May 8 Events 453 BC - Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang , a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin . 413 - Emperor Honorius signs an edict providing tax relief for the Italian provinces Tuscia , Campania , Picenum , Samnium , Apulia , Lucania and Calabria , which were plundered by the Visigoths . 589 - Reccared I opens the Third Council of Toledo , marking the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church . 1429 - Joan of Arc lifts the Siege of Orléans , turning the tide of the Hundred Years' War. 1450 - Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI . 1516 - A group of imperial guards, led by Trịnh Duy Sản, murdered Emperor Lê Tương Dực and fled, leaving the capital Thăng Long undefended. 1541 - Hernando de Soto stops near present-day Walls, Mississippi , and sees the Mississippi River. 1788 - King Louis XVI of France attempts to impose the reforms of Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne by abolishing the parlements. 1794 - Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror , French chemist Antoine Lavoisier , who was also a tax collector with the Ferme générale , is tried, convicted and guillotined in one day in Paris. 1821 - Greek War of Independence: The Greeks defeat the Turks at the Battle of Gravia Inn . 1842 - A train derails and catches fire in Paris, killing between 52 and 200 people. 1846 - Mexican–American War: American forces led by Zachary Taylor defeat a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande in the first major battle of the war. 1877 - At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens. 1886 - Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine. 1898 - The first games of the Italian football league system are played. 1899 - The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play. 1902 - In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts, destroying the town of Saint-Pierre and killing over 30,000 people. Only a handful of residents survive the blast. 1912 - Paramount Pictures is founded. 1919 - Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I. 1921 - The creation of the Communist Party of Romania . 1924 - The Klaipėda Convention is signed formally incorporating Klaipėda Region into Lithuania. 1927 - Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane. 1933 - Mohandas Gandhi begins a 21-day fast of self-purification and launched a one-year campaign to help the Harijan movement. 1941 - World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches a bombing raid on Nottingham and Derby . 1942 - World War II: The German 11th Army begins Operation Trappenjagd and destroys the bridgehead of the three Soviet armies defending the Kerch Peninsula. 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier. 1942 - World War II: Gunners of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery on Horsburgh Island in the Cocos Islands rebel in the Cocos Islands Mutiny . Their mutiny is crushed and three of them are executed, the only British Commonwealth soldiers to be executed for mutiny during the Second World War . 1945 - World War II: The German Instrument of Surrender signed at Reims comes into effect. 1945 - End of the Prague uprising , celebrated now as a national holiday in the Czech Republic . 1945 - Hundreds of Algerian civilians are killed by French Army soldiers in the Sétif massacre . 1945 - The Halifax riot starts when thousands of civilians and servicemen rampage through Halifax, Nova Scotia. 1946 - Estonian schoolgirls Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel blow up the Soviet memorial which preceded the Bronze Soldier of Tallinn . 1963 - South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak , killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis . 1967 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte , Davao del Sur , and Davao Oriental . 1972 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation. 1973 - A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants. 1976 - The rollercoaster The New Revolution , the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain . 1978 - The first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler . 1980 - The World Health Organization confirms the eradication of smallpox . 1984 - Corporal Denis Lortie enters the Quebec National Assembly and opens fire, killing three people and wounding 13. René Jalbert , Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly, succeeds in calming him, for which he will later receive the Cross of Valour . 1984 - The Thames Barrier is officially opened, preventing the floodplain of most of Greater London from being flooded except under extreme circumstances. 1987 - The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall , Northern Ireland. 1988 - A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history". 1997 - China Southern Airlines Flight 3456 crashes on approach into Bao'an International Airport, killing 35 people. 