About the day » Thursday May 5, 2005Calender converter

• Tim Meulenbroek

• Arnoldus P.H.M. Croonen (72), Cebu City, Filipijnen
• Aart Baartwijk (72), Hilversum
• Annigje Gouderjaan (75), Renkum, Heteren, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Annie G. Blom (71), Hoorn
• Arie Nieuwland (82), Den Helder
• Albert Zwols (78), Stadskanaal
• Catharina Maria Petronella Huberta van Overdijk (68), Moergestel
• Aaltje Meijdam (82)
• Antje KUIPER-HOUWING (82), Winschoten
• * Antje Kussendrager (84), Giessendam

• 1988 » Adele, English singer-songwriter
• 1988 » Mervyn Westfield, English cricketer
• 1989 » Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
• 1991 » Raúl Jiménez, Mexican footballer
• 1991 » Xenofon Fetsis, Greek footballer
• 1992 » Loïck Landre, French footballer
• 1994 » Celeste, English singer
• 1998 » Aryna Sabalenka, Belarusian tennis player
• 1999 » Justin Kluivert, Dutch footballer
• 1999 » Nathan Chen, American figure skater

• 2002 » George Sidney, American director and producer (b. 1916)
• 2002 » Hugo Banzer, Bolivian general and politician, 62nd President of Bolivia (b. 1926)
• 2002 » Paul Wilbur Klipsch, American engineer, founded Klipsch Audio Technologies (b. 1904)
• 2003 » Sam Bockarie, Sierra Leonean commander (b. 1964)
• 2003 » Walter Sisulu, South African activist and politician (b. 1912)
• 2006 » Atıf Yılmaz, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1925)
• 2006 » Naushad Ali, Indian composer and producer (b. 1919)
• 2007 » Theodore Harold Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer, created the laser (b. 1927)
• 2008 » Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1917)
• 2008 » Jerry Wallace, American singer and guitarist (b. 1928)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 29 » The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
• April 26 » Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
• May 13 » Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates.
• June 21 » Edgar Ray Killen, who had previously been unsuccessfully tried for the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41 years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
• August 3 » President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
• October 8 » The 7.6 M_w  Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.

The temperature on May 5, 2005 was between 5.0 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.