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May 3 in recent years
2024 (Friday)
2023 (Wednesday)
2022 (Tuesday)
2021 (Monday)
2020 (Sunday)
2019 (Friday)
2018 (Thursday)
2017 (Wednesday)
2016 (Tuesday)
2015 (Sunday)

May 3 is the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 242 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.
1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
1568 – Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort Caroline, a French force burns the San Mateo fort and massacres hundreds of Spaniards.^[1]

1601–1900

1616 – Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war.
1715 – A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy.
1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board of Commissioners, the District's founding government. The "City of Washington" is given a mayor-council form of government.^[2]
1808 – Finnish War: Sweden loses the fortress of Sveaborg to Russia.
1808 – Peninsular War: The Madrid rebels who rose up on May 2 are executed near Príncipe Pío hill.
1815 – Neapolitan War: Joachim Murat, King of Naples, is defeated by the Austrians at the Battle of Tolentino, the decisive engagement of the war.
1830 – The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened; it is the first steam-hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel.
1837 – The University of Athens is founded in Athens, Greece.^[3]
1848 – The boar-crested Anglo-Saxon Benty Grange helmet is discovered in a barrow on the Benty Grange farm in Derbyshire.
1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins: The last of the German revolutions of 1848–49.
1855 – American adventurer William Walker departs from San Francisco with about 60 men to conquer Nicaragua.

1901–present

1901 – The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
1913 – Raja Harishchandra, the first full-length Indian feature film, is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry.
1920 – A Bolshevik coup fails in the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
1921 – Ireland is partitioned under British law by the Government of Ireland Act 1920, creating Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland.
1921 – West Virginia becomes the first state to legislate a broad sales tax, but does not implement it until a number of years later due to enforcement issues.
1928 – The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.^[4]
1939 – The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
1942 – World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1945 – World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.
1947 – New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.
1948 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Shelley v. Kraemer that covenants prohibiting the sale of real estate to blacks and other minorities are legally unenforceable.^[5]
1951 – London's Royal Festival Hall opens with the Festival of Britain.
1951 – The United States Senate Committee on Armed Services and United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begin their closed door hearings into the relief of Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry Truman.
1952 – Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
1952 – The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
1953 – Two men are rescued from a semitrailer that crashed over the side of the Pit River Bridge before it fell into the Sacramento River. Amateur photographer Virginia Schau photographs "Rescue on Pit River Bridge", the first and only winning submission for the Pulitzer Prize for Photography to have been taken by a woman.^[6]
1957 – Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
1963 – The police force in Birmingham, Alabama switches tactics and responds with violent force to stop the "Birmingham campaign" protesters. Images of the violent suppression are transmitted worldwide, bringing new-found attention to the civil rights movement.
1968 – Eighty-five people are killed when Braniff International Airways Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas.^[7]
1971 – Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989.^[8]
1978 – The first unsolicited bulk commercial email (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.
1979 – Margaret Thatcher wins the United Kingdom general election.^[9] The following day, she becomes the first female British Prime Minister.
1986 – Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on Air Lanka Flight 512 at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
1987 – A crash by Bobby Allison at the Talladega Superspeedway, Alabama fencing at the start-finish line would lead NASCAR to develop the restrictor plate for the following season both at Daytona International Speedway and Talladega.
1999 – The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20 mph (484 +/- 32 km/h). In meteorology, the term “May 3” is synonymous with the F5 tornado.^[10]
1999 – Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side results in the Kargil War.
2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
2001 – The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
2006 – Armavia Flight 967 crashes into the Black Sea near Sochi International Airport in Sochi, Russia, killing 113 people.^[11]
2007 – The three-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
2015 – Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
2016 – Eighty-eight thousand people are evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada as a wildfire rips through the community, destroying approximately 2,400 homes and buildings.^[12]
2023 – Nine students and a security guard are killed in the Belgrade school shooting, the first attack of its kind in Serbia.^[13]

Births

Pre-1600

490 – Kʼan Joy Chitam I, ruler of Palenque (d. 565)
612 – Constantine III, Byzantine emperor (d. 641)
1238 – Emilia Bicchieri, Italian saint (d. 1314)
1276 – Louis, Count of Évreux, son of King Philip III of France (d. 1319)
1415 – Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (d. 1495)
1428 – Pedro González de Mendoza, Spanish cardinal (d. 1495)
1446 – Margaret of York (d. 1503)^[14]
1461 – Raffaele Riario, Italian cardinal (d. 1521)
1469 – Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian historian and philosopher (d. 1527)^[15]
1479 – Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1552)
1481 – Juana de la Cruz Vázquez Gutiérrez, Spanish abbess of the Franciscan Third Order Regular (d. 1534)
1536 – Stephan Praetorius, German theologian (d. 1603)

