May 29

Events

 * 363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sassanid capital, but is unable to take the city.
 * 1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under the command of Tamim ibn Yusuf defeat a Castile and León alliance under the command of Prince Sancho Alfónsez.
 * 1167 – Battle of Monte Porzio – A Roman army supporting Pope Alexander III is defeated by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel
 * 1176 – Battle of Legnano: The Lombard League defeats Emperor Frederick I.
 * 1328 – Philip VI is crowned King of France.
 * 1414 – Council of Constance.
 * 1453 – Fall of Constantinople: Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captures Constantinople after a 53-day siege, ending the Byzantine Empire.
 * 1660 – English Restoration: Charles II is restored to the throne of England, Scotland and Ireland.
 * 1677 – Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and the local Natives.
 * 1727 – Peter II becomes Czar of Russia.
 * 1733 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
 * 1780 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Waxhaws, the British continue attacking after the Continentals lay down their arms, killing 113 and critically wounding all but 53 that remained.
 * 1790 – Rhode Island becomes the last of the original United States' colonies to ratify the Constitution and is admitted as the 13th U.S. state.
 * 1798 – United Irishmen Rebellion: Between 300 and 500 United Irishmen are massacred by the British Army in County Kildare, Ireland.
 * 1807 – Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
 * 1848 – Wisconsin is admitted as the 30th U.S. state.
 * 1852 – Jenny Lind leaves New York after her two-year American tour.
 * 1861 – The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce is founded, in Hong Kong.
 * 1864 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
 * 1867 – The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
 * 1868 – The assassination of Michael Obrenovich III, Prince of Serbia, in Belgrade.
 * 1886 – The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
 * 1900 – N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
 * 1903 – In the May coup d'état, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
 * 1913 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring receives its premiere performance in Paris, France, provoking a riot.
 * 1914 – The Ocean liner RMS Empress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,024 lives.
 * 1918 – Armenia defeats the Ottoman Army in the Battle of Sardarabad.
 * 1919 – Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity is tested (later confirmed) by Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin.
 * 1919  – The Republic of Prekmurje is founded.
 * 1931 – Michele Schirru, a citizen of the United States, is executed by Italian military firing squad for intent to kill Benito Mussolini.
 * 1932 – World War I veterans begin to assemble in Washington, D.C., in the Bonus Army to request cash bonuses promised to them to be paid in 1945.
 * 1935 – First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
 * 1939 – The Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.
 * 1940 – The first flight of the Vought F4U Corsair.
 * 1942 – Bing Crosby, the Ken Darby Singers and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra record Irving Berlin's "White Christmas", the best-selling Christmas single in history.
 * 1945 – First combat mission of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator heavy bomber.
 * 1948 – Creation of the United Nations peacekeeping force the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization.
 * 1950 – The St. Roch, the first ship to circumnavigate North America, arrives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
 * 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
 * 1954 – First of the annual Bilderberg conferences.
 * 1964 – The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
 * 1969 – General strike in Córdoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest.
 * 1973 – Tom Bradley is elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles, California.
 * 1982 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
 * 1982  – Falklands War: British forces defeat the Argentines at the Battle of Goose Green.
 * 1985 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine association football fans die and hundreds are injured when a dilapidated retaining wall collapses.
 * 1985  – Amputee Steve Fonyo completes cross-Canada marathon at Victoria, British Columbia, after 14 months.
 * 1988 – The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
 * 1989 – Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States, allowing the manufacture of parts of the F-16 jet fighter plane in Egypt.
 * 1990 – The Russian parliament elects Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
 * 1993 – The Miss Sarajevo beauty pageant is held in war torn Sarajevo drawing global attention to the plight of its citizens.
 * 1999 – Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
 * 1999  – Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
 * 2001 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.
 * 2004 – The National World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
 * 2008 – A strong earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale strikes Iceland near the town of Selfoss, injuring 30 people.
 * 2012 – A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits northern Italy near Bologna, killing at least 24 people.
 * 2014 – Ignatius Aphrem II is enthroned as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.

Births

 * 1594 – Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim, Bavarian field marshal (d. 1632)
 * 1627 – Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1693)
 * 1630 – Charles II of England (d. 1685)
 * 1675 – Humphry Ditton, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1715)
 * 1716 – Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French zoologist and mineralogist (d. 1800)
 * 1722 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (d. 1773)
 * 1730 – Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer (d. 1803)
 * 1736 – Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (d. 1799)
 * 1773 – Princess Sophia of Gloucester (d. 1844)
 * 1780 – Henri Braconnot, French chemist and pharmacist (d. 1855)
 * 1794 – Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
 * 1823 – John H. Balsley, American carpenter and inventor (d. 1895)
 * 1860 – Isaac Albéniz, Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1909)
 * 1873 – Rudolf Tobias, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1918)
 * 1874 – G. K. Chesterton, English journalist, author, and playwright (d. 1936)
 * 1880 – Oswald Spengler, German historian and philosopher (d. 1936)
 * 1892 – Alfonsina Storni, Swiss-Argentinian poet (d. 1938)
 * 1893 – Max Brand, American author (d. 1944)
 * 1894 – Beatrice Lillie, Canadian actress (d. 1989)
 * 1894  – Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1969)
 * 1897 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Czech-American composer (d. 1957)
 * 1899 – Douglas Abbott, Canadian politician, 10th Minister of Defence for Canada (d. 1987)
 * 1903 – Bob Hope, English-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2003)
 * 1905 – Sebastian Shaw, English actor, director, and playwright (d. 1994)
 * 1906 – T. H. White, Indian-English author (d. 1964)
 * 1907 – Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (d. 2002)
 * 1908 – Diana Morgan, Welsh-English playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)
 * 1910 – Ralph Metcalfe, American sprinter (d. 1978)
 * 1911 – Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1989)
 * 1913 – Tony Zale, American boxer (d. 1997)
 * 1914 – Stacy Keach, Sr., American actor (d. 2003)
 * 1914  – Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese mountaineer (d. 1986)
 * 1915 – Karl Münchinger, German conductor (d. 1990)
 * 1917 – John F. Kennedy, American lieutenant and politician, 35th President of the United States (d. 1963)
 * 1917  – Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian, educator, and author (d. 2011)
 * 1919 – Jacques Genest, Canadian physician and academic
 * 1920 – John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
 * 1921 – Norman Hetherington, Australian cartoonist and puppeteer (d. 2010)
 * 1921  – Clifton James, American actor
 * 1922 – Iannis Xenakis, Greek-French composer, engineer, and theorist (d. 2001)
 * 1923 – Bernard Clavel, French author (d. 2010)
 * 1923  – John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Devon
 * 1924 – Lars Bo, Danish author and illustrator (d. 1999)
 * 1924  – Rune Ericson, Swedish cinematographer
 * 1924  – Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
 * 1924  – Pepper Paire, American baseball player (d. 2013)
 * 1926 – Katie Boyle, Italian-English actress and television host
 * 1926  – Charles Denner, French actor (d. 1995)
 * 1926  – Abdoulaye Wade, Senegalese politician, 3rd President of Senegal
 * 1927 – Gordon Berg, American politician (d. 2013)
 * 1927  – Jean Coutu, Canadian pharmacist and businessman, founded the Jean Coutu Group
 * 1927  – Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor and director (d. 2011)
 * 1929 – Harry Frankfurt, American philosopher and academic
 * 1929  – Peter Higgs, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1929  – Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
 * 1932 – Richie Guerin, American basketball player and coach
 * 1932  – Paul R. Ehrlich, American biologist and author
 * 1933 – Helmuth Rilling, German conductor
 * 1934 – Grandma Lee, American comedian
 * 1934  – Nanette Newman, English actress and author
 * 1934  – Bill Vander Zalm, Canadian politician, 28th Premier of British Columbia
 * 1936 – Fred White, American sportscaster (d. 2013)
 * 1937 – Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (d. 1989)
 * 1937  – Charles W. Pickering, American judge
 * 1937  – Irmin Schmidt, German keyboard player and composer (Can)
 * 1937  – Alwin Schockemöhle, German horse rider
 * 1938 – Christopher Bland, English businessman and politician
 * 1938  – Fay Vincent, American lawyer and businessman
 * 1939 – Al Unser, American race car driver
 * 1940 – Taihō Kōki, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna (d. 2013)
 * 1940  – Farooq Leghari, Pakistani politician, 8th President of Pakistan (d. 2010)
 * 1941 – Doug Scott, English mountaineer
 * 1942 – Pierre Bourque, Canadian politician, 40th Mayor of Montreal
 * 1942  – Kevin Conway, American actor
 * 1943 – Robert W. Edgar, American politician (d. 2013)
 * 1944 – Quentin Davies, Baron Davies of Stamford, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
 * 1945 – Gary Brooker, English singer-songwriter and pianist (Procol Harum and The Paramounts)
 * 1945  – Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, Scottish politician, Solicitor General for Scotland (d. 2013)
 * 1945  – Catherine Lara, French singer-songwriter and violinist
 * 1945  – Julian Le Grand, English economist and author
 * 1945  – Martin Pipe, English horse trainer
 * 1945  – Joyce Tenneson, American photographer
 * 1945  – Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Belgian scholar and author
 * 1946 – Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (d. 2000)
 * 1947 – Anthony Geary, American actor
 * 1947  – Joey Levine, American singer-songwriter and producer (Ohio Express and The Third Rail)
 * 1947  – Gene Robinson, American bishop
 * 1947  – Constantino Romero, Spanish radio host and actor (d. 2013)
 * 1948 – Michael Berkeley, English composer and radio host
 * 1948  – Linda Esther Gray, Scottish soprano
 * 1948  – Keith Gull, English microbiologist and academic
 * 1948  – Nick Mancuso,  Italian-Canadian actor and producer
 * 1949 – Robert Axelrod, American actor
 * 1949  – Andrew Clements, American author and educator
 * 1949  – Brian Kidd, English footballer and coach
 * 1949  – Francis Rossi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Status Quo)
 * 1949  – Cotter Smith, American actor
 * 1950 – Rebbie Jackson, American singer and actress
 * 1951 – Peter Chernin, American businessman
 * 1952 – Alan Langlands, Scottish academic
 * 1952  – Zeituni Onyango, Kenyan-American computer programmer (d. 2014)
 * 1953 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (d. 2008)
 * 1953  – Giles Clarke, English businessman
 * 1953  – Danny Elfman, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Oingo Boingo)
 * 1954 – Robert Beaser, American composer
 * 1954  – Jerry Moran, American lawyer and politician
 * 1955 – Frank Baumgartl, German runner (d. 2010)
 * 1955  – John Hinckley, Jr., American attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan
 * 1955  – David Kirschner, American animator, producer, and author
 * 1955  – Gordon Rintoul, Scottish curator
 * 1955  – Ken Schrader, American race car driver
 * 1956 – Mark Lyall Grant, English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United Nations
 * 1956  – La Toya Jackson, American singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1957 – Steven Croft, English bishop and theologian
 * 1957  – Jeb Hensarling, American lawyer and politician
 * 1957  – Ted Levine, American actor
 * 1958 – Annette Bening, American actress
 * 1958  – Willem Holleeder, Dutch criminal
 * 1958  – Karen Maruyama, American actress
 * 1958  – Juliano Mer-Khamis, Israeli actor, director, and activist (d. 2011)
 * 1958  – Uwe Rapolder, German footballer and coach
 * 1958  – Mike Stenhouse, American baseball player and sportscaster
 * 1958  – Wayne Duvall, American actor
 * 1959 – Rupert Everett, English actor, singer, and producer
 * 1959  – Steve Hanley, Irish-English bass player and songwriter (The Fall and Tom Hingley and the Lovers)
 * 1959  – Adrian Paul, English actor and producer
 * 1960 – Thomas Baumer, Swiss economist and academic
 * 1960  – Neil Crone, Canadian actor
 * 1960  – Mike Freer, English politician
 * 1960  – Carol Kirkwood, Scottish journalist
 * 1961 – Melissa Etheridge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist
 * 1961  – John Miceli, American drummer (Neverland Express)
 * 1962 – Fandi Ahmad, Singaporean footballer, coach, and manager
 * 1962  – Eric Davis, American baseball player
