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May 29 in history

230 sourced entries recorded on May 29, from 363 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 363Battle of Ctesiphon: Julian reaches the vicinity of the strongly fortified capital Ctesiphon. King Shapur II in charge of a large Persian army adopts a scorched earth policy, leaving the Romans desperately short of supplies.source
  • 1108Battle of Uclés: Almoravid forces defeat the armies of Castile and León. The advance of the Reconquista is halted, and the Berbers re-capture the towns of Uclés, Cuenca, Huete and Ocaña. The Christians, many of nobility, are beheaded.source
  • 1123Battle of Yibneh: A Crusader army led by Eustace Grenier defeats the Fatimid forces (16,000 men) near Ibelin. Despite the numerical superiority, Vizier Al-Ma'mun al-Bata'ihi is forced to withdraw to Egypt while his camp is plundered by the Crusaders. Eustace returns to Jerusalem in triumph, but later dies on June 15.source
  • 1167Battle of Monte Porzio: The army of the Commune of Rome is defeated by German forces under Frederick I and the local princes; Alexander III leaves Rome. Frederick proceeds to Rome, where he is crowned by Antipope Paschal III for the second time. A sudden outbreak of pestilence kills many of his advisors and knights.source
  • 1176Battle of Legnano: The Imperial army (some 5,500 men) led by Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa) is defeated by forces of the Lombard League, leading to the pactum Anagnium (the Agreement of Anagni).source
  • 1176Battle of Legnano: Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, is defeated by the Lombard League, leading to the pactum Anagninum (the Agreement of Anagni).source
  • 1233Mongol–Jin War: The Mongol army led by Ögedei Khan captures Kaifeng, capital of the Jin dynasty ('Great Jin'), after the 13-month Siege of Kaifeng (1232). The Mongols plunder the city, while Emperor Aizong of Jin flees for the town of Caizhou. Meanwhile, Ögedei departs and leaves the final conquest to his favoured general, Subutai.source
  • 1311Sancho the Peaceful of Barcelona becomes the new King of Majorca, a set of islands in the Mediterranean Sea (now Spain's Balearic Islands) after the death of his father, King Jaume IIsource
  • 1328King Philip VI of France is crowned, founding the House of Valois, after the death of King Charles IV of France, who has no sons to inherit.source
  • 1379John I succeeds his father, Henry II, as King of Castile and King of León.source
  • 1384The army of the Crown of Castile army begins the siege of Lisbon, capital of the Kingdom of Portugal.source
  • 1385The Battle of Trancoso is fought between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile after a Castilian army pillages and burns the city of Viseu. As the Castilians are marching back with their plundered loot and prisoners, they are met by the Portuguese Army, which kills more than 400 soldiers along with six of the seven Castilian officers, then recovers the stolen treasure and releases all of the Portuguese citizens taken prisoner.source
  • 1392After the Fleet Street riot in London, King Richard II of England summons Lord Mayor of London, John Hende, along with the London sheriff and deputies, and aldermen to appear before him at Nottingham Castle on June 25 for a hearing on unspecified charges.source
  • 1393Abu Thabid II becomes the new ruler of the Kingdom of Tlemcen in what is now Algeria, succeeding Abu Tashufin II.source
  • 1405In England, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, meets Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Earl of Norfolk Thomas Mowbray in Shipton Moor, tricks them to send their rebellious army home, and then imprisons them.source
  • 1414The English Parliament closes its session after 29 days, and King Henry V gives royal assent to numerous laws.source
  • 1415The Council of Constance approves an order dismissing, in absentia the Antipope John XXIII, who had been chosen by the Council of Pisa, from any authority over the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1416At the Battle of Gallipoli, Venetian admiral Pietro Loredan destroys the Ottoman fleet.source
  • 1418Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, captures Paris, forcing King Charles VI to flee from the violence of John's partisans.source
  • 1419King Henry V of England is betrothed to Princess Catherine of Valois, the 17-year-old daughter of King Charles VI of France, in negotiations in the neutral site of Pontoise, north of Paris, during a halt to hostilities in the war between the two kingdoms. Henry and Catherine will marry a little more than a year later, on June 2, 1420.source
  • 1445Stjepan Tomaš Kotromanić of the House of Kotromanić is granted recognition by the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Eugene IV as King Tomaš of Bosnia.source
  • 1453Ottoman forces capture Constantinople, destroying the Byzantine Empire—the successor state of the Roman Empire.source
  • 1500Traveling eastward from Brazil, Cabral and his fleet run into a storm off of the coast of Africa near the Cape of Good Hope and lose four of their 13 ships. Navigator Bartolomeu Dias is among the persons killed.source
