On This Day — May 2
4064 noted people were born and 2061 died on May 2 in our archive, including B. B. Lal, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and Jacques-Louis Lions.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on May 2
B. B. Lal
1921 – 2022
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
1860 – 1948
Jacques-Louis Lions
1928 – 2001
Abraham Pineo Gesner
1797 – 1864
Benjamin Fordyce Barker
1818 – 1891
Catherine Branson
b. 1948
Daniel Pauly
b. 1946
George Ballingall
1780 – 1855
Harald Hjärne
1848 – 1922
Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf
b. 1933
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
1802 – 1870
Iñaki Goirizelaia
b. 1958
Jacob Bigeleisen
1919 – 2010
Jacques Rogge
1942 – 2021
Jean-Louis Alibert
1768 – 1837
Jean-Pierre Lacroix
b. 1960
Kazimierz Zarankiewicz
1902 – 1959
Khachim Karmokov
1941 – 2023
Klaudia Tanner
b. 1970
Ljudmila Narusova
b. 1951
Mauro Picone
1885 – 1977
Muriel Mayette-Holtz
b. 1964
Nektarios Tavernarakis
b. 1967
Nikolai Krylenko
1885 – 1938
Richard H. Anderson
b. 1955
Robert G. W. Anderson
b. 1944
Robert W. Wood
1868 – 1955
Rudi Schmid
1922 – 2007
Samuil Samosud
1884 – 1964
Sumio Iijima
b. 1939
Theodor Herzl
1860 – 1904
Virginia Dignum
b. 1964
William Bayliss
1860 – 1924
A. M. Rosenthal
1922 – 2006
Abd al-Muhsin as-Sa'dun
1879 – 1929
Adolf Holtzmann
1810 – 1870
Adrian Vermeule
b. 1968
Alain Terzian
b. 1949
Alan Titchmarsh
b. 1949
Albert Bore
b. 1946
Aleksandr Fomin
1867 – 1935
Aleksandr Udaltsov
1883 – 1958
Alessandro Morbidelli
b. 1966
Alexander Khudilaynen
b. 1956
Alexander Waibel
b. 1956
Alice Teodorescu Måwe
b. 1984
Alim-Louis Benabid
b. 1942
Anders Krogh
b. 1959
Antonio Maura
1853 – 1925
Aqtoty Raiymqulova
b. 1964
Aramayis Erznkyan
1879 – 1937
Artur Mikvabia
b. 1949
Ashangbam Minaketan Singh
1906 – 1995
Atanazy Raczyński
1788 – 1874
Athanasius Kircher
1602 – 1680
Attah Issah
b. 1992
Beeban Kidron
b. 1961
Benjamin Spock
1903 – 1998
Carl Rabl
1853 – 1917
Charles Greely Loring
1794 – 1868
Charles Joseph Lambert
1804 – 1864
Chen Ching-min
b. 1966
Christa Rigozzi
b. 1983
Christian Galliard de Lavernée
b. 1950
Christoph Franz
b. 1960
David Bowes-Lyon
1902 – 1961
Dawn Primarolo
b. 1954
Derek Vaughan
b. 1961
Dominic L. Pudwill Gorie
b. 1957
Duncan Gay
b. 1950
Edgar Allen
1892 – 1943
Edward Frenkel
b. 1968
Elijah McCoy
1844 – 1929
Elizabeth C. Miller
1920 – 1987
Ermek Kösherbaev
b. 1965
Ernesto Estrada
b. 1966
Etienne Vermeersch
1934 – 2019
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
1950 – 2009
Faisal II of Iraq
1935 – 1958
Faye Hammill
b. 1974
Felix Victor Birch-Hirschfeld
1842 – 1899
Francisque Gay
1885 – 1963
Frank Wassenberg
b. 1966
Franz Volhard
1872 – 1950
George Etzel Pearcy
1905 – 1980
George Muñoz
b. 1951
George Piranian
1914 – 2009
George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden
1799 – 1866
Gjorge Ivanov
b. 1960
Gustav Lindau
1866 – 1923
Hafiz Pashayev
b. 1941
Hans Trass
1928 – 2017
