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May 9 is the 129th day of the year (130th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 236 days remaining until the end of the year.
1092 – Lincoln Cathedral is consecrated.1386 – England and Portugal formally ratify their alliance with the signing of the Treaty of Windsor , making it the oldest the oldest diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force.1450 – 'Abd al-Latif (Timurid monarch) is assassinated.1662 – The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.1671 – Thomas Blood , disguised as a clergyman , attempts to steal England's Crown Jewels from the Tower of London .1726 – Five men arrested during a raid on Mother Clap 's molly house in London are executed at Tyburn .1763 – The Siege of Fort Detroit begins during Pontiac's War against British forces.1864 – Second War of Schleswig : The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland .1873 – Der Krach Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression .1874 – The first horse-drawn bus makes its début in the city of Mumbai , traveling two routes.1877 – Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies , the Declaration of Independence of Romania . This day became the Independence Day of Romania.1877 – A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan .
1887 – Buffalo Bill Cody 's Wild West Show opens in London.1901 – Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne .1904 – The steam locomotive City of Truro 1911 – The works of Gabriele D'Annunzio placed by the Vatican in the Index of Forbidden Books .1915 – World War I : Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.1918 – World War I: Germans repel the British's second attempt to blockade the port of Ostend , Belgium .1920 – Polish-Soviet War : The Polish army under General Edward Rydz-Śmigły celebrates its capture of Kiev with a victory parade on Khreschatyk .1926 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Floyd Bennett claim to have flown over the North Pole (later discovery of Byrd's diary appears to cast some doubt on the claim.)1927 – The Australian Parliament first convenes in Canberra .1936 – Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5 .1940 – World War II : The German submarine U-9 Doris near Den Helder .1941 – World War II: The German submarine U-110 Royal Navy . On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.1942 – Holocaust : The SS murders 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast , Ukraine ). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus ) is destroyed and all its inhabitants murdered or deported.1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder , British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe , Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW , and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine .1945 – World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1946 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy abdicates and is succeeded by Umberto II .1948 – Czechoslovakia 's Ninth-of-May Constitution comes into effect.1949 – Rainier III of Monaco becomes Prince of Monaco .1950 – Robert Schuman presents his proposal on the creation of an organized Europe, which according to him was indispensable to the maintenance of peaceful relations. This proposal, known as the "Schuman declaration ", is considered by some people to be the beginning of the creation of what is now the European Union .1955 – Cold War : West Germany joins NATO .1958 – Film : Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco .1960 – The Food and Drug Administration announces it will approve birth control as an additional indication for Searle 's Enovid, making Enovid the world's first approved oral contraceptive pill .1961 – FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech .1964 – Ngo Dinh Can , de facto ruler of central Vietnam under his brother President Ngo Dinh Diem before the family's toppling, is executed.1969 – Carlos Lamarca leads the first urban guerrilla action against the military dictatorship of Brazil in São Paulo , by robbing two banks.1970 – Vietnam War : In Washington, D.C. , 75,000 to 100,000 war protesters demonstrate in front of the White House .1974 – Watergate Scandal : The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon .1977 – Hotel Polen fire : A disastrous fire burns down the Hotel Polen in Amsterdam causing 33 deaths and 21 severe injuries.1979 – Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000 member strong Jewish community of Iran.1980 – In Florida , Liberian freighter MV Summit Venture Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay , making a 1,400-ft. section of the southbound span collapse. Thirty-five people in six cars and a Greyhound bus fall 150 ft. into the water and die.1980 – In Norco, California , five masked gunmen hold up a Security Pacific bank, leading to a violent shoot-out and one of the largest pursuits in California history . Two of the gunmen and one police officer are killed and thirty-three police and civilian vehicles are destroyed in the chase.
1987 – An LOT Polish Airlines Ilyushin IL-62M , Tadeusz Kościuszko (SP-LBG), crashes after takeoff in Warsaw , Poland, killing all 183 people on board.1992 – Armenian forces capture Shusha , marking a major turning point in the Karabakh War .2001 – In Ghana 129 football fans die in what became known as the Accra Sports Stadium disaster . The deaths are caused by a stampede (caused by the firing of teargas by police personnel at the stadium) that followed a controversial decision by the referee.2002 – The 38-day stand-off in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem comes to an end when the Palestinians inside agree to have 13 suspected terrorists among them deported to several different countries.2012 – A Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft crashes into Mount Salak in West Java , Indonesia , killing 45 people.
1147 – Minamoto no Yoritomo , Japanese shogun (d. 1199)1540 – Maharana Pratap , Indian ruler (d. 1597)1740 – Giovanni Paisiello , Italian composer (d. 1816)1746 – Gaspard Monge , French mathematician and engineer (d. 1818)1763 – János Batsányi , Hungarian poet (d. 1845)1800 – John Brown , American activist (d. 1859)1801 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood , English politician, founded the town of Fleetwood (d. 1866)1824 – Jacob ben Moses Bachrach , Polish apologist (d. 1896)1837 – Adam Opel , German engineer, founded the Opel Company (d. 1895)1845 – Gustaf de Laval , Swedish engineer (d. 1913)1860 – J. M. Barrie , Scottish author and playwright (d. 1937)1866 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale , Indian politician (d. 1915)1873 – Anton Cermak , Czech-American politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1933)1874 – Howard Carter , English archaeologist (d. 1939)1882 – George Barker , American painter (d. 1965)1882 – Henry J. Kaiser , American businessman and shipbuilder, founded Kaiser Shipyards (d. 1967)
1883 – José Ortega y Gasset , Spanish philosopher (d. 1955)1884 – Valdemar Psilander , Danish actor (d. 1917)1886 – Francis Biddle , American lawyer and judge, 58th United States Attorney General (d. 1968)1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma (d. 1989)1893 – William Moulton Marston , American psychologist and author (d. 1947)1895 – Richard Barthelmess , American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1963)1895 – Lucian Blaga , Romanian poet, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1961)
1895 – Frank Foss , American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
1896 – Richard Day , Canadian art director (d. 1972)1888 – Rolf de Maré , Swedish art collector (d. 1964)1904 – Conrad Bernier , Canadian-American organist, composer, and educator (d. 1988)1906 – Eleanor Estes , American author (d. 1988)1907 – Kathryn Kuhlman , American evangelist (d. 1976)1907 – Baldur von Schirach , German Nazi leader (d. 1974)
1907 – Fred Warngård , Swedish hammer thrower (d. 1950)
1908 – Mary Scheier , American sculptor (d. 2007)1909 – Don Messer , Canadian violinist (d. 1973)1912 – Pedro Armendáriz , Mexican-American actor (d. 1963)1912 – Per Imerslund , Norwegian author (d. 1943)
1912 – Géza Ottlik , Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1990)
1914 – Denham Fouts , American prostitute (d. 1948)1914 – Carlo Maria Giulini , Italian conductor (d. 2005)
1914 – Hank Snow , Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1999)
1916 – William Pène du Bois , American author and illustrator (d. 1993)1917 – Fay Kanin , American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)1918 – Moisis Michail Bourlas , Greek soldier (d. 2011)1918 – Orville Freeman , American soldier and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Agriculture (d. 2003)
1918 – Mike Wallace , American journalist and game show host (d. 2012)
1919 – Clifford Chadderton , Canadian soldier and journalist (d. 2013)1919 – Arthur English , English actor (d. 1995)
1920 – Richard Adams , English author1920 – William Tenn , English-American author (d. 2010)
1921 – Daniel Berrigan , American priest and activist1921 – Sophie Scholl , German activist (d. 1943)
1921 – Mona Van Duyn , American poet (d. 2004)
