5th of May
The May 5 is the 125th day of the Gregorian calendar (126th in leap years ), thus remain still 240 days until the end of the year.
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Events
Politics and world events
- 200 : General Sun Ce dies in the Han Dynasty of China after being fatally wounded while hunting. He hands over his command to his younger brother Sun Quan (182-252).
- 1260 : Kublai Khan is elected ruler of the Mongol Empire after the death of Möngke Khan . His brother Arigkbugha Khan and his supporters protest against the election .
Initiation of a document by Adolf from 1292
- 1292 : Count Adolf von Nassau is elected Roman-German king after extensive election promises to the electors in Aachen .
- 1389 : The Roman-German King Wenzel from the House of Luxembourg enacts the Peace of Eger at the Reichstag in Eger, which bans the Swabian League of Cities , which is currently in the war between cities with the southern German duchies.
- 1525 : Martin Luther , who had been positive about the cause of the peasants in the Peasants' War so far, distances himself from the rebellious peasants who also refer to him after the Weinsberg bloody deed in the text Against the Murderous and Reubian Rotten der Bawren .
- 1592 : In the sea battle of Okpo near the Korean island of Geojedo , the Korean fleet defeats the Japanese in the Imjin War .
- 1640 : The English King Charles I dissolves the parliament, which had been convened only three weeks earlier because of the conflict with Scotland , because it refuses to grant subsidies for the war .
- 1645 : In the Thirty Years' War Franz von Mercy defeated the French commanded by Henri de Turenne with a numerically smaller army in a surprise maneuver in the battle of Herbsthausen .
- 1705 : With the death of his father Leopold I , the Habsburg Joseph I , who was elected Roman-German King in 1690, becomes Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire .
- 1739 : After several weeks of sacking Delhi, the Persian ruler Nader Shah withdraws with his troops from the city. In addition to many young slaves , the army also takes the peacock throne and precious stones such as the Koh-i-Noor diamond for their ruler from the weakened Mughal empire .
- 1762 : Prussia and Russia make the peace of Saint Petersburg during the Seven Years' War . The peace agreement became possible after Tsar Peter III. , a great admirer of Frederick the Great , succeeded his aunt Elisabeth to the Russian throne.
- 1789 : For the first time since 1614 occurred in France which, due to the precarious financial situation of Louis XVI. convened General Estates in Versailles . They consist of representatives of the nobility, the clergy and the third class .
- 1821 : Napoleon Bonaparte , the former Emperor of France , dies on the island of St. Helena .
- 1827 : The death of his brother Frederick Augustus I come Anton to the throne of the Kingdom of Saxony .
- 1860 : Giuseppe Garibaldi's train of the thousand is embarked in Quarto near Genoa. The volunteer troops want to liberate Sicily from Bourbon rule during the Risorgimentos .
- 1862 : One of Emperor Napoleon III. Second French army corps is defeated by the Mexican army in the battle of Puebla in the early days of the French intervention in Mexico . The event is still commemorated today on the Mexican national holiday Cinco de Mayo .
- 1862 : The Army of Northern States remains in the American Civil War in the Battle of Williamsburg , Virginia, against a rear guard Confederate troops victorious.
- 1864 : The two-day Battle of the Wilderness , Virginia during the American Civil War begins. In it, the Army of the Potomac under Major General George Gordon Meade and the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert Edward Lee face each other.
- 1918 : The Finnish Civil War , which began on January 27th, ends with the conquest of Viipuri by the White Army . The Finnish Red Army soldiers flee to Petrograd.
1930: Gandhi and Sarojini Naidu on the salt march
- 1930 : Mahatma Gandhi , leader of the Indian independence movement, is imprisoned by the British colonial government shortly after midnight for breaking the British salt monopoly on his salt march a month earlier .
- 1932 : Japan and China conclude an armistice, mediated by the League of Nations , which ends the battle for Shanghai that has been going on since January 28th .
- 1936 : The entry of Italian troops into Addis Ababa ends the fighting in the Abyssinian War .
- 1942 : In the Battle of Cholm on the German-Soviet front , the Wehrmacht carried out a successful relief attack and, 105 days after their encirclement, re-established contact with the German troops in the city.
- 1945 : In Prague , held by German troops, an uprising of the population against the occupying power begins. The next day the Red Army started the Prague operation .
- 1945 : During the Second World War , German partial capitulations for north-west Germany and Denmark as well as the Netherlands come into force. This day is celebrated in the Netherlands as Bevrijdingsdag .
- 1945 : The Mauthausen concentration camp , together with its subcamps in Gusen, is the last concentration camp of the Greater German Reich to be liberated by the 11th US Panzer Division . On this occasion, May 5th has been celebrated in Austria since 1998 as a day of remembrance against violence and racism in memory of the victims of National Socialism . The ICRC employee Louis Häfliger played a decisive role in the liberation, and in doing so also prevented the murder of thousands of prisoners in the underground aircraft factory ; for this he is later convicted and dismissed by the ICRC for violating neutrality.
- 1949 : The representatives of 10 European states sign the London Ten Power Pact in London , which establishes the Council of Europe . It is a forum for debates on general European issues for its member states. Europe Day has been celebrated to commemorate this day since 1964 .
- 1950 : Bhumibol Adulyadej is crowned King of Thailand in the Grand Palace in Bangkok . On the same day he made his wife queen, who was given the title Somdej Phra Boroma Rajini .
- 1955 : With the entry into force of the Paris Treaties , the occupation statute expires and the Federal Republic of Germany receives - with reservations - its state sovereignty. The Paris Treaties include the Germany Treaty and the new Saar Statute .
- 1957 : Adolf Schärf of the SPÖ is elected Federal President by the Austrian electorate with 51.1% against his bourgeois opponent Wolfgang Denk .
- 1968 : On the 150th birthday of Karl Marx , the Socialist German Workers' Youth ( SDAJ ) is founded by young people and young members of the banned KPD .
- 1969 : Queen Elizabeth II begins her first and only state visit to Austria .
- 1976 : The Frontu di Liberazione Naziunalista Corsu liberation movement is founded in Corsica .
- 1980 : After a hostage has been murdered, 30 members of the British SAS storm the Iranian embassy in London, which is occupied by Iraqi terrorists, on the orders of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . Five of the six terrorists and a hostage are killed in the 15-minute action.
- 1981 : Bobby Sands, elected to the House of Commons during the IRA's hunger strike, dies in Maze Prison near Lisburn in Northern Ireland on the 66th day . After his death, there were violent demonstrations and clashes with British police forces.
- 1985 : US President Ronald Reagan and Chancellor Helmut Kohl honor victims of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and American and German soldiers who died in Bitburg . This leads to the Bitburg controversy , as the Waffen-SS were among those killed in action .
- 1989 : The sensational Memmingen trial against the gynecologist Horst Theißen before the Memmingen district court ends in the first instance with a guilty verdict for multiple abortions .
- 1990 : The first round of two-plus-four talks between the FRG, the GDR and the four victorious powers France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States begins in Bonn and will ultimately lead to German reunification .
- 1999 : Indonesia and the former colonial power Portugal conclude an agreement in New York for a peaceful solution to the conflict over East Timor . After that, a referendum on the country's independence is to be held in autumn.
- 2002 : After 19.88% of the votes in the first ballot, Jacques Chirac was confirmed in the runoff election against Jean-Marie Le Pen by the Front National with 82.21% in his office as President of France .
- 2005 : With 35.2% the Labor Party with Prime Minister Tony Blair at the top wins the absolute majority of the seats in the House of Commons for the third time due to the simple majority suffrage in the British general election .
- 2006 : The Conference of Interior Ministers agrees on a common system for naturalization in the Federal Republic of Germany .
- 2011 : In a referendum in the United Kingdom, around two thirds of the voters speak out against reforming the electoral law in the British House of Commons.
- 2012 : On the occasion of the celebrations for the Dutch Liberation Day in Breda , the German President Joachim Gauck gives the central speech as the first foreign head of state.
economy
- 1835 : In Belgium is the first railway line on the European continent between Brussels and Mechelen commissioned.
- 1885 : The American entrepreneur George Eastman receives US patent 317,049 for the invention of roll film .
- 1891 : The first stamps can be bought from machines in London .
- 1893 : "Industrial Black Friday" in the USA triggers significant price losses on the New York Stock Exchange , which hit railroad stocks in particular. As a result, the economic crisis also hits the silver market and develops into a "silver panic".
- 1901 : London's first multi-storey car park is built near Piccadilly Circus and extends over seven floors.
- 1921 : On the 5th day of the 5th month, the French fashion designer Coco Chanel presents the perfume brand Chanel Nº 5 , one of the first synthetically produced perfumes .
science and technology
- 1702 : Gottfried and Maria Margaretha Kirch discover the globular cluster, later named Messier 5 by Charles Messier , in the constellation Snake .
- 1961 : NASA brings Alan Shepard , the first American astronaut , into space with Mercury Redstone 3 as part of the Mercury program .
- 2018 : NASA's InSight space probe to explore the planet Mars is launched.
Culture
- 1883 : The premiere of the opera Henry VIII by Camille Saint-Saëns takes place at the Grand Opéra de Paris .
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- 1891 : The New York Carnegie Hall , named after its sponsor, the industrialist Andrew Carnegie, is ceremoniously opened with an opening concert conducted by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Walter Damrosch , although the building was not completed until 1897.
- 1909 : The comic opera Robins Ende by Eduard Künneke has its world premiere at the Nationaltheater Mannheim .
- 1955 : The musical Damn Yankees by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross premieres at the 46th Street Theater in New York City .
- 1985 : The unabridged version of the opera König Hirsch by Hans Werner Henze is staged for the first time in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . Before that, the work had only been performed with great sacrifices. Therefore, this date represents the actual day of the premiere.
- 1990 : The musical drama The betrayed sea by Hans Werner Henze with the libretto by Hans-Ulrich Treichel based on the novel Gogo no Eiko by Mishima Yukio is premiered at the Deutsche Oper Berlin .
- 1995 : The London film producer Ray Santilli publishes the so-called Santilli film , which shows the alleged autopsy of an alien in the Roswell incident , thus sparking a wide debate about aliens. Years later, the film turns out to be a fantasy product.
- 2004 : Pablo Picasso's 1905 painting Boy with a Pipe changes hands at auction for 104.2 million US dollars . It is one of the most expensive paintings in the world .
society
- 1865 : A railroad train is robbed for the first time in the United States near North Bend, Ohio . The Reno brothers loot $ 13,000.
- 1903 : The RMS Carpathia of the Cunard Line sets out from Liverpool on its maiden voyage towards Boston. In 1912 she will be able to take survivors of the Titanic on board.
religion
- 553 : The second council of Constantinople convened by Emperor Justinian I begins. It lasts until June 2 and is supposed to deal with topics such as Monophysitism , Nestorianism and the three-chapter dispute .
- 1888 : In his encyclical In plurimis , Pope Leo XIII praises . the abolition of slavery in Brazil and advocates worldwide abolition.
Disasters
- 1668 : The Portuguese galleon Santissimo Sacramento hits a reef due to a navigation error off Salvador da Bahia in Brazil and sinks. Of the more than 1,000 people on board, only 70 can save themselves. It is the most momentous marine casualty in the history of Brazil.
