May 2
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May 2 is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 243 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 373 - Athanasius of Alexandria (b. 298)
- 756 - Emperor Shomu of Japan (b. 701)
- 907 - Boris I of Bulgaria
- 1219 – Leo I, King of Armenia (b. 1150)
- 1300 - Blanche of Artois (b. 1248)
- 1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist and inventor (b. 1452)
- 1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
- 1802 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
- 1819 - Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)
- 1821 - Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (b. 1741)
- 1825 – Michail Leontievich Bulatov, Russian military (b. 1760)
- 1857 - Alfred de Busset, French writer (b. 1810)
- 1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791)
- 1880 - Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman (b. 1805)
- 1880 - Tom Willis, Australian cricketer and co-founder of Australian rules football (b. 1835)
1901 – 2000
- 1909 - Manuel Amador Guerrero, 1st President of Panama (b. 1833)
- 1915 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, doctor and activist (b. 1870)
- 1918 - Jüri Vilms, Estonian politician (b. 1889)
- 1927 - Ernest Starling, English physiologist (b. 1866)
- 1930 - Isidor Gunsberg, Hungarian chess player (b. 1854)
- 1945 – Martin Bormann, Nazi politician (b. 1900)
- 1957 – Joseph McCarthy, US Senator (b. 1908)
- 1960 – Caryl Chessman, American, controversially executed (b. 1921)
- 1964 – Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-British politician (b. 1879)
- 1969 – Franz von Papen, German politician (b. 1879)
- 1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI (b. 1895)
- 1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist (b. 1903)
- 1983 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (b. 1926)
- 1983 - Pridi Banomyong, Prime minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
- 1984 - Bob Clampett, American animator, producer and director (b. 1913)
- 1985 - Attilio Bettega, Italian rally driver (b. 1953)
- 1989 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
- 1989 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (b. 1902)
- 1993 - André Moynet, French fighter pilot, entrepreneur, politician and racing driver (b. 1921)
- 1995 - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
- 1995 - Werner Veigel, German television journalist (b. 1928)
- 1997 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
- 1997 – Sir John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
- 1998 – Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
- 1998 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
- 1998 - Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
- 1999 - Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
From 2001
- 2005 – Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
- 2009 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director (b. 1931)
- 2009 – Jack Kemp, American politician and football player (b. 1935)
- 2010 – Kama Chinen, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
- 2010 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
- 2011 – Osama Bin Laden, Saudi Islamist terrorist (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, Indonesian physician and politician (b. 1955)
- 2012 – Junior Seau, American football player (b. 1969)
- 2013 - Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)
- 2013 - Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist (Slayer) (b. 1964)
- 2014 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918)
- 2014 - Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, Iranian classical musician (b. 1947)
- 2014 - Nigel Stepney, English mechanic (b. 1958)
- 2014 - Pauline Wagner, American actress (b. 1910)
- 2015 - Ruth Rendell, English writer (b. 1930)
- 2015 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (b. 1925)
- 2015 - Konstantin K. Kuzminsky, Russian performance poet (b. 1940)
- 2015 - Sarah Correa, Brazilian swimmer (b. 1992)
- 2015 - Guy Carawan, American folk musician (b. 1927)
- 2015 - Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1945)
- 2015 - Stuart Archer, British recipient of the George Cross (b. 1915)
- 2015 - Philip S. Goodman, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1926)
- 2016 - Afeni Shakur, African American music businesswoman, philanthropist, political activist, and Black Panther. Mother of Tupac Shakur (b. 1947)
- 2016 - Jonathan Cainer, British astrologer (b. 1957)
- 2016 - John Kaye, Australian politician (b. 1955)
- 2016 - Roger Millward, British rugby league player (b. 1947)
- 2017 - Harold Bedoya Pizarro, Colombian military commander and politician (b. 1938)
- 2017 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine author and essayist (b. 1935)
- 2017 - Kevin Garcia, American musician (b. 1975)
- 2017 - Heinz Kessler, German politician (b. 1920)
- 2017 - George Hugh Niederauer, American archbishop (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Leo K. Thorsness, American air force officer (b. 1932)
- 2017 - Moray Watson, British actor (b. 1928)
- 2017 - Roy Gater, English footballer (b. 1940)
- 2018 - Gord Brown, Canadian politician (b. 1960)
- 2018 - Tony Cucchiara, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
- 2018 - Herman Krebbers, Dutch violinist (b. 1923)
- 2018 - Vadim Mulerman, Soviet-Ukrainian singer (b. 1938)
- 2018 - Bill Torrey, Canadian ice hockey executive (b. 1934)
- 2018 - Wang Danfeng, Chinese actress (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Wolfgang Völz, German actor (b. 1930)
- 2018 - János Juszkó, Hungarian cyclist (b. 1939)
- 2019 - Michel Crauste, French rugby union player (b. 1934)
- 2019 - Rafael Hernández Colón, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1936)
- 2019 - Fatimih Dávila, Uruguayan model (b. 1988)
- 2019 - Master Hirannaiah, Indian actor (b. 1934)
- 2019 - Frank Ivancie, American businessman and politician (b. 1924)
- 2019 - Red Kelly, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1927)
- 2019 - Micha Lindenstrauss, German-born Israeli judge (b. 1937)
- 2019 - Ali Mroudjaé, Prime minister of the Comoros (b. 1939)
- 2019 - Lord Toby Jug, British politician (b. 1935)
- 2019 - Chris Reccardi, American animator (b. 1964)