1923 – Johnny Grant , American radio host and producer (d. 2008)1923 – Barbara New , English actress (d. 2010)
1924 – Bulat Okudzhava , Russian singer, poet, and author (d. 1997)1926 – John Middleton Murry, Jr. , English author (d. 2002)1927 – Manfred Eigen , German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate1928 – Ralph Goings , American painter1928 – Pancho Gonzales , American tennis player (d. 1995)
1928 – Barbara Ann Scott , Canadian figure skater (d. 2012)
1929 – Anthony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick , English judge1930 – Joan Sims , English actress (d. 2001)1930 – Kalifa Tillisi , Libyan historian and linguist (d. 2010)
1931 – Vance D. Brand , American pilot and astronaut1931 – Alistair MacFarlane , Scottish engineer and academic
1932 – Geraldine McEwan , English actress1932 – David Plastow , English businessman
1933 – Jessica Steele , English author1934 – Alan Bennett , English actor, screenwriter, and author1934 – Nathan Dean , American politician (d. 2013)
1934 – Roy Massey , English organist and conductor
1935 – Nokie Edwards , American guitarist and actor (The Ventures )1935 – Roger Hargreaves , English author and illustrator (d. 1988)
1936 – Terry Downes , English boxer1936 – Albert Finney , English actor, singer, and producer
1936 – Glenda Jackson , English actress and politician
1937 – Sonny Curtis , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1937 – Rafael Moneo , Spanish architect, designed the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Valladolid Science Museum
1937 – Dave Prater , American singer (Sam & Dave ) (d. 1988)
1938 – Geoffrey Holland , English civil servant and academic1938 – Charles Simic , Serbian-American poet
1939 – Ralph Boston , American long jumper1939 – Pierre Desproges , French journalist and actor (d. 1988)
1939 – Ion Țiriac , Romanian tennis player and manager
1940 – James L. Brooks , American director, producer, and screenwriter1940 – Alan Ryan , English philosopher and academic
1941 – Pete Birrell , English bass player (Freddie and the Dreamers )1941 – Dorothy Hyman , English sprinter
1941 – John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley , Scottish lawyer and judge
1942 – John Ashcroft , American lawyer and politician, 79th United States Attorney General 1942 – Jerry Buchek , American baseball player
1942 – Tommy Roe , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1943 – Vince Cable , English politician1943 – Anders Isaksson , Swedish journalist and historian (d. 2009)
1943 – Colin Pillinger , English astronomer, chemist, and academic (d. 2014)
1944 – Richie Furay , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Poco , Buffalo Springfield , and Souther–Hillman–Furay Band )1944 – Laurence Owen , American figure skater (d. 1961)
1945 – Peter Hammond , British economist1945 – Jupp Heynckes , German footballer and manager
1945 – Steve Katz , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Blood, Sweat & Tears , Blues Project , and American Flyer )
1945 – Nicholas Wilson, Lord Wilson of Culworth , English lawyer and judge
1946 – Candice Bergen , American actress and producer1946 – Clint Holmes , English-American singer-songwriter
1946 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu , Turkish author and activist (d. 2002)
1947 – Yukiya Amano , Japanese diplomat1948 – Hans Georg Bock , German mathematician1948 – Tania Maria , Brazilian singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader
1948 – Calvin Murphy , American basketball player and radio host
1949 – Billy Joel , American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Hassles and Attila )1949 – Richard S. Williamson , American lawyer and diplomat, 17th Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs (d. 2013)
1950 – James Butts , American triple jumper1950 – Jorie Graham , American poet
1950 – Matthew Kelly , English actor and television host
1950 – Tato Laviera , Puerto Rician-American poet (d. 2013)
1950 – Tom Petersson , American bass player and songwriter (Cheap Trick and Fuse )
1951 – Alley Mills , American actress1952 – Linda Finnie , Scottish soprano1952 – Patrick Ryecart , English actor
1953 – Bruno Brokken , Belgian high jumper1953 – Amy Hill , American actress
