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May 19 in history

215 sourced entries recorded on May 19, from 557 BCE to 2024 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 557 BCEThe Persians besiege Larissa (Calah) but fail to capture it. However, when a solar eclipse occurs, the inhabitants leave their city and it is taken.source
  • 363May 18–19 – Galilee earthquake of 363. Petra, capital of the Nabataeans (in modern-day Jordan), is seriously damaged.source
  • 1051King Henry I of France marries Anne of Kiev at the cathedral of Reims. William of Normandy marries Matilda of Flanders, daughter of Count Baldwin V, which Henry sees as a threat to his throne.source
  • 1096May 18–26 – The Worms massacre: Members of the People's Crusade under Emicho besiege Worms in the Rhineland before killing at least 800 Jews, despite the intervention of Bishop Adalbert II. He tries to hide some of them in the bishop's palace, others chose to remain outside its walls. One of the victims is Minna of Worms, an influential Jew among the Christian nobility.source
  • 1163Council of Tours opens. Albigensians are named and condemned as heretics.source
  • 1305In Spain, the Treaty of Elche is signed between King James II of Aragon and King Ferdinand IV of Castile to revise the borders set out nine months earlier in the Treaty of Torrellas.source
  • 1312Scarborough Castle is captured by English forces under the command of Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke after a two-week siege with the surrender of Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, after Aymer gives his word that Gaveston will not be harmed.source
  • 1322At the request of King Charles IV of France, Pope John XXII annuls the marriage of Charles and Blanche of Burgundy. Blanche is transferred from prison to Gavray Castle.source
  • 1336The governor of Baghdad, Oirat 'Ali Padsah, defeats Arpa Ke'un near Maraga, contributing to the disintegration of the Ilkhanate.source
  • 1343Robert Savage is appointed Seneschal of Ulster.source
  • 1389Vasili I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow after the death of his father, Dmitry Donskoy.source
  • 1396Martin I succeeds his brother, John I, as King of Aragon (modern-day northeastern Spain).source
  • 1410During his campaign against the Eastern Mongols, China's Emperor Cheng Zu stops with his troops at Minluanshu and orders the carving of an inscription on rocks at the north bank of the Kerulen river, declaring "In the eighth year of the Yongle geng yin, fourth month ding you, sixteenth day ren zi, the Emperor of the Great Ming passed here with six armies during the punitive expedition against the barbarian robbers."source
  • 1411At the order of Louis II of Anjou, General Muzio Attendolo, leader of the Neapolitan Army, defeats the army of King Ladislaus of Naples in a battle at the Battle of Roccasecca in the Lazio region of Italy.source
  • 1418John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy captures Paris during the Hundred Years War.source
  • 1438René of Anjou, son of the late King Louis II of Valois-Anjou arrives in the Kingdom of Naples to take the vacant throne, reaching the Italian city ahead of King Alfonso V of Aragon, who also wants the throne. Alfonso makes plans to lay siege to the city of Naples.source
  • 1463Battle of Ključ (1463): Under the leadership of General Mahmud Pasha Angelović, the Ottomans begin the siege of the city of Babovac while King Stephen of Bosnia flees to the Jajce fortress.source
  • 1483King Edward V moves into the Tower of London, the traditional residence of monarchs prior to a coronation. King Edward's coronation had recently been rescheduled for June 25.source
  • 1487The witch-hunters' manual Malleus Maleficarum, written by Heinrich Kramer with Jacob Sprenger, is approved by Catholic theologians from the University of Cologne and at Speyer in the Holy Roman Empire. The preface states that all readers should know that "in the year since the Birth of Our Lord 1487, in the fifth indiction, on Saturday, the 19th day of May, at five in the afternoon or thereabouts," professors Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger certified the text on behalf of Pope Innocent VIII. The preface notes that although some preachers of the Word of God claim in sermons "that sorceresses do not exist", the authors' intention is "to alleviate this ignorance" and to "exterminate the sorceresses" by "appropriate methods of sentencing."source
  • 1499Catherine of Aragon, the future first wife of Henry VIII, is married by proxy to his brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales.source
  • 1518In Venice, Renaissance artist Tiziano Vecellio, known as "Titian", unveils his painting Assumption of the Virgin, to the public.source
  • 1535French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona's two sons (taken by Cartier during his first voyage).source
  • 1535Explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men and Chief Donnacona's two sons (taken by Cartier during his first voyage).source
