May 26
The May 26 is the 146th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 147th in leap years ), thus remain 219 days by year end.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 17 : The Roman general Nero Claudius Germanicus leads a triumphal procession to Germania magna after his successful campaigns of the past two years . The Cheruscan princess Thusnelda , daughter of Segestes and wife of Arminius , and her two-year-old son Thumelicus are among the trophies carried along.
- 451 : In the Battle of Avarayr , Armenian rebels under Vartan Mamikonian fight their Sassanid overlords under Yazdegerd II. Although the Persian Sassanids win the battle, the Armenians are guaranteed religious freedom.
- 961 : Otto II from Liudolfingen is crowned Roman-German king in Aachen as co-regent of his father Otto I at the age of seven . He is anointed by the archbishops Brun of Cologne, Wilhelm of Mainz and Heinrich I of Trier, who then take over the guardianship of the young king.
- 1135 : In the Cathedral of León king Alfonso VII. To the Emperor of all Spain crowned.
- 1231 : The Uri valley, which was previously ruled by the Habsburgs, becomes directly imperial thanks to the license from Hagenau issued by Heinrich VII .
- 1249 : In the Battle of Fossalta , militias from Bologna , which were close to the Guelphs during the fighting between Ghibellines and Guelphs, defeat an imperial army under Cardinal Ottaviano Ubaldini. Its leader, the Emperor's son Enzio of Sardinia , is captured and remains imprisoned in the city until his death, despite imperial pressure to be released.
- 1637 : Captain John Mason from Connecticut surrounds a fortified Pequot village on the Mystic River with 90 English colonists and several hundred Indian allies and sets it on fire. Around 700 people are killed in the Mystic Massacre in the Pequot War .
- 1679 : With the death of his father Ferdinand Maria , Maximilian II. Emanuel , temporarily under the tutelage of his uncle Maximilian Philipp Hieronymus von Bayern-Leuchtenberg , elector and new regent in Bavaria .
- 1703 : In the Great Northern War , a Swedish army reaches the Vistula near Thorn and begins the siege of the city . It is defended by a Saxon garrison of the troops of Augustus the Strong .
- 1736 : French colonists from Louisiana attack a Chickasaw village together with Chahta Indians under the command of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville because they want to connect their colony with the northern part of New France via the Mississippi River . The Chickasaw, allied with the British , successfully repel the attack in the Battle of Ackia .
- 1772 : King Gustav III. von Sweden donates the Wasa Order on his coronation day , whose name is supposed to commemorate the Wasa dynasty .
- 1805 : Almost six months after his personal coronation as emperor , Napoleon Bonaparte is also crowned King of Italy with the Iron Crown of the Lombards in the Milan Cathedral .
- 1818 : Bavaria under King Maximilian I Joseph receives its second constitution by edict , which replaces the one from 1808 and contains the formation of a people's representative body.
- 1831 : During the November uprising for Poland's independence , the Imperial Russian Army under Hans Karl von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski defeated the Polish army under Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki in the Battle of Ostroleka .
- 1849 : The three kingdoms of Prussia , Saxony and Hanover form the Three Kings Alliance , an attempt to establish German unification under the leadership of Prussia and excluding Austria.
- 1857 : At the mediation of the French Emperor Napoleon III. In the Neuchâtel trade , the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV waived his rights to Neuchâtel and Valangin in the Treaty of Paris .
- 1879 : Mohammad Yaqub Khan for Afghanistan and Louis Cavagnari for the UK include the Treaty of Gandamak and thus end the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War . In addition to a mission in Kabul, Great Britain gains control of Afghan foreign policy.
- 1911 : The former Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine receives a new constitution, with which it is recognized 40 years after the annexation in the Franco-German War as an independent federal state of the German Empire .
- 1918 : In Georgia , the calls Menshevik Social Democratic Labor Party under Nikoloz Chkheidze , the Democratic Republic of Georgia and explained by the only recently formed Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic independent.
- 1924 : The United States Senate passes the Racist Immigration Act of 1924, influenced by eugenicist Madison Grant , to restrict immigration to the United States .
- 1940 : During the Second World War, the battle of Dunkirk begins during the German Wehrmacht's western campaign . The Dynamo operation to evacuate the British Expeditionary Force and by remnants of the French army runs under the command of Admiral Bertram Ramsay on.
- 1942 : The German Africa Corps under General Erwin Rommel begins its Africa campaign with the Theseus company to conquer the Tobruk fortress . At the same time, the battle of Bir Hakeim against units of the Forces françaises libres under Pierre Kœnig began , which lasted until June 11th .
