5 May
Notable Births
Jenna Davis
b. 2004
American actress and singer (born 2004)
Kirsty Muir
b. 2004
Scottish freestyle skier (born 2004)
Carlos Alcaraz
b. 2003
Spanish tennis player (born 2003)
Nathan Chen
b. 1999
American figure skater (born 1999)
Justin Kluivert
b. 1999
Dutch footballer (born 1999)
Aryna Sabalenka
b. 1998
Belarusian tennis player (born 1998)
Logan Gilbert
b. 1997
American baseball player (born 1997)
Mitch Marner
b. 1997
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1997)
Christopher Eubanks
b. 1996
American professional tennis player (born 1996)
Mayar Sherif
b. 1996
Egyptian tennis player (born 1996)
James Conner (American football)
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Celeste (singer)
b. 1994
British singer (born 1994)
Raúl Jiménez
b. 1991
Mexican footballer (born 1991)
Chris Brown
b. 1989
American singer (born 1989)
Agnes Knochenhauer
b. 1989
Swedish curler (born 1989)
Adele
b. 1988
English singer-songwriter (born 1988)
Graham Dorrans
b. 1987
Scottish footballer (born 1987)
Shoko Nakagawa
b. 1985
Musical artist
Emanuele Giaccherini
b. 1985
Italian footballer (born 1985)
P. J. Tucker
b. 1985
American basketball player (born 1985)
Notable Deaths
Jeannie Epper
d. 2024
American stuntwoman and actress (1941–2024)
Bernard Hill
d. 2024
English actor (1944–2024)
César Luis Menotti
d. 2024
Argentine footballer and manager (1938–2024)
Millie Small
d. 2020
Jamaican singer (1947–2020)
Binyamin Elon
d. 2017
Israeli rabbi and politician (1954–2017)
Ely Ould Mohamed Vall
d. 2017
Head of State of Mauritania from 2005 to 2007
Jobst Brandt
d. 2015
American bicycle racer (1935–2015)
Hans Jansen
d. 2015
Dutch academic (1942–2015)
Michael Otedola
d. 2014
Nigerian politician (1926–2014)
Sarah Kirsch
d. 2013
German poet
Robert Ressler
d. 2013
FBI criminal profiler (1937–2013)
Carl Johan Bernadotte
d. 2012
Prince Bernadotte
Aatos Erkko
d. 2012
Finnish newspaper editor and publisher
George Knobel
d. 2012
Dutch football manager (1922–2012)
Claude Choules
d. 2011
Last living combat veteran of the First World War
Yosef Merimovich
d. 2011
Football player and manager (1924–2011)
Dana Wynter
d. 2011
German-born English actress (1931–2011)
Giulietta Simionato
d. 2010
Italian opera singer
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
d. 2010
President of Nigeria from 2007 to 2010
Theodore Maiman
d. 2007
American physicist (1927–2007)