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May 2 in history

225 sourced entries recorded on May 2, from 373 CE to 2021 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 536June 4 – Council of Constantinople.source
  • 565Ahkal Moʼ Nahb II becomes the new ruler of Palenque and reigns until his death in 570.source
  • 724Muhammand ibn Marwan resigns as Governor of Egypt after a difference of opinion on policy, and is replaced by Al-Hurr ibn Yusuf.source
  • 1194Richard I grants Portsmouth market-town status with a royal charter. He orders the construction of docks on The Solent – having seen that the harbour is a perfect base for trade and the English fleet.source
  • 1258King Henry III of England accepts the demand of Simon de Montfort and his baronial supporters that the government is reformed with a committee of 22 barons, including the king. As an act of faith, Simon de Montfort hands over his estates at Odiham and Kenilworth as part of the proposals. The Provisions of Oxford establish baronial control of the government, also known as the Oxford Parliament, on June 11.source
  • 1312Pope Clement V orders the confiscation of all property of the Knights Templar in the papal bull Ad providam.source
  • 1316In an attempt to stir the Irish nobles into rebellion against English rule, Edward Bruce, brother of King Robert the Bruce of Scotland is crowned High King of Ireland.source
  • 1335Otto the Merry, Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia.source
  • 1367At Burgos in Spain, Edward the Black Prince of England attempts to get himself and his soldiers paid by King Pedro of Castile for their services at the battle of Najera, but receives instead a renewal of a bond to secure the debt owed.source
  • 1368Copenhagen, capital of Denmark, falls to the Hanseatic League four weeks after the April 4 invasion of the kingdom and King Valdemar IV is forced to flee while the city is pillaged and looted by troops led by Bruno von Warendorp.source
  • 1417Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, remarries less than year after the death of his wife Anna of Cilli, taking Elizabeth Granowska as his third wife in a ceremony at Sanok. Because the Polish nobles do not approve of the marriage, Elizabeth's coronation does not take place for six months.source
  • 1446(5 Safar 849 AH) Sultan Muhammad of the Timurid Empire in Iran arrives in Isfahan and forces out a disloyal governor, Sa'adat, then declares an amnesty on taxes, stages a feast and celebration, and appoints Shah Ala' al-Din Naqib as the new governor.source
  • 1452Jean Bréhal, chief of the French inquisition, reopens the case of Joan of Arc, who had been executed more than 20 years earlier for heresy and begins taking testimony from witnesses.source
  • 1495At the Battle of Rapallo, 11 ships of the Republic of Genoa Navy commanded by Francesco Spinola and Fabrizio Giustiniani, defeat a French 11-ship force led by Louis de Miolans, who is taken prisoner of war when he and his ships are all captured. Rapallo, captured by the French a year earlier, is retaken by Genoa and 300 women held hostage by the French are freed.source
  • 1496The Marquis of Mantua makes a further adjustment to his April 23 decree on Jewish identification, making further allowances to the dress code of Jewish women, and excusing the requirement of wearing a veil to cover the face. Unmarried women must still wear yellow headgear and drape a veil over their shoulders; married women are excused from covering their faces with veils but must wear headgear; and widows may wear their color of choice for headgear.source
  • 1509Juan Ponce de León obtains authorization to bring his family from Spain to his home in the Casa de Contratación in Caparra, Puerto Rico.source
  • 1514The Poor Conrad peasant revolt against Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg begins in Beutelsbach.source
  • 1536Anne Boleyn, second queen of Henry VIII of England, is arrested on the grounds of incest, adultery, and treason.source
  • 1559John Knox returns from exile to Scotland, to become the leader of the beginning Scottish Reformation.source
  • 1565Huntingdon Grammar School is established in England.source
  • 1568The deposed Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Lochleven Castle.source
  • 1568The deposed Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Lochleven Castle.source
  • 1577La Charite falls to the besieging royal army followed by Issoire a month later, as part of the King's offensive against the Huguenots in the Sixth War of Religion.source
  • 1589Girolamo Bargagli's play The Pilgrim Woman is given its first performance, premiering in Florence, three years after Bargagli's death.source
  • 1593Wars of Religion: Battle of Port-Ringeard – Royal army is victorious over the League.source
  • 1598The Peace of Vervins, mediated by Cardinal Alessandro de Medici, ends the war between France and Spain.source
  • 1611The Authorized King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time, printed by Robert Barker in London.source
  • 1621The Panama earthquake affects the Isthmus of Panama, with an estimated magnitude of 6.9, and a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII.source
  • 1623the Stewart Baronetcy, of Ramelton in the County of Donegal, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for the soldier William Stewart.source
  • 1634With Albrecht Wallenstein having been eliminated, the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II personally takes command of the Imperial Army.source
  • 1635Great Council of Mechelen condemns Guillaume de Melun, Prince of Espinoy, in absentia as a traitor for his role in the Conspiracy of Nobles (1632).source
  • 1639After a 40-day siege, the Dutch East India Company Army captures the Trincomalee Fort on the island of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) from the Portuguese Empire.source
  • 1641Mary, Princess Royal, 9 year-old eldest daughter of the King, marries 14-year old William II of Orange in the Chapel Royal of Whitehall Palace in London.source
  • 1645Thirty Years' War – Battle of Herbsthausen (or Mergentheim): The Bavarian army, led by Franz von Mercy, catches French forces led by Marshal Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne unawares, and heavily defeats them.source
  • 1648The Parliament of England passes an act against blasphemy.source
  • 1648The Parliament of Scotland votes in favour of war with England on behalf of the King.source
  • 1668The first Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of Devolution.source
  • 1670a royal charter is granted to the Hudson's Bay Company with the jurisdiction to control administration and commerce in Rupert's Land, governed for the crown by Rupert, Duke of Cumberland, the King's cousin, a 1.5 million square mile area around Hudson Bay in North America.source
  • 1670The Hudson's Bay Company is granted a royal charter in England with the jurisdiction to control administration and commerce in "Rupert's Land", governed for the crown by Rupert, Duke of Cumberland, the cousin of King Charles II. The land is a 1.5 million square mile area of what is now Canada around Hudson Bay. The area controlled covers all of the modern province of Manitoba, most of Saskatchewan, and significant portions of Alberta and Nunavut, as well as parts of what are now Ontario and Quebec, and parts of the U.S. states of Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana.source
  • 1672John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.source
  • 1676Mary Rowlandson is ransomed from captivity by Native Americans by a subscription raised by women of Boston.source
  • 1692The first performance of the semi-opera The Fairy-Queen by Henry Purcell, based on William Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream, takes place at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden in London.source
  • 1692first performance of Henry Purcell's semi-opera The Fairy-Queen at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden, in London.source
  • 1696The Irish Admiralty’s prize commissioners lodged embezzlement charges related to captured French goods, mainly wines, valued at over £7,279. The suit targeted naval officers such as: Captains Bing, Shovell, and Fitz-Patrick.source
  • 1713In the Great Northern War, a fleet of the Russian Navy, transporting 12,000 soldiers, sails from Kronstadt to attack the Swedish Army at Helsinki.source
  • 1718the scholar William Nicolson is appointed Bishop of Derry.source
  • 1720The Riksdag of the Estates in Sweden adopts the Instrument of Government (1720), an amendment of the 1719 constitution continuing the "Age of Liberty" in the country.source
  • 1721Hans Egede departed with three ships from Bergen to Greenland, starting the Danish-Norwegian colonization of Greenland.source
  • 1736A scientific expedition consisting of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairault, Pierre Charles Lemonnier, Charles Étienne Louis Camus and Anders Celsius, departs from Dunkerque and travels to Tornedalen: they arrive in Stockholm on 21 May and depart for Lappland on 6 June.source
  • 1770A Royal Danish Navy fleet bound for Algiers departs from Copenhagen to bomb the city in response to the recurrent pirate attacks in the Mediterranean Sea.source
  • 1771Former governor Christian von Proeck is deposed due to his reluctance to enforce royal decrees.source
  • 1774the Society of Antiquaries of London open the coffin of King Edward I and discover that his body has been perfectly preserved for 467 years.source
  • 1776The restrictions of the selling of Brännvin is lifted.source
  • 1791April 29–May 8 – The first American ships reach Japan, brigantine Lady Washington captained by John Kendrick of Boston, and the brig Grace.source
  • 1808Peninsular War: Dos de Mayo Uprising – The people of Madrid rise up against the French troops.source
  • 1813May 1–9 – War of 1812: Fort Meigs is first besieged, by British allied forces under General Henry Proctor and Chief Tecumseh.source
