May 27

Events

• 1096 - Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
• 1120 - Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
• 1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
• 1199 - John is crowned King of England.
• 1257 - Richard of Cornwall, and his wife, Sanchia of Provence, are crowned King and Queen of the Germans at Aachen Cathedral.
• 1644 - Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.
• 1703 - Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.
• 1798 - The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland; Irish rebel leaders defeat and kill a detachment of militia.
• 1799 - War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.
• 1813 - War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.
• 1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.
• 1863 - American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
• 1874 - The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.
• 1883 - Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
• 1896 - The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
• 1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
• 1915 - HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
• 1917 - Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.
• 1919 - The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
• 1927 - The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.
• 1930 - The Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.
• 1933 - New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.
• 1933 - The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
• 1935 - New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States,.
• 1937 - In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
• 1940 - World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.
• 1941 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
• 1941 - World War II: The is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.
• 1942 - World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
• 1958 - First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
• 1960 - In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
• 1962 - The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
• 1965 - Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
• 1967 - Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
• 1967 - The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
• 1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
• 1971 - Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.
• 1975 - Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
• 1980 - The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
• 1984 - The Danube-Black Sea canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s.
• 1996 - First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
• 1997 - The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.
• 1998 - Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
• 2001 - Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
• 2006 - The 6.4 Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII, leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.
• 2016 - Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.
• 2017 - Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
• 2018 - Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley causing one death and destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City and causing cars to overturn.

  Births

• 742 - Emperor Dezong of Tang
• 1332 - Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian and theologian
• 1378 - Zhu Quan, Chinese military commander, historian and playwright
• 1519 - Girolamo Mei, Italian historian and theorist
• 1537 - Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg
• 1576 - Caspar Schoppe, German author and scholar
• 1584 - Michael Altenburg, German theologian and composer
• 1601 - Antoine Daniel, French-Canadian missionary and saint
• 1626 - William II, Prince of Orange
• 1627 - Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier
• 1651 - Louis Antoine de Noailles, French cardinal
• 1652 - Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine of Germany
• 1738 - Nathaniel Gorham, American merchant and politician, 14th President of the Continental Congress
• 1756 - Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria
• 1774 - Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy
• 1794 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1814 - John Rudolph Niernsee, Viennese-born American architect
• 1815 - Henry Parkes, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of New South Wales
• 1818 - Amelia Bloomer, American journalist and activist
• 1819 - Julia Ward Howe, American poet and songwriter
• 1827 - Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician
• 1832 - Zenas Ferry Moody, American surveyor and politician, 7th Governor of Oregon
• 1836 - Jay Gould, American businessman and financier
• 1837 - Wild Bill Hickok, American police officer
• 1852 - Billy Barnes, English cricketer
• 1857 - Theodor Curtius, German chemist
