From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Day of the year
May 22 is the 142nd day of the year (143rd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 223 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1629 –
Holy Roman Emperor
Ferdinand II and
Danish King
Christian IV sign the
Treaty of Lübeck ending Danish intervention in the
Thirty Years' War .
1762 – Sweden and
Prussia sign the
Treaty of Hamburg .
1762 –
Trevi Fountain is officially completed and inaugurated in Rome.
[5]
1766 – A
large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in
Istanbul and the Marmara region.
[6]
1804 – The
Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the
Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
1807 – A
grand jury indicts former
Vice President of the United States
Aaron Burr on a charge of
treason .
1809 – On the second and last day of the
Battle of Aspern-Essling (near
Vienna , Austria),
Napoleon I is defeated in a major battle for the first time in his career, and repelled by an enemy army for the first time in a decade.
1816 – A mob in
Littleport, Cambridgeshire , England,
riots over high unemployment and rising grain costs, and the riots spread to
Ely the next day.
1819 –
SS Savannah leaves port at
Savannah, Georgia , United States, on a voyage to become the first
steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1826 –
HMS Beagle departs on its first voyage.
1840 – The
penal transportation of British
convicts to the
New South Wales
colony is abolished.
1846 – The
Associated Press is formed in
New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
1848 –
Slavery is abolished in
Martinique .
1849 – Future
U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln is issued a
patent for an
invention to lift boats , making him the only U.S. president to ever hold a patent.
1856 –
Congressman
Preston Brooks of
South Carolina
severely beats
Senator
Charles Sumner of
Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the
United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding
Southerners and
slavery .
1863 –
American Civil War :
Union forces begin the
Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
1864 – American Civil War: After ten weeks, the
Union Army 's
Red River Campaign ends in failure.
1866 –
Oliver Winchester founded the Winchester Repeating Arms
1872 –
Reconstruction Era : President
Ulysses S. Grant signs the
Amnesty Act into law, restoring full
civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
1874 – Verdi's
Requiem was first performed at
San Marco in Milan on the first anniversary of
Manzoni 's death.
[7]
1901–present
1905 – The
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
Abdul Hamid II establishes the
Ullah millet for the
Aromanians of the empire. For this reason, the
Aromanian National Day is sometimes celebrated on this day,
[8] although most do so on
May 23 instead, which is when this event was publicly announced.
[9]
1906 – The
Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "
Flying-Machine ".
1915 –
Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides
Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
1915 – Three trains collide in the
Quintinshill rail disaster near
Gretna Green , Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
1926 –
Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in
Kuomintang China.[
vague ]
1927 – Near
Xining , China, an 8.3 magnitude
earthquake causes 200,000 deaths in one of the world's most destructive earthquakes.
1939 –
World War II : Germany and Italy sign the
Pact of Steel .
1941 – During the
Anglo-Iraqi War , British troops take
Fallujah .
1942 –
Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
1943 –
Joseph Stalin disbands the
Comintern .
1947 –
Cold War : The
Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
1948 – Finnish President
J. K. Paasikivi releases
Yrjö Leino from his duties as
interior minister in 1948 after the
Finnish parliament adopted a motion of censure of Leino with connection to his illegal handing over of nineteen people to the
Soviet Union in 1945.
[10]
[11]
[12]
1957 – South Africa's government approves of
racial separation in universities.
1958 – The
1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths are estimated at 300, mostly
Tamils .
1960 – The
Great Chilean earthquake , measuring 9.5 on the
moment magnitude scale , hits southern
Chile , becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
1962 –
Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes in
Unionville, Missouri after bombs explode on board, killing 45.
1963 – Greek left-wing politician
Grigoris Lambrakis is clubbed over the head, causing his death five days later.
1964 – U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson launches his
Great Society program.
1967 – Egypt closes the
Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
1967 –
L'Innovation department store in
Brussels , Belgium, burns down, resulting in 323 dead or missing and 150 injured, the most devastating fire in Belgian history.
1968 – The nuclear-powered
submarine
USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the
Azores .
1969 –
Apollo 10 's
Lunar Module flies within 8.4
nautical miles (16 km) of the
Moon 's surface.
1972 – Ceylon adopts a
new constitution , becoming a
republic and changing its name to
Sri Lanka .
1972 – Over 400 women in
Derry ,
Northern Ireland attack the offices of
Sinn Féin following the shooting by the
Irish Republican Army of a young British soldier on leave.
1987 –
Hashimpura massacre occurs in
Meerut , India.
