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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 31st of May 0526 | EVENT | A devastating earthquake strikes Antioch, Turkey, killing 250,000. |
| 31st of May 1223 | EVENT | Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River : Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus and Cumans. |
| 31st of May 1578 | EVENT | Martin Frobisher sails from Harwich, England to Frobisher Bay, Canada, eventually to mine fool's gold, used to pave streets in London. |
| 31st of May 1578 | EVENT | King Henri III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris. |
| 31st of May 1669 | EVENT | Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. |
| 31st of May 1678 | EVENT | The Godiva procession through Coventry begins. |
| 31st of May 1759 | EVENT | The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions. |
| 31st of May 1775 | EVENT | American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolutions adopted in the Province of North Carolina |
| 31st of May 1790 | EVENT | The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790. |
| 31st of May 1790 | EVENT | French Revolution: the Revolutionary Tribunal is suppressed. |
| 31st of May 1790 | EVENT | Alferez Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca. |
| 31st of May 1805 | EVENT | French and Spanish forces begin the assault against British forces occupying Diamond Rock |
| 31st of May 1813 | EVENT | In Australia, Lawson, Blaxland and Wentworth, reached Mount Blaxland, effectively marking the end of a route across the Blue Mountains. |
| 31st of May 1854 | EVENT | The civil death procedure is abolished in France. |
| 31st of May 1859 | EVENT | The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time. |
| 31st of May 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War Peninsula Campaign: Battle of Seven Pines or (Battle of Fair Oaks) : Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston & G. W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia. |
| 31st of May 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor : The Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee engages the Army of the Potomac under Ulysses S. Grant & George G. Meade. |
| 31st of May 1866 | EVENT | In the Fenian Invasion of Canada, John O'Neill leads 850 Fenian raiders across the Niagara River at Buffalo, New York/Fort Erie, Ontario, as part of an effort to free Ireland from the United Kingdom. Canadian militia and British regulars repulse the invaders in over the next three days, at a cost of 9 dead and 38 wounded to the Fenian's 19 dead and about 17 wounded. |
| 31st of May 1884 | EVENT | Arrival at Plymouth of Tawhiao, King of Maoris, to claim protection of Queen Victoria |
| 31st of May 1889 | EVENT | Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam break sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. |
| 31st of May 1902 | EVENT | Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa. |
| 31st of May 1910 | EVENT | Creation of the Union of South Africa. |
| 31st of May 1911 | EVENT | The ocean liner R.M.S. Titanic is launched. |
| 31st of May 1916 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Jutland : The British Grand Fleet under the command of Sir John Jellicoe & Sir David Beatty engage the Kaiserliche Marine under the command of Reinhard Scheer & Franz von Hipper in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive. |
| 31st of May 1921 | EVENT | Tulsa Race Riot: A civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, the official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher. |
| 31st of May 1924 | EVENT | The Soviet Union signs an agreement with the Peking government, referring to Outer Mongolia as an "integral part of the Republic of China", whose "sovereignty" therein the Soviet Union promises to respect. |
| 31st of May 1927 | EVENT | The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. |
| 31st of May 1929 | EVENT | The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, "The Karnival Kid", is released. |
| 31st of May 1935 | EVENT | A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan: 40,000 dead. |
| 31st of May 1941 | EVENT | A Luftwaffe air raid in Dublin, Ireland claims 38 lives. |
| 31st of May 1941 | EVENT | Anglo-Iraqi War: The United Kingdom completes the re-occupation of Iraq and returns 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II. |
| 31st of May 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia. |
| 31st of May 1943 | EVENT | Zoot Suit Riots begin |
| 31st of May 1961 | EVENT | Republic of South Africa created. |
| 31st of May 1962 | EVENT | The West Indies Federation dissolves. |
| 31st of May 1962 | EVENT | Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel. |
| 31st of May 1970 | EVENT | The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed. |
| 31st of May 1971 | EVENT | In accordance with the Uniform Monday Holiday Act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1968, observation of Memorial Day occurs on the last Monday in May for the first time, rather than on the traditional Memorial Day of May 30. |
| 31st of May 1973 | EVENT | The United States Senate votes to cut off funding for the bombing of Khmer Rouge targets within Cambodia, hastening the end of the Cambodian Civil War. |