• 1860 - Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal
• 1863 - Arthur Mold, English cricketer
• 1867 - Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright
• 1868 - Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author
• 1871 - Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator
• 1875 - Frederick Cuming, English cricketer
• 1876 - Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski, Polish journalist and author
• 1876 - William Stanier, English engineer
• 1878 - Anna Cervin, Swedish artist
• 1879 - Karl Bühler, German-American linguist and psychologist
• 1879 - Hans Lammers, German judge and politician
• 1883 - Jessie Arms Botke, American painter
• 1884 - Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer
• 1887 - Frank Woolley, English cricketer
• 1888 - Louis Durey, French composer
• 1891 - Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer
• 1891 - Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author
• 1894 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author
• 1894 - Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter
• 1895 - Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba
• 1897 - John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1897 - Dink Templeton, American rugby player and coach
• 1898 - David Crosthwait, American engineer, inventor and writer
• 1899 - Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player
• 1900 - Lotte Toberentz, German overseer of the Nazi Uckermark concentration camp
• 1900 - Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet and translator
• 1904 - Chūhei Nambu, Japanese jumper and journalist
• 1906 - Buddhadasa, Thai monk and philosopher
• 1906 - Harry Hibbs, English footballer
• 1906 - Antonio Rosario Mennonna, Italian bishop
• 1907 - Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic
• 1907 - Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author
• 1909 - Dolores Hope, American singer and philanthropist
• 1911 - Hubert Humphrey, American journalist and politician, 38th Vice President of the United States
• 1911 - Teddy Kollek, Hungarian-Israeli politician, Mayor of Jerusalem
• 1911 - Vincent Price, American actor
• 1912 - John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer
• 1912 - Sam Snead, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1912 - Terry Moore, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1915 - Ester Soré, Chilean singer-songwriter
• 1915 - Herman Wouk, American novelist
• 1917 - Harry Webster, English engineer
• 1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japanese commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1921 - Bob Godfrey, Australian-English animator, director, and voice actor
• 1922 - Otto Carius, German lieutenant and pharmacist
• 1922 - Christopher Lee, English actor
• 1922 - John D. Vanderhoof, American banker and politician, 37th Governor of Colorado
• 1923 - Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1923 - Sumner Redstone, American businessman and philanthropist
• 1924 - Jaime Lusinchi, Venezuelan physician and politician, President of Venezuela
• 1924 - John Sumner, English-Australian director, founded the Melbourne Theatre Company
• 1925 - Tony Hillerman, American journalist and author
• 1927 - Jüri Randviir, Estonian chess player and journalist
• 1928 - Thea Musgrave, Scottish-American composer and educator
• 1930 - John Barth, American novelist and short story writer
• 1930 - William S. Sessions, American civil servant and judge, 8th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
• 1930 - Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer and educator
• 1931 - André Barbeau, French-Canadian neurologist
• 1931 - John Chapple, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Gibraltar
• 1931 - Bernard Fresson, French actor
• 1931 - Faten Hamama, Egyptian actress and producer
• 1931 - Philip Kotler, American author and professor
• 1933 - Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian businessman
• 1933 - Manfred Sommer, Spanish author and illustrator
• 1934 - Ray Daviault, Canadian-American baseball player
• 1934 - Harlan Ellison, American author and screenwriter
• 1935 - Daniel Colchico, American football player and coach
• 1935 - Mal Evans, British road manager of The Beatles
• 1935 - Jerry Kindall, American baseball player and coach
• 1935 - Ramsey Lewis, American jazz pianist and composer
• 1935 - Lee Meriwether, American model and actress, Miss America 1955
• 1936 - Benjamin Bathurst, English admiral
• 1936 - Louis Gossett, Jr., American actor and producer
• 1936 - Marcel Masse, Canadian educator and politician, 29th Canadian Minister of National Defence
• 1937 - Allan Carr, American playwright and producer
• 1939 - Simon Cairns, 6th Earl Cairns, English courtier and businessman
• 1939 - Yves Duhaime, Canadian captain and politician
• 1939 - Sokratis Kokkalis, Greek businessman
• 1939 - Gerald Ronson, English businessman and philanthropist
• 1939 - Lionel Sosa, Mexican-American advertising and marketing executive
• 1939 - Don Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1940 - Mike Gibson, Australian journalist and sportscaster
• 1942 - Lee Baca, American police officer
• 1942 - Piers Courage, English racing driver
• 1942 - Roger Freeman, Baron Freeman, English accountant and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
• 1942 - Robin Widdows, English racing driver
• 1943 - Cilla Black, English singer and actress
• 1943 - Bruce Weitz, American actor
• 1944 - Chris Dodd, American lawyer and politician
• 1944 - Ingrid Roscoe, English historian and politician, Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
• 1944 - Alain Souchon, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1945 - Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 - Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist and composer
• 1946 - John Williams, English motorcycle racer
• 1947 - Peter DeFazio, American politician
• 1947 - Marty Kristian, German-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1947 - Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer and coach
• 1947 - Riivo Sinijärv, Estonian politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1948 - Wubbo de Boer, Dutch civil servant
• 1948 - Pete Sears, English bass player
• 1948 - Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, American occultist and author
• 1949 - Hugh Lowther, 8th Earl of Lonsdale, English politician
• 1949 - Christa Vahlensieck, German runner
• 1950 - Dee Dee Bridgewater, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1950 - Makis Dendrinos, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1951 - John Conteh, English boxer
• 1954 - Pauline Hanson, Australian businesswoman, activist, and politician
• 1954 - Jackie Slater, American football player and coach
• 1955 - Eric Bischoff, American wrestler, manager, and producer
• 1955 - Richard Schiff, American actor, director, and producer
• 1955 - Ian Tracey, English organist and conductor
• 1956 - Cynthia McFadden, American journalist
• 1956 - Rosemary Squire, English producer and manager, co-founded Ambassador Theatre Group
• 1956 - Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1957 - Dag Terje Andersen, Norwegian politician, Norwegian Minister of Labour
• 1957 - Nitin Gadkari, Indian lawyer and politician, Indian Minister of Transport
• 1957 - Eddie Harsch, Canadian-American keyboard player and bass player
• 1957 - Siouxsie Sioux, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
• 1958 - Nick Anstee, English accountant and politician, 682nd Lord Mayor of London
• 1958 - Neil Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician
• 1958 - Jesse Robredo, Filipino politician, 23rd Filipino Secretary of the Interior
• 1960 - Gaston Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1961 - José Luíz Barbosa, Brazilian runner and coach
• 1961 - Peri Gilpin, American actress
• 1962 - Marcelino Bernal, Mexican footballer
• 1962 - Ray Borner, Australian basketball player
• 1962 - Steven Brill, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1962 - Anthony A. Hyman, Israeli-English biologist and academic
• 1962 - David Mundell, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1962 - Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1963 - Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Cuban pianist and composer
• 1963 - Maria Walliser, Swiss skier
• 1964 - Adam Carolla, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 - Pat Cash, Australian-English tennis player and sportscaster
• 1966 - Heston Blumenthal, English chef and author
• 1967 - Paul Gascoigne, English international footballer, midfielder, coach, and manager
• 1967 - Eddie McClintock, American actor
• 1968 - Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player and coach
• 1968 - Rebekah Brooks, English journalist
• 1968 - Harun Erdenay, Turkish basketball player and coach
• 1968 - Frank Thomas, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 1969 - Todd Hundley, American baseball player
• 1969 - Jeremy Mayfield, American race car driver
• 1969 - Craig Federighi, American computer scientist and engineer
• 1970 - Michele Bartoli, Italian cyclist
• 1970 - Tim Farron, English educator and politician
• 1970 - Joseph Fiennes, English actor
• 1970 - Alex Archer, American-born Australian musician
• 1971 - Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician
• 1971 - Paul Bettany, English actor
• 1971 - Wayne Carey, Australian footballer and coach
• 1971 - Kaur Kender, Estonian author
• 1971 - Lisa Lopes, American rapper and dancer
• 1971 - Lee Sharpe, English footballer
• 1971 - Grant Stafford, South African tennis player
• 1971 - Sophie Walker, British politician, leader of the Women's Equality Party
• 1971 - Petroc Trelawny, British radio and television broadcaster
• 1972 - Todd Demsey, American golfer
• 1972 - Antonio Freeman, American football player
• 1972 - Maxim Sokolov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1973 - Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
• 1973 - Tana Umaga, New Zealand rugby player and coach