- 1842 : A fire is set in house number 44 in Deichstrasse on Nikolaifleet near the cigar maker Cohen in Hamburg . Although it is discovered quickly, the fire brigade does not manage to get it under control. The Hamburg fire lasted over three days, 1,700 houses were destroyed, 51 people died, 20,000 lost their homes.
- 1865 : A conflagration raged in Oberstdorf that lasted until the next day. The fire destroyed two thirds of the town's buildings.
- 1972 : A Douglas DC-8 from Alitalia crashes into a mountain while approaching Palermo . All 115 people on board die.
- 2007 : When Kenya Airways flight 507 crashed after taking off from Douala Airport in Cameroon, all 114 people on board were killed.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Sports
- 1895 : in Düsseldorf's Flingern is Turnverein Flingern 1895 founded. The German football club Fortuna Düsseldorf later emerged from it. In addition, SC Victoria Hamburg was founded in Hamburg and became a founding member of the DFB on January 28, 1900 .
- 1966 : Borussia Dortmund is the first German team to win a European football cup . The team wins in Glasgow 2: 1 n.V. against Liverpool and thus secures the European Cup Winners' Cup . Reinhard Libuda scored the winning goal .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 347 : Paula of Rome , Roman Christian, widow and saint of the Catholic Church
- 1210 : Alfons III. , King of Portugal
- 1282 : Juan Manuel , Castilian statesman, Prince of Villena and writer
- 1314 : Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent , English nobleman
- 1352 : Ruprecht I , Roman-German King and Elector of the Palatinate
- 1361 : Conrad V , Duke of Teck
- 1436 : Matteo Civitali , Italian sculptor and painter
- 1479 : Amar Das , third Sikh Guru
- 1487 : Anna , Princess of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Duchess and Regent of Teschen
- 1493 : Alessandro Pasqualini , Italian architect
- 1504 : Stanislaus Hosius , German-Polish theologian
- 1544 : Johann Conrad Meyer , Swiss politician and mayor of Schaffhausen
- 1546 : Petrus Wesenbeck , Flemish lawyer
- 1582 : Johann Friedrich , Duke of Württemberg
- 1585 : Vincenzo Carafa , General of the Jesuits
- 1590 : Johann Albrecht II , Duke of Mecklenburg
- 1652 : Boris Petrovich Sheremetev , Russian Field Marshal General
- 1666 : Johann Heinrich Buttstett , German organist and composer of the Baroque
- 1680 : Giuseppe Porsile , Italian composer and singing teacher
18th century
- 1705 : John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun , British peer, politician and general
- 1708 : Johann Adolf Scheibe , German baroque composer and one of the first music critics
- 1732 : Richard Tecker , theologian and director of the Graz University Library
- 1738 : Adolf Friedrich IV. , Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- 1740 : Joseph Leonz Andermatt , Swiss military and politician
- 1741 : John Archer , American politician
- 1742 : Joseph Cariattil , Indian Thomas Christian and Roman Catholic Archbishop
- 1744 : Christian Rau , German legal scholar
- 1745 : Carl August Ehrensvärd , Swedish admiral, draftsman, architect and art theorist
- 1746 : Jean-Nicolas Pache , French politician
- 1747 : Aloys Basselet von La Rosée , Bavarian civil servant and judge, member of the Order of the Illuminati
- 1747 : Leopold II , Archduke of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia, Croatia and Hungary
- 1748 : Francesco Azopardi , Maltese composer
- 1749 : Jean-Frédéric Edelmann , French harpsichordist and composer from Alsace
- 1752 : Johann Tobias Mayer , German physicist
- 1760 : Sophie Charlotte Elisabeth Ursinus , German serial killer
- 1764 : Robert Craufurd , British general
- 1765 : Pietro Rossi , Swiss politician
- 1766 : Christian Gottlieb Röckner , German Lutheran field provost
- 1768 : Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck , Prussian field marshal
- 1775 : Maria Clementine Martin , German nun and inventor ( Klosterfrau-Melissa spirit )
- 1796 : Robert Foulis , British inventor
- 1798 : Christian Friedrich Scherenberg , German poet
- 1799 : Hermann Friedrich Autenrieth , German medic
- 1799 : Paul Follen , German-American lawyer, writer and farmer
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804 : Karl von Czoernig-Czernhausen , Austrian civil servant and statistician
- 1807 : Ferdinand von Steinbeis , German economic politician
- 1808 : Ludwig Harms , German revival preacher
- 1811 : John William Draper , Anglo-Saxon scientist and historian
- 1812 : August Christian Friedrich , Duke of Anhalt-Köthen
- 1813 : Søren Kierkegaard , Danish philosopher
- 1816 : Jean Joseph Farre , French general
- 1816 : Rodman M. Price , American politician
- 1818 : Karl Marx , German philosopher, journalist and economist
- 1819 : Stanisław Moniuszko , Polish composer
- 1825 : Wilhelm Hertenstein , Swiss politician
- 1826 : Eugénie de Montijo , French empress, wife of Napoleon III.
