Famous Deaths In May - 02

0373  Death of Athanasius, Patriarch of Alexandria (b. 298) on this day in history.   

0649  On May - 02 maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies   

0756  On May - 02 death of emperor Shōmu, Emperor of Japan (b. 701)   

0907  Death of Boris I of Bulgaria on May - 02.   

1230  Death of William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny (b. 1197) on this day in history.   

1250  On this day in history death of toeransa, sultan of Egypt, murdered   

1300  On May - 02 death of blanche of Artois, regent of Navarre (b. 1248)   

1450  On this day in history death of william de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English military leader (b. 1396)   

1459  On this day in history pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies   

1488  Jacob van Horne, Burgundy statesman, dies on this day in history.   

1519  Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

1564  Death of Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (b. 1500) on May - 02.   

1567  Marin Drzic, Croatian playwright (Dundo Maroje), dies on this day in history.   

1627  On this day in history death of lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Italian composer (b. 1560)   

1667  On this day in history death of george Wither, English writer (b. 1588)   

1669  Pieter Jansz Post, master builder (Waag, Gouda), dies at 61 on this day in history.   

1683  On May - 02 death of stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (b. 1613)   

1685  Death of Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter, buried on May - 02.   

1711  Death of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641) on this day in history.   

1727  Paul Aler, French jesuit/poet (Gradus ad Parnassum), dies at 70 on May - 02.   

1736  Albert Seba, Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71 on May - 02.   

1799  On this day in history henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, dies at 58   

1802  Death of Herman Willem Daendels, Dutch statesman (b. 1762) on this day in history.   

1810  On May - 02 death of rev. Dr. Henry Jerome de Salis, divine (b.1740)   

1818  On May - 02 herman W Daendels, governor-gen of Guinea (1815-18), dies at 55   

1819  On this day in history death of mary Moser, English painter (b. 1744)   

1845  August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48 on May - 02.   

1849  David H Chasse, baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo), dies at 84 on May - 02.   

1857  On this day in history lC Alfred the Musset, French poet (Lesson caprices Marianne), dies   

1864  Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer, dies at 72 on this day in history.   

1892  Wilhelm Rust, composer, dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1897  William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer, dies at 63 on this day in history.   

1919  Gustav Landauer, German socialist, dies on May - 02.   

1927  Death of Ernest Starling, British physiologist (b. 1866) on this day in history.   

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1360  On May - 02 birth of yongle, Emperor of China (d. 1424)   

1451  On May - 02 birth of rené II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1508)   

1458  Leonor of Viseu, queen of Portugal (d. 1525) was born on May - 02.   

1551  On May - 02 birth of william Camden, English historian (Brittania, Annales)   

1601  On this day in history birth of athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern)   

1660  On this day in history birth of pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, Palermo Italy, composer (Tigrane)   

1695  On this day in history birth of giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, Italian-born architect (d. 1766)   

1702  Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (d. 1782) was born on May - 02.