Harold Fowler McCormick
1872 – 1941
Harriett Baldwin
b. 1960
Henrik Steffens
1773 – 1845
Hervé Bourges
1933 – 2020
Horst Stein
1928 – 2008
Ian Wilson
1932 – 2013
Ine Eriksen Søreide
b. 1976
Ivan Šimonović
b. 1959
James Vaupel
1945 – 2022
James West
1703 – 1772
Jens Andreas Friis
1821 – 1896
Johan Willem Beyen
1897 – 1976
John Bernard Bosanquet
1773 – 1847
John G. Palfrey
1796 – 1881
John W. Douglass
b. 1941
Jon Oringer
b. 1974
Jonas Rivera
b. 1971
José García Santesmases
1907 – 1989
José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage
1823 – 1907
Kate Green
b. 1960
Ki Hajar Dewantara
1889 – 1959
Leonid Lebedev
b. 1956
Lily Allen
b. 1985
Lisa Phillips
b. 1954
Liz Sugg, Baroness Sugg
b. 1977
Luc Illusie
b. 1940
Manuel Esquivel
1940 – 2022
Margus Kolga
b. 1966
Maria Barroso
1925 – 2015
Mario Miranda
1926 – 2011
Mark Klein
1945 – 2025
Maurice Emmanuel
1862 – 1938
Maurice O'Rorke
1830 – 1916
Maxime Real del Sarte
1888 – 1954
Merle Fainsod
1907 – 1972
Michael Broadbent
1927 – 2020
Michael Lynk
b. 1952
Mikhail Zhigalov
b. 1942
Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
1938 – 1996
Munis Dündar
b. 1961
Mykola Vilinsky
1888 – 1956
Owen Roberts
1875 – 1955
Owen Smith
b. 1970
Panagiotis Kavvadias
1850 – 1928
Paolo Ignazio Maria Thaon di Revel
1888 – 1973
Patience Mthunzi
b. 1976
Patrick Hillery
1923 – 2008
Penny Pritzker
b. 1959
Peter Bannister
1939 – 2008
Poppy Harlow
b. 1982
Raisa Azarkh
1897 – 1971
Ralph J. Cicerone
1943 – 2016
Reino Ragnar Lehto
1898 – 1966
Rhys Jones
b. 1960
Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth
1935 – 2010
Richard Stengel
b. 1955
Robert S. Kaplan
b. 1940
Roscoe Lee Browne
1922 – 2007
Rudolf Berlin
1833 – 1897
Salgado Zenha
1923 – 1993
Serge Geoffrion
b. 1955
Sigmund von Riezler
1843 – 1927
Sophie Thibault
b. 1961
Soumya Swaminathan
b. 1959
Stanisław Ciosek
1939 – 2022
Sérgio Mascarenhas de Oliveira
1928 – 2021
Taalaibek Omuraliev
b. 1965
Tatsuo Hirano
b. 1954
Theodore Bikel
1924 – 2015
Tõnu Lehtsaar
b. 1960
V. N. Khare
b. 1939
Valery Gergiev
b. 1953
Vladimir Ilyin
1928 – 2014
Vladimir Matorin
b. 1948
Volodymyr Prystyuk
b. 1960
William Buell Richards
1815 – 1889
William Camden
1551 – 1623
William McFadden Orr
1866 – 1934
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
1737 – 1805
Wojciech Pszoniak
1942 – 2020
Yaniv Iczkovits
b. 1975
Yasushi Akimoto
b. 1958
Yoshio Mochizuki
1947 – 2019
Yukinori Yanagi
b. 1959
Étienne Parent
1802 – 1874
Étienne de Montety
b. 1965
Øyvind Rimbereid
b. 1966
Aagot Nissen
1882 – 1978
Abraham Hinckelmann
1652 – 1695
Achim Post
b. 1959
Ahmed Marcouch
b. 1969
Ahti Heinla
b. 1972
Aili Aarelaid-Tart
1947 – 2014
Alain Jakubowicz
b. 1953
Alan Gross
b. 1949
Alan Nunn May
1911 – 2003
Alan Urwick
1930 – 2016
Alastair Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare
b. 1947
Albert Hilger
1839 – 1905
Albert Nordengen
1923 – 2004
Albion W. Tourgée
1838 – 1905
Aleksandr Kozlov
1949 – 2021
Alessandro D'Avenia
b. 1977
Alexander Bonnyman, Jr.