  • 1537James V and Madeleine of Valois arrive at Leith.source
  • 1542The Prome Kingdom, in modern-day central Burma, is conquered by the Taungoo Dynasty.source
  • 1546The Siege of Kawagoe Castle ends in defeat for the Uesugi clan, in their attempt to regain Kawagoe Castle from the Late Hōjō clan in Japan.source
  • 1547John Frederick I signs the Capitulation of Wittenberg in order to have his life spared by the Holy Roman Empire.source
  • 1585Spain seizes English ships in Spanish ports, precipitating the Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604).source
  • 1587John Davis sets out from Dartmouth, Devon, for a third attempt to find the Northwest Passage.source
  • 1594The Siege of Groningen by the Dutch Republic begins with an attack of 10,000 soldiers against the Spanish-held city. The Spanish commander surrenders after two months on July 22.source
  • 1603The King's Men, a troupe of English professional actors composed primarily of former members of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, is granted its royal patent by King James. The company will give the first performances of many of the plays of William Shakespeare, who is one of the company's 26 principal actors. Named in order of priority on the patent are manager Lawrence Fletcher, Shakespeare, and Richard Burbage.source
  • 1604Maurice of Nassau begins the Siege of Sluis, a port in the Spanish Netherlands, with 11,000 Dutch and English troops. Despite reinforcements from Spanish relief troops, the city surrenders after three months, with both sides having lost hundreds of casualties.source
  • 1606Vasili Ivanovich Shuisky becomes the new Tsar of Russia as Vasili IV.source
  • 1629May 14–28 – Huguenot rebellions: After a 15-day siege, Louis XIII of France captures Privas.source
  • 1635France declares war on Spain.source
  • 1643The New England Confederation is formed as a military alliance between Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Saybrook Colony (Connecticut), and New Haven Colony.source
  • 1643Thirty Years' War: Battle of Rocroi: The French defeat the Spanish at Rocroi in France.source
  • 1649"An act declaring England to be a Commonwealth" is passed by the Rump Parliament.source
  • 1652May 19 (May 29, New Style) – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Dover – The opening battle is fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne; the result is inconclusive.source
  • 1652First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Dover fought inconclusively off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.source
  • 1660the newly restored Church of England Convocation of the English Clergy canonises King Charles I as King Charles the Martyr and Saint Charles Stuart, the only saint formally canonised within the Anglican Communion.source
  • 1662The Poor Relief Act ("Settlement and Removal Act") sets out principles for establishing the parish to which a person belongs (their place of 'settlement'), which would be responsible should they become in need of Poor Relief.source
  • 1662The Act of Uniformity 1662, officially "An Act for the uniformity of common prayer and service in the Church, and administration of the sacraments", is given royal assent after being passed by the English Parliament to regulate the form of public prayers, sacraments, and other rites of the Church of England to conform with the newest edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the 1662 prayer book.source
  • 1662Act of Uniformity approves the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.source
  • 1662Royal assent is also given to England's new hearth tax law, with one shilling charged for each stove or fireplace in a building, to be collected on 29 September and on 25 March each year in order to provide the £1,200,000 annual household income for King Charles II. The unpopular tax is abolished in 1689.source
  • 1662The Licensing of the Press Act restricts London printers to a total of 24. Books printed abroad are prohibited. Roger L'Estrange is granted a warrant to seize seditious books or pamphlets.source
  • 1665Great fire of Newport, Shropshire, England.source
  • 1665Great Fire of Newport, Shropshire.source
  • 1676Peskeomskut Massacre: Battle of Turner's Falls – Captain William Turner leads a raid at first light on an encampment consisting mainly of women and children. An estimated 300-400 lives are taken in less than half an hour, first from gunshot directly into the sleeping tents, then by sword and by drowning as the victims try to flee. This incident happens on the west bank of the Connecticut River, just above the falls known as Turner's Falls in Gill, Massachusetts.source
  • 1685beginning of the first session of the Loyal Parliament.source
  • 1685Leonora Christina Ulfeldt is released after twenty-two years in confinement in Blåtårn.source
  • 1702Over 90% of the city of Bergen, Norway, is destroyed and reduced to ashes in a Great Fire.source