1953 – Connie Kaldor , Canadian singer-songwriter
1954 – Nicholas Crane , English geographer and journalist1954 – Andrew Dillon , English businessman
1954 – Lawrence Dutton , American viola player and educator (Emerson String Quartet )
1954 – Marc Sinden , English actor, director, and producer
1955 – Kevin Peter Hall , American actor (d. 1991)1955 – Kevin Reed , American theologian and author
1955 – Anne Sofie von Otter , Swedish soprano
1956 – Wendy Crewson , Canadian actress and producer1958 – Graham Smith , Canadian swimmer1959 – Ulrich Matthes , German actor1960 – Tony Gwynn , American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)1960 – Jillian Lane , Welsh psychic (d. 2013)
1961 – Sean Altman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rockapella )1962 – John Corbett , American actor and singer1962 – Dave Gahan , English singer-songwriter (Depeche Mode )
1962 – Paul Heaton , English singer-songwriter (The Housemartins and Beautiful South )
1963 – Joe Cirella , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1963 – Sanja Doležal , Croatian singer and television host (Novi fosili )
1965 – Ken Nomura , Japanese race car driver1965 – Janu Tornell , American model, Miss Nevada USA 1989
1965 – Steve Yzerman , Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1966 – Mark Tinordi , Canadian ice hockey player and coach1968 – David Benoit , American basketball player1968 – Graham Harman , American philosopher
1968 – Ruth Kelly , Irish economist and politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1968 – Marie-José Pérec , French runner
1969 – Amber , Dutch-German singer-songwriter and producer1969 – Hudson Leick , American actress
1970 – Curtis Bray , American football player and coach (d. 2014)1970 – Doug Christie , American basketball player
1970 – Ghostface Killah , American rapper and actor (Wu-Tang Clan and Theodore Unit )
1971 – Jason Lee , English footballer and manager1971 – Paul McGuigan , English bass player (Oasis and The Rain )
1972 – Lisa Ann , American porn actress1972 – Megumi Odaka , Japanese actress and singer
1972 – Dana Perino , American journalist and politician, 27th White House press secretary
1972 – Daniela Silivaş , Romanian gymnast
1973 – Tegla Loroupe , Kenyan runner1973 – Leonard Myles-Mills , Ghanaian sprinter
1973 – Chu Sang-mi , South Korean actress
1974 – Dylan Lauren , American businesswoman, founded Dylan's Candy Bar 1974 – Stéphane Yelle , Canadian ice hockey player
1975 – Tamia , Canadian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress1975 – Brian Deegan , American motocross rider
1975 – Chris Diamantopoulos , Canadian actor
1975 – Lane Kiffin , American football player and coach
1976 – Ott Kadarik , Estonian architect1977 – Averno , Mexican wrestler1977 – Asal Badiee , Iranian actress (d. 2013)
1977 – Maggie Dixon , American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
1977 – Choi Jung-yoon , South Korean actress
1977 – Iñigo Landaluze , Spanish cyclist
1977 – Svein Tuft , Canadian cyclist
1978 – Marwan al-Shehhi , Emirati terrorist, hijacker of United Airlines Flight 175 (d. 2001)1978 – Leandro Cufré , Argentinian footballer
1978 – Santiago Dellapè , Argentinian-Italian rugby player
1978 – Aaron Harang , American baseball player
1979 – Pierre Bouvier , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Simple Plan and Reset )1979 – Rosario Dawson , American actress and singer
1979 – Ara Mina , Filipino actress and singer
1979 – Matt Morris , American singer-songwriter and actor
1979 – Brandon Webb , American baseball player
1979 – Andrew W.K. , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1980 – Grant Hackett , Australian swimmer1980 – Jo Hyun-jae , South Korean actor
1980 – Angela Nikodinov , American figure skater
1980 – Kate Richardson-Walsh , English field hockey player
1980 – Tony Schmidt , German race car driver
1981 – Bill Murphy , American baseball player1981 – Evangelos Tsiolis , Greek footballer
1981 – You Yokoyama , Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (Kanjani Eight )
1982 – Rachel Boston , American actress1982 – Beatriz Pascual , Spanish race walker
1982 – Gu Yuan , Chinese hammer thrower
