Updated at November 23, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | William May |
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Birthdate | May 27, 1928 |
Birth Place | Missouri |
Age (in 2024) | 96 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Religious Leader |
William May is best known as Religious Leader who has born on May 27, 1928 in Missouri. Currently, William May is 96 years, 5 months and 27 days old. William May will celebrate 97th birthday on Tuesday, 27th of May 2025. Below the countdown to William May upcoming birthday.
Notable as a Roman Catholic theologian and a longtime professor at The Catholic University of America's Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, he published Catholic Sexual Ethics (1998), Catholic Bioethics and the Gift of Human Life (2000) and Marriage: The Rock on Which the Family Is Built (1995).
At age nine, he decided to become a Catholic priest; however, while studying theology and philosophy at The Catholic University of America, he developed an epilepsy-like condition that he viewed as a sign that he should abandon his quest for the priesthood.
He received the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars' 1979 Cardinal Wright Award and the Center for Bioethics and Culture's 2007 Paul Ramsey Award.
One of three children born to Catholic mother Katherine Armstrong and Presbyterian father Robert May, he spent his youth in St. Louis, Missouri, and was raised in his mother's faith. His marriage to Patricia Ann Keck began in 1958 and produced seven children.
He and Scott Hahn both published works of Roman Catholic religious scholarship.
William May is 96 years old today.
William May was born on May 27, 1928 in Missouri.
William May zodiac sign is Gemini.
William May was best known as Religious Leader.
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Below are historical events that coincided with William May's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1971 | The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal. |
1977 | A plane crash at José Martà International Airport in Havana, Cuba, kills 67. |
1971 | Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre. |
1975 | Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 - the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom. |
1980 | The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more. |
1984 | The Danube-Black Sea Canal is opened, in a ceremony attended by the Ceaușescus. It had been under construction since the 1950s. |
1988 | Somaliland War of Independence: Somali National Movement launches a major offensive against Somali government forces in Hargeisa and Burao, then second and third largest cities of Somalia. |
1996 | First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire. |
1997 | The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell. |
1998 | Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot. |
2001 | Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002. |
2006 | The 6.4 Mw  Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured. |
2016 | Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha. |
2017 | Andrew Scheer takes over after Rona Ambrose as the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada. |
2018 | Maryland Flood Event: A flood occurs throughout the Patapsco Valley, causing one death, destroying the entire first floors of buildings on Main Street in Ellicott City, and causing cars to overturn. |
1988 | The birth of Irina Davydova, Russian hurdler |
1988 | The birth of Garrett Richards, American baseball pitcher |
1988 | The birth of Tyler Sash, American football player (d. 2015) |
1989 | The birth of Igor Morozov, Estonian footballer |
1989 | The birth of Peakboy, South Korean rapper, record producer, and singer-songwriter |
1990 | The birth of Yenew Alamirew, Ethiopian runner |
1990 | The birth of Chris Colfer, American actor and singer |
1990 | The birth of Marcus Kruger, Swedish ice hockey player |
1991 | The birth of Sebastien Dewaest, Belgian footballer |
1991 | The birth of Tim Lafai, Samoan rugby league player |
1991 | The birth of Ksenia Pervak, Russian tennis player |
1991 | The birth of Eneli Vals, Estonian footballer |
1992 | The birth of Aaron Brown, Canadian sprinter |
1992 | The birth of Laurence Vincent-Lapointe, Canadian canoer |
1997 | The birth of Anna Bondar, Hungarian tennis player |
2013 | The death of Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, Indian politician (b. 1917) |
2013 | The death of Bill Pertwee, English actor (b. 1926) |
2013 | The death of Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, Malian politician, Prime Minister of Mali (b. 1931) |
2014 | The death of Robert Genn, Canadian painter and author (b. 1936) |
2014 | The death of Helma Sanders-Brahms, German director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940) |
2014 | The death of Roberto Vargas, Puerto Rican-American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1929) |
2014 | The death of Massimo Vignelli, Italian-American graphic designer (b. 1931) |
2015 | The death of Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1929) |
2015 | The death of Nils Christie, Norwegian sociologist, criminologist, and author (b. 1928) |
2015 | The death of Andy King, English footballer and manager (b. 1956) |
2015 | The death of Michael Martin, American philosopher and academic (b. 1932) |
2017 | The death of Gregg Allman, American musician, singer and songwriter (b. 1947) |
2018 | The death of Gardner Dozois, American science fiction author and editor (b. 1947) |
2020 | The death of Larry Kramer, American playwright, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist (b. 1935) |
2021 | The death of Poul Schlüter, former Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1929) |
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