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.
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Births [change]
- 1360 – Yongle, Chinese Emperor (d. 1424)
- 1451 - Rene, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1503)
- 1458 - Eleanor of Viseu, Queen of Portugal (d. 1525)
- 1551 - William Camden, English historian and antiquarian (d. 1623)
- 1579 - Tokugawa Hidetada, Japanese shogun (d. 1632)
- 1601 – Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)
- 1660 – Antonio Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1725)
- 1702 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782)
- 1729 – Empress Catherine II of Russia (d. 1796)
- 1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805)
- 1740 - Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and statesman (d. 1821)
- 1754 - Vicente Martin y Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806)
- 1772 – Novalis, German writer and philosopher (d. 1801)
- 1773 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian philosopher (d. 1845)
- 1797 - Abraham Pineo Gesner, Canadian physician and geologist (d. 1864)
- 1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German scientist (d. 1870)
- 1806 – Charles Gleyre, Swiss painter (d. 1874)
- 1808 - Emma Wedgwood, English naturalist (d. 1896)
- 1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
- 1843 - Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American inventor and engineer (d. 1929)
- 1856 - Vasily Rozanov, Russian philosopher (d. 1919)
- 1859 – Jerome K. Jerome, English author (d. 1927)
- 1860 – Theodor Herzl, Austrian writer and Zionist (d. 1904)
- 1868 - Robert W. Wood, American experimental physicist (d. 1955)
- 1879 - James F. Byrnes, United States Secretary of State and Governor of South Carolina (d. 1972)
- 1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician (d. 1970)
- 1886 - Gottfried Benn, German author (d. 1956)
- 1889 - Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian education pioneer (d. 1959)
- 1892 – Manfred von Richthofen, German fighter pilot (d. 1918)
- 1896 – Helen of Greece of Denmark (d. 1982)
- 1903 – Benjamin Spock, American author (d. 1998)
- 1913 - Nigel Patrick, English actor (d. 1981)
- 1917 - Van Tien Dung, Vietnamese general and politician (d. 2002)
- 1921 – Satyajit Ray, Indian filmmaker (d. 1992)
- 1923 – Patrick Hillery, President of Ireland (d. 2008)
- 1928 – Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, King of Bhutan (d. 1972)
- 1929 – Edouard Balladur, former Prime Minister of France
- 1930 - Marco Pannella, Italian politician and activist
- 1935 - Luis Suarez Miramontes, Spanish footballer
- 1935 – King Faisal II of Iraq (d. 1958)
- 1936 – Engelbert Humperdinck, British singer
- 1937 - Lance LeGault, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1938 – King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (d. 1996)
- 1941 – Jules Wijdenbosch, former President of Suriname
- 1942 – Jacques Rogge, Belgian Olympic official
- 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 – David Suchet, British actor
- 1947 – James Dyson, British inventor
- 1949 - Alan Titchmarsh, British television presenter
- 1949 - Alfons Schuhbeck, German chef and cookery writer
- 1952 – Christine Baranski, American actress
- 1953 – Valery Gergiev, Russian conductor
- 1955 - Donatella Versace, Italian fashion designer
- 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)
- 1968 - Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor
- 1969 – Brian Lara, West Indies cricketer
- 1971 - Musashimaru Koyo, American Samoan sumo wrestler
- 1972 - Dwayne Johnson, American professional wrestler and actor
- 1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German film director
- 1975 – David Beckham, English footballer
- 1975 – Dorothy M. Metcalf-Lindenburger, American astronaut
- 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
- 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 – Tina Maze, Slovenian skier
- 1985 – Lily Allen, English singer
- 1985 – Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
- 1985 – David Nugent, English footballer
- 1985 – Alexander Galimov, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
- 1987 - Kris Russell, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1987 - Nana Kitade, Japanese singer-songwriter and musician
- 1990 – Kay Panabaker, American actress
Deaths [change]
- 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)
- 1825 – Michail Leontievich Bulatov, Russian military (b. 1760)
- 1857 - Alfred de Busset, French writer (b. 1810)
- 1864 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791)
- 1927 - Ernest Starling, English physiologist (b. 1866)
- 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)
- 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)
- 1997 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
- 1997 – John Carew Eccles, American neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
- 1998 – Hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
- 1998 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
- 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)
Events [change]
- 1194 - Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter.
- 1536 - Anne Boleyn is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft.
- 1559 - John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become leader of the Scottish Reformation.
- 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots escapes from Loch Leven Castle.
- 1611 – The King James Bible is published.
- 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company, to open up fur trade in Canada.
- 1808 – The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. This event is later memorised in a painting by Francisco de Goya.
- 1829 - Charles Fremantle of the HMS Challenger declares the Swan River Colony in present-day Western Australia.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Confederate General Stonewall Jackson is wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville. He dies of his injuries on May 10.
- 1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao.
- 1876 - Start of the April Uprising in Bulgaria. In the Julian calendar used at the time, this date was April 20, which is why the uprising is named after the month of April.
- 1879 - The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
- 1885 - The first issue of Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale.
- 1885 - King Leopold II of Belgium creates the Congo Free State, the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa. It is estimated that millions may have died during the colonial rule there.
- 1889 – Menelik II of Ethiopia signs a treaty that gives Italy control of Eritrea.
- 1906 - Closing ceremony of the 1906 Olympics, which are not officially recognized by the IOC as part of the modern Olympic Games.
- 1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company in Delaware.
- 1933 - Adolf Hitler bans trade unions in Germany.
- 1945 – The Soviet Union captures Berlin in World War II.
- 1952 - The first jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1, makes its first flight from London to Johannesburg.
- 1964 - Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the ship USS Card while it is in the dock at Saigon. The Viet Cong is suspected of having carried out the attack.
- 1964 - First successful climb of Shishapangma, the 14th-highest mountain in the world, and the smallest of those with a height over 8000 metres.
- 1969 – The Ocean Liner Queen Elizabeth 2 leaves for its first voyage to New York.
- 1972 - An early-morning fire at Sunshine Mine between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace, Indiana, kills 91 workers.
- 1982 – The British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano.
- 1989 – Hungary opens its western border.
- 1994 - A bus crash in Gdansk kills 32 people.
- 1995 - Croatian War of Independence: Serbian forces fire cluster bombs at Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring 175.
- 1997 – Tony Blair takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after his Labour Party won the previous day's General Election with a landslide win over John Major's Conservative Party.
- 1998 – The European Central Bank is formed in Brussels.
- 1999 – Mireya Moscoso is elected President of Panama.
- 2004 - Over 630 Muslim nomads are killed by Christians in religious violence in Nigeria.
- 2006 – The band Tool releases its 4th album 10,000 Days.
- 2008 – Tropical Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma, where it kills tens of thousands of people.
- 2008 - The Chaiten volcano in Chile begins erupting. 4,500 people are evacuated from their homes.
- 2011 – US President Barack Obama announces the death of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a US military operation in Pakistan.
- 2011 - A Europe-wide E. coli outbreak, centred in Germany, begins.
- 2011 - Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada wins an overall majority in parliament in Canada's election. The Liberal Party of Canada finishes third, behind the New Democratic Party of Jack Layton, who dies a few months later.
- 2012 – A pastel version of Edvard Munch's The Scream sells for 120 million US Dollars, setting a new record for a work of art sold at auction.
Observances [change]
- 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)
