May 2 Events 1194 - King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter . 1230 - William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great . 1335 - Otto the Merry , Duke of Austria, becomes Duke of Carinthia . 1536 - Anne Boleyn , Queen of England , is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery , incest , treason and witchcraft . 1559 - John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation . 1568 - Mary, Queen of Scots , escapes from Loch Leven Castle . 1611 - The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. 1625 - Afonso Mendes , appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch of Ethiopia , arrives at Beilul from Goa . 1670 - King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America . 1672 - John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March . 1808 - Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occupation. Francisco de Goya later memorializes this event in his painting The Second of May 1808 . 1812 - The Siege of Cuautla during the Mexican War of Independence ends with both sides claiming victory after Mexican rebels under José María Morelos y Pavón abandon the city after 72 days under siege by royalist Spanish troops under Félix María Calleja . 1816 - Marriage of Léopold of Saxe-Coburg and Princess Charlotte of Wales . 1829 - After anchoring nearby, Captain Charles Fremantle of, declares the Swan River Colony in Australia. 1863 - American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson is wounded by friendly fire while returning to camp after reconnoitering during the Battle of Chancellorsville . He succumbs to pneumonia eight days later. 1866 - Peruvian defenders fight off the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Callao . 1876 - The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria . 1879 - The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias . 1885 - Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife , their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion . 1889 - Menelik II , Emperor of Ethiopia , signs the Treaty of Wuchale , giving Italy control over Eritrea . 1906 - Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens , Greece. 1918 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware . 1920 - The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis . 1933 - Germany's independent labor unions are replaced by the German Labour Front . 1941 - Following the coup d'état against Iraq Crown Prince 'Abd al-Ilah earlier that year, the United Kingdom launches the Anglo-Iraqi War to restore him to power. 1945 - World War II: The Soviet Union announces the fall of Berlin . 1945 - World War II: The surrender of Caserta comes into effect, by which German troops in Italy cease fighting. 1945 - World War II: The US 82nd Airborne Division liberates Wöbbelin concentration camp finding 1000 dead prisoners, most of whom starved to death. 1945 - World War II: A death march from Dachau to the Austrian border is halted by the segregated, all-Nisei 522nd Field Artillery Battalion of the U.S. Army in southern Bavaria, saving several hundred prisoners. 1952 - A De Havilland Comet makes the first jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers, from London to Johannesburg . 1955 - Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof . 1963 - Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven . It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany. 1964 - Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USNS Card while it is docked at Saigon. Two Viet Cong combat swimmers had placed explosives on the ship's hull. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later. 1964 - First ascent of Shishapangma , the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders. 1969 - The British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 departs on her maiden voyage to New York City. 1972 - In the early morning hours a fire breaks out at the Sunshine Mine located between Kellogg and Wallace, Idaho, killing 91 workers. 1982 - Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine sinks the Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano . 1986 - Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster. 1989 - Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria , which allows a number of East Germans to defect. 1994 - A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people. 