History Deaths on May 02

Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell, English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor (b. 1884)

#Ronald_Barnes,_3rd_Baron_Gorell

Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

#Giulio_Natta

Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870)

#Clara_Immerwahr

Ivan Turina, Croatian footballer (b. 1980)

#Ivan_Turina

Afeni Shakur, American music businesswoman, activist, and Black Panther (b. 1947)

#Afeni_Shakur

Boris I of Bulgaria

#Boris_I_of_Bulgaria

Paulo Freire, Brazilian philosopher and academic (b. 1921)

#Paulo_Freire

Leo I, King of Armenia (b. 1150)

#Leo_I,_King_of_Armenia

Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1908)

#Joseph_McCarthy

Athanasius of Alexandria, Egyptian bishop and saint (b. 298)

#Athanasius_of_Alexandria

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (b. 1452)

#Leonardo_da_Vinci

Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)

#Oliver_Reed

Norm Van Brocklin, American football player and coach (b. 1926)

#Norm_Van_Brocklin

Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (b. 1891)

#Clarrie_Grimmett

Žarko Petan, Slovenian director, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1929)

#Žarko_Petan

Kiyoshiro Imawano, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (b. 1951)

#Kiyoshiro_Imawano

Henry Jerome de Salis, English priest (b. 1740)

#Henry_Jerome_de_Salis

Maya Plisetskaya, Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director (b. 1925)

#Maya_Plisetskaya

Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian cardinal (b. 1500)

#Rodolfo_Pio_da_Carpi

Charles Banks Wilson, American painter and illustrator (b. 1918)

#Charles_Banks_Wilson

Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author (b. 1902)

#Veniamin_Kaverin

Attilio Bettega, Italian race car driver (b. 1951)

#Attilio_Bettega

Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (b. 1906)

#Giuseppe_Siri

Beverlee McKinsey, American actress (b. 1940)

#Beverlee_McKinsey

Jüri Vilms, Estonian lawyer and politician (b. 1889)

#Jüri_Vilms

Tom Wills, Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football (b. 1835)

#Tom_Wills

Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer and educator (b. 1791)

#Giacomo_Meyerbeer

Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, Indonesian physician and politician, Indonesian Minister of Health (b. 1955)

#Endang_Rahayu_Sedyaningsih

Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)

#Gene_Raymond

Ernest Starling, English physiologist and academic (b. 1866)

#Ernest_Starling

Akira Tonomura, Japanese physicist, author, and academic (b. 1942)

#Akira_Tonomura

Michael Blake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1945)

#Michael_Blake_(author)

Martin Bormann, German politician (b. 1900)

#Martin_Bormann

Joseph P. McFadden, American bishop (b. 1947)

#Joseph_P._McFadden

Bob Clampett, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1913)

#Bob_Clampett

Wallace Bryant, American archer (b. 1863)

#Wallace_Bryant_(archer)

Nicholas Magallanes, American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (b. 1922)

#Nicholas_Magallanes

Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (b. 1943)

#Lynn_Redgrave

Joe Corbett, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1875)

#Joe_Corbett

Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo (b. 1740)

#Juan_Vicente_de_Güemes,_2nd_Count_of_Revillagigedo

Ruth Rendell, English author (b. 1930)

#Ruth_Rendell

Terézia Zakoucs, Hungarian-Slovene author (b. 1817)

#Terézia_Zakoucs

Meir of Rothenburg, German rabbi (b. c.1215)

#Meir_of_Rothenburg

Jeff Hanneman, American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1964)

#Jeff_Hanneman

Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founder of Al-Qaeda (b. 1957)

#Osama_bin_Laden

Mary Moser, English painter and academic (b. 1744)

#Mary_Moser

George Wither, English poet and author (b. 1588)

#George_Wither

J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)

#J._Edgar_Hoover

William de Braose, English son of Reginald de Braose (b. 1197)

#William_de_Braose_(died_1230)

Dvora Omer, Israeli author and educator (b. 1932)

#Dvora_Omer

Louis Rukeyser, American journalist and author (b. 1933)

#Louis_Rukeyser

Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist (b. 1810)

#Alfred_de_Musset

Dorothea Binz, German SS officer (b. 1920)

#Dorothea_Binz

William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (b. 1396)

#William_de_la_Pole,_1st_Duke_of_Suffolk

Stjepan Gradi?, Croatian philosopher and mathematician (b. 1613)

#Stjepan_Gradi?

John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

#John_Eccles_(neurophysiologist)

Jack Barry, American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (b. 1918)

#Jack_Barry_(game_show_host)

George Pal, Hungarian-American animator and producer (b. 1908)

#George_Pal

James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878)

#James_O._Richardson

Jack Kemp, American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (b. 1935)

#Jack_Kemp

Guy Carawan, American singer and musicologist (b. 1927)

#Guy_Carawan

Franz von Papen, German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1879)

#Franz_von_Papen

Penelope Delta, Greek author (b. 1874)

#Penelope_Delta

Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader (b. 1909)

#Larry_Clinton

Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch general and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (b. 1762)

#Herman_Willem_Daendels

Wilbur Mills, American lawyer and politician (b. 1909)

#Wilbur_Mills

Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-English politician (b. 1879)

#Nancy_Astor,_Viscountess_Astor

Blanche of Artois (b. 1248)

#Blanche_of_Artois

Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English politician, First Lord of the Treasury (b. 1641)

#Laurence_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Rochester

Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (b. 1922)

#Tomás_Balduino

Sergio Cresto, American race car driver (b. 1956)

#Sergio_Cresto

Antun Branko Šimi?, Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet (b. 1898)

#Antun_Branko_Šimi?

Stuart Archer, English colonel and architect (b. 1915)

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (b. 1918)

Ernie Field, English boxer (b. 1943)

Tufan Miñnullin, Russian playwright and politician (b. 1936)

Fernando Lopes, Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935)

Marilyn French, American author and academic (b. 1929)

Izold Pustõlnik, Ukrainian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1938)

Brad McGann, New Zealand director and screenwriter (b. 1964)

Wee Kim Wee, Singaporean journalist and politician, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)

W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1917)

Sundar Popo, Indo-Trinidadian musician (b. 1943)

Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1903)

Justin Fashanu, English footballer (b. 1961)

hide, Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1964)

Michael Hordern, English actor (b. 1911)

John Bunting, Australian public servant and diplomat, (b. 1918)

Dorothy Marie Donnelly, American poet and author (b. 1903)

André Moynet, French race car driver, pilot, and politician (b. 1921)

Ronald McKie, Australian journalist and author (b. 1909)

Gauri Shankar Rai, Indian Politician(b.1924)

David Rappaport, English-American actor (b. 1951)

Henri Toivonen, Finnish race car driver (b. 1956)

Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs (b. 1879)

Eberhard Anheuser, German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (b. 1805)

Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer and educator (b. 1560)

Liu Zong, general of the Tang Dynasty

Marutha of Tikrit, Persian theologian of the Syriac Orthodox Church (b. 565)