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    September 28 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

    • 48 BC – Pompey is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy upon arriving in Egypt.
    • 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus of Rome.
    • 351 – Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
    • 365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor.
    • 935 – Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia is murdered by a group of nobles led by his brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him.
    • 995 – Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, kills most members of the rival Slavník dynasty.
    • 1066 – William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
    • 1106 – King Henry I of England defeats his brother, Robert Curthose.
    • 1238 – King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia.
    • 1322 – Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
    • 1538 – Ottoman–Venetian War: The Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza.
    • 1542 – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California.
    • 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
    • 1781 – American Revolution: American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown.
    • 1787 – The Congress of the Confederation votes to send the newly-written United States Constitution to the state legislatures for approval.
    • 1821 – The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is drafted. It will be made public on 13 October.
    • 1844 – Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
    • 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario’s predecessors since 1796.
    • 1868 – The Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France.
    • 1871 – The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
    • 1889 – The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
    • 1892 – The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
    • 1893 – Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
    • 1901 – Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
    • 1912 – The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
    • 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
    • 1918 – World War I: The Fifth Battle of Ypres begins.
    • 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska.
    • 1924 – The first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army.
    • 1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
    • 1939 – World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
    • 1939 – World War II: The siege of Warsaw comes to an end.
    • 1941 – World War II: The Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins.
    • 1941 – Ted Williams achieves a .406 batting average for the season, and becomes the last major league baseball player to bat .400 or better.
    • 1944 – World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.
    • 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
    • 1961 – A military coup in Damascus effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
    • 1970 – Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
    • 1971 – The Parliament of the UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
    • 1973 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT’s alleged involvement in the coup d’état in Chile.
    • 1975 – The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.
    • 1986 – The Democratic Progressive Party becomes the first opposition party in Taiwan.
    • 1991 – The Strategic Air Command stands down from alert all ICBMs scheduled for deactivation under START I, as well as its strategic bomber force.
    • 1992 – A Pakistan International Airlines flight crashes into a hill in Nepal, killing all 167 passengers and crew.
    • 1994 – The cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
    • 1995 – Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
    • 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
    • 2000 – Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
    • 2008 – Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
    • 2009 – The military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding 1400 people.
    • 2012 – Somali and African Union forces launch a coordinated assault on the Somali port of Kismayo to take back the city from al-Shabaab militants.
    • 2014 – The 2014 Hong Kong protests begin in response to restrictive political reforms imposed by the NPC in Beijing.
    • 2016 – The 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas.
    • 2018 – The 7.5 Mw 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured.
    • 2018 – On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the international project Tree of Peace was established (September, 28). One of the trees was planted personally by Zuzana Čaputová, President of the Slovak Republic.