  • 1522England formally declares war on France and Scotland.source
  • 1522England formally declares war on France.source
  • 1557King Philip II of Spain signs a treaty in London with Iacopo VI being restored to rule of the Principality of Piombino a bargain with Cosimo I de' Medici.source
  • 1571Queen Elizabeth I of England gives royal assent to laws that had been passed by the 3rd Parliament, including the Bulls from Rome Act 1571 to prevent the publication in England of papal bulls as well as "writings or instruments and other superstitious things from the See of Rome"source
  • 1580Stephen Báthory is formally crowned as Grand Duke of Lithuania at the Vilnius Cathedral.source
  • 1592Battle of Sacheon: Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin destroys all 13 Japanese ships taking part, using his improved turtle ship for the first time in battle.source
  • 1595George Somers and Amyas Preston travel to aid Raleigh's El Dorado expedition but failing to meet him instead raid the Spanish Province of Venezuelasource
  • 1599Essex takes Cahir Castle, supposedly the strongest in Ireland, after a short siege.source
  • 1599Nine Years' War: Essex captures Cahir Castle in Munster.source
  • 1629Thirty Years' War: Prince Frederick of Denmark, the Lutheran administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Verden, is expelled by the Catholic League as a result of the Edict of Restitution. He is replaced by the staunch catholic Francis of Wartenberg.source
  • 1630The Battle of Villabuona is fought in Italy at Lombardy, with more than 4,000 French and Venetian troops killed in an attack by Matthias Gallas of the Holy Roman Empire's army.source
  • 1645May 20–30 - Yangzhou massacre, one of the most destructive massacres in historysource
  • 1658Aurangzeb wins the Battle of Samugarh as Indian Mughal regent Dara Shikoh makes a last effort to defend the Mughal capital Agra.source
  • 1660King Charles II of England arrives in London and assumes the throne, marking the beginning of the English Restoration.source
  • 1677The Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Indians.source
  • 1692May 29 (May 19 O.S.) – Nine Years' War: Battle of Barfleur – The Anglo-Dutch fleet breaks the French line off the Cotentin Peninsula, foiling the French plan to invade England.source
  • 169229 May–4 June – War of the Grand Alliance: The threat of a French invasion of England is diminished by victory at the Battles of Barfleur and La Hogue.source
  • 1711Harley made Lord High Treasurer.source
  • 1724Cardinal Vincenzo Orsini, the Archbishop of Benevento, accepts the papacy, two days after being unanimously selected by the cardinals at the papal conclave in Rome. He becomes the 245th pontiff as Pope Benedict XIII.source
  • 1733The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.source
  • 1766In a paper read to the Royal Society, British theoretical chemist Henry Cavendish first describes his process of producing what he refers to as "inflammable air" by dissolving base metals such as iron, zinc and tin in a flask of sulfuric acid or hydrochloric acid, drawing the conclusion that the vapor that was released is different from air. Seven years later, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier bestows the name "hydrogen" on the gas.source
  • 1766Henry Cavendish presents his paper "On Factitious Airs". This is generally credited to show the discovery of hydrogen, since it describes the density of 'inflammable air', which forms water on combustion.source
  • 1772Coronation of King Gustav III and Queen Sophia Magdalena in Stockholm.source
  • 1777the Palmer Baronetcy, of Castle Lackin in the County of Mayo, is created in the Baronetage of Ireland for Roger Palmer.source
  • 1780American Revolutionary War – Waxhaw Massacre: Loyalist forces under Colonel Banastre Tarleton kill surrendering American soldiers.source
  • 1790Rhode Island ratifies the United States Constitution, and becomes the last of the 13 original states to do so.source
  • 1792The Great Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is disbanded following the Russian invasion of Poland.source
  • 1794May 28–June 1 – The Glorious First of June (Battle of Ushant): The British win a crushing tactical victory over the French fleet, but the merchant convoy escorted by the French fleet arrives safely in France.source
  • 1807Selim III, Ottoman Emperor since 1789, is deposed in favour of his nephew Mustafa IV.source
  • 1811The Society for the Welfare of Oslo is founded.source
  • 1825The Coronation of Charles X takes place at the historic site of Reims Cathedral, the last coronation of a French monarch.source
  • 1825Coronation of Charles X in Reims. This was the only coronation following the Bourbon Restoration and the last ever to take place.source
  • 1835the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland confirms the Veto Act which allows a majority of heads of families to exclude a presentee from a parish, legislation which is subsequently ruled as invalid.source
  • 1839Mungo Ponton presents his discovery of the light-sensitive quality of sodium dichromate as a method of permanent photography.source
  • 1861The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is established.source
  • 1864Princess Charlotte lands in Mexico to become Empress as consort of Maximilian I of Mexicosource
  • 1865American Civil War: President of the United States Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation of general amnesty for most citizens of the former Confederacy.source
  • 1867The Austro-Hungarian Compromise (called Ausgleich in German or kiegyezés in Hungarian (The Compromise)) is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire; on June 8 Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria is crowned King of Hungary.source
  • 1867Canadian Confederation: Queen Victoria signs the British North America Act, creating the Dominion of Canada, effective July 1.source
  • 1868The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Capital Punishment Amendment Act, thus ending public hanging.source
  • 1875British Arctic Expedition: George Nares sets sail on an expedition to attempt to reach the North Pole via Smith Sound.source
  • 1876The United States Senate votes 37 to 29 that U.S. Secretary of War William W. Belknap cannot be barred from trial and impeachment, despite being a private citizen; however, this is far short of the two-thirds majority required and thus he is acquitted.source
  • 1876Senate votes 37 to 29 that Secretary of War William W. Belknap cannot be barred from trial and impeachment, despite being a private citizen; however, this is far short of the two-thirds majority required and thus he is acquitted.source
  • 1886John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (in The Atlanta Journal).source
  • 1886Pharmacist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola (advertisement in the Atlanta Journal).source
  • 1891In the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Giovanni Bovio proposes the abandonment of the African expansion policy, but his proposal, supported only by the Extreme Left, is rejected on 6 June.source
  • 1895October 21 - Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)source
  • 1895The start of Japanese invasion of Taiwan.source
  • 1898May 29 Lease of Guangzhouwan to Francesource
  • 1900N'Djamena, the capital city of Chad, is founded as Fort-Lamy by French commander Émile Gentil.source
  • 19021902 Ontario general election: G. W. Ross's Liberals win a second consecutive majority. Margaret Haile runs as a candidate of the Canadian Socialist League in Toronto North, becoming the first woman ever to stand in a provincial election.source
  • 1902The London School of Economics is opened by Lord Rosebery.source
  • 1905Brooklyn Superbas pitcher Elmer Stricklett introduces the "spitball" to major league baseball.source
  • 1905Sawtooth National Forest is established.source
  • 1906Karl Staaff steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden over the issue of expanded voting rights. He is replaced by right-wing naval officer and public official Arvid Lindman.source
  • 1906Giovanni Giolitti forms a new Cabinet. Giolitti's third government (until December 1909) was known as the "long ministry" (lungo ministero). The strong economic performance and the careful budget management of this government led to currency stability; this was also caused by a mass emigration and especially on remittances that Italian migrants sent to their relatives back home. The 1906–1909 triennium is remembered as the time when "the lira was premium on gold".source
  • 1913The ballet The Rite of Spring (music by Igor Stravinsky, conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich) is premiered by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris; its modernist style provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history. The audience includes Gabriele D'Annunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel.source
  • 1914Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence following a collision; 1,012 lives are lost.source
  • 1915Teófilo Braga becomes president of Portugal.source
  • 1918May 21–29 - The Ottoman World War I defeat at the Battle of Sardarabad is seen as saving the Armenian nation from destruction.source
  • 1919Eddington experiment: Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested by Arthur Eddington's observation of the "bending of light" during a total solar eclipse in Príncipe, and by Andrew Crommelin in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil (confirmed November 19).source
  • 1919Observations made by Arthur Eddington during a solar eclipse test part of Einstein's general theory of relativity (confirmed 6 November).source
  • 1920Floods at Louth, Lincolnshire in England kill 23.source
  • 1920Louth flood of 1920 in Lincolnshire kills 23.source
  • 1922British Liberal MP Horatio Bottomley is jailed for seven years for fraud.source
  • 1925English explorer Percy Fawcett sends a last telegram to his wife before he disappears in the Amazon.source
  • 1925British explorer Percy Fawcett sent a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.source
  • 1925Last communication from the British explorer Percy Fawcett, a telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.source
  • 1926Modern Commercial codesource
  • 1933The first consignment of 10,000 Afrikaans Bibles arrives at Cape Town from London on the Union-Castle Line's Carnarvon Castle.source
  • 193429 May-31 May — The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.source
  • 1935The French Compagnie Générale Transatlantique ocean liner SS Normandie sets out on her maiden voyage from Le Havre to New York, which she will reach in 4 days, 3 hours and 14 minutes, taking the Blue Riband; she gains the eastbound record on her return passage.source
  • 1937Stavanger Airport, Sola is opened by King Haakon VIIsource
  • 1939Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.source
  • 1940The Vought XF4U-1, prototype of the F4U Corsair U.S. fighter later used in WWII, makes its first flight.source
  • 1942Rationing on clothing, footwear and linen is introduced, with an allowance of 52 coupons per year.source
  • 1942Thai spelling reform of 1942 is initiated by the government of Prime Minister Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram with his office announcing a simplification of the Thai alphabet. The announcement is published in the Royal Gazette on June 1. The reform is canceled by the government of Khuang Aphaiwong on August 2, 1944.source
  • 1943Norman Rockwell's illustration of 'Rosie the Riveter' first appears, on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.source
  • 1944thunderstorms lead to severe flooding, particularly around Holmfirth.source
  • 1945Dutch painter Han van Meegeren is arrested for collaboration with the Nazis, but the "Dutch Golden Age" paintings he has sold to Hermann Göring (Koch) are later proved to be his own fakes.source
  • 1947A United States Army Air Forces Douglas C-54 Skymaster crashes on approach to Naval Air Station Atsugi, Japan, killing all 41 on board in the worst aviation accident in Japanese history up to this time.source
  • 1947An Air Iceland Douglas C-47 on a domestic flight in Iceland crashes into a mountainside killing all 25 people on board.source
  • 1948The Egyptian Army is blocked in the Ad Halom bridge.source
  • 1948The Casimir effect is predicted by Dutch physicist Hendrik Casimir.source
  • 1950St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.source
  • 1950The St. Roch becomes the first vessel to circumnavigate North Americasource
  • 1950The pilot series of the world's longest-running radio soap opera, The Archers, is first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in the U.K. It will still be running more than 75 years later.source
  • 1951Societe Electrique de l'Our is founded.source
  • 19531953 British Mount Everest expedition: Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest.source
  • 1953Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach the summit of Mount Everest, the first known time this has been done. Hillary is knighted the following day.source
  • 19541954 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a decreased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by H.V. Evatt. The election has come shortly after the Petrov Affair, arguably helping the Government survive what was initially predicted to be a defeat.source
  • 1954Creation and first meeting of the Bilderberg Group.source
  • 1954Diane Leather becomes the first woman to run a sub-five minute mile, in Birmingham, England.source
  • 1964Having deposed them in a January coup, South Vietnamese leader Nguyen Khanh has rival Generals Tran Van Don and Le Van Kim convicted of "lax morality".source
  • 1965A man named Pusok Anak Ngaik killed 14 people and wounded four others in Bukit Merah, a village near Sandakan, Sabah.source
  • 19651965 Dhanbad coal mine disaster – A mining accident in Dhanbad, India kills 274.source
  • 1966Sports stadium Estadio Azteca officially opens in Mexico City in advance of the 1968 Summer Olympics.source
  • 1968Manchester United F.C. wins the European Cup Final, becoming the first English team to do so.source
  • 1969May 26–June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their second bed-in. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Lennon composes and records the song "Give Peace a Chance" during the event.source
  • 1969Cordobazo: A general strike and civil unrest break out in Córdoba, Argentina.source
  • 1977Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.source
  • 1978Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.source
  • 1982May 28–29 – Falklands War: Battle of Goose Green: British forces defeat a larger Argentine force.source
  • 1985Heysel Stadium disastersource
  • 1988May 29–June 3 – The Moscow Summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev takes place, where the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was finalized.source
  • 1988May 27–29 – Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia.source
  • 1989An attempted assassination of Miguel Maza Marquez, director of the Departamento Administrativo de Seguridad (DAS) in Bogotá, Colombia is committed by members of the Medellín Cartel, who kill four and injure 37.source