  • 1813May 1–9 – War of 1812: First Siege of Fort Meigs: British allied forces, under General Henry Proctor and Chief Tecumseh, lay siege to the fort but do not capture it.source
  • 1813Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Lützen – Napoleon wins against the German alliance.source
  • 1813The Perseverance collects the sealing gang left on Solander Island in western Foveaux Strait in 1809 by the Fox.source
  • 1816Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (later King of the Belgians) marries Charlotte Augusta, daughter of the Prince Regent, at Carlton House in London.source
  • 1826D. Pedro I abdicates the Portuguese throne in favor of his daughter Dona Maria II.source
  • 1829After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger, proclaimed possession of the whole of the west coast of Australia for the Crown.source
  • 1831Emperor Pedro I abdicates from his post, leaving the throne for his 5-year-old son Pedro II. Since Pedro II was a minor, the country entered a regency period until he reached the age of 15 in 1840.source
  • 1831The Polytechnic Institute, today's Leibniz University Hanover established. Founded on 2 May 1831, it is one of the largest and oldest science and technology universities in Germany.source
  • 1844Commission of Enquiry set up to inquire into the system of poor relief in Scotland and suggest improvements delivers its report, leading to the Scottish Poor Law Act the following year.source
  • 1845Yarmouth suspension bridge in Great Yarmouth, England, collapses leaving around 80 dead, mostly children.source
  • 1845The Yarmouth suspension bridge at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, collapses: 79 killed.source
  • 1849Hungarian Revolution of 1848: A new independent Hungarian government, led by Bertalan Szemere, is formed. The head of state of Hungary becomes Lajos Kossuth, as governor president.source
  • 1851Edward Hargraves proclaims the discovery of gold at Ophir, New South Wales. The gold was actually discovered by William Tom and John Lister, between 7 and 12 April 1851.source
  • 18542 May Realskolen for Frederiksberg og Vesterbro (later Schneekloths Skole) is founded.source
  • 1862The California State Normal School (later San Jose State University) is created by an Act of the California legislature.source
  • 1863May 1–4 – American Civil War: Battle of Chancellorsville – General Robert E. Lee defeats Union forces with 13,000 Confederate casualties, among them Stonewall Jackson (fatally wounded by friendly fire), and 17,500 Union casualties.source
  • 1864Under terms of the Treaty of London, the United Kingdom voluntarily cedes control of the United States of the Ionian Islands to the Kingdom of Greece.source
  • 1866May 1–3 – The Memphis massacre: a rebellion with a series of violent racial events.source
  • 1866Battle of Callao: Peruvian defenders fight the Spanish fleet.source
  • 1866Chincha Islands War: Battle of Callaosource
  • 1866Paraguayan War: Battle of Estero Bellacosource
  • 1869Folies Bergère opens in Paris as the Folies Trévise.source
  • 1870William J. Seymour, one of the two Primary Founders of American Pentecostalism was born.source
  • 1874Third Carlist War: The siege of Bilbao is lifted.source
  • 1876May 2 (April 20 O.S.) – April Uprising of 1876 in Ottoman Bulgaria begins: members of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee rise up against their Ottoman Empire overlords. Over the course of one month and 6 days, the rebellion is suppressed by irregular Ottoman bashi-bazouk units that engage in indiscriminate slaughter of both rebels and non-combatants, killing 15,000–30,000, including the principal rebel leaders and around 5,000 in the Batak massacre. Although the rising does not immediately succeed in its aims, reports of the "Bulgarian Horrors" cause a public outcry in the West and the liberation of Bulgaria is achieved two years later.source
  • 1878The Washburn "A" Mill in Minneapolis explodes, killing 18.source
  • 1878The Washburn "A" Mill in Minneapolis, Minnesota explodes, killing 18.source
  • 1879The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español) is founded clandestinely at the Casa Labra tavern in Madrid, by printer Pablo Iglesias.source
  • 1880After having her lights installed by Edison's personnel, the SS Columbia is lit up for the first time at the foot of Wall Street, in New York City.source
  • 1882The Kilmainham Treaty, an agreement between the British government and Irish nationalist leader Charles Stewart Parnell to abate tenant rent arrears, is announced; Parnell is released from Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin.source
  • 1885North-West Rebellion: Battle of Cut Knife – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win their largest victory over Canadian forces.source
  • 1885World Exhibition in Antwerp opens (to 2 November)source
  • 1885Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale for the first time in the United States.source