- 1946 : In the parliamentary elections of 1946 in the Third Czechoslovak Republic , the Communist Party KSC receives 31.05 percent of the vote.
- 1948 : In the parliamentary elections in South Africa , the National Party under Daniel François Malan becomes the strongest parliamentary group. The party, which stood for a strict course of apartheid policy , as the dominant political force, had a decisive influence on developments in southern Africa in the following four decades .
- 1952 : Germany concludes with the victorious Western powers France , Britain and US to Germany contract . The treaty regulates the end of the occupation statute and gives Germany the status of a sovereign state, but it does not come into force until 1955 as part of the Paris treaties .
- 1966 : British Guiana gained under the leadership of Prime Minister Forbes Burnham , under the name Guyana , the independence from the United Kingdom . At the same time, the country's new flag is also introduced.
- 1969 : Representatives of Bolivia , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador and Peru sign the Cartagena Agreement , which creates the Andean Pact on the model of the European Communities .
- 1972 : Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty on the Limitation of Missile Defense Systems as a result of the SALT-I negotiations in Moscow, the first arms control agreement between the superpowers USA and USSR .
- 1986 : Following the approval of the Council of Europe, its Council of Ministers, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Ministers of the European Communities and the European Court take over the European Communities the date from Euro Europe used European flag .
- 1991 : In the presidential elections in Georgia will Zviad Gamsakhurdia to first democratically elected head of state chosen.
- 1999 : The Kargil War between India and Pakistan in the conflict over the Kashmir region begins with an Indian attack on Pakistani positions.
- 2011 : The alleged war criminal Ratko Mladić , who is particularly responsible for the Srebrenica massacre , is arrested in Serbia .
- 2012 : Dmitri Medvedev is elected chairman of the ruling United Russia party at the suggestion of Vladimir Putin .
- 2012 : During the civil war in Syria , 108 people are killed and more than 300 injured in the Hula massacre . Although the Syrian government denies participation, numerous states subsequently expel high-ranking Syrian diplomats, including Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain.
economy
- 1375 : In Portugal , new land is given through the Sesmaria to combat food shortages . This fief under agricultural law will be applied again during the later colonization of Brazil .
- 1818 : With the new Customs Act , the different excises in Prussia are replaced by a uniform external tariff . As a result, Prussia begins looking for partners to set up customs associations .
- 1896 : The Dow Jones Industrial Average stock index , developed by the founders of the Wall Street Journal and the Dow Jones company , Charles Dow and Edward D. Jones, is published for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange . The initial listing is at 40.94 points.
- 1906 : Vauxhall Bridge is opened to traffic over the Thames in London . The new structure replaces the first bridge from 1816, which was previously demolished.
- 1908 : In Masjed Soleyman in Iran , one of the largest oil fields in the world is discovered during a 360-meter Burmah Oil well. A little later the Anglo-Persian Oil Company is founded.
- 1938 : In Fallersleben , Lower Saxony , Adolf Hitler lays the foundation stone for the Volkswagen factory , in which the KdF car is to be manufactured in the future by the Society for Preparation of the German Volkswagen mbH under the direction of Ferdinand Porsche .
- 1940 : The first edition of the weekly newspaper Das Reich , created by the National Socialists to influence German intellectuals .
- 1964 : The German Federal President Heinrich Lübke , France's Head of State Charles de Gaulle and Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg inaugurate the Moselle major shipping route .
science and technology
- 1906 : The German engineer August von Parseval undertakes the first successful journey in his airship in Berlin-Tegel . The pilot of the Parseval airship is Captain von Krogh.
- 1950 : The German engineer and inventor Engelbert Zaschka applies for a patent for his folding bike .
- 1969 : The American space mission Apollo 10 , launched on May 18, with astronauts Tom Stafford , John Young and Eugene Cernan on board, returns to Earth after successfully simulating a moon landing . On re-entry , the landing capsule reaches a speed of 39,897 km / h, the highest speed that has ever been reached by humans.
- 1970 : As the first civil airliner, a Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 from chief designer Alexei Andrejewitsch Tupolew reaches twice the speed of sound Mach 2 .
- 2010 : The Boeing X-51A unmanned demonstration aircraft completes its maiden flight. It accelerates up to Mach 5 and reaches an altitude of 21 kilometers. It is the first of three further test flights of this type of aircraft.
Culture
- 1791 : According to a decree of the National Assembly , the Louvre is also designated as a museum to collect works of science and the arts. It opens on August 10, 1793.
- 1828 : The first performance of the first orchestral version of the opera Les Francs-Juges by Hector Berlioz takes place at the Salle du Conservatoire in Paris . The work is largely lost today.
