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June 5 in history

242 sourced entries recorded on June 5, from 301 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 501Ahkal Moʼ Nahb I becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city-state of Palenque (in what is now the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico), and reigns until his death in 524.source
  • 663In China, the Daming Palace becomes the government seat and royal residence of Emperor Gao Zong of the Tang dynasty.source
  • 830Emperor Theophilos, 16, marries the Armenian noblewoman Theodora, in the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople. He chooses her during a representation of a bride-show; she becomes empress (Augusta) of the Byzantine Empire.source
  • 1098Battle of Antioch: Emir Kerbogha, ruler (atabeg) of Mosul, arrives at Antioch with a Seljuk army (35,000 men) to relieve the city. He lays siege to the Crusaders who have just captured the city themselves (although they do not have full control of it). A Byzantine relief force led by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos turns back after Count Stephen of Blois convinces them that the situation in Antioch is hopeless.source
  • 1099June 2–6 – The Crusaders occupy Arsuf and turn inland towards Ramlah, where they reorganise for the march against Jerusalem. A Crusader force under Tancred liberates Bethlehem.source
  • 1224The University of Naples is founded by Emperor Frederick II. Frederick's main purpose is to create an institution of higher learning that will put an end to the predominance of the universities of northern Italy, most notably these of Bologna and Padua, which are considered either too independent or under the strong influence of \Pope Honorius III.source
  • 1249Siege of Damietta: Louis IX lands with a Crusader force and captures Damietta, after a fierce battle at the edge of the sea. The onslaught of the knights of France and those of Outremer under John of Ibelin, force the Ayyubids back with heavy losses. At nightfall, Fakhr ad-Din withdraws his army over a bridge of boats to Damietta. Finding the population there in panic and the garrison wavering, Fakhr ad-Din decides to evacuate the city. On June 6, Louis marches triumphantly over the bridge into Damietta and builds a camp to attack Cairo.source
  • 1257The city of Kraków is granted Magdeburg rights by High Duke Bolesław V the Chaste, having been rebuilt after being nearly destroyed during the First Mongol invasion of Poland (but Second invasion comes in 1259).source
  • 1284Battle of the Gulf of Naples: An Aragonese-Sicilian fleet (some 30 galleys) led by Admiral Roger of Lauria surrounds and defeats the Neapolitan ships in the Gulf of Naples. King Charles II of Naples ("the Lame") is captured during the battle; disorganized, the remnants of the Neapolitan fleet (between 15 and 18 galleys) flee back to Naples.source
  • 1288War of the Limburg Succession – Battle of Worringen: Brabantian forces under Duke John I defeat the coalition army of Cologne, Luxemburg, and Nassau at Worringen (in a struggle to conquer the Duchy of Limburg). John liberates the city of Cologne from rule by the Electorate of Cologne, which has previously been one of the major ecclesiastical principalities of the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1305Pope Clement V, formerly the Archbishop of Bordeaux, succeeds Pope Benedict XI as the 195th pontiff of the Catholic Church. He will reign until 1314.source
  • 1325At Stuttgart in Germany, Ulrich III becomes the new Count of Württemberg upon the death of his father, Eberhard I.source
  • 1345the second Parliament is held in Dublin.source
  • 1369Jean de Lusignan, regent for the King of Cyprus, uses his navy to attack Sidon in what is now Lebanon, but is then forced to retreat because of a storm.source
  • 1409The Council of Pisa issues the order deposing both Gregory XII and Benedict XIII who are responsible for the Western Schism.source
  • 1415The Council of Constance condemns the writings of John Wycliffe and asks Jan Hus to recant in public his heresy; after his denial, he is tried for heresy, excommunicated, then sentenced to be burned at the stake.source
  • 1443The strongest earthquake on record in Poland kills at least 30 people and damages buildings in Kraków and Wrocław, and in Timișoara and Oradea in Romania.source
  • 1450French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege Caen in English-occupied Normandy in France, attacking the fortress commanded by Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset.source
  • 1465The Farce of Ávila takes place in the Kingdom of Castile in Spain as noblemen in Ávila declare that King Enrique IV is deposed and that they will only recognize his half-brother, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, as their monarch. King Enrique, who was the subject of a similar deposition in Plasencia on April 27, continues his reign of the rest of the kingdom from Madrid.source