1910 – 1943
Alexandra Tegleva
1884 – 1955
Alfred Kurella
1895 – 1975
Alshafi Ahmed Elshikh
1924 – 1971
Amos Kenan
1927 – 2009
… and 3,864 more
Died on May 2
Charles Chamberland
1851 – 1908
John Carew Eccles
1903 – 1997
John Robert Kline
1891 – 1955
Akira Tonomura
1942 – 2012
Alfred Weber
1868 – 1958
Bernhard Studer
1794 – 1887
Eduard von Simson
1810 – 1899
Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
1918 – 2014
Ernest Starling
1866 – 1927
Franz Xavier Luschin
1781 – 1854
Germain Bazin
1901 – 1990
Giulio Natta
1903 – 1979
Henryk Leon Strasburger
1887 – 1951
Hermann Burmeister
1807 – 1892
J. Edgar Hoover
1895 – 1972
Johann Palisa
1848 – 1925
Joseph Unger
1828 – 1913
Lars Oftedal
1838 – 1900
Léonce Verny
1837 – 1908
Milton Stover Eisenhower
1899 – 1985
Nirmal Kumar Dutta
1913 – 1982
Paulo Freire
1921 – 1997
Peter Ludvig Panum
1820 – 1885
Peter Thomas Bauer
1915 – 2002
Salomon Bochner
1899 – 1982
Simon Flexner
1863 – 1946
William Moulton Marston
1893 – 1947
Alcira Argumedo
1940 – 2021
Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie
1872 – 1955
Alexander Lazarev
1938 – 2011
Alexandra Bellow
1935 – 2025
Alexandre Arsène Girault
1884 – 1941
Alfred Gessow
1922 – 2002
Alfred de Musset
1810 – 1857
Alphonse de Châteaubriant
1877 – 1951
Anahit Tsitsikian
1926 – 1999
André Moynet
1921 – 1993
Arthur Mahler
1871 – 1916
Arthur Somervell
1863 – 1937
Asajiro Oka
1868 – 1944
Bartolomé Carranza
1503 – 1576
Bengt Aurivillius
1918 – 1994
Biancamaria Frabotta
1946 – 2022
Bill Torrey
1934 – 2018
Bob Clampett
1913 – 1984
Carl Meissner
1800 – 1874
Charles Engola
1958 – 2023
Christian August Hausen
1693 – 1743
Christian Hansen
1803 – 1883
David Wechsler
1896 – 1981
Ebbe Munck
1905 – 1974
Eduardo Portella
1932 – 2017
Emil Wiesel
1866 – 1943
Emile Habibi
1922 – 1996
Eugen Ehrlich
1862 – 1922
Falcone Lucifero
1898 – 1997
Finn Wagle
1941 – 2026
Franz von Papen
1879 – 1969
François Buisseret
1549 – 1615
George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick
1746 – 1816
George Kauffman
1930 – 2020
George Pal
1908 – 1980
Gerhard Christiaan Coenraad Pels Rijcken
1810 – 1889
Giuseppe Siri
1906 – 1989
Harri Moora
1900 – 1968
Heinz Ellenberg
1913 – 1997
Helen Hart
1900 – 1971
Henri François Xavier Gresley
1819 – 1890
Henry Tottie
1888 – 1952
Herman Willem Daendels
1762 – 1818
Hrachya Kochar
1910 – 1965
Hugh McCalmont
1845 – 1924
Jack Kemp
1935 – 2009
Jacques d'Amboise
1934 – 2021
John Allen Fitzgerald Gregg
1873 – 1961
John Bunting
1918 – 1995
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
1845 – 1914
John Clum
1851 – 1932
John Dalrymple
1803 – 1852
John Hammersley
1920 – 2004
John Kaye
1955 – 2016
John Lyles Glenn, Jr.
