* May 9 – Dieterich Buxtehude, German composer ( b. c. 1637 )

* May 11 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord ( d. 1637 )

* May 8 – Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy ( d. 1637 )

* May 20 – John Trevor, English Speaker of the House of Commons ( b. 1637 )

Victor Amadeus I () ( 8 May 1587 – 7 October 1637 ) was the Duke of Savoy from 1630 to 1637.

Dieterich Buxtehude (, also Dietrich ; Danish Diderich, equivalent to the modern Diderik ) ( c. 1637 to 1639 — 9 May 1707 ) was a German-Danish organist and composer of the Baroque period.

His property was sequestered, and he was imprisoned in the castle from February 1637 until May 1639, and afterwards in his own house until August, the great seal being transferred to commissioners.

* May 10-London theatres close, remaining almost continuously closed until the end of the year ( and on to October 1637 ), as a result of to a severe outbreak of bubonic plague.

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Louis XIV was received there on 26 May 1637 and it was dismantled around 1641.

On May 26, 1637, with a force up to about 400 fighting men, Mason attacked Misistuck by surprise.

On May 1, 1637, leaders of Connecticut Colony's river towns each sent delegates to the first General Court held at the meeting house in Hartford.

The dispute was complicated by the fact that the theatres endured one of their longest enforced closings due to plague in this period ; they were closed almost continuously from 10 May 1636 to 2 October 1637.

By 1637 Ballyfin was raised to manorial status but Cosby was on the wrong side in the turmoil of the 1640s and by May 1666 the estate was conferred on Periam Pole, a recent arrival from Devon.

The play was seen at the Globe Theatre on 13 May 1633, and was acted at Hampton Court Palace on 24 January 1637 ( new style ).

Isaac Beeckman ( 10 December 1588, Middelburg – 19 May 1637, Dordrecht ) was a Dutch philosopher and scientist, who, through his studies and contact with leading natural philosophers, may have " virtually given birth to modern atomism ".

The Connecticut towns decided to send a force of more than 70 soldiers along with Narragansett and Mohegan collaborators into an attack upon a Pequot settlement on May 26, 1637.

* May 9 – Dieterich Buxtehude, composer ( born 1637 )

Other serious epidemics caused theatre closures in 1625 ( for eight months, to October ) and from May 1636 to October 1637.

Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington ( 1563 – 29 May 1637 ), designated before his peerage as ' of Drumcarny, Monkland, and Binning ', was a Scottish administrator, Lord Advocate, judge, and Lord Lieutenant of Haddingtonshire.

On May 1, 1637, the Connecticut General Court raised a force of 90 men to be under the command of Captain John Mason for an offensive war against the Pequot.

John Kyrle ( 22 May 1637 – 7 November 1724 ), known as " the Man of Ross ", was an English philanthropist, born in the parish of Dymock, Gloucestershire but best remembered for his time in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.

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.

The captains of these ships — Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellinkhout on the Gouden Cath ( Golden Cat ) and Jacob de Gouwenaer on the Orangienboom ( Orange Tree )— named it Mr. Joris Eylant after the Dutch cartographer Joris Carolus who was on board and mapped the island.

The captains had a contingency plan if they were separated, which was to meet up again in Puerto Rico, and the Tiger arrived in the " Baye of Muskito " ( Guayanilla Bay ) on May 11.

Regular team captains include Phill Jupitus, Sean Hughes ( until May 2002 ), Bill Bailey ( September 2002 – February 2008 ), Noel Fielding, and also the guest captains ( October 2008 – January 2009 ).

Some think that the ABC islands were first discovered by one of Christopher Columbus ' captains, Alonso de Ojeda, who landed on Curaçao in May of 1499.

It began airing on 13 May 1996 with Alan Coren and Sandi Toksvig as the team captains and Bob Holness replacing Robinson as chairman.

In May, Great Harbour Cay is packed with visitors and fishing captains such as Habana Joe who come there for the annual fishing tournament.

After repeated delays to allow time for more men to join, Clark left Redstone by boat on May 12, 1778, with about 150 recruits, organized in three companies under captains Bowman, Helm, and Harrod.

At the end of May, He and Montour were in Winchester when Governor Dinwiddie commissioned them as captains under Col. Washington.

On 30 May, the Ottomans began to move, and some Russian captains insisted that they were not bound to attack such a superior fleet.

In May 1797 Galatea was at the Nore anchorage and Keats along with several other captains was put ashore during the fleet mutiny.

Lee Henry McCulloch ( born 14 May 1978 ) is a Scottish association footballer who currently captains the Scottish Third Division side Rangers.

As of May 2010, CDCR employed over 30, 000 peace officers, classified by titles such as state correctional officers, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, counselors, parole agents, inspectors general, special agents ( criminal investigators ) and EMPs.

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 )

* 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.