  • 1487The rebel army led by Lambert Simnel, who has proclaimed himself as "King Edward VI" lands on Piel Island at Lancashire.source
  • 1510The Sultan Abu Abdallah V of Tlemcen (now part of Algeria) agrees to pay a demand for tribute to the Ferdinand II, King of Aragon (now part of Spain), prompting Ferdinand to plot an invasion of the neighboring kingdom Ifriqiya and its capital, Tripoli.source
  • 1528The fourth major outbreak of the sweating sickness is noted for the first time, with a reference in a letter to Bishop Tunstall of London from someone who has fled his home because a servant at his house has become infected with the disease, with sweating soon followed by death.source
  • 1580In the Kingdom of Golconda (part of the modern-day Indian state of Telangana), 15-year-old Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah is proclaimed as the new Sultan upon the death of his father, Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah Wali.source
  • 1592Parliament of Scotland meets.source
  • 1594Willem Barents makes his first voyage to the Arctic Ocean, in search of the Northeast Passage.source
  • 1595Battle of Fontaine-Françaisesource
  • 1596Pope Clement VIII appoints 16 new Cardinals.source
  • 1600Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, the former Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Chancellor of the University of Dublin, is put on trial in England before a commission of 18 men, after being charged with malfeasance. He is deprived of his main business, a monopoly on sweet wines, and stripped of his noble title. In revenge, he attempts to organize a coup d'etat to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and fails in his plot.source
  • 1602James Lancaster's East India Company fleet arrives at Achin (modern-day Aceh), Sumatra to deal with the local ruler. Having defeated Portugal's ally, the ruler is happy to do business, and Lancaster seizes a large Portuguese galleon and loots it.source
  • 1607Dr John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare, at the Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon (England).source
  • 1610The masque Tethys' Festival is performed at Whitehall Palace to celebrate the investiture of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.source
  • 1617Ferdinand II, Archduke of Inner Austria, is elected King of Bohemia. Ferdinand's forceful Catholic counter-reformation causes great unrest, amongst the Protestants and moderates in Bohemia.source
  • 1625Eighty Years' War: Spanish troops under Ambrogio Spinola conquer Breda, after a nine-month siege.source
  • 1646the Battle of Benburb, part of the Irish Confederate Wars, takes place in County Tyrone. The forces of Catholic Confederate Ireland under Owen Roe O'Neill secure a decisive victory over a Scottish Covenanter and Anglo-Irish army led by Robert Monro.source
  • 1657The Dano-Swedish War (1657–58), in Norway called Krabbekrigen (named after Iver Krabbe) starts.source
  • 1664The siege of the Croatian fortress at Novi Zrin (located near the village of Donja Dubrava in Croatia near its border with Hungary). After a 32-day defense, the Croatian defenders surrender to troops of the Ottoman Empire.source
  • 1686October 26 – the Roman Catholic Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, serves in Ireland as commander in chief of the army.source
  • 1688A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes southern Italy at 6:30 in the evening and kills at least 10,000 people in the Kingdom of Naples in what is now the province of Benevento.source
  • 1689The Convention of Estates adjourns in Scotland after 11 weeks and its members form a new Scottish parliament.source
  • 1693The first performance of the opera Didon by French composer Henri Desmarets takes place at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris.source
  • 1695the title of Viscount Lisburne and Baron Fethard, of Feathered in the County of Tipperary is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Welsh politician John Vaughan.source
  • 1712Reus in Catalonia, Spain is given the title of imperial city by Elisabeth Christine, wife of Archduke Charles.source
  • 1731Tiverton fire of 1731, a great fire in Tiverton, Devon.source
  • 1752Frances, mother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, purchases the Mathafarn estate on her son's behalf.source
  • 1755At the entrance of the Saint Lawrence River, a squadron of Royal Navy ships, under the command of British Admiral Edward Boscawen, intercepts the nine French ships dispatched to save Canada; seven of the nine ships are concealed by fog and are able to reach their destination; another of the transports escapes.source
  • 1755Scottish chemist Joseph Black describes his discovery of carbon dioxide (fixed air) and magnesium, in a paper to the Medical Society of Edinburgh. The paper is published in 1756 with the title Experiments upon Magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other alkaline Substances.source
