* May 23 – The Second Defenestration of Prague – Protestant noblemen hold a mock trial and throw two direct representatives of Ferdinand II of Germany ( Imperial Governors ) and their scribe out of a window into a pile of manure, exacerbating a low-key rebellion into the Bohemian Revolt ( 1618 – 1621 ) precipitating the Thirty Years ' War into armed conflict and further polarizing Europe on religious grounds.

* May 15 – Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch architect and sculptor ( d. 1621 )

* May 12 – Cosimo II de ' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( d. 1621 )

* April or May – Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Dutch composer ( d. 1621 )

Pope Paul V ( 17 September 1552 – 28 January 1621 ), born Camillo Borghese, was Pope from 16 May 1605 until his death.

* Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford ( second creation of that title ) ( 22 May 1539 – 1621 ), married firstly in November 1560, Lady Catherine Grey, by whom he had two sons ; he married secondly in 1582, Frances Howard ; and thirdly in 1601, Frances Prannell.

Johann Arndt ( or Arnd ; December 27, 1555 – May 11, 1621 ) was a German Lutheran theologian who wrote several influential books of devotional Christianity.

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck ( April or May, 1562 – October 16, 1621 ) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras.

His first titular church was the San Giovanni a Porta Latina ( installed 17 May 1621 ).

In May, under the Mainz Accord, the members of the Protestant Union complied with Ferdinand's demand and, on 24 May 1621, formally dissolved the Protestant Union.

Ferdinand II took a fearful revenge upon the Protestant nobility in Bohemia and reconquered Royal Hungary ( Pozsony reconquered in May 1621, central part of the country with the mining towns in June 1621 ).

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (; Deventer, April or May, 1562 – Amsterdam, 16 October 1621 ) was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras.

After the battle, they terrorised village people around Prague and other cities ( page 8-9 ), so they were expeditiously paid and released from service in May 7, 1621.

His younger brother, Robert, married Katherine, daughter of the 6th Earl of Cunningham, and their son, William Fergusson had a marriage contract with Sara Grierson, which was signed on 9 May 1621, daughter of Sir William Grierson of Lag, 9th Lord of Lag and their marriage stone, with the three cushions and star of the Griersons, is also to be seen.

Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton ( May 1601 – 19 March 1643 ), styled Lord Compton from 1618 to 1630, was an English soldier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1622.

And just a month and half later, on May 12, 1621, Edward Winslow and Susanna White became the first couple to marry in Plymouth Colony.

( 2 ) Susanna ______ White on May 12, 1621 in Plymouth Colony.

His father William White died February 21, 1621 and in May his mother Susanna married Pilgrim Edward Winslow as his second wife.

* Johann Arndt, theologian, born December 27, 1555, died May 11, 1621 in Celle

On May 7, 1621, the Emperor paid them their outstanding wages and released them from service, due to numerous complains about their behaviour.

Ferdinando II de ' Medici ( 14 July 1610 – 23 May 1670 ) was grand duke of Tuscany from 1621 to 1670.

* 28 February 1621 – 23 May 1670 His Highness The Grand Duke of Tuscany

Cosimo II de ' Medici ( 12 May 1590 – 28 February 1621 ) was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1609 until 1621.

now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Saturday, May 20th, 1961, as Armed Forces Day, reminding our citizens that we should rededicate ourselves to our Nation, respecting the uniforms as the guardians of our precious liberty.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.

President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Andrew was crowned by Archbishop John of Kalocsa on 29 May 1205 in Székesfehérvár, but before the coronation, he had to take an oath.

Alexander V died soon after, and on 25 May 1410 Cossa was consecrated pope, taking the name John XXIII.

General John P. Jumper, U. S. Air Forces in Europe commander, escorts President William Jefferson Clinton upon his arrival to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, May 5, 1999.

In addition, John Frankenheimer directed five films with Lancaster: The Young Savages ( 1961 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Train ( 1964 ), and The Gypsy Moths ( 1969 ).

In May 1965 Fulcher was recruited by The Conran Group as senior graphic designer alongside Stafford Cliff, Virginia Clive-Smith and John Muggeridge.

On 25 May 2006, the then British Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott was photographed by The Mail on Sunday playing croquet at his official residence, Dorneywood.

The rivalry has intensified when Indians closer Chris Perez used WWE star John Cena's signature " You can't see me " hand gesture towards KC outfielder Jarrod Dyson after striking him out in a game on May 28, 2012.

In 2011, the major story line of John Stape and his murder spree came to an end in May after he jumped off a hospital roof but left before he could be arrested.

Cecilia Beaux ( May 1, 1855 – September 7, 1942 ) was an American society portraitist, in the manner of John Singer Sargent.

He surrounded Donald Duck and nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie with a cast of eccentric and colorful characters, such as the aforementioned Scrooge McDuck, the wealthiest duck in the world ; Gladstone Gander, Donald's obscenely lucky cousin ; inventor Gyro Gearloose ; the persistent Beagle Boys ; the sorceress Magica De Spell ; Scrooge's rivals Flintheart Glomgold and John D. Rockerduck ; Daisy's nieces April, May and June ; Donald's neighbor Jones, and The Junior Woodchucks organization.

These reforms were largely directed against John Wycliff, mentioned in the opening session, and condemned in the eighth, 4 May 1415 and Jan Hus, and their followers.

* John Roach, " Delphic Oracle's Lips May Have Been Loosened by Gas Vapors " in National Geographic news, August 2001

On May 7, 2008, following speculation by John Carmack at QuakeCon on August 3, 2007, Doom 4 was announced as in production.

John Mark Byers said that Christopher Byers may not have taken his prescription on May 5, 1993.

* John Darwin, rector of Elston ( 28 September 1730 – 24 May 1805 )

On May 14, following the arrival of 100 men recruited by Arnold's captains, and the arrival of a schooner and some bateaux that had been taken at Skenesboro, Arnold and 50 of his men sailed north to raid Fort St. John, on the Richelieu River downstream from the lake, where a small British warship was reported by the prisoners to be anchored.

* Leonard, John, The Ed Sullivan Age, American Heritage, May / June 1997, Volume 48, Issue 3

While Oxford was under house arrest in May, Thomas Stocker dedicated to him his Divers Sermons of Master John Calvin, stating in the dedication that he had been " brought up in your Lordship's father's house ".

* 5 May: John MacBride

On May 15, 1999, then Red Sox CEO John Harrington announced plans for a new Fenway Park to be built near the existing structure.

# John Albert ( 20 September 1499, Ansbach – 17 May 1550, Halle ), Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1545 to 1550.