May 30th
Holidays and Festivals
Joan of Arc Day (celebrated in France)
Lod Massacre Remembrance Day (Puerto Rico)
Mother's Day (Nicaragua) * CLICK HERE
Parliament Day (Croatia)
Anguilla Day * (see below)
Canary Islands Day (Canary Islands)
Indian Arrival Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Loomis Day
Memorial Day (USA - Original) * CLICK HERE
Water a Flower Day
Hug Your Cat Day
My Bucket's Got A Hole In It Day
* Pentecost Eve Sweeden (48 days after easter)
Christian Feast Day of Ferdinand III of Castile
Christian Feast Day of Isaac of Dalmatia
* Mampoer Festival (Moonshine Festival) Cullinan, South Africa
* The first day of the Kaamatan harvest festival (Labuan, Sabah)
* Detroit Electronic Music Festival Detroit, Michigan, USA May 29 – 30 (2of2) (2010)
* Sasquatch Music Festival Gorge Amphitheatre, Washington, USA May 29 – 31 (2of3) (2010)
* Anguilla Day, commemorates the beginning of the Anguillian Revolution in 1967. (Anguilla)
Fête de la Fraise Translation: Strawberry Day (French Republican) The 11th day of the Month of Prairial in the French Republican CalendarToast of The Day
"You foam within our glasses, you lusty golden brew,
Whoever imbibes takes fire from you.
The young and the old sing your praises,
Here's to beer,
Here's to cheer,
Here's to beer!"
- From the opera, "The Bartered Bride" by Bedřich Smetana, first performed May 30th, 1866 at at the Provisional Theatre, Prague.
Drink of The Day
Chilly Nilly (AKA Pirate Nilly)
2/3 Shot of (Stroh 60) blackstrap rum
1/3 Shot of Stawberry liquer
1 Shot of Pomegranate juice
2/3 Shot of Red Bull
Lime Wedge(s)
Pour the rum, juice, liquer into a glass over ice and stir. Add the Red Bull. Squeeze in the lime wedge(s) and drop it in.
Wine of The Day
Yellow Tail (2008) Reserve
Style - Merlot
South-Eastern Australia
$15
Beer of The Day
Hoegaarden Original White Ale
Brewer - Brouwerij van Hoegaarden
Style - Witbier
ABV - 4.9%
Joke of The Day
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
Quote of The Day
"I wonder if cops ever get pissed off at the fact that everyone they drive behind obeys the speed limit."
- Unknown
Whisky of The Day
$60
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
Click It or Ticket Mobilization Week, Last Week in MayWeek of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories, Last Week of May
Hurricane Preparedness Week, Week Beginning the Last Sunday in May
Historical Events on May 30th
1035 Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 English boer uprising begins in Essex
1416 The Council of Constance, called by the Emperor Sigismund, a supporter of Antipope John XXIII, burns Jerome of Prague following a trial for heresy.
1431 In Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an English-dominated tribunal. Because of this the Catholic Church remembers this day as the celebration of Saint Joan of Arc.
1434 Battle of Lipany effectively ending the Hussite Wars (Bohemian Wars), Utraquist forces led by Diviš Borek of Miletínek defeat and almost annihilate Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great.
1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1522 French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 U of Marburg (Germany) founded
1536 King Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour, a lady-in-waiting to his first two wives.
1539 In Florida, Hernando de Soto lands at Tampa Bay (discovers Florida) with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold.
1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de Boisot)
1584 Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1588 The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.
1631 France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
1635 Emperor Ferdinand II & Saksen sign Peace of Prague ending the Thirty Years' War
1642 From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively annulled by Parliament
1646 Spain & Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
1783 Benjamin Tower of Phila publishes 1st daily newspaper in US
1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1806 Andrew Jackson kills Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy.
1808 Napoleon annexes Tuscany & gave it seats in French Senate
1814 War of the Sixth Coalition the Treaty of Paris (1814) is signed returning French borders to their 1792 extent, Napoleonic Wars.
1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1832 Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1832 The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
1842 John Francis attempts to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill, London with Prince Albert.
1848 2nd battle at Gioto, Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 Mexico ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1854 The Kansas-Nebraska Act becomes law establishing the US territories of Nebraska and Kansas. Repealed Missouri Compromise opens north slavery
1858 Hudson's Bay Co rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1859 Westminster's Big Ben rang for the first time in London.
