Died On May 2nd
Discover the most famous people who died on May 2. The list includes people like Leonardo da Vinci, Osama Bin Laden, Joseph McCarthy, J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Bormann. Famous personalities featured on this list, include novelists, political leaders, actors and sociologists and from other domains of life. This list includes people from Germany, United Kingdom, United States & Italy and many more countries.
Leonardo da VinciItalian
Polymath
J. Edgar HooverAmerican
First Director of FBI
Oliver ReedBritish
Actor
Justin FashanuBritish
Footballer
Joseph McCarthyAmerican
Martin BormannGerman
Private Secretary of Adolf Hitler
Afeni ShakurAmerican
Activist
Lynn RedgraveBritish, American
Actress
William Moulton MarstonAmerican
Psychologist
Franz von PapenGerman
Former Vice-Chancellor of Germany
Athanasius of AlexandriaEgyptian
Patriarch of Alexandria
Paulo FreireBrazilian
Educator and Philosopher
Wilhelm BurgdorfGerman
Nazi Military officer
Osama Bin LadenSaudi Arabian
Terrorist
Alfred de MussetFrench
Dramatist, Poet, Novelist
Giulio NattaItalian
Chemist
Nancy AstorBritish
First Woman MP in the House of Commons
Emile HabibiIsraeli
Writer
Sir John EcclesAustralian
Neurophysiologist
Efrem Zimbalist JrAmerican
Actor
Jack KempAmerican
Politician
Junior SeauAmerican
American Football Players
Tommy OliverAmerican
Composer
Jeff HannemanAmerican
Guitarist, Musician, Songwriter
David RappaportBritish
Actor
Ivan AivazovskyUkrainian, Russian
Painter
Michael HordernBritish
Actor
Abu Ahmed al-KuwaitiKuwaiti, Pakistani
terrorist, courier
Henri ToivonenFinnish
Rally driver, Motorcycle racer, Racecar driver
Ruth RendellBritish
Writer, Politician, Novelist, Screenwriter
Caryl ChessmanAmerican
Criminal
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Maya PlisetskayaSpanish, Russian
Ballet dancer, Dancer, Choreographer, Actor, Prima
Ludwig StumpfeggerGerman
Military physician, Physician, Surgeon, Torturer
Giacomo MeyerbeerGerman
composer, conductor, autobiographer,music director
Clara ImmerwahrChemist, Feminist
W. T. TutteCanadian, British
Mathematician
Augusto BoalBrazilian
Theatre director, Writer, Politician, Playwright
Alfred WeberGerman
Economist, Educationist, Sociologist, University
Viktor LutzeGerman
Politician
George PalHungarian
Animator
Boris I of BulgariaBulgarian
King
Evelyn De MorganBritish
Painter
Louis RukeyserAmerican
Journalist
Robert MichelsGerman
Sociologist, University teacher
Gustav LandauerGerman
Politician, Translator, Writer, Journalist
David WechslerAmerican
Psychologist, University teacher
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.American
Film actor
Herman Willem DaendelsDutch
Politician
Rafael Hernández ColónPuerto Rican
Politician
Marilyn FrenchAmerican
Novelist, Writer, Feminist, Social critic
Richard Theodore GreenerAmerican
Educator
Ernest StarlingBritish
Physiologist
Adriaen van OstadeDutch
Painter
Hester ThraleWelsh
Author
Simon FlexnerAmerican
Physician
Tibor KalmanHungarian
Graphic designer
George Fisher BakerAmerican
Financier
Virginia PrinceAmerican
Publisher
Eugen EhrlichAustrian, Ukrainian
Sociologist
Peter Thomas BauerHungarian, British
Economist
Julio GalloAmerican
Wine maker
Antoninus of FlorenceItalian
Saint
Salomon BochnerPolish, American
Mathematician
William Cooper ProcterAmerican
Businessman
Mohammed DibAlgerian
Author
Van Wyck BrooksAmerican
Critic
Antoni MalczewskiPolish
Poet
Sheldon JacksonAmerican
Clergyman
Manuel ElizaldeFilipino
Businessman
George WitherBritish
Poet
Robert HunterCanadian
Environmentalist
Joan BocherBritish
Anabaptist
Moshe HirschAmerican
Rabbi
Johann PalisaAustrian, Czech
Austrian astronomer
Keith Roberts PorterCanadian, American
Biologist
John R. SwantonAmerican
Anthropologist
Robert ClampettAmerican
Animator
Bartolomé CarranzaSpanish
Priest
Henry Baldwin HydeAmerican
Businessman
Joseph R. McCarthyAmerican
Politician
Alioune DiopSenegalese
Writer
Charles MarowitzAmerican
Critic
Pridi PhanomyongThai
Politician
Carole C. NoonAmerican
Anthropologist
John EcclesAustralian, Swiss, British
Neurophysiologist
Thomas Aloysius DorganAmerican
Journalist and cartoonist
Thomas CokeAmerican
Priest
A.R. PenckGerman
Painter
Lawrence Hyde, 1st Earl of RochesterBritish
Statesman
Robert HommeAmerican
Actor
Alfred MussetFrench
French dramatist