May 2
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Art and culture
- 1869 - Folies Bergère, French cabaret, opens as the Folies Trévise
Births
- 1729 - Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia
- 1772 - Novalis, German Romanticist philosopher, poet and novelist
- 1859 - Jerome K. Jerome, English writer, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat
- 1873 - Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet, and translator
Deaths
- 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance artist and scientist
- 1857 - Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet, and novelist, an important figure in the French Romantic literary movement.
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