1862 Battle of Booneville MS captured Gen Beauregard evacuates Corinth
1864 Battle of Bethesda Church VA
1864 Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia
1866 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
1868 Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") is observed in the United States for the first time (By "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5). 2 women in Columbus Mississippi placed flowers on both Confederate & Union graves
1871 The Paris Commune falls.
1876 Ottoman sultan Abd-ul-Aziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murat V.
1879 92°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May
1879 An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring 60.
1879 New York City's Gilmores Garden is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
1883 In New York City, a rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse causes a stampede that crushes twelve people.
1889 Brassier invented
1890 1st Dodger home run (Dave Foutz)
1894 Bobby Lowe is 1st to hit 4 HRs in 1 baseball game
1895 W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22 days
1896 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hit a bicyclist (NYC)
1899 24th Preakness: R Clawson aboard Half Time wins in 1:47
1901 Hall of Fame for Great American on NYU campus dedicated
1901 Memorial Day 1st officially observed in US
1903 28th Preakness, W Gannon aboard Flocarline wins in 1:44.8
1904 Frank Chance gets hit by pitch 5 times in a doubleheader
1906 40th Belmont, Lucien Lyne aboard Burgomaster wins in 2:20
1907 41st Belmont, G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins
1908 1st federal workmen's compensation law approved
1908 42nd Belmont, Joe Notter aboard Colin win
1908 Aldrich Vineland Currency Act forerunner to Federal Reserve System
1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1908 US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah authorized
1909 National Conference on the Negro is held
1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1910 44th Belmont, James Butwell aboard Sweep wins in 2:22
1911 At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race at 74.59 MPH (120 KPH).
1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 The Treaty of London, 1913 is signed ending the First Balkan War. Albania becomes an independent nation.
1913 John McGraw joins Fred Clarke, Cap Anson, Frank Selee, & Connie Mack
1913 New country of Albania, forms
1913 as managers who have won 1,000 games
1914 The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1917 Alexander I becomes king of Greece.
1921 Lord Dunsany's "If," premieres in London
1921 Memorial to Capt Eddie Grant, killed in WW I, unveiled at Polo Grounds
1921 Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
1922 Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day
1922 In Washington, D.C. the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.
1922 Latvia & Vatican sign accord
1922 Lincoln Memorial dedicated
1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic," premieres
1924 Giacomo Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists. Matteotti spoke out in a speech at the lower house of the parliament against the result of the election, where the fascist used intimidation tactics.
1925 British mariners shoot on demonstrators
1925 In China protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing on Chinese sovereignty.
1925 Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy
1925 Rogers Hornsby replaces Branch Rickey as manager of Cardinals
1927 Walter Johnson records 113th & last shutout of his career
1930 Bill Arnold wins Indianapolis 500 car race (161.6 kph)
1931 Phillies Chuck Klein homers off Ben Cantwell (Braves) in both ends DH
1932 Yankees dedicate a plaque to Miller Huggins
1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1937 20th PGA Championship, Denny Shute at Pittsburgh FC Aspinwall PA
1937 61,756, 2nd-largest crowd in Polo Grounds history, sees Dodgers ends Carl Hubbell's consecutive-game winning streak at 24
1937 Memorial Day Massacre Chicago police shoot on union marchers at a Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die
1937 Pitcher Carl Hubbell's 24th consecutive victory
1938 Yanks sweep Red Sox 10-0 & 5-4 in front of 83,533 at Yankee Stadium
1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1941 German capture Kreta
1941 Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas climb on the Athenian Acropolis, tear down the Nazi swastika and replace it with the Greek flag, World War II.
1942 1,047 bombers bomb Cologne in RAF's raid of WW II
1942 Reichsfuhrer Himmler arrives in Prague
1942 Satchel Paige pitches 5 innings to defeat Dizzy Dean All-Stars 8-1
1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1942 1000 British bombers launch a 90-minute attack on Cologne, Germany, World War II.
