15 th of May

For the Spanish manifestations of 2011 see Protests in Spain of 2011.

May 15 is the 135th (one hundred thirty-fifth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 136th in leap years. There are 230 days left to end the year and this is the second day of commemoration of the independence of Paraguay.

Events

• 392: Emperor Valentinian II is killed as he advanced to the Galias in search of the French usurper Arbogastes.
• 589: the Authentic king marries Teodelinda, daughter of the Bavarian Duke Garibaldo I. Catholicism enters with great influence in the lombard aristocracy.
• 1252: Pope Inocencio IV publishes the papal bull ad extirpandawhich authorizes, with some limits, the torture of heretics by the Inquisition.
• 1303: foundation of the Spanish city of Chiclana de la Frontera by Don Alonso Pérez de Guzmán.
• 1536: In London (England), Queen Ana Bolena appears at trial to face charges of treason, adultery and incest. He was sentenced to death by a specially selected jury.
• 1567: In England, Queen Mary Stuart marries the aristocrat James Hepburn, her third husband.
• 1568: An earthquake occurs in Shanxi, China. Possibly the same one that was recorded two weeks ago.
• 1602: Bartholomew Gosnold becomes the first European to see Corporal Cod.
• 1618: Johannes Kepler confirms his previous discovery of the third law of movements of the planets.
• 1629: the battle of Las Cangrejeras, a military confrontation in the context of the Arauco War waged in southern Chile during the defensive war between Spaniards and Mapuches. The battle ended in an important victory of the indigenous.
• 1648: Münster Treaty, in which Spain recognizes the independence of the Netherlands.
• 1701: the Spanish War of Succession begins.
• 1718: James Puckle, a London lawyer patents the first machine gun.
• 1755: Spanish are established in Laredo (Texas).
• 1792: In the context of the First Coalition, France declares war on the Kingdom of Sardinia.
• 1793: Diego Marín Aguilera flies about 360 meters and with an altitude of 5 or 6 meters, with the first plane of feathers.
• 1796: As part of the First Coalition, Napoleon Bonaparte enters Milan.
• 1800: George III of England survives an attempted murder by James Hadfield, who later claimed madness.
• 1811: Paraguay is independent of Spain, the first South American country to achieve its permanent independence.
• 1813: In the framework of the Chilean war of independence, the fight of San Carlos is waged.
• 1836: In Spain, Francisco Javier Istúriz is appointed president of the government.
• 1849: Troops of the Two Sicilies take Palermo and overthrow the government of Sicily.
• 1858: opening of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
• 1867: the Site of Queretaro and the end of the Second Mexican Empire ends.
• 1891: the encyclical Rerum Novarum of Pope Leo XIII is promulgated, from which the political movement called Christian democracy arises.
• 1896: first film projection in Spain.
• 1902: American Lyman Gilmore flew on a steam engine plane, although it was not officially confirmed.
• 1905: In the state of Nevada (United States) the villa of Las Vegas begins to be created when 110 acres are audited (in which the city centre will be built).
• 1911: in Torreón (Mexico), the massacre of Chinese occurs.
• 1919: Greek invasion of Esmirna. During the invasion, the Greek army kills or hurts 350 Turks. Their leaders are condemned by the Greek commander Aristides Stergiades.
• 1928: Mickey Mouse is presented in society for the first time in Plane Crazy.
• 1931: Mexico opens Benito Juárez International Airport.
• 1931: the decree is published in Chile with the force of law that establishes the name of Pisco origin, the oldest in Latin America.
• 1934: Kārlis Ulmanis establishes the legitimate government of Latvia.
• 1935: In Moscow the first line of the metro is opened.
• 1940: In the United States, brothers Dick and Mac McDonald opened the first McDonald's restaurant in San Bernandino (California).
• 1940: In the framework of the Second World War, after a harsh battle, the terrible trained troops of the Netherlands surrender to Germany, starting five years of occupation.
• 1943: German troops begin, east of Bosnia, Operation Schwarzwith the aim of annihilating the partisan bases and their leader, Tito.
• 1943: Joseph Stalin dissolves the Comintern.
• 1948: In England, the murder of a three-year-old girl in Blackburn takes the fingerprints of more than 4,000 men in the city in an attempt to find the killer.
• 1955: On the Nevada Test Site, the United States detonates its 28 kiloton Zucchini atomic bomb, the 65th of 1132 bomb that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1957: on Malden Island (in the Pacific Ocean), the United Kingdom performs the first hydrogen bomb test, in the so-called Operation Grapple.
• 1958: launch of the Soviet artificial satellite Sputnik 3.
• 1960: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik satellite 4.
• 1963: Under the Mercury Project, the United States successfully launches the ship Mercury Atlas 9with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.
• 1966: After a dispute, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky gave the order to attack the forces of General Ton That Dinh.
• 1972: Okinawa Island, under U.S. control since 1945, returns to Japan's control.
• 1988: Soviet troops begin the withdrawal of Afghanistan after eight years of occupation.
• 1993: held in Millstreet (Ireland), the XXXVIII Edition of Eurovision. The theme of the host country, “In your eyes” by the soloist Niamh Kavanagh, is the winner.
• 1992: The Lateralus album of Tool is released.
• 1992: The Mexican Free Fighting Company, AAA Worldwide Free Fight
• 2002: the Spanish football team Real Madrid wins the European Cup for the ninth time.
• 2004: South Africa is elected headquarters for the 2010 World Cup of Football, becoming the first African country to organize the highest international football competition and the second to organize a massive sporting event being the first of the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa itself
• 2007: Launch of the Minutes To Midnight album by American rock band Linkin Park
• 2008: The commander-in-chief of the 12 Company C.P.B. asserts that the 15 Section faces new ones.
• 2009: Mexico is published in the Official Journal of the Federation, the creation of the Legal Counsel of the Federal Executive.
• 2010: in Caracas (Venezuela), Gustavo Cerati (canner and Argentine rock composer) suffers a stroke that keeps him in a coma until his death, produced on September 4, 2014.
• 2011: At different points in Spain, the citizen movement known as 15-M or movement of the indignant. Several groups of people camp in squares in various cities as protest against bipartisanism, the dominance of banks and corporations and calling for separation of powers and other measures aimed at obtaining a real democracy.
• 2021: Ariana Grande married Dalton Gomez.
• 2022: In Spain, the platform Popular Consultation Monarchy or Republic It deploys 724 voting points across different parts of the country and 15 foreign cities to conduct a survey on monarchy or republic. In total, 81,617 people vote, with 76,106 votes in favour of the republic (93.25 per cent), 4,731 in favor of the monarchy (5.81 per cent) and 780 null or white votes (0.94 per cent).
• 2022: the Billboard Music Awards were held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The presenter was Sean "Diddy" Combs.

