Famous Birthdays
- May 17 Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader, born in Roxbury, Connecticut (d. 1784)
Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803)
May 20 Haitian general, revolutionary and most famous of the leaders of the Haitian Revolution, born in Cap-Français, French colony of Saint-Domingue
Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793)
May 24 French journalist and revolutionary (Friend of the People periodical), born in Boudry, Prussia
Famous Deaths
- May 11 Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker and son of Antonius, dies at 70