1943 French general De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1946 Braves Bernard Malamud HR shatters Bulova clock in Ebbets Field
1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (NY) 42 die
1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1948 Schenectady Blue Jays Tom Lasorda strikes out 25 in 15-inning game
1949 East Germans constitution approved
1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1949 WRTV TV channel 6 in Indianapolis, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 Patty Berg wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1951 Ezzard Charles beats Joey Maxim in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1952 Charlie Grimm succeeds Tommy Holmes as manager of Boston Braves
1952 Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite," premieres
1953 1st major league network baseball game-Cleveland 7, Chicago 2
1953 23rd French Mens Tennis, Ken Rosewall beats V Seixas (63 64 16 62)
1953 23rd French Womens Tennis, Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)
1954 Dutch bishops forbid membership to non-catholic sporting clubs
1954 Emile Zatopek runs world record 5K (13:57.2)
1954 Hector Villa-Lobos' "Odisseia de Uma Raca," premieres
1955 KMVT TV channel 11 in Twin Falls, ID (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Said el-Mufti forms Jordan government
1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee Florida
1956 Mickey Mantle misses by 18" hitting 1st HR out of Yankee Stadium
1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1957 Real Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup 1 in Madrid
1957 Test Cricket debut for Rohan Kanhai v England at Edgbaston
1958 The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day.
1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WW II & Korean War buried in Arlington
1959 "First Impressions" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 84 performances
1959 "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1959 Iraq terminates milt assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1959 Pres Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
1959 Pres Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1959 The Auckland Harbour Bridge, crossing the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, is officially opened by Governor-General Lord Cobham.
1959 World's 1st hovercraft (SR-N1) tested at Cowes England
1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1961 Long time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
1961 Maris hits his 10th & 11th of 61 HRs
1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad India)
1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem," premieres
1964 "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 perfs
1964 Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1
1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia
1964 Giants sweep Mets 5-3 & 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game & NY's 22 K's in 2nd games
1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground)
1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1965 Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
1966 Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon
1967 At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.
1967 Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967 Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1967 The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1967 Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball
1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles"
1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1969 Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp
1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao
1969 Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao
1970 "Minnie's Boys" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 80 performances
1970 Baseball All-Star voting is returned to fans
1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert, drunk LSD apple juice
1971 Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars, 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched.
1971 Train crash at Duivendrecht Neth, 5 die
1971 Willie Mays hits his 638th HR, sets NL record of 1,950 runs scored
1972 3 Jap PFL terrorists kills 24, wound 72 at Tel Aviv's Lod Intl airport
1972 In Tel Aviv members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
1972 The Angry Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout Britain.
1973 Ajax wins 3rd Europe Cup
1974 10th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 9-4
1975 European Space Agency (ESA) forms
1975 Wings release "Venus & Mars" album
1976 22nd LPGA Championship won by Betty Burfeindt
1976 Bobby Unser sets world record for fastest pit stop (4 seconds)
1977 Cleve Indian Dennis Eckersley no-hits California Angels, 2-0
1979 Nottingham Forrest wins 24th Europe Cup 1 at Munich
1979 Pat Underwood makes his pitching debut for Detroit beats brother Tom
1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Ted Coombs begins a 5,193 mile roller skate from LA to NYC
1980 1st papal visit to France since 1814
1980 Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires
1980 Turner's painting "Juliet & Her Nurse" sells for $6.4 million
1980 Twins Ken Landreaux ends his hitting streak after 31 games
1981 "Nightline" extends from 4 nights to 5 nights a week (Friday)
1981 Bangladesh Pres Ziaur Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers
1981 LA Dodgers are quickest to get 1,000,000 attendence (22 games)
1982 "Do Black Patent Leather Shoes..." closes at Alvin NYC after 5 perf
1982 Closest Indy 500, Gordon Johncock beats Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds
1982 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1982 Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
1983 AL Pres Lee MacPhail suspends Yankees owner George Steinbrenner for one week, for his public criticism of umpires
1983 Surrey all out for 14 vs Essex, their lowest score ever
1984 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua
1984 Liverpool wins 29th Europe Cup 1 in Rome
1984 NL suspends Mario Soto 5 days for Reds-Cubs fight on May 27th
1985 Stanley Cup, Edmonton Oilers beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 1
1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 Bobby Rahal is 1st to avg over 170 mph in Indianapolis 500
1986 France performs nuclear test
1987 Mike Tyson TKOs Pinklon Thomas in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1987 Tony Tucker TKOs Buster Douglas in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David Letterman's house
1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the 33-foot high "Goddess of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.