  • 1702The largest city fire in Bergen's history. 7/8 of the city burns down.source
  • 1704May 19–23 – Vigorous Strombolian activity from Mount Vesuvius, Italy is recorded.source
  • 1712Peter the Great moves the capital of Russia from Moscow to Saint Petersburg.source
  • 1714Queen Anne refuses to allow members of the House of Hanover to settle in Britain during her lifetime.source
  • 1714Anne, Queen of Great Britain, refuses to allow members of the House of Hanover to settle in Britain during her lifetime.source
  • 1734George Berkeley is consecrated as Church of Ireland Bishop of Cloyne.source
  • 1749King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company 200,000 acres (312½ square miles or 810 km 2 ) of land north of the Ohio River, encompassing most of the modern U.S. state of Ohio and part of West Virginia. The grant is conditioned on the Company being able to attract 100 European families every year, for seven years, to move to the area occupied by Indian tribes, and to build a fort to protect themsource
  • 1755General Braddock hosts Iroquois leaders Scaroyady, Kaghswaghtaniunt and Silver Heels at Fort Cumberland, the British Army base in the colony of Maryland. The three chiefs pledge their alliance with the British in advance of Braddock's expedition into the Ohio Country.source
  • 1769Cardinal Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli is elected as the 249th pope, succeeding the late Clement XIII and choosing to take the regnal name of Pope Clement XIV.source
  • 1774Shakers Ann Lee and eight followers sail from Liverpool, England for colonial America.source
  • 1774Shakers Ann Lee and eight followers sail from Liverpool for colonial America.source
  • 1776May 15–26 – American Revolution: Battle of the Cedars – British forces skirmish with the American Continental Army around Les Cèdres, Quebec.source
  • 1780New England's Dark Day: An unaccountable darkness spreads over New England, regarded by some observers as a fulfillment of Bible prophecy.source
  • 1780an unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada. This has never been explained, though clouds of smoke from massive forest fires are the most likely cause.source
  • 1798rebel leader Lord Edward FitzGerald is arrested in Dublin, later dying of wounds received.source
  • 1802Napoleon establishes the French Legion of Honour (Légion d'honneur).source
  • 1810May 18–25 – May Revolution: Armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy and establish a provincial government for Argentina (the Primera Junta). Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros is removed.source
  • 1828The Tariff of 1828 is enacted. Critics name it the 'Tariff of Abominations' because they see it as unfairly protective of northern industry to the detriment of the southern economy.source
  • 1834The Peasants' Revolt in Egyptian-ruled Palestine begins; it is suppressed in August.source
  • 1836Fort Parker massacre: Among those captured by Native Americans is 9-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker. She later gives birth to a son named Quanah, who becomes the last chief of the Comanche.source
  • 1842Dorr Rebellion: Militiamen supporting Thomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal in Providence, Rhode Island, but are repulsed.source
  • 1845HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, with 134 men, comprising Sir John Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage, sail from Greenhithe on the Thames. They will last be seen in the summer, entering Baffin Bay.source
  • 1845HMS Erebus and HMS Terror with 134 men, comprising Sir John Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage, sail from Greenhithe on the Thames. They will last be seen in the summer entering Baffin Bay.source
  • 1848The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of February 2, ending the Mexican–American War, is ratified by the Mexican government.source
  • 1852Taiping Rebellion: The siege of Guilin is lifted.source
  • 1853Western Expedition launched along the Yangtze Riversource
  • 1858"Bleeding Kansas: The Marais des Cygnes massacre is perpetrated by pro-slavery forces in the U.S. state of Kansas.source
  • 1858The Marais des Cygnes massacre is perpetrated by pro-slavery forces in Bleeding Kansas.source
  • 1861Association "Vlamingen Vooruit!" organises mass meeting in Brusselssource
  • 1869Two days after John Young, the English manager of the Leeswood Green colliery, announces a pay cut, he is attacked by some of his workers.source
  • 1870João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha takes over as Prime Ministersource
  • 1870the Home Government Association is established in Ireland by Isaac Butt to argue for devolution for Ireland and repeal of the Act of Union 1800.source
  • 1876Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet, files for bankruptcy in Manchester with debts exceeding £500,000, causing his Dinas Mawddwy estate to be put up for sale.source
  • 1883Battle of Cầu Giấy (Paper Bridge)source