1601–1900

1632 – Catherine of St. Augustine, French-Canadian nurse and candidate for sainthood, founded the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec (d. 1668)
1662 – Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect, designed the Pillnitz Castle (d. 1736)
1678 – Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (d. 1747)
1695 – Henri Pitot, French physicist and engineer, invented the Pitot tube (d. 1771)
1729 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, Czech composer (d. 1774)
1761 – August von Kotzebue, German playwright and author (d. 1819)
1764 – Princess Élisabeth of France (d. 1794)^[16]
1768 – Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and businessman (d. 1838)
1783 – José de la Riva Agüero, Peruvian soldier and politician, 1st President of Peru and 2nd President of North Peru (d. 1858)^[17]
1814 – Adams George Archibald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (d. 1892)
1826 – Charles XV of Sweden (d. 1872)
1844 – Richard D'Oyly Carte, English talent agent and composer (d. 1901)
1849 – Jacob Riis, Danish-American journalist and photographer (d. 1914)
1849 – Bernhard von Bülow, German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
1854 – George Gore, American baseball player and manager (d. 1933)
1859 – August Herrmann, American executive in Major League Baseball (d. 1931)
1860 – Vito Volterra, Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1940)
1867 – Andy Bowen, American boxer (d. 1894)
1867 – J. T. Hearne, English cricketer (d. 1944)
1870 – Princess Helena Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1948)
1871 – Emmett Dalton, American criminal (d. 1937)
1873 – Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1945)
1874 – François Coty, French businessman and publisher, founded Coty (d. 1934)
1874 – Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (d. 1954)^[18]
1877 – Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and author (d. 1925)
1879 – Fergus McMaster, Australian businessman and soldier, co-founded Qantas (d. 1950)
1886 – Marcel Dupré, French organist and composer (d. 1971)
1887 – Marika Kotopouli, Greek actress (d. 1954)
1889 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (d. 1981)
1889 – Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player (d. 1972)
1891 – Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic (d. 1969)
1891 – Eppa Rixey, American baseball pitcher (d. 1963)
1892 – George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1892 – Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic (d. 1970)
1893 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian author (d. 1975)
1895 – Cornelius Van Til, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and apologist (d. 1987)
1896 – Karl Allmenröder, German soldier and pilot (d. 1917)
1896 – V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian lawyer, jurist, and politician, Indian Minister of Defence (d. 1974)
1896 – Dodie Smith, English author and playwright (d. 1990)
1897 – William Joseph Browne, Canadian lawyer and politician, 20th Solicitor General of Canada (d. 1989)
1898 – Septima Poinsette Clark, American educator and activist (d. 1987)
1898 – Golda Meir, Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1978)^[19]

