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McKinley died on September 14 after his wound became infected.
Famous Birthdays on May 5
1873 — Leon Czolgosz
American assassin of William McKinley (died 1901)
May 5 has 144 recorded notable births across history, from 1210 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on May 5
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- 1961 Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight. Source
- 1912 The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda is published. Source
- 1821 The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published. Source
- 1930 The 1930 Bago earthquake, the first of two major earthquakes in southern Burma, kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago. Source
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Unusually for his time, he opposed the death penalty and torture and abolished it in Tuscany on 30 November 1786 during his rule there, making it the first nation in modern history to do so.
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Mayar Sherif has also won a record 10 WTA 125 singles titles and two doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour along with eleven singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
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Georgios Papadopoulos was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's prime minister from 1967 to 1973.
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At the junior level, Chen is the 2015–16 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, 2013–14 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, 2014 World Junior bronze medalist, and a six-time Junior Grand Prix medalist.
More major people born on May 5
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1747
Leopold II
Holy Roman Emperor (died 1792)
Leopold II was the penultimate Holy Roman Emperor, as well as King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and Archduke of Austria from 1790 to 1792, and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790 as Leopold I.
1996
Mayar Sherif
Egyptian tennis player
Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz is an Egyptian professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA ranking of No. 31 in singles, making her the highest ranked Egyptian singles player, male or female, in the Open Era.
1919
Georgios Papadopoulos
Greek colonel and politician, Prime Minister of Greece (died 1999)
Georgios Papadopoulos was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's prime minister from 1967 to 1973.
1999
Nathan Chen
American figure skater
Nathan Wei Chen is an American figure skater. He is the 2022 Olympic champion in both the men's singles and team event, a three-time World champion, the 2017 Four Continents champion, a three-time Grand Prix Final…
1883
Archibald Wavell
1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (died 1950)
Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell was a senior officer of the British Army.
1975
Meb Keflezighi
American runner
Mebrahtom "Meb" Keflezighi is a retired American long distance runner. He is the 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the marathon and finished in fourth place in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
1967
Adam Hughes
American author and illustrator
Adam Hughes is an American comics artist and illustrator best known to American comic book readers for his renderings of pinup-style female characters, and his cover work on titles such as Wonder Woman and Catwoman.
1900
Helen Redfield
American geneticist (died 1988)
Helen Redfield, was an American geneticist. Redfield graduated from Rice University in 1920, followed by earning her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1921.
1874
Thomas Bavin
New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (died 1941)
Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin, was an Australian lawyer and politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1927 to 1930.
1282
Juan Manuel
Prince of Villena (died 1348)
Don Juan Manuel was a Spanish medieval writer, nephew of Alfonso X of Castile, son of Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy.
1964
Jean-François Copé
French politician, French Minister of Budget
Jean-François Copé is a French politician serving as Mayor of Meaux since 1995 with an interruption from 2002 to 2005.
1764
Robert Craufurd
Scottish general and politician (died 1812)
Major-General Robert Craufurd was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
1898
Blind Willie McTell
American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (died 1959)
Blind Willie McTell was an American Piedmont blues and ragtime singer, songwriter and guitarist. He played in a fluid, syncopated finger picking guitar style common among many East Coast, Piedmont blues players.
1858
John L. Leal
American physician (died 1914)
John Laing Leal was an American physician and water treatment expert who, in 1908, was responsible for conceiving and implementing the first disinfection of a U.S. drinking water supply using chlorine.
1981
Craig David
English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
Craig Ashley David is an English singer. He rose to fame in 1999, featuring on the single "Re-Rewind" by Artful Dodger. David's debut studio album, Born to Do It, was released in 2000, to great commercial success.
1889
Herbie Taylor
South African cricketer and soldier (died 1973)
Herbert Wilfred Taylor was a South African cricketer who played 42 Test matches for his country including 18 as captain of the side.
1882
Sylvia Pankhurst
English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (died 1960)
Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst was an English feminist, socialist, activist, artist and writer.
1942
Tammy Wynette
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1998)
Tammy Wynette was an American country music singer and songwriter, considered among the genre's most influential and successful artists.
1961
Hiroshi Hase
Japanese wrestler and politician
Hiroshi Hase is a Japanese politician and semi-retired professional wrestler who served as the governor of Ishikawa Prefecture from 2022 to 2026.