May 5

May 5

May 5 in recent years
2025 (Monday)
2024 (Sunday)
2023 (Friday)
2022 (Thursday)
2021 (Wednesday)
2020 (Tuesday)
2019 (Sunday)
2018 (Saturday)
2017 (Friday)
2016 (Thursday)

May 5 is the 125th day of the year (126th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 240 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• (/wiki/553) – The Second Council of Constantinople begins. • (/wiki/1215) – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. • (/wiki/1260) – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire. • (/wiki/1494) – On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.

1601–1900

• (/wiki/1609) – Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa. • (/wiki/1640) – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament. • (/wiki/1654) – Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh. • (/wiki/1762) – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg. • (/wiki/1789) – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614. • (/wiki/1809) – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread. • (/wiki/1821) – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. • (/wiki/1821) – The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published. • (/wiki/1835) – The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen. • (/wiki/1862) – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico. • (/wiki/1864) – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County. • (/wiki/1865) – American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia. • (/wiki/1866) – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York. • (/wiki/1877) – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles. • (/wiki/1886) – Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre. • (/wiki/1887) – The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded. • (/wiki/1891) – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1901–present

• (/wiki/1904) – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball. • (/wiki/1905) – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder. • (/wiki/1912) – The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published. • (/wiki/1920) – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder. • (/wiki/1930) – The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago. • (/wiki/1936) – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. • (/wiki/1940) – World War II: Norwegian campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms. • (/wiki/1941) – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day. • (/wiki/1945) – World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation. • 1945 – World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon. • 1945 – World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively. • (/wiki/1946) – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. • (/wiki/1955) – The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect. • (/wiki/1961) – Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. • (/wiki/1964) – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day. • (/wiki/1972) – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy. • (/wiki/1973) – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record. • (/wiki/1980) – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege. • (/wiki/1981) – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27. • (/wiki/1985) – Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech. • (/wiki/1987) – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States. • (/wiki/1991) – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man. • (/wiki/1994) – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. • 1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism. • (/wiki/2006) – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army. • (/wiki/2007) – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon. • (/wiki/2010) – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis. • (/wiki/2023) – The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.

Births

Pre-1600

• (/wiki/1210) – Afonso III of Portugal (died 1279) • (/wiki/1282) – Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (died 1348) • (/wiki/1310) – Preczlaw of Pogarell, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (died 1376) • (/wiki/1352) – Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (died 1410) • (/wiki/1479) – Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (died 1574) • (/wiki/1504) – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (died 1579) • (/wiki/1530) – Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (died 1574) • (/wiki/1542) – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (died 1623) • (/wiki/1582) – John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (died 1628)

1601–1900

• (/wiki/1684) – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (died 1739) • (/wiki/1747) – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1792) • (/wiki/1749) – Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer (died 1794) • (/wiki/1764) – Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (died 1812) • (/wiki/1800) – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (died 1864) • (/wiki/1813) – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (died 1855) • (/wiki/1818) – Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (died 1883) • (/wiki/1826) – Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (died 1920) • (/wiki/1830) – John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (died 1906) • (/wiki/1832) – Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian (died 1918) • (/wiki/1833) – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic (died 1905) • (/wiki/1834) – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and architect (died 1873) • (/wiki/1843) – William George Beers, Canadian dentist and patriot (died 1900) • (/wiki/1846) – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916) • (/wiki/1858) – John L. Leal, American physician (died 1914) • (/wiki/1859) – Charles B. Hanford, American Shakespearean actor (died 1926) • (/wiki/1864) – Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (died 1922) • (/wiki/1865) – Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet (died 1943) • (/wiki/1866) – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (died 1938) • (/wiki/1869) – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (died 1937) • 1869 – Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor (died 1949) • (/wiki/1873) – Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (died 1901) • (/wiki/1874) – Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (died 1941) • (/wiki/1882) – Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (died 1960) • (/wiki/1883) – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (died 1950) • 1883 – Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (died 1966) • (/wiki/1884) – Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach (died 1954) • (/wiki/1885) – Kingsley Fairbridge, South African-Australian scholar and politician (died 1924) • (/wiki/1887) – Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1941) • (/wiki/1889) – Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and soldier (died 1973) • (/wiki/1890) – Christopher Morley, American journalist and author (died 1957) • (/wiki/1892) – Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (died 1968) • (/wiki/1898) – Elsie Eaves, American engineer (died 1983) • 1898 – Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (died 1959) • (/wiki/1899) – Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (died 1982) • (/wiki/1900) – Helen Redfield, American geneticist (died 1988)

