Famous Deaths on 2 May

Famous Deaths on 2 May

1230 - William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny (b. 1197)
1300 - Blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre (b. 1248)
1450 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396)
1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)
1564 - Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)
1667 - George Wither, English writer (b. 1588)
1683 - Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)
1711 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)
1802 - Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
1810 - Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, divine (b.1740)
1819 - Mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)
1857 - Alfred de Musset, French writer (b. 1810)
1864 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (b. 1791)
1927 - Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
1945 - Joe Corbett, baseball player (b. 1875)
1945 - Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910)
1945 - Martin Bormann, Nazi official (b. 1900)
1947 - Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)
1957 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1908)
1960 - Caryl Chessman, American robber and rapist (b. 1921)
1964 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician (b. 1879)
1969 - Franz von Papen, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)
1972 - J. Edgar Hoover, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)
1979 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1980 - Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (b. 1891)
1980 - George Pál, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1908)
1983 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football star (b. 1926)
1984 - Jack Barry, television game show producer and host (b. 1918)
1985 - Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)
1985 - Attilio Bettega, Italian rallydriver (b.1951)
1986 - Henri Toivonen, Finnish rallydriver (b.1956)
1989 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
1989 - Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1906)
1990 - David Rappaport, English actor (b. 1951)
1992 - Wilbur Mills, American politician (b. 1909)
1995 - Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
1997 - Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator (b. 1921)
1997 - John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1998 - Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
1998 - Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, 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)
2001 - Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (b. 1961)
2001 - Ted Rogers, British comedian (b. 1935)
2002 - W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (b. 1917)
2002 - John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
2005 - Kenneth B. Clark, American psychologist (b. 1914)
2005 - Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
2006 - Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933)
2007 - Brad McGann, New Zealand film director and screenwriter (b. 1964)
2008 - Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (b. 1940)
373 - Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298)
756 - Emperor Shōmu, Emperor of Japan (b. 701)
907 - Boris I of Bulgaria