- 1906 : William Frederick Cody gives his international show Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in Vienna's Prater .
- 1922 : The silent film Dr. Mabuse, the player part 2: Inferno - A game by people of our time by the Austrian-German director Fritz Lang , based on the novel by Norbert Jacques , adapted by Thea von Harbou , with Rudolf Klein-Rogge in the title role, will be premiered in Germany.
- 1928 : The Brno Exhibition Center opens.
- 1936 : The opera Doktor Johannes Faust by Hermann Reutter is premiered at the Städtische Bühnen in Frankfurt am Main under the direction of Walter Felsenstein . The libretto comes from Ludwig Andersen alias Ludwig Strecker the Younger . It is based on the old puppet show Doctor Faust in the version by Karl Simrock .
- 1967 : The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is released in Great Britain .
society
- 1828 : The 16-year-old Kaspar Hauser appears on the Unschlittplatz in Nuremberg and speaks to the master shoemaker Weickmann. His case soon attracted international attention.
- 1977 : The American building climber George Willig , later known as Human Fly or Spiderman, climbed the 110 floors of the south tower of the World Trade Center and achieved international fame. At the top he is met by the police and sentenced to a symbolic fine of 1.10 dollars - 1 cent per floor.
religion
- 1521 : One day after the end of the Diet of Worms is of the backward Estates from the Papal Nuncio Girolamo Aleandro designed Edict of Worms known publicly with which the imperial ban on the reformer Martin Luther is imposed.
- 1910 : The encyclical Editae saepe of Pope Pius X , dedicated to the memory of Saint Charles Borromeo , arouses considerable indignation among Protestants in Germany . They perceive some text passages as offensive.
Disasters
- 1822 : On the first day of Pentecost, at least 113 people die in the fire in the stave church in Grue , Norway .
- 1917 : The city of Mattoon , Illinois, is devastated by an F4 tornado on the Fujita scale that kills 101 people. Another 50 people are killed in nearby Charleston .
- 1991 : On a Boeing 767 from Lauda Air , near Bangkok, the thrust reverser switched on due to a system error when climbing . The crash of the machine leads to the death of all 223 people on board.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1851 : The first international chess tournament , organized by Howard Staunton , begins in London as part of the Great Exhibition and will last until July 15th. The tournament finally had sixteen participants, including Adolf Anderssen , Marmaduke Wyvill , József Szén and Lionel Kieseritzky .
- 1894 : The German Emanuel Lasker becomes the second world chess champion by winning a competition against the Austrian Wilhelm Steinitz (result: 10–5 wins; 4 draws) .
- 1907 : On a golf day in Hamburg, eight golf clubs set up the German Golf Association ( DGV ) as the umbrella organization. Today it is one of the largest sports associations in Germany.
- 1913 : The International Olympic Committee (IOC) disqualifies the Olympic champion James Thorpe , who was exposed as a professional athlete, and bans him for life.
- 1923 : The first 24-hour race begins in Le Mans , France . The organizer is the Automobile Club de l'Ouest .
- 1927 : The first race takes place on the Badberg-Viereck in Hohenstein-Ernstthal near Chemnitz, the later Sachsenring .
- 1966 : The Turkish football club Denizlispor is founded.
- 1967 : On the initiative of Willi Daume , the non-profit foundation Deutsche Sporthilfe is founded for the ideal and material support of athletes in Berlin. Josef Neckermann becomes the first chairman .
- 1972 : The Munich Olympic Stadium is opened.
- 1999 : Manchester United defeated FC Bayern Munich in the 1998/99 UEFA Champions League final at Camp Nou in Barcelona with two goals in stoppage time 2-1.
