May 6
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May 6 is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 239 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1397 - Sejong the Great of Korea (d. 1450)
- 1405 – Skanderbeg, national hero of Albania (d. 1468)
- 1501 – Pope Marcellus II (d. 1555)
- 1562 – Pietro Bernini, Italian sculptor (d. 1629)
- 1574 – Pope Innocent X (d. 1655)
- 1606 – Lorenzo Lippi, Italian poet and painter (d. 1665)
- 1680 - Jean-Baptiste Stuck, Italian-French composer and cellist (d. 1755)
- 1713 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (d. 1780)
- 1714 - Anton Raaff, German tenor (d. 1797)
- 1758 – Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary (d. 1794)
- 1758 – André Masséna, French soldier (d. 1817)
- 1769 – Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1824)
- 1769 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (d. 1834)
- 1792 - Georg Ohm, German mathematician (d. 1872)
- 1797 – Joseph Brackett, American religious leader and composer (d. 1882)
- 1800 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat and general (d. 1881)
- 1801 - Jose Joaquin Perez, President of Chile (d. 1889)
- 1820 – Robert O'Hara Burke, explorer of Australia (d. 1861)
- 1851 - Arisitide Bruant, French singer and composer (d. 1925)
- 1853 - Philander C. Knox, American politician (d. 1921)
- 1856 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist (d. 1939)
- 1856 – Robert Peary, American Arctic explorer (d. 1920)
- 1861 – Motilal Nehru, Indian politician (d. 1931)
- 1861 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author (d. 1941)
- 1864 - Eugenio Tosi, Archbishop of Milan (d. 1929)
- 1866 – Joannes Patursson, Faroese poet and politician (d. 1946)
- 1868 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (d. 1918), May 18 in Gregorian calendar
- 1868 – Gaston Leroux, writer (d. 1927)
- 1871 – Victor Grignard, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)
- 1871 – Christian Morgenstern, German author (d. 1914)
- 1872 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer (d. 1934)
- 1872 - Djemal Pasha, Ottoman Empire politician (d. 1922)
- 1879 – Bedřich Hrozný, Czech orientalist and linguist (d. 1952)
- 1880 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German painter (d. 1938)
- 1882 – Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany, heir of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1951)
- 1895 – Rudolph Valentino, actor (d. 1926)
- 1902 – Max Ophüls, director (d. 1957)
- 1902 – Harry Golden, American journalist (d. 1981)
- 1904 – Moshe Feldenkrais, founder of the Feldenkrais method (d. 1984)
- 1904 – Harry Martinson, Swedish writer (d. 1978)
- 1906 – Andre Weil, French mathematician (d. 1998)
- 1913 – Stewart Granger, British actor (d. 1993)
- 1915 – Orson Welles, American director (d. 1985)
- 1915 – Theodore H. White, writer (d. 1986)
- 1917 – Jilly Rizzo, American restaurateur and entertainer (d. 1992)
- 1920 – Ross Hunter, producer (d. 1996)
- 1920 – Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister and later President of Fiji (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Erich Fried, author (d. 1988)
- 1923 – Galyani Vadhana, Thai princess (d. 2008)
- 1924 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of John F. Kennedy (d. 2006)
- 1925 – Hanns Dieter Hüsch, German cabaretist
- 1926 - Gilles Gregoire, Canadian politician
- 1929 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist (d. 2007)
- 1931 – Willie Mays, American Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1934 - Richard Shelby, American politician
- 1937 – Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, boxer
- 1943 – Andreas Baader, member of the Red Army Faction (d. 1977)
- 1944 – Masanori Murakami, Japanese baseball player
- 1945 – Bob Seger, rock music singer
- 1945 – Jimmie Dale Gilmore, musician
- 1947 – Alan Dale, New Zealand actor
- 1947 – Martha Nussbaum, philosopher
- 1951 – Samuel K. Doe, Liberian military officer and politician (d. 1990)
- 1953 – Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1953 – Graeme Souness, Scottish footballer and manager
- 1954 - Tom Abernethy, American basketball player
- 1955 – Tom Bergeron, American game show host
- 1955 – John Hutton, Baron Hutton of Furness, British politician
- 1960 – John Flansburgh, musician
- 1961 – George Clooney, American actor, director and screenwriter
- 1964 – Dana Hill, American actress (d. 1996)
- 1970 – George Rivas, Texas 7 ringleader
- 1971 – Chris Shiflett, American guitarist (Foo Fighters)
- 1972 – Martin Brodeur, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1972 - Naoko Takahashi, Japanese runner
- 1977 – Christophe Brandt, Belgian cyclist
- 1978 – Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder
- 1980 – Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player
- 1980 – Kate Lawler, British Big Brother contestant
- 1983 – Daniel Alves, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 – Adrianne Palicki, American actress
- 1983 – Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
- 1983 – Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model
- 1984 - Anton Babchuk, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
- 1985 – Tanerau Latimer, New Zealand rugby player
- 1986 - Goran Dragic, Slovenian basketball player
- 1987 - Moon Geun-young, South Korean actress
- 1990 – Caitlin Yankowskas, American figure skater
- 1992 - Brendan Gallagher, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1992 - Takashi Usami, Japanese footballer
- 1993 - Naomi Scott, British actress, singer and musician
- 1996 - Dominic Scott Kay, American child actor
- 2002 - Emily Alyn Lind, American child actress
Deaths [change]
- 1475 – Dieric Bouts, Flemish painter (b. 1415)
- 1502 - James Tyrrell, English knight (b. 1450)
- 1596 - Giaches de Wert, Flemish composer (b. 1535)
- 1638 – Cornelius Jansen, French bishop and religious reformer (b. 1585)
- 1692 – Nathaniel Lee, English playwright (b. 1653)
- 1757 - Battle of Prague:
- Maximilian Ulysses Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
- Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