  • 1883Battle of Paper Bridge, French defeat by Black Flag forces.source
  • 1885After a three-month legislative battle in the Illinois General Assembly, John A. Logan is re-elected to the United States Senate.source
  • 1886Creation of the Duke of Albuquerque title.source
  • 1889A law is passed to adopt the gold standard aligned with the Latin Monetary Union. The law comes into force on 17 March 1890.source
  • 1892Battle of Yemoja River: British troops defeat Ijebu infantry in modern-day Nigeria, using a maxim gun.source
  • 1893a quick clay slide in Verdal Municipality destroyed 105 farms and killed 116 people.source
  • 1897Oscar Wilde is released from prison in England, and goes into voluntary exile on the continent.source
  • 1897May 10 – 19 zinc miners die of carbon monoxide poisoning at Snaefell Mine on the Isle of Man.source
  • 1899The U.S. Army captures Tawi-Tawi, the southernmost island in the Philippines.source
  • 1901Spanish general election, 1901source
  • 1906The Simplon railway tunnel, connecting Brig, Switzerland and Domodossola, Italy, through the Alps, is inaugurated by the Italian king Victor Emmanuel III and the president of the Swiss Confederation (presiding the Federal Council of Switzerland for that year) Ludwig Forrer. Work on the first tube of tunnel commenced in 1898.source
  • 1909Russian ballet is brought to the Western world when the Ballets Russes opens a tour produced by Sergei Diaghilev at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with 55 dancers, including Vaslav Nijinsky.source
  • 1915May 15–21 – The Far Eastern Championship Games take place in Shanghai.source
  • 1916Norman Rockwell's first cover for The Saturday Evening Post, Boy with Baby Carriage.source
  • 1919Mustafa Kemal Atatürk lands at Samsun on the Anatolian Black Sea coast, marking the start of the Turkish War of Independence. The anniversary of this event is also an official day of Turkish Youth.source
  • 1919Volcano Kelud erupts in Java, killing about 5,000.source
  • 1921The Emergency Quota Act is passed by the United States Congress, establishing national quotas on immigration. Because this drastically limits immigration from Eastern Europe, Jews emigrating from there begin to prefer Palestine as a destination rather than the U.S.source
  • 1922The All-Russian Young Pioneer Organisation is established.source
  • 1931An Order in Council is issued by King George V relating to the Western Wall. This legally enshrined the Wall's status: Muslim ownership is affirmed, but Jews are guaranteed free access for prayer under specific conditions.source
  • 1934Kimon Georgiev stages a coup d'état in Bulgaria.source
  • 1935canonization of Cardinal John Fisher and Sir Thomas More by Pope Pius XI. This year also, Bede is sanctified by the Catholic Church.source
  • 1939Tore Godal, physician.source
  • 1941The Viet Minh is formed at Pác Bó in Vietnam, to overthrow French rule of the nation, as an alliance between the Indochina Communist party, led by Ho Chi Minh, and the Nationalist party. It will become the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.source
  • 1943Winston Churchill addresses a joint session of the United States Congress.source
  • 1944Eisenhower visits Bangor, County Down to inspect American warships in Belfast Lough. He observes onshore military exercises at Ballyholme Bay then flies from Ballyhalbert Airfield in County Down to RAF Bovingdon in Hertfordshire in the evening.source
  • 1961Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however, the probe lost contact with Earth a month earlier, and does not send back any data).source
  • 1961Eleven Bengali Language Movement workers of Barak Valley including Kamala Bhattacharya killed in Assam Rifles firings at Silchar.source
  • 1966Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of torturing and murdering 16-year-old Sylvia Likens in Indianapolis, United States, and is sentenced to life in prison (she is released on parole in December 1985).source
  • 19661964–66 Balkans Cup: Albania is defeated by Romania 1-2 at Selman Stërmasi Stadium, Tiranasource
  • 1968Nigerian forces capture Port Harcourt and form a ring around the Biafrans. This contributes to a humanitarian disaster as the surrounded population already suffers from hunger and starvation.source
  • 1968Despite the fact that the country is in autumn, there is a heavy snowfall that affects from La Serena to Puerto Montt.source
  • 1969The Singapore Petroleum Company is formed.source
  • 1971Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.source
  • 1978May 19–20 – French Foreign Legion paratroopers land in Kolwezi, Zaire, to rescue Europeans in the middle of a civil war.source
  • 1980May 18–27 – Gwangju Uprising: Students in Gwangju, South Korea, begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.source
  • 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests: Zhao Ziyang meets the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.source
  • 19891989 Ürümqi unrest: Uyghur and Hui Muslim protesters riot in front of the government building in Ürümqi, China.source