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1119 : Yaroslav Osmomysl , Russian prince
- 1251 : Burchard of Avesnes , Bishop of Metz
- 1264 : Koreyasu , seventh Shogun of Japan
- 1396 : Johann , titular Count of Freiburg, Count of Neuchâtel and Lord of Badenweiler
- 1478 : Clement VII , Pope
- 1550 : Fabian I. von Dohna , Feldobrist and mercenary leader, court marshal and envoy
- 1561 : Wolf Jacob Stromer , council builder of the city of Nuremberg
- 1562 : Jacob III. von Baden , Margrave of Baden-Hachberg
- 1566 : Mehmed III. , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1591 : Olimpia Maidalchini , Roman nobleman
- 1602 : Philippe de Champaigne , French painter
- 1650 : John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough , English general
- 1661 : Ludwig Andreas Gotter , German hymn poet and lawyer
- 1667 : Abraham de Moivre , French mathematician
- 1671 : Burkhard Gotthelf Struve , German polyhistor and librarian
- 1681 : Anton II of Aldenburg , German imperial count
- 1689 : Mary Wortley Montagu , English writer
- 1699 : Nikita Jurjewitsch Trubezkoi , Russian statesman, general procurator and field marshal
- 1700 : Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf , German Lutheran-Pietist theologian and poet, founder of the Moravian Brethren
18th century
- 1701 : Jean-Joseph Rallier des Ourmes , French mathematician and encyclopedist
- 1746 : Johann Friedrich Doles the Younger , German composer
- 1753 : Johann Friedrich Anthing , German silhouetteur
- 1759 : Johann Kaspar Friedrich Manso , German historian and philologist
- 1764 : Edward Livingston , US Secretary of State
- 1782 : Joseph Drechsler , Bohemian-Austrian composer and music teacher
- 1791 : August Grahl , German miniature painter
- 1794 : Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg , Russian field marshal
- 1796 : Armand Joseph Bruat , French admiral
- 1799 : August Kopisch , German painter and writer ( Die Heinzelmännchen zu Cologne )
19th century
1801-1850
- 1806 : Vinzenz Jakob von Zuccalmaglio , German writer
- 1808 : Isaac van Amburgh , American tamer
- 1812 : Otfried Hans von Meusebach , German-American farmer, botanist and senator
- 1812 : Johann Adolf Karl van Heusde , Dutch philologist and literary scholar
- 1814 : Heinrich Geißler , German glassblower, instrument maker and inventor
- 1820 : Maria Katharina Kasper , beatified Catholic congregation founder
- 1821 : Amalie Dietrich , German botanist and zoologist
- 1822 : Auguste Reuss zu Köstritz , Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg
- 1822 : Edmond and Jules de Goncourt , French writers
- 1825 : Felipe Gutiérrez y Espinosa , Puerto Rican composer
- 1826 : Richard Christopher Carrington , British astronomer
- 1832 : Arnold Hug , Swiss classical philologist
- 1832 : Nakamura Keiu , Japanese educator and translator
- 1835 : Edward Porter Alexander , American general
- 1842 : Caroline Auguste Fischer , German writer and women's rights activist
- 1842 : Evald Rygh , Norwegian Minister of Finance
- 1849 : Albert Adamo , German genre painter and draftsman
- 1849 : Hubert von Herkomer , British painter and sculptor, musician and writer
1851-1900
- 1856 : Alexander Bernewitz , German-Baltic provost and Protestant martyr
- 1859 : Felipe Agoncillo , Filipino lawyer and diplomat
- 1860 : Max von Stetten , German officer, commander of the Imperial Protection Force for Cameroon
- 1867 : Maria von Teck , wife of the British King George V.
- 1873 : Olaf Gulbransson , Norwegian painter and draftsman (Simplicissimus)
- 1873 : Cornelis Gerrit Nicolaas de Vooys , Dutch Dutch artist
- 1875 : Gustav von Amstetter , German lawyer and politician
- 1875 : Stan Golestan , Romanian composer and music critic
- 1875 : Harold Steinacker , German historian
- 1875 : Helene Voigt-Diederichs , German writer
- 1877 : Mirzl Hofer , Austrian singer and yodeler
- 1878 : Chris Lebeau , Dutch artist and anarchist
- 1881 : Adolfo de la Huerta , singer, politician and President of Mexico
- 1882 : Heinrich Deiters , German writer and journalist
- 1883 : Peter Kürten , German serial killer
- 1885 : Josef Achmann , German painter and graphic artist
- 1885 : Gaston Baty , French director, playwright and theater director
- 1886 : Al Jolson , American actor
- 1892 : Maxwell Bodenheim , American writer
- 1893 : Peggy Hopkins Joyce , American actress
- 1894 : Esther von Kirchbach , German publicist
- 1895 : Dorothea Lange , American photographer
- 1895 : Tanikawa Tetsuzō , Japanese philosopher