    Births on September 28

    • 551 BC – Confucius, Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. (d. 479 BC)
    • 616 – Javanshir, King of Caucasian Albania (d. 680)
    • 1494 – Agnolo Firenzuola, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1545)
    • 1555 – Henri de La Tour d’Auvergne, Marshal of France (d. 1623)
    • 1573 – Théodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician (d. 1654)
    • 1605 – Ismaël Bullialdus, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1694)
    • 1681 – Johann Mattheson, German composer, lexicographer, and diplomat (d. 1764)
    • 1705 – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department (d. 1774)
    • 1705 – Johann Peter Kellner, German organist and composer (d. 1772)
    • 1735 – Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1811)
    • 1746 – William Jones, English-Welsh philologist and scholar (d. 1794)
    • 1765 – Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (d. 1814)
    • 1803 – Prosper Mérimée, French archaeologist, historian, and author (d. 1870)
    • 1809 – Alvan Wentworth Chapman, American physician and botanist (d. 1899)
    • 1819 – Narcís Monturiol, Spanish engineer and publisher (d. 1885)
    • 1821 – Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (d. 1874)
    • 1823 – Alexandre Cabanel, French painter and educator (d. 1889)
    • 1824 – Francis Turner Palgrave, English poet and critic (d. 1897)
    • 1836 – Thomas Crapper, English plumber, invented the ballcock (d. 1910)
    • 1838 – Sai Baba of Shirdi, Indian national saint (d. 1918)
    • 1841 – Georges Clemenceau, French journalist, physician, and politician, 85th Prime Minister of France (d. 1929)
    • 1844 – Robert Stout, Scottish-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1930)
    • 1852 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
    • 1852 – Isis Pogson, British astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1945)
    • 1856 – Kate Douglas Wiggin, American author and educator (d. 1923)
    • 1860 – Paul Ulrich Villard, French chemist and physicist (d. 1934)
    • 1861 – Amélie of Orléans, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1951)
    • 1867 – Hiranuma Kiichirō, Japanese lawyer and politician, 35th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
    • 1867 – James Edwin Campbell, American poet, editor, short story writer and educator (d. 1896)
    • 1868 – Evelyn Beatrice Hall, English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire, and wrote under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre (d. 1956)
    • 1877 – Albert Young, American boxer and promoter (d. 1940)
    • 1878 – Joseph Ruddy, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1962)
    • 1870 – Florent Schmitt, French composer and critic (d. 1958)
    • 1881 – Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (d. 1950)
    • 1882 – Mart Saar, Estonian organist and composer (d. 1963)
    • 1885 – Emil Väre, Finnish wrestler, coach, and referee (d. 1974)
    • 1887 – Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (d. 1975)
    • 1889 – Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach (d. 1973)
    • 1890 – Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer (d. 1982)
    • 1892 – Elmer Rice, American playwright (d. 1967)
    • 1893 – Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician (d. 1973)
    • 1893 – Giannis Skarimpas, Greek author, poet, and playwright (d. 1984)
    • 1898 – Carl Clauberg, German Nazi physician (d. 1957)
    • 1900 – Isabel Pell, American socialite, fought as part of the French Resistance during WWII (d. 1951)
    • 1901 – William S. Paley, American broadcaster, founded CBS (d. 1990)
    • 1901 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (d. 1974)
    • 1903 – Haywood S. Hansell, American general (d. 1988)
    • 1905 – Max Schmeling, German boxer (d. 2005)
    • 1907 – Heikki Savolainen, Finnish gymnast and physician (d. 1997)
    • 1907 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (d. 1931)
    • 1909 – Al Capp, American author and illustrator (d. 1979)
    • 1910 – Diosdado Macapagal, Filipino lawyer and politician, 9th President of the Philippines (d. 1997)
    • 1910 – Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1942)
    • 1913 – Warja Honegger-Lavater, Swiss illustrator (d. 2007)
    • 1913 – Alice Marble, American tennis player (d. 1990)
    • 1914 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American refugee and singer (d. 2014)
    • 1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (d. 1953)
    • 1916 – Peter Finch, English-Australian actor (d. 1977)
    • 1916 – Olga Lepeshinskaya, Ukrainian-Russian ballerina and educator (d. 2008)
    • 1918 – Ángel Labruna, Argentinian footballer and manager (d. 1983)
    • 1918 – Arnold Stang, American actor (d. 2009)
    • 1919 – Doris Singleton, American actress (d. 2012)
    • 1922 – Larry Munson, American sportscaster (d. 2011)
    • 1923 – Tuli Kupferberg, American singer, poet, and writer (d. 2010)
    • 1923 – John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch, Scottish captain and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Selkirkshire (d. 2007)
    • 1923 – William Windom, American actor (d. 2012)
    • 1924 – Rudolf Barshai, Russian-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 2010)
    • 1924 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian-French actor and singer (d. 1996)
    • 1925 – Seymour Cray, American computer scientist, founded the CRAY Computer Company (d. 1996)
    • 1925 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (d. 1991)
    • 1925 – Martin David Kruskal, American physicist and mathematician (d. 2006)
    • 1926 – Jerry Clower, American soldier, comedian, and author (d. 1998)
    • 1928 – Koko Taylor, American singer (d. 2009)
    • 1929 – Lata Mangeshkar, Indian playback singer and composer
    • 1930 – Tommy Collins, American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2000)
    • 1930 – Immanuel Wallerstein, American sociologist, author, and academic (d. 2019)
    • 1932 – Jeremy Isaacs, Scottish screenwriter and producer
    • 1932 – Víctor Jara, Chilean singer-songwriter, poet, and director (d. 1973)
    • 1933 – Joe Benton, English soldier and politician
    • 1933 – Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Spanish sculptor and educator (d. 2006)
    • 1933 – Johnny “Country” Mathis, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
    • 1934 – Brigitte Bardot, French actress
    • 1935 – Bruce Crampton, Australian golfer
    • 1935 – David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick, English diplomat, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations
    • 1935 – Ronald Lacey, English actor (d. 1991)
    • 1936 – Emmett Chapman, American guitarist, invented the Chapman Stick
    • 1936 – Eddie Lumsden, Australian rugby league player (d. 2019)
    • 1936 – Robert Wolders, Dutch television actor (d. 2018)
    • 1937 – Alice Mahon, English trade union leader and politician
    • 1937 – Glenn Sutton, American country music songwriter and record producer (d. 2007)
    • 1938 – Ben E. King, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2015)
    • 1939 – Stuart Kauffman, American biologist and academic
    • 1941 – David Lewis, American philosopher and academic (d. 2001)
    • 1941 – Edmund Stoiber, German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Bavaria
    • 1942 – Pierre Clémenti, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1999)
    • 1942 – Edward “Little Buster” Forehand, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
    • 1943 – Warren Lieberfarb, American businessman
    • 1943 – George W. S. Trow, American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 2006)
    • 1943 – Nick St. Nicholas, German-Canadian bass player
    • 1944 – Richie Karl, American golfer
    • 1944 – Marcia Muller, American journalist and author
    • 1945 – Marielle Goitschel, French skier
    • 1945 – Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2011)
    • 1945 – Fusako Shigenobu, Japanese activist, founded the Japanese Red Army
    • 1946 – Tom Bower, English journalist and author
    • 1946 – Majid Khan, Indian-Pakistani cricketer
    • 1947 – Bob Carr, Australian journalist and politician, 37th Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs
    • 1947 – Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshi politician, 10th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
    • 1947 – Jon Snow, English journalist and academic
    • 1947 – Rhonda Hughes, American mathematician and academic
    • 1949 – Jim Henshaw, Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1950 – Paul Burgess, English drummer
    • 1950 – Christina Hoff Sommers, American author and philosopher
    • 1950 – John Sayles, American novelist, director, and screenwriter
    • 1951 – Jim Diamond, Scottish singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2015)
    • 1952 – Christopher Buckley, American satirical novelist
    • 1952 – Efthimis Kioumourtzoglou, Greek basketball player and coach
    • 1952 – Sylvia Kristel, Dutch model and actress (d. 2012)
    • 1952 – Andy Ward, English drummer
    • 1953 – Otmar Hasler, Liechtensteiner educator and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
    • 1954 – Steve Largent, American football player and politician
    • 1954 – George Lynch, American guitarist and songwriter
    • 1954 – John Scott, English rugby player
    • 1954 – Margot Wallström, Swedish politician and diplomat, 42nd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs
    • 1955 – Stéphane Dion, Canadian sociologist and politician, 15th Canadian Minister of the Environment
    • 1955 – Mercy Manci, Xhosa sangoma and HIV activist from South Africa
    • 1955 – Kenny Kirkland, American pianist (d. 1998)
    • 1956 – Martha Isabel Fandiño Pinilla, Colombian-Italian mathematician and author
    • 1957 – Bill Cassidy, American politician and physician
    • 1959 – Ron Fellows, Canadian race car driver
    • 1959 – Laura Bruce, American artist
    • 1960 – Gary Ayres, Australian footballer and coach
    • 1960 – Tom Byrum, American golfer
    • 1960 – Frank Hammerschlag, German footballer and manager
    • 1960 – Gus Logie, Trinidadian cricketer
    • 1960 – Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, English politician
    • 1960 – Jennifer Rush, American singer-songwriter
    • 1960 – Socrates Villegas, Filipino archbishop
    • 1961 – Helen Grant, English lawyer and politician, Minister for Sport and the Olympics
    • 1961 – Gregory Jbara, American actor and singer
    • 1961 – Quentin Kawānanakoa, American lawyer and politician
    • 1961 – Anne White, American tennis player
    • 1962 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
    • 1962 – Laurie Rinker, American golfer
    • 1962 – Dietmar Schacht, German footballer and manager
    • 1962 – Chuck Taylor, American journalist
    • 1963 – Steve Blackman, American wrestler and martial artist
    • 1963 – Érik Comas, French race car driver
    • 1963 – Greg Weisman, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1964 – Claudio Borghi, Argentinian footballer and manager
    • 1964 – Gregor Fisken, Scottish race car driver
    • 1964 – Janeane Garofalo, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter
    • 1964 – Paul Jewell, English footballer and manager
    • 1964 – Mārtiņš Roze, Latvian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
    • 1966 – Scott Adams, American football player (d. 2013)
    • 1966 – Maria Canals-Barrera, Cuban-American actress
    • 1966 – Puri Jagannadh, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1967 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
    • 1967 – Moon Zappa, American actress and author
    • 1968 – Francois Botha, South African boxer and mixed martial artist
    • 1968 – Mika Häkkinen, Finnish race car driver
    • 1968 – Trish Keenan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2011)
    • 1968 – Sean Levert, American R&B singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2008)
    • 1968 – Rob Moroso, American race car driver (d. 1990)
    • 1968 – Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer
    • 1969 – Kerri Chandler, electronic music producer and DJ
    • 1969 – Marcel Dost, Dutch decathlete
    • 1969 – Ben Greenman, American journalist and author
    • 1969 – Piper Kerman, American author and memoirist
    • 1969 – Éric Lapointe, Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
    • 1969 – Sascha Maassen, German race car driver
    • 1969 – Angus Robertson, Scottish politician
    • 1969 – Nico Vaesen, Belgian footballer
    • 1970 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
    • 1970 – Mike DeJean, American baseball player
    • 1970 – Gualter Salles, Brazilian race car driver
    • 1971 – Joseph Arthur, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1971 – George Eustice, English lawyer and politician
    • 1971 – Braam van Straaten, South African rugby player
    • 1971 – Alan Wright, English footballer and manager
    • 1972 – Dita Von Teese, American model and dancer
    • 1973 – Brian Rafalski, American ice hockey player
    • 1974 – Marco Di Loreto, Italian footballer and manager
    • 1974 – Mariya Kiselyova, Russian swimmer
    • 1974 – Joonas Kolkka, Finnish footballer and coach
    • 1974 – Shane Webcke, Australian rugby league player and coach
    • 1975 – Stuart Clark, Australian cricketer and manager
    • 1975 – Isamu Jordan, American journalist and academic (d. 2013)
    • 1975 – Lenny Krayzelburg, Russian-American swimmer
    • 1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist and politician
    • 1977 – Ireneusz Marcinkowski, Polish footballer
    • 1977 – Pak Se-ri, South Korean golfer
    • 1977 – Young Jeezy, American rapper
    • 1978 – Ben Edmondson, Australian cricketer
    • 1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder, actor, and stuntman
    • 1979 – Taki Tsan, American-Greek rapper and producer
    • 1980 – Marlon Parmer, American basketball player
    • 1981 – Greg Anderson, American pianist and composer
    • 1981 – Willy Caballero, Argentine footballer
    • 1981 – José Calderón, Spanish basketball player
    • 1981 – Jorge Guagua, Ecuadorian footballer
    • 1981 – Iracema Trevisan, Brazilian bass player
    • 1982 – Aleksandr Anyukov, Russian footballer
    • 1982 – Abhinav Bindra, Indian target shooter
    • 1982 – Ray Emery, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2018)
    • 1982 – Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor and director
    • 1982 – Nolwenn Leroy, French singer-songwriter and actress
    • 1982 – Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
    • 1982 – Dustin Penner, Canadian ice hockey player
    • 1982 – Aivar Rehemaa, Estonian skier
    • 1982 – Anderson Varejão, Brazilian basketball player
    • 1982 – St. Vincent, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1983 – Stefan Moore, English footballer
    • 1983 – John Schwalger, New Zealand rugby player
    • 1984 – Jenny Omnichord, Canadian singer-songwriter
    • 1984 – Luke Pomersbach, Australian cricketer
    • 1984 – Naim Terbunja, Kosovan-Swedish boxer
    • 1984 – Melody Thornton, American singer-songwriter and dancer
    • 1984 – Mathieu Valbuena, French footballer
    • 1984 – Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
    • 1985 – Shindong, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
    • 1985 – Alina Ibragimova, Russian-English violinist
    • 1986 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer
    • 1986 – Meskerem Legesse, Ethiopian runner (d. 2013)
    • 1986 – Dominic Waters, American basketball player
    • 1987 – Pierre Becken, German footballer
    • 1987 – Gary Deegan, Irish footballer
    • 1987 – Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress
    • 1987 – Chloë Hanslip, English violinist
    • 1987 – Viktoria Leks, Estonian high jumper
    • 1988 – Marin Čilić, Croatian tennis player
    • 1988 – Esmée Denters, Dutch singer-songwriter
    • 1988 – Aleks Vrteski, Australian footballer
    • 1988 – Worakls, French DJ and electronic musician
    • 1989 – Çağla Büyükakçay, Turkish tennis player
    • 1989 – Darius Johnson-Odom, American basketball player
    • 1989 – Mark Randall, English footballer
    • 1990 – Phoenix Battye, Australian rugby player
    • 1992 – Khem Birch, Canadian professional basketball player
    • 1992 – Adam Thompson, English-Northern Irish footballer
    • 1992 – Kōko Tsurumi, Japanese gymnast
    • 1993 – Jodie Williams, English sprinter
    • 1995 – Jason Williams, English footballer

    Deaths on September 28

    • 48 BC – Pompey, Roman general and politician (b. 106 BC)
    • 782 – Leoba, Anglo-Saxon nun
    • 935 – Wenceslaus I, duke of Bohemia
    • 980 – Minamoto no Hiromasa, Japanese nobleman (b. 918)
    • 1197 – Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1165)
    • 1213 – Gertrude of Merania, queen consort of Hungaria (b. 1185)
    • 1330 – Elizabeth of Bohemia, queen consort of Bohemia (b. 1292)
    • 1429 – Cymburgis of Masovia, duchess consort of Austria (b. 1394)
    • 1582 – George Buchanan, Scottish historian and scholar (b. 1506)
    • 1596 – Margaret Clifford, countess of Derby (b. 1540)
    • 1618 – Josuah Sylvester, English poet and translator (b. 1563)
    • 1687 – Francis Turretin, Swiss-Italian theologian and academic (b. 1623)
    • 1694 – Gabriel Mouton, French mathematician and theologian (b. 1618)
    • 1702 – Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, French-English lawyer and politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1640)
    • 1742 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (b. 1663)
    • 1829 – Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and politician (b. 1771)
    • 1844 – Pyotr Aleksandrovich Tolstoy, Russian general and politician (b. 1769)
    • 1859 – Carl Ritter, German geographer and academic (b. 1779)
    • 1873 – Émile Gaboriau, French journalist and author (b. 1832)
    • 1891 – Herman Melville, American author and poet (b. 1819)
    • 1895 – Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist (b. 1822)
    • 1899 – Giovanni Segantini, Austrian painter (b. 1858)
    • 1914 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (b. 1863)
    • 1915 – Saitō Hajime, Japanese samurai (b. 1844)
    • 1918 – Georg Simmel, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1858)
    • 1918 – Freddie Stowers, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1896)
    • 1925 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (b. 1888)
    • 1935 – William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer, invented the Kinetoscope (b. 1860)
    • 1938 – Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (b. 1861)
    • 1943 – Sam Ruben, American chemist and academic (b. 1913)
    • 1943 – Filippo Illuminato, Italian partisan, Gold Medal of Military Valour (b. 1930)
    • 1949 – Archbishop Chrysanthus of Athens (b. 1881)
    • 1953 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and scholar (b. 1889)
    • 1956 – William Boeing, American businessman, founded the Boeing Company (b. 1881)
    • 1957 – Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan violinist and composer (b. 1888)
    • 1959 – Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver (b. 1901)
    • 1962 – Roger Nimier, French soldier and author (b. 1925)
    • 1964 – Harpo Marx, American comedian, actor, and singer (b. 1888)
    • 1966 – André Breton, French author and poet (b. 1896)
    • 1970 – John Dos Passos, American novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright (b. 1896)
    • 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egyptian colonel and politician, 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
    • 1978 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
    • 1979 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (b. 1921)
    • 1981 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan journalist and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1908)
    • 1982 – Mabel Albertson, American actress (b. 1901)
    • 1984 – Cihad Baban, Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1911)
    • 1989 – Ferdinand Marcos, Filipino lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Philippines (b. 1917)
    • 1990 – Larry O’Brien, American businessman and politician, 57th United States Postmaster General (b. 1917)
    • 1991 – Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1926)
    • 1993 – Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist (b. 1910)
    • 1993 – Alexander A. Drabik, American sergeant (b. 1910)
    • 1994 – Urmas Alender, Estonian singer (b. 1953)
    • 1994 – José Francisco Ruiz Massieu, Mexican lawyer and politician, 6th Governor of Guerrero (b. 1946)
    • 1994 – Harry Saltzman, Canadian production manager and producer (b. 1915)
    • 1994 – K. A. Thangavelu, Indian film actor and comedian (b. 1917)
    • 1999 – Escott Reid, Canadian academic and diplomat (b. 1905)
    • 2000 – Pierre Trudeau, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
    • 2002 – Patsy Mink, American lawyer and politician (b. 1927)
    • 2002 – Hartland Molson, Canadian captain and politician (b. 1907)
    • 2003 – Althea Gibson, American tennis player and golfer (b. 1927)
    • 2003 – Elia Kazan, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1909)
    • 2003 – George Odlum, Saint Lucian politician and diplomat (b. 1934)
    • 2004 – Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (b. 1924)
    • 2005 – Constance Baker Motley, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1921)
    • 2007 – René Desmaison, French mountaineer (b. 1930)
    • 2007 – Wally Parks, American businessman, founded the National Hot Rod Association (b. 1913)
    • 2009 – Guillermo Endara, Panamanian lawyer and politician, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1936)
    • 2009 – Ulf Larsson, Swedish actor and director (b. 1956)
    • 2010 – Kurt Albert, German mountaineer and photographer (b. 1954)
    • 2010 – Arthur Penn, American director and producer (b. 1922)
    • 2010 – Dolores Wilson, American soprano and actress (b. 1928)
    • 2012 – Avraham Adan, Israeli general (b. 1926)
    • 2012 – Chris Economaki, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1920)
    • 2012 – Brajesh Mishra, Indian politician and diplomat, 1st Indian National Security Advisor (b. 1928)
    • 2013 – James Emanuel, American-French poet and scholar (b. 1921)
    • 2013 – Jonathan Fellows-Smith, South African cricketer and rugby player (b. 1932)
    • 2013 – George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (b. 1945)
    • 2014 – Dannie Abse, Welsh physician, poet, and author (b. 1923)
    • 2014 – Joseph H. Alexander, American colonel and historian (b. 1938)
    • 2014 – Sheila Faith, English dentist and politician (b. 1928)
    • 2014 – Tim Rawlings, English footballer and manager (b. 1932)
    • 2014 – Petr Skoumal, Czech pianist and composer (b. 1938)
    • 2015 – Alexander Faris, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1921)
    • 2015 – Walter Dale Miller, American rancher and politician, 29th Governor of South Dakota (b. 1925)
    • 2015 – Ignacio Zoco, Spanish footballer (b. 1939)
    • 2016 – Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (b. 1922)
    • 2016 – Gary Glasberg, American television writer and producer (b. 1966)
    • 2016 – Shimon Peres, Polish-Israeli statesman and politician, 9th President of Israel (b. 1923)
    • 2016 – Gloria Naylor, American novelist (b. 1950)
    • 2017 – Daniel Pe’er, Israeli television host and newsreader (b. 1943)
    • 2018 – Predrag Ejdus, Serbian actor (b. 1947)
    • 2019 – José José, 71, Mexican singer (El Principe de la Canción or The Prince of Song), pancreas cancer (b. 1948)

    Holidays and observances on September 28

    • Christian feast day:
      • Aaron of Auxerre
      • Annemund
      • Conval
      • Eustochium
      • Exuperius
      • Faustus of Riez
      • John of Dukla
      • Leoba
      • Lorenzo Ruiz
      • Paternus of Auch
      • Richard Rolle, Walter Hilton and Margery Kempe (Episcopal Church (USA))
      • Simón de Rojas
      • Wenceslas
      • September 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
    • Czech Statehood Day (Czech Republic)
    • Freedom from Hunger Day
    • International Day for Universal Access to Information
    • National Day of Awareness and Unity against Child Pornography (Philippines)
    • Teachers’ Day (Taiwan and Chinese-Filipino schools in the Philippines), ceremonies dedicated to Confucius are also observed.
    • World Rabies Day (International)

  • May 20 – History, Events, Births, Deaths, Holidays and Observances On This Day

    • 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
    • 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed Augusta is able to choose her successor for the Byzantine throne, after Zeno (late emperor) dies of dysentery.
    • 685 – The Battle of Dun Nechtain is fought between a Pictish army under King Bridei III and the invading Northumbrians under King Ecgfrith, who are decisively defeated.
    • 794 – While visiting the royal Mercian court at Sutton Walls with a view to marrying princess Ælfthryth, King Æthelberht II of East Anglia is taken captive and beheaded.
    • 1217 – The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
    • 1293 – King Sancho IV of Castile creates the Estudio de Escuelas de Generales in Alcalá de Henares.
    • 1449 – The Battle of Alfarrobeira is fought, establishing the House of Braganza as a principal royal family of Portugal.
    • 1497 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
    • 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
    • 1521 – Ignatius of Loyola is seriously wounded in the Battle of Pampeluna.
    • 1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
    • 1609 – Shakespeare’s sonnets are first published in London, perhaps illicitly, by the publisher Thomas Thorpe.
    • 1631 – The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years’ War.
    • 1645 – Yangzhou massacre: The ten day massacre of 800,000 residents of the city of Yangzhou, part of the Transition from Ming to Qing.
    • 1741 – The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substantial losses.
    • 1775 – The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence is allegedly signed in Charlotte, North Carolina.
    • 1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution.
    • 1813 – Napoleon Bonaparte leads his French troops into the Battle of Bautzen in Saxony, Germany, against the combined armies of Russia and Prussia. The battle ends the next day with a French victory.
    • 1840 – York Minster is badly damaged by fire.
    • 1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
    • 1862 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84 million acres of public land to settlers.
    • 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
    • 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
    • 1875 – Signing of the Metre Convention by 17 nations leading to the establishment of the International System of Units.
    • 1882 – The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
    • 1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
    • 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
    • 1902 – Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country’s first President.
    • 1927 – Treaty of Jeddah: The United Kingdom recognizes the sovereignty of King Ibn Saud in the Kingdoms of Hejaz and Nejd, which later merge to become the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
    • 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
    • 1940 – The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
    • 1941 – World War II: Battle of Crete: German paratroops invade Crete.
    • 1948 – Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
    • 1949 – In the United States, the Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency, is established.
    • 1956 – In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
    • 1964 – Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
    • 1967 – The Popular Movement of the Revolution political party is established in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
    • 1969 – The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
    • 1971 – In the Chuknagar massacre, Pakistani forces massacre thousands, mostly Bengali Hindus.
    • 1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects, by 60% of the vote, a government proposal to move towards independence from Canada.
    • 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
    • 1983 – Church Street bombing: A car bomb planted by Umkhonto we Sizwe explodes on Church Street in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, killing 19 people and injuring 217 others.
    • 1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
    • 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.
    • 1990 – The first post-Communist presidential and parliamentary elections are held in Romania.
    • 1996 – Civil rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.
    • 2002 – The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and three years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself is the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976).
    • 2012 – At least 27 people are killed and 50 others injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake strikes northern Italy.
    • 2013 – An EF5 tornado strikes the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, killing 24 people and injuring 377 others.
    • 2019 – The International System of Units (SI): The base units are redefined, making the international prototype of the kilogram obsolete.

    Births on May 20

    • 1315 – Bonne of Luxembourg, first wife of John II of France (d. 1349)
    • 1470 – Pietro Bembo, Italian cardinal, poet, and scholar (d. 1547)
    • 1505 – Levinus Lemnius, Dutch writer (d. 1568)
    • 1531 – Thado Minsaw of Ava, Viceroy of Ava (d. 1584)
    • 1537 – Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist (d. 1619)
    • 1575 – Robert Heath, English judge and politician (d. 1649)
    • 1664 – Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor and architect (d. 1714)
    • 1726 – Francis Cotes, English painter and academic (d. 1770)
    • 1743 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian revolutionary, general, and president (d. 1803)
    • 1759 – William Thornton, Virgin Islander-American architect, designed the United States Capitol (d. 1828)
    • 1769 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (d. 1835)
    • 1772 – Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, English inventor and politician, developed Congreve rockets (d. 1828)
    • 1776 – Simon Fraser, American-Canadian fur trader and explorer (d. 1862)
    • 1795 – Pedro María de Anaya, Mexican soldier. President (1847-1848) (d. 1854)
    • 1799 – Honoré de Balzac, French novelist and playwright (d. 1850)
    • 1806 – John Stuart Mill, English economist, civil servant, and philosopher (d. 1873)
    • 1811 – Alfred Domett, English-New Zealand poet and politician, 4th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1887)
    • 1818 – William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express (d. 1881)
    • 1822 – Frédéric Passy, French economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1912)
    • 1824 – Cadmus M. Wilcox, Confederate States Army general (d. 1890)
    • 1825 – Antoinette Brown Blackwell, the first woman to be ordained as a mainstream Protestant minister in the U.S. (d. 1921)
    • 1830 – Hector Malot, French author (d. 1907)
    • 1838 – Jules Méline, French lawyer and politician, 65th Prime Minister of France (d. 1925)
    • 1851 – Emile Berliner, German-American inventor, invented the Gramophone record (d. 1929)
    • 1854 – George Prendergast, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Victoria (d. 1937)
    • 1856 – Henri-Edmond Cross, French Neo-Impressionist painter (d. 1910)
    • 1860 – Eduard Buchner, German chemist, zymologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1917)
    • 1875 – Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower (d. 1953)
    • 1877 – Pat Leahy, Irish-American jumper (d. 1927)
    • 1879 – Hans Meerwein, German chemist (d. 1965)
    • 1882 – Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1949)
    • 1883 – Faisal I of Iraq (d. 1933)
    • 1886 – Ali Sami Yen, Turkish footballer and manager, founded the Galatasaray Sports Club (d. 1951)
    • 1894 – Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian guru and scholar (d. 1994)
    • 1895 – R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire and Supermarine S.6B (d. 1937)
    • 1897 – Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author (d. 1983)
    • 1897 – Malcolm Nokes, English hammer and discus thrower (d. 1986)
    • 1898 – Eduard Ole, Estonian painter (d. 1995)
    • 1899 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1969)
    • 1899 – John Marshall Harlan II, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1971)
    • 1900 – Sumitranandan Pant, Indian poet and author (d. 1977)
    • 1901 – Max Euwe, Dutch chess player, mathematician, and author (d. 1981)
    • 1901 – Doris Fleeson, American journalist (d. 1970)
    • 1904 – Margery Allingham, English author of detective fiction (d. 1966)
    • 1906 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (d. 1989)
    • 1907 – Carl Mydans, American photographer and journalist (d. 2004)
    • 1908 – Henry Bolte, Australian politician, 38th Premier of Victoria (d. 1990)
    • 1908 – Louis Daquin, French actor and director (d. 1980)
    • 1908 – Francis Raymond Fosberg, American botanist and author (d. 1993)
    • 1908 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)
    • 1911 – Gardner Fox, American author (d. 1986)
    • 1911 – Annie M. G. Schmidt, Dutch author and playwright (d. 1995)
    • 1913 – Teodoro Fernández, Peruvian footballer (d. 1996)
    • 1913 – William Redington Hewlett, American engineer, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 2001)
    • 1915 – Peter Copley, English actor (d. 2008)
    • 1915 – Moshe Dayan, Israeli general and politician, 5th Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1981)
    • 1915 – Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor (d. 1999)
    • 1916 – Owen Chadwick, English rugby player, historian, and academic (d. 2015)
    • 1916 – Alexey Maresyev, Russian soldier and pilot (d. 2001)
    • 1916 – Ondina Valla, Italian sprinter and hurdler (d. 2006)
    • 1917 – Tony Cliff, Israeli-English author and activist (d. 2000)
    • 1917 – Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (d. 1967)
    • 1918 – Alexandra Boyko, Russian tank commander (d. 1996)
    • 1918 – Edward B. Lewis, American biologist, geneticist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
    • 1919 – George Gobel, American comedian (d. 1991)
    • 1920 – John Cruickshank, Scottish lieutenant and banker, Victoria Cross recipient
    • 1921 – Wolfgang Borchert, German author and playwright (d. 1947)
    • 1921 – Hal Newhouser, American baseball player and scout (d. 1998)
    • 1921 – Hao Wang, Chinese-American logician, philosopher, and mathematician (d. 1995)
    • 1922 – Ted Hinton, Northern Irish international footballer (d. 1988)
    • 1923 – Edith Fellows, American actress (d. 2011)
    • 1923 – Sam Selvon, Trinidad-born writer (d. 1994)
    • 1924 – David Chavchavadze, English-American CIA officer and author (d. 2014)
    • 1924 – Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (d. 1976)
    • 1925 – Alexei Tupolev, Russian engineer, designed the Tupolev Tu-144 (d. 2001)
    • 1926 – Bob Sweikert, American race car driver (d. 1956)
    • 1927 – Bud Grant, American football player and coach
    • 1927 – David Hedison, American actor (d. 2019)
    • 1927 – Franciszek Macharski, Polish cardinal (d. 2016)
    • 1929 – Gilles Loiselle, Canadian politician and diplomat, 33rd Canadian Minister of Finance
    • 1930 – Sam Etcheverry, American football player and coach (d. 2009)
    • 1931 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1982)
    • 1931 – Louis Smith, American trumpeter (d. 2016)
    • 1933 – Constance Towers, American actress and singer
    • 1935 – José Mujica, Uruguayan guerrilla leader and politician, 40th President of Uruguay
    • 1936 – Anthony Zerbe, American actor
    • 1937 – Dave Hill, American golfer (d. 2011)
    • 1937 – Derek Lampe, English footballer
    • 1939 – Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (d. 2014)
    • 1940 – Shorty Long, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 1969)
    • 1940 – Stan Mikita, Slovak-Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster (d. 2018)
    • 1940 – Sadaharu Oh, Japanese-Taiwanese baseball player and manager