- 1828 : Albert Marth , German astronomer
- 1828 : Robert Viktor von Puttkamer , Prussian statesman
- 1833 : Lazarus Fuchs , German mathematician
- 1833 : Ferdinand von Richthofen , German geographer and explorer
- 1834 : Viktor Alexandrowitsch Hartmann , Russian architect, sculptor and painter
- 1835 : Anton Hermann Albrecht , German Protestant theologian and poet
- 1837 : Carl Attenhofer , Swiss composer, conductor, singer, organist and university music director
- 1837 : Anna Maria Mozzoni , Italian writer and journalist
- 1839 : Henry Nettleship , British classical philologist
- 1841 : Achille Bizzoni , Italian journalist, translator and writer
- 1841 : Ernst Ziel , German writer and editor
- 1843 : Carl Leonhard Becker , German painter and engraver
- 1845 : Eugen Askenasy , German biologist
- 1846 : Henryk Sienkiewicz , Polish writer ( Quo Vadis ), Nobel Prize winner
- 1846 : Lars Magnus Ericsson , Swedish inventor
1851-1900
- 1851 : Walther Hempel , German chemist
- 1852 : Pietro Gasparri , Italian theologian
- 1853 : Ignaz Glaser , German entrepreneur
- 1856 : William Wallace Denslow , American illustrator and caricaturist
- 1857 : António Teixeira de Sousa , Portuguese politician
- 1859 : Gustav Roethe , German old Germanist
- 1864 : Nellie Bly , American journalist and world traveler
- 1864 : Hans Gerhard Gräf , German Goethe researcher
- 1864 : Willis C. Hawley , American politician
- 1865 : Ede Donáth , Hungarian conductor and composer
- 1869 : Hans Pfitzner , German composer and conductor
- 1870 : Erdmann Graeser , German writer
- 1871 : Gaétan de Knyff , Belgian racing driver
- 1872 : Georges Grente , Bishop of Le Mans and Cardinal
- 1877 : Georgi Jakowlewitsch Sedow , Russian naval lieutenant and polar explorer
- 1880 : Adrian Carton de Wiart , British Lieutenant General
- 1882 : Albert H. Rausch alias Henry Benrath , German poet, narrator and essayist
- 1882 : Douglas Mawson , British Antarctic explorer
- 1882 : Sylvia Pankhurst , British activist in the suffragette movement
- 1883 : Georg Achtelstetter , German painter and writer
- 1883 : Petar Konjović , Serbian composer, music teacher and scholar
- 1883 : Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell , British field marshal and Indian viceroy
- 1883 : Rudolf Spielmann , Austrian chess grandmaster
- 1884 : John Ernest Weaver , American botanist
- 1885 : Agustín Barrios , Paraguayan composer and guitarist
- 1886 : Hermann Heukamp , German politician
- 1888 : Cuno Raabe , German politician
- 1889 : Jack Pierce , American makeup artist
- 1890 : Christopher Morley , American editor and writer
- 1892 : Dorothy Garrod , British prehistorian
- 1892 : Robert Sénéchal , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1892 : Oskar Spiel , Austrian educator and psychologist
- 1893 : Joseph Maria Lutz , German writer
- 1893 : Farabundo Martí , politician and revolutionary in El Salvador
- 1893 : Willem Karel Mertens , Dutch doctor and hygienist
- 1894 : August Dvorak , American psychologist and teacher of education
- 1897 : Kenneth Burke , American literary theorist
- 1897 : Osvaldo Fresedo , Argentine musician and arranger, band leader, composer and lyricist
- 1897 : Anna Schmidt , German showman
- 1898 : Alfred van Nüß , German chess player
- 1898 : Hans Heinrich von Twardowski , German actor
- 1900 : Paul Baumgarten , German architect
- 1900 : Julius Hay , Hungarian playwright and writer
20th century
1901-1925
- 1901 : Blind Willie McTell , American blues musician
- 1904 : Franz Arzdorf , German actor and director
- 1904 : Robert Kronfeld , Austrian glider pilot
- 1905 : Ángel Bossio , Argentine football player
- 1905 : Floyd Gottfredson , American comic book artist, writer and painter
- 1906 : Alf Andersen , Norwegian ski jumper
- 1906 : Primo Angeli , Italian jazz and entertainment musician
- 1906 : Waldemar Bloch , Austrian composer, pianist and music teacher
- 1907 : Matsudaira Yoritsune , Japanese composer
- 1908 : Kurt Böhme , German opera singer
- 1908 : Jacques Massu , French general
- 1909 : Nakajima Atsushi , Japanese writer
- 1909 : Miklós Radnóti , Hungarian poet
- 1910 : Leo Lionni , graphic artist, painter and author
- 1910 : Otto Wilhelm von Vacano , German archaeologist
- 1911 : Richard Arlt , German trade unionist, resistance fighter and mining engineer
- 1911 : Andor Lilienthal , Hungarian chess grandmaster
- 1912 : William Dale Archerd , American serial killer
- 1912 : Peter Jokostra , writer and literary critic
- 1913 : Duane Carter , American racing car driver
- 1913 : Pug Manders , American football player
- 1914 : Eugen Kramár , Slovak architect
- 1914 : Tyrone Power , American film and stage actor
- 1915 : Alice Faye , American actress and singer
- 1916 : Weli Muhadow , Turkmen composer
- 1918 : Dino 7 Cordas , Brazilian guitarist
- 1919 : Gilles Andriamahazo , Malagasy general, president
- 1919 : Tony Canadeo , American football player
- 1919 : Georgios Papadopoulos , Greek colonel and military dictator
- 1921 : May Nilsson , Swedish ski racer
- 1921 : Arthur Leonard Schawlow , American physicist
- 1922 : Antonia Arnold , German writer
- 1922 : Karl Bock , German pediatric cardiologist
- 1922 : Adil Çarçani , Albanian politician, head of government
- 1923 : Sergei Fjodorowitsch Achromejew , Soviet military, Marshal of the Soviet Union
- 1925 : Eddi Arent , German actor
- 1925 : Charles Chaplin Jr. , American actor
- 1925 : Jindřich Polák , Czech film director
1926-1950
- 1927 : Art Pollard , American racing car driver
- 1927 : Charles Rosen , American pianist and music theorist
- 1928 : Cornelis Kalkman , Dutch botanist