- 1898 : Ernst Bacon , American composer, conductor, pianist and music teacher
- 1900 : Vítězslav Nezval , Czech poet, writer and translator
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Walter Zirpins , German lawyer and police officer, investigator and expert in the Reichstag fire trial in 1933
- 1906 : Mauri Rose , American racing car driver
- 1907 : John Wayne , American actor
- 1907 : Roberto Ago , Italian lawyer, member of the UN International Law Commission, judge at the International Court of Justice
- 1908 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Arbusow , Russian playwright
- 1908 : Robert Morley , British actor and writer
- 1909 : Matt Busby , British football coach
- 1909 : Papa Charlie McCoy , American blues guitarist, singer, and mandolin player
- 1910 : Laurance Rockefeller , American billionaire
- 1911 : Ben Alexander , American actor
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- 1912 : János Kádár , Hungarian politician, Prime Minister
- 1913 : Annemarie Ackermann , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1913 : Androniqi Zengo Antoniu , Albanian painter
- 1916 : Halil İnalcık , Turkish historian
- 1917 : Isabella Nadolny , German writer and translator
- 1919 : Claus von Aderkas , German theologian
- 1919 : Alfons Dalma , Croatian-Austrian journalist
- 1919 : Rubén González Fontanills , Cuban pianist
- 1920 : John Dall , American actor
- 1920 : Peggy Lee , American singer
- 1921 : Walter Laqueur , German-American historian
- 1922 : Werner Augustiner , Austrian painter
- 1922 : Reinhard Goerdeler , German lawyer and auditor
- 1922 : Herbert Schade , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1922 : Ida Valeton , German geologist
- 1923 : Horst Tappert , German actor
- 1923 : James Arness , American actor
- 1923 : Roy Dotrice , British actor
- 1923 : Alfons Höckmann , German actor, theater director and director
1926-1950
- 1926 : Miles Davis , American jazz trumpeter
- 1926 : Otto Wüst , Bishop of Basel
- 1927 : Christian von Krockow , German political scientist and writer
- 1927 : Antonio Prieto , Chilean singer and actor
- 1928 : Augusto Aristizábal Ospina , Colombian bishop
- 1928 : Arlene Pach , Canadian pianist and music teacher
- 1929 : JF Ade Ajayi , Nigerian historian and university professor
- 1930 : Sivuca , Brazilian accordion player
- 1931 : Willibald Hilf , German broadcast director
- 1932 : Frank Beyer , German film director
- 1933 : Walter Reichert , German motorcycle racer
- 1935 : Joachim Jaeger , German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman
- 1937 : Neil Ardley , English pianist and composer
- 1937 : Yehuda Yannay , Israeli composer
- 1938 : Günter Augustat , German football player
- 1938 : Jaki Liebezeit , German drummer
- 1938 : Peter Westbury , British racing car driver
- 1939 : Manfred Kanther , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister
- 1939 : Merab Kostawa , Georgian dissident
- 1940 : Levon Helm , American musician
- 1941 : Giorgio Ariani , Italian comedian and actor
- 1941 : Götz Bernau , German violinist, music researcher and music teacher
- 1943 : Max Mamers , French racing car driver and motorsport official
- 1943 : Erica Terpstra , Dutch swimmer, member of parliament and state secretary
- 1944 : Jürgen Hohl , German local historian and restorer
- 1944 : Sam Posey , American racing car driver
- 1945 : Donald Steven , Canadian composer
- 1946 : Leslie Aiello , American paleoanthropologist
- 1946 : Ruprecht Polenz , German politician
- 1946 : Mick Ronson , British guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, arranger and producer
- 1946 : Ulrich Schubert , Austrian chemist
- 1947 : Gerd Biegel , German historian and museum director
- 1948 : Stevie Nicks , American singer
- 1949 : Jeremy Corbyn , British union official and politician
- 1949 : Ward Cunningham , American programmer
- 1949 : Pam Grier , American actress
- 1949 : Dan Pastorini , American football player
1951-1975
- 1951 : Ilona Christen , German radio and television presenter
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- 1951 : Sally Ride , American astrophysicist and astronaut
- 1951 : Stuart Tosh , British musician ( 10cc )
- 1952 : Ursula Arnold-Cramer , German politician
- 1952 : Liane Rudolph , German actress, voice actress and cabaret artist
- 1954 : Marian Gold , German singer and songwriter
- 1954 : Alan Hollinghurst , British writer
- 1954 : Erich Hackl , Austrian writer and translator
- 1954 : Wolfgang Sidka , German soccer player and coach