- 2019 - John Starling, American bluegrass musician (b. 1940)
- 2019 - Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist and composer (b. 1917)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1902 - Arturo Licata, Sicilian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
- 1903 – Benjamin Spock, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Nigel Patrick, English actor (d. 1981)
- 1915 - Van Alexander, American jazz composer, arranger and bandleader (d. 2015)
- 1917 - Van Tien Dung, Vietnamese general and politician (d. 2002)
- 1917 - Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player and bobsledder (d. unknown)
- 1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
- 1920 - Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian activist (d. 2000)
- 1920 - Vasantrao Deshpande, Indian singer and sitar player (d. 1983)
- 1920 - Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter, 1948 Olympic champion (d. 2004)
- 1921 – Satyajit Ray, Indian movie maker (d. 1992)
- 1923 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (d. 2008)
- 1924 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian-American actor and singer (d. 2015)
- 1924 - Hugh Cortazzi, English businessman and diplomat (d. 2018)
- 1925 - Maria Barroso, Portuguese actress and politician (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (d. 1972)
- 1929 – Edouard Balladur, former Prime Minister of France
- 1929 - Eddie Garcia, Filipino actor, director and television personality (d. 2019)
- 1930 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist (d. 2016)
- 1930 - Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter, journalist and critic (d. 2013)
- 1931 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
- 1932 - Bruce Glover, American actor
- 1933 - Gérard Jouannest, French pianist (d. 2018)
- 1933 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge
- 1935 - Luis Suárez Miramontes, Spanish footballer
- 1935 – King Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
- 1936 - Norma Aleandro, Argentine actress, director and screenwriter
- 1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, British singer
- 1937 - Lance LeGault, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1937 - Lorenzo Music, American screenwriter, actor and producer (d. 2001)
- 1938 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (d. 1996)
- 1941 – Jules Wijdenbosch, former President of Suriname
- 1941 - Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (d. 2015)
- 1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian Olympic official (d. 2021)
- 1943 - Manfred Schnelldorfer, German figure skater
- 1944 - Kim Yong-il, North Korean politician
- 1945 – Judge Dread, English musician (d. 1998)
- 1945 – Bianca Jagger, Nicaraguan-born activist
- 1946 - Lesley Gore, American singer (d. 2015)
- 1946 – David Suchet, British actor
- 1947 – James Dyson, British inventor
- 1947 - Prashanta Nanda, Indian actor, director, producer and politician
- 1949 - Alan Titchmarsh, British television presenter
- 1949 - Alfons Schuhbeck, German chef and cookery writer
- 1949 - Alan Gross, American government contractor
- 1950 - Lou Gramm, American singer
1951 – 1975
- 1951 - John Glascock, English musician (d. 1979)
- 1952 – Christine Baranski, American actress
- 1952 - Christopher Doyle, Australian director and screenwriter
- 1953 – Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor
- 1955 - Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
- 1956 - Régis Lebeaume, Canadian politician, 41st Mayor of Quebec City
- 1958 - Yasushi Akimoto, Japanese television writer, songwriter, record producer and professor
- 1958 – David O'Leary, Irish footballer
- 1962 – Jimmy White, English snooker player
- 1964 – Silvia Neid, German footballer and coach
- 1967 - Bengt Akerblom, Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1995)
- 1967 - Luigi Apolloni, Italian footballer
- 1968 - Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor
- 1968 - Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress
- 1969 – Brian Lara, West Indies cricketer
- 1971 - Musashimaru Koyo, American Samoan sumo wrestler
- 1972 - Dwayne Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor
- 1972 - Ahti Heinla, Estonian programmer and entrepreneur
- 1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German movie director
- 1974 - Matt Berry, English actor
- 1975 – David Beckham, English footballer
- 1975 – Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, American astronaut
From 1976
- 1977 - Jan Fitschen, German runner
- 1977 - Kalle Palander, Finnish skier
- 1979 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1979 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
- 1980 – Tim Borowski, German footballer
- 1980 – Zat Knight, English footballer
- 1980 - Troy Murphy, American basketball player
- 1980 - Pierre-Luc Gagnon, Canadian skateboarder
- 1981 – Chris Kirkland, English footballer
- 1981 – Tiago Mendes, Portuguese footballer
- 1982 - Lorie, French singer
- 1982 - Johan Botha, South Korean cricketer
- 1983 - Alessandro Diamanti, Italian footballer
- 1983 - Derek Boateng, Ghanaian footballer
- 1983 - Maynor Figueroa, Honduran footballer
- 1983 – Tina Maze, Slovenian skier
- 1985 – Lily Allen, English singer
- 1985 - Kyle Busch, American racing driver
- 1985 – Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
- 1985 – David Nugent, English footballer
- 1985 - Oh Land, Danish singer-songwriter and record producer
- 1985 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1986 - Emily Hart, American actress
- 1986 - Sani Kaita, Nigerian footballer
- 1987 - Saara Aalto, Finnish singer
- 1987 - Kris Russell, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
- 1988 - Stephen Henderson, Irish footballer
- 1990 – Kay Panabaker, American actress
- 1990 - Paul George, American basketball player
- 1991 - Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer
- 1994 - Josh Bolt, English actor
- 1996 - Julian Brandt, German footballer
- 1997 - Bambam, South Korean dancer, rapper and singer
- 2015 - Princess Charlotte of Cambridge
Deaths
Observances
- Polish Flag day celebrated
- Last day of the Bahá'í festival to select members of the Universal House of Justice.
- National Education Day (Indonesia)
- Teachers' Day (Iran, Bhutan)