Historical Events
- May 31 John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius
Famous Birthdays
- May 23 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist, born in Hausen, Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (d. 1763)
Famous Deaths
- May 10 Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (The Characters, or the Manners of the Age, with The Characters of Theophrastus), dies at 50
- May 24 Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 62
- May 30 Henry Capell, 1st Baron Capell, English politician and First Lord of the British Admiralty, dies at 58
- May 31 Heinrich Schwemmer, German composer, dies at 75
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