1995 - During the Croatian War of Independence , the Army of the Republic of Serb Krajina fires cluster bombs at Zagreb , killing seven and wounding over 175 civilians. 1998 - The European Central Bank is founded in Brussels in order to define and execute the European Union's monetary policy. 1999 - Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama . 2000 - President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military . 2004 - The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd. 2008 - Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless. 2008 - Chaitén Volcano begins erupting in Chile , forcing the evacuation of more than 4,500 people. 2011 - Osama bin Laden , the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the FBI's most wanted man, is killed by the United States special forces in Abbottabad , Pakistan. 2011 - An strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak. 2012 - A pastel version of The Scream , by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch , sells for $120 million in a New York City auction, setting a new world record for a work of art at auction. 2014 - Two mudslides in Badakhshan , Afghanistan , leave up to 2,500 people missing.Births 1360 - Yongle Emperor of China 1402 - Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal 1451 - René II, Duke of Lorraine 1458 - Eleanor of Viseu 1476 - Charles I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels , Count of Kladsko, Governor of Bohemia and Silesia 1533 - Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen 1551 - William Camden , English historian and topographer 1567 - Sebald de Weert , Dutch captain, vice-admiral of the Dutch East India Company 1579 - Tokugawa Hidetada , Japanese shōgun 1601 - Athanasius Kircher , German priest and scholar 1660 - Alessandro Scarlatti , Italian composer 1695 - Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni , Italian-French painter and architect 1702 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger , German theologian and theosopher 1707 - Jean-Baptiste Barrière , French cellist and composer 1729 - Catherine the Great of Russia 1737 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne , Irish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1740 - Elias Boudinot , American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress 1750 - John André , English soldier and spy 1752 - Ludwig August Lebrun , German oboe player and composer 1754 - Vicente Martín y Soler , Spanish composer 1772 - Novalis , German author and poet 1773 - Henrik Steffens , Norwegian philosopher and poet 1797 - Abraham Pineo Gesner , Canadian physician and geologist 1802 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus , German chemist and physicist 1806 - Catherine Labouré , French nun and saint 1810 - Hans Christian Lumbye , Danish composer and conductor 1813 - Caroline Leigh Gascoigne , English novelist and poet 1815 - William Buell Richards , Canadian lawyer and judge, 1st Chief Justice of Canada 1822 - Jane Miller Thengberg , Scottish-Swedish governess and educator 1828 - Désiré Charnay , French archaeologist and photographer 1830 - Otto Staudinger , German entomologist and author 1843 - Elijah McCoy , Canadian-American engineer 1859 - Jerome K. Jerome, English author and playwright 1860 - John Scott Haldane , Scottish physiologist, physician, and academic 1860 - Theodor Herzl , Austro-Hungarian Zionist philosopher, journalist and author 1865 - Clyde Fitch , American playwright 1867 - Giuseppe Morello , Italian-American mobster 1873 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis , Lithuanian poet, critic, and translator 1879 - James F. Byrnes, American stenographer and politician, 49th United States Secretary of State 1880 - Bill Horr , American football player, discus thrower, and coach 1882 - Isabel González , Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans' American citizenship 1885 - Hedda Hopper , American actress and gossip columnist 1886 - Gottfried Benn , German author and poet 1887 - Vernon Castle , English-American dancer 1887 - Eddie Collins , American baseball player and manager 1889 - Ki Hajar Dewantara , Indonesian philosopher, academic, and politician 1890 - E. E. Smith, American engineer and author 1892 - Manfred von Richthofen , German captain and pilot 1894 - Norma Talmadge , leading US actress of the silent era 1894 - Joseph Henry Woodger , English biologist, philosopher, and academic 1895 - Lorenz Hart , American playwright and