May 5

Pre-1600

 * 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
 * 1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
 * 1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
 * 1494 – On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.

1601–1900

 * 1609 – Daimyō (Lord) Shimazu Tadatsune of the Satsuma Domain in southern Kyūshū, Japan, completes his successful invasion of the Ryūkyū Kingdom in Okinawa.
 * 1640 – King Charles I of England dissolves the Short Parliament.
 * 1654 – Cromwell's Act of Grace, aimed at reconciliation with the Scots, proclaimed in Edinburgh.
 * 1762 – Russia and Prussia sign the Treaty of St. Petersburg.
 * 1789 – In France, the Estates-General convenes for the first time since 1614.
 * 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
 * 1821 – Emperor Napoleon dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
 * 1821 – The first edition of The Manchester Guardian, now The Guardian, is published.
 * 1835 – The first railway in continental Europe opens between Brussels and Mechelen.
 * 1862 – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
 * 1864 – American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
 * 1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
 * 1866 – Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
 * 1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
 * 1886 – Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what became known as the Bay View Massacre.
 * 1887 – The Peruvian Academy of Language is founded.
 * 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1901–present

 * 1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
 * 1905 – The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
 * 1912 – The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Pravda was published.
 * 1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
 * 1930 – The 1930 Bago earthquake, the former of two major earthquakes in southern Burma kills as many as 7,000 in Yangon and Bago.
 * 1936 – Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
 * 1940  – World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
 * 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots' Victory Day.
 * 1945 – World War II: The Prague uprising begins as an attempt by the Czech resistance to free the city from German occupation.
 * 1945  – World War II: A Fu-Go balloon bomb launched by the Japanese Army kills six people near Bly, Oregon.
 * 1945  – World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, one of only two battles in that war in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
 * 1946 – The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
 * 1955 – The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
 * 1961 – Project Mercury: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
 * 1964 – The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
 * 1972 – Alitalia Flight 112 crashes into Mount Longa near Palermo, Sicily, killing all 115 aboard, making it the deadliest single-aircraft disaster in Italy.
 * 1973 – Secretariat wins the 1973 Kentucky Derby in 1:59.4, an as-yet-unbeaten record.
 * 1980 – Operation Nimrod: The British Special Air Service storms the Iranian embassy in London after a six-day siege.
 * 1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
 * 1985 – Ronald Reagan visits the military cemetery at Bitburg and the site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where he makes a speech.
 * 1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
 * 1991 – A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
 * 1994 – The signing of the Bishkek Protocol between Armenia and Azerbaijan effectively freezes the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
 * 1994  – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
 * 2006 – The government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army.
 * 2007 – Kenya Airways Flight 507 crashes after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing all 114 aboard, making it the deadliest aircraft disaster in Cameroon.
 * 2010 – Mass protests in Greece erupt in response to austerity measures imposed by the government as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis.
 * 2023 – The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.

Pre-1600

 * 1210 – Afonso III of Portugal (d. 1279)
 * 1282 – Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena (d. 1348)
 * 1310 – Preczlaw of Pogarell, Cardinal and Bishop of Wrocław (d. 1376)
 * 1352 – Rupert of Germany, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1410)
 * 1479 – Guru Amar Das, Indian 3rd Sikh Guru (d. 1574)
 * 1504 – Stanislaus Hosius, Polish cardinal (d. 1579)
 * 1530 – Gabriel, comte de Montgomery, French nobleman (d. 1574)
 * 1542 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire (d. 1623)
 * 1582 – John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1628)

1601–1900

 * 1684 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles (d. 1739)
 * 1747 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
 * 1749 – Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, French pianist and composer (d. 1794)
 * 1764 – Robert Craufurd, Scottish general and politician (d. 1812)
 * 1800 – Louis Christophe François Hachette, French publisher (d. 1864)
 * 1813 – Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher and author (d. 1855)
 * 1818 – Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, and journalist (d. 1883)
 * 1826 – Eugénie de Montijo, French wife of Napoleon III (d. 1920)
 * 1830 – John Batterson Stetson, American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company (d. 1906)
 * 1832 – Hubert Howe Bancroft, American ethnologist and historian (d. 1918)
 * 1833 – Ferdinand von Richthofen, German geographer and academic (d. 1905)
 * 1834 – Viktor Hartmann, Russian painter and architect (d. 1873)
 * 1843 – William George Beers, Canadian dentist and patriot (d. 1900)
 * 1846 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
 * 1858 – John L. Leal, American physician (d. 1914)
 * 1859 – Charles B. Hanford, American Shakespearean actor (d. 1926)
 * 1864 – Nellie Bly, American journalist and author (d. 1922)
 * 1865 – Helen Maud Merrill, American litterateur and poet (d. 1943)
 * 1866 – Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (d. 1938)
 * 1869 – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (d. 1937)
 * 1869  – Hans Pfitzner, German composer and conductor (d. 1949)
 * 1873 – Leon Czolgosz, American assassin of William McKinley (d. 1901)
 * 1874 – Thomas Bavin, New Zealand-Australian politician, 24th Premier of New South Wales (d. 1941)
 * 1882 – Sylvia Pankhurst, English women's suffrage movement leader and socialist activist (d. 1960)
 * 1883 – Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English general and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (d. 1950)
 * 1883  – Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler, American mathematician (d. 1966)
 * 1884 – Chief Bender, American baseball player and coach (d. 1954)
 * 1885 – Kingsley Fairbridge, South African-Australian scholar and politician (d. 1924)
 * 1887 – Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1941)
 * 1889 – Herbie Taylor, South African cricketer and soldier (d. 1973)
 * 1890 – Christopher Morley, American journalist and author (d. 1957)
 * 1892 – Dorothy Garrod, British archaeologist (d. 1968)
 * 1898 – Elsie Eaves, American engineer (d. 1983)
 * 1898  – Blind Willie McTell, American Piedmont blues singer and guitar player (d. 1959)
 * 1899 – Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1982)
 * 1900 – Helen Redfield, American geneticist (d. 1988)

1901–present

 * 1903 – James Beard, American chef and author (d. 1985)
 * 1905 – Floyd Gottfredson, American author and illustrator (d. 1986)
 * 1907 – Daryna Dmytrivna Polotniuk, Bukovinian (Ukrainian) journalist and author (d. 1982)
 * 1910 – Leo Lionni, American author and illustrator (d. 1999)
 * 1911 – Andor Lilienthal, Russian-Hungarian chess player (d. 2010)
 * 1911  – Pritilata Waddedar, Indian educator and activist (d. 1932)
 * 1913 – Duane Carter, American race car driver (d. 1993)
 * 1914 – Tyrone Power, American actor (d. 1958)
 * 1915 – Alice Faye, American actress and singer (d. 1998)
 * 1916 – Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (d. 1994)
 * 1919 – Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek colonel and politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1999)
 * 1921 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
 * 1922 – Irene Gut Opdyke, Polish nurse and humanitarian (d. 2003)
 * 1923 – William C. Campbell, American golfer (d. 2013)
 * 1923  – Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Canadian mathematician (d. 2017)
 * 1925 – Leo Ryan, American soldier, educator, and politician (d. 1978)
 * 1927 – Pat Carroll, American actress (d. 2022)
 * 1929 – Ilene Woods, American actress (d. 2010)
 * 1932 – Stan Goldberg, American illustrator (d. 2014)
 * 1933 – Collie Smith, Jamaican cricketer (d. 1959)
 * 1934 – Henri Konan Bédié, Ivorian politician, 2nd President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2023)
 * 1934  – Victor Garland, Australian accountant and politician, 26th Australian Minister for Veterans' Affairs (d. 2022)
 * 1935 – Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and magazine editor (d. 2023)
 * 1935 – Bernard Pivot, French journalist, talk show host, and producer (d. 2024)
 * 1936 – Sandy Baron, American actor and comedian (d. 2001)
 * 1937 – Beryl Burton, English racing cyclist (d. 1996)
 * 1937 – Delia Derbyshire, English musician, arranger and composer (d. 2001)
 * 1938 – Michael Murphy, American actor
 * 1939 – Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (d. 2013)
 * 1940 – Lance Henriksen, American actor
 * 1942 – Jean Corston, Baroness Corston, English lawyer and politician
 * 1942  – Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
 * 1943 – Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter
 * 1943  – Ignacio Ramonet, Spanish journalist and author
 * 1944 – Bo Larsson, Swedish footballer (d. 2023)
 * 1944  – John Rhys-Davies, Welsh actor and screenwriter
 * 1944  – Roger Rees, Welsh-American actor and director (d. 2015)
 * 1945 – Kurt Loder, American journalist, author, and critic
 * 1946  – Jim Kelly, American actor, athlete, and martial artist (d. 2013)
 * 1948 – Bill Ward, English drummer and songwriter
 * 1950 – Maggie MacNeal, Dutch singer
 * 1952 – Ed Lee, American politician and attorney, 43rd Mayor of San Francisco (d. 2017)
 * 1955 – Jon Butcher, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and freelance multimedia producer
 * 1956 – Steve Scott, American runner and coach
 * 1957 – Richard E. Grant, Swazi-English actor, director, and screenwriter
 * 1958 – Robert DiPierdomenico, Australian footballer and sportscaster
 * 1959 – Bobby Ellsworth, American singer and bass player
 * 1959  – Ian McCulloch, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1959  – Brian Williams, American journalist
 * 1960 – Doug Hawkins, Australian footballer and sportscaster
 * 1961 – Marg Downey, Australian actress
 * 1961  – Hiroshi Hase, Japanese wrestler and politician
 * 1963 – James LaBrie, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * 1963  – Simon Rimmer, English chef and author
 * 1963  – Scott Westerfeld, American author and composer
 * 1964 – Jean-François Copé, French politician, French Minister of Budget
 * 1964  – Heike Henkel, German high jumper
 * 1964  – Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2013)
 * 1964  – Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * 1966 – Shawn Drover, Canadian drummer
 * 1966  – Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Bulgaria
 * 1966  – Josh Weinstein, American screenwriter and producer
 * 1967 – Adam Hughes, American author and illustrator
 * 1967  – Charles Nagy, American baseball player
 * 1967  – Alexis Sinduhije, Burundian journalist and politician
 * 1971 – Harold Miner, American basketball player
 * 1972 – James Cracknell, English rower
 * 1972  – Žigmund Pálffy, Slovakian ice hockey player
 * 1972  – Mikael Renberg, Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1975 – Meb Keflezighi, American runner
 * 1976 – Dieter Brummer, Australian actor (d. 2021)
 * 1976  – Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentinian footballer and sportscaster
 * 1977 – Tiffany Roberts, American footballer
 * 1979 – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
 * 1980 – Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
 * 1980  – Hank Green, American entrepreneur, educator, and vlogger
 * 1981 – Craig David, English singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 * 1981  – Danielle Fishel, American actress
 * 1982 – Vanessa Bryant, American philanthropist and model
 * 1982  – Corey Parker, Australian rugby league footballer
 * 1983 – Henry Cavill, English actor
 * 1985 – Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress and singer
 * 1985  – Emanuele Giaccherini, Italian footballer
 * 1985  – P. J. Tucker, American basketball player
 * 1987 – Graham Dorrans, Scottish footballer
 * 1988 – Adele, English singer-songwriter
 * 1989 – Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
 * 1989  – Agnes Knochenhauer, Swedish curler
 * 1991 – Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer
 * 1994 – Celeste, British singer
 * 1996 – Christopher Eubanks, American tennis player
 * 1996 – Mayar Sherif, Egyptian tennis player
 * 1997 – Logan Gilbert, American baseball player
 * 1997 – Mitch Marner, Canadian hockey player
 * 1998 – Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
 * 1999 – Nathan Chen, American figure skater
 * 1999  – Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
 * 2003 – Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish tennis player
 * 2004 – Kirsty Muir, Scottish freestyle skier