1990 135 die in a (6.4) earthquake in Peru
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,878.56
1990 Earthquake hit Peru, killing 135
1991 64th National Spelling Bee, Joanne Lagatta wins spelling antipyretic
1991 Arturo Barrios runs world record one-hour distance (21,096 km)
1991 Supreme Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can be held accountable
1992 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven is 2nd to win as teenager & 40 year old
1992 NY Lotto pays $30 million to one winner (#s are 12-15-30-33-40-48)
1992 NY Yankee Scott Sanderson becomes 9th to beat all 26 teams
1992 Paul Simon weds Edie Brickell
1992 UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
1993 Betsy King wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament
1993 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic
1996 69th National Spelling Bee, Wendy Guey wins spelling vivisepulture
1996 Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play & nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension
1996 John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 Betty Shabazz, widow of Malcolm X, set afire by 12 year old grandson
1997 Ken Dryden becomes president of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
1998 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000
2004 Buddy Rice wins the Indianapolis 500 in 3:14:55.2395 (222.923 km/h)
2010 Dario Franchitti wins the Indianapolis 500 in 3:05:37.0131 (260.107 km/h)
2012 A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla massacre
2012 Vishwanathan Anand wins his fifth World Chess Championship
2014 Former military chief al-Sisi wins 93 percent of the vote in Egypt's presidential election
2015 Alistair Cook becomes the leading run scorer of all time in test cricket for England
2015 Arsenal beat Aston Villa 4-0 in the FA Cup Final
2015 Chicago Blackhawks beat Anaheim Ducks, 4 games to 3 in the NHL Western Conference Finals
2015 FC Barcelona defeat Athletic Bilbao 3-1 in the 2014–15 Copa del Rey final
2015 Namibia defeat Mozambique 2-0 to win the 2015 COSAFA Cup
2016 Former Chad dictator Hissène Habré convicted of crimes against humanity by the Extraordinary African chambers, 1st ex-head of state convicted of the charge
Born on May 30th
1010 Emperor Renzong of China (d. 1063)
1220 Alexander Nevsky, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Vladimir-Suzdal, Prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir, considered the key figure in medieval Rus (1252-63)
1423 Georg Purbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461)
1524 Selam II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
1578 Valentin Dretzel, composer
1623 John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)
1623 Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver, baptized
1653 Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
1713 Princess Caroline Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1757)
1718 Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (d. 1793)
1719 Roger Newdigate, English politician (d. 1806)
1757 Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1801-04) (d. 1844)
1797 Johann Christian Lobe, composer
1800 Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
1808 Joaquim Casimiro Jr, composer
1812 John Alexander McClernand, Major General (Union volunteers)
1814 Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (d. 1894)
1814 Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
1819 William McMurdo, British army officer (d. 1894)
1820 Pierre-Joseph-Olivier Chauveau, French Canadian politician (d. 1890)
1829 Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert
1830 Edward Winslow Hinks, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 George Doherty Johnston, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
1844 Louis Varney, composer
1845 Amadeus I FM, duke of Aosta, king of Spain (1870-73)
1845 King Amadeo I of Spain (d. 1890)
1846 Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1847 Alice Sophia Stopford Green, Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
1853 Andries Andre, Dutch actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen
1853 Karl Fritjof Valentin, composer
1858 Siegfried Alkan, German composer (d. 1941)
1859 Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist
1867 Arthur Vining Davis, Sharon Mass, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
1871 Olga Engl, Austrian actress (d. 1946)
1875 Giovanni Gentile, Italian philosopher (d. 1944)
1878 Mike Donlin, American baseball player (d. 1933)
1879 Colin Blythe, English cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WW I) (d. 1917)
1881 Georg von Küchler, German field marshal (d. 1968)
1882 Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish runner (d. 1915)
1883 Riccardo Zandonai, composer
1886 Randolph Bourne, American writer (d. 1918)
1887 Alexander Archipenko, Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
1887 Gino Tagliapietra, composer