  • 1788All the settlement's cattle brought from Cape Town escape; they are not recaptured until November 1795.source
  • 1790Treason Act 1790 comes into effect, abolishing burning at the stake as the penalty for women convicted of offences of treason (which include coining and mariticide): they are to suffer hanging, bringing the punishment in line with that for men. As a consequence of the change of law, the sentence on Sophia Girton, convicted in April of coining, is delayed and she is in fact transported to the new penal Colony of New South Wales.source
  • 1795June 5–7 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1795, starting in a naval warehouse, destroys 941 houses.source
  • 1795The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 breaks out around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm.source
  • 1795the Royal College of St Patrick established at Maynooth by Act of Grattan's Parliament to provide university-level education for Roman Catholic ecclesiastical and lay students.source
  • 1806Louis Bonaparte is appointed as King of Holland by his brother, Emperor Napoleon, replacing the Batavian Republic.source
  • 1807June 5–6: Battle of Guttstadt-Deppensource
  • 1809The former king's uncle Charles XIII of Sweden is placed upon the throne after having accepted a new constitution.source
  • 1820Caroline of Brunswick, the estranged wife of King George IV, returns to England after six years abroad in Italy, where she has been carrying on an affair. Since ascending the throne in January, the King had sought to receive his government's approval for a divorce.source
  • 1823A path through the Liverpool Range, now known as Pandora's Pass, is found by Allan Cunningham.source
  • 1823Raffles Institution is established (as the Singapore Institution) by the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles.source
  • 1823Stamford Raffles lays the foundation stone for the Singapore Institution, now known as the Raffles Institution.source
  • 1829HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.source
  • 1829Slave trade: HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.source
  • 1832June 5–6 – The June Rebellion in France, anti-monarchist riots led chiefly by local students and workers, breaks out in Paris.source
  • 1832Anti-monarchist June Rebellion briefly breaks out in Paris.source
  • 1833Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, both pioneers in developing a computer, are introduced to each other by Mary Somerville.source
  • 1837The city of Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.source
  • 1840Joseph Brown is appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic District of Wales, being consecrated as a bishop on 28 October.source
  • 1848June 2–12 – The Prague Slavic Congress brings together members of the Pan-Slavism movement.source
  • 1849Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy.source
  • 1849Hungarian Revolution of 1848: The first Russian troops, led by Lieutenant General Fyodor Sergeyevich Panyutin, who come in the aid of the Habsburgs, cross the Hungarian border at Pozsony, in order to crush the Hungarian revolution.source
  • 1862Treaty of Saigon: Emperor Tự Đức of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam cedes Saigon, Côn Sơn Island and three southern provinces of what is to become known as French Cochinchina (Biên Hòa, Gia Định and Định Tường) to become part of the French colonial empire. Guerilla leader Trương Định refuses to recognize the treaty.source
  • 1864In Marseille, Notre-Dame de la Garde, the city's most famous landmark, is consecrated.source
  • 1866Calculations indicate Pluto (not known at this time) reaches its only aphelion (furthest point from the Sun) between 1618 and August 2113.source
  • 1869the equestrian statue of Frederick VII in the central square in Køge is inaugurated.source
  • 18691869 Christchurch earthquakesource
  • 1876George Thorn becomes Premier of Queensland.source
  • 1879Ontario election: Sir Oliver Mowat's Liberals win a third consecutive majority.source
  • 1885The Academia Chilena de la Lengua is founded.source
  • 1892An oil fire in Oil City, Pennsylvania, United States, kills 130 people.source
  • 1895The Liberal Revolution begins in Ecuador, making the civil war more intense in the country.source
  • 1896Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi embarks from Durban for Calcutta en route to Bombay.source
  • 1900Second Boer War: British soldiers take Pretoria.source
  • 1901The Correio da Manhã newspaper is published for the first time.source
  • 1907Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrates the murtis of both Sahajanand Swami and Gunatitanand Swami in a single central shrine, thus establishing the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, later a United Nations affiliate organization.source