  • 1989Amid food riots and looting set off by inflation, the Government of Argentina declares a nationwide state of siege.source
  • 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests: The 10 m high Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators.source
  • 1990European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is founded.source
  • 1990Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit.source
  • 1997Legislative electionssource
  • 1997Dedi Omar Hamdun, a businessman and politician from United Development Party, and husband of Eva Arnaz, was kidnapped during legislative elections along with his driver, Noval Alkatiri and business colleague, Ismail.source
  • 1999Nigeria terminates military rule, and the Fourth Nigerian Republic is established with Olusegun Obasanjo as president.source
  • 2000May 29 to May 31: Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il makes a state visit to China after 17 years since 1983.source
  • 2008Abdelmalek Sayeh, chairman of the Algerian national office of drug taking and addiction fighting, cited foreign countries as using Algeria's youth for consumption of drugs like heroin and cocaine from Colombia. Sayeh stated that Algerian young people are being used to traffick cannabis from Morocco to Libya, Tunisia, the Middle East, and western and eastern Europe.source
  • 2010May 25–29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 2010 takes place in Oslo, Norway, and is won by German entrant Lena with the song "Satellite".source
  • 20113 Greenpeace activists successfully evade a Danish warship to scale an oil rig off the coast of Greenland, attempting to begin deepwater drilling in the arctic.source
  • 2014Medical teams from the World Health Organization and Doctors Without Borders arrive in Sierra Leone to deal with an outbreak of Ebola virus.source
  • 2015The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claims responsibility for another attack on a Shia mosque in Dammam.source
  • 2015In Tonga, the Mata ʻo e Laʻa Solar Facility is officially opened by King Tupou VI.source
  • 2015Cuba is officially removed from the US State Sponsors of Terrorism list.source
  • 2018The Bashar al-Assad government of Syria recognizes the independence of Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgia retaliates by severing diplomatic relations with Syria and calls for international support. The Syrian opposition leader Nasr al-Hariri condemns the move by Syria's government. Two Syrian airlines are barred by Georgia from accessing its airspace, one of which used to transport private Russian military contractors to take part in the Syrian conflict.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
  • 20212021 UEFA Champions League Final; Chelsea become champions, defeating fellow English club Manchester City 1–0 to win the UEFA Champions League for the second time.source
  • 20242024 South African general election: The ANC party fails to win a majority of the vote for the first time in South Africa's democratic history.source
  • 2025Former finance minister Sidi Ould Tah is elected as president of the African Development Bank.source
  • 2025Arnolfo Teves Jr., a Filipino congressman who had been seeking sanctuary in Timor-Leste after being wanted in his home country for the Pamplona massacre in 2023, is deported and repatriated on national security grounds and concerns over Dili's accession to ASEAN.source

Births

  • 1421Charles, Prince of Viana (died 1461)source
  • 1427Françoise d'Amboise, duchess consort of Brittany, co-founder of the first monastery of the Carmelites in France (died 1485)source
  • 1427Françoise d'Amboise, saint (died 1485)source
  • 1439Pope Pius III (died 1503)source
  • 1443Victor, Duke of Münsterberg, Reichsgraf, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, Count of Glatz (died 1500)source
  • 1444Otto III, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin (1460–1464) (died 1464)source
  • 1504Antun Vrančić, Croatian archbishop (died 1573)source
  • 1539Thomas Pounde, English Jesuit lay brother (died 1613)source
  • 1555George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes, English earl, general and administrator (died 1629)source
  • 1568Virginia de' Medici, Duchess of Modena and Reggio (died 1615)source
  • 1594Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire in the Thirty Years' War (died 1632)source
  • 1627Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French princess and duchess (died 1693)source
  • 1627Nikolaj Nissen, judge and landowner (died 1684)source
  • 1630King Charles II of England, Scotland, and Ireland (died 1685)source
  • 1675Humphry Ditton, English mathematician (died 1715)source
  • 1679Antonio Farnese, Duke of Parma (died 1731)source
  • 1708Henry Bilson-Legge, English statesman and three times as Chancellor of the Exchequer (died 1764)source
  • 1736Patrick Henry, American patriot (died 1799)source
  • 1760Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina (died 1800)source
  • 1783Benedetto Pistrucci, Italian engraver and medalist (died 1855)source
  • 1804Gottlieb Wilhelm Antonie van der Lingen, founder of the Paarl Gymnasium, is born in Cape Townsource