1987 – First ever
Rugby World Cup kicks off with
New Zealand playing
Italy at
Eden Park in
Auckland , New Zealand.
1990 –
North and
South Yemen are
unified to create the Republic of
Yemen .
1992 –
Bosnia and Herzegovina ,
Croatia and
Slovenia join the
United Nations .
1994 – A worldwide trade embargo against
Haiti goes into effect to punish its military rulers for not reinstating the country's ousted elected leader,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide .
1996 – The Burmese military regime jails 71 supporters of
Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to block a pro-democracy meeting.
1998 – A U.S. federal judge rules that
U.S. Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a
grand jury concerning the
Lewinsky scandal involving President
Bill Clinton .
2000 – In
Sri Lanka , over 150
Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in
Jaffna .
2002 –
Civil rights movement : A jury in
Birmingham, Alabama , convicts former
Ku Klux Klan member
Bobby Frank Cherry of the
1963 murder of four girls in the
16th Street Baptist Church bombing .
2010 –
Air India Express Flight 812 , a
Boeing 737 crashes over a cliff upon landing at
Mangalore , India, killing 158 of 166 people on board, becoming the deadliest crash involving a Boeing 737 until the crash of
Lion Air Flight 610 .
2010 –
Inter Milan beat
Bayern Munich 2–0 in the
UEFA Champions League final in
Madrid ,
Spain to become the first, and so far only, Italian team to win the historic treble (Serie A, Coppa Italia, Champions League).
2011 –
An EF5 tornado strikes
Joplin, Missouri , killing 158 people and wreaking $2.8 billion in damages, the costliest and seventh-deadliest single tornado in U.S. history.
2012 –
Tokyo Skytree opens to the public. It is the
tallest tower in the world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth after
Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).
2012 –
SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 launches a
Dragon capsule on a
Falcon 9 rocket in the first commercial flight to the
International Space Station .
[13]
2013 –
Fusilier
Lee Rigby is murdered by 2
Islamic extremists in
Woolwich ,
Southeast London
2014 – General
Prayut Chan-o-cha becomes interim leader of Thailand in a military
coup d'état , following six months of political turmoil.
2014 – An
explosion occurs in
Ürümqi , capital of China's far-western
Xinjiang region, resulting in at least 43 deaths and 91 injuries.
2015 – The
Republic of Ireland becomes the first nation in the world to utilise a public referendum to
legalise gay marriage .
2017 – Twenty-two people are killed at an
Ariana Grande concert in the
2017 Manchester Arena bombing .
2017 – United States
President Donald Trump visits the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre in
Jerusalem and becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit the
Western Wall .
2020 –
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 crashes in
Model Colony near
Jinnah International Airport in
Karachi ,
Pakistan , killing 98 people.
[14]
2021 – Hypothermia kills 21 runners in the 100 km (60-mile)
Gansu ultramarathon disaster in China.
[15]
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1622 –
Louis de Buade de Frontenac , French soldier and governor (d. 1698)
1644 –
Gabriël Grupello , Flemish Baroque sculptor (d. 1730)
1650 –
Richard Brakenburgh , Dutch Golden Age painter (d. 1702)
1665 –
Magnus Stenbock , Swedish field marshal and Royal Councillor (d. 1717)
1694 –
Daniel Gran , Austrian painter (d. 1757)
1715 –
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis , French cardinal and diplomat (d. 1794)
1733 –
Hubert Robert , French painter (d. 1808)
1752 –
Louis Legendre , French butcher and politician (d. 1797)
1762 –
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst , English politician (d. 1834)
1770 –
Princess Elizabeth of the United Kingdom (d. 1840)
1772 –
Ram Mohan Roy , Indian philosopher and reformer (d. 1833)
1779 –
Johann Nepomuk Schödlberger , Austrian painter (d. 1853)
1782 –
Hirose Tansō , Japanese neo-Confucian scholar, teacher, writer (d. 1856)
1783 –
William Sturgeon , English physicist and inventor, invented the
electromagnet and
electric motor (d. 1850)
1808 –
Gérard de Nerval , French poet and translator (d. 1855)
1811 –
Giulia Grisi , Italian soprano (d. 1869)
1811 –
Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle , English politician (d. 1864)