Births

• 120: Victor I, Roman pope (f. 199).
• 1397: Sejong the Great, king of Korea (f. 1450).
• 1576: Claudio Monteverdi, Italian composer (f. 1643).
• 1608: Rene Goupil, a French missionary (f. 1642).
• 1689: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, British writer (f. 1762).
• 1763: Franz Danzi, German composer (f. 1826).
• 1765: Isidro González Velázquez, Spanish architect (f. 1829).
• 1773: Klemens von Metternich, Austrian diplomat and statesman (f. 1859).
• 1778: Isidoro de Antillón, politician and Spanish historian (f. 1814).
• 1803: Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, Mexican military (f. 1869).
• 1808: Michael Balfe, Irish composer (f. 1870).
• 1809: Benoît Jules Mure, a naturalist and French anarchist (f. 1858).
• 1817: Mustdranath Tagore, Indian religious leader (f. 1905).
• 1827: Knud Bergslien, Norwegian painter (f. 1908).
• 1848: Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (f. 1926).
• 1855: María Ossa de Amador, creator of the first Panamanian flag (f. 1908).
• 1856: Lyman Frank Baum, American writer (f. 1919).
• 1856: Matthias Zurbriggen, Swiss mountain range (f. 1917).
• 1857: Williamina Fleming, British astronomer (f. 1911).
• 1859: Pierre Curie, French physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1903 (f. 1906).
• 1862: Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian physician and writer (f. 1931).
• 1867: Adolfo Prieto and Álvarez de las Vallinas, entrepreneur, industrial and Spanish philanthropist (f. 1945).
• 1882: Manuel Isidro Méndez, Spanish historian (f. 1972).
• 1884: José de Maturana, playwright and Argentine anarchist (f. 1917).
• 1890: Katherine Anne Porter, American writer (f. 1980).
• 1891: Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian novelist and playwright (f. 1940).
• 1894: José Cubiles, director of orchestra and Spanish pianist (f. 1971).
• 1895: Prescott Bush, US banker and politician (f. 1972).
• 1897: Wifredo Ricart, Spanish engineer (f. 1974).
• 1898: Arletty, French actress and singer (f. 1992).
• 1898: Luis Garrido Díaz, Mexican philosopher (f. 1973).
• 1901: Luis Monti, Argentine footballer (f. 1983).
• 1901: Arturo Dúo Vital, director and Spanish composer (f. 1964).
• 1903: Germaine Dieterlen, anthropologist and French filmmaker (f. 1999).
• 1903: Mary Reiche, math and German archaeologist (f. 1998).
• 1905: Joseph Cotten, American actor (f. 1994).
• 1905: Abraham Zapruder, American businessman (f. 1970).
• 1905: Zhambyl Tulaev, Soviet sniper (f. 1961)
• 1907: Aurelio Miró Quesada Sosa, a Peruvian journalist and historian (f. 1998).
• 1907: Domingo López Torres, Spanish poet of Surrealism (f. 1937).
• 1909: James Mason, British actor (f. 1984).
• 1909: Clara Solovera, Chilean music (f. 1992).
• 1910: Constance Cummings, British actress (f. 2005).
• 1911: Max Frisch, Swiss writer (f. 1991).
• 1911: Herta Oberheuser, German Nazi doctor (f. 1978).
• 1915: Paul Samuelson, U.S. economist, Alfred Nobel Memorial Economic Science Prize in 1970 (f. 2009).
• 1915: Mario Monicelli, Italian film director and screenwriter (f. 2010).
• 1918: Eddy Arnold, American singer and actor (f. 2008).
• 1918: Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (f. 2009).
• 1920: Michel Audiard, screenwriter and French film director (f. 1985).
• 1920: Carlo Coccioli, Italian writer (f. 2003).
• 1920: Nasrallah Pedro Sfeir de Reyfoun, a Lebanese cardinal (f. 2019).
• 1922: Khiuaz Dospanova, driver and Soviet navigator of Kazakh origin (f. 2008).
• 1923: Richard Avedon, American photographer (f. 2004).
• 1923: Leocán Portus, a Chilean politician (f. 2006).
• 1924: Maria Koepcke, ornithologist, cartoonist, German photographer (f. 1971).
• 1924: Jaime García Terrés, Mexican poet (f. 1996).
• 1925: Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist (f. 2007).
• 1925: Ernesto Foldats, botanist, biologist, Venezuelan orchidologist (f. 2003).

Horacio Guaraný

• 1925: Horacio Guaraní, Argentinean musician (f. 2017).
• 1926: Anthony Shaffer, playwright, filmmaker and British screenwriter (f. 2001).
• 1926: Peter Shaffer, American screenwriter (f. 2016).
• 1929: Juanjo Menéndez, a Spanish actor (f. 2003).
• 1930: Jasper Johns, American painter.
• 1930: Juan Carlos Mesa, Argentine actor and producer (f. 2016).
• 1933: Jūzō Itami, Japanese filmmaker.
• 1936: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italian actress.
• 1936: Wavy Gravy, American activist and clown.

