast Day of Mo Chutu of Lismore (Roman Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Victor and Corona
Toast of The Day
"Let’s drink the liquid of amber so bright,
Let’s drink the liquid with foam snowy white,
Let’s drink the liquid that brings all good cheer,
Oh, where is the drink like old-fashioned beer?"
- 19th Century Toast
Drink of The Day
Lorraine
2 parts Gin
1 part Lillet
1 part Grand Marnier
Stir with ice, Strain, and Serve in a Cocktail Glass
Wine of The Day
Jarvis Petite Verdot
Style - Petite Verdot
Napa Valley
$55
Beer of The Day
Golden Pilsner
Brewer - Morgan Street Brewery, St. Louis, MO
Style - Bohemian Style Pilsener
Joke of The Day
Sitting in the bar Scotty asked his 40-year-old
friend Paddy, "How come you aren't married?"
Paddy: "I haven't found the right woman yet."
Scotty: "So what are you looking for?"
Paddy: "Oh she's got to be real pretty, - a good
cook and house keeper, she's got to know how to
handle money, have a nice and pleasant
personality -- and money, she's got to have
money, and a nice big house wouldn't hurt either."
Scotty: "A woman like that would be crazy to marry YOU!"
Paddy: "Oh, it's okay, if she is crazy."
Quote of The Day
"We are the people our parents warned us about."
- Anonymous
Whiskey of The Day
$55
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 Stuttering Awareness Week, Second Week in May
National Hospital And Healthcare Week, Second Week in May
National Running and Fitness Week, Second Week in May
National Nursing Home Week, Second Week in May or Starts Mother's Day to Saturday
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
National Police Week, Full Week of May 15th
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 14th
649 Theodore I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1027 Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France
1264 Baron's War fought in England
1264 At the Battle at Lewes Simon van Leicester beats English king Henry III, Henry III of England is captured and forced to sign the Mise of Lewes, making Simon de Montfort the de facto ruler of England.
1483 Coronation of Charles VIII of France "Charles l'Affable".
1509 Battle of Agnadello, French beat Venitians in Northern Italy
1576 Dutch Council of State replaced by Council of Beroerten
1590 Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League
1607 1st permanent English settlement in New World, Jamestown, Virginia
1608 The Protestant Union is founded in Auhausen.
1610 Henry IV of France is assassinated bringing Louis XIII to the throne.
1638 Admiral Adam Westerwolt conquerors Batticaloa, Ceylon
1643 Four-year-old Louis XIV becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Louis XIII.
1664 Turkish great Kiprulu attacks 120,000 Donau soldiers
1702 England & Netherlands declares war on France & Spain
1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Warsaw
1747 A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at first battle of Cape Finisterre.
1767 British government disbands Americans import duty on tea
1787 Delegates gather in Phila to draw up US constitution
1796 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
1796 Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
1800 Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premieres in Weimar
1804 The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois (St Louis) and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River for the Pacific Coast.
1811 Paraguay gains independence from Spain (Natl Day)
1832 Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides," premieres
1835 Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile
1836 The Treaties of Velasco are signed in Velasco, Texas.
1842 The Illustrated London News, the world's first illustrated weekly newspaper, begins publication
1845 Utrecht-Arnhem Railway opens
1853 Gail Borden patents her process for condensed milk
1861 The Canellas meteorite, an 859-gram chondrite-type meteorite, strikes the earth near Barcelona, Spain.
1862 Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patents chronograph
1863 The Battle of Jackson takes place in the American Civil War.
1868 End of the Battle of Utsunomiya Castle, former Shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikko, Japanese Boshin War.
1870 The first game of rugby in New Zealand is played in Nelson between Nelson College and the Nelson Rugby Football Club.
1874 1st admission charge at a football game, Harvard beats McGill (Montreal) 3-0
1878 Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1879 The first group of 463 Indian indentured labourers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
1884 Anti-Monopoly party forms in US
1885 11th Kentucky Derby, Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37.25