2019 - British 17-year-old Isabelle Holdaway is reported to be the first patient ever to receive a genetically modified phage therapy to treat a drug-resistant infection .Births 1326 - Joan I, Countess of Auvergne 1427 - John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester , Lord High Treasurer 1460 - Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach 1492 - Andrea Alciato , Italian jurist and writer 1508 - Charles Wriothesley , English Officer of Arms 1521 - Peter Canisius , Dutch-Swiss priest and saint 1551 - Thomas Drury , English government informer and swindler 1587 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy 1622 - Claes Rålamb , Swedish politician 1628 - Angelo Italia , Sicilian Jesuit and architect 1629 - Niels Juel , Norwegian-Danish admiral 1632 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming , German field marshal and politician 1639 - Giovanni Battista Gaulli , Italian artist 1641 - Nicolaes Witsen , Mayor of Amsterdam, Netherlands 1653 - Claude Louis Hector de Villars , French general and politician, French Minister of Defence 1670 - Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St Albans , English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire 1698 - Henry Baker , English naturalist 1720 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1735 - Nathaniel Dance-Holland , English painter and politician 1737 - Edward Gibbon , English historian and politician 1745 - Carl Stamitz , German violinist and composer 1753 - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla , Mexican priest and rebel leader 1786 - John Vianney , French priest and saint 1815 - Edward Tompkins , American lawyer and politician 1818 - Samuel Leonard Tilley , Canadian pharmacist and politician, 3rd Premier of New Brunswick 1821 - William Henry Vanderbilt , American businessman and philanthropist 1824 - William Walker , American physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary 1825 - George Bruce Malleson , English-Indian colonel and author 1828 - Henry Dunant , Swiss businessman and activist, co-founded the Red Cross , Nobel Prize laureate 1828 - Charbel Makhluf , Lebanese monk and saint 1829 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk , American pianist and composer 1835 - Bertalan Székely , Hungarian painter and academic 1839 - Adolphe-Basile Routhier , Canadian judge, author, and songwriter 1842 - Emil Christian Hansen , Danish physiologist and mycologist 1846 - Oscar Hammerstein I , American businessman and composer 1850 - Ross Barnes , American baseball player and manager 1853 - Dan Brouthers , American baseball player and manager 1856 - Pedro Lascuráin , Mexican politician, president for 45 minutes on February 13, 1913 . 1858 - Heinrich Berté , Slovak-Austrian composer 1858 - J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet 1859 - Johan Jensen , Danish mathematician and engineer 1867 - Margarete Böhme , German novelist 1879 - Wesley Coe , American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor 1884 - Harry S. Truman, American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States 1885 - Thomas B. Costain, Canadian journalist and author 1892 - Adriaan Pelt , Dutch journalist and diplomat 1893 - Francis Ouimet , American golfer 1893 - Edd Roush , American baseball player and coach 1893 - Teddy Wakelam , English rugby player and sportscaster 1895 - James H. Kindelberger, American businessman 1895 - Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop 1895 - Edmund Wilson , American critic, essayist, and editor 1898 - Aloysius Stepinac , Croatian cardinal 1899 - Arthur Q. Bryan, American actor, voice actor, comedian and radio personality 1899 - Friedrich Hayek , Austrian economist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate 1899 - Jacques Heim , French fashion designer 1901 - Turkey Stearnes , American baseball player 1902 - André Michel Lwoff , French microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate 1903 - Fernandel , French actor and singer 1903 - Mary Stewart, Baroness Stewart of Alvechurch , British politician and educator 1904 - John Snagge , English journalist 1905 - Red Nichols , American cornet player, composer, and bandleader 1906 - Roberto Rossellini , Italian director and screenwriter 1910 - George Male , English footballer 1910 - Andrew E. Svenson, American author and publisher 1910 - Mary Lou Williams , American pianist and composer 1911 - Wilhelm Friedrich de Gaay Fortman , Dutch jurist and politician, Dutch Minister of The Interior 1911 - Robert Johnson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1912 - George Woodcock , Canadian author and poet 1913 - Bob Clampett , American animator, director, and producer 1913 - Sid James , South African-English actor and singer 1915 - Milton Meltzer , American historian and author 1916 - João Havelange , Brazilian water polo player, lawyer, and businessman 1916 - Chinmayananda Saraswati , Indian spiritual leader and educator 1916 - Ramananda Sengupta , Indian cinematographer 1917 - John Anderson, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas 1919 - Lex Barker , American actor 1920 - Saul Bass , American graphic designer and director 1920 - Tom of Finland , Finnish illustrator 1920 - Sloan Wilson , American author and poet 1920 - Gordon McClymont , Australian ecologist and academic 1922 - Mary Q. Steele, American naturalist and author 1924 - S. Vithiananthan, Sri Lankan author and academic 1925 - Ali Hassan Mwinyi , Tanzanian politician, 2nd President of Tanzania 1926 - David Attenborough , English environmentalist and television host 1926 - David Hurst , German actor 1926 - Don Rickles , American comedian and actor 1927 - Chumy Chúmez , Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter 1927 - László Paskai , Hungarian cardinal 1928 - Robert Conley , American journalist 1928 - Ted Sorensen , American lawyer, 8th White House Counsel 1929 - Ethel D. Allen, American physician and politician 1929 - Girija Devi , Indian classical singer 1929 - Claude Castonguay , Canadian banker and politician 1929 - Miyoshi Umeki , Japanese-American actress and singer 1930 - Heather Harper , Northern Irish soprano 1930 - Doug Atkins , American football player 1930 - René Maltête , French photographer and poet 1930 - Gary Snyder , American poet, essayist, and translator 1932 - Julieta Campos , Cuban-Mexican author and translator 1932 - Phyllida Law , Scottish actress 1932 - Harry Wells , Australian rugby league player 1934 - Leonard Hoffmann, Baron Hoffmann , South African-English lawyer and judge 1934 - Maurice Norman , English footballer 1934 - David Williamson, Baron Williamson of Horton , English soldier and politician 1935 - Lucius Cary, 15th Viscount Falkland , Scottish politician 1935 - Princess Elisabeth of Denmark 1935 - Jack Charlton , English footballer and manager 1936 - Kazuo Koike , Japanese author 1936 - Haljand Udam , Estonian orientalist and academic 1937 - Bernard Cleary , Canadian journalist, academic, and politician 1937 - Mike Cuellar , Cuban-American baseball player 1937 - Carlos Gaviria Díaz , Colombian lawyer and politician 1937 - Thomas Pynchon , American novelist 1938 - Javed Burki , Indian-Pakistani cricketer 1938 - Jean Giraud , French author and illustrator 1939 - Paul Drayton , American sprinter 1940 - Peter Benchley , American author and screenwriter 1940 - James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington , English businessman and academic 1940 - Irwin Cotler , Canadian lawyer and politician, 47th Canadian Minister of Justice 1940 - Emilio Delgado , Mexican-American actor, "Sesame Street" 1940 - Ricky Nelson , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1940 - Toni Tennille , American singer-songwriter and keyboard player 1941 - John Fred , American singer-songwriter 1941 - Bill Lockyer , American academic and politician, 30th Attorney General of California 1941 - James Traficant , American lawyer and politician 1942 - Martin Dobkin , Canadian doctor and politician, 2nd Mayor of Mississauga 1942 - Robin Hobbs , English cricketer 1942 - Norman Lamont , Scottish banker and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer 1942 - Pierre Morency , Canadian poet and playwright 1942 - Terry Neill , Irish footballer and manager 1943 - Pat Barker , English author 1943 - Johnny Greaves , Australian rugby league player 1943 - Jon Mark , English-New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist 1943 - Paul Samwell-Smith , English bass player and producer 1943 - Danny Whitten , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1944 - Gary Glitter , English singer-songwriter 1944 - Bill Legend , English drummer 1945 - Arthur Docters van Leeuwen , Dutch jurist and politician 1945 - Mike German, Baron German , Welsh educator and politician, Deputy First Minister for Wales 1945 - Janine Haines , Australian politician 1945 - Keith Jarrett , American pianist and composer 1946 - André Boulerice , Canadian politician 1946 - Jonathan Dancy , English philosopher, author, and academic 1947 - H. Robert Horvitz, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1947 - Felicity Lott , English soprano 1947 - John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan , Scottish historian and politician, Secretary of State for Defence 1948 - Steve Braun , American baseball player and coach 1948 - Stephen Stohn , American-Canadian lawyer and producer 1949 - David Vines , Australian economist and academic 1950 - Robert Mugge , American director and producer 1950 - Lepo Sumera , Estonian composer and educator 1951 - Philip Bailey , American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor 1951 - Mike D'Antoni , American basketball player and coach 1951 - Chris Frantz , American drummer and producer 1952 - Peter McNab , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster 1953 - Billy Burnette , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1953 - Alex Van Halen , Dutch-American drummer 1954 - Pam Arciero , American puppeteer and voice actress 1954 - David Keith , American actor and director 1954 - John Michael Talbot , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1955 - Stephen Furst , American actor and director 1955 - Mladen Markač , Croatian general 1955 - Keith Osgood , English footballer 1956 - Jeff Wincott , Canadian actor and martial artist 1957 - Bill Cowher , American football