Madeleine Albright

• 1937: Madeleine Albright, Czech-American diplomat and policy (f. 2022).
• 1937: Trini López, American singer and actor (f. 2020).
• 1937: René Drucker Colín, a Mexican scientist (f. 2017).
• 1938: Tommy Olivencia, protorriqueño musician (f. 2006).
• 1940: Alvaro Mejía Flórez, a Colombian athlete (f. 2021).
• 1940: Lainie Kazan, American actress and singer.
• 1940: Don Nelson, basketball player and American coach.
• 1944: Ulrich Beck, German sociologist (f. 2015).
• 1945: Duarte de Braganza, Portuguese aristocrat.
• 1948: Brian Eno, British musician.
• 1948: Malcolm Stewart, Canadian actor.
• 1948: Kathleen Sebelius, American politics.
• 1948: Jaume Sorribas, Spanish actor (f. 2008).
• 1948: Kito Junqueira, Brazilian actor and politician (f. 2019).
• 1949: Elvira Rodríguez, Spanish economist.
• 1950: Nicholas Hammond, American actor.
• 1950: Ana Rossetti, Spanish writer.
• 1951: Frank Wilczek, American physicist, nobel physics award in 2004.
• 1952: Chazz Palminteri, American actor and drmaturgo.
• 1952: Frederic Amat, a Spanish painter.
• 1953: George Brett, American baseball player.

Mike Oldfield

• 1953: Mike Oldfield, British musician.
• 1953: Joaquín Vial, Chilean economist.

The Great Wyoming

• 1955: Lee Horsley, American actor.
• 1955: The Great Wyoming, Spanish humorist.
• 1956: Dan Patrick, American actor and commentator.
• 1957: Kevin Von Erich, American fighter.
• 1958: Ron Simmons, American fighter.
• 1959: Andrew Eldritch, British musician, from the band The Sisters of Mercy.
• 1959: Luis Pérez-Sala, Spanish Formula 1 pilot.
• 1959: Michael Cantor, American actor (f. 1991).
• 1960: Leopoldo Barreda, Spanish politician.
• 1960: Rob Bowman, American film director.
• 1961: Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (f. 2002).
• 1961: Melle Mel, American rapper and composer, of the Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five band.
• 1964: Digna Ochoa, Mexican politics (f. 2001).

