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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
May 2 is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
243 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
1194 –
King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.[1] ·
1230 – William de
Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. ·
1335 – Otto the Merry,
Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia. ·
1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned
on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. ·
1559 – John Knox returns from exile to
Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation. ·
1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots,
escapes from Loch Leven Castle.[2] ·
1611 –
The King James Version of
the Bible is published for the first time
in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. ·
1625 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin
Patriarch of Ethiopia, arrives at Beilul from Goa.[3] ·
1670 –
King Charles II of England grants
a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to
open up the fur trade in North
America. ·
1672 – John
Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March. ·
1808 –
Outbreak of the Peninsular War:
The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against
French occupation. Francisco de Goya later
memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May
1808. ·
1812 –
The Siege of Cuautla during
the Mexican War
of Independence ends with both sides claiming victory after
Mexican rebels under José María
Morelos y Pavón abandon the city after 72 days under siege by
royalist Spanish troops under Félix María Calleja. ·
1816 –
Marriage of Léopold of
Saxe-Coburg and Princess
Charlotte of Wales. ·
1829 –
After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of HMS Challenger,
declares the Swan River Colony in
Australia. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is
wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during
the Battle of
Chancellorsville. He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later. ·
1866 – Peruvian defenders
fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao. ·
1876 –
The April Uprising breaks
out in Ottoman Bulgaria. ·
1879 –
The Spanish
Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias. ·
1885 – Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife,
their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion. ·
1889 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale,
giving Italy control over Eritrea. ·
1906 –
Closing ceremony of the Intercalated
Games in Athens, Greece. ·
1918 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor
Company of Delaware. ·
1920 –
The first game of the Negro
National League baseball is played in Indianapolis. ·
1933 –
Germany's independent labor unions are replaced by the German Labour Front. ·
1941 –
Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown
Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier
that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to
power. ·
1945 – World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin. ·
1945
– World War II: The surrender of Caserta comes
into effect, by which German troops in Italy cease fighting. ·
1945
– World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin
concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom
starved to death. ·
1945
– World War II: A death march from Dachau to
the Austrian border is halted by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd
Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army in southern
Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners. ·
1952 –
A De Havilland Comet makes
the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg. ·
1955 – Tennessee Williams wins
the Pulitzer Prize
for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof. ·
1963 – Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with
three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres
near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany. ·
1964 – Vietnam War: An explosion sinks
the American aircraft carrier USNS Card while it is docked
at Saigon. Two Viet Cong combat swimmers had
placed explosives on the ship's hull. She is raised and returned to service
less than seven months later. ·
1964
– First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of
the Eight-thousanders. ·
1969 –
The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs
on her maiden voyage to New York City. ·
1972 –
In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located
between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers. ·
1982 – Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks
the Argentine cruiser ARA General
Belgrano. ·
1986 – Chernobyl disaster:
The City of Chernobyl is
evacuated six days after the disaster. ·
1989 – Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria,
which allows a number of East Germans to defect. ·
1994 –
A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people. ·
1995 –
During the Croatian War
of Independence, the Army
of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing seven and wounding over 175
civilians. ·
1998 –
The European Central
Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute
the European Union's
monetary policy. ·
1999 – Panamanian
general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman
to be elected President of Panama. ·
2000 –
President Bill Clinton announces
that accurate GPS access
would no longer be restricted to the United States
military. ·
2004 –
The Yelwa massacre concludes.
It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa.