- 1928 : Herbert Kitzel , German artist
- 1929 : Fritz Csoklich , Austrian journalist
- 1930 : Leonid Ivanovich Abalkin , Russian economist
- 1930 : Michael Adams , American test pilot
- 1931 : Jakob Bichsel , Swiss composer and conductor
- 1932 : Antonio Agri , Argentine tango violinist
- 1932 : Alexandra Andrejewna Antonowa , Sami writer and language activist
- 1932 : Bob Said , American racing car driver and film producer
- 1932 : Aurel Stroe , Romanian composer and music teacher
- 1933 : Dimitris Tsatsos , Greek legal scholar
- 1934 : Henri Konan Bédié , Ivorian diplomat and politician, president
- 1934 : Alfred Freiherr von Oppenheim , German private banker
- 1935 : Heinrich Apel , German artist, sculptor and restorer
- 1935 : Almut Brömmel , German athlete
- 1935 : Harlon Hill , American football player
- 1937 : Harry Abend , Venezuelan architect and sculptor
- 1937 : Sandy Baron , American actor
- 1937 : Trần Đức Lương , Vietnamese politician, president
- 1938 : Jerzy Skolimowski , Polish film director and actor
- 1938 : Barbara Wagner , Canadian figure skater
- 1939 : Cesare Fiorio , Italian motorsport team boss
- 1939 : Hermann Josef Schmidt , German philosopher
- 1939 : Dieter Wiesmann , Swiss songwriter and pharmacist
- 1939 : Karl-Heinz Wildmoser , German entrepreneur
- 1940 : Lasse Åberg , Swedish actor, director, musician and artist
- 1940 : Jürgen Anbuhl , German politician
- 1940 : Lance Henriksen , American actor
- 1941 : Georg Hamburger , German politician
- 1941 : Alexander Pavlovich Ragulin , Russian ice hockey player
- 1942 : Roberto Abdenur , Brazilian diplomat
- 1942 : Marc Alaimo , American actor
- 1942 : Patrick Poirier , French artist
- 1942 : Peter Rubin , German singer
- 1942 : Tammy Wynette , American country singer
- 1943 : Michael Palin , British actor and singer
- 1943 : Carlos Trillo , Argentine comic book writer
- 1944 : John Rhys-Davies , British actor
- 1944 : Roman Dzindzichashvili , American chess player
- 1944 : Jean-Pierre Léaud , French actor
- 1944 : Hans-Peter Mayer , German MEP
- 1944 : Christian de Portzamparc , French architect
- 1945 : Claude Bourgoignie , Belgian racing driver
- 1945 : Hans-Hermann Bartens , German Finnougrist
- 1946 : Walter Donzé , Swiss politician
- 1946 : Hervé Revelli , French football player
- 1947 : Malam Bacai Sanhá , Guinea-Bissau politician, President
- 1948 : Jomanda , Dutch spiritualist
- 1948 : Bill Ward , British drummer
- 1949 : Henning Höppner , German politician
- 1949 : Despina Petecel-Theodoru , Romanian musicologist
- 1949 : Jan Vičar , Czech composer, musicologist and music teacher
- 1950 : Maggie MacNeal , Dutch singer
- 1950 : Morton Rhue , American author
- 1950 : Barbara Salesch , German judge
1951-1975
- 1951 : Nick Bebout , American football player
- 1951 : Nicholas Guest , American actor
- 1951 : Peter Zintner , German actor
- 1951 : Cyprien Katsaris , French pianist and composer
- 1951 : Wolfgang Stehmer , German politician
- 1952 : Maia Ciobanu , Romanian composer
- 1952 : Ryszard Szeremeta , Polish composer, conductor and jazz singer
- 1953 : Dieter Zetsche , German manager, CEO of Daimler AG
- 1954 : Dagmar Wöhrl , German politician
- 1955 : Dudu Tucci , Brazilian musician
- 1955 : Melinda Culea , American actress
- 1956 : Kamagurka , Belgian cartoonist
- 1956 : Steve Scott , American athlete
- 1958 : Ron Arad , Israeli pilot
- 1958 : Serse Cosmi , Italian football coach
- 1958 : Elke Ferner , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1958 : Lutz Konermann , German director, author and cameraman
- 1958 : Dirk Nockemann , German politician
- 1959 : Steve Stevens , American musician
- 1960 : Jorge Quiroga Ramírez , Bolivian politician
- 1960 : Marek Vašut , Czech film actor
- 1960 : Samir Kassir , Lebanese journalist
- 1961 : Russell Norman Adam , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1961 : Martin Brudermüller , German manager (BASF SE)
- 1961 : Beat Schlatter , Swiss cabaret artist, actor and screenwriter
- 1961 : Tobias Seyb , German musician
- 1962 : Rodica Arba-Pușcatu , Romanian rower
- 1962 : Scott Tucker , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
- 1962 : Stefan Wenzel , German politician
- 1963 : Thomas Darchinger , German actor and speaker
- 1963 : Prince Ital Joe , American reggae musician
- 1963 : James LaBrie , Canadian prog metal singer
- 1964 : Heike Henkel , German high jumper, Olympic champion
- 1965 : Mark Keller , German actor
- 1965 : Chris McMurry , American racing car driver
- 1965 : John Riiber , Norwegian Nordic combined skier
- 1965 : Jolanda Vogt-Kindle , Liechtenstein ski racer
- 1966 : Axel Fischer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1967 : Christian Lohse , German chef
- 1968 : Dariusz Michalczewski , Polish-German boxer
- 1970 : Soheil Ayari , French racing car driver
- 1971 : Anette Hoffmann , Danish handball player
- 1971 : Nate McBride , American jazz bassist
- 1972 : Armin Arslanagic , Bosnian-German ice hockey player
- 1972 : Katja Hessel , German politician
- 1972 : Žigmund Pálffy , Slovak ice hockey player
- 1972 : Marian Sandu , Romanian wrestler
- 1972 : Devin Townsend , Canadian singer and guitarist
- 1973 : Brooke Ashley , American porn actress
- 1973 : Andreas Bausewein , German politician, Lord Mayor of Erfurt
- 1973 : Björn Glasner , German racing cyclist
- 1973 : Kevin McBride , Irish boxer
- 1973 : Volker Michel , German handball player
- 1973 : Dejan Tomašević , Serbian basketball player
- 1975 : Delloreen Ennis-London , Jamaican athlete
- 1975 : Meb Keflezighi , American athlete
- 1975 : Gerald Resch , Austrian composer.