Lars Løkke Rasmussen

• 1964: Lars Løkke Rasmussen, a Danish politician and prime minister.
• 1964: Edson Fieschi, Brazilian actor.
• 1965: Ana Cacopardo, journalist, television presenter and Argentine documentaryist.
• 1965: Carlos Castaño Gil, Colombian paramilitary (f. 2004).
• 1965: Grant Heslov, American actor.
• 1965: Raí, Brazilian footballer.
• 1966: Josep Linuesa, Spanish actor.
• 1966: Igor Konashénkov, Russian military.
• 1967: Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress.
• 1967: John Smoltz, American baseball player.
• 1967: Orlando Zapata, Cuban activist (f. 2010).
• 1968: Cecilia Malmström, Swedish politics.
• 1968: Seth Putnam, American musician (f. 2011).
• 1969: Assala Nasri, Syrian singer.
• 1969: Emmitt Smith, American football player.
• 1970: Miguel Angel Benítez, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1970: Frank de Boer, Dutch footballer.
• 1970: Brad Rowe, American actor.
• 1970: Ronald de Boer, Dutch footballer.
• 1971: Phil Pfister, American strongman.
• 1972: David Charvet, French actor.
• 1972: Isidre Esteve, motorist of Spanish rallis.
• 1973: Rafael Mercadante, actor, presenter, singer, international television announcer.
• 1973: Ramón Ruiz, Spanish footballer.
• 1974: Carolina Castillejo, Spanish politics.
• 1974: Ahmet Zappa, American musician.
• 1974: Huey Dunbar, American singer, former DLG member.
• 1974: Russell Hornsby, American actor.
• 1974: Caíco, Brazilian footballer.
• 1974: Khaled Al Fadhli, Kuwaiti footballer.
• 1975: Peter Iwers, Swedish musician (In Flames).
• 1975: Ray Lewis, American football player.
• 1976: Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer.
• 1976: Ryan Leaf, American football player.
• 1977: Alicilio Pinto Silva Junior, Brazilian footballer.
• 1978: Edu, Brazilian footballer.
• 1978: Caroline Dhavernas, Canadian actress.
• 1978: Kosei Inoue, Japanese yudoca.
• 1978: David Krumholtz, American actor.
• 1978: Dwayne De Rosario, Canadian footballer.
• 1978: Krissy Taylor, American model (f. 1995).
• 1978: Flavia Gleske, Venezuelan actress and model.
• 1978: Tino Zaballa, Spanish cyclist.
• 1979: Adolfo Bautista, Mexican footballer.
• 1979: Renato Dirnei, Brazilian footballer.
• 1979: André Dias, Brazilian footballer.
• 1979: Naroa Agirre, Spanish athlete.
• 1979: Dominic Scott, Irish guitarist.
• 1979: Edina Csaba, Hungarian farmer.
• 1979: Amalur Mendizabal, Spanish politics.
• 1979: Daniel Caines, British athlete.
• 1979: Mau Penisula, footballer marshales.
• 1979: Isidro Candia, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1980: Josh Beckett, American baseball player.
• 1981: Patrice Evra, French-Spanish footballer.
• 1981: Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player.
• 1981: Zara Phillips, aristocrat and British rider.
• 1981: Jamie-Lynn Sigler, British actress and singer.
• 1982: Alex Breckenridge, American actress.
• 1982: Bradford Cox, American musician of the Deerhunter band.
• 1982: Veronica Campbell, Jamaican athlete.
• 1982: Second Alejandro Castillo, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1982: Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor.
• 1982: Jessica Sutta, American singer, of the band The Pussycat Dolls.
• 1984: Sérgio Jiménez, Brazilian motor racing driver.
• 1985: Denis Onyango, Ugandan footballer.
• 1986: Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer.
• 1986: Welcome Marañón, Spanish footballer.
• 1987: Kevin Constant, French footballer.
• 1987: Ersan İlyasova, Turkish basketball player.
• 1987: Jennylyn Mercado, Filipino musician.
• 1987: Andy Murray, British tennis player.
• 1987: Anaitz Arbilla, Spanish footballer.
• 1988: Marcus Collins, singer, composer and English hairdresser.
• 1988: Steve Borg, Maltese footballer.
• 1989: Sunny, Korean-American singer, member of the group Girls' Generation.
• 1990: Lee Jong Hyun, South Korean singer.
• 1990: Stella Maxwell, New Zealand model.
• 1990: Ali Michael, American model.
• 1990: Massimiliano Ammendola, Italian footballer.
• 1991: Mollee Gray, American actress and singer.
• 1992: Gian Marco Ferrari, Italian footballer.
• 1994: Abdulmajeed Al-Sulayhem, Saudi footballer.
• 1994: Kevin Presa Duarte, Spanish footballer.
• 1995: Kseniya Sitnik, a Belarusian singer.
• 1996: Birdy (Jasmine van den Bogaerde), British singer.
• 1996: Nerea Camacho, Spanish actress.
• 1996: Filippo Storino, Peruvian actor and model.
• 1997: Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer.
• 1997: Javier Díaz Sánchez, Spanish footballer.
• 1997: Lorena Brandl, German taekwondista.
• 1998: Bartłomiej Urbański, Polish footballer.
• 1998: José Mena Rodríguez, Spanish footballer.
• 1998: Anjan Bista, Nepalese footballer.
• 1998: Eric Vila, Spanish basketball player.
• 1998: Johan Camilo Caballero Cristancho, Colombian footballer.
• 1998: Renny Cabezas, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1999: Arnór Sigurðsson, Icelandic footballer.
• 1999: Aaron Salazar, Costa Rican footballer.
• 1999: Klaudia Wojtunik, Polish athlete.
• 2000: Carolina Ponce, Argentine basketball.
• 2000: Dayana Yastremska, Ukrainian tennis player.
• 2000: Cole Anthony, American basketball player.
• 2000: Caterina Benedetti, Argentine basketball.
• 2000: Alejandro Benítez Palomero, Spanish footballer.
• 2000: Diego Segovia, Uruguayan footballer.
• 2000: Ahmed Hesham, Egyptian basketball player.
• 2000: Jim Beers, Dutch footballer.
• 2000: Noah Williams, British jumper.
• 2000: Rie Yoshida, Japanese swimmer.
• 2002: Au/Ra, German singer and composer.
• 2003: Luca Netz, German footballer.
• 2006: Kang Hae-Rin, South Korean singer and member of the South Korean group New Jeans