1892 – 1938
John Weir Foote
1904 – 1988
Joseph McCarthy
1908 – 1957
Joseph Raz
1939 – 2022
Laurie Calvin Battle
1912 – 2000
Leo K. Thorsness
1932 – 2017
Maharram Hashimov
1912 – 1969
Maidie Norman
1912 – 1998
Manex Goihenetxe
1942 – 2004
Maurice Dayan
1935 – 2020
Monroe Work
1866 – 1945
Nigel Stepney
1958 – 2014
Olav Heggstad
1877 – 1954
Pridi Banomyong
1900 – 1983
Rafael Hernández Colón
1936 – 2019
Raisa Struchkova
1925 – 2005
Red Kelly
1927 – 2019
Renée Faure
1918 – 2005
Richard Stücklen
1916 – 2002
Roman Kozłowski
1889 – 1977
Ronald Barnes, 3rd Baron Gorell
1884 – 1963
Sergei Vasilyevich Lebedev
1874 – 1934
Seweryn Morawski
1819 – 1900
Siegfried Gasser
1941 – 2022
Stanisław Zamecznik
1909 – 1971
Stefan Kieniewicz
1907 – 1992
Sylvester Douglas, 1st Baron Glenbervie
1743 – 1823
Tad Dorgan
1877 – 1929
Timofey Florinskiy
1854 – 1919
Ursula Braun-Moser
1937 – 2022
Valentin Yudashkin
1963 – 2023
Virgil Cantini
1919 – 2009
Walery Łoziński
1880 – 1944
Wee Kim Wee
1915 – 2005
Wilhelm von Opel
1871 – 1948
William Denny
1872 – 1946
William Johnstone Hope
1766 – 1831
Włodzimierz Sokorski
1908 – 1999
Édouard Grimaux
1835 – 1900
A. R. Penck
1939 – 2017
Abdul Hamid al-Bakkoush
1933 – 2007
Abelardo Castillo
1935 – 2017
Abraham Asscher
1880 – 1950
Achmad Sujudi
1941 – 2023
Adolf Láng
1848 – 1913
Agustín Aznar
1911 – 1984
Ajay Kumar Tripathi
1957 – 2020
Akiko Seki
1899 – 1973
Albert Bousser
1906 – 1995
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
1726 – 1814
Ali Mroudjaé
1939 – 2019
Allan O. Hunter
1916 – 1995
Amasa J. Parker Jr.
1843 – 1938
Amos J. Cummings
1838 – 1902
Andrew Sutherland
1882 – 1961
Angus Munn
1938 – 2003
Ann Aldrich
1927 – 2010
Anna Missuna
1868 – 1922
Athanasius of Alexandria
296 – 373
Augusto Boal
1931 – 2009
Bayram Mammadov
1995 – 2021
Ben Mark Cherrington
1885 – 1980
Ben Schoeman
1905 – 1986
Benedictus Aretius
1522 – 1574
Benjamin Ide Wheeler
1854 – 1927
Bernardo Ferrándiz Bádenes
1835 – 1885
Blaise Alexandre Desgoffe
1830 – 1901
Bob Homme
1919 – 2000
Bolesław Chocha
1923 – 1987
Bronisław Cieślak
1943 – 2021
Béchir Ben Yahmed
1928 – 2021
Carlos Romero Barceló
1932 – 2021
Caryl Chessman
1921 – 1960
Charles E. Littlefield
1851 – 1915
Charles Foster Kent
1867 – 1925
Charles L. Henry
1849 – 1927
Charles Silvester Horne
1865 – 1914
Charles William Froessel
1892 – 1982
Charles, marquis de La Valette
1806 – 1881
Charles-Hippolyte Pouthas
1886 – 1974
Chris Walsh
1951 – 2018
Clara Raven
1909 – 1994
Dara Birnbaum
1946 – 2025
Darius Morris
1991 – 2024
David Hendrik Chassé
1765 – 1849
David Konstan
1940 – 2024
David Sencer
1924 – 2011
Dean Conant Worcester
1866 – 1924
Decatur "Bucky" Trotter
1932 – 2004
Dežo Ursiny
1947 – 1995
Douglas Harkness
1903 – 1999
Eden George
1863 – 1927
Edwin C. Parsons
1892 – 1968
Elio Guzzanti
1920 – 2014
Elisabeth Rotten
1882 – 1964
Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih
1955 – 2012
Erik Tandberg
1932 – 2020
Ernest Joyce
1875 – 1940
Esteban Escudero Torres
1946 – 2025
Ezekiel Candler Gathings
1903 – 1979
Fidel Herrera Beltrán
1949 – 2025
Frank Ivancie
1924 – 2019
Franz Rummel
1853 – 1901
Frederick Grey
1805 – 1878
Frederik Peter Brandt
1825 – 1891
Gazet Patursson
1879 – 1970
Gennady Rubinshtein
1923 – 2004
George C. Clerk
1931 – 2019
George DeLuca
1889 – 1983
George Hugh Niederauer
1936 – 2017
George Johnstone Hope
1767 – 1818
George Ryan
1934 – 2025
Gord Brown
1960 – 2018
Guido Sacconi
1948 – 2023
Guido van den Berg
1975 – 2019
Gustav Adolph Lammers
1802 – 1878
György Klimó
1710 – 1777
Harold C. Ostertag
1896 – 1985
Harry Newman
1909 – 2000
… and 1,861 more