| 31st of May 1977 | EVENT | The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed. |
| 31st of May 1981 | EVENT | Burning of Jaffna library, Sri Lanka, It is one of the violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the twentieth century. |
| 31st of May 1985 | EVENT | 1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead. |
| 31st of May 1991 | EVENT | Bicesse Accords in Angola lay out a transition to multi-party democracy under the supervision of the United Nations' UNAVEM II mission. |
| 31st of May 2005 | EVENT | Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat. |
| 31st of May 2010 | EVENT | In the international waters, Shayetet 13 soldiers attacked with firearms to flotilla that wanted to break the blockade on Gaza Strip. During the armed aggression on the MV Mavi Marmara ship, a violent attack had started. 9 activists killed by soldiers on board, and lots of activist injured. |
| 31st of May 1443 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England (d. 1509) |
| 31st of May 1469 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel I of Portugal (d. 1521) |
| 31st of May 1535 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Allori, Italian painter (d. 1607) |
| 31st of May 1557 | BIRTHDAY | Feodor I of Russia (d. 1598) |
| 31st of May 1613 | BIRTHDAY | John George II, Elector of Saxony (d. 1680) |
| 31st of May 1640 | BIRTHDAY | Michael of Poland (d. 1673) |
| 31st of May 1641 | BIRTHDAY | Dositheos, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem (d. 1707) |
| 31st of May 1656 | BIRTHDAY | Marin Marais, French composer (d. 1728) |
| 31st of May 1732 | BIRTHDAY | Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian Roman Catholic Archbishop (d. 1812) |
| 31st of May 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French statesman (d. 1793) |
| 31st of May 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817) |
| 31st of May 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Tieck, German writer (d. 1853) |
| 31st of May 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Georg Baiter, Swiss philologist (d. 1887) |
| 31st of May 1818 | BIRTHDAY | John Albion Andrew, American politician (d. 1867) |
| 31st of May 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Whitman, American poet (d. 1892) |
| 31st of May 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Hijikata Toshizo, Japanese military leader (d. 1869) |
| 31st of May 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Sidgwick, English philosopher (d. 1900) |
| 31st of May 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (d. 1919) |
| 31st of May 1857 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Pius XI (d. 1939) |
| 31st of May 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Sickert, English painter (d. 1942) |
| 31st of May 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Younghusband, British explorer (d. 1942) |
| 31st of May 1872 | BIRTHDAY | Heath Robinson, English cartoonist (d. 1944) |
| 31st of May 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Sandor Graf Festetics, Hungarian politician (d. 1956) |
| 31st of May 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Lauri Kristian Relander, Finnish politician (d. 1942) |
| 31st of May 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Alois Hudal, Austrian Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1963) |
| 31st of May 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Saint-John Perse, French diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) |
| 31st of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (d. 1968) |
| 31st of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Neumann, German Nazi politician (d. 1951) |
| 31st of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian writer (d. 1968) |
| 31st of May 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Gregor Strasser, German Nazi politician (d. 1934) |
| 31st of May 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Allen, American comedian (d. 1956) |
| 31st of May 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, American clergyman (d. 1993) |
| 31st of May 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (d. 1983) |
| 31st of May 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Mayerl, English pianist and composer. |
| 31st of May 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Florence Desmond, English actress and comedian (d. 1993) |
| 31st of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Nils Poppe, Swedish actor (d. 2000) |
| 31st of May 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 31st of May 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Aurore Gagnon, French Canadian child abuse victim (d. 1920) |
| 31st of May 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Allais, French economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010) |
| 31st of May 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Deller, English countertenor (d. 1979) |
| 31st of May 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (d. 2006) |
| 31st of May 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1997) |
| 31st of May 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Robie Macauley, American novelist and literary critic (d. 1995) |
| 31st of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Alida Valli, Italian actress (d. 2006) |
| 31st of May 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Reig, American radio and television announcer (d. 2008) |
| 31st of May 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Denholm Elliott, English actor (d. 1992) |
| 31st of May 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (d. 2005) |
| 31st of May 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Eastwood, American film director and actor |
| 31st of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | John Robert Schrieffer, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 31st of May 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Shirley Verrett, American soprano (d. 2010) |
| 31st of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Lincoln, Brazilian musician and album producer |
| 31st of May 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Miner, American microchip designer (d. 1994) |
| 31st of May 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Henry B. Eyring, American religious figure; son of Henry Eyring |
| 31st of May 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Bolger, 35th Prime Minister of New Zealand |
| 31st of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John Prescott, English politician |
| 31st of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Yarrow, American folk singer (Peter, Paul and Mary) |
| 31st of May 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Paycheck, American singer (d. 2003) |
| 31st of May 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Waite, British humanitarian |
| 31st of May 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Shelton, American underground comics illustrator |
| 31st of May 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 31st of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Gless, American actress |
| 31st of May 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Namath, American football player |
| 31st of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Gbagbo, Fourth President of Cote d'Ivoire |
| 31st of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director (d. 1982) |
| 31st of May 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Goldberg?, American journalist |
| 31st of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Bucknor, West Indian Cricket Umpire |
| 31st of May 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Baehr, American media critic |
| 31st of May 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Junior Campbell, British musician and songwriter (The Marmalade) |
| 31st of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John Bonham, British musician (Led Zeppelin) (d. 1980) |
| 31st of May 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Duncan Hunter, American politician |
| 31st of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Berenger, American actor |
| 31st of May 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Shade, American opera singer |
| 31st of May 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Harrison, American actor |
| 31st of May 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Bartos, German musician (Kraftwerk, Electronic) |
| 31st of May 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Finnish actor |
| 31st of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Vicki Sue Robinson, American singer (d. 2000) |
| 31st of May 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Mavros, Greek footballer |
| 31st of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Susie Essman, American actress |
| 31st of May 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Emmanuel, Australian Guitarist CGP |
| 31st of May 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Hilpert, German musician and sound engineer (Kraftwerk) |
| 31st of May 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Craig, American hockey player |
| 31st of May 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea de Cesaris, Italian racing driver |
| 31st of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Adams, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of May 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Elliott, American comedian |
| 31st of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Madden, Australian politician and footballer |
| 31st of May 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lea Thompson, American actress |
| 31st of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Corey Hart, Canadian musician |
| 31st of May 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Koch, German actor |
| 31st of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Dillon, Canadian musician and actor |
| 31st of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Orban, Hungarian politician |
| 31st of May 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Wesley Willis, American musician (d. 2003) |
| 31st of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Asper, Canadian businessman |
| 31st of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Scotti Hill, American rock guitarist |
| 31st of May 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Darryl McDaniels, American musician (Run-D.M.C.) |
| 31st of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Giorgos Gasparis, Greek basketball player |
| 31st of May 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Brooke Shields, American actress and supermodel |
| 31st of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Scotti, American actor and singer |
| 31st of May 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Hotz, Canadian stand-up comedian |
| 31st of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Sandrine Bonnaire, French actress |
| 31st of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Vampiro, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 31st of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Keoghan, New Zealand television personality |
| 31st of May 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Lofton, American baseball player |
| 31st of May 1968 | BIRTHDAY | John Connolly, Irish author |
| 31st of May 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mindi Abair, American smooth jazz saxophonist |
| 31st of May 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Damrau, German soprano |
| 31st of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Geary, Irish actor |
| 31st of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Frode Estil, Norwegian cross-country skier |
| 31st of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Archie Panjabi, English actress |
| 31st of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Roberts, American baseball player |
| 31st of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Murdoch, Australian model |
| 31st of May 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Antti Niemi, Finnish footballer |
| 31st of May 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dominique Van Roost, Belgian tennis player |
| 31st of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Campbell, American golfer |
| 31st of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Zsolt Erdei, Hungarian light heavyweight boxer |
| 31st of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist |
| 31st of May 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Kent, American stand-up comedian, actor and writer |
| 31st of May 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Yiasoumis Yiasoumi, Greek-Cypriot footballer |
| 31st of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Harpring, American basketball player |
| 31st of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tonka Tomicic, Chilean model and television presenter |
| 31st of May 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Farrell, Irish actor |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Christian Olsen, American actor |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Theodoros Baev, Bulgarian-born Greek volleyball player |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Klopfenstein, American musician (Reel Big Fish) |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Debbie King, English TV presenter |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | June Sarpong, British television presenter |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Olsen, Danish athlete |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Petr Tenkrat, Czech ice hockey player |
| 31st of May 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Ross, British disc jockey |
| 31st of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Bolton, Australian rules footballer |
| 31st of May 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Hurley, American musician (Fall Out Boy) |
| 31st of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Peavy, American baseball player |
| 31st of May 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tasha Reid, Korean rapper |
| 31st of May 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Tucker, American actor |
| 31st of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | David Hernandez, American singer |
| 31st of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie Yates, English television presenter |
| 31st of May 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Dustin Wells, New Zealand footballer |
| 31st of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Robinson, American basketball player |
| 31st of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Milorad Cavic, Serbian swimmer |
| 31st of May 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Smith, Australian actor |
| 31st of May 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Vougioukas, Greek basketball player |
| 31st of May 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Waka Flocka Flame, American rapper |
| 31st of May 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Reus, German footballer |
| 31st of May 1162 | DEATH | Geza II of Hungary (Born 1130) |
| 31st of May 1246 | DEATH | Isabella of Angouleme, queen of John of England (Born 1188) |
| 31st of May 1349 | DEATH | Thomas Wake, English politician (Born 1297) |
| 31st of May 1408 | DEATH | Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (Born 1358) |
| 31st of May 1410 | DEATH | King Martin I of Aragon (Born 1356) |
| 31st of May 1495 | DEATH | Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, mother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (Born 1415) |
| 31st of May 1558 | DEATH | Philip Hoby, English politician (Born 1505) |
| 31st of May 1567 | DEATH | Guido de Bres, Belgian theologian (Born 1522) |
| 31st of May 1594 | DEATH | Tintoretto, Italian painter (Born 1518) |
| 31st of May 1680 | DEATH | Joachim Neander, German clergyman (Born 1650) |
| 31st of May 1740 | DEATH | King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (Born 1688) |
| 31st of May 1747 | DEATH | Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (Born 1686) |
| 31st of May 1799 | DEATH | Pierre Lemonnier, French astronomer (Born 1715) |
| 31st of May 1809 | DEATH | Jean Lannes, French marshal (Born 1769) |
| 31st of May 1809 | DEATH | Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Born 1732) |
| 31st of May 1831 | DEATH | Samuel Bentham, British mechanical engineer (Born 1757) |
| 31st of May 1832 | DEATH | Evariste Galois, French mathematician (Born 1811) |
| 31st of May 1837 | DEATH | Joseph Grimaldi, British clown (Born 1779) |
| 31st of May 1846 | DEATH | Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (Born 1780) |
| 31st of May 1847 | DEATH | Thomas Chalmers, Scottish pastor (Born 1780) |
| 31st of May 1848 | DEATH | Eugenie de Guerin, French writer (Born 1805) |
| 31st of May 1908 | DEATH | Louis-Honore Frechette, French Canadian poet (Born 1839) |
| 31st of May 1910 | DEATH | Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician (Born 1821) |
| 31st of May 1931 | DEATH | Felix-Raymond-Marie Rouleau, French Canadian cardinal (Born 1866) |
| 31st of May 1945 | DEATH | Odilo Globocnik, Austrian Nazi officer (Born 1904) |
| 31st of May 1954 | DEATH | Antonis Benakis, Greek politician and art collector (Born 1873) |
| 31st of May 1957 | DEATH | Stefanos Sarafis, Greek Greek Resistance figure (Born 1890) |
| 31st of May 1957 | DEATH | Leopold Staff, Polish poet (Born 1878) |
| 31st of May 1960 | DEATH | Willem Elsschot, Flemish writer (Born 1882) |
| 31st of May 1960 | DEATH | Walther Funk, Nazi leader (Born 1890) |
| 31st of May 1961 | DEATH | Walter Little, Canadian politician (Born 1877) |
| 31st of May 1962 | DEATH | Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician (Born 1874) |
| 31st of May 1962 | DEATH | Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi official (Born 1906) |
| 31st of May 1967 | DEATH | Billy Strayhorn, American composer, pianist and arranger (Born 1915) |
| 31st of May 1970 | DEATH | Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (Born 1929) |
| 31st of May 1972 | DEATH | Walter Freeman, American physician (Born 1895) |
| 31st of May 1976 | DEATH | Jacques Monod, French biologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1910) |
| 31st of May 1977 | DEATH | William Castle, American film director (Born 1914) |
| 31st of May 1978 | DEATH | Jozsef Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (Born 1925) |
| 31st of May 1983 | DEATH | Jack Dempsey, American boxer (Born 1895) |
| 31st of May 1985 | DEATH | Gaston Rebuffat, French mountaineer (Born 1921) |
| 31st of May 1986 | DEATH | Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank), American artist (Born 1918) |
| 31st of May 1986 | DEATH | James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1917) |
| 31st of May 1987 | DEATH | John Abraham (director), Indian film director (Born 1937) |
| 31st of May 1993 | DEATH | Francis Lynch, American state legislator (Born 1920) |
| 31st of May 1994 | DEATH | Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (Born 1909) |
| 31st of May 1996 | DEATH | Timothy Leary, American professor and LSD advocate (Born 1920) |
| 31st of May 1997 | DEATH | James Bennett Griffin, American archaeologist (Born 1905) |
| 31st of May 1998 | DEATH | Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (Born 1912) |
| 31st of May 2000 | DEATH | Tito Puente, American musician (Born 1923) |
| 31st of May 2000 | DEATH | Johnnie Taylor, American singer (Born 1938) |
| 31st of May 2001 | DEATH | Arlene Francis, American television personality (Born 1907) |
| 31st of May 2004 | DEATH | Robert Quine, American guitarist (Born 1941) |
| 31st of May 2004 | DEATH | Etienne Roda-Gil, French songwriter and screenwriter (Born 1941) |
| 31st of May 2006 | DEATH | Ryan Bennett, American sportscaster (Born 1970) |
| 31st of May 2006 | DEATH | Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1914) |
| 31st of May 2006 | DEATH | Miguel Berrocal, Spanish sculptor (Born 1933) |
| 31st of May 2006 | DEATH | Lula Mae Hardaway, American songwriter, mother of singer Stevie Wonder (Born 1930) |
| 31st of May 2009 | DEATH | George Tiller, American abortion doctor (Born 1941) |
| 31st of May 2009 | DEATH | Millvina Dean, British survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (Born 1912) |
| 31st of May 2009 | DEATH | Danny La Rue, British entertainer (Born 1927) |
| 31st of May 2010 | DEATH | Brian Duffy, British photographer and film producer (Born 1933) |
| 31st of May 2010 | DEATH | Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (Born 1911) |
| 31st of May 2010 | DEATH | William A. Fraker, American cinematographer (Born 1923) |
| 31st of May 2010 | DEATH | Ruben Juarez, Argentine bandoneonist (Born 1947) |
| 31st of May 2010 | DEATH | Benjamin Lees, American composer (Born 1924) |
| 31st of May 2010 | DEATH | Merata Mita, New Zealander filmmaker (Born 1942) |