1886 12th Kentucky Derby, Paul Duffy aboard Ben Ali wins in 2:36.50
1888 14th Kentucky Derby, George Covington aboard MacBeth II wins in 2:38.00
1889 The children's charity the NSPCC is launched in London.
1890 16th Kentucky Derby, Isaac Murphy aboard Riley wins in 2:45
1892 Vitesse 1892 soccer team forms in Arnhem
1894 Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170 adjoining buildings
1896 Lowest US temperature in May recorded (-10°F-Climax, Colo)
1897 Great-Britain signs treaty with emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia
1903 President Theodore Roosevelt visits SF
1904 1st Olympics in US are held (St Louis)
1905 2nd official intl soccer match, Neth beats Belgium 4-0
1906 Flagpole at the White Sox ballpark breaks during pennant-raising
1908 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1910 Canada authorizes issuing of silver dollar coins
1913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
1913 New York Governor William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100 million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
1913 Wash Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings
1914 Chic Jim Scott no-hits Cleve, gives up 2 hits in 10th & loses 1-0
1918 Sunday baseball is made legal in Wash DC
1919 45th Preakness, Johnny Loftus aboard Sir Barton wins in 1:53
1919 Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical In hac tanta
1920 Giants inform Yankees that the lease allowing them to play in the Polo Grounds will not be renewed at end of 1920 season
1920 Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit
1921 Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death
1921 Mussolini's fascists obtains 29 parliament seats
1925 Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is published.
1927 "Ain't She Sweet?" hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Ben Bernie
1927 53rd Kentucky Derby, Linus McAtee aboard Whiskery wins in 2:06
1927 Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg.
1927 The University of Chicago's local collegiate organization, Phi Sigma, becomes incorporated under Illinois law as Eta Sigma Phi, the National Honorary Classical Fraternity.
1928 John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab & suffers a broken leg
1929 Wilfred Rhodes takes his 4000th first-class wicket during a performance of 9 for 39 at Leyton.
1931 Ådalen shootings, five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.
1932 "We Want Beer!" parade in NY
1935 LA's Griffith Planetarium opens, 3rd in US
1935 Northamptonshire County Cricket Club gains (over Somerset at Taunton by 48 runs) what proved to be their last victory for 99 matches, a record in the County Championship. Their next Championship win was not until May 29, 1939.
1935 Plebiscite in Philippines ratifies independence agreement
1938 64th Preakness, Maurice Peters aboard Dauber wins in 1:59.8
1938 English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
1939 Lina Medina becomes the world's youngest confirmed mother in medical history at the age of five.
1940 Admiral Furstner departs to England
1940 Boston's Jimmie Foxx HR goes over Comiskey Park's left field roof
1940 German breakthrough at Sedan
1940 Lord Beaverbrook appointed British minister of aircraft production
1940 Rotterdam is bombed by the German Luftwaffe (600-900 dead), Netherlands surrender to Germany, World War II
1941 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested
1942 US Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
1943 Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
1944 91 German bombers harass Bristol
1944 British troops occupy Kohima
1944 Gen Rommel, Speidel & von Stulpnagel attempt to assassinate Hitler
1945 Kamikaze-Zero strikes US aircraft carrier Enterprise
1945 US offensive on Okinawa, Sugar Loaf conquered
1946 Paul Hindemith's "For Those We Love," premieres
1948 Israeli Radio Station Kol Yisrael's 1st broadcast
1948 Israel declares independence from under British administration. Israel is declared to be an independent state and a provisional government is established. Immediately after the declaration, Israel is attacked by the neighboring Arab states, triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
1948 Jordan's Arab League captures Atarot, north of Jerusalem
1948 US grants Israel de facto recognition
1948 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1948 WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 "Love Life" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 252 performances
1949 75th Preakness, Ted Atkinson aboard Capot wins in 1:56
1949 Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1950 Pitts Johnny Hopp goes 6 for 6 including 2 HRs
1951 "Flahooley" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 40 performances
1951 Ernie Kovacs Show, TV Variety debut on NBC
1951 Sammy Fain/EY Harburg's musical "Flahooley," premieres in NYC
1954 Belgium shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months
1955 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1955 Warsaw Pact (a mutual defense treaty) is signed by Eight communist bloc countries, the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland & Romania
1957 "New Girl in Town" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 432 performances
1957 Bob Merrill's musical "New Girl in Town," premieres in NYC
1960 "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden NYC after 216 perfs
1960 USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
1960 Virgil Thomson's "Missa Pro Defunctis," premieres in Potsdam NY
1961 The Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed & burned near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protesters are beaten by an angry mob.
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Columbus Golf Open
1961 Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix
1962 Ex-pres Milovan Djilas sentenced to 5 years
1962 Princess Sophia of Greece weds Don Juan Carlos of Spain
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 Kuwait joins the United Nations, 111th member.