• 1973 - Yorgos Lanthimos, Greek film video, and theatre director, producer and screenwriter
• 1974 - Skye Edwards, British singer-songwriter
• 1974 - Denise van Outen, English actress, singer, and television host
• 1974 - Derek Webb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 - Danny Wuerffel, American football player
• 1975 - André 3000, American rapper
• 1975 - Michael Hussey, Australian cricketer
• 1975 - Jamie Oliver, English chef and author
• 1975 - Feryal Özel, Turkish astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic
• 1976 - Marcel Fässler, Swiss racing driver
• 1977 - Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian high jumper
• 1977 - Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1978 - Adin Brown, American soccer player
• 1979 - Michael Buonauro, American author and illustrator
• 1979 - Mile Sterjovski, Australian footballer
• 1980 - Craig Buntin, Canadian figure skater
• 1981 - Alina Cojocaru, Romanian ballerina
• 1981 - Johan Elmander, Swedish footballer
• 1982 - Natalya, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1984 - Blake Ahearn, American basketball player
• 1984 - Miguel González, Mexican baseball pitcher
• 1985 - Chiang Chien-ming, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1985 - Roberto Soldado, Spanish footballer
• 1986 - Conor Cummins, Manx motorcycle racer
• 1986 - Bamba Fall, Senegalese basketball player
• 1986 - Lasse Schöne, Danish footballer
• 1987 - Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
• 1987 - Bella Heathcote, Australian actress
• 1987 - Eric Kolelas, French-English actor and director
• 1987 - Bora Paçun, Turkish basketball player
• 1987 - Matt Prior, Australian rugby league player
• 1987 - Martina Sablikova, Czech speed skater and cyclist
• 1988 - Vontae Davis, American football player
• 1988 - Irina Davydova, Russian hurdler
• 1988 - Garrett Richards, American baseball pitcher
• 1988 - Tyler Sash, American football player
• 1989 - Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer
• 1990 - Yenew Alamirew, Ethiopian runner
• 1990 - Chris Colfer, American actor and singer
• 1990 - Marcus Kruger, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1991 - Sebastien Dewaest, Belgian footballer
• 1991 - Tim Lafai, Samoan rugby league player
• 1991 - Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player
• 1991 - Eneli Vals, Estonian footballer
• 1992 - Aaron Brown, Canadian sprinter
• 1992 - Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canadian canoer

  Deaths

• 366 - Procopius, Roman usurper
• 398 - Murong Bao, emperor of the Xianbei state Later Yan
• 475 - Eutropius, bishop of Orange
• 866 - Ordoño I of Asturias
• 927 - Simeon I of Bulgaria first Bulgarian Emperor
• 1039 - Dirk III, Count of Holland
• 1045 - Bruno of Würzburg, imperial chancellor of Italy
• 1178 - Godfrey van Rhenen, bishop of Utrecht
• 1240 - William de Warenne, 5th Earl of Surrey
• 1444 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English commander
• 1508 - Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan
• 1508 - Lucrezia Crivelli, mistress of Ludovico Sforza
• 1525 - Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian
• 1541 - Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
• 1564 - John Calvin, French pastor and theologian
• 1610 - François Ravaillac, French assassin of Henry IV of France
• 1624 - Diego Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish sailor and cosmographer
• 1637 - John Boteler, 1st Baron Boteler of Brantfield, English politician
• 1661 - Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, Scottish general and politician
• 1675 - Gaspard Dughet, Italian-French painter
• 1690 - Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian organist and composer
• 1702 - Dominique Bouhours, French priest and critic
• 1707 - Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan, French mistress of Louis XIV of France
• 1781 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic
• 1797 - François-Noël Babeuf, French journalist
• 1831 - Jedediah Smith, American hunter, explorer, and author
• 1840 - Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer
• 1867 - Thomas Bulfinch American mythologist
• 1896 - Aleksandr Stoletov, Russian physicist, engineer, and academic
• 1910 - Robert Koch, German physician and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1918 - Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna
• 1919 - Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian author and activist
• 1933 - Achille Paroche, French target shooter
• 1939 - Joseph Roth, Austrian-French journalist and author
• 1941 - Ernst Lindemann, German captain
• 1941 - Günther Lütjens, German admiral
• 1942 - Muhammed Hamdi Yazır, Turkish theologian, logician, and translator
• 1943 - Gordon Coates, New Zealand soldier and politician, 21st Prime Minister of New Zealand
• 1945 - Enno Lolling, German physician
• 1947 - Ed Konetchy, American baseball player and manager
• 1949 - Robert Ripley, American cartoonist, publisher, and businessman, founded Ripley's Believe It or Not!