1888 James A Farley, postmaster general (1932-38)
1891 Iman J van den Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter
1892 Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
1894 Hubertus J van Mook, Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
1895 Maurice Tate, English cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's) (d. 1956)
1896 Howard Hawks, American film director, producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface) (d. 1977)
1899 Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)
1901 Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (When Our Hearts Were Young & Gay) (d. 1979)
1902 Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist
1902 Stepin Fetchit (Lincoln Perry), American dancer and actor (Miracle in Harlem) (d. 1985)
1903 Countee Cullen, American writer, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems) (d. 1946)
1903 Ray Howard-Jones, artist
1904 Ernesto de la Guardia Jr, President of Panama (1956-60)
1906 Bruno Gröning, German mystic (d. 1959)
1907 Elly Beinhorn, German pilot (d. 2007)
1907 Germaine Tillion, French anthropologist, member of French Resistance (d. 2008)
1908 Hannes Alfvén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1908 Mel(vin J) Blanc, American voice actor (Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig) (d. 1989)
1909 Benny Goodman, American clarinetist and bandleader (King of Swing) (d. 1986)
1909 George Headley, cricketer (in Panama All-time great WI batsman)
1910 Inge Meysel, German actress (d. 2004)
1910 Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (d. 1978)
1911 Douglas Fowley, NYC, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1912 Alexander Langsdorf, physicist
1912 Erich Bagge, German physicist (d. 1996)
1912 Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Oliver!) (d. 1980)
1912 Joseph Stein, American dramatist, playwright (Fiddler on the Roof)
1912 Julian Gustave Symons, writer
1912 Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1913 Cedric Thorpe Davie, composer
1914 Bobby Sherwood, Indianapolis Ind, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1915 Jerome Bert Weisner, military scientist/disarmer
1916 Joseph W Kennedy, scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
1918 Bob Evans, American restaurateur (d. 2007)
1918 Guadalupe "Pita" Amor, Mexican poet (d. 2000)
1919 René Barrientos, President of Bolivia (d. 1969)
1920 Franklin Schaffner, American film director (d. 1989)
1920 John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
1922 Harry Clement (Stubbs), American sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld) (d. 2003)
1923 Jimmy Lydon, Harrington Pk NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill)
1924 Norbert Schemansky, USA, middle heavyweight (Olympic-gold-1952)
1925 Claude Prey, composer
1925 Eddy Bruma, Suriname politician
1925 Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam (1975-79)
1926 Christine Jorgensen, American transsexual activist (d. 1989)
1926 Edouard Van Remoortel, Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symph)
1926 James Whitman McLamore, businessman
1927 Clint Walker, American actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
1927 Dick Noel, Bkln NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
1927 Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US, author (American Glass Animals)
1928 Agnès Varda, French director
1928 Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
1928 John Keith Wright, English economist/asst sect of state (1971-84)
1928 Pro Hart, Australian artist (d. 2006)
1929 Michael Mellinger, Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
1930 Mark Birley, British nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1930 Robert Ryman, American painter
1932 Pauline Oliveros, American composer and accordionist (Sound Patterns)
1932 Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi, composer
1934 Alexei A Leonov, Siberian USSR cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19)
1934 Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and coach, (d. 2012)
1935 Lee Gunther, American television producer and editor (d. 1998)
1936 Galina Shostakovitch, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
1936 Keir Dullea, American actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa)
1936 Roy Harford, cricketer (brother of Noel NZ wicketkeeper v India 1968)
1936 Ruta Lee, Canadian actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar)
1937 Arthur C Jacobs, poet
1937 Harry Statham, American basketball coach
1938 Wilfried A de Pree, Dutch MP (PvdA)/theologist
1939 Dieter Quester, Austrian racing driver
1939 Michael J. Pollard, American actor (Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne)
1940 David Ackroyd, Orange NJ, actor (I Come in Peace, Memories of Me)
1940 Gilles Villemure, Canadian ice hockey player
1942 Dan Miller, (Rep-R-Florida)
