May 2
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Events
- 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.
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, 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
Deaths
- 373 – Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298)
- 1519 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter (b. 1452)
- 1857 – Alfred de Musset, French writer (b. 1810)
- 1957 – Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1908)
- 1972 – J. Edgar Hoover, American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (b. 1895)
- 1980 – George Pál, Hungarian-born film director (b. 1908)
- 1999 – Oliver Reed, English actor (b. 1938)
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