  • 1989First Intifada: The Palestinian leader Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, was arrested by Israel. Yassin was later on sentenced to life imprisonment for his involvement in attacks against Israelis.source
  • 1989May 12–25 – San Bernardino train disaster: Southern Pacific freight locomotive SP 7551 East derails in a residential area of San Bernardino, California, killing four and destroying seven houses. On May 25, as a direct result of the derailment, the Calnev Pipeline explodes, killing an additional two people and destroying eleven more houses and 21 cars.source
  • 1991Dissolution of Yugoslavia: In the Croatian independence referendum, voters in the Socialist Republic of Croatia vote to leave SFR Yugoslavia.source
  • 1991Democratic Rally won 20 of the 56 seats in the parliament following parliamentary elections. Voter turnout was 93%.source
  • 1993SAM Colombia Flight 501, a Boeing 727-46, crashed during its approach to José María Córdova International Airport, Colombia, killing all 132 occupants on board.source
  • 1998The wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942, is found near Midway Atoll by a team led by former US Navy officer Robert D. Ballard.source
  • 1998The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the US's pagers without service.source
  • 2003Peace talks break down in the insurgency in Aceh and the Indonesian government launches new attacks against the insurgents.source
  • 2005May 19–21 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2005 takes place in Kyiv, Ukraine, and is won by Greek entrant Helena Paparizou with the song "My Number One".source
  • 2006May 18–20 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2006 takes place in Athens, Greece, and is won by Finnish band entrant Lordi with the song "Hard Rock Hallelujah".source
  • 2009May 11–24 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope on May 11, landing at Edwards Air Force Base May 24.source
  • 2009German football club RB Leipzig is founded by Red Bull.source
  • 2010Protests in Bangkok, Thailand, end with a bloody military crackdown, killing 91 and injuring more than 2,100.source
  • 2012Chelsea wins the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League held in Munich, Germany by beating the home side Bayern Munich in the final.source
  • 2014May 13–19 – 2014 Southeast Europe floods. 57 deaths in Serbia.source
  • 2015May 19–23 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is held in Vienna, Austria, and is won by Swedish entrant Måns Zelmerlöw with the song "Heroes".source
  • 2016EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes into the Mediterranean Sea en route from Paris to Cairo, killing all 66 people on board.source
  • 2018The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held at St George's Chapel, Windsor, with an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion.source
  • 2019China–United States trade war: Google pulls Android update support for Huawei phones, as well as the Google Play Store and Gmail apps, after the company's blacklisting by the U.S. government.source
  • 2020Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announces the termination of all agreements, including security ones, with Israel and the United States in response to Israel's plans to annex the Jordan Valley.source
  • 2021The European Parliament unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the formal suspension of accession negotiations between the European Union and Turkey.source
  • 2021May 18–May 22 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is held in Rotterdam, Netherlands, after the cancellation of the 2020 contest due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The contest is won by Italian entrants Måneskin with the song "Zitti e buoni".source
  • 2024A coup d'état attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo reportedly led by Christian Malanga leads to unrest in Kinshasa. Government soldiers quickly intervene, arresting the coup leaders and reportedly restoring calm.source
  • 2024Several people are injured after a shell fired from neighboring Kinshasa during the 2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt flies across the Congo River and lands on a neighborhood of Brazzaville.source

Births

  • 701Li Bai (or Li Po), Chinese poet (died 762)source
  • 1100Judith of Bavaria, duchess of Swabia (died 1130)source
  • 1303Saw Zein (or Binnya Ran De), Burmese ruler (died 1330)source
  • 1359Francesco Novello da Carrara, Italian lord (died 1406)source
  • 1400John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton, English baron (died 1462)source
  • 1462Baccio D'Agnolo, Italian woodcarver, sculptor and architect (died 1543)source
  • 1476Helena of Moscow, Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania and Queen consort of Poland (died 1513)source
  • 1547Gustaf Banér, Swedish nobleman and member of the Privy Council of Sweden (died 1600)source