1901–present

1902 – Alfred Kastler, German-French physicist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1903 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (d. 1977)
1905 – Red Ruffing, American baseball pitcher and coach (d. 1986)
1906 – Mary Astor, American actress (d. 1987)
1906 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist and author (d. 1975)
1910 – Norman Corwin, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1912 – Virgil Fox, American organist and composer (d. 1980)
1912 – May Sarton, American poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1995)
1913 – William Inge, American playwright and novelist (d. 1973)
1914 – Georges-Emmanuel Clancier, French journalist, author, and poet (d. 2018)^[20]
1915 – Stu Hart, Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded Stampede Wrestling (d. 2003)
1917 – Betty Comden, American screenwriter and librettist (d. 2006)
1917 – George Gaynes, Finnish-American actor (d. 2016)
1917 – Kiro Gligorov, Macedonian politician and first president of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2012)^[21]
1918 – Ted Bates, English footballer and manager (d. 2003)
1919 – Pete Seeger, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist (d. 2014)
1920 – John Lewis, American pianist and composer (d. 2001)
1921 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer (d. 1989)
1922 – Len Shackleton, English footballer and journalist (d. 2000)
1923 – Ralph Hall, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 2019)
1924 – Yehuda Amichai, German-Israeli author and poet (d. 2000)
1924 – Ken Tyrrell, English race car driver, founded Tyrrell Racing (d. 2001)
1928 – Dave Dudley, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1928 – Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001)
1930 – Juan Gelman, Argentinian poet and author (d. 2014)
1932 – Robert Osborne, American actor and historian (d. 2017)
1933 – James Brown, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1933 – Steven Weinberg, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
1934 – Henry Cooper, English boxer and sportscaster (d. 2011)
1934 – Georges Moustaki, Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
1934 – Frankie Valli, American singer and actor
1935 – Ron Popeil, American businessman, founded the Ronco Company (d. 2021)
1938 – Omar Abdel-Rahman, Egyptian terrorist (d. 2017)
1940 – David Koch, American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist (d. 2019)
1940 – Clemens Westerhof, Dutch footballer and manager
1941 – Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess player, Women's World Champion, 1962-1978^[22]
1942 – Věra Čáslavská, Czech gymnast and coach (d. 2016)
1942 – Butch Otter, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Idaho
1943 – Jim Risch, American lawyer and politician, 31st Governor of Idaho
1943 – Vicente Saldivar, Mexican boxer (d. 1985)
1945 – Davey Lopes, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1946 – Norm Chow, American football player and coach
1946 – Greg Gumbel, American sportscaster (d. 2024)^[23]
1947 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000)
1948 – Denis Cosgrove, British-American academic and geographer (d. 2008)
1949 – Liam Donaldson, English physician and academic
1949 – Ron Wyden, American academic and politician
1950 – Mary Hopkin, Welsh singer-songwriter
1951 – Christopher Cross, American singer-songwriter and producer
1951 – Ashok Gehlot, Indian politician, 21st Chief Minister of Rajasthan
1951 – Tatyana Tolstaya, Russian author and publicist
1952 – Chuck Baldwin, American pastor and politician
1952 – Joseph W. Tobin, American cardinal
1954 – Angela Bofill, American singer-songwriter
1955 – Stephen D. M. Brown, British geneticist
1955 – David Hookes, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2004)
1957 – Rod Langway, Taiwanese-American ice hockey player and coach
1958 – Bill Sienkiewicz, American author and illustrator
1958 – Sandi Toksvig, Danish-English comedian, writer, and broadcaster
1959 – Uma Bharti, Indian activist and politician, 16th Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
1959 – Ben Elton, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1960 – Kathy Smallwood-Cook, English sprinter and educator
1961 – Steve McClaren, English footballer and manager
1961 – David Vitter, American lawyer and politician^[24]
1961 – Leyla Zana, Kurdish activist and politician
1963 – Jeff Hornacek, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Mona Siddiqui, Pakistani-Scottish journalist and academic
1964 – Sterling Campbell, American drummer and songwriter
1964 – Ron Hextall, Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager
1965 – Ignatius Aphrem II, Syrian patriarch
1965 – Mark Cousins, Northern Irish director, writer, cinematographer
1965 – John Jensen, Danish footballer and coach
1965 – Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian businessman
1967 – Daniel Anderson, Australian rugby league coach and manager
1967 – Kenny Hotz, Canadian producer, writer, director, actor, and comedian
1971 – Douglas Carswell, British politician, the first elected MP for the UK Independence Party^[25]
1972 – Steve Barclay, English lawyer and politician
1973 – Jamie Baulch, Welsh sprinter and television host
1975 – Willie Geist, American television journalist and host
1975 – Christina Hendricks, American actress and model^[26]
1975 – Sanath Nishantha, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2024)^[27]
1976 – Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
1976 – Brad Scott, Australian footballer and coach
1976 – Chris Scott, Australian footballer and coach
1977 – Eric Church, American country music singer-songwriter^[28]
1977 – Ryan Dempster, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
1977 – Tyronn Lue, American basketball player and coach
1977 – Ben Olsen, American soccer player and coach
1978 – Paul Banks, English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Lawrence Tynes, American football player
1982 – Igor Olshansky, Ukrainian-American football player
1983 – Joseph Addai, American football player
1983 – Romeo Castelen, Dutch footballer
1983 – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
1985 – Ezequiel Lavezzi, Argentinian footballer
1985 – Robin Tonniau, Belgian politician^[29]
1986 – Homer Bailey, American baseball player^[30]
1986 – Pom Klementieff, French actress^[31]
1987 – Damla Sönmez, Turkish actress^[32]
1988 – Ben Revere, American baseball player
1988 – Paddy Holohan, Irish mixed martial artist
1989 – Jesse Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player
1989 – Katinka Hosszú, Hungarian swimmer^[33]
1990 – Harvey Guillén, American actor^[34]
1990 – Brooks Koepka, American golfer^[35]
1990 – James Pattinson, Australian cricketer^[36]^[37]
1991 – Samuel Seo, South Korean musician
1995 – Ivan Bukavshin, Russian chess player (d. 2016)
1995 – Anwar El Ghazi, Dutch footballer^[38]
1995 – Austin Meadows, American baseball player^[39]
1996 – Mary Cain, American runner^[40]
1996 – Alex Iwobi, Nigerian footballer^[41]
1996 – Domantas Sabonis, Lithuanian-American basketball player^[42]
1996 – Noah Munck, American actor^[43]
1997 – Desiigner, American rapper^[44]
1997 – Dwayne Haskins, American football player (d. 2022)^[45]
1999 – Tom Hartley , English cricketer^[46]
2001 – Rachel Zegler, American actress and singer^[47]
2003 – Florian Wirtz, German footballer^[48]