- 1954 : Lisbeth Zwerger , Austrian children's book illustrator
- 1955 : Doris Dörrie , German actress, screenwriter and director
- 1956 : Pierre Aussu , French football player
- 1957 : Ala al-Aswani , Egyptian writer and dentist
- 1957 : Ulrike Lunacek , Austrian politician
- 1957 : Olivia Pascal , German actress
- 1957 : Margareta Wolf , German politician
- 1957 : Klaus Pruenster , Austrian musician
- 1959 : Lothar Neukirchner , German motorcycle racer
- 1960 : Ulla Baur , German musician
- 1961 : Matthias Ahrens , German cross-country skier, biathlete and biathlon trainer
- 1962 : Black , British singer
- 1962 : Bobcat Goldthwait , American comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1962 : Krzysztof Warlikowski , Polish theater director
- 1964 : İlkay Akkaya , Turkish singer
- 1964 : Patrick Antaki , Lebanese skeleton athlete
- 1964 : Lenny Kravitz , American musician
- 1964 : Tobias Künzel , German singer ( Die Prinzen )
- 1964 : Valeri Borissowitsch Salow , Russian chess master
- 1964 : Alison Wyeth , British medium and long distance runner
- 1965 : Christina Lux , German musician, singer, guitarist and composer
- 1966 : Zola Budd , South African athlete
- 1966 : Helena Bonham Carter , British actress
- 1967 : Kristen Pfaff , American bassist ( Hole )
- 1967 : Philip Treacy , Irish milliner and designer
- 1968 : Frederik of Denmark , Danish Crown Prince
- 1971 : Susan Andrews , Australian sprinter and middle distance runner
- 1971 : Shannon Kenny , Australian actress
- 1971 : Sven Lakenmacher , German handball trainer and handball player
- 1971 : Matt Stone , American comic book creator South Park
- 1973 : Magdalena Kožená , Czech mezzo-soprano
- 1974 : Kozue Amano , Japanese manga artist
- 1974 : Sílvio Antônio , Brazilian soccer player
1976-2000
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- 1977 : Luca Toni , Italian football player
- 1978 : Benji Gregory , American actor
- 1978 : Fabio Firmani , Italian football player
- 1979 : Michael Meichßner , German actor and director
- 1979 : Mehmet Okur , Turkish basketball player
- 1979 : Jonas Reckermann , German beach volleyball player
- 1981 : Eda-Ines Etti , Estonian singer
- 1982 : Monique Alexander , American porn actress and nude model
- 1982 : Maja Andrejewna Petrowa , Russian handball player
- 1983 : Demy de Zeeuw , Dutch soccer player
- 1984 : Morten Slundt , Danish handball player
- 1986 : Matti Oivanen , Finnish volleyball player
- 1986 : Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey , Spanish-French actress
- 1987 : Daniel Lackner , Austrian ski jumper
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- 1988 : Juan Cuadrado , Colombian soccer player
- 1988 : Sina Martens , German actress
- 1988 : Susann Müller , German handball player and trainer
- 1989 : Tomáš Pekhart , Czech football player
- 1989 : Justin Williams , American cyclist
- 1991 : Julianna Rose Mauriello , American actress and dancer
- 1992 : Philipine van Aanholt , Dutch sailor
- 1992 : Anna Bullard-Werner , German actress
- 1992 : Jesse Weißenfels , German soccer player
- 2000 : Hannah Neise , German skeleton pilot
21st century
- 2002 : Jan Thielmann , German soccer player
Died
Before the 18th century
- 604 : Augustine of Canterbury , first Archbishop of Canterbury
- 735 : Beda Venerabilis , English Benedictine monk, theologian and historian
- 818 : ʿAlī ibn Mūsā ar-Ridā , eighth imam according to the belief of the Twelve Shiites (direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed)
- 946 : Edmund I , English king
- 1035 : Berengar Raimund I , Count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona
- 1055 : Adalbert the Victorious , Austrian margrave
- 1241 : Roger Bernard II , Count of Foix
- 1339 : Anna , Princess of Lithuania and Queen of Poland
- 1362 : Louis of Taranto , Prince of Taranto, King of Naples and Count of Provence
- 1375 : Konrad II of Kirchberg-Wallhausen , Bishop of Meißen
- 1390 : Ferry Cassinel , Archbishop of Reims
- 1401 : Andreas Franchi , Italian Dominican, Bishop of Lucca, Orvieto and Pistoia
- 1421 : Mehmed I , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1489 : Johannes Hettlinger , town clerk of Rapperswil, leader of the pro-federal forces and the uprising against Habsburg
- 1489 : Adolf Rusch , Strasbourg printer, publisher and businessman
- 1504 : Margarethe von Hanau-Lichtenberg , Countess of Nassau-Wiesbaden
- 1512 : Bayezid II , Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- 1552 : Sebastian Münster , German-Swiss cosmographer and Hebrew