  • 1889Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea.source
  • 1889Signing of the Treaty of Wuchale between the Ethiopian Empire and the Kingdom of Italy after the Italian occupation of Eritrea in the small Ethiopian town of Wuchale. King Menelik II had just won the imperial crown with the aid of Italian money and weapons. The purpose of the treaty was to promote friendship and trade among the two countries. Article 17 of the treaty was translated and interpreted differently by Ethiopia and Italy. Italy claimed the article imposed a protectorate over Ethiopia.source
  • 1890President Benjamin Harrison signs the Oklahoma Organic Act, under which Oklahoma Territory is organized, a prerequisite for later statehood.source
  • 1895Gongche Shangshu movement: Thousands of Beijing scholars and citizens protest against the Treaty of Shimonoseki.source
  • 1895British South Africa Company's territory south of the Zambesi renamed 'Rhodesia'.source
  • 1898Thousands of Chinese scholars and Beijing citizens seeking reforms protest in front of the capital control yuan.source
  • 1899The Kingdom of Siam (modern-day Thailand) cedes its province of Luang Prabang (now Laos) to France.source
  • 1906Lord Alfred Milner, British colonial secretary and the High Commissioner for Southern Africa, returns to Britain.source
  • 1909Francesco Ciuppa wins the 1909 Targa Florio endurance automobile race on Sicily.source
  • 1911The Chilean National History Museum is founded.source
  • 1918General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.source
  • 1921May 1–7 – Jaffa riots: Riots at Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine result in 47 Jewish and 48 Arab deaths.source
  • 1921July 5 – Third Silesian Uprising: Poles in Upper Silesia rise against the Germans.source
  • 1927Buck v. Bell decided in the Supreme Court of the United States, permitting compulsory sterilization of people with intellectual disability.source
  • 1927April 22–May 5 – The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 strikes 700,000 people, in the greatest natural disaster in American history through this time.source
  • 1929Anders Svor, sculptor (born 1864)source
  • 1933Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler prohibits trade unions.source
  • 1933First modern "sighting" of the Loch Ness Monster.source
  • 1933all Trade Unions closed down, their headquarters and records were seized, and their leaders attacked and imprisoned.source
  • 1935The Sakdalista uprising.source
  • 1936El Diario de Hoy newspaper began publication.source
  • 1939The founding of the kibbutz Dahliasource
  • 1941WWII: Anglo-Iraqi War – British combat operations against the rebel government of Rashid Ali in the Kingdom of Iraq begin.source
  • 1945The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin. The famous picture of Raising a Flag over the Reichstag is taken at this date.source
  • 1945A Holocaust death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted under two kilometers west of Waakirchen by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army in southern Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners.source
  • 1945Neuengamme concentration camp near Hamburg is evacuated at about this date.source
  • 1945Expatriate American poet Ezra Pound is arrested by the Italian resistance movement but soon released by them as of no interest; on May 5 he turns himself in to the United States Army and is imprisoned as a traitor.source
  • 1947The movie Miracle on 34th Street, a Christmastime classic, is first shown in theaters.source
  • 1952Hubert Clement is appointed to the Council of State.source
  • 1953BOAC Flight 783, a Comet jetliner flying from Singapore to London, crashed near Calcutta, India after encountering bad weather, killing all forty-three passengers onboard.source
  • 1953Hussein is crowned King of Jordan.source
  • 1956The United Methodist Church in America decides, at its General Conference, to grant women full ordained clergy status. It also calls for an end to racial segregation in the denomination.source
  • 1956The Methodist Church in the U.S. decides, at its General Conference, to grant women full ordained clergy status. It also calls for an end to racial segregation in the denomination.source
  • 1957"Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the South African national anthem, replacing "God Save the Queen", which is retained as a royal anthem.source
  • 19591959 FA Cup Final: Nottingham Forest defeat Luton Town 2–1 at Wembley Stadium.source
  • 1959Sanna Grønlid, biathlete.source
  • 1962The Canadian dollar is pegged to the U.S. currencysource
  • 1962S.L. Benfica beats Real Madrid 5–3 at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam to win the 1961–62 European Cup in association football.source
  • 1963Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3-stage rocket with a maximum flight altitude of more than 62 mi (the only sounding rocket developed in Germany).source
  • 1964Senator Barry Goldwater receives more than 75% of the votes in the Texas Republican presidential primary.source
  • 1964Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped, beaten and murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance in July during the search for missing activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.source
  • 1964Vietnam War: Attack on USNS Card – An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos causes carrier USNS Card to sink in the port of Saigon.source
  • 1967US-made Sikorsky S-61 military transport helicopter renamed Nuri was used by the Royal Malaysian Air Force for the first time.source
  • 1968The Israel Broadcasting Authority commences television broadcasts.source
  • 1968The Israel Broadcasting Authority commences television broadcasts.source
  • 1972Fire at the Sunshine Mine, a silver mine in Idaho, kills 91.source
  • 1980Referendum on system of government held in Nepal.source
  • 1982The Government affirmed its neutrality in the Falklands war between the United Kingdom and Argentina, and opposed European Economic Community sanctions against Argentina (as did Italy).source
  • 1982The Weather Channel airs on cable television in the United States as the first 24-hour all-weather network.source
  • 1982Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors. Operation Algeciras, an attempt to destroy a Royal Navy warship in Gibraltar, fails.source
  • 1984South Africa, Mozambique and Portugal sign an agreement on electricity supply from the Cahora Bassa dam.source
  • 1985An explosion rocks the building housing the gold mining companies of Anglo American and Anglovaal in Johannesburg and causes R170,000 in structural damage. Both companies are engaged in mass dismissals of mine workers.source
  • 1986Expo 86, the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a World's fair, opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.source
  • 1989The first crack in the Iron Curtain: Hungary dismantles 240 km of barbed wire fencing along the border with Austria.source
  • 1989The coalition government of Prime Minister of the Netherlands Ruud Lubbers collapses in a dispute about a pollution cleanup plan.source
  • 1990In London, a man brandishing a knife robs a courier of bearer bonds worth £292 million.source
  • 1992April 29–May 4 – In Simi Valley, California, a jury acquits four LAPD police officers accused of excessive force in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King, causing the 1992 Los Angeles riots and leading to 53 deaths and $1 billion in damage.source
  • 2000The Selective Availability limiter is removed from the Global Positioning System, allowing for practical general-purpose use. The date is sometimes known as "Blue Switch Day".source
  • 2000A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit the mountainous border between Afghanistan and Tajikistan, 210 mi southeast of Dushanbe.source
  • 2002Bojayá massacre: A church is struck with a cylinder bomb during a conflict between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, killing an estimated 119 people.source
  • 2003Bus explosion in Bắc Ninh province kills more than 40 people.source
  • 2008Iron Man is released in theaters, starting the Marvel Cinematic Universe.source
  • 2010The eurozone and the International Monetary Fund agree to a €110 billion bailout package for Greece. The package involves sharp Greek austerity measures.source
  • 2012A pastel version of The Scream, by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for US$120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for an auctioned work of art.source
  • 2016Leicester City are officially confirmed Premier League Champions against 5000:1 odds at the start of the season.source
  • 2021The SpaceX Crew-1 mission ends, returning four crew members of Expedition 64 and 65 to Earth from the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon Resilience.source

Births

  • 1240Duzong (or Zhao Qi), Chinese emperor (died 1274)source
  • 1304Margaret Mortimer, Anglo-Norman noblewoman (died 1337)source
  • 1360Yongle Emperor of China (died 1424)source
  • 1402Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (died 1445)source
  • 1451René II, Duke of Lorraine (died 1508)source
  • 1458Eleanor of Viseu, Portuguese princess and later Queen of Portugal (died 1525)source
  • 1476Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Kladsko, Governor of Bohemia and Silesia (died 1536)source
  • 1543Jan Moretus, Belgian printer (died 1610)source
  • 1551William Camden, English historian (died 1623)source
  • 1567Sebald de Weert, Dutch captain, vice-admiral of the Dutch East India Company (died 1603)source
  • 1579Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shōgun (died 1632)source
  • 1602Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (died 1680)source
  • 1631John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl (died 1703)source
  • 1656Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Baronet, Anglo-Irish politician and judge (died 1724)source
  • 1660Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (died 1725)source
  • 1697Michael Fabritius, businessman (died 1746)source
  • 1702Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German Lutheran theologian and theosopher (died 1782)source
  • 1729Catherine the Great, born Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, empress regnant of Russia (died 1796)source
  • 1737William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1805)source
  • 1750John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (died 1780)source
  • 1772Novalis, German poet (died 1801)source
  • 1773Henrik Steffens, philosopher, scientist, and poet (died 1845)source
  • 1793David Vogt, politician (d.1861)source
  • 1806Catherine Labouré, French visionary, saint (died 1876)source
  • 1823José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage, zoologist and politician (died 1907).source
  • 18302 May (in Ireland): Maurice O'Rorke, politician.source
  • 1860Theodor Herzl, Austrian founder of modern political Zionism (died 1904)source
  • 1872Ichiyō Higuchi, writer (died 1896)source
  • 1890Teddie Gerard, actress and entertainer (died 1942)source
  • 1892Manfred von Richthofen (the "Red Baron"), German World War I fighter pilot (died 1918)source
  • 1896Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania (died 1982)source
  • 1921Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (died 1992)source
  • 1972Dwayne Johnson, American professional wrestler and actorsource
  • 2015Princess Charlotte, second grandchild of the Prince of Wales (now Charles III)source

Deaths

  • 373Athanasius of Alexandria, Egyptian bishop and saint (born 296)source
  • 649Marutha of Tikrit, Persian theologian and Maphrian of the Syriac Orthodox Church (born 565)source
  • 821Liu Zong, general of the Tang dynastysource
  • 907Boris I, ruler (knyaz) of the Bulgarian Empiresource
  • 1219King Leo II (or Levon) of Armenian Cilicia dies, leaving only two daughters. The elder, Stephanie, is the wife of John I; the younger, Isabella, daughter of Princess Sibylla of Cyprus and Jerusalem, is three years old. Leo has promised the succession to his nephew, Raymond-Roupen of Antioch, but on his death-bed he names Isabella as his heir.source
  • 1219Leo II (or Levon), king of Armenian Cilicia (born 1150)source
  • 1226Amaury I de Craon, French nobleman and knight (born 1170)source
  • 1230William de Braose, English nobleman and knightsource
  • 1250Al-Muazzam Turanshah, Ayyubid ruler of Egyptsource
  • 1250Al-Muazzam Turanshah, Ayyubid Sultan of Egypt, is murdered, ending effective Ayyubid Dynasty rule in the country. He is briefly succeeded by his widow, Sultana Shajar al-Durr.source
  • 1292Conrad II, German nobleman (House of Teck) (born 1235)source
  • 1293Meir of Rothenburg, German rabbi (born c.1215)source
  • 1302Blanche of Artois, queen consort and regent of Navarre (born 1248)source
  • 1320Joan Butler (Joan FitzGerald), Irish noblewoman (born 1281)source
  • 1444Hugh Boy II O'Neill, King of Clandeboye (birth date unknown)source
  • 1450William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (born 1396)source
  • 1459Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop (born 1389)source
  • 1519Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and artist (born 1452)source
  • 1519Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter and scientist, who worked in the court of King Francis I (b.1452)source
  • 1564Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist and patron of the arts (born 1500)source
  • 1567Marin Držić, Croatian writer (born 1508)source
  • 1649Lawyer and regicide Sir Isaac Dorislaus, while in The Hague to negotiate an alliance with the Dutch Republic, is murdered by royalist exiles.source
  • 1667George Wither, English writer (born 1588)source
  • 1667George Wither, writer (born 1588)source
  • 1706Georg Joseph Kamel, Czech pharmacist, botanist and missionary (born 1661)source
  • 1711Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (born 1641)source
  • 1711Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, statesman (born 1641)source
  • 1808Pedro Velarde y Santillán and Luis Daoíz y Torressource
  • 1821Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist and friend of Dr Johnson (born 1741)source
  • 1857Alfred de Musset, French poet (born 1810)source
  • 1864Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (born 1791)source
  • 1942José Abad Santos, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines (born 1886)source
  • 1957Joseph McCarthy, American senator (born 1908)source
  • 1972J. Edgar Hoover, American civil servant, 1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (born 1895)source
  • 2009Jack Kemp, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for Vice President (1996), cancer.source
  • 2011Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.source