In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd. ·
2008 – Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and
leaving millions of people homeless. ·
2008
– Chaitén Volcano begins
erupting in Chile, forcing the evacuation of more than
4,500 people. ·
2011 – Osama bin Laden, the suspected mastermind
behind the September 11 attacks and
the FBI's
most wanted man, is killed by
the United States
special forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan. ·
2011
– An E. coli
outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than
30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak. ·
2012 –
A pastel version of The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, sells for $120 million in
a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at
auction. ·
2014 – Two mudslides in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, leave up to 2,500 people
missing. Births[edit] ·
1360 – Yongle Emperor of China (d. 1424) ·
1402 – Eleanor
of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1445) ·
1451 – René II, Duke
of Lorraine (d. 1508) ·
1458 – Eleanor of Viseu (d. 1525) ·
1476 – Charles
I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels, Count of Kladsko, Governor of Bohemia
and Silesia (d. 1536) ·
1533 – Philip
II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1596) ·
1551 – William Camden, English historian and
topographer (d. 1623) ·
1567 – Sebald de Weert, Dutch captain, vice-admiral
of the Dutch East India Company (d. 1603) ·
1579 – Tokugawa Hidetada,
Japanese shōgun (d. 1632) ·
1601 – Athanasius Kircher,
German priest and scholar (d. 1680) ·
1660 – Alessandro Scarlatti,
Italian composer (d. 1725) ·
1695 – Giovanni
Niccolň Servandoni, Italian-French painter and architect (d. 1766) ·
1702 – Friedrich
Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and theosopher (d. 1782) ·
1707 – Jean-Baptiste
Barričre, French cellist and composer (d. 1747) ·
1729 – Catherine the Great of
Russia (d. 1796) ·
1737 – William
Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805) ·
1740 – Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and
politician, 10th President
of the Continental Congress (d. 1821) ·
1750 – John André, English soldier and spy (d.
1780) ·
1752 – Ludwig August Lebrun,
German oboe player and composer (d. 1790) ·
1754 – Vicente Martín y
Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806) ·
1772 – Novalis, German author and poet (d. 1801) ·
1773 – Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher and
poet (d. 1845) ·
1797 – Abraham Pineo Gesner,
Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864) ·
1802 – Heinrich Gustav
Magnus, German chemist and physicist (d. 1870) ·
1806 – Catherine Labouré,
French nun and saint (d. 1876) ·
1810 – Hans Christian
Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (d. 1874) ·
1813 – Caroline Leigh
Gascoigne, English novelist and poet (d. 1883)[4] ·
1815 – William Buell
Richards, Canadian lawyer and judge, 1st Chief Justice of
Canada (d. 1889) ·
1822 – Jane Miller
Thengberg, Scottish-Swedish governess and educator (d. 1902)[5] ·
1828 – Désiré Charnay,
French archaeologist and photographer (d. 1915) ·
1830 – Otto Staudinger, German entomologist and
author (d. 1900) ·
1843 – Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American engineer (d.
1929) ·
1859 – Jerome K. Jerome, English author and
playwright (d. 1927) ·
1860 – John Scott Haldane,
Scottish physiologist, physician, and academic (d. 1936) ·
1860
– Theodor Herzl,
Austro-Hungarian Zionist philosopher, journalist and author (d. 1904) ·
1865 – Clyde Fitch, American playwright (d. 1909) ·
1867 – Giuseppe Morello, Italian-American mobster
(d. 1930) ·
1873 – Jurgis Baltrušaitis,
Lithuanian poet, critic, and translator (d. 1944) ·
1879 – James F. Byrnes, American stenographer and
politician, 49th United
States Secretary of State (d. 1972) ·
1880 – Bill Horr, American football player, discus
thrower, and coach (d. 1955) ·
1882 – Isabel González,
Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American
citizenship (d. 1971) ·
1885 – Hedda Hopper, American actress and gossip
columnist (d. 1966) ·
1886 – Gottfried Benn, German author and poet (d.
1956) ·
1887 – Vernon Castle,
English-American dancer (d. 1918) ·
1887
– Eddie Collins,
American baseball player and manager (d. 1951) ·
1889 – Ki Hajar Dewantara,
Indonesian philosopher, academic, and politician (d. 1959) ·
1890 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author
(d. 1965) ·
1892 – Manfred von
Richthofen, German captain and pilot (d. 1918) ·
1894 – Norma Talmadge, leading US actress of the
silent era (d. 1957)[6] ·
1894
– Joseph Henry Woodger,
English biologist, philosopher, and academic (d. 1981) ·
1895 – Lorenz Hart, American playwright and
lyricist (d. 1943) ·
1897 – John Frederick Coots,
American songwriter (d. 1985) ·
1898 – Henry Hall,
English bandleader, composer, and actor (d. 1989) ·
1901 – Bob Wyatt, English cricketer (d. 1995) ·
1901
– Edouard Zeckendorf,
Belgian doctor, army officer and mathematician (d. 1983) ·
1901
– Willi Bredel,
German writer (d. 1964) ·
1902 – Brian Aherne, English actor (d. 1986) ·
1902
– Werner Finck,
German Kabarett comedian, actor and author (d. 1978) ·
1903 – Benjamin Spock, American rower,
pediatrician, and author (d. 1998) ·
1904 – Bill Brandt, German-English photographer and
journalist (d. 1983) ·
1905 – Alan Rawsthorne, British composer (d. 1971) ·
1905
– Charlotte Armstrong,
American author (d. 1969) ·
1906 – Philippe Halsman, Latvian-American
photographer (d. 1979) ·
1907 – Pinky Lee, American comedian and television
host (d. 1993) ·
1908 – Frank Rowlett, American cryptologist (d.