- 1975 : Cédric Tiberghien , French pianist
1976-2000
- 1976 : Juan Pablo Sorín , Argentine football player
- 1977 : Jessica Schwarz , German actress
- 1978 : Santiago Cabrera , Venezuelan film actor
- 1979 : Chris Buncombe , British racing car driver
- 1979 : Silva Gonzalez , German singer, actor and entertainer
- 1979 : Vince Grella , Australian soccer player
- 1979 : Cedric van der Gun , Dutch football player
- 1980 : Silvan Aegerter , Swiss football player
- 1980 : Yossi Benayoun , Israeli soccer player
- 1980 : Rebecca Rudolph , German actress
- 1981 : Craig David , British musician
- 1981 : Mariano González , Argentine football player
- 1982 : Paweł Abbott , Polish football player
- 1982 : Velibor Đurić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1982 : Gunnar Jeannette , American racing car driver
- 1982 : Sándor Torghelle , Hungarian football player
- 1984 : Chris Birchall , soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago
- 1984 : Alexander Laas , German soccer player
- 1984 : Emanuele Giaccherini , Italian football player
- 1985 : Tsepo Masilela , South African soccer player
- 1985 : David Witteveen , Austrian soccer player
- 1986 : Alexandrina Cabral Barbosa , Spanish handball player
- 1986 : Yannick Djaló , Portuguese football player
- 1986 : Lilli Hollunder , German actress
- 1986 : Tinja-Riikka Korpela , Finnish soccer player
- 1987 : Ekaterina Borisovna Bukina , Russian wrestler
- 1987 : Marija Šestić , Bosnian singer
- 1988 : Adele , British singer
- 1988 : Skye Sweetnam , Canadian rock singer
- 1988 : Vítor Faverani , Brazilian basketball player
- 1989 : Chris Brown , American R&B singer
- 1989 : Eric Hoffmann , German handball player
- 1989 : Mohd Zamani Mustaruddin , Malaysian track and road cyclist
- 1990 : Joanna Semmelrogge , German actress
- 1990 : Martine Smeets , Dutch handball player
- 1991 : Andrea Klikovac , Montenegrin handball player
- 1991 : Robin de Kruijf , Dutch volleyball player
- 1992 : Daniel Lindenschmid , German politician
- 1993 : Francine Niyonsaba , Burundian athlete
- 1994 : Mattia Caldara , Italian soccer player
- 1994 : Dennis Srbeny , German soccer player
- 1994 : Hafizh Syahrin , Malay motorcycle racer
- 1996 : Jai Hindley , Australian cyclist
Died
Before the 16th century
- 200 : Sun Ce , Chinese warlord
- 962 : Amelung , Bishop of Verden
- 969 : Gerberga , queen of France
- 1038 : Godehard of Hildesheim (St. Gotthard), abbot, bishop
- 1061 : Humbert von Silva Candida , theologian, cardinal and Benedictine
- 1079 : Eberhard , Bishop of Naumburg
- 1137 : Asker , Archbishop of Lund
- 1194 : Casimir II , Polish duke
- 1198 : Sophia of Minsk , Queen of Denmark
- 1237 : Fujiwara no Ietaka , Japanese waka poet
- 1257 : Håkon Håkonsson unge , King of Norway
- 1260 : Jutta von Sangerhausen , German noblewoman, benefactress and hermit
- 1306 : Konstantin Palaiologos Porphyrogennetos , Byzantine prince and general
- 1310 : Siegfried II of Querfurt , Bishop of Hildesheim
- 1337 : Margaret Mortimer , English nobleman
- 1344 : Johann Clare , Bishop of Samland
- 1375 : Johannes von Hildesheim , Carmelite and prior of the Marienau monastery near Hameln
- 1377 : Matilda of Lancaster , English noblewoman
- 1401 : Emecho II of Cochem , German Benedictine and abbot in Brauweiler
- 1426 : Efrem of Nea Makri , Greek saint
- 1432 : Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola , Italian general
- 1434 : Dietrich Engelhus , German teacher and author
- 1434 : Johannes Rothe , German town clerk, canon, historian and author
- 1459 : Anton von Rotenhan , Bishop of Bamberg
16th to 18th century
- 1504 : Anton , illegitimate son of Philip III, Duke of Burgundy
- 1525 : Friedrich III. , Elector of Saxony
- 1532 : Philipp Adler , Augsburg merchant
- 1553 : Erasmus Alberus , German theologian, reformer and poet
- 1565 : Munjeong , Queen and Regent of the Korean Joseon Empire
- 1572 : Margaret Erskine , Scottish noblewoman
- 1582 : Charlotte de Bourbon-Montpensier , Princess of Orange
- 1586 : Henry Sidney , English politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland
- 1604 : Claudio Merulo , Italian composer and organist
- 1609 : Stephan I. Illésházy , Palatine of Hungary
- 1612 : Leonhard I. von Taxis , postmaster general in Brussels
- 1618 : Jacques-Davy Duperron , French cardinal, poet and diplomat
- 1629 : Szymon Szymonowic , Polish poet and playwright
- 1636 : Tobias Hübner , Chamber and Justice Councilor of Prince Johann Kasimir
- 1652 : Philipp Wilhelm von Innhausen and Knyphausen , East Frisian local politician
- 1666 : Paul Siefert , German organist and composer
- 1672 : Samuel Cooper , English miniature painter
- 1682 : Nishiyama Sōin , Japanese poet
- 1700 : Christian Eltester , Brandenburg architect, engineer and draftsman
- 1705 : Ernst Glück , German theologian and Bible translator
- 1705 : Leopold I , Holy Roman Emperor
- 1706 : Friedrich Christian von Plettenberg , Prince-Bishop of Münster
- 1713 : Heinrich Andreas Lohe , German painter
- 1714 : Christian Maximilian Spener , German medic, heraldist and genealogist
- 1716 : Paolo Pagani , Italian painter
- 1731 : Daniel Defoe , British writer and journalist
- 1733 : Johann Baptist von Roll , Commander of the Teutonic Order
- 1741 : Eleonore Elisabeth Amalia Magdalena von Lobkowitz , Princess of Schwarzenberg
- 1742 : Elisabetta Pilotti , Italian singer (soprano), Handel interpreter
- 1756 : Johann Heinrich Hartung , German publisher and printer owner in Königsberg
- 1759 : Anton Dorazil , Bohemian sculptor
- 1765 : August Friedrich Graun , German cantor and composer
- 1766 : Jean Astruc , French physician, professor of medicine, naturalist and founder of the modern criticism of the Pentateuch
- 1769 : Alessandro Galli da Bibiena , Italian architect
- 1785 : Franz Xaver Schnizer , German composer and organist
- 1796 : Adolph Knigge , German enlightener and writer
19th century
- 1804 : Johann Christoph Martini , German Protestant clergyman and church historian
- 1808 : David Gilly , German architect and builder in Prussia
- 1811 : Robert Mylne , Scottish architect
- 1812 : Nivard Schlimbach , German Cistercian abbot
- 1813 : Georg Friedrich von Kall , Prussian officer
- 1817 : Johann Heinrich Lips , Swiss engraver
- 1821 : Napoleon Bonaparte , French general, statesman and emperor
- 1822 : Schack Hermann Ewald , German court official and publicist
- 1827 : Friedrich August I , Elector and King of Saxony
- 1837 : Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli , Italian composer
- 1838 : Johann Baptist Heinrich , German politician and Lord Mayor of Mainz
- 1839 : Eduard Gans , German lawyer, legal philosopher and historian
- 1852 : Hadschi Murat , leader in the resistance struggle of the North Caucasian peoples against the Russian occupiers
- 1855 : Seabury Ford , American politician
- 1859 : Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet , German mathematician
- 1860 : Nikolaus Nack , German businessman and politician
- 1869 : Samuel Arnold , American politician
- 1879 : Isaac Butt , Irish lawyer, economist and politician
- 1879 : Alejandro Ciccarelli , Italian-Chilean painter
- 1881 : Ansel Briggs , American politician
- 1881 : Adalbert Kuhn , German Indo-Europeanist and mythologist
- 1882 : Johann Zeh , Austrian engineer
- 1883 : Eva Gonzalès , French impressionist painter
- 1885 : Lauro Rossi , Italian composer
- 1886 : Louis Vautrey , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and historian
- 1892 : August Wilhelm von Hofmann , German chemist
- 1892 : Jan Nepomuk Škroup , Czech composer
- 1896 : Silas Adams , American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for Kentucky
- 1897 : James Theodore Bent , British traveler and archaeologist
20th century
1901-1950
- 1901 : Mariano Ignacio Prado , Peruvian President
- 1902 : Amancio Alcorta , Argentine politician and legal scholar
- 1902 : Bret Harte , American writer
- 1904 : Mór Jókai , Hungarian writer and journalist
- 1911 : Andreas August Carl Hermann Auleb , German lawyer, author and politician
- 1911 : Gustav Haarmann , German politician
- 1915 : Sigmund Aschrott , German industrialist and town planner
- 1917 : Richard Leopold Oskar Anders , German sculptor and university professor
- 1918 : Adolf Philippi , German classical philologist and art historian
- 1925 : Tomé José de Barros Queirós , Portuguese Finance Minister and Prime Minister
- 1926 : Franz von Soxhlet , German agricultural chemist
- 1927 : Franziska Tiburtius , German doctor and women's rights activist
- 1927 : Nathan Stein , German judge, first Jewish court president
- 1930 : Otto Nussbaumer , Austrian physicist and radio pioneer
- 1931 : Glen Kidston , British racing car driver
- 1932 : Richard Hallgarten , German painter
- 1932 : Gustav Weindorfer , Austro-Australian farmer, naturalist, resort operator and ranger
- 1933 : Stephan Kekule von Stradonitz , German lawyer and private scholar, genealogist
- 1934 : Nakamura Kenkichi , Japanese poet
- 1935 : Robert Battagliola , French racing car driver
- 1936 : Eva von der Osten , German singer
- 1937 : Willem Alberda van Ekenstein , Dutch chemist
- 1940 : Georg Graf von Arco , German physicist
- 1940 : Willi Schlage , German chess player
- 1941 : Ludwig Arntz , German architect, monument conservator and cathedral builder
- 1944 : Bertha Benz , German automobile pioneer, wife of Carl Benz
- 1945 : Franz Hofer , German film director
- 1946 : Lothar König , German Jesuit, resister against National Socialism
- 1949 : Carlo Felice Trossi , Italian racing driver
1951-2000
- 1951 : John Flynn , Australian theologian
- 1952 : Hans Adolf von Arenstorff , German major general and manor owner
- 1952 : Alberto Savinio , Italian writer and painter
- 1954 : Franz Aubell , Austrian geodesist
- 1957 : Mikhail Fabianowitsch Gnessin , Russian composer
- 1958 : Otto Abetz , German art teacher and diplomat
- 1958 : James Branch Cabell , American writer
- 1959 : Carlos Saavedra Lamas , Argentine politician, Nobel Prize winner
- 1961 : Klaus Conrad , German neurologist and psychiatrist
- 1961 : Alexander MacMillan , Canadian Presbyterian pastor and hymnologist
- 1965 : Gene Anderson , British actress
- 1965 : Otto Kneipp , German politician
- 1966 : Gabriel del Orbe , Dominican violinist
- 1966 : Chit Phumisak , Thai intellectual and author