  • 1907Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a sect of Hinduism, is established by Swami Yagnapurushdas.source
  • 1910The Nanyang industrial exposition opens.source
  • 1910The Nanyang industrial exposition ("Nanking Exposition"), an official world's fair, opens in Qing dynasty China.source
  • 1912Tsuruko Haraguchi is awarded a PhD in psychology from Columbia University, becoming the first Japanese woman to earn a PhD in any field.source
  • 1916WWI: HMS Hampshire sinks, having hit a mine off the Orkney Islands, Scotland, with Lord Kitchener aboard.source
  • 1916HMS Hampshire sinks off Orkney, probably having struck a German mine, with the loss of 650 lives – including Lord Kitchener and his staff – and only 13 survivors.source
  • 1916HMS Hampshire sinks having hit a mine off Orkney with Lord Kitchener aboard. 737 lives, including Kitchener, were lost.source
  • 1919Estonian and Latvian Wars of Independence: The advancing pro-German Baltische Landeswehr initiates war against Estonia in Northern Latvia.source
  • 1924Ernst Alexanderson sends the first facsimile across the Atlantic Ocean, which goes to his father in Sweden.source
  • 1926Treaty concerning the future of Mosul (Which was a part of Turkey at the end of World War I but annexed by the United Kingdom during the armistice day following the war.)source
  • 1927June 4–6 – Clarence Chamberlin and Charles Albert Levine take off from Roosevelt Field, New York, and fly to Eisleben, Germany, in the Wright-Bellanca WB-2 Columbia aircraft Miss Columbia, two weeks after Charles Lindbergh's historic solo flight.source
  • 1930The papal bull Solemni conventione defines the boundaries of the Catholic Church in Romania,source
  • 1931Anti-Chinese rioting occurs in Pyongyang. Approximately 127 Chinese people are killed, 393 wounded, and a considerable number of properties are destroyed by Korean residents.source
  • 1931German Chancellor Heinrich Brüning visits London, where he warns British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald that the collapse of the Austrian banking system, caused by the bankruptcy of the Creditanstalt, has left the entire German banking system on the verge of collapse.source
  • 19311931 Empress of Canada stabbings: A man killed 2 and wounded 29 others with a knife aboard the Canadian Pacific Steamships liner RMS Empress of Canada as the ship sailed off Japan.source
  • 1933The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States use of the gold standard, by enacting a joint resolution nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.source
  • 1933Lose 2–4 vs Australia at Brisbanesource
  • 1935The On-to-Ottawa Trek beginssource
  • 1936Ana Pauker and eighteen other Communist activists are put on trial in Craiova.source
  • 1938June 5 & 7 – The 1938 Yellow River flood is created by the Nationalist government in central China, breaching embankments during the early stage of the Second Sino-Japanese War, in an attempt to halt the rapid advance of Japanese forces. The flood kills at least 400,000, covers and destroys thousands of square kilometers of farmland, and shifts the mouth of the Yellow River hundreds of kilometers to the south.source
  • 1941Smederevo Fortress explosion: A Serbian ammunition depot explodes at Smederevo on the outskirts of Belgrade, Serbia, killing 2,500 and injuring over 4,500.source
  • 1942June 4–7 – WWII: Battle of Midway – An American naval victory halts the Japanese advance in the Pacific.source
  • 1944More than 1,000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast, in preparation for D-Day.source
  • 1944British Group Captain James Stagg correctly forecasts a brief improvement in weather conditions over the English Channel, which will permit the following day's Normandy landings to take place (having been deferred from today due to unfavourable weather).source
  • 1944D-Day naval deceptions are launched.source
  • 1944The German navy's Enigma messages are decoded in England almost in real time.source
  • 1944The German Navy's Enigma messages are decoded almost in real time.source
  • 1947U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American reconstruction and relief aid to Europe, in a speech at Harvard University.source
  • 1949Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first Thai female member of Thailand's Parliament.source
  • 1950Bihar High Court struck down Bihar Management of Estates and Tenures Act, 1949 as unconstitutional.source
  • 1956The text of Nikita Khrushchev's February attack on Stalin's reputation, "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", is first published in the West, in The New York Times.source
  • 1956Elvis Presley performs "Hound Dog" on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.source
  • 1957The establishment of Far Eastern Air Transport.source
  • 1960The First Vatican Council, adjourned in 1870, is officially closed.source