1998) ·
1909 – Teddy Stauffer, Swiss bandleader, musician,
and actor (d. 1991) ·
1910 – Alexander
Bonnyman, Jr., American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1943) ·
1910
– Edmund Bacon,
American urban planner, architect, educator, and author (d. 2005) ·
1912 – Axel Springer, German journalist and
publisher, founded Axel Springer AG (d. 1985) ·
1912
– Karl Adam,
German rowing coaches (d. 1976) ·
1912
– Marten Toonder,
Dutch comic strip creator (d. 2005) ·
1912
– Nigel Patrick,
English actor and director (d. 1981) ·
1913 – Pietro Frua, Italian coachbuilder and car
designer (d. 1983) ·
1913
– Aydın
Sayılı, Turkish historian and academic (d. 1993) ·
1915 – Doris Fisher,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2003) ·
1915
– Peggy Mount, English actress (d. 2001) ·
1917 – Albert Castelyns, Belgian water polo player
and bobsledder ·
1917
– Văn Tiến
Dũng, Vietnamese general and politician, 6th Minister of
Defence for Vietnam (d. 2002) ·
1920 – Jean-Marie Auberson,
Swiss violinist and conductor (d. 2004) ·
1920
– Otto Buchsbaum,
Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (d. 2000) ·
1920
– Vasantrao Deshpande,
Indian singer and sitar player (d.
1983) ·
1920
– Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter, soldier,
and pilot (d. 2004) ·
1920
– Jacob Gilboa,
Israeli composer (d. 2007) ·
1921 – B. B. Lal, Indian archaeologist ·
1921
– Satyajit Ray,
Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1992) ·
1922 – Roscoe Lee Browne,
American actor and director (d. 2007) ·
1922
– A. M. Rosenthal,
Canadian-born American journalist and author (d. 2006) ·
1922
– Serge Reggiani,
Italian-born French singer and actor (d. 2004) ·
1923 – Patrick Hillery, Irish physician and
politician, 6th President of Ireland (d.
2008) ·
1923
– Albert Nordengen,
Norwegian banker and politician (d. 2004) ·
1924 – Jamal Abro, Pakistani lawyer and author (d.
2004) ·
1924
– Theodore Bikel,
Austrian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2015) ·
1924
– Arthur Clues,
Australian rugby league player (d. 1998) ·
1924
– Hugh Cortazzi,
English soldier, historian, and diplomat, British Ambassador to Japan (d. 2018) ·
1925 – John Neville,
English-Canadian actor (d. 2011) ·
1926 – Gérard D. Levesque,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Premier
of Quebec (d. 1993) ·
1927 – Ray Barrett, Australian actor and singer (d.
2009) ·
1927
– Amos Kenan, Israeli columnist, painter,
sculptor, playwright and novelist (d. 2009) ·
1927
– Michael Broadbent,
British wine critic and writer (d. 2020) ·
1928 – Hans Trass, Estonian ecologist and botanist
(d. 2017) ·
1928
– Georges-Arthur
Goldschmidt, French writer and translator of German origin ·
1928
– Horst Stein, German conductor (d. 2008) ·
1929 – Édouard Balladur,
Turkish-French economist and politician, 162nd Prime Minister
of France ·
1929
– James Dillion,
American discus thrower (d. 2010) ·
1929
– Link Wray, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2005) ·
1929
– Jigme Dorji
Wangchuck, Druk Gyalpo of
Bhutan (d. 1972) ·
1930 – Yoram Kaniuk, Israeli painter and critic (d.
2013) ·
1930
– Marco Pannella,
Italian journalist and politician (d. 2016) ·
1931 – Phil Bruns, American actor and stuntman (d.
2012) ·
1931
– Martha Grimes,
American author and poet ·
1932 – Maury Allen, American journalist, actor, and
author (d. 2010) ·
1933 – Bunk Gardner, American musician ·
1933
– Harry Woolf,
Baron Woolf, English lawyer and judge, Lord
Chief Justice of England and Wales ·
1934 – Manfred Durniok, German film producer,
director and screenwriter (d. 2003) ·
1935 – Luis Suárez
Miramontes, Spanish footballer and manager ·
1935
– Faisal II of Iraq,
the last King of Iraq (d.1958) ·
1936 – Norma Aleandro, Argentinian actress,
director, and screenwriter ·
1936
– Engelbert
Humperdinck, English singer and pianist ·
1936
– Michael Rabin,
American violinist (d. 1972) ·
1937 – Klaus Enders, German motorcycle sidecar
racer (d. 2019) ·
1937
– Lorenzo Music,
American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001) ·
1937
– Gisela Elsner,
German writer (d. 1992) ·
1938 – Moshoeshoe II of
Lesotho (d. 1996) ·
1939 – Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist and
engineer ·
1939
– Ernesto Castano,
Italian football player ·
1940 – Jules Albert
Wijdenbosch, Surinamese politician ·
1941 – Tony Adamowicz, American race car driver (d.
2016) ·
1941
– Bruce Cameron,
Scottish bishop ·
1941
– Clay Carroll,
American baseball player[7] ·
1941
– Eddy Louiss, French jazz musician (d. 2015) ·
1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian businessman ·
1942
– Wojciech Pszoniak,
Polish film and theater actor ·
1944 – Robert G. W.
Anderson, English chemist, historian, and curator ·
1945 – Randy Cain, American soul singer (d. 2009) ·
1945
– Judge Dread, English singer-songwriter (d.
1998) ·
1945
– Bianca Jagger,
Nicaraguan-American model, actress, and activist ·
1945
– Goldy McJohn,
Canadian keyboard player (d. 2017) ·
1946 – Peter L. Benson, American psychologist and
academic (d. 2011) ·
1946
– Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter (d.
2015) ·
1946
– David Suchet,
English actor ·
1947 – James Dyson, English businessman, founded
the Dyson Company ·
1947
– Lynda
Myles, English screenwriter and producer ·
1947
– Philippe Herreweghe,
Belgian conductor ·
1948 – Larry Gatlin, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1949 – Alan Titchmarsh, English gardener and author ·
1949
– Alfons Schuhbeck,
German celebrity chef,
author and businessman ·
1950 – Simon Gaskell, English chemist and academic ·
1950
– Duncan Gay, Australian businessman and
politician ·
1950
– Lou Gramm, American singer-songwriter ·
1950
– Richard Ground,
English lawyer and judge (d. 2014) ·
1950
– Fausto Silva,
Brazilian television presenter ·
1951 – John Glascock, English singer and bass
player (d. 1979) ·
1952 – Chris
Anderson, Australian rugby league player and coach ·
1952
– Christine Baranski,
American actress and singer ·
1952
– Isla St Clair,
Scottish singer and actress ·
1953 – Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor and
director ·
1953
– Jamaal Wilkes,
American basketball player[8] ·
1954 – Elliot Goldenthal,
American composer and conductor ·
1954
– Dawn Primarolo,
English politician ·
1954
– Stephen Venables,
English mountaineer and author ·
1955 – Willie Miller, Scottish footballer ·
1955
– Donatella Versace,
Italian fashion designer ·
1956 – Régis Labeaume,
Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of
Quebec City ·
1958 – Yasushi Akimoto, Japanese songwriter and
producer ·
1958
– Stanislav Levý,
Czech footballer and manager ·
1958
– David O'Leary,
English-Irish footballer and manager ·
1959 – Alan Best,
Canadian animator, director, and producer ·
1959
– Tony Wakeford,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1960 – Stephen Daldry, English director and
producer ·
1961 – Steve James,
English snooker player ·
1961
– Sophie Thibault,
Canadian journalist ·
1961
– Phil Vickery,
English chef and author ·
1962 – Elizabeth
Berridge, American actress ·
1962
– Michael Grandage,
English director and producer ·
1962
– Jimmy White, English snooker player ·
1965 – Félix José, Dominican-American baseball
player ·
1966 – Uwe Freiler, German footballer ·