- 1565 : Georg Sigmund Seld , Vice Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1566 : Antonio de Cabezón , Spanish composer and organist
- 1586 : Walburgis , Countess von Rietberg
- 1595 : Philipp Neri , Italian Catholic reformer and saint
- 1606 : Diego Núñez de Avendaño , Spanish lawyer and viceroy of Peru
- 1645 : Mariana de Jesús de Paredes y Flores , religious, mystic and saint
- 1648 : Vincent Voiture , French poet and writer
- 1653 : Robert Filmer , English political theorist
- 1679 : Ferdinand Maria , Elector of Bavaria
- 1682 : Johann Heinrich Ott , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1685 : Charles II , Elector Palatinate
- 1687 : Hans Joachim Haltmeyer , Swiss pharmacist and mayor of St. Gallen
18th century
- 1703 : Samuel Pepys , English civil servant and chronicler
- 1713 : Veith Steinböck , Austrian master stonemason and sculptor, master builder and head of the Viennese building works
- 1722 : Sébastien Vaillant , French botanist
- 1727 : Francesco Farnese , Duke of Parma and Piacenza
- 1764 : Peter Joseph Kofler , Mayor of Vienna
- 1766 : Elias Hayum , Palatine court and militia factor in Mannheim
- 1767 : Friedrich Heinrich Karl von Prussia , Prussian officer
- 1768 : Félix de Berroeta , Spanish officer, colonial administrator and governor of Chile
- 1774 : Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg , Austrian military leader
- 1780 : Hans von Ahlefeldt , German privy councilor and bailiff
- 1781 : Andreas Weber , German philosopher and Lutheran theologian
- 1793 : Eliza Lucas Pinckney , American planter
- 1800 : Curt Heinrich Gottlieb von Arnim , Prussian colonel
- 1800 : Alonso Núñez de Haro y Peralta , Spanish bishop, colonial administrator and viceroy of New Spain
19th century
- 1817 : Johann Heinrich Philipp Seidenstücker , German educator and headmaster
- 1821 : Constance Mayer , French painter
- 1828 : John Oxley , Australian explorer
- 1831 : Georg Hermes , German theologian and philosopher
- 1845 : Jónas Hallgrímsson , Icelandic poet and scientist
- 1852 : Johan Gunder Adler , Danish-Norwegian civil servant
- 1854 : Bernhard Matter , Swiss thief and escape king
- 1864 : Charles Sealsfield , Moravian writer
- 1870 : Thomas Dickens Arnold , American politician
- 1871 : Aimé Maillart , French composer
- 1873 : August Conradi , German composer
- 1881 : Jacob Bernays , German philologist and writer
- 1883 : Abd el-Kader , Algerian emir and freedom fighter
- 1884 : Joaquim António de Aguiar , Portuguese head of government
- 1884 : Wilhelm Achtermann , German sculptor
- 1884 : Louis Germond the Younger , Swiss Protestant clergyman and founder of a secondary school for girls
- 1888 : Ascanio Sobrero , Italian chemist
- 1892 : Max von Forckenbeck , German lawyer, politician and Berlin mayor
- 1895 : Ahmed Cevdet Pasha , Ottoman statesman, historian and legal scholar
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Bohumil Turek , Czechoslovak motorcycle and automobile racing driver
- 1905 : Alphonse de Rothschild , French banker
- 1908 : Mirza Ghulam Ahmad , religious figure in British India, founder of the Ahmadiyya movement
- 1911 : Paul Ewald , German Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1912 : Amalie Maria , Countess of Württemberg
- 1912 : Jan Blockx , Belgian composer
- 1915 : Emil Lask , German philosopher
- 1919 : Wilhelm Kaspar , Latvian pastor and evangelical confessor
- 1923 : Albert Leo Schlageter , German free corps fighter
- 1928 : Rudolf Heinze , German lawyer and politician
- 1930 : David D. Aitken , American politician
- 1931 : Hans von Arnim , German classical philologist
- 1931 : Kate Marsden , British nurse and leprosy researcher
- 1932 : C. Frank Reavis , American politician
- 1933 : Jimmie Rodgers , American country musician
- 1937 : Theodor Ahlrichs , German theologian
- 1937 : Ludolf von Krehl , German medic
- 1938 : John Jacob Abel , American biochemist and pharmacologist
- 1940 : Silvio Vailati , Italian motorcycle racer
- 1940 : Wilhelm von Prussia , eldest son of the Prussian and German Crown Prince
- 1942 : Jan Maria Michał Kowalski , Polish bishop
- 1943 : Rein Boomsma , Dutch football player
- 1943 : Edsel Ford , son of Henry Ford, President of the Ford Motor Company
- 1944 : Edmund Horton , American bobsledder
- 1944 : Paul Schultheiss , German general
- 1944 : Kurt Wabbel , German trade union official
- 1944 : Christian Wirth , German criminal police officer, war criminal
- 1947 : Helen Aitchison , British tennis player
- 1948 : Theo Morell , German Nazi doctor
