Anniversaries 2 May
Birth
![Robert Hall photo]()
British Baptist pastor
1764–1831
![Novalis photo]()
German poet and writer
1772–1801
![Henry Martyn Robert photo]()
United States Army general and Chief of Engineers
1837–1923
![Jerome K. Jerome photo]()
English humorist
1859–1927
![Theodor Herzl photo]()
Austro-Hungarian journalist and writer
1860–1904
![Nannie Helen Burroughs photo]()
American activist
1879–1961
![Nikolai Krylenko photo]()
Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser
1885–1938
![Gottfried Benn photo]()
German novelist, poet
1886–1956
![E.E. "Doc" Smith photo]()
Food engineer and author (1890-1965)
1890–1965
![E. E. Smith photo]()
Food engineer and author (1890-1965)
1890–1965
![Wilm Hosenfeld photo]()
Righteous Among the Nations
1895–1952
![Ernesto Grassi photo]()
Italian philosopher
1902–1991
![Benjamin Spock photo]()
American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care
1903–1998
![Doris Fisher photo]()
American musician
1915–2003
![Satyajit Ray photo]()
Indian author, poet, composer, lyricist, filmmaker
1921–1992
![Frank Honywill George photo]()
British psychologist
1921–1997
![B. B. Lal photo]()
Indian archaeologist
1921
![Martha Grimes photo]()
American crime writer and literature professor
1931
![Sumio Iijima photo]()
Japanese nanotechnologist
1939
![Robert S. Kaplan photo]()
American accounting academic
1940
![Bianca Jagger photo]()
Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a form…
1945
![José Luis Mollaghan photo]()
Argentinian archbishop
1946
![James Dyson photo]()
British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dy…
1947
![Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick photo]()
American academic
1950–2009
![Mohammed Omar photo]()
Founder and former leader of the Taliban
1959–2013
![Gjorge Ivanov photo]()
President of Macedonia
1960
![Edward Frenkel photo]()
mathematician working in representation theory, algebraic g…
1968
![Dwayne Johnson photo]()
American actor and professional wrestler
1972
![Lily Allen photo]()
English singer, songwriter, actress, and television present…
1985
![Michelle Lambert photo]()
American singer-songwriter and violinist
1985
Death
![Athanasius of Alexandria photo]()
Patriarch of Alexandria
295–373
![Leonardo Da Vinci photo]()
Italian Renaissance polymath
1452–1519
![Hester Thrale photo]()
Welsh author and salon-holder
1741–1821
![William Beckford photo]()
English novelist
1760–1844
![James Gates Percival photo]()
American geologis, poet, and surgeon
1795–1856
![Tom Wills photo]()
Australian sportsman
1835–1880
![Gustav Landauer photo]()
German anarchist
1870–1919
![Robert Michels photo]()
German sociologist
1876–1936
![Franz von Papen photo]()
German chancellor
1879–1969
![William Moulton Marston photo]()
American psychologist, lawyer, inventor and comic book writ…
1893–1947
![J. Edgar Hoover photo]()
American law enforcement officer and first director of the …
1895–1972
![Martin Bormann photo]()
Nazi leader and private secretary to Adolf Hitler
1900–1945
![John C. Eccles photo]()
Australian neurophysioloigst
1903–1997
![Joseph McCarthy photo]()
Wisconsin politician
1908–1957
![Balraj Madhok photo]()
Indian politician
1920–2016
![Paulo Freire photo]()
educator and philosopher
1921–1997
![Caryl Chessman photo]()
Convicted robber, kidnapper and rapist, writer
1921–1960
![Marilyn French photo]()
Novelist, critic
1929–2009
![Augusto Boal photo]()
Brazilian writer
1931–2009
![Louis Rukeyser photo]()
American journalist
1933–2006
![Jack Kemp photo]()
American football player, quarterback, U.S. Congressman
1935–2009
![Rafael Hernández Colón photo]()
Puerto Rican politician
1936–2019
![Michael Blake photo]()
American writer
1945–2015
![Tibor Kalman photo]()
American graphic designer
1949–1999
![Osama bin Laden photo]()
founder of al-Qaeda
1957–2011