1966
– Margus Kolga,
Estonian diplomat ·
1966
– Belinda Stronach,
Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, and politician ·
1967 – Bengt Ĺkerblom,
Swedish ice hockey player (d. 1995) ·
1967
– Mika Brzezinski,
American journalist and author ·
1967
– David Rocastle,
English footballer (d. 2001) ·
1968 – Jeff Agoos, Swiss-American soccer player,
manager, and sportscaster ·
1968
– Julia Hartley-Brewer,
English broadcaster and columnist ·
1968
– Ziana Zain, Malaysian singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1969 – Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer ·
1970 – Marco Walker, Swiss footballer and coach ·
1971 – Musashimaru
Kōyō, Samoan-American sumo wrestler, the 67th Yokozuna ·
1971
– Fatima Yusuf, Nigerian
sprinter ·
1972 – Paul Adcock, English footballer ·
1972
– Ahti Heinla, Estonian programmer and
businessman, co-developed Skype ·
1972
– Dwayne Johnson,
American-Canadian wrestler, actor, and producer ·
1973 – Florian
Henckel von Donnersmarck, German director and screenwriter ·
1974 – Horacio Carbonari,
Argentinian footballer and manager ·
1974
– Andy
Johnson, English-Welsh footballer ·
1974
– Janek Meet, Estonian footballer ·
1975 – David Beckham, English footballer, coach,
and model ·
1975
– Joe Wilkinson,
English comedian, actor and writer ·
1976 – Jeff Gutt, American singer-songwriter ·
1977 – Brian Cardinal, American basketball player ·
1977
– Jan Fitschen,
German runner ·
1977
– Luke Hudson, American baseball player ·
1977
– Fredrik Malm,
Swedish journalist and politician ·
1977
– Jenna von O˙,
American actress and singer ·
1977
– Kalle Palander,
Finnish skier ·
1978 – Melvin Ely, American basketball player ·
1978
– Mike Weaver,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1979 – Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1979
– Ioannis Kanotidis,
Greek footballer ·
1979
– Defne Joy Foster,
Turkish-American actress, presenter and VJ (d. 2011) ·
1980 – Tim Borowski, German footballer ·
1980
– Pierre-Luc Gagnon,
Canadian skateboarder ·
1980
– Ellie Kemper,
American actress, comedian and writer ·
1980
– Zat Knight, English footballer[9] ·
1980
– Artūras
Masiulis, Lithuanian basketball player ·
1980
– Troy Murphy, American basketball player ·
1980
– Lassaâd Ouertani,
Tunisian footballer (d. 2013) ·
1980
– Brad Richards,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1980
– Vincent Tong,
Canadian actor, singer, voice actor and director ·
1981 – Robert Buckley, American actor ·
1981
– Chris Kirkland,
English footballer ·
1981
– Tiago Mendes,
Portuguese footballer ·
1981
– Matt
Murray, English footballer ·
1981
– Rina Satō,
Japanese voice actress and singer ·
1982 – Timothy Benjamin, Welsh sprinter ·
1982
– Johan Botha,
South African cricketer ·
1983 – Alessandro Diamanti,
Italian footballer ·
1983
– Maynor Figueroa,
Honduran footballer ·
1983
– Tina Maze, Slovenian skier ·
1983
– Daniel Sordo,
Spanish race car driver ·
1983
– Ove Vanebo, Norwegian politician ·
1984 – Saulius
Mikoliūnas, Lithuanian footballer ·
1984
– Thabo Sefolosha,
Swiss basketball player ·
1985 – Lily Allen, English singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1985
– Kyle Busch, American race car driver ·
1985
– Ashley Harkleroad,
American tennis player ·
1985
– Sarah Hughes,
American figure skater[10] ·
1987 – Saara Aalto, Finnish singer and actress[11] ·
1987
– Nana Kitade, Japanese singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1987
– Pat McAfee, American football player ·
1987
– Kris Russell,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1987
– Justin
Young, English singer and songwriter ·
1988 – Neftalí Feliz, Dominican baseball player ·
1988
– Stephen
Henderson, Irish footballer ·
1989 – Jeanette Pohlen, American basketball player ·
1990 – Kay Panabaker, American actress ·
1990 – Paul George, American basketball player ·
1991 – Jeong Jinwoon, South Korean actor and singer ·
1992 – Sunmi, South Korean singer ·
1992
– María Teresa
Torró Flor, Spanish tennis player ·
1993 – Owain Doull, Welsh track cyclist ·
1993
– Isyana Sarasvati,
Indonesian singer ·
1993
– Huang Zitao, Chinese singer and rapper ·
1996 – Cherprang Areekul,