1964 Underground America Day is 1st observed
1965 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ)
1966 A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95
1967 Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller
1967 Pirate Radio Station 270 (England) closes down
1968 Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp
1968 Czech government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek
1968 RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin
1969 Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada
1969 Last Chevrolet Corsair built
1970 Cops kill 2 students in racial disturbance (Jackson State U, Miss)
1970 Harry A Blackmun appointed to Supreme Court
1970 NYC local newspaper "Our Town" begins publishing
1970 RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin
1970 The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.
1972 24th Emmy Awards, All in the Family, Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton
1972 In Willie Mays 1st game as a NY Met his homer beats SF Giants, 5-4
1973 Gold hits record $102.50 an ounce in London
1973 Human Space Flight, Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
1973 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on NBC-TV
1973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1973 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
1974 Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
1975 Dynamo Kiev wins 15th Europe Cup II
1975 French press reports massive deportation from Cambodia
1975 US forces raid Cambodian island of Koh Tang to free Mayaguez ship
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter
1976 Oil tanker Urqui Ola explodes off Spanish coast
1977 English football international Bobby Moore retires
1977 KC Royals Jim Colborn no-hits Texas Rangers, 6-0
1977 Netherlands State Delta Kappa Gamma Society forms
1977 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens sweep Boston Bruins in 4 games
1978 "Working" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 25 performances
1978 First round of the presidential elections in Upper Volta.
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic
1980 "Musical Chairs" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 15 performances
1980 Bucky Dent hits an inside park HR, Royals walk 14 Yanks including 5 with bases loaded, Yanks win 16-3
1980 Dept of Health & Human Services begins operation
1980 Valencia wins 20th Europe Cup II
1981 35th NBA Championship, Bost Celtics beat Houston Rockets, 4 games to 2
1981 NASA launches space vehicle S-192
1982 Guinea adopts constitution
1983 "She Blinded Me with Science" by Thomas Dolby hits #5
1983 Oilers 1-Isles 5-Stanley Cup-Isles hold 3-0 lead
1983 Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5)
1984 19th Academy of Country Music Awards, Alabama
1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
1986 Pride of Baltimore lost at sea.
1986 Reggie Jackson hit his 537th HR passing Mickey Mantle into 6th place
1987 "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
1987 Colt revolver (Peacemaker) of 1873 sells for $242,000
1988 "Mail" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 36 performances
1988 1st non-pitcher (Jose Oquendo) in 20 years to get a decision in a baseball game, he & St Louis Cards lose to Braves 7-5 in 19 inn
1988 Carrollton bus collision, a drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky, United States hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. The crash and ensuing fire kill 27.
1989 1st Tour de Trump bicycle race run (Atlanta)
1989 1st time since 1948 a player hit 6 consecutive doubles (Kirby Puckett)
1989 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1989 Demonstration for democratic reforms in Beijing's Tiananmen square
1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs
1989 Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC
1990 46th time opposing pitchers hit HR, Valenzuela (Dodgers)/Gross (Expos)
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,821.53
1991 42 die in a train collision is Japan
1991 Robert M Gates becomes head of CIA
1991 Winnie Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
1991 World's Largest Burrito created at 1,126 lbs
1992 WIBC Bowling Queens won by Cindy Coburn-Carroll
1994 Dave Winfield passes Frank Robinson for 12th on RBI list with 1,617
1994 FA cup final at Wembley Stadium London
1994 Mayflower Madame Sydney Biddle Barrows (42) weds Darnay Hoffman (46)
1995 "My Thing of Love" closes at Beck Theater NYC after 16 performances
1995 41st McDonald's LPGA Championship won by Kelly Robbins
1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader
1995 Eddie Murray of Indians hits his 463rd career home run (ties for 18th)
1996 NY Yankee Dwight Gooden no-hits Seattle Mariners 2-0
1997 Baseball's Exec Council suspends NY Yank owner George Steinbrenner
1998 Last episode of Seinfeld on NBC (commercials are $2M for 30 seconds)
2002 Ten members of the Darwin-based Network Against Prohibition invade the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory of Australia.
2004 The Constitutional Court of South Korea overturns the impeachment of President Roh Moo-hyun.
2004 The marriage of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark and Mary Donaldson takes place in Copenhagen.
2005 Pope Benedict XVI observes his first beatification, elevating Blessed Marianne of Molokai on the road to canonization into sainthood.