Deaths

Pre-1600

678 – Tōchi, Japanese princess
738 – Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil, Mayan ruler (ajaw)
1152 – Matilda of Boulogne (b. 1105)^[49]
1270 – Béla IV of Hungary (b. 1206)^[50]
1294 – John I, Duke of Brabant (b. 1252)
1330 – Alexios II Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1282)
1410 – Antipope Alexander V^[51]
1481 – Mehmed the Conqueror, Ottoman sultan (b. 1432)
1501 – John Devereux, 9th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, English Baron (b. 1463)
1524 – Richard Grey, 3rd Earl of Kent, English peer (b. 1481)
1534 – Juana de la Cruz Vazquez Gutierrez, Spanish Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b. 1481)
1589 – Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1528)

1601–1900

1606 – Henry Garnet, English priest and author (b. 1555)
1621 – Elizabeth Bacon, English Tudor gentlewoman (b. 1541)
1679 – James Sharp, Scottish archbishop (b. 1613)
1693 – Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French courtier (b. 1607)
1704 – Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Czech-Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1644)
1724 – John Leverett the Younger, American lawyer, academic, and politician (b. 1662)
1750 – John Willison, Scottish minister and author (b. 1680)
1752 – Samuel Ogle, English-American captain and politician, 5th Governor of Restored Proprietary Government (b. 1692)
1758 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)
1763 – George Psalmanazar, French-English author (b. 1679)
1764 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, poet, and critic (b. 1712)
1779 – John Winthrop, American mathematician, physicist, and astronomer (b. 1714)
1793 – Martin Gerbert, German historian and theologian (b. 1720)
1839 – Ferdinando Paer, Italian composer (b. 1771)
1856 – Adolphe Adam, French composer and critic (b. 1803)
1856 – Louis-Étienne Saint-Denis, Arab-French servant to Napoleon I (b. 1788)
1882 – Leonidas Smolents, Austrian–Greek general and army minister (b. 1806)^[52]

1901–present

1910 – Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist (b. 1871)
1916 – Tom Clarke, Irish rebel (b. 1858)
1916 – Thomas MacDonagh, Irish poet and rebel (b. 1878)
1916 – Patrick Pearse, Irish teacher and rebel leader (b. 1879)
1918 – Charlie Soong, Chinese businessman and missionary (b. 1863)
1919 – Elizabeth Almira Allen, American educator (b. 1854)
1921 – Théodore Pilette, Belgian race car driver (b. 1883)
1925 – Clément Ader, French engineer, designed the Ader Avion III (b. 1841)
1932 – Charles Fort, American journalist and author (b. 1874)
1935 – Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (b. 1863)
1939 – Madeleine Desroseaux, French author and poet (b. 1873)
1942 – Thorvald Stauning, Danish politician, 24th Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1873)
1943 – Harry Miller, American engineer (b. 1875)
1948 – Ernst Tandefelt, Finnish assassin of Heikki Ritavuori (b. 1876)
1949 – Fanny Walden, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1888)
1958 – Frank Foster, English cricketer (b. 1889)
1969 – Zakir Husain, Indian academic and politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
1970 – Cemil Gürgen Erlertürk, Turkish footballer, coach, and pilot (b. 1918)
1972 – Kenneth Bailey, Australian lawyer and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Canada (b. 1898)
1972 – Emil Breitkreutz, American runner and coach (b. 1883)
1972 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904)
1978 – Bill Downs, American journalist (b. 1914)
1981 – Nargis, Indian actress (b. 1929)^[53]
1986 – Robert Alda, American actor (b. 1914)
1987 – Dalida, Italian singer, actress, dancer, and model (b. 1933)^[54]
1988 – Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1908)
1989 – Christine Jorgensen, American trans woman (b. 1926)