1901–present

• (/wiki/1901) – Janne Mustonen, Finnish politician (died 1964) • (/wiki/1903) – James Beard, American chef and author (died 1985) • (/wiki/1905) – Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (died 1986) • (/wiki/1907) – Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk, Bukovinian (Ukrainian) journalist and author (died 1982) • (/wiki/1910) – Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator (died 1999) • (/wiki/1911) – Andor Lilienthal, Russian-Hungarian chess player (died 2010) • 1911 – Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist (died 1932) • (/wiki/1913) – Duane Carter, American race car driver (died 1993) • (/wiki/1914) – Tyrone Power, American actor (died 1958) • (/wiki/1915) – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (died 1998) • (/wiki/1916) – Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (died 1994) • (/wiki/1919) – Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (died 1999) • (/wiki/1921) – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1999) • (/wiki/1922) – Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish nurse and humanitarian (died 2003) • (/wiki/1923) – William C. Campbell, American golfer (died 2013) • 1923 – Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (died 2017) • (/wiki/1925) – Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (died 1978) • (/wiki/1927) – Pat Carroll, American actress (died 2022) • (/wiki/1929) – Ilene Woods, American actress (died 2010) • (/wiki/1932) – Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (died 2014) • (/wiki/1933) – Collie Smith, Jamaican cricketer (died 1959) • (/wiki/1934) – Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian politician, 2nd President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 2023) • 1934 – Victor Garland, Australian accountant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs (died 2022) • (/wiki/1935) – Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and magazine editor (died 2023) • 1935 – Bernard Pivot, French journalist, talk show host, and producer (died 2024) • (/wiki/1936) – Sandy Baron, American actor and comedian (died 2001) • (/wiki/1937) – Beryl Burton, English racing cyclist (died 1996) • 1937 – Delia Derbyshire, English musician, arranger and composer (died 2001) • (/wiki/1938) – Michael Murphy, American actor • (/wiki/1939) – Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (died 2013) • (/wiki/1940) – Lance Henriksen, American actor • (/wiki/1942) – Jean Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician • 1942 – Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1998) • (/wiki/1943) – Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter • 1943 – Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and author • (/wiki/1944) – Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer (died 2023) • 1944 – John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor and screenwriter • 1944 – Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (died 2015) • (/wiki/1945) – Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and critic • (/wiki/1946) – Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist (died 2013) • (/wiki/1948) – Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter • (/wiki/1950) – Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer • (/wiki/1952) – Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (died 2017) • (/wiki/1955) – Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer • (/wiki/1956) – Steve Scott, American runner and coach • (/wiki/1957) – Richard E. Grant, Swazi-English actor, director, and screenwriter • (/wiki/1958) – Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer and sportscaster • (/wiki/1959) – Bobby Ellsworth, American singer and bass player • 1959 – Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist • 1959 – Brian Williams, American journalist • (/wiki/1960) – Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and sportscaster • (/wiki/1961) – Marg Downey, Australian actress • 1961 – Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician • (/wiki/1963) – James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter • 1963 – Simon Rimmer, English chef and author • 1963 – Scott Westerfeld, American author and composer • (/wiki/1964) – Jean-François Copé, French politician, French Minister of Budget • 1964 – Heike Henkel, German high jumper • 1964 – Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (died 2013) • 1964 – Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer • (/wiki/1966) – Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer • 1966 – Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria • 1966 – Josh Weinstein, American screenwriter and producer • (/wiki/1967) – Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator • 1967 – Charles Nagy, American baseball player • 1967 – Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician • (/wiki/1971) – Harold Miner, American basketball player • (/wiki/1972) – James Cracknell, English rower • 1972 – Žigmund Pálffy, Slovak ice hockey player • 1972 – Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player • (/wiki/1975) – Meb Keflezighi, American runner • (/wiki/1976) – Dieter Brummer, Australian actor (died 2021) • 1976 – Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster • (/wiki/1977) – Tiffany Roberts, American footballer • (/wiki/1979) – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor • (/wiki/1980) – Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer • 1980 – Hank Green, American entrepreneur, educator, and vlogger • (/wiki/1981) – Craig David, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer • 1981 – Danielle Fishel, American actress • (/wiki/1982) – Vanessa Bryant, American philanthropist and model • 1982 – Corey Parker, Australian rugby league footballer • (/wiki/1983) – Henry Cavill, English actor • (/wiki/1985) – Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer • 1985 – Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer • 1985 – P. J. Tucker, American basketball player • (/wiki/1987) – Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer • (/wiki/1988) – Adele, English singer-songwriter • (/wiki/1989) – Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor • 1989 – Agnes Knochenhauer, Swedish curler • (/wiki/1991) – Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer • (/wiki/1994) – Celeste, British singer • (/wiki/1995) – James Conner, American football player • (/wiki/1996) – Christopher Eubanks, American tennis player • 1996 – Mayar Sherif, Egyptian tennis player • (/wiki/1997) – Logan Gilbert, American baseball player • 1997 – Mitch Marner, Canadian hockey player • (/wiki/1998) – Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player • (/wiki/1999) – Nathan Chen, American figure skater • 1999 – Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer • (/wiki/2003) – Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player • (/wiki/2004) – Jenna Davis, American actress and YouTuber • 2004 – Kirsty Muir, Scottish freestyle skier

