What happened on May 5 ?

200 - Sun Ce, a warlord of the Han Dynasty (b. 175)

311 - Galerius, Roman Emperor

1028 - King Alfonso V of Castile, León, and Galicia

1192 - Duke Ottokar IV of Styria (b. 1163)

1194 - King Casimir II of Poland (b. 1138)

1219 - King Leo II of Armenia (b. 1150)

1309 - King Charles II of Naples

1525 - Frederick III of Saxony (b. 1463)

1586 - Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)

1604 - Claudio Merulo, Italian composer (b. 1533)

1671 - Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English politician (b. 1602)

1672 - Samuel Cooper, English painter (b. 1609)

1705 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)

1760 - Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (hanged) (b. 1720)

1766 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)

1808 - Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (b. 1757)

1811 - Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (b. 1734)

1821 - Napoleon I of France (b. 1769)

1827 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)

1855 - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)

1859 - Peter Gustav Dirichlet, German mathematician (b. 1805)

1900 - Ivan Aivazovsky, Russian painter (b. 1817)

1921 - Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864)

1941 - Natalija Obrenovi?, Queen of Serbia (b. 1859)

1947 - Ty LaForest, Canadian baseball player (b. 1917)

1959 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)

1962 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)

1971 - Violet Jessop, Titanic survivor (b. 1887)

1977 - Ludwig Erhard, a German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of Germany from 1963 until 1966 (b. 1897)

1981 - Bobby Sands, Irish activist (b. 1954)

1985 - Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)

1988 - Michael Shaara, American author (b. 1928)

1992 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer (b.1927)

1995 - Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player (b. 1911)

1997 - Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)

2001 - Cliff Hillegass, American writer and publisher

2003 - Walter Sisulu, South African activist (b. 1912)

2006 - Naushad Ali, Indian composer (b. 1919)