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3 Deaths

• 1028 - Alfonso V, king of León and Galicia
• 1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)
• 1309 - King Charles II of Naples, king of Naples (b. c. 1248)
• 1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)
• 1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
• 1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
• 1807 - P. D. Q. Bach, fictitious composer (b. 1742)
• 1811 - Robert Mylne, architect (b. 1734)
• 1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte, ruler of France ( 1799- 1815) (b. 1769)
• 1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
• 1859 - Peter Dirichlet , mathematician
• 1981 - Bobby Sands, Provisional IRA activist (b. 1954)
• 1988 - Michael Shaara, author (b. 1928)
• 1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, world chess champion (b. 1911)
• 1997 - Walter Gotell, actor (b. 1924)
• 2001 - Cliff Hillegass , creator of Cliffs Notes
• 2003 - Walter Sisulu, anti-apartheid activist (b. 1912)

4 Holidays and observances

• Denmark: Liberation Day ( 1945)
• The Netherlands: May 5, Liberation day ( 1945)
• Ethiopia: Liberation Day ( 1941)
• Northern Territory, Australia: May Day
• Japan: Tango no Sekku - Boy's Day; or Kodomo no hi - Children's Day
• Mexico and the Southwestern United States: Cinco de Mayo ( 1862)
• Guyana: Indian Immigration Day ( 1838)
• Council of Europe: Europe Day

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