Deaths in History on May 2

Leonardo da Vinci

1519 Leonardo da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67

1564 Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500)
1567 Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies
1667 George Wither, English writer (Abuses Stript and Whipt), dies at 78
1669 Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61
1683 Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)
1685 Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter, buried
1711 Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)
1727 Paul Aler, French jesuit and poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70
1736 Albert Seba, Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71
1802 Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762)
1810 Rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, divine (b.1740)
1818 Herman W Daendels, governor-gen of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55
1819 Mary Moser, English painter (Flowers Still Life), dies at 74
1845 August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
1849 David H Chasse, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84

1857 LC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies
1859 Eliza Courtney, English illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, dies at 67
1898 Charles C. Walcutt, American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, dies of an old war wound at 60
1915 Clara Immerwahr, German chemist, first woman to be awarded a doctorate in chemistry in Germany, dies at 44
1919 Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies
1927 Ernest Starling, British physiologist (Frank–Starling law of the heart), dies at 61
1934 Sergey Vasilyevich Lebedev, Russian Chemist who invented the first commercially viable and mass-produced synthetic rubber, dies at 59

Martin Bormann

1945 Martin Bormann, German Nazi leader (Hitler's secretary, chief of the Party Chancellery), most likely commits suicide age 44 [remains identified in 1972]

1945 Ludwig Stumpfegger, German SS doctor and Hitler's personal surgeon commits suicide at 34
1947 Dorothea Binz, Nazi war criminal (b. 1920)

Joseph McCarthy

1957 Joseph McCarthy, anti-communist US senator (R-Wisc), dies at 48

1958 Alfred Weber, German economist and sociologist, dies at 89
1960 Caryl Chessman, rapist executed after 12 years of appeals at 39
1963 Van Wyck Brooks, US historian (Ordeal of Mark Twain), dies at 77
1964 Nancy N Witcher Astor, US/Eng feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor, dies
1968 Donald L Hall, American airplane designer (Spirit of St Louis), dies at 69
1969 Franz JHMM von Papen, German chancellor (1932), dies at 89
1972 Hugo Hartung, writer, dies at 69

J. Edgar Hoover

1972 J. Edgar Hoover, first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72) dies at 77

1979 Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1983 Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies
1984 Jack Barry, american game show emcee (Joker's Wild), dies of cardiac arrest at 66
1984 Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Failing God, Niggers), dies at 64
1985 Milton S Eisenhower, US diplomat, dies at 85
1985 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director, dies of lung cancer at 77

1989 Giuseppe Siri, Italian Catholic Cardinal (b. 1906)
1989 Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (b. 1902)
1990 Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49
1991 Hal Bell, dies at 65
1991 Leib Lensky, dies at 82
1991 Ronald McKie, Australian author (The Mango Tree), dies at 81
1992 Lee Salk, Russian-American child psychologist and author, dies of cardiac arrest at 65
1992 Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe, dies at 82
1993 Julio Gallo, wine maker (Gallo), dies in a car accident at 82
1993 Will Weng, Sunday Times crossword puzzle editor (1968-78), dies at 86
1994 Louis Calaferte, writer (Requiem of the Innocents), dies at 65
1994 Wilson Charles Geoffrey Baldwin, hero, dies at 75
1996 Arthur Leslie Noel Douglas Houghton, civil servant, dies at 97
1996 Emile Habibi, Palestinian Israeli writer (The Secret Life of Saeed the Pessoptimist), dies at 73
1996 Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63
1997 Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator (b. 1921)
1999 Edward Portman, 9th Viscount Portman, British landowner and multimillionaire, dies at 65
2002 W. T. Tutte, English-born codebreaker (b. 1917)
2005 Kenneth Bancroft Clark, American civil rights activist (Dark Ghetto) and first black president of the American Psychological Association, dies at 90
2005 Wee Kim Wee, 4th President of Singapore (b. 1915)
2006 Louis Rukeyser, American columnist (b. 1933)
2009 Jack Kemp, former United States Congressman and 1996 Vice Presidential Candidate (b. 1935)

Osama bin Laden

2011 Osama bin Laden, Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda, shot and killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan by navy seals during Operation Neptune Spear at 54

2014 Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor, dies at 95
2015 Ruth Rendell, English thriller writer (Inspector Wexford novels), dies at 85
2016 Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur, Black Panther Party member, dies at 69
2017 Leo Thorsness, American Vietnam War pilot (Medal of Honor), dies at 85
2018 Gord Brown, Canadian politician (MP, 2004–2018), dies of a heart attack at 57
2018 Paul Dick, Canadian politician, dies at 77 of a heart attack
2018 Dick Edell, American lacrosse coach (Maryland Terrapins), dies at 74 of pneumonia
2018 Katherine O'Regan, New Zealand politician (MP for Waipa, 1984–1996; list MP, 1996–1999), dies of cancer at 71
2018 Kottayam Pushpanath, Indian author, dies at 80
2018 Harald Range, German jurist (Attorney General, 2011–2015), dies at 70
2018 James Thorp, American electrical engineer, dies at 81
2018 Chris Walsh, American politician (Massachusetts House of Representatives, 2010–2018), dies of lymphoma at 66
2018 Sir Keith Williamson, British air force commander (Chief of the Air Staff, 1982–1985), dies at 90

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