  • 1960The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland.source
  • 1963The first annual National Hockey League Entry Draft is held in Montreal, Canada.source
  • 1966Gemini 9A: Gene Cernan completes the second U.S. spacewalk (2 hours, 7 minutes).source
  • 1967Six-Day War begins: Israel launches Operation Focus, an attack on Egyptian Air Force airfields; the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan invade Israel. Battle of Ammunition Hill, start of the Jordanian campaignsource
  • 1967Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith becomes the first person to climb Barbeau Peak, the highest point in the Arctic Cordillerasource
  • 1968Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan is arrested.source
  • 1968Leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died from his injuries the next day.source
  • 1972June 5–16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is held in Stockholm, Swedensource
  • 1975The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.source
  • 1976The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the US, killing 11 people.source
  • 1977A bloodless coup installs France-Albert René as President of the Seychelles.source
  • 1977General strikes are held in Nablus and Ramallah to mark the tenth anniversary of the Six-Day War and the start of the Israeli occupation.source
  • 1981The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States report that five homosexual men in Los Angeles have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, the first recognized cases of AIDS.source
  • 1983The Second Sudanese Civil War begins in Sudan.source
  • 1984The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.source
  • 1984Al-Sadek Hamed Al-Shuwehdy, a Libyan engineer, is publicly executed in a Benghazi basketball stadium after a show trial. Huda Ben Amer, a Gaddafi loyalist and later mayor of Benghazi, becomes known as "Huda the executioner" after rushing in to aid in the execution.source
  • 1986Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe agree to the establishment of the Limpopo Basin Permanent Technical Committee.source
  • 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests: An unknown Chinese protester, "Tank Man", stands in front of a column of military tanks on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, temporarily halting them, an incident which achieves iconic status internationally through images taken by Western photographers.source
  • 1989June 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.source
  • 1992June 3–14 – The Earth Summit is held in Rio de Janeiro.source
  • 1993The National Assembly of Venezuela designates Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended President Carlos Andrés Pérez.source
  • 1997Algerian legislative elections, 1997source
  • 1997June 1–7: Tropical Storm Andres (1997)source
  • 1999The Islamic Salvation Army, the armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front, agrees in principle to disband in Algeria.source
  • 2000The Ministry of Information and the Arts announced the start of gradual media competition, with MediaCorp allowed to own a newspaper and Singapore Press Holdings allowed to own two TV and two radio channels. MediaCorp will also be awarded a licence to run mobile TV and digital TV services. In addition, the ban on private satellite dishes will be reviewed after Singapore Cable Vision's pay-TV monopoly expires in 2002.source
  • 2000The Obasanjo administration establishes the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to tackle the human and ecological issues in the Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria.source
  • 2001Tropical Storm Allison hits the U.S. state of Texas, severely flooding Houston and killing 23 people.source
  • 2006Serbia becomes an independent country for the first time since 1918, following the dissolution of Serbia and Montenegro after Montenegro's secession from the country a couple of days earlier.source
  • 2007NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus on route to Mercury.source
  • 2012June 5–6 – The century's second and last solar transit of Venus occurs. The next pair are predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.source
  • 2014A Sunni militant group now calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) begins an offensive through northern Iraq, aiming to capture the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad and overthrow the Shiite government led by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.source
  • 2017The Qatar diplomatic crisis of 2017–18 starts, as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries block Qatari access to their seas and air.source
  • 2017Montenegro joins NATO as the 29th member.source
  • 2017Qatar plunges into diplomatic crisis as Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the internationally recognised government of Yemen sever ties with it, claiming that national security, media incitement and Qatari support for Iran are the cause.source