1951-2000
- 1951 : Lincoln Ellsworth , American polar explorer
- 1952 : Emilie Flöge , Austrian designer, fashion designer and entrepreneur
- 1953 : Albert Spalding , American violin virtuoso and composer
- 1954 : Franz Pfemfert , German publicist and editor, literary critic and photographer
- 1955 : Alberto Ascari , Italian racing driver
- 1958 : Francis Carco , French writer
- 1958 : Ruth Smith , Faroese painter and graphic artist
- 1959 : Jess Willard , American country musician
- 1962 : Erich von Holst , German biologist and behavioral physiologist
- 1966 : Hannah von Mettal , Czech translator
- 1966 : Hermann Schäfer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1973 : Karl Löwith , German philosopher
- 1974 : Edouard Probst , Swiss automobile racing driver
- 1974 : Hoke Rice , American country musician
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- 1976 : Martin Heidegger , German philosopher
- 1976 : Heinz Musculus , German caricaturist, draftsman and illustrator
- 1977 : William Powell , American singer
- 1978 : Erich Hagen , German cyclist
- 1982 : Semra Ertan , Turkish writer
- 1984 : Onie Wheeler , American musician and composer
- 1986 : Vitaly Michailowitsch Abalakow , Soviet mountaineer
- 1986 : Gian-Carlo Coppola , American actor
- 1989 : Phineas Newborn , American jazz pianist
- 1990 : Gerhard Brinkmann , German graphic artist and caricaturist
- 1990 : Edouard Burnier , Swiss Protestant theologian and university professor
- 1991 : Clemens August Andreae , Austrian economist
- 1992 : Constantin Bobescu , Romanian violinist, composer, conductor and music teacher
- 1992 : Hans Epskamp , German actor
- 1993 : Jacek Bierezin , Polish poet and opposition activist
- 1993 : Hellmut Diwald , German historian and publicist
- 1993 : Frédérique Rol , Swiss rower
- 1994 : George Wildman Ball , American lawyer, politician, and diplomat
- 1996 : Joachim Adamietz , German classical philologist
- 1997 : Manfred von Ardenne , German natural scientist
- 1999 : Paul Sacher , Swiss conductor and patron
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- 2001 : Johann Ludwig Atrops , German engineer
- 2001 : Vittorio Brambilla , Italian motorcycle and automobile racer
- 2001 : Alberto Korda , Cuban photographer
- 2005 : Joe Lee Johnson , American racing driver
- 2005 : Sangoulé Lamizana , Burkinabe President
- 2005 : Ruth Laredo , American pianist
- 2005 : Krzysztof Nowak , Polish football player
- 2006 : Johann Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg , German officer
- 2006 : Bruno Pasut , Italian composer, pianist, organist, choir director, conductor and music teacher
- 2007 : Marek Krejčí , Slovak football player
- 2007 : Phyllis Sellick , British pianist and music teacher
- 2008 : Sydney Pollack , American film director, producer and actor
- 2009 : Antonio Braga , Italian composer and music teacher
- 2009 : Marek Walczewski , Polish actor
- 2010 : Gerhard Boeden , German police officer, Vice President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
- 2011 : Peter Dschulnigg , Swiss Roman Catholic theologian
- 2012 : Zvi Aharoni , Israeli Mossad agent
- 2012 : Chuck Austin , American jazz trumpeter
- 2013 : Hildegard Krekel , German actress and voice actress
- 2013 : Otto Muehl , Austrian action artist
- 2013 : Jack Vance , American writer
- 2014 : Efrem Cattelan , Swiss professional officer
- 2014 : Manuel Uribe , Mexican weight record holder
- 2015 : Vicente Aranda , Spanish film director
- 2015 : Paula Cooper , American murderer
- 2016 : Loris Francesco Capovilla , Italian cardinal
- 2016 : Hedy Epstein , German-American civil rights activist
- 2016 : Annamaria Morini , Italian musician
- 2017 : Zbigniew Brzeziński , Polish-American political scientist
- 2017 : Laura Biagiotti , Italian fashion designer
- 2018 : Alan LaVern Bean , American astronaut
- 2018 : Roger Piantoni , French football player
- 2019 : Bart Starr , American football player and coach
- 2019 : Prem Tinsulanonda , Thai politician
- 2020 : Irm Hermann , German actress
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St Augustine of Canterbury , messenger of faith in England, first Archbishop of Canterbury (Evangelical, Anglican, Orthodox, Roman Catholic Memorial Day is May 27 )
- State holidays and memorial days
- Georgia : independence from Russia (1918)
- More information about the day
- Australia : National Sorry Day (since 1998)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Commons : May 26th - Collection of images, videos and audio files