Deaths

• 392: Valentinian II, Roman Emperor of the West between 375 and 392 (n. 371).
• 1036: Japanese Go-Ichijō Emperor (n. 1008).
• 1091: Almotacín, Spanish king (n. 1037).

Yuri Dolgoruki

• 1157: Yuri Dolgoruki, great prince of Moscow (n. 1099).
• 1174: Nur al-Din, Syrian ruler (n. 1118).
• 1585: Niwa Nagahide, lord of the Japanese war (n. 1535).
• 1591: Dimitri Ivanovich, Russian aristocrat (n. 1582).
• 1634: Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (n. 1585).
• 1698: Marie Desmares, French actress (n. 1642).
• 1740: Ephraim Chambers, British writer (n. 1680).
• 1773: Alban Butler, a British priest and writer (n. 1710).
• 1786: Eva Ekeblad, Swedish scientist (n. 1724)
• 1789: Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, French painter and engraver (n. 1714).
• 1845: Braulio Carrillo Colina, president of Costa Rica (n. 1800).
• 1879: Gottfried Semper, German architect (n. 1803).

Emily Dickinson

• 1886: Emily Dickinson, American poet (n. 1830).
• 1891: Théodore Deck, French ceramist (n. 1823).
• 1903: Victoriano Lorenzo, leader of the Panamanian peasant army (n. 1867).
• 1908: Rafael Gómez, Mexican writer and politician (n. 1835).
• 1924: Paul d'Estournelles, French diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize in 1909 (n. 1852).
• 1931: Miguel Angel Ortez, a general and a Nicaraguan guerrilla (n. 1907).
• 1935: Kazimir Malévich, Russian painter (n. 1878).
• 1945: Charles Williams, British novelist (n. 1886).
• 1947: Miguel Abadía Méndez, was a lawyer, writer, professor and Colombian politician, a member of the Colombian Conservative Party. (n. 1867).
• 1948: Edward J. Flanagan, American priest (n. 1886).
• 1954: Marmaduque Grove, a Chilean military, political and revolutionary (n. 1878).
• 1954: William March, American writer (n. 1893).
• 1956: Magdalena Aulina, Spanish religious (f. 1897).
• 1956: Austin Osman Spare, British painter, writer and occultist (n. 1886).
• 1956: Adrian Rollini, American musician (n. 1904).
• 1961: Claudio Fox, Mexican military (n. 1885).
• 1963: Javier Heraud, Peruvian poet and guerrilla (n. 1942).
• 1964: Vladko Maček, Croatian politician (n. 1879).

Maximiliano Hernández Martínez

• 1966: Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Salvadoran military (n. 1882).
• 1967: Edward Hopper, American painter (n. 1882).
• 1970: Rodulfo Brito Foucher, jurist and academic (n. 1899).
• 1971: Tyrone Guthrie, British filmmaker (n. 1900).
• 1978: Robert Menzies, Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister (n. 1894).
• 1980: Gordon Prange, American historian (n. 1910).
• 1982: Gordon Smiley, American racing pilot (n. 1946).