1813 –
Richard Wagner , German composer (d. 1883)
1814 –
Amalia Lindegren , Swedish painter (d. 1891)
1820 –
Worthington Whittredge , American painter (d. 1910)
1828 –
Albrecht von Graefe , German ophthalmologist and academic (d. 1870)
1831 –
Henry Vandyke Carter , English anatomist and surgeon (d. 1897)
1833 –
Félix Bracquemond , French painter and etcher (d. 1914)
1833 –
Manuel Ruiz Zorrilla , Spanish politician,
Prime Minister of Spain (d. 1895)
1841 –
Catulle Mendès , French poet, author, and playwright (d. 1909)
1844 –
Mary Cassatt , American painter and educator (d. 1926)
1846 –
Rita Cetina Gutiérrez , Mexican poet, educator, and activist (d. 1908)
1848 –
Fritz von Uhde , German painter and educator (d. 1911)
1849 –
Aston Webb , English architect and academic (d. 1930)
1858 –
Belmiro de Almeida , Brazilian painter, illustrator, sculptor (d. 1935)
1859 –
Arthur Conan Doyle , British writer (d. 1930)
1859 –
Tsubouchi Shōyō , Japanese author, playwright, and educator (d. 1935)
1864 –
Willy Stöwer , German author and illustrator (d. 1931)
1868 –
Augusto Pestana , Brazilian engineer and politician (d. 1934)
1874 –
Daniel François Malan , South African clergyman and politician, 5th
Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1959)
1876 –
Julius Klinger , Austrian painter and illustrator (d. 1942)
1879 –
Warwick Armstrong , Australian cricketer and journalist (d. 1947)
1879 –
Jean Cras , French admiral and composer (d. 1932)
1879 –
Symon Petliura , Ukrainian statesman and independence leader (d. 1926)
1880 –
Francis de Miomandre , French author and translator (d. 1959)
1884 –
Wilhelmina Hay Abbott , Scottish suffragist and feminist (d. 1957)
[16]
1885 –
Giacomo Matteotti , Italian lawyer and politician (d. 1924)
1885 –
Soemu Toyoda , Japanese admiral (d. 1957)
1887 –
A. W. Sandberg , Danish film director and screenwriter (d. 1938)
1891 –
Johannes R. Becher , German politician, novelist, and poet (d. 1958)
1894 –
Friedrich Pollock , German sociologist and philosopher (d. 1970)
1897 –
Robert Neumann , German and English-speaking author (d. 1975)
1900 –
Juan Arvizu , Mexican lyric opera tenor and bolero vocalist (d. 1985)
1901–present
1901 –
Maurice J. Tobin , American politician, 6th
United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1953)
1902 –
Jack Lambert , English footballer and manager (d. 1940)
[17]
1902 –
Al Simmons , American baseball player and coach (d. 1956)
1904 –
Uno Lamm , Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
1905 –
Bodo von Borries , German physicist and academic, co-invented the
electron microscope (d. 1956)
1905 –
Tom Driberg , British politician (d. 1976)
1907 –
Hergé , Belgian author and illustrator (d. 1983)
1907 –
Laurence Olivier , English actor, director, and producer (d. 1989)
1908 –
Horton Smith , American golfer and captain (d. 1963)
1909 –
Bob Dyer , American-Australian radio and television host (d. 1984)
[18]
1909 –
Margaret Mee , English illustrator and educator (d. 1988)
1912 –
Herbert C. Brown , English-American chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
1913 –
Rafael Gil , Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 1986)
1913 –
Dominique Rolin , Belgian author (d. 2012)
1914 –
Max Kohnstamm , Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 2010)
1914 –
Sun Ra , American pianist, composer, bandleader, poet (d. 1993)
1917 –
George Aratani , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1917 –
Jean-Louis Curtis , French author (d. 1995)
1919 –
Paul Vanden Boeynants , Belgian businessman and politician, 55th
Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2001)
1920 –
Thomas Gold , Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)
1921 –
George S. Hammond , American scientist (d. 2005)
1922 –
Quinn Martin , American screenwriter and producer (d. 1987)
1924 –
Charles Aznavour , French-Armenian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2018)
1925 –
Jean Tinguely , Swiss painter and sculptor (d. 1991)
1927 –
Michael Constantine , American actor (d. 2021)
1927 –
Peter Matthiessen , American novelist, short story writer, editor, co-founded
The Paris Review (d. 2014)
1927 –
George Andrew Olah , Hungarian-American chemist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
1928 –
Serge Doubrovsky , French theorist and author (d. 2017)
1928 –
John Mackenzie , Scottish director and producer (d. 2011)
1928 –
T. Boone Pickens , American businessman (d. 2019)