1983 – Giacomo Brichetto , Italian footballer1983 – Alan Campbell , Irish rower
1983 – Tyler Lumsden , American baseball player
1983 – Ryuhei Matsuda , Japanese actor
1983 – Christos Marangos , Cypriot footballer
1983 – Gilles Müller , Luxembourgian tennis player
1983 – Leandro Rinaudo , Italian footballer
1984 – Prince Fielder , American baseball player1985 – Jake Long , American football player1985 – Audrina Patridge , American model and actress
1985 – Henrique Andrade Silva , Brazilian footballer
1986 – Grace Gummer , American actress1986 – Vladimir Sidorkin , Estonian swimmer
1987 – Vitaliy Pushkar , Ukrainian rally driver1988 – J. R. Fitzpatrick , Canadian race car driver1989 – Ellen White , English footballer1991 – Christy Mack , American porn actress and model1991 – Stasia Rage , Latvian figure skater
1992 – Chris Gutierrez , American-Filipino actor1993 – Bonnie Rotten , American porn actress and model1993 – Ryosuke Yamada , Japanese actor, singer, and dancer (NYC and Hey! Say! JUMP )
1994 – Ryan Auger , English footballer1996 – Saron Läänmäe , Estonian footballer1997 – Zane Huett , American actor
1315 – Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1282)1446 – Mary of Enghien (b. 1368)1657 – William Bradford , English-American politician, 2nd Governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1590)1707 – Dieterich Buxtehude , German-Danish organist and composer (b. 1637)1736 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real , Portuguese politician (b. 1658)1745 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali , Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)1747 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair , Scottish field marshal and diplomat (b. 1673)1760 – Nicolaus Zinzendorf , German bishop (b. 1700)1789 – Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval , French general and engineer (b. 1715)1790 – William Clingan , American politician (b. 1721)1791 – Francis Hopkinson , American judge and politician (b. 1737)1805 – Friedrich Schiller , German poet, playwright, and historian (b. 1759)1850 – Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac , French chemist and physicist (b. 1778)1850 – Garlieb Merkel , Estonian author and activist (b. 1769)
1861 – Peter Ernst von Lasaulx , German philologist and politician (b. 1805)1864 – John Sedgwick , American general (b. 1813)1889 – William S. Harney , American general (b. 1800)1906 – Oscar von Gebhardt , German Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)1914 – C. W. Post , American businessman, founded Post Foods (b. 1854)1915 – François Faber , Luxembourgian-French cyclist (b. 1887)1918 – George Coșbuc , Romanian journalist and poet (b. 1866)1931 – Albert Abraham Michelson , German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)1933 – John Arthur Jarvis , English swimmer (b. 1872)1938 – Thomas B. Thrige , Danish businessman (b. 1866)1942 – Blessed Józef Cebula , beatified Polish priest, murdered at concentration camp (b. 1902)1949 – Louis II, Prince of Monaco (b. 1870)1950 – Esteban Terradas i Illa , Spanish mathematician and engineer (b. 1883)1955 – Kate Booth , English Salvation Army officer (b. 1858)1957 – Ernest de Silva , Sri Lankan banker and businessman (b. 1887)1957 – Ezio Pinza , Italian opera singer (b. 1892)
1959 – Bhaurao Patil , Indian activist and educator (b. 1887)1964 – Rico Lebrun , Italian-American painter and sculptor (b. 1900)1965 – Leopold Figl , Austrian politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1902)1968 – Mercedes de Acosta , American author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)1968 – Finlay Currie , Scottish actor (b. 1878)
1968 – Harold Gray , American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie
1968 – Marion Lorne , American actress (b. 1885)
1970 – Andrew Watson Myles , Canadian politician (b. 1884)1970 – Walter Reuther , American union leader (b. 1907)
1976 – Jens Bjørneboe , Norwegian author (b. 1920)1976 – Ulrike Meinhof , German militant, co-founded the Red Army Faction (b. 1934)
1977 – James Jones , American author (b. 1921)1978 – Giuseppe Impastato , Italian activist (b. 1948)1978 – Aldo Moro , Italian politician, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916)
1979 – Cyrus S. Eaton , Canadian-American banker, businessman, and philanthropist (b. 1883)1981 – Nelson Algren , American author (b. 1909)1981 – Ralph Allen , English footballer (b. 1906)
1985 – Edmond O'Brien , American actor (b. 1915)1986 – Tenzing Norgay , Nepalese mountaineer (b. 1914)1987 – Obafemi Awolowo , Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1909)1989 – Keith Whitley , American singer, guitarist, and producer (b. 1955)1993 – Jacques Dextraze , Canadian general (b. 1919)1994 – Elias Motsoaledi , South African activist (b. 1924)1997 – Rawya Ateya , Egyptian captain and politician (b. 1926)1997 – Marco Ferreri , Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
1997 – Rina Lasnier , Canadian poet (b. 1915)
1998 – Alice Faye , American actress and singer (b. 1915)1998 – Rommie Loudd , American football player and coach (b. 1933)
1998 – Talat Mahmood , Indian singer and actor (b. 1924)
2000 – Arthur Davis , American animator and director (b. 1905)2002 – Dan Devine , American football player and coach (b. 1924)2003 – Carmen Filpi , American actor (b. 1923)2003 – Russell B. Long , American lieutenant and politician (b. 1918)
2004 – Akhmad Kadyrov , Chechen politician, 1st President of the Chechen Republic (b. 1951)2004 – Alan King , American actor (b. 1927)
2007 – Edith Rodriguez , American medical patient (b. 1964)2007 – Dwight Wilson , Canadian soldier (b. 1901)
2008 – Jack Gibson , Australian rugby player and coach (b. 1929)2008 – Nuala O'Faolain , Irish journalist and producer (b. 1942)
2008 – Pascal Sevran , French singer, television host, and author (b. 1945)
2009 – Chuck Daly , American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)2009 – Evgenios Spatharis , Greek puppeteer (b. 1924)
2010 – Lena Horne , American singer, actress, and dancer (b. 1917)2010 – Otakar Motejl , Czech lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
2011 – Wouter Weylandt , Belgian cyclist (b. 1984)2012 – Northerly , Australian race horse (b. 1996)2012 – Carl Beane , American sportscaster (b. 1952)
2012 – Bertram Cohler , American psychologist, psychoanalyst, and academic (b. 1938)
2012 – Geoffrey Henry , Cook Islander politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1940)
2012 – Vidal Sassoon , English-American hairdresser (b. 1928)
2013 – Ramón Blanco Rodríguez , Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1952)2013 – Sanaullah Haq , Pakistani criminal (b. 1961)
2013 – George M. Leader , American politician, 36th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1918)
2013 – Humberto Lugo Gil , Mexican politician, 23rd Governor of Hidalgo (b. 1933)
2013 – Ottavio Missoni , Italian hurdler and fashion designer, founded Missoni (b. 1921)
2013 – Malcolm Shabazz , American criminal (b. 1984)
2013 – Andrew Simpson , English sailor (b. 1976)
2014 – Giacomo Bini , Italian missionary and priest (b. 1938)2014 – Harlan Mathews , American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
2014 – Mel Patton , American sprinter (b. 1924)
2014 – Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy , Indian politician, 12th Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (b. 1935)
2014 – Mary Stewart , English-Scottish author (b. 1916)
2014 – Joe Wilder , American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1922)
Holidays and observances [ edit ]
Anniversary of Dianetics (Church of Scientology )Christian Feast Day
Europe Day , commemorating the Schuman Declaration . (European Union )Independence Day , celebrating the declaration of independence of Romania from the Ottoman Empire in 1877. (Romania )Liberation Day , commemorating the end of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II ). (Guernsey , Liberation Day (Jersey ))One of the three days of the Feast of the Lemures . (Roman Empire )
Victory Day observances, celebration of the Soviet Union victory over Nazi Germany (Soviet Union , Azerbaijan , Belarus , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Georgia , Israel , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Moldova , Russia , Serbia , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Ukraine , Uzbekistan )
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