Thai singer ·
1996
– Julian Brandt,
German footballer ·
1996
– Schuyler Bailar,
American swimmer[12] ·
2015 – Princess
Charlotte of Cambridge, British royal, and fourth in line to
the British
throne[13] Deaths[edit] ·
373 – Athanasius of
Alexandria, Egyptian bishop and saint (b. 298) ·
649 – Marutha of Tikrit,
Persian theologian of the Syriac Orthodox
Church (b. 565) ·
821 – Liu Zong, general of the Tang Dynasty ·
1219 – Leo I, King of
Armenia (b. 1150) ·
1230 – William de
Braose, English son of Reginald de Braose (b.
1197) ·
1293 – Meir of Rothenburg,
German rabbi (b. c.1215) ·
1300 – Blanche of Artois (b.
1248) ·
1450 – William
de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (b. 1396) ·
1519 – Leonardo da Vinci,
Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (b. 1452) ·
1564 – Rodolfo Pio da Carpi,
Italian cardinal (b. 1500) ·
1627 – Lodovico
Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer and educator (b. 1560) ·
1667 – George Wither, English poet and author (b.
1588) ·
1683 – Stjepan Gradić,
Croatian philosopher and mathematician (b. 1613) ·
1711 – Laurence
Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English politician, First Lord of
the Treasury (b. 1641) ·
1799 – Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (b.
1740) ·
1802 – Herman Willem
Daendels, Dutch general and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (b.
1762) ·
1810 – Henry Jerome de
Salis, English priest (b. 1740) ·
1819 – Mary Moser, English painter and academic (b.
1744) ·
1857 – Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet,
and novelist (b. 1810) ·
1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer,
German composer and educator (b. 1791) ·
1880 – Eberhard Anheuser,
German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805) ·
1880
– Tom Wills, Australian cricketer,
co-created Australian
rules football (b. 1835) ·
1885 – Terézia Zakoucs,
Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817) ·
1915 – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870) ·
1918 – Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician
(b. 1889) ·
1925 – Antun Branko
Šimić, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898) ·
1925
– Johann Palisa,
Austrian astronomer (b. 1848)[14][15] ·
1927 – Ernest Starling, English physiologist and
academic (b. 1866) ·
1929 – Charalambos
Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek
Minister for Military Affairs (b. 1879) ·
1941 – Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874) ·
1945 – Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900) ·
1945
– Joe Corbett, American baseball player and
journalist (b. 1875) ·
1947 – Dorothea Binz, German SS officer
(b. 1920) ·
1953 – Wallace Bryant,
American archer (b. 1863) ·
1957 – Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer,
judge, and politician (b. 1908) ·
1963 – Ronald
Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician,
poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884) ·
1964 – Nancy
Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879) ·
1969 – Franz von Papen, German general and
politician, Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1879) ·
1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b.
1895) ·
1974 – James O. Richardson,
American admiral (b. 1878) ·
1977 – Nicholas Magallanes,
American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (b.
1922) ·
1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and
engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1903) ·
1980 – Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian
cricketer (b. 1891) ·
1980
– George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and
producer (b. 1908) ·
1983 – Norm Van Brocklin,
American football player and coach (b. 1926) ·
1984 – Jack Barry,
American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry
& Enright Productions (b. 1918) ·
1984
– Bob Clampett,
American animator, director, and producer (b. 1913) ·
1985 – Attilio Bettega, Italian race car driver (b.
1951) ·
1985
– Larry Clinton,
American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1909) ·
1986 – Sergio Cresto, American race car driver (b.