  • 1830Louise Michel, French anarchist (died 1905)source
  • 1846Winfield Scott Edgerly, United States Brigadier General (died 1927)source
  • 1868Abdülmecid II, last Caliph of the Ottoman Empire (died 1944)source
  • 1874G. K. Chesterton, English author (died 1936)source
  • 1894Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American film director (died 1969)source
  • 1903Bob Hope, English-born American comedian, actor (died 2003)source
  • 1917John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (died 1963)source
  • 1959Maria Helena Semedo, economist and politician, former Deputy Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)source
  • 1993Jana Čepelová, tennis playersource

Deaths

  • 931Jimeno Garcés, king of Pamplonasource
  • 1040Renauld I, French noblemansource
  • 1089May 29/30 – Mah-i Mulk Khatun wife of caliph al-Muqtadi (r. 1075–1094).source
  • 1108García Ordóñez, Castilian noblemansource
  • 1186May 29 or June 23 or June 24 – Robert of Torignisource
  • 1205Andrew II, brother of the late King Emeric, is crowned ruler of Hungary and Croatia at Székesfehérvár, after his 5-year-old nephew, Ladislaus III, suddenly dies in Vienna. Andrew introduces a new policy for royal grants, which he calls "new institutions". He distributes large portions of his domain–such as royal castles and all estates attached to them–to supporters and Hungarian nobles.source
  • 1259King Christopher I of Denmark (born 1219)source
  • 1275Sophie of Thuringia, duchess of Brabant (born 1224)source
  • 1311James II of Majorca (born 1243)source
  • 1320Pope John VIII of Alexandria, leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church, dies in Egypt after a reign of 20 years. He will be succeeded by Pope John IXsource
  • 1320John VIII, Egyptian pope of the Coptic Orthodox Churchsource
  • 1327Jens Grand, Danish archbishop (born c. 1260)source
  • 1343Francesco I Manfredi, lord of Faenzasource
  • 1379King Henry II of Castile (born 1333)source
  • 1405Philippe de Mézières, advisor to Charles V of Francesource
  • 1405Philippe de Mézières, royal advisor (born 1327)source
  • 1418Henry of Marle, courtiersource
  • 1425China's Emperor Renzong dies after a reign of only nine months. He is succeeded by his son, Prince Zhu Zhanji, who becomes the Xuande Emperor.source
  • 1425Hongxi Emperor of China (born 1378)source
  • 1453Orhan Çelebi, Ottoman princesource
  • 1453Demetrios Palaiologos Metochites, Byzantine noble and ambassadorsource
  • 1453Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperorsource
  • 1500Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (born c. 1450)source
  • 1500Thomas Rotherham, English cleric and minister (born 1423)source
  • 1546David Beaton, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and the only Scottish cardinal, is assassinated at St Andrews Castle by William Kirkcaldy and Norman Leslie in retaliation for the March 28 execution of Protestant preacher George Wishart.source
  • 1546David Beaton, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of St Andrews and the only Scottish cardinal, is assassinated at St Andrews Castle by William Kirkcaldy and Norman Leslie in retaliation for the 28 March execution of Wishart.source
  • 1571Joachim Mörlin, German Lutheran bishop (born 1514)source
  • 1578Jacques de Lévis, French noble (born c. 1554)source
  • 1587Ignatius Ni'matallah, Syriac Orthodox patriarch of Antioch (born c. 1515)source
  • 1691Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (born 1629)source
  • 1749Jaime Álvares Pereira de Melo, 3rd Duke of Cadaval, nobleman and statesman (born 1684).source
  • 1788Two convicts are killed by Aboriginals at Rushcutters Bay; Phillip leads a punitive attack on the Aborigines on 31 May.source
  • 1790Israel Putnam, American Revolutionary War general (born 1718)source
  • 1800Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina (born 1760)source
  • 1814Joséphine de Beauharnais, Empress of France (born 1763)source
  • 1829Humphry Davy, British chemist (born 1778)source
  • 1847Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French marshal (born 1766)source
  • 1862Henry Thomas Buckle, English historian sometimes called "the father of scientific history" (born 1821)source
  • 1866Winfield Scott, American general and presidential candidate (born 1786)source
  • 1884Sir Henry Bartle Frere, British colonial administrator (born 1815)source
  • 1892Bahá'u'lláh, Persian founder of the Bahá'í Faith (born 1817)source
  • 1892Baháʼu'lláh, founder of the Bahá'í Faith.source
  • 1911W. S. Gilbert, English dramatist (born 1836)source
  • 1942John Barrymore, American actor (born 1882)source
  • 1985Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus (0–1) at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.source
  • 1994Erich Honecker, 81, German communist politician and leader of the GDR, liver cancer.source
  • 1998Barry Goldwater, 89, American politician and author, complications from a stroke.source
  • 2004Archibald Cox, 92, American lawyer, Watergate special prosecutor.source
  • 2017Manuel Noriega, 83, Panamanian dictator and military official, military ruler (1983–1989), complications from brain surgery.source