1928 –
Hiroshi Sano , Japanese novelist (d. 2013)
1929 –
Ahmed Fouad Negm , Egyptian poet (d. 2013)
1930 –
Kenny Ball , English jazz trumpet player, vocalist, and bandleader (d. 2013)
1930 –
Marisol Escobar , French-American sculptor (d. 2016)
1930 –
Harvey Milk , American lieutenant and politician (d. 1978)
1932 –
Robert Spitzer , American psychiatrist and academic (d. 2015)
1933 –
Fred Anderson , Australian-South African rugby league player (d. 2012)
[19]
1933 –
Chen Jingrun , Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 1996)
1934 –
Peter Nero , American pianist and conductor (d. 2023)
1935 –
Billy Rayner , Australian rugby league player (d. 2006)
[20]
1936 –
George H. Heilmeier , American engineer (d. 2014)
1937 –
Facundo Cabral , Argentinian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1937 –
Tomáš Janovic , Slovak writer (d. 2023)
[21]
1938 –
Richard Benjamin , American actor and director
1938 –
Susan Strasberg , American actress (d. 1999)
1939 –
Paul Winfield , American actor (d. 2004)
1940 –
Kieth Merrill , American filmmaker
1940 –
E. A. S. Prasanna , Indian cricketer
[22]
1940 –
Michael Sarrazin , Canadian actor (d. 2011)
1940 –
Bernard Shaw , American journalist (d. 2022)
1940 –
Mick Tingelhoff , American football player (d. 2021)
1941 –
Menzies Campbell , Scottish sprinter and politician
1942 –
Roger Brown , American basketball player (d. 1997)
[23]
1942 –
Ted Kaczynski , American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (
Unabomber ) (d. 2023)
1942 –
Barbara Parkins , Canadian actress
1942 –
Richard Oakes , Native American civil rights activist (d. 1972)
1943 –
Betty Williams , Northern Irish peace activist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
1943 –
Tommy John , American baseball player
1944 –
John Flanagan , Australian fantasy author
1945 –
Bob Katter , Australian politician
1946 –
George Best , Northern Irish footballer and manager (d. 2005)
1946 –
Michael Green , English physicist and academic
1946 –
Howard Kendall , English footballer and manager (d. 2015)
1946 –
Andrei Marga , Romanian philosopher, political scientist, politician
1946 –
Lyudmila Zhuravleva , Russian-Ukrainian astronomer
1948 –
Tomás Sánchez , Cuban painter and engraver
1948 –
Nedumudi Venu , Indian actor and screenwriter (d. 2021)
1949 –
Cheryl Campbell , English actress
1949 –
Valentin Inzko , Austrian diplomat
1950 –
Bernie Taupin , English singer-songwriter and poet
1951 –
Kenneth Bianchi , American serial killer and rapist
[24]
1953 –
François Bon , French writer
1953 –
Cha Bum-kun , South Korean footballer and manager
1953 –
Paul Mariner , English footballer, coach, and manager (d. 2021)
1954 –
Barbara May Cameron , Native American human rights activist (d. 2002)
[25]
1954 –
Shuji Nakamura , Japanese-American physicist and engineer,
Nobel Prize laureate
1955 –
Iva Davies , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
[26]
1956 –
Lucie Brock-Broido , American poet (d. 2018)
1957 –
Lisa Murkowski , American lawyer and politician
1959 –
David Blatt , Israeli-American basketball player and coach
1959 –
Olin Browne , American golfer
[27]
1959 –
Morrissey , English singer-songwriter and performer
1959 –
Kwak Jae-yong , South Korean director and screenwriter
1959 –
Mehbooba Mufti , Indian politician
1960 –
Hideaki Anno , Japanese animator, director, and screenwriter
1962 –
Andrew Magee , French-American golfer
[28]
1962 –
Brian Pillman , American football player and wrestler (d. 1997)
1963 –
Claude Closky , French contemporary artist
[29]
1965 –
Jay Carney , American journalist, 29th
White House Press Secretary
1966 –
Johnny Gill , American singer-songwriter and producer
1966 –
Wang Xiaoshuai , Chinese director and screenwriter
1968 –
Graham Linehan , Irish comedy writer and activist
1969 –
Michael Kelly , American actor
[30]
1969 –
Cathy McMorris Rodgers , American lawyer and politician
1970 –
Naomi Campbell , English model
1970 –
Brody Stevens , American comedian and actor (d. 2019)
1972 –
Max Brooks , American author and screenwriter
1973 –
Nikolaj Lie Kaas , Danish actor
1974 –
Sean Gunn , American actor
[31]
1974 –
Garba Lawal , Nigerian footballer
1974 –
Henrietta Ónodi , Hungarian Olympic gymnast
1974 –
Arseniy Yatsenyuk , Ukrainian politician
1974 –
Canek Sánchez Guevara , Cuban author and dissident (d. 2015)
[32]
1974 –
Anne Beathe Tvinnereim , Norwegian politician
[33]
1975 –