  • 2018May 28–June 7 – The 2018 Stanley Cup Final are played between the Washington Capitals and the Vegas Golden Knights and won by the former.source
  • 2019June 3–5 – U.S. President Donald Trump makes a state visit to the U.K., meeting with Queen Elizabeth II and outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May. It is the first official state visit to the U.K. by a sitting U.S. president since 2011. Trump also attends D-Day commemorative ceremonies.source
  • 2021The G7 agrees on a global minimum corporate tax rate of 15% intended to prevent tax avoidance by some of the world's biggest multinational companies.source
  • 2022Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov cancels his scheduled visit to Serbia after neighbouring states in the Balkans refuse to let Lavrov's plane use their airspace.source
  • 2024Starliner Crewed Flight Test launches atop an Atlas V rocket to the ISS.source
  • 2025Eight migrants are reported dead while 22 others are reported missing after being offloaded by traffickers from a boat off the Djiboutian coast.source
  • 2025A cholera outbreak is declared following the deaths of seven people and 38 other infections in Vridi Akobrate, near Abidjan.source
  • 2025Uzbekistan qualifies for its first FIFA World Cup after drawing 0-0 with the United Arab Emirates at the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification in Abu Dhabi.source

Births

  • 1075Tianzuo (Yanning), last emperor of the Liao dynastysource
  • 1251Hōjō Tokimune, 8th regent of the Kamakura shogunate (died 1284)source
  • 1341Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England (died 1402)source
  • 1412Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua (died 1478)source
  • 1420Anna of Saxony, Landgravine of Hesse, German royalty (died 1462)source
  • 1493Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (died 1555)source
  • 1523Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (died 1574)source
  • 1523Margaret of Valois, Daughter of king Francis I, Duchess of Berry and Duchess of Savoy by marriage. (d.1574)source
  • 1587Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick, English colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658)source
  • 1646Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Venetian philosopher of noble descent (died 1684)source
  • 1659Anne Clausdatter, businesswoman and owner of Borgestad Manor in Skien (died 1713)source
  • 1660Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, British aristocrat (died 1744)source
  • 1702Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle (died 1754)source
  • 1718Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (died 1779)source
  • 1762Bushrod Washington, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (died 1829)source
  • 1764James Smithson, British mineralogist, chemist and posthumous founder of the Smithsonian Institution (died 1829)source
  • 1771Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (died 1851)source
  • 1814John Molteno, future first Prime Minister of the Capesource
  • 1829George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen, Scottish-Canadian businessman, philanthropist (died 1921)source
  • 1868James Connolly, Irish-Scots socialist (died 1916)source
  • 1871Nicolae Iorga, 34th Prime Minister of Romania (died 1940)source
  • 1878Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary (died 1923)source
  • 1883John Maynard Keynes, English economist (died 1946)source
  • 1907Lee Tze-fan, painter.source
  • 1919Veikko Huhtanen, artistic gymnast (died 1976)source
  • 1959Betty Tejada, president of the Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2014.source
  • 2005Rylee Arnold, American dancersource

Deaths

  • 301Sima Lun, Chinese usurper (forced suicide)source
  • 362Dorotheus of Tyre, Roman Catholic bishop and martyr (born 255)source
  • 535Epiphanius, patriarch of Constantinoplesource
  • 567Theodosius I, patriarch of Alexandriasource
  • 708Jacob of Edessa, Syriac writersource
  • 754Eoban, bishop of Utrechtsource
  • 754Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionarysource
  • 754Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary, is killed by a band of pagans at Dokkum in Frisia, while reading the Scriptures to Christian converts. He is later buried in the Abbey of Fulda, entrusted to his Bavarian disciple Sturm.source
  • 879Ya'qub ibn al-Layth, founder of the Saffarid Dynasty (born 840)source
  • 928Louis the Blind, Frankish king and Holy Roman Emperorsource
  • 928Louis III (the Blind), former king of Provence (Lower Burgundy), dies at Arles after a 27-year reign (of which 23 are sightless). He is succeeded by his brother-in-law Hugh I who is King of Italy. With the approval of his kinsman Rudolph I, Hugh strips Louis's son and heir, Charles Constantine, of his inheritance and proclaims himself as ruler of Provence.source
