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Events in May 2024 13
1926 – 2024Roger Corman (1926-2024)Died 9 May 2024, aged 98American director and producer of low-budget films who launched the careers of Coppola, Scorsese and Nicholson.
1931 – 2024Alice Munro (1931-2024)Died 13 May 2024, aged 92Canadian writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 and called the master of the contemporary short story.
1931 – 2024Margaret Bryan Davis (1931-2024)Died 22 May 2024, aged 92American palaeoecologist whose pioneering work in palynology showed how biological communities shift with climate.
1932 – 2024Dabney Coleman (1932-2024)Died 16 May 2024, aged 92American actor who made a speciality of smug egotists in 9 to 5 and Tootsie.
1936 – 2024Frank Stella (1936-2024)Died 4 May 2024, aged 87American painter who moved from severe Minimalism to vast irregular multimedia reliefs.
1937 – 2024Ivan Boesky (1937-2024)Died 20 May 2024, aged 87American arbitrageur whose 1986 guilty plea for securities manipulation came to define Wall Street excess.
1952 – 2024Bill Walton (1952-2024)Died 27 May 2024, aged 71American basketball player considered one of the great all-round centres, and later a beloved broadcaster.
1960 – 2024Ebrahim Raisi (1960-2024)Died 19 May 2024, aged 63President of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash. His tenure was marked by mass protests following the death of Mahsa Amini.
1962 – 2024Steve Albini (1962-2024)Died 7 May 2024, aged 61American musician and recording engineer behind Nirvana's In Utero and the Pixies' Surfer Rosa.
1970 – 2024Morgan Spurlock (1970-2024)Died 23 May 2024, aged 53American documentarian best known for Super Size Me.
20242024 World Snooker ChampionshipWilson’s FirstWinner: Kyren Wilson; Runner-up: Jak Jones. Score: 18–14.
2024OpenAI releases GPT-4oMultimodal AI with real-time voiceOpenAI released GPT-4o on May 13, 2024, a model capable of real-time voice conversation and vision, marking a major step toward natural human-AI interaction.
2024FuriosaMad Max prequel — $173m worldwideDirected by George Miller, starring Anya Taylor-Joy. The origin story of Furiosa as she attempts to make her way back to her homeland.