Salva Ballesta , Spanish footballer and manager
1976 –
Christian Vande Velde , American cyclist
1977 –
Pat Smullen , Irish jockey (d. 2020)
[34]
1978 –
Ginnifer Goodwin , American actress
1978 –
Katie Price , English television personality and glamour model
1979 –
Nazanin Boniadi , Iranian-American actress
1979 –
Tihomir Dovramadjiev , Bulgarian
Chess boxer
[35]
1979 –
Maggie Q , American actress
1980 –
Tarin Bradford , Australian rugby league player
[36]
1980 –
Sharice Davids , American politician
1980 –
Lucy Gordon , British actress and model (d. 2009)
1981 –
Bryan Danielson , American wrestler
1981 –
Bassel Khartabil , Syrian computer programmer and engineer (d. 2015)
1981 –
Jürgen Melzer , Austrian tennis player
1981 –
Mark O'Meley , Australian rugby league player
[37]
1982 –
Erin McNaught , Australian model and actress
1982 –
Apolo Ohno , American speed skater
1982 –
Hong Yong-jo , North Korean footballer
1983 –
Natasha Kai , American soccer player and Olympic medalist
1984 –
Clara Amfo , English television and radio presenter
1984 –
Karoline Herfurth , German actress
1984 –
Didier Ya Konan , Ivorian footballer
1984 –
Dustin Moskovitz , American entrepreneur, co-founder of
Facebook
1985 –
Tranquillo Barnetta , Swiss footballer
1985 –
Tao Okamoto , Japanese model and actress
1986 –
Julian Edelman , American football player
1986 –
Matt Jarvis , English footballer
1986 –
Tatiana Volosozhar , Russian figure skater
1987 –
Novak Djokovic , Serbian tennis player
[38]
1987 –
Arturo Vidal , Chilean footballer
1988 –
Heida Reed , Icelandic-British actress
1989 –
Corey Dickerson , American baseball player
1990 –
Wyatt Roy , Australian politician
1991 –
Joel Obi , Nigerian footballer
1991 –
Suho , South Korean singer and actor
1992 –
Anna Baryshnikov , American actress
[39]
1994 –
Florian Luger , Austrian male model
1994 –
Athena Manoukian , Greek-Armenian singer and songwriter
1997 –
Lauri Markkanen , Finnish basketball player
[40]
1998 –
Samile Bermannelli , Brazilian fashion model
[41]
1999 –
Femke Huijzer , Dutch model
[42]
1999 –
Hōshōryū Tomokatsu , Mongolian sumo wrestler
[43]
2001 –
Emma Chamberlain , American internet personality
[44]
2002 –
Anthony Richardson , American football player
[45]
2004 –
Peyton Elizabeth Lee , American actress
[46]
Deaths
Pre-1600
192 –
Dong Zhuo , Chinese warlord and politician (b. 138)
337 –
Constantine the Great , Roman emperor (b. 272)
748 –
Empress Genshō of Japan (b. 683)
1068 –
Emperor Go-Reizei of Japan (b. 1025)
1310 –
Saint Humility , founder of the
Vallumbrosan religious order of nuns (b. c.1226)
1409 –
Blanche of England , sister of King Henry V (b. 1392)
1455 –
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset , English commander (b. 1406)
1455 –
Thomas Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford , Lancastrian commander (b. 1414)
1455 –
Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland , English commander (b. 1393)
1457 –
Rita of Cascia , Italian nun and saint (b. 1381)
1490 –
Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent , English administrator, nobleman and magnate (b. 1416)
1538 –
John Forest , English friar and martyr (b. 1471)
1540 –
Francesco Guicciardini , Italian historian and politician (b. 1483)
1545 –
Sher Shah Suri , Indian ruler (b. 1486)
1553 –
Giovanni Bernardi , Italian sculptor and engraver (b. 1495)
1601–1900
1602 –
Renata of Lorraine (b. 1544)
1609 –
Pieter Willemsz. Verhoeff , Dutch captain (b. 1573)
1666 –
Gaspar Schott , German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
1667 –
Pope Alexander VII (b. 1599)
1745 –
François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie , French general (b. 1671)
1760 –
Baal Shem Tov , Polish rabbi and author (b. 1700)
1772 –
Durastante Natalucci , Italian historian and academic (b. 1687)
1795 –
Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg , Prussian politician,
Foreign Minister of Prussia (b. 1725)
1802 –
Martha Washington , First, First Lady of the United States (b. 1731)
[47]
1851 –
Mordecai Manuel Noah , American journalist and diplomat (b. 1755)
1859 –
Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies (b. 1810)
1861 –
Thornsbury Bailey Brown , American soldier (b. 1829)
1868 –
Julius Plücker , German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
1885 –
Victor Hugo , French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1802)
1901–present
1901 –
Gaetano Bresci , Italian-American anarchist, assassin of
