May 18th, 1487

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Born on May 18th, 1487 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on May 18th?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on May 18th
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (May 1487)

Born on May 18th, 1487

Weekday

Wednesday

May 18th, 1487 was a Wednesday.

Age

536

People born on May 18th, 1487 will turn 537 this year (2024), in exactly 25 days .

Zodiac

♉

Taurus (The Bull)

April 21st, 1487 - May 21st, 1487

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 196,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 889 days, exactly on September 29th, 2026, people who were born on May 18th, 1487 will be 197,000 days old!

196,111 Days

28,015 Weeks

6,443 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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Hours

What happened on May 18th?

May 18th, 2005

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion publicly debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

May 18th, 2009

The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War.

May 18th, 2006

The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.

May 18th, 1996

Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden tied it in 2023.

May 18th, 1974

India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

May 18th, 1965

Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publicly hanged in Syria.

May 18th, 1955

Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ended.

May 18th, 1952

First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.

May 18th, 1944

The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.

May 18th, 1936

In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe (pictured) strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.

May 18th, 1933

U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority to stimulate the economic development of the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.

May 18th, 1927

Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history.

May 18th, 1863

American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of Vicksburg.

May 18th, 1695

An earthquake measuring .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.

May 18th, 1302

Armed insurrectionists massacred the occupying French garrison in Bruges, Flanders, killing approximately 2,000 people.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 18th

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Who's birthday is on May 18th?

Massimo Girotti

Italian actor (1918-2003)

*May 18th, 1918, Mogliano †January 5th, 2003, Rome

John Paul II

264th pope of the Catholic Church

*May 18th, 1920, Wadowice †April 2nd, 2005, Apostolic Palace

Megumi Taruno

Badminton player

*May 18th, 1988, Fukuoka Prefecture

Heinz-Harald Frentzen

German racing driver

*May 18th, 1967, Mönchengladbach

Hermann Diels

German classical scholar (1848–1922)

*May 18th, 1848, Biebrich †June 4th, 1922, Dahlem

Rigobert Günther

German historian of classical antiquity (1928-2000)

*May 18th, 1928, Magdeburg †April 2nd, 2000, Leipzig

Luke Black

Serbian singer-songwriter (born 1992)

*May 18th, 1992, Čačak

Bertrand Russell

British philosopher and logician (1872–1970)

*May 18th, 1872, Trellech †February 2nd, 1970, Plas Penrhyn

Ben Feringa

Dutch Nobel laureate in chemistry

*May 18th, 1951, Barger-Compascuum

Peter Grünberg

German physicist, and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate (1939-2018)

*May 18th, 1939, Plzeň †April 7th, 2018, Jülich

Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow

Prussian lieutenant-general

*May 18th, 1782, Berlin †December 6th, 1834, Berlin

Isabella d'Este

Italian noble

*May 18th, 1474, Ferrara †February 13th, 1539, Mantua

Robert Morse

American actor

*May 18th, 1931, Newton †April 20th, 2022, Los Angeles

Nathaniel Parker

British actor

*May 18th, 1962, London

Walter Gropius

German-American architect (1883–1969)

*May 18th, 1883, Berlin †July 5th, 1969, Boston

Alexandria Villaseñor

American climate activist

*May 18th, 2005, Davis

Frank Capra

Italian-born American film director (1897–1991)

*May 18th, 1897, Bisacquino †September 3rd, 1991, La Quinta

Chow Yun-fat

Hong Kong actor

*May 18th, 1955, Hong Kong

Piero Soderini

Italian politician (1450–1522)

*May 18th, 1450, Florence †June 13th, 1522, Rome

Omar Khayyám

Persian mathematician and poet (1048–1131)

*May 18th, 1048, Nishapur †December 4th, 1131, Nishapur

Same year
Born in 1487

Julius III

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1550 to 1555

*September 19th, 1487, Rome †April 2nd, 1555, Rome

Ismail I

Shah of Iran

*July 17th, 1487, Ardabil †May 23rd, 1524, Ardabil

Andrea del Sarto

Italian painter (1486-1530)

*July 16th, 1487, Florence †September 29th, 1530, Florence

Anna of Brandenburg

Duchess of Schleswig and Holstein

*August 27th, 1487, Berlin †May 3rd, 1514, Kiel

John Zápolya

King of Hungary, Prince of Transylvania

*February 2nd, 1487, Spiš Castle †July 17th, 1540, Sebeș

Dangyeong

Queen; Korean royal consort

*January 14th, 1487, Joseon †December 7th, 1557, Joseon

Louis of Hanau-Lichtenberg

German nobleman

*October 5th, 1487, Bouxwiller †December 3rd, 1553, Willstätt

John III of Pernstein

Czech nobleman

*November 14th, 1487, Moravský Krumlov †September 8th, 1548, Hrušovany u Brna

William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen

German count (1487-1559)

*April 10th, 1487, Dillenburg †October 6th, 1559, Dillenburger Schloss

Bartholomäus Bernhardi of Feldkirchen

German theologian

*August 24th, 1487, Schlins †July 21st, 1551, Kemberg

Galeazzo Flavio Capella

Italian writer and politician (1487-1537)

*May 7th, 1487, Milan †February 23rd, 1537, Milan

Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg

Duke of Württemberg, 1498-1519 and 1534-1550

*February 8th, 1487, Riquewihr †November 6th, 1550, Tübingen

Henry of the Palatinate

Bishop of Utrecht

*February 15th, 1487, Heidelberg †January 3rd, 1552, Ladenburg

Johann Gramann

German theologian

*July 5th, 1487, Neustadt an der Aisch †April 29th, 1541, Königsberg

Giovanni da Udine

Italian painter (1487-1564)

*October 15th, 1487, Udine †January 1st, 1564, Rome

Anna of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach

*May 5th, 1487, Ansbach †February 7th, 1539, Cieszyn

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Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XVIII.V.MCDLXXXVII

18.5.1487

Legend

M = 1000

CD = 400

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1487 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
May 1487

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May 18th, 1487

Born on May 18th, 1487

Weekday

Wednesday

Age

Zodiac

♉

Taurus (The Bull)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 196,000 days old!

196,111 Days

28,015 Weeks

6,443 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on May 18th?

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion publicly debuted at the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bring an end to the 26-year Sri Lankan Civil War.

The Parliament of Nepal unanimously voted to strip King Gyanendra of many of his powers.

Ireland won the Eurovision song contest for the seventh time, the highest number of wins for any country before Sweden tied it in 2023.

India conducted its first nuclear test explosion at Pokhran, the first confirmed nuclear test by a nation outside the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.

Eli Cohen, a spy who is credited with gathering significant intelligence used by Israel during the Six-Day War, was publicly hanged in Syria.

Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ended.

First Indochina War: Viet Minh forces overran a French and Laotian garrison at Muong Khoua, leaving only four survivors.

The Soviet Union forcibly deported hundreds of thousands of Crimean Tatars to the Uzbek SSR and elsewhere in the country.

In a crime that captivated Japan, Sada Abe (pictured) strangled her lover, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.

U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act establishing the Tennessee Valley Authority to stimulate the economic development of the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression.

Disgruntled school board treasurer Andrew Kehoe set off explosives with timers and a rifle (aftermath pictured), causing the Bath School disaster in the Bath Consolidated School in Michigan, killing 44 people in the deadliest mass murder in a school in United States history.

American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant led his Army of the Tennessee across the Big Black River in preparation for the Siege of Vicksburg.

An earthquake measuring .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}Ms7.8 struck Shanxi Province in northern China, resulting in at least 52,600 deaths.

Armed insurrectionists massacred the occupying French garrison in Bruges, Flanders, killing approximately 2,000 people.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 18th

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Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 18th

Ælfgifu of Shaftesbury

Eric IX of Sweden

Felix of Cantalice

Pope John I

Venantius of Camerino

May 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Baltic Fleet Day (Russia)

Day of Remembrance of Crimean Tatar genocide (Ukraine)

Independence Day (Somaliland) (unrecognized)

International Museum Day

National Speech Pathologist Day (United States)

Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day (Sri Lankan Tamils)

Revival, Unity, and Poetry of Magtymguly Day (Turkmenistan)

Teacher's Day (Syria)

Victory Day (Sri Lanka)

Remembrance Day (Sri Lanka)

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

18.5.1487

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May 1487

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17							1
18	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
19	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
20	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
21	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
22	30	31