1942 Lenny Davidson, London, rock guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1943 Gale Sayers, American football player, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1943 James Chaney, American civil rights activist (d. 1964)
1944 Larry Davidson, Musician (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
1944 Meredith MacRae, American actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3 Sons) (d. 2000)
1944 Stav Prodromou, American technology executive
1945 Norman Eshley, English actor
1946 Allan Chapman, English historian of science
1946 Candy Lightner, political activist/founder (MADD)
1947 Jocelyne Bourassa, French Canadian golfer, LPGA tour
1948 Michael Piller, American screenwriter (d. 2005)
1949 Bob Willis, cricketer (superb England fast bowler 1971-84)
1949 P.J. Carlesimo, American basketball coach
1950 Bertrand Delanoë, French politician
1950 Dann Glenn, American Guitarist and Composer
1950 Paresh Rawal, Indian actor
1951 Fernando Lugo, Paraguayan politician
1951 Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor (Single White Female, Thelma & Louise)
1951 Zdravko Colic, Yugoslav-Bosnian singer
1952 Zoltan Kocsis, composer
1953 Colm Meaney, Irish actor (Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1955 Jake "The Snake" Roberts, American wrestler
1955 Nicky "Topper" Headon, English drummer (Clash-Complete Control)
1955 Topper Headon, British musician (The Clash)
1956 Jonathan Idema, Poughkeepsie, New York, torturer, kidnapper and con artist (d. 2012)
1957 Allison Roe, Auckland NZ, marathoner (NYC-1981)
1957 Chris Van Jaarsveld, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1957 Michael Clayton, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1958 Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer and songwriter (Roxette)
1958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria, Madrid Spain, Lt Cmdr/astro (STS 73, sk 92)
1958 Steve Israel, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (D-New York)
1958 Ted McGinley, American actor (Love Boat, MWC, Dynasty)
1959 Frank Vanhecke, Belgian politician
1959 Phil Brown (footballer born 1959), English football manager (Hull City)
1960 Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy, Musician (Lilac Time-Paradise Song)
1961 Bob Yari, Iranian-born American film producer
1961 Ella Arolovich, Leningrad USSR, model
1961 Harry Enfield, British comedian
1961 Ralph Carter, American actor (Michael Evans-Good Times)
1961 Trey Parker, rapper, actor (Newsies, Hull High)
1962 Jan Gunnarsson, Sweden, tennis star
1962 John Alt, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
1962 Kevin Eastman, American comic book creator (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
1962 Tonya Pinkins, American actress (Livia Frye-All My Children)
1963 Helen Patricia Sharman, Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
1963 Lynda Wiesmeier, Washington DC, playmate (Jul, 1982)
1964 Andrea Montermini, Italian racing driver
1964 Nhi Lan Le, Vietnam, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1964 Tom Morello, American guitarist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine)
1964 Wynonna (Christina Judd), American country singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
1965 Billy Donovan, American college basketball coach
1965 Tammy Parks, Rockville Centre NY, actress (Attack of 60' Centerfold)
1965 Tyronne Stowe, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1966 Gary Martin, cricket pace bowler (Zimbabwe ODI)
1966 Stephen Malkmus, American musician (Pavement)
1967 Rechelle Hawkes, Albany W Aust, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1967 Tim Burgess, English singer (The Charlatans)
1968 Amy Fuller, Westlake California, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
1968 Jerry Springer, White Plains NY, Canadian Tour golfer
1968 Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author
1968 Tim Burgess, English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know)
1968 Zacarias Moussaoui, French citizen found guilty relating to September 11, 2001 attacks
1970 Audrey Wooding, LPGA golfer
1970 Flora Chan, Hong Kong television actress
1970 Ness Wadia, Indian industrialist
1970 Sam Rogers, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1971 Drahomir Kadlec, Pribham CZE, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Rep)
1971 Idina Menzel, American actress and singer
1971 Jiri Slegr, Jihlava Cze, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers, Oly-G-98)
1971 Kyle Vander Kuyp, Australian 110m hurdler (Olympics-96)
1972 Allen Aldridge, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 Anthony Cook, NFL defensive end/defensive tackle (Tenn Oilers)
1972 Jeff Jones, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 Manny Ramírez, Dominican Republic baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians)
1972 Renita Farrell, Townsville Qld Aust, field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1972 Soichiro Hoshi, Japanese seiyuu