 * 1962  – Perry Fenwick, English actor
 * 1962  – John D. LeMay, American actor
 * 1962  – Chloé Sainte-Marie, Canadian actress and singer
 * 1963 – Blaze Bayley, English singer-songwriter (Iron Maiden and Wolfsbane)
 * 1963  – Tracey E. Bregman, German-American actress
 * 1963  – Zhu Jianhua, Chinese high jumper
 * 1963  – Ukyo Katayama, Japanese race car driver
 * 1963  – Claude Loiselle, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
 * 1963  – Lisa Whelchel, American actress and singer
 * 1964 – Jestoni Alarcon, Filipino actor and politician
 * 1964  – Howard Mills III, American politician
 * 1967 – Noel Gallagher, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Oasis and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds)
 * 1967  – Mike Keane, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1967  – Steven Levitt, American economist
 * 1967  – Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (d. 2008)
 * 1968 – Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll, Scottish politician
 * 1968  – Tate George, American basketball player
 * 1968  – Jessica Morden, English politician
 * 1969 – Chan Kinchla, Canadian guitarist (Blues Traveler)
 * 1970 – Roberto Di Matteo, Italian footballer and manager
 * 1971 – Éric Lucas, Canadian boxer
 * 1971  – Bernd Mayländer, German race car driver
 * 1971  – Rob Womack, English shot putter
 * 1972 – Közi, Japanese singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Malice Mizer and Eve of Destiny)
 * 1972  – Stanislas, French singer-songwriter (Circus)
 * 1972  – Bill Curley, American basketball player
 * 1972  – Simon Jones, English singer and bass player (The Verve, The Shining, and Black Submarine)
 * 1973 – Anthony Azizi, American actor
 * 1973  – Mark Lee, American guitarist and songwriter (Third Day)
 * 1973  – Alpay Özalan, Turkish footballer
 * 1974 – Stephen Larkham, Australian rugby player and coach
 * 1974  – Aaron McGruder, American cartoonist
 * 1974  – Myf Warhurst, Australian radio and television host
 * 1974  – Jenny Willott, English politician
 * 1975 – Jason Allison, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1975  – Mel B, English singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (Spice Girls)
 * 1975  – Natarsha Belling, Australian journalist
 * 1975  – David Burtka, American actor and chef
 * 1975  – Sven Kubis, German footballer
 * 1975  – Sarah Millican, English comedian
 * 1975  – Daniel Tosh, American comedian and actor
 * 1975  – Anthony Wall, English golfer
 * 1976 – Caçapa, Brazilian footballer and manager
 * 1976  – Jerry Hairston, Jr., American baseball player
 * 1976  – Yūsuke Iseya, Japanese actor
 * 1976  – Raef LaFrentz, American basketball player
 * 1976  – Yegor Titov, Russian footballer
 * 1977 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian footballer
 * 1977  – Marco Cassetti, Italian footballer
 * 1977  – Danny Gerard, American actor and singer
 * 1977  – António Lebo Lebo, Angolan footballer
 * 1978 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter and bass player (The Hives)
 * 1978  – Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player
 * 1978  – Lorenzo Odone, American Adrenoleukodystrophy patient (d. 2008)
 * 1978  – Adam Rickitt, English actor and singer (5th Story)
 * 1979 – Arne Friedrich, German footballer
 * 1979  – Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
 * 1979  – Ahmad Latiff Khamaruddin, Singaporean footballer
 * 1979  – John Rheinecker, American baseball player
 * 1980 – Ernesto Farías, Argentinian footballer
 * 1981 – Andrei Arshavin, Russian footballer
 * 1981  – Justin Chon, American actor
 * 1982 – Ailyn, Spanish singer (Sirenia)
 * 1982  – Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
 * 1982  – Joanne Borgella, American singer and model (d. 2014)
 * 1982  – Anita Briem, Icelandic actress
 * 1982  – Nataliya Dobrynska, Ukrainian heptathlete
 * 1982  – Matt Macri, American baseball player
 * 1982  – Kim Tae-kyun, South Korean baseball player
 * 1983 – Jean Makoun, Cameroonian footballer
 * 1983  – Alberto Medina, Mexican footballer
 * 1984 – Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
 * 1984  – Funmi Jimoh, American long jumper
 * 1984  – Andreas Schäffer, German footballer
 * 1985 – Nathan Horton, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1986 – Hornswoggle, American wrestler
 * 1986  – Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican-American model
 * 1987 – Lina Andrijauskaitė, Lithuanian long jumper
 * 1987  – Kelvin Maynard, Dutch footballer
 * 1987  – Noah Reid, Canadian actor
 * 1987  – Rui Sampaio, Portuguese footballer
 * 1987  – Alessandra Torresani, American actress
 * 1988 – Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast
 * 1988  – Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey player
 * 1989 – Riley Keough, American model and actress
 * 1989  – Brandon Mychal Smith, American actor, singer, and dancer
 * 1989  – Mathew Waters, Australian actor
 * 1990 – Ramil Guliyev, Azeri-Turkish sprinter
 * 1991 – Kristen Alderson, American actress and singer
 * 1991  – Saori Hayami, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * 1991  – Tom Ljungman, Swedish actor
 * 1992 – Sarah Moundir, Swiss tennis player
 * 1992  – Gregg Sulkin, English actor
 * 1993 – Jana Čepelová, Slovak tennis player
 * 1993  – Grete Šadeiko, Estonian heptathlete
 * 1998 – Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress

Deaths

 * 1259 – Christopher I of Denmark (b. 1219)
 * 1379 – Henry II of Castile (b. 1334)
 * 1405 – Philippe de Mézières, French soldier and author (b. 1327)
 * 1425 – Hongxi Emperor of China (b. 1378)
 * 1453 – Ulubatlı Hasan, Ottoman commander (b. 1428)
 * 1453  – Constantine XI Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1404)
 * 1500 – Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese explorer (b. 1451)
 * 1546 – David Beaton, Scottish cardinal (b. 1494)
 * 1593 – John Penry, Welsh martyr (b. 1559)
 * 1660 – Frans van Schooten, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1615)
 * 1691 – Cornelis Tromp, Dutch admiral (b. 1629)
 * 1790 – Israel Putnam, American general (b. 1718)
 * 1796 – Carl Fredrik Pechlin, Swedish general and politician (b. 1720)
 * 1814 – Joséphine de Beauharnais, French wife of Napoleon (b. 1763)
 * 1829 – Humphry Davy, English chemist (b. 1778)
 * 1847 – Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy, French general (b. 1766)
 * 1866 – Winfield Scott, American general and politician (b. 1786)
 * 1873 – Prince Friedrich of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1870)
 * 1892 – Bahá'u'lláh, Persian religious leader, founded the Bahá'í Faith (b. 1817)
 * 1896 – Gabriel Auguste Daubrée, French geologist (b. 1814)
 * 1903 – Bruce Price, American architect, designed the Château Frontenac and American Surety Building (b. 1845)
 * 1910 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1837)
 * 1911 – W. S. Gilbert, English playwright and poet (b. 1836)
 * 1914, victims of the RMS Empress of Ireland disaster
 * Laurence Sydney Brodribb Irving (b.1871)
 * Henry Seton-Karr (b.1853)
 * 1917 – Kate Harrington, American poet and educator (b. 1831)
 * 1919 – Robert Bacon, American colonel and politician, 39th United States Secretary of State (b. 1860)
 * 1920 – Carlos Deltour, French rower (b. 1864)
 * 1935 – Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1874)
 * 1939 – Ursula Ledóchowska, Austrian-Polish nun and saint, founded the Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus (b. 1865)
 * 1941 – Léo-Pol Morin, Canadian pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1892)
 * 1942 – John Barrymore, American actor (b. 1882)
 * 1946 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German SS officer (b. 1905)
 * 1948 – May Whitty, English-American actress (b. 1865)
 * 1951 – Fanny Brice, American singer and actress (b. 1891)
 * 1951  – Dimitrios Levidis, Greek-French composer (b. 1885)
 * 1953 – Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler (b. 1891)
 * 1958 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
 * 1963 – Netta Muskett, British novelist (b. 1887)
 * 1966 – Ignace Lepp, Estonian-French priest and psychologist (b. 1909)
 * 1968 – Arnold Susi, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1896)
 * 1970 – John Gunther, American journalist and author (b. 1901)
 * 1972 – Moe Berg, American baseball player, coach, and spy (b. 1902)
 * 1972  – Prithviraj Kapoor, Pakistani-Indian actor (b. 1906)
 * 1972  – Stephen Timoshenko, Ukrainian-American engineer (b. 1878)
 * 1973 – George Harriman, English businessman (b. 1908)
 * 1973  – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, producer, and composer (b. 1922)
 * 1975 – Kurt Großkurth, German actor and singer (b. 1909)