Umberto I of Italy (b. 1869)
1910 –
Jules Renard , French author and playwright (b. 1864)
1932 –
Augusta, Lady Gregory , Anglo-Irish activist, landlord, and playwright, co-founded the
Abbey Theatre (b. 1852)
1933 –
Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav , Mongolian politician, 10th
Prime Minister of Mongolia (b. 1894)
1938 –
William Glackens , American painter and illustrator (b. 1870)
1939 –
Ernst Toller , German playwright and author (b. 1893)
1939 –
Jiří Mahen , Czech author and playwright (b. 1882)
1948 –
Claude McKay , Jamaican writer and poet (b. 1889)
1954 –
Chief Bender , American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1884)
1965 –
Christopher Stone , English radio host (b. 1882)
1966 –
Tom Goddard , English cricketer (b. 1900)
1967 –
Langston Hughes , American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1902)
1967 –
Charlotte Serber , American Librarian of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos site (b. 1911)
[48]
1972 –
Cecil Day-Lewis , Anglo-Irish poet and author (b. 1904)
1972 –
Margaret Rutherford , English actress (b. 1892)
1974 –
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz , German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
1975 –
Lefty Grove , American baseball player (b. 1900)
1982 –
Cevdet Sunay , Turkish general and politician, 5th
President of Turkey (b. 1899)
1983 –
Albert Claude , Belgian biologist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1983 –
Erna Scheffler , German lawyer and
justice of the Federal Constitutional Court (b. 1893)
[49]
1984 –
Karl-August Fagerholm , Finnish politician,
valtioneuvos , the
Speaker of the Parliament and the
Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1901)
[50]
1985 –
Wolfgang Reitherman , German-American animator, director, and producer (b. 1909)
1988 –
Giorgio Almirante , Italian journalist and politician (b. 1914)
1989 –
Steven De Groote , South African pianist and educator (b. 1953)
1990 –
Rocky Graziano , American boxer (b. 1922)
1991 –
Lino Brocka , Filipino director and screenwriter (b. 1939)
[51]
1991 –
Shripad Amrit Dange , Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1899)
1991 –
Stan Mortensen , English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
1992 –
Zellig Harris , American linguist and academic (b. 1909)
1993 –
Mieczysław Horszowski , Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1892)
1997 –
Alziro Bergonzo , Italian architect and painter (b. 1906)
1997 –
Alfred Hershey , American biochemist and geneticist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1998 –
John Derek , American actor, director, and photographer (b. 1926)
1998 –
José Enrique Moyal , Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
2000 –
Davie Fulton , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1916)
2004 –
Richard Biggs , American actor (b. 1960)
2004 –
Mikhail Voronin , Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2005 –
Charilaos Florakis , Greek politician (b. 1914)
2005 –
Thurl Ravenscroft , American voice actor and singer (b. 1914)
2006 –
Lee Jong-wook , South Korean physician and diplomat (b. 1945)
2007 –
Pemba Doma Sherpa , Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1970)
2008 –
Robert Asprin , American soldier and author (b. 1946)
2010 –
Martin Gardner , American mathematician, cryptographer, and author (b. 1914)
2011 –
Joseph Brooks , American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (b. 1938)
2012 –
Muzafar Bhutto , Pakistani politician (b. 1970)
2012 –
Wesley A. Brown , American lieutenant and engineer (b. 1927)
2013 –
Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt , Russian historian and ethnographer (b. 1922)
2015 –
Marques Haynes , American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2015 –
Vladimir Katriuk , Ukrainian-Canadian
SS officer (b. 1921)
2016 –
Velimir "Bata" Živojinović , Serbian actor and politician (b. 1933)
2017 –
Nicky Hayden , American motorcycle racer (b. 1981)
[52]
2019 –
Judith Kerr , German-born British writer and illustrator (b. 1923)
2020 –
Denise Cronenberg , Canadian costume designer (b. 1938)
[53]
2022 –
Dervla Murphy , Irish touring cyclist and author (b. 1931)
[54]
2024 –
David Wilkie , Scottish swimmer (b. 1954)
[55]
Holidays and observances
References
^
de Crespigny, Rafe (2007). A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms 23-220 AD . Leiden: Brill. p. 158.