Elio de Angelis

• 1986: Elio de Angelis, Italian pilot of Formula 1 (n. 1958).
• 1991: Ronald Lacey, British actor (n. 1935).
• 1994: Gilbert Roland, Mexican actor (n. 1905).
• 1997: Gaston Baquero, Cuban poet and essayist (n. 1914).
• 1998: Earl Manigault, American basketball player (n. 1944).
• 1999: Manuel D'Ornellas, a Peruvian journalist (n. 1937).
• 2001: Jean-Philippe Lauer, French architect and egyptologist (n. 1902).
• 2001: Bobby Murdoch, soccer player and Scottish coach (n. 1944).
• 2003: June Carter Cash, American singer and actress (n. 1929).
• 2003: Silvia Piñeiro, Chilean actress (n. 1922).
• 2004: Narcissus Ibáñez Menta, Argentine actor (n. 1912).
• 2006: Cheikha Remitti, Algerian singer (n. 1923).
• 2007: Jerry Falwell, American pastor (n. 1933).
• 2007: Antonio Rodríguez, a Argentine military and sportsman (n. 1926).
• 2008: Alexander Courage, American composer (n. 1919).
• 2009: Carlos Castilla del Pino, psychiatrist and Spanish writer (n. 1922).
• 2009: Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player (n. 1964).
• 2010: Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (n. 1987).
• 2011: Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan athlete (n. 1986).

Carlos Fuentes

• 2012: Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (n. 1928).
• 2012: José María Macarulla, Spanish biochemical (n. 1932).
• 2012: Zakaria Mohieddin, Egyptian military and political officer (n. 1918).
• 2012: Macrino Suárez, Spanish politician (n. 1936).
• 2013: Linden Chiles, American actor (n. 1933).
• 2013: Manolo Galván, Spanish singer (n. 1947).
• 2014: Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian Prime Minister (n. 1940).
• 2015: Carlos Maggi, Uruguayan writer (n. 1922).
• 2015: Renzo Zorzi motor racing pilot (n. 1946).
• 2016: Margarito, actor, comic, musician and Mexican singer (n. 1936).
• 2017: Viktor Gorbatkó, Soviet cosmonaut (n. 1934).
• 2017: Javier Valdez Cárdenas, Mexican journalist (n. 1967).

Celebrations

• International Day of the Family.
• International Day of Consciousness.
• International Day of Mucopolisacaridosis
• Interantional Day of Tuberous Sclerosis
• Argentina: Sanitarist Worker Day, University Teacher Day.
• ChileChile: Pisco Day.
• Costa RicaCosta Rica: Costa Rican Farmer Day.
• ColombiaColombia: Teacher's Day.
• El SalvadorEl Salvador: Sick Day.
• SpainSpain: Madrid: San Isidro Labrador, patron of Madrid.
• Mexico Mexico: Master's Day.
• South KoreaSouth Korea: Master's Day.
• JapanJapan:
  • Kyoto: Aoi Matsuri.
  • Izumo Taisha: Second Day of the Annual Festival (14 May-16 May).
• PalestinePalestine: Nakba Day (the day of catastrophe).
• Paraguay Paraguay:
  • Mother's Day.
  • Independence Day.

Catholic saints list

• Virgin of the sweet waiting
• San Indalecio
• San Aquileo Taumaturgo
• San Caleb
• Santa Dympna
• San Isidro Labrador
• Santa Juana de Lestonnac
• Saint John the Baptist of the Salle
• San Reticio de Autún
• San Ruperto de Bingen
• San Severino de Septempeda
• San Simplicio de Cerdeña
• San Torcuato, Bishop
• San Witesindo de Córdoba
• Beato Andrés Abellón