  • 1593Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter (died 1678)source
  • 1616Johann Jakob Froberger, German composer and keyboardist (died 1667)source
  • 1744Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III (died 1818)source
  • 1762Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (died 1814)source
  • 1767Sir George Prevost (died 1816)source
  • 1795Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1873)source
  • 1831Steingrímur Thorsteinsson, poet and writer.source
  • 1866Prince Peter of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of Princess Leopoldina of Brazil (died 1934).source
  • 1881Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkiye and the first President of Turkey, Turkish field marshal and statesman (official birthday; d. 1938)source
  • 1890Ho Chi Minh, Prime minister/President of North Vietnam (died 1969)source
  • 1898Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (died 1974)source
  • 1925Pol Pot, Cambodian Stalinist dictator and leader of the Khmer Rouge (died 1998)source
  • 1925Malcolm X, African-American civil rights activist (died 1965)source
  • 1995Berthe Etane Ngolle, wrestlersource

Deaths

  • 804Alcuin, bishop and advisor to Charlemagnesource
  • 956Robert, archbishop of Triersource
  • 988Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury (born 909)source
  • 1102Stephen II, French nobleman and crusadersource
  • 1106Geoffrey IV, French noblemansource
  • 1125Vladimir II, Grand Prince of Kiev (born 1053)source
  • 1164Bashnouna, Egyptian monk and martyrsource
  • 1218Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1175)source
  • 1246Umiliana de' Cerchi, Italian noblewoman (born 1219)source
  • 1296Pope Celestine V (born 1215)source
  • 1303Ivo of Kermartin, French priest, judge and saint (born 1253)source
  • 1309Agostino Novello, Italian priest and prior general (born 1240)source
  • 1319Louis of Évreux, son of King Philip the Bold (born 1276)source
  • 1389Dmitry Donskoy, Grand Prince of Muscovy (born 1350)source
  • 1396John I of Aragon (born 1350)source
  • 1432Joan of Valois, Duchess of Alençon, French noblewoman (born 1409)source
  • 1480Jan Długosz, Polish historian (born 1415)source
  • 1526Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (born 1464)source
  • 1531Jan Łaski, Polish statesman and diplomat (born 1456)source
  • 1536Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England (executed) (born c. 1501/1507)source
  • 1609García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete (born 1535)source
  • 1623Mariam-uz-Zamani, Empress of the Mughal Empire (born 1542)source
  • 1627Katharina Henot, German General Postmaster, alleged witch (born 1570)source
  • 1637Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (born 1588)source
  • 1653Elizabeth Lucretia, Duchess of Cieszyn, Duchess suo jure of Cieszyn (born 1599)source
  • 1669The first people executed in Sweden's Mora witch trial are put to death, with seven women and one man beheaded after being convicted of "abduction of children to Satan."source
  • 1670Ferdinando Ughelli, Italian Cistercian monk, church historian (born 1595)source
  • 1715Charles Montagu, English Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1661)source
  • 1739Marie Barbier de l'Assomption, sister of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame (born 1663)source
  • 1762Francesco Loredan, doge of Venice (born 1685)source
  • 1795James Boswell, Scottish author (born 1740)source
  • 1795Josiah Bartlett, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (born 1729)source
  • 1803Master Malati, a Coptic Christian leader, is beheaded by a Muslim mob in Cairo, Egypt.source
  • 1825Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, French politician (born 1760)source
  • 1864Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (born 1804)source
  • 1895José Martí, Cuban independence leader (born 1853)source
  • 1898William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1809)source
  • 1935T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), English soldier, diplomat and writer (born 1888)source
  • 1939Ahmet Ağaoğlu, Turkish politician, author and writer (born 1869)source
  • 1942Sir Joseph Larmor, physicist (born 1857).source
  • 1974Allal al-Fassi, Moroccan politician, poet, writer and scholar (born 1910)source
  • 1980May 18–27 - Gwangju massacre: Up to 165 people are killed when a popular uprising in the city of Gwangju is crushed by the South Korean army.source
  • 1994Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 64, American socialite, writer, and First Lady of the United States, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.source
  • 2002Sir John Gorton, 90, 19th Prime Minister of Australia.source
  • 2014Sir Jack Brabham, 88, Australian racing driver, triple Formula One world champion (1959, 1960, 1966).source
  • 2024Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian are killed, along with seven other passengers and crew, in a helicopter crash near the Azerbaijan–Iran border.source