lyricist 1897 - John Frederick Coots , American songwriter 1898 - Henry Hall , English bandleader, composer, and actor 1901 - Bob Wyatt , English cricketer 1901 - Edouard Zeckendorf , Belgian doctor, army officer and mathematician 1901 - Willi Bredel , German writer 1902 - Brian Aherne , English actor 1902 - Werner Finck , German Kabarett comedian, actor and author 1903 - Benjamin Spock , American rower, pediatrician, and author 1904 - Bill Brandt , German-English photographer and journalist 1905 - Alan Rawsthorne , British composer 1905 - Charlotte Armstrong , American author 1906 - Philippe Halsman , Latvian-American photographer 1907 - Pinky Lee , American comedian and television host 1908 - Frank Rowlett , American cryptologist 1909 - Teddy Stauffer , Swiss bandleader, musician, and actor 1910 - Alexander Bonnyman, Jr., American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient 1910 - Edmund Bacon , American urban planner, architect, educator, and author 1912 - Axel Springer , German journalist and publisher, founded Axel Springer AG 1912 - Karl Adam , German rowing coaches 1912 - Marten Toonder , Dutch comic strip creator 1912 - Nigel Patrick , English actor and director 1913 - Pietro Frua , Italian coachbuilder and car designer 1913 - Aydın Sayılı , Turkish historian and academic 1915 - Doris Fisher , American singer-songwriter 1915 - Peggy Mount , English actress 1917 - Albert Castelyns , Belgian water polo player and bobsledder 1917 - Văn Tiến Dũng , Vietnamese general and politician, 6th Minister of Defence for Vietnam 1920 - Jean-Marie Auberson , Swiss violinist and conductor 1920 - Otto Buchsbaum , Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist 1920 - Vasantrao Deshpande , Indian singer and sitar player 1920 - Guinn Smith , American pole vaulter, soldier, and pilot 1920 - Jacob Gilboa , Israeli composer 1921 - B. B. Lal, Indian archaeologist 1921 - Satyajit Ray , Indian director, producer, and screenwriter 1922 - Roscoe Lee Browne , American actor and director 1922 - A. M. Rosenthal, Canadian-born American journalist and author 1922 - Serge Reggiani , Italian-born French singer and actor 1923 - Patrick Hillery , Irish physician and politician, 6th President of Ireland 1923 - Albert Nordengen , Norwegian banker and politician 1924 - Jamal Abro , Pakistani lawyer and author 1924 - Theodore Bikel , Austrian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1924 - Arthur Clues , Australian rugby league player 1924 - Hugh Cortazzi , English soldier, historian, and diplomat, British Ambassador to Japan 1925 - John Neville , English-Canadian actor 1926 - Gérard D. Levesque, Canadian lawyer and politician, 5th Deputy Premier of Quebec 1927 - Ray Barrett , Australian actor and singer 1927 - Amos Kenan , Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist 1927 - Michael Broadbent , British wine critic and writer 1928 - Hans Trass , Estonian ecologist and botanist 1928 - Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt , French writer and translator of German origin 1928 - Horst Stein , German conductor 1929 - Édouard Balladur , Turkish-French economist and politician, 162nd Prime Minister of France 1929 - James Dillion , American discus thrower 1929 - Link Wray , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1929 - Jigme Dorji Wangchuck , Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan 1930 - Yoram Kaniuk , Israeli painter and critic 1930 - Marco Pannella , Italian journalist and politician 1931 - Phil Bruns , American actor and stuntman 1931 - Martha Grimes , American author and poet 1932 - Maury Allen , American journalist, actor, and author 1933 - Bunk Gardner , American musician 1933 - Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf , English lawyer and judge, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales 1934 - Manfred Durniok , German film producer, director and screenwriter 1935 - Luis Suárez Miramontes , Spanish footballer and manager 1935 - Faisal II of Iraq , the last King of Iraq 1936 - Norma Aleandro , Argentinian actress, director, and screenwriter 1936 - Engelbert Humperdinck , English singer and pianist 1936 - Michael Rabin , American violinist 1937 - Klaus Enders , German motorcycle sidecar racer 1937 - Lorenzo Music , American actor, producer, and screenwriter 1937 - Gisela Elsner , German writer 1938 - Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho 1939 - Sumio Iijima , Japanese physicist and engineer 