1991 – Jerzy Kosiński, Polish-American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1933)
1992 – George Murphy, American actor, dancer, and politician (b. 1902)
1996 – Dimitri Fampas, Greek guitarist, composer, and educator (b. 1921)
1996 – Alex Kellner, American baseball player (b. 1924)
1996 – Jack Weston, American actor (b. 1924)
1996 – Keith Daniel Williams, American rapist and triple murderer (b. 1947)^[55]
1997 – Sébastien Enjolras, French race car driver (b. 1976)
1997 – Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist and composer (b. 1927)
1998 – Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
1999 – Joe Adcock, American baseball player and manager (b. 1927)
1999 – Steve Chiasson, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1967)
1999 – Godfrey Evans, English cricketer (b. 1920)
2000 – Júlia Báthory, Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901)
2000 – John Joseph O'Connor, American cardinal (b. 1920)
2002 – Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, English politician, First Secretary of State (b. 1910)
2002 – Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1928)
2003 – Suzy Parker, American model and actress (b. 1932)
2004 – Ken Downing, English race car driver (b. 1917)
2004 – Darrell Johnson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1928)
2006 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (b. 1921)
2006 – Pramod Mahajan, Indian politician (b. 1949)
2006 – Earl Woods, American colonel, baseball player, and author (b. 1932)
2007 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (b. 1913)
2007 – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
2007 – Knock Yokoyama, Japanese politician (b. 1932)
2008 – Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish engineer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1926)
2009 – Renée Morisset, Canadian pianist (b. 1928)
2009 – Ram Balkrushna Shewalkar, Indian author and critic (b. 1931)
2010 – Roy Carrier, American accordion player (b. 1947)
2010 – Peter O'Donnell, English soldier and author (b. 1920)
2010 – Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (b. 1923)
2011 – Jackie Cooper, American actor, television director, producer and executive (b. 1922)
2011 – Sergo Kotrikadze, Georgian footballer and manager (b. 1936)
2011 – Thanasis Veggos, Greek actor and director (b. 1927)
2012 – Jorge Illueca, Panamanian politician, 30th President of Panama (b. 1918)
2012 – Felix Werder, German-Australian composer, conductor, and critic (b. 1922)
2013 – Joe Astroth, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2013 – Herbert Blau, American engineer and academic (b. 1926)
2013 – Cedric Brooks, Jamaican-American saxophonist and flute player (b. 1943)
2013 – Keith Carter, American swimmer and soldier (b. 1924)
2013 – Brad Drewett, Australian tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1958)
2013 – David Morris Kern, American pharmacist, co-invented Orajel (b. 1909)
2013 – Curtis Rouse, American football player (b. 1960)
2013 – Branko Vukelić, Croatian politician, 11th Minister of Defence for Croatia (b. 1958)
2014 – Gary Becker, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
2014 – Francisco Icaza, Mexican painter (b. 1930)
2014 – Jim Oberstar, American educator and politician (b. 1934)
2015 – Revaz Chkheidze, Georgian director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
2015 – Danny Jones, Welsh rugby player (b. 1986)^[56]
2015 – Warren Smith, American golfer and coach (b. 1915)
2016 – Ian Deans, Canadian politician (b. 1937)
2016 – Jadranka Stojaković, Yugoslav singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
2017 – Daliah Lavi, Israeli actress, singer and model (b. 1942)
2020 – Victoria Barbă, Moldovan animated film director (b. 1926)^[57]
2021 – Lloyd Price, American R&B vocalist (b. 1933)^[58]
2024 – Dick Rutan, American military aviator and officer (b. 1938)^[59]