2005 The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.
2011 Ell & Nikki for Azerbaijan win the 56th Eurovision Song Contest singing "Running Scared" in Dusseldorf
2012 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons agree to end mass hunger strike
2012 Stanford University scientists develop prototype bionic eye
2013 Brazil becomes the 15th country to legalize same-sex marriage
2013 Dan Brown's fourth novel starring Robert Langdon ("The Da Vinci Code"), titled "Inferno", is released and instantly becomes a bestseller
2016 Ukraine's Jamala wins the 61st Eurovision Song Contest singing "1944"
Born on May 14th
1316 Charles IV, King of Bohemia (1346-78), Holy Roman Emperor (1355-78) (d. 1378)
1553 Margaret of Valois, wife of Henry IV (d. 1615)
1652 Johann Philipp Fortsch, composer
1666 Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (d. 1732)
1679 Peder (Nielsen) Horrebow, Danish astronomer (d. 1764)
1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor (thermometer)
1699 Hans Joachim von Zieten, Prussian field marshal (d. 1786)
1701 William Emerson, English mathematician (d. 1782)
1707 Antonio Teixeira, composer
1710 Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70) (d. 1771)
1725 Ludovico Manin, last Doge of Venice (d. 1802)
1727 Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (Blue Boy) (d. 1788)
1737 George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)
1752 Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
1752 Timothy Dwight, American theologian (d. 1817)
1771 Robert Owen, Welsh social reformer, factory owner (d. 1858)
1781 Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian (d. 1873)
1798 Frantisek Palacky, Czech historian
1805 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer
1814 Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
1816 Gualtiero Sanelli, composer
1817 Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
1830 George Pierce Doles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)
1832 Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
1836 James Patrick Major, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1877)
1846 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder (Social Weekly newspaper)
1846 Pieter W A Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18)
1864 Eleanor Everest Freer, composer
1867 Kurt Eisner, German premier of revolutionary Bavaria (1918-19) (d. 1919)
1870 Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer
1872 Elia Dalla Costa, Italian cardinals (d. 1961)
1878 James L. Wilkinson, American baseball executive (d. 1964)
1880 Wilhelm List, German field marshal (d. 1971)
1881 Ed Walsh, American baseball player, pitcher, lowest lifetime ERA (1.82) (d. 1959)
1881 G. Murray Hulbert, American politician (d. 1950)
1883 Jan Olieslagers, Belgian aviation pioneer (Antwerp Devil)
1883 Julian Eltinge, Mass, vaudeville star/greatest female impersonator
1885 Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor and composer (Das Ziel) (d. 1973)
1888 Miles Mander, Wolverhampton England, actor (Tower of London)
1890 Alex Pompez, American baseball executive (d. 1974)
1891 Egon Kornauth, composer
1892 Arthur Vincent Lourie, composer
1892 Felix Petyrek, composer
1893 Ivan Alexandrovich Vishnegradsky, composer
1893 Louis Verneuil, French playwright (d. 1952)
1895 Lew Lehr, Phila, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
1895 Renato Lunelli, composer
1897 Ed Ricketts, American marine biologist (d. 1948)
1897 Sidney Bechet, American musician, jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, band leader (d. 1959)
1898 Bonifacio Gil Garcia, composer
1898 Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer
1899 Earle Combs, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1899 Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (d. 1993)
1900 Billie Dove (Lilian Bohny), NYC, actress (Black Pirate, Stolen Bride)
1900 Edgar Wind, German art historian (d. 1971)
1900 Hal Borland, American author (d. 1978)
1900 Leo Smit, Dutch composer (d. 1943)
1900 Walter Rehberg, Swiss concert pianist, composer and writer (d. 1957)
1901 Robert Ritter, German psychologist (d. 1951)
1903 Billie Dove, American actress (d. 1997)
1904 Hans Albert Einstein, American professor (d. 1973)
1904 Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (d. 1961)
1905 Herbert Morrison, American radio announcer (d. 1989)
1905 Jean Daniélou, French cardinal (d. 1974)
1906 Hastings Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi (1964-94)
1906 James Flavin, Portland Me, actor (Man With a Camera)
1907 Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1974)
1907 Dick Bentley, entertainer
1907 Hans von der Groeben, German diplomat (d. 2005)
1907 Johnny Moss, American poker player (d. 1995)
1907 Mohammed Ayub Khan, general/premier/president (Pakistan)
1909 Vladimir Alatortsev, USSR, International Chess Master (1950)
1911 Hans Vogt, composer
1911 J Borremans, Belgian politician (communist)/MP
1912 Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator
1915 Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty, trombonist (Spike Jones & City Slickers)
1916 Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
1916 Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
1916 Marco Zanuso, Italian architect (d. 2001)
1917 Herta Ryder, literary agent
1917 Lou Harrison, American composer (Rapunzel) (d. 2003)
1918 Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper (England 3 times early 50's)
1919 Heloise Bowles, columnist Heloise's mother (Hints from Heloise)
1919 John Hope, American meteorologist (d. 2002)
1919 Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem party minister (CRM 1965-66)
1919 Solange Chaput-Rolland, French-Canadian journalist and politician (d. 2001)
1921 Arve Opsahl, Norwegian actor (d. 2007)
1921 Richard Deacon, American actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show) (d. 1984)
1922 Agha Hasan Abedi, banker
1922 Franjo Tudman, Croatian politician (d. 1999)
1923 Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi politician
1923 Diane Arbus (Nemerov), NYC, photographer (Vogue/Harper's Bazaar)
1923 Mrinal Sen, Indian film director
1924 Joly Braga Santos, composer
1925 Al Porcino, American jazz trumpet player
1925 Patrice Munsel, American opera soprano (Patrice Munsel Show)
1925 Tristram Ogilvie Cary, composer
1926 Cestmir Gregor, composer
1926 Eric Morecambe, British comedian (Morecambe & Wise, Picadilly Palace) (d. 1984)
1927 Herbert W. Franke, Austrian writer
1927 Shirley Spork, LPGA golfer
1928 Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch scientist and inventor
1928 Will "Dub" Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
1929 Barbara Branden, Canadian writer and lecturer
1929 Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
1929 Henry McGee, British actor, straight man to Benny Hill (d. 2006)
1929 Vladimir Antoshin, USSR, International Chess Grandmaster (1964)
1930 Edward V "Ned" Regan, Planfield NJ, (Controller-R-NY, 1978)
1930 Phillipo Seed, social work academic
1931 Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr, American composer
1932 Robert Bechtle, American painter
1933 Frank Harte, Irish singer and song collector
1933 John Mortimore, cricketer (England off-spinner 1959-64)
1933 Lajos Kovacs, Hungary, actor (Wings of Desire)
1933 Michael Chevalier, German voice actor
1934 Frederik von Pallandt, singer
1934 Siân Phillips, Welsh actress
1935 Rudi Šeligo, Slovenian writer and politician (d. 2004)
1936 Bobby Darin (Walden Waldo Cassotto), American singer (Mack the Knife) (d. 1973)
1936 Charlie Gracie, American singer
1936 Waheeda Rehman, Indian actress
1937 Dick Howser, shortstop (Kansas City A's), manager (KC Royals)
1937 Eric Herfst, Dutch cabaret performer/actor (Floris)
1937 Peter Frederic Williams, composer
1939 M N Fathulin, cosmonaut
1940 'H'. Jones, British Soldier (VC recipient) (d. 1982)
1940 Chay Blyth, English sailor (Alone in Order to the World)
1940 Troy Shondell, American singer
1941 Nasim-ul-Ghani, cricketer (Pakistani left-handed all-rounder 1958-73)
1942 Byron Dorgan, American politician (Rep-D-ND, 1981)
1942 Gerald Mark Shapiro, composer
1942 Lord McAlpine, English contractor/multi-millionaire
1942 Prentis Hancock, British actor
1942 Rüdiger Vogler, German actor
1942 Tony Pérez, Cuban baseball player
1942 Valeriy Brumel, Soviet athlete (d. 2003)
1943 Alan B Mollohan, (Rep-D-WV, 1983)
1943 Dereck "Lek" Leckenby, British musician, Guitarist (Herman's Hermits) (d. 1994)
1943 Elizabeth Ray, American sex scandal figure, congressman Wayne Hays' lover
1943 Jack Bruce, Scottish bassist (Cream)
1943 Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, President of Iceland
1944 Francesca Annis, London England, actress (Madame Bovary, Dune)
1944 Gene Cornish, Ottawa, rock bassist/vocalist (Fotomaker, Rascals)
1944 George Lucas, American film director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)
1944 Troy Shondell, rocker (Many Sides of Troy Shondell)
1945 Francesca Annis, British actress
1945 George Nicholls, British rugby league footballer
1945 Yochanan Vollach, Israeli footballer and president of Maccabi Haifa
1946 Alan David Marks, pianist/composer
1946 Derek Lek Leckenby, rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits-Kinda Hush)
1946 Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor (Jarvik 7 artificial heart)
1947 Al Ciner, Chicago Ill, rock guitarist (American Breed)
1947 Dick "Dirt" Tidrow, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1947 Karin Struck, writer
1947 Tamara Dobson, American actress (Amazons, Cleopatra Jones) (d. 2006)
1948 Bob Woolmer, English cricket coach (d. 2007)
1948 Dave LaRoche, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
1948 Walter Olkewicz, Bayonne NJ, actor (Last Resort, Wizards & Warriors)
1949 Klaus-Peter Thaler, German cyclist
1950 Adolfo Dominguez, Spanish fashion designer
1950 Mark Blum, Newark NJ, actor (Worth Winning, Blind Date, Presidio)
1951 Jay Beckenstein, saxophonist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1951 Robert Zemeckis, American film director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future)
1951 Seasan Hubley (Susan), NYC, actress (Vice Squad, Hardcore)
1952 David Byrne, Scottish-born American musician (Talking Heads)
1952 Donald R. McMonagle, American astronaut (STS 39, 54, 66)
1952 M J Smith, LPGA golfer
1952 Robert Zemeckis, American film director
1952 Scott Irwin, American professional wrestler (d. 1987)
1953 Bill Meek, Upland PA, prone rifle (Olympics-8th-1996)
1953 Norodom Sihamoni, King of Cambodia
1953 Tom Cochrane, Canadian musician, Guitarist (Red Rider)
1954 Jens Sparschuh, German writer
1955 Dennis Martínez, Nicaraguan baseball player
1955 Peter Kirsten, cricketer (South African middle-order batsman)
1955 (Jose) Dennis Martinez, Nicaragua, pitcher (Orioles, Expos, Indians)
1956 Gillian (Marucha) Bradshaw, US, sci-fi author (Hawk of May)
1956 Steve Hogarth, Kendal England, vocals (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1957 Leon White, American professional wrestler
1957 William G Gregory, Lockport NY, Mjr USAF/Astronaut (STS 67)
1958 Christine Brennan, American sports columnist
1959 Connie Brighton, Wichita Falls TX, playmate (Sept, 1982)
1959 Mike Quick, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 Patrick Bruel, French singer (Coup of Sirocco)
1959 Rick Vaive, Canadian ice hockey player
1959 Steve Hogarth, British singer (Marillion)
1960 Anne Clark, English singer
1960 Carlyle Best, cricketer (WI batsman late 80's)
1960 Frank Nobilo, Auckland NZ, Australasia golfer
1960 Ronan Tynan, Irish Singer
1960 Steve Williams, American wrestler
1961 Alain Vigneault, Canadian ice hockey coach
1961 Jean Leclerc, French-Canadian singer and songwriter
1961 Tim Roth, English actor (Reservoir Dogs, Vincent & Theo)
1961 Ulrike Folkerts, German actress
1962 C. C. DeVille, American musician (Poison)
1962 Ian Astbury, English singer (The Cult)
1963 Pat Borders, American baseball player, catcher (California Angels)
1964 Eric Peterson, American musician (Testament)
1964 James M. Kelly, American astronaut
1964 Nancy Sorel, actress (Generations, Black Foix)
1964 Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster
1965 Curt Harnett, Toronto Ontario, sprint cyclist (Olympics-bronze-92/96)
1965 Dave Widell, NFL center/guard (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1965 Eoin Colfer, Irish writer
1965 Joey Cora, Caguas Puerto Rico, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
1965 Kelvin Martin, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 Fab Morvan, France, Lip Syncher (Milli Vanilli)
1966 Fabrice Morvan, French music artist (Milli Vanilli)
1966 Leroy Blugh, CFL defensive end (Edmonton Eskimos)
1966 Marianne Denicourt, French actress
1966 Mark Jackson, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1966 Mike Inez, American bassist
1966 Pooh Richardson, NBA guard (LA Clippers)
1966 Raphael Saadiq, American musician (Tony! Toni! Toné!)
1967 Natasha Elaine Kaiser-Brown, Des Moines Iowa, 400m runner
1967 Shaun Creighton, Australian distance runner (Olympics-96)
1967 Tony Siragusa, American football player, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts, Balt Ravens)
1967 Valeria Marini, Rome Italy, sports commentator (Italian Soccer)
1968 Hiroshi Matsuura, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1969 Cate Blanchett, Australian actress (Elizabeth, Galadriel-The Lord of the Rings)
1969 David William Wood, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
1970 Natasha Ryan, LA California, actress (Amy-Ladies' Man)
1970 Sylvester Stanley, WLAF defensive tackle (Rhein Fire)
1971 Nasha Aziz, Malaysian actress & model
1971 Raphael Wiggins, Oakland California, rapper (Lifelines)
1971 Sofia Coppola, American director
1972 Chad Cascadden, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1972 Gabriel Mann, American actor
1972 Mark Ruskell, England-born Scottish politician
1973 Anais Granofsky, Canadian actress and director
1973 John Davis, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 Julian White, English rugby union footballer
1973 Natalie Appleton, Canadian-born singer
1973 Shanice (Wilson), American singer (Discovery, Loving You)
1973 Voshon Lenard, American basketball player, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1974 Jennifer Allan, American model
1974 Ken Belanger, Sault-ste-marie Ca, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1974 Keram Malichi-Sanchez, actor (No Contest, Catwalk, Boulevard)
1974 Krister Axel, American poet and songwriter
1975 Carlos Spencer, New Zealand rugby player
1975 Carmen Klomp, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1975 Nicki Sørensen, Danish road bicycle racer
1975 Salim Iles, Algerian swimmer
1976 Brian Lawrence, American baseball player
1976 Hunter Burgan, American musician (AFI)
1976 Martine McCutcheon, British actress
1976 Terrance Cauthen, Trenton NJ, lightweight boxer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1977 Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress
1977 Anca Barna, Cluj Romania, tennis star (semifinals 1995 ITF Poland)
1977 Cesarina Mejia, Miss Dominican Republic Universe (1997)
1977 Jayna Hefford, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1977 Roy Halladay, American baseball player
1977 Sophie Anderton, English model and television personality
1978 André Macanga, Angolan footballer
1978 Brent Harvey, Australian footballer
1978 Eddie House, American basketball player
1978 Gustavo Varela, Uruguayan footballer
1978 Heather Brink, Lincoln Neb, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1979 Carlos Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 Clinton Morrison, English-born Irish footballer
1980 Eugene Martineau, Dutch decathlete
1980 Hugo Southwell, Scottish rugby union footballer
1980 Júlia Sebestyén, Hungarian figure skater
1980 Zdenek Grygera, Czech footballer
1981 Sarbel, Greek-born singer
1982 Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
1982 BeardyMan, English beatboxer
1983 Amber Tamblyn, American actress (Emily Bowen-Gen Hospital)
1983 Anahí, Mexican actress and singer (RBD)
1983 Frank Gore, American football player
1983 Tom Welham, British musician (Thirteen Senses)
1983 Uroš Slokar, Slovenian basketball player
1984 Gary Ablett, Jr., Australian rules footballer
1984 Mark Zuckerberg, American internet entrepreneur and founder of Facebook
1984 Michael Rensing, German footballer
1984 Nigel Reo-Coker, English footballer
1984 Olly Murs, English singer
1985 Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
1985 Simona Peycheva, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
1986 Andrea Bovo, Italian footballer
1986 Camila Sodi, Mexican actress
1987 Franck Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1987 Francois Steyn, South African rugby union footballer
1990 Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
1993 Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
Died on May 14th
347 Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten)
649 Theodore, Greek Pope (642-49) (excommunicated by Paul II)
964 John XII (Octavianus), Pope (955-64)
1470 Charles VIII of Sweden (b. 1409)
1565 Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist
1574 Guru Amar Das, third Sikh Guru (b. 1479)
1608 Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1543)
1610 Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of France (1572, 89-1610), murdered (b. 1553)
1643 Louis XIII, king of France (1610-43) (b. 1601)
1649 Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (b. 1600)
1669 Georges de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1601)
1688 Antoine Furetière, French writer (b. 1619)
1726 John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests)
1726 Moshe Darshan, Rabbi/author (Torat Ahsam)
1742 Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop
1754 Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
1761 Thomas Simpson, British mathematician (rule of Simpson) (b. 1710)
1801 Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer
1818 Matthew Gregory Lewis, English novelist (b. 1775)
1820 Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
1832 John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor
1833 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
1847 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, German composer and pianist (b. 1805)
1860 Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
1863 Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer
1864 William N Green Jr, Union brig-general
1870 Ramon Vilanova y Barrera, composer
1873 Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and writer (b. 1797)
1877 John Roberts, composer
1878 Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
1887 Lysander Spooner, American philosopher (b. 1808)
1889 Volney E. Howard, American politician (b. 1809)
1893 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (surface of Kummer) (b. 1810)
1893 Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer
1904 Richard Hol, Dutch composer/organist/conductor
1906 Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman (b. 1829)
1912 August Strindberg, Swedish writer (Deaddans) (b. 1849)
1912 Frederik VIII C W K, King of Denmark (1906-12) (b. 1843)
1918 James Gordon Bennett, Jr., American newspaper publisher (b. 1841)
1919 Henry John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company (b. 1844)
1923 Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister (b. 1828)
1925 Henry Rider Haggard, English writer (Dawn, She) (b. 1856)
1931 David Belasco, American theatrical producer (b. 1853)
1931 Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (b. 1887)
1934 Lou Criger, American baseball player (b. 1872)
1936 Edmund H(enry) H(ynman) Allenby, British general in Egypt (b. 1861)
1936 Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian
1938 Jacobus C J "Jacques" Hermans, actor (Ghetto)
1940 Eddy (Charles E) du Platform, writer/poet