Pre-1600

 * 465 – Gerontius, Archbishop of Milan
 * 1194 – Casimir II the Just, Polish son of Bolesław III Wrymouth (b. 1138)
 * 1243 – Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, English justiciar (b. c. 1160)
 * 1306 – Constantine Palaiologos, Byzantine general (b. 1261)
 * 1309 – Charles II of Naples (b. 1254)
 * 1316 – Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, daughter of King Edward I of England (b. 1282)
 * 1338 – Prince Tsunenaga, son of the Japanese Emperor (b. 1324)
 * 1380 – Saint Philotheos, Coptic martyr
 * 1432 – Francesco Bussone da Carmagnola, Italian adventurer
 * 1525 – Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (b. 1463)
 * 1582 – Charlotte of Bourbon, Princess consort of Orange, married to William I of Orange (b. 1547)
 * 1586 – Henry Sidney, Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1529)

1601–1900

 * 1671 – Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, English general and politician, Lord Chamberlain of the United Kingdom (b. 1602)
 * 1672 – Samuel Cooper, English painter and linguist (b. 1609)
 * 1700 – Angelo Italia, Italian architect (b. 1628)
 * 1705 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1640)
 * 1760 – Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English politician (b. 1720)
 * 1766 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (b. 1684)
 * 1808 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (b. 1757)
 * 1821 – Napoleon, French general and emperor (b. 1769)
 * 1827 – Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (b. 1750)
 * 1833 – Sophia Campbell, English-Australian painter (b. 1777)
 * 1855 – Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet, English politician (b. 1786)
 * 1859 – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician and academic (b. 1805)
 * 1860 – Jean-Charles Prince, Canadian bishop (b. 1804)
 * 1883 – John O'Shanassy, Irish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Victoria (b. 1818)
 * 1892 – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist and academic (b. 1818)
 * 1896 – Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (b. 1839)

