On May 9 – 10, 1860, the Illinois Republican State Convention was held in Decatur.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* 1453 – Mehmed II begins his siege of Constantinople ( Istanbul ), which falls on May 29.

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:: L. Marcus Annius Verus Caesar ( after May 162 – 10 September 169 ), died young without issue

Alcuin of York () or Ealhwine, nicknamed Albinus or Flaccus ( 730s or 740s – 19 May 804 ) was an English scholar, ecclesiastic, poet and teacher from York, Northumbria.

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

Arthur Aikin FGS ( 19 May 1773 – 15 April 1854 ) was an English chemist, mineralogist and scientific writer.

Alessandro di Cristofano di Lorenzo del Bronzino Allori ( 31 May 1535 – 22 September 1607 ) was an Italian portrait painter of the late Mannerist Florentine school.

o Bolonhês ), King of Portugal ( 5 May 1210 in Coimbra – 16 February 1279 in Alcobaça, Coimbra or Lisbon ) was the first to use the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, from 1249.

Afonso IV (; 8 February 1291 – 28 May 1357 ), called the Brave (), was King of Portugal and the Algarve from 1325 until his death.

* Alfonso XIII ( 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ).

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

By Béatrice Noon he had Juana Alfonsa Milán y Quiñones de León ( 19 April 1916 – 16 May 2005 )

* King Béla IV of Hungary ( 1206 – 3 May 1270 )

14 May 1234: Beatrice D ' Este ( c. 1215 – before 8 May 1245 ), daughter of Aldobrandino I D ' Este and his wife

He was saved by the new sulphonamide drug, Sulphapyridine, known at the time under the research code M & B 693, discovered and produced by May & Baker Ltd, Dagenham, Essex – a subsidiary of the French group Rhône-Poulenc.

As of May 2004, 30 % of people in the ACT aged 15 – 64 had a level of educational attainment equal to at least an bachelor's degree, significantly higher than the national average of 19 %.

Andrea Alciato ( May 8, 1492 – January 12, 1550 ), commonly known as Alciati ( Andreas Alciatus ), was an Italian jurist and writer.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

On 2 May 2011 CEO Jack Pelton retired.

The 1974 edition lists Jack Boyle, age 52, of Barrow-in-Furness as having consumed a 3 pint yard of ale in 10. 15 seconds on May 14, 1971.

On May 11, Florida replaced manager Jeff Torborg with 72-year-old Jack McKeon.

Houston sent second baseman Joe Morgan, infielder Denis Menke, pitcher Jack Billingham, outfielder Cesar Geronimo and prospect Ed Armbrister to Cincinnati for first baseman Lee May, second baseman Tommy Helms and infielder Jimmy Stewart.

Whitstable, Kent, hosts a good example of more traditional May Day festivities, where the Jack in the Green festival was revived in 1976 and continues to lead an annual procession of morris dancers through the town on the May Bank Holiday.

A traditional Sweeps Festival is performed over the May bank holiday in Rochester, Kent, where the Jack in the Green is woken at dawn on 1 May by Morris dancers.

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* May 2 – Jack Barry, American television host and producer ( b. 1918 )

* May 1 – Jack Paar, American television show host ( The Tonight Show ) ( d. 2004 )

* May 3 – Jack Weston, American actor ( b. 1924 )

* May 1 – Jack Adams, Canadian ice hockey player and coach ( b. 1895 )

* May 26 – Jack Kevorkian, American physician, right-to-die advocate ( d. 2011 )

* May 6 – Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop.

* May 31 – Jack Holt, American actor ( d. 1951 )

* May – The Hulk debuts with The Incredible Hulk # 1 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

* May 10 – Jack E. Leonard, American comedian ( b. 1910 )

* May 2 – Comedian Jack Benny's radio show airs for the first time.

* May 13 – The Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang, is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Phillip Game.

* May 8 – Jack Cade's Rebellion: Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.

Jack Bruce told Detroit's WCSX radio station in May 2007 that there were plans for a Cream reunion later in the year.

After sessions with Ted Lewis ( 1930 ), Jack Teagarden ( 1931 ), and Billy Banks's Rhythmakers ( 1932 ), he began in May 1934 the voluminous series of recordings with a small band known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm.