Famous Birthdays
- May 29 Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, Duchess of Montpensier (Grand Mademoiselle), born in Palais du Louvre, Paris (d. 1693)
Famous Deaths
- May 2 Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
- May 19 Katharina Henot, German postmaster (1st female postmaster in Germany), burnt at the stake in Cologne for being a witch (b. 1570) [1]
- May 23 Luis de Gongora, Spanish poet and writer, dies at 65
- May 27 Eberhard Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer, dies at 73
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