 * 1977 – Ba Maw, Burmese politician (b. 1893)
 * 1979 – Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists (b. 1892)
 * 1979  – John H. Wood, Jr., American lawyer and judge (b. 1916)
 * 1982 – Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress (b. 1938)
 * 1983 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian-Russian historian and politician (b. 1899)
 * 1987 – Charan Singh, Indian politician, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902)
 * 1988 – Salem bin Laden, Saudi Arabian businessman (b. 1946)
 * 1989 – John Cipollina, American guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Dinosaurs, and Man) (b. 1943)
 * 1989  – George C. Homans, American sociologist (b. 1910)
 * 1993 – Billy Conn, American boxer (b. 1917)
 * 1994 – Erich Honecker, German politician (b. 1912)
 * 1996 – Tamara Toumanova, Siberian-American ballerina and actress (b. 1919)
 * 1997 – Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gods and Monsters) (b. 1966)
 * 1997  – George Fenneman, Chinese-American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
 * 1998 – Barry Goldwater, American general and politician (b. 1909)
 * 2003 – David Jefferies, English motorcycle racer (b. 1972)
 * 2004 – Archibald Cox, American lawyer and politician, 31st United States Solicitor General (b. 1912)
 * 2004  – Samuel Dash, American politician (b. 1925)
 * 2005 – John D'Amico, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (b. 1937)
 * 2005  – Hamilton Naki, South African surgeon (b. 1926)
 * 2005  – George Rochberg, American composer (b. 1918)
 * 2006 – Jacques Bouchard, Canadian businessman (b. 1930)
 * 2006  – Steve Mizerak, American pool player (b. 1944)
 * 2007 – Dave Balon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1938)
 * 2007  – Lois Browne-Evans, Bermudian lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
 * 2008 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1987)
 * 2008  – Harvey Korman, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1927)
 * 2009 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (b. 1978)
 * 2010 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
 * 2011 – Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (b. 1949)
 * 2011  – Bill Clements, American soldier and politician, 42nd Governor of Texas (b. 1917)
 * 2011  – Ferenc Mádl, Hungarian politician, 14th President of Hungary (b. 1931)
 * 2012 – Dick Beals, American voice actor (b. 1927)
 * 2012  – Mark Minkov, Russian composer (b. 1944)
 * 2012  – Kaneto Shindo, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
 * 2012  – Jim Unger, English-Canadian illustrator (b. 1937)
 * 2012  – Doc Watson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1923)
 * 2013 – Richard Ballantine, American-English journalist and author (b. 1940)
 * 2013  – Françoise Blanchard, French actress (b. 1954)
 * 2013  – Andrew Greeley, American priest, sociologist, and author (b. 1928)
 * 2013  – Mulgrew Miller, American pianist and composer (b. 1955)
 * 2013  – Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (b. 1923)
 * 2013  – Franca Rame,  Italian actress and playwright (b. 1928)
 * 2013  – Ludwig G. Strauss, German physician and academic (b. 1949)
 * 2013  – Wali-ur-Rehman, Pakistani commander (b. 1970)
 * 2014 – Karlheinz Böhm, German-Austrian actor (b. 1928)
 * 2014  – Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (b. 1939)
 * 2014  – Peter Glaser, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
 * 2014  – Miljenko Prohaska, Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1925)
 * 2014  – Herman Rattliff, American politician (b. 1926)
 * 2014  – William M. Roth, American businessman (b. 1916)

Holidays and observances

 * Ascension of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í Faith)
 * Christian Feast Day:
 * Bona of Pisa
 * Maximin of Trier
 * Pope Alexander of Alexandria (Eastern Orthodox Church)
 * Theodosia of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church)
 * May 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Democracy Day (Nigeria)
 * Earliest day on which Feast of the Sacred Heart can fall, while July 2 is the latest; celebrated 19 days after Pentecost. (Catholic Church)
 * International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (International)
 * Oak Apple Day (England)
 * Statehood Day (Rhode Island and Wisconsin)