1901–present

 * 1901 – Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (b. 1825)
 * 1902 – Bret Harte, American short story writer and poet (b. 1836)
 * 1907 – Şeker Ahmed Pasha, Turkish soldier and painter (b. 1841)
 * 1913 – Henry Moret, French painter (b. 1856)
 * 1916 – John MacBride, Irish soldier and rebel (b. 1865)
 * 1916  – Maurice Raoul-Duval, French polo player (b. 1866)
 * 1921 – Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and publicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
 * 1924 – A. Sabapathy, Sri Lankan journalist and politician (b. 1853)
 * 1931 – Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (b. 1899)
 * 1941 – Platon of Banja Luka, Serbian Orthodox bishop (b. 1874)
 * 1942 – Qemal Stafa, Albanian politician (b. 1920)
 * 1947 – Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (b. 1917)
 * 1957 – Leopold Löwenheim, German mathematician and logician (b. 1878)
 * 1959 – Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1878)
 * 1962 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (b. 1889)
 * 1965 – Nikos Gounaris, Greek tenor and composer (b. 1915)
 * 1965  – John Waters, American director and screenwriter (b. 1893)
 * 1971 – Violet Jessop, Argentinean-English nurse (b. 1887)
 * 1973 – Zekai Özger, Turkish poet and academic (b. 1948)
 * 1977 – Ludwig Erhard, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)
 * 1981 – Bobby Sands, PIRA volunteer and hunger striker (b. 1954)
 * 1983 – Horst Schumann, German physician (b. 1901)
 * 1983  – John Williams, English-American actor (b. 1903)
 * 1985 – Donald Bailey, English engineer, designed the Bailey bridge (b. 1901)
 * 1988 – Michael Shaara, American author and academic (b. 1928)
 * 1993 – Irving Howe, American literary and social critic (b. 1920)
 * 1994 – Mário Quintana, Brazilian poet and translator (b. 1906)
 * 1995 – Mikhail Botvinnik, Russian chess player and coach (b. 1911)
 * 1999 – Vasilis Diamantopoulos, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1920)
 * 2000 – Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
 * 2000  – Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
 * 2001 – Morris Graves, American painter and educator (b. 1910)
 * 2001  – Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, created CliffsNotes (b. 1918)
 * 2002 – Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
 * 2002  – Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (b. 1904)
 * 2002  – George Sidney, American director and producer (b. 1916)
 * 2002  – Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
 * 2003 – Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (b. 1964)
 * 2003  – Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (b. 1912)
 * 2006 – Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919)
 * 2006  – Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
 * 2007 – Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (b. 1927)
 * 2008 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917)
 * 2008  – Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (b. 1928)
 * 2010 – Giulietta Simionato, Italian soprano (b. 1910)
 * 2010  – Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Nigerian academic and politician, 13th President of Nigeria (b. 1951)
 * 2011 – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier (b. 1901)
 * 2011  – Yosef Merimovich, Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1924)
 * 2011  – Dana Wynter, British actress (b. 1931)
 * 2012 – Surendranath, Indian cricketer (b. 1937)
 * 2012  – Carl Johan Bernadotte, Count of Wisborg (b. 1916)
 * 2012  – Aatos Erkko, Finnish journalist and publisher (b. 1932)
 * 2012  – George Knobel, Dutch footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1922)
 * 2012  – Roy Padayachie, South African lawyer and politician, South African Minister of Communications (b. 1950)
 * 2013 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet and author (b. 1935)
 * 2013  – Robert Ressler, American FBI agent and author (b. 1937)
 * 2014 – Michael Otedola, Nigerian journalist and politician, 9th Governor of Lagos State (b. 1926)
 * 2015 – Jobst Brandt, American cyclist, engineer, and author (b. 1935)
 * 2015 – Hans Jansen, Dutch linguist, academic, and politician (b. 1942)
 * 2017 – Binyamin Elon, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician (b. 1954)
 * 2017 – Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, Mauritanian politician (b. 1953)
 * 2024 – Jeannie Epper, American stuntwoman and actress (b. 1941)
 * 2024 – Bernard Hill, English actor (b. 1944)
 * 2024 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances

 * Children's Day (Japan, South Korea)
 * Christian feast day:
 * Angelus of Jerusalem
 * Aventinus of Tours
 * Blessed Edmund Ignatius Rice
 * Frederick the Wise (Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod)
 * Gotthard of Hildesheim
 * Hilary of Arles
 * Jutta of Kulmsee
 * Stanisław Kazimierczyk
 * May 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * Cinco de Mayo (Mexico, United States)
 * Constitution Day (Kyrgyzstan)
 * Europe Day (Council of Europe)
 * Feast of al-Khadr or Saint George (Palestinian)
 * Indian Arrival Day (Guyana)
 * International Midwives' Day (International)
 * Liberation Day (Denmark, Netherlands)
 * Lusophone Culture Day (Community of Portuguese Language Countries)
 * World Portuguese Language Day (International)
 * Martyrs' Day (Albania)
 * National Cartoonist Day
 * Patriots' Victory Day (Ethiopia)
 * Revenge of the Fifth (see Star Wars Day)
 * Senior Citizens Day (Palau)
 * Soviet Press Day (Soviet Union)
 * Tango no sekku (Japan)
 * Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Awareness Day (Canada and United States)