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:
Constitution Memorial Day (Japan)
Constitution Day (Poland)
Finding of the Holy Cross-related observances:
- Fiesta de las Cruces (Spain and Hispanic America)
International Sun Day^[60]
World Press Freedom Day^[61]

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^ "Canada wildfire: Images show Fort McMurray devastation". BBC News. 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2021-05-22.
^ Lee, Dulcie (3 May 2023). "At least nine dead in Serbia school shooting". BBC News. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
^ "Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy (1446–1503)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2018. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780192683120.013.18051. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
^ "Niccolo Machiavelli | Biography, Books, Philosophy, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "Elizabeth Of France | princess of France". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
^ Smith, Benjamin Eli (1903). The Century cyclopedia of names: a pronouncing and etymological dictionary of names in geography, biography, mythology, history, ethnology, art, archaeology, fiction, etc., etc., etc. New York: The Century Company. p. 858.
^ "V. Walfrid Ekman | Swedish scientist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
^ "Golda Meir". Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers. 16 February 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
^ "L'écrivain et poète limougeaud Georges-Emmanuel Clancier est décédé" (in French). Le Populaire du Centre. 4 July 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
^ Kofman, Jan; Roszkowski, Wojciech, eds. (2016). Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Taylor & Francis. p. 296. ISBN 9781317475941.
^ "Nona Gaprindashvili – the legendary fifth world champion". Chessbase India. 4 May 2006. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
^ Saperstein, Pat (December 27, 2024). "Greg Gumbel, Longtime CBS Sports Broadcaster, Dies at 78". Variety. Retrieved December 27, 2024.
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- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
- Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
- Profile at Vote Smart
^ Douglas Carswell
^ Cusumano, Josephine (3 May 2016). "Christina Hendricks Turns 41! Relive Her Best Beauty Moments". InStyle. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
^ "A notice about the vacant MP post after Sanath Nishantha". Ada Derana (in Sinhala). 25 January 2024. Retrieved 27 January 2024.
^ "See Eric Church Through the Years, and Not Always in Sunglasses". 3 May 2020.
^ "De Kamerleden: Robin Tonniau" (in Dutch). Brussels, Belgium: Chamber of Representatives. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
^ "Homer Bailey Stats". mlb.com. MLB. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
^ Sheridan, Wade (4 May 2018). "Chris Pratt wishes 'Guardians' co-star Pom Klementieff happy birthday". UPI. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
^ Beyazperde. "Damla Sönmez". Beyazperde (in Turkish). Retrieved 2021-08-08.
^ "Katinka HOSSZU - Olympic Swimming | Hungary". International Olympic Committee. 16 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
^ Guillén, Harvey. "Had a amazing time celebrating my bday last night". instagram.com. Instagram. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
^ "Brooks Koepka". ESPN. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
^ "James Pattinson | Stats, Bio, Facts and Career Info". www.cricket.com.au. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
^ "James Pattinson profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
^ "Anwar El Ghazi: Overview". Premier League. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
^ "Austin Meadows Stats". mlb.com. MLB. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
^ "Mary CAIN | Profile". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "Alex Iwobi". www.arsenal.com. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "Domantas Sabonis Stats, News, Bio". ESPN. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "Noah Munck Booking Agency | Appearances | Request Fee Info". www.allamericanspeakers.com. Retrieved 2023-05-11.
^ Trust, Gary (April 25, 2016). "Desiigner's 'Panda' Claws to No. 1 on Hot 100, Bringing Americans Back to the Top". Billboard. Retrieved April 26, 2016. Desiigner is 18 years and 11 months old; he'll turn 19 on May 3.
^ Greenstein, Teddy (7 December 2018). "Heisman Trophy finalist Dwayne Haskins was destined to select Ohio State. Next up: Become the next Peyton Manning". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
^ "Tom Hartley Profile". espncricinfo.com. ESPN. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
^
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 *[[1971]] &ndash; [[Erich Honecker]] becomes [[Leadership of East Germany#Leaders of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED)|First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany]], remaining in power until 1989.<ref>{{cite book|last=Winkler|first=Heinrich August|author-link=Heinrich August Winkler|title=Germany: The Long Road West, Vol. 2: 1933–1990|pages=266–268|year=2007|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref>
 *[[1978]] &ndash; The first unsolicited bulk commercial [[email]] (which would later become known as "[[spam (electronic)|spam]]") is sent by a [[Digital Equipment Corporation]] marketing representative to every [[ARPANET]] address on the west coast of the United States.
-*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Margaret Thatcher]] wins the [[United Kingdom]] [[1979 United Kingdom general election|general election]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=United Kingdom - The Margaret Thatcher government (1979–90)|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> The following day, she becomes the first female [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]].
+*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Margaret Thatcher]] wins the United Kingdom [[1979 United Kingdom general election|general election]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=United Kingdom - The Margaret Thatcher government (1979–90)|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/United-Kingdom|access-date=2020-09-17|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> The following day, she becomes the first female [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|British Prime Minister]].
 *[[1986]] &ndash; Twenty-one people are killed and forty-one are injured after a bomb explodes on [[Air Lanka Flight 512]] at Colombo airport in Sri Lanka.
 *[[1987]] &ndash; A crash by [[Bobby Allison]] at the [[Talladega Superspeedway]], [[Alabama]] fencing at the start-finish line would lead [[NASCAR]] to develop the [[restrictor plate]] for the following season both at [[Daytona International Speedway]] and Talladega.
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 *[[2000]] &ndash; The sport of [[geocaching]] begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a [[Global Positioning System|GPS]] posted on [[Usenet]].
 *[[2001]] &ndash; The United States loses its seat on the [[U.N. Human Rights Commission]] for the first time since the commission was formed in [[1947]].
-*[[2006]] &ndash; [[Armavia Flight 967]] crashes into the [[Black Sea]] near [[Sochi International Airport]] in [[Sochi]], [[Russia]], killing 113 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A320-211 EK32009 Adler/Sochi Airport (AER)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20060503-0|access-date=2022-01-31|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
+*[[2006]] &ndash; [[Armavia Flight 967]] crashes into the [[Black Sea]] near [[Sochi International Airport]] in [[Sochi]], Russia, killing 113 people.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Ranter|first=Harro|title=ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A320-211 EK32009 Adler/Sochi Airport (AER)|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20060503-0|access-date=2022-01-31|website=aviation-safety.net|publisher=[[Aviation Safety Network]]}}</ref>
 *[[2007]] &ndash; The three-year-old British girl [[Disappearance of Madeleine McCann|Madeleine McCann]] disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
 *[[2015]] &ndash; Two gunmen [[Curtis Culwell Center attack|launch an attempted attack]] on an anti-Islam event in [[Garland, Texas]], which was held in response to the [[Charlie Hebdo shooting|''Charlie Hebdo'' shooting]].
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 ==Births==
 ===Pre-1600===
-* [[490]] &ndash; [[K'an Joy Chitam I]], ruler of [[Palenque]] (d. 565)
+* [[490]] &ndash; [[Kʼan Joy Chitam I]], ruler of [[Palenque]] (d. 565)
 * [[612]] &ndash; [[Constantine III (Byzantine emperor)|Constantine III]], Byzantine emperor (d. 641)
 *[[1238]] &ndash; [[Emilia Bicchieri]], Italian saint (d. 1314)
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 *  1849   &ndash; [[Bernhard von Bülow]], German soldier and politician, [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] (d. 1929)
 *[[1854]] &ndash; [[George Gore]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1933)
-*[[1859]] &ndash; [[August Herrmann]], American executive in [[Major League Baseball]] (d.1931)
+*[[1859]] &ndash; [[August Herrmann]], American executive in [[Major League Baseball]] (d. 1931)
 *[[1860]] &ndash; [[Vito Volterra]], Italian mathematician and physicist (d. 1940)
 *[[1867]] &ndash; [[Andy Bowen]], American boxer (d. 1894)
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 *[[1898]] &ndash; [[Septima Poinsette Clark]], American educator and activist (d. 1987)
 *  1898   &ndash; [[Golda Meir]], Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (d. 1978)<ref>{{cite web |title=Golda Meir |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/golda-meir |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=29 July 2021 |language=en |date=16 February 2019}}</ref>
 ===1901–present===
 *[[1902]] &ndash; [[Alfred Kastler]], German-French physicist and poet, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1984)
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 *  1912   &ndash; [[May Sarton]], American poet, novelist and memoirist (d. 1995)
 *[[1913]] &ndash; [[William Inge]], American playwright and novelist (d. 1973)
-*[[1914]] &ndash; [[Georges-Emmanuel Clancier]], French journalist, author, and poet (d. 2018))<ref>{{cite news |title=L'écrivain et poète limougeaud Georges-Emmanuel Clancier est décédé |url=https://www.lepopulaire.fr/limoges/loisirs/art-litterature/2018/07/04/l-ecrivain-et-poete-limougeaud-georges-emmanuel-clancier-est-decede_12912156.html |access-date=4 July 2018 |publisher=Le Populaire du Centre |date=4 July 2018 |language=fr}}</ref>
+*[[1914]] &ndash; [[Georges-Emmanuel Clancier]], French journalist, author, and poet (d. 2018)<ref>{{cite news |title=L'écrivain et poète limougeaud Georges-Emmanuel Clancier est décédé |url=https://www.lepopulaire.fr/limoges/loisirs/art-litterature/2018/07/04/l-ecrivain-et-poete-limougeaud-georges-emmanuel-clancier-est-decede_12912156.html |access-date=4 July 2018 |publisher=Le Populaire du Centre |date=4 July 2018 |language=fr}}</ref>
 *[[1915]] &ndash; [[Stu Hart]], Canadian wrestler and trainer, founded [[Stampede Wrestling]] (d. 2003)
 *[[1917]] &ndash; [[Betty Comden]], American screenwriter and librettist (d. 2006)
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 *1917 &ndash; [[Kiro Gligorov]], Macedonian politician and first president of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2012)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Kofman |editor1-first=Jan |editor2-last=Roszkowski |editor2-first=Wojciech |title=Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century |date=2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781317475941 |page=296}}</ref>
