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May 3

 * 1491 - Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga (pictured) is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I.
 * 1606 - Death of Henry Garnet, English Jesuit.
 * 1622 - Death of Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary.