May 2 - Deaths

Deaths

• 373 – Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298)
• 756 – Emperor Shōmu, Emperor of Japan (b. 701)
• 907 – Boris I of Bulgaria
• 1230 – William de Braose (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)
• 1880 – Eberhard Anheuser, German soap and candle maker and father-in-law of Adolphus Busch, founder of the Anheuser-BuschCompany (b. 1805)
• 1927 – Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866)
• 1945 – Martin Bormann, Nazi official (b. 1900)
• 1945 – Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor (b. 1910)
• 1945 – Joe Corbett, baseball player (b. 1875)
• 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 – George Pal, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1908)
• 1980 – Clarrie Grimmett, Australian cricketer (b. 1891)
• 1983 – Norm Van Brocklin, American football star (b. 1926)
• 1984 – Jack Barry, television game show producer and host (b. 1918)
• 1985 – Attilio Bettega, Italian rallydriver (b. 1951)
• 1985 – Larry Clinton, American trumpeter and bandleader (b. 1909)
• 1986 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish rallydriver (b. 1956)
• 1986 – Sergio Cresto, American rally co-driver (b. 1956)
• 1989 – Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1906)
• 1989 – Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
• 1990 – David Rappaport, English actor (b. 1951)
• 1991 – Ronald McKie, Australian author (b. 1909)
• 1992 – Wilbur Mills, American politician (b. 1909)
• 1995 – Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)
• 1997 – John Carew Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
• 1997 – Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator (b. 1921)
• 1998 – Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
• 1998 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)
• 1998 – Kevin Lloyd, British actor (b. 1949)
• 1998 – Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
• 2001 – Ted Rogers, British comedian (b. 1935)
• 2001 – Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (b. 1961)
• 2002 – John Nathan-Turner, English television producer (b. 1947)
• 2002 – W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (b. 1917)
• 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)
• 2009 – Jack Kemp, American politician, former American football player (b. 1935)
• 2010 – Kama Chinen, world's oldest living person (b. 1895)
• 2010 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943)
• 2010 – Moshe Hirsch, Jerusalem based anti-Zionist Neturei Karta rabbi (b. 1923)