 *[[1918]] &ndash; [[Ted Bates (footballer)|Ted Bates]], English footballer and manager (d. 2003)
-*  1919   &ndash; [[Pete Seeger]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist (d. 2014)
+*  [[1919]]   &ndash; [[Pete Seeger]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and activist (d. 2014)
 *[[1920]] &ndash; [[John Lewis (pianist)|John Lewis]], American pianist and composer (d. 2001)
 *[[1921]] &ndash; [[Sugar Ray Robinson]], American boxer (d. 1989)
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 *[[1940]] &ndash; [[David Koch]], American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist (d. 2019)
 *  1940   &ndash; [[Clemens Westerhof]], Dutch footballer and manager
+*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Nona Gaprindashvili]], Georgian chess player, [[women's world chess champion|Women's World Champion]], 1962-1978<ref>{{cite web |title=Nona Gaprindashvili – the legendary fifth world champion |url=https://en.chessbase.com/post/nona-gaprindashvili-the-legendary-fifth-world-champion/13 |website=Chessbase India |access-date=3 May 2024 |date=4 May 2006}}</ref>
 *[[1942]] &ndash; [[Věra Čáslavská]], Czech gymnast and coach (d. 2016)
 *  1942   &ndash; [[Butch Otter]], American soldier and politician, 32nd [[Governor of Idaho]]
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 *[[1945]] &ndash; [[Davey Lopes]], American baseball player, coach, and manager
 *[[1946]] &ndash; [[Norm Chow]], American football player and coach
+*  1946 &ndash; [[Greg Gumbel]], American sportscaster (d. 2024)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Saperstein |first=Pat |date=December 27, 2024 |title=Greg Gumbel, Longtime CBS Sports Broadcaster, Dies at 78 |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/greg-gumbel-dead-cbs-sports-1236261024/ |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
-*  1946   &ndash; [[Greg Gumbel]], American sportscaster
 *[[1947]] &ndash; [[Doug Henning]], Canadian magician (d. 2000)
 *[[1948]] &ndash; [[Denis Cosgrove]], British-American academic and geographer (d. 2008)
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 *  1977   &ndash; [[Ryan Dempster]], Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
 *  1977   &ndash; [[Tyronn Lue]], American basketball player and coach
-*  1977   &ndash; [[Maryam Mirzakhani]], Iranian mathematician (d. 2017)
 *  1977   &ndash; [[Ben Olsen]], American soccer player and coach
 *[[1978]] &ndash; [[Paul Banks (musician, born 1978)|Paul Banks]], English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
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 *  1983   &ndash; [[Márton Fülöp]], Hungarian footballer (d. 2015)
 *[[1985]] &ndash; [[Ezequiel Lavezzi]], Argentinian footballer
+*  1985   &ndash; [[Robin Tonniau]], Belgian politician<ref>{{cite web |title=De Kamerleden: Robin Tonniau |url=https://www.dekamer.be/kvvcr/showpage.cfm?section=/depute&language=nl&cfm=cvview54.cfm?key=07911&lactivity=56 |publisher=[[Chamber of Representatives (Belgium)|Chamber of Representatives]] |access-date=4 September 2024 |location=Brussels, Belgium |language=nl}}</ref>
 *[[1986]] &ndash; [[Homer Bailey]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Homer Bailey Stats |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/homer-bailey-456701 |website=mlb.com |publisher=MLB |access-date=3 May 2024}}</ref>
 * 1986 &ndash; [[Pom Klementieff]], French actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sheridan |first1=Wade |title=Chris Pratt wishes 'Guardians' co-star Pom Klementieff happy birthday |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Movies/2018/05/04/Chris-Pratt-wishes-Guardians-co-star-Pom-Klementieff-happy-birthday/3921525431160/ |publisher=[[UPI]] |access-date=26 April 2023 |date=4 May 2018}}</ref>
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 *  2015   &ndash; [[Warren Smith (golfer)|Warren Smith]], American golfer and coach (b. 1915)
 *[[2016]] &ndash; [[Ian Deans]], Canadian politician (b. 1937)
-*  2016   &ndash; [[Jadranka Stojaković]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] singer-songwriter  (b. 1950)
+*  2016 &ndash; [[Jadranka Stojaković]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] singer-songwriter  (b. 1950)
 *[[2017]] &ndash; [[Daliah Lavi]], Israeli actress, singer and model (b. 1942)
 *[[2020]] &ndash; [[Victoria Barbă]], Moldovan animated film director (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/EnciclopediaIdentitatiiRomanesti.Personalitati/page/n59/mode/2up?view=theater|title=Enciclopedia Identității Românești|first=Ecaterina|last=Țarălungă|publisher=Litera|page=60|year=2011|language=ro|isbn=978-606-600-246-2}}</ref>
 *[[2021]] &ndash; [[Lloyd Price]], American R&B vocalist (b. 1933)<ref>{{Cite web|last=McCarthy|first=Tyler|date=2021-05-09|title=Lloyd Price, early rock legend behind 'Stagger Lee,' dead at 88|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/lloyd-price-early-rock-legend-behind-stagger-lee-dead-at-88|access-date=2021-05-09|website=Fox News|language=en-US}}</ref>
+*[[2024]] &ndash; [[Dick Rutan]], American military aviator and officer (b. 1938)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-05-04 |title=Dick Rutan, co-pilot of historic round-the-world flight, dies at 85 |url=https://apnews.com/article/dick-rutan-voyager-pilot-plane-d4fa2130f81ea3a9dfd95bb8ea1285d7 |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref>
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 ** [[Theodosius of Kiev]] ([[Eastern Orthodox Church]])
 ** [[May 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
-* [[Constitution Memorial Day]] ([[Japan]])
+* [[Constitution Memorial Day]] (Japan)
 * [[May 3rd Constitution Day|Constitution Day (Poland)]]
 * [[Feast of the Cross#May 3|Finding of the Holy Cross]]-related observances:
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-[[Category:Days of the year]]
+[[Category:Days of May]]
-[[Category:May]]

v t e Months and days of the year
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