1940 Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-born anarchist and author (Living My Life) (b. 1869)
1940 Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/SDAP-2nd-Chamber
1940 Menno ter Braak, Dutch writer (Forum, New Elite)
1943 Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1854)
1945 Heber J. Grant, seventh president of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1856)
1947 John Ray Sinnock, US chief engraver (1925-47)
1953 Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher
1954 Heinz Guderian, German General (b. 1888)
1955 Betty Ann Davies
1956 Joan Malleson, English physician (b. 1889)
1957 Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (b. 1884)
1959 Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, mother of empress Zita of Austria (b. 1862)
1959 Sidney Bechet, American musician, jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and bandleader (b. 1897)
1962 Florence Auer, American actress (b. 1880)
1965 Frances Perkins, US 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45)
1966 Georgia BD Camp Johnson, US poet/playwright
1966 Megan Lloyd George, English politician,
1968 Husband E(dward) Kimmel, American admiral, commanded US Ocean fleet WW II (b. 1882)
1969 Enid Bennett, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins)
1969 Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888)
1970 Billie Burke, American actress (Glinda-Wizard of Oz) (b. 1884)
1973 Jean Gebser, German-born author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
1976 Keith Relf, British singer and musician (The Yardbirds), electrocuted (b. 1943)
1978 Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
1979 Paul van 't Veeer, Dutch journalist/writer (Vrije Volk)
1980 Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (Passover Plot, Ben Hur, Tom Jones) (b. 1912)
1980 Wilhelm Weismann, composer
1982 Baron Mariel-Henri Jaspar, Belgian minister/ambassador
1982 Hugh Beaumont, American actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver) (b. 1909)
1983 Miguel Aleman Valdes, President of Mexico (1946-52) (b. 1900)
1983 Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
1984 Larry Stock, songwriter (Blueberry Hill)
1984 Walter Rauff, German colonel (b. 1906)
1985 Mei Ling Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
1985 Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed
1987 Rita Hayworth, American actress (Gilda) (b. 1918)
1988 Willem Drees, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948-58) (b. 1886)
1990 Andre Ameller, composer
1991 Ast Fonteyne, Flemish lecture artist
1991 Herman Niels, Flemish radio director
1991 Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide (b. 1914)
1991 John Edward Craven
1991 Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86)
1992 Lyle Alzado, American football player, NFL defense linesman (Raiders) (b. 1949)
1992 Nie Rongzhen, Chinese Communist military leader (b. 1899)
1993 Patrick Haemers, Belgian criminal, commits suicide (b. 1953)
1993 William Randolph Hearst Jr., American newspaper magnate (Pulitzer) (b. 1908)
1994 Leonard Teale, Australian actor/reciter (Homicide)
1995 Christian B. Anfinsen, American Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
1995 Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism)
1996 Edqard John Gurney, politician
1996 Qazaleh Alizadeh, writer,
1996 Sritharan Jeganathan, cricketer
1996 Vera Chapman, writer
1997 Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician (b. 1934)
1997 Laurie Lee, writer
1997 Princess Caradja-Kretzulesco, descendant of Dracula
1997 Thelma Carpenter, singer
1998 Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (b. 1915)
1998 Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist (b. 1890)
2000 Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2003 Dave DeBusschere, American basketball player (b. 1940)
2003 Robert Stack, American actor (b. 1919)
2003 Wendy Hiller, British actress (b. 1912)
2004 Anna Lee, British actress (b. 1913)
2006 Eva Norvind, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
2006 Lew Anderson, American actor and bandleader (b. 1922)
2006 Stanley Kunitz, American poet (b. 1905)
2007 Mary Goldsmith, American ceramist (b. 1908)
2007 Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (b. 1921)
2010 Goh Keng Swee, former Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (b. 1918)
2015 B.B. King, American Blues guitarist and singer-songwriter