- 1967 : Jean Laroche , French racing car driver
- 1972 : Reverend Gary Davis , American blues guitarist
- 1973 : Helmut Bazille , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1977 : Sonja Åkesson , Swedish writer and artist
- 1977 : Ludwig Erhard , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Federal Minister, Federal Chancellor
- 1977 : Sam Lanin , American jazz musician
- 1977 : Julián Soler , Mexican actor and director
- 1978 : Ján Móry , Slovak composer
- 1979 : Rudolf Pfeiffer , German classical philologist
- 1980 : Siegfried Böhm , Minister of Finance of the GDR
- 1981 : Bobby Sands , Northern Irish member of the IRA , Member of the House of Commons
- 1982 : Irmgard Keun , German writer and actress
- 1983 : Edwin Ross Adair , American politician
- 1983 : Richard Hofmann , German soccer player
- 1983 : John Williams , British actor
- 1984 : Just Göbel , Dutch football player
- 1985 : Carter Brown , Australian crime writer
- 1986 : Käthe Haack , German actress
- 1987 : Joseph Ackermann , Swiss politician
- 1987 : Gilles Boizard , French composer
- 1988 : Billo Frómeta , Dominican musician and conductor
- 1989 : Wolfgang Neuss , German cabaret artist and actor
- 1990 : Henning von Arnim , German Chief Finance President
- 1990 : Kurt Gregor , Minister for Foreign Trade and Internal German Trade of the GDR
- 1990 : Walter Bruch , German electrical engineer, pioneer of German television, developer of the PAL color television system
- 1991 : Hermann Kopf , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 1992 : Edmondo Amati , Italian film producer
- 1993 : George William Ahr , American bishop
- 1993 : Vitaly Michailowitsch Bujanowski , Russian horn player, music professor and composer
- 1995 : Mikhail Moissejewitsch Botvinnik , Russian chess player
- 1996 : Ai Qing , Chinese poet and painter
- 1996 : Salli Terri , American singer and vocal teacher
- 1997 : Karl Lottes , German motorcycle racer
- 1997 : Tolia Nikiprowetzky , Russian composer
- 2000 : Edward Ashley , Australian actor
- 2000 : Gino Bartali , Italian racing cyclist
21st century
- 2001 : Boozoo Chavis , American musician
- 2001 : Bill Homeier , American racing car driver
- 2002 : Hans-Günther Assel , German political scientist
- 2002 : Hugo Banzer Suárez , Bolivian President
- 2002 : Čestmír Vycpálek , Czech football player and coach
- 2003 : David Lewin , American music theorist, musicologist, pianist and composer
- 2003 : Walter Sisulu , South African politician and anti-apartheid fighter
- 2004 : Werner Sanß , German theologian and peace activist
- 2004 : Hans Scheuerl , German professor of educational science
- 2005 : Christian Speck , Swiss politician
- 2006 : Barbara Beyenka , American theologian, translator and writer
- 2006 : Franz-Josef Steffens , German actor
- 2007 : Theodore Maiman , American physicist, inventor of the laser
- 2007 : Gusti Wolf , Austrian actress
- 2008 : Jerry Wallace , American pop and country singer
- 2010 : Giulietta Simionato , Italian opera singer
- 2010 : Umaru Yar'Adua , Nigerian President
- 2011 : Claude Stanley Choules , British WWI veteran
- 2011 : Arthur Laurents , American author
- 2011 : Dana Wynter , British actress
- 2012 : George Knobel , Dutch football player and coach
- 2012 : Andy Töfferl , Austrian musician
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- 2013 : Jürg Amann , Swiss writer
- 2013 : Alan Arnell , English soccer player
- 2013 : Sarah Kirsch , German poet
- 2014 : Auwa Thiemann , German professional angler, fishing coach and moderator
- 2015 : Hans Jansen , Dutch politician and Islamic scholar
- 2015 : Juan Nova Ramírez , Dominican sports reporter and broadcaster
- 2015 : Brian Sedgemore , British politician
- 2016 : Siné , French draftsman and satirist
- 2016 : Isao Tomita , Japanese composer
- 2017 : Bernard Mitton , South African tennis player
- 2017 : Dieter Thoma , German journalist
- 2018 : Ludwig Harig , German writer
- 2018 : Rosemarie Schuder , German writer
- 2019 : Ekkehard Eickhoff , German historian and diplomat
- 2020 : Millie Small , Jamaican musician
- 2021 : Heorhij Prokopenko , Soviet swimmer
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- St. Angelus the Carmelite , monk (Catholic)
- St. Godehard von Hildesheim , German abbot and bishop (Protestant, Catholic)
- St. Stanisław Kazimierczyk , Polish preacher, pastor and religious (Catholic)
- Friedrich III. (Saxony) , German Elector (Protestant: LCMS , the German day of remembrance is on May 6th )
- Name days
- State holidays and memorial days
- Netherlands : Bevrijdingsdag
- Japan : Kodomo no Hi
- South Korea : Children's Day
- Mexico : El Cinco de Mayo
- Austria: Remembrance day against violence and racism in memory of the victims of National Socialism
- Thailand : Coronation Day (anniversary of the coronation of King Bhumibol Adulyadej in 1950)
- Commemoration days of international organizations
- Europe Day : Council of Europe (1949) (since 1964)
The list of days of remembrance and action contains further entries .
Commons : May 5th - Collection of images, videos and audio files
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