Deaths

Pre-1600

• (/wiki/465) – Gerontius, Archbishop of Milan • (/wiki/1194) – Casimir II the Just, Polish son of Bolesław III Wrymouth (born 1138) • (/wiki/1243) – Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, English justiciar (born c. 1160) • (/wiki/1306) – Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine general (born 1261) • (/wiki/1309) – Charles II of Naples (born 1254) • (/wiki/1316) – Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England (born 1282) • (/wiki/1338) – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (born 1324) • (/wiki/1380) – Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr • (/wiki/1432) – Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer • (/wiki/1525) – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (born 1463) • (/wiki/1582) – Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange (born 1547) • (/wiki/1586) – Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1529)

1601–1900

• (/wiki/1671) – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (born 1602) • (/wiki/1672) – Samuel Cooper, English painter and linguist (born 1609) • (/wiki/1700) – Angelo Italia, Italian architect (born 1628) • (/wiki/1705) – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1640) • (/wiki/1714) – Nathaniel Lawrence, English politician (born c. 1627) • (/wiki/1760) – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (born 1720) • (/wiki/1766) – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (born 1684) • (/wiki/1808) – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (born 1757) • (/wiki/1821) – Napoleon, French general and emperor (born 1769) • (/wiki/1827) – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (born 1750) • (/wiki/1833) – Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (born 1777) • (/wiki/1855) – Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (born 1786) • (/wiki/1859) – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (born 1805) • (/wiki/1860) – Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (born 1804) • (/wiki/1883) – John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (born 1818) • (/wiki/1892) – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (born 1818) • (/wiki/1896) – Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (born 1839)

1901–present

• (/wiki/1901) – Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (born 1825) • (/wiki/1902) – Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (born 1836) • (/wiki/1907) – Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (born 1841) • (/wiki/1913) – Henry Moret, French painter (born 1856) • (/wiki/1916) – John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (born 1865) • 1916 – Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (born 1866) • (/wiki/1921) – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1864) • (/wiki/1924) – A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (born 1853) • (/wiki/1931) – Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (born 1899) • (/wiki/1941) – Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox bishop (born 1874) • (/wiki/1942) – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (born 1920) • (/wiki/1947) – Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (born 1917) • (/wiki/1957) – Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (born 1878) • (/wiki/1959) – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1878) • (/wiki/1962) – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (born 1889) • (/wiki/1965) – Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (born 1915) • 1965 – John Waters, American director and screenwriter (born 1893) • (/wiki/1971) – Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (born 1887) • (/wiki/1973) – Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (born 1948) • (/wiki/1977) – Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1897) • (/wiki/1981) – Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (born 1954) • (/wiki/1983) – Horst Schumann, German physician (born 1901) • 1983 – John Williams, English-American actor (born 1903) • (/wiki/1985) – Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (born 1901) • (/wiki/1988) – Michael Shaara, American author and academic (born 1928) • (/wiki/1993) – Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (born 1920) • (/wiki/1994) – Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (born 1906) • (/wiki/1995) – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (born 1911) • (/wiki/1999) – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1920) • (/wiki/2000) – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (born 1914) • 2000 – Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (born 1940) • (/wiki/2001) – Morris Graves, American painter and educator (born 1910) • 2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (born 1918) • (/wiki/2002) – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (born 1926) • 2002 – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (born 1904) • 2002 – George Sidney, American director and producer (born 1916) • 2002 – Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (born 1917) • (/wiki/2003) – Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (born 1964) • 2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (born 1912) • (/wiki/2006) – Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (born 1919) • 2006 – Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1925) • (/wiki/2007) – Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (born 1927) • (/wiki/2008) – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (born 1917) • 2008 – Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (born 1928) • (/wiki/2010) – Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (born 1910) • 2010 – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (born 1951) • (/wiki/2011) – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (born 1901) • 2011 – Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (born 1924) • 2011 – Dana Wynter, British actress (born 1931) • (/wiki/2012) – Surendranath, Indian cricketer (born 1937) • 2012 – Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (born 1916) • 2012 – Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (born 1932) • 2012 – George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (born 1922) • 2012 – Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (born 1950) • (/wiki/2013) – Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (born 1935) • 2013 – Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (born 1937) • (/wiki/2014) – Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (born 1926) • (/wiki/2015) – Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (born 1935) • 2015 – Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (born 1942) • (/wiki/2017) – Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (born 1954) • 2017 – Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (born 1953) • (/wiki/2020) – Millie Small, Jamaican singer-songwriter (born 1947) • (/wiki/2024) – Jeannie Epper, American stuntwoman and actress (born 1941) • 2024 – Bernard Hill, English actor (born 1944) • 2024 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer and manager (born 1938)

Holidays and observances

May 5

• Children's Day (Japan, South Korea) • Christian feast day: • Angelus of Jerusalem • Aventinus of Tours • Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice • Frederick the Wise (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod) • Gotthard of Hildesheim • Hilary of Arles • Jutta of Kulmsee • Stanisław Kazimierczyk • May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) • Cinco de Mayo (Mexico, United States) • Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan) • Europe Day (Council of Europe) • Feast of al-Khadr or Saint George (Palestinian) • Indian Arrival Day (Guyana) • International Midwives' Day (International) • Liberation Day (Denmark, Netherlands) • Lusophone Culture Day (Community of Portuguese Language Countries) • World Portuguese Language Day (International) • Martyrs' Day (Albania) • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Awareness Day (Canada and United States) • National Cartoonist Day • Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia) • Revenge of the Fifth (see Star Wars Day) • Senior Citizens Day (Palau) • Soviet Press Day (Soviet Union) • Tango no sekku (Japan) • Uyghur Doppa Cultural Festival (Doppa Day)