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-[[May]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{{PAGENAMEE}}] [Apr 2007] +== Events ==
-== Art and culture ==+*[[1869]] - [[Folies Bergère]], French cabaret, opens as the Folies Trévise
 +*[[1955]] – [[Tennessee Williams]] wins the [[Pulitzer Prize for Drama]] for ''[[Cat on a Hot Tin Roof]]''.
-*[[1869]] - [[Folies Bergères]], French cabaret, opens as the Folies Trévise+==Births==
 +*[[1601]] – [[Athanasius Kircher]], German Jesuit scholar (d. 1680)
 +*[[1729]] – [[Catherine the Great]], Empress of Russia (d. 1796)
 +*[[1772]] – [[Novalis]], German writer (d. 1801)
 +*[[1810]] – [[Hans Christian Lumbye]], Danish composer (d. 1874)
 +*[[1859]] – [[Jerome K. Jerome]], English writer (d. 1927)
 +*[[1873]] – [[Jurgis Baltrušaitis]], Lithuanian poet (d. 1944)
 +*[[1886]] – [[Gottfried Benn]], German author (d. 1956)
 +*[[1903]] – [[Bing Crosby]], American actor and singer (d. 1977)
 +*[[1906]] – [[Philippe Halsman]], American photographer (d. 1979)
 +*[[1925]] – [[John Neville (actor)|John Neville]], English theatre and film actor (d. 2011)
 +*[[1929]] – [[Link Wray]], American guitarist (d. 2005)
 +*[[1950]] – [[Bianca Jagger]], Nicaraguan socialite
 +*[[1952]] – [[Mari Natsuki]], Japanese singer, dancer and actress
 +*[[1954]] – [[Roberta Pedon]], American glamour model (d. 1982)
 +*[[1962]] – [[Stephen Daldry]], English film director
 +*[[1985]] – [[Lily Allen]], English singer and songwriter
-== Births ==+==Deaths==
-*[[1859]] - [[Jerome K. Jerome]] (May 2, 1859–June 14, 1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. ...+* [[373]] – [[Athanasius of Alexandria|Athanasius]], [[Patriarch of Alexandria]] (b. 298)
- +*[[1519]] – [[Leonardo da Vinci]], Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)
-*[[1772]] - [[Novalis]] was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, – March 25, 1801), a German philosopher, poet and novelist. ...+*[[1857]] – [[Alfred de Musset]], French writer (b. 1810)
- +*[[1957]] – [[Joseph McCarthy]], U.S. Senator (b. 1908)
-*[[1873]] - [[Jurgis Baltrušaitis]] (born in Paantvardziani in May 2, 1873 – died in Paris in January 3, 1944) was a Lithuanian poet, who wrote his literary works in ...+*[[1972]] – [[J. Edgar Hoover]], American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)
- +*[[1980]] – [[George Pál]], Hungarian-born film director (b. 1908)
-== Deaths ==+*[[1999]] – [[Oliver Reed]], English actor (b. 1938)
-*[[1519]] - [[Leonardo da Vinci]] (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, ...+{{GFDL}}
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-*[[1857]] - [[Alfred de Musset]], (December 11, 1810 - May 2, 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. De Musset was an important figure in the ...+

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