ISBN
9789004156050 .
^ Venning, Timothy (2006).
A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire . Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 257.
ISBN
9780230505865 .
^ Jacob, Heinrich Eduard (2007).
Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History . New York: Skyhorse Publishing. pp. 168–170.
ISBN
9781602391246 .
^ Revista de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM Volume 49, Issues 522-527 p 40
^ Carlson, Victor (1978). Hubert Robert: Drawings and Watercolors . Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art. p. 9.
OCLC
299971200 ; d'Onofrio, Cesare; Dellacher, Max (1957). Le fontane di Roma: con documenti e disegni inediti . Rome: Staderini Editioni. p. viii.
OCLC
249113666 ; Cooke, H. L. (1956). "The Documents Relating to the Fountain of Trevi". Art Bulletin . 38 (3): 149–173 at 168.
doi :
10.1080/00043079.1956.11408329 .
^
N. N. Ambraseys ; J. A. Jackson (June 2000).
"Seismicity of the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) since 1500" . Geophysical Journal International . 141 (3): F1.
Bibcode :
2000GeoJI.141F...1A .
doi :
10.1046/j.1365-246x.2000.00137.x .
^
Messa da Requiem
Archived 2013-12-31 at the
Wayback Machine , on giuseppeverdi.it. Retrieved 29 December 2013
^
a
b
Kahl, Thede (2002).
"The ethnicity of Aromanians after 1990: the identity of a minority that behaves like a majority" . Ethnologia Balkanica . 6 : 145–169.
^
"Nikola Minov: Why don't all Aromanians celebrate May 23 as their national day?" .
Trâ Armânami Association of French Aromanians . 24 May 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2020 .
^
"Nach tschechischem Vorbild" [According to the Czech model]. Vol. 22.
Der Spiegel . 29 May 1948.
^ Leino, Olli (1973).
Kuka oli Yrjö Leino [Who was Yrjö Leino? ]. Helsinki: Tammi.
ISBN
9513026523 .
^ "Paasikiven päiväkirjat I, 1944-1948" ("The Diaries of President J.K. Paasiki Vol. I, 1944-1948"), published 1985, Seppo Zetterberg et al., Ed., "Suomen historian pikkujättiläinen" ("The Little Giant of Finnish History"), 2003
^ Chang, Kenneth (26 May 2012).
"First Private Craft Docks With Space Station" . The New York Times . New York. p. A12. Archived from
the original on 9 August 2021. Retrieved 26 May 2012 .
^ Ranter, Harro.
"ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A320-214 AP-BLD Karachi-Jinnah International Airport (KHI)" . aviation-safety.net .
Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 2021-05-09 .
^
"Extreme Weather Kills 21 Runners in Chinese Mountain Ultramarathon" . Wall Street Journal . Associated Press. 2021-05-23.
ISSN
0099-9660 . Retrieved 2021-05-24 .
^ Ewan, Elizabeth; Pipes, Rosemary J.; Rendall, Jane; Reynolds, Sian (2018). Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 3.
ISBN
978-1-47443-627-4 .
^
"Jack Lambert" . spartacus-educational.com. Retrieved 17 April 2020 .
^ "Dyer, Robert Neal (Bob) (1909–1984)".
Australian Dictionary of Biography . National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
^
"Fred Anderson - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project" .
^
"Billy Rayner - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project" .
^
"Tomáš Janovic" . Slovenské literárne centrum (in Slovak). 11 March 2019.
^
"Erapalli Prasanna profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos" .
^
"Roger Brown" . The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 1 March 2020 .
^
"Kenneth Bianchi - Hillside Strangler, Childhood & Crimes" . 3 October 2023.
^
"Cameron (Barbara) Papers" . www.oac.cdlib.org . Retrieved 2020-01-07 .
^
"Iva Davies | Biography & History" .
AllMusic .
^
"Olin Browne" .