1956) ·
1986
– Henri Toivonen,
Finnish race car driver (b. 1956) ·
1989 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author (b. 1902) ·
1989
– Giuseppe Siri,
Italian cardinal (b. 1906) ·
1990 – David Rappaport, English-American actor (b.
1951) ·
1991 – Gauri Shankar Rai,
Indian Politician(b.1924) ·
1991
– Ronald McKie,
Australian journalist and author (b. 1909) ·
1992 – Wilbur Mills, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1909) ·
1993 – André Moynet, French race car driver, pilot,
and politician (b. 1921) ·
1994 – Dorothy Marie
Donnelly, American poet and author (b. 1903) ·
1995 – John Bunting,
Australian public servant and diplomat, (b. 1918) ·
1995
– Michael Hordern,
English actor (b. 1911) ·
1997 – John
Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1903) ·
1997
– Paulo Freire,
Brazilian philosopher and academic (b. 1921) ·
1998 – hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist,
and producer (b. 1964) ·
1998
– Justin Fashanu,
English footballer (b. 1961) ·
1998
– Gene Raymond,
American actor (b. 1908) ·
1999 – Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and
politician (b. 1903) ·
1999
– Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938) ·
2000 – Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian musician (b. 1943) ·
2002 – W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician
and academic (b. 1917) ·
2005 – Wee Kim Wee, Singaporean journalist and
politician, 4th President of
Singapore (b. 1915) ·
2006 – Louis Rukeyser, American journalist and
author (b. 1933) ·
2007 – Brad McGann, New Zealand director and
screenwriter (b. 1964) ·
2008 – Beverlee McKinsey,
American actress (b. 1940) ·
2008
– Izold Pustőlnik,
Ukrainian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1938) ·
2009 – Marilyn French, American author and academic
(b. 1929) ·
2009
– Kiyoshiro Imawano,
Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1951) ·
2009
– Jack Kemp, American football player and
politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development (b. 1935) ·
2010 – Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and
singer (b. 1943) ·
2011 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist,
founder of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957) ·
2012 – Fernando Lopes,
Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935) ·
2012
– Zenaida Manfugás,
Cuban-born American-naturalized pianist (b. 1932)[16] ·
2012
– Tufan Mińnullin,
Russian playwright and politician (b. 1936) ·
2012
– Endang Rahayu
Sedyaningsih, Indonesian physician and politician, Indonesian
Minister of Health (b. 1955) ·
2012
– Akira Tonomura,
Japanese physicist, author, and academic (b. 1942) ·
2013 – Ernie Field, English boxer (b. 1943) ·
2013
– Jeff Hanneman,
American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1964) ·
2013
– Joseph P. McFadden,
American bishop (b. 1947) ·
2013
– Dvora Omer, Israeli author and educator (b.
1932) ·
2013
– Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980) ·
2013
– Charles Banks Wilson,
American painter and illustrator (b. 1918) ·
2014 – Tomás Balduino,
Brazilian bishop (b. 1922) ·
2014
– Žarko Petan,
Slovenian director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1929) ·
2014
– Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.,
American actor (b. 1918) ·
2015 – Stuart Archer, English colonel and architect
(b. 1915) ·
2015
– Michael Blake,
American author and screenwriter (b. 1945) ·
2015
– Guy Carawan, American singer and
musicologist (b. 1927) ·
2015
– Maya Plisetskaya,
Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (b. 1925) ·
2015
– Ruth Rendell,
English author (b. 1930) ·
2016 – Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman, activist, and Black Panther (b.
1947) ·
2020 – Arif Wazir, Pakistani politician, leader of
the Pashtun Tahafuz
Movement (b. 1982) Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Christian feast day: o Athanasius of
Alexandria (Western Christianity) o Boris I of Bulgaria (Bulgarian
Orthodox Church) o May 2
(Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
International Harry Potter Day ·
The
last day of the Festival of Ridván (Bahá'í Faith)
(Note that this date is non-Gregorian and may change according to the March equinox, see List of observances set by the Baháʼí calendar) ·
Anniversary of the
Dos de Mayo Uprising (Community
of Madrid, Spain) ·
Birth
Anniversary of Third Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan) ·
Indonesia
National Education Day ·
Teachers' Day (Iran)
(Note that this date is non-Gregorian and may change according to the March
Equinox, see List of observances set by the Solar Hijri calendar) |
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