1972 Terry Wilburn, WLAF running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1973 Christine Pavone, Miss USA-Connecticut (1997)
1973 Je'Rod Cherry, safety (New Orleans Saints)
1973 Jennifer Darst, Dallas Texas, pairs skater (& Arthur Reid)
1973 Leigh Francis, British comedian
1973 Steve Charbonneau, CFL defensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1974 Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
1974 Cee-Lo, American musician
1974 David Wilkie, American ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1974 Konstantinos Chalkias, Greek footballer
1974 Shin Ha-kyun, South Korean actor
1975 Andrew Farrell, English rugby league and union footballer
1975 Brian Fair, American singer
1975 Evan Eschmeyer, American basketball player
1976 Magnus Norman, Swedish tennis player
1976 Margaret Okayo, Kenyan athlete
1976 Omri Hairi Katz, LA California, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie Indiana)
1976 Rasho Nesterovic, Slovenian basketball player
1977 Akwá, Angolan footballer
1977 Rachael Stirling, British actress
1978 Eric Searle American Musician
1978 Krassmira Todorava, Miss Bulgaria Universe (1997)
1978 Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist (Light Heavyweight Champion)
1979 Kugimiya Rie, Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
1979 Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 Steven Gerrard, English footballer
1981 Ahmad Elrich, Australian footballer
1981 Andrey Arshavin, Russian Footballer
1981 Blake Bashoff, American actor
1981 Devendra Banhart, American singer and songwriter
1981 Gianmaria Bruni, Italian racing driver
1981 Hisanori Takada, Japanese footballer
1981 Lars Møller Madsen, Danish handball player
1981 Remy Ma, American rapper
1982 Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (d. 2007)
1983 Jennifer Ellison, English actress, model, singer
1984 Jordan Palmer, American football player
1984 Matt Maguire, Australian rules footballer
1984 Sham Kwok Fai, Hong Kong footballer
1986 Ashley Slaney, daughter of Olympians Mary Decker & Richard Slaney
1987 Joyce Cheng, Hong Kong musician, writer, actress and performer
1989 Kevin Covais, American singer
1990 Dean Collins, American actor
1990 Yoona, member of Korean girl group, Girls' Generation
Died on May 30th
727 Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint
1035 Boudouin IV, count of Flanders (988-1035)
1159 Wladislaus II the Exile of Poland (b. 1105)
1252 Ferdinand III the holy, King of Castile/Leon (b. 1199)
1416 Jerome of Prague, Czech theologian, burned as a heretic by Church (b. 1379)
1431 Joan of Arc, French heroine and saint (b. 1412)
1434 Prokop the Great, Hussite general
1469 Lope de Barrientos, Spanish bishop (b. 1382)
1574 Charles IX, King of France (1560-74) (b. 1550)
1576 Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
1593 Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (Tamburlaine the Great), murdered (b. 1564)
1640 Andre Duchesne, French historian/genealogy
1640 Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
1696 Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, First Lord of the British Admiralty (b. 1638)
1718 Arnold Joost van Keppel, 1st Earl of Albemarle, Dutch favorite of William III of England (b. 1670)
1718 Bernard Nieuwentyt, physician/theologist
1730 Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
1744 Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard) (b. 1688)
1746 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer
1770 François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1778 Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet), French philosopher and author (Candide) (b. 1694)
1791 Ildephons Haas, composer
1797 Carl Ludwig Junker, composer
1809 Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter
1833 Josef Slavik, composer
1840 Dominique J de Eerens, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies
1864 James Barbour Terrill, US attorney/Confederate brig-gen
1865 John Catron, United States Supreme Court Justice (b. 1786)
1865 William Clarke Quantrill, criminal/Confederate bushwhacker
1868 Souji Okita, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1823)
1870 Gustave Vogt, composer
1901 Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (b. 1841)
1906 William Yeates Hurlstone, composer
1911 Milton Bradley, American game pioneer (b. 1836)
1912 Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (b. 1867)
1918 Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician (b. 1856)
1919 Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904)
1922 David Mendes Chumaceiro, Curacaos poet (Adelfas)
1923 Camille Chevillard, composer
1923 Charles Fichardt, cricketer (S Afr batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96)
1925 Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian (b. 1876)
1926 Vladimir Steklov, Russian physicist (b. 1864)
1934 Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
1935 Lothar Windsperger, composer
1938 Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter
1939 Floyd Roberts, Auto racer, killed during 1939 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1904)
1940 Y de Smit-Rog, eldest Dutchman
1941 Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
1944 Jessie Ralph, actress (Good Earth, San Francisco)
1945 Irma Laplasse, Flemish farmer/nazi collaborator
1946 Louis Slotin, Canadian Scientist at Los Alamos (b. 1910)
1947 Georg Ludwig von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander (b. 1880)
1947 Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer
1948 József Klekl, Slovene politician in Hungary (b. 1874)
1951 Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
1953 Dooley Wilson, American musician and actor (b. 1886)
1953 George Barnes, cinematographer
1954 Ahmad Amin, Egyptian historian/author
1955 Bill Vukovich, Auto racer, killed during 1955 Indianapolis 500 (b. 1918)
1957 Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy)
1959 Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer
1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian writer (Dr Zhivago), Nobel Prize laureate (declined) (b. 1890)
1961 Rafael L(eónidas) Trujillo Molina, dictator of the Dominican Republic (1930-61), murdered (b. 1891)
1964 Dave MacDonald, American auto racer (b. 1936)
1964 Eddie Sachs, American auto racer (b. 1927)
1964 Leó Szilárd, Hungarian nuclear physicist (b. 1898)
1967 Claude Rains, English actor (Invisible Man) (b. 1889)
1969 Gaston Brenta, composer
1969 John Cipollini, guitarist
1971 Audie Murphy, most decorated American WW II hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash
1971 Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (b. 1886)
1971 Rodd Redwing, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory)
1972 Margaret Ruthven Lang, composer
1973 Hal Hastings, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway)
1975 Michel Simon, French actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us) (b. 1895)
1975 Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (b. 1951)
1975 Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1976 Max Carey, American baseball player (b. 1890)
1977 Claire Goll, writer
1977 Paul Desmond, US jazz saxophonist
1979 Jack Raine, actor (Quartet)
1980 Carl Radle, American bass guitarist (Derek & Dominoes) (b. 1942)
1981 Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
1981 Ziaur Rahman, Eighth President of Bangladesh, assassinated (b. 1936)
1983 Alfred M Gruenther, US general/NATO-commander (1953-56)
1986 Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist
1986 Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)
1987 Frank Carlson, (Gov/Rep/Sen-R-Ks)
1987 Turk Murphy, jazz trombonist
1988 Ella Raines, actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact)
1989 Zinka Milanov, Met Opera Diva
1991 Manolo Gomez Bur, Spanish comedian
1992 Daniel Addes, actor (Victor-Sunst Grill)
1992 Karl Carstens, president German FR (1979-84)
1992 Leen 't Hart, organist/composer
1993 Herman S Blount, Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra)
1993 Sun Ra, American musician, orchestra leader (b. 1914)
1994 Agostino Di Bartolomei, Italian footballer (b. 1955)
1994 Baron Marcel Bich, inventor (Bic Pen)
1994 Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th head of Mormon Church (b. 1899)
1994 Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar
1994 Juan Carlos Onetti, Uruguayan writer (La vida breve)
1994 Marcel Bich, French industrialist, pen manufacturer (Bic) (b. 1914)
1995 Bobby Stokes, English footballer (b. 1951)
1995 Lofty England, English automotive engineer and race team manager (b. 1911)
1995 Philip Owen A Sherrard, scholar theologian poet/translator, dies at 72
1995 Ted Drake, English footballer (b. 1912)
1995 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, Brit national park warden
1996 Bob Stroup, trombonist
1996 John Cameron, judge
1996 John Kahn, bassist
1996 Leon-Etienne Duval, archbishop/cardinal
2000 Doris Hare, Welsh actress (b. 1905)
2000 Tex Beneke, American bandleader and musician (b. 1914)
2003 Mickie Most, English record producer (b. 1938)
2005 Fazal Mahmood, Pakistani cricketer (b. 1927)
2005 Tomasz Pacynski, Polish writer (b. 1958)
2006 David Lloyd, New Zealand biologist (b. 1938)
2006 Robert Sterling, American actor (b. 1917)
2006 Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
2007 Gunturu Seshendra Sarma, Indian poet (b.1927)
2007 Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and author (b. 1933)
2008 Lorenzo Odone, American medical figure (b. 1978)
2008 Noel Moore, British civil servant (b. 1928)
2009 Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter (b. 1926)
2010 Duff Roblin, Canadian politician (b. 1917).
2011 Clarice Taylor, American actress (b. 1917)
2012 Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and Nobel laureate
2012 Jack Twyman, American Hall of Fame basketball player
2015 Joseph (Beau) Biden III, American politician and son of Vice-President Joe Biden