• 1953 - Jesse Burkett, American baseball player and manager
• 1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, American painter and illustrator
• 1963 - Grigoris Lambrakis, Greek physician and politician
• 1964 - Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India
• 1967 - W. Otto Miessner, American composer and educator
• 1967 - Ernst Niekisch, German academic and politician
• 1969 - Jeffrey Hunter, American actor and producer
• 1971 - Béla Juhos, Hungarian-Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle
• 1971 - Armando Picchi, Italian footballer and coach
• 1980 - Gün Sazak, Turkish agronomist and politician
• 1984 - Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer
• 1986 - Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian-American philosopher and academic
• 1986 - Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
• 1986 - Giorgos Tzifos, Greek actor and cinematographer
• 1987 - John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1988 - Hjördis Petterson, Swedish actress
• 1988 - Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1989 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet and translator
• 1990 - Robert B. Meyner, American lawyer and politician, 44th Governor of New Jersey
• 1991 - Leopold Nowak, Austrian musicologist and theorist
• 1992 - Uncle Charlie Osborne, American fiddler
• 1998 - Minoo Masani, Indian lawyer and politician
• 2000 - Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot
• 2000 - Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician and diplomat, 25th Governor of Hong Kong
• 2000 - Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 2003 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer and educator
• 2006 - Rob Borsellino, American journalist
• 2006 - Paul Gleason, American actor
• 2006 - Craig Heyward, American football player
• 2007 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 2007 - Gretchen Wyler, American actress and dancer
• 2007 - Ed Yost, American inventor, created the hot air balloon
• 2008 - Franz Künstler, Hungarian soldier
• 2009 - Thomas M. Franck, American lawyer and academic
• 2009 - Clive Granger, Welsh-American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2009 - Mona Grey, British nursing administrator; Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer
• 2009 - Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist
• 2009 - Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian-American priest and theologian
• 2009 - Carol Anne O'Marie, American nun and author
• 2009 - William Refshauge, Australian soldier and physician
• 2009 - Paul Sharratt, English-American television host
• 2010 - Payut Ngaokrachang, Thai animator and director
• 2011 - Jeff Conaway, American actor and singer
• 2011 - Margo Dydek, Polish-American basketball player
• 2011 - Gil Scott-Heron, American singer-songwriter and poet
• 2012 - Simeon Daniel, Nevisian educator and politician, 1st Premier of Nevis
• 2012 - Friedrich Hirzebruch, German mathematician and academic
• 2012 - Anahit Perikhanian, Russian-born Armenian Iranologist
• 2012 - David Rimoin, Canadian-American geneticist and academic
• 2013 - Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician
• 2013 - Bill Pertwee, English actor
• 2013 - Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali
• 2014 - Robert Genn, Canadian painter and author
• 2014 - Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter
• 2014 - Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 2014 - Massimo Vignelli, Italian-American graphic designer
• 2015 - Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
• 2015 - Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author
• 2015 - Andy King, English footballer and manager
• 2015 - Michael Martin, American philosopher and academic
• 2017 - Gregg Allman, American musician, singer and songwriter
• 2020 - Larry Kramer, American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist

  Holidays and observances

• Armed Forces Day
• Children's Day
• Christian feast day:
• * Augustine of Canterbury
• * Blessed Lojze Grozde
• * Bede
• * Bruno of Würzburg
• * Eutropius of Orange
• * Hildebert
• * Julius the Veteran
• * May 27
• Mother's Day
• Navy Day
• Slavery Abolition Day
• Start of National Reconciliation Week