May 2
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Art and culture
- 1869 - Folies Bergères, French cabaret, opens as the Folies Trévise
Births
- 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. ...
- 1772 - Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, – March 25, 1801), a German philosopher, poet and novelist. ...
- 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 ...
Deaths
- 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, ...
- 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 ...