  • 1013Al-Baqillani, Arab theologian, jurist and logiciansource
  • 1017Sanjō, ex-emperor of Japan (born 976)source
  • 1118Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicestersource
  • 1239Władysław Odonic ("the Spitter"), Polish noblemansource
  • 1288Henry VI, count of Luxembourg (the Condemned)source
  • 1288Waleran I, French nobleman (House of Luxembourg)source
  • 1296Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (born 1245)source
  • 1304Abu Said Uthman I, Zenata Berber ruler of Tlemcen, dies and is succeeded by his son Abu Zayyan I.source
  • 1310Amalric of Tyre, Cypriot prince and statesmansource
  • 1316Louis the Quarrelsome, king of France (born 1289)source
  • 1316King Louis X of France ("Louis the Quarrelsome") dies, possibly from poisoning, during a game of tennis at Vincennes, leaving his pregnant wife Clementia of Hungary as his widow. Following Louis' death, his 23-year-old brother Philip is made regent for the remainder of Clementia's pregnancy. There are several potential candidates for the role of regent, his uncle Charles, Count of Valois and Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy.source
  • 1320Peter of Aspelt, German priest, chancellor and archbishopsource
  • 1374June 5 or June 6 – William Whittlesey, Archbishop of Canterburysource
  • 1383Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (born 1324)source
  • 1400Duke Frederick I of Brunswick-Lüneburg is assassinated after being identified as a rival to Wenceslaus, Holy Roman Emperor. Frederick, on his way back from a May 22 meeting of the prince-electors, is ambushed by a party of men led by Count Henry of Waldeck while passing through the village of Kleinenglis in the Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont (now part of the German state of Hesse, near Borken).source
  • 1424Braccio da Montone, Italian condottierosource
  • 1434Yuri IV, Russian grand prince (born 1374)source
  • 1443Ferdinand the Holy Prince of Portugal (born 1402)source
  • 1445Leonel Power, English composersource
  • 1530Mercurino di Gattinara, Italian statesman and jurist (born 1465)source
  • 1568Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Flemish statesman (born 1522)source
  • 1625Orlando Gibbons, English composer and organist (born 1583)source
  • 1667Francesco Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and historian (born 1607)source
  • 1688Constantine Phaulkon is beheaded after having been arrested in May.source
  • 1688Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (born 1647)source
  • 1698Elizabeth Maitland, Duchess of Lauderdale, influential British noblewoman (born 1626)source
  • 1708Ignatius George II, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch (born 1648)source
  • 1722Johann Kuhnau, German composer (born 1660)source
  • 1771Samuel Phillips (reverend), colonial American minister, 1st Pastor of the South Church in Andover (born 1690)source
  • 1791Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (born 1718)source
  • 1816Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (born 1751)source
  • 1826Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (born 1786)source
  • 1878Ernst von Bibra, German scientist (born 1806)source
  • 1899General Antonio Luna, Commander of the Philippine Republican Army, is assassinated along with his chief aide, Colonel Paco Román, after being lured to Cabanatuan by President Emilio Aguinaldo.source
  • 1899Antonio Luna, Filipino general (assassinated) (born 1866)source
  • 1899General Antonio Luna is assassinated in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.source
  • 1900Stephen Crane, American author (born 1871)source
  • 1916Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British field marshal and statesman (drowned) (born 1850)source
  • 1921Georges Feydeau, French playwright (born 1862)source
  • 1949Emilia Malessa, Freedom and Independence member, committed suicide in prison (born 1907)source
  • 1989State funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini: Eight people are killed and hundreds injured in a human crush during the viewing of the body of Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini at the Musalla in Tehran, two days after his death at the age of 89 in Tehran.source
  • 1993Attack on Pakistani military in Somalia: twenty-four Pakistani troops in the United Nations forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.source
  • 2004Ronald Reagan, 93, American actor (Kings Row) and politician, President (1981–1989), Governor of California (1967–1975), pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's.source
  • 2012Ray Bradbury, 91, American author (Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine).source
  • 2022At least 50 people are killed in a dual mass shooting-bomb attack in Owo, Nigeria.source
  • 2025Edgar Lungu, 68, president (2015–2021).source