- 1757 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, English politician (b. 1683)
- 1840 – Francisco de Paula Santander, Colombian President and independence leader (b. 1792)
- 1859 – Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (b. 1769)
- 1862 – Henry David Thoreau, American author and philosopher (b. 1817)
- 1872 – George Robert Gray, British zoologist (b. 1808)
- 1877 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (b. 1804)
- 1902 - Bret Harte, American author (b. 1836)
- 1910 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
- 1913 – Alexandros Schinas, Greek anarchist (b. 1870)
- 1919 – L. Frank Baum, American writer (b. 1856)
- 1939 - Konstantin Somov, Russian writer (b. 1869)
- 1949 – Maurice Maeterlinck, Belgian writer (b. 1862)
- 1951 – Hans Andrias Djurhuus, Faroese poet (b. 1883)
- 1952 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator (b. 1870)
- 1961 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet, playwright and philosopher (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
- 1970 - Aleksandr Rodzyanko, Russian general (b. 1897)
- 1975 - Jozsef Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1892)
- 1987 – William Casey, American CIA director (b. 1913)
- 1990 - Charles Farrell, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1992 – Marlene Dietrich, German actress (b. 1901)
- 1992 – Jilly Rizzo, American restaurateur and entertainer (b. 1917)
- 2002 – Pim Fortuyn, Dutch politician (b. 1948)
- 2002 – Otis Blackwell, American pianist, singer and songwriter (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
- 2006 – Lillian Asplund, RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1906)
- 2012 - George Lindsey, American actor, comedian, and writer (b. 1928)
- 2013 - Giulio Andreotti, former Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1919)
Events [change]
- 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome, in what is seen by some to be the end of the Renaissance.
- 1536 - The Siege of Cuzco starts, in which Incan forces attempt to re-take the city from the Spanish.
- 1536 - Henry VIII of England orders that English language Bibles should be placed in every church.
- 1542 - St. Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, capital city of what was then known as Portuguese India.
- 1659 - English Restoration: A faction of the army removes Richard Cromwell as Lord Protector and re-instates the Rump Parliament.
- 1682 – King Louis XIV of France moves into the Versailles Palace.
- 1757 - Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
- 1782 - Building work begins on the Grand Palace, residence of the Kings of Siam, present-day Thailand, in Bangkok.
- 1816 - The American Bible Society is founded.
- 1835 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
- 1840 – The Penny Black postage stamp becomes valid in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- 1861 – Arkansas secedes from the Union.
- 1861 – Richmond, Virginia is chosen as the capital city of the Confederate States of America.
- 1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the Confederates defeating the Army of the Potomac.
- 1882 – US Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
- 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is opened to the public.
- 1902 - British ship Carmorta sinks in a cyclone in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, killing all 739 people on board.
- 1910 – Edward VII of the United Kingdom dies. George V succeeds him as king.
- 1916 - 21 Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Jamal Pasha.
- 1930 – An earthquake in present-day Iran kills 2,500 people.
- 1935 - In the US, the Works Progress Administration is created.
- 1937 – LZ 129 Hindenburg catches on fire while landing in New Jersey, killing 36 people.
- 1945 - World War II: In the end-phase of the war, the Prague Offensive begins.
- 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run a mile in less than 4 minutes.
- 1954 – Alfredo Stroessner comes to power in Paraguay, after leading a military coup against Federico Chaves.
- 1966 – In the UK, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentenced to life in prison for the Moors murders.
- 1976 – An earthquake in Friuli, Italy kills 989 people and destroys entire villages.
- 1983 – The so-called Hitler diaries are found to be a hoax.
- 1994 – The Euro Tunnel between the UK and France, opens.
- 1996 – CIA director William Colby is found dead on a Maryland riverbank, eight days after his disappearance.
- 1998 – Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev moves his seat of government from Almaty to Akmola, which is renamed Astana.
- 1999 – The first elections to the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly are held.
- 2001 – Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, returns to Earth.
- 2001 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to set foot in a Mosque, in Damascus.
- 2002 – Marc Ravalomanana becomes President of Madagascar.
- 2002 – Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn is assassinated by an animal rights activist.
- 2002 - Jacques Chirac announces that Jean-Pierre Raffarin would become Prime Minister of France.
- 2007 – Nicolas Sarkozy is elected President of France.
- 2010 – The 2010 United Kingdom General Election is held. It ends in a hung parliament, where no party has an overall majority. On May 11, the Conservatives under David Cameron and Liberal Democrats under Nick Clegg agree to form a coalition government.
- 2011 – After the previous day's election the Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond wins an overall majority in the Scottish Parliament, with 69 out of the 129 seats.
- 2012 – Francois Hollande is elected President of France, as Nicolas Sarkozy is voted out of office after one term.
- 2012 – The parliamentary election in Greece ends in an inconclusive result, as both main parties lose votes for supporting austerity measures.
Observances [change]
- International No Diet Day
- Teacher's Day (Jamaica)
- Saint George's Day (Eastern Orthodox Churches)