1939 - Ernesto Castano , Italian football player 1940 - Jules Albert Wijdenbosch , Surinamese politician 1941 - Tony Adamowicz , American race car driver 1941 - Bruce Cameron , Scottish bishop 1941 - Clay Carroll , American baseball player 1941 - Eddy Louiss , French jazz musician 1942 - Jacques Rogge , Belgian businessman 1942 - Wojciech Pszoniak , Polish film and theater actor 1944 - Robert G. W. Anderson, English chemist, historian, and curator 1945 - Randy Cain , American soul singer 1945 - Judge Dread , English singer-songwriter 1945 - Bianca Jagger , Nicaraguan-American model, actress, and activist 1945 - Goldy McJohn , Canadian keyboard player 1946 - Peter L. Benson, American psychologist and academic 1946 - Lesley Gore , American singer-songwriter 1946 - David Suchet , English actor 1947 - James Dyson , English businessman, founded the Dyson Company 1947 - Lynda Myles , English screenwriter and producer 1947 - Philippe Herreweghe , Belgian conductor 1948 - Larry Gatlin , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1949 - Alan Titchmarsh , English gardener and author 1949 - Alfons Schuhbeck , German celebrity chef , author and businessman 1950 - Simon Gaskell , English chemist and academic 1950 - Duncan Gay , Australian businessman and politician 1950 - Lou Gramm , American singer-songwriter 1950 - Richard Ground , English lawyer and judge 1950 - Fausto Silva , Brazilian television presenter 1951 - John Glascock , English singer and bass player 1952 - Chris Anderson , Australian rugby league player and coach 1952 - Christine Baranski , American actress and singer 1952 - Isla St Clair , Scottish singer and actress 1953 - Valery Gergiev , Russian conductor and director 1953 - Jamaal Wilkes , American basketball player 1954 - Elliot Goldenthal , American composer and conductor 1954 - Dawn Primarolo , English politician 1954 - Stephen Venables , English mountaineer and author 1955 - Willie Miller , Scottish footballer 1955 - Donatella Versace , Italian fashion designer 1956 - Régis Labeaume , Canadian businessman and politician, 41st Mayor of Quebec City 1958 - Yasushi Akimoto , Japanese songwriter and producer 1958 - Stanislav Levý , Czech footballer and manager 1958 - David O'Leary , English-Irish footballer and manager 1959 - Alan Best , Canadian animator, director, and producer 1959 - Tony Wakeford , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1960 - Stephen Daldry , English director and producer 1961 - Steve James , English snooker player 1961 - Sophie Thibault , Canadian journalist 1961 - Phil Vickery , English chef and author 1962 - Elizabeth Berridge , American actress 1962 - Michael Grandage , English director and producer 1962 - Jimmy White , English snooker player 1965 - Félix José , Dominican-American baseball player 1966 - Uwe Freiler , German footballer 1966 - Margus Kolga , Estonian diplomat 1966 - Belinda Stronach , Canadian businesswoman, philanthropist, and politician 1967 - Bengt Åkerblom , Swedish ice hockey player 1967 - Mika Brzezinski , American journalist and author 1967 - David Rocastle , English footballer 1968 - Jeff Agoos , Swiss-American soccer player, manager, and sportscaster 1968 - Julia Hartley-Brewer , English broadcaster and columnist 1968 - Ziana Zain , Malaysian singer-songwriter and actress 1969 - Brian Lara , Trinidadian cricketer 1970 - Marco Walker , Swiss footballer and coach 1971 - Musashimaru Kōyō , Samoan-American sumo wrestler, the 67th Yokozuna 1971 - Fatima Yusuf , Nigerian sprinter 1972 - Paul Adcock , English footballer 1972 - Ahti Heinla , Estonian programmer and businessman, co-developed Skype 1972 - Dwayne Johnson , American-Canadian wrestler, actor, and producer 1973 - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck , German director and screenwriter 1974 - Horacio Carbonari , Argentinian footballer and manager 1974 - Andy Johnson , English-Welsh footballer 1974 - Janek Meet , Estonian footballer 1975 - David Beckham , English footballer, coach, and model 1975 - Joe Wilkinson , English comedian, actor and writer 1976 - Jeff Gutt , American singer-songwriter 1977 - Brian Cardinal , American basketball player 1977 - Jan Fitschen , German runner 1977 - Luke Hudson , American baseball player 1977 - Fredrik Malm , Swedish journalist and politician 1977 - Jenna von Oÿ , American actress and singer 1977 - Kalle Palander , Finnish skier 1978 - Melvin Ely , American basketball player 1978 - Mike Weaver , Canadian