    • 1941 – Goh Chok Tong, Singaporean politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Singapore
    • 1941 – John Strasberg, American actor and teacher
    • 1942 – Raymond Chrétien, Canadian lawyer and diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States
    • 1942 – Lynn Davies, Welsh sprinter and long jumper
    • 1942 – Carlos Hathcock, American sergeant and sniper (d. 1999)
    • 1942 – Frew McMillan, South African tennis player
    • 1943 – Albano Carrisi, Italian singer, actor, and winemaker
    • 1943 – Deryck Murray, Trinidadian cricketer
    • 1944 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (d. 2014)
    • 1944 – Boudewijn de Groot, Indonesian-Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1944 – Keith Fletcher, English cricketer and manager
    • 1944 – Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman, co-founded Red Bull GmbH
    • 1945 – Vladimiro Montesinos, Peruvian intelligence officer
    • 1946 – Cher, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
    • 1946 – Bobby Murcer, American baseball player, coach, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2008)
    • 1947 – Steve Currie, English bass player (d. 1981)
    • 1947 – Greg Dyke, English journalist and academic
    • 1949 – Robert Morin, Canadian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter
    • 1949 – Michèle Roberts, English author and poet
    • 1949 – Dave Thomas, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1950 – Andy Johns, English-American engineer and producer (d. 2013)
    • 1950 – Reinaldo Merlo, Argentinian footballer and coach
    • 1951 – Thomas Akers, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut
    • 1951 – Christie Blatchford, Canadian newspaper columnist, journalist and broadcaster (d. 2020)
    • 1951 – Mike Crapo, American lawyer and politician
    • 1952 – Roger Milla, Cameroonian footballer and manager
    • 1952 – Michael Wills, English politician, British Minister of Justice
    • 1953 – Robert Doyle, Australian educator and politician, 103rd Lord Mayor of Melbourne
    • 1954 – David Paterson, American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of New York
    • 1954 – Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway, Scottish lawyer and judge
    • 1955 – Steve George, American keyboard player and songwriter
    • 1955 – Zbigniew Preisner, Polish composer and producer
    • 1956 – Ingvar Ambjørnsen, Norwegian-German author and critic
    • 1956 – Gerry Peyton, English born Irish international footballer and coach
    • 1956 – Douglas Preston, American journalist and author
    • 1957 – Yoshihiko Noda, Japanese lawyer and politician, 62nd Prime Minister of Japan
    • 1958 – Ron Reagan, American journalist and radio host
    • 1958 – Jane Wiedlin, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
    • 1959 – Susan Cowsill, American singer-songwriter
    • 1960 – Tony Goldwyn, American actor and director
    • 1961 – Clive Allen, English international footballer and manager
    • 1961 – Nick Heyward, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
    • 1963 – David Wells, American baseball player and sportscaster
    • 1964 – Kōichirō Genba, Japanese politician, 80th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
    • 1964 – Edin Osmanović, Slovenian footballer, coach, and manager
    • 1964 – Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, English journalist and author
    • 1965 – Ted Allen, American television host and author
    • 1965 – Stu Grimson, Canadian ice hockey player, sportscaster, and lawyer
    • 1966 – Dan Abrams, American journalist and author
    • 1967 – Graham Brady, English politician
    • 1967 – Gabriele Muccino, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1968 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor and producer
    • 1969 – Road Dogg, American wrestler, producer, and soldier
    • 1970 – Terrell Brandon, American basketball player
    • 1970 – Louis Theroux, Singaporean-English journalist and producer
    • 1971 – Šárka Kašpárková, Czech triple jumper and coach
    • 1971 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver
    • 1972 – Michael Diamond, Australian shooter
    • 1972 – Christophe Dominici, French rugby player
    • 1972 – Busta Rhymes, American rapper, producer, and actor
    • 1973 – Nathan Long, Australian rugby league player
    • 1974 – Allison Amend, American novelist and short story writer
    • 1974 – Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Indian film director, writer and actor
    • 1975 – Juan Minujín, Argentinian actor, director, and screenwriter
    • 1976 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan-American baseball player
    • 1976 – Tomoya Satozaki, Japanese baseball player
    • 1977 – Matt Czuchry, American actor
    • 1977 – Leo Franco, Argentinian footballer
    • 1977 – Angela Goethals, American actress
    • 1977 – Stirling Mortlock, Australian rugby player
    • 1977 – Vesa Toskala, Finnish ice hockey player
    • 1978 – Hristos Banikas, Greek chess player
    • 1978 – Pavla Hamáčková-Rybová, Czech pole vaulter
    • 1978 – Nils Schumann, German runner
    • 1979 – Andrew Scheer, Canadian politician, 28th Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada
    • 1979 – Jayson Werth, American baseball player
    • 1980 – Austin Kearns, American baseball player
    • 1980 – Kassim Osgood, American football player
    • 1981 – Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer
    • 1981 – Rachel Platten, American singer and songwriter
    • 1981 – Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player
    • 1981 – Mark Winterbottom, Australian race car driver
    • 1982 – Petr Čech, Czech footballer
    • 1982 – Imran Farhat, Pakistani cricketer
    • 1982 – Jessica Raine, English actress
    • 1982 – Daniel Ribeiro, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
    • 1983 – Óscar Cardozo, Paraguayan footballer
    • 1983 – Matt Langridge, English rower
    • 1984 – Mauro Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballer
    • 1984 – Patrick Ewing, Jr., American basketball player
    • 1984 – Keith Grennan, American football player
    • 1985 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-English cyclist
    • 1985 – Brendon Goddard, Australian footballer
    • 1986 – Dexter Blackstock, English footballer
    • 1986 – Stéphane Mbia, Cameroonian footballer
    • 1986 – Jiřina Svobodová, Czech pole vaulter
    • 1987 – Mike Havenaar, Japanese footballer
    • 1987 – Julian Wright, American basketball player
    • 1988 – Joel Moon, Australian rugby league player
    • 1989 – Siosia Vave, Australian-Tongan rugby league player
    • 1991 – Bastian Baker, Swiss singer, songwriter, and performer
    • 1991 – Emre Colak, Turkish footballer
    • 1992 – Cate Campbell, Malawian-Australian swimmer
    • 1992 – Jack Gleeson, Irish actor
    • 1992 – Enes Kanter, Turkish basketball player
    • 1993 – Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
    • 1996 – Brian Kelly, Australian rugby league player
    • 1998 – Jamie Chadwick, English race car driver
    • 1998 – Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater

    Deaths on May 20

    • 685 – Ecgfrith of Northumbria (b. 645)
    • 794 – Æthelberht II, king of East Anglia
    • 965 – Gero the Great, Saxon ruler (b.c. 900)
    • 1062 – Bao Zheng, Chinese magistrate and mayor of Kaifeng (b. 999)
    • 1277 – Pope John XXI (b. 1215)
    • 1285 – John II of Jerusalem (b. 1259)
    • 1291 – Sufi Saint Sayyid Jalaluddin Surkh-Posh Bukhari
    • 1366 – Maria of Calabria, Empress of Constantinople (b. 1329)
    • 1444 – Bernardino of Siena, Italian-Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1380)
    • 1449 – Álvaro Vaz de Almada, 1st Count of Avranches
    • 1449 – Infante Pedro, Duke of Coimbra (b. 1392)
    • 1501 – Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican tertiary Religious Sister (b. 1467)
    • 1503 – Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici, Italian banker and politician (b. 1463)
    • 1506 – Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer, discovered the Americas (b. 1451)
    • 1550 – Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1510)
    • 1579 – Isabella Markham, English courtier (b. 1527)
    • 1622 – Osman II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1604)
    • 1645 – Shi Kefa, Chinese general and calligrapher (b. 1601)
    • 1648 – Władysław IV Vasa, Polish son of Sigismund III Vasa (b. 1595)
    • 1677 – George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, Spanish-English politician, English Secretary of State (b. 1612)
    • 1713 – Thomas Sprat, English bishop (b. 1635)
    • 1717 – John Trevor, Welsh lawyer and politician, 102nd Speaker of the House of Commons (b. 1637)
    • 1722 – Sébastien Vaillant, French botanist and mycologist (b. 1669)
    • 1732 – Thomas Boston, Scottish author and educator (b. 1676)
    • 1782 – William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1701)
    • 1793 – Charles Bonnet, Swiss botanist and biologist (b. 1720)
    • 1812 – Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop (b. 1732)
    • 1834 – Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (b. 1757)
    • 1841 – Joseph Blanco White, Spanish poet and theologian (b. 1775)
    • 1864 – John Clare, English poet (b. 1793)
    • 1873 – George-Étienne Cartier, Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 9th Premier of East Canada (b. 1814)
    • 1880 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse and philanthropist (b. 1814)
    • 1896 – Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (b. 1819)
    • 1909 – Ernest Hogan, American actor and composer (b. 1859)
    • 1917 – Valentine Fleming, Scottish soldier and politician (b. 1887)
    • 1917 – Philipp von Ferrary, Italian stamp collector (b. 1850)
    • 1924 – Bogd Khan, Mongolian ruler (c. 1869)
    • 1925 – Joseph Howard, Maltese politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1862)
    • 1931 – Ernest Noel, Scottish businessman and politician (b. 1831)
    • 1940 – Verner von Heidenstam, Swedish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
    • 1942 – Hector Guimard, French Architect (b. 1867)
    • 1946 – Jacob Ellehammer, Danish pilot and engineer (b. 1871)
    • 1947 – Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
    • 1947 – Georgios Siantos, Greek sergeant and politician (b. 1890)
    • 1949 – Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop and politician, 137th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1891)
    • 1956 – Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist (b. 1872)
    • 1956 – Zoltán Halmay, Hungarian swimmer and trainer (b. 1881)
    • 1961 – Josef Priller, German colonel and pilot (b. 1915)
    • 1964 – Rudy Lewis, American singer (b. 1936)
    • 1971 – Waldo Williams, Welsh poet and academic (b. 1904)
    • 1973 – Renzo Pasolini, Italian motorcycle racer (b. 1938)
    • 1973 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
    • 1975 – Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and lithographer (b. 1903)
    • 1976 – Syd Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1911)
    • 1976 – Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan journalist and politician (b. 1924)
    • 1976 – Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, Uruguayan politician (b. 1934)
    • 1989 – John Hicks, English economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
    • 1989 – Gilda Radner, American actress and comedian (b. 1946)
    • 1995 – Les Cowie, Australian rugby league player (b. 1925)
    • 1996 – Jon Pertwee, English actor, portrayed the Third Doctor (b. 1919)
    • 1998 – Robert Normann, Norwegian guitarist (b. 1916)
    • 2000 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (b. 1922)
    • 2000 – Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (b. 1970)
    • 2000 – Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
    • 2001 – Renato Carosone, Italian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1920)
    • 2002 – Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1941)
    • 2005 – Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (b. 1913)
    • 2005 – William Seawell, American general (b. 1918)
    • 2007 – Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (b. 1914)
    • 2008 – Hamilton Jordan, American politician, 8th White House Chief of Staff (b. 1944)
    • 2009 – Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect and urban planner, designed Roy Thomson Hall (b. 1924)
    • 2009 – Lucy Gordon, American actress and model (b. 1980)
    • 2009 – Pierre Gamarra, French author, poet, and critic (b. 1919)
    • 2011 – Randy Savage, American wrestler and actor (b. 1952)
    • 2012 – Leela Dube, Indian anthropologist and scholar (b. 1923)
    • 2012 – Robin Gibb, Manx-English singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1949)
    • 2012 – David Littman, English-Swiss historian, author, and academic (b. 1933)
    • 2012 – Ken Lyons, American bass guitarist (b. 1953)
    • 2012 – Eugene Polley, American engineer, invented the remote control (b. 1915)
    • 2012 – Andrew B. Steinberg, American lawyer (b. 1958)
    • 2013 – Flavio Costantini, Italian painter and illustrator (b. 1926)
    • 2013 – Billie Dawe, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1924)
    • 2013 – Anders Eliasson, Swedish composer (b. 1947)
    • 2013 – Miloslav Kříž, Czech basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
    • 2013 – Ray Manzarek, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (b. 1939)
    • 2013 – Denys Roberts, English judge and politician (b. 1923)
    • 2013 – Zach Sobiech, American singer-songwriter (b. 1995)
    • 2014 – Sandra Bem, American psychologist and academic (b. 1944)
    • 2014 – Ross Brown, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1934)
    • 2014 – Robyn Denny, English-French painter (b. 1930)
    • 2014 – Arthur Gelb, American journalist, author, and critic (b. 1924)
    • 2014 – Prince Rupert Loewenstein, Spanish-English businessman (b. 1933)
    • 2014 – Barbara Murray, English actress (b. 1929)
    • 2015 – Bob Belden, American saxophonist, composer, and producer (b. 1956)
    • 2015 – Femi Robinson, Nigerian actor and playwright (b. 1940)

