John Calvin (, born: 10 July 150927 May 1564 ) was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation.

Calvin died on 27 May 1564 aged 54.

* May 7 – David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer ( b. 1564 )

* May 3 – Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary ( born 1564 )

* May 30 – Christopher Marlowe, English poet and playwright ( b. 1564 )

* May 16 – William Adams, English navigator and samurai ( b. 1564 )

Calvin and Beza arranged to perform their duties jointly in alternate weeks, but the death of Calvin occurred soon afterward ( May 27, 1564 ).

To this end, she set out with Charles and the court on a progress around France that lasted from January 1564 until May 1565.

David Fabricius ( March 9, 1564 – May 7, 1617 ), was a German theologian who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly with his eldest son, Johannes Fabricius ( 1587 – 1615 ).

William Adams ( 24 September 1564 – 16 May 1620 ), also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama ( anjin, " pilot "; sama, a Japanese honorific ) and Miura Anjin ( 三浦按針: " the pilot of Miura "), was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach that country.

* May 30-Christopher Marlowe, dramatist and poet ( born 1564 )

Arthur Golding was born in East Anglia, before 25 May 1535 / 36, the second son of John Golding of Belchamp St Paul and Halstead, Essex, an auditor of the Exchequer, and his second wife, Ursula ( d. c. 1564 ), in a family of eleven children ( four from John Golding's first wife, Elizabeth ).

His continued failure to effect a purpose for the accomplishment of which he possessed inadequate resources led Sussex to pray for his recall from Ireland ; and his wish was granted in May 1564.

# Christine ( 29 June 1543 – 13 May 1604 ), married in Gottorp on 17 December 1564 to Duke Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp.

Pedro Páez Jaramillo ( Portuguese: Pêro Pais ; 1564 – May 25, 1622 ) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia.

* May 7-David Fabricius, Frisian astronomer ( born 1564 )

Laudonnière arrived at the mouth of the May River ( today called the St. Johns River ) on June 22, 1564.

During her incarceration, Catherine gave birth first to her eldest daughter Isabella of Finland in 1564 ( died 1566 ), then to her son Sigismund in 1566, and finally her youngest child Anna Vasa of Sweden on 17 May 1568.

Again, her conduct won Calvin's praise ( 10 May 1563 ), and she is one of the frequently recurring figures in his correspondence of that period ; he repeatedly shows recognition of her intervention in behalf of the Evangelical cause ; and one of his last writings in the French tongue, dispatched from his deathbed ( 4 April 1564 ), is addressed to her.

# Elisabeth ( 24 January 1564 – 5 May 1611 ), married:

Rodolfo Pio da Carpi ( February 22, 1500 – May 2, 1564 ) was an Italian Cardinal, humanist and patron of the arts.

Knighted 1577, Of Counsel, King's Lynn 1560, Of Counsel, Great Yarmouth from 11 February 1562-3, < sup > DNB </ sup > Recorder from 1561, Bencher Middle Temple 1565, Autumn Reader 1565, Lent Reader 1571, Justice of the Peace of the Quorum, Norfolk from 1564, Speaker 8 May 1572, Commissioner of Grain 1576, Musters by 1576, 22 January 1577-Serjeant-at-Law, 24 January 1577-Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

On 30 May 1564 a battle broke out between the Swedish navy and the Danish – Lübeck navy between Gotland and Öland.

He became Chief Butler and chamberlain of the exchequer, and from May 1559 to April 1564 he was ambassador to France.

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

The two were married by proxy on 19 May 1499 and corresponded in Latin until Arthur turned fifteen, when it was decided that they were old enough to be married.

Arthur agreed to cooperate, and filed for divorce in America on the grounds of desertion, which was granted 9 May 1901.

In May 1902 he was passed fit for sea duty and was appointed captain of the cruiser HMS Juno in June, spending two months in exercises with the Channel Fleet under Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson before joining the Mediterranean fleet.

An Irish-British co-production, written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May 1998, including a Christmas special, for a total of 25 episodes.

John and Philip negotiated the May 1200 Treaty of Le Goulet ; by this treaty, Philip recognised John as the rightful heir to Richard in respect to his French possessions, temporarily abandoning the wider claims of his client, Arthur.

* 1945 – World War II: Ratification in Berlin-Karlshorst of the German unconditional surrender of May 8 in Rheims, France, with the signatures of Marshal Georgy Zhukov for the Soviet Union, and for the Western Headquarters Sir Arthur Tedder, British Air Marshal and Eisenhower's deputy, and for the German side of Colonel-General Hans-Jürgen Stumpff as the representative of the Luftwaffe, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel as the Chief of Staff of OKW, and Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg as Commander-in-Chief of the Kriegsmarine.

Following the death of Arthur C. Clarke, BBC Sky At Night magazine released a copy of the 1977 archive programme on the cover of their May 2008 edition.

Bush describes the memex and other visions of " As We May Think " as projections of technology known in the 1930s and 1940s in the spirit of Jules Verne or Arthur C. Clarke's 1945 proposal to orbit geosynchronous satellites for global telecommunication.

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Robert Arthur " Bob " Moog ( ; May 23, 1934 – August 21, 2005 ), founder of Moog Music, was an American pioneer of electronic music, best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer.

* May 4 – Arthur Lake, Bishop of Bath and Wells, English bishop and Bible translator ( b. 1569 )

* May 13 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England with 11 ships packed with 1, 000 convicts and their jailers to establish a penal colony in Australia.

* May 29 – Arthur Mold, English cricketer ( d. 1921 )

* May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer ( d. 1930 )

* May 15 – The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleship Hatsuse, 15, 000 tons, with 496 crew.

* May 26 – First Production of Cox and Box by Francis Burnand and Arthur Sullivan at Moray Lodge, Kensington

* May 31 – Arthur Olliver, Australian footballer ( b. 1918 )

** Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story The Adventure of the Final Problem, published in this month's Strand Magazine, that his character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891.

* May 5 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( died 1999 )