ice hockey player 1979 - Jason Chimera , Canadian ice hockey player 1979 - Ioannis Kanotidis , Greek footballer 1979 - Defne Joy Foster , Turkish-American actress, presenter and VJ 1980 - Tim Borowski , German footballer 1980 - Pierre-Luc Gagnon , Canadian skateboarder 1980 - Ellie Kemper , American actress, comedian and writer 1980 - Zat Knight , English footballer 1980 - Artūras Masiulis , Lithuanian basketball player 1980 - Troy Murphy , American basketball player 1980 - Lassaâd Ouertani , Tunisian footballer 1980 - Brad Richards , Canadian ice hockey player 1980 - Vincent Tong , Canadian actor, singer, voice actor and director 1981 - Robert Buckley , American actor 1981 - Chris Kirkland , English footballer 1981 - Tiago Mendes , Portuguese footballer 1981 - Matt Murray , English footballer 1981 - Rina Satō , Japanese voice actress and singer 1982 - Timothy Benjamin , Welsh sprinter 1982 - Johan Botha , South African cricketer 1983 - Alessandro Diamanti , Italian footballer 1983 - Maynor Figueroa , Honduran footballer 1983 - Tina Maze , Slovenian skier 1983 - Daniel Sordo , Spanish race car driver 1983 - Ove Vanebo , Norwegian politician 1984 - Saulius Mikoliūnas , Lithuanian footballer 1984 - Thabo Sefolosha , Swiss basketball player 1985 - Lily Allen , English singer-songwriter and actress 1985 - Kyle Busch , American race car driver 1985 - Ashley Harkleroad , American tennis player 1985 - Sarah Hughes , American figure skater 1987 - Saara Aalto , Finnish singer and actress 1987 - Nana Kitade , Japanese singer-songwriter and actress 1987 - Pat McAfee , American football player 1987 - Kris Russell , Canadian ice hockey player 1987 - Justin Young , English singer and songwriter 1988 - Neftalí Feliz , Dominican baseball player 1988 - Stephen Henderson , Irish footballer 1989 - Jeanette Pohlen , American basketball player 1990 - Kay Panabaker , American actress 1990 - Paul George , American basketball player 1991 - Jeong Jinwoon , South Korean actor and singer 1992 - Sunmi , South Korean singer 1992 - María Teresa Torró Flor , Spanish tennis player 1993 - Owain Doull , Welsh track cyclist 1993 - Isyana Sarasvati , Indonesian singer 1993 - Huang Zitao , Chinese singer and rapper 1996 - Cherprang Areekul , Thai singer 1996 - Julian Brandt , German footballer 1996 - Schuyler Bailar , American swimmer 2015 - Princess Charlotte of Cambridge , British royal, and fourth in line to the British throne Deaths 373 - Athanasius of Alexandria , Egyptian bishop and saint 649 - Marutha of Tikrit , Persian theologian of the Syriac Orthodox Church 821 - Liu Zong , general of the Tang Dynasty 907 - Boris I of Bulgaria 1219 - Leo I, King of Armenia 1230 - William de Braose, English son of Reginald de Braose 1293 - Meir of Rothenburg , German rabbi 1300 - Blanche of Artois 1450 - William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk , English admiral 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci , Italian painter, sculptor, and architect 1564 - Rodolfo Pio da Carpi , Italian cardinal 1627 - Lodovico Grossi da Viadana , Italian composer and educator 1667 - George Wither , English poet and author 1683 - Stjepan Gradić , Croatian philosopher and mathematician 1711 - Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester , English politician, First Lord of the Treasury 1799 - Juan Vicente de Güemes, 2nd Count of Revillagigedo 1802 - Herman Willem Daendels , Dutch general and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast 1810 - Henry Jerome de Salis , English priest 1819 - Mary Moser , English painter and academic 1857 - Alfred de Musset , French dramatist, poet, and novelist 1864 - Giacomo Meyerbeer , German composer and educator 1880 - Eberhard Anheuser , German-American businessman, co-founded Anheuser-Busch 1880 - Tom Wills , Australian cricketer, co-created Australian rules football 1885 - Terézia Zakoucs , Hungarian-Slovene author 1915 - Clara Immerwahr , German chemist 1918 - Jüri Vilms , Estonian lawyer and politician 1925 - Antun Branko Šimić , Croatian and Bosnian-Herzegovinian poet 1925 - Johann Palisa , Austrian astronomer 1927 - Ernest Starling , English physiologist and academic 1929 - Charalambos Tseroulis , Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs 1941 - Penelope Delta , Greek author 1945 - Martin Bormann , German politician 1945 - Joe Corbett , American baseball player and journalist 1947 - Dorothea Binz , German SS officer 1953 - Wallace Bryant , American archer 1957 - Joseph McCarthy , American captain, lawyer, judge, and politician 1963 - Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell , English cricketer, peer, politician, poet, author and newspaper editor 1964 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor , American-English politician 1969 - Franz von Papen , German general and politician, Chancellor of Germany 1972 - J. Edgar Hoover, American 1st director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 1974 - James O. Richardson, American admiral 1977 - Nicholas Magallanes , American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet 1979 - Giulio Natta , Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate 1980 - Clarrie Grimmett , New Zealand-Australian cricketer 1980 - George Pal , Hungarian-American animator and producer 1983 - Norm Van Brocklin , American football player and coach 1984 - Jack Barry , American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions 1984 - Bob Clampett , American animator, director, and producer 1985 - Attilio Bettega , Italian race car driver 1985 - Larry Clinton , American trumpet player and bandleader 1986 - Sergio Cresto , American race car driver 1986 - Henri Toivonen , Finnish race car driver 1989 - Veniamin Kaverin , Russian author 1989 - Giuseppe Siri , Italian cardinal 1990 - David Rappaport , English-American actor 1991 - Gauri Shankar Rai , Indian Politician 1991 - Ronald McKie , Australian journalist and author 1992 - Wilbur Mills , American lawyer and politician 1993 - André Moynet , French race car driver, pilot, and politician 1994 - Dorothy Marie Donnelly , American poet and author 1995 - John Bunting , Australian public servant and diplomat, 1995 - Michael Hordern , English actor 1997 - John Eccles , Australian neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1997 - Paulo Freire , Brazilian philosopher and academic 1998 - hide , Japanese singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1998 - Justin Fashanu , English footballer 1998 - Gene Raymond , American actor 1999 - Douglas Harkness , Canadian colonel and politician 1999 - Oliver Reed , English actor 2000 - Sundar Popo , Indo-Trinidadian musician 2002 - W. T. Tutte, English-Canadian mathematician and academic 2005 - Wee Kim Wee , Singaporean journalist and politician, 4th President of Singapore 2006 - Louis Rukeyser , American journalist and author 2007 - Brad McGann , New Zealand director and screenwriter 2008 - Beverlee McKinsey , American actress 2008 - Izold Pustõlnik , Ukrainian-Estonian astronomer and academic 2009 - Marilyn French , American author and academic 2009 - Kiyoshiro Imawano , Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actor 2009 - Jack Kemp , American football player and politician, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 2010 - Lynn Redgrave , English-American actress and singer 2011 - Osama bin Laden, Saudi Arabian terrorist, founder of Al-Qaeda 2012 - Fernando Lopes , Portuguese director and screenwriter 2012 - Zenaida Manfugás , Cuban-born American-naturalized pianist 2012 - Tufan Miñnullin , Russian playwright and politician 2012 - Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih , Indonesian physician and politician, Indonesian Minister of Health 2012 - Akira Tonomura , Japanese physicist, author, and academic 2013 - Ernie Field , English boxer 2013 - Jeff Hanneman , American guitarist and songwriter 2013 - Joseph P. McFadden, American bishop 2013 - Dvora Omer , Israeli author and educator 2013 - Ivan Turina , Croatian footballer 2013 - Charles Banks Wilson , American painter and illustrator 2014 - Tomás Balduino , Brazilian bishop 2014 - Žarko Petan , Slovenian director, playwright, and screenwriter 2014 - Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor 2015 - Stuart Archer , English colonel and architect 2015 - Michael Blake , American author and screenwriter 2015 - Guy Carawan , American singer and musicologist 2015 - Maya Plisetskaya , Russian-Lithuanian ballerina, choreographer, actress, and director 2015 - Ruth Rendell , English author 2016 - Afeni Shakur , American music businesswoman , activist, and Black Panther 2020 - Arif Wazir , Pakistani politician, leader of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement Holidays and observances Christian feast day: * Athanasius of Alexandria * Boris I of Bulgaria * Germanus of Normandy * May 2
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