player and coach 1957 - Rino Katase , Japanese actress 1957 - Gary Lunn , Canadian lawyer and politician, 6th Canadian Minister of Natural Resources 1958 - Roddy Doyle , Irish novelist, playwright, and screenwriter 1958 - Simone Kleinsma , Dutch actress and singer 1958 - Brooks Newmark , American-English businessman and politician, Lord of the Treasury 1958 - Lovie Smith , American football player and coach 1959 - Ronnie Lott , American football player and sportscaster 1959 - David Manners, 11th Duke of Rutland , English politician 1959 - Ikue Sakakibara , Japanese actress and singer 1960 - Franco Baresi , Italian footballer and coach 1960 - Eric Brittingham , American bass player 1961 - Bill de Blasio , American politician, 109th Mayor of New York City 1961 - Gert Kruys , Dutch footballer and manager 1961 - Vallo Reimaa , Estonian academic and politician 1961 - David Winning , Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter 1962 - Natalia Molchanova , Russian diver 1962 - David Sole , Scottish rugby player 1963 - Sylvain Cossette , Canadian singer-songwriter 1963 - Anthony Field , Australian guitarist, songwriter, producer, and actor 1963 - Michel Gondry , French director and screenwriter 1963 - Izabela Kloc , Polish politician 1963 - Aleksandr Kovalenko , Belarusian triple jumper 1963 - Rick Zombo , American ice hockey player and coach 1964 - Päivi Alafrantti , Finnish javelin thrower 1964 - Melissa Gilbert , American actress and director 1964 - Bobby Labonte , American race car driver 1964 - Nathalie Roy , Canadian lawyer and politician 1964 - Dave Rowntree , English drummer and animator 1964 - Metin Tekin , Turkish footballer, manager, and journalist 1966 - Cláudio Taffarel , Brazilian footballer and coach 1967 - Viviana Durante , Italian ballerina and actress 1967 - Angus Scott , British sports television presenter 1968 - Teet Kask , Estonian ballet dancer and choreographer 1968 - Nathalie Normandeau , Canadian politician, Deputy Premier of Quebec 1968 - Johan Pehrson , Swedish lawyer and politician 1969 - Jonny Searle , English rower 1969 - Akebono Tarō , American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna 1969 - John Timu , New Zealand rugby player 1970 - Michael Bevan , Australian cricketer and coach 1970 - Naomi Klein , Canadian author and activist 1970 - Luis Enrique , Spanish footballer and manager 1971 - Chuck Huber , American voice actor, director, and screenwriter 1971 - Candice Night , American singer-songwriter 1972 - Darren Hayes , Australian singer-songwriter 1972 - Ray Whitney , Canadian ice hockey player 1973 - Hiromu Arakawa , Japanese author and illustrator 1973 - Jesús Arellano , Mexican footballer 1973 - Marcus Brigstocke , English comedian, actor, and screenwriter 1974 - Marge Kõrkjas , Estonian swimmer 1974 - Korey Stringer , American football player 1974 - Christian XXX , American pornographic star 1975 - Enrique Iglesias , Spanish-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor 1975 - Jussi Markkanen , Finnish ice hockey player 1975 - Gastón Mazzacane , Argentinian race car driver 1975 - Dmitri Ustritski , Estonian footballer 1976 - Gonçalo Abecasis , Portuguese-American biochemist and academic 1976 - Martha Wainwright , Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1977 - Joe Bonamassa , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1977 - Bad News Brown , Canadian rapper, harmonica player, and actor 1977 - Theodoros Papaloukas , Greek basketball player 1977 - Kathrin Bringmann , German mathematician and academic 1978 - Lúcio , Brazilian footballer 1978 - Jang Woo-hyuk , South Korean rapper and dancer 1979 - Ole Morten Vågan , Norwegian bassist 1980 - Keyon Dooling , American basketball player 1980 - Panagiotis Kafkis , Greek basketball player 1980 - Evgeny Lebedev , Russian-English publisher and philanthropist 1980 - Michelle McManus , Scottish singer-songwriter and actress 1980 - Benny Yau , Hong Kong-Canadian actor and singer 1981 - Stephen Amell , Canadian actor 1981 - Andrea Barzagli , Italian footballer 1981 - Tatyana Dektyareva , Russian hurdler 1981 - Björn Dixgård , Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1981 - Manny Gamburyan , Armenian-American mixed martial artist 1981 - John Maine , American baseball player 1982 - Buakaw Banchamek , Thai kick-boxer 1982 - Christina Cole , English actress 1982 - Adrián González , American baseball player 1982 - Uğur Yıldırım , Turkish-Dutch footballer 1983 - Juan Martin Goity , Argentinian-German rugby player 1983 - Bershawn Jackson , American hurdler 1983 - Lawrence Vickers , American football player 1983 - Vicky McClure , English actress 1984 - David King , English figure skater 1985 - Tommaso Ciampa , American wrestler 1985 - Silvia Stroescu , Romanian gymnast 1985 - Sarah Vaillancourt , Canadian ice hockey player 1985 - Usama Young , American football player 1986 - Pemra Özgen , Turkish tennis player 1986 - Galen Rupp , American runner 1986 - Marvell Wynne , American soccer player 1987 - 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Duan Zong , Chinese emperor 1319 - Haakon V , king of Norway 1473 - John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire , English politician 1538 - Edward Foxe , English bishop and academic 1551 - Barbara Radziwiłł , queen of Poland 1668 - Catherine of St. Augustine, French-Canadian nun and saint 1766 - Samuel Chandler , English minister and author 1773 - Ali Bey al-Kabir , Egyptian sultan 1781 - Richard Jago , English priest and poet 1782 - Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal , Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal 1785 - Étienne François, duc de Choiseul , French general and politician, Prime Minister of France 1785 - Pietro Longhi , Italian painter 1788 - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli , Italian physician and botanist 1794 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist 1819 - Kamehameha I , king of the Hawaiian Islands 1822 - John Stark , American general 1828 - Mauro Giuliani , Italian guitarist, cellist, and composer 1837 - Alexander Balashov , Russian general and politician, Russian Minister of Police 1842 - 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Ross, American soldier and politician, 13th Governor of New Mexico Territory 1925 - John Beresford , Irish polo player 1936 - Oswald Spengler , German historian and philosopher 1941 - Natalie , queen consort of Serbia 1941 - Tore Svennberg , Swedish actor and director 1942 - Nikolai Reek , Estonian general and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of War 1943 - Mordechai Anielewicz , Polish commander 1944 - Themistoklis Diakidis , Greek high jumper 1945 - Frank Bourne , British soldier, last survivor of the Battle of Rorke's Drift 1945 - Wilhelm Rediess , German SS officer 1945 - Bernhard Rust , German lieutenant and politician 1945 - Josef Terboven , German lieutenant and politician 1947 - Harry Gordon Selfridge , American-English businessman, founded Selfridges 1948 - U Saw , Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma 1950 - Vital Brazil , Brazilian physician and immunologist 1952 - William Fox , Austrian businessman, founded Fox Theatres 1959 - John Fraser , Canadian soccer player 1960 - J. 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Whitehead, Indian-English mathematician and academic 1965 - Wally Hardinge , English cricketer and footballer 1969 - Remington Kellogg , American zoologist and paleontologist 1972 - Pandurang Vaman Kane , Indologist and Sanskrit scholar, Bharat Ratna awardee 1972 - Beatrice Helen Worsley , Mexican-Canadian computer scientist 1975 - Avery Brundage , American businessman and art collector 1980 - Geoffrey Baker , English Field Marshal and Chief of the General Staff of the British Army 1981 - Uri Zvi Greenberg , Israeli poet and journalist 1982 - Neil Bogart , American record producer, co-founded Casablanca Records 1982 - Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian race car driver 1983 - John Fante , American author and screenwriter 1984 - Lila Bell Wallace , American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest 1984 - Gino Bianco , Italian-Brazilian race car driver 1985 - Karl Marx , German conductor and composer 1985 - Theodore Sturgeon , American author and critic 1985 - Dolph Sweet , American actor 1986 - Ernle Bradford , English historian and author 1987 - Doris Stokes , English psychic and author 1988 - Robert A. 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Easton, American scientist, co-invented the GPS 2014 - Nancy Malone , American actress, director, and producer 2014 - Yago Lamela , Spanish long jumper 2014 - Jair Rodrigues , Brazilian singer 2014 - R. Douglas Stuart Jr., American businessman and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Norway 2014 - Joseph P. Teasdale, American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri 2015 - Zeki Alasya , Turkish actor and director 2015 - Mwepu Ilunga , Congolese footballer 2015 - Menashe Kadishman , Israeli sculptor and painter 2015 - Juan Schwanner , Hungarian-Chilean footballer and manager 2015 - Atanas Semerdzhiev , Bulgarian soldier and politician, 1st Vice President of Bulgaria 2016 - Tom M. Apostol, American analytic number theorist 2016 - William Schallert , American actor; president of the Screen Actors Guild 2018 - Big Bully Busick , American professional wrestler 2018 - Anne V. Coates, British film editor, Oscar winner 2019 - Sprent Dabwido , President of Nauru from 2011 to 2013Holidays and observances Christian feast day: *Amato Ronconi *Apparition of Saint Michael *Arsenius the Great *Desideratus * Blessed Catherine of St. Augustine *Julian of Norwich *Magdalene of Canossa *Our Lady of Luján *Peter of Tarentaise *Blessed Teresa Demjanovich *May 8 Earliest day on which Father's Day can fall, while May 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday of May. Earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while May 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday of May. Earliest day on which State Flag and State Emblem Day can fall, while May 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Sunday of May. 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