^
"Andrew MAGEE - Players - European Tour" .
^
"Claude CLOSKY" . www.beauxartsparis.fr . Retrieved 2020-01-24 .
^ Murphy, Patricia (22 May 2016).
"House of Cards star Michael Kelly celebrates birthday in Dublin pub O'Donoghue's" .
Irish Independent . Retrieved 18 May 2023 .
^ Chichizola, Corey (24 May 2021).
"James Gunn Shares A+ Guardians Of The Galaxy Throwback For Brother Sean's Birthday" .
CinemaBlend . Retrieved 18 May 2023 .
^ Davison, Phil (29 January 2015).
"Canek Sanchez Guevara: The grandson of Che Guevara who became an anti-Castro dissident" .
The Independent . Retrieved 10 July 2023 .
^ Tvedt, Knut Are (10 January 2024).
"Anne Beathe Tvinnereim" . In Bolstad, Erik (ed.).
Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 18 March 2024 .
^
"Pat Smullen" . www.goracing.ie .
^
"Edubilla / Global Education Needz. Tihomir Dovramadjiev / born date" . 22 May 2022.
^
"Tarin Bradford - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project" .
^
"Mark O'Meley - Career Stats & Summary - Rugby League Project" .
^
"Novak Djokovic | Overview | ATP Tour | Tennis" . ATP Tour . Retrieved 2022-10-19 .
^
"Anna Baryshnikov - Interview Magazine" . www.interviewmagazine.com . 18 July 2016. Retrieved 2020-04-14 .
^
"Lauri Markkanen Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft ..." basketball-reference.com . Retrieved May 21, 2024 .
^
"Watch This Face: Samile Bermannelli" . www.harpersbazaar.co.uk . 12 December 2016. Retrieved 2020-03-24 .
^
"Meet Femke Huijzer, Dutch Model and Chanel Resort 2017 Breakout" . www.vogue.com . 3 May 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-14 .
^
"Rikishi profile- Hoshoryu Tomokatsu" . sumo.or.jp . Retrieved 2020-03-12 .
^ Bromwich, Jonah Engel (July 9, 2019).
"The Evolution of Emma Chamberlain" .
The New York Times .
ISSN
0362-4331 . Archived from
the original on July 13, 2019. Retrieved June 1, 2021 .
^
"Anthony Richardson Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft ..." pro-football-reference.com . Retrieved May 21, 2024 .
^
"Peyton Elizabeth Lee - Rotten Tomatoes" .
Rotten Tomatoes . Retrieved 2021-06-11 .
^ Crompton, Samuel Willard (2000).
"Washington, Martha Dandridge Custis (1731-1802), first lady" . American National Biography .
doi :
10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0200333 .
ISBN
978-0-19-860669-7 . Retrieved 22 January 2022 .
^ (Robert), Serber, R. (1998).
Peace & war : reminiscences of a life on the frontiers of science . Crease, Robert P. New York: Columbia University Press. pp.
203–204 .
ISBN
0231105460 .
OCLC
37631186 . {{
cite book }}
: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link )
^ Döring, Linn Katharina (2014).
"Erna Scheffler, die erste Juristin am Bundesverfassungsgericht" (PDF) . Freilaw (in German). 2014 (3): 49–51 [51].
^ Majander, Mikko.
"FAGERHOLM, Karl-August (1901–1984)" . Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (in Swedish). Retrieved December 31, 2021 .
^
"Filipino Film Director Lino Brocka Dies in Car Accident" . Associated Press. 22 May 1991. Retrieved 26 May 2022 .
^
"American Superbike rider Nicky Hayden hit by car while cycling" .
USA Today . 2017-05-17. Retrieved 2020-02-28 .
^
"Denise Cronenberg, Costume Designer for 'Dead Ringers' and 'The Incredible Hulk,' Dies at 81" .
The Hollywood Reporter . 11 June 2020.
^
"Dervla Murphy obituary" . the Guardian . 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2022-06-16 .
^
"David Wilkie: Olympic champion swimmer dies aged 70" . BBC Sport . 2024-05-22. Retrieved 2024-05-24 .
^
"International Days" . www.un.org . 6 January 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2021 .
^ Ohanesian, Liz (2011-05-20).
"Sunday is World Goth Day! DJ Cruel Britannia and Martin Oldgoth on "Darkly-Inclined Lifestyles" - Los Angeles Music - West Coast Sound" . Blogs.laweekly.com. Retrieved 2012-05-31 .
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
May 22 .