    Holidays and observances on May 20

    • Christian feast day:
      • Abercius and Helena
      • Alcuin of York
      • Aurea of Ostia
      • Austregisilus
      • Baudilus
      • Bernardino of Siena
      • Ivo of Chartres
      • Lucifer of Cagliari
      • Sanctan
      • May 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    • Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)
    • Emancipation Day (Florida)
    • European Maritime Day (European Council)
    • Independence Restoration Day, celebrates the independence of East Timor from Indonesia in 2002.
    • Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)
    • National Awakening Day (Indonesia), and its related observances:
      • Indonesian Doctor Day (Indonesia)
    • National Day (Cameroon)
    • World Bee Day
    • World Metrology Day
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    List Of Country , Capital & Currencies Quiz

    List Of Country , Capital & Currencies Quiz

    1. The Currency of Antigua and Barbuda is – East Caribbean dollar

    2. The Capital of Andorra is – Andorra la Vella

    3. The Capital of Belorussian ruble is – Belorussian

    4. The Capital of the Country Belize is – Belmopan

    5. The Currency of Bhutan is – Ngultrum

    6. The Country Name of the Capital Sarajevo is – Bosnia and Herzegovina

    7. The Capital of Brunei is – Bandar Seri Begawan

    8. The Capital of Sofia is – Bulgaria

    9. The Capital of Burkina Faso is – Ouagadougou

    10. The Currency of Phnom Penh is – Riel

    11. The Country of Yaounde is – Cameroon

    12. The Currency of Ottawa is – Canadian dollar

    13. The Country of Bangui is – Central African Republic

    14. The Capital of Chad is – N’Djamena

    15. The Currency of Santiago is – Chilean Peso

    16. The Currency of Beijing is – Yuan/Renminbi

    17. The Country of Colombian Peso is – Colombia

    18. The Currency of Brazzaville is – CFA Franc

    19. The Capital of Congolese franc is – Kinshasa

    20. The Capital of Yamoussoukro is – Cote d’Ivoire

    21. The Currency of Croatia is – Kuna

    22. The Capital of Cuba is – Havana

    23. The Country of Cyprus pound is – Cyprus

    24. The Capital of Prague is – Czech Republic

    25. The Capital of Copenhagen is – Denmark

    26. The Currency of Djibouti is – Djibouti franc

    27. The Capital of Prague East Caribbean dollar is – Roseau

    28. The Capital of Dominican Republic is – Santo Domingo

    29. The Currency of East Timor is – U.S. dollar

    30. The Country of Egyptian pound is – Egypt

    31. The Capital of El Salvador is – San Salvador

    32. The Country of Malabo is – Equatorial Guinea

    33. The Currency of Asmara is – Nakfa

    34. The Country of Tallinn is – Estonia

    35. The Country of Addis Ababa is – Ethiopia

    36. The Currency of Suva is – Fiji dollar

    37. The Country of Helsinki is – Finland

    38. The Currency of France is – Euro

    39. The Country of Libreville is – Gabon

    40. The Country of Banjul is – The Gambia

    41. The Capital of Georgia is – Tbilisi

    42. The Capital of Germany is – Berlin

    43. The Capital of Ghana is – Accra

    44. The Country of Athens is – Greece

    45. The Currency of Saint George’s is – East Caribbean dollar

    46. The Capital of Guatemala City is – Guatemala

    47. The Currency of Conakry is – Guinean franc

    48.The Country of Bissau is – Guinea-Bissau

    49. The Capital of Guyana is – Georgetown

    50. The Country of Port-au-Prince is – Haiti

    51. The Capital of Indonesia is – Jakarta

    52. The Capital of Honduras is – Tegucigalpa

    53. The Currency of Budapest is – Forint

    54. The Capital of Icelandic króna is – Reykjavik

    55. The Currency of Tehran is – Rial

    56. The Currency of Baghdad is – Iraqi Dinar

    57. The Capital of Dublin is – Ireland

    58. The Capital of Israel is – Jerusalem

    59. The Currency of Kingston is – Jamaican dollar

    60. The Capital of Jordanian dinar is – Amman

    61. The Currency of Kazakhstan is – Tenge

    62. The Capital of Kenya shilling is – Nairobi

    63. The Country of Tarawa Atoll is – Kiribati

    64. The Currency of Pyongyang is – Won

    65. The Country of Pristina is – Kosovo

    66. The Currency of Kuwait City is – Kuwaiti dinar

    67. The Country of Bishkek is – Kyrgyzstan

    68. The Capital of Laos is – Vientiane

    69. The Currency of Latviis – Lats

    70. The Currency of Beirut is – Lebanese pound

    71. The Country of Maseru is – Lesotho

    72. The Currency of Monrovia is – Liberian dollar

    73. The Country of Tripoli is – Libya

    74. The Currency of Liechtenstein is – Swiss franc

    75. The Capital of Lithuania is – Vilnius

    76. The Currency of Luxembourg is – Euro

    77. The Capital of Macedonia is – Skopje

    78. The Country of Antananarivo is – Madagascar

    79. The Currency of Lilongwe is – Kwacha

    80. The Capital of Malaysia is – Kuala Lumpur

    81. The Country of Rufiya is – Maldives

    82. The Currency of Bamako is – CFA Franc

    83. The Currency of Valletta is – Maltese lira

    84.The Country of Nouakchott is – Mauritania

    85.The Capital of Port Louis is – Mauritius

    86. The Currency of Mexico City is – Mexican peso

    87. The Country of Palikir is – Micronesia

    88. The Capital of Moldova is – Chisinau

    89. The Currency of Monaco is – Euro

    90. The Country of Ulaanbaatar is – Mongolia

    91. The Capital of Montenegro is – Podgorica

    92. The Currency of Rabat is – Dirham

    93. The Capital of Maputo is – Mozambique

    94. The Currency of Rangoon is – Kyat

    95. The Country of Windhoek is – Namibia

    96. The Country of Australian dollar is – Nauru

    97. The Currency of Kathmandu is – Nepalese rupee

    98. The Country of Amsterdam is – Netherlands

    99. The Currency of Wellington is – New Zealand dollar

    100. The Capital of Gold cordoba is – Managua