May 5
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Art and culture
Births
- 1800 - Louis Hachette, French publisher
- 1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and avant la lettre existentialist
- 1818 - Karl Marx, German activist
- 1944 - Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor of the nouvelle vague
- 1949 - David Toop, English musician and author
Deaths
- 1821 - Napoleon I of France dies in exile.
- 1958 - James Branch Cabell, American writer of fantasy fiction and author of Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice
- 1982 - Cal Tjader, American Latin jazz musician
- 2004 - Sir Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer and owner of Studio One
- 2004 - David Reimer, sex change patient in a famous gender identity case
Notes
Events
- 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
- 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
- 1920 – Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti arrested for alleged robbery and murder.
- 1921 – Coco Chanel introduces Chanel No. 5
- 1925 – Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes served an arrest warrant for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; date since commemorated as Liberation Day.
Births
- 1800 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)
- 1813 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (d. 1855)
- 1818 – Karl Marx, German political philosopher (d. 1883)
- 1846 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- 1914 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
- 1935 – Bernard Pivot, French journalist and television host
- 1936 – Patrick Gowers, British composer
- 1942 – Tammy Wynette, American musician (d. 1998)
- 1944 – Jean-Pierre Léaud, French actor
- 1970 – Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist
Deaths
- 200 – Sun Ce, warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)
- 311 – Galerius, Roman Emperor
- 984 – Gerberga of Saxony, Queen of Western Francia
- 1028 – King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia
- 1194 – King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
- 1219 – King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)
- 1309 – King Charles II of Naples
- 1525 – Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)
- 1586 – Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)
- 1604 – Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)
- 1671 – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)
- 1672 – Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)
- 1705 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
- 1760 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)
- 1766 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
- 1808 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)
- 1811 – Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)
- 1821 – Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)
- 1827 – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
- 1833 – Sophia Campbell, Australian artist (b. 1777)
- 1855 – Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
- 1859 – Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)
- 1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (b. 1818)
- 1896 – Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)
- 1900 – Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)
- 1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)
- 1931 – Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (b. 1899)
- 1941 – Natalija Obrenović, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)
- 1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
- 1945 – Peter Van Pels, Jewish Refugee (b. 1926)
- 1947 – Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)
- 1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
- 1962 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
- 1971 – Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)
- 1977 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (b. 1897)
- 1981 – Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954)
- 1983 – Horst Schumann, Nazi physician (b. 1901)
- 1985 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
- 1988 – Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)
- 1992 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b. 1927)
- 1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player, grandmaster and world champion. (b. 1911)
- 1997 – Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
- 2000 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
- 2001 – Clifton Hillegass, American writer and publisher
- 2001 – Raymond Kessler, American midget wrestler
- 2002 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian dictator (b. 1926)
- 2002 – Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (b. 1904)
- 2002 – George Sidney, American film director (b. 1916)
- 2003 – Sam Bockarie, RUF Rebel Commander (b. 1964)
- 2003 – Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)
- 2004 – Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
- 2006 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)
- 2007 – Theodore Harold Maiman, Inventor, noted for making